[CTRL] [JBirch] Historic U.N. Vote (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: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:58:33 -0700 From: Paul Blumstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; Subject: [JBirch] Historic U.N. Vote From: The Liberty Committee [EMAIL PROTECTED] July 17, 2003 Your efforts paid off! Congressman Ron Paul's amendment to withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. received 12 more votes this year than last year. The vote was held on Tuesday, July 15th with 74 in favor and 350 against. (Last year's vote was 62 in favor.) Your calls, E-mails and faxes made the difference with several House members. On Tuesday, July 15th, we continuously surveyed members' offices. Many of those House members who earlier in the day said they were leaning against the Paul amendment or were undecided, ended up voting for pulling the U.S. out of the U.N. Several House members themselves commented to Congressman Paul on the strong show of support they received from their districts in the final hours. What you do matters. We obviously have much more work to do to secure America's independence from the United Nations. But keep in mind that what was once quickly and arrogantly dismissed as a silly idea (withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N.) is now more widely discussed by the general public and major media as an idea whose time has come -- with 74 members of the U.S. House voting two days ago (not just talking) to get out of the U.N. Congressman Paul issued a press release Wednesday, July 16th expressing his opinion of the historic vote. Here's the link: http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2003/pr071603.htm Please take a moment to see how your U.S. representative voted. If he voted for the Paul amendment to get the U.S. out of the U.N., please send a message of thanks. If he didn't, please express your disappointment and tell him you won't forget. Here's the link to the roll call vote and to send your message: http://capwiz.com/liberty/issues/votes/?votenum=364chamber=Hcongress=1081 Kent Snyder The Liberty Committee http://www.thelibertycommittee.org To make a donation, please go to http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/donate.htm Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Free shipping on all inkjet cartridge refill kit orders to US Canada. Low prices up to 80% off. We have your brand: HP, Epson, Lexmark more. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5510 http://us.click.yahoo.com/GHXcIA/n.WGAA/ySSFAA/A0NplB/TM -~- The opinions expressed on this forum are those of the authors of the articles posted. The John Birch Society has no responsibility for anything that is posted on this forum. The OFFICIAL John Birch Society web page is a www.jbs.org Look alike clone pages, run by others, violate JBS policy. Visit The New American at www.thenewamerican.com The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke 1729-1797 Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who still have swords. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get FAST unlimited reliable uncensored internet service for $9.95 per month No Setup Fees. No Contracts. No limits as to the number of emails you can send at a time No limit on email groups. 5 email accounts at no additional cost. Fastest Dialup Connection available. Click here now http://www.getmysmartisp.net 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]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to
[CTRL] Body of UK arms advisor found
-Caveat Lector- http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1389511,00.html Body of UK arms advisor found18/07/2003 14:58-(SA) Related Articles Weapons 'mole' missing Fake uranium docs from Italy Italy drawn into uranium saga Blair firm on uranium claim Britain won't reveal source Bush's speech 'accurate' Uranium debacle deepens Bush: CIA approved speech SA did not sell uranium to Iraq Dead advisor's testimony Michael McDonough London - A body found in central England matches the description of a missing Ministry of Defence adviser who had become embroiled in a controversy over the government's intelligence dossiers on Iraqi arms, police said on Friday. "The body found matches the description of David Kelly, but the body has not yet been formally identified," a spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said. Officers had earlier reported finding a man's body in a wooded area about 8km from Kelly's home. His family reported him missing late on Thursday when he didn't return to his home in Southmoor, about 30km southwest of Oxford, from an afternoon walk. Kelly, 59, has acknowledged speaking to a British Broadcasting Corp journalist who reported claims that a key aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair had insisted on including assertions doubted by intelligence experts in a dossier on Iraqi weapons. The government, which denies the claims, has asked the BBC to say whether Kelly was the unidentified official cited in the story, but the network has refused. Blair was informed of the discovery of the body as he flew from Washington to Tokyo, his office confirmed. The ministry of defence said on Friday that Kelly had been told he had violated civil service rules by having unauthorised contact with a journalist, but "that was the end of it". It said Kelly had at no point been threatened with suspension or dismissal after admitting speaking to the BBC reporter. Went for a walk Kelly left his home at around 15:00 on Thursday, telling his wife he was going for a walk, and the family called police when he failed to return by 22:45 that night. The body was found at 09:20 on Friday, police said. Television journalist Tom Mangold said he had spoken to Janice Kelly on Friday morning, and she had said her husband had felt stressed after appearing before a parliamentary committee to face questions about the BBC report. "She told me he had been under considerable stress, that he was very, very angry about what had happened at the committee, that he wasn't