Re: [CTRL] It's Armageddon Time! Bush His Loyal Xian Fundamentalists Want Y...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 5/23/2004 11:47:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During the 2000 presidential campaign George Bush stated, I feel that God wants me to run for President. I cant explain it; I know it wont be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it. Just possible that wasn't God who was nudging him along. Satan is really clever. Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] MRC Alert Special: Hyping Liberal Radio's Rise, But Not Its Fall (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. Remember:More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than have died in United States Commercial Nuclear Power plant operations visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 14:25:07 -0700 From: Media Research Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Alert Special: Hyping Liberal Radio's Rise, But Not Its Fall ***Media Research Center CyberAlert Special*** 5:25pm EDT, Thursday May 20, 2004 Media Reality Check. Hyping Liberal Radio's Rise, But Not Its Fall: National Media Outlets Piled Publicity on Air America's Launch, But Have Gone Silent On Its Struggles Below is the text of a Media Reality Check, by the MRC's Director of Media Analysis, Tim Graham, which was distributed by fax earlier today. For the Adobe Acrobat PDF version: http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2004/pdf/fax0520.pdf Now, the text of the May 20 Media Reality Check: After barrels of ink and hours of breathless TV promotion, the Air America radio network has gone from its media boost to a quick bust. After just two weeks, the six-station network went off the air in Chicago and Los Angeles on April 14. By April 27, CEO Mark Walsh had left. On May 7, co-founder Evan Cohen signed off. On May 10, the network disbanded its Chicago and Los Angeles sales offices, laying off 15 to 20 people. Then, on May 14, the Chicago Tribune revealed that one inside source said Chicago staffers were never enrolled in a health insurance plan, though Air America promised coverage and deducted health insurance premiums from their paychecks. Would that spur a juicy liberal-hypocrisy story in the middle of what big- government lobbies touted as Cover The Uninsured Week (May 10-14)? No. A quick review of the media coverage shows a very biased pattern of boosterism followed by radio silence: ABC promoted the launch with two stories from reporter Jake Tapper on the March 11 Good Morning America and the March 28 World News Tonight. Peter Jennings noted the network's debut in an anchor brief on March 31, and Ted Koppel devoted an entire Nightline program to Air America on April 1. (Koppel didn't even devote an entire Nightline to the murder of Nicholas Berg.) Network coverage of Air America's troubles? Zero. NBC highlighted the launch with a March 31 Today interview, and a Nightly News story from reporter Carl Quintanilla that night. Network coverage since? Zero. NPR promoted the network on the March 30 All Things Considered, and a March 31 interview on their afternoon talk show Talk of the Nation. On the April 9 ATC, radio expert Michael Harrison panned the network's slate of programming. But later coverage? Zero. CNN aired Air America stories in heavy rotation on the weekend before the network debut (March 27 and 28), as well as stories across the prime-time lineup on March 31. Coverage since then? CNN has briefly noted the bad news on its media show Reliable Sources and in a few, scattered anchor briefs. Newsweek highlighted the debut in a big three-page spread. Newsweek.com also featured an April 12 Al Franken interview with tough questions like Why are Democrats such wimps? Why don't they fight back? Coverage since then? Zero. The New York Times filed a number of prominent stories, including a front-page story on the network's first day on April 1, and a long cover story in the March 21 New York Times Magazine. Coverage of the network's troubles? The Walsh departure made the business section on page C-6, but the Evan Cohen resignation wasn't noticed. The Washington Post published a front-page article by Howard Kurtz on April 1, following an even larger Kurtz profile on the front of the Sunday Style section on March 21. Coverage since then? Walsh's departure was also on the front page of Style on April 28. Cohen's resignation was a paragraph buried in the business section on page E-2. These ongoing struggles may not seem like big breaking news. But by that standard, neither was the dinky network's launch, either. What the national media promoted as the roar of a new liberal lion turned out to be the quiet whimper of a sickly kitten. END Reprint of Media Reality Check -- Brent Baker Support the MRC, an educational foundation dependent upon contributions which make CyberAlert possible, by providing a tax- deductible donation. To safely and securely donate via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/[EMAIL PROTECTED] item_name=Media+Research+Centeritem_number=Media+Research+Center no_note=1tax=0currency_code=USD Or, if you can't get the lengthy link into
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Bush Buddies Get $155 Million Worth of Federal Land for $875
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 5/24/04 7:37:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bush turned over a swathe of prime Colorado mountaintop property to the firm of Dodge Phelps An ol' SB connected company. Om K To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 2">---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Bush Buddies Get $155 Million Worth of Federal Land for $875 Sure, why not?In April, Bush quietly gave a mining conglomerate larded with his top contributors a little gift: $155 million worth of federal land, the Denver Post reports. Invoking an obscure 1872 law designed to help frontier prospectors gain title to their small mining claims, Bush turned over a swathe of prime Colorado mountaintop property to the firm of Dodge Phelps, whose board is packed with oil men, military contractors and official Bush "Pioneers": corporate fat cats who've strongarmed at least $100,000 from their friends -- and employees -- for Bush campaign coffers.Because the never-updated 1872 law requires that federal mining land be sold for $5 per acre, Bush's bagmen only had to pony up $875 for the whole spread -- in an area where land is worth a staggering $1 million per acre. The idea is to build an elite ski playground on the looted public property -- even though the law requires that such land sales be used for actual mining. === Friday, May 21, 2004. Page 116. Global Eye By Chris Floyd Matters of great moment are suddenly in the air all around us: stark evidence of war crimes by the leaders of the West; the growing certainty of a humiliating geopolitical defeat inflicted on the world's greatest power; terrorism and torture as the mirrored emblems of the age, a deadly double helix giving rise to a hideous global reality. It's tempting in such times to inflate the image of those in the forefront of events, painting them, for good or ill, in the colors of legend: bold, outsize figures, Great Ones playing dice with nations, characters whose roiling depths -- tragic, evil or heroic -- transcend the puny limits of the common herd. Although on rare occasions this viewpoint might holld true, the squalid history of our ill-cobbled species provides endless examples to the contrary. And they don't come any more squalid than the crew now steering the American boat straight into the shoals of disaster. For despite all the grandiose political rhetoric and world-historical perturbations emanating from the Bush Regime's imperial project, we should never lose sight of one simple fact: Deep down, these guys are nothing but cheap hoods, two-bit chiselers hustling for loot, thug-brained goons with no more grandeur about them than the meanest pack of Mafia knee-breakers. For them, statecraft is just a crowbar for bashing heads and jimmying open lockboxes. Two recent stories, both obscured by the blood and thunder of the Iraqi crack-up, illustrate this ugly truth. Throughout the spring, as hundreds died in the spiraling conflict, as Regime bosses applied their hardcore "anti-terrorist" tortures to innocent bystanders raked up in their occupation nets, as Regime mouthpieces prated endlessly of "liberation" and "sovereignty," Bush viceroy Paul Bremer was quietly signing a series of edicts that will give the United States effective control over the military, ministries -- and money -- of any Iraqi government, for years to come, The Wall Street Journal reports. Bremer has placed U.S.-appointed "commissions" made up of Americans and local puppets throughout Iraqi government agencies; the ministers supposedly in charge weren't even told of the edicts. These boards "will serve multiyear terms and have significant authority to run criminal investigations, award contracts, direct troops and subpoena citizens," the Journal reports. Any new Iraqi government "will have little control over its armed forces, lack the ability to make or change laws and be unable to make major decisions within specific ministries without tacit U.S. approval, say U.S. officials." Earlier Bremer edicts laid the Iraqi economy wide open to ruthless exploitation by Bush-approved foreign "investors"; dominance of such key sectors as banking, communications -- and energy -- is already well advanced. The latest dictates aim to ensure that this organized looting goes on, no matter whhat kind of makeshift "interim government" the United Nations manage to piece together. Bush's plans to build a Saddamite fortress embassy in Baghdad and 14 permanent military bases around the country are designed to provide the knee-breaking "security" for these lucrative arrangements. Each passing day of scandal and carnage makes this sweet dream seem ever more unlikely, of course. But not to worry; Bush always has another country to loot -- his own. The second ignored story tells of domestic corruption small in scale, but large in revelatory power. In April, Bush quietly gave a mining conglomerate larded with his top
