[CTRL] Pentagon Approved Tougher Interrogations
-Caveat Lector- Was there ever any doubt? - JR http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11017-2004May8?language=printer washingtonpost.com Pentagon Approved Tougher Interrogations By Dana Priest and Joe StephensWashington Post Staff WritersSunday, May 9, 2004; Page A01 In April 2003, the Defense Department approved interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison that permit reversing the normal sleep patterns of detainees and exposing them to heat, cold and "sensory assault," including loud music and bright lights, according to defense officials. The classified list of about 20 techniques was approved at the highest levels of the Pentagon and the Justice Department, and represents the first publicly known documentation of an official policy permitting interrogators to use physically and psychologically stressful methods during questioning. The use of any of these techniques requires the approval of senior Pentagon officials -- and in some cases, of the defense secretary. Interrogators must justify that the harshest treatment is "militarily necessary," according to the document, as cited by one official. Once approved, the harsher treatment must be accompanied by "appropriate medical monitoring." "We wanted to find a legal way to jack up the pressure," said one lawyer who helped write the guidelines. "We wanted a little more freedom than in a U.S. prison, but not torture." Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said: "These procedures are tightly controlled, limited in duration and scope, used infrequently and approved on a case-by-case basis. These are people who are unlawful combatants, picked up on the battlefield and may contribute to our intelligence-gathering about events that killed 3,000 people." Defense and intelligence officials said similar guidelines have been approved for use on "high-value detainees" in Iraq -- those suspected of terrorism or of having knowledge of insurgency operations. Separate CIA guidelines exist for agency-run detention centers. It could not be learned whether similar guidelines were in effect at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, which has been the focus of controversy in recent days. But lawmakers have said they want to know whether the misconduct reported at Abu Ghraib -- which included sexual humiliation -- was an aberration or whether it reflected an aggressive policy taken to inhumane extremes. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the U.S. military and the CIA have detained thousands of foreign nationals at the prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, as well as at facilities in Iraq and elsewhere, as part of an effort to crack down on suspected terrorists and to quell the insurgency in Iraq. The Pentagon guidelines for Guantanamo were designed to give interrogators the authority to prompt uncooperative detainees to provide information, though experts on interrogation say information submitted under such conditions is often unreliable. The United States has stated publicly that it does not engage in torture or cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners. Defense officials said yesterday that the techniques on the list are consistent with international law and contain appropriate safeguards such as legal and medical monitoring. "The high-level approval is done with forethought by people in responsibility, and layers removed from the people actually doing these things, so you can have an objective approach," said one senior defense official familiar with the guidelines. But Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said the tactics outlined in the U.S. document amount to cruel and inhumane treatment. "The courts have ruled most of these techniques illegal," he said. "If it's illegal here under the U.S. Constitution, it's illegal abroad. . . . This isn't even close." According to two defense officials, prisoners could be made to disrobe for interrogation if they were are alone in their cells. But Col. David McWilliams, a spokesman for the U.S. Southern Command, said stripping prisoners was not part of the permitted interrogation techniques. "We have no protocol that allows us to disrobe a detainee whatsoever," he said. Prisoners may be disrobed in order to clean them and administer medical treatment, he said. Several officials interviewed for this article, including two lawyers who helped formulate the guidelines, declined to be identified because the subject matter is so sensitive. With the proper permission, the guidelines allow detainees to be subjected to psychological techniques meant to open them up, disorient or put them under stress. These include "invoking feelings of futility" and using female interrogators to question male detainees. Some prisoners could be made to stand for four hours at a time. Questioning a prisoner without clothes is permitted if he is
[CTRL] [JBirch] WORLD SOCIALISTS CALL FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 15:02:46 -0500 From: Marjorie Ament [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JBirch] WORLD SOCIALISTS CALL FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT http://www.newswithviews.com/Lamb/henry8.htm WORLD SOCIALISTS CALL FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT By Henry Lamb November 20, 2003 NewsWithViews.com Concluding its 22nd global congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last week, the Socialist International issued its Declaration calling for implementation of global governance, in a program that mirrors the recommendations of the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance, published in 1995. The International Socialists call for: expanding the U.N. Security Council; creating a new Economic Security Council; creating a new World Environmental Organization; and the mechanisms necessary to enforce Sustainable Development, world-wide. This document makes public the close union between the agenda of International Socialists and the agenda for global governance developed by the United Nations. Previous efforts to keep the socialist label away from the U.N., have now been abandoned, and both institutions are publicly seeking total global governance through the United Nations. Though the document does not mention the Bush administration by name, it decries obstacles to the new world order, sought by the Socialists. Article Three of the Declaration says: Neoconservatives are attempting to ... dismantle all forms of global governance, to minimise the role of the United Nations, to undermine multilateral institutions, to promote unilateralism and the consecration of the market, and to impose the will of the powerful to decide the future of mankind. The President of Socialist International, Antonio Guterres, former Socialist Prime Minister of Portugal, said the Bush administration was impeding efforts to establish a new world order, according to the Denver Post. (October 30, p. 21A) Specifically, the Socialists want the new Economic Security Council to be a Council for Sustainable Development - that would coordinate sustainable development on a global scale... And, to implement the Kyoto Protocol. Socialists want to consolidate the U.N. Environment Program, and all the existing environmental treaties, under the enforcement authority of a new World Environment Organization, the same function the Commission on Global Governance proposed for the outdated U.N. Trusteeship Council. This document also endorses: the U.N. Millennium Development goals adopted in 2000; the U.N.'s Monterey Consensus, adopted in 2002; and the U.N.'s Plan for Sustainable Development, adopted in Johannesburg in 2002. It calls for the elimination of agricultural subsidies in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and free exportation by developing countries into these markets, and international control of ...regulation, accountability and supervision of financial systems to enhance the prospects for sustainable growth and development. The Socialist International links exacerbated nationalism, ...and xenophobic attitudes, with terrorism, as threats to peace, which must be addressed only by an expanded U.N. Security Council, with the authority and means to act to preserve and enforce peace, which must be carried out in accordance with the decisions of the United Nations. The [Socialist] International, therefore, believes that reform of the United Nations cannot be delayed any longer and will continue to be strongly engaged in the process. Achieving lasting peace and security requires that the United Nations Charter be updated to meet today's new challenges, and that the Security Council be reformed to make it more representative, democratic and responsive. The reform called for by the U.N.'s Commission on Global Governance, and by the U.N., would expand the Security Council in number, whose members would serve rotating terms, remove the Permanent Member status from the U.S., France, England, Germany, and China, and would eliminate the veto power of any single nation. The Socialists want the U.N. to place greater emphasis on the provision of global public services, especially with regard to sanitation, health care, child care facilities, education, employment promotion and environmental protection. In a clear statement of support for the socialist model of economic organization, rather than the capitalist model, the document says: The principle of public service cannot be sacrificed to the consecration of the market. Tax systems should also be adapted to promote better public services and a new global tax
[CTRL] Dissension Grows In Senior Ranks On War Strategy
