[CTRL] An Honest Mistake
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] AN HONEST MISTAKE February 3, 2004 by Joe Sobran In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I've always loved that ancient saying, whose author seems to be unknown. But in the age of democracy, it needs to be adapted: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man loses every election. Not quite as snappy, maybe, but it meets the facts. By now every blind American has heard that arms inspector David Kay has exploded the Bush administration's justification for preemptive war on, and regime change in, Iraq: the dogmatic accusation that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. One-eyed Americans doubted it all along. Of course the U.S. Government and its chief allies have those weapons, which is why they aren't called by their right name: weapons of mass murder. And it's a bit odd for the one government that has actually dropped nuclear weapons on cities to claim exclusive moral authority to decide who else is worthy to possess them. But never mind all that. The Bush administration and its supportive cadres of neoconservative war nerds insisted that there was no doubt whatever that Saddam Hussein had such weapons and was prepared to use them; Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair said they could be deployed within 45 minutes. It was urgent to act. The risks of inaction are greater than the risks of action, said Vice President Dick Cheney, action meaning war. Well, there appeared to be virtually no risk for the administration; a quick U.S. military victory was a foregone conclusion. Who knew that after the war, a U.S. arms inspector would find that Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, while George W. Bush was lying? Lying? Well, Bush's apologists are now trying to pass it off as an innocent error. He was misled by the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence services, and he made the only decision he could have made in the circumstances. Bush himself still insists that the war was justified. Pardon me, but when you pretend to have a certainty you don't have about so serious a matter as war, you are lying. Bush left no room for doubt. He didn't say, According to our best intelligence, Iraq has weapons of mass murder and is prepared to use them on us. Of course we can't be absolutely sure, but we can't afford to take chances. He made the unqualified assertion that there was no alternative to war. Millions of people around the world, without privileged knowledge of that best intelligence, disputed this. They didn't believe that Saddam Hussein had those weapons or would be lunatic enough to use them. And they mistrusted Bush and Blair. So are these great war leaders apologizing for an unnecessary and aggressive war, the kind that once sent German and Japanese dignitaries to the gallows? At this point we must make a fine distinction: the Nuremberg principles were never meant to be applied to the victors. No. Hey, honest mistake! Bush has now agreed to an official investigation to help him find out who was pulling his leg about those alleged weapons. It wasn't his idea. He only works here. He was just following his advisors. Anyway, we've brought democracy to Iraq. Isn't that the important thing? But Bush can't afford to blame, and ax, CIA chief George Tenet, the Man Who Knows Too Much. Maybe we'll soon hear that Tenet too was only following his underlings. Now even the most skeptical opponent of the Iraq war must deal with the fact that Bush, Blair, and their cabal were lying even more brazenly than anyone, except maybe Noam Chomsky, dared suggest. We assumed that they must know something we didn't, or why would they risk a raw deception that would blow up in their faces if those weapons weren't found? Now we know there were no weapons to find. Saddam Hussein didn't have enough materiel to deter, or even impede, an American invasion. The sad sack dictator may be shocked to learn how harmless he actually was. But that's why he's the one who will be tried for crimes against humanity. And what about little Ali Abbas, the boy who lost his entire family and both arms when an American missile hit his Baghdad home [see the column of May 29, 2003]? Well, he'll have the consolation of living in a democracy. When he's a little older, he'll be able to vote, if he can hold a pencil in his teeth. 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
[CTRL] [JBirch] Fw: Bush Budget includes 1.2 billion dollar loan to UN (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, 5 Feb 2004 20:42:48 -0500 From: SWPAJBS Section Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], American Freedom Lovers [EMAIL PROTECTED], JBS Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patriot Awareness Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JBirch] Fw: Bush Budget includes 1.2 billion dollar loan to UN Our conservative president: http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20040203-113758-5226r.htm The Founding Fathers knew that even the best designed government wouldn't work if the people were not righteous, moral and G-d fearing - if they didn't love liberty and cherish it. If a nation or individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose it's freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too. --W. Somerset Maugham What have you done TODAY to help educate your family, friends, co-workers and neighbors on the proper role of government? Make history with us...Call 1-800-JBS-USA-1 for more information. Andy Hirsh Dlinn SW PA JBS Section Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nowitsyourmove.org http://www.jbs.org $9.95 for fast reliable internet! No annoying pop-ups or banners. http://www.getmysmartisp.com Harness the power of the internet! Earn 24/7: www.coffee.opportunity.com www.hirshpro.opportunity.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/mOAaAA/3exGAA/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.Get FAST unlimited reliable uncensored internet service for $9.95 per month No Setup Fees. No Contracts. No limit on email groups. 5 email accounts at no additional cost. Fastest Dialup Connection available. Click here now http://www.getmysmartisp.net Fastest Dialup Connection available. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JBirch/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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
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[CTRL] Fwd: Matrix -Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange- is watching you
