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-Caveat Lector- Media Research Center America's Media Watchdog Bringing Political Balance and Responsibility to the Media MRC Web News: Our Latest Analysis January 16, 2004 ^Daily updates on MRC's latest analysis Today^s CyberAlert: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040116.asp 1. NBC Promotes Al Gore^s Attack on Bush^s Environmental Record Thursday^s NBC Nightly News, in the guise of explaining why the environment has not become an issue yet in the campaign, delivered a one-sided assault on the Bush administration^s environmental record. Anchor Tom Brokaw began by showcasing how Al Gore ^accused Bush of consistently putting the interests of big campaign contributors in the oil, coal, utility and mining industries ahead of the public interest.^ After a clip of Gore accusing Bush of being a ^moral coward,^ NBC^s Kelly O^Donnell provided a story which featured soundbites from three, unlabeled, liberal environmental activists, two of which came from Sierra Club operatives on the very day that special interest group launched an anti-Bush TV ad campaign. O^Donnell also proclaimed: ^The League of Conservation Voters grades the President with the first 'F^ in the group^s 34-year history.^ 2. Couric Challenges Kennedy on How Democrats Failed to Oust Saddam Couric gets tough with Kennedy. Though NBC^s Katie Couric gave Senator Ted Kennedy a chance to agree with the proposition that the Iraq war was ^payback for the first Bush administration's failure to go all the way^ and for ^an assassination attempt that did not bear fruit against President George W. Bush's father,^ on Thursday^s Today she also pointed out to him how ^the notion of removing Saddam Hussein from power was not invented by this current administration^ since ^the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act...was passed unanimously by the Senate and near unanimously by the House, so Saddam remained.^ She challenged Kennedy with this unusual take for anyone in the media: ^Why weren't the Democrats able to oust him and should this President be given credit for doing the job that the Democratic administration could not? 3. Record Low Temps, Yet USA Today Plugs Movie on Global Warming The definition of bad timing: Warning about ^global warming^ on a day when record-low temperatures are being set in some parts of the nation. It happened to USA Today on Thursday when a front page headline announced, ^Bitter cold bores into East,^ but the front page also featured a plug in the top corner for a ^Life^ section preview of a movie with a plot about how global warming destroys the Earth. See today^s entire CyberAlert at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040116.asp Advertisement www.TimesWatch.org TimesWatch.org Bush's Election-Year Ploy to Help Iraq The Times puts its best cynical spin on a U.S. move to press the U.N. for action in Iraq: Kofi Annan is said to be highly reluctant to give his blessing to what is widely seen as a jerry-built process in effect concocted to let the United States hand over sovereignty to Iraq by June 30, as the American elections get under way. Read the entire article as posted on TimesWatch.org: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2004/0116.asp Advertisement JOIN THE MRC TODAY The MRC has a unique opportunity that would greatly benefit our work to expose the left-wing agenda of the national media. But it can only be realized with your support. Support the Media Research Center Today! Or, visit Media Research Center at: www.mediaresearch.org Support MRC through PayPal - it's fast, free and secure! Bozell's Entertainment Column How Angels Demonizes It^s amazing, if not surprising, the degree to which trashing God, trashing America, and trashing traditional values are the entertainment factory^s favorite pastimes. All these ritual hatreds are brought together in HBOs miniseries Angels in America, as the prestige cable channel tiptoes into another season of Golden Globes and Emmys and deep-bowing tributes. HBO, that jewel of the Time Warner empire, has taken Tony Kushner^s propagandistic Broadway smash ^ the theatrical version of one of those crazy letters to the editor that never end and have too many capital letters ^ and devoted $60 million to turning this stale 1980s artifact into a... Read the latest column written by L. Brent Bozell III, MRC President: http://www.mrc.org/BozellColumns/entertainmentcolumn/2004/col20040116.asp 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
[CTRL] Is War Necessary?
