[CTRL] Massive Govt. Spying On Every American
-Caveat Lector- From Capitol Hill Blue CHB Investigates. . . NSA just one of many federal agencies spying on Americans By DOUG THOMPSON Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue Dec 27, 2005, 00:35 Spying on Americans by the super-secret National Security Agency is not only more widespread than President George W. Bush admits but is part of a concentrated, government-wide effort to gather and catalog information on U.S. citizens, sources close to the administration say. Besides the NSA, the Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security and dozens of private contractors are spying on millions of Americans 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Its a total effort to build dossiers on as many Americans as possible, says a former NSA agent who quit in disgust over use of the agency to spy on Americans. Were no longer in the business of tracking our enemies. Were spying on everyday Americans. It's really obvious to me that it's a look-at-everything type program, says cryptology expert Bruce Schneier. Schneier says he suspects that the NSA is turning its massive spy satellites inward on the United States and intentionally gathering vast streams of raw data from many more people than disclosed to date potentially including all e-mails and phone calls within the United States. But the NSA spying is just the tip of the iceberg. Although supposedly killed by Congress more than 18 months ago, the Defense Advance Project Research Agencys Terrorist Information Awareness (TIA) system, formerly called the Total Information Awareness program, is alive and well and collecting data in real time on Americans at a computer center located at 3801 Fairfax Drive in Arlington, Virginia. The system, set up by retired admiral John Poindexter, once convicted of lying to Congress in the Iran-Contra scandal, compiles financial, travel and other data on the day-to-day activities of Americans and then runs that data through a computer model to look for patterns that the agency deems terrorist-related behavior. Poindexter admits the program was quietly moved into the Pentagons black bag program where it does escapes Congressional oversight. TIA builds a profile of every American who travels, has a bank account, uses credit cards and has a credit record, says security expert Allen Banks. The profile establishes norms based on the persons spending and travel habits. Then the system looks for patterns that break from the norms, such of purchases of materials that are considered likely for terrorist activity, travel to specific areas or a change in spending habits. Patterns that fit pre-defined criteria result in an investigative alert and the individual becomes a person of interest who is referred to the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, Banks says. Intelligence pros call the process data mining and that is something the NSA excels at as well says former NSA signals intelligence analyst Russell Tice. The technology exists, says Tice, who left the NSA earlier this year. Say Aunt Molly in Oklahoma calls her niece at an Army base in Germany and says, 'Isn't it horrible about those terrorists and September 11th,' Tice told the Atlanta Constitution recently. That conversation would not only be captured by NSA satellites listening in on Germany which is legal but flagged and listened to by NSA analysts and possibly transcribed for further investigation. All you would have to do is move the vacuum cleaner a little to the left and begin sucking up the other end of that conversation. You move it a little more and you could be picking up everything people are saying from California to New York. The Pentagon has built a massive database of Americans it considers threats, including members of antiwar groups, peace activists and writers opposed to the war in Iraq. Pentagon officials now claim they are reviewing the files to see if the information is necessary to the war on terrorism. Given the military's legacy of privacy abuses, such vague assurances are cold comfort, says Gene Healy, senior editor of the CATO Institute in Washington. During World War I, concerns about German saboteurs led to unrestrained domestic spying by U.S. Army intelligence operatives, says Healy. Army spies were given free reign to gather information on potential subversives, and were often empowered to make arrests as special police officers. Occasionally, they carried false identification as employees of public utilities to allow them, as the chief intelligence officer for the Western Department put it, to enter offices or residences of suspects gracefully, and thereby obtain data. There's a long and troubling history of military surveillance in this
[CTRL] Fwd: Fw: Oakland Tribune Soliciting Your Copy of 1984 for Congress
-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/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- The Oakland Tribunesays "Big Brother is Watching".The paper asks for donations ofcopies of "1984" to send to all members of Congress. http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/oped/ci_3337465 Big Brother is watching Inside Bay Area IT took 21 years longer than expected, but the future has finally arrived. And we don't like it. Not one bit. We are fighting a war with no end to create a peace with no defined victory. We occupy a foreign land that doesn't want us, while at home our civil liberties are discounted. We are told that it's better not to know what our government is doing in our name, for security purposes. Meanwhile, our government is becoming omnipresent, spying on us whenever it deems it necessary. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell was right after all. In 1949, Orwell penned "1984," a dark, futuristic satire in which the totalitarian government used indoctrination, propaganda and fear to enforce order and conformity. His "Big Brother" the face of this all-knowing regime was never wrong, and to make sure of it, history was constantly being rewritten. Orwell wrote his book as a cautionary tale to underscore the insidious danger of slowly eroded individual liberties. His Thought Police may not yet be on the march, but it's not hyperbole to point out the eerie parallels with today's America. In America today, Big Brother is watching. He's watching because President Bush told him to. Shortly after 9/11, Bush secretly authorized warrantless wiretaps on U.S. citizens making or receiving international calls and e-mails. When it comes to fighting terror, Bush is totalitarian remember, you're either with us or against us. Trust me to get it right, he says. Debate on the law is not only not needed, it's evil. "An open debate about the law would say to the enemy, 'Here's what we're going to do.'" Bush said recently. "The fact that we're discussing this program is helping the enemy." Then there's the Patriot Act, also created in the days immediately after Sept. 11, 2001. The Senate and House of Representatives voted Thursday to extend the law by a month. President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insist it's an indispensable tool in the war on terror and want it extended permanently. "I'm as concerned about the privacy of American citizens as anyone, but we cannot allow libraries and use of libraries to become safe havens for terrorists," Gonzales said in July, defending one of the act's most controversial provisions. Remember, too, that we invaded Iraq primarily because we were told Saddam Hussein was an immediate threat with his weapons of mass destruction. Now the Bush administration acknowledges that wasn't so, but insists there were (are?) other reasons to invade. History is malleable. Orwell wrote of war without end; we're told the war on terror will last decades at least. Orwell wrote of a dumbed-down "Newspeak," and who could argue that our national discourse hasn't slumped? Orwell's "Ministry of Love" tortured dissidents real or imagined; our government decries Iraq's secret torture prisons while arguing over whether to ban torture. Meanwhile, we maintain our own secret CIA prisons. Bush is unapologetic. The president believes he has the legal authority to spy on American citizens without a warrant, and he plans to continue to reauthorize
[CTRL] Fwd: Bush has ties to drug maker
-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/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ 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- NOTE: 12/12/02 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients: Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:39 AM Subject: [Fwd: OK to Give mercury shots to our kids because Bush has ties to drug maker] The Man Behind The Vaccine MysteryWASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2002 Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas, says he's behind a provision in the homeland security bill that protects Eli Lilly and Co.(CBS/AP) Quote "It's a matter of national security. We need their vaccines if the country is attacked with germ weapons."House Majority Leader Dick Armey (CBS)It's been a mystery in Washington for weeks. Just before President Bush signed the homeland security bill into law an unknown member of Congress inserted a provision into the legislation that blocks lawsuits against the maker of a controversial vaccine preservative called "thimerosal," used in vaccines that are given to children. Drug giant Eli Lilly and Company makes thimerosal. It's the mercury in the preservative that many parents say causes autism in thousands of children like Mary Kate Kilpatrick. Asked if she thinks her daughter is a victim of thimerosal, Mary Kate's mother, Kathy Kilpatrick, says, "I think autism is mercury poisoning." But nobody in Congress would admit to adding the provision, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Acosta until now. House Majority Leader Dick Armey tells CBS News he did it to keep vaccine-makers from going out of business under the weight of mounting lawsuits. "I did it and I'm proud of it," says Armey, R-Texas. "It's a matter of national security," Armey says. "We need their vaccines if the country is attacked with germ weapons." Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., isn't buying it. The grandfather of an autistic child, Burton says Armey slipped the provision in at the last minute, too late for debate. "And I said, 'Who told you to put it in?'" He said, 'No, they asked me to do it at the White House.'" Critics say the Bush family and the administration have too many ties to Eli Lilly. There's President Bush's father, who sat on the company's board in the 1970's; White House budget director Mitch Daniels, once an Eli Lilly executive; and Eli Lilly CEO Sidney Taurel, who serves on the president's homeland security advisory council. Officials at the drug giant insist they did nothing wrong. "No one, not our CEO, not myself, not anyone who works with me asked the White House to insert this legislation," said Eli Lilly spokeswoman Debra Steelman. But Kathy Kilpatrick and her husband Michael argue that the thimerosal provision is not designed to protect the nation, but rather to protect Eli Lilly. Asked what he'd say to a congressman who came forward and admitted he was responsible for inserting the provision, Michael Kilpatrick says, "I would ask him if he knew he was protecting mercury being shot into our kids." Kathy Kilpatrick asks, "Why would anyone want to save Eli Lilly on our children's backs?" Because Armey is retiring at the end of the year, some say the outgoing majority leader is the perfect fall guy to take the heat and shield the White House from embarrassment. It's a claim both the White house and Armey deny. © MMII, CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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.