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Nothing New: Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11
-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- Nothing New: Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 Don't get me wrong... I'm going to watch the movie, but anyone advocating Democrats as the solution, this late in the game, is part of the problem. Moore is a limousine liberal! What else do you need to know!?I will probably agree with much of what the film depicts. In fact, I've been reporting that stuff and much more for nearly two years on Cryptogon. I have a problem, though, with anyone who speaks MOSTLY the truth then says, "Vote for Kerry." This concerns me deeply. If you have figured this thing out to the point Moore (and anyone who's willing to take a look at the situation) has, you know damn well that Democrats are part of the problem. THEY ARE IN ON ALL OF IT TOGETHER WITH THE REPUBLICANS. Limousine liberals want the same totalitarian government/corporate system that Bush wants.Alex Jones nailed all of this to the wall in documentary format two years ago. It's even admitted in the New York Post. If Michael Moore wasn't an egomaniac, with the same old Left Right agenda, he would have simply worked out some agreement with Alex Jones and transferred, "9/11: The Road to Tyranny" to 35mm film and released that to theaters:MICHAEL Moore's anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11" isn't even original. Two years ago, "9/11: The Road to Tyranny," a real documentary by Alex Jones, had most of the "facts" Moore uses in his scatter-shot diatribe. Jones, who is less interested in making money than the self-aggrandizing Moore, released his film for free on his Web site www.infowars.com, where it drew legions of new fans, including producer Curt Johnson, who is hiring Jones as a consultant on a political action thriller titled "Wake Up." http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/alex/page_6.htm http://www.cryptogon.com/2004_05_23_blogarchive.html#108539072217237267 Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. Please let us stay on topic and be civil.-Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 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 ---End Message---
Re: [CTRL] [THE-DIALECTIC-OF-THE-DIALECTIC] Verbot to teach Universal Human Rights (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:18:17 +0200 (CEST) From: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [THE-DIALECTIC-OF-THE-DIALECTIC] Verbot to teach Universal Human Rights (fwd) If you use the BC Tel VRT-Customer Service as example, it is not so difficult to understand how this can be the model for a natural language program (NLP) with superhuman AI. Anybody want to have a go at spelling it out? Mind you it would take a lot of juice to make the Verbot reply fast enough. The Japanese Weather Computer might be able to do it. But imagine what it means ... You start talking to R4P on UDHR. Each verbal input from the global citizen is fed into a big table of verbal norms. Then the norms take you to a communication node of R4P. Then you branch again and go back to a node. In due course you can go into any of thousands of subjects for MIT's OCW or someone else's curriculum of global knowledge and teaching. You talk to roboprofessor in plain English or a 'higher' level of English if you are in higher level courses. And you get the correct answer ... every time. So that's smarter than any human genius on this planet. What human genius is expert and almost infallible in thousands of subjects? Do-able NOW I figure. Ergo SHAI-NOW. Of course the great MIT boondoggle will try to slow it all down. Z On Mon, 24 May 2004, judith jennings wrote: O.K or a little sweetness and light. The robo speak must also apply for citizenship. Bye J.J. Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 18:53:06 +0200 (CEST) From: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Verbot to teach Universal Human Rights Law-speak stays close to facts and logic and is therefore a good start on Robo-speak. If you contact BC Tel customer service by telephone, you get a voice recognition program which engages you in free style conversation and recognizes key words and phrases to take the next branch in the program. Isn't that a model for future NLP in general? Thus we could turn the web page below into the start on a Verbot to teach UDHR-related laws, rules, regulations to the Global Village. Then expanding it would lead to a generalized NLP with super-human AI. This could proceed by having either a telephone verbot like BC Tel has or a text verbot online with the capability of taking all responses from humans interacting and automatically feeding them back to a program which would develop norms for verbot speech. In other words, the human users would correct and teach the verbot through ongoing interaction with the machine. The tables of norms would become huge. At some point it might require a machine as powerful as the Japanese weather computer to respond in good time but that is likely forthcoming. Perhaps ca. 2050 we can have R4P as President of this planet. Z On Sat, 22 May 2004, Party of Citizens wrote: Please read the new index page of the web site. The entire presentation follows the rules of UNHCHR which is a quasi-judicial body. The few slips from law-speak to politics-speak in the present draft will be ironed out before it is finally submitted to them. In other words, this is something which could be presented through a lawyer or other ver-bot in any courtroom. FACTS, LOGIC, EVIDENCE in accordance with de jure definitions. Any lawyers out there who want to correct the submission below are welcome to do so. POC CITIZENS' COMPLAINT TO UNHCHR against GOVERNMENTS of CANADA, BC, VANCOUVER for TORTURE, FORCED LABOUR, DISCONTINUING NECESSARIES OF LIFE: * http://www.geocities.com/universalhumanrightscanada ** On Fri, 21 May 2004, Linda J. wrote: POC, the right to the essentials is a moral right many in society believe in (at least in this country but not all countries), but this moral right is not a legal right. You have to look at the way legislation was written to determine the legal issue. Have you gone back to when welfare was first written into our legislation? If not you need to. If you have, then what was the intent of the legislation at the time, and if it has changed, what is it now? Moral and legal issues do not always go hand in hand, nor should they in all cases. Keep in mind, with the Canadian zeal for politically correct, there are MANY moral issues going by the wayside. And I'm not saying that's a good thing (losing morals for the sake of politically correct), I'm just saying the way it is, since you have to recognize that before you can create change. Brings to mind my own school days and having it drummed into us the five w's: who, what, where, when, and why. Those are still very valid with anything we look at if we seek to change or question anything. Linda POC wrote: Either the weakest
[CTRL] The Chalabi Follies - The neocons' man in Iraq goes down - what does it all mean
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/justin/ The Chalabi Follies The neocons' man in Iraq goes down - what does it all mean? by Justin Raimondo Ahmed Chalabi wrote his doctoral dissertation on the intricacies of Knot Theory - and surely he has tied his neoconservative patrons in a knot of Gordian proportions as they take up the cudgels in his defense. "You can piss on Chalabi," said George W. Bush to Jordan's King Abdullah, after learning that the neocons' man in Baghdad was sending intelligence gleaned from American sources to his patrons and friends in Tehran, and suddenly the erstwhile "liberator" was metaphorically showered with bad luck: not only cut off from his U.S. government stipend, but also on the receiving end of some "liberation" himself. Although the raid on Chalabi's home, and the headquarters of his Iraqi National Congress, was supposed to have been carried out by Iraqi police, a number of sources place Americans at the scene, kicking the door in and wrecking the place. Chalabi's neoconservative defenders now find themselves in the unfamiliar position of denouncing the U.S. "dictatorship," as Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign policy and defense issues at the American Enterprise Institute, whined: "I think the Coalition Provisional Authority has lost its grip on reality. The CPA has spent too much time in Saddam's palace, and they've caught a whiff of dictatorship. There were no charges against him - and they smashed up his house. Can you imagine if we did that to a member of Congress here? That's what he is." Chalabi, of course, has been elected by no one except the neocons. As P. Mitchell Prothero points out in the Washington Times, "in the fledgling opinion polls of the new Iraq, Chalabi always polls lower in popularity than Saddam." But that is quite enough for Ms. Pletka and her coterie of laptop bombardiers, who now have a martyr to the somewhat quixotic cause of Iraqi "democracy." True, there are no charges against Chalabi - yet. But the charges against over a dozen of his associates, including Aras Karim Habib, the 47-year-old Shia Kurd who heads the INC's "intelligence service" - including theft of government property, extortion, bribery, and kidnapping - are bound to implicate their leader, who has always ruled the INC with the same iron hand he would dearly like to take the reins of power in Iraq. Michael Rubin, also of AEI - formerly with the Office of Special Plans and fresh from Iraq, where he was a "political advisor" - is even more emphatic in his condemnation of those damned Yankee imperialists, deploring the "gratuitous violence" of the raid. He even does a pretty good Seymour Hersh imitation: "Bremer has not learned, neither has the CIA, that humiliation of Iraqis backfires. We're fumbling big time." As a mimic, Rubin's skills are considerable. But logic is not his strong point. Abu