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Is War Necessary? by Harry Browne January 16, 2004 I have managed to live on this planet for 70 years without ever striking another human being. There have been a dozen or so times when someone wanted to fight me. I managed to talk my way out of a fight in most of those cases. In the few times I didn't succeed in avoiding a fight altogether, I managed to end the scuffle without hitting the other person and without suffering any noticeable damage to myself. Granted, I've been fortunate. I grew up in a peaceful suburban area. Had I had the bad fortune to have been born in the inner city in a gang neighborhood, I might not have avoided violence so easily. But that's an important point. Being fortunate in the circumstances of my birth and my growing-up, I didn't squander that good fortune by looking for trouble. The U.S. by Birth America was also fortunate in the circumstances of its birth. After one apparently necessary fight to extricate itself from British rule, it found itself in the best neighborhood possible. It is bounded by two friendly countries and two enormous oceans. No need here to look for trouble. And yet, ruled by American instead of British politicians, the United States has found itself embroiled in one street fight after another. In fact, in the 20th century there were less than 20 years in which America was at peace with the world. What with World Wars, the Cold War, police actions, gunboat diplomacy in Latin America, overthrowing governments in Iran and other places, suppressing the Philippine rebellion, interfering with the Mexican revolution, firing missiles at Afghanistan and the Sudan, invading Panama and Grenada, bombing Libya, and on and on and on, Americans have lived with the tension of conflict and violence almost their entire lives. And we live in a good neighborhood! The Swiss by Birth Contrast our circumstances with those of Switzerland. The poor Swiss have the misfortune of living in the middle of one of the worst neighborhoods in the world. Centuries of imperial rivalries, ethnic hatreds, governments armed to the teeth and ready to go to war at the drop of the hat, and populations nursing grudges against each other all these elements have kept Europe in turmoil for centuries. Switzerland is like the inner-city family that hears gunfire outside its windows every night. And yet Switzerland hasn't been involved in a single war for two centuries. The Swiss managed to avoid being sucked into the World Wars, the Cold War, or any of the other conflicts that have beset Europe. The Swiss haven't been fortunate in their geographical circumstances. But they've dealt with those circumstances intelligently. It wasn't by the grace of dictators that they've avoided war; it has been a national policy to do so. The Swiss have always made sure it was in the self-interest of warring nations to leave Switzerland out of their quarrels. They've devised ingenious defenses to demonstrate that, while Switzerland is not unconquerable, the cost of conquest would be intolerable to the conqueror. And they've made themselves an indispensable trading partner to any country that otherwise might see some profit in invading Switzerland. It may seem that war is inevitable for many countries such as the warring factions in the Balkans or some countries in Asia or Africa. But Switzerland has proven that it isn't inevitable for anyone not even for a country as poorly situated as Switzerland is. Why then is America continually at war over one thing or another? The Last Resort Whenever the U.S. goes to war somewhere, the politicians tell us that diplomacy was tried and failed and that war was the very, very, very last resort. But the truth is that the politicians didn't try much at all to avoid war. And the diplomacy was bound to fail, because it involved our politicians making insensitive demands on a foreign country demands we had no authority to make and were known in advance to be unacceptable to the foreigners. In the few cases that America has been attacked, it's been because our politicians were trying to dictate to other countries countries that represented no threat to us at all. The foreigners attacked either to try to gain an advantage against the stronger U.S. when our government had made war seem inevitable (as at Pearl Harbor), or because attacking seemed the only way to strike back at a country that was throwing its weight around in other people's business (as in 9/11). Our Neighborhood How easy it would have been for Americans to have lived the past two centuries in peace. We have never been attacked by a country that hadn't first been subject to interference by our politicians. Maybe others aren't so fortunately situated, but we are. No one can seriously believe that terrorists have struck America because they hate our freedom, our democracy, or our prosperity. If that were true, they would have
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MARC PARENT wrote:
I believe in conspiracies
John Laughland says the real nutters are those who
believe in al-Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction
Believing in conspiracy theories is rather like having
been to a grammar school: both are rather socially
awkward to admit. Although I once sat next to a
sister-in-law of the Duke of Norfolk who agreed that
you cant believe everything you read in the
newspapers, conspiracy theories are generally
considered a rather repellent form of intellectual
low-life, and their theorists rightfully the object of
scorn and snobbery. Writing in the Daily Mail last
week, the columnist Melanie Phillips even attacked
conspiracy theories as the consequence of a special
pathology, of the collapse in religious belief, and of
a descent into the irrational. The implication is
that those who oppose the West, or who think that
governments are secretive and dishonest, might need
psychiatric treatment.
Psychiatric treatment by a conspiracy of nutters--
http://www.thugsanon.org/htm/35372.html
The torture at Lexington followed the pattern developed by Cameron in
Montreal: Drug-induced sleep was interrupted by electroconvulsive shock.