-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- a former Marine forwarded this; hes in my video class and after mtg me for a few wks is not voting 4 bush - Original Message - From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 5:44 PM Subject: Matrix -Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange- is watching you The Bush league is really feeling its oats -coming right out and calling its national database Matrix -Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange. The Matrix movies update Orwell's 1984: Big Brother, on steroids, gets a God complex. http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw92144_20040131.htm AP Exclusive: Despite privacy worries, more states eying anti-crime database January 31, 2004, 4:23 PM NEW YORK (AP) -- Although privacy worries led several states to pull out of a federally funded crime and terrorism database project, others are actively considering joining and thereby sharing information on their citizens, The Associated Press has learned. Mark Zadra, chief investigator for Florida state police, which runs the Matrix project, said organizers have given presentations to more than 10 Northeastern and Midwestern states in recent weeks, arguing at each stop that the database is an invaluable law enforcement tool. Officials in Iowa and North Carolina said Friday that they are exploring the system. And documents obtained through a public-records request in Florida indicate Arizona and Arkansas also may have interest in the quick-access information repository, which combines state records with 20 billion pieces of data held by a private company. For now, Matrix -- short for Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange -- involves Florida, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Michigan. Utah's governor said Thursday that she was halting the state's participation, which was launched under her predecessor, and appointing a panel to examine security and privacy issues. Another state once involved, Georgia, said Friday it is now dropping out completely -- after the AP confronted officials with documents indicating the state was continuing to participate despite a public proclamation to the contrary in October from Gov. Sonny Perdue. Law enforcement officials say Matrix is an ultra-efficient way for investigators to get information about suspects that authorities previously had to obtain from disparate sources. They insist it includes only public records and does not make predictions about crime or terrorism. But privacy advocates say Matrix gives law enforcement too much access to private details on millions of people, resembling the Pentagon terrorism data-mining program that drew public rebuke and lost Congressional funding last year. The likelihood of Matrix expansion remains hard to gauge. Bill Shrewsbury, a vice president at Seisint Inc., the company that maintains the database, said he expects five or six more states to join the program, though he would not specify which ones. I've never shown it to any law enforcement people who didn't say: My goodness, this is unbelievable technology. It makes our job so much easier,' said Shrewsbury, a former agent with Florida state police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. He added, however, that if too much controversy follows the project, all bets are off. The minutes of a Matrix board meeting held Nov. 5 in Atlanta show the attendance of representatives from the seven states participating in Matrix at the time, as well as the
[CTRL] Fwd: debt to America
-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- [Unless I am mistaken, Black also wrote *The Transfer Agreement* which chronicles the interesting way in which certain proto-Neo-Israelites worked with various Northern Europeans to effect immigration to the Middle East. R] http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1142027,00.html Hitler's debt to America The Nazis' extermination programme was carried out in the name of eugenics - but they were by no means the only advocates of racial purification. In this extract from his extraordinary new book, Edwin Black describes how Adolf Hitler's race hatred was underpinned by the work of American eugenicists Edwin Black Friday February 6, 2004 The Guardian At 4am on November 12 1915, a woman named Anna Bollinger gave birth at the German-American Hospital in Chicago. The baby was somewhat deformed and suffered from extreme intestinal and rectal abnormalities, as well as other complications. The delivering physicians awakened Dr Harry Haiselden, the hospital's chief of staff. Haiselden came in at once. He consulted with colleagues. There was great disagreement over whether the child could be saved. But Haiselden decided the baby was too afflicted and fundamentally not worth saving. It would be killed. The method: denial of treatment. Catherine Walsh, probably a friend of Bollinger's, heard the news and sped to the hospital to help. She found the baby, who had been named Allan, alone in a bare room. Walsh pleaded with Haiselden not to kill the baby by withholding treatment. It was not a monster - that child, Walsh later told an inquest. It was a beautiful baby. I saw no deformities. Walsh had patted the infant lightly. Allan's eyes were open, and he waved his tiny fists at her. Begging the doctor once more, Walsh tried an appeal to his humanity. If the poor little darling has one chance in a thousand, she pleaded, won't you operate to save it? Haiselden laughed at Walsh, retorting, I'm afraid it might get well. He was a skilled and experienced surgeon, trained by the best doctors in Chicago. He was also an ardent eugenicist. Allan Bollinger duly died. An inquest was convened a few days later. Haiselden defiantly declared, I should have been guilty of a graver crime if I had saved this child's life. My crime would have been keeping in existence one of nature's cruellest blunders. A juror shot back, What do you mean by that? Haiselden responded, Exactly that. I do not think this child would have grown up to be a mental defective. I know it. After tempestuous proceedings, the inquest ruled: We believe that a prompt operation would have prolonged and perhaps saved the life of the child. We find no evidence from the physical defects that the child would have become mentally or morally defective. But they also decided that Haiselden was within his professional rights to decline treatment. No law compelled him to operate on the child. He was released unpunished, and efforts by the Illinois attorney general to indict him for murder were blocked by the local prosecutor. The doctor considered his legal vindication a powerful victory for eugenics. Eugenics? Of course it's eugenics, he told one reporter. Haiselden became an overnight celebrity, known for his many newspaper articles, his speaking tours and outrageous diatribes. In 1917, Hollywood came calling. The film was called The Black Stork. Written by Jack Lait, a reporter on the Chicago American, it was produced in Hollywood and given a massive national distribution and promotion campaign. Haiselden played himself in a fictionalised account of a eugenically mismatched couple whom he advises not to have children because they are likely to be defective. Eventually, the woman does give birth to a defective child, whom she then allows to die. The dead child levitates into the waiting arms of Jesus Christ. It was
[CTRL] Fwd: Absolute Friends