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com Dissension Grows In Senior Ranks On War Strategy U.S. May Be Winning Battles in Iraq But Losing the War, Some Officers Say By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 9, 2004; Page A01 Deep divisions are emerging at the top of the U.S. military over the course of the occupation of Iraq, with some senior officers beginning to say that the United States faces the prospect of casualties for years without achieving its goal of establishing a free and democratic Iraq. Their major worry is that the United States is prevailing militarily but failing to win the support of the Iraqi people. That view is far from universal, but it is spreading and being voiced publicly for the first time. Army Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, who spent much of the year in western Iraq, said he believes that at the tactical level at which fighting occurs, the U.S. military is still winning. But when asked whether he believes the United States is losing, he said, I think strategically, we are. Army Col. Paul Hughes, who last year was the first director of strategic planning for the U.S. occupation authority in Baghdad, said he agrees with that view and noted that a pattern of winning battles while losing a war characterized the U.S. failure in Vietnam. Unless we ensure that we have coherency in our policy, we will lose strategically, he said in an interview Friday. I lost my brother in Vietnam, added Hughes, a veteran Army strategist who is involved in formulating Iraq policy. I promised myself, when I came on active duty, that I would do everything in my power to prevent that [sort of strategic loss] from happening again. Here I am, 30 years later, thinking we will win every fight and lose the war, because we don't understand the war we're in. The emergence of sharp differences over U.S. strategy has set off a debate, a year after the United States ostensibly won a war in Iraq, about how to preserve that victory. The core question is how to end a festering insurrection that has stymied some reconstruction efforts, made many Iraqis feel less safe and created uncertainty about who actually will run the country after the scheduled turnover of sovereignty June 30. Inside and outside the armed forces, experts generally argue that the U.S. military should remain there but should change its approach. Some argue for more troops, others for less, but they generally agree on revising the stated U.S. goals to make them less ambitious. They are worried by evidence that the United States is losing ground with the Iraqi public. Some officers say the place to begin restructuring U.S. policy is by ousting Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, whom they see as responsible for a series of strategic and tactical blunders over the past year. Several of those interviewed said a profound anger is building within the Army at Rumsfeld and those around him. A senior general at the Pentagon said he believes the United States is already on the road to defeat. It is doubtful we can go on much longer like this, he said. The American people may not stand for it -- and they should not. Asked who was to blame, this general pointed directly at Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz. I do not believe we had a clearly defined war strategy, end state and exit strategy before we commenced our invasion, he said. Had someone like Colin Powell been the chairman [of the Joint Chiefs of Staff], he would not have agreed to send troops without a clear exit strategy. The current OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense] refused to listen or adhere to military advice. Like several other officers interviewed for this report, this general spoke only on the condition that his name not be used. One reason for this is that some of these officers deal frequently with the senior Pentagon civilian officials they are criticizing, and some remain dependent on top officials to approve their current efforts and future promotions. Also, some say they believe that Rumsfeld and other top civilians punish public dissent. Senior officers frequently cite what they believe was the vindictive treatment of then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric K. Shinseki after he said early in 2003 that the administration was underestimating the number of U.S. troops that would be required to occupy postwar Iraq. Wolfowitz, the Pentagon's No. 2 official, said he does not think the United States is losing in Iraq, and said no senior officer has expressed that thought to him, either. I am sure that there are some out there who think that, he said in an interview yesterday afternoon. There's no question that we're facing some difficulties, Wolfowitz said. I don't mean to sound Pollyannaish -- we all know that we're facing a tough problem. But, he said, I think the course we've set is the right one, which is moving as rapidly as possible to Iraqi self-government and Iraqi self-defense.
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Fw: [A_Political_Debate_] Afghan debt to Russia to be resolved by Paris Club
-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- - Original Message - From: vera To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 2:51 PM Subject: [A_Political_Debate_] Afghan debt to Russia to be resolved by Paris Club May 7 2004 5:24PM Afghan debt to Russia to be resolved by Paris Club MOSCOW. May 7 (Interfax) - The issue of Afghanistan's debt to Russia will be resolved in the framework of the Paris Club, whose policy calls for writing off a significant portion of the sum, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a briefing following talks with his Afghan counterpart Abdullah Abdullah in Moscow on Friday. "We have agreed that the problem of Kabul's debt to Moscow will be resolved in the framework of the Paris Club. A significant part of the debt will be written off," he said. "We have agreed that Russia's and Afghanistan's representatives will hold specific discussions on this issue," Lavrov said. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said that the debt, some of which is denominated in Soviet rubles, exceeded $9 billion. He has said that Afghanistan insists on writing off the entire sum, while Russia only agrees that most of the debt can be restructured, while some may be written off. Kudrin has linked the provision of donor aid to Afghanistan with resolution of that country's debt to Russia. Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs 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---
[CTRL] Israel Preparing To Attack Iran N-Sites, Says Report
-Caveat Lector- http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=050804113429 Israel Preparing To Attack Iran N-Sites, Says Report Washington, May 9 (NNN): Israel may be preparing to attack Iranian nuclear facilities within the year, according to US administration assessments reported on Israeli Army Radio on Saturday. The report was first released by an American wire service, which said President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had discussed the issue during Sharon's visit to the White House on April 14. The possibility of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities came up when the two leaders were discussing a likely Israeli response to the completion of an Iranian nuclear bomb, the wire service said. Following the meeting, Bush said it was inconceivable for the Middle East that Iran acquired nuclear weapons. The news agency and the Israeli Army Radio quoted US and Israeli officials as saying that the attempt to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons had been discussed at various levels, as well as the effects such an attack would have on US efforts in Iraq and in the Persian Gulf. The wire service report said: "US authorities have extensively considered the possibility that Israel will attack Iran's nuclear facilities, perhaps this year". 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] A Recent Visit W/ Eustace Mullins
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general52/rus.htm A Recent Visit With Eustace Mullins By James Dyer 5-8-4 First Word: In another era, Eustace Mullins ,81, would be a public resource. After his service in the Air Force in WWII, he went to work at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. DC was a small town in those days and Eustace was a bright, curious and unassuming country boy with a bit of the bon vivant in him. As such, he came into contact with many of the movers and shakers of the day and ate, drank and conversed with them. He has more first-hand information about post-WWII Washington and its inhabitants than most anyone else alive today. He was also in the thick of the fray of the Communist trials in those days, as he worked for Joe McCarthy as a researcher. That alone keeps him smeared in these politically-correct days. His longtime friendship with Ezra Pound, who hired Mullins to research and write the definitive history of the founding of the Federal Reserve System, serves to finalize judgment in the minds of his uninformed detractors. One doesn't really have a conversation with Eustace. You do your best to corral what he'll impart, and he's willing to answer whatever you ask to the best of his ability. If you have any questions after reading this, his contact info is at the end. Get in touch with him. For 55 years, he's been researching the very questions that most of us reading this have been asking in the wake of 9/11/01. Eustace Mullins has been painted as many things by his detractors, many of whom have no idea what the word "patriot" actually means beyond the title of the Act that's almost made patriotism illegal. Agree or disagree with Eustace's conclusions, his detractors have never been able to paint him as a liar. J: These are troubling days. What do you say when people ask "What can I do?" E: People often ask me that question, implying that they don't know what to do. That's not true. People know what they're supposed to do. They're actually begging the question when they ask me that. What they're really saying is, "I don't really want to do anything, but you're going to get me off the hook by telling me I should do this or that and then I'll tell you I can't do this or that", and that frees them from having to do anything. J: What have you done? E: I'd always wanted to be a writer, so that's what I did. It's an educational operation, both for the writer and the reader. Whether you're writing poetry, essays, articles, books, songs or what have you, imparting what you may have learned is important. J: Have you been surprised by any events in the post-9/11 world? E: I wasn't surprised by anything that happened before 9/11, so nothing afterwards has surprised me (laughs). 9/11 was a natural occurrence, much like other terrorist operations that preceeded it - the OKC bombing, the Waco Holocaust and the Ruby Ridge Massacre. These were all steps in a program and there's nothing surprising about them at all. They were intelligence operations, financed by the Money Powers. Intelligence is the heart and soul of banking, as the financiers must have complete knowledge and when necessary, initiate events to steer things their way. The mantra after 9/11 was "This changes everything." Utter nonsense. It changed nothing. Office buildings got knocked down, nothing changed. The Pentagon got hit, nothing changed. Rumsfeld was supposedly sitting at his desk, working, when the Pentagon got hit. Why was the Secretary of Defense sitting at his desk an hour after the country came under attack? It was no accident that Bush was absent from DC and Cheney was in the White House during the operation. They had to keep Bush out of the loop so he wouldn't screw it up. J: You worked with Robert Kennedy in Joe McCarthy's office, correct? E: We both worked for Joe, yes. Bobby was one of the biggest snobs I met in my time in DC, being noveau riche. People born to generations of money aren't snobs, for the most part. But Bobby Kennedy was a little slump kid. He was a strait-laced Boston Irish-Catholic boy, which is why he hated the homosexual J. Edgar Hoover so much. Just for the record, Hoover started his time in Washington as a deck attendant at the Library of Congress, the same job I held there. It's rarely referred to, and hardly anyone knows it. Hoover was very insecure about his appearance as some in DC thought he had black ancestry. He was very Negroid in his facial structure and was quite touchy about it. It might be why he hated Martin Luther King so much. (laughs) By the way, e.e. cummings was the first choice for JFK's inaugural speech, but he turned it down. e.e. told me himself the day he refused the offer. Robert Frost was the second choice, the bitter old bastard. Ezra gave him his first break in the late teens or early twenties and afterwards, Frost had nothing to do with him again. The official government story regarding