Cooperative subjects were rewarded with shots of heroin or any other
drug of their choice. And
for mental health, the masonic administration encouraged the prisoners
to participate in synthetic religious and political cults. Felix's
program was not simply to make humans into controllable beasts, but to
decentralize the zombie- manufacturing. A 1993 report to the Scottish
Rite Supreme Council by its current psychiatric research director,
Steven Matthysse, explains: ``Thirty years ago, a massive program began,
which has continued unabated to this day: the deinstitutionalization of
the mentally ill My predecessor as research director of the
Schizophrenia Research Program, Dr. Robert H. Felix, 33 Degree, Gourgas
medalist and the founding director of the National Institute of Mental
Health, was one of the chief architects of this program. `We are
entering a new era,' he wrote, `of community-centered, comprehensive
psychiatric care.'... Dr. Felix predicted that, in 25 years, `State
mental hospitals as we know them would no longer exist.' He was
right During the years from 1955 to 1992, the state mental hospital
census went down by 82%.'' The strategists of MK-Ultra succeeded in
moving the mentally ill out of costly mental hospitals, onto the
streets, where they now consitute a large proportion of America's
homeless. We shall now see what kind of ``community-centered psychiatric
care'' these strategists did in fact implement, as Britain's MK-Ultra
poured drugs into the country and worked to fabricate the drug- sex
youth culture. {{Seymour Solomon Kety}} was both an executive of the
Scottish Rite's psychiatry experiments, and a Scottish Rite- funded
clinical experimenter. He was chief of NIMH clinical sciences from 1957
through 196
7, and continued as the NIMH ``senior scientist'' into the 1990s. A
close associate of the Kallmann Nazi-eugenics cell at Columbia, Kety was
a national director of the American Eugenics Society, under its 1980s
name, the Society for the Study of Social Biology. Kety helped lead the
masons' U.S. agency, the NIMH, beyond the Kentucky experiments, to the
brink of Hell.
- Manchuria in California? -
As Carol Greene has demonstrated in her 1992 book [EMAIL PROTECTED] aus der
Retorte: Der Fall Charles Manson,} ({Test-Tube Murder: The Case of
Charles Manson}) {{Charles Manson,}} before he committed mass murder,
was himself an NIMH ``research subject.'' Manson was released from a
California prison in March 1967. He was required by law to report
regularly to a parole officer named Roger Smith, who was based at the
Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic in San Francisco. This was an NIMH project
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Fly Me to the Moon
-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- Arnie Shriver is the Republican Kennedy in California, but Dub is jealous, and wants to be a Kennedy, too. Cannibals are apt to be animists, they want to eat the power of their enemies, not just assassinate them. By that standard it's really Dub who deserves to play Kennedy, not Arnie Enron Shriver. Haunting him in the wee hours is a cannibal's conscience, saying,"And you're no Jack Kennedy!", whatever that means. A dimunitive pharaoh built a taller pyramid. Hitler was shorter than Napoleon so he had to go to Stalingrad as well as Moscow. It is not for kings to descend to the level of details. -Bob Shaaag wrote: I wonder.abtmany thingslike, why does human nature dictate that we want to kill the messenger when we know that "the truth will make you free." .and, like, why is it going to take us 20 years to redo something we alreadydid in9 years from scratch40 years ago when the world's most sophisticated computer compared to those inyour household washing machine, microwave, etc, .today? Why not just bring back all the protocols that worked on a half dozen "successful landings" (and 1 "almost"..Apollo13) and fine tune them?? PLEASE don't tell me NASA (Not Accomplishing Significantly Anything) opted for plan "B" in meeting JFK's 1961 "challenge of the decade".. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=hoax+moon+landingbtnG=Google+Search Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes Please let us stay on topic and be civil.-Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Please let us stay on topic and be civil.-Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 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---
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-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- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com The House of Bush Rep. strategist Kevin Phillips on the Bush family's hunger for power By Eric Bates RollingStone.com January 5, 2004 Serving up secrets and lies Listening to Kevin Phillips talk about politics, it's easy to mistake him for a populist firebrand from the 1890s. He rails against the growing inequality of wealth in America. He bemoans the unprecedented influence that private corporations hold over public institutions. He attacks the smug conservatism of George W. Bush and accuses the president of attempting to establish a family dynasty better suited to royalist England than to democratic America. But Phillips is no left-wing demagogue. He's not only a lifelong Republican, he's also the guy who literally wrote the book that became the blueprint for the party's dominance of presidential politics. Phillips served as the chief political strategist for Richard Nixon in 1968, and, in The Emerging Republican Majority, he formulated the Southern Strategy that helped hand the White House to the GOP for a generation. In his new book American Dynasty, Phillips lays out his almost visceral distaste for what he calls the politics of deceit in the House of Bush, accusing the administration of dishonesty and secrecy that would make Tricky Dick blush. He traces the course of Bush's family over the past 100 years, detailing how they sought influence in the back corridors of the oil and defense industries, investment banking and the intelligence establishment. Elites, not