Ghraib, according to Rubin, may have been a public relations "disaster," but, far from being a systemic problem, isn't really that big a deal: "Professors and pundits may say that the sky has fallen, but Iraqis have a broader perspective. They may forgive the actions of a few soldiers." Ah, but a similar - if far less violent and degrading - assault on the neocons' man in Iraq: now that is truly unforgivable. Why, they even helped themselves to the contents of Chalabi's well-stocked refrigerator! Clifford May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, militantly neocon in outlook, finds Chalabi's sudden fall from grace "confusing and disturbing." Is this any way to treat a convicted embezzler and known liar, who fed us phony "intelligence" about Iraqi WMD in the run-up to war - including outright forgeries - and bilked the American taxpayers out of who knows how many millions over the years? May is plenty mad about it: "On the face of it, the way he was treated strikes me as less than respectful for someone who spent many years working for the liberation of his country, and while I'm sure he is no Mother Teresa, very few people in that neighborhood are. If people in the Middle East see us treating our friends and allies this way, they may conclude they're better off being our enemy." We haven't seen this kind of "anti-American" rhetoric since Michael Moore last opened his mouth. Close your eyes and you can almost imagine you're listening to Noam Chomsky. Or, to go back a bit further, we might almost be hearing the standard leftist defense of Ho Chi Minh, who really was no Mother Teresa, but, then again, very few people in that neighborhood are. "Uncle Ho," as they used to call him, spent many years working for the "liberation" of his country: he, too, received aid from his foreign sponsors. Chalabi's American fans are as unthinking in their adulation as the "New" Leftists of the 1960s were about various Third World "revolutionary" despots, including Fidel Castro, Ben Bella of Algeria, and even the monstrous Kim Il Sung. The next thing you
[CTRL] Civil war looming in the GOP?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38619 Civil war looming in the GOP? Patrick J. Buchanan Posted: May 24, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern 2004Creators Syndicate, Inc. Were John Kerry a little less of an establishmentarian and more of a populist, George Bush would be in deeper trouble than he already is. The battleground states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia have been hemorrhaging industrial jobs. All four are fertile soil for populist plowing on the issue of the outsourcing of America by the global companies that underwrite the Davos Republicans. Unfortunately for Democrats, Kerry, too, is a NAFTA-GATT globalist. Now, it appears several "red states" in the Southwest could be in play if Kerry would take a tough stand against the Bush amnesty plan for illegal aliens. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Kerry is also ally-ally-in-free on illegal immigration. How hot is the amnesty issue? In Arizona, Republican Reps. Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe are facing primary challenges powered by the amnesty-for-illegals issue. Kolbe represents the district south of Tucson, which is a main invasion route of the armies of the night that are altering the character of our country. Kolbe has smiled benignly on that invasion for years. In Utah, Rep. Chris Cannon was denied renomination by a GOP convention for supporting amnesty and has been forced into a June 22 primary against former state Sen. Matt Throckmorton. In his campaign to win renomination at the convention, Cannon reportedly outspent his challenger 18-to-one. Throckmorton is pounding Cannon on his support for amnesty and obstruction of every proposal to get immigration under control. Writes Joe Guzzardi of VDare.com, the premier website on the immigration question, "Cannon has either voted for or co-sponsored nine bills since 2001 that are de facto amnesties." Throckmorton's campaign has now attracted Big Media and backing from patriot groups demanding that the feds start defending our borders as well as we do Korea's and Kuwait's, and enforcing our immigration laws rather than figuring out ways to get around them to pander to the Hispanic vote. Cannon is so far out, he won the Excellence in Leadership Award from the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund a Ford Foundation-funded Latino group. In his acceptance speech for the MALDEF prize, Cannon did an excellent imitation of Vicente Fox: We love immigrants in Utah. And we don't make the distinction very often between legal and illegal. In fact, I think Utah was the first state in the country to legislate the ability to get a driver's license based on the matricula consular, and of that I am proud. The matricula consular is an ID card handed out by Mexican authorities to aid illegal immigrants. Unfortunately for MALDEF's man in Washington, Republicans in Utah do make a distinction between legal and illegal immigration. But because politicians like Cannon do not, America is host to between 8 million and 14 million illegal aliens, with millions more heading for our border to take advantage of Bush's proposed amnesty. In the aftermath of 9-11, Bush stood at 90 percent approval. His hold on his party blanketed rising opposition among the rank-and-file to his policies. Now, with Iraq reaching quagmire status and Bush's approval falling to where it is possible he does not survive November, long-suppressed dissent has begun to break through. We may be at the beginning of another Goldwater moment in the Grand Old Party, like 1960, when the grassroots began to rumble and rise in rebellion, and reject Eisenhower Republicanism while still liking Ike. What are the issues that can sunder the party in a Bush second term or in a post-Bush era? Immigration is the most explosive, as is seen in the stunning recoil to Bush's amnesty early this year and the hasty abandonment of the plan by the White House. A crunch is coming as Bush, Rove and the moderate Republicans are still determined to push ahead with amnesty, to compete with Democrats for the growing Hispanic vote. This could tear the party apart nationally, as it has already begun to do in Arizona and Utah. A second issue cluster revolves around NAFTA-GATT trade deals, demands by the World Trade Organization that America change its laws to conform to WTO rules, a merchandise trade deficit nearing $600 billion and the 2.7 million manufacturing jobs that have disappeared under Bush. A third issue is Big Government Conservatism, in the phrase of the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes. Under Bush, domestic social spending has exploded unlike in any period since LBJ's Great Society and the Clinton surpluses have vanished into Bush deficits all the way to the horizon. Fourth, with endless wars looming in Iraq and Afghanistan, the neo-imperialism of the neoconservatives who beat the war drums for the invasion will be on the table next year. If Bush does not win in a sweep and silence critics by his domination of the
[CTRL] The Great Foreign Aid Swindle
-Caveat Lector- http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2004/tst052404.htm The Great Foreign Aid Swindle Rep. Ron Paul Yet another ill-conceived foreign aid swindle has become law in the form of the Millennium Challenge Act, a disgraceful bill that sends billions of American tax dollars overseas even as our national debt explodes. The Act combines the worst aspects of bad domestic policy and bad foreign policy, by wasting $2.5 billion taxpayer dollars in 2005 alone while meddling in the affairs of foreign nations. Arrogant is the only word to describe a Congress that cares so little about its own taxpaying citizens while pretending to know what is best for the world. The very name- Millennium Challenge Act- is highly insulting. It sounds like a PBS fundraising slogan or car company sales pitch. Its like calling an old used car a classic or an antique. Foreign aid welfare is still foreign aid welfare, no matter what jingoistic name is applied. There is nothing new or noble about it. The Millennium Challenge Act is just another shabby federal program that takes your money and gives it to somebody else. Foreign aid doesnt help poor people; it helps foreign elites and US corporations who obtain the contracts doled out by those foreign elites. Everyone in Washington knows this, but the same lofty rhetoric is used over and over to sell foreign aid programs to a gullible public. During a hearing about the new Act last week, I asked one of the witnesses how much of the $2.5 billion would actually go to US corporations. He enthusiastically answered that much of it would, making no attempt to downplay the corporate interests promoting expansion of our foreign aid programs. Naked corporate welfare is bad enough, but corporate welfare in the guise of helping poor foreigners is indecent. In many cases, foreign aid money simply distorts foreign economies and props up bad governments. In countries that pursue harmful economic policies, an infusion of US cash only exacerbates and prolongs problems. No amount of money can help nations that reject property rights, free markets, and the rule of law. In developing countries that pursue sound economic policies, foreign aid money is not needed- the international financial markets will provide the investment capital necessary for economic growth. This capital will be invested according to sound investment strategies - designed to make a profit - rather than allocated according to the whims of government bureaucrats. Foreign aid encourages socialism and statism. Because it is entirely geared toward foreign governments, it mandates economically devastating public-private partnerships in developing nations. If the private sector wants to see any of the money, it must be in partnership with government. Who knows how much of this money is wasted on those companies with the best political connections to the foreign governments in power? Foreign aid invites political corruption by creating a slush fund under the control of foreign governments. The wisest approach to international economic development is for the United States to lead by example, by revitalizing the economic policies that led us to become wealthy in the first place. This means less government, less taxation, and no foreign meddling. The greatest gift we can send overseas is a demonstration of the freedom and prosperity possible only with limited government and the rule of law. Americans are the most charitable people on earth. Those who wish to help fight AIDS, famine, and poverty overseas can choose from hundreds of private charities. Americans dont need a politician or rock star to tell them what causes are important. Most of all, they dont need to be forced to pay for foreign welfare at the barrel of a government gun. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] An Abu Ghraib Pic We Haven't Seen Yet