-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://wsws.org/articles/2004/feb2004/abso-f06.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : Book Review An old mans anger: Absolute Friends, by John le Carr By Stefan Steinberg 6 February 2004 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author Absolute Friends, by John le Carr, 455 pages, Boston: Little, Brown, 2003 The latest novel by veteran British author John le Carr has had a generally frosty reception from critics on both sides of the Atlantic. The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) intimates that his new work is little more than agit-prop and headlines its review le Carrs agit propositions. In particular, the TLS reviewer objects to le Carrs treatment of contemporary American politics in Absolute Friends, declaring that the authors indictment of the United States overshoots reasonable levels of credibility. In the New York Times, reviewer Michiko Kakutani has no time for British understatement and is positively scathing in her dismissal of Absolute Friends, describing the book as a clumsy, hectoring, conspiracy-minded message-novel meant to drive home the argument that American imperialism poses a grave danger to the new world order. Kakutani has trawled the dictionary to assemble derogatory epithets to describe the book which she states is, in turn, ridiculously contrived, simplistic, ungainly and dogmatic, and preposterous. For Geoffrey Wheatcroft, also writing in the New York Times, the matter is easierle Carre is simply anti-American (see Smileys (Anti-American) People, January 11, 2004). Le Carr has been entertaining his readers with intelligently told espionage stories for some 40 years. As an ex-spy himselfinitially recruited at the age of 17he writes with inside knowledge of espionage tradecraft and the relations and rivalries between secret services and government. Absolute Friends is his 19th novel, but none of them has received such an initially hostile reception as this latest. What has le Carr done that has so upset the critics of the New York Times, among others? Without revealing the entire plot, it is necessary to deal briefly with the content of the novel. Its main figure is Ted Mundy, the only child of Major Mundy, a retired British army officer formerly stationed in India and a man with a skeleton in his closet. As a young man, Ted Mundy travels in the 1960s to Berlin and meets a German left-wing radical named Sasha his Absolute Friend. Following the ebbing of the radical movement, Sasha goes east and is recruited as an agent by East German secret intelligence (Stasi), but also allows himself to be recruited by British intelligence. At a later point, Mundy is also recruited by Sasha and also operates as a double agent for both British and East German security services. Mundy and Sasha are key figures in the concluding episode of the book, which involves a bloody provocation by right-wing American political forces and US intelligence agents aimed at discrediting left-wing intellectuals and opponents of US politics, in particular the American-led war against Iraq. The first point to be made is that the blusterings of critics such as Kakutani and Wheatcroft are aimed at the relatively small proportion of le Carrs book dealing directly with current American politics. For most of Absolute Friends, the author is in his familiar territory, sketching out the molding of a British spy, first during the period of the Cold War, and then as Mundy is forced to find his feet in the unsure social and political climate following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In most of his spy books, le Carr has concentrated on fleshing out the world of the post- war English spy. Drawing upon his own personal experience (from his own family and his espionage career), le Carr has repeatedly presented a compelling psychological
[CTRL] Fwd: Cheney-Scalia Hunting Trip Revelations Detailed
-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- Scalia Was Cheney Hunt Trip Guest; Ethics Concern Grows == The revelation cast further doubts about whether Scalia can be impartial in Cheney's upcoming case before the Supreme Court. February 5, 2004 Los Angeles Times By David G. Savage and Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writers PATTERSON, La. -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia traveled as an official guest of Vice President Dick Cheney on a small government jet that served as Air Force Two when the pair came here last month to hunt ducks. The revelation cast further doubts about whether Scalia can be an impartial judge in Cheney's upcoming case before the Supreme Court, legal ethics experts said. The hunting trip took place just weeks after the high court agreed to take up Cheney's bid to keep secret the details of his energy policy task force. According to those who met them at the small airstrip here, the justice and the vice president flew from Washington on Jan. 5 and were accompanied by a second, backup Air Force jet that carried staff and security aides to the vice president. Two military Black Hawk helicopters were brought in and hovered nearby as Cheney and Scalia were whisked away in a heavily guarded motorcade to a secluded, private hunting camp owned by an oil industry businessman. The Times previously reported that the two men hunted ducks together while the case was pending, but it wasn't clear then that they had traveled together or that Scalia had accompanied Cheney on Air Force Two. Several experts in legal ethics questioned whether Scalia should decide the case. In my view, this further ratchets it up. If the vice president is the source of generosity, it means Scalia is accepting a gift of some value from a litigant in a case before him, said New York University law professor Stephen Gillers. It is not just a trip with a litigant. It's a trip at the expense of the litigant. This is an easy case for stepping aside. Aides to Cheney say the vice president, like the president, is entitled to travel to vacation spots on government jets and to take along guests at no cost. The vice president is on duty 24 hours, seven days a week, said Kevin Kellems, a spokesman for Cheney. His security is important, and a certain number of people must accompany him. Judges are bound by different rules, however. Federal law says that any justice or judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned. When asked about the trip last month, Scalia confirmed that he had gone duck hunting with Cheney, but said he did not see a need to withdraw from the case. I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned, he said in a written response to The Times. He said social contacts between justices and high-level government officials have not been seen as improper, even when those officials have cases in the courts that concern their official capacity, as opposed to their personal capacity. I expect that all of the Justices were invited to the Vice President's annual Christmas Party. The invitation was not improper, nor was the attendance, Scalia wrote. This week, the justice was asked whether he had traveled to south Louisiana as Cheney's guest or paid for the trip. He refused to comment. Two years ago, the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch sued Cheney, seeking to learn whether the vice president and his staff had met behind closed doors with lobbyists and corporate officials from the oil, gas, coal and electric power industries. A judge ordered Cheney to turn over documents detailing who met with his energy task force. Cheney appealed, and in September, Bush administration lawyers asked the Supreme Court to hear the case and reverse the judge's order. It would violate fundamental principles of separation of powers to force
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Fwd: [CTRL] Question for Kris