elections, put Bush in power. I'm not talking about ordinary lack of business ethics or financial corruption, says Phillips, who recently registered as an Independent for the first time. Four generations of building toward dynasty have infused the Bush family's hunger for power and practices of crony capitalism with a moral arrogance and backstage disregard of the democratic and republican traditions of the U.S. government. As a result, he says, deceit and disinformation have become Bush political hallmarks. Is Bush really any worse than Nixon? What makes the Bush family so different -- and, in many ways, so dangerous -- is that they've created a dynasty. The second Bush administration is a political restoration, not unlike the English Stuarts in 1660 or the French Bourbons in 1815. In the last election, the Republican Party turned to the eldest son of the Republican who got the boot eight years earlier. That's what this country fought a revolution to get rid of in 1776. Nobody thought that there would be another royal house, with a couple of Georges. Royal house? Isn't that a bit of a stretch? The family has made a big deal of the notion that it is descended from royalty. Burke's Peerage even got involved in the last election, saying that Bush won because he had the most royal ancestry. The Bushes eat this stuff up. They don't need democracy -- they feel entitled by ancestry. For them, the presidency is something that can be won with a Supreme Court decision. Still, what's so bad about a son succeeding his father as president? This type of dynasty is antithetical to the American political tradition. The presidency is now subject to inherited views, inherited staff, inherited wars, inherited money, inherited loyalties. I'm not talking about particular policies -- I'm talking about a unique evolution of a corrupting institutional process in American governance. If this is a dynasty, who's next? Jeb? He's the logical choice. If they decide there needs to be a gap, you might have Jeb's son, Neil P., in twenty years. Given Hillary's position in the polls, it could go back to the Clinton's first. People are obviously willing to play the relatives game right now. How are the
[CTRL] Fwd: Naked Emporer Re: [cia-drugs] $958.1 million in Libyan assets frozen as of 1993
-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- Kadafi would plea bargain and pay a bribe, but the rotters(ROT Russell Opium Trust) may not be able to spin this one. Then they would have to go for broke, siphoning off Libya's billion dollars in seized assets like the gold out of Fort Knox. Arnie Enron Shriver's father in law would have more work to do in Switzerland. Cuba has no extradition treaty. Lockerbie PanAm 103 is much hotter than the JFK assassination. Russell Trust Wackenhut Bushwhackers would be blown away like they were when opium was legalized in China. Once one big terrorist incident is pinned on ROT, WTC and WTCbomb and OKCbomb and anthrax skeletons are outed as obvious, then JFK and Watergate and Waco and fake drugwar hypocrisy and COINTELOP and Bay of Pigs(McGeoge Bundy SB) and smallpox blankets for indians follow suit. "Naked Emporer, I say again, Naked Emporer, our position is over-run!" Continuing government genocide throws out the last g-string. -Bob Linda Minor wrote: Business Company Resource Center -- Mark List Display U.S. News World Report, Dec 20, 1993 v115 n24 p36(4) Qadhafi's big adventure. (lobbying in the U.S. by Libya; Muammar Qadhafi) (includes related article on witness to 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103) Edward T. Pound, Brian Duffy Abstract: Dept of Justice officials are investigating reports that prominent US citizens met with Libyan officials who desire to improve relations with US officials. Libya hopes to lessen economic sanctions and resolve the legal questions that surround the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1993 U.S. News and World Report, Inc. On a September afternoon in 1992, Bobby Burchfield, the top lawyer for the Bush-Quayle campaign, ushered two men into his office. The first he knew slightly. Gordon Wade was a former chairman of the Republican Party in Kentucky and a respected businessman. The second man was a Libyan. Wade introduced Mohammed Bukhari as Muammar Qadhafi's minister of finance. Bukhari had a story to tell. The Libyan government had been approached by representatives of the Bush-Quayle campaign, Bukhari said; the emissaries had asked for a campaign contribution. The Libyans, Bukhari said, had paid. That was impossible, Burchfield replied. But if Bukhari would give him the name of the Bush-Quayle "representatives," he would look into the matter. Bukhari thanked Burchfield and continued. "Mr. Bukhari then conveyed to Mr. Burchfield Libya's desire to have improved relations with the United States," Wade wrote in a memorandum about the meeting. The memo was obtained by U.S. News. Despite his polite questioning of Bukhari, Burchfield was aghast. Accepting campaign contributions from Libya was simply illegal. Bukhari had provided no evidence it had happened. "There was never any money given by the Libyan government to the Bush campaign," Burchfield says. "Period." Today, Mohammed Bukhari's unusual visit to Washington is a principal focus of a criminal investigation by the U.S. attorney in Washington, Eric Holder. According to law enforcement officials and people interviewed by Justice Department lawyers in connection with the inquiry, the investigation centers on substantial illegal payments allegedly made by the Libyan government to American citizens to lobby government officials in Washington. Some lobbying was directed at the highest levels of the White House. The objective: to ease international sanctions imposed on Tripoli and help resolve a legal impasse over the fate of two Libyan men indicted for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-Drugs_TheDarkSide] Global Kiddie Porn Ring Busted
