[CTRL] Security Lapses Found at Nuclear Laboratory
-Caveat Lector- The University of California at Berkley has been a hotbed of subversives both among faculty and grad students for decades. - JR http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/national/01SECU.html?pagewanted=print&position= June 1, 2003 Security Lapses Found at Nuclear LaboratoryBy ERIC LICHTBLAU ASHINGTON, May 31 The Energy Department has ordered a full review of security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after discovering "unacceptable" security lapses. Federal officials ordered the review of the laboratory in Northern California on Friday after learning that the loss of an electronic access badge had gone unreported to senior managers for six weeks. The badge could help gain access to 3,000 offices at the facility, some containing classified nuclear information. The electronic badge was lost by a security officer on a routine shift in mid-April, and several days later, security officers discovered that a set of keys to the gates of the weapons laboratory was also missing. Laboratory officials changed the locks, and they said they had no indication that anybody had used the keys or the electronic badge to gain entry. "I view this as a fundamental management failure at the laboratory," Michael Anastasio, the director of the Livermore laboratory, said in a telephone news conference Friday. Linton Brooks, the national nuclear security administrator at the Energy Department, said the failure to report potentially serious security breaches "is unacceptable." Mr. Brooks ordered a team from Washington to visit the laboratory beginning Monday and review security problems. The team will also consider whether the Energy Department should assume direct management of security at Livermore, which is operated by the University of California. Both Livermore and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the nation's other major site for nuclear weapons research, have been beset by security problems in recent years. The Energy Department announced in April that it would seek bids for the first time to operate Los Alamos, also run by the University of California. At Livermore, Mr. Anastasio acknowledged that the latest security problems could lead officials to reconsider the university's management of Livermore as well. The episodes follow other security problems at Livermore. A security team member maintained in news reports that the laboratory's special response team was not adequately prepared to defend against a terrorist attack, and a security administrator left after it was disclosed that while with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he had had a long-term affair with a Los Angeles woman now accused of being an agent for China. That incident was the subject of a separate, classified review. The security officer who lost his electronic badge in mid-April filed a report at the time with an immediate supervisor, but senior managers were not notified of the incident until this past Thursday, Mr. Anastasio said. He said he was "still stunned" that senior managers were not told of the problem, adding, "I have no answer or explanation as to why that happened." Livermore officials said that after learning of the loss of the badge last week, they began immediately reprogramming electronic security to prevent access by anyone who might find the card. One security manager has been suspended for five days, and more disciplinary action is expected, Mr. Anastasio said. Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company | Home | Privacy Policy | Search | Corrections | Help | Back to Top www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubsc
[CTRL] [JBirch] WS>>SPLC's "Extremist" Cash Cow (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: Sat, 31 May 2003 18:53:11 PDT From: carl william spitzer iv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JBirch] WS>>SPLC's "Extremist" Cash Cow by William Norman Grigg= In July 1988, Morris Dees of the Montgomery, Alabama- based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was in search of a new foil for his fund-raising efforts. SPLC's Klanwatch auxiliary had been a potent fund-raising tool, and the SPLC's high-profile campaign against the Ku Klux Klan had earned the group tremendous notoriety. However, Dees la- mented to an associate that "the Klan thing is winding down" and that the SPLC might be left without a raison d'jtre. "Who knows what the Southern Poverty Law Center will be doing a year from now?" Dees mused to a reporter. The militia movement coalesced just in time to rescue the SPLC's financial prospects. Nobody has profited more from the contrived hysteria over the militia movement than Dees, a millionaire direct- mail maven who co-founded the SPLC in 1971. With a donor list adapted from the 1972 George McGovern presidential bid (which Dees served as chief fund-raiser), the SPLC quickly amassed a formidable operating budget. The purpose of the SPLC, according to Dees, was to take on "precedent-setting cases, the models for new directions in the law." Twenty- five years later, Dees has become the "expert" on "right- wing extremism" most frequently quoted in the media and consulted by law enforcement agencies. The jacket of Dees' new book Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat, is decorated with effusive endorsements from the likes of Jimmy Carter, Leon Uris, and the Anti-Defama- tion League's Abraham Foxman. The February 1996 edition of the Klanwatch Intelligence Report, which assails the "Patri- ot Underground" as America's leading domestic terrorist threat, was distributed to over 6,500 law enforcement agen- cies across the nation. False Patriots: The Threat of Anti- Government Extremists, a 64-page "special report" from the SPLC published in April, is presently making the rounds of law enforcement agencies and media sources. "When 169 people were killed in the Oklahoma City explosion, it became clear that there was something more to the Patriot movement than their weekend war games," declares SPLC Militia Task Force Director Joe Roy in the overview to False Patriots. "It is critical that media, law enforcement and other public servants have