[CTRL] forecast for the Arctic National Wasteland RESERVE(ANWR) Reserving wasteland for what???????
-Caveat Lector- NORTHEASTERN BROOKS RANGE- INCLUDING...ANAKTUVUK PASS...ATIGUN PASS...GALBRAITH LAKE... SAGWON...FRANKLIN BLUFFS 231 AM AST TUE DEC 27 2005 .TODAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG. HIGHS 5 BELOW TO 5 ABOVE. NORTHEAST WINDS TO 15 MPH. .TONIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG. LOWS 5 TO 20 BELOW. NORTHEAST WINDS TO 15 MPH. .WEDNESDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS AROUND 5 ABOVE. VARIABLE WINDS LESS THAN 15 MPH. .WEDNESDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW. VARIABLE WINDS LESS THAN 15 MPH. .THURSDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS AROUND 5 ABOVE. SOUTH WINDS AROUND 15 MPH. .THURSDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS NEAR ZERO. .FRIDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS NEAR 10 ABOVE. .FRIDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS NEAR 5 BELOW. .SATURDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS NEAR 10 ABOVE. .SATURDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS NEAR ZERO. .NEW YEARS DAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS NEAR 10 ABOVE. .SUNDAY NIGHT...CLOUDY. LOWS NEAR 5 BELOW. .MONDAY...CLOUDY. HIGHS NEAR 10 ABOVE. TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION ANAKTUVUK PASS 4 -9 4 / 0 0 0 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.info-quest.org Visit my energy page at http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html Check out the latest on the anwr drilling project http://www.anwr.org visit my blog at http://info-spectrum.blogspot.com 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.info-quest.org/Enumerated.html 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/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;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] 10 reasons to support development in ANWR The Arctic National WASATELAND Reserve reserving wasteland for what????
-Caveat Lector- back to anwr.org TOP 10 REASONS TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT IN ANWR 1. Only 8% of ANWR Would Be Considered for Exploration Only the 1.5 million acre or 8% on the northern coast of ANWR is being considered for development. The remaining 17.5 million acres or 92% of ANWR will remain permanently closed to any kind of development. If oil is discovered, less than 2000 acres of the over 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain would be affected. Thats less than half of one percent of ANWR that would be affected by production activity. 2. Revenues to the State and Federal Treasury Federal revenues would be enhanced by billions of dollars from bonus bids, lease rentals, royalties and taxes. Estimates on bonus bids for ANWR by the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Interior for the first 5 years after Congressional approval are 4.2 billion dollars. 3. Jobs To Be Created Between 250,000 and 735,000 ANWR jobs are estimated to be created by development of the Coastal Plain. 4. Economic Impact Between 1977 and 2004, North Slope oil field development and production activity contributed over $50 billion to the nations economy, directly impacting each state in the union. 5. America's Best Chance for a Major Discovery The Coastal Plain of ANWR is America's best possibility for the discovery of another giant Prudhoe Bay-sized oil and gas discovery in North America. U.S. Department of Interior estimates range from 9 to 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil. 6. North Slope Production in Decline The North Slope oil fields currently provide the U.S. with nearly 16% of it's domestic production and since 1988 this production has been on the decline. Peak production was reached in 1980 of two million barrels a day, but has been declining to a current level of 943,000 barrels a day. 7. Imported Oil Too Costly In 2004 the US imported an average of 58% of its oil and during certain months up to 64%. That equates to over $150 billion in oil imports and over $170 billion including refined petroleum products. Thats $19.9 million dollars an hour! Including defence costs the number would be nearly a trillion dollars. 8. No Negative Impact on Animals Oil and gas development and wildlife are successfully coexisting in Alaska 's arctic. For example, the Central Arctic Caribou Herd (CACH) which migrates through Prudhoe Bay has grown from 3000 animals to its current level of 32,000 animals. The arctic oil fields have very healthy brown bear, fox and bird populations equal to their surrounding areas. 9. Arctic Technology Advanced technology has greatly reduced the 'footprint of arctic oil development. If Prudhoe Bay were built today, the footprint would be 1,526 acres, 64% smaller. 10. Alaskans Support More than 75% of Alaskans favor exploration and production in ANWR. The Inupiat Eskimos who live in and near ANWR support onshore oil development on the Coastal Plain. View our ANWR Flash Movie! Search Web anwr.org Ten reasons to support responsible oil development in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge View our ANWR Powerpoint Presentation ANWR Quicklinks Media Kit Structured Settlements - cash for structured settlements, sell annuity, lottery winnings, and more. Cheap domain name registration - $8.75 domain name registration. register your domain name today. com/net/org/biz/info domain name sale. Al D'amato - us senator from ny | What's New | Background | Technology | People | Photo Gallery | Links | Your State | Media Kit This Page Is Brought To You By Arctic Power Web site design by Frontier Communications - Anchorage, Alaska All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. 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.info-quest.org Visit my energy page at http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html Check out the latest on the anwr drilling project http://www.anwr.org visit my blog at http://info-spectrum.blogspot.com 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.info-quest.org/Enumerated.html 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.
