[CTRL] [Fwd: Fwd: [InTheShadows] Protesters turn tables on city's securitycameras]
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: youll like this Subject: [InTheShadows] Protesters turn tables on city's security cameras Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:57:48 -0600 From: "Hilary A. Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Hilary A. Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Dan S" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From the Boston Globe, http://www.boston.com/dailynews/266/region/Protesters_turn_tables_on_city:.s html - Protesters turn tables on city's security cameras By Tom Hays, Associated Press, 09/23/99 13:41 NEW YORK (AP) Big Brother, whether he likes or not, is watching Bill Brown. In the subway, parks and dark corners where government and businesses point security cameras around Manhattan, Brown and his cohorts pop up like annoying Little Brothers with props: crudely drawn placards cryptically quoting Orwell ''We will meet in a place where there is no darkness'' and a boom box sounding mock emergency broadcasts. ''America is now under martial law,'' one broadcast warns. ''Shut up. Be happy. Obey all orders. Relax. Everything is done for you.'' Part performance art, part political protest, Brown's theatrics are the work of what he calls the Surveillance Camera Players. SCP is composed of about two dozen self-described anarchists. According to their manifesto, members view hidden cameras as ''a tool of social control. ... The group intends to explode the myth that only those who are doing something wrong fear surveillance cameras.'' Brown, 40, is a media-friendly, chain-smoking subversive with a sense of humor, a former literature professor who now gets by as a legal proofreader on a graveyard shift. He views Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as a ''mean bastard'' who has turned City Hall into his own Ministry of Love, manipulating the masses under the banner of ''public safety.'' The native New Yorker founded SCP in 1996 in response to the proliferation of video surveillance around the city. ''It's hard not to view it all as a conspiracy,'' he said. SCP's early guerrilla productions mainly performed in subways until broken up by police included rapid-fire, dumbed-down versions of ''1984,'' ''Waiting for Godot'' and ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'' Since then, the group has been a regular feature on an anarchist Website www.panix.com/~notbored gotten international media coverage and started writing its own plays. ''It began as a few people fooling around,'' Brown said. ''Now, we're a serious group.'' The SCP has had no trouble being watched: A 1998 survey by the New York Civil Liberties Union found more than 2,300 surveillance cameras trained on public spaces in Manhattan. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey alone reportedly operates more than 1,200 cameras throughout airports, bridges, tunnels and terminals, most monitored from a control room in the World Trade Center. The group's latest stage is popular Washington Square Park, a notorious drug-dealing spot in the heart of Greenwich Village where police have installed high-tech, remote-control cameras designed to look like ordinary street lamps. Zoom lenses feed monitors watched by police officers in a mobile command center at the park's south end. On a recent Saturday, the officers were treated to the premiere of ''Headline News.'' The performance, a send-up of a newscast, included Brown slowly banging a drum while other players silently flashed placards showing a NATO bomb and titled ''World News,'' an assault rifle ''National News'' and a horned-and-fanged Giuliani ''Local News.'' Passersby were handed fliers warning, ''You are being watched. ... Not only can you and your movements be tracked wherever you are in this open-air prison, but every one of your facial expressions is visible too.'' The mayor and police officials deny any sinister motives. They have defended the cameras' use in housing projects and other areas, touting them as an effective and popular crime-fighting tool. Besides, Police Commissioner Howard Safir has argued, ''You have no right to privacy in a public place.'' In an interview, Brown disagreed. Rampant video surveillance, he argued, infringes on a right New Yorkers hold dear: anonymity. ''We're in a place where people want to blend in,'' he said. ''It runs against the very texture of New York. ... The society I would like is where people police themselves, not where people police us by increasingly impersonal means.'' Asked about a magazine article describing him as ''mildly paranoid,'' Brown set the record straight. ''I'm VERY paranoid,'' he said. -- Dan S [ISML] Insane Science Mailing List LIST MODERATOR: DAN S. To subscribe: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/isml --- ONElist Sponsor Share your special moments with family and friends- send
[CTRL] FW: SOA not dead!!
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart AP == Thursday September 23 6:24 AM ET School of the Americas Funds Renewed Full Coverage International Human Rights By DAVID PACE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - House and Senate negotiators have restored funding for the School of the Americas, the controversial Army school in Georgia that the House moved last summer to shut down. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., said House conferees on the fiscal 2000 foreign operations spending bill agreed Wednesday to accept the Senate's position that provided $2 million in the State Department budget to pay the expenses of Latin American soldiers who attend the school at Fort Benning. The vote won't become final until the conference on the entire bill is concluded, but Kingston, one of the House conferees, said the section covering funding for the school has been closed and cannot be reopened. ``The School of the Americas is in there,'' he said. ``It's survived another year.'' The House voted 230-197 last summer to eliminate the $2 million in training funds. It marked the first time in five House votes since 1993 that the lawmakers have gone on record in opposition to the school. The school has been the target of a decade-long campaign by religious activists upset that some of its graduates were linked to the 1989 murders of six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador. Father Roy Bourgeois, the Maryknoll priest who has spearheaded the campaign against the school, said the conference committee action Wednesday won't slow the campaign. ``We are not going away,'' he said. ``We're going to keep coming back to Washington and to the main gate of Fort Benning in greater and greater numbers every year until that school is shut down.'' The House conferees voted 8-7 to recede to the Senate position. Kingston said the House agreed to restore the funding because members of the foreign operations spending panel did not want to lose jurisdiction over the school, which also receives money from the Defense Department budget. Kingston said House conferees felt that the Pentagon would find a way to continue operating the school, even if the $2 million in training funds had been eliminated. The $2 million represents about half the school's annual budget. The rest comes out of the Pentagon budget, which also pays the salaries of the military officers who serve as instructors. Congressional opponents of the school estimate it costs the taxpayers $20 million a year. = *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. *** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Ankle Deep in the Big Muddy
-Caveat Lector- Contragate revisited.. CIA/cocaine connections see: http://www.copvcia.com http://madcowprod.com/ http://www.dcia.com/do-drugs.html http://www.dcia.com/ http://www.onelist.com/messages/cia-drugs Get involved ! Learn how to start a lawsuit in YOUR town against the Cocaine Importing Agency of America. Los Angeles and Oakland are suing ! http://www.copvcia.com/Oakland.htm How to: http://www.copvcia.com/classaction1.htm Stop the war on PEOPLE, decriminalize drugs and take away the profit center for the covert criminals behind the MAJOR drug trafficking. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -Original Message- Recently, the United States military lost a plane in the skies over Colombia. According to Pentagon sources, this plane was not shot down, nor was it on any kind of mission that involved the civil war in Colombia. These sources claim, with the backing of General McCafferty--U.S. drug "czar", that the mission was solely related to drug production and the so-called war on that production. In almost the same breath, however, McCafferty called for a billion dollars (yes $1,000,000,000) in military aid to fight the drug war and the Marxist revolutionaries (FARC -Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia and ELN-Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional)in the region. Now, I don't know about you, but one can't have it both ways: either the United States is fighting against the leftist forces in the region or they are not. My reading of the situation goes with the former. That is, they are and intend to do so until these forces are defeated. Of course, the likelihood of such a defeat is remote, even should full scale U. S. military involvement eventually occur. This is not out of the question. Indeed, the United States let it be known during the week of July 26, 1999, that it has "a couple hundred" troops in Colombia training elite battalions whose job will be to sever the ties between the coca and opium farmers and the revolutionary forces. Of course, as any one with a basic knowledge of prior Pentagon training missions in other parts of the world is aware, these trainers often participate in military missions and may even denote an even greater U.S. involvement in the future. In order to understand what exactly the Pentagon means in describing these battalions' mission, it is essential to examine the relationship between the peasant coca and opium farmers and the revolutionary organizations. To understand this relationship, it is first necessary to understand the role drug production plays in the economy of Colombia. The peasants have two basic choices in today's Colombia--to go to the big cities and become beggars and prostitutes or farm the land. If they choose the latter, they till the land and plant crops such as corn or plantains. Since these areas were never developed, there are no transportation routes. Only by using the rivers and crossing hundreds of miles overland can the crop reach Bogota or other markets. By the time it gets there, the crop is unsaleable or has become so costly that the profit is practically lost. There is only one alternative open to the peasant farmer who wishes to subsist : growing coca leaves and, more recently, opium plants. Transportation costs for these crops is provided by the drug lords, who move incredible amounts of these products with the consent of high placed government leaders and the armed protection of the Colombian military and paramilitary forces funded by large landowners and drug lords. The FARC and ELN guerrilla forces operate in the coca and opium growing regions. Indeed, they literally administer these regions. Like various parts of southern Vietnam that were in the control of the NLF, the residents of the region consider the revolutionary forces as their government and support their administration. In order to pay the cost of running schools, health care centers, police forces, and other such infrastructural apparatus, the FARC and ELN forces tax the drug trafficking operations--farmers and those involved in the product's transportation and refinement. Although it is their preference not to do support the dependency of the farming population on drug production, the reality is that this is where the money is in rural Colombia. This is where the United States comes in, once again. Most of these drugs are shipped to the streets of our country. This does not happen without the complicity of government and law enforcement officials. In some cases, this means turning the other way when a shipment from a trafficker who has paid off the right people comes through. In other cases, the complicity is much more involved. Even those of us with rather short memories can remember the U.S. involvement in the drugs-for-guns operation run by Ollie North and his cohorts that supplied the contra forces fighting the Nicaraguan government in the
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: More Cal. Coast Anomalies/NWO--Native Americans
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In a message dated 99-09-23 14:17:37 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and the dirty bastards, when they can't utilize it for their
own power, many times situate landfills on top of the holy
sites...off with their heads.
Every invader desecrates the 'holy' sites of their predecessors.
Athabaskans [Navajo Apache] invaded the SW and desecrated Hopi
holy sites. Spanish Catholics invaded and desecrated Navajo holy
sites. WASPs invaded desecrated Catholic holy sites. NewAgers
invaded and desecrated Prod holy sites. And on and on and on...
If your deities can't protect your holy sites from the invaders,
what good are your deities? How holy are those sites?
Back in the early '70s, I decided it would be useful to have on hand a
fine-scale map of geomagnetic and gravitational "anomalies" in the US (and
other continents), making it possible to cross-reference points of extreme
variation --the highest ("peaks") and lowest ("valleys") field-values-- with
precise geographical locations, in order to see if such things as UFO
sightings or other paranormal phenomena were statistically more common at
those points. I was able to obtain gross-scale maps from such agencies as
the US Geological Survey (I got a map of Asia from a Soviet scientist who,
surprisingly, responded promptly to my shot-in-the-dark request) but anything
finer was difficult to come by -- only half the states had been
geomagnetically/gravitationally surveyed in detail and the remaining had to
be pieced together from smaller regional maps (sold separately) which still
left gaps in the picture, like a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces.
At any rate, after I had spliced together all the piece-maps available at the
time, I next set about attaching geographical place-names to the
longitude-and-latitude coodinates of the grid showing only field strength and
density, and the very first thing that leaped out at me was one odd fact --
in almost every location where there was a NEGATIVE anomaly (at energy
"sinks," where, theoretically, living organisms would experience "diminished
capacity" and function poorly), there was a "restricted-access" military
base! These places were the OPPOSITE of "sacred places," something more like
"demonic graveyards," and I seriously doubt that anyone had deliberately
CHOSEN them as sites for secret test facilities (or whatever) DUE TO special
"field properties" measurable by science, since many of the military bases
erected there dated from an earlier period, prior to science's ability to
identify, much less measure, such things.
So, this observed correlation between "UNHOLY sites" --which even animals
tend to avoid-- and military bases or secret government research facilities,
still remains to be explained ... Could it be because (1) only the most
dangerous or sinister among us INSTINCTIVELY, a la some "sixth sense," feel
"at home" there, in the same way that predators nest in foreboding places
where their prey would be reluctant to venture?
Or just because (2) these locations, often desolate and devoid of life, make
ideal hiding places for those who want to go about their business far from
society's prying eyes?
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Re: [CTRL] Origin of Life on Earth
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In a message dated 99-09-23 15:35:11 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wow, neat stuff! I heard Zecharia tell the audience in a
lecture once that "Anunaki translated formally to 'The Lofty
Ones'"
That's correct, as I recall. The ANUnaki were the elder children of ANU,
"the High (or Lofty) One," a common title for sky-gods. The sky or "heaven"
is, after all, Up There. The Igigi, a different group, were the equivalent
stars in the SOUTHERN hemisphere, which set BELOW the horizon -- descending
to the "underworld," figuratively. By the same symbolic reasoning, they
could be called the sons of Ea or Enki ["Lord of Ki," a variant of "Kur," the
primeval earth-beast] , the south-polar god who took their side against
usurper Enlil/EL-lil ("lord of the atmosphere") in a Titan-like revolt of
certain gods forced to work the "mines" (like the Titan-born Cyclopes of the
Greeks) within the earth or otherwise exiled to the world "below" (like the
Fallen Angels in the Book of Enoch or the Nefilim in Genesis). Ea/Enki, as
you know, was the "Prometheus" of Sumeria, a "trickster" god of subtle wisdom
and a "friend of mankind" (famous as the savior of Utnapishtim, our Noah) who
took the hybrid creature's side against the evil Enlil/El,
who wanted to destroy humanity entirely in the Flood for "rebelling" as did
the Igigi.
In the Sumerian texts, it was the Igigi who revolted against being subjected
to hard labor by their brothers the Annunaki, who remained sky-borne and
aloof. Just as in Greek mythology, the younger Olympians (Zeus would be the
equivalent of Enlil) overthrew the Old Gods of NATURE, the Titans, and the
rebellious spirit of freedom survived in the son of the leader of the Titans
and his heir, Prometheus, whom Zeus feared as rival and possible successor.
The gods hated human beings and held them in contempt. Only rometheus, who
helped CREATE man, cared about us little creatures, to the extent of even
sacrificing himself (he was chained to a rock, his liver eaten by Zeus'
totem-eagle) to "save" us, by granting "fire from heaven," light or
INTELLIGENCE, which he STOLE from the jealous gods of the second generation,
who had already enslaved NATURE.
Sitchin (with whom I discused this point) is well aware of the parallels
between the fish-god Ea/Enki and CHRIST with His "fishes" and "fishermen"
associations, and the parallels between the Gnostic dualism of Christ vs. the
Demiurge (FALSE Creator,
identified with the wrathful war-god Jehovah) and the Sumerian cosmology of
RIVAL gods, Ea/Enki and Enlil, understood as TWINS born of Anu, but of
different mothers.
Sitchin, however, is an Israeli Jew who studied under rabbis, and naturally
takes the OPPOSITE side that I myself would support if such a duality were a
theological fact --
in his latest writings, he is a wholehearted supporter of Enlil/Jehovah and
goes as far as to justify human enslavement by the "lofty" gods, who intended
us to be mere cattle.
Me, I'd go with Ea/Enki, mankind's SAVIOR-god, and with the SON of Ea/Enki
known as Dumuzi in Sumerian, Tammuz in Babylonian/Hebrew, a dying/resurrected
"savior"
who is, even in the minds of many scholars, the archetype of our later idea
of Christ.
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[CTRL] REALLY scary mind control
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[CTRL] Gore's Year 2000 Platform
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[CTRL] Was Taiwan earthquake induced?
-Caveat Lector- Anybody know if the Taiwan eartquake was artifially induced? Russia and China are now buddies. Russia has a HAARP like thing called Woodpecker. http://www.eagle-net.org/groomwatch/ Norio usually has weaponry details. http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Keep/4885/skywatch/ http://www.sightings.com/ http://www.sightings.com/political/weapons/weapons.htm See below. Nicky Secret Weapons Technology China Building Satellite-Busting Laser Weapons Airborne Laser Weapon System On 747s Now In Production Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite Weapons (KE ASAT) Military Microwave, Plasma, And Pulsed Power Devices At Kirtland AFB Powerful New Weapons And Technologies Of Human And Political Control Dark Star UAV - Range 500 Miles - 45,000 Feet - 8 Plus Hours UAV Delivered Chem-Biological Weapons Tested At AREA 51? Saddam's Biological Arsenal Keeping Him Safe Canadian Soldier Refuses Anthrax Vaccine In Kuwait Russia Denies Existence Of Biological Weapons Program (Ahem) Former Chief Of Soviet BioWar Production Issues Warning New Warning Of Biological Weapons Threat To The World MUST READING: Annals Of War - The Bioweaponeers Incredible New CAB Weapons Sensor Muslim Militants Said To Target US Civilians Anthrax - CAB Facts And Figures 4 U.S. Military/DOD May Use CAB Agents On American Public! Devastating Russian Electronic Bomb Tested In Sweden Iran on Brink of Nuclear Bomb Military Conducting Biological Warfare in Washington The True Horror Of Biological War Chemical Weapons All Around The World Iran-Iraq Chemical Biological Weapons News Not Good U.S. Accused Of Nuclear War Against Iraq Cities Prepare For Bio/Chemical Attack Russians Advocate Armageddon Evacuation To Siberia Stealth Menace Of GWEN System U.S. Government/Military CAB Experiments On Humans! Germany Also Helped Build Iraq's CAB Weapons 3 U.S. Helped Iraq Build Its CAB Weapons Program! Did Russia Sell CAB Equipment To Iraq In 1995-96 ? Iraq's CAB Weapons: Moving Targets Chemical And Biological Weapons Myths And Facts Australians Try To Evict Ultra Secret Pine Gap Base Domestic Surveillance and Mind Control Technology? Minuteman Nuke ICBMs Shut Down By UFO HAARP, Weather War, And EMF Mind Control "The Rockefeller Report"-Bio Attack Underway On U.S. Military Brain Controlled Appliance Switching Now Here Teleportation Now A Reality HUGE Breakthrough In Sound: Lifting, Powering, Killing Large Amount Of Plutonium Missing From UK Sites 2 UN Iraq Weapons Inspections Virtually Worthless Russia Loses Its Suitcase Nukes Army To Destroy Tons Of Its Own VX Nerve Agent In 2003 At The Brink Of Chemical And Biological War Coming Soon: Incredible USAF Future Weapons US Military Non-Lethal Weaponsa Update Dames Predicts Plant Pathogen Catastrophe (Again) Hand-Held Neutron Bombs Are Here Common Vaccination HORRORS U.S. Fires Laser at Satellite Sadam's Secret Weapon Worse Than Imagined Update Plasma Weapons In Australia Plasma Fireballs Linked To Japanese Cult In Australia Psychotronic Weapons Testing On Americans 1 Teleportation Achieved At IBM? The Top Ten Things About Remote Viewing Joe McMoneagle on Remote Viewing I Joe McMoneagle on Remote Viewing II No Government Mind Control !? ELF and Electromagnetic Disease HAARP/ELF Air Travel Dangers Secret Brain Implant Memo? Weather Control Biological - Chemical Weapons Human Engineered Earthquakes "Soul Catcher" Chip HAARP's Demonic Powers BACK TO SIGHTINGS earthquake had a helping hand, as Russia with its HAARP like Woodpecker and China are now buddies? http://www.eagle-net.org/groomwatch/ Norio usually has these type of weaponry details. http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Keep/4885/skywatch/ http://www.sightings.com/ http://www.sightings.com/political/weapons/weapons.htm See below. Nicky Secret Weapons Technology China Building Satellite-Busting Laser Weapons Airborne Laser Weapon System On 747s Now In Production Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite Weapons (KE ASAT) Military Microwave, Plasma, And Pulsed Power Devices At
[CTRL] Fwd: U.S. Proposes IMF Changes
In a message dated 9/24/99 4:49:48 AM Central Daylight Time, AOL News writes: Subj:U.S. Proposes IMF Changes Date: 9/24/99 4:49:48 AM Central Daylight Time From: AOL News BCC: Ahab42 U.S. Proposes IMF Changes .c The Associated Press By MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration, responding to growing criticism about its policies toward Russia, says it will push for changes at the International Monetary Fund to make sure Russia and other countries don't misuse the billions of dollars the IMF provides in loans. While insisting the administration's overall approach to Russia has been sound, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers unveiled proposals Thursday that would call on the IMF to make wider use of independent audits and allow the lending agency to impose stiffer penalties for countries caught lying. Summers said he expected to gain backing for the proposals during a meeting Saturday of finance ministers and central bank presidents of the world's seven wealthiest countries - the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Britain and Canada. The changes would have to be approved by the IMF's governing board. ``We have a huge interest in whether Russia becomes a market economy, on whether it stays a democracy,'' Summers said in announcing the package of proposed reforms. The new requirements are intended to strengthen the IMF's ability to guard against the misuse of its loans - one of the allegations that has been made against Russia in a widening investigation of corruption and money laundering in that country. The package of proposals comes amid renewed criticism from Republicans in Congress that the Clinton-backed IMF approach to Russian economic reform has been a huge failure. The United States will ask that the IMF be required to order independent audits of central banks in countries suspected of misusing loans. It also wants the IMF to be given greater leeway to penalize borrowing countries caught lying to the agency about domestic economic conditions and be allowed to impose penalties for abuse even after a country has stopped borrowing from the agency. The G-7 discussions this weekend are being held in advance of the annual meetings of the 182-nation International Monetary Fund and its sister lending organization, the World Bank. Financial markets are anticipating that participants also may discuss a plan to jointly intervene in currency markets to buy dollars in support of the U.S. currency, which is close to a 44-month low against the Japanese yen. The dollar's weakness has unnerved American investors, who fear it will boost the cost of imports and add to inflation, and has been cited as a key reason for falling U.S. stock prices. Summers refused to be drawn into a discussion on whether the G-7 might consider coordinated intervention to support the dollar. He said he will stress the need for more balanced global growth - with increased economic activity in Europe and Japan taking the pressure off the U.S. economy. But Summers said Japan's recovery remained uncertain, making it critical for the Japanese government to remain committed to ``continued stimulus, using all available tools'' to boost domestic-led demand. On another matter., Summers and IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus said they were optimistic that agreement may be reached on a plan to increase the amount of debt relief provided to the world's 41 poorest nations. A the key elements of the plan is the sale of 14 million ounces of the IMF's gold reserves to IMF member countries, rather than on the open market, and use the proceeds to forgive debt held by these countries. AP-NY-09-24-99 0548EDT Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press. Announcement: America Online has added Reuters newswires to News Profiles. To add Reuters articles to your daily news delivery, go to KW: A HREF="aol://5862:146"News Profiles/A and click on "Modify Your News Profiles." Then click "Edit" and add Reuters from the list on the left. To edit your profile, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:NewsProfiles"NewsProfiles/A. For all of today's news, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:News"News/A. U.S. Proposes IMF Changes .c The Associated Press By MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration, responding to growing criticism about its policies toward Russia, says it will push for changes at the International Monetary Fund to make sure Russia and other countries don't misuse the billions of dollars the IMF provides in loans. While insisting the administration's overall approach to Russia has been sound, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers unveiled proposals Thursday that would call on the IMF to make wider use of independent audits and allow the lending agency to impose stiffer penalties
[CTRL] Northern California's Forfeiture Campaign
-Caveat Lector- The latest campaign by former "radical" Jerry Brown, who distinguished himself earlier by being the only mayor in the Bay Area to WELCOME the military to his town to conduct "Urban Warfare" exercises there, after San Franciscans had flat-out refused to allow black helicopters and tanks to run rampant through our City streets. OAKLAND [FORFEITURE] LAW THREATENED "[Oakland] Mayor Jerry Brown asks [California governor] Davis to veto bill that would make conviction [of a crime] a prerequisite [for forfeiture]" by Matthew Yi San Francisco Examiner, Sept 23, 1999 OAKLAND - Mayor Jerry Brown has fired off two letters to Gov. Davis urging him to veto a bill that could kill a local ordinance allowing police to confiscate cars used in alleged drug deals or prostitution solicitation. The bill, by Assemblyman Herb Wesson, D-Culver City, would end Oakland's "Operation Beat Feet" law, which was adopted by the voters in 1997. That controversial city ordinance allows police to seize vehicles if the drivers are suspected of crimes; they do not have to be charged with a crime. Owners can later reclaim their cars after negotiating a price with the city, or the city can sell them at a public auction. Proceeds are split 50-50 between the city and the Police Department. Originally, Wesson's Assembly bill merely updated existing law regarding asset forfeiture for white-collar crimes, making it easier for prosecutors to pinpoint illegally obtained goods. But an amendment added in the state Senate requires that defendants be found guilty before any property is seized, and that local ordinances be in line with state law. "Basically, you cannot seize anyone's illegally obtained assets unless they are convicted," Wesson said. Calling the amendment a "blatant and ideological attack on the people of Oakland," Mayor Brown has urged Gov. Davis to reject the bill. The governor has until Oct. 10 to either sign or veto it. "I call upon you to veto AB662 and stop in its tracks the unconscionable undermining of home rule," Brown said in his letter dated Sept. 10. In a second letter dated Sept. 15, Brown contended the bill was "highjacked in the state Senate at the 11th hour." "Without a moment of public hearing, the measure was amended to include an unrelated preemption provision killing Oakland's "Beat Feet' program," he wrote. Brown was out of town Wednesday and could not be reached for comment. Wesson said he was not surprised by Brown's letters to Davis. "I respect (Brown's) opinion," he said. "This was not a personal attack on Oakland ... I believe the amendment made it a better bill because it ensures that you can't take something from someone until they are convicted." But Oakland officials argue that invalidating the local ordinance would violate the state Constitution, which reserves the right of charter cities to make and enforce local laws. " 'Beat Feet' is a completely constituency driven, local ordinance," said deputy city attorney Marcia Meyers. "It was an outcry from the community to deal with degradation with entire areas of this city. With drive-by drug dealers ... and rampant prostitution, random arrests by police officers just weren't getting the job done." Since the program started in January 1998, the city has won all of the asset forfeiture hearings in Alameda County Superior Court, she said. "We've seized more than 300 vehicles," Meyers said. "Our statistics show that 60 percent of the people arrested are from out of town, which indicates to us that people are using Oakland to do their dirty business and illegal activity." This is not the first time Oakland's program has been under fire. Critics from the beginning have argued that the ordinance is a draconian measure and violates civil rights. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Oakland last year, contending the measure violates state law by seizing property without a conviction. However, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Henry Needham Jr. ruled in favor of the city, and the ACLU has appealed the case. "Oakland's ordinance is completely 100 percent enforced with sting operations," said ACLU managing attorney Alan Schlosser. "That's a legitimate law enforcement tool, but that's subject to abuse ... and subject to entrapment." Despite such arguments, at least one other Bay Area city is thinking about adopting a similar city law. San Francisco Supervisor Amos Brown* is planning to hold a public hearing Sunday at Bethel Christian Church in The City to get feedback on the issue. "If we don't have measures in place in our society to legally deal with these kinds of criminal activity, we'll never solve the problem," Supervisor Brown said. Supervisor Brown said he liked Oakland's program, but feared that drug dealers or people looking for prostitutes would take their business
[CTRL] San Francisco, Electrified and Quaking
-Caveat Lector- Something is wrong (at least wronger than usual) here in the Bay Area ... First, really unparallelled thunder and lightning (I watched a massive lightning bolt travel HORIZONTALLY from horizon to horizon, SLOWLY) twice in two weeks, each time "explained" as a byproduct of a dying Pacific hurricane -- two different ones. Second, COINCIDING with a thunder-and-lightning display, an EARTHQUAKE of exactly the rare type that struck Taiwan -- arising near the SURFACE of the earth. Geez, I wonder if China is test-running some secret Tesla weaponry ... 4.2 quake centered in Sonoma County San Francisco Examiner, Sept. 23, 1999 A "very common" earthquake caused some uncommon jitters for Santa Rosa-area residents Wednesday but damaged nothing more than nerves, authorities said. The 4.2 temblor struck about 5 miles northeast of Rohnert Park at 3:27 p.m. and was felt as far south as San Francisco. Earthquakes of magnitude 4.2 "are usually not even felt," said Pat Jorgenson of the U.S. Geological Survey. "There is probably at least one of them in California every day." Jorgenson said Wednesday's shaker had been noticed because "it was fairly shallow - less than 10 miles deep." Santa Rosa resident Betty Becker, a native San Franciscan, said she had experienced many earthquakes in her 75 years "and, boy, this one really shook." Lightning Storm Hits San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9 (AP) - A rare, spectacular lightning storm flashed through the Bay area, bringing hail, rain and power outages. At its peak Wednesday night, the storm cut power to about 55,000 Pacific Gas Electric customers. That figure was down to 9,400 by early today, utility spokeswoman Maureen Bogues said. For about 12 hours, the storm touched off hundreds of lightning strikes from San Francisco to the Santa Cruz Mountains, 60 miles south. Trees and power poles were set on fire, making it dangerous for crews to fix electricity failures affecting spots from the Oregon line to Bakersfield, 400 miles away. One lightning bolt nicked a chimney in San Francisco and another in San Jose split a tree, part of which fell onto a house. No injuries were reported. ``This is spectacular,'' National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Kopps said. ``It's just phenomenal.'' San Francisco Area Hit by Rare Lightning, Thunderstorm, San Francisco, Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The San Francisco Bay area was hit with hail, rain and power outages caused by a rare lightning and thunderstorm, the Associated Press said. The storm, a remnant of Hurricane Greg, touched off hundreds of lightning strikes from San Francisco to the Santa Cruz Mountains, 60 miles north. At its peak last night, the storm cut power to about 55,000 Pacific Gas Electric Corp. customers, although only 9,400 remained without power by early today, utility spokeswoman Maureen Bogues told AP. Tropical Storm Greg, downgraded from a hurricane, battered Mexico's west coast as it moved toward the tip of the country's Baja California peninsula, with maximum winds dropping to 60 mph from 75 mph. Quake Rattle Bay Area ROHNERT PARK, Calif., Sept. 22 (AP) - A moderate earthquake measuring 4.2 in magnitude rattled Northern California on Wednesday, but no damage or injuries were reported. The quake happened shortly before 3:30 p.m. and lasted only a few seconds, according to Pat Jorgenson, spokeswoman for the U.S. Geological Survey. It was centered along the Rodgers Creek fault, about five miles northeast of Rohnert Park, a small city 42 miles north of San Francisco. Night storm flashes around the Bay by Larry D. Hatfield, San Francisco Examiner, Sept. 22, 1999 Blame it all on Hilary. That's monsoonal Hilary, not the senatorial one. The remnants of former Hurricane Hilary, lumbering northwestward in the tropical Pacific, scattered flash-bang weather over the Bay Area and much of the rest of California early Wednesday. Window-rattling thunder, brilliant streaks of lightning and occasionally heavy rain moved through the Bay Area, starting some grass fires, causing minor flooding, scattered power failures, setting off car and burglar alarms and otherwise making the last day of summer's weather interesting. There was more to come, with roving bands of thunderstorms expected to create thunder, lightning, gusty winds, rain and hail around the region throughout the day. Although there was some rain associated with the unsettled weather, state fire officials worried that the swarms of lightning strikes could start new wildfires. Fires still burning Fog, high humidity and some rain helped keep it static Wednesday morning, but a major fire continued to burn in Los Padres National Forest south of Carmel, forcing evacuation of residences, monasteries and businesses there. The 2-week-old lightning-caused fire has burned 28,079 acres of rugged coastland and was only 16 percent contained early Wednesday.
