[CTRL] Iraqi Government Crackdown on Al-Jazeera
-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- Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 12:30 p.m. ET -- Monday, August 9, 2004 Iraqi Government Crackdown on Al-Jazeera Over the weekend Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who was selected by the U.S.-appointed Governing Council, ordered Al-Jazeera's office in Baghdad closed for one month. According to AP, Iraqi Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib said the closure was intended to give the station a chance to re-adjust their policy against Iraq. They have been showing a lot of crimes and criminals on TV, and they transfer a bad picture about Iraq and about Iraqis and encourage criminals to increase their activities, al-Naqib said. We want to protect our people. Al-Jazeera aired live footage of Iraqi government officials closing down the office. [See: http://english.aljazeera.net, http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9C888134-9481-485A-A675-DD3C50DA224D.htm] The closure of the Al-Jazeera office came the day after Donald Rumsfeld discussed Al-Jazeera before the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. He said: It has been a terribly damaging thing to have what Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiyah have done to our country in the Middle East. They have persuaded an enormous fraction of the people that we're there as an occupying force, which is a lie, that we are randomly killing innocent civilians, which is a lie. JIM NAURECKAS, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.fair.org Editor of Extra!, the magazine of the media watch group FAIR, Naureckas said today: Citizens need to know both the costs and benefits of military involvement. With the closure of the Al-Jazeera Baghdad office, it will be much easier for the Pentagon to conceal the human costs of the occupation. And wasn't one of the benefits supposed to be that a democratic Iraq would be an example to other Middle Eastern states? It's impossible to have a democracy without a free press. JOEL CAMPAGNA, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.cpj.org/news/2004/Iraq08aug04na.html Campagna is a senior program coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa at the Committee to Protect Journalists. He said today: The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the decision by Iraq's interim government to ban the Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera from working in Iraq for 30 days According to news reports, the interim government accused the station of incitement to violence and hatred. Iyad Allawi announced the decision at a Saturday, August 7, press conference, saying the action was taken to 'protect the people of Iraq and the interests of Iraq.' The ban was effective immediately. Allawi cited an Iraqi media commission report about Al-Jazeera's broadcasts as the basis for the decision. He said the commission 'came up with a concise report on the issues of incitement and the problems Al-Jazeera has been causing.' To CPJ's knowledge, the commission's report has not been made public. Last week the International Herald Tribune published an oped by Campagna entitled Al-Jazeera: Leave It to Viewers. He wrote then: In April, Secretary of State Colin Powell described 'intense' and 'candid' discussions with Qatar's foreign minister about Al-Jazeera's reports, which he said 'intrude' on the countries' relations. Although Powell stopped short of urging Qatar to restrict Al-Jazeera's coverage -- as he did in 2001 with Qatar's emir -- the implication was clear. U.S. pressure didn't stop there. In June, U.S. officials reportedly withheld invitations to Qatari officials to the G-8 summit in Georgia, in protest of Al-Jazeera. The accompanying public protests from U.S. officials were not subtle. In April, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld accused the
[CTRL] Guantanmo: British detainees allege torture and violence
-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- Two articles on the American concentration camp in Cuba: 1. Father demands release of his British son after claims of torture at Independent (London), 05 August 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=548033 2. Coded letters from Briton in Guantanamo reveal 'regime of violence' Independent (London), 08 August 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=549064 Article 2 has a typical obfuscation by Jack Straw. Martin Mubanga has dual Zambian/UK citizenship and was arrested in Zambia then carted off to Guantanamo. The UK didn't intervene (except possibly to help the US send him to Cuba): Mr Straw insisted that since Martin was travelling on his Zambian passport, the UK had no legal right to intervene. -Sanjoy == Article no. 1 == http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=548033 Father demands release of his British son after claims of torture at Guantanamo Bay By Andrew Buncombe in Washington Independent (London) 05 August 2004 The father of a British man being held in Guantanamo Bay called on the Government yesterday to bring home the detainees immediately following new claims of sexual, physical and psychological torture. Moazzam Begg, who is still in solitary confinement at the United States' military facility in Cuba after two and a half years, was described in a report published yesterday as being in a very bad way. Azmat Begg said his son's condition was deteriorating and he was being subjected to sense-deprivation. They are giving him drops to stop his hearing. Now he can hardly hear anything. They have burst his ear drums. They are also pulling his toes with pliers. Mr Begg said communication with his son, a father of four children, was virtually impossible, because letters were so heavily censored. They should bring them back. If they have done something wrong they should be punished, if not they should be released. Five of the nine Britons held at Guantanamo have been released without charge by the US authorities while four remain incarcerated. Military hearings are under way at the camp to ascertain whether detainees should continue to be held. Yesterday it was reported that four of the men had refused to cooperate with the proceedings. A 115-page dossier, Detention in Afghanistan and Guantanamo, produced by the lawyers of three of the recently released British men, said inmates had been shackled, punched, kicked, hooded and deprived of sleep. Amnesty International condemned the treatment, which drew comparisons with Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison where inmates were ritually humiliated. British Government agencies were accused of complicity. In the report, released in New York, Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul - the so-called Tipton Three - said one inmate was threatened after being shown a video in which hooded inmates were forced to sodomise each other. Guards allegedly threw prisoners' Korans into toilets, while others were injected with drugs. The men, who are held in outdoor cages, were bitten by scorpions and snakes, the report said. Internal body searches were made and detainees were photographed naked. Speaking at the report's launch at the Centre for Constitutional Rights, the CCR president, Michael Ratner, called for an independent commission. This report calls into question the reliability of any information obtained from any detainee, Mr Ratner said. Every bit of information has been acquired using unlawful techniques. Conditions deteriorated when Major General Geoffrey Miller, who took charge of Abu Ghraib in August 2003, took over at Guantanamo. New practices were introduced such as shackling detainees in squatting positions. Spells in isolation were lengthened to