[CTRL] The U.S. and Israel Torture Connection
-Caveat Lector- Mid-East Realities - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - 6 May 2004: The U.S. and Israel have been torture interconnected in the Middle East for quite a long time. Those now infamous hoods -- finally infamous because of the dramatic pictures from a U.S.-run prison in Iraq -- have long been used by the Israelis in prisons where Palestinians are treated far worse but the world has looked the other way for decades now. Indeed Israeli 'training' of Americans to 'deal with the Arabs' may well be the secret so-far untold aspect of today's 'torture scandal' now dominating today's headlines. TortureGate now dominates Washington and has the potential to threaten the Bush Presidency as the Monica scandal affected Clinton's. The top Pentagon civilian officials -- Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith -- both Jewish and both known for their extremely close relationships with top officials in Israel and the Zionist movement, are believed to have personally authorized clandestine Mossad officials to be in Iraq working closely with U.S. military intelligence. Something similar is believed to have been secretly authorized by the head of the CIA, George Tenet. Many in Washington find it hard to believe that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not know and approve; even if the information was not provided to the President who many believe at the time would not have cared or understood the implications anyway. As of today TortureGate is at the least further erupting into a profound earthquake-like public relations catastrophe for the U.S. American credibility has been shredded to pieces. The President himself is unusually personally involved in attempting damage-control. Talk of Donald Rumsfeld being forced to take the fall this time is beginning to be heard above whispers. As for the U.S. and Israeli torture connection it has grown considerable in recent years and certainly needs to be investigated -- but just as certainly not by the American Congress which is itself quite complicitous despite all the loud protestations otherwise. Even as far back as a decade before the first Palestinian Intifada began in 1987, the U.S. government was already very much aware and complicitous in, the 'systematic torture' of Palestinians by Israel. In 1979 U.S. Foreign Service officers serving in the Jerusalem Consulate -- an unofficial Embassy responsible for dealing with the Palestinians in the 'Occupied Territories' -- did their job and provided the political leaders in Washington detailed and conclusive information about the ongoing torture of Palestinians. When top officials in Washington did nothing and in fact ordered everything covered up classified State Department cables were leaked from persons inside the State Department and published by Mark Bruzonsky who at the time was Forum Editor of The Middle East Magazine in London. Bruzonsky is now the Publisher of Mid-East Realities (MiddleEast.Org). In a major censorship story never publicly told the classified torture documents were first made available by Bruzonsky for exclusive publication in a New York newspaper. But severe pressure from the U.S. government and persons associated with the Israeli-Jewish lobby forced the story to be spiked at the last minute even after the front-page banner-headline had been set in type and personally approved by the editor and publisher.This is the story of the once secret Torture Cables as published in the April 1979 issue of The Middle East Magazine. THE actual story as published in The Middle East Magazine is available at: http://www.MiddleEast.Org/latest.htm http://www.MiddleEast.org/mabarticles/5-05-04.html - MiD-EasT RealitieS - http://www.MiddleEast.Org Phone: (202) 362-5266 Fax: (815) 366-0800 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To start or stop receiving MER free and easy go to: http://www.MiddleEast.Org/subscribe 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
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] A Secret Guantanamo, for the 'Ghost Detainees', the new 'Disappeared'...
-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://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=970 Sunday 9th May 2004 : A Secret Guantanamo, for the 'Ghost Detainees', the new 'Disappeared'... British quizzed Iraqis at torture jail . Tories demand Hoon explains when he was told about prisoner abuse . Whitehall alarmed over report that detainees were hidden from Red Cross Peter Beaumont, Martin Bright and Paul Harris in Washington Sunday May 9, 2004 The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1212769,00.html British military intelligence officers were interrogating prisoners in the notorious Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq even as the first reports of abuses at the prison came to light, The Observer can reveal. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that three 'military personnel' were stationed at the prison, outside Baghdad, between January and April this year. Coalition sources in Iraq say MI6 also visited the jail regularly. The revelations threaten to drag the British government into the heart of the international scandal over coalition abuse at Abu Ghraib. It follows claims in yesterday's Guardian that the humiliating sexual abuse at the jail was consistent with procedures taught to British and American special forces. An MoD spokesman said the three British military staff were based at Abu Ghraib, but insisted they were unaware of abuses or the US investigation that began in January. The three interrogators interviewed a small number of prisoners with a view to 'gathering information' that could help the coalition. Their work, he said, was consistent with the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners and responsibility for guarding them remained with the US. The interrogators arrived at the prison after the abuse was discovered and after investigations began into the allegations. One left the prison in March while the others remained until April. The disclosure will put fresh pressure on British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon to clarify when he first heard of allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners amid claims from the Red Cross that British officials were alerted in November. The MoD told The Observer that Hoon was not informed of the American investigation into Abu Ghraib and was first alerted to the scandal by media reports. Shadow foreign secretary Michael Ancram said: 'These new revelations show that it is now imperative that Geoff Hoon or the Foreign Secretary himself come to the House of Commons on Monday to fully explain when he was first informed of the abuses in Abu Ghraib.' Senior Pentagon sources have also told this newspaper that plans are being drawn up to bulldoze Abu Ghraib within a month in an attempt to assuage Arab outrage at photographs of US sexual abuse of detainees inside the prison. But the commander of US detention facilities in Iraq said yesterday the US military will continue to run the prison with a reduced population and that if orders are received to close Abu Ghraib, the military would shift the mission to Camp Bucca, south of Basra. The Red Cross disclosed to The Observer that its president, Jakob Kellenberger, had personally warned three of George W. Bush's most senior officials - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz - of widespread abuse tantamount to torture. Whitehall sources expressed concern last night that the US was transporting prisoners from Afghanistan to Abu Ghraib for interrogation to avoid being overseen by the Red Cross. Officials are known to be shocked by the findings, contained in a report by Major-General Antonio Taguba, the senior US officer secretly sent to investigate the abuse. According to Taguba's leaked report: 'Various detention facilities operated by military police in Iraq, hosted ghost detainees - unidentified
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Image by image, confession by confession, the horror emerges