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/15/national/main593548.shtml Global Kiddie Porn Ring Busted (CBS/AP) Federal officials on Thursday announced they had cracked a Belarus-based international child pornography ring with arrests in France, Spain and the United States.The cases stem from an Internet processor of Web site subscriptions in Minsk, Belarus, which collected fees for memberships to child pornography Web sites that brought in millions of dollars, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.An executive with a Florida company has pleaded guilty in the case."When we followed the money, we ended up getting both the operators of this outfit ... and meanwhile back here at home we were doing search warrants on people's computers who had subscribed via credit card to these child pornographic Web sites," said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.About two dozen people in New Jersey and 20 others around the United States have been charged with downloading child pornography, including a doctor, a minister and a teacher, the office said.They were snared by tracking the fees from the companies to the consumers of child pornography, with the assistance of credit card companies, said Michael J. Garcia, assistant secretary of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement.At a New Jersey federal courthouse today, prosecutors revealed that many of the 270,000 credit card transactions on the sites were from Americans, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart."This is the first time that this type of comprehensive investigation has been done in this country to go after the child pornography industry from the top to the bottom," prosecutor Christopher Christie told CBS' Stewart.Federal authorities in New Jersey can prosecute people for actions taken overseas because images were downloaded in the state by consumers, he said.The Belarus company, Regpay Co. Ltd., and Connections USA, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were indicted in a money-laundering scheme involving paid memberships to about 50 pornography Web sites.Four of Regpay's leaders were indicted, and three were arrested over the summer in France and Spain.The U.S. government is seeking the extradition of Regpay's president, Yahor Zalatarou, 25, and marketing director, Alexei Buchnev, 26, who are in Paris, and its technical administrator, Aliaksandr Boika, 29, who is in Madrid. All had lived in Minsk.All three are accused of conspiracy to send child pornography by computer, conspiracy to commit money laundering and other charges. The most serious counts carry 15 to 30 years in prison.U.S. authorities said they were working with Belarus to arrest Regpay's administrative and financial assistant, Tatsiana Sienko, 25, who is charged with conspiring to distribute child pornography and conspiracy to launder its proceeds. The charges can bring five to 20 years in prison.Connections chief executive officer Eugene Valentine, 38, from Florida, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a conspiracy to launder money for Regpay and its principals.On Tuesday, Connections employee Keith Czarnecki, 46, also from Florida, pleaded guilty for failing to report the offense to law enforcement.Regpay was formerly known as Trustbill, while Connections did business as Iserve. Regpay allegedly operated at least four child pornography sites from Minsk, and it carried advertising for other pornographic Web sites. One Regpay site referred to itself as "underground pedo world," the indictment said."Today's indictment strikes at the heart of the commercial trade of child pornography by attacking the commercial profits derived from such a deplorable venture," Attorney General John Ashcroft said.He said the ring was dismantled through efforts of law enforcement in Belarus, France and
[CTRL] Israel answers to no one on nuclear weapons
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0104/18israel.html Israel answers to no one on nuclear weapons By CRAIG NELSON Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Jerusalem -- The White House celebrated news last month that Libya will dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and that Iran will permit snap inspections of its nuclear program. But the biggest nuclear power in the Middle East, the state that runs the most secretive WMD program in the world, has signaled no intention of disarming or even slowing down. In fact, Israel has declined to discuss -- or even disclose -- its weapons systems for nearly 50 years, and it remained characteristically silent after December's developments in Tripoli and Tehran. Washington, too, has had nothing to say about Israel's weapons, despite an increasingly compelling reason for raising the issue -- namely, that Syria and Iran, with Egypt's backing, say they will not disarm unless Israel does. For the Bush administration to pressure Israel to declare the existence of its weapons of mass destruction and outline the contingencies for their use would, at the very least, remove a glaring double standard in its high-minded proclamations on the subject. It certainly would reassure moderate Arab states, where Israel is usually viewed as Goliath, not David. Just as important, it would rob so-called "rogues" -- states, groups or individuals -- of one of their main rallying cries for recruiting followers to sow bloodshed and calamity against the West: Washington conveniently ignores Israel's defiance of international disarmament efforts. But pressure to disarm, either from Washington or from inside Israel, is unlikely. Since the inception of its nuclear weapons program in the mid-1950s, Israel has hewed to a policy of neither confirming nor denying its arsenal's existence. Few doubt, however, that it possesses such weapons. According to the Federation of American Scientists and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, it has at least 200 nuclear warheads. If true, that would make Israel the world's No. 5 nuclear power, surpassing Britain. In addition, a 1993 report by the Office of Technology Assessment states that Israel has "undeclared offensive chemical warfare capabilities" and is "generally reported as having an undeclared