[CTRL] UN Panel to US: Jailing of Cuban 5 is Arbitrary
-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- Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Granma International On line - August 9, 2004 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/agosto/lun9/33cinco.html UN commission considers imprisonment of the Cuban five arbitrary THE Working Group on Arbitrary Detention attached to the UN High Commission for Human Rights sent a report to the United States outlining the reasons why it considers that the five Cuban political prisoners of the empire are being arbitrarily detained, it was reported during the August 5 televised Roundtable program. The U.S. State Department responded to the report, journalists reported, using its traditional political arguments regarding the case, without alluding to the irregularities that occurred during the legal process that resulted in the Five receiving harsh prison terms. The UN group will study this response and announce its considerations during the next period of sessions, September 13-17 in Geneva, Switzerland. It was also reported that family visits to the Five are regulated by the same trying process established by the U.S. Interests Section in Havana for all who wish to travel to the United States for temporary reasons, given that the prisoners relatives do not receive expedited responses and have to wait for Washingtons approval. Visas for Antonios mothers and son are precisely in that waiting status in, as well as the wife and daughters of Ramsn and that of Gerardos nephew, who applied back in March. Upon traveling, they may not be accompanied by officials from the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, given that the limitations imposed by the U.S. State Department in that respect still hold. Adriana and Olga, the wives of Gerardo and Reni, respectively, have to wait for 12 months before applying for visas, which have been denied them several times. (FC) Copyright (c) 2004 Granma International. All rights reserved. * Search the NYTr Archives at: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ To subscribe or unsubscribe or change your settings via the web, visit: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr = NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] National Guardsman Told to Walk Away from Torture
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 8/9/2004 10:16:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.oregonlive.com/special/oregonian/iraq/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1091880082213032.xml 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- Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit [This is how the US teaches democracy in the middle east. Of course, they could hardly teach by example, either.] Sent by Shanti Renfrew The Oregonian - august 7, 2004 http://www.oregonlive.com/special/oregonian/iraq/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1091880082213032.xml Ordered to just walk away by Mike Francis BAGHDAD -- The national guardsman peering through the long-range scope of his rifle was startled by what he saw unfolding in the walled compound below. From his post several stories above ground level, he watched as men in plainclothes beat blindfolded and bound prisoners in the enclosed grounds of the Iraqi Interior Ministry. He immediately radioed for help. Soon after, a team of Oregon Army National Guard soldiers swept into the yard and found dozens of Iraqi detainees who said they had been beaten, starved and deprived of water for three days. In a nearby building, the soldiers counted dozens more prisoners and what appeared to be torture devices -- metal rods, rubber hoses, electrical wires and bottles of chemicals. Many of the Iraqis, including one identified as a 14-year-old boy, had fresh welts and bruises across their back and legs. The soldiers disarmed the Iraqi jailers, moved the prisoners into the shade, released their handcuffs and administered first aid. Lt. Col. Daniel Hendrickson of Albany, Ore., the highest ranking American at the scene, radioed for instructions. But in a move that frustrated and infuriated the guardsmen, Hendrickson's superior officers told him to return the prisoners to their abusers and immediately withdraw. It was June 29-- Iraq's first official day as a sovereign country since the U.S.-led invasion. The incident, the first known case of human rights abuses in newly sovereign Iraq, is at the heart of the American dilemma here. In handing over power, U.S. officials gave Iraqis authority to run their own institutions -- even if they made mistakes. But officials understand that the United States will be held responsible when the new Iraqi authorities stumble. Iraqis want us to respect their sovereignty, but the problem is we will be blamed for leaving the fox in charge of the henhouse, said Michael Rubin, a former adviser to the interim Iraqi government who is now a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. We did not generally put good people in. An Oregon guardsman who witnessed the day's events, Capt. Jarrell Southall, provided The Oregonian with a written account of the incident. Other guardsmen interviewed in Iraq corroborated Southall's account on the condition that their names not be used. The U.S. Embassy in Iraq confirmed the incident occurred and disclosed for the first time that the United States raised questions about the June 29 brutality with Iraq's interior minister. The embassy declined to say what response was received in the meeting between the minister and James Jeffrey, the second-ranking U.S. diplomat in Iraq, saying it would be inappropriate to discuss details of those diplomatic and confidential conversations. The embassy, in a written statement, said U.S. soldiers are compelled by the law of land warfare and core values to stop willful and unnecessary use of physical violence on prisoners. The U.S. soldiers involved in the incident, it said, acted professionally and calmly to ease tensions and defend prisoners who needed help. The June 29 confrontation between U.S. troops and Iraqi officials at the Interior Ministry has been mentioned in news accounts in the United States and Britain. But details about the prisoners'
[CTRL] How a possible scoop on Iraq just vanished