-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://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=519435 Image by image, confession by confession, the horror emerges Until their publication shocked the world, these pictures were dismissed by the Pentagon as the work of 'six morons who lost the war'. Now the White House says it is as shocked as anyone about what they reveal, and that a few bad apples have poisoned the reputation of a nation. But yesterday the first evidence emerged of systematic abuse of Iraqis. In this special report, we follow the trail from 9/11, the detention camps of Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay to the shame of Abu Ghraib By Raymond Whitaker and RUpert Cornwell 09 May 2004 As the Abu Ghraib scandal engulfed Washington last week, with the media full of pictures of grinning US military police next to naked Iraqi detainees, Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News called a contact in the Pentagon with a query about the six soldiers facing charges for the abuse. You mean the six morons who lost the war? the official said. From this side of the Atlantic the official's response might seem a little blinkered. What about all the questions and doubts that already existed - about the exaggerations and lies which took us into war, about the bungled aftermath of a supremely successful military campaign, and about the cost in money and lives of suppressing a growing insurgency against the supposed liberators of the country? He spoke, however, for many Americans, almost certainly including President George Bush and his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. The obscene antics of Private Lynndie England and her boyfriend (by whom she is now pregnant), Specialist Charles Graner, who appear most often in the photographs, have crystallised half-suppressed doubts in the US about what is going on in Iraq. After a slow start, the unfolding tale of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has swept everything else off the radar screen in Washington. Gradually the full appalling implications are being grasped by an administration that hitherto has never been concerned for anyone's opinion other than its own. A president already facing a tough re-election fight this autumn now realises he has a potentially career-ending disaster on his hands. As late as Wednesday, as his handlers pushed him into belated damage control by giving interviews to Arab-language TV networks, Mr Bush still didn't get it. To be sure, he declared his abhorrence - but then seemed to lecture his questioners on their failure to understand the special godliness of America, which a few individuals had so heinously betrayed. An apology? No way. Within 24 hours the White House corrected the blunder. After meeting King Abdullah of Jordan, the President said sorry, not once but twice. By Friday Mr Rumsfeld, if anything even more obdurate and sure of his own infallibility than his President, was expressing contrition in his opening statement to a senate committee. Aware that nothing could be more harmful than a constant stream of further revelations, he took care to warn that there was worse to come, in the form of videos as well as photographs. They are said to include Iraqi guards raping young boys, and American soldiers having sex with a female detainee, acting inappropriately with a corpse and beating an Iraqi detainee close to death. Under questioning, however, the Defence Secretary reverted to his combative and self-confident self, and by yesterday Mr Bush was repeating the message he, Mr Rumsfeld and the anonymous Pentagon official are desperate to get across: what happened at Abu Ghraib, the President said in his weekly radio address, was the wrongdoing of a few. There was fresh evidence yesterday, however, that the abuse was systematic. One of the accused soldiers, Specialist Sabrina Harman, told The Washington Post that she was specifically
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Image by image, confession by confession, the horror emerges
-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://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=519435 Image by image, confession by confession, the horror emerges Until their publication shocked the world, these pictures were dismissed by the Pentagon as the work of 'six morons who lost the war'. Now the White House says it is as shocked as anyone about what they reveal, and that a few bad apples have poisoned the reputation of a nation. But yesterday the first evidence emerged of systematic abuse of Iraqis. In this special report, we follow the trail from 9/11, the detention camps of Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay to the shame of Abu Ghraib By Raymond Whitaker and RUpert Cornwell 09 May 2004 As the Abu Ghraib scandal engulfed Washington last week, with the media full of pictures of grinning US military police next to naked Iraqi detainees, Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News called a contact in the Pentagon with a query about the six soldiers facing charges for the abuse. You mean the six morons who lost the war? the official said. From this side of the Atlantic the official's response might seem a little blinkered. What about all the questions and doubts that already existed - about the exaggerations and lies which took us into war, about the bungled aftermath of a supremely successful military campaign, and about the cost in money and lives of suppressing a growing insurgency against the supposed liberators of the country? He spoke, however, for many Americans, almost certainly including President George Bush and his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. The obscene antics of Private Lynndie England and her boyfriend (by whom she is now pregnant), Specialist Charles Graner, who appear most often in the photographs, have crystallised half-suppressed doubts in the US about what is going on in Iraq. After a slow start, the unfolding tale of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has swept everything else off the radar screen in Washington. Gradually the full appalling implications are being grasped by an administration that hitherto has never been concerned for anyone's opinion other than its own. A president already facing a tough re-election fight this autumn now realises he has a potentially career-ending disaster on his hands. As late as Wednesday, as his handlers pushed him into belated damage control by giving interviews to Arab-language TV networks, Mr Bush still didn't get it. To be sure, he declared his abhorrence - but then seemed to lecture his questioners on their failure to understand the special godliness of America, which a few individuals had so heinously betrayed. An apology? No way. Within 24 hours the White House corrected the blunder. After meeting King Abdullah of Jordan, the President said sorry, not once but twice. By Friday Mr Rumsfeld, if anything even more obdurate and sure of his own infallibility than his President, was expressing contrition in his opening statement to a senate committee. Aware that nothing could be more harmful than a constant stream of further revelations, he took care to warn that there was worse to come, in the form of videos as well as photographs. They are said to include Iraqi guards raping young boys, and American soldiers having sex with a female detainee, acting inappropriately with a corpse and beating an Iraqi detainee close to death. Under questioning, however, the Defence Secretary reverted to his combative and self-confident self, and by yesterday Mr Bush was repeating the message he, Mr Rumsfeld and the anonymous Pentagon official are desperate to get across: what happened at Abu Ghraib, the President said in his weekly radio address, was the wrongdoing of a few. There was fresh evidence yesterday, however, that the abuse was systematic. One of the accused soldiers, Specialist Sabrina Harman, told The Washington Post that she was specifically
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Abuse Blamed On Poor Leadership
-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://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_abuse_050904,00.html Abuse Blamed On Poor Leadership Associated Press May 9, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq - The head of U.S. detention centers in Iraq said Saturday the military has no plans to close the Abu Ghraib prison and blamed the abuse of detainees there on poor leadership and disregard for the rules. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller said the United States does intend to cut the number of prisoners to help improve conditions but added that we will continue to conduct interrogation missions at the Abu Ghraib facility. Miller was named head of prisons in April after Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the commander of Abu Ghraib, was suspended amid allegations of abuse by U.S. soldiers at the prison. Seven prison guards have been criminally charged for alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Photographs of the abuse were published throughout the world. President Bush vowed Saturday that we will learn all the facts and determine the full extent of these abuses. Those involved will be identified. They will answer for their actions. Bush said all prison operations in Iraq will be reviewed to make certain that similar disgraceful incidents are never repeated. Miller said he visited all 14 prison facilities in Iraq to review procedures and that an Army team of 31 specialists was in the country retraining prison guards, a process that would last until June 30. We will ensure that we follow our procedures, he said. It is a matter of honor. We were ashamed and embarrassed by the conduct of a very, very small number of our soldiers...On my honor, I will ensure that it will not happen again. Miller said the alleged abuses and abuses we have discovered from the investigations appear to be due to leaders and soldiers not following the authorized policy and lack of leadership and supervision. Miller insisted that Iraqi prisoners were now being treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and that interrogation teams were following Army guidelines while trying to get the best intelligence as rapidly as possible. I am satisfied that that system is following the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and assisting the coalition in providing actionable intelligence to help us win this fight for the freedom of Iraq, he said. He said earlier in the week that he would halt or restrict some interrogation methods, especially eight to 10 very aggressive techniques, including using hoods on prisoners, putting them in stressful positions and depriving them of sleep. He said those methods are now banned without specific approval. Miller said there were no plans to close Abu Ghraib and that if orders are received to close the lockup, the military would probably shift the mission to another facility, Camp Bucca, south of Basra. Abu Ghraib was a notorious prison under Saddam Hussein where detainees were routinely tortured and sometimes executed. Miller, the former commander of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, led a 30-member team to Iraq in August and September that focused on ways of sharpening interrogation procedures. In a report on the Abu Ghraib scandal, Maj. Gen. Anthony Taguba wrote that the team recommended that the guard force be actively engaged in setting the conditions for successful exploitation of the internees. Some military police at the prison have said they were instructed to soften up the prisoners before interrogation. There was no recommendation ever by this group ... that recommended that the military police become actively involved in the interrogation, Miller said. Miller said he recommended that guards should monitor prisoners closely and pass on information to interrogators. Military police should be involved in passive intelligence collection, Miller said. One of the soldiers facing charges, Spc.