Re: [CTRL] The UN can help save the world
-Caveat Lector- --- Sean McDougal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to guess that your despisal of eco-minded individuals has lead you to not know many of them first hand. snip is it population control or population control advocates? I'll tell you about 2 incidents. 1. One day I was out with my first child and a large pregnant belly. A woman I didn't even know walked up to me and blasted me for contributing to the world's overpopulation, saying that I was "wasting our precious Mother Earth's resources and exploiting poor people of color." This was a white woman with one child tagging along. I am part Lakota, mostly of European extraction, but 100% American since America is the land of my birth and culture. I found her remarks extremely offensive. First, walking up to a stranger and butting into personal business is a serious breach of etiquette, defined as simple consideration for others. Second, her remark struck me as racist, both against whites for reproducing, and against "people of color" for casting them in the role of eternal victims. Being part Lakota, and a woman, I could claim victimhood for myself, but I have chosen to be a person, not a victim. 2. A woman who was once a close friend (we've grown apart over the years) told me she was an advocate of zero population growth. Her own (one of 2) daughter has 4 children. I asked her about that. She said that her daughter should not have had more than one child. This woman had previously expressed how hurt she was that her daughter no longer speaks to her. I wonder why... Yes, the message disturbs me. Which population is supposed to be reduced? Me? You? I keep seeing images of Hitler and Waco ENFORCED population control infringes on human freedom and human dignity as much as restrictions on freedoms of worship, association, and exchange of ideas. If you have further questions, I'm sure I'll read them on the list. Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Dirty 12 / Top 10
-Caveat Lector- From www.academia.org THE DIRTY DOZEN America's Worst College Courses As the school year begins, Accuracy in Academia releases its Dirty Dozen worst college courses in America. After surveying the course catalogs of Americas top schools, Accuracy in Academia has found an extensive array of classes that range from the frivolous to the politically motivated. As the new millennium approaches, professors continue to cling to the same tired, politically correct themes that theyve been pushing for years. * Oberlin Colleges Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare seeks to engage in critiques, resistant readings, and reinterpretations of the Bard. It seems Shakespeare is only worth reading when he is transformed by campus feminists. This course promises to emphasize how gender must be understood in relation to history, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and other significant social categories. * Berkeleys Lesbian and Gay Detective Fiction will give the students and instructor an excuse to spend time during a busy semester reading and discussing a pile of detective novels. Students will examine how the outlaw sexuality of the protagonists plays out against the outlaw activities of the antagonists. * Bucknells Green Utopias introduces students to literary utopias and the cultural writings of various ecological movements offering alternative concepts to the increasing destruction of nature. Greenpeace would be proud. * Women, Gender Identity, and Ethnicity at U. of Northern Arizona will discuss important womens issues, such as witches and fairy tales. What better way to prepare for the workforce than to learn how to construct a mini Welfare budget and role play as a single mother and have it go towards 10% of your grade? Exploitation of women in rock videos and advertising will be explored as well.PictureIs Captain Kirk worthy of study? * Star Trek and Religion at Indiana promises to go beyond just a bunch of Trekkies sitting around admiring Captain Kirk and Bones. It discusses how religion is portrayed on Star Trek and delves into the writings of critics who hope for the demise of religion, and those who believe religion can be re-imagined in mystical or cosmic terms. Purists beware! The course studies Next Generation and Voyager, in addition to the original series. * Is Black Marxism any different from plain old Marxism? This black studies course at UC-Santa Barbara teaches so. Although Marx had very little to say about sociology, anthropology, black studies (he often used the n word and expressed hatred toward blacks), literature, etc., Marxist academics hell bent on preaching his failed ideas inject his ism into most academic fieldseven when it has no relevance. * Gender, Jocks, and Justice: Title IX and American Education is an offering from Dartmouths womens studies program. Predictably, the course description reveals it as advocacy masking itself as education. Is female accomplishment in sport a direct threat to men? the course asks. * In Issues in Afro-American Development. Politics, Economics, and Development: Affirmative Action at Michigan, the instructor works to develop the language to articulate affirmative action as a right and not a benefit at this school currently being sued for racial discrimination against whites. Black conservatives like Ward Connerly and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will be exposed as two major figures against affirmative action, not as leaders for equality under the law. In addition Proposition 209 (the initiative that eliminated preferences in Californias university system) will be discussed as an important watershed in the anti-civil rights movement. The anti-civil rights movement? * Penns Feminist Revisions of Fairy Tales and Myths addresses feminist critiques and rewritings of patriarchal mythologies. Everything from the nuclear family to the Disney film industry is assailed as infantilizing women and erasing her sexuality. * Gay and Lesbian Perspectives in Pop Music at UCLA focuses on lesbians, gay men, and members of other sexual minorities as creators, performers, and audience members. Accuracy in Academia recommends this course to students who have no career aspirations and enjoy classes devoid of intellectual challenges. * White Racism at UConnWhat better way to promote racial harmony than to blanket a whole group with the accusation of universal racism? White racism, the course claims, is the central and enduring social principle on which modern societies are organized. * Amid growing political fervor over whether the census should actually count everybody, as is required by the Constitution, or employ statistical sampling, as liberal politicians have demanded, Counting Everybody: Census 2000 at USC takes a decidedly partisan tone. The course complains that Congress is demonstrating
[CTRL] Multicultural Politics in PC San Francisco
-Caveat Lector- Q: What's a "Democratic" administration? A: One where the most predatory and corrupt among women, homosexuals, blacks and other ethnic minorities get a chance to rip off everyone TOO. [Note to non-San Franciscans: The City's mayor, Willie Brown, an African-American Clintonoid "Democrat," was the mentor of ex-mayor, now Senator, Dianne Feinstein (whose husband Dick Blum, if I recall, was Richard Nixon's investment banker.)] Blacks hail FBI probe of 'set-asides' City anti-discrimination programs not working, they say by Chuck Finnie and Lance Williams San Francisco Examiner, Sept. 16, 1999 San Francisco's enforcement of its affirmative action rules came under heavy criticism from African American business owners and laborers who said they were glad the FBI launched a criminal probe into The City's minority set-aside program for public works contractors. The Board of Supervisors heard the complaints Wednesday during a public hearing about the FBI investigation. Little information about the probe was provided, though. Some proposed reforms were discussed. But the hearing became largely a forum for complaints about how contracting dollars are awarded. Board of Supervisors President Tom Ammiano called for tougher penalties against firms that violate the minority contracting ordinance and said the Human Rights Commission had asked for legislation that would permanently bar from city contracting any company convicted of defrauding the minority set-aside program. The Ethics Commission should be given authority to investigate complaints about contract awards, Ammiano said. Speakers in the audience were particularly critical of the Human Rights Commission, saying it had failed to ensure that minority companies get a fair share of public works contracts. "You deserve an FBI investigation," said Beth Aaron, executive director of Bay Area Black Contractors. "If they (the Human Rights Commission) had done a good job, the FBI wouldn't be here." The hearing, held by the supervisors Finance Committee at the request of Ammiano, was the first at City Hall since The Examiner reported in April that the FBI had opened an investigation into city contracting and was focusing on the set-aside program run by the Human Rights Commission. On July 31, FBI agents investigating suspected criminal wrongdoing in city contracting sealed off the commission office for two days, seeking subpoenaed records related to more than a dozen contractors as well as personnel records and appointment books or daily calendars of some Human Rights Commission employees, including its executive director, Marivic Bamba [[the City's only Filipino department head, accused of disproportionately favoring her own countrymen, who operate a kind of "Filipino Mafia" already monopolizing several professions here by deliberately excluding members of any other race]]. Federal authorities have refused comment on the probe, but people interviewed by the FBI have said agents are exploring allegations of fraud and favoritism in the award of city contracts, particularly where government dollars were intended to go to economically disadvantaged minority- and women-owned businesses. At the hearing Wednesday, representatives of other minority groups and women also testified, and a representative of Mayor Willie Brown defended his administration. But it was African American business owners, tradesmen and advocates for black contractors who turned out in the biggest numbers. They voiced utter frustration over a system through which hundreds of millions of dollars in construction and other contracts are awarded each year but which they said discriminates against them. They blamed not just the commission, but also elected city officials for failing to keep a tighter rein on the agency. "All this money has changed hands and has not trickled down," said Gerard McKinney, a young black carpenter who said he lives in Bayview-Hunters Point. "I'm hoping the FBI does its job but goes after the bigwigs, too," McKinney said. A focus of the investigation, according to people interviewed by the FBI, is Hunters Point trucker Charlie Walker, a friend, former law client and political booster of Mayor Brown. Walker, who served a three-year state prison term during the 1980s for grand theft, attempted extortion, perjury and tax evasion for bilking city minority contracting programs, has received $825,000 in set-aside contracts since Brown took office. The FBI also sought city records under subpoena on a company called Scott-Norman Mechanical Inc., which has obtained $55.1million as a minority subcontractor on San Francisco International Airport's $2.4-billion expansion since the commission ruled it eligible for minority set-aside contracts. According to documents filed in a San Francisco lawsuit that pitted partners in Scott-Norman against each other,
Re: [CTRL] Dirty 12 / Top 10
-Caveat Lector- ROFLMAO Typically hilarious PC "scholarship"! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Summer('s) Time
-Caveat Lector- Via NEWSMAX.COM PicturePicture: NewsMax.com New Audio Tape Release State Trooper Tells Clinton Secrets Order Your Tapes HerePicturePicture: HomePicture: E-mail NewsPicture: ColumnistsPicture: News LinksPicture: Late NightPicture: Archives Picture: StorePicture: Talk ShowsPicture: MagazinesPicture: ChatPicture: ClassifiedsPicture: Contact Advertise Your Banner Here Understanding the Russian MafiaTreasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers: Testimony Before the House Banking CommitteeSeptember 21, 1999 Chairman Leach, Ranking Member LaFalce, Members of the Committee, I welcome this opportunity to discuss our financial policies towards Russia in light of recent reports and allegations regarding corruption, capital flight, and money laundering. Given the crucial law enforcement challenges these issues pose, and given our significant national security and economic interests in Russia, it is certainly timely for this Committee to hold a hearing on these matters. Let me say at the outset, in the wake of recent allegations of money laundering through a U.S. bank, that safeguarding the integrity of the American financial system is an absolute priority for this Administration. We are committed to the full investigation of these allegations, to the prosecution of any crimes uncovered, and to strengthening our capacity to combat future abuses. We will continue to press Russia and other countries to put in place the laws and enforcement capacity to combat money laundering and other cross-border crimes. I would like to cover four topics in my remarks this morning: first, the broad context of our economic and financial engagement with Russia; second, Russian corruption, capital flight, and international money laundering; third, our financial policy towards Russia going forward; and fourth, our policies generally to combat global corruption and money laundering. I. Russias Economic Transition and American Engagement It would be difficult to overestimate the seriousness of the problems facing Russia today in the wake of the monetary and financial collapse of August 1998 a collapse that was itself the consequence of long-standing Russian failures to finally establish and implement comprehensive reforms against the background of a deterioration in the international economic environment. These difficulties are of grave concern to the United States and will shape the terms of our engagement with Russia in the months ahead. But even as we recognize the enormity of Russias problems, it is important to see them in their broader context. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia faced four difficult transitions: the transition from empire to state; the transition from totalitarianism to democracy; the transition from the law of force to the force of law; and the transition from a command economy to a market economy. The American people had then, and continue to have, an enormous stake in Russias making these transitions peacefully and successfully: It is a stake that derives from our national security interests, made all the more important by the large number of nuclear weapons that remain on Russian soil. It is a stake that derives from our interest in a strong and stable global economy and international financial system in which Russia becomes a healthy participant. And it is a stake that derives from our interest in protecting the integrity of our markets and our financial institutions from the scourge of corruption and money laundering be it in Russia or any other country. The United States has pursued these critical interests bilaterally in a number of ways: through far-reaching arms control and military cooperation with Russia; through extensive formal and informal mechanisms and contacts; through bilateral aid programs; and through direct linkages between American and Russian law enforcement agencies. Along with technical assistance, the aspect of Russias transformation in which the Treasury Department has been, and continues to be, most heavily involved is Russias interaction with the international financial institutions. We have supported that interaction because of our assessment of the strong U.S. interest in Russias constructive evolution. Conditioned financial support From the start, the overarching economic objective of the international financial institutions in their operations in Russia has been to help Russia develop the policies and institutions of a functioning market economy as the route to stability and growth, an objective that the United States has supported as the major shareholder in these institutions. Economic instability in Russia raises important concerns for our national security, given Russias pivotal and continuing role with respect to nuclear security, the battle against terrorism, the stability of Eurasia, and conflict resolution in global hot spots like the Balkans.