-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- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/7gSolB/TM ~- ON the face of it, the story in Australias Sydney Morning Herald was every journalists dream-come-true. Paul McGeough, chief Herald correspondent in Baghdad and a former editor of the newspaper, had apparently exposed the new Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, as a murderous war criminal - a world scoop. How a possible scoop on Iraq just vanished BY PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY (ONE MANS VIEW) Khaleej Times (UAE) 7 August 2004 ON the face of it, the story in Australias Sydney Morning Herald was every journalists dream-come-true. Paul McGeough, chief Herald correspondent in Baghdad and a former editor of the newspaper, had apparently exposed the new Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, as a murderous war criminal - a world scoop. According to McGeough, just days before Washington handed control of Iraq to Allawi, he pulled out a pistol and shot dead six suspected Iraqi insurgents at a Baghdad police station. McGeough wrote that two eyewitnesses told him that the prisoners, handcuffed and blindfolded, were lined up against a wall at the Al Amariyah security centre before being executed. Dr Allawi told onlookers that the victims had killed as many as fifty Iraqis and they deserved worse than death. He then shot them one by one in the head as a clear message to the police on how to deal with terrorists. The story appeared in The Herald on the morning of Saturday, 17 July. But the newspaper had trailed it on Australian radio stations the previous night. This enabled the Australian representatives of various publications around the world to tip off their foreign desks. In journalism circles, most editors fully expected that over that weekend, every newspaper in the world would be running McGeoughs front-page scoop. Instead, the story disappeared. British newspapers ran nothing. A search on factiva, which carries pretty much every story written in the mainstream western press, revealed nothing. Nearly three weeks later, apparently no other publication has picked up The Herald story, even to deny its accuracy. What happened? The answer is complex and involves a curious combinations of flaws in the way journalism works. If McGeough had witnessed the shooting himself, then his story would indeed have echoed around the world. But he had not. There had been rumours in Baghdad about the shootings and McGeough set out to check them. He traced two Iraqis who said that they had seen the shootings. Neither man had approached McGeough. They were interviewed on different days in a private home in Baghdad, without being told that the other had spoken. The witnesses were not paid for the interviews. But a condition of the co-operation of each man was that no personal information would be published. And there lies the first flaw. Other newspapers have no way of confirming McGeoughs belief that his informants were telling the truth. And since the Hitler diaries fiasco - when the London Sunday Times took on trust the checks on the authenticity of the diaries made by the German magazine Stern, only to learn too late that Stern had been fooled - every newspaper now wants to do its own checks. Until recently, some editors might have taken a gamble. McGeoughs reputation is impeccable. Even if he could not reveal the names of the two witnesses, he had discovered the names of some of the alleged victims. But earlier this year, the London Daily Mirror published photographs that purported to show British army soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. Even though it is generally accepted that such abuse took place, these particular photographs turned out
[CTRL] Legal Terrorism
-Caveat Lector- http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=14583 Legal TerrorismBy Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | August 10, 2004Presidential nominee John Kerry is working overtime to blunt growing criticism of his Vietnam service and simultaneously reassure uncommitted voters that his acts of alleged heroism as a Swift boat officerover 30 years agofar outweigh his antiwar history. He has made his medalsa Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and three Purple Heartsa central focus of his candidacy. He has made a colossal mistake. No surprise, then, that Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, an organization unaffiliated with any political partywhose members were no strangers to Lieutenant Kerry 30 years agolast week began airing a dramatic, highly effective TV spot that flatly disputes Kerrys claims, and, worse for Kerry, his integrity. Predictably, Kerrys lawyers responded with a venomous and distorted account of the TV spot and the veterans who had organized it. Marc Elias, Esq., General Counsel for the Kerry-Edwards campaign, joined by Joseph Sandler, General Counsel for the Democratic National Committee, faxed to TV station managers the kind of intimidating message that gives lawyers a bad name. The three-page letter is a not-so-thinly veiled threat with only one possible goal: to scare the stations into dropping the ad. How? By misstating provable facts that back up the ads claims, and by shamelessly misrepresenting the law. How, specifically? On the legal side of the ledger, by trotting out the standard bogeymen for TV stations: false and misleading advertising, frowned on by the FTC; the specter of libel suits; dark hints of serious damages unless, in the public interest, station managers refuse to run the ad. On the factual side, one assertion by Kerrys lawyers is that Swift Boat Veterans For Truth is a sham organization. Why? Because its hard-hitting controversial ad was spearheaded by a Texas corporate media consultant and financed largely by a Houston homebuilder. Since when does the support of a businessman who believes the claims of a large number of Navy Vietnam veterans make the entire organization, ipso facto, a shami.e., a fake? Only the naïve would regard this contentless assertion as having any substance and not recognize it for what it is: an ad hominem attack. As to Navy physician Louis Letson (whom Elias and Sandler attempt to demean by putting Dr. Letsons title in quotation marks), Kerrys lawyers descend to a level that is truly shocking. They assert that Dr. Letson was pretending to be the doctor who treated Kerry for one of his injuries, and not the doctor who actually signed Senator Kerrys sick call sheet. They assert that it was someone else who actually signed the sheet. They assert that Letson is not listed on any document as having treated Kerry after December 2, 1968. Fact (based on a notarized statement of Louis Letson): The injury Dr. Letson treated Kerry for occurred when Kerry and two others (a fellow lieutenant and a crewman), seeing movement from an unknown source, opened fire. Kerrys rifle jammed, and in the absence of return fire, he resumed firing with a grenade launcher, spraying his own boat and causing a tiny piece of shrapnel to be embedded in his arm. The lieutenant and crewman, parties to the incident, accompanied Kerry to sick call, where they disputed Kerrys claim that hed been wounded by