well, that he had been to a safe house, he hadn't liked that, he wanted to come home," Mangold told ITV news. "She didn't use the word depressed, but she said he was very, very stressed and unhappy about what had happened and this was really not the kind of world he wanted to live in." The ministry of defence said it had offered accommodation for Kelly so that he could avoid media attention. Kelly appeared before the House of Commons foreign affairs committee on Tuesday. The May 29 BBC report had said some intelligence experts thought a government dossier published last September should not have included a claim that Iraq could launch some chemical or biological weapons on 45 minutes' notice. Denied making claims BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan subsequently said his source accused Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications director, of insisting on including the 45-minute claim. Kelly, a former UN
[CTRL] Body 'matches' Iraq expert Dr David Kelly
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3076801.stm Last Updated: Friday, 18 July, 2003, 16:13 GMT 17:13 UK Body 'matches' Iraq expert A body matching the description of Dr David Kelly - the weapons expert at the centre of the Iraq dossier row - has been found at a beauty spot close to his home in Oxfordshire. The government says an independent judicial inquiry will be held into the circumstances of his death if the body is confirmed to be that of the MoD adviser. The discovery was made at 0920 BST by a member of the police team searching for Dr Kelly in a wooded area at Harrowdown Hill, near Faringdon. Dr Kelly, 59, had been caught up in a row between the BBC and the government about the use of intelligence reports in the run-up to the war with Iraq. On Tuesday he told the Foreign Affairs select committee he had spoken to BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan but denied he was the main source for a story about claims that a dossier on Iraq had been sexed up. Dr Kelly left his home in Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, at about 1500 BST on Thursday and his family reported him missing at 2345 BST the same day. The body was found lying on the ground, around five miles from Dr Kelly's home, a police spokeswoman said. Acting superintendent Dave Purnell said formal identification would take place on Saturday and the case was being treated as an unexplained death. We will be awaiting the results of the post mortem and also waiting while the forensic examination continues at the scene at Harrowdown Hill, he added. Attention The government announcement of an inquiry if the body is Dr Kelly's came from the prime minister's plane as he flew for a visit to Tokyo Mr Blair's spokesman said: The prime minister is obviously very distressed for the family. If it is Dr Kelly's body, the Ministry of Defence will hold an independent judicial inquiry into the circumstances leading up to his death. Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said Mr Blair should consider cutting short his trip to the Far East. Robert Jackson, the Conservative MP in whose constituency Dr Kelly lived, said the responsibility of the BBC should not go unmentioned in the case. The pressure was significantly increased by the fact the BBC refused to make it clear he was not the source, he said. A BBC spokesman said: We are shocked and saddened to hear what has happened and we extend our deepest sympathies to Dr Kelly's family and friends. Shock Whilst Dr Kelly's family await the formal identification, it would not be appropriate for us to make any further statement. Earlier this week, Dr Kelly denied being the BBC's main source for the story claiming Downing Street had sexed up the dossier about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. MPs on the Commons foreign affairs committee, which questioned Dr Kelly earlier this week, reacted with shock and disbelief at news of his disappearance. Huge media attention has been on Dr Kelly since the Ministry of Defence said he had come forward to admit meeting Andrew Gilligan, the BBC correspondent behind the controversial Iraq story. Mr Gilligan said a source had told him that the dossier on Iraq had been transformed by Downing Street. The BBC correspondent has refused to name his source, but the MoD said Dr Kelly had come forward to say it may have been him. Sensitive Government ministers have said they believe he was the source for Mr Gilligan's story. Supt Purnell said a police family liaison officer is with Dr Kelly's family. The official and wife Janice have three daughters, Sian, 32, and twins Rachel and Ellen, 30. Ann Lewis, a neighbour of Dr Kelly, told BBC News Online she was devastated for his family, especially his children. She said: He was a quiet man. He was a man who showed great care and concern for others. Craig Foster, 36, landlord of the Blue Boar public house in nearby Longworth, said Dr Kelly was a very well liked gentleman. Police say Dr Kelly is an avid walker and has good local knowledge of the many footpaths surrounding his home. A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said: We are aware that Dr David Kelly has gone missing and we are obviously concerned. Rules The ministry said Dr Kelly had at no point been threatened with suspension or dismissal for speaking to Mr Gilligan. It was made clear to him that he had broken civil service rules by having unauthorised contact with a journalist, but that was the end of it, said a spokesman. Downing Street says normal personnel procedures were followed after Dr Kelly volunteered that he might have been the source of Mr Gilligan's report. It was made clear to Dr Kelly that his name was likely to become public knowledge because he was one of only a small number of people it could have been about, a spokesman said. After questioning Dr Kelly earlier this week, the Commons foreign affairs select committee said it was most unlikely he was the main source for the BBC story. And they said Dr Kelly, who has worked as a weapons
[CTRL] Fwd: Domino Effect: Bush, Britain, Australia ...