[CTRL] Barry McCafferty
-Caveat Lector- Some one was alluding to Mac being involved in the eastern trade. Can someone please post a bio on the "general," Thanks. Drug Peace not war Om K' DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Health Care: Canada-Style
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.commoncouragepress.com/health.html The National Health Program Book A Source Guide for Advocates David U. Himmelstein, M.D. Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H. 272 pages $11.95 PAPER; ISBN 1-56751-018-3 Order Direct and Save 25% OUR PRICE ONLY $8.96 $29.95 CLOTH; ISBN 1-56751-019-1 A simple, clear argument for a national health program like Canada's. Most Americans would prefer a national health program like Canada's that costs less than ours and insures everyone. Why, in a democracy, isn't this an option? The multibillion dollar health insurance industry fights for its life by promoting managed competition, keeping information from the public, and spreading lies about the Canadian system. This book gives you the information to fight back. Did you know? Canadians live two years longer than Americans; Canada spends only 9 percent of its gross national product on health care and insures everyone, while we spend 14 percent of our GNP and leave 35 million people uninsured; Canadians get more care than Americans, and 95 percent of Canadians get the care they need within 24 hours, at least as fast as most Americans; Administrative costs for health care were $911 per person in the U.S. in 1993 and only $270 per person in Canada. Going to a Canadian-style system would save enough on paper pushing to cover all of the uninsured; The Clinton administration hopes to save money by pushing most Americans into Health Maintenance Organizations, but HMO premiums have been skyrocketing. This book decodes health insurance companies' propaganda, providing a tool to organize for what most Americans already know they want. Click here to view the Table of Contents http://www.commoncouragepress.com/healthcont.html David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are founders of Physicians for a National Health Program. They teach and practice medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Hospital. AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] (Fwd) Corporate Henchmen
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: 23 Sep 1999 17:19:25 - To: List Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Common Courage Political Literacy Course" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Corporate Henchmen Info on this email course is at the bottom. The Legal Gladiators: How Corporate America Protects Profits at Your Expense Myth: The genius of American capitalism is that corporations compete in a free market environment designed to favor the companies that are most efficient at giving consumers what they want. In reality, corporate power over consumers and the entire society is increasing at an alarming rate. One form of power is pushing costs of doing business onto taxpayers, such as when utilities shift the costs of managing radioactive waste to governments, "a kind of lemon socialism," write Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith in "No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America." Another form is the creation of private governments. "The Walt Disney Company's 22,000 acres near Orlando, Florida, are a private government with taxing, police, and zoning powers over a territory as large as San Francisco. The private corporate domains, such as giant shopping malls, 'business improvement districts,' and their counterparts in the housing area, the so-called gated communities, continue to break legal ground, stretching corporate sovereignty and shrinking public places," the authors write. This problem is made possible by the legal hired guns who are essential to preserving corporate power. Just how old is it? Consider this admonition: "Instead of holding a position of independence, between the wealth and the people, prepared to curb the excesses of either, able lawyers, to a great extent, allow themselves to become adjuncts of great corporations and have neglected their obligation to use their powers for the protection of the people. We hear much of the corporate lawyer and far too little of the 'people's lawyer.'" It sounds like a warning from Ralph Nader, and it is quoted in his book. But it's actually an insight made by then corporate attorney, Louis D. Brandeis--in 1905! Picking up on Brandeis's insight to show just how corporate lawyers do it, the authors reveal a full bag of tricks which will be the subject of future emails. But for now, consider the emblematic case of Lloyd Cutler, famous for serving as the White House lawyer under Clinton. * Corporate lawyers weaken the regulations responsible for ensuring public safety. "In 1966, the major U.S. automakers hired Cutler to gut the proposed motor vehicle safety legislation More than 100,000 Americans lost their lives and many more were seriously injured while Cutler masterminded years of delay for his auto industry paymasters to keep air bags out of any federal safety standards." Cutler even represented the Ford Motor Company in the early seventies against air bags when General Motors, however briefly, was touting the devices. In another example of efforts to weaken regulation, his firm has also lobbied to weaken the Drug Safety Act of 1962. * Lawyers defend corporations accused of conspiring to minimize competition. "Representing the Automobile Manufacturers Association back in the late 1960s, Cutler persuaded the Justice Department's antitrust division to drop a pioneering criminal prosecution of the automobile industry for 'product fixing'--namely, conspiring to restrain competition by agreeing to freeze technological innovations related to vehicular smog controls," write Nader and Smith. * Lawyers also work diligently to protect profits, even when it means denying life-saving drugs to poor patients who can't afford them. "Earlier, in the sixties, Cutler represented the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of America's (PMA) drive to block the McKesson and Robbins Company's agreement to sell the government of Colombia lower-priced generic drugs--from 80 to 90 percent cheaper than the brand-name medicines for some important antibiotics. Senator Nelson's investigator, economist Benjamin Gordon, believed that the effect of the PMA's opposition to generic drug marketing would be to deny necessary medicines to large numbers of impoverished people in South America," they write. * Corporate lawyers are indispensable in procuring corporate welfare. "Cutler's recent Canadian client is Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc., which located $10 billion worth of gold on federal public land in Nevada. Prior to joining the Clinton administration, Cutler pressed Bruce Babbitt, Clinton's secretary of the interior, to sell the land above the gold deposits for the tiny sum of $9,765--a price of about five dollars per acre, authorized by the antiquated 1872 Mining Act. Babbitt denounced the giveaway of the people's gold and urged passage of pending reform legislation in Congress to give the government a more realistic value for such lucrative public properties. But
[CTRL] [BRIGADE] From Pat to the Brigades
-Caveat Lector- Dear Brigade -- this just in from Pat: Memo to the Brigades From Pat Buchanan As our candidacy and books are both under ferocious fire back here, we need help. If our ideas are to prevail, they must be seen. Reports are coming in here that giant chain book stores are not carrying "A Republic, Not an Empire" and others may be pulling the book from the shelves. If we are to win this battle, our ideas have to be seen and read in an undiluted, undistorted form. Please call your local book stores in every city and town in America, and demand to know if they are carrying "A Republic, Not An Empire," and if not, why not? We are taking incoming, but are holding up fine. Ride to the sound of the Guns! Pat Buchanan --- end - Spread the word -- forward this email across the USA! ** Don't Miss Out - Join the BRIGADE Email List! To Subscribe-Unsubscribe: Click on/Click off at: http://www.gopatgo2000.org/000-p-brigade-list-subscribe.html *** Help Pat and the Brigade in our Battle for the White House... Go to: http://www.gopatgo2000.org/000-v-helppat.html *** Official WebSite for Patrick J. Buchanan for President Web: http://www.gopatgo2000.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 1-703-734-2700 WebMaster - Linda Muller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] GOOD GUARD DOGS! COULD THEY BE ANY MORE BLATANT?!?!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.lucistrust.org/ Click the "World Goodwill" and "Triangles" links... \\|// (o o) oOOo-(_)-oOOo Jamie Stopforth DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] (Fwd) [BRIGADE] PJB: Response to Republican Rivals
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Linda Muller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Buchanan 2000 For Immediate Release - Friday, September 24, 1999 BUCHANAN RESPONDS TO REPUBLICAN RIVALS MCLEAN, VA -- Today, Republican Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan released the following statement: "Listening to John McCain, I may be the first man ever read out of the Republican Party for refusing to support the Danzig policy of Neville Chamberlain. For those unfamiliar with A Republic, Not an Empire, let me summarize what I believe: "Hitlerism was conceived in the brutal gang rape of a defeated Germany in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles in 1919, as Woodrow Wilson, who had promised justice to the German people, looked on. The Harding-Coolidge- Hoover policy of easing reparations and seeking to bring a defeated, demoralized, divided, democratic Germany back into the family of Western nations was morally and politically sound. "Chamberlain's Danzig Policy, giving Poland a war guarantee he had neither the capacity nor will to honor, was not only immoral, it was, as Lloyd George said, 'demented,' and led to war in the West, the Nazi occupation of the European democracies, the death of 400,000 British soldiers, and the destruction of the British Empire. "It was Wilsonism, liberal interventionism, not 'isolationism,' that created the moral-political swamp in which fascism, Hitlerism, and Stalinism were spawned. Unable to deal with the truth-that their own heroes produced the disasters that may yet ring down the curtain on Western Civilization-the blind children of Wilson now scapegoat Pius XII and America First. "Do those attacking me realize they are defending the policies that produced World War II and virtual annihilation of the Jewish population of Europe? While the West is busy erecting Holocaust museums, it has failed to study the history that produced it. "Today, the United States is handing out war guarantees all over Eastern Europe, guarantees a future generation of Americans may refuse to honor, guarantees that are driving a defeated, demoralized, divided and democratic Russia, with 20,000 nuclear weapons, straight into the arms of a Chinese Communist regime whose rulers bristle with hatred and resentment at hubristic American attempts to create some arrogant 'global hegemony.' "My book was written to prevent that cataclysm; my book was written to save lives. As for my Republican rivals, opportunistically piling on me, to the giddy applause of the Establishment, do you really think you will be spared, should you, too, violate the norms of Political Correctness and speak truth to power?" For more information contact JoAnne Hansen at 703.734.2700 -- end --- Spread the word -- forward this email across the USA! ** Don't Miss Out - Join the BRIGADE Email List! To Subscribe-Unsubscribe: Click on/Click off at: http://www.gopatgo2000.org/000-p-brigade-list-subscribe.html *** Help Pat and the Brigade in our Battle for the White House... Go to: http://www.gopatgo2000.org/000-v-helppat.html *** Official WebSite for Patrick J. Buchanan for President Web: http://www.gopatgo2000.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 1-703-734-2700 WebMaster - Linda Muller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of
[CTRL] JIM KEITH TRIBUTES
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/things.htm A HREF="http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/things.htm"Steamshovel Press: Things Are Gonna Slide! /A - Jim, Thanks for being you, your writings and soul I know will continue to help in the understandings that will help us reclaim our freedoms and heritage. Om K - Things Are Gonna Slide! JIM KEITH TRIBUTES Acharya S Several years ago, I became aware of Jim Keith's abundant writings, which so often displayed unusual courage and curiosity. With the book A lternative Three, his name became seared in my memory. I remember thinking, "Wow! Who's this guy, how did he get this book published, and how's he so well known?" I was impressed and wanted to be like him in that regard, writing and actually getting published books that were controversial and ordinarily suppressed. Jim seemed to be selling quite a few of them, as well, which is also very difficult. He was a maverick paving the way for many others, as far as I could tell. Secret and Suppressed published by Feral House was another of Keith's fabulous works. In fact, it was because of this book and our mutual friendship with eminent conspiriologist Kenn Thomas that, to my delight, I became friendly with Jim. I did not know him well, but over these past several months of exchanging email with him, I felt a kinship with him, particularly when on a couple of occasions he and I got lumped together in various discussions. I was pleased by such an affiliation, as, despite Jim's often-difficult subject matter, his writing displayed care and thoughtfulness, rather than the recklessness and laxity found in the works of others. Jim also had an extraordinary wit and gracious sense of humor. Even when confronted by the fact that some of his work had been "copied" by others and not attributed, he shrugged his shoulders instead of calling for vindication. He seemed to recognize the fierce competition and professional jealousy in his field and the world at large, and not to let it affect him. Indeed, I can envision him raising a beer in honor of his "sincerely flattering imitators." The conspiracy world will be sadder and poorer for the loss of this warm, pensive and dauntless man. I for one will have Jim Keith sitting on my shoulder as a muse whenever I write about subjects that were near and dear to his heart. Jim has left an inspiring mark upon the world during his all-too-short life. Acharya S Archaeologist, Historian, Mythologist, Linguist Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece Associate Director, Institute for Historical Accuracy Director, Center for the Research and Study of Theology Author of The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold www.truthbeknown.com Jim Hougan A fucking knee operation? Joan D'Arc Jim gave me rights to publish a little known talk he did, entitled "UFOs at the Edge of Reality", which was published in Paranoia in Fall 1997. It's really cool. His best quotes are the following: "there seems to be a coverup about the fact that awareness creates reality, is actually in charge of reality." "there is an in-between realm in this omiverse where thought and matter meet." "The prototypical alien grey face is based upon the least information units that you can interpret and still come up with a face." "UFOs may constitute an "imagining" into future possibilities ... a trial run in a new pair of shoes." Let me know if you'd like this article. Actually, I'd have to type it, since the original document is gone. But that would only take me a few days. My heartfelt condolences on the passing of your friend. We have all lost a comrade in arms. Adam Gorightly What a fuckin' bummer, to say the least! We corresponded a lot, and he was always super-generous and friendly--he seemed to have a real passion for life. We planned to get together some time, and now I regret having never met him face to face. I really feel for his kids...He will be missed. Jim Martin, Flatland A BREW POURED ON THE GROUND FOR A DEAD HOMEY. Soon after I started Flatland in 1984, Jim Keith sent me his zine, Dharma Combat. I liked it right away and so did Flatlanders. Since then, I listed every one of his non-fiction books as he produced them at an incredible rate of three a year. Keith showed me flashes of brilliance tempered with cynical contempt. I respected him. He disappointed me. I'm sad he's dead, he had a spark. John Quinn If you're an investigative journalist who's lately publicly addressed some fairly "warm" recent conspiracies, we would STRONGLY advise that you be EXTREMELY careful NOT to have a relatively minor fall which might result in a bruise serious enough for you to desire medical advice/attention. If you DO incur such a bruise (or any other condition needing medical attention), we would STRONGLY advise seeking care from a KNOWN and TRUSTED practitioner ONLY. You wouldn't want a "blood clot" from the impacted area to go to your lungs and
[CTRL] Things Are Gonna Slide! -various
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/things9.htm A HREF="http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/things9.htm"Steamshovel Press: Things Are Gonna Slide! /A - Things Are Gonna Slide! BUFORD FURROW HAS A MILITARY EMAIL ADDRESS, part deux Buford Furrow has military ID--and researcher John Quinn insists that it's Buford Jr., although most now acknowledge that it's likely Furrow's father--and belonged to Aryan Nations, run by 81 year old Richard Butler. (Yahoo quotes Butler as saying he had not seen or heard from Furrow, a former aerospace engineer, since 1994 or 1995. "He was a good soldier at that time," says Butler.) Pages 136-7 of Maury Island UFO have the Reverend Bob LeRoy talking about how Butler and William Gale started the New Identity movement under Wesley Swift in California. Gale worked for Hughes aircraft and was part of Charles Willoughby's spy net. According to Dick Russell (p. 195 in Man Who Knew Too Much), in 1962 Gale was building "an underground network for the conduct of guerilla warfare...some of the recruitment effort has been directed toward former military servicemen." These are the Rangers, aka the Minutemen, "composed of persons devoted to extremist racial and religious beliefs." Russell adds, "It was quite a time for Willoughby's old journalist acquaintance Mark Gayn to show up on the scene, authoring an article titled "The Far Right: America's Own Ultras" for the April 1962 Canadian Commentator magazine. The dateline was Los Angeles, and Gayn warned that "the Minutemen are known to have acquired some first-rate automatic weapons, and they thank big business for providing the funds for this..." Koestler on Women From The Invisible Writing, 1954: " Two episodes concerning women with whom I was not personally involved deserve to be related here because they are characteristic of the atmosphere of Berlin during the feverish months of Gotterdamerung that preceded the Nazis' seizure of power. The first is pretty ghastly, and hard to believe for anyone who has not experienced the mass-hysteria that conquered the German people during the last days of Weimar. It happened to a colleague of mine at Ullstein's, whose name has slipped my memory-it sounded something like von Ehrendorf, so I shall call him that. During the carnival season Of 1932, Ehrendorf went to a dance and picked up a tall, pretty blonde. She wore a large swastika brooch on her breast, was about nineteen or twenty, gay, uninhibited and brimful of healthy animal spirits-in short, the ideal Hitler-Madchen of the Brave New World. After the dance, Ehrendorf persuaded her to go back with him to his flat, where she met his advances more than half-way. Then, at the climactic moment, the girl raised herself on one elbow, stretched out the other arm in the Roman salute, and breathed in a dying voice a fervent 'Heil Hitler'. Poor Ehrendorf nearly had a stroke. When he had recovered, the blonde sweetie explained to him that she and a bunch of her girl friends had taken a solemn vow, pledging themselves 'to remember the Fuehrer every time at the most sacred moment in a woman's life'. The tricoteuses of the French Terror had found their successors in the Valkyries of the Hitler era. I use this opportunity to confess that I have always held a reactionary view of the part played by women in politics. Taking history as a whole, female interference in matters of State seems to add up to a rather nefarious balance. The male tyrants of history are on the whole cancelled out by an equal number of reformers; but where are the female humanists to compensate for the long series of monsters, from Messalina to Catherine the Great, to Irma Griese of Buchenwald? There are countless books for boys about great men, and no books for girls about great women; yet an anthology about the harpies who left their imprint on history would be an international best-seller. I am talking of women who took a direct hand in politics; their indirect influence via husbands and lovers is a different problem altogether-though even here it seems that they have acted on the whole more as catalysts of ambition than as neutralisers of aggression. The second story is the counterpart of the first. Alfred Kantorowicz, our cell leader, had asked a girl comrade to tea in his flat. There were only the three of us present. The girl, whom I had not met before, was dark and slim and would have been moderately attractive but for her slovenly manner of dressing, and a curiously distraught look. She took no part in the conversation, and did not even pretend to listen. Suddenly she said to Kantorowicz: 'Do look out of the window now, and see whether he is there; but be careful.' Kantorowicz peered into the street from behind the curtain. 'There is nobody,' he said reassuringly. 'When I came in, he was hiding behind a lamp-post,' said the girl. She spoke in a quiet, resigned voice, without any emotion. Kantorowicz now explained to me that comrade Hilda was in
[CTRL] Fwd: Tagged Students Defy Big Brother, Part 2
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Tagged Students Defy Big Brother, Part 2
By David M. Bresnahan © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
Students at Louisiana's Ruston High School continue to protest the use of ID badges displaying their Social Security numbers, one parent is threatening a federal criminal complaint, and the man who programmed the computers involved has given advice to the students -- become an administrative headache. (See part one, {HYPERLINK "http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19990923_xex_tagged_stude.shtml"}Tagged students defy Big Brother in yesterday's WND.)
Each student in Louisiana, whether they know it or not, has a state student ID number. That number by default is also their Social Security number. Parents can object and require the school to use a different number.
"Students' parents can request a new state identification number if they object to use of the Social Security number," advised Eric L. Green, who was formerly contracted to install and administer the computers at Ruston High School
"The school is required to issue such a number if requested. This is by both state law and school district policy," he explained to WorldNetDaily. "This is the best form of civil disobedience. It causes a serious administrative headache and gives them great incentive to change the policy. It also directly involves district personnel, who, when inconvenienced, are likely to go to the superintendent's office and say 'This policy must be changed.'"
Students who have been protesting the new requirement to wear an ID badge displaying their Social Security number have refused to wear the controversial badges. Jonathan Washington was made to wear a temporary red badge on Thursday.
"I wore it for five minutes, then took it off," said Washington, 15. He said he did not wear a badge for the rest of the day. Others have begun to follow Washington's lead. Indeed, he has obtained hundreds of signatures of students supporting a petition to remove the Social Security numbers from the badges.
The school computers contain each student's Social Security number as well as a specially created student identification number. That number was created to avoid problems with the use of Social Security numbers.
"I am mystified why they put the Social Security numbers on the card, rather than the district-assigned seven-digit student identification number," Green told WorldNetDaily. "The district- assigned number was specifically created over seven years ago due to concerns about widespread use of the Social Security numbers, concerns expressed both by Lincoln Parish School Board district officials and by other school officials state-wide.
"The student identification number can be queried out of the Student Information Systems database just as easily as the Social Security number. The only thing that I can think of is that the placard-generating software they used had a nine-digit space for student ID number, and they were too stupid to figure out how to put a seven-digit number into that space," he explained from Arizona where he now lives.
Green was paid as a consultant to install the current computer system at Ruston High School, and spent two years supervising the transfer of data from those computers to the school district and to the state computers in Baton Rouge. Green also transferred data from the school lunch program computers to the federal government.
"The only system I know of that must use the federal Social Security number is the lunch system, where various anti-fraud laws require them to submit the data to the feds and the feds then match it against the food stamp rosters," Green explained.
The computers do not print out Social Security numbers on any reports, except for reports required by state and federal agencies. Reports used by the school system default to the student identification number, which is seven digits instead of the nine used by the Social Security number.
"I have no idea why other software vendors did not adopt such a solution to privacy concerns with the Social Security number, just as I have no idea why the administration at Ruston High School chose to use a number that their administrative software vendor had been specifically told (by the school district) not to use as a publicly reported piece of data, due to privacy concerns," Green stated.
"At this point, I have discussed the legal ramifications of this with the principal and an assistant superintendent who has gotten a legal opinion, albeit I think flawed, from a lawyer that represents them," said Paul Washington, father of Jonathan, in a phone interview with WorldNetDaily. "My feeling is that my next move is to either contact the federal authorities, or institute a lawsuit on my own. Either way, I am getting very close to instituting legal action one way or the other."
Washington said he hopes the school officials will change the ID cards before he is forced to take legal action to intervene. He has asked the principal to have the barcodes
[CTRL] [BRIGADE] PJB: Response to Republican Rivals
-Caveat Lector- Buchanan 2000 For Immediate Release - Friday, September 24, 1999 BUCHANAN RESPONDS TO REPUBLICAN RIVALS MCLEAN, VA -- Today, Republican Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan released the following statement: "Listening to John McCain, I may be the first man ever read out of the Republican Party for refusing to support the Danzig policy of Neville Chamberlain. For those unfamiliar with A Republic, Not an Empire, let me summarize what I believe: "Hitlerism was conceived in the brutal gang rape of a defeated Germany in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles in 1919, as Woodrow Wilson, who had promised justice to the German people, looked on. The Harding-Coolidge- Hoover policy of easing reparations and seeking to bring a defeated, demoralized, divided, democratic Germany back into the family of Western nations was morally and politically sound. "Chamberlain's Danzig Policy, giving Poland a war guarantee he had neither the capacity nor will to honor, was not only immoral, it was, as Lloyd George said, 'demented,' and led to war in the West, the Nazi occupation of the European democracies, the death of 400,000 British soldiers, and the destruction of the British Empire. "It was Wilsonism, liberal interventionism, not 'isolationism,' that created the moral-political swamp in which fascism, Hitlerism, and Stalinism were spawned. Unable to deal with the truth-that their own heroes produced the disasters that may yet ring down the curtain on Western Civilization-the blind children of Wilson now scapegoat Pius XII and America First. "Do those attacking me realize they are defending the policies that produced World War II and virtual annihilation of the Jewish population of Europe? While the West is busy erecting Holocaust museums, it has failed to study the history that produced it. "Today, the United States is handing out war guarantees all over Eastern Europe, guarantees a future generation of Americans may refuse to honor, guarantees that are driving a defeated, demoralized, divided and democratic Russia, with 20,000 nuclear weapons, straight into the arms of a Chinese Communist regime whose rulers bristle with hatred and resentment at hubristic American attempts to create some arrogant 'global hegemony.' "My book was written to prevent that cataclysm; my book was written to save lives. As for my Republican rivals, opportunistically piling on me, to the giddy applause of the Establishment, do you really think you will be spared, should you, too, violate the norms of Political Correctness and speak truth to power?" For more information contact JoAnne Hansen at 703.734.2700 -- end --- Spread the word -- forward this email across the USA! ** Don't Miss Out - Join the BRIGADE Email List! To Subscribe-Unsubscribe: Click on/Click off at: http://www.gopatgo2000.org/000-p-brigade-list-subscribe.html *** Help Pat and the Brigade in our Battle for the White House... Go to: http://www.gopatgo2000.org/000-v-helppat.html *** Official WebSite for Patrick J. Buchanan for President Web: http://www.gopatgo2000.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 1-703-734-2700 WebMaster - Linda Muller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] [1] Nicaraguan Contras and Cocaine
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.webcom.com/pinknoiz/covert/contracoke.html A HREF="http://www.webcom.com/pinknoiz/covert/contracoke.html"Nicaraguan Contras and Cocaine/A - See also CIABASE and more Iran/contra information Selections from the Senate Committee Report on Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy chaired by Senator John F. Kerry I. INTRODUCTION II. THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH RESPONSE TO CONTRA/DRUG CHARGES III. THE GUNS AND DRUG SMUGGLING INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPS IV. DRUG TRAFFICKING AND THE COVERT WAR V. THE PILOTS VI. U.S. GOVERNMENT FUNDS AND COMPANIES WITH DRUG CONNECTIONS A. SETCO/HONDU CARIB B. FRIGORIFICOS DE PUNTARENAS C. DIACSA D. VORTEX VII. THE CASE OF GEORGE MORALES AND FRS/ARDE VIII. JOHN HULL IX. THE SAN FRANCISCO FROGMAN CASE, UND-FARN AND PCNE X. THE CUBAN-AMERICAN CONNECTION XI. RAMON MILIAN RODRIGUEZ AND FELIX RODRIGUEZ FOOTNOTES NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS AND THE CONTRAS I. INTRODUCTION The initial Committee investigation into the international drug trade, which began in April, 1986, focused on allegations that Senator John F. Kerry had received of illegal gun-running and narcotics trafficking associated with the Contra war against Nicaragua. As the Committee proceeded with its investigation, significant information began surfacing concerning the operations of international narcotics traffickers, particularly relating to the Colombian-based cocaine cartels. As a result, the decision was made to incorporate the Contra-related allegations into a broader investigation concerning the relationship between foreign policy, narcotics trafficking and law enforcement. While the contra/drug question was not the primary focus of the investigation, the Subcommittee uncovered considerable evidence relating to the Contra network which substantiated many of the initial allegations laid out before the Committee in the Spring of 1986. On the basis of this evidence, it is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter. The Subcommittee found that the Contra drug links included: --Involvement in narcotics trafficking by individuals associated with the Contra movement. --Participation of narcotics traffickers in Contra supply operations through business relationships with Contra organizations. --Provision of assistance to the Contras by narcotics traffickers, including cash, weapons, planes, pilots, air supply services and other materials, on a voluntary basis by the traffickers. --Payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies. These activities were carried out in connection with Contra activities in both Costa Rica and Honduras. The Subcommittee found that the links that were forged between the Contras and the drug traffickers were primarily pragmatic, rather than ideological. The drug traffickers, who had significant financial and material resources, needed the cover of legitimate activity for their criminal enterprises. A trafficker like George Morales hoped to have his drug indictment dropped in return for his financial and material support of the Contras. Others, in the words of Marcos Aguado, Eden Pastora's air force chief: ... took advantage of the anti-communist sentiment which existed in Central America ... and they undoubtedly used it for drug trafficking. [1] While for some Contras, it was a matter of survival, for the traffickers it was just another business deal to promote and protect their own operations. II. THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH RESPONSE TO CONTRA/DRUG CHARGES In the wake of press accounts concerning links between the Contras and drug traffickers' beginning December, 1985 with a story by the Associated Press, both Houses of the Congress began to raise questions about the drug-related allegations associated with the Contras, causing a review in the spring of 1986 of the allegations by the State Department, in conjunction with the Justice Department and relevant U.S. intelligence agencies. Following that review, the State Department told the Congress in April, 1986 that it had at that time "evidence of a limited number of incidents in which known drug traffickers tried to establish connections with Nicaraguan resistance groups." According to the Department, "... these attempts for the most part took place during the period when the resistance was receiving no U.S. funding and was particularly hard
[CTRL] [2] Nicaraguan Contras and Cocaine
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.webcom.com/pinknoiz/covert/contracoke.html A HREF="http://www.webcom.com/pinknoiz/covert/contracoke.html"Nicaraguan Contras and Cocaine/A --[2]-- VII. THE CASE OF GEORGE MORALES AND FRS/ARDE In 1984, the Contra forces under Eden Pastora were in an increasingly hopeless situation. On May 30,1984, Pastora was wounded by a bomb at his base camp at La Penca, Nicaragua, close to the Costa Rica border. That same day, according to ARDE officer Karol Prado, aid to ARDE from the United States was cut off.[69] Despite continued pressure from the United States, Pastora refused to place his ARDE forces under a unified command with the largest of the Contra organizations--the Honduras-based FDN. The CIA considered Pastora to be "disruptive and unpredictable."[70] By the time the Boland Amendment cut off legal military aid to the Contras, the CIA had seen to it that Pastora did not receive any assistance, and his forces were experiencing "desperate conditions."[71] Although there are discrepancies among the parties as to when the initial meeting took place, Pastora's organization was approached by George Morales, a Colombian drug trafficker living in Miami who had been indicted on narcotics trafficking charges. According to the State Department report to the Congress of July 26, 1986: Information developed by the intelligence community indicates that a senior member of Eden Pastora's Sandino Revolutionary Front (FRS) agreed in late 1984 with (Morales) that FRS pilots would aid in transporting narcotics in exchange for financial assistance...the FRS official agreed to use FRS operational facilities in Costa Rica and Nicaragua to facilitate transportation of narcotics. (Morales) agreed to provide financial support to the FRS, in addition to aircraft and training for FRS pilots. After undergoing flight training, the FRS pilots were to continue to work for the FRS, but would also fly narcotics shipments from South America to sites in Costa Rica and Nicaragua for later transport to the United States. Shortly thereafter (Morales) reportedly provided the FRS one C-47 aircraft and two crated helicopters. He is reported to have paid the sum of $100,000 to the FRS, but there was no information available on who actually received the money.[72] The State Department said it was aware of only one incident of drug trafficking resulting from this agreement between the Contras and Morales and that was the case of Contra pilot Gerardo Duran. Duran was arrested in January 1986, in Costa Rica for his involvement in transporting cocaine to the United States.[73] Duranwas an FRS pilot from 1982 to 1985 and operated an air taxi service in Costa Rica. According to Marco Aguado and Karol Prado, Duran would fly supplies to the Contras on the Southern Front and he would charge for each flight. [74] Robert Owen, courier for Lt. Col. Oliver North, testified to the Iran/Contra Committees that he told North he thought Karol Prado was involved in trafficking drugs out of Panama, and that Pastora's pilot, Marco Aguado, was also involved.[75] The Subcommittee was unable to validate Owen's claims. Prado vehemently denied these allegations stating that he believed the drug trafficking allegations against Pastora were the result of a CIA effort to discredit him.[76] Morales testified that his involvement with the Contras started in 1984 at the urging of Marta Healey, the widow of one of his drug pilots, Richard Healey.[77] Marta Healey's first husband was Adolfo "Popo" Chamorro, the second in command to Eden Pastora in the FRS. She came from a prominent Nicaraguan family. At the time of his first contract, Morales was under indictment for marijuana smuggling. He testified that he thought by assisting the Contra cause his indictment would be dropped. Marta Healey introduced Morales to Popo Chamorro, Marco Aguado and Octaviano Cesar at a meeting in Miami. According to Morales, he wanted to make a deal: He would help the Contras with their needs, and "they in exchange would help me with my objective, which was solving my indictment." Morales believed the Contra leaders would help him solve his legal problems because of their contacts with the CIA.[78] On October 31, 1987 in San Jose, Costa Rica, the Subcommittee videotaped the depositions of three Contra leaders with intimate knowledge of the Morales relationship with Pastora's organization in video depositions. The three were Karol Prado, Pastora's head of communications; Marco Aguado, Pastora's air force chief; and Octaviano Cesar who, along with his brother Alfredo, were political allies of Pastora's at the time. A fourth, Adolfo "Popo" Chamorro, who was Pastora's second in command in ARDE, testified in closed session of the Subcommittee in April 1988. Chamorro's testimony was taken in closed session by the consent of the Subcommittee at his request. Dick McCall, of Senator Kerry's personal staff, in an arrangement worked out with Chamorro and his attorneys,
Re: [CTRL] Hmmmmm. Texas Shooter A Right-Winger...Go Figure!