-Caveat Lector- http://www.counterpunch.com/abughraib05242004.html An Abut Ghraib Photo We Didn't See on the Front Page of the NYTs www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Stephen Cambone - Rumsfeld's Henchman
-Caveat Lector- http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FE25Aa02.html Stephen Cambone: Rumsfeld's henchman Stephen Cambone, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's right-hand man and under secretary of defense for Intelligence, was for the first time caught in the glare of media attention as part of the congressional inquiry into Iraq prison abuses at Abu Ghraib. [1] Under sharp questioning by a few senators on May 11, Cambone vigorously defended both Rumsfeld and Douglas Feith, under secretary of defense for policy. Cambone's attempt to split hairs on whether the Geneva Conventions were applicable to intelligence gathering in Iraq and his awkward defense of the role of military intelligence in interrogations put him at odds with the US Army general who first investigated abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. As the first-ever under secretary of defense for intelligence, Cambone will likely come under increased fire as the prison scandal unfolds. Some of the most intense questioning of Cambone centered on whether the Geneva Conventions were "precisely" respected. What "precisely" Cambone knew and when he knew it, and what precisely was the role of military intelligence will be questions that Cambone will be required to answer. Cambone, who as director of strategic defense policy during the first Bush administration under defense secretary Dick Cheney had been a prominent promoter of missile defense systems, served as the staff director of the two congressional commissions - one on missile defense and another on space weapons - chaired by Donald Rumsfeld in the late 1990s. The two Rumsfeld commissions focused on the issues at the top of the list for the national-security militarists and the large military contractors: the ballistic-missile threat to the United States and US space-based defense capabilities. In the tradition of Team B, the unstated agenda of these commissions was to turn up pressure on the administration to support new weapons programs and substantially increase major military spending. [2] Both commissions received funding from defense-spending bills - in effect using taxpayers' revenues to subsidize them. But perusing the backgrounds and connections of the individuals charged with overseeing the commissions, Rumsfeld and his right-hand man Cambone, most observers at the time believed that the conclusions were preordained. After Rumsfeld was named defense secretary, he made Cambone his special assistant in January 2001. Then, in March 2003, Cambone was appointed the first-ever under secretary for intelligence - a position that "will allow the Defense Department to consolidate its intelligence programs in a way that could undermine CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] head George Tenet's role", one defense analyst noted. [3] Well known and much despised by both military and civilian officials in the Pentagon prior to joining the second Bush administration, Cambone, serving as Rumsfeld's henchman and intelligence chief, soon began creating a new enemies list in the CIA and State Department. While Cambone was directing the two Rumsfeld commissions, he also participated in two national-security strategy and military-transformation commissions sponsored by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP). The institute's 2001 report, "Rationale and Requirements for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control", and the PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" were blueprints for Rumsfeld's promised "revolution in military affairs". Several other PNAC associates, in addition to Rumsfeld himself, also served on the Rumsfeld commissions, including Paul Wolfowitz, Malcolm Wallop, William Schneider, and James Woolsey. Both the NIPP and PNAC studies seem to have served as blueprints for the defense policies initiated by the current administration of George W Bush with respect to nuclear policy, national security strategy and military transformation. [4, 5] Despite - and perhaps because of - his close relationship to the defense secretary, Cambone is apparently widely disliked in the Pentagon. Tom Donnelly, PNAC military analyst and lead author of "Rebuilding America's Defenses", wrote in the Weekly Standard that "fairly or not, Cambone has long been viewed as Rumsfeld's henchman, almost universally loathed - but more important, feared - by the services". [6] The Washington Monthly reported in late 2001: "It would be hard to exaggerate how much Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his top aide Stephen Cambone were hated within the Pentagon prior to September 11. Among other mistakes, Rumsfeld and Cambone foolishly excluded top civilian and military leaders when planning an overhaul of the military to meet new threats, thereby ensuring even greater bureaucratic resistance. According to the Washington Post, an army general joked to a [Capitol] Hill staffer that 'if he had one round left in his revolver, he would take out Steve Cambone'. Cambone's reputation
[CTRL] William's GOP.com Weekly Trunk (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. Remember:More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than have died in United States Commercial Nuclear Power plant operations 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: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:20:46 -0400 From: GOP.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: William's GOP.com Weekly Trunk THE WEEKLY TRUNK - GOP.COM William, vote in our online poll! (http://www.gop.com/#Poll) A day after their first meeting of the campaign, Ralph Nader and advisers to Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) were in a disagreement over whether Iraq had figured into the 70-minute conversation between the candidates according to the Washington Post. Ralph Nader Says: I said you need to give the public an exit strategy, Nader said. Bush doesn't have an exit strategy. He [Kerry] said I have an exit strategy and I'll be talking about it more. Kerry Campaign Says: Kerry adviser Steve Elmendorf, who sat in on the meeting, said he had no recollection of Nader talking about Iraq and said he had double-checked with campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill and she did not remember it being discussed. Who do you think is telling the truth about the meeting between Ralph Nader and John Kerry? Vote now on GOP.com! (http://www.gop.com/#Poll) Also, a new section was launched on GOP.com this week -- Kerry Corner. (http://www.gop.com/kerrycorner) Here you can find everything about Sen. Kerry's record on issues from the economy to national security to education, what Democrats are saying about Kerry, what Kerry is saying about Kerry, Kerry ad watches, Kerry web videos and more! Check back often for updates. Special Features * Web Video: What Does John Kerry Have In Common With The Cicadas? http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=4192 * MTV/RNC Youth Essay Contest http://www.2004nycgop.org/essaycontest/ * John Kerry: Tax Invaders http://www.gop.com/taxinvaders/default.asp?UID=4073651 * John Kerry Spendometer http://www.gop.com/bigspender * RNC April Fool's Web Video http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4062 * Kerry vs Kerry 2.0 http://www.gop.com/kerryvskerry/default.asp?uid=4073651 * Where's Reggie the Registration Rig? http://www.gopteamleader.com/reggie * Sign up for the RNC News Ticker! http://www.gop.com/newsflash/[EMAIL PROTECTED]UID=4073651 Research * Totally San Fran http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4217 * Kerry 'Fudges Around' On Abortion Litmus Test http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4213 * Kerry Ignores His-Story http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4204 * Kerry's Pattern Of Funding Deception http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4196 Ad Watch * League of Conservation Voters | Title: Position http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4201 * Media Fund | Title: Corporate Headquarters | 30 Seconds http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4200 Fact Sheets * President's Economic Policies Strengthen Job Growth in States Across the Country http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4222 He Said It * He Said It! (Senate Record) http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4214 * He Said It! (Abortion) http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4212 * He Said It! (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4203 Photo Album * NEW! Chairman Ed Gillespie photos http://www.gop.com/news/photoalbum.aspx?gallery=29 Featured Book * The Right Man by David Frum http://www.gop.com/news/Book.aspx?id=6 In Case You Missed It * Beware Of Gasoline Price Hypocrisy http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4218 * Kerry Can Be Judged By Record On Taxes http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4202 News Releases * RNC Chairman Statement on New MoveOn.Org Ad http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4224 * New Orleans, Louisiana Victory 2004 Event http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4223 * RNC Launches Online Poll on GOP.com http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4221 * RNC Statement on Internet Story on Telemarketing Calls http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4220 * RNC Statement on Internet Story on Telemarketing Calls http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4219 * Albuquerque, New Mexico Victory 2004 Event http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4216 * RNC Chairman Statement on Pelosi Comments Calling President Bush Incompetent http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4215 * Las Vegas Victory 2004 Event http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4205 * Atlanta, Georgia and Dearborn, Michigan, Victory 2004 Events http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4198 Ed's Blog * A Marine Sees What Defeatists Don't http://www.gop.com/blog/ * League of Conservation Voters False