[CTRL] FW: SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZA RICE
-Caveat Lector- SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZA RICE TORTURED VIRGIN By: Novakeo http://www.etherzone.com/2005/nova121205.shtml How far has America fallen from grace, one only requires to watch the Bush administration try to explain their policy of running CIA gulags of torture throughout the world to see how truly despicable the Bush administration is, and how far the mighty have fallen into delusional depravity. Germanys new chancellor Angela Merkel in a classic Freudian slip, nicely outed U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about American torture gulags in Europe as reported by the Financial Times: Asked whether the two had discussed the alleged kidnapping of Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen, by the CIA two years earlier, Ms Merkel said: I am glad to say that we have talked about the case, which the US has accepted was a mistake. Of course, the Bush administration quickly denied that Rice in any way implied that the United States had anything to do with the kidnapping and torture of a German citizen. Condoleezza Rice's contradictory and lucid false statements about U.S. policy in state sponsored torture come at a time when reports of clandestine American prison camps in Poland, Romania, and Kosovo are being circulated in the media. Condoleezza Rices recent performance in Europe is a window to the dark depths of a decadent administration that has lost in the eyes of the world all credibility and moral standing. How can one defend the use of kidnapping, torture, and outright assassinations of supposed terror suspects when it is an internationally illegal and morally irreprehensible thing for any government to do? How different is this conduct from terrorists kidnapping and beheading Westerners in Iraq? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice looked like she was this time uncomfortable in telling the big lie in Europe, over and over again. The pretense is over for the public; we know that Ms Rice, a minion for the Vice President and the neoconservative faction of the Bush administration has no credibility as a truthful government official. The Europeans know, a majority of Americans now acknowledge, just about everything about the Bush administrations war on terror is a lie, and that their deception and doubletalk is also immersed in criminal conduct. How does one stand up to the cameras and bold facedly lie to the audience, lie to the world, lie to your own citizens, that America, the so-called beacon of liberty and justice does not torture, does not incarcerate innocent people, when clearly it does. Ms Rice does not do a very good job in convincing the public that the Bush administration does not torture its prisoners; it has become an impossible task to convince people that the United States adheres to the Geneva Conventions when we are faced with the realities of secret flights in Europe, clandestine prison camps, Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay. George Bush is good at telling the big lie, because most of the time he believes that the rhetoric that he is spewing is actually true. Dick Cheney is also very adept at telling the big lie because the big lie makes sense to the old man, its good logical defensible public policy. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Europe that she could give no guarantee that terrorist detainees would not be abused despite clear rules against torture as reported by The Scotsman: Will there be abuses of policy? That's entirely possible, she said on a visit to NATO headquarters. Just because you're a democracy it doesn't mean that you're perfect. According to Ms Rice, democracies are imperfect, torture happens, especially when you are in a struggle with evil terrorists. The United States has rules and regulations about torture that it supposedly adheres too, but, there are always bad people in the system that abuse their positions, torture happens then, it is usually only isolated occurrences, democracies are imperfect after all. This is the twisted logic we must accept as government policy by people who obviously have bloodthirsty contempt for human life and for the rule of law. Torture is happening in U.S. prisons not because of a few bad apples in the system, torture is happening because it is a deliberate obscure policy in the Bush administrations war on terror, they simply believe in it, so they do it. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should not be making too many more trips like the one in Europe; she is an embarrassment, a two-faced caricature engrossed in a perverse establishment. Condoleezza Rice is awful as Secretary of State; she looks out of place, uncomfortable and inept in explaining the foreign policy of an administration that has lost its way. The Bush administration has proved to be no different from the terrorists they supposedly hate so much. They have destroyed the reputation of a nation that is presently falling into the