a clear understanding of the danger these Patriots represent." Selling the "Cause"=== Like nearly all professional critics of the "far right," Dees has displayed few compunctions about consorting with terrorists and criminals who inhabit the far left. In 1975, Dees was a member of the defense team in the murder trial of Joan Little, a black convict who was accused of killing a prison guard with an ice pick. During the trial Dees was removed from the defense team and slapped with a felony charge of suborning perjury from a witness; the charge was later dropped without explanation. As reporter Mark Pinsky recorded in the March/April 1976 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, Dees' allies in the Little case included the most unsavory elements of the hard left: [T]he great untold (or unreported) story of the Joan Little trial ... was the role of the Commun- ist Party, through its National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, in controlling the entire (and considerable) political movement surrounding the case. Angela Davis, a leading figure in both national organizations, became the most frequently quoted movement figure and con- stant companion of Joan Little Party members were visible and influential on the defense com- mittee, and the party frequently set up rallies of support around the country. This is not to suggest that Dees is a doctrinaire Marxist; rather, he is something of a leftist entrepreneur. Millard Fuller, an attorn
[CTRL] Everyone checked for guns - except known terrorists!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32860 This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32860 Sunday, June 1, 2003 HOMELAND INSECURITYEveryone checked for guns except known terrorists!Database used on law-abiding Americans while al-Qaida, other enemies get free ride Posted: June 1, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Despite recent efforts to beef up security in the United States, those most likely to use weapons against Americans are not even on background checklists at local gun dealers. While nine out of 10 gun purchases are now subject to instant FBI criminal checks to filter out convicted felons, fugitives and a handful of others, the State Department's list of known foreign terrorists used by airport security personnel and border patrols is not included in the database used by dealers to check a buyer's eligibility, reports CBS News. Even the names of suspected al-Qaida cell members in the U.S. would not show up in a background check by a gun store. More than 20 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a government report prepared by the Congressional Research Service found both international and domestic terrorists could take advantage of the background-check loophole to purchase weapons ranging from rifles to hundreds of pounds of explosive powder. ''As long as they have evaded detection by law enforcement authorities and are not identified as prohibited persons, they could purchase firearms from licensed dealers,'' the report said. ''They could also purchase firearms at gun shows from either licensed or unlicensed persons.'' ''Why on earth would we want to shield the terrorists from being identified?'' asks Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. during an interview with CBS. The report was requested by Lautenberg, who has introduced legislation to prolong background checks and waiting periods for firearm purchases during times of heightened terror alert. Al-Qaida has apparently taken notice of the background-check procedure for gun purchases. According to Lautenberg, a training manual for the terror network was found in Afghanistan in which it's suggested weapons are cheap and easily available in the U.S. The CRS report noted that a convicted felon and member of the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah was able to purchase firearms at Michigan gun shows in the months after Sept. 11. The man was later convicted of conspiring to smuggle the arms overseas. Many gun dealers and the National Rifle Association argue there are enough checks in place already. Firearm advocates say the solution lies in the enforcement of current laws, not new legislation. ''This is a continuation of the shameless tradition of gun-ban politicians embracing tragedy to push their agenda,'' Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, told the Newark Star-Ledger. However, gun dealer Don Davis supports more checks. ''My God, we do records all day. That one more record of checking out one more guy is certainly not going to make any difference if you love this country. And brother, I love this country,'' Davis told CBS. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl 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] Oswald theories live on in Belarus
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Samuel Lightcap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:46:14 -0400 Subject:[fort] Oswald theories live on in Belarus http://www.iht.com/articles/97437.html Copyright © 2003 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com Oswald theories live on in Belarus Steven Lee Myers/NYT NYT Monday, May 26, 2003 MINSK, Belarus The ornate apartment building at No. 2 Communist Street rises beside a wooded park along a wide bend in the Svisloch River. The balcony of Apartment 24, on the fourth floor, overlooks the trees and the water and, in the distance, the classically columned Ministry of Defense. It is a lovely spot, especially now, in spring, but one that bears no outward sign of its part in one of historys most notorious crimes, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There is no plaque, after all, that announces, Lee Harvey Oswald Lived Here. For those whose historical curiosity or conspiratorial bent brings them to the capital of Belarus, the landmarks of Oswalds strange life here from January 1960 to May 1962 remain, in some ways, remarkably unchanged four decades later. The sprawling factory where Oswald worked still produces radios and other electronics. It is still state-owned and, today like then, remains closed to visitors. The KGB still called the KGB continues to operate the club where Oswald liked to dance, and the club is still named after Felix Dzerzhinsky, the father of the Soviet secret police. Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959, inspired by romantic notions of a workers paradise, only to become disillusioned later and return home, more than a year before Kennedys assassination in November 1962. The authorities deeply suspicious and evidently unsure what to do with an obviously troubled young American sent him to Minsk, a regional capital rebuilding itself in monumental Soviet style from the ruins of World War II. They gave him a job at the radio factory and the apartment on Communist Street and kept him under constant surveillance. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the KGB in Moscow and here in Belarus opened their files to public scrutiny, most notably to Norman Mailer, who used much of the material in his biography, Oswalds Tale: An Ameri can Mystery, published in 1995. In 1999, President Boris Yeltsin gave President Bill Clinton still more declassified documents. The files, most historians have agreed, support the Soviet Unions claim at the time that it had no role in the assassination, but here as elsewhere conspiracy theories thrive, nurtured by distrust of authority and suspicions that other files remain untapped. From what I found out, I think and Im pretty sure what was written in the Warren Commission was just a cover-up of what really happened, said Oleg Belousov, who helped make a documentary film based on interviews with those who knew and worked with Oswald during his 28 months in Minsk. It was not, he noted conspiratorially, shown on Belarussian television. Belousov, a bearded and bespectacled animator, has made a cottage industry out of Oswalds past here. (As conspiracy theories go, he favors one that holds Oswald to have been an unwitting stooge of both the CIA and the KGB, probably set up by the FBI to take the fall.) The truth, he said, may yet be found here. Its absolutely clear that Minsks role in the whole affair has been underestimated, he explained. It is certainly not advertised. There are no plaques, no exhibits, no Oswald tours by the state tourist agencies, Sputnik and Intourist, which have retained not only their Soviet names but also regained, under Lukashenkos centralized economic policies, most of their monopolistic privileges. No one asks, said Svetlana Lubova, a youthful guide at Sputnik, when asked. Even so, Oswalds presence lingers in the minds of those who knew him here and in the places he frequented. Stanislav Shushkevich, the first leader of independent Belarus, who was ousted in 1994 in a political struggle that brought Lukashenko to power, worked at the factory with Oswald, then called the Minsk Radio Factory. Shushkevich was assigned to teach him Russian. In an interview, he recalled Oswald as a handsome but hapless worker who devoted most of his time to socializing with factory workers. The only secret was the reason he came over here, he said. We werent allowed to ask him about that. Despite the veneer of a new era there is a designer clothing store, for example, on the first floor of the apartment building on Communist Street little about Minsk has changed, for better and worse. It leaves the mind free to imagine the environment that shaped the man who would kill Kennedy. Oswalds apartment building once belonged to the radio factory, housing its workers. Across the street is a rec
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] The Failure to Defend the Skies on 9/11
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl 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 --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- The_Failure_to_Defend_the_Skies_on_9/11 by Paul Thompson I was so upset at the media's lack of coverage about the Independent Commission recent hearings on air defense, that I wrote my own essay on the topic: The Failure to Defend the Skies on 9/11. Like my other essays, this one is long, but I think to truly understand the enormity of the US military's failure on 9/11, one needs to understand the detail. The essay starts out by looking at many of the warnings that should have led to strengthened defenses, and then analyzes the failure of fighters to catch up to each hijacked plane. http://www.cooperativeresearch.net/timeline/main/essayairdefense.html Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/vseplB/TM";>Click Here! -~-> Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] AP & Californian: Kucinich "showing his spirit
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- From: "David Crockett Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Sat, 31 May 2003 11:08:44 -0700 Subject:!b_a_Act: AP & Californian: Kucinich "showing his spiritual side as he courts supporters in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination" Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This morning The Bakersfield Californian newspaper ran the AP story on page 8 under Nation section top, Saturday, May 31, 2003 The Californian ran the AP story of May 30 as posted to SF Chronicle site, but omitting last two paragraphs shown at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/news/archive/2003/05/30/national1420EDT0590.DTL "The response that I get keeps getting more and more powerful," Kucinich said during an interview this week. "The fact that I write about and talk about themes that have a spiritual connection is, I think, an important part of that," he said. "People want someone who understands and has a higher concept of where our country is going." ...and The Californian ran it under headline of "Democrat in touch with inner campaigner" with subtitle of "New Age candidate getting donations the old fashioned way with appeals to the like-minded" They printed a 5"x7" file photo of our Dennis speaking between cupped hands into a podium microphone with two US Flags behind him with the caption, "Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio speaks to the Democratic National Committee in Washington in this February file photo. Kucinich, a champion for down-to-earth issues such as blue-collar jobs and the beleaguered steel industry, is showing his spiritual side as he courts supporters