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Britain: Father of Nick Berg supports march against Iraq occupation
-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.wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/demo-m24.shtml Britain: Father of Nick Berg supports march against Iraq occupation By Paul Bond 24 May 2004 Several thousand people marched through the centre of London on Saturday May 22 to demand the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq. The march was called by the Stop the War Coalition (STWC), the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) in response to the revelations of torture in military prisons in Iraq. Marchers demanded an end to the torture and an end to the occupation. CND's Bruce Kent spoke of seeing thousands when we expected hundreds. At a rally in Trafalgar Square, the most moving and significant contribution was read on behalf of Michael Berg, the father of Nick Berg, the American recently murdered in Iraq. Berg is deeply critical of the Bush administration, holding them responsible for the fate of his son. He denounced Bush as a policy-maker who does not have to live with the consequences of his policies. He underlined the distance of those in government from the effects of their policies. He pointed to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saying that he took responsibility for the sexual abuse of prisoners in Iraqi military prisons. Berg denounced this rhetorical statement: this was not responsibility, he said, as Rumsfeld does not have to face any consequences for his decisions. He said it was time for the US government to stop making up rules for the rest of the world, which it then did not apply to itself. He said that the controls for the known weapons of mass destruction were in the White House. The US government had unleashed a sequence of events which have implications of their own; it was now up to people on both sides of the Atlantic to say that they are fed up with war and to demand peace now. Other speakers drew connections with the situation facing the Palestinians, pointing out that the US-led barbarism in Iraq had encouraged Israeli Prime Minister Sharon in his onslaught against Gaza. Attention was also drawn to the court-martial of Nicaraguan-born US Sergeant Camilo Mejia for refusing to return to the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Mejia has applied for discharge as a conscientious objector, after witnessing the treatment of Iraqi civilians by the occupying forces. Many of the speakers used the rally as an opportunity to promote the electoral formation Respect, led by the former Labour MP George Galloway, which is standing in June's elections both to the European Parliament and to the Greater London Assembly. For Galloway himself, who is heading Respect's slate for London in the European elections, the lesson is that we've marched and we've marched, and now it's time to vote and sweep the warmongering government from office. Retiring Labour MP Tony Benn spoke of Hugh Gaitskell, the right-wing Labour leader of the 1950s, denouncing then Prime Minister Anthony Eden for breaching United Nations' resolutions. Benn wished there were a Labour leader like that now. Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, was heckled. For all his protestations that he was speaking as mayor and not as the spokesman for any government, his return to the Labour Party was heavily criticised by the crowd. His desperation was evident in his call on demonstrators to vote, not for me, but for anyone in order to supposedly keep the fascist British National Party out of the Greater London Assembly. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM -~- -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_|
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] [**] Bush's Mess Will Become Kerry's Mess
-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- Bush's Mess is Going to Be Kerry's Mess The Right says these are all Left Wing C O N S P I R C I E S Well, the Repubs keep on misleading the public with their Orwellian Bushspeak, their typical right-wing cliches and their distortions which turn reality upside down. Money influences and they are masters of the Big Lie. While they talk about how necessary their wars are and how unnecessary taxing the rich is, when they can send the bill for the present to those who live in the future (because it is likely there will be no future), and how Global Warming is really just a left wing conspiracy --- no matter how many scientific papers and warnings they get that they are destroying the planet; while all the time this is going on, George Bush is secretly praying for Armageddon -- but it isn't going to bring them their salvation; all it does is bring more pain and suffering, more brutality -- and more death and destruction. Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.. A secret report, suppressed by US defense chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world. (Observer) (Article) Totalitarian Mission of George W. Bush http://g0lem.net/portal/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=14 George W. Bush has a totalitarian mission, as he sees it; to bring democracy, as he envisions it; to a world waiting for the rapture, as he imagines it; that his God, a higher father, from which he takes his orders; and of George Bush's destiny to be the only true and real chosen one. If there is a God, save us from the totalitarian monster, which is George W. bush, who thinks he is following a holy mission assigned to him by his God. --- / o o \ PNEWS Topic Specific Portals (Vortals) ===OO=OO= http://pnews.org/vortal/ New World disOrder and Myth Busters http://g0lem.net/vortal/ Insane Planet and Wacko World http://g0lem.net/portal/ Bad-Ass Truth and TheGolemsPortal http://pnews.org/portal/ Naked Truth and PNEWS Portal = \_/ \_/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives 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. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Om Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/ * 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. Substanceânot
[CTRL] Fwd: Point The Bony Finger
-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- * * * * * * * * * * * REMINDER * * * * * * * * * * * * * On the days that I don't publish, like today, you will receive Bill Bonner's DAILY RECKONING. This will help you to keep pace with the changes in the markets. Bonner and I agree on most things in the field of economics, so the two letters will reinforce each other. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Point The Bony Finger The Daily Reckoning London, England Monday, 24 May 2004 - *** Greenspan beats all records... spikes the punch... *** Insiders dump company stock... like it was 1999 *** Accounting standards slip... hogs... Faithful Nihilists... and more! - William McChesney Martin holds the record for sitting in the Fed chair the longest. Alan Greenspan, if he lives to the end of his next term, will outlast him. But Greenspan has already gone way beyond Martin in other ways. Martin saw the Fed as a party-pooper. When things started to get out of hand, said the former Fed chairman, the Fed's proper role was to take away the punchbowl. Paul Volcker took the punch bowl away in the early '80s and practically sent the entire economy into delirium tremens. Investors sweat and shook as stocks collapsed and Treasury bond yields rose above 15%. Revelers were so upset they burnt an effigy of Volcker in front of the Treasury building in Washington. But his successor is a real party animal; if anyone poops on this party, it won't be the current Fed chairman. As consumer debt hits new records... house prices in LA rise at 30% per year... and gasoline becomes more expensive than ever... Alan Greenspan edges over to the punchbowl. But instead of taking it away, he pours in another 5th of booze! Leaning on the short end of the scale, with a 1% overnight lending rate for only the second time in history (the first time was during the Great Depression), the Fed Chairman keeps the juice flowing. Bond investors' speech is already slurred and their judgment impaired; how else do you account for T-bond yields at about the same levels as during Martin's era, a half-century ago? They allow you to do a lot of crazy stuff, said a mortgage banker in the Detroit Free Press, referring to the lowest interest rates in 2 generations. Readers from dry counties, if there are any left, may not know this, but alcohol is sometimes called a 'social lubricant.' Put enough of it in the punch, and people often slide into situations they will later regret. Consumers, for example, are not likely to cherish their memories of the debt they ran up while under the influence of Alan Greenspan's lubrication. Homeowners are likely to regret their large, adjustable rate mortgages, for example, when rates rise and the time comes to pay the money back. Nor are stock-buyers likely to send thank-you letters to the Fed Chairman, after the Dow goes down. But not every partygoer suffers a hangover. Leaving early, a stock seller might have cause for congratulations, rather than regret. In fact, sellers should be grateful. They might even want to get together now and buy the Fed chairman a little gift. Perhaps a silver punchbowl. Company insiders are selling like it's 1999, begins an article in the New York Times: Across corporate America, executives have been selling company stock as if it were 1999... no matter what happens to profits or stock prices over the next year, some executives have already locked in multi-million dollar paydays. Executives sold $14.4 billion worth of company stock in the first 4 months of this year, compared to $4 billion in the same period last year, according to Thompson Financial. Thanks to Alan Greenspan, never have so many people made so much money, said Charlie Munger at the recent Berkshire hullabaloo in