hostile fire and provided an account of the actual episode to Dr. Letsonafter which Letson removed the tiny fragment with tweezers and covered Kerrys scratch with a band aid. The lieutenant-witness is alive and available to testify, in detail, as to what happened. As for the maligned Dr. Louis Letson, he is entitled to say, as he did in the Swift Boat TV ad: I know John Kerry is lying about his first Purple Heart because I treated him for that injury. Fact (based on a sworn affidavit by Grant Hibbard): Next morning Kerry showed up at Division Commander Grant Hibbards office. Hibbard had already investigated the incident and spoken to the lieutenant-witness. Characterizing Kerrys purported injury as a rose thorn scratch insufficient to justify a Purple Heartawarded for hostile-fire wounds requiring medical attention, and excluding wounds that are accidental and self-inflicted [except non-negligent ones sustained in battle]Commander Hibbard summarily turned down Kerrys request for a Purple Heart and dismissed him. Commander Hibbard, who participated in the Swift Boat TV ad, is willing to testify, in detail, as to what happened. Fact (based on rotation records and Kerrys website): Some three months after everyone who was personally familiar with Kerrys bogus claim to a Purple Heart had left Vietnam, Kerry persisted in the claim for his rose-thorn injury, managing to convince an officer that he had earned the Purple Heart. Yet
[CTRL] [TheEagle-L] Fw: JOHN KERRY ON HUNTING (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- 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 See the Pledge of alleginace to the flag that the 9th circuit court of appeals doesn't want you to say. for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:10:14 -0700 From: Les Lemke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: [TheEagle-L] Fw: JOHN KERRY ON HUNTING Kerry also has a 100% voting record with the anti-gun Brady Campaign Kerry's campaign says he agrees with the view that there is no personal constitutional right, under the Second Amendment, to own or use a gun . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Recipient list suppressed Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:47 PM Subject: JOHN KERRY ON HUNTING JOHN KERRY ON HUNTING http://www.georgewbush.com/Sportsmen/Read.aspx?ID=2930 I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach. I track and move and decoy and play games and try to outsmart them. You know, you kind of play the wind. That's hunting, said Kerry. (Craig Gilbert, Bringing candidate to life, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/5/04) The Truth about John Kerry's Record for Hunters John Kerry has the highest rating on the Humane Scorecard sponsored jointly by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the Fund for Animals. Both groups are firmly committed to ending hunting in this country. HSUS' website says sport hunting the killing of wild animals as recreation is fundamentally at odds with the values of a humane, just and caring society (emphasis added). . http://www.hsus.org/ace/12035 , Heidi Prrescott, the National Director of the Fund for Animals, said in a 1995 speech that the Fund for Animals is unalterably opposed to the killing of animals for sport (emphasis added). (Speech by Heidi Prescott to the 4th Annual Governors Symposium on North America's Hunting Heritage, August 1995) John Kerry was endorsed by and received an A rating from the League of Conservation Voters. This environmental extremist group supports anti-hunters in Congress. Kerry also has a 100% voting record with the anti-gun Brady Campaign. John Kerry received an F rating from the NRA and a 0% rating from Gun Owners of America in their most recent rankings of legislators. Kerry's campaign says he agrees with the view that there is no personal constitutional right, under the Second Amendment, to own or use a gun. Kerry made his feelings about hunters known when he said I don't want to be the candidate of the NRA in this country. Unlike 60% of the U.S. Congress, John Kerry is not, and has never been, a member of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus. The Caucus describes its membership as open to Congressmen and Senators who are sportsmen or who support the concept of sustained use and wildlife management, even if they do not themselves take to the fields and waters to fish, hunt or trap. Kerry, who has missed more than 2/3 of his Senate votes this year, came back to the Senate to help kill the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. During the debate, he voted for Senator Kennedy's amendment to the bill which would have outlawed many center-fire rifle cartridges that hunters regularly use. John Kerry cosponsored the Roadless Area Conservation Act in the Senate with other enemies of hunters like Barbara Boxer, Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The bill, if passed, would have greatly restricted access to our National Forest system by hunters, fishermen, and other recreational users. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/zgSolB/TM ~- Please keep one liners to a minimum! Visit our new improved site at: http://www.eaglehost.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theeagle-l/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests
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-Caveat Lector- could you please explain this for me-thanks www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Returned mail: Data format error
-Caveat Lector- i have not been sendind thse emails-please help www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Hello
-Caveat Lector- please explain this, i'm lost I also received messages from you concerning the posible illegal use of my email account from an outside source. aqlso seending huge amounts of spam www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] error
-Caveat Lector- again! what is going on here? i've never had this problem befoer with this account www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] al-Qaeda votes Bush