in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination." --- see www.kucinich.us for more info and how to help. From: "David Crockett Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: AP 30May03 article on Dennis Kucinich in California Date: Saturday, May 31, 2003 7:22 AM http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/news/archive/2003/05/30/national1420EDT0590.DTL Democratic candidate draws support from peace activists, New Age gurus MALIA RULON, Associated Press Writer Friday, May 30, 2003 - (05-30) 11:20 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dennis Kucinich, a champion for down-to-earth issues such as blue- collar jobs and the beleaguered steel industry, is showing his spiritual side as he courts supporters in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Peace activists, New Age gurus and people who practice alternative religions are among Kucinich's donors -- many of them attracted to the Ohio congressman's stand on less-than-mainstream issues, such as a call for a Cabinet-level Department of Peace and his support for medical marijuana. "I have a holistic view of the world," Kucinich explains. "I see the world as interconnected and interdependent and that leaves no room for war." Kucinich's legislation to create a Department of Peace and ban the use of weapons in space hasn't won widespread support in Congress, where a majority in the House and Senate supported President Bush's decision to wage war against Iraq. But those proposals are a cornerstone of his campaign, often mentioned in his speeches on the need to transform society and make nonviolence an organizing principle. "We need a message of peace. It's not about backing down. It's not about rhetoric. It's about a way of life," said Chris Griscom, a spiritual adviser who's been a close friend and supporter of Kucinich for nearly 24 years. Kucinich took his message to Santa Cruz, Calif., this week, headlining a rally called "Imagine America" with lifestyle guru Marianne Williamson and healthy living author John Robbins, a political donor who, like Kucinich, is a strict vegetarian. Robbins also is national co-chair of Kucinich's campaign. Williamson, a close friend and political donor of Kucinich's, founded the Global Renaissance Alliance, which teaches peace activists and others how to lobby their local congressmen to support Kucinich's Department of Peace bill. Other supporters include Carol Rosin, a peace activist who founded the Institute for Cooperation in Space. Rosin hosted Kucinich at a home in Malibu, Calif., last year where he talked about his vision for a world without weapons in space and especially without war. At a peace conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, last year, Kucinich was more specific about his beliefs. He spoke about how the Eagle Nebula, a star-forming region that is 7,000 light years from Earth, reminds him of the relationship between stardust and the human spirit. "The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: One with the universe," Kucinich said. Several of his speeches, such as "Spirit and Stardust," "A Prayer for America" and "The Soul of the Worker," have been posted on dozens
[CTRL] Nazi GermanyS War On Terrorism
-Caveat Lector- Sound familiar? --- Nazi GermanyS War On Terrorism http://c0balt.com/resources/terror/terror.shtml Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a war on terrorism, establish his legitimacy as a leader (even though he hadnt won a majority in the previous election). You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history, he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. This fire, he said, his voice trembling with emotion, is the beginning. He used the occasion a sign from God, he called it to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion. Two weeks later, the first prison for terrorists was built in Oranianberg, holding the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the nations flag was everywhere, even printed in newspapers suitable for display. Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nations now-popular leader had pushed through legislation, in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it, that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into peoples homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism. To get his patriotic Decree on the Protection of People and State passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack on the Reichstag building was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained. Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. Instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as The Fatherland. As hoped, peoples hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was the homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands. Within a year of the terrorist attack, Hitlers advisors determined that the various local police and federal agencies around the nation were lacking the clear communication and overall coordinated administration necessary to deal with the terrorist threat facing the nation, including those citizens who were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably terrorist sympathizers. He proposed a single new national agency to protect the security of the Fatherland, consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent police, border, and investigative agencies under a single powerful leader. Most Americans remember his Office of Fatherland Security, known as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and Schutzstaffel, simply by its most famous agencys initials: the SS. And, perhaps most important, he invited his supporters in industry into the halls of government to help build his new detention camps, his new military, and his new empire which was to herald a thousand years of peace. Industry and government worked hand-in-glove, in a new type of pseudo-democracy first proposed by Mussolini and sustained by war. -- -iNFoWaRZ "It works the same in any country, even America." "Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. it works the same in any country." - Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and Luftwaffe Commander in Chief www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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