-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]/ 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- [Australian Prime Minister] Howard under fire over Iraq From Hugh Williams for CNN July 17, 2003 The heat is on: Howard and Blair are facing criticism over their decision to join the U.S.-led coalition. SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- The death of 88 Australians in the Bali bombing last year brought the threat of terrorism much closer to home, and the issue of national security to the political forefront. And just like the U.S. and Britain, in Australia the government used the global fight against terrorism to help make the case for war in Iraq. Prime Minister John Howard -- while justifying Australia's decision to join the "coalition of willing" to oust Saddam Hussein -- included in a speech the now discredited African Uranium claim. "Uranium has been sought from Africa for non-civil purposes," he said in a February parliamentary address. But now Howard concedes that anything he said that might have been misleading was not intentionally misleading, and that the disputed intelligence did not undermine his case for war. "If this material had been specifically drawn to my attention, it wouldn't have made the slightest bit of difference to the decision," he says. The prime ministers' advisors in the Office of National Assessment -- one of Australia's intelligence agencies -- are taking the blame. The government has come under fire from all sides. "John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John [Australia's] own intelligence agency," opposition deputy Kevin Rudd says. And Democratic leader Andrew Bartlett has attacked the prime minister's handling of the situation. "The Prime Minister is treating the Australian people with contempt. Truthfulness in politics is actually an important thing." So how badly has this row undermined the confidence Australians have in their government? "There would be a minority view that would hold that John Howard deceived the electorate, but I don't think that that would be widely held," Gerard Henderson, political analyst at the Sydney Institute, told CNN. "And certainly not significant enough to threaten the future of the government in Australia." Australians' thoughts are now focusing on the almost nightly newscasts broadcasting the latest events in the Bali bombing trial. And with no Australian military deaths so far in the Iraq operation, the now dated issue of Baghdad's potential nuclear capability has been replaced with a very real fear of North Korea. But [Howard] will again face tough questions about the decision to go to war against Iraq when a parliamentary inquiry is held next month on pre-war intelligence. 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]/ 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: White House of Cards
-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]/ 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- Sorting Fact From Fiction Ellis Henican NewsDay, July 16, 2003 So what can we still believe about the war in Iraq? That's a tough one. So many of the claims and assertions of the Bush administration are turning out to be wrong. The duration, the cost, the reaction of the Iraqi people, the ease of the post-war recovery, the reason we attacked in the first place, even the story of our plucky poster girl: Every day we learn that more and more of it was built on lies, exaggeration, miscalculation or deceit. Let's take 'em one by one, all the things we thought we knew about Iraq's "liberation." Maybe we'll find something in here that still remains true. Mission Accomplished? Those two words - minus the question mark - were printed on a banner hanging behind President Bush, as he stood in a snappy flight suit aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, declaring the end of "major fighting" in Iraq. It made for stirring video. Unfortunately, in the almost seven weeks since, we've been losing at least a soldier a day. Millions of Iraqis still have no reliable water or electricity. Their economy barely functions at all. Anti-American sentiment is clearly rising. Saddam Hussein can't be found. No one knows what he is plotting. Looters and snipers still run unchecked. Many Iraqi religious leaders rail against the "foreign occupation." Our attempts at political organization keep failing. The peace, it turns out, is a whole lot tougher than the war. Home Soon? We have 147,000 American troops in Iraq right now. That number won't shrink for the "foreseeable future," Gen. Tommy Franks admitted last week. Even the exhausted members of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, who spearheaded the Iraqi campaign, have now been told they probably won't be home by September, as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld promised just last week. No fresh troops are available to replace them. Maj. Gen. Buford Blount broke the "disappointing news" in an e-mail to the soldiers' families Sunday night. Their return is delayed indefinitely "due to the uncertainty of the situation in Iraq and the recent increase in attacks on the coalition forces." War May Be Hell, but It Sure Ain't Cheap: The price tag could reach $100 billion through next year, far more than the administration officials predicted. The current "burn rate," $3.4 billion a month, is almost as high as the $4 billion the actual fighting cost, even though most of the Navy and the Air Force have been sent home. Coalition? What Coalition? Call them the "coalition of the absent." Post-war Iraq is still an overwhelmingly American affair, just like war-time Iraq was. Yesterday, France's president followed the lead of India and Germany, saying sending troops "cannot be imagined in the current context." They Love Us, They Love Us Not: "The United States and the British were hoodwinked when they were told that the Iraqi people would receive them with flowers and hugs," Mohammed al-Douri, the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, warned one testy day in March. U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte was so outraged at that, he stormed out of the Security Council. But hugs and flowers have been few and far between. They've been mixed, quite frighteningly, with ambushes, denunciations, frustration and resentment. Tell Me Again, Why Did We Go? Of the five big reasons advanced by President Bush, four have largely been discredited. 1. No weapons of mass destruction have been found. 2. No connection between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein has been discovered. 3. Even President Bush now admits the claims about an Iraqi nuclear program can't be confirmed, including Niger's purported deal to sell uranium to Iraq. 4. There's no evidence that attacking Iraq has reduced the threat of international terrorism, not yet anyway. If anything, it's inflamed our
Re: [CTRL] Bush Blair
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[CTRL] Fwd: Trail Leads to NeoCon Warhawks: Bush's Weapons of Self-Destruction?