-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- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: [CTRL] Question for Kris From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 23:59:35 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/5/04 9:29:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kris, how many of those with PNAC are involved with Skull Bones or other secret societies? I do not have a membership list of the organization, but Robert Kagan, a current direcctor and co-founder is Skull Bones 1980. In his Power and Paradise book, Kagan conjures up some metaphysical gibberish mantras that would put two fingers in the noses of his sycophants in the CFR and lift their eyes heavenward, blinding them to little hobgoblin inconsistencies like the 200,000 dead indians in Guatemala, no wmd in Iraq, no Libya in Lockerbie, in Afghanistan the poppies are growing again, 911 Atta Pak intel funding and CIA training, the heroin politics in Kosovo, Iran-Contra Bush cocaine heroin Lockerbie "all our secrets are the same -Dan Hopsicker". On one level its the big dumb Ugly American blundering about in hypocrisy on various idealogical witch-hunts, but that's the trojan horse level, the naifes don't know what the rotters are using them for, but Europeans have some idea. Case in point, Senator John Kerry ignored Libya's offer in 1992 as Kerry was a Skull and Bonesman covering up Iran-Contra Lockerbie Bush cocaine heroin arms trading, but now the very same Libyan offer is being sold as proof that Kagan's beltway gibberish works, as if Gadafi has finally seen the light of CFR mantras but only after "shock and awe(US invasion of Iraq)". -Bob http://www.newamericancentury.org/robertkaganbio.htm Robert Kagan Robert Kagan is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for the New American Century. He is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, a columnist for the Washington Post, and the author of the best-selling book Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. >From 1985-1988, Mr. Kagan was Deputy for Policy in the State Department's Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. From 1984-1985, he was a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff and principal speechwriter to Secretary of State George P. Schultz. In 1983, he served as foreign policy advisor to Congressman Jack Kemp and as Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency. In 1981, he was Assistant Editor at the Public Interest. Mr. Kagan holds a bachelor's degree from Yale College and master's degree in public policy and international relations from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Alexander Hamilton fellow in American diplomatic history at American University. His first book, A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990, was published by the Free Press in 1996. He is currently at work on a history of American foreign policy. Mr. Kagan's articles on foreign policy have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Commentary, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, the National Interest, Policy Review, and the Weekly Standard. Mr. Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland, a foreign service officer with the Department of State. They have two children, Elena and David. Peace, Om Kris Millegan www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Fwd: Neocons 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- The purpose of Tenet's peroration was to get the President, and also his own Agency, off the hook when it comes to the complete absence of "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. Either the President of the United States and his advisors made it all up out of whole cloth, or the intelligence they were being fed was faulty. The first conclusion is not allowable, and so the second conclusion was the Republican line by default and that, from Tenet's point of view, wasn't good either, because it looked like the CIA was being set up to take the fall. Thus, the speech had to walk a very fine line between blaming the boss, and taking it on the chin, and, when all is said and done, one has to say: Good job, George! George John Tenet Also known as: George Tenet, George J. TenetBirth: January 5, 1953 in Flushing, New York, United States Nationality: American Occupation: government official Source: Biography Resource Center Online. Gale Group, 1999. TABLE OF CONTENTSBiographical EssayFurther ReadingsSource Citation BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYGeorge Tenet became director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in July of 1997. His appointment capped a long career at the highest levels of government, during which he became an expert on national security and intelligence issues. George John Tenet was born in Flushing, New York, on January 5, 1953. Tenet and his twin brother both attended public school in the middle-class Queens neighborhood. Tenet's parents, John and Evangelia Tenet, were parishioners at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, where George and his brother attended religious classes and served as altar boys. As a teenager, Tenet and his brother worked as busboys after school at the Scobee Grill, a neighborhood diner. Tenet was paid $1 an hour to restock creamers and napkin holders. It was here that he developed a reputation as a gregarious, outgoing young man. Tenet's co-workers called him "the mouthpiece" because he was so talkative. After graduating from Cardozo High School, Tenet moved to Washington, D.C., where he enrolled at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. During college vacations, he returned to Queens where he waited tables with his brother at Patrick's Pub, a local watering hole. Tenet received his bachelor's degree in 1976 and completed his education with a master's degree from the School of International Affairs at Columbia University in 1978. Began Government Career After graduate school, Tenet returned to Washington to pursue a career in government. One of his first jobs came working for a group called the American Hellenic Institute, a Greek-American lobbying organization. In 1982, Tenet joined the staff of U.S. Senator John Heinz [Skull and Bones--whose widow married John Kerry, also SB http://www.johnkerry.com/about_teresa/ Teresa Heinz Kerry brings an extraordinary range of experience and talent to the campaign trail for her husband. She has been deeply involved with a number of issues that are equally important to her husband, including the environment, children, women's issues, and health care and wellness. She has been an outspoken advocate for human rights, and a strong supporter of the arts. Born in Mozambique, fluent in five languages, she has combined compassion and common sense to become a force for innovation and social progress as leader of one of the nation's largest private foundations. After studying in South Africa and Switzerland, she moved to the United States to work for the United Nations. In 1966, she married Senator John Heinz, with whom she had three sons. Shortly after celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in 1991, she lost her husband in a plane crashshe became chair of The Howard Heinz
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Fwd: So Much Intelligence, So Many Lies