offensive biological warfare program." Israel is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and therefore is not subject to inspections and the threat of sanctions by the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. Its efforts to disguise its activities have gone beyond an unwillingness to enter the international anti-proliferation regime. In the early 1960s, it actively deceived U.S. scientists inspecting its Dimona nuclear facility, building a fake control room to an underground uranium processing facility, according to "The Samson Option," an account of Israel's nuclear weapons program by Seymour M. Hersh. Criticism rolls off On the issue of WMD programs, international criticism has never troubled Israel. Israelis say the weapons are safe in their hands because they are not bent on destroying their neighbors. Syria and Iran, meanwhile, have sought mass-destruction weapons partly to counter Israel's, putting the region's security on a more wobbly foundation. Israel's policy of neither confirming nor denying the existence of its arsenal has served it well, from the government's perspective. As former Prime Minister Shimon Peres has put it, "The suspicion and fog surrounding this issue are constructive." On the one hand, the perception that it is a member of the nuclear club has provided Israel with a high level of deterrence in the Arab world. On the other hand, Israel's silence has enabled it to become the region's pre-eminent military power while avoiding a direct collision with U.S. policy on weapons proliferation. Such a collision might jeopardize portions of Israel's aid from Washington, which exceeds $3 billion annually. This official posture of ambiguity "has enabled Israel for decades to enjoy the best of both worlds," said Shai Feldman, director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv. Does secrecy work? Whether the policy suits a new era and the perils that Israel faces is another matter. Does the veil around Israel's WMD undermine or encourage what the Israeli government says it wants -- a Middle East free of doomsday weapons? In recent speeches, Israeli military officials have acknowledged that the country faces no threat on its "eastern front." Brig. Gen. Eival Giladi even boasted last month that the next time Syria and Israel clash in a war, the army will reach Damascus with the same speed that American troops drove to Baghdad last spring. There is widespread agreement, too, that the strategic equation of the Middle East has been transformed by Moammar Gadhafi's about-face, Saddam Hussein's ouster in Iraq and the decision by Iran's
[CTRL] Israeli Ambassador Nabbed Vandalising Art In Museum
-Caveat Lector- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040117/1/3hc0i.html Saturday January 17, 10:17 PM Israeli ambassador kicked out of Swedish museum after vandalizing art Israel's ambassador to Sweden was kicked out of Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities after he destroyed an artwork featuring a picture of a Palestinian suicide bomber, the artists said. The incident, widely reported in the Swedish media, occurred at the opening on Friday of the "Making Differences" exhibit, part of an upcoming international conference on genocide hosted by the Swedish government and in which Israel is scheduled to participate. Sweden's foreign ministry said Saturday it would summon ambassador Zvi Mazel to a meeting to explain himself. "We will contact him on Monday to arrange a meeting. We want to give him a chance to explain himself. We feel that it is unacceptable for him to destroy art in this way," ministry spokeswoman Anna Larsson told AFP. The art installation, called Snow White and located in the museum's courtyard, featured a basin filled with red water, designed to look like blood. A sailboat with the name Snow White floated on the water, and placed like a sail was a photo of a smiling Hanadi Jaradat, the female lawyer who blew herself up in the Haifa suicide bombing attack in October which killed 21 Israelis. "For me it was intolerable and an insult to the families of the victims. As ambassador to Israel I could not remain indifferent to such an obscene misrepresentation of reality," the ambassador told Swedish news agency TT. According to museum director Kristian Berg, the ambassador went berserk in front of the 400 specially-invited guests when he saw the piece. "He pulled out the plugs and threw one of the spotlights into the fountain which caused the entire installation to short-circuit and made it totally life-threatening," he told TT. One of the two artists who created the work, Israeli-born Dror Feiler, told AFP the ambassador was "totally unreasonable and undiplomatic" and would not listen to his explanations. "He said he was ashamed that I was a Jew," Feiler said. "We see this as an offensive assault on our right to express our thoughts and feelings." The other artist, Feiler's Swedish wife Gunilla Skoeld Feiler, told daily Expressen that the work was "not a glorification of the suicide bomber." "I wanted to show how incomprehensible it is that a mother-of-two, who is a lawyer no less, can do such a thing," she said. "When I saw her picture in the paper, I thought she looked like Snow White, that's why I gave that name to the piece," she added. Dror Feiler was to perform a piece of music but refused to do so as long as the ambassador remained at the scene. "Ultimately we had to escort the ambassador out of the museum," museum director Berg said, adding that he did not consider the artwork to be a provocation. "It is rather an invitation to think about why such things happen in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," he said. The museum's artistic director, Thomas Nordanstad, said he had given the artists the go-ahead to create the piece, and had "hoped it would lead to an artistic dialogue". The artwork was repaired and was on Saturday on view to the public, despite Israel's insistence that it be disassembled. It was not immediately known whether the incident would affect Israel's participation at the "Stockholm International Forum -- Preventing Genocide" conference, which is to take place January 26-28. 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 Cost of Israel to the American People