-Caveat Lector- Front Page http://www.atimes.com IRAQ AND AL-QAEDA Why al-Qaeda votes Bush By Pepe Escobar Sheikh Terror are the new underground sensation in ever-swingin' London. Their rap video called The Dirty Infidels has been sent by e-mail to the Arab-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat. The paper says the video - unlikely to end up on MTV - may have been produced in a London studio by young, radical Muslims, but mosque talk in London and northern England has attributed it to ... al-Qaeda. Sheikh Terror rap in favor of the fight against the infidels, praise Osama bin Laden and ask for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be burned, while images switch from September 11 to shots of George W Bush, President General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and a Russian soldier executed by a Chechen guerrilla with a Kalashnikov. Bin Laden may not be cornering the rap market just yet, but this only goes to show how the al-Qaeda brand has taken in the collective consciousness of many. A few months ago, the Rand Corp - a think-tank sympathetic to the US industrial-military complex that boasts Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld as one of its former directors - published an analysis of al-Qaeda by Bruce Hoffman. This was the heart of the system debating whether al-Qaeda was a concept or a virus; an army or an ideology. The author compared al-Qaeda to a bunch of fast, easily adaptable sharks. In essence, al-Qaeda was defined as an indestructible enemy because it's impossible to circumscribe it precisely. By describing the threat as inexorable, the Rand Corp could then justify relentless, inexorable repression. This is the way in which the Bush administration also sees it. But is pure repression working against an al-Qaeda now configured as a mutant virus - a constellation of autonomous cells constantly morphing into new shapes and tactics? It's no secret for anyone following Islamist movements that since the early 1980s in Pakistan, bin Laden has been instrumentalized by the real masters of what would become al-Qaeda. These were the key operatives at the Maktab al-Khidamat in Peshawar: Egyptians from the Muslim Brotherhood, Saudis and Kuwaitis such as Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mohamed Atef, Abu Zubaida, Suleyman Abu Graith and Sayf al-Adl. These people were all inspired by the most extreme ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood: Sayyed Qotb. Their ultimate objective was to provoke a fissure between the Muslim world and the West, and then recapture power in Islamic lands. Previous experiments had been a total failure - as in Egypt - or a partial failure - as in Sudan. This until Pakistan-Afghanistan in the early 1980s became the perfect platform, with Osama - flush with money and charisma - incarnating the perfect marriage of medium and message. These people were all Sunni Muslims. Suicide bombing was never welcomed by Sunni Islam. But it was very much part of the Shi'ite cult of martyrdom. Shi'ites sanction suicide because it represents expiation for the martyrdom of the first Shi'ite imams. Hezbollah in Lebanon used suicide bombing with great success to force the departure of the Israeli occupation force. Suicide bombing then became popular with the Palestinian struggle and all over the Sunni world. But as the years rolled by there was still an infinite abyss to close. Palestinians fighting an occupier who reduced their lives to hell needed no lecture to become suicide bombers. But what about educated Muslims living in comfort - how do they choose to die for a symbol and for a goal that may never materialize? It's a testimony to the level of Islamic rage against the West that al-Qaeda managed to steer this large-scale conversion. September 11, 2001 - with its small army of aerial suicide bombers - indeed turned history upside down. But then the whole US intelligence matrix simply could not admit that the country had been struck by a small sect - and not by a sinister, global multinational with unlimited reach. The al-Qaeda myth Alain Chouet, a high-level expert at the French Ministry of Defense, is one among many to sustain that this is how the al-Qaeda myth was born - encouraged by the Bush administration spin machine and fully embraced, for the opposite reasons, by the Arab-Muslim world. But now there's a different situation: as Chouet puts it: Bin Laden only existed by the interaction between his personality and the al-Qaeda capacity of being a nuisance. With the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan, but now plotting a comeback, and most of al-Qaeda's leaders captured or killed, what happens to bin Laden is now largely irrelevant. The looming big issue in Afghanistan and Pakistan is the spring offensive planned by the Pentagon to capture bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and the remaining al-Qaeda leadership in the tribal areas of Pakistan, most probably Waziristan, where they are thought to be hiding. Asia Times Online has identified extreme skepticism about the operation, in Europe as well as in South
[CTRL] Attacking in the Wrong Direction
-Caveat Lector- 08-09-2004 Attacking in the Wrong Direction By David H. Hackworth My good pal Jerry Sullivan recently floored me with the comment, I'd rather fight 'em in Iraq than here in the USA. These words coming from the average badly informed American would have immediately triggered a take-no-prisoners response from me. But Sully, who's badly banged up from wounds suffered in Vietnam, has devoted himself to studying guerrilla warfare for the past 35 years. Could Sully be right? Maybe he'd channeled Lyndon B. Johnson's rationalization that it was better to fight the commies in Vietnam than on the beaches of San Francisco. Or perhaps he was co-opted by George W. Bush's similar and - I believe - equally wrongheaded sound bite, We will confront them overseas so we don't have to confront them here at home. But my respect for Sully motivated me to review my thinking, and here's what came to mind: In a conventional war, where nations are fighting nations, of course it's better to slug it out on the enemy's turf with the goal of taking a Berlin or a Tokyo and smashing your opponent's industrial base and army. In such fights, a powerhouse like the United States can unleash its superior assets and bulldoze its way to the final objective - which is the modern American way of conventional war - with little or no damage to America the beautiful. But as we rediscovered in Vietnam and Somalia, insurgent warfare is a fight against a different animal, frequently a hit-and-run, stateless opponent without easily identified major targets to zero out. Ironically, too, our bombs and heavy-handed firepower become major insurgent recruiters in guerrilla warfare. And that's what's happening in Iraq, where a significant percentage of the population is now openly clamoring for the Yankees to go home. Many Iraqis have already either turned to actively supporting the guerrillas or they're sitting on the sidelines, afraid to take sides and allowing the guerrillas to attack our forces at will. So, fighting in Iraq bears not the slightest resemblance to our triumphant World War II march across Europe. Almost the entire Arab world views us not as liberators occupying that bludgeoned country solely to pull the Iraqis up by their sandal straps, but as Crusaders who've returned to finish the dirty work the Christian world started a thousand years ago. Deep in the hearts of most Arabs, we're just the latest wave of infidels who are into violating their sacred land. Other disadvantages are that we don't speak the language, know the turf or understand the culture or the underlying basics, like who belongs to what tribe. As a result, our intell system - which is vital to winning a guerrilla war - is about as effective as throwing darts in a darkroom. Another downer is that our troops are at the end of a 10,000-mile supply line requiring both megabucks and megaguts to maintain. Once supplies are shipped to ports in Kuwait or Turkey, they still have to be trucked