-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- So much intelligence, so many lies. February 7, 2004 For a long time, Scott Ritter, the UN's chief weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998, was virtually alone in expressing doubts about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. For his trouble, he got called everything from a hothead to a traitor. I rang him this week, on the day John Howard finally conceded that the intelligence on Iraq was faulty. Ritter still sounds like the US marine officer he once was, the voice parade-ground adamant. He doesn't accept the theory that intelligence services simply stuffed up. For him, it's a story of people bending to pressure from above,putting career ahead of country in order to tell the politicians what they wanted to hear. In his role as a weapons inspector, he told me, he liaised with intelligence officials from Israel from 1994 to 1998. By the end of that period, Israel had reassessed the threat from Iraq, believing it had been fundamentally disarmed. In the same period, he says, the CIA came to the same conclusion. So, he asks, what happened to change that view, if not the arrival in the White House of George Bush. Ritter still speaks the military language of patriotism and service, which he now uses to condemn both the leaders who demanded faulty intelligence, and the spineless agencies which went out to find it. "An intelligence officer's job," he said, "is never to tell the boss what they want to hear, but what the facts are. It's a job that's centred on service to country." He lamented that not a single US intelligence officer spoke out for the truth, saying they suffered from "moral and intellectual cowardice". I reminded him of Andrew Wilkie. Ritter responded, "I would hope the people of Australia would applaud him as a true hero and a patriot who did what was right in the face of tremendous political pressure to the contrary." Of course, some people see Ritter as a conspiracy theorist; they prefer the Stuff-Up Theory of History. Under this version, we should stop imagining this well-oiled conspiracy, with Bush and Blair calling the shots, and instead allow for simple incompetence. It's true the Stuff-Up-ologists have a fair bit of human history on their side. Some this week have quoted one of America's other recent invasions - that of Grenada in 1983. The prime reason for the invasion, they remind us, was to rescue a group of American medical students who were being held hostage on the Caribbean island. Well, they were apparently being held hostage. An internal military coup was under way on the island, and the students had phoned home with news of the fighting in the streets. Their worried parents called the State Department, and one well-connected family even phoned the Secretary of State, George Schultz. As journalist Matthew Wall notes in a piece in Slate, the information then passed through the hands of Oliver North, John Poindexter and the national security adviser, Robert MacFarlane, before eventually reaching President Reagan. By that time, the students' apprehensive calls home had transmogrified into a full-on Tehran-style hostage crisis. Send in the troops! As Wall notes, the phone lines to the island continued to operate during the three-day invasion, but no one thought to phone the students to discover if they were in fact being held hostage. Before you laugh, I should mention that 23 US soldiers died, along with hundreds of Cubans and Grenadians. So score that one to the stuff-up-ologists. What's different about Iraq is the amount of intelligence. In Grenada, there wasn't a single CIA agent; even the maps were old. For Iraq, there was a mountain of intelligence, aerial surveillance and weapon inspectors' reports. It's hard to escape the conclusion that Ritter is right: this time it wasn't a stuff-up. The people of the West were fed some deliberate
[CTRL] Fwd: Little Green Lies
-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- Gary North's REALITY CHECK Issue 316 February 6, 2004 LITTLE GREEN LIES The best characteristics of any society can be discovered through a careful study of what parents tell children who are under seven years old. You can trace what is worst in a society by a study of what parents tell their children from about eight years old. They modify what they told them under age seven. Don't lie, we tell our small children. Then, around age eight, mothers tell sons, Don't forget to send Aunt Harriet a thank you note for those bunny slippers she sent you for your birthday. Sons old enough to write thank-you notes hate bunny slippers. But I hate them, they say. Answer: Don't make Aunt Harriet feel bad. So, the son learns, Lies are OK after all. Also, next year, Aunt Harriet will send bunny mittens to match. After age seven, we are taught how to break all of the rules that we were taught before age seven. We are rarely taught any rules governing the breaking of once unbreakable rules. We are supposed to intuit the exceptions from the circumstances. Being able to intuit the rules of rule- breaking is widely regarded as a mark of maturity. Maturity is for adults. So is adultery, which is justified in the name of maturity. You'll understand when you're older, fathers tell their teenage sons. And the sons often do understand when they are older. Like father, like son. And, if necessary, they go on national television and announce, I did not have sex with that woman. And their wives, having been betrayed this way repeatedly, then tell the press that they believe their husbands. They even tell this to their daughters. Like mother, like daughter. Wives are not stupid, but they are trusting. We can say the same thing about voters. WE TEND TO BELIEVE THE EXPERTS We want to believe those on whom we are dependent. If we are being betrayed, then we are at risk. If we are being betrayed on life-and-death matters, then we are at extreme risk. So, in life-and-death matters, we dearly want to believe. We become soft touches, marks, and suckers for those who prey on trusting souls. The voters know that politicians in general are liars who will say anything to get elected. But they except their Congressman, who shook hands with them once at a fund-raiser. Parents know that the American public schools are disintegrating. But they except the local public school to which they send their children, which somehow has avoided the decay. And so it goes, liar by liar, fraud by fraud. People want to believe. The more dependent they are, the more they want to believe. We are all dependent. The division of labor makes us rich by offering so many alternatives. So, we transfer to others the decision to produce a good product. But we learn, as President Reagan said of the Soviets, to trust, but verify. When a company keeps selling us substandard products, we buy from a rival. We retain our right to say no. We reserve our right to ask: What have you done for me lately? This is why liars seek monopolies. They don't like competition. Competition makes it profitable for buyers to scrutinize sellers. When there are no legal alternatives, the buyer learns that it isn't worth the time to monitor the exclusive seller. THE ULTIMATE MONOPOLY Take a dollar bill out of your wallet. Look for these words: This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private. Now, that's a monopoly! It's a legal monopoly of debt repayment. The creditor must accept it. You hold a monopoly in your wallet. But if you have lent money, the debtor holds a similar monopoly in his wallet. And the United States Treasury holds a monopoly on us all.