-Caveat Lector- http://www.alhewar.com/Curtiss.html The Cost of Israel to the American People by Richard Curtiss By now many Americans are aware that Israel, with a population of only 5.8 million people, is the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid, and that Israels aid plus U.S. aid to Egypts 65 million people for keeping the peace with Israel has, for many years, consumed more than half of the U.S. bi-lateral foreign aid budget world-wide. What few Americans understand however, is the steep price they pay in many other fields for the U.S.-Israeli relationship, which in turn is a product of the influence of Israels powerful U.S. lobby on American domestic politics and has nothing to do with U.S. strategic interests, U.S. national interests, or even with traditional American support for self-determination, human rights, and fair play overseas. Besides its financial cost, unwavering U.S. support for Israel, whether its right or wrong, exacts a huge price in American prestige and credibility overseas. Further, Israels powerful U.S. lobby has been a major factor in delaying campaign finance reform, and also in the removal from American political life of some of our most distinguished public servants, members of Congress and even presidents. Finally, the Israel-U.S. relationship has cost a significant number of American lives. The incidents in which hundreds of U.S. service personnel, diplomats, and civilians have been killed in the Middle East have been reported in the media. But the media seldom revisits these events, and scrupulously avoids analyzing why they occurred or compiling the cumulative toll of American deaths resulting from our Israel-centered Middle East policies. Each of these four categories of the costs of Israel to the American people merits a talk of its own. What follows, therefore, is just an overview of such losses. First is the financial cost of Israel to U.S. taxpayers. Between 1949 and 1998, the U.S. gave to Israel, with a self-declared population of 5.8 million people, more foreign aid than it gave to all of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, all of the countries of Latin America, and all of the countries of the Caribbean combined with a total population of 1,054,000,000 people. In the 1997 fiscal year, for example, Israel received $3 billion from the foreign aid budget, at least $525 million from other U.S. budgets, and $2 billion in federal loan guarantees. So the 1997 total of U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel was $5.5 billion. Thats $15,068,493 per day, 365 days a year. If you add its foreign aid grants and loans, plus the approximate totals of grants to Israel from other parts of the U.S. federal budget, Israel has received since 1949 a grand total of $84.8 billion, excluding the $10 billion in U.S. government loan guarantees it has drawn to date. And if you calculate what the U.S. has had to pay in interest to borrow this money to give to Israel, the cost of Israel to U.S. taxpayers rises to $134.8 billion, not adjusted for inflation. Put another way, the nearly $14,630 every one of 5.8 million Israelis had received from the U.S. government by October 31, 1997, cost American taxpayers $23,241 per Israeli. Thats $116,205 for every Israeli family of five. None of these figures include the private donations by Americans to Israeli charities, which initially constituted about one quarter of Israels budget, and today approach $1 billion annually. In addition to the negative effect of these donations on the U.S. balance of payments, the donors also deduct them from their U.S. income taxes, creating another large drain on the U.S. treasury. Nor do the figures above include any of the indirect financial costs of Israel to the United States, which cannot be tallied. One example is the cost to U.S. manufacturers of the Arab boycott, surely in the billions of dollars by now. Another example is the cost to U.S. consumers of the price of petroleum, which surged to such heights that it set off a world-wide recession during the Arab oil boycott imposed in reaction to U.S. support of Israel in the 1973 war. Other examples are a portion of the costs of maintaining large U.S. Sixth Fleet naval forces in the Mediterranean, primarily to protect Israel, and military air units at the Aviano base in Italy, not to mention the staggering costs of frequent deployments to the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf area of land and air forces from the United States and naval units from the Seventh Fleet, which normally operates in the Pacific Ocean. Many years ago the late Undersecretary of State George Ball estimated the true financial cost of Israel to the United States at $11 billion a year. Since then direct U.S. foreign aid to Israel has nearly doubled, and simply adjusting that original figure into 1998 dollars would send it considerably higher today. Next comes the cost of Israel to the international prestige and credibility of the United States. Americans seem constantly
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Cheney's: decades of war