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Sexual humiliation: prolonging the shock of capture
-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://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=9498TagID=1 Sexual humiliation: prolonging the shock of capture uploaded 09 May 2004 The west is suddenly aware of atrocities being meted out by the crusader forces in Iraq. A combination of lying politicians and a desirer to burry their heads in the sand has sheltered them from the stark realities of invasion and occupation. Reams of texts and newsprint column inches have little effect on the North American population with a kindergarten mentality. Pictures are what bring the message home to the MTV generation. First it was CBS and then The Washington Post's images telling the truth about the situation in Iraq. They also portent many more horror stories, those of civilians randomly killed and people imprisoned or disappeared without explanation. Desperate families outside jails, waving bits of paper with names and begging for news. The systematic torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere is symptomatic of the sadistic American regime. The symbolism of the Muslim prisoner on the box is a most accurate and representative image of the US occupation. Sexual abuse and humiliation of naked Muslim prisoners, urinated on and sodomised, and orders from US intelligence to soften up victims. All this taking place in Saddam's old torture chamber, business as usual. A 53-page report, by Major General Antonio Taguba, into the treatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib said there were, sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses. He listed some of them, Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees . beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape . sodomising a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broomstick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees . and in one instance actually biting a detainee. The author makes it clear that these are not low level personnel, but high ranking intelligence officers encouraging military police to soften up detainees. These are the facts on the ground, but the US President commented that Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people, Indeed, but it is in the nature of the circumstances that Bush has authorised the holding of 10,000 prisoners without trial, many in unknown, secret prisons. That's not the way we do things in America, he said. This may be the case, but it is the way that they do things in Cuba, Iraq, Bagram and even Gambia. If George Bush is unsure about the American way he could always ask his dad, who used to be head of the CIA. The brains behind the interrogating team at Abu Ghraib was from the CIA. So what is the US intelligence agency capable of? There are clues from that organisation's history that it has found ill-treating detainees to be useful in the past. Two CIA interrogation manuals surfaced in 1997 after the Baltimore Sun obtained them under freedom of information laws. Reading them in the context of the pictures from Iraq and accounts from Guantnamo suggests that the advice they contain is still being applied. The pattern of abuse of Iraqi prisoners follows established CIA interrogation techniques. A gang of reservists from Virginia did not dream up ways of mistreating Muslim prisoners to maximise their humiliation all by themselves. The abuses in Abu Ghraib were no aberrant act, but a product of US policy and the practices of its intelligence community. In emails released by his family, Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick, a guard at Abu Ghraib, says military intelligence used dogs to intimidate prisoners, leading to positive results and information. In one email he wrote: We have had a very high rate with our style of getting them to break. They usually end up breaking within hours. Sgt Frederick said that he queried some of the
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Terrorism. And how modern politicians manipulate it
-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://www.chechentimes.org/en/comments/?id=16825 Analysis, comments 6.05.2004 Terrorism. And how modern politicians manipulate it Over the recent five years terrorism - as a phenomenon - has taken the top place in politics, press and minds. That's natural. Although terrorism has always existed in this or that form, nowadays it has become wide-spread. Politicians, scientists, different specialists are said to offer more than 400 definitions of terrorism. Shall we go into details, terrorism is not a science, this is a tool. A deputy of the Russian State Duma, the deputy head of the defense committee Natalia Narochnitskaya says: there are two types of terrorism. First - which attacked the WTC towers in New York, commuter trains in Spain, it has no territorial claims. Second - sets forth territorial claims. This is Kosovo and Chechnya. In the end the deputy added, almost shouted that over the last several centuries Russia has sacrificed thousands of its soldiers in the Caucasus and Chechens want to tear it away from Russia. Thus, Narochnitskaya legalized the colonial system which had been denounced by the international community long ago. That happened on April 4, in Vladimir Pozner's program Vremena (Times) on Russia's ORT TV channel. Two weeks earlier, on March 21, also taking part in Pozner's program, political scientist Sergei Karaganov said: National-liberation struggle must be forbidden. That's it! Narochnitskaya, Karaganov openly defend Russia's colonial interests. Such qualification of terrorism is simple and is very suitable for politicians, at least, at the moment. Russian scientists do not bother about searching for the roots of the disease. But if the diagnosis is wrong, subsequent treatment can kill the organism. We shall distinguish between political, criminal and blood feud terrorism. The difference between these forms is their objectives. As well as the scope, because state terrorism is political terrorism. Scientific-like researches mislead people, give cynical politicians an opportunity to manipulate different types of terrorism as they want. Depending on the necessity, they either divide it into types or pile it up. In such case even a national-liberation struggle is called international terrorism. Feud terrorism appeared in Chechnya in response to Russia's state terrorism, war crimes committed by the federal army against the civilian population, when people failed to find legal protection. It has become widely spread with the beginning of the second Russian-Chechen war, when the Russian army recruited kontraktnikis, scoundrels of all sorts, including criminals, who flooded into Chechnya to make fortunes: robbery of the civilian population, extortions, marauding. They were given a carte-blanche and they shot off all Chechens. War crimes became wide-spread by the order from the Center. No one has canceled the governmental order ?229 of March 02, 1996, the Instruction of the information coverage group of the presidential aide Pain. They demand displaying the different origin and parasitism of the given enemy (the Chechen people - S.G.) on the healthy body of Russia, the extermination of which is a sacred affair for every Russian. It is not in the interests of Russia to distinguish this type of terrorism. Searching for its roots we are likely to reveal not only separate cases of human rights violations, but also war crimes, crimes against humanity committed by the Russian army in Chechnya. That's why politicians defined the appearance of single suicide-avengers as the Palestinization of the Russian-Chechen conflict. A barefaced lie! Chechen avengers have nothing in common with Palestinian suicide bombers. Chechens do not take revenge for killed political leaders. They take revenge only for innocently killed relatives, for themselves, for