-Caveat Lector- I suspect that the Phineas Priests are being set up as scapegoats/straw men/excuses for domestic military intervention... Please note I do not subscribe in any way to the doctrines of Christian Identity. However, it begins to look as if an awful lot of the foofaraw about "domestic terrorism" is a Martian firedrill... The "right-wing militia" didn't live up to their billing as a threat to national security and public order, so now these free-lancers have popped up to serve as a focus of righteous anger and demands for action. Whether the Phineas Priests are mind-control victims or "useful idiots", I don't know; but their sudden emergence into the limelight is very convenient. -Original Message- From: William Shannon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 10:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Hm. Texas Shooter A Right-Winger...Go Figure! -Caveat Lector- Fort Worth, Texas gunman linked to fascist group By Martin McLaughlin 22 September 1999 Use this version to print The gunman who murdered seven people at a Fort Worth church September 15 had ties to extreme-right-wing groups in Texas, according to reports first published in the Houston Chronicle. Larry Ashbrook, 47, killed four teenagers and three adults before taking his own life. Writer John Craig is co-author of a 1997 book, Soldiers of God, which examines white supremacist and Christian fascist organizations in America. He told the newspaper that he had spoken to Ashbrook in 1997 while interviewing members of the Ku Klux Klan for the book. Ashbrook told him he was a member of the "Phineas Priests," one of the far-right tendencies which are collectively known as "Christian Identity." snip DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] ] Our Presidential Choices
-Caveat Lector- Buchanan "could get a lot of votes simply because he is seen as an outsider who is scorned for his political stance" -- as was the case with Hitler. No one in the general public paid any attention to Hitler's ties to big business, both German and American; they saw him as the champion of the little guy, who was going to give them all jobs and tromp the shit out of the Jews who were messing up Germany. Who is really behind Pat Buchanan, anyway? The squabble in the Reform Party between Buchanan, Perot, Ventura, and -- of all people -- The Donald (Trump) is utterly bizarre and smacks of shadow play. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 11:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] ] Our Presidential Choices -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 9/23/99 1:49:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Buchanan=fascism of the nationalist variety." Thats "national socialism" of the Hitler- Mussolini variety. There are indicators in Buchanan of other nat.soc. traits. (l)Racism and anti=semitism (2) economic nationalism (3) militarism (4) the strident leader image (5) appeal to the grass roots (6) dilution of the Nazi threat (7) rigid statist social views. As we have said before Buchanan is Right Hegelian. No change for us Yes. Thanks for the comments. Let me elaborate a little. The main thrust of his National Socialist (fascist) policy will concentrate on the idea of American economic domination, which will be a better tool for world control or policing than the military, though the military will be ready, willing and able to back it up. Interesting point about the strident leader image. His grass roots appeal does seem to gloss over all the nefarious connections he may have had with neo-nazi types and the KKK. He could get a lot of votes simply because he is seen as an outsider who is scorned for his political stance. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Long-Term Capital Mgmt / FALN
-Caveat Lector- From www.cato.org Briefing Paper No. 52September 23, 1999 Picture Too Big to Fail?: Long-Term Capital Management and the Federal Reserve by Kevin Dowd Kevin Dowd is professor of economics at the University of Sheffield and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Executive Summary In September 1998 the Federal Reserve organized a rescue of Long-Term Capital Management, a very large and prominent hedge fund on the brink of failure. The Fed intervened because it was concerned about possible dire consequences for world financial markets if it allowed the hedge fund to fail. The Feds intervention was misguided and unnecessary because LTCM would not have failed anyway, and the Feds concerns about the effects of LTCMs failure on financial markets were exaggerated. In the short run the intervention helped the shareholders and managers of LTCM to get a better deal for themselves than they would otherwise have obtained. The intervention also is having more serious long-term consequences: it encourages more calls for the regulation of hedge-fund activity, which may drive such activity further offshore; it implies a major open-ended extension of Federal Reserve responsibilities, without any congressional authorization; it implies a return to the discredited doctrine that the Fed should prevent the failure of large financial firms, which encourages irresponsible risk taking; and it undermines the moral authority of Fed policymakers in their efforts to encourage their counterparts in other countries to persevere with the difficult process of economic liberalization. Briefing Paper No. 52 (PDF format, 12 pp. 65 Kb) Picture | Briefing Papers Series | Cato Institute Library | Cato Institute Home © 1998 The Cato Institute ~~~ From www.security-policy.org Beginning only Publications of the Center for Security Policy No. 99-D 104 DECISION BRIEF 23 September 1999 The 'Smoking Gun': Sen. Inhofe Secures Proof of Sandy Berger's Involvement in Clinton's Pandering to Puerto Rican Separatists (Washington, D.C.): Twice in as many weeks, Samuel Berger -- the China trade lawyer-cum-Democratic political operative turned President Clinton's National Security Advisor -- has prevaricated publicly about his direct, personal involvement in decision-making that led to the early release of sixteen convicted Puerto Rican terrorists. For his mendacity in this matter, if not for the content of his flawed security policy advice, Sandy Berger should at last be relieved of his duties. Go to site for remainder AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely
[CTRL] Fwd: Martial Law, Internment Plans/PBS Lets Cat Out Of Bag
9.23.99 Martial Law, Internment Plans PBS Show Lets Cat Out Of Bag To Mainstream America "Tony Brown's Journal" airs news of massive federal "relocation" plans using military might in the event of serious Y2K problems, other major disasters. Average Americans Mostly In the Dark-- No Surprise to Intelligence Community - - - - - - - - - - - - - A Y2KNEWSWIRE.COM Feature Article Reprinted by NewsHawk for educational purposes only under fair use copyright guidelines Copyright 1999 All rights Reserved Breaking News September 22, 1999 We all know the FBI lied about Waco. Government troops blazed away at the compound from helicopters, amored personnel carriers and the ground, yet the FBI insists none of their people fired a single shot. Now the FBI is about to face a new round of allegations, but this time, it's about Y2K. One of the longest-running television programs in the history of PBS, "Tony Brown's Journal," is set to reveal explosive allegations as early as this Friday. In the thirty-minute segment, already filmed, the former FBI Special Agent reveals one blockbuster allegation after another, describing, for example, how the contingency plan to relocate mass numbers of people is hardly anything new to the intelligence community. He says, "They prepare to go in and control the public in mass numbers, to move them to certain locations. They have that plan in effect, they've been training for years to do that." About Y2K, the Special Agent says, "Y2K presents a problem because... if you lose electricity, now you're talking about making movements under the cover of darkness. ...And they realize... they have an acceptable loss rate. In these movements during night, there may be some innocent people who are harmed and shot, but that's acceptable." Also set to be revealed in the interview: the FBI's "Mad Max" scenario that allegedly characterizes blacks as "emotional people and not an intellectual people" who are likely to loot and riot. The Special Agent adds, "Mad Max would consist of them going in and restoring order by using military force, by use of the National Guard, and by using HRT [Hostage Recovery Team] intelligence..." But none of the allegations to be revealed in the show are a surprise to the FBI, says the former agent. "This is not even a surprise if you understand the intelligence community," he says, explaining that it is, in fact, the responsibility of the FBI and the intelligence community to anticipate and plan for these kinds of events. In an interview with Y2K Newswire, the former Special Agent revealed that if questioned, FBI officials would certainly not deny the existence of such a plan. They would call it a "worst case contingency" and explain that their security roles require them to plan for such emergencies. Plans for mass relocations of the population, "acceptable casualties" and removal of so-called "dissidents" after a declaration of Martial Law are only a surprise to the American public, not the intelligence community. The full story is unveiled on your local PBS station beginning this Friday. Shows may air any day from Friday, September 23 through Thursday, September 30th. Check your local listings for exact air times. Video tapes of the show can also be purchased for $29.95 by calling 1-800-524-3552 and asking for the show titled, "Race and Y2K." Y2K Newswire makes nothing from your purchase. Tony Brown is the author of "Empower the People" and "Black Lies, White Lies." Brown works to bring together blacks and whites through mutual understanding of how the global power structures really operate. Brown also regularly holds Y2K rallies to increase awareness and preparedness among Americans. Y2K Newswire is bringing an exclusive interview with the former FBI Special Agent to its members later this week. The above information was brought to you under the Constitutional protection of the 1st Amendment. The 1st Amendment is exclusively guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment. Support your right to engage in the free exchange of ideas, information and criticism of government by supporting your individual right to keep and bear arms. If you have a Y2K-related story tip for us (anonymity assured): [EMAIL PROTECTED] This page is subject to the following disclaimer: http://www.y2knewswire.com/Index.asp?pageid=disclaimer All statements made herein, and made since August of 1998, are Year 2000 Statements and are retroactively protected as Year 2000 readiness disclosures under the Good Samaritan Act Copyright 1999. All rights reserved. Reprinted by NewsHawk for educational purposes only under fair use copyright guidelines
[CTRL] Waco Deception Up in Smoke
-Caveat Lector- The New American Waco Deception Up in Smoke September 15, 1999 Waco Deception Up in Smoke by William Norman Grigg Clinton Administration scandals display a common pattern. The initial disclosures of wrongdoing are indignantly denied. Pleas are issued by Administration spokesmen for people to "stay calm" and wait for "all the facts" to come out. A cover-up of the relevant facts is then undertaken. When damaging facts leak, Administration spin-controllers minimize their significance, or if necessary preside over a controlled release of further facts over a protracted period of time. When the full truth about criminal misbehavior, or some significant portion thereof, is finally made public, Administration spinners and their media allies insist that the public has grown weary of the matter and that it's time to "move on." This approach has served the Administration well in its efforts to surmount the Chinagate treason scandal, the Lewinsky affair, and numerous other episodes. Not surprisingly, the FBI has followed a similar approach in managing disclosures about its conduct in the 1993 slaughter of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, which is the subject of a federal wrongful death lawsuit by survivors and families of the victims. An order from U.S. District Judge Walter Smith requiring federal authorities to turn over all relevant evidence left from the April 19, 1993 siege turned up a shell casing from an M-651 CS canister, a 40 mm incendiary grenade "that releases tear gas with a burning explosive capable of sparking fires," observed the Dallas Morning News. Spin Strategy Confronted with inescapable facts, the Justice Department followed standard Clinton Administration procedure. First came the admissions of proven facts that had long been denied. In late August, Danny Coulson, a founder of the FBI's "Hostage Rescue Team" (which was involved in both the Davidian massacre and the murder of Randy Weaver's wife and son at Ruby Ridge) told the Dallas Morning News that pyrotechnic grenades had been used by the FBI during the final assault on the Mount Carmel church. After stalling for a news cycle by issuing further half-hearted denials, the FBI, in the words of the August 26th New York Times, "backed away from six years of unqualified denials to Congress and to the public" and admitted that the canisters which were 'pyrotechnic' only in a limited sense," the Bureau hastened to specify had indeed been used at Waco. (The "limited sense" qualification, which savors of Bill Clinton's equivocation over the meaning of the word "is," offers another example of sophisticated dishonesty.) The coinage of new euphemisms is a major Clinton Administration industry, and FBI spokesmen enriched the vocabulary of double-speak by allowing that they would have to "recant or modify" the previous unqualified denials that FBI personnel had fired upon the Branch Davidians on that tragic April morning. This provided a segueway into the next step of the Administration's familiar spin strategy -- playing for time to devise a new cover story: "We've seen the reports, and we're trying to get to the bottom of them," stated Justice Department spokesman Myron Marlin. Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh, clinging to the story that they have been the helpless victims of unreliable information, promised a new, comprehensive investigation of the matter, which is to say that they began the search for a subordinate who would be a credible scapegoat. Unfortunately for the FBI and the Justice Department, the chosen spin for the "discovery" of the pyrotechnic shell casings undermines their case. The Bureau's official line is that a Bradley Fighting Vehicle carried an FBI agent to within 40 yards of the Mount Carmel church about six hours before the catastrophic fire. The tear gas grenades, according to the FBI's account, bounced harmlessly off a concrete structure without causing any lasting damage. Furthermore, as the Times pointed out, the FBI has "no new information to challenge the finding that the Davidians themselves started the fire." In other words, the detailed account explaining the presence of the expended grenades was not new information. The FBI has knowingly, systematically, lied to Congress and the public about this matter, and the new "investigation" is an exercise in misdirection and delay. Controlled Release? Why did the FBI and Justice Department offer a damaging admission that undermines their new cover story? One possibility is that the admission was part of the third step in the Clintonite spin control process -- the effort to minimize the significance of the long-denied but now inescapable facts. By admitting that two grenades were fired at the church several hours before the fires began, the Administration offered a tardy admission which actually allows them to cling to the official story that the
[CTRL] [BRIGADE] Buchanan Run is Serious
-Caveat Lector- Dear Brigade -- This column is GREAT - Read it! GO PAT GO!!! Linda PS - Remember to spread the word - forward our Brigade emails across the USA !! Date sent: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:23:43 -0400 From: Mark / Martha Zatezalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:John Bender's article on Pat Linda, Caught this article on ETHERZONE.com. . Bender is one of only a few that realizes the blue collar support for Pat. Go Pat Go!..martha z. from blue collared Weirton, WV A THIRD PARTY RUN BY BUCHANAN IS SERIOUS By: John Bender There seems to be little question that Pat Buchanan will leave the Republican Party and run as the Reform Party nominee for president. The real question is how will this affect the election next year. Some pundits and columnists are saying Buchanan will help the Republicans by leaving. They opine that Pat represents a group that the party is better off without. Buchanan and his supporters are the ones driving the party to the right at the expense of attracting moderate voters who are more in line with the leadership of the party today. An exodus of the most conservative part of the party will free candidates to run on a more moderate platform. The idea is ridiculous. The party cannot win the general election without the conservative base. The professionals, who run campaigns for a living, know this and are worried. The latest polls show that a three-way race breaks down with Bush at 39%, Gore at 36% and Buchanan at 16%. These numbers are now, before Buchanan gets his hands on the $13 million in matching funds the Reform Party has coming from the government. They are also before any debates, and before the public gets interested in the election. Buchanan is a skilled campaigner. He is either the best or second best speaker in politics today. Some would argue he is second to Keys, but no one would argue that Bush or Gore is as good behind a podium as Buchanan. He is also good in interviews. Buchanan does not make mistakes like Bush does, and does not talk down to people like Gore does. One must also consider the Buchanan Brigades. No political figure in the nation has a more dedicated base. The numbers in the Brigade may be small but they are passionate. They work and they vote. There is little passion for Bush or Gore. The largest number of Bush supporters support him because they think he can win and is slightly better than Gore. The largest number of Gore supporters, are voters who want a Democrat and think Gore stands a better chance of winning than Bradley. Add it all up and it equals a volatile campaign. Elections are unpredictable at best. The addition of a well funded, skilled candidate, who has a passionate following, running on a third party ticket is not attractive to those running against him. Anything can happen. Buchanan pulls support from the Republican base who do not think Bush is a conservative. They do not like his record as governor. They point to things like his support for School to Work, his support for more state control of charter schools and his teacher pay raise that was not tied to merit. His public support for the Department of Education and an increased federal role in education reinforce their concerns. Other conservatives point to the fact that Bush's lack of leadership on the Texas parental consent abortion bill, allowed the pro-abortion forces in the Texas legislature to turn the bill into a parental notification bill. They see the fact that he is not ruling out picking a pro-abortion running mate as further proof that Bush is not a real conservative. Buchanan offers these people a candidate they can be sure is a conservative who shares their views. He is consistent on these points and makes no apologies for his stance. The little secret that no one is talking about is Buchanan also draws from the Democrat base. He is the only candidate who is against NAFTA, GATT, and WTO. He is popular among the blue collar and union voters. Democrats remember Reagan took more than 60% of the union vote in his two runs for president and it scares them. Rather than buck the membership and look weak, the union bosses may back Buchanan. The AFL-CIO is saying they may not back the Democrat ticket in this election. They say they may just back individual candidates. It is possible they could back Buchanan. It is also possible the Teamsters would back Buchanan. The Democrats conspired with Ron Carey to defeat James Hoffa, Jr. in the 1996 union election. There is no love lost between Mr. Hoffa and the DNC or between him and Al Gore. It is also important to remember that Mr. Hoffa's father supported Reagan in both of his campaigns. The union vote would be a big gain for Buchanan and a devastating loss for the Democrats. It is even possible Buchanan can pull almost as many Democrat votes as Republican votes if the unions support him. There is one more
[CTRL] CLINTON ENDANGERING NATIONAL SECURITY BY PLAYING POLITICS WITH
-Caveat Lector- CLINTON ENDANGERING NATIONAL SECURITY BY "PLAYING POLITICS" WITH PUERTO RICO... by Dot Bibee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Last Night Criminal Politics ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sent to me several articles by FAX and asked me to break this news to you since it is NOT being covered by the mainstream press. Because of the "black out of news" concerning what is REALLY going on, Americans think that Clinton gave clemency to the FALN prisoners to help Hillary in her campaign. NOT. In danger is the closure of the U.S. Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico (all operations) and the closure of Vieques Island in Puerto Rico after an "accident" in April 1999 - and subsequent occupation of the island by protestors whose purpose is to "close" the naval operations in Puerto Rico. Clinton has given in to the "protestors" in spite of the fact that Naval officials at the Pentagon and the Atlantic fleet are putting pressure on Clinton to allow the Navy and Marine Corp to resume practicing air-to-ground bombing and naval gunfire at Vieques - which has been in use since 1941. These military commanders are increasingly complaining that the freeze on training at Vieques is jeopardizing U.S. combat readiness. Sen. Inhofe will hold SENATE HEARINGS on September 22. The following is Sen. Inhofe's latest press release.Dot Bibee U.S. Senator James M. Inhofe -- Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 14, 1999 * INHOFE SAYS U.S. BASE IN PUERTO RICO AT RISK IF VIEQUES TRAINING IS ENDED: Says Clinton's Outrageous Clemency for Terrorists and Moves to Halt Training Are Politically Motivated WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) warned today that Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico might be closed if military training on the island of Vieques is ended. If vital training on Vieques is terminated, the requirement to maintain Roosevelt Roads Naval Station is greatly diminished, Inhofe said. Those with political motivations seeking to oust the Navy from Vieques must understand that there will be serious consequences and adverse local economic impacts if they succeed. As chairman of the Readiness Subcommittee, I would be compelled to explore the possibility of redistributing the functions performed at Roosevelt Roads to any number of under-utilized bases in the United States. Inhofe spoke on the Senate floor during debate on the resolution deploring President Clinton's recent offer of clemency to 16 Puerto Rican terrorists. The resolution was later passed by a vote of 95-2. Inhofe said he was concerned that obvious political motivations were behind both the President's offer of clemency and the recent efforts to halt the Navy's bombing and amphibious training at Vieques. He explained that U.S. military readiness was dependent on the unique type of training which takes place at Vieques and said he would hold a Readiness subcommittee hearing on the issue on Sept. 22. Inhofe also condemned President Clinton's decision to grant clemency to terrorists. This outrageous action only shows the extent to which this President will shirk proper procedure, sweep aside law enforcement concerns, and undermine national security, just to court votes and approval from his favored political constituencies. The Senator's Home Page www.senate.gov/~inhofe/ = To those who are interested in pursuing this storyline, the following documentation is available: Aug 3 - Ltr from Capt. Stark, U.S. Naval Station Roosevelt Roads to FBI San Juan Puerto Rico, requesting that protestors be arrested and prosecuted. Aug 16 - Ltr from FBI James M. Weber to Capt. Stark stating that the Justice Dept. has advised that they are NOT willing to prosecute these individuals. Aug 26 - Ltr from Sen. Inhofe to Janet Reno expressing concern regarding the refusal of the FBI and the Justice Dept. to investigate and prosecute individuals violating the law by trespassing on and removing unexploded ordnance from Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. Sept 1 - Puerto Rico threatens big guns: Navy firing-range feud could hit campaigns of Gore, first lady, by Tom Bowman and Jonathan Weisman, Baltimore Sun Staff Sept 9 - Press Release - Inhofe Backs Vital Military Training at Navy Facility in Vieques, Puerto Rico - Sets Hearing for Sept 22. Sept 10 - Navy: Puerto Rico Ban Hurts Readiness, by Stewart M. Powell (Pacific Stars and Stripes) Sept 14 - Press Release - Clinton's "Ethnic Pandering" Has Emboldened Puerto Rican Terrorists: as freed FALN terrorists vow to reunite, underground leader threatens U.S. Navy - by the Republican National Committee. Sept 14 - Press Release - Sen. Inhofe (see above article) Sept. 14 - See WorldNetDaily's page today (www.worldnetdaily.com): From CNN.com - Justice blocks FBI testimony at FALN clemency hearing. FOLKS. This is serious business. The closure of the
Re: [CTRL] San Francisco, Electrified and Quaking
-Caveat Lector- Well, it's perfectly possible for lightning to travel *between* clouds, so the horizontal direction isn't surprising. It's well documented that the intensity of lightning has been increasing at an alarming rate over the past thirty years. But I keep remembering the Hopi prediction that before the end of this world-age, the lightning will intensify greatly... -Original Message- From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] San Francisco, Electrified and Quaking -Caveat Lector- Something is wrong (at least wronger than usual) here in the Bay Area ... First, really unparallelled thunder and lightning (I watched a massive lightning bolt travel HORIZONTALLY from horizon to horizon, SLOWLY) twice in two weeks, each time "explained" as a byproduct of a dying Pacific hurricane -- two different ones. Second, COINCIDING with a thunder-and-lightning display, an EARTHQUAKE of exactly the rare type that struck Taiwan -- arising near the SURFACE of the earth. Geez, I wonder if China is test-running some secret Tesla weaponry ... snip DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Why I can't vote for Bush
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_btl/19990910_xcbtl_why_i_cant.shtml "Why I can't vote for Bush/A FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1999 ⢠Joseph Farah is editor of WorldNetDaily.com and executive director of the Western Journalism Center, an independent group of investigative reporters. ⢠-- -- -- -- Why I can't vote for Bush -- -- America needs a radical change of direction. I feel certain the leading candidate for president of the United States is incapable of providing the leadership necessary to achieve an essential rededication to the constitutional principles of limited government and individual rights. That's why, under no circumstances, will I allow myself to vote for George W. Bush for president of the United States. He is not qualified because he, like so many other politicians today, does not believe in nor understand the Constitution. The final straw for me came when the Republican presidential candidate announced that he would not even try to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education if given the chance. "I don't think it should be abolished," said the Texas governor. "It ought to be made more effective." For me, that is game, set, match. There's plenty more double-talk from Double-U, but that's all I had to hear to know I will never, no matter who runs against Bush, vote for him for president. Just listen to this Clintonesque drivel: "The education department ought to be a place for sound science, sound thought, and ought to recognize that passing power back to the states and local authorities is the best way to lead to education reform. I don't believe we ought to federalize education. I trust local people to make the right decisions. But there is a place for the federal government to make sure people don't get left behind." Tell me, Double-U, where is that place for federal involvement in education in the Constitution? Can you show us? Or is that no longer even relevant to you and the party you represent? Even if Double-U's rhetoric was correct, there is little hope he could be trusted to carry out his word. In his 1994 campaign for governor, Bush said he wanted to abolish the Texas Education Agency. He later modified that position to abolishing only the regulatory functions of the agency after learning a local agency is a required element of receiving federal funds. In fact, Bush ended up backing efforts to increase the power of both the state agency and the Texas education commissioner, who is appointed by the governor. Bush obviously has similar plans for the nation. He says he wants to reform and expand the busybody Head Start preschool program to make it more academic. "The federal government spends a lot of money on Head Start. Head Start does a good job of providing healthy meals. I believe it ought to be an education program as well," Bush said. He wants the federal program reinvented as "a platform for reading," whatever that means. It's this kind of misguided and inexcusably fuzzy thinking that thoroughly and unequivocally disqualifies Bush as the leader America desperately needs for the future. I know. I know. The obvious next question is: "OK, Joe, who are you going to support? Who else can win? Isn't it better to have someone who might be occasionally right on the issues than someone who is wrong every single time?" The answer is: "No, it's not better -- not at this critical time in America's history." There's been too much damage done to America in the last 30 years. Bolder and more principled leadership is needed or this nation is going down the tubes. If the choice is Al Gore or George W., there is really no choice at all. The first will take you to hell in the fast lane, the other will take you there in the slow lane. Either way, your destination is the same -- you're still on the highway to hell. **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust
[CTRL] Russia Launches!