[CTRL] Tom Clancy Speaks On 9-11
Tom Clancy Speaks On 9-11 by Carol A. Valentine Curator, Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum http://www.Public-Action.com Copyright, March, 2002 May be reproduced for non-commercial purposes March 13, 2002 -- Tom Clancy wrote two bestselling thrillers about a pilot deliberately flying a fuel-laden jet into the Capitol building and killing the President and top leadership (Debt of Honor , 1994; Executive Orders, 1996). What does Clancy say about the government's 9-11 story? Clancy Quote "Four planes? That many people willing to die for the same cause at the same time? If any writer had turned in a story like this, the publisher would have just handed it back and said, 'No way. Not believable.' " You will find the quote in the attached article, in which one of Clancy's big admirers, four-star general Carl Stiner, describes Clancy as a Pentagon "insider." Stiner says Clancy is granted an amazing level of access in the military because, "We trust him. We know he gets it right." It's a mutual admiration society: Clancy describes Stiner as low-key: "He's a real old fashioned Southern gentleman---who kills people." Think about it. Clancy is right in there with the war mongers and assassins. They "trust him;" they know "he gets it right," they give him access. In other words, the Pentagon helps Clancy when he is writing his novels. If that were not true, Clancy would not need nor be able to use "access." Certainly Stiner and other military officers must read Clancy's novels. How else would they know he "gets it right"? Now ... Clancy wrote two novels about jets being crashed into the Capitol by terrorists. But according to Congressional testimony, the military never imagined that the 9-11 scenario was possible: that's why NORAD didn't show up on September 11. Rubbish. The military could not have been surprised by September 11. The September 11 plot -- the slamming of fuel-filled jet planes into public buildings in acts of terror -- was hatched by their baby, Tom Clancy, obviously with their help. Clancy's 1994 and 1996 novels planted in the public's mind the paradigm that would be called up in 2001. The two novels prepared the public mind to accept the feasibility of 9-11. Even so, they over-reached. Clancy is right when he says the September 11 plot is unbelievable. Four planes? That many people willing to die for the same cause at the same time? We agree with you, Mr. Clancy. The 9-11 plot is unbelievable. That's why we don't believe it. Clear And Present Danger by Warren Berger BOOK, Jan-Feb, 2002 http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue20/clancy.shtml On a sunny Saturday afternoon in early October, Tom Clancy is bound for the place where his most nightmarish fiction became a reality. Clancy, visiting New York from his home in Maryland, has accepted our invitation to tour Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center attack. Though Clancy is preparing to witness the disaster site for the first time, he's been here before in his imagination. For years, Clancy's writing has dared to envision, in chilling detail, what terrorists could do to America. In his 1994 novel, Debt of Honor, for example, a fuel-laden plane is hijacked by a terrorist and intentionally flown into the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. But what transpired on September 11 turned out to be even more terrifying than anything cooked up in The Sum of All Fears, Executive Orders or Patriot Games. And Clancy acknowledges this during his slow march down to Ground Zero, shaking his head at one point along the way, saying, "Four planes? That many people willing to die for the same cause at the same time? If any writer had turned in a story like this, the publisher would have just handed it back and said, No way. Not believable.' " For thriller writers, Clancy included, the stakes have suddenly been raised. "You can't keep up with reality right now," he says. "Nobody has a big enough imagination." Still, Clancy has come awfully close, which is why he emerged as an object of media fascination in the weeks after the disaster. He'd drawn attention in the past: A middle-aged insurance executive who parlayed his fascination with the military into a hit first novel, The Hunt for Red October, and then established himself as one of the world's most popular novelists (with more than 30 million books in print), Clancy, fifty-four, cultivated a colorful, tough-talking John Wayne-meets-George Patton persona along the way. (Clancy's acute myopia disqualified him from serving in the military himself.) All of this made him something of a curiosity, as well as the 800-pound gorilla of book publishing. But since September 11, he's become something morethe media's new Nostradamus, showing up with his tinted aviator specs on the network morning shows and cable screaming matches, castigating the softies who weakened the CIA and predicting swift and terrible retribution. (In one recent interview, Clancy suggested he was not averse to nuking the enemy: "If they
[CTRL] 148 priest abuse cases in SF, US sex assaults in Iraq, 30 million sex slavery
-Caveat Lector- also has The Torture Files - Iraqi detainees allege mistreatment and abuse "Over the past 30 years, according to UNICEF estimates, there have been 30 million victims of the modern slave trade in Asia and the countries of the Pacific Rim alone. Every year, over 1 million children are kidnapped, sold and forced into prostitution." fwd from L Moss Sharman Study reveals clergy abuse figures - 148 molest cases reported since 1950 in S.F. Archdiocese Glen Martin, Delfin Vigil, 2/2/04 "The Archdiocese of San Francisco recorded 148 child-molestation cases involving more than 50 priests over a five-decade period, according to a statistical study of U.S. archdioceses scheduled for release on Feb. 27." "The archdiocese paid $9.25 million to settle with the victims." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/02/MNGBC4MU8T1.DTL Rumsfeld orders investigation into reports of sexual Assaults John J. Lumpkin, 2/6/04 Washington (AP) "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has ordered an investigation into reports of sexual assaults among troops stationed in Iraq and Kuwait, the Pentagon said Friday...The reports consist of male soldiers accused of assaulting female counterpartsThe (Denver) Post cited officials with the Miles Foundation, a Connecticut-based organization that assists victims of sexual or family violence who are connected to the military. Some 37 women have told the Miles Foundation that they were assaulted by fellow military personnel while in Iraq or Kuwait during the last year, said Christine Hansen, executive director of the organization. Of those, several said they did not receive thorough medical care, access to chaplains and lawyers, or information on their rights, Hansen said in a telephone interview." http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2004/02/06/national1606EST0701.DTL The modern slave trade: Forced prostitution In increasing numbers, women and underage girls from poorer nations are being smuggled into the West where they are often forced to sell themselves. "Slavery is the best term to describe the situation of women, mainly from Eastern European countries, who are forced into prostitution the length and breadth of Greece. Young women are kidnapped, sold, imprisoned, raped and forced into prostitution after undergoing indescribable psychological and physical tormentsThe chronicle of shame." By Fotini Kalliri Kathimerini"Forced prostitution is the modern slave trade, a huge global industry with massive profits and countless women and children as victims. Over the past 30 years, according to UNICEF estimates, there have been 30 million victims of the modern slave trade in Asia and the countries of the Pacific Rim alone. Every year, over 1 million children are kidnapped, sold and forced into prostitution. The shameful chronicle unfolds in the shattering tales the victims tell." Http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=11774 Site has urls and information on Latina Sex Slavery http://www.libertadlatina.org/US_Mexico_Major_New_york_Times_Expose_of_Women_Girls_trafficked_into_US_01-25-2004.htm http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/11/news-ehrenreich.php The Torture Files Iraqi detainees allege mistreatment and abuse by Ben Ehrenreich "A widower and the father of two young boys, Baha al-Maliki worked as a hotel receptionist in the Iraqi city of Basra until September 14 of last year. That day, British soldiers arrested him and seven other hotel workers, saying they had found a stash of weapons hidden in the hotel. His family learned nothing of his whereabouts until three days later, when British soldiers came to their door to tell them he was dead. When al-Maliki's father retrieved his body from the hospital, according to Amnesty International's Khaled Chibane, "it was severely bruised and covered in blood." The cause of death listed on his death certificate, says Chibane, was asphyxiation, apparently from being hooded during his interrogation. "It was obvious that he had died," Chibane says, "as a result of torture." Al-Maliki is not the only Iraqi to have died under disturbing circumstances while detained by coalition forces. Though they have received minimal attention in the U.S. press, allegations of mistreatment of detainees have been surfacing persistently for at least the last six months. The allegations range from generalized neglect unsanitary conditions and exposure to the elements to beatings, electric shock and other forms of torture." "Just two days earlier, a Defense spokesperson said, in regard to the over 13,000 Iraqis currently in coalition custody, ""No rights have been violated to my knowledge." "On any given day in Baghdad, dozens of Iraqis wait outside prison gates, hoping for news of detained relatives. Interviews with representatives of human-rights groups active in Iraq paint a distressing picture of the military's treatment of the Iraqis held behind those gates. While they
[CTRL] [THE-DIALECTIC-OF-THE-DIALECTIC] Kerry-Bush hand-in-hand ... (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:06:20 -0800 (PST) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [THE-DIALECTIC-OF-THE-DIALECTIC] Kerry-Bush hand-in-hand ... against homo marriage First, don't you think the post-2004 admin should issue a book of Goodspeak, Badspeak and Nospeak suitable for this Orwellian era? Should we say: (a) homo (b) fag (c) fairy (d) queer (e) queen (f) other Why? Why not? Anyway, a long time ago (when Barny Frank was just a litte fairy) we didn't need the Orwell Book. Now we do. Both of you guys are hand-in-hand so to speak, on the issue of homo marriage. But look at it this way. U-S-A refused to have a king but it can have a queen. If the Israelite King Chuck of England marries the Edomite Queen Barny of U-S-A, what a wonderful union that will be! Queen Barny can claim instant citizenship upon setting foot in New Edom (current called Israel). You see where this leads? After King Chuck (also head of the Church of England for 60,000,000 Anglicans) explains why that is a valid union under ecclesiastical law, he can also explain why the laws of the land should be changed to allow incestuous marriage or adult-child marriage or human-animal marriage. Or do we just ignore REASONING when it comes to marriage law? U-S-A media fear such an honest debate. So let's your Orwell Book. Which presidential candidate can come up with a better Wiener Book? Canada had a small one, when Jerry Wiener was Minister of Multiculturalism. When Jerry was just a little wiener we'll leave that story until we hear your Fairy Tale which begins: When Barny Frank was just a little fairy Zandu Goldbar Learned Elder of Zion * http://www.geocities.com/CITIZENS_ASSEMBLY ** * Let us talk about what we are not supposed to talk about until we know good-speak from bad-speak; Whitehouse moronspeak from smartspeak. What is the code of totem and taboo under Whitehouse-Orwellian newspeak as it was called in 1984? What is doubleplus ungood crimethink in Orwell's classic? * Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/THE-DIALECTIC-OF-THE-DIALECTIC/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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
[CTRL] Fwd: [smashthestate] Federal Court Rejects DEA Ban On Hemp Food
-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- Subj: Nov-L: Federal Court Rejects DEA Ban on Hemp Food Date: 02/06/2004 4:26:14 PM Eastern Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from the Internet (Details) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 6, 2004 CONTACT: Adam Eidinger 202-232-8997, 202-744-2671 Eric Steenstra 703-729-2225 Breaking News - Satellite Advisory for VNR Federal Court Rejects DEA Ban on Hemp Food Court Tells DEA it Cannot Regulate Naturally-Occurring THC in Hemp Food Landmark Decision Opens Way for Expansion of Hemp Food Industry SAN FRANCISCO, CA - U.S. COURT of APPEALS for the NINTH CIRCUIT - The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), representing over 200 hemp companies in North America won their 2 1/2-year old lawsuit today against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in a decision that permanently blocks DEA regulations that attempted to ban nutritious hemp foods such as waffles, bread, cereal, vegetarian burgers, protein powder, salad dressing