[CTRL] [UNIVERSALHUMANRIGHTS] TORTURE in Iraq and Canada (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 15:41:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UNIVERSALHUMANRIGHTS] TORTURE in Iraq and Canada A first draft of the Complaint Form to be submitted to UNHCHR is now completed. The sections which define torture and describe the torturous aspects of the MHR Regimen in BC are at http://www.geocities.com/universalhumanrightscanada/p3 and /p9. Panties on the head and Dog-leash around the neck are mild punishments compared to the punishment of being deprived of the necessities of life, especially food, shelter and clothing. But that torture is threatened daily against thousands of BC citizens who have committed no crime and participated in no war. And there are enough follow-throughs to make sure everyone knows this is not a bluff. GVRD (Greater Vancouver Regional District) estimates x3 homeless to 3,000 over the past two years. The rationale is easy to understand. The New World Order masters like billionaire or borderline-billionaire Prime Minister Martin can force the poor and the powerless to do their bidding by threatening torture, ill-health and death as ensue on a probability basis from being deprived of necessities of life. As Kim Kerr (DERA Executive Director in Vancouver) has said, It's a death sentence being on the street (Terminal City, April 30-May 6/04, p.7). The Frank Paul case proved that when Frank Paul died of exposure in a Vancouver alley. Forced labour over the next decade or so will destroy the labour movement. It is the greatest union-busting scheme in world history ... the final solution to trade unionism. Forced pre-employment goes hand in hand with forced employment in the MHR Regimen but has added benefit to the New World Order masters in that a the political indoctrination can be quite extensive, covering attitudes, opinions and many behaviours which apply widely outside the work situation. After all, those who express politically incorrect views will not likely remain employed so new think can easily be made part of the coercive programming. In Iraq the entire civilian population will be subjected to Iraq's counterpart to the MHR Regimen of BC, if it has not started already. If you don't speak and act and think as the Paul Martins of this world want, you don't eat. You don't get shelter. You don't get proper clothing. And you don't get satisfactory medical care. Canada's cherished medicare is a tough nut to crack but Martin will eventually get to it. Panties on the head may be a humiliation but they won't take your life. It is your life which the monsters of the New World Order like Martin are threatening to bend you to their will. This is the Monster in the Fog of War to use the titles of two recent and popular movies in context. National Post headlines of May 8/04 quote Martin as saying a BATTLE OF IDEAS is at the foundation of the current national debate. So let's start with this idea: that torture and threatened torture are the 'human right' of the strong in Canada when they wish to oppress the weak and Premier Campbell, Martin's breath of fresh air is the point man for putting these ideas on the use of torture and abuse of the poor into practice. But don't forget this: the human rights of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights benefit 99.9% of us ... the other .1% being those who believe they will never have to rely upon them and are probably correct. UDHR says your life has inherent value and is not to be degraded and demeaned by torturous threats to life and health. Now if we have it wrong about what is transpiring in Canada and Iraq, ie that entire populations are subjected to torture, Mr. Martin can set us straight right away and save the trouble of filing the complaint form below. Z CITIZENS' COMPLAINT TO UNHCHR against GOVERNMENTS CANADA, BC, VANCOUVER for TORTURE, FORCED LABOUR, DISCONTINUING NECESSARIES OF LIFE: * http://www.geocities.com/universalhumanrightscanada ** On Thu, 6 May 2004, Party of Citizens wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2004, R. John Pritchard wrote: other points worth noting are the reluctance to use the T word (torture) and Dear Mr. Pritchard: Do you agree that there is capital T and small t torture? At http://www.geocities.com/universalhumanrightscanada/p3 I have just outlined three arguments for calling a regimen which deprives people of the necessaries of life or threatens to do so, a regimen of torture. Small t torture or where on the T-t continuum? Wasn't that the military regimen applied against the entire nation of Iraq, post Desert Storm? Has Canada now been subjected to a made in U-S-A military regimen with torture as its underpinning or am I seeing clearly what is looming before us in The Fog of War? Since Justice Minister Cotler is a former law professor with a human rights
[CTRL] Hugh Thompson on 60 Minutes Tonight
-Caveat Lector- Hugh Thompson, the helicopter pilot who stopped the My Lai massacre by turning his guns on Calley's soldiers, is sheduled to be on the TV show 60 Minutes on CBS tonight, 7pm PT (check your local schedule). Note that current Secretary of State Colin Powell helped to cover up the My Lai massacre. The wonderful Song for Hugh Thompson by David Rovics can be listened to and downloaded here: http://www.soundclick.com/pro/default.cfm?BandID=111310content=music http://www.soundclick.com/pro/default.cfm?BandID=111310content=lyricsSongID=763764 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] Israeli minister wants Arabs expelled
-Caveat Lector- http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FED27702-1D56-4699-8BC1-3415D354D3B6.htm Israeli minister wants Arabs expelled By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Sunday 09 May 2004, 20:28 Makka Time, 17:28 GMT Arab Israelis constitute one fifth of Israel's population An Israeli cabinet minister has called for the expulsion of some 1.3 million Palestinian citizens of Israel who constitute nearly one fifth of thestates population. Transportation Minister Avigdor Lieberman said during an interview with the Israeli army radio (Gali Tzahal) on Sunday that the "Arabs of Israel" should be expelled in case a Palestinian state was established and Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were dismantled. Lieberman, a former Moldovan immigrant who arrived in Israel in 1978, suggested that the existence of a large non-Jewish minority in Israel threatened the "Jewish identity" and "ethnic purity" of Israel. But his explicitly racist remarks raised no ire in the Israeli political establishment. Israeli officials, from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon downward, refused to condemn the remarks, suggesting a sympathy with Liebermans ideas. 'Free man' Amira Dotan, a spokeswoman for the Israeli foreign ministry, told Aljazeera.net that ethnic cleansing was not "the policy of the government". "I do not know what made him say these things. He is a free man; he has the right to express his views." When reminded that it was not the first time Lieberman made such racist statements, Dotan said even government ministers had the right to voice nonconformist views. Asked why such provocative statements go unchallenged in a country that claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East, Dotan evaded the subject, arguing that Sharon had promised to allocate additional funds for Israel's Arab sector. 'Fascism' Lieberman's remarks drew angry reactions from some of the leaders of Israel's Arab community.Arab Knesset member Ahmad Tibi called Lieberman a "full fledged fascist". Ariel Sharon has refused to condemn Liberman's comments "He is not the only fascist. The entire political atmosphere in Israel provides a most suitable environment for the growth and prosperity of fascism. This is why sickening statements as such go unchallenged." Tibi blamed the international community, especially the United States andEurope, for their "obscene double-standards toward Israeli fascism". "A few years ago, Europe moved swiftly to silence and isolate [Austrian nationalist leader Jorg] Haidar for his alleged anti-Jewish remarks. "Here in Israel we have government ministers who routinely make brazenly racist and fascist remarks about the Palestinians ... and the EU is saying nothing and doing nothing," he said. Growing trend On why Israeli civil society does not condemn such anti-democratic attitudes, Tibi said that a sizeable segment of the Israeli Jewish society had already drifted to jingoistic and religious fascism. "He is not the only fascist. The entire political atmosphere in Israel provides a most suitable environment for the growth and prosperity of fascism. This is why sickening statements as such go unchallenged" Ahmad Tibi, Arab Knesset member "Many Israeli Jews are already inured to Lieberman's way of thinking. I expect that these fascist trends will continue to grow." Tibi's views are corroborated by a number of peace-oriented Israelis. Yossi Sarid, a leader of the centre-Left Meretz Party, accused Lieberman of "emulating fascists in other lands and other times". "His (Lieberman's) remarks are reminiscent of other people and other lands which ultimately led to the annihilation of millions of Jews," said Sarid. Another Arab member of the Israeli parliament reminded the international community,"Arabs of Israel are probably the most persecuted minority in the world." "It is this fascist mentality that makes the Israeli government destroy our homes, confiscate our land and spray our fields with pesticides and then they unashamedly tell the world that they are the only democracy in the Middle East," said Talab al-Sanai. He described Lieberman's remarks as "the epitome[of]the iceberg of fascism in this country". "Lieberman came from Moldova in 1978 and he is telling the Palestinians who have been living her from antiquity that they don't have the right to be here. Can you think of a more brazen obscenity?" Notorious Lieberman's racism has been well known for many years. A few years ago, he called for the bombing of the Aswan Dam in Egypt, the Presidential palace in Damascus and Irans nuclear facilities. Shimon Peres had a run-in with Liberman over previouscomments He also called for executing Arab Knesset members Tibi and Muhammad Baraka by a firing squad for supporting Palestinian rights and calling for ending the Israeli occupation. In 2002, he urged the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to carry out "wholesale killings" of
