[CTRL] [JBirch] UN aims to scrutinise multinationals (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, 14 Aug 2003 08:48:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Book Boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JBS News [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JBirch] UN aims to scrutinise multinationals (IMHO, the UN should first scrutinize itself, am I right, or am I right?) UN aims to scrutinise multinationals By Jonathan Birchall at the United Nations Published: August 12 2003 21:42 | Last Updated: August 12 2003 21:42 International companies could find their activities subject to investigation and censure by United Nations human rights officials under principles expected to be adopted on Wednesday in Geneva. The UN's draft Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations asserts that companies should be subject to the kind of enforcement procedures at the UN Commission for Human Rights previously applied only to nation states. http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStoryc=StoryFTcid=1059478951484p=1012571727162 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/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 Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Ann Coulter The NeoCon Trojan Horse
-Caveat Lector- I still think you're off a little on that word. Prudy 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
Re: [CTRL] Ann Coulter The NeoCon Trojan Horse
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 8/15/2003 9:36:02 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still think you're off a little on that word. Heh heh. Bill. 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
[CTRL] The Baltimore Sun - A Zionist Shill?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general40/schill.htm The Baltimore Sun - A Zionist Shill? By William Hughes 8-15-3 On Aug. 10, 2003, "The Baltimore Sun," the only daily in town, published an unsigned editorial (I'm not making this up) entitled, "Sharon's Peacemaking." It labeled the architect of the 1982 serial bombing of Beirut, Lebanon; the 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacres; and of the IDF's rampage at Jenin, in 2001, "a willing warrior and reluctant peacemaker!" Meanwhile, "peacemaker" Sharon, on Aug. 12, threatened to again attack Lebanon, (and Syria, too, for good measure), and to launch a preemptive raid against Iran, in order to destroy its alleged Nuke facilities. Since Sharon became Israel's Prime Minister, on March 7, 2001, the Israelis have killed over 2,000 Palestinians, which includes about 400 children (Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group). During this same period, they have also "targeted" for assassination, over 100 Palestinians. When the latter kind of homicidal activity was carried out in Central America by government-sanctioned gangs, the practice was roundly condemned. The "Sun" called it "running a death squad." However, the "Sun" never uses that term of opprobrium in describing Sharon's terrorist methods. I wonder, why? Sharon's extreme provocations make some ponder. Is he deliberately stirring up trouble with other Arab states to divert U.S. attention away from: The fading "Roadmap?" His defiant building of the Apartheid Wall? And/or the fact that Israel has done little or nothing to "normalize" conditions on the ground for the Palestinians? Take your pick! On Aug. 13, 2003, "The Baltimore Sun" revealed a second blow to its haughty motto that it delivers, "Light for All." There was a shocking photo on its front page, showing an Israeli woman. She was reclining, in a stressed out state, on an ambulance stretcher, with her infant child by her side. The woman had been wounded, on Aug. 12, in a suicide blast at a mall, in the town of Rosh Haayin, near Tel Aviv. It was an AP photo. It naturally generated sympathy for the woman, her child, and also for the Israelis, the occupying power in that ongoing deadly conflict between the indigenous Palestinian people and their Israeli colonizers. Question: Where are the photos on the front page of the LIght-for-All "Baltimore Sun" of the Palestinian victims of state-sponsored Israeli terrorism? Why haven't we ever seen any of them in that place? Author Liz Curtis revealed in "Ireland and the Propaganda War," (1984, Pluto Press), how the UK's propaganda machine cleverly distorted, censored and/or misled the British public about what was really happening in the British occupied north of Ireland. Curtis put it this way, "We hear of bombs in Strabane, of buses burnt in Belfast. But what do we ever hear about the experiences, feelings and hopes of the Irish people." Curtis' argument could be made today about the Palestinians living under the brutal Israeli yoke. The Zionist Propaganda Machine, like the British one, is distorting the truth about what is occurring in the Occupied Territories. They do this, in their media outlets, by falsely stereotyping the Palestinians as terrorists and the Israelis as their victims. (See Kevin MacDonald's "Critique of Culture" for details on the awesome power, in the U.S., of a clique of Media Moguls, who are rabidly pro-Israel.) If "The Baltimore Sun" reports or editorializes on the Middle East news, in a consistently biased manner that unfairly favors the Israeli position, then it, too, risks being accused of shilling for the Zionists. Few will forget how, in an editorial on Nov. 13, 2002, the "Sun" mocked the Baltimore City Council for holding hearings opposing the war in Iraq. Since 1948, there have been hundreds of thousands of Palestinian victims of the Israelis (Palestineremembered.com). Where are the photos of the Palestinians victims of the IDF's rampage at Jenin? Where are the photos of the Palestinians, who have been tortured by the Israelis? Where are the photos of Israel's detention camps? Where are the photos of the Israeli bulldozer destroying the homes of innocent Palestinians? Why aren't those kinds of photos ever seen on the "Sun's" front page? For instance, when the Israelis murdered, via an IDF bulldozer, the American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, on March 16, 2003, in Rafah, a refugee camp, in Gaza, no photo of the victim appeared in the "Sun." Why? Aren't American and Palestinian victims of Israeli terror equal to the same kind of front page coverage as Israeli victims of terrorism? Is one victim less human than the other? Why the disparate treatment? The "Sun's" cited tendency to favor Israel is the nub of an ongoing problem. Let's call it, "The Propaganda War." The Israelis are winning that war in Baltimore, and throughout the U.S. And, the "Baltimore Sun," among other print media outlets, is contributing to that problem.