and nutrition bars. The decision in HIA v. DEA is a huge boost to the hemp food market, and we expect to see many more hemp food products on store shelves, says David Bronner, maker of the AlpSnack® organic hemp nutrition bar and Chair of the HIA Food and Oil Committee. The three judge panel agreed with our main argument that the DEA's 'Final Rule' ignores Congress's specific exemption in the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) under the definition of marihuana that excludes hemp seed and oil from control along with hemp fiber. Based on today's decision, the court reasonably views trace insignificant amounts of THC in hemp seed in the same way as it sees trace amounts of opiates in poppy seeds, says Bronner. *** A Video News Release will be broadcast via satellite for free and unrestricted use. The 15-minute VNR contains footage of popular hemp food products and the manufacturing process; statements from nutritionist Dr. Andrew Weil; and key background on the landmark decision. Broadcast times: 3:45PM EASTERN TIME, 4:15 PM EST; Broadcast Date: Today! 2-6-2004 Coordinates: SBS6 Transponder: K8 Downlink Freq 11896 Vertical and Audio 6.1 and 6.8 Tech Assistance Call Julia at 1-800-354-6397 *** Background on the Hemp Food Court Decision Today's Ninth Circuit decision permanently invalidates the DEA's Final Rule, issued on March 21, 2003, that was virtually identical to an Interpretive Rule issued by the DEA on October 9, 2001 that was invalidated by a Ninth Circuit court order issued on June 30, 2003. Please visit http://www.VoteHemp.com to view the Ninth Circuit ruling. In the decision, Judge Betty Fletcher wrote, [T]hey (DEA) cannot regulate naturally-occurring THC not contained within or derived from marijuana-i.e. non-psychoactive hemp is not included in Schedule I. The DEA has no authority to regulate drugs that are not scheduled, and it has not followed procedures required to schedule a substance. The DEA's definition of THC contravenes the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress in the CSA and cannot be upheld. During the final oral arguments held in San Francisco on September 17, 2003, the HIA argued that the DEA's Final Rule banning nutritious hemp foods misinterprets the CSA. The judges were completely unconvinced by DEA attorney Daniel Dormont's arguments that Congress did not exempt hemp seed from the CSA even if the seed contains insignificant amounts of naturally-occurring THC. According to the hearing transcript available at http://www.votehemp.com/PDF/Oral_Arguments_HIAvDEA.pdf, Dormont was read back the section of the CSA dealing with the hemp seed exemption on three occasions by Judge Alex Kozinski. By the third reading, a frustrated Kozinski stated S I tried to say it once before. What this tells me is
[CTRL] Fwd: [911-Discussion] Red Herring Commission members named?
-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- Bush Names Panelists in Iraq Intel Probe By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) named seven people Friday to sit on an independent study commission to look into intelligence failures on Iraqi weapons, choosing former 1. Democratic Sen. Charles S. Robb and 2. retired judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, to head the panel. "We must stay ahead of constantly changing intelligence challenges," Bush said. "The stakes for our country cannot be higher." Robb, a moderate Democrat, was a former U.S. senator and governor of Virginia and son-in-law of the late President Johnson. He is married to Lynda Bird Johnson and has been practicing law since leaving the Senate. Silberman is a conservative who served as deputy attorney general in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He was named to the appeals court by President Reagan in 1985. Bush directed federal agencies to cooperate with the commission, which will report to the nation by March 2005. Bush said he has yet to select the remaining two members of the nine-member panel. Bush also picked 3. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to be a member of the commission. "In our war against terrorism, it is imperative that we guarantee the credibility and effectiveness of our intelligence capabilities," McCain said in a statement. "I will do my very best to help find the answers that the American people have a right to know." Bush had come under increasing pressure from Democrats in recent days in the wake of the admission by chief weapons inspector David Kay that he could not substantiate that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had the kind of weapons arsenal the administration maintained was in existence, and which it used to justify the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites). Bush also named 4. Lloyd Cutler, former White House counsel to Presidents Carter and Clinton; 5. former federal judge Patricia M. Wald; 6. Yale University president Richard C. Levin, and 7. Adm. William O. Studeman, former deputy director of the CIA (news - web sites). Wald, a respected former chief judge for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) for the District of Columbia, served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In a visit to the United Nations (news - web sites), where he relied on Tenet's intelligence in a futile attempt for Security Council backing for the war, Powell said Friday: "I don't think any apologies are necessary." "It represented the best judgment we had" and "there is no evidence to suggest we were wrong,' he said. And yet, Powell acknowledged "we could not be sure of the nature of the stockpile." U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) said, "It is ironic that Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) is in the building. There has been some damage. Damage that probably will take some time to heal. People are going to be very suspicious when we try to use intelligence to justify certain actions." But, Annan also said that intelligence is necessary for government work and said that "we need to be careful not to throw everything out of the window." Bush had initially opposed a commission, but agreed to do so as calls grew from Republican lawmakers as well as Democrats. But the White House said the commission would look beyond problems in Iraq and examine the handling of intelligence on terrorists and U.S. adversaries. Democrats said any commission appointed solely by Bush could not be considered independent and objective. They have called for an examination not only of the work of intelligence agencies, but whether the White House pressured analysts and manipulated data to boost the case for war. Kay, the former CIA adviser for the Iraqi weapons search, has said he does not believe analysts