Re: [CTRL] [JBirch] Where is this picture of the burned bodies of Americans in the media? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Where's the apoligies from the thugs who killed, burned, and desecrated the bodies of the four americans in IRAQ? I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 21:55:10 PDT From: carl william spitzer iv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBirch] Where is this picture of the burned bodies of Americans in the media? The apology is ment to counter the manupulation of public opinion. Only for that purpose is it necessary. If you have attended your local chapter meeting likely you will have seen the video which shows the manupulation of the rodney king tape to create public pressure. CWSIV From PPk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 04:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Most of the people involved have already been charged and stateside how. While I don't condone their actions, it was not torture and where is Kerry standing? He admitted torturing and killing innocents in Vietnam! Its a media circus trying to sell papers and NO apology need be given. Shirley Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thats what I want to know. and Who gave these prison pictures to the press and for what purpose? How We interogate our captives is not the publics business. After all they are trying to kill us. This is a war in case no one noticed. shirley The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/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
[CTRL] Greenspan Blows It
-Caveat Lector- That old Greenspan magic seems to be fading Fed chairman will have to tighten America's belt sooner rather than later Larry Elliott Monday May 10, 2004 The Guardian For the best part of 20 years, Alan Greenspan has been a symbol of the stupidity of ageism. He became chairman of the US Federal Reserve at 61, when plenty of workers have already been tossed on the scrapheap and many others are preparing to wind down for retirement. His golden years in charge of the US economy were when he was pushing 70 and he's still there aged 78. Greenspan is the doyen of central bankers, still talked about in almost reverential terms by his peers. The fact that the Fed chairman rarely gives interviews and makes public pronouncements that are to economics what Finnegan's Wake is to literature only adds to the mystique. It is, then, with some trepidation that the question has to be asked: has Big Al finally lost the plot? At the start of last week, Greenspan presided over a meeting of the Fed which kept interest rates on hold at 1%, the level they have been pegged at for nearly a year. A statement accompanying the decision said the risks to inflation were balanced, which means the Fed thinks there is as much chance of the cost of living going up as going down. On Thursday, new joblessness claims in the US fell to their lowest level in getting on for four years, and the picture of a recovering labour market was underlined by Friday's non-farm payrolls which showed an increase of 288,000, above what had been expected. The economy is expanding at an annual rate of 4.5%, surveys of both manufacturing and the service sector are strong, the housing market is booming, inflation has started to pick up. Hardly surprisingly, Greenspan's call on inflation is now coming under the microscope, even by those on the Keynesian left who tend to favour expansionary macroeconomic policies. Show me something, other than computers, where the price is falling, says Dean Baker of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in Washington. Baker is right. Clearly, risks to inflation are on the upside, and massively so. The economy has been injected with a cocktail of three growth-inducing drugs - negative real interest rates, a rising budget deficit and a falling currency. Oil prices have touched $40 a barrel and the labour market is tightening. It is hard to believe that Greenspan, a junkie for economic data no matter how seemingly trivial, has not spotted all this. Rates in the US are far below a neutral level, which would probably be around 5%, yet Greenspan is in no hurry to act. Waiting game Last Tuesday's Fed statement did suggest that, yes, perhaps there would come a time for a bit of gradual monetary tightening but not just yet. The Bank of England has raised interest rates three times since November in an attempt to ensure that it stays on top of events, but even after Friday's strong employment data there were those predicting that Greenspan would wait until August before tweaking interest rates rather than moving at the next meeting, in June. Greenspan's argument appears to be that he wants to be sure that the recovery from the relatively mild recession of 2001 is firmly entrenched, but the evidence could hardly be any more conclusive. The risk is that the Fed is now a long way behind the curve, with all the factors in place for another period of deep instability in prospect for the world's biggest economy. What then is Greenspan up to? There are really only three possible explanations. The first is that he believes that 1% interest rates are appropriate at a time when fiscal prudence has been thrown to the winds by George Bush's tax cuts and the extra spending needed for Iraq, when commodity prices are hardening across the globe and when the US consumer is taking advantage of cheap money to load up on debt. If that is the case, he really has lost it. The second explanation is that Greenspan believes the US economic recovery is much less robust than the public has been led to believe, and that withdrawing monetary stimulus could bring the house of cards down. This is not a message much heard in the US (where the predominant voice is that of Wall Street economists who have a vested interest is talking up the stock market) but it is true that Greenspan solved the problems caused by the collapse of the bubble in the stock market by creating two new bubbles - in the housing and bond markets. Economist Kurt Richebächer puts it this way: The stock market bubble of the 1920s ended with an unprecedented consumption boom, and just that has been happening again since 1997, and in particular since 2001. Since then, consumer spending has accounted for 92% of GDP growth. Yet, to keep it rising in the face of grossly lacking income growth, the Fed has invented a policy stance that has no precedent in history: boosting home prices with artificially
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Carlyle Empire
-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- --- Forwarded message follows --- Carlyle Empire By Eric Leser Le Monde http://truthout.org/docs_04/050904H.shtml Thursday, April 29, 2004 The biggest private investor in the world, deeply entrenched in the weapons' sector, is a discreet group that cultivates dealings with influential men, including Bush father and son. One year ago, May 1, 2003, George Bush, strapped up in a fighter pilot's suit, landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham-Lincoln along the coast of California. The image became famous. Under a banner proclaiming Mission Accomplished, the president prematurely announced the end of military operations in Iraq and his victory. Back on dry land the next day, he made another martial speech, not far from San Diego, in a United Defense Industries' weapons factory. This company is one of the Pentagon's main suppliers. It manufactures, among other things, missiles, transport vehicles, and the light Bradley armored vehicle. Its main shareholder is the biggest private investor in the world, a discreet group, called Carlyle. It's not listed on the stock market and doesn't have to show its accounts to any but its 550 investors- billionaires or pension funds. Carlyle manages eighteen billion dollars today, invested in defense and high tech (notably biotech), space, security-linked information technology, nanotechnologies, and telecommunications. The companies it controls share the characteristic that their main customers are governments and administrations. As the company wrote in its brochure: We invest in the opportunities created in industries strongly affected by changes in government policy. Carlyle is a unique model, assembled at the planetary level on the capitalism of relationships or capitalism of access to use the 1993 expression of the American magazine New Republic. Today, in spite of its denials, the group incarnates the military-industrial complex against which Republican President Dwight Eisenhower warned the American people when he left office in 1961. That didn't prevent George Bush senior from occupying a position as consultant to Carlyle for the ten years ending October 2003. It was the first time in United States' history that a former president worked for a Pentagon supplier. His son, George W. Bush, also knows Carlyle well. The group found him a job in February 1990, while his father occupied the White House: administrator for Caterair, a Texas company specialized in aerial catering. The episode does not figure in the president's official biography. When George W. Bush left Caterair in 1994, before becoming Governor of Texas, the company was in bad shape. It's not possible to get closer to the administration than Carlyle is, asserts Charles Lewis, Director of the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan organization in Washington. George Bush senior earned money from private interests that worked for the government of which his son was president. You could even say that the president could one day profit financially, through his father's investments, from the political decisions he himself took, he adds. The collection of influential characters who now work, have worked, or have invested in the group would make the most convinced conspiracy theorists incredulous. They include among others, John Major, former British Prime Minister; Fidel Ramos, former Philippines President; Park Tae Joon, former South Korean Prime Minister; Saudi Prince Al-Walid; Colin Powell, the present Secretary of State; James Baker III, former Secretary of State; Caspar Weinberger, former Defense Secretary; Richard Darman, former White House Budget Director; the billionaire George Soros, and even some bin Laden family members. You can add Alice Albright, daughter of Madeleine Albright, former