-Caveat Lector- I dont know exactly what's happened, but a few minutes ago on Fox 7, in Austin, Texas, it was announced that Russia had launched missiles at Chechnea(Sorry for the incorrect spelling). http://www.fox7.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Russia Launches!
-Caveat Lector- And now the story isnt there! What is going on? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Russian Planes Launch New Strikes on Grozny
-Caveat Lector- Russian Planes Launch New Strikes on Grozny MOSCOW (Sept. 23) XINHUA - Russian warplanes carried out a second wave of air strikes Thursday near Grozny, capital city of the breakaway republic, hitting an oil refinery and causing fires, the Interfax news agency reported. Two flights of planes dropped bombs and fired missiles on Zavodskoi district on Grozny's northern fringe and on the nearby village of Andreyevskaya Dolina, Interfax said in a dispatch from Grozny. Bombs hit an oil distribution station at a refinery, causing a massive fire. Grozny was covered by thick clouds of smoke, but the city does not have functioning equipment to fight the fires. This was the second wave of air raids on Grozny Thursday. Federal planes bombed the Grozny airport and destroyed an An-2 plane earlier in the day. The Russian Defense Ministry said the plane had been used by Chechen militants "for delivery of arms and ammunition across Chechen territory." "The Air Force will continue attacking targets which gangs will be using in their interests," Interfax quoted the ministry's press service as saying. The headquarters of the federal force in the North Caucasus said earlier that the air strikes were conducted over arms depots and a radar station at the airport which militants had been using in their own interests. "This radar tracked Russian planes' flights over Chechnya and supplied information to the terrorists," Interfax quoted a source with the headquarters as saying. In addition, attacks were also made at a store of fuel and lubricants, arms and ammunition depots, a power sub-station and an oil refinery, Interfax said. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry is considering the possibility of using heavy bombers capable of carrying more powerful weapons to deliver air strikes against rebel bases in Chechnya. Tactical bombers such as Tu-22m2 and Tu-22m3 may be deployed to deliver more powerful air strikes, Interfax quoted ministry sources as saying. Until recently, air strikes on rebel bases were mostly carried out by Su-24 frontline bombers and Su-25 attack planes. === Robert F. Tatman Computer Help Desk Desktop LAN Services Systems Department Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215.854.2729 215.854.2788 The contents of this message represent the opinion only of the writer, and may not be construed to indicate the endorsement of Knight-Ridder, Inc.; Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.; The Philadelphia Inquirer; or the Philadelphia Daily News. "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Russian Laundering Scandal The Rabin Assassination
In "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?", Barry Chamish briefly mentions an intriguing twist on the Rabin assassination theory: that Rabin wasn't killed, but merely faked his death. This caught my eye, since I am slowly collecting stories for a book, "The Feast of the Undead". There's some interesting evidence for the theory, such as reputed sighting of Rabin after his supposed death, the extra-long time it took for his limo to reach the hospital (long enough to drop off his body), and the fact that his very close friend Henry Kissinger didn't bother to attend the funeral. I was telling my pal Greg Bishop about this theory last night, and he asked me why they would fake his death. I suspected it would have something to do with international drug laundering: I remember Chip Tatum included Rabin on his Boss Hogg list of alleged drug-compromised politicians. Lo and behold, what comes in the mail today? Another fine piece of investigation from Robert Parry and The Consortium. Enjoy. This should eventually be a chapter of my book, if I ever get around to writing it. Robert Sterling Consortiumnews.com - http://www.consortiumnews.com The investigations into the Bank of New York's role in laundering vast sums of Russian money have ignored well-documented connections between a bank principal, the CIA and the Israeli Labor Party. The tie-in comes through one of the bank's owners, Bruce Rappaport, a Swiss financier who was linked to a variety of secret operations during the Reagan-Bush era. Those operations included a strange Iraqi pipeline deal, the Iran-contra affair, sensitive U.S. Customs stings, the BCCI scandal, the October Surprise case and a mysterious shipment of Israeli weapons to Colombian drug kingpins. Rappaport was known as one of CIA director William Casey's favorite golf partners. Yet, when the New York Times profiled Rappaport and his hand in the Bank of New York's Russian financial deals, the U.S. intelligence connections were left out. Rappaport's fuller history can be read at Consortiumnews.com, an online investigative magazine. It's located at http://www.consortiumnews.com This is a free site, but we urge those who wish to support our investigative journalism to buy a copy of Robert Parry's important new book, Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press $ 'Project Truth' for just $19.95. Or subscribe to iF Magazine, a print publication, for one year (six issues), $25. Or do both at a special rate of $35. Orders can be placed with Visa/Mastercard by calling 1-800-738-1812 or 703-920-1802. Or by check to The Media Consortium, Suite 102-231, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201. For non-U.S. orders, add $15 for extra postage.
[CTRL] afp- Bin Laden was granted Bosnian passport: report
-Caveat Lector-
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The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU
SARAJEVO, Sept 24 (AFP) - Osama bin Laden, the Saudi billionaire
wanted by the United States for organising bloody terrorist attacks,
was granted a Bosnian passport in 1993 by the country's embassy in
Vienna, an independent weekly reported Friday.
"Bosnian embassy in Vienna granted a passport to bin Laden in
1993," Dani magazine quoting anonymous sources said, emphasizing
that files and traces linked to his case have been recently
destroyed by the government.
Committee for Collecting Data on
Crimes Committed Against Humanity
and International Law
MUJAHEDDIN PRISONER CAMPS
IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF ZAVIDOVIcI
The 465 prisoner camps for Serbs in the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina (for
which the Committee has thus far collected evidence of existence) included
two camps in the territory of the municipality of Zavidovici owned by
mujaheddins. They were located in the villages of Kamenica and Gostovici.
The individuals who fortunately survived the atrocities testify on what the
captured soldiers of the Army of Republika Srpska and civilians went through
during the imprisonment.
1
THE MUJAHEDDIN CAMP IN KAMENICA
1.1. Witness 249/97-4 , born in 1957, who was kept in this camp for 13 days,
states:
... On 17 or 18 September, 1995, I was captured and taken to the mujaheddin
camp located in the village of Kamenica near Zavidovici. P.M. from Kotor
Varo{, R.R from Banja Luka, G.G. from Banja Luka, P.N. from Banja Luka, S.
from Lijevce Polje, G. from Lakta{i, and N. from Bud`ak, were taken there
together with me.
We were brought to their camp, where we saw big, circular tents, in which
the mujaheddins stayed. I counted 29 tents, assessing that each could hold
40-60 men.
I was taken to a room on the upper floor of a house, where I saw three
mujaheddins, their heads wrapped up so that only their eyes could be seen.
They ordered me to sit on a slab. One of them took a full-steel rod,
diameter cca 2 cm, and started hitting me on my back and neck, until the rod
banded. Then the other flattened the rod with a hammer. He then took the
second, and then the third rod.
When the rods bent by the beating, they tied a wire around my neck, tying
its other end around my leg. They had taken our boots, so I was barefoot.
The end of the wire around my neck and leg was not insulated, while the
remaining part of the wire was not. I saw something like a transformer in
the room. One of the men took another wire connected to the transformer and
connected it with the wire that was tied around my neck and leg. As soon as
he did it, the electric shock made me faint. When I came around, they would
turn on electricity again. This was repeated several times and I lost
consciousness each time. The kept the electricity on for different
durations. The electric shock made me feel as if my tongue had become
shorter, and I started to choke.
When they were done with the electricity, they started hitting me with their
legs, and then one of them took me back to the ground floor, where my
friends were kept. After returning me downstairs, they took another prisoner
upstairs, so we all underwent the same torture.
According to my assessment, the mujaheddins were Pakistanis, Turks, Arabs
from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, but among them were also Arabs from
Germany and England.
I would also add that apart from these mujaheddins, there were also Bosnian
Muslim in the Kamenica prisoner camp. I remember a Gunic form the Novoselije
settlement in Banja Luka ...
1. 2. Witness 284/97-2, worker, born in 1961, states:
... I lived in Vozuca, the place where I was born. On 10 September, 1995,
early in the morning, soldiers of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina attacked
Vozuca and the civilian population, including me and other women, had to
flee. The next day, we were in the village of Kesten, where I was captured
at about 16.30 hrs., with a group of 60 people. The group consisted of
civilians, women and children, and some soldiers. We were taken prisoner by
mujaheddins and Bosnian Muslims.
After they captured us, they started beating us with their fists, legs,
rifle-butts and sticks. A mujaheddin hit me hard on the back with his rifle,
and then spit on me scolding my "chetnick mother".
I saw a captured Serb fall on his knees, after which the Muslim killed him
with a shot from automatic rifle.
About thirty of us from the village of Kesten, including me and two more
women (J.M. and G.B.), were taken from the village of Kesten to a mujaheddin
camp in the village of Kamenica near Zavidovici. The others were taken to
Tuzla.
They tied our legs and arms, and put some wrapping around our eyes.
The three of us were imprisoned in a wooden shed in Kamenica, while men were
locked up in a nearby barrack. I could not see anything because I was
blindfolded, but I concluded that it was a mujaheddin camp because they
spoke in a very bad Serbian language.
Throughout the
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: URGENT/Denver Bio-Chem Attack Alleged Imminent]
-Caveat Lector- I don't believe it. First nukes in U.S. cities and now a month later this urgent warning of yet another terrorist attack. I am reminded of a story...something about a boy crying wolf... DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] PJB: Response to Republican Rivals
-Caveat Lector- History by Victor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Buchanan made one very accurate statement "... the West has failed to study history" And Pat Buchanan is among those who have failed...he views the scene in the same flawed political framework. Here are some factors Pat should plug into his equation (l) Financing of the SECOND Bolshevik Revolution by Wall Street and the City of London. Read the British Cabinet papers, no longer secret. Its all there.. (2) The Financing of Hitler by the same crowd but now including the Bush-Harriman faction History as written is a dishonest facade and any policy derived from that facade.will give wrong answers. ASU Anyone who wants the references please E-Mail. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Chinese invasion thru Canada
-Caveat Lector- PM Chretien just announced that he was going to solve the problem once and for all by ceding Vancouver Island to the Chinese as a "New Taiwan", as long as Beijing recognizes the sovereignty of Taiwan in the east. FWP. On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Bill Kingsbury wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.drudgereport.com/matt2.htm X DRUDGE REPORT X TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1999 22:10:13 ET X JOINT US/CANADA SPY VENTURE DETECTS CHINESE ALIENS The bulldog edition of Wednesday's SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER is reporting that the U.S.and Canada are cooperating in a joint spy venture to detect rampant Chinese smuggling off the Canadian coast. The POST-INTELLIGENCER'S Ed Offley and Joel Connelly are reporting that the two nations are working closely together to monitor the western coastline of Canada where over the last two months 600 Chinese have been found on four ships. According to the paper, Canada and the U.S. "are using a network of spy satellites, underwater acoustic sensors and electronic interception techniques to track smuggling ships from Chinese ports." One U.S. Navy intelligence "official" confirmed the intelligence campaign, telling the paper: "There is an ongoing agreement between the U.S. Navy and the Canadian Navy to foster cooperation in intelligence in that part of the world." The co-venture is based at the Northwest Regional Naval Intelligence Center, which is located at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, and is part of a longstanding intelligence relationship between the two countries. "During the Cold War, the United States developed overlapping surveillance systems to track the Soviet Navy and its nuclear submarine fleet in the Pacific, and many of those systems are still active." Developing... X X X X X --- Filed by Matt Drudge Reports are moved when circumstances warrant http://www.drudgereport.com for updates (c)DRUDGE REPORT 1999 Not for reproduction without permission of the author . DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];http://users.uniserve.com/~culturex; http://www.alternatives.com/fc DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] [FUTURE-CITIES] Mars City...and the Social Class War. (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:39:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FUTURE-CITIES] Mars City...and the Social Class War. From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] A political after-thought on this is that technolords along with high finance people may already be creating a "Mars City" within each nation already. So much of high technology is "classified" because of its military implications that they could already have Mars City designs on the drawing board. You can do a lot with the tens of billions or more which even the best of public accountants have no accounting for! FWP. -- The material below is from Chapter 13 of "Everyday Robots". In order to understand the full argument as to why Mars City can be built now and is within current technologies and budgets, the reader should also examine the rest of Chapter 13 (44 k.) and Chapter 12 (Roboeconomics/Robopolitics), which is 37 k. FWP. -- Preceding units clipped http://www.nas.com/venus Jacque Fresco's Florida-based Venus Project provides a 48 minute video on highly automated or totally automated Future Cities. The economic model is called "resource-based economics" which is a good way of expressing the idea that intelligent machines can take raw materials or starting materials and then process them, step-by-step into all of the amenities of life. Fresco is one of the great visionaries of our time, rightly described by the editors of "The Futurist" magazine as in a league with people like Buckminster Fuller. http://www.freedomship.com Richard Nixon's "Freedom Ship" captures the imagination as a giant city at sea for 100,000 people which would, I expect be a sovereign state in its own right. Would it be accepted for UN membership? Perhaps if it were to purchase an island or claim a "near-island" (submerged island) in international waters, it would be accepted. Freedom Ship is having some success in pre-selling homes onboard. http://www.new-utopia.org/new.html Lazarus Long's project, despite the unlikely name (Utopia) is also having some success in getting people to invest their money in a project to develop a submerged "near-island" in the Caribbean. Also unlikely is the fact that this is planned to be a principality with "Prince Lazarus" as its supreme leader. Prince Lazarus is serious about having New Utopia accepted for UN membership. He may succeed, allowing that there are many different choices made by people as to their "way of life". http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/sea-city.html This is another City-at-Sea project, in this case for 30,000. Another interesting feature is that it intends to maximize automation. While automation is not a focus in projects like New Utopia, it is unlikely that such a factor could be ignored in this era. Investors will bring it up. Sea-City could do very well if some of the automation experts who abound in UK should decide to back it. http://www.ntticc.or.jp/special/utopia/model/prototype/scheme1_e.html Here we have a proposal for a high tech model habitat with the backing of a well recognized university (Waseda University). Despite another unlikely name, "Mirage City", this is a project to watch. http://www.juga.com This project may signal the way planning for future cities and even new sovereign nations will be done soon. The web site proposes to organize 5,000,000 people by Internet and when that is accomplished apply for UN membership. So far they have almost 5,000 citizens signed up. There are other projects along these lines and to keep up to date I would suggest subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is every reason to expect substantial progress somewhere on the planet in planning such cities and when that happens it will usher in a dramatic new era in global designing and planning of new cities and states. The world population is after all expected to keep increasing at 100,000,000/year for at least a few decades and most of that will accrue to cities. Miscellaneous thoughts and other new city projects can be found at http://users.uniserve.com/~culturex. For example there is a link to the new city, Cyberjaya being planned and built by the Malaysian Government. Though such a government-backed high technology city is likely to be cautious and conservative, it is almost certain to carry through to completion. And yes, those words are "cautious and conservative" which means there is a large technological lag between what technology can do within current technologies and budgets and what governments and the plutocracy which controls governments will allow in the public domain. With the "Mars City" proposal below there are no such inhibitions. Mars City Let me
Re: [CTRL] Russian Planes Launch New Strikes on Grozny
-Caveat Lector- Tatman, Robert wrote: -Caveat Lector- Russian Planes Launch New Strikes on Grozny MOSCOW (Sept. 23) XINHUA - Russian warplanes carried out a second wave of air strikes Thursday near Grozny, capital city of the breakaway republic, [snip] Wow. What a strange coincidence. Grozny means "terrible" in Russian, as in Ivan Grozny, Ivan the Terrible. -- Mark McHugh DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] :/Denver Bio-Chem Attack Alleged Imminent]
-Caveat Lector- Count me as skeptical, very skeptical, about the Denver rumors. About 12 months ago I had a FRANTIC phone call about imminent CBW attack. But this one said "dont tell anyone". I didnt And there is good reason we should do nothing here. Terrorists do NOT broadcast their plans.I suspect we shall get more frantic alarmism as we near 2000.. . DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] :/Denver Bio-Chem Attack Alleged Imminent]
-Caveat Lector- I agree...I suspect that these rumors are mostly designed to sell gas masks, etc., to gullible paranoids. (Of course, they also have the side effect of keeping the public in a state of perpetual fear, and cui bono?) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] :/Denver Bio-Chem Attack Alleged Imminent] -Caveat Lector- Count me as skeptical, very skeptical, about the Denver rumors. About 12 months ago I had a FRANTIC phone call about imminent CBW attack. But this one said "dont tell anyone". I didnt And there is good reason we should do nothing here. Terrorists do NOT broadcast their plans.I suspect we shall get more frantic alarmism as we near 2000.. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] FW: [Fwd: Unsettling prospect]
-Caveat Lector- forwarded Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -Original Message- From: Trudy Paul Schuett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:56 AM To: NCF list Subject: [Fwd: Unsettling prospect] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This just came in. May be dis-information, maybe not. In any case, I thought I would pass it on to you. Stay safe. If you know anyone in or around Denver, let them know about this... as always, it's better to be SAFE than sorry... I am working on updating the Quinn pages on the site. Should be done in a couple of days. Angie --- Date: 9/23/99 Denver/Bio-Chem Attack Alleged Imminent We are forwarding this message from a trusted source in the Denver area, who has provided much useful information to both "official" and unofficial uncompromised investigators: for example, recently in the Columbine school massacre and the murders of JFK Jr., wife and sister-in-law. --John Quinn / NewsHawk Inc. - - - - I've received information today--Sept.23, 1999--from 2 of my sources, both of whom I trust, that the Denver Metro area will be hit with a Bio-Chemical attack sometime within the next month. I've known of Bio-Chemicals being stored in the Mountains just outside Denver, possibly in / on Mt. Evans, for quite some time. I've spent a lot of time attempting to locate said Bio-Chemical weapons, and the terrorists that hold them and guard them. They are a conglomerate of "terrorists" in that some are Mexican, some are Russian, some are Libyan, some are Afghani, etc. We anticipated this attack closer to the Y2K deadline, but are not surprised at the accelerated date. We believe this will be used as the excuse to declare Martial Law, and of course remove what freedoms we have left, after first killing between 300,000 - 400,000 people: population reduction, in other words. Buy Gas masks and Bio-Chemical suits, now. As always, these plans CAN be thwarted if we make this public enough, albeit, for a brief period of time. Only God and his son can ultimately put a stop to these bastards. And they will, in their time. Anyway, please pass this on to everyone you can possibly think of an have them make this information known as publicly as possible. Also, I hold you to your promise of my complete anonymity. Thanks. ===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++=== /\ INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS' ASSOCIATION /\ for ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA /\Angie Mogavero /\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ / IRAAP \ /_ \ *INVESTIGATION* *RESEARCH* *COMMUNICATION* ===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++=== visit us on the web at: http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/ ===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++=== DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] FW: PACIFICA - McChesney piece in The Nation
-Caveat Lector- forwarded. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -Original Message- From: MichaelP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:54 AM To: unlikely.suspects :; Subject: PACIFICA - McChesney piece in "The Nation" http://www.thenation.com. FROM PACIFICA TO THE ATLANTIC Robert W. McChesney The summer of 1999 will be remembered by many progressives as the time of the great KPFA lockout--when Pacifica's management tried to muzzle the nation's oldest community radio station. The effort was notable for the arrogance of the leaders of Pacifica's national board and its chairwoman, Mary Frances Berry. While legally the board may hold all the cards, this self-perpetuating and unaccountable body is politically and ethically bankrupt. It offered no coherent rationale for the lockout and avoided--indeed, sought to quash--open dialogue. In the face of a popular uprising--10,000 people at a demonstration in Berkeley in 1999!--Berry ended the lockout. But the situation is far from secure. What's needed now is a formal commitment that there will be no sale of KPFA or any of the four other Pacifica-owned stations. Berry and the rest of the board must also start negotiations to establish a new governing structure for the foundation--one that represents Pacifica's diverse stakeholders: the paid and unpaid workers, the listeners and potential listeners. But even if a new governing structure is set up, some of the crucial problems underlying the crisis will remain--for they are rooted in the tragic history of US public broadcasting. All noncommercial radio (and television) in the United States, including Pacifica, has grown up in the shadow of the commercial broadcasters, who grabbed the airwaves back in 1934. Since then, there has been a tacit quid pro quo for getting broadcast licenses: The noncommercial broadcasters would do no programming that might compete directly with their ad-driven counterparts. Thus were the commercial giants entitled to do whatever made them the most money, while the noncommercial players were left to do programming that would draw a negligible audience. Things have been very different in much of the rest of the industrialized world. In other nations public broadcasting has, at its best, gone directly for a general audience, rather than serve whatever little niche has been neglected by the big commercial broadcasters. Such noncommercial players abroad have thus been free to entertain as many viewers and listeners as they can, regardless of what their commercial rivals might be doing. This has meant that systems like the BBC could sometimes generate real mass enthusiasm for their fare--while also offering news and public affairs programming superior to anything our networks, public or commercial, have produced. Since most of its content is not that popular, the US noncommercial system garners little public funding, either through federal subsidy or listener/viewer donations. This helps explain why all the public stations, as well as the Pacifica-owned stations, have never established a secure basis as noncommercial and nonprofit institutions. (This failure has also intensified the pressure to solicit corporate "underwriting" in its various forms--a move that always threatens to corrupt the content.) Most public broadcasters, and many at Pacifica, have internalized their forced move to the margins and now regard it as a virtue. Their job, they proclaim, is to let the commercial media handle the masses, while they serve the elite (PBS, NPR) or the left, the disfranchised and/or the artistic community (Pacifica and community radio) with programming that is not commercially viable. To try to break out of this box in any way appears to be "selling out." Berry has stated that her desire is to expand Pacifica's reach among people of color. But the opposition to her actions by virtually all of KPFA's minority programmers and active listeners, as well as the low minority listenership at Houston's KPFT--a Pacifica station she does not hassle--reveals how bogus her claim is. As at NPR and PBS, Berry's actual plan to build Pacifica's audience appears to be marked by the conventional elitist approach: Rather than deal directly with the public, Pacifica looks to ratings-obsessed consultants oriented to the commercial system and inclined to see the world as an array of advertising-defined demographic blocs. Such audience expansion merely seeks out lucrative niches not served by the commercial system and looks to please mainstream foundation officers, potential underwriters and DC politicos. In such a universe, Pacifica's renowned content--feisty, anticorporate, antimilitarist--appears to be, at best, an unproductive nuisance. Thus the fears of KPFA audience and workers--that Berry's plans for "expanding" its audience must mean contracting
Re: [CTRL] FW: [Fwd: Unsettling prospect]
-Caveat Lector- If you have accurate information down to nationality of these terrorists I trust you have already given it to the FBI...this is the only organization with the capability to handle such a situation .if it exists. You are not doing anybody a service spreading it over the Intenet. This tips off the terrorists .if they exist. You are also providing ammunition to those who want to censor the Intenet ASU. he DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Is this true guys???
-Caveat Lector- Is this true guys??? From: http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/prediction/51/text-files/cooper2.txt In the early 1940s, the I.G. Farben Chemical Company employed a Polish salesman who sold cyanide to the Nazis for use in Auschwitz. The same salesman also worked as a chemist in the manufacture of the poison gas. This same cyanide gas along with Zyklon B and malathion was used to exterminate millions of Jews and other groups. Their bodies were then burned to ashes in the ovens. After the war the salesman, fearing for his llfe, joined the Catholic Church and was ordained a priest in 1946. One of his closest friends was Dr. Wolf Szmuness, the mastermind behind the November/78 to October/79 and March/80 to October/81 experimental hepatitis B vaccine trials conducted by the Center for Disease Control in New York, San Francisco and four other American cities that loosed the plague of AIDS upon the American people. The salesman was ordained Poland's youngest bishop in 1958. After a 30-day reign his predecessor was assassinated and our ex-cyanide gas salesman assumed the papacy as Pope John Paul II. We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage Bargain Books http://bn.bfast.com/bfast/click/mid1349732?siteid=10734186bfpage=b DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Is this true guys???