forward on Highways of Death treks, which daily take their nerve-shattering toll in U.S. casualties and destroyed vehicles and supplies. And fighting the guerrillas in Iraq has worn out our regular ground force to the point that units committed there need a minimum of a year Stateside to recover from their tours in hell. Ditto the Guard and Reserve troops - who are meanwhile not available to defend the home front or put out any local U.S. fires. We're also suddenly on high alert in Washington, D.C., Newark, N.J., and New York City, which have all morphed into Checkpoint Charlies, just as Boston was a maxi-fortress last month. Meanwhile, our southern border is being breached by hundreds of Muslim fanatics passing as Mexicans, and our northern border has more holes in it than the White House sprinkler system. Sully, let's face it: The USA is only in Round One of what promises to be at least a 15-rounder, yet we're already performing like Mike Tyson in his last fight. For sure, our country's first priority should be defending this great land - which should certainly include securing our borders and rebuilding our exhausted, overextended Army and Marine Corps. And without question a simultaneous priority should be winning in Afghanistan and finishing Osama. I'm forced to conclude, Sully, that you and Mr. Bush have both made a bad call on our quagmire in Iraq. 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
[CTRL] more torture in Iraq - Ordered to Just Walk Away
-Caveat Lector- ""Michael Rubin, a former adviser to the interim Iraqi government who is now a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "We did not generally put good people in."" describes torture http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081004X.shtml Ordered to Just Walk Away By Mike Francis The Oregonian Saturday 07 August 2004 Baghdad - The national guardsman peering through the long-range scope of his rifle was startled by what he saw unfolding in the walled compound below. From his post several stories above ground level, he watched as men in plainclothes beat blindfolded and bound prisoners in the enclosed grounds of the Iraqi Interior Ministry. He immediately radioed for help. Soon after, a team of Oregon Army National Guard soldiers swept into the yard and found dozens of Iraqi detainees who said they had been beaten, starved and deprived of water for three days. In a nearby building, the soldiers counted dozens more prisoners and what appeared to be torture devices - metal rods, rubber hoses, electrical wires and bottles of chemicals. Many of the Iraqis, including one identified as a 14-year-old boy, had fresh welts and bruises across their back and legs. The soldiers disarmed the Iraqi jailers, moved the prisoners into the shade, released their handcuffs and administered first aid. Lt. Col. Daniel Hendrickson of Albany, Ore., the highest ranking American at the scene, radioed for instructions. But in a move that frustrated and infuriated the guardsmen, Hendrickson's superior officers told him to return the prisoners to their abusers and immediately withdraw. It was June 29 - Iraq's first official day as a sovereign country since the U.S.-led invasion. The incident, the first known case of human rights abuses in newly sovereign Iraq, is at the heart of the American dilemma here. In handing over power, U.S. officials gave Iraqis authority to run their own institutions - even if they made mistakes. But officials understand that the United States will be held responsible when the new Iraqi authorities stumble. Iraqis want us to respect their sovereignty, but the problem is we will be blamed for leaving the fox in charge of the henhouse," said Michael Rubin, a former adviser to the interim Iraqi government who is now a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "We did not generally put good people in." 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] [new_world_order_survival] UN background (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- 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 See the Pledge of alleginace to the flag that the 9th circuit court of appeals doesn't want you to say. for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:30:12 +1000 (EST) From: [iso-8859-1] Anton Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [new_world_order_survival] UN background The truth about the United Nations! More and more Americans are coming to the chilling realization that U.S. membership in the United Nations poses a very real threat to our survival as a free and independent nation. Here are some good reasons to be concerned: 1. The UN's basic philosophy is both anti-American and pro-totalitarian. Our Declaration of Independence proclaims the self-evident truth that men ... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. But, in its Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN ignores God's existence, implies that it grants rights, and then repeatedly claims power as provided by law to cancel them out of existence. If any government can place restrictions on such fundamental rights as freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, freedoms of the press, association, movement, and religion, soon there will be no such freedoms. 2. The UN was founded by Communists and CFR members whose common goal was a socialist world government. Sixteen key U.S. officials who shaped the policies leading to the creation of the UN were later exposed in sworn testimony as secret Communists. These included Alger Hiss, chief planner of the 1945 founding conference, and the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Harry Dexter White. The Soviet Union under Stalin and the entire Communist Party USA apparatus worked tirelessly to launch the UN. Since its beginning in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has always worked for world government. The key CFR founder, Edward Mandell House, in his book, Philip Dru: Administrator, called for Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx ... The CFR was an early promoter of the UN, and 43 members of the U.S. delegation at the UN founding conference were or would become CFR members. 3. The UN has always chosen socialist one-worlders for leaders. The Secretary-General at the UN founding conference was Soviet spy Alger Hiss. He was followed as Secretary-General by Norwegian socialist Trygve Lie, Swedish socialist Dag Hammarskjold, Burmese Marxist U Thant, Austrian former Nazi Kurt Waldheim, Peruvian socialist Javier Perez deCuellar, and Egyptian socialist Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Each has consistently used the full resources of the UN to promote Communist and socialist causes around the world. The Socialist International (which proudly traces its origins to the First International headed by Karl Marx) today claims tens of millions of members in 54 countries. At its 1962 Congress, it declared: The ultimate objective of the parties of the Socialist International is nothing less than world government ... Membership of the United Nations must be made universal ... Almost all of the UN's independent commissions for the last thirty years have been headed by members of the Socialist International. 