[CTRL] Fwd: [narconews] Contreras: The Zapatistas Reject the War on Drugs
-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- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM -~- May 10, 2004 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleague, Narco News South American Bureau Chief Alex Contreras Baspineiro files two more reports from the low intensity war zone of Chiapas, Mexico. Contreras tracks recent (failed) efforts by some Mexican officials to (again) link the base communities of the Zapatista indigenous movement to narco-trafficking... Efforts that, for the past ten years, including recently, have blown up in those officials' faces as the facts came out that showed it was Mexican army and police agencies, in each case, who were involved in the drug trade and not the rebels. Contreras speaks to the Minister of Justice for the Zapatista community of La Realidad, who explains to Narco News how his and other towns decided, democratically, to abstain from drug and alcohol consumption, yet without participating in or cooperating with the government's war on drugs. 'Before, many indigenous families had problems as a result of alcohol consumption, and that is not good,' said Brian, minister of justice for this towns Good Government Council. 'Also, we live in a permanent state of war, and alcohol can make you talk too much. That is not good either.' Banning alcohol and drug consumption was not imposed on the Zapatista territories; rather, doing so was a collective decision. Zapatista revolutionary laws are passed in assemblies of men and women, youths and elderly, who do not impose nor obey the laws of the federal government... Contreras reports how the local drug policy from below works more effectively than top-down imposed policies in part because the Zapatistas do not use prison as a punishment for those who violate the local laws: The punishments, they told us, can include cutting enough wood every day to fill a truck, clearing paths with machetes, or building latrines. It all depends on the on the needs and decisions of the community. There are no jails or corporal punishments in the Zapatista justice system. Rather, there are moral sanctions that the community agrees upon together... http://www.narconews.com/ In a separate article, Contreras offers an in-depth report on the mysterious silence maintained by the Zapatista rebels to the Commercial Media and the the Mexican government, while at the same time advancing the development of their own radio and other communications systems between the base communities within the movement. Once again, their silence speaks, and it speaks through Narco News, on the themes of drug policy and that of Authentic Media replacing Commercial Media. Chiapas continues to be a cutting-edge laboratory for both. Finally, we're just a week away from the announcement of this year's Narco News School of Authentic Journalism scholarship winners at the gala benefit dinner and cabaret, Sunday May 16th, at Orchid Restaurant in Los Angeles, California. Reserve your seats now! For more information on the event, the entertainers, and how to participate, see... http://www.authenticjournalism.org/ From somewhere in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher, Narco News President, The School of Authentic Journalism http://www.narconews.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Narco News is supported by: The Fund for Authentic Journalism P.O. Box 71051 Madison Heights, MI 48071 USA http://www.authenticjournalism.org The Fund receives online donations at this web page: http://www.authenticjournalism.org Apply for your co-publisher's account, here: http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.php Subscribe for free alerts of new reports:
[CTRL] Fwd: Inside Bechtel's spin machine
-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- Inside Bechtel's spin machine How the controversial construction giant manipulates media By A.C. Thompson May 5, 2004, San Francisco Bay Guardian http://www.sfbg.com/38/32/news_bechtel.html The Bechtel Group, the massive San Francisco-based construction and engineering firm, has played a leading role in some of the most controversial construction projects in modern history: California's San Onofre nuclear reactor, Boston's budget-busting Big Dig, the failed attempt to rebuild and privatize Bolivia's water system, the ongoing corporate takeover of London's subway system - and now a large chunk of the reconstruction job in Iraq. The bad public relations from just one these projects could sink a lesser firm, but somehow the well-connected, privately held corporation always seems to emerge unscathed and ready to score more big-ticket public works jobs. So how does Bechtel do it? Though any corporation of Bechtel's size - it boasted $16.3 billion in revenue for 2003 - works hard to control spin, Bechtel seems to have taken the concept of media manipulation to new heights. Judging from a raft of high-level internal memos and e-mails obtained by public interest group CorpWatch, it seems Bechtel has a three-point P.R. strategy: trashing journalists who report critically on the company, spinning financial institutions who lend the company money, and bending the truth. The documents, which include several e-mails to and from chief executive officer Riley P. Bechtel, are fascinating because they offer rare insight into the mind-set of one of the most secretive corporations in the United States, one that has been handed more than $1 billion by the federal government to rebuild Iraq's pulverized infrastructure. We get critical stuff written about us all the time, Bechtel spokesperson Jonathan Marshall told us. We try to be responsive so people can hear our side and judge for themselves. One story Bechtel wishes never saw the light of day is a 4,700-word exposé on its disastrous dot-com and energy ventures that ran last month in Business 2.0, a glossy, San Francisco-based magazine. The reporters behind the story, Ralph King and Charlie McCoy, came into some amazing information, gleaned from Bechtel insiders worried about the financial state of the company, which had lost some $300 million on bad investments and taken on a staggering debt load of $500 million. Things were so grim, King and McCoy learned, that in early 2003 top execs were asked to pony up $50 million in personal funds to keep the firm afloat. When King first contacted Bechtel about the money crunch late last year, company spinmeisters promptly ran a background check on him, pulling together a bunch of his stories. King is a former banking reporter for the Wall Street Journal, wrote Jock Covey, director of corporate and external affairs, in a November 2003 memo to Riley Bechtel and other execs, adding, King does not have a record as a muckraker. In interviews the company sought to give a more balanced perspective but offered little substantive information about its finances because doing so would require an unprecedented surrender of privacy, according to the memo. Bechtel also tried to craft a response that would convince the reporters to drop their investigation. When that didn't work, Covey decided to put out a canned statement claiming Bechtel was doing fine financially. It will help persuade many if not all journalists that Bechtel is doing no worse, and possibly better, than other major industry players - thereby reducing the incentive to invest time and resources in following up the Business 2.0 story, he theorized in a memo. While downplaying the charges to outsiders, Bechtel was actually reeling from the journalistic probe. The company, internal e-mails indicate, ran an
[CTRL] Wal-Mart's House Brand of Clothing
-Caveat Lector- Wal-Mart's House Brand of Clothing Do you know what Wal-Mart's house brand of clothing is called? Answer: Faded Glory Faded Glory? I wonder if they're intentionally screwing America by sending jobs overseas to China. Talk about America's faded glory. -- Sayonaramaste Damon Richter 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