-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]/ 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- Tenet: [White House] Official insisted on Iraq claim Democratic senator says CIA director acknowledged White House pressure for discredited evidence on Saddams nuclear pursuit NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON, July 17 CIA Director George Tenet acknowledged at a closed-door hearing on the Bush administrations use of now-discredited documents on Iraqs pursuit of uranium that a White House official had insisted the unverified allegation be included in the presidents State of the Union address in January, a Democratic senator said Thursday. The presidents spokesman vigorously disputed that assertion. U.S. officials said, meanwhile, that top CIA officials did not receive the documents until after the presidents speech. NEWSWEEK AND THE Associated Press both quoted unidentified U.S. officials as saying that CIA headquarters did not obtain the documents until February, after Bushs Jan. 28 address to the nation in which he cited the evidence that Iraq was seeking to build nuclear weapons. Newsweek, quoting three administration sources, said the agency got its copies nearly four months after they had been delivered to the U.S. Embassy in Rome and had been passed along to the State Department. The embassy provided the documents to the CIA station chief in Rome, but the [CIA] station chief didnt send them along to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., apparently believing they were being forwarded by the State Department, Newsweek reported. Without the documents purporting to show that Iraq was trying to purchase enriched uranium from Niger, the CIA could investigate only generalities of the claim, which it had learned from a foreign government around the beginning of 2002. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, also under fire for his use of intelligence to justify the war in Iraq, said in an address to Congress on Thursday that he believes with every fiber of instinct and conviction that the U.S.- and British-led war on Iraq was justified, even without broad international support. Blair did not specifically address the discredited Niger-uranium documents, but he suggested that the removal of Saddam Husseins regime will lead history to forgive Blair and Bush if it turns out they were wrong [or LIED?] about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The AP reported that the U.S. government turned the documents over to the United Nations shortly after the CIA obtained them. U.N. officials quickly determined they were fakes. The U.N. Security Council was informed of that March 7, two weeks before U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq. DISCREDITED DOCUMENTS The discredited documents are a series of letters purportedly between officials in Iraq and Niger. The letters indicated Niger would supply uranium to the government of Saddam in a form that could be refined for nuclear weapons. Even without the documents, the CIA had its doubts, but Bush administration officials repeatedly sought to include the assertion in public statements aimed at vilifying Iraq, the AP reported. The CIA sometimes succeeded in getting the information removed from such statements but acquiesced to an edited line in the State of the Union address that attributed the claim to British intelligence, it said. That assertion was bolstered Thursday by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who was present for Tenets 4-hour appearance before Intelligence Committee members on Wednesday. Durbin said that during the closed-door hearing, Tenet told the lawmakers that a White House official insisted the State of the Union address include the [doubtful] assertion about Saddams nuclear intentions. Durbin said that persons identity could not be revealed because of the confidentiality of the proceedings, but sources, who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity, said
[CTRL] Fwd: Early Robert Joseph Quote re: Weapons of Mass Destruction
-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]/ 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- OUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS are the single most important instrument we have for deterring [biochemical warfare] against us by rogue states. "Conventional superiority, which in certain critical ways is perceived as vulnerable, especially if the enemy uses [biochemical warfare] capabilities early in the conflict, is not enough. "OUR conventional AND NUCLEAR forces must work together to enhance deterrence in a very complex and dangerous environment. --ROBERT JOSEPH, Special Assistant to President George W. Bush March 23, 1999 Testimony for the Senate Armed Services Committee quoted in "The Journal of Homeland Security" http://www.homelanddefense.org/quotes/getquotes.cfm?Authorid=17 www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[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] Military Morale Hits Bottom In Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html July 18, 2003 MILITARY MORALE HITS BOTTOM IN IRAQ While War Party proclaims 'colonialist consensus' at home American troops in Iraq, who creamed Saddam Hussein and his cronies in record time, are turning their sights on another target: the Bush administration and if I were the Bushies, I'd be scared. A sergeant stationed in Fallujah recently told ABC News: "I've got my own 'Most Wanted' list. The aces in my deck are Paul Bremer, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush and Paul Wolfowitz," Sure, the soldiers of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division are tired exhausted is more like it. They've been there since September, and were promised that they'd be home by now. But it isn't just homesickness. Pfc. Eric Rattler avers: "I used to want to help these people, but now I don't really care about them anymore. I've seen so much, you know, little kids throwing rocks at you. Once you pacify an area, it seems like the area you just came from turns bad again. I'd like this country to be all right, but I don't care anymore." A conquered country needs to stay conquered, and that requires an occupation; we'll be in Iraq anywhere from 5 to 10 years, according to the experts and influential members of Congress. It is also going to require a lot more troops. But American soldiers are trained to win wars, not to baby-sit restive natives. Imperialism goes against the grain of the American character, as vociferously expressed by one of the military wives, Rhonda Vega of Hinesville, Georgia, who told a national TV audience: "Just send my husband home send all the soldiers home. They have done the job they were supposed to do." Soldiers calling for Rummy's resignation on national television, military wives speaking out against the occupation it didn't take very long for the backlash against the Iraq war to make itself felt. War "revisionism" usually takes years to kick in: this time, however, the smoke had barely cleared from the skies over Baghdad before the lies of the War Party were exposed and the storm of indignation broke. This can be explained, at least to some extent, to the ubiquity of the Internet, and is also due, perhaps, to the unusual brazenness of these particular liars. After all, the administration's Niger-uranium fantasy was