-Caveat Lector- I've heard this and assume that it's factual. Bill. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] The UN can help save the world
-Caveat Lector- Enforcement is the nut thats for sure. There are many Voluntary Gays Celibates and Neuters around though. Up until this point forced population control has been called Warwe haven't had one in a while except for Billys charadesat least now we are talking about our destiny in our hands instead of our destiny in the hands of puppet masters...seems to be going that way, anyway. It could and probably will revert back with a bang though. Vanity strikes again. Tenorlove wrote: -Caveat Lector- --- Sean McDougal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to guess that your despisal of eco-minded individuals has lead you to not know many of them first hand. snip is it population control or population control advocates? I'll tell you about 2 incidents. 1. One day I was out with my first child and a large pregnant belly. A woman I didn't even know walked up to me and blasted me for contributing to the world's overpopulation, saying that I was "wasting our precious Mother Earth's resources and exploiting poor people of color." This was a white woman with one child tagging along. I am part Lakota, mostly of European extraction, but 100% American since America is the land of my birth and culture. I found her remarks extremely offensive. First, walking up to a stranger and butting into personal business is a serious breach of etiquette, defined as simple consideration for others. Second, her remark struck me as racist, both against whites for reproducing, and against "people of color" for casting them in the role of eternal victims. Being part Lakota, and a woman, I could claim victimhood for myself, but I have chosen to be a person, not a victim. 2. A woman who was once a close friend (we've grown apart over the years) told me she was an advocate of zero population growth. Her own (one of 2) daughter has 4 children. I asked her about that. She said that her daughter should not have had more than one child. This woman had previously expressed how hurt she was that her daughter no longer speaks to her. I wonder why... Yes, the message disturbs me. Which population is supposed to be reduced? Me? You? I keep seeing images of Hitler and Waco ENFORCED population control infringes on human freedom and human dignity as much as restrictions on freedoms of worship, association, and exchange of ideas. If you have further questions, I'm sure I'll read them on the list. Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] School Of Assassins To Remain Funded-Congress Commitee
-Caveat Lector- Committee vote keeps School of the Americas open 09/23/1999 Nolan Walters Staff Writer WASHINGTON Fort Benning's controversial School of the Americas got another year's reprieve Wednesday after members of a Senate-House conference committee voted not to cut funding for the school. The key vote was an 8-to-7 decision by House members of the conference committee not to pursue the funding cuts against the school -- even though the full House had voted in favor of the cuts by a 33-vote margin in July. All those voting to preserve the school's funding were Republicans, although one Republican voted with six Democratic opponents of the school. School of Americas officials were thrilled when told that they and their school had survived by the narrowest of margins. "We did? Hey!" shouted School of the Americas spokesman Nicholas Britto when told by phone of the favorable vote. Minutes later and out of breath from passing along word of victory to the headquarters staff, Britto said, "We are very excited, and we feel that finally the American people, through Congress, have decided that the school is needed, and we're happy that it is over," he said. Long-time opponents of the school, however, said that their campaign to close the school -- as the foremost symbol of what they say is a misguided U.S. policy in Latin America -- is far from over. The opponents say the school has trained murderers and other human rights violators who oppress their own people. The U.S. Army says the school is helping to spread respect for human rights. "This was disappointing. But we knew that we had to keep on doing what we were doing anyway," said Carol Richardson, co-director and Washington director of the protest group School of Americas Watch. "If anything, this will energize everybody," she said. "And next year, we've got to get a straight up or down vote on it. We can't mess around with this behind-the-scenes thing." Using similar words, Rep. Joe Moakley, D-Mass., the congressional leader of school opponents, said, "I'm very disappointed, but I'm not surprised." "More people are paying attention to this thing all the time, and someday we'll get it closed," said Moakley, who'd introduced the original legislation to cut the school's money. School supporter Rep. Mac Collins, R-Hampton, whose district includes Fort Benning, agreed that the fight isn't over. "We still have a long way to go" to ensure the school's continued safety. But for now, he added, "That's good." The key vote came shortly after the beginning of a Wednesday afternoon meeting in a crowded conference room of the Capitol as tourists milled about just yards away. Members of both the House and Senate were meeting to work out differences in their versions of next year's spending bills for foreign operations -- which included about $2 million for the school. The House had voted 230-197 in July to cut the fund that pays for foreign students to come to the school. It was the first conclusive House vote against the school. The Senate, however, never took up the issue of the school, so its version of next year's foreign operations spending plan maintained the same level as before for the School of the Americas. This was but one of dozens of differences between the Senate and House versions of the spending bill that the conference committee had to resolve. The vote itself took only a couple minutes. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., an opponent of the school, was preparing to make a motion for the Senate members to vote on accepting the House position -- that is, cutting the school's funding. But before he could act, Rep. Sonny Callahan, R-Mobile, Ala., the chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee on foreign affairs and a school supporter, beat him to the punch. He persuaded the House members themselves to ignore the vote of the House and accept the Senate's position -- thereby leaving funding unchanged. Callahan said that if the money were cut from the foreign operations budget that the Pentagon would probably shift money from another fund and nothing would change at the school. However, Callahan warned the committee members that they would be giving away control over the program by doing so. "That seems to take some of the wind out of their sails," said Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Savannah, the only Georgian on the conference committee and a supporter of the school. After the vote, Leahy seemed to agree, saying that "the Pentagon would just stick it (the money) back in another program." He also said that a straight up-or-down vote on the school might be the best course for opponents. But that isn't likely to happen at least until next year. Voting to sustain the earlier House vote to cut the school's funding were: Reps. John Porter, R-Ill., Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., Dale Kildee, D-Mich., Martin Sabo, D-Minn., and David Obey, D-Wis. Vote not to sustain the House vote and maintain funding
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990924b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hyst- erical naked, dragging themselves thru the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connect- ion to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Tokyou Wank: http://www.adgnet.or.jp/~wank/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Is There Any Linkage Between Recent Natural Disasters? WASHINGTON (CNN) When waves of natural disasters strike worldwide, it's only natural for people to wonder if there's a link between the huge forces of nature. Was Hurricane Floyd related to a monster typhoon battering Hong Kong the same week? Did the deadly earthquake in Turkey pull the seismic trigger for the quake in Taiwan? Some answers can be found at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where specialists track what happens beneath Earth's surface and above it. http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/naturaldisaster_e.htm : Are waves of disaster caused by human conspiracy, alien mechanisms, divine intervention, bad karma, microscopic radioactive spiders from the galactic core http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs2.htm#micr or me? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Unusually Hot, Cold Oceans Create Corridor For More Storms. (SD) Three current storms captured by a NASA satellite show how unusual sea temp- eratures are creating a clear corridor in the Atlantic for more to come. Make way: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990923072537.htm : Are storm paths created by planetary dynamics, weather-control programs, deities/demons, Reptilioids/Republicans, robots, me? Do you direct storms? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Taiwan Moon Festival is mainly sad. CHUNGLIAO (AP) Thousands of Taiwanese left homeless by this week's deadly earthquake have little to celebrate as they mark one of their most important holidays, the Autumn Moon Festival. People traditionally go outside to gaze at the moon, but this year many will be looking to the skies from tent cities quickly erected after more than 6,000 homes on the island were destroyed. The festival falls in the middle of the eighth lunar Chinese month, when the moon is supposed to be at its fullest. With a ripe, round moon considered a symbol of happiness, the national holiday is also a time for family reunions. Lucky to be alive - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561300600-0d2 : Do disasters inconveniently occur on your festival days? Do your festivals cause natural disasters? Were your festivals started by humans, aliens, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # First Sea-Level Photos Of Massive Antarctic Iceberg. Digital photographs of iceberg B-10-A are now available from the National Science Foundation (NSF). B-10-A is a massive iceberg that is drifting towards South America from Antarctica and may threaten shipping lanes around Cape Horn. Run! Run! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990924075407.htm : Do you eagerly await numerous swarms of massive icebergs roaming the seas as global warming increases? Is this a good way to interdict shipping? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clifford Stone - 21 Years In Army UFO Recovery / National Security. When 1 was 7 1 had my first close encounter with a UFO, followed by interactions with alien entities. I served in the Army for over 2 1 years. At first, 1 was reluctant, then afraid, then disillusioned by the way the Government handles the subject. http://utenti.tripod.it/paolaharris/national.html : Have you recovered any UFOs lately? When did you first encounter aliens? Is govt disillusioning? Did you ever have illusions? Did the Army cure them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Going gooey - liquid genius of tomorrow's robots. FORGET A SOPHISTICATED BRAIN. To find its way around, all a robot needs is a headful of chemical goo. The idea that a liquid or gel can produce "intelligent" behaviour without any form of number crunching depends upon the computational and problem-solving properties of a strange class of chemical reactions. Think about it: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory3.html : Is your brain gooey? Have you looked lately? Do you produce intelligent behaviours? Do you crunch numbers? If you're gooey, how loud do you crunch? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chemists Describe "Fluorescent" Method For DNA Computing. Duke U. chemists versed at conducting large numbers of simultaneous DNA reactions on the surfaces of tiny glass microchips have demonstrated how to use a recent modification of this technique as a precise molecular computer. Think'n' glow: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990924075458.htm : Does your DNA structure
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #4
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990924d - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No Ephedra Viridens plants were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientologists trial ends. MARSEILLE, France (AP) The fraud trial of seven Scientologists concluded Thursday as the defense asked the court to ignore the anti-Scientology rhetoric strong in France and to drop all charges arguing that "fraud cannot exist in the domain of religion." Huh? How's that? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561299610-b20 : Are no/some/all religions fraudulent? Is religion so inherently bogus that believers deserve what happens to them? Have you defrauded believers lately? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HERBAL DIET SUPPLEMENT COULD BE DANGEROUS. An ingredient in many popular herbal supplements has been associated with a number of illnesses and deaths in users. One poison control center has even issued a warning about ephedrine, calling it extremely dangerous. Mormon Tea kills: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17147 : Do you pick your own ephedra plants to get your stimulant fix? Have you ever brewed Mormon Tea? Do you see visions? Do you want to breed and breed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spider-woman nabbed by customs. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Customs cops made a huge capture of illegal passengers at Frankfurt's airport: 1,300 hairy Mexican bird hidden in the luggage of a French woman. The woman was busted for smuggling a protected species; the estimated value of the spiders was $14,000. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561306658-850 : Do you smuggle/worship/eat spiders? Do spiders worship you? What rituals do you perform with your spiders? Do you get naked? Do they crawl over you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MOONSTRUCK. Brian Trochelmann pleaded guilty Thursday and may face up to 5 years in prison for trying to sell a fake moon rock. Backyard geology: http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/story/21935.html http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-crime-moonrock : Have you falsified any interplanetary artifacts lately? Were you caught?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gorilla born captive turns 40. BASEL, Switz. (AP) The 1st gorilla born in captivity in Europe celebrated her 40th birthday Thursday. Goma was born at Basel Zoo in 1959 and was raised for her first two years by the zoo director and his family amid wide public interest. Midlife crisis? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561291520-5ad : Were you born in captivity? Are you held against your will by superior(?) beings? Do they observe you constantly? Do you resent them? Do you care?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tiny Plane Closes On Military Goal For Size Cost. A U.Florida aerospace engineering team is a step closer to reaching the ambitious goals of a military research program aimed at developing tiny, affordable airplanes for use in battlefield surveillance and other military situations. Try aerobots: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990923084436.htm : Have you developed any tiny aircraft lately? Do you use them for espion- age, attacks, smuggling? Do you use alien technology, antigravity, Xfields? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Your own private air scooter, backed by NASA. While it may be a few years before we all buzz around with Lost in Space-style jet packs, a small Cal- ifornia firm recently got a boost in its effort to provide such a craft. The boost came in a vote of confidence from NASA, which will support the firm's efforts. http://www.explorezone.com/archives/99_09/24_solotrek.htm : Would you like to shoot around in the air in a jet pack? If millions of people are buzzing around, how many will crash into each other? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MOSCOW MAYOR'S SITE: HACKSKI'D! Yuri Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, is quickly becoming one of Russia's most prominent politicians... and hackers prey. http://wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21931.html http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-election # CRACKING FOR THE MAN. There are plenty of ex-hackers hanging around corporate America these days, says DefCon's founder. Breaking into networks is always better when you're paid for it. Always? Really? http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/21879.html : Do you crack nets for fun, money, obligation, guilt, ideology, randomness? Do you hack/crack/infest political/govt/military/biz sites? Which are best? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Miami stone circle examined. MIAMI (AP) A stone circle at the mouth of the Miami River marks a place where people gathered hundreds of years ago to exchange goods and build arts crafts. Evidence shows ancient Miamians maintained robust trade and cultural links with distant tribes. And beach
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990924c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Not too many angelheaded hipsters were harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Garden of Origami: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~vbeatty/origami/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Health secrets in ancient Egyptian eye shadow. PARIS (CNN) -- In ancient Egypt, everyone wore eye make up -- men, women and children of all castes. Scientists now think the cosmetics may have had as much to do with health as with beauty or style. Egyptologists chemists came to that conclusion after analyzing the Louvre's collection of 4,000-year-old pots once used in Egyptian makeup kits. They found chemical compounds that were used thousands of years later by the Greeks and Romans to treat infectious eye diseases. http://cnn.com/STYLE/9909/22/eygptian.eyes/index.html : Do you use cosmetics for medical purposes, drugs for cosmetic purposes? Does heroin keep you attractively slender? Does your makeup prevent AIDS? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Soccer Team Unveils 'Official Condom'. COVENTRY, UK (Reuters) Coventry City have become the first English premier league side to launch an official club condom. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-condom : Do all belief systems [religious, economic, political, artistic, athletic] require official condoms? Should you be safely fucked by your beliefs? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New "Magic Hula" just might cure what ails you. SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) - This isn't your parents' HulaHoop. A South Korean entrepreneur has updated the classic toy, adding small molded knobs to the inside edge of the ring, aimed at providing a mini-massage and supposed therapeutic effects. ShaKE iT BabY, YEeeAh!: http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9909/16/fringe/magic.hoop/ : Do you put magnets inside your Hula-Hoops for medicinal/sexual purposes? What are the latest medical advances in toys? Have you cured your acne yet? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MORE THAN 6 BILLION SERVED. Mother Nature will soon have more than 6 billion mouths to feed. Agricultural technology is improving, but food production is falling. Still, not everybody's worried. Except me, maybe. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21927.html : Are you healthy, wealthy, wise, well-fed? Will you continue to be into the indefinite future? Will anyone else? How? Magic? Tech? Divine intervention? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Husband And Wife Decide To Change Sex. BUDAPEST (Reuters) A Hungarian husband and wife have decided literally to trade places and each is now undergoing a sex change operation at the local hospital. Confused? Well, THEY aren't. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-sexchange : When will transgenderism become routine, mandatory? Can you be a complete person if you haven't been all genders, all races, several varied species? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE 'ARCOLOGY' OF CYBERSPACE. Architect Paolo Soleri reprises his Paradox conference at the Arcosanti project space. Participants hope less fur will fly this year. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21920.html : Would you like to restructure cyberspace, problem space, mental space? Do you have any experience messing up spaces? Have you ruined much space yet?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Entrepreneurs study space tourism. LOS ANGELES (AP) Space, tourism's final frontier. As NASA builds the international space station high above Earth, private lodging travel companies are taking a serious look at orbiting hotels etc. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561288044-d50 : How many prostitutes would a free-fall or low-gravity hotel/resort need? How fast would they wear out? How much will you pay for sex in space? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Arafat to UN: back Palestine independence - UN mumbles something: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561301919-644 @ Geronimo captured: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geronixx.htm @ BraveNewChina - eugenics redux: http://christianity.net/bc/9B5/9B5028.html @ US Naval Observatory: http://www.usno.navy.mil/ # Alien Earths - Have our planet's alter egos popped up in outer space? http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory8.html # High lights - Superflares may point the way to distant solar systems: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory9.html @ Understanding Color: http://library.advanced.org/50065/colorj/ # Mean machines - New efficient turbines will slash greenhouse emissions: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory5.html # False trails - You can't tell a dinosaur from its tracks: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory6.html @ The Van Gogh Museum: http://209.249.169.110/ehp.html # Dutch museum hopes to quash rumors - real Van Goghs, not fakes:
[CTRL] Fw: Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord
-Caveat Lector- -=- "Why am I seething with this animosity" -=- The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord 1. My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones. 2. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through. 3. My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon. 4. Shooting is not too good for my enemies. 5. The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness. 6. I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them. 7. When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No." 8. After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out. 9. I will not include a self-destruct mechanism unless absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button labelled "Danger: Do Not Push". The big red button marked "Do Not Push" will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will not clearly be labelled as such. 10. I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum -- a small hotel well outside my borders will work just as well. 11. I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat. 12. One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation. 13. All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal. 14. The hero is not entitled to a last kiss, a last cigarette, or any other form of last request. 15. I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation. 16. I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one thing I want to know." 17. When I employ people as advisors, I will occasionally listen to their advice. 18. I will not have a son. Although his laughably under-planned attempt to usurp power would easily fail, it would provide a fatal distraction at a crucial point in time. 19. I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the hero's rugged countenance and she'd betray her own father. 20. Despite its proven stress-relieving effect, I will not indulge in maniacal laughter. When so occupied, it's too easy to miss unexpected developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly. 21. I will hire a talented fashion designer to create original uniforms for my Legions of Terror, as opposed to some cheap knock-offs that make them look like Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or savage Mongol hordes. All were eventually defeated and I want my troops to have a more positive mind-set. 22. No matter how tempted I am with the prospect of unlimited power, I will not consume any energy field bigger than my head. 23. I will keep a special cache of low-tech weapons and train my troops in their use. That way -- even if the heroes manage to neutralize my power generator and/or render the standard-issue energy weapons useless -- my troops will not be overrun by a handful of savages armed with spears and rocks. 24. I will maintain a realistic assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Even though this takes some of the fun out of the job, at least I will never utter the line "No, this cannot be! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!" (After that, death is usually instantaneous.) 25. No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of machinery which is completely indestructible except for one small and virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot. 26. No matter how attractive certain members of the rebellion are, there is probably someone just as attractive who is not desperate to kill me. Therefore, I will think twice before ordering a prisoner sent to my bedchamber. 27. I will never build
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) [BRIGADE] PJB: Response to Republican Rivals
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 9/24/99 11:30:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Today, the United States is handing out war guarantees all over Eastern Europe, guarantees a future generation of Americans may refuse to honor, guarantees that are driving a defeated, demoralized, divided and democratic Russia, with 20,000 nuclear weapons, straight into the arms of a Chinese Communist regime whose rulers bristle with hatred and resentment at hubristic American attempts to create some arrogant 'global hegemony.' He sounds like he could be a member of WACL (Willoughby's group talked about on list recently). His emphasis on these areas indicates renewed military expenditure. His answers on the e-chat that were posted earlier today (or last night) by someone are also informative. When asked how he would preserve us from the police state he said the exact pat answer everyone does, that he would uphold the constitution just as his oath of office requires. So we are to believe HIM but not everyone else who has taken the same oath and who have walked all over the document. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fw: What's New for Sep 24, 1999
-Caveat Lector- WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 24 Sep 99 Washington, DC 1. CTBT: SENATE DEMOCRATS ABANDON THE BIG PUSH. Just two weeks ago, Byron Dorgan (D-ND) was threatening to chain himself to the tracks to block other Senate business unless the test ban was put on the agenda (WN 10 Sep 99). But a week ago, Jesse Helms (R-NC) hinted he would be willing to have a quick vote (WN 17 Sep 99). Did that mean Helms had the votes to kill it? Democrats weren't taking any chances. On Wednesday, Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D- SD) acknowledged that the big push in the Senate is over for now. "It isn't that we've forgotten about the test ban," Daschle told reporters, "it's just that we feel strongly about the importance of getting appropriations bills done on time as well." But it's not over for everyone. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, slammed treaty opponents: "They have failed to explain how our security can be damaged by asking others to end testing, as we have already done, and accept intrusive monitoring as well." 2. TRAIN WRECK: APPROPRIATIONS BILLS AREN'T GETTING DONE EITHER. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved an FY 2K funding bill that would provide everything the President requested for NSF and NASA. That's very good news of course, even though a substantial share of NASA's money is earmarked for dubious projects in the home states of appropriators (WN 27 Aug 99), but that's not the end of the story. The bill must survive attempts to amend it on the Senate floor and then be reconciled with the House version. There's the rub. House and Senate totals for the bill differ widely, presenting conferees with an impossible task at time when relations between the chambers are fractious. 3. PERPETUUM MOBILE: BETTING AGAINST THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS. Most free energy scams invoke outlandish new physics: cold fusion, hydrinos, zero-point energy, gravity shields, antimatter. But there are also throwbacks to the 19th Century that directly challenge the laws of thermodynamics. Physics Today carried a full-page ad for Entropy Systems, Inc. describing a heat engine that runs off ambient heat. It's hardly a new idea. Two years ago Better World Technologies was touting the "Fisher engine" that violated the Second Law (WN 18 Jul 97). But it wasn't new then either--it was the "zero motor," invented by John Gamgee in 1880. It didn't work then either, but Gamgee sold it to the U.S. Navy anyway. Better World Technologies quietly dropped the Fisher Engine, but if they couldn't get around the Second Law, how about the First? In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal last Friday, BWT announced 45 FREE meetings across the country to demonstrate free energy using "Counter Rotation" technology. 4. POLITICS: SENSENBRENNER IS HONORED AS "CHAMPION OF SCIENCE." The award was made by the Science Coalition. Mr. Sensenbrenner sought to block construction of the spallation neutron source (WN 2 Apr 99) and opposed the science doubling bill (WN 5 Mar 99). THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (Note: Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.) DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Skeptic News - Friday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990924a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Not many alien abductees were painfully probed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PocketMonkey! http://www.minordemons.com/pocketmonkey/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ It has been some time since we have been hearing the expression fin de siecle, the end of the century. Some people say that when we come to the end of the century, many things will take place including perhaps the destruction of the universe itself. What is the Buddhist teaching with regard to fin de siecle? http://www.semui.co.jp/hosshinji/HEfset1.html : Do you worry about the end of the century, the millennium, time itself? Do you get good answers from Buddhists, Taoists, Xians, Discordians, Sikhs, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Banned sect facing prosecution. BEIJING (AP) China issued new regulations to tighten control over the exercises on which the Falun Gong movement is partly based. The widely practiced slow-motion exercises called qigong may not be practiced in govt or military institutions, embassies, airports, train or bus stations, ports, streets or other "important public places." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561296441-098 : Do you ritually exercise in public? Are you subversive? Would you perform jumping-jacks, push-ups, deep-knee thrusts while standing in line, waiting in an airport or courtroom or consulate? Should there be laws against this? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Jesux (pronounced Hay-sooks) is a new Linux distribution for Christian hackers, schools, families, and churches." It optionally disables logins on Sundays, doesn't include sendmail cause it was written by a homosexual, and doesn't include any encryption... because "Christians have nothing to hide". Sweet Jesus. http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/ # Feds Linux: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/24/linux.for.feds.idg/ : Is your software damned? Can it be saved? Have you rewritten software to accommodate the doctrines of y'r belief system? Does it crash? Is it damned? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ted Kennedy's house to be razed for bad karma. The Hong Kong billionaire who bought Kennedy's Virginia mansion in 1997 sez the feng shui's negative around the place, so it'll be bulldozed. The spiritual balance is fucked: http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/nat/kenn09241999.htm : Does your home have bad karma, unbalanced feng shui, ghosts? Should it be demolished? Should it be demolished anyway, just because you don't like it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CIRCLE SUPPERS. As liberals and radicals, we are trained from day one of our freshman year of college that religion, particularly Christianity, is the most destructive force the world has ever known. It is evil incarnate, inspiring evil deeds the world over. http://www.wench.com/features/circle/ : Is religion evil, good, ambiguous, unknowable? Were you trained to regard religion in any light? Can you be reprogrammed? Do you inspire evil deeds?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mayor Rudy's Rant: No Dead Pigs in My Museum! (TIME) A controversial new exhibit once again raises the issue of govt control over publicly funded art. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,31426-101990923,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/story/21930.html : Do you know art when you see it? Do voices in your head tell you? Do you use dead pigs in your art? Do voices in your head tell you? Are you a dead pig? Do you exercise govt control over art? Does your art control a govt? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Corporate media 99% wrong about Columbine, as it turns out: Sensational comments attributed to the killers - many from single, hysterical students fleeing the building early in the siege - were broadcast on national TV even as events unfolded, and soon took on the authority of fact. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/23/columbine/print.html : Do you distort the news? Intentionally/otherwise? Are truth/reality quite irrelevant to the biz of selling audiences to advertisers? How are profits? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TimeLinks: @ Waco - As Janet Reno reopens an inquiry into the raid, we look back at the events of 1993. http://pathfinder.com/time/daily/newsfiles/waco @ Guns and Violence - The story of America and the gun: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/denvershooting/ @ Campaign 2000 - A guide to the first national political race of the new millennium: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/election/ @ The Genetics Revolution - From cloning to designer babies and plants, the story of the new science set to profoundly change our lives: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/genetics/ @ The Papacy - The state of the Catholic Church and its Pope at
Re: [CTRL] Deceptive IRS Code Words
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 9/24/99 1:01:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Deceptive IRS Code Words "Income," "Person," "Taxpayer," "Shall," and "Must." snip I love these posts about the IRS (and the ones on the Federal Reserve). I don't mean that sarcastically, I really do love reading these things it is quite informative. I do feel a little sad for those people who believe that they offer them any ability to "get out of" paying their taxes. You see, everything that is stated in this post is probably one hundred percent true. It is at least partially true, BUT and this is the key point, you would never win any case against the IRS for these reasons. The courts are ultimately the ones who would decide any issue involved and they always side with the IRS in all matters of "interpretation." They have addressed many of these items before and there are rulings reflecting that. Read them for their historic significance, but don't think you just got your ticket to economic freedom. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Self Serving Myths Regarding Columbine.