4. The UN seeks power to control the environment, population, children ... the world. Both the 1972 UN Environmental Program and the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development laid plans to whip up widespread environmental concerns (some exaggerated, many completely fabricated). These concerns would then be used as justification for increasing UN authority on environmental issues. The statements and publications of these UN programs leave little doubt that their goal is a world government with the power to cancel national sovereignty, regulate economic activity, and control the human race all, of course, under the banner of protecting the environment. In late 1994, UN planners meeting in Egypt approved a 20-year, $17 billion plan to stabilize the world's population. The UN's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, sterilization, and controlled human breeding. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child also claims power not only to grant rights but also to cancel them as provided by law. It claims that governments must guarantee children freedom of expression ... freedom to seek, receive, and impart information ... freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, regardless of the wishes of their parents. 5. The UN Charter outlines the path to world tyranny. After giving lip service about not intervening in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state ..., the UN Charter continues, but this principle shall not prejudice the
[CTRL] [JBirch] FW: The New American - August 23, 2004 Issue (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- 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 See the Pledge of alleginace to the flag that the 9th circuit court of appeals doesn't want you to say. for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:07:41 -0400 From: SWPA JBS Section Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'American Freedom Lovers' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'JBS Group' [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Patriot Awareness Group' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JBirch] FW: The New American - August 23, 2004 Issue The following articles from the http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/08-23-2004/ August 23, 2004 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN are now available online. http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/08-23-2004/index.htm Getting the http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/08-23-2004/facts.htm Facts Straight A growing number of people have been led to believe that an airliner did not hit the Pentagon on 9/11. However, in this case the official version of events is irrefutable. Conspiracy http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/08-23-2004/realities.htm Realities The Internet and talk radio abound with ridiculous rumors and falsehoods dealing with conspiracy. Yet, there are many examples of the real thing. _ You are receiving this e-mail because you have subscribed to THE NEW AMERICAN Alert Network as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, reply to this message with the subject Unsubscribe. If you wish t o contact the staff, please visit: http://www.thenewamerican.com/contact/ http://www.thenewamerican.com/contact/ Be sure to check out our other lists: http://www.aobs-store.com/alerts/index.htm American Opinion Book Services http://www.getusout.org/alerts/index.htm Get US out! of the United Nations Alert List http://www.stoptheftaa.org/alerts/ STOP the FTAA Alert List http://www.jbs.org/visitor/contact/alert.htm The John Birch Society Legislative Alert Network http://www.trimonline.org/alert/ TRIM E-mail Network http://www.jbs.org/visitor/contact/alerts.htm Join all of our Alert Lists at once http://www.thenewamerican.com/ THE NEW AMERICAN www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 20040823_lgcover.jpg
[CTRL] [U-S-A] Re: FOCUS - Kerry: Why Did Bush Rush to War? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:18:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: t r u t h o u t [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U-S-A] Re: FOCUS - Kerry: Why Did Bush Rush to War? On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, t r u t h o u t wrote: FOCUS - Kerry: Why Did Bush Rush to War? http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081104W.shtml Because his U-S-A bosses told him to, just as they would have told Kerry. Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, It's time to vote in R4P. Z Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM ~- U-S-A = Usurers, Sodomites, Abortionists. The U-S-A Cult is the ruling power over America-the-Good and now seeks to a establish One World Government of Evil-Doers via the Afghanistan-Iraq domino effect. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/U-S-A/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fifty Dollar Oil
-Caveat Lector- International Perspective, by Marshall Auerback Fifty Dollar Oil Anybody? August 10, 2004 The President of the OPEC cartel unsettled the oil markets last week by blurting out something long suspected by a number of prominent independent energy analysts: namely, that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter, could not increase production immediately to offset crude's seemingly relentless rise. The proximate cause for the historic surge above $45 per barrel for the first time ever was the ongoing conflict between the Russian government and the country's leading oil producer, Yukos. Although the heat appears to have been taken out of this particular dispute with the announcement by the Russian Ministry of Justice that Yukos could pay for its ongoing business from its hitherto frozen bank accounts, this has not stopped crude's relentless rise to new historic highs. The stubborn strength of the oil price continues to defy most analysts' prediction of a return to the US$30/bbl level. The structural reason for high oil prices is clearly growing demand for oil in the fast growing developing world at a time when America still consumes around 25 per cent of world oil production, not political instability, as conventional wisdom would have you believe. The 10 members of OPEC excluding Iraq are operating close to full capacity, nullifying their historical ability to bring down prices by opening the production taps, or even merely threatening to do so. The result is that crude oil has risen some 35 per cent so far this year, 25 per cent in the last 6 weeks alone. Until recently, it was commonly assumed that Saudi Arabia still had sufficient surplus production capacity to increase its output but, OPEC president and Indonesian energy minister, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, blurted out an unpleasant truth to markets long inured to the effects of substantially higher energy costs: there is little additional supply coming imminently from Saudi Arabia. Of