debunked by UN inspector Jacques Baute "with a few quick Google searches," as Joshua Marshall described it. What were they thinking? Blinded by arrogance, and the myth of American preeminence, the neoconservative architects of a frankly imperial foreign policy don't care what ordinary people think. The whole world, for them, consists of Washington, D.C. and immediate environs, which is how come Rich Lowry can proclaim, in all seriousness, the rise of a "colonialist consensus." The editor of National Review opines: "No one wants to say it out loud, but we are all colonialists now." By "we," of course, he means all the policy wonks who inhabit the Washington Beltway, and who seem to have arrived at a "consensus" on the desirability of imperialism: "Beneath all the vitriolic partisan disagreements about American foreign policy, then, there is a sort of colonialist consensus, which is why American troops are in Afghanistan and Iraq (a Republican president's colonialism), Bosnia and Kosovo (a Democratic president's colonialism), and perhaps soon Liberia, too (a Republican president's colonialism that is pleasing to Democrats)." But the grunts who have to fight Washington's wars of conquest are not included in this great "consensus." Their opinions are not even considered, because they don't count. We must leave it to the elites, on the right and the left, and they have spoken: "Conservatives want to provide security and decent government to far-flung parts of the world for our own good to protect America's interests; liberals want to provide security and decent government to far-flung parts of the world for other people's good to protect humanitarian principles." What this means is that, when it comes to foreign policy, the ideological spectrum has been considerably narrowed to include only the two known varieties of neoconservatives: right-neocons and left-neocons, with the entire range of permitted dissent on foreign policy matters consisting of the short distance between National Review and The New Republic. Libertarians, leftists, paleoconservatives, and other opponents of our policy of global intervention all are beyond the pale, including non-ideologues Pfc. Rattler, Ms. Vega, and the people who will actually have to fight these endless wars of conquest. Lowry and his fellow mandarins see their role as grand strategists. They are all of them little Napoleons, and their unspeakable arrogance leaps out at Lowry's readers: "The unspoken assumption of both sides is that swaths of the world have proven incapable of self-government, and they're both right. So conservative Republican President George W. Bush sends
[CTRL] Cheney Behind False Iraq Evidence
-Caveat Lector- http://www.americanfreepress.net/07_18_03/Cheney_Was/cheney_was.html Cheney Was Bushs Triggerman in Escalating Intelligence Catfight Vice President Dick Cheney was the true triggerman behind waging the imperialist war on Iraq. Exclusive To American Free Press By Gordon Thomas Vice President Dick Cheney was the trigger which exploded the long-simmering war between the White House and the CIAs embattled director, George Tenet. He ordered Tenet last January to insert the now notorious 16 words that there was credible British intelligence that Saddam had tried in 2001 to buy uranium ore (yellowcake) from Niger, the impoverished West African nation. Three months before, in October 2002, Tenet had personally intervened to stop President Bush from making such a claim in a speech asserting that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Tenet told Bush he could not support the claim. When Cheney told him last January about the credible British intelligence, Tenet repeated his warning that the CIA could not endorse it. In what one account says was a tense meeting, Cheney bluntly overruled Tenet. The vice presidents action cast a shadow over British Prime Minister Tony Blairs visit to Washington. Bush feels Britains intelligence services, MI6 and MI5, have not kept the CIA properly informed. Blair insists his spy agencies could not pass on more information on the Niger yellowcake because, according to a London Foreign Office officer, under the rules governing cooperation they have with foreign intelligence services, our service could not share intelligence from those sources without the originators permission. This impasse has created a deep anger between the CIA, MI6 and MI5. A British official at its embassy in Washington told AFP that the CIA has been dumping on everybody and everybody is dumping on the CIA. A Bush administration official described Blairs visit as fallout time. Not finding WMD was always going to make his visit a time for plain speaking. To echo the presidents liking for a Texan example, this could be shootout time at the White House corral. More certain is that the intelligence fallout from the Iraq war is now the most serious rift in transatlantic secret relations since the post-World War II scandal of the British atom spies who stole U.S. nuclear secrets for the Soviet Union. We dont believe for a moment that Tenet just fell on his own sword. What happened has all the hallmarks of Dick Cheney, said an MI6 source close to the agencys director-general, Sir Richard Dearlove. The reverberations have led to calls in London for Blair to resignand efforts by former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer to bring closure to the row on the eve of his own departure from the administration. Clare Short, who resigned from Blairs cabinet over Britain going to war on a false pretense, said Blair should now resign before matters get nastier for him. Trust in him and Bush is going down by the day. How all this happened is one of the most shocking stories to emerge in the post-Iraq war inquest. ORIGINS OF NIGER SCANDAL The complex story has simple roots. In November 2001, Italian secret service agents were approached by a West African diplomat. He said he had details of a plot by the Iraqis to buy hundreds of tons of uranium ore from Niger. He produced supporting documents. On the surface, the claim sounded credible. Iraq had already purchased 200 tons of yellowcake from Niger in 1986, the Italians told the CIA station in Rome. The station chief sent a detailed report to Langley, including the documents the African diplomat had provided. The material was sent to the State Department. The U.S. ambassador to Niger at the time, Barbro Owens-Kirk Patrick, was asked to assess all the material. But while she was doing so, Cheney intervened. He told a senior diplomat, Joseph Wilsonwho had first-hand knowledge of Nigerthat he wanted him to go there and investigate the claims. By the time he arrived, Owens-Kirkpatrick had dismissed the documents as crude forgeriesand the African diplomats claims to the Italians as pure fantasy. Wilson concurred. His own investigation showed that Nigers security on yellowcakeintroduced after Saddams previous purchasewas too rigorous for any Iraqi attempt to purchase uranium ore to have gone undetected. In March 2002, Wilson briefed Tenet. He passed on Wilsons findings to his British counterpart, Sir Richard Dearlove of MI6. He informed the head of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, and John Scarlett, the former spy who now chairs Britains Joint Intelligence Committee. His job is to know anything that can be known about Saddam and his WMD. On Sept. 24, 2002, Blair published his governments dossier on Iraqs weapons of mass destruction. It included the claim Iraq has sought the supply of significant amounts of uranium from Africa. It did not say whenlet alone whetherthis had been in the 1980s. Neither was Niger mentioned. But to Wilson it was