[CTRL] Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve
-Caveat Lector- scroll for news article http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0813-02.htm or http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1017505,00.html Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve Julian Borger in Washington Wednesday August 13, 2003 A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction. All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality". Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. 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
[CTRL] Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in White House
from http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=257row=0 POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Off Our Lights ZNet Friday, August 15, 2003 by Greg Palast I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters -- the Niagara Mohawk Power Company -- some years back. You see, before I was a journalist, I worked for a living, as an investigator of corporate racketeers. In the 1980s, NiMo built a nuclear plant, Nine Mile Point, a brutally costly piece of hot junk for which NiMo and its partner companies charged billions to New York State's electricity ratepayers. To pull off this grand theft by kilowatt, the NiMo-led consortium fabricated cost and schedule reports, then performed a Harry Potter job on the account books. In 1988, I showed a jury a memo from an executive from one partner, Long Island Lighting, giving a lesson to a NiMo honcho on how to lie to government regulators. The jury ordered LILCO to pay $4.3 billion and, ultimately, put them out of business. And that's why, if you're in the Northeast, you're reading this by candlelight tonight. Here's what happened. After LILCO was hammered by the law, after government regulators slammed Niagara Mohawk and dozens of other book-cooking, document-doctoring utility companies all over America with fines and penalties totaling in the tens of billions of dollars, the industry leaders got together to swear never to break the regulations again. Their plan was not to follow the rules, but to ELIMINATE the rules. They called it deregulation. It was like a committee of bank robbers figuring out how to make safecracking legal. But they dare not launch the scheme in the USA. Rather, in 1990, one devious little bunch of operators out of Texas, Houston Natural Gas, operating under the alias Enron, talked an over-the-edge free-market fanatic, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, into licensing the first completely deregulated power plant in the hemisphere. And so began an economic disease called regulatory reform that spread faster than SARS. Notably, Enron rewarded Thatcher's Energy Minister, one Lord Wakeham, with a bushel of dollar bills for 'consulting' services and a seat on Enron's board of directors. The English experiment proved the viability of Enron's new industrial formula: that the enthusiasm of politicians for deregulation was in direct proportion to the payola provided by power companies. The power elite first moved on England because they knew Americans wouldn't swallow the deregulation snake oil easily. The USA had gotten used to cheap power available at the flick of switch. This was the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt who, in 1933, caged the man he thought to be the last of the power pirates, Samuel Insull. Wall Street wheeler-dealer Insull created the Power Trust, and six decades before Ken Lay, faked account books and ripped off consumers. To frustrate Insull and his ilk, FDR gave us the Federal Power Commission and the Public Utilities Holding Company Act which told electricity companies where to stand and salute. Detailed regulations limited charges to real expenditures plus a government-set profit. The laws banned power trading and required companies to keep the lights on under threat of arrest -- no blackout blackmail to hike rates. Of particular significance as I write here in the dark, regulators told utilities exactly how much they had to spend to insure the system stayed in repair and the lights stayed on. Bureaucrats crawled along the wire and, like me, crawled through the account books, to make sure the power execs spent customers' money on parts and labor. If they didn't, we'd whack'm over the head with our thick rule books. Did we get in the way of these businessmen's entrepreneurial spirit? Damn right we did. Most important, FDR banned political contributions from utility companies -- no 'soft' money, no 'hard' money, no money PERIOD. But then came George the First. In 1992, just prior to his departure from the White House, President Bush Senior gave the power industry one long deep-through-the-teeth kiss good-bye: federal deregulation of electricity. It was a legacy he wanted to leave for his son, the gratitude of power companies which ponied up $16 million for the Republican campaign of 2000, seven times the sum they gave Democrats. But Poppy Bush's gift of deregulating of wholesale prices set by the feds only got the power pirates halfway to the plunder of Joe Ratepayer. For the big payday they needed deregulation at the state level. There were only two states, California and Texas, big enough and Republican enough to put the electricity market con into operation. California fell first. The power companies spent $39 million to defeat a 1998 referendum pushed by Ralph Nadar which would have blocked the de-reg scam. Another $37 million was spent on