-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- http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=33304lang=en Cheney's: decades of war 17.01.2004 [20:14] In a forceful preview of the Bush administration's expansionist military policies in this election year, Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday painted a grim picture of what he said was the growing threat of a catastrophic terrorist attack in the United States and warned that the battle, like the Cold War, could last generations. The vice president's tone, in a major address to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, was sobering, unlike many other comments recently by senior administration officials that have stressed successes in the war on terrorism. Cheney mentioned only in passing the administration's domestic policies, while saying President Bush would present a blueprint of his domestic goals in next Tuesday's State of the Union speech. Cheney devoted the half-hour speech to a frightening characterization of the war on terrorism and the new kind of mobilization he said it demanded. He sounded the alarm about the increasing prospects of a major new terrorist attack and the extraordinary responses that are required. While many of his remarks echoed past comments by the president and senior officials, Cheney struck a surprisingly dour note and suggested only an administration of proven ability could manage the dramatic overhaul necessary for the nation's security apparatus. One of the legacies of this administration will be some of the most sweeping changes in our military, and our national security strategy as it relates to the military and force structure, and how we're based, and how we used it in the last 50 or 60 years, probably since World War II, Cheney said. I think the changes are that dramatic. He also said the administration was planning to expand the military into even more overseas bases so the United States could wage war quickly around the globe. Scattered in more than 50 nations, the al Qaeda network and other terrorist groups constitute an enemy unlike any other that we have ever faced, he said. And as our intelligence shows, the terrorists continue plotting to kill on an ever-larger scale, including here in the United States. Cheney provided no details, however, of the kinds of attacks he expected. Although the administration has been criticized by some, including most of the Democratic candidates for president, for not doing enough to eliminate known programs for developing weapons of mass destruction in such countries as North Korea, Cheney said they were a priority and confronted the United States with its gravest threat. Again, he presented the risks of a terrorist attack involving these weapons in stark terms. Instead of losing thousands of lives, we might lose tens or even hundreds of thousands of lives as the result of a single attack, or a set coordinated of attacks, Cheney said. While polls show that many Americans support the president's aggressive war on terrorism, he also has many critics for the way the battle has been waged. The president initially justified the war in Iraq by saying that Saddam Hussein had active programs to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The United States has yet to find evidence of such programs since overthrowing Hussein and installing a military occupation, prompting questions about the president's agenda and the quality of intelligence he is receiving. In addition, an expert at the U.S. Army War College, Jeffrey Record, recently released a 62-page analysis that concluded the war in Iraq might have set back American efforts to stop terrorists by diverting precious resources to a battle that will do little to prevent new attacks. As a result, Record concluded, the war on terrorism lacks strategic clarity, embraces unrealistic objectives and may not be sustainable
[CTRL] Ritual abuse plea bargain, priests 36 victims, Child porn service
-Caveat Lector- scroll for news articles This has graphic descriptions of abuse. Plea bargain reached in Falls ritual abuse AP Great Falls "Cascade County prosecutors have reluctantly reached a plea agreement with a man accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old boy and killing a cat in front of the boy as part of a Halloween ritual in 2001. Mark Sprague, 26, initially was charged with felony sexual assault and ritual abuse of a minor, but entered an Alford plea to misdemeanor negligent endangerment. In an Alford plea, a defendant admits only that the state has enough evidence against him to convict him at trial." http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1display=rednews/2004/01/10/build/state/70-ritual-plea.inc two fwds from L Moss Sharman Court pondering liability of church and priest in sex abuse of 36 boys - Judges reserve judgment in the case of a priest who used position to exploit by Kirk Makin 1/15/04 "For 30 years, Father Kevin Bennett exploited his godlike status in rural Newfoundland to commit hundreds of sexual assaults on young boys who both feared and worshipped him. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada finally heard arguments on the crucial question of whether civil damages to Father Bennett's 36 victims should be paid by the priest, the western Newfoundland diocese where he worked, and/or the worldwide Roman Catholic Church." "The court's ruling in the Newfoundland case will directly affect its exposure in 11,500 outstanding lawsuits involving aboriginal residential schools. About 60 per cent of the schools were operated by the government in concert with the Roman Catholic Church. If the church's immunity is upheld, the government would have to pick up the bill for damages in those cases." http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040115/PRIEST15/TPNational/Canada 15 Arrested in New Jersey in Child Pornography Inquiry 1/16/04 Newark "The operators of a global Internet child pornography service that stretched from Eastern Europe to Mount Laurel, N.J., were indicted on Thursday, and federal and state authorities arrested 15 people in New Jersey who subscribed to the service. Law enforcement agencies in New Jersey, as well as immigration and postal service officials, collaborated for more than a year on an investigation that focused on a Belarus-based company, Regpay Ltd. The authorities said Regpay operated about 50 child pornography Web sites. The company billed subscribers more than $3 million, according to the federal indictment unsealed Thursday. Investigators traced the billings to 15 people in New Jersey who were charged with possession and receipt of child pornography. They include a retired Presbyterian priest, a campus chaplain, a family physician and three convicted sex offenders." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/nyregion/16porn.html?pagewanted=3Dall 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