[CTRL] Lying -- a Bush Family Value
-Caveat Lector- http://www.consortiumnews.com/2003/071803a.html Lying -- a Bush Family Value By Robert Parry July 18, 2003 In most cases, it wouldnt matter much that a 40-year-old long-time heavy drinker refused to admit to his alcoholism, nor that years later, he continued to play word games when asked about his cocaine use. Doctors might say that denial isnt good for a persons recovery, but that wouldnt affect the rest of us. The difference in this case is that the substance abuser somehow became president of the United States. And by hiding his earlier problems, George W. Bush learned what is becoming a dangerous lesson that his family and political connections can protect him from the truth. Politicians with less powerful friends may pay dearly for their little lies or perceived exaggerations, as Bill Clinton and Al Gore learned. But the Bushes are not like lesser-born men. The Bushes have asserted themselves as a kind of American royalty. When the rare question about their truthfulness penetrates the outer defenses, aides step in to spin the facts, or a cowed news media minimizes the offense, or if necessary, some subordinate takes the fall. Meanwhile, the American people are supposed to bend over backward with testimonials, saying it would be unthinkable that "straight-shooting" George W. Bush would ever intentionally mislead the people. The Bushes simply arent capable of lying, even when the public is watching a train wreck of lies about the reasons for the Iraq War. The American public's not even supposed to notice when Bush as recently as July 14 altered key facts about how the war to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein began earlier this year. "We gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldnt let them in," Bush said at the White House. "After a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power." With U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan sitting next to him and White House reporters in front of him, Bush lied. In reality, Husseins government had allowed the U.N. inspectors to scour the countryside for months and was even complying with U.N. demands to destroy missiles that exceeded the range permitted by international sanctions. In early March, U.N. inspectors were requesting more time for their work and noting that the Iraqis finally were filling in details about how they had destroyed earlier stockpiles of weapons. But Bush cut the inspections short and launched his invasion. Now, asserting a kind of kingly right to say whatever he wishes without contradiction, Bush revised the history to put himself in a more favorable light. The lie was so obvious that some Bush watchers suggest it indicates either a growing brazenness in his deceptions or a disconnect between Bushs mind and reality. Still, Bush continues to chastise those who question his honesty about the Iraq War as "historical revisionists." He accuses them of trying to rewrite or falsify the history. Meanwhile, Bushs own rewriting of the prologue to the Iraq War drew only passing notice from a U.S. news media that still accepts the myth of Bush, the "straight shooter." A Family Legacy Bushs words and deeds around the Iraq War suggest that deception was one lesson that George W. Bush learned from his father. With his blue-blood connections and his CIA experience, George H.W. Bush understood the expediency of truth. From his CIA tradecraft, the elder Bush also knew how a population could be manipulated through lies, which could then be covered up or forgotten in the glow of victory. As CIA chief in 1976, the elder Bush led the counterattack against the historic congressional and press investigations of CIA abuses, including the agencys involvement in assassinations of foreign leaders. Those cover-ups reached into Bush's own tenure at the CIA, with efforts to frustrate an investigation into the murder of Chile's ex-foreign minister Orlando Letelier, who was blown up while driving down Embassy Row in Washington on Sept. 21, 1976. Though Bush promised that his CIA would do all it could to help identify the killers, senior CIA officials instead took actions to divert investigators away from the real killers agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, a Bush favorite. Bush's CIA leaked a phony intelligence finding to Newsweek magazine. "The Chilean secret police were not involved," the CIA told Newsweek. "The agency reached its decision because the bomb was too crude to be the work of experts and because the murder, coming while Chile's rulers were wooing U.S. support, could only damage the Santiago regime." [Newsweek, Oct. 11, 1976] Years later, prosecutors would learn that the CIA had important evidence linking Chile's secret police to the assassination assassin Michael Townley even had claimed the purpose of his trip to the United States was to visit the CIA but CIA director Bush withheld that information. "Nothing the agency gave us helped us break this case," said federal prosecutor Eugene
[CTRL] mormon abuse, friedman defendant, $5M bishop, statute, Kenyan rape
-Caveat Lector- also has X-ray cameras Bush launches magazine to teach young Arabs to love America Unexplained death adds dark twist to Britain's Iraq intelligence saga The Observer International Scandal-hit US firm wins key contracts Amnesty Tells U.S. to Stop Executing Child Offenders scroll for news articles from L Moss Sharman The Mormon Image, From Alien to Human By Janet Maslin 7/17/03 Book called : "Under the Banner of Heaven" "Mr. Krakauer has also shoehorned in a chapter about the abduction of Elizabeth Smart at age 14 and a covetous polygamist, Brian David Mitchell, the chief suspect in the case. This section is more obligatory than revealing, but it underscores the pattern of sexual abuse and incest that runs through this material. Among many examples unearthed by Mr. Krakauer is that of a man named Kenyon Blackmore. One of his daughters says she was raped by him and says he means to "marry" her sisters when each one turns 12." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/books/17MASL.html The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Ross G., Appellant No. 1081E Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department 163 A.D.2d 529; 558 N.Y.S.2d 603; 1990 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8786 "In 1987, Arnold Friedman, a retired high school teacher, was arrested on Federal charges for using the mails to send and receive child pornography. A subsequent investigation disclosed that Friedman, who ran an after-school computer program in his Great Neck home, and his son, Jesse Friedman, had been sexually abusing the young boys who had been regularly attending the computer classes. Arnold Friedman was arrested on State charges with respect to the sexual abuse crimes, and upon his guilty plea, was sentenced, inter alia, to 8 1/3 to 25 years' imprisonment, in addition to his sentence on the Federal charges. In connection with the investigation of the Friedmans, police were led to the defendant, a friend of Jesse Friedman, who had also sexually abused some of the [*530] boys who had been attending the computer classes. The defendant, who was 15 and 16 years old when he committed the crimes, became repulsed by them, and six months before the Friedmans were arrested, the defendant [***4] disassociated himself from Jesse Friedman and his activities. Following the defendant's indictment for a number of sex crimes, including class B violent felonies, the prosecution, with the approval of the victims' families, approached the defendant's counsel and sought the defendant's assistance in strengthening the case against Jesse Friedman, and in providing information concerning two other individuals suspected of being involved in the crimes." http://www.theawarenesscenter.org A Diocesan 'Shell Game' $5M Lawsuit Targets Bishop's Perks, Lack Of Salary 7/16/03 By Stephanie Saul Staff Writer "Bishop Thomas Daily presides over the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, a job with perks - a staff, first-class travel and the use of a mansion. Yet lawyers for Daily claim he is not paid as an officer or director of the diocese and, therefore, can't be sued." http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-abuse0717,0,1852312.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines The Case for Abolishing Child Abuse Statutes of Limitations, And For Victims' Forgoing Settlement In Favor of A Jury Trial by Marci Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/17/03 "Recently, in Stogner v. California, the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional California's law retroactively lifting the statute of limitations on child abuse. The Court held that the law violated the Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause, which prohibits certain retroactive criminal laws. The purpose of the Clause is to protect citizens from arbitrary government action changing the legal status of actions that occurred in the past. Abuse victims were deeply and understandably upset by the decision in Stogner. As a result of the ruling, predators bound for prison got off scot freeSome of the ugliest comments in the clergy child abuse scandal have been by defenders of the Church who have argued that since the child knows what is happening during the abuse, a short statute of limitations is fair. Not only are their comments cruel, but their premise is inaccurate. Children often live with the ugliness of child abuse for years, held within themselves, precisely because they are not certain exactly what happened, or how to judge it. They need maturity to comprehend the situation." http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20030717.html from mparent How British troops raped Kenyans Archers Post, Northern Kenya 7/16/03 "Some have remained silent for 30 years. But now the Samburu and Masaai women, as well as their young men, are coming forward to tell their stories: how they were raped and sodomised by British soldiers on manoeuvres in northern Kenya." http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=17298t=1 Revealing Pair of Eyes - New Software Blends Images to Spot Hidden Weapons By Paul Eng "The setup uses two
[CTRL] WMD Scientist's Death Rocks British Government
-Caveat Lector- "Police said they were not treating his death as suspicious and that the cause of death would not be confirmed until a post-mortem had been carried out." (Incredible. I guess that leaves room for a ruling of suicide.) - JR http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2cid=564u=/nm/20030718/ts_nm/iraq_britain_scientist_dc_10printer=1 WMD Scientist's Death Rocks British Government Fri Jul 18, 3:53 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Gideon Long LONGWORTH, England (Reuters) - A mild-mannered British scientist was found dead in the woods on Friday after being unwittingly dragged into a fierce political dispute about intelligence used to justify war on Iraq (news - web sites). Reuters Photo AP Photo Slideshow: Weapons Expert Found Dead in Britain Related Links Text of Kelly's Testimony (AP) Iraq Dossier Dispute Chronology (AP) British police said they had found a body matching that of soft-spoken defense ministry biologist David Kelly, a former U.N. weapons inspector, who had been grilled in parliament over allegations the government hyped intelligence to justify war. The political fallout was immediate. Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), who learned about the discovery of the body while flying from Washington to Tokyo, promised an independent judicial inquiry into the death if the body was confirmed to be Kelly's. But opponents called for Blair to return and face a broader probe into the case he made for war. The shock even sent Britain's pound tumbling half a percent on currency markets as traders weighed the severity of the crisis for Blair. Kelly's family reported him missing overnight after he went for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside on Thursday with no coat and stayed out despite a rainstorm. Police said they were not treating his death as suspicious and that the cause of death would not be confirmed until a post-mortem had been carried out. Kelly had denied being the source for BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, who said in May a senior intelligence source had told him the government had "sexed up" intelligence on Iraq. That report sparked parliamentary hearings into how the government made the case for war, forced Blair onto the defensive and pitted government officials against the BBC. News of Kelly's death completely overshadowed Blair's rapturous reception by the U.S. Congress on Thursday, although there was no indication the prime minister would turn back from a scheduled week-long trip to Asia. "The prime minister is obviously very distressed for the family of Dr Kelly," a spokesman said aboard the flight. RELUCTANT WITNESS Opposition Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith said Blair should return from abroad and any inquiry should cover the entire issue of intelligence used to justify the war. "If I was the prime minister, I would cut short this visit and return home. There are very many questions that will need to be asked over the coming days," he said. Kelly had clearly been reluctant to enter the public debate over Iraq intelligence. Speaking so softly he could barely be heard, he admitted to parliament's foreign affairs committee he had met Gilligan, but denied telling him that Blair's communications chief Alastair Campbell had ordered intelligence to be hyped. Kelly appeared shell-shocked when parliamentarians at the hearing described him as "chaff" and a government "fall guy" put forward to shield top officials from blame. Kelly's wife Jane described Kelly as deeply upset, family friend Tom Mangold, a television journalist, told ITV News. "She told me he had been under considerable stress, that he was very, very angry about what had happened at the committee, that he wasn't well," Mangold said. The government said that if Kelly was Gilligan's source, their differing accounts proved the BBC story was wrong. Gilligan, who never named his source, was questioned at a closed-door hearing around the time Kelly vanished on Thursday. (Additional reporting by Peter Graff and Dominic Evans in London, and Katherine Baldwin in Tokyo) 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,