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] On the US Marines, their surrender/mutiny re: Falluja
-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- US Marines surrender And they also outed themselves as a rebel faction in the US military whose influence, and numbers, is hard to judge at this point. by Kevin Potvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 1, 2003, US President George Bush, gamely sporting a flight suit aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, proudly declared victory in Iraq over the apparently vanquished Iraqi Republican Guard. It cannot be without intentional irony that soldiers of the First Marine Expeditionary Force, after having laid siege to Falluja, Iraq for nearly a month, chose that day, exactly one year later, to announce their surrender of Falluja to the not-so-defeated-after-all Iraqi Republican Guard. The stunning surrender by the marines was not reported as such. Instead, Western media chose to portray the retreat the way the Pentagon wished it portrayed: a strategic re-deployment to make room for a battalion of Iraqis to go into Falluja and wrest control of it from rebels there, before the marines would be forced to go in themselves and endanger the lives of civilians in doing so. But the images from the morning of May 1 tell a far different story. Salah Abboud al-Jabouri, a former governor of the surrounding province under Saddam Hussein, and commander of Iraqi forces there before the fall of the Baathists, was seen climbing out of the back of his personal shaded-glass Mercedes limousine that he traveled from Baghdad to Falluja in , to shake hands with the marines' commander and survey the situationand take control of it. The battalion he commands is, by the admission of US marines, stocked with the same fighters who resisted the siege of Falluja the previous month. Video clips from inside Falluja that day showed fighters in the backs of Toyota pick-up trucks with guns raised in triumph, and ecstatic residents of Falluja cheering them on. Could they have been reacting like that to news of a strategic redeployment of US marines? Initial news of the surrender apparently caught not only members of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council by surprise, but also commanders of other forces in the US-led coalition as well. Most alarmingly, it appears as though even the Pentagon was not aware of the arrangement at Falluja in which power was handed over from the marines to the Iraqis. That American forces should by now begin to think about pulling back is no surprise. Even Anthony Cordesman, who holds the chair in strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a very prominent Washington think tank, pronounced the week before that in his best estimation, no military solutions exist in Iraq (none without causing intolerable numbers of deaths among Iraqi civilians and American soldiers, that is). Cordesman said that, despite Bush's instructions to stay the course, the American forces may not be able to. This is an extremely uncertain struggle, Cordesman patiently explained. He is not alone among prominent strategists in Washington who now find great fault with the planning prior to the launching of war in Iraq. Americans in the field also say the same thing. A military spokesman last week said to media that it now appeared to him to have been a well-thought-out strategy by Iraq's Republican Guard to fall back during the US invasion, and then to encircle and trap them once they had set up and populate d their bases deep in the country. Donald Rumsfeld, a civilian, has become famous for his micromanagement of US military tactics in the field in his capacity as Secretary of Defense. His memos to all levels of command have frequently (and anonymously) been referred to by field commanders as extremely annoying. Also, they're dangerous: it was apparently Rumsfeld's call for marines to attack Falluja in early April, an attack that was repelled by insurgents within, setting
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Prisoner abuse in US traced back to Texas
-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: "LJ Vandenberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED]SSent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:06 AMSubject: Prisoner abuse in US and Iraq linked 'Doesn't it ring a (prison) bell'Date: Saturday, May 08 @ 08:58:01 EDTTopic: Commander-In-Thief From Terrell Unit in Texas to Abu Ghraib By Alexander Zaitchik, CounterPunch If the president wasn't so forthright about his disinterest in the world,it would have been hard to believe him Wednesday when he said the abuse inAbu Ghraib prison "doesn't represent the America I know." But who can doubthim? To represent the America George W. Bush knows, there would have to beexplosive snapshots of Iraqi detainees lounging by the Abu Ghraib pool,barbequing ribs and snorting primo Bolivian coke off empty cases of CoorsLight. There would have to be shocking reports of prisoners with familymembers on the Iraqi Governing Council being handed sweetheart deals onprofessional sports franchises and energy firms. But being stripped, hooded and urinated on while your friend is forced tomasturbate next to you? Of course, if the President were more of a newspaper-reading sort offeller, he wouldn't have been so shocked by the pictures. As atough-on-crime Texan, he would have recognized such treatment immediately,perhaps even feeling a little swell of pride. If he'd ever put down theBible for a broadsheet after his conversion, he'd know that "Texas prison"is one of the most feared phrases in the language -- and he'd know why. When he sat down in front of Arab tv audiences on Wednesday to explain thetrue American way, he could have pointed to an October, 1999 story in theAustin American Statesman that detailed how female prisoners there wereregularly kept in portable detention cells for hours at a time in summerheat with no water. "In fear of more time in the cages," the articleexplains, "many women submit sexually to their oppressors and are raped,molested and forced to perform sodomy on their captors." And in 1996, if Bush hadn't so busy handling the transfer of $9 billion inpublic funds over to the University of Texas Investment Management Company,the governor might have had time to read about the videotape that surfacedthat year depicting prison guards brutalizing inmates in the Brazoria CountyDetention Center in Angleton, TX. The tape, which was originally shot foruse as a training video, showed riot-clad guards beating prisoners (arrestedon drug violations) and forcing them to crawl while kicking them and pokingthem with electric prods. Had Bush cleared a little time to watch thisvideo, he would had an easier time digesting the images out of Abu Ghraib,and thus saved himself those few moments of humiliating supplication infront of all those Arabs, based as they were on the faulty assumption thatthose pictures "weren't America." If only some governor's aide had told him in 1999 about the hunger strikeat the notorious Terrel Unit facility in Livingston, TX, where death-rowprisoner Michael Sharp said before his execution, many guards "think it istheir patriotic duty to torture and brutalize prisoners." If only he had notbeen so busy reclining in box seats at Rangers home games, the governormight have known that prisoners' attorney Donna Brorby had described Texas'super-max prisons as "the worst in the country," where guards reportedly gasprisoners and throw them down on concrete floors while handcuffed. Then thepresident might have been better equipped to recognize his country in thosepictures. Considering all the downtime the President has spent in the Lone StarState since 2000, he might have even heard about the 2002 conclusion of the30-year legal battle Ruiz v. Johnson. In its write up of the case, theAustin Chronicle reported the words of Texas Judge William Wayne Justice,written after hearing lengthy expert and inmate
[CTRL] Articles on Wenatchee, Fernald, Iraq prison abuse and whistle blower