[CTRL] ritual abuse/mind control conference in August
-Caveat Lector- Hi ! Information about our conference this summer in August is at Ritual Abuse Conference - 2003 The schedule of speakers is now at the website. People who register for the conference before June 1 will get to pay a reduced fee of $135 for two days and $70 for one day. This includes lunches. If you e-mail us before June 7, we will hold this special price for you for one week. Partial fee waivers are also available. Please feel free to write me if you have any questions. Thanks. Sincerely, Neil www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl 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] PAS founder dies, Anglican Church, no chem weapons, Lynch story wrong
-Caveat Lector- ""Parental Alienation Syndrome". The theory - one of the most insidious pieces of junk science to be given credence by US courts in recent years" "They want to distort the picture. I don't know why they think there is some benefit in saying she has a bullet injury." (Pvt. Lynch) scroll for news articles Dr Richard A. Gardner - Child psychiatrist who developed the theory of Parental Alienation Syndrome 5/31/03 (deceased 5/25/03) "In a contentious child custody dispute in the suburbs of Pittsburgh a few years ago, three teenage boys begged a family court judge not to force them to continue visits to their father because, they said, he was physically abusive towards them. Rather than believe the boys, the judge relied on the testimony of an expert witness retained by the father, a Columbia University professor of clinical psychiatry, Richard A. Gardner. Gardner insisted the boys were lying as a result of brainwashing by their mother and recommended something he called "threat therapy". Essentially, the Grieco boys were told they should be respectful and obedient on visits to their father and, if they were not, their mother would go to jail. Shortly afterwards, 16-year-old Nathan Grieco, the eldest of the brothers, hanged himself in his bedroom, leaving behind a diary in which he wrote that life had become an "endless torment". Both Gardner and the court were unrepentant even after the suicide, and it was only after an exposé in the local newspaper that custody arrangements for the two surviving boys were changed. This "threat therapy" was part of a much broader theory of Gardner's known in family courts across the United States as "Parental Alienation Syndrome". The theory - one of the most insidious pieces of junk science to be given credence by US courts in recent years - holds that any mother who accuses her spouse of abusing the children is lying more or less by definition. She tells these lies to "alienate" the children from their father, a shocking abrogation of parental responsibility for which she deserves to lose all custody rights in favour of the alleged abuser. This is not only tawdry logic, guaranteed from the outset to protect the interests of divorcing fathers, by far Gardner's most enthusiastic constituency, but it has also destroyed the lives of hundreds, maybe thousands, of American families over the past 15 years. In state after state, courts deferred to Gardner's academic credentials and put children in the custody of their alleged abuser, even in cases where police records, medical records and testimony by teachers and social workers supported the mother's accusations. By now, the concept of "parental alienation" has entered case law and swayed thousands of disputes in which Gardner himself played no part. Yet it has no scientific basis whatsoever. It is not recognised by the American Psychiatric Association or any other professional body." http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=411000 Beattie calls for royal commission on child abuse 5/8/03 "Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says he is stunned to hear the Anglican Church in Brisbane has opened nearly 160 sex abuse files since early last year. A report last week on the church's handling of complaints under former Archbishop Peter Hollingworth has lead to increasing pressure on Dr Hollingworth to quit as Governor-General. His successor as archbishop, Philip Aspinall, says 157 files have been opened since he came to Brisbane.. Mr Beattie says the Prime Minister must now agree to hold a national royal commission. "There's no doubt now that there needs to be a national royal commission," Mr Beattie said. "We had our inquiry in Queensland, there needs to be a national royal commission, I think the revelations by the archbishop today confirmed that. "Paedophilia doesn't stop at borders." Http://www.abc.net.au/ Pentagon Expands Weapon Hunt - Reuters WASHINGTON (May 30) - The United States on Friday announced a major expansion of so-far fruitless efforts to find chemical and biological arms in Iraq, forming a team of 1,400 U.S., British and Australian experts to take up the hunt. The Pentagon named Army Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton to head the new Iraq Survey Group, which will try to find alleged arms that Washington cited as its main justification for the invasion of Iraq in March that toppled President Saddam Hussein. No such weapons have been found, and the move was announced just hours after Lt. Gen. James Conway, the top U.S. Marine officer in Iraq, said U.S. intelligence was ''simply wrong'' in leading the military to believe that the invading troops were likely to be attacked with chemical weapons. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/3028585.stm 15 May, 2003, 08:50 GMT 09:50 UK Saving Private Lynch story 'flawed' Private Lynch, a 19-year-old army clerk from Palestine, West Virginia, was captured when her company took a wrong turning just outside Nasiriya and was ambushed. Nine of
[CTRL] Nation Building - Why Bombs Don’t Make Democracies