-Caveat Lector- Excerpted From www.salon.com The biggest myths about the tragedy have to do with the question of who Harris and Klebold were really targeting in their rampage. Jocks, African-Americans and Christians have been widely described as their chief targets. Not a scrap of evidence supports that conclusion. In addition to voluminous evidence from the scene, Harris left behind a wealth of detailed plans and commentary making their targets plain. "It's pretty clear now that the initial plan was to have the two propane bombs they put in the cafeteria go off," a top investigator said. "And that's as indiscriminate as you can get. Every kid killed was a target of opportunity," not singled out to settle a score, he said. Battan called their behavior random: "Sticking a gun underneath a table and firing -- they didn't even know who was under that table." The jock myth grew out of now-legendary reports that the killers began their library killing spree with the demand: "All jocks stand up!" But it never happened, multiple sources confirmed. The notion that the pair was targeting jocks didn't even pass the initial smell test, Battan said: "How many of the jocks hang out in the library at lunch time?" "They knew where the gym was," another investigator added. Likewise, Isaiah Shoels' death was unrelated to his race, investigators insisted. Early reports had the killers searching him out, but there was no evidence that such a hunt occurred. "[Every] young boy or girl happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, including Isaiah Shoels," one said. Eyewitnesses disagreed about whether Harris and Klebold called him a "nigger" while they gunned him down, but if so, it was clearly a cruel taunt rather than a motive for his murder. But cooperative sources quickly clammed up when questioned about the most celebrated Columbine story of all, immortalized this month in Misty Bernall's bestseller, "She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall." "This is just too sensitive," a key source said, insisting on anonymity even for that statement. According to Misty Bernall's book, which has energized Christian youth movements around the world, the killers put a gun to her daughter Cassie's head and asked if she believed in God. When she said yes, they blew her away. But while no one would go on the record, key investigators made it clear that an alternate scenario is far more likely: The killers asked another girl, Valeen Schnurr, a similar question, then shot her, and she lived to tell about it. Schnurr's story was then apparently misattributed to Cassie. "Many of the kids were actually hiding under desks and hearing only bits and fragments of the conversation," one investigator explained. "It appears that exactly who they taunted, what questions were asked and who replied what may never be crystal clear." And even if it is clear, investigators clearly don't intend to tell. They cited the tense political climate around the story in this heavily evangelical community, as well as the potential embarrassment to Cassie's family, uniformly describing the Bernalls as sincere victims who may have been misinformed "through no malicious intent." But investigators were willing to say that whichever girl was asked about her faith, her life did not hinge on her answer. One key investigator said there is no evidence the outcome would have been any different if she had denied she believed in God. The bottom line, investigators insist, is that regardless of which spiteful jibes the killers tossed about during the shooting spree, none of the taunts bore any relation to their motives. "Were there things said about jocks?" Battan asked. "Probably. About God? Probably. Was there a 'nigger' comment? Probably. But that's not what it was about." Investigators agree it was about hate. "We can tell you why they did it, because they tell us why they're going to do it," a key source said. "They did it because they were consumed with hate." "They hated everybody and everything," echoed Division Chief John Kiekbusch, the ranking officer overseeing the case. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[CTRL] [Fwd: Know the Signs]
-Caveat Lector- psyberdude wrote: Know the Signs SCAPEGOATING - Blaming social problems on a cultural, racial, or behavioral group. PREJUDICE - Selling the public on the idea that all members of the targeted group are "bad" people. LIES - "Facts," which cannot be verified, and pseudo-scientific studies are used as propaganda against the targeted group. History is rewritten. NO PUBLIC DEBATE - "These people have no right to have their viewpoint aired." and "Anyone who disagrees or questions us must be one of them." DEHUMANIZATION - Characterizing all members of the target group as subhuman and typically capable of monstrous deeds and crimes. PROTECT OUR CHILDREN - "They corrupt, seduce and destroy our children." CIVIL LIBERTIES SACRIFICED - "We must give up some of our freedom, liberty and rights in order to combat this menace to society." LEGAL DISCRIMINATION - Laws criminalize members of the targeted group who may be denied jobs, the right to own property, or may be restricted to were they go. INFORMERS - Citizens are urged to "turn in" their neighbors, friends, co-workers and even family members. SECRET POLICE - Non-uniformed police squads set up to wage war on the targeted group utilizing deception, infiltration, espionage and entrapment. CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY - Property and assets of members of the targeted group are seized. Property may be divided between the informer and the state. REMOVAL FROM SOCIETY - Prisons, "hospitals," "rehabilitation camps," executions, genocide ( "kill them all" ). RECOGNIZE THE "WAR ON DRUGS" FOR WHAT IT IS. Suitable for display in Patriotic workplaces, homes and public ways. Please redistribute this document as much as possible!!! "LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Things Are Gonna Slide! -various
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-09-24 11:38:10 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Aryan Nations, run by 81 year old Richard Butler. (Yahoo quotes Butler as saying he had not seen or heard from Furrow, a former aerospace engineer, since 1994 or 1995. "He was a good soldier at that time," says Butler.) Pages 136-7 of Maury Island UFO have the Reverend Bob LeRoy talking bout how Butler and William Gale started the New Identity movement under Wesley Swift in California. Gale worked for Hughes aircraft and was part of Charles Willoughby's spy net. According to Dick Russell (p. 195 in Man Who Knew Too Much), in 1962 Gale was building "an underground network for the conduct of guerilla warfare...some of the recruitment effort has been directed toward former military servicemen." These are the Rangers, aka the Minutemen, "composed of persons devoted to extremist racial and religious beliefs." Russell adds, "It was quite a time for Willoughby's old journalist acquaintance Mark Gayn to show up on the scene, authoring an article titled "The Far Right: America's Own Ultras" for the April 1962 Canadian Commentator magazine. The dateline was Los Angeles, and Gayn warned that "the Minutemen are known to have acquired some first-rate automatic weapons, and they thank big business for providing the funds for this..." If anyone doubts the late Gen. Willoughby's fascist agenda [which would account for my hypothesized link-up between the "Yamato gold" in postwar Asia and billions secreted by the Nazis after 1944 as "insurance," for financing a future Fourth Reich], note how his patrimony converges with that of Gen. Singlaub -- i.e., the recruitment and training of racist military types to constitute a "leaderless" fascist strike-foirce modelled on Central American "death squads," awaiting social anarchy as THEIR opportunity to take over and, disguised as "patriotic defenders of liberty," co-opt any "revolution" aand steer it in a direction leading to a consolidation of neo-Nazi military power in the United States. As projected in George Bush's and Ollie North's "martial law" training exercise called "Operation Garden Plot," our "secret government" expects to ACTUALLY hand over all power to restore "law and order" --a role intended for the National Guard acting under FEMA-- to its "moles" in hate-groups such as the KKK, Aryan Nations, and the like ... Are these "agents in place" simply getting restless from waiting too long for the power promised them by their controllers, or are their repeated emergence as "lone nuts" in "random" acts of racial violence occurring right on cue, to justify a mass disarmament of the American people, stripping them of all defense against a "Nazi" military coup? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] The Dropa Stones
-Caveat Lector- Interesting archeology information, if true. Interesting fiction if not. Take a look and judge for yourself. This is forwarded from a newsgroup. Subject: The Dropa Stones From: Reverend Chupacabra A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A Date: Thu, 23 September 1999 02:59 AM EDT Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has this story been debunked, dehoaxed, clarified, expanded upon, ignored, verified, updated, or what? ___ The Dropa Stones A HREF="http://paranormal.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa060198.htm"http://paran ormal.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa060198.htm/A Records of Past Civilizations - A HREF="http://www.habtheory.com/111.htm"http://www.habtheory.com/111.htm/A Such records have indeed been found ... in China. These were contained in a large number of peculiar stone disks discovered in some underground repositories in the Himalayas near the border of Tibet. The discovery of the disks was made in 1938 by Professor Chi Pu Tei, an archeologist who was leading students on an expedition into the Bayan Kara Ula Mountains in the then-disputed frontier territory of Tibet and China. Professor Chi Pu Tei and his students discovered what was first described as a series of caves, but later admitted to be a complex system of artificial tunnels and underground storerooms. These tunnels were perfectly squared and the walls, ceilings and floors were highly glazed, as if the passages and rooms were carved by a device emitting heat of such intensity that it simply melted its way into the mountains. The archeological group followed some of these passages and encountered larger chambers in which numerous un-described implements were discovered. The implements evidently differed from one chamber to another, but one item was found in common in each of the chambers -- the stone disks mentioned earlier. In each chamber, they were found in the same position -- on a smooth cube of rock, glazed just as the tunnels were, with anywhere from seven to 20 of the disks neatly stacked on top. Each disk was 22.7 cm (9 inches) in diameter and 2 cm (3/4 inch) thick. Each disk also had a perfectly circular 2 cm hole in the exact center. The outside edges were regularly indented all the way around, almost like the fluting on a pie crust. Each disk also had a twin groove which began at the center hole and gradually moved in an expanding counterclockwise spiral to the outer rim. The individual disks thus bore a certain similarity to the phonograph records of today. All of the disks -- a total of 716 -- were removed and taken for study to the Peking Academy of Prehistory. Nothing was heard about this discovery by Western scientists for the next 27 years. During that period, the disks were being studied intensively by Professor Tsum Um Nui. The Bayan Kara Ula Mountains area is one of the most isolated and least known areas on Earth today. The nearest city of any consequence is Lhasa, Tibet, about 400 miles to the south through virtually impassable terrain. It is an area presently inhabited by two tribes of very unusual people. The tribes call themselves Dropa and Han, and simply do not fit into any racial category established by anthropologists. For one thing, they are both of pygmy stature. The tallest and shortest adults have measured 4' 7" and 3'6" respectively, but the average height is 4'2". They are yellow-skinned. Their heads are disproportionately large and sparsely haired, and their eyes are large but not Oriental in aspect, with pale bluish irises. Their features are very nicely formed, most nearly approximating Caucasian, and their bodies are extremely thin and delicate. Adult weight is estimated to average about 38 to 52 pounds. The disks underwent extensive study by Professor Tsum Um Nui, interrupted at times by war. It took him and his coworkers only a short time to discover that the spiral grooves were not sound tracks but, rather, an incredibly ancient writing inscribed in some unknown way and very nearly microscopic in size. The disks were determined to be no less than 3,000 or 4,000 years old at the youngest, and more likely anywhere from 8,000 to 12,000 years old. This would make them the oldest known form of writing in the world. Deciphering was incredibly difficult. It took 24 years -- until 1962 -- before Professor Nui and a young colleague found the key and began deciphering=2E The deciphered spiral text of the stones, even though only a small amount was completed, was so startling in its content that the Chinese government prohibited any publication of the resultant papers. The precise location of the site has never been released, and that area has been termed 'Positively Forbidden Territory' for the Western world since 1938. Then, in 1965, in a mysterious manner, an article written by the Russian philologist Vyacheslav Saizev appeared in Das Vegetarische Universum, a German magazine, and in the Russian- English magazine Sputnik, telling about the disks, their
[CTRL] Waco post
-Caveat Lector- From alt.conspiracy, WACO and the Child abuse allegations. Enjoy, or not. Subject: Post of FINAL evidence against WACO Child Abuse, End of Premise From: "James Perkins" A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A Date: Fri, 24 September 1999 02:01 PM EDT Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No more crap about child abuse - End of argument for Fed supporters Date: 1999/09/19 Author: James Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] From the St. Louis "Post Dispatch" Full article at: A HREF="http://www.post-dispatch.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/2076417F10B35AD A862"http://www.post-dispatch.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/2076417F10B35AD A862/A 567F1003C8CD7?OpenDocument "The nation already knows that there was some poor judgment. Officials of the FBI and Justice Department have acknowledged as much. The FBI has admitted that some of its tactics, like broadcasting loud noises, were ill-conceived. It has admitted that it did not have new evidence of child abuse at the time it used child-abuse allegations to persuade Attorney General Janet Reno to authorize the assault on the compound. And the FBI has belatedly admitted that it fired pyrotechnic tear gas at a bunker on the morning of the assault, even though Reno had denied for years that flammable tear gas was used." So, the next time anyone (especially familyvalues) wants to throw this argument up as a shield for the Fed, "Just Say NO". James Perkins DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Suggested Writers For Getting It
Dear R.U., I know you didn't ask, but thought I'd get you in touch with some writers that I think would be perfect for Getting It, which in quality, is living up to all I hoped it would turn out to be. I do visit it daily, and it basically has turned into the only daily webzine with some real spine. Anyway, besides Jim Hogshire (who I already mentioned) and Richard Metzger, Kenn Thomas Jon Vankin (who go without saying), here they are. I made sure they are all stylistically aligned with the Getting It message: Skylaire Alfvegren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - A great writer and a cool chick. Jaye Beldo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - One of my two favorite new writers on the net. Greg Bishop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Editor of The Excluded Middle. Has written two things for The Konformist. Jack Boulware ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - You're probably already talking to him. See Sex, American Style. Das Goat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - I've always got a kick out of his internet writings. Haven't heard from him lately, but he sure does great work. Uri Dowbenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Check his stuff out on Steamshovel Press. Luke Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - "The Matt Drudge Of Porn." Has a sly, smart ass style. Ian Goddard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Ian is in a class by himself. Adam Gorightly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - He just wrote a Manson book which I hear is top notch. I don't doubt it for a second. Ruffin Prevost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - The head of Parascope. Most people aren't aware what a fucking funny guy he is, but he's hilarious. James Van Den Akker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Yeah, you've never heard of him, because he's never written professionally. But boy, is he funny. Gary Webb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - The Dark Alliance Reporter. I don't know what he's doing for writing now, but would fit in well. Jason Wynd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - My other favorite new internet writer. Real great shit. Paul Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Author of a great book on L.A. Urban Legends, which hopefully will come out next year. Well, check them out if you want. I think all of them could fit in well with your vision, so wanted to pass the info along. Thanks, Robert Sterling
[CTRL] She said yes? No.
-Caveat Lector- http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/17/news-shootings-martyr Colorado School Shooting 'Martyr' Account In Doubt Updated 5:27 PM ET September 24, 1999 By Judith Crosson DENVER (Reuters) - Cassie Bernall, the teenager hailed as a martyr in the Columbine High School massacre for professing her belief in God before she was shot dead, may never have had such an exchange with her killer, officials said Friday. The story of the 17-year-old, one of the 13 people shot to death when two teen-age gunmen stormed Columbine High School last April 20, has inspired religious fervor among Christian teenagers across the United States and spawned Web sites for her bravery and faith while staring down the barrel of a gun. Her parents last week published a book about her life called, "She Said Yes: the Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall." But police said Friday they cannot confirm the exchange between Cassie Bernall and her killer ever happened. "There just seems to be a real question whether the dialogue took place," said Steve Davis, spokesman for the Jefferson County sheriff's office. "The Bernalls were made aware there seemed to be some doubt," Davis added. The parents were not available for comment but the publisher of the book stood by the account that Cassie Bernall died after answering "Yes" when gunman Dylan Klebold, 17, asked her if she believed in God. "We were aware of variations of the account and we interviewed three students who gave corroborating stories and they stick to it," said Chris Zimmerman, editor of The Plough Publishing House book. Davis said some of the students do maintain that the exchange took place, but said doubts arose after investigators put the stories together with the time line and where witnesses were when they said they heard the exchange. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported that Joshua Lapp, one of the witnesses to the account, said he has not changed his mind. But another student, Emily Wyant, 16, who was crouched under a table less than 2 feet (0.6 meters) from Bernall, said she never heard Klebold ask Bernall if she believed in God, the paper said. Klebold and Eric Harris, 18, turned their guns on themselves after they killed 12 fellow students and a teacher. In the book Misty Bernall recounts how her own daughter had traveled down a difficult road, falling in with the wrong crowd and becoming distant. She said she found letters Cassie had received from a friend urging her to kill her parents. Cassie threatened suicide and tried to see the friends about whom the parents were worried. But three months after the girl was transferred to a new school, she attended a weekend religious retreat and came home a changed person. "We don't feel this discussion (about the exchange before her death) detracts from the value of the book," Zimmerman said. Kinkel Pleads Guilty In Oregon School Shooting (Previous story) Colorado Medical Research Center Told To Halt Tests (Next story) Archive: Fri Sep 24 Thu 23 Wed 22 Tue 21 Mon 20 Sun 19 Sat 18 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Cuba: Show Me The Money!
-Caveat Lector- http://news.excite.com/news/u/990924/13/news-un Cuba demands reparations from US Updated 1:14 PM ET September 24, 1999 .By RODOLFO A. WINDHAUSEN UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 (UPI) Cuba demanded today billions of dollars in reparations from the United States for the 37-year-old economic embargo, citing the 1948 Geneva Convention on Genocide and other U.N.-approved international treaties. Speaking at the General Assembly debate, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque claimed his country has suffered numerous deaths and economic deprivation as a consequence of the embargo, which he called "a dirty war." A civil lawsuit was filed last May before Cuban courts, the minister said, for the deaths of 3,478 people and 2,099 survivors. The total amount claimed for compensation is $181.1 billion. Particular emphasis was put by Perez Roque on the refusal of the United States to provide "medicine and foodstuffs," which he said violates international conventions on humanitarian assistance. Perez Roque also said the United States, since the passing of the Torriceli law in 1992, has prevented subsidiaries of American companies operating in third countries to supply medicines to Cuba, "which amounted to more than $700 million a year" in trade for humanitarian use. Since the imposition of the embargo in 1962, successive measures taken in Washington against Cuba "have accumulated to become a total and absolute blockade, which has reached the extreme of banning the exportation of a single aspirin produced in the United States," the minister said. Perez Roque quoted extensively from international treaties and protocols, including a 1949 Covenant on the protection of civilians in times of war. He cited a 1997 survey made by the American Association for World Health (AAWH) claiming the embargo has caused "dramatic damages to the health and nutrition to a great number of Cuban citizens and has even caused deaths." The minister recalled that, in the past seven years, the U.N. General Assembly has passed resolutions urging the United States to put an end to the economic embargo, which has been ignored by Washington. So, he said, "the people of Cuba, regardless of the fight that may continue at this Assembly, has decided to resort to legal procedures it is entitled to requiring corresponding sanctions for those responsible of these acts of genocide." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Privacy Flaky - Stop Tests
-Caveat Lector- http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/15/news-health-research Colorado Medical Research Center Told To Halt Tests Updated 3:13 PM ET September 24, 1999 DENVER (Reuters) - The government, concerned about how records and data are kept, has ordered Colorado's top medical research university to stop its federally funded clinical tests, putting a halt to thousands of studies on everything from weight loss to diabetes prevention, university officials said Friday. The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, one of the largest medical research recipients in the United States, said audits by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found problems in bookkeeping, reporting and database practices that did not meet federal standards. It said the issues were not related to patient safety. The health sciences center receives about $100 million a year in research funding and has about 3,200 ongoing research studies. The university said changes were implemented after an audit, but not to the FDA's satisfaction. "The university is cooperating fully in resolving these concerns," said James Shore, chancellor of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The university said the FDA placed the restrictions on the activities of the Colorado Multiple Institutional Review Board, which is responsible for reviewing and approving protocols and maintaining detailed records. On Sept. 21 the FDA ordered the health sciences center to suspend enrollment of new patients into research using drugs or devices regulated by the FDA. The next day the restrictions were broadened to not enrolling new patients into studies funded by the federal government. Thursday the federal government's Office of Protection from Research Risk (OPRR) suggested suspending all studies until the matter is cleared up. The research group then decided to halt all clinical studies, even ones funded by pharmaceutical companies. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Old news-new source on proposed lawsuit
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart TRADE: Seed Companies Hauled Into Court By Mario Osava and Gumisai Mutume MEXICO CITY (IPS), Sep 24 - Activists from 30 countries have taken action against the world's biggest life science companies by taking them to court over the question of genetically-modified food which, they say, represents an attempt to free agriculture from the control of a few. "The action reflects humanity's growing pre-occupation with its future," says professor Sebastian Pinheiro of the Federal University of Rio Grande in Brazil. "Genetically-modified crops represent an economic threat to agriculture and put humanity's survival at risk." Spearheading the drive against big business is US biotechnology activist and head of the Foundation on Economic Trends, Jeremy Rifkin. He is leading a campaign that will see activists and farmers from Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America challenge the power of the world's most dominant genetic food engines later this year. "Transnational companies such as Monsanto and Dupont are not worried by world hunger or the quality of life of the rest of humanity. They want power, to dominate the politics of food and are merely driven by commercial interests," says Pinheiro. "When the lawsuit gets underway either in the United States or a foreign court it is billed to become the biggest anti-trust action in the world with the exception of the Microsoft case." The activists claim that the likes of Monsanto, DuPont, Pioneer Hi-Bred, and Novartis are exploiting bio-technology unfairly and in such a way that they gain control of global agricultural markets. Modified crops are protected by patents and contracts. Farmers who plant them must promise not to keep seeds for future use. Using new bio-technologies the big corporations are attempting to extend control to the 45 percent of the world economy that is based on biological products by using a patent system designed for machines and making it work with plants and animals, activists say. Monsanto, dubbed the "Microsoft of micro-biology", together with other seed companies also is developing ways to genetically alter plants so they do not produce usable seeds. This could force farmers to buy seeds year after year and give these companies power to dictate the future of plant breeding, activists say. "A central concern will be that, throughout the history of civilization, farmers have been able to grow food and sow their own fields with their own seeds. These companies are trying to change that," declared US attorney Rich Lewis, one of the many lawyers involved in the case. Law firms, operating on a no-win-no-fee basis, are looking for some provision of anti-trust or contract law that would let Rifkin challenge the seed restrictions in a state, federal or foreign court. Agricultural analysts say that a few big corporations now own 30 percent of the global trade in seed, valued at 23 billion dollars annually - roughly the gross domestic product of Vietnam. Five of these companies Monsanto, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Aventis and DuPont virtually control the entire genetically modified crops sector, analysts say. When Monsanto last year bought the seed operations of Cargill in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe for 1.4 billion dollars it gained control of seed research and production centres in 24 countries and distribution systems in more than 50 others. The law-suit comes at a time when there is growing concern over the implications of genetically modified crops and resistance from certain economic blocs such as the European Union towards the consumption and import of such crops. Developing countries have adopted differing positions to genetic crops, some such as Argentina and Mexico embracing the technology while others especially in Africa hesitant about the safety of the science. In India, Vandana Shiva of the Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology (RFSTE) says the anti-trust action would be a useful addition to local campaigns like the "Monsanto Quit India" movement which is over a year old. However, by itself the action would not be able to do more than create awareness among farmers who are targets of Monsanto and Cargill. RFTSE is one of several pressure groups that challenged India's new patent act in the country's supreme court earlier this year. The act grants monopolies and marketing rights to drug and agro- chemical transnationals. Hundreds of cotton farmers in India's southern Andhra Pradesh state committed suicide last year following crop failures. They had bought costly pesticides but could not afford to buy another batch of seeds. Brazil, one of the worlds 10 largest
[CTRL] Fw: PANUPS: Colombian Drug Wars
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -Original Message- From: Deuce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 6:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Subject: [chemical-trails] Fw: PANUPS: Colombian Drug Wars - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 9:24 PM Subject: PANUPS: Colombian Drug Wars === P A N U P S Pesticide Action Network Updates Service === Farmers are Victims in Colombian Drug Wars September 23, 1999 Under the premise of eradicating drug crops, the Colombian government has been spraying traditional farming communities indiscriminately with herbicides containing glyphosate. In June of this year, the Colombian government began spraying homes and farms of the Yanacona indigenous community in the Macizo Colombiano region, Cauca province. Herbicides were sprayed over houses, community centers, schools, water sources, pastures and workers in the fields. Intended to kill small crops of opium poppy, the raw material used to make heroin, the spraying destroyed crops and pasture lands the Yanacona depend on for food and income. Fish and chickens died, other farm animals became ill, and both adults and children suffered symptoms of pesticide poisoning. Faced with illnesses and loss of crops, the Yanacona indigenous community sent a delegation to meet with the governor of the province, demanding a stop to the spraying. The governor promised that a fact- finding commission including representatives of several governmental and nongovernmental agencies would visit the community to collect testimony on the spraying. The actual commission consisted, however, of just two representatives of the provincial government. Some 1500 members of the Yanacona community assembled to meet with the fact-finding commission. People presented testimony of their experience of being "sprayed like flies" and becoming ill. Mothers reported on illnesses among children, including respiratory distress, rashes, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, migraines and conjunctivitis. One pregnant mother with five children testified that all her children were sick and her livelihood had been destroyed. Others reported that their pastures had been ruined and their cattle were ill. The spraying destroyed crops the Yanacona grow to feed their families and has affected their ability to sell their farm products. For example, the sale price of milk and cheese has fallen by 50% or more, due to customers' fears that the cows have drunk water contaminated with pesticides. Community members maintain that the majority of the Yanacona farms that have been sprayed do not grow poppies. In another area of Colombia, spraying with glyphosate has undone the successes of small farmers who were working to establish ecologically and economically sound alternatives to drug crops. Farmers in Caqueta province have designed intercropped gardens of native species, pasture areas with tree cover, and small-scale fish farming. In August, the government began spraying herbicides that have killed seedlings in their nurseries and crops in their fields, contaminated water sources and made adults and children sick. The farmers are seeking help from the International Red Cross to set up a forum in which to present testimony on what they have experienced. Colombia produces three illicit drug crops: marijuana, coca and opium poppy. Commercial production of coca for processing into cocaine began in the mid-1970s and has increased dramatically; Colombia is now the world's largest producer of cocaine. Large-scale production of opium poppy did not begin until 1990, but it too has grown rapidly. Colombia is now the primary supplier of heroin to the eastern United States. Between 1990 and 1998, the U.S. provided some US$625 million to the Colombian National Police and the Colombian military for aircraft, weapons, ammunition and other support for the war on drugs. Beginning in 1996, the U.S. State Department identified herbicide spraying to eradicate opium poppy crops as a priority; the cost of this undertaking for fiscal year 1999 may be as high as US$68 million. Yet the expensive and inhumane "war on drugs" has not brought the drug trade under control. According to conservative estimates, the area in Colombia planted with illegal crops increased by almost 400% between 1978 and 1998. Between 1996 and 1998, despite consistent spraying, coca production in Colombia increased by 50% and poppy production remained approximately constant. RAPALMIRA (PAN-Colombia) is calling for the immediate suspension and long-term prohibition of aerial spraying to eradicate drug crops, and for the implementation of a genuine program of alternative, sustainable development. Source: This material is excerpted from "Casualties of the 'War on Drugs': Traditional Farms Destroyed