-Caveat Lector- also has : Abu Ghraib Whistle Blower Under Attack by Military New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge some articles have graphic descriptions of abuse ritual abuse conference http://members.aol.com/smartnews/smart-2004-conference.htm Articles on Wenatchee from http://members.aol.com/SMARTNEWS/Sample-Issue-40.htm Consultant Finds No Fault in Sex Ring Probe - Tri-City Herald, A7, 2/22/96, (AP) Wenatchee - A consultant hired by the city's insurer to look into the way Wenatchee police conducted child sex-abuse investigations said Wednesday the cases were properly handled. "In hindsight, anything can be done better. But what I'm here to tell you is that the investigator met the standard of care that is exercised in the policy industry in this case," retired Bellevue Police Chief D.P. "Don" Van Blaricom told reporters at a city hall news conference...A justice Department Investigation, completed last month, found no evidence of civil-rights violations...He (Van Blaricom) also said he found nothing improper in asking alleged victims leading questions, or in police lying or using a ruse to get a confession from a suspect..."I found (the report by Kathryn Lyons criticizing police methods in the case)... was based upon interviews with disgruntled employees at CPS..., interviews with people who (pleaded) guilty or were found guilty by juries..." (Note: in a 11/27/97 article "Ex-chief accused of sexual abuse" Van Blaricom is accused of alleged sexual abuse.) Lowry's request for federal review of sex-ring probe draws attack - Tri-city Herald - 10/6/95 (AP) - Wenatchee - Police and Prosecutors are complaining that Justice Department officials considering a federal inquiry into Wenatchee's sex-ring investigation are working from a one-sided report compiled by critics of the probe...Twenty eight adults have been charged since last fall with child rape and sexual abuse in what authorities describe as two loosely organized sex rings in operation since 1988. Authorities say as many as 50 children may have been involved. Doctor confirms abuse in sex-ring case - (AP) 12/5/96 - Waterville - "One girl showed definite medical signs of sexual abuse and it could not be ruled for two others, a defense witness testified (Dr Deborah Harper)...in the child rape and molestation trial of a Pentacostal preacher and his wife... Prosecutors allege unordained pastor Robert "Roby" Roberson and his wife, Connie, has sex with children at the East Wenatchee Pentacostal Church of God House and Prayer and at their home." Pastor, wife charged with perjury, fraud - AP - Tri-city Herald 10/7/95 - "Waterville - A pastor and his wife awaiting trial on charges they were participating in a child sex ring were charged today with perjury and welfare fraud." "...Pleads guilty to fraud" Tri-City Herald - Doug Campbell (staff writer) "Robert Roberson pleaded guilty to one count of first degree theft, a felony, and one count of "false swearing," a gross misdemeanor. He originally faced eight counts of perjury and one count of first degree theft." (All charges were dismissed against his wife - Pastor Wants Credit for Media Time - 7/12/96 Tri-City Herald A5 (AP) this one forwarded from L Moss Sharman - Six assigned to state school seek apology - Men were classified as 'morons' as result of flawed test in 1950s By Scott Allen, Globe Staff 5/19/04 "Six men who were inaccurately branded "morons" as children and confined for years at a state school for people with mental retardation are asking Governor Mitt Romney to apologize and possibly compensate them for their mistreatment. They also want him to correct the education records of thousands of others who they believe met a similar fate in Massachusetts before 1960." http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/05/19/six_assigned_to_state_school_seek_apology/ http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/052304A.shtml Continuing the Cover-Up? By Brian Ross and Alexandra Salomon ABC News Friday 21 May 2004 Military Takes Action Against Key Witness in Abu Ghraib Abuse Scandal. A witness who told ABCNEWS he believed the military was covering up the extent of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was today stripped of his security clearance and told he may face prosecution because his comments were "not in the national interest." Sgt. Samuel Provance said in addition to his revoked security clearance, he was transferred to a different platoon, and his record was officially "flagged," meaning he cannot be promoted or given any awards or honors. Provance said he was told he will face administrative action for failing to report what he knew at the time and for failing to take steps to stop the abuse. "I see it as an effort to intimidate Sgt. Provance and any other soldier whose conscience is bothering him, and who wants to come forward and tell what really happened at Abu Ghraib," said his attorney Scott Horton. http://villagenews.weblogger.com/stories/storyReader$11600
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Susan Sontag speaks out
-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- Excerpts from one of the best articles to date on American torture : What have we done? Susan Sontag on the ugly face of the war on terror It is hard to measure the increasing acceptance of brutality in American life, but its evidence is everywhere, starting with the games of killing that are the principal entertainment of young males to the violence that has become endemic in the group rites of youth on an exuberant kick. From the harsh torments inflicted on incoming students in many American suburban high schools - depicted in Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused (1993) - to the rituals of physical brutality and sexual humiliation to be found in working-class bar culture, and institutionalised in our colleges and universities as hazing - America has become a country in which the fantasies and the practice of violence are, increasingly, seen as good entertainment, fun. What formerly was segregated as pornography, as the exercise of extreme sado-masochistic longings - such as Pasolini's last, near-unwatchable film, Sal (1975), depicting orgies of torture in the fascist redoubt in northern Italy at the end of the Mussolini era - is now being normalised, by the apostles of the new, bellicose, imperial America, as high-spirited prankishness or venting. To "stack naked men" is like a college fraternity prank, said a caller to Rush Limbaugh and the many millions of Americans who listen to his radio show. Had the caller, one wonders, seen the photographs? No matter. The observation, or is it the fantasy, was on the mark. What may still be capable of shocking some Americans was Limbaugh's response: "Exactly!" exclaimed Limbaugh. "Exactly my point. This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time." "They" are the American soldiers, the torturers. And Limbaugh went on. "You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people. You ever heard of emotional release?" ... But there seems no reversing for the moment America's commitment to self-justification, and the condoning of its increasingly out-of-control culture of violence. Soldiers now pose, thumbs up, before the atrocities they commit, and send off the pictures to their buddies and family. What is revealed by these photographs is as much the culture of shamelessness as the reigning admiration for unapologetic brutality. Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamour to get on a television show to reveal. The torture of prisoners is not an aberration. It is a direct consequence of the doctrines of world struggle with which the Bush administration has sought to fundamentally change the domestic and foreign policy of the US. The Bush administration has committed the country to a new, pseudo-religious doctrine of war, endless war - for "the war on terror" is nothing less than that... ... It is not because of the photographs but of what the photographs reveal to be happening, happening at the behest of and with the complicity of a chain of command that reaches up to the highest level of the Bush administration. But the distinction - between photograph and reality, between policy and spin - easily evaporates in most people's minds. And that is what the administration wishes to happen. ... After all, we're at war. Endless war. And war is hell. The only good Indian is a dead Indian. Hey, we were only having fun. In our digital hall of mirrors, the pictures aren't going to go away. Yes, it seems that one picture is worth a thousand words. And
[CTRL] Fwd: [smashthestate] Scotland's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
-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- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:51:49 -0600 Subject: Scotland's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Don't give Iraqis self-rule all at once May 23, 2004 BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Here's a story no American news organization thought worth covering last week, so you'll just have to take it from me. In the southern Iraqi town of Amara, 20 men from Scotland's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders came under attack from 100 or so of Muqtada al-Sadr's ''insurgents.'' So they fixed bayonets and charged. It was the first British bayonet charge since the Falklands War 20 years ago. And at the end of it some 35 of the enemy were dead in return for three minor wounds on the Argylls' side. If you're used to smart bombs, unmanned drones and doing it all by computer back at HQ, you're probably wondering why a modern Western army is still running around with bayonets at the end of their rifles. The answer is that it's a very basic form of psychological warfare. ''If you're defending a position and you see someone advancing with a bayonet, you may be more inclined to surrender,'' Col. Ed Brown told the British newspaper the Guardian. ''I've never been bayoneted, but I can imagine it's pretty gruesome.'' Or as Cpl. Jones, veteran of the Sudan, used to say every week on the ancient BBC sitcom ''Dad's Army'': ''They don't like it up 'em.'' By comparison, a Cruise missile, an unmanned drone, even a bullet are all antiseptic forms of warfare. When a chap's charging at you with a bayonet, he's telling you he's personally willing to run you through with cold steel. The bullet may get you first, but, if it doesn't, he'll do it himself. To the average British squaddie in the 21st century, the bayonet's main practical purpose is for opening tinned food. But when you need it on the battlefield, it's still a powerful signal of your resolve, your will. When coalition forces engage the foe in Amara, in Najaf or Fallujah, that's always going to be the rough ratio: three light wounds to 10 times as many enemy dead. It's in the broader political engagement in Iraq that the coalition needs to metaphorically fix bayonets and go hand-to-hand with its opponents. The Sunni big shots and Sadr militias, the Baathist dead-enders and foreign terrorists, the freaks and losers have made a bet: that the infidels could handle the long-range antiseptic bombing but don't have the stomach for the messy mano-a- mano stuff that follows. And they have a point. From Baghdad press conferences to Colin Powell, too much of the tone is half-hearted and implicitly apologetic: On bad days, the president himself is beginning to sound like an unmanned drone. The coalition needs to regain the offensive, to demonstrate not just weary stoicism but fierce will -- the same will those Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders showed. Bush has to be bold and imaginative, and to end the impression that he, his administration and America itself are mere hostages to events. How do you do it? Many commentators are now calling for faster elections in Iraq. I'd prefer to go for ''asymmetrical federalism,'' which is a Canadian term, but don't let that put you off. What it means is that the province of Quebec has certain powers -- its own immigration policy, for example -- that the province of Ontario doesn't. Obviously, any self-respecting American would regard it as an abomination if the state of Vermont had a completely different level of sovereignty from the state of New Hampshire. But not all nations are as harmoniously constituted as the USA. I'm not just talking your average banana-republic basket case. Take America's closest ally:
[CTRL] Neo-Cons Conned by Iran
-Caveat Lector- US intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war · Inquiry into Tehran's role in starting conflict · Top Pentagon ally Chalabi accused Julian Borger in Washington Tuesday May 25, 2004 The Guardian An urgent investigation has been launched in Washington into whether Iran played a role in manipulating the US into the Iraq war by passing on bogus intelligence through Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, it emerged yesterday. Some intelligence officials now believe that Iran used the hawks in the Pentagon and the White House to get rid of a hostile neighbour, and pave the way for a Shia-ruled Iraq. According to a US intelligence official, the CIA has hard evidence that Mr Chalabi and his intelligence chief, Aras Karim Habib, passed US secrets to Tehran, and that Mr Habib has been a paid Iranian agent for several years, involved in passing intelligence in both directions. The CIA has asked the FBI to investigate Mr Chalabi's contacts in the Pentagon to discover how the INC acquired sensitive information that ended up in Iranian hands. The implications are far-reaching. Mr Chalabi and Mr Habib were the channels for much of the intelligence on Iraqi weapons on which Washington built its case for war. It's pretty clear that Iranians had us for breakfast, lunch and dinner, said an intelligence source in Washington yesterday. Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the US for several years through Chalabi. Larry Johnson, a former senior counter-terrorist official at the state department, said: When the story ultimately comes out we'll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history. They persuaded the US and Britain to dispose of its greatest enemy. Mr Chalabi has vehemently rejected the allegations as a lie, a fib and silly. He accused the CIA director, George Tenet, of a smear campaign against himself and Mr Habib. However, it is clear that the CIA - at loggerheads with Mr Chalabi for more than eight years - believes it has caught him red-handed, and is sticking to its allegations. The suggestion that Chalabi is a victim of a smear campaign is outrageous, a US intelligence official said. It's utter nonsense. He passed very sensitive and classified information to the Iranians. We have rock solid information that he did that. As for Aras Karim [Habib] being a paid agent for Iranian intelligence, we have very good reason to believe that is the case, added the intelligence official, who did not want to be named. He said it was unclear how long this INC-Iranian collaboration had been going on, but pointed out that Mr Chalabi had had overt links with Tehran for a long period of time. An intelligence source in Washington said the CIA confirmed its long-held suspicions when it discovered that a piece of information from an electronic communications intercept by the National Security Agency had ended up in Iranian hands. The information was so sensitive that its circulation had been restricted to a handful of officials. This was 'sensitive compartmented information' - SCI - and it was tracked right back to the Iranians through Aras Habib, the intelligence source said. Mr Habib, a Shia Kurd who is being sought by Iraqi police since a raid on INC headquarters last week, has been Mr Chalabi's righthand man for more than a decade. He ran a Pentagon-funded intelligence collection programme in the run-up to the invasion and put US officials in touch with Iraqi defectors who made claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Those claims helped make the case for war but have since proved groundless, and US intelligence agencies are now scrambling to determine whether false information was passed to the US with Iranian connivance. INC representatives in Washington did not return calls seeking comment. But Laurie Mylroie, a US Iraq analyst and one of the INC's most vocal backers in Washington, dismissed the allegations as the product of a grudge among CIA and state department officials driven by a pro-Sunni, anti-Shia bias. She said that after the CIA raised questions about Mr Habib's Iranian links, the Pentagon's Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) conducted a lie-detector test on him in 2002, which he passed with flying colours. The DIA is also reported to have launched its own inquiry into the INC-Iran link. An intelligence source in Washington said the FBI investigation into the affair would begin with Mr Chalabi's handlers in the Pentagon, who include William Luti, the former head of the office of special plans, and his immediate superior, Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defence for policy. There is no evidence that they were the source of the leaks. Other INC supporters at the Pentagon may have given away classified information in an attempt to give Mr Chalabi an advantage in the struggle for power surrounding the transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi government on June 30. The CIA allegations bring to a head a dispute
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-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- War Crimes: What Secrets Can the Photos Reveal? By Steve Weissman t r u t h o u t | Perspective Tuesday 25 May 2004 Everyone on Planet Earth has now seen America's liberating forces humiliate, brutalize, and torture naked Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison. As bad as we thought the story could get, it grows sicker with every new photograph and video. Our eyes glaze over. We despair at seeing how war - and unlimited power over others - can twist a handful of otherwise decent, small-town Army reservists into sadistic torturers. But, look again. The dirty pictures were not just holiday snaps to dazzle friends back home in West Virginia. Taking and showing humiliating photos and videos qualifies as a war crime, as defined by the Geneva Conventions. The images prove direct participation in those crimes by far more than the six morons who lost the war. And the devastating damage the images do to America compels us to consider how they fit into the larger pattern of war crimes that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Under-Secretary Stephen Cambone, and other top Pentagon officials conspired to commit. I know that the current military trials will do their best to duck any whisper of war crimes, and I hardly expect Pious John Ashcroft, the Attorney General, to prosecute the Pentagon faithful, heaven forbid. But I see the inescapable relevance of the Geneva Conventions in the recently revealed memo to President Bush from his counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, who sought, however clumsily, to help the Administration sidestep war crime charges over a similar pattern of abuse in Afghanistan and Guantánamo. In Iraq, the chain of evidence begins where the chain of command bottomed out - with Pvt. Lynndie England, the grinning, good-time gal with a cigarette in her lips giving a jaunty thumbs up at a group of naked Iraqi men in hoods, their blurred hands where their proper Muslim parents told them never to touch themselves. Pvt. Lynndie, 21, is also the one holding the leash that leads to a dog collar around the neck of a terrified Iraqi lying naked on the floor. I was instructed by persons in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera, she said in an exclusive interview with Brian Maass of Denver CBS station KCNC-TV. We thought that's how they did it, she said. We're not trained as MI or CIA - mind games, intimidation, it sounded pretty typical to us. MI - or Military Intelligence - ostensibly ran the two interrogation cell-blocks at Abu Ghraib, with authority from Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commanding general of American ground forces in Iraq, to give orders to prison guards like Lynndie, who served in a reserve Military Police unit. The CIA - or Central Intelligence Agency - also interrogated Lynndie's prisoners, as did FBI officials and the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, or CID. Whether or not it was a valid order, the spooks told the guards to put psychological pressure on the Iraqi prisoners. Taking photos helped do that, and became a standard part of psy-ops, or psychological operations. According to Lynndie, the intelligence people looked at the photos and told the guards, Oh, that's a good tactic, keep it up. That's working. This is working. Keep doing it. It's getting what we need. It got information, some reliable, said Lynndie. Some of it was about future attacks on coalition forces. Secretary Rumsfeld had put enormous pressure on MI to get that information. According to intelligence sources that Sy Hersh quoted in the New Yorker, Rumsfeld turned to a super-secret Special Access Program, or SAP, which was in the business of killing