http://www.amconmag.com/06_02_03/cover.html June 2, 2003 issue Copyright © 2003 The American Conservative Nation Building: Why Bombs Don’t Make Democracies By John Laughland There has been much hand-wringing over the widespread looting in Iraq following the Anglo-American invasion. Evidence that the looting was permitted, and perhaps even encouraged, by coalition troops has not quelled the party line that this is a transitional stage and that reconstruction is proceeding apace. But could the creation of chaos be a deliberate and even lasting policy? Recent events in Serbia, the last country to have democracy imposed on it by force, indicate that the lawlessness and anarchy that now terrorize the civilian population of Iraq are not a regrettable transitory stage in the onward march towards the New World Order. They are instead the very essence of that order. It was Pierre Vergniaud, a Girondin, who correctly predicted that the French Revolution, like Saturn, would devour its own children. That certainly happened on the morning of March 12, 2003 in Belgrade, when an assassin’s bullet dispatched the Serbian prime minister in a few swift seconds. Few men incarnated the revolutionary force of the New World Order better than Zoran Djindjic—Marxist philosopher, bootlegger, and spook. Djindjic left Yugoslavia in the early 1970s to study at the feet of Jürgen Habermas, the extreme left-wing ideologue who, like his pupil, was later to become a prophet of globalism and the end of the nation-state. In 1984, Djindjic wrote that he had gone to study in Germany because Yugoslav Marxism had been fatally weakened by Marshall Tito’s policy of openness to the West. But his esoteric academic activities—which were in any case abandoned in the 1990s when he became an extreme Serb nationalist and, later, an extreme supporter of Euro-Atlantic integration and world-wide free trade—were in part a front for his business activities. He started off with a covert export-import business, involving the sale of textiles produced in his numerous sweatshops, and went on to become a major cigarette smuggler during the 1990s, something finally revealed by sections of the Serbian press, now closed down, in 2001. If the various and contradictory ideologies Djindjic adopted all had one thing in common—the destruction of the existing order in the name of total revolution—it was his status as a capo dei capi, one of the richest men in a region thick with wealthy and ruthless criminals, which made him attractive to the West. Here was a man who cared only for his own personal gain and not for his country. Moreover, his comings and goings between Germany and Yugoslavia had enabled him to work, it is said, for both the German and Yugoslav intelligence services. So in October 2000, Djindjic helped the Americans to organize the coup d’état that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic. According to two of his fans who wrote a history of that day, Oct. 5, 2000, Djindjic had carefully studied both Trotsky and Curzio Malaparte’s Techniques of a Coup d’état—based on Mussolini’s March on Rome—in preparation for his own march on Belgrade. He trousered some $100 million of U.S. taxpayers’ money for the purpose and did not hesitate to employ in this task other members of the criminal gangs of which he was a product. These gangsters who helped him, as he was later to brag, included one Milorad Lukovic, alias Legija, the man who was accused of killing him in March. Legija had commanded a murderous paramilitary unit in Bosnia, which was later integrated into the Yugoslav police under the terms of the Dayton Accords in 1995. It was Legija’s agreement to support Djindjic that enabled the Oct. 5 coup to be successful. In April 2001, Legija’s men stormed Slobodan Milosevic’s residence and carted him off to the central prison in Belgrade, whence he was arrested and taken to The Hague. Throughout 2001 and 2002, moreover, Legija’s unit, according to the admission of the Serbian deputy prime minister, assisted the regular Yugoslav police in their anti-terrorist operations against Albanian insurgents in southern Serbia. Most Serbs, therefore, regarded it as a sick joke when Western governments claimed that Djindjic had been assassinated by Legija’s men because he was fighting organized crime. Although spivvery had certainly existed under Milosevic, an inevitable consequence of sanctions and war, it had only really let rip under Djindjic. Serbian society is now so totally criminalized, indeed, that Serbs naturally assume that the West itself was somehow implicated in Djindjic’s murder. They speculate that Djindjic may have been finally getting too big for his boots; that he was starting to get awkward over the West’s failure to pay promised aid; and that several big contracts were about to go to German interests rather than American ones. They also point out that Djindjic was one of the few Eastern European leaders who refused to sign a letter of support for the Anglo-Ameri
[CTRL] America’s Brezhnev Doctrine
http://www.amconmag.com/06_02_03/buchanan.html June 2, 2003 issue Copyright © 2003 The American Conservative America’s Brezhnev Doctrine by Pat Buchanan In May ’68, Moscow sent its tanks into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” and gave us “The Brezhnev Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty.” To wit, once the Communist system has been imposed on a nation, said Moscow, there is no turning back. A mirror image of the Brezhnev Doctrine is the American Doctrine. Once a nation has been “liberated,” like Germany and Japan, a U.S.-style democracy will be imposed. But there is a dilemma deeply embedded in democratist ideology. What do we do if a conquered people democratically tells us to get out and votes in a regime that rejects American values? Do we accept their democratic decision? Will we really accept Iraq’s democratic decisions if they imperil our interests? Or are we hypocrites and phonies, as much of the world believes? President Bush gave his victory address aboard a 90,000-ton aircraft carrier named for America’s most beloved president. What was Abraham Lincoln’s answer to Southerners who voted democratically to secede? General Sherman, four years of fire and sword, and twelve years of “Reconstruction.” A democratic process produced Chancellor Hitler. Yet, democratists today say we had a right to invade and overthrow the Nazi regime as early as 1933. Where did we acquire this right? Call it The American Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty. When