[CTRL] No. Eire: 'Bad Apples'
-Caveat Lector- From TheIrishTimes Saturday, September 25, 1999 Congressmen tell Patten of concern From Joe Carroll, in Washington Members of the US Congress have expressed their disappointment to Mr Chris Patten that his report on policing in Northern Ireland did not propose how to get rid of the "bad apples" in the RUC. But Mr Patten retorted that he was against engaging in a "witch-hunt". The small number of congressmen who attended the hearing on the report also regretted that it did not recommend a ban on the use of plastic bullets and on membership of sectarian organisations by police officers. But there was also praise for Mr Patten and Senator Maurice Hayes, who was present with him, for the work done by their commission. Fears were expressed, however, that there may be a long delay in implementing the report. Congressman Chris Smith who chaired the hearing said later: "This lack of a vetting procedure - a way to ensure that it is indeed the `bad apples' who leave rather than cling to their seats of power and abuse - is the most troubling omission of all. It is our hope that we may learn that either the newly-recommended oversight commissioner or perhaps the new 19-member police board has been empowered with this critical vetting authority." The "vetting of bad apples" turned out to be the most controversial aspect of the testimony of Mr Patten, which lasted just over an hour. But the exchanges were polite and there was disappointment that Mr Patten had to leave for an appointment in the White House before all the congressmen present had had a chance to question him. He was followed by Mr Michael Finucane, son of the murdered Belfast solicitor, Mr Patrick Finucane, who told the committee it was a "glaring omission" by the Patten report that it did not deal with death threats made by RUC officers against his father and Ms Rosemary Nelson, murdered earlier this year. Mr Patten, who at times showed emotion by jabbing his fingers on the table when denouncing the more extreme criticism of his report in British newspapers, began his testimony by some personal impressions of his time in Northern Ireland. He described some "very difficult meetings" during the consultation process, when he met widows of murdered RUC officers and relatives of victims of loyalist gangs. One evening after such meetings "I had the longest drink I ever had in my life". He rather nonplussed the politicians on plastic bullets by telling them that when American police officers were asked by the commission what they would do if attacked with petrol bombs, they replied: "We'd use live rounds." Mr Patten said his report recommended more restrictive use of plastic bullets in Northern Ireland, but did not propose a complete ban because the police had still to deal with blast-bomb and petrol-bomb attacks. Mr Patten said he knew he was treading on controversial ground with the committee over its efforts to ban funding for FBI training courses for the RUC. "It is very important that the new police service in Northern Ireland not be isolated or cut off from the rest of the world," he said. Any foreign police force which brought together members of the RUC and the Garda, as the FBI has done, is doing a signal service to the community in Northern Ireland Mr Patten told the congressmen, who did not seem to share his views. Congressman Ben Gilman, who is chairman of the International Committee on International Relations, said he was disappointed the Patten report did not recommend a ban on membership of sectarian associations, especially as the Chief Constable of the RUC, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, had told the House of Commons he was against such membership. Mr Patten said it was a question of civil liberties, and police officers should not be denied the right to join orders, but their membership should be declared to the authorities. He said it was not just a question of the Orange Order but also of the Freemasons, other loyal orders and the AOH. Senator Hayes, who was also asked if he supported a vetting process, said "we must avoid a witch-hunt" and "increasing uncertainty for the good and honourable police officers". The problem could be dealt with by retraining and the expected high turnover in the existing force as the reforms were implemented. AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller,
[CTRL] Gene manipulation labels; opponents fall like dominos
-Caveat Lector- WTO concessions ? Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart == Friday September 17 7:19 PM ET Britain To Label Gene-Modified Food LONDON (AP) - British food establishments, from restaurants and pubs to caterers, will have to tell customers which of their dishes contain genetically modified ingredients under a new law that goes into effect Sunday. The use of genetically modified, or GM, ingredients in foods is being hotly debated in Britain. Polls indicate many people strongly disapprove, while many want at least further research to be conducted. GM foods are made from plants whose genes are manipulated in order to produce characteristics such as resistance to pests. Britain has yet to approve raising GM crops, but some imported ingredients do contain GM plants. Food Minister Baroness Hayman said on Friday that the new labeling requirements, like those that have applied to food sold at retail since September 1998, "will ensure that consumers are entitled to the same information when eating out as they expect when buying their own food in shops." Failure to comply with the new law can be punished by fines of up to $8,000. "The government is committed to ensuring that consumers are able to make an informed choice about the food they eat," she said. == Canada to develop GM food voluntary label standard WINNIPEG, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The group which represents most of Canada's major food sellers will take part in a project to develop a Canadian standard for voluntary labeling of biotechnology foods, the agriculture ministry said on Friday. "The Government of Canada believes in the right of consumers to have access to information as it relates to biotechnology and food," Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief said in a statement. The ministry will support the project, launched by the Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors (CCGD) and the Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB). Environmental and consumer groups in Canada, following the lead of similar organizations in Europe, have started demanding that foods made with genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) be labeled . The CCGD represents 80 percent of major food retailers in Canada, a major world agricultural producer. The CGSB is an accredited standards development organization within the federal government. "Consistent codes of practices for voluntary labeling of foods derived from biotechnology will give consumers information to make choices," Vanclief said. The Canadian government has refused to enforce mandatory labeling of GM foods, following a policy favoured in the United States. === Friday September 24, 1:49 pm Eastern Time U.S. plans labels on genetically modified foods By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - U.S. government agencies have agreed to develop a labeling plan for food products made from genetically modified crops, a key demand of the biotech-wary European market, an industry consultant said on Friday. Consultant Charles Benbrook said the decision was made earlier this week at a meeting between officials of the U.S. Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. "Things will move slowly, as they always do. But there definitely was a major breakthrough," Benbrook, a consultant for Consumers Union and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, told reporters. But Isi Siddiqui, a trade adviser to Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, told Reuters he had no knowledge of the agreement. The Food and Drug Administration, which has jurisdiction over labeling issues, has resisted putting labels on food products containing genetically modified ingredients, such as new corn and soybeans varieties that U.S. farmers have planted in increasing numbers since 1996. The FDA has argued labeling is unwarranted because genetically modified crops are not materially different from traditional varieties. Benbrook said he learned from Agriculture Department officials that the United States hopes to develop a labeling proposal in time for an important meeting of the World Trade Organization, the global trade body, in Seattle in November. Genetically modified crops are expected to be a major issue in the next round of world trade negotiations that begin with the Seattle meeting, spurred by consumer demands in the European Union and other countries. Benbrook said the United States was rushing to try to develop a labeling proposal to take to Seattle. The United State risks walking into a "bee's nest" at that meeting because it is nearly alone in its opposition to labeling, he said. "Apparently, USDA has convinced the White House that the government has to move forward on this front," Benbrook said. = DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed.
Re: [CTRL] Nicaraguan Contras and Cocaine
-Caveat Lector- I once knew an individual that served in the Sandanista army. He says they used to find a group of contras now and then and often they carried large amounts of cocaine. He said they would overcome the bands, since they were often small [for stealth I guess], and stand in a big circle and set the drugs on fire. He said they would "be high for days" afterwards. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] The UN can help save the world
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: Tenorlove [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENFORCED population control infringes on human freedom and human dignity as much as restrictions on freedoms of worship, association, and exchange of ideas. -- SM: When this earth is all said and done I hope it is not said that the human race killed itself because it did not want to feel infringed upon by the reality of its situation. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] San Francisco, Electrified and Quaking
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, really unparallelled thunder and lightning (I watched a massive lightning bolt travel HORIZONTALLY from horizon to horizon, SLOWLY) twice in two weeks, each time "explained" as a byproduct of a dying Pacific hurricane -- two different ones. == SM: Until last year, scientists had never recorded a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean, apparently defined by the storm's strength. Until then there had been many typhoons of course. If you lived in the bay area in December of 1996 then you will remember a vicious storm that downed trees en masse. Just a little north of SF, in western Sonoma county, winds approached 100 mph, typhoon strength. Granted it is rare for the area but seems to becoming more frequent. That storm rivaled many I have seen in the tornado belt. .. Second, COINCIDING with a thunder-and-lightning display, an EARTHQUAKE of exactly the rare type that struck Taiwan -- arising near the SURFACE of the earth. -- SM: What was rare about the Taiwan quake is that it happened in a spot that is usually not active, i.e. inland. MOST of San Francisco's quakes originate inland; it's not unusual. An epicenter as far north as Santa Rosa, however, IS unusual but it makes some sense. The San Andreas fault has fragments, tributary-like, that run all the way into Lake County, including Calistoga and Middletown, home to many of the original Jonestown inhabitants [more on that some other time...that is a rather large can of worms]. From Calistoga to much further inland than even that is an immense amount of geothermal activity. There is even a geothermal powerstation near Cobb Mountain, about 45 miles north of Calistoga, 80 or so from Santa Rosa [boy, FBI filekeepers could have a filed day with the info I have provided about myself here...he he], not to mention many hot springs. In fact, though the immediate bay area has much larger quakes than it, Lake County has a vast amount of small quakes. On the average, I could feel one at least weekly when I lived there. A quick look at the Press Democrat and its section covering daily seismic activity will show Cobb Mountain to have several per day. SOan hour to the southwest of Santa Rosa is San Francisco, famous for big quakes and an hour to the northeast of it is a region that has several per day. Santa Rosa was probably due for one. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Kosovo/NATO items
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Kosovo/NATO items Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:31:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Karl Waldron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gracanica, September 22 Today on Sep 22 on the session of the Kosovo Transitional Council the representatives of the Serbian national commuity, Bishop Artemije and Mr. Trajkovic officially resigned from their positions within the KTC. They explained their leaving of the Council with the fact that after three months of KFOR and UNMIK presence in Kosovo the multiethnic concept in Kosovo has failed. This failure was crowned by the transformation of the KLA into a monoethnic and armed Kosovo Protection Corps which is directly violating the UN Security Council Resolution 1244. After three months of peace the results are catastrophic for the Serbs in the province: about 200.000 expelled, more than 350 killed, 450 abducted, thousands of burned and looted Serb houses as well as 70 destroyed churches and monasteries in the presence of almost 50.000 international peace forces. In Kosovo there is not a single multiethnic institution. Serbs have been practically expelled from all multiethnic areas and forced into reservations and ghettoes. They are denied the basic human rights and freedom of movement, education, work and medical protection. Nothing is done to enable the expelled Serb to go back to their homes while the remaining Serbs and other non-Albanians are still being persecuted, killed, raped and beaten. According to the words of Mr. Trajkovic the winners in the so far process in Kosovo are Mr. Thaci and Mr. Milosevic while the loosers are Kosovo Serbs, Serb and Albanian moderate and democratic forces and especially the international community (KFOR and UNMIK). The Serb representatives in the KTC said that their participation in the Council was motivated with the idea to constantly point out to the difficult security situation for the Serbs in Kosovo and make efforts to contribute to the better conditions for life and survival of our people. But Bishop Artemije and Mr. Trajkovic have clearly explained that they are not ready to take upon themselves the political responsibility for the decisions which are made in Kosovo without the consultation with the Kosovo Serbs and against their interests. The international community is working more and more in direction of creating the independent Kosovo for which no one from the Kosovo Serb community can and should take responsibility. Kosovo Protection Corps which is already translated into Albanian as KOSOVO DEFENSIVE TROOPS is the continuation of the KLA with full continuity of its millitary structure with the General Agim Ceku as its head. The fact that KLA have given over only one part of mostly outdated weapons and have hidden the majority of the modern wapons in their secret depots is only an attempt to show that UNMIK and KFOR have managed to demilitarize KLA, what was envisaged by the UN Resolution 1244. In reality this is a tacit legalization of a monoethnic army built on the foundations of an organization which is considered by many as a terrorist organization directly responsible for many crimes against the Serb and other non-Albanian population. The New Corps is nothing but a nucleus of the future ethnic Albanian army of Kosovo. Since the international community has completely denied the multiethnic approach to the resolution of the Kosovo issue and focused on attempts to resolve Albanian question only, the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija with full right might ask for resolution of the Serbian ethnic question in direction of cantonization and the establishment of the Serbian Protection Corps. Bishop Artemije and Mr. Trajkovic have clearly manifested that in the present situation they have not the mandate to represent the Serbian people in Kosovo and they proposed to Mr. Kouchner to find other representatives for the Council among those who seek the ethnic approach to the Kosovo issue or to build Kosovo future with Albanians only. The Serb representativTOP cannot be any longer a decoration of the inexistent multiethnicity. Despite leaving of the Council, Bishop Artemije and Mr. Trajkovic said that they remain open for the further cooperation with the international community in order to better protect the human rights and freedoms of the Serbian national community in the southern Serbian province. Information Service of the Church and National Committee -- Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren Gracanica Monastery, Pristina, Kosovo and Metohija http://www.decani.yunet.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reuters: Solana declares Kosovo force dead, others disagree By Douglas Hamilton TORONTO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Outgoing NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana asserted on Tuesday that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was dead but Yugoslavia and some of the guerrillas themselves disagreed. "The UCK (KLA) doesn't exist anymore,"
[CTRL] Is NYC being used for bio-warfare experiments? 9/22/99 NY Times
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Is NYC being used for bio-warfare experiments? 9/22/99 NY Times Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:25:50 -0500 (CDT) Why does the Federal government want to expand an existing bio-warfare research lab right off the coast of NYC, the most populated area in the U.S.? Have 8 million New Yorkers been chosen as the lab rats in an ongoing bio-medical research project? Is Mayor Giulianis bizarre mass daily spraying of toxic pesticides on NYC part of an experiment or a response to a virus that already escaped from the lab? Is the mosquito epidemic merely an excuse to get people used to being sprayed with chemicals from the air? Is the timing of todays NY Times and yesterdays Daily News articles on this lab setting us up for some bad news about what is really behind the encephalitis scare? Please note: birds are a major part of the experimenting that goes on at the lab right now. Birds are also exactly where mosquitoes get the encephalitis virus. While a mosquito may not easily fly from Plum Island to Queens a bird can do it without any problem. Do the people of NY deserve answers before any more spraying is undertaken? The NYC Dept. of Health, the Dept. of Environmental Protection and the Mayors Emergency Management Services team are unable to explain their total lack of air sampling on the distribution of Malathion and the other two poison gasses being used. They claim they are using three ounces of Malathion per acre yet the planes make repeated passes over the same area meaning they have no idea how much of the chemical is being dropped per City block. Last Saturday my home in Park Slope was sprayed nine times by the same helicopter. Is Mayor Giuliani bravely trying to protect public health or is he the Mengele for the New World Order? -Robert Lederman NY Times 9/22/99 U.S. Would Use Long Island Lab to Study Food Terrorism Related Article At Bleak Asian Site, Killer Germs Survive (June 2, 1999) By JUDITH MILLER PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. -- Alarmed at what the Clinton Administration views as the growing threat of biological terrorism to America's food supply, the Agriculture Department is seeking money to turn the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, one mile off Long Island, into a top security laboratory where some of the most dangerous diseases known to man or beast can be studied. The Agriculture Department already operates here at Plum Island, just across Gardiners Bay from the wealthy Hamptons, a laboratory where such dreaded foreign animal diseases as foot-and-mouth and African swine fever are examined. But the department is seeking $75 million this year and $140 million over the next two years to upgrade the center to handle even more dangerous animal diseases that can affect humans. While there are four civilian and military laboratories in America equipped to study such diseases -- technically known as Biosafety Level Four facilities -- their work is focused on germs that primarily affect humans, not domestic animals or plants. Officials say the proposed expansion and upgrading of Plum Island is part of a new effort by the Clinton Administration to deter terrorists who might spread germs to destroy American crops or livestock for political purposes or financial gain, a threat they now see as equal to that of terrorist attacks aimed at people. "Given the contribution of crop and animal exports to the nation's prosperity, we must do far more to protect our plant and animal resources," said Senator Richard G. Lugar, the Indiana Republican and co-author of legislation in 1991 and 1996 that provided money to bolster defenses against unconventional terrorism and stop the proliferation of such weapons. "This is not about food per se; Americans would not go hungry if we were attacked," said Floyd P. Horn, the administrator of the Agricultural Research Service, who helped persuade the Administration to include his agency in January in its counter-terrorism plans and programs. "But such an attack, or even a credible threat, would severely disrupt America's economic and social infrastructure for weeks, if not months or years." Plum Island, which was once operated by the United States Army Chemical Corps, was designated as an animal-disease research center and transferred to the Agriculture Department in the early 1950's. It is already what scientists call an agricultural "Biosafety Level Three" center, which means that its containment areas, which hold germs dangerous to animals, have filtered air, sealed doors and negative air pressure that prevents germs from leaking out of the labs. Liquid waste is decontaminated. All who enter the labs wear white lab coats and slippers. After leaving the containment areas, they are required to shower, shampoo their hair, scrub their nails and rinse their mouths, since lethal germs can live
[CTRL] UN links with Corporate Predators
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart Corporate Watch Homepage http://www.corpwatch.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 23, 1999 Groups Expose More United Nations Affiliations with Corporate Predators Contact: Kenny Bruno (1 718) 623-8529 Joshua Karliner (1 415) 561-6567 Sept. 23, 1999 San Francisco -- Non-governmental organizations have sent a letter to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy calling for their resignation from the Business Humanitarian Forum (BHF). The BHF is a new private group Co-Chaired by UNHCR's Ogata and John Imle President of UNOCAL, a corporation notorious for human rights abuses in Burma. Its complicity with the brutal Burmese military dictatorship in using forced labor on a natural gas pipeline is well known. "UNOCAL has done so much harm to my country. It is discouraging to find respected UN agencies sharing the podium with companies like UNOCAL, especially to those of us who are fighting every day against their human rights abuses," said Ka Hsaw Wa, Director of EarthRights International, one of the signatories of the letter. Forum board members also include UNICEF, and Nestle a company which continues to violate a UN code of conduct on infant formula designed to protect children. The letter, which is also signed by the International Baby Food Action Network says it is "ironic and disturbing that UNHCR would share this platform with a company [UNOCAL] with practices so antithetical to its own mission[and] that UNICEF, with its mission to protect children, would voluntarily associate with a company [Nestle] which has done so much to harm children. The Business Humanitarian Forum, based in Geneva, is supported by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who has called for a compact between the UN and corporations. "This is one more example of why the UN must fundamentally reconsider the partnerships it is embarking on with global corporations," said Joshua Karliner, Director of TRAC--Transnational Resource Action Center, a San Francisco-based human rights and environment group and a signator to the letter. "So far the way UN agencies have implemented Kofi Annan's call for a closer relationship with the private sector is to jump into bed with a bunch of bad corporate actors." Last March, over one hundred groups, including the signatories to the letter sent yesterday, called for the dissolution of the UNDP's planned collaboration with private companies such as Dow, Rio Tinto and ABB. That collaboration, the Global Sustainable Development Facility, is on hold pending review by the UNDP. = DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Mitsubishi attacks whale birthing lagoon, GE seeds unwanted
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT WILL PEPPER DESTRUCTIVE SALT PLANT LAGUNA SAN IGNACIO, Baja California, Mexico, September 24, 1999 (ENS) - Environmental groups will launch a massive campaign Monday against Mitsubishi Corporations plans to build the worlds largest salt factory in a Baja California lagoon. Laguna San Ignacio is considered the last pristine birthing lagoon for the California gray whale. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-24-06.html *** FARMERS STUNG AS CONSUMERS REJECT TRANSGENIC CROPS WASHINGTON, DC, September 24, 1999 (ENS) - Farmers in the United States are facing lower prices than expected for many bioengineered crops, as many European and domestic markets are boycotting altered foods. Some industry experts are predicting that demand for genetically modified seeds will be dramatically reduced next year, and fear that there may no longer be enough non-modified seeds to meet farmers needs. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-24-07.html DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Zap the Bastards
-Caveat Lector- http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/19/news-crime-electricchair Florida High Court Again OKs Electric Chair By Michael Peltier TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - The Florida Supreme Court Friday ruled the use of the state's electric chair in executions was constitutional and is not cruel or usual punishment. But the court also agreed that the state legislature should give death row inmates a choice between electrocution and lethal injection. In a 4-3 vote, Florida's highest court ended months of uncertainly following a bloody spectacle at Florida's last execution in July. When blood flowed from the nose of Allen "Tiny" Davis during his execution, attorneys for Thomas Provenzano, the next inmate scheduled to die in the electric chair, began a legal challenge, arguing the use of the chair was unconstitutionally cruel. The court, for the second time in two years, disagreed. "The record in this case reveals abundant evidence that execution by electrocution renders an inmate instantaneously unconscious, thereby making it impossible to feel pain," the court's majority wrote. "The record also contains evidence that the chair is and has been functioning properly and that the electrical circuitry is being maintained." The use of the electric chair has been under legal scrutiny in Florida for years. Most of the 38 U.S. states where capital punishment is legal have switched to lethal injection, a process some say is a less objectionable method of executing inmates. In October 1997, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the chair's use by a 4-3 majority. Its constitutionality was challenged after flames leaped from the mask covering the head of Pedro Medina during his execution in March of that year. The Medina execution was the second in a decade in which fire erupted when the executioner threw the switch. In 1990, a synthetic sponge placed on the head of inmate Jesse Tafero burst into flames. Despite their support for electrocution, the Supreme Court Friday urged lawmakers to offer inmates a choice other than the electric chair, which has been the state's sole means of execution since 1924. "I urge the Legislature to revisit this issue and pass legislation giving inmates the choice between lethal injection and electrocution as the method of carrying out the death penalty," Chief Justice Major Harding wrote. Three dissenting justices agreed. "I am convinced that the time has now come to address this issue head on," wrote Justice Leander Shaw. "It is my conclusion that electrocution as it is administered in Florida is unconstitutional." The high court's action was denounced by human rights groups and death penalty opponents, who said the decision not only kept intact a cruel form of punishment but reinforced the death penalty despite growing international opposition. Sam Jordan, director of Amnesty International's efforts to abolish the death penalty, said the court's decision is a giant leap back. "This throws our civilization backward to a dependence on a cycle of violence and vengeance," he said. "This is about getting even." Florida Gov. Jeb Bush hailed the court's ruling. "The court's decision is a resounding victory for all Floridians, especially those who have been victimized by the cruel and malicious acts of those inmates on death row," Bush said. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Bank of NY/Russian Mafia, Mossad, CIA and The Octopus
-Caveat Lector- After BCCI, wouldn't you have known it? Consortiumnews.com http://www.consortiumnews.com The investigations into the Bank of New York's role in laundering vast sums of Russian money have ignored well-documented connections between a bank principal, the CIA and the Israeli Labor Party. The tie-in comes through one of the bank's owners, Bruce Rappaport, a Swiss financier who was linked to a