[CTRL] Lieberman urges Mfume for high court
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33630 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=33630 Friday, July 18, 2003 ELECTION 2004Lieberman urges Mfume for high courtIn make-up speech recommends NAACP boss with no law degree Posted: July 18, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern ©2003WorldNetDaily.com A few days after being declared "persona non grata" by the NAACP, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman suggested in a speech to the group that its leader, Kweisi Mfume, would make a good Supreme Court justice, the New Republic reported. Mfume, however, has never been to law school. Sen. Joe Lieberman Lieberman had upset the civil-rights leader by skipping a candidate forum at the NAACP national convention Monday, the magazine reported. The Connecticut senator called Mfume the next day to apologize and agreed to come to Miami to speak to the convention yesterday. After an apology to the group and a recounting of his civil rights bona fides, Lieberman, the Democrats' vice-presidential candidate in 2000, commended the NAACP for its work during the Florida recount. "We didn't realize at the time, Al Gore and I, that we not only needed Kweisi Mfume fighting for justice here in Florida counting votes," Lieberman said, according to the New Republic. "We need him on the Supreme Court where the votes really counted. Maybe that'll happen some day." According to the NAACP website, Mfume has earned a Masters degree in liberal arts, with an emphasis in international studies, from Johns Hopkins University. Don't bother asking At Monday's event, Mfume said the four candidates who didn't show up now have no right to ask for black votes in the 2004 election, USA Today reported. Four empty chairs were placed up front, representing Lieberman, Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and President Bush. ''We are interested in people who are interested in us,'' Mfume said, calling their failure to attend an affront to African-American voters and the 94-year-old National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ''This organization has dignity,'' he said, according to USA Today. ''We are not going to allow anybody, Democrat or Republican, to take it for granted.'' In a speech, the NAACP leader named each of the no-shows, accompanied by a dramatic death-knell chord. ''You have now become persona non grata,'' he said. ''Your political capital is the equivalent of Confederate dollars.'' USA Today noted Bush is the first sitting Republican president to travel to Africa, and the three missing Democrats received 100 percent scores for their voting in the last Congress from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. 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]/ 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] The N.Y. Times' 9-11 scam
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33636 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=33636 Friday, July 18, 2003 The N.Y. Times' 9-11 scam Posted: July 18, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Michelle Malkin ©2003Creators Syndicate, Inc. The New York Times unrelenting champion of the underprivileged, mighty battler against all corporate evils, and vehement opponent of Republican tax cuts for the "rich and powerful" lives by a far more self-serving motto: All the corporate welfare that's fit to collect. You won't see it reported on the Times' front page, so here's the scoop: The Gray Lady is a greedy leech, siphoning off millions of dollars in state taxpayer subsidies for private real estate development disguised as a public good. Now, the company stands to benefit from a federal tax-exempt bond program intended to help businesses devastated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. This week, it was revealed that the Times Company's development partner for the headquarters project has asked city officials for $400 million in federally financed "Liberty Bonds." The federal program was meant for rebuilding in New York City's Sept. 11 disaster zone, not for subsidizing a private newspaper's long-planned palatial ambitions. The background: While small business owners near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan struggled to pick up the pieces after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, all the midtown Manhattan fat cats at the Times had to do was throw a tantrum to obtain public funding for a new building. After the newspaper's executives threatened to move their workers out of town, city and state officials coughed up a vast tract of land on the edge of Times Square for a shiny, new 52-story headquarters. One minor glitch: The land that government authorities proposed to give away and the 11 buildings and 30 businesses located on it wasn't theirs for the taking. No matter. The corporate welfare conspirators invoked two magic words: eminent domain. Eminent domain powers were originally intended only for "public use" projects, such as highways or bridges. But with the wave of a pen, the Empire State Development Corporation, a "public benefit corporation," condemned the coveted private property on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets for the Times' new digs. Opposed to special tax breaks for everyone else, the Times' project comes lined with a handy $26.1 million in sales-tax exemptions on equipment and materials used for construction, a waiver of the mortgage-recording tax, and a discount on electricity rates. Although the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (you know, that pesky old piece of paper that Times editorial writers only seem to rediscover when it's needed to justify a right to sodomy or abortion or downloading porn from the Internet) bars the use of eminent domain without "just compensation," the Times is only required to pay $85.6 million for the land. That's at least a 25 percent discount, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology real estate professor W. Tod McGrath. In addition, the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Justice noted in a recent report on eminent domain abuse, the Times and its developer will recoup any cost of acquisition that exceeds $84.94 million in rent concessions, a figure the Times itself estimates may come to $29 million. Buried in the 99-year lease agreement is an option provision stating that after 29 years, the Times may buy the site in exchange for one dollar. This cozy arrangement is "legalized theft," plain and simple, as New York Libertarian Party official Richard Cooper has noted from the beginning stages of what he and the party have dubbed "Time$cam." It's also an example of the Times' sky-scraping editorial hypocrisy. The paper's opinion pages have been filled for the past two years with liberal rants from the likes of Nicholas Kristof and Paul Krugman decrying corporate welfare schemes and accusing President Bush and Republicans of "crony capitalism." Kristof called a Texas Rangers baseball stadium land grab supported by Bush an "avaricious bruising of the public interest." Krugman carps about subsidies to the energy industry. The Times' editorial board lambastes government loan guarantees to special corporate interests as "pork-barrel politics" that have no