the Spanish republic began to persecute priests and nuns in the 1930s, General Franco, to the cheers of Catholics everywhere, raised up a rebellion and put the republic to the sword. Forty years later, Nixon’s White House rejoiced when General Augusto Pinochet seized power from a democratically elected President Salvador Allende, who was steering Chile toward Castroism. And the Old Right has never condemned either coup. In 1992, Algeria was to hold a run-off election certain to bring to power an Islamist regime. With the blessing of France and the United States, the Algerian government and army canceled the election. Some 100,000 have perished in the ensuing civil war. Any of the democracy mongers doing penance today for that one? Recent elections in Turkey brought to power Islamists who denied us access to their territory for the liberation of Iraq. Elections in Pakistan turned two of four provinces over to virulent anti-Americans and admirers of Osama. What do we Americans do if the Shi’ites of Iraq join the Sunnis in free elections and, together, tell us to get out of their country? Neoconservatives, with visions of Iraq as a strategic base camp from which to strike Islamic tyrannies, are now insisting that, before elections, Iraqis must be tutored in American values and democratic ideals, lest they commit a blunder at the ballot box. In short, Iraqis are free to choose a government—of which we Americans approve. Yet even if Iraqis create a constitutional republic, problems arise. Americans believe in separation of church and state, that religious indoctrination has no place in state schools. But, like pre-Vatican-II Catholics, Muslims believe that indoctrinating children in the faith of their fathers is the primary purpose of education. Acolytes of American values believe the Bill of Rights gives infidels the right to preach, sodomites the right to practice, Larry Flynt and Salman Rushdie the right to publish, and every woman and wife the right to fornicate freely and have an abortion. Try selling that in Riyadh or Rawalpindi, and the authoritarian rulers will have to rescue you from the people’s will. If a democratic referendum were conducted today from Morocco to Malaysia —and monitored by the National Endowment for Democracy—on the proposition: “Resolved: Israel should be erased from the map of the Middle East and Israeli Jews sent back where they came from,” how do you suppose it would come out? Those who would extend the franchise to the masses should perhaps discern first what it is the masses want. Nazism was embraced by Germans for only a decade. When the regime went, the Germans came home to the West. Communism, imposed on the peoples of Eastern Europe, was always detested. When it was swept from power, these people, too, returned to the West. But the beliefs of Islamic peoples are rooted in a faith and tradition 1,400 years old that has proven impervious to the greatest of Christian evangelists. Their beliefs will not be uprooted and replaced by secular humanist nostrums and democratist nonsense in a few short years. Rather than trying to instruct these people on how to believe, behave, and vote, we shall one day have to settle for them raising a regime in Iraq that simply does not threaten us or our vital interests. It’s a foreign policy called “realism.”
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] THE DRUG TRUST
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl 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 --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- THE DRUG TRUST In 1987, the eighteen largest drug firms were ranked as follows: 1, Merck (U.S.) $4.2 billion in sales. 2. Glaxo Holdings (United Kingdom) $3.4 billion. 3. Hoffman LaRoche (Switzerland) $3.1 billion. 4. Smith Kline Beckman (U.S.) $2.8 billion. 5. Ciba-Geigy (Switzerland) $2.7 billion. 6. Pfizer (U.5.) $2.5 billion (Standard & Poor's gives sales as $4 billion). 6. Pfizer (U.S.) $2.5 billion (Standard & Poor's gives its sales as $4 billion.) 7. Hoechst A. G. (Germany) $2.5 billion (Standard & Poor's lists its sales as $38 Billion Deutschmarks). 8. American Home Products (U.S.) $2.4 billion ($4.93 billion according to Standard & Poor's). 9. Lilly (U.S.) $2.3 billion ($3.72 billion Standard & Poor's). 10. Upjohn (U.S.) $2 billion. 11. Squibb (U.S.) $2 billion. 12. Johnson & Juhnson (U.S.) $1.9 billion. 13. Sandoz (Switzerland) $1.8 billion. 14. Bristol Myers (U.S.) $1.6 billion. 15. Beecham Group (United Kingdom) $1.4 billion (Standard & Poor's gives $1.4 billion in sales of the U.S. subsidiary-$2.6 billion pounds sterling as overall income). 16. Bayer A. G. (Germany) $1.4 bilIion (Standard & Poor's gives the figure as $45.9 billion Deutschmarks). 17. Syntex (U.S.) $1.1 billion. 18. Warner Lambert (U.S.) $1.1 billion (Standard & Poor's gives the figure as $3.1 billion). Thus we find that the United States still maintains an overwhelming lead in the production and sale of drugs. In the United States, the sale of prescription drugs rose in 1987 by 12.5% to $27 billion. Eleven of the eighteen leading firms are located in the United States; three in Switzerland; two in Germany; and two in the United Kingdom. Nutritionist T.J. Frye notes that the Drug Trust in the United States is controlled by the Rockefeller group in a cartel relationship with I.G. Farben of Germany. In fact, I.G. Farben was the largest chemical concern in Germany during the 1930s, when it engaged in an active cartel agreement with Standard Oil of New Jersey. The Allied Military Government split it up into three companies after World War II, as part of the "anti-cartel" goals of that period, which was not unlike the famed splitting up of Standard Oil itself by court order, while the Rockefellers maintained controlling interest in each of the new companies. In Germany, General William Draper, of Dillon Read investment bankers, unveiled the new decree from his office in the I.G. Farben building. Henceforth, I.G. Farben would exist no more; instead, three companies would emerge-Bayer, of Leverkusen; BASF at Ludwigshafen; and Hoescht, near Franfort. Each of the three spawns is now larger than the old I.G. Farben; only ICI of England is larger. These firms export