course, the Saudis themselves have sought to blunt the impact of this alarmist confession by continuing to insist that it would produce 9.5m b/d in August, sustaining production as high as 10.5m b/d if needed. But even a (highly questionable) promise to provide an additional 1.5m barrels per day of crude production is a thin reed on which to base continued forecasts of sub-$30 oil (the 10 year crude futures price of oil is $24 per barrel, 25 below current spot prices, reflecting the prevailing consensus that today's high prices are but a temporary aberration). This figure amounts to less than 2 per cent of total global production, which provides a minimal cushion against other possible supply disruptions. Additionally, demand for oil has ensured there is barely a fraction of spare refining capacity left. As the Lex column of the Financial Times noted last Saturday, Even if Saudi Arabia soothes supply worries by extracting more oil, a bigger problem may lie in making this oil usable. There is also the manner in which such oil is being extracted, notably in Saudi Arabia, which is now giving rise to heightened concerns in the markets. Saudi Aramco, the country's national oil company, said last week that it had brought two fields into production earlier than planned, which would boost its planned capacity by 800,000 barrels a day. Unfortunately many contend that such increased production is largely the product of dangerous water injection extraction techniques, which deplete the underlying resource in a manner highly inimical to ensuring the field's long term sustainability. Leading independent oil analyst Matt Simmons, who has conducted an extensive audit of many of Saudi Arabia's major fields, has been at the forefront in terms of expressing concerns that the Kingdom can no longer open the tap wider at its key oil fields as the world's plug producer in meeting steadily increasing world oil demand. He argues that giant oil fields, such as Ghawar, might already have peaked and could start into rapid decline in as few as three years. In a recent interview with Petroleum News Contributing Writer, F. Jay Schempf, Simmons disputed Saudi Aramco's claim that it has discovered 85 oil fields in the country and has so far developed just 23 of them, implying ample future oil supplies. In the interview with Schempf, Simmons maintained that only a handful of fields accounted for virtually all Saudi Arabian oil production. The aforementioned Ghawar - the world's single largest oil field - has accounted for about 60 percent of all the oil the country ever produced, he said. Today, he added, Ghawar still produces about 5 million barrels per day of the current Saudi oil output of 7.5 to 8 million bpd. Five other fields produce the remainder, but it is fair to say that whither goes Ghawar, goes Saudi oil production. Based on his analysis, Simmons contended oil supply would be constrained in the coming decade to an unprecedented degree. He, like Henry
[CTRL] The Voice Of The White House 8/9/04
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2131 The Voice of the White House August 9, 2004 TBR News August 9, 2004 In previous issues, we carried comments from a reporter assigned to the White House press corps. Some of these remarks, most especially one about Bushs physical and mental problems, drew an enormous number of viewers and hundreds of inquiries, most especially from foreign press entities. The reporter advised us by email that there was rampant fury in the White House and security was becoming very tight. As a result of this, he decided to lay low for a few weeks and see how the wind was blowing. Yesterday, he sent us the following material which we are now posting. Some of it is outrageous in the extreme but to date, no one has proven him wrong. August 6, 2004: This is going to be the filthiest Presidential campaign in history, bar none. We get serious pep talks from mid-level and even senior White House staff members. Most of these are sick, vicious people who are like the type Hitler loved. (A nice nickname in my newsroom for the Prez is Adolf Bush. My senior editor said, Hitler had his Poland and Bush has his Iraq.) Bush started out filled with arrogance but now he and his boys are running very scared. Real, not faked, polls show him with a below 20% approval rating! They are going to put out a release on Kerry claiming his dad was CIA (which he was) and then tie this to the 9/11 intelligence failings. Remember the Robert Hansen case? The senior FBI official who worked for the Russians? You may not know this but Hansen was the top FBI computer man with access to all the US intelligence systems. He spied on DIA, CIA, the Pentagon, the White House, of course the FBI and a host of other agencies tied in to the DoJ computer system. He became a good personal friend of Judge Freeh which caused that worthy to take a very early retirement. Believe me, this man knew everything, I mean everything, and passed it all on to the Russians. And did you know that the Russians sold him back to the US for double what they had paid him over the years? The CIA bribed an SVR official to give them the dirt on H. just to embarrass the FBI (who had in turn embarrassed them over Ames) If the Company hadnt done this, H. would still be draining away all of our top secret data and passing it to Moscow. The FBI had no intentions of outing him because of the embarrassment and in-house efforts to track down a suspected more were severely discouraged by Freeh himself! These people all hate each other and are not, repeat not, going to work together. They have told Bush to fx*! off with his Intelligence Czar nonsense and that will go nowhere, believe me. Beltway turf wars are bloodier than the Tarawa campaign and there are no prisoners taken. The CIA is threatening to release the bank account information (the black accounts, not the white ones) of top Bush people who have hundreds of millions of stolen bucks stashed in Swiss and offshore banks. The price of silence on this fun and games is to give up any idea, genuine or not, of revamping the Intelligence community. On the other hand, several other alphabet agencies are planning to ambush senior CIA operatives with really nasty leakage. Murders and drug connections are prominent. Someone with CIA -connections is now outing gay Republicans in public and this is causing spastic colon here. So many straight and respectable men are trembling in their clubs now. There are more practicing gays among the Republicans than there are in the entire Frisco Castro district and that is saying something. Bush Co had better be careful about their pit bull attacks on Kerry because that is a sword that cuts both ways. I will send you under separate cover a list of the bank accounts. Everyone is leaking everything now and its a reporters paradise on earth. The barn is on fire and the frantic rats are biting each other trying to escape! Look for some really big-name defections soon.. www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1040.htm#001 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