more than half of their product. BASF is represented in the United States by Shearman and Sterling, the Rockefeller law firm of which William Rockefeller is a partner. The world's No. 1 drug firm, Merck, began as an apothecary shop in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1668. Its president, John J. Horan, is a partner of J.P. Morgan Company, and the Morgan Guaranty Trust. He attended a Bilderberger meeting in Rye, New York, May 10-12,1985. In 1953, Merck absorbed another large drug firm, Sharp & Dohme. At that time, Oscar Ewing the central figure in the government Floridation promotion for the Aluminum Trust, was secretary of the Merck firm, his office then being at One Wall Street, New York. Directors of Merck include John T. Connor, who began his business career with Cravath, Swaine and Moore, the law firm for Kuhn,Loeb Company; Connor then joined the Office of Naval Research, became Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy 1945-47, became president of Merck, then president of Allied Stores from 1967-80, then chairman of Schroders, the London banking firm. Connor is also a director of a competing drug firm, Warner Lambe
[CTRL] Leo Strauss - The Neocon Philosopher
-Caveat Lector- http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/131/focus/The_PhilosopherP.shtml The Philosopher The late Leo Strauss has emerged as the thinker of the moment in Washington, but his ideas remain mysterious. Was he an ardent opponent of tyranny, or an apologist for the abuse of power? By Jeet Heer, 5/11/2003 ODD AS THIS MAY SOUND, we live in a world increasingly shaped by Leo Strauss, a controversial philosopher who died in 1973. Although generally unknown to the wider population, Strauss has been one of the two or three most important intellectual influences on the conservative worldview now ascendant in George W. Bush's Washington. Eager to get the lowdown on White House thinking, editors at the New York Times and Le Monde have had journalists pore over Strauss's work and trace his disciples' affiliations. The New Yorker has even found a contingent of Straussians doing intelligence work for the Pentagon. Yet while the extent of Strauss's influence is wide, his writings are frequently obscure, and his legacy is hotly disputed by admirers and critics alike. Certainly, Strauss was no ordinary Republican idea-maker: Steeped in ancient philosophy, he had dark forebodings about democracy, religion, technology, and nearly everything else that can claim the allegiance of the contemporary conservative (or liberal, for that matter). At first glance, a University of Chicago professor who spent most of his life pondering old books would seem an unlikely master-thinker for the policy wonks, career bureaucrats, and pundits who make up Washington's unelected elite. Strauss held that politics was a central human activity, but he also believed that ''all practical or political life is inferior to contemplative life.'' He participated in the battle of ideas not by issuing political manifestoes or angling for bureaucratic power, but by writing recondite and difficult books. A typical Strauss volume is a densely packed commentary on a classic text like Plato's ''The Laws'' or Machiavelli's ''The Prince,'' festooned with footnotes drawing on an array of hard-won languages from ancient Greek and Latin to medieval Arabic. It's often difficult to discern where Strauss's paraphrases of dead writers leave off and his own views begin-and this has only deepened the mystery that attaches to his work. Despite his life of quiet scholarly obscurity, Strauss has exerted a strong posthumous sway among those who bustle through the corridors of power. Washington Straussians have included Robert A. Goldwin, who had the bizarre and unenviable task of organizing weekly seminars in political theory and practice attended by President Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s; Carnes Lord, National Security Council advisor in the Reagan administration; and William Galston, deputy domestic policy adviser in the first two years of the Clinton administration. Irving Kristol, an intellectual whose name is virtually synonymous with neoconservatism, has named Strauss as a major influence, and Straussian writers and ideas regularly grace the pages of magazines like National Review, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard, which is edited by Irving's son William Kristol. The Bush administration's Straussians include the Pentagon officials Paul Wolfowitz and Abram Shulsky, who studied with Strauss at the University of Chicago, and the bioethics adviser Leon Kass, a colleague at Chicago. Strauss also claims a large, if rather clubbish, following in the academy, especially among scholars of political theory and American constitutional history. And yet even those academics who know Strauss's work best often sharply disagree about its fundamental meaning. There are East Coast Straussians, West Coast Straussians, and even some Straussian Democrats. Clifford Orwin, a professor at the University of Toronto strongly influenced by Strauss, describes him as a wise teacher who counseled prudence and moderation. But Shadia Drury, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary and the author of ''Leo Strauss and the American Right,'' completely disagrees. For her, Strauss was nothing less than ''a Jewish Nazi'' whose pretense of American patriotism and piety hid a cynical and extremist antidemocratic ideology. Was Leo Strauss a friend of liberal democracy, or an elitist who wanted society to be ruled by a secretive cabal? An ardent opponent of tyranny, or an apologist for the abuse of power? An atheist or a pious Jew? To understand Strauss, we need to look beyond the famous students and self-styled acolytes and examine the man himself. Born in 1899 to an Orthodox Jewish family in Germany, Leo Strauss learned at an early age that religion and philosophy are always vulnerable to the threat of political persecution. As a young man, Strauss was a liberal rationalist who nursed the hope, widespread in German Jewish circles, that assimilation into a liberal democracy would end anti-Semitism. As an undergraduate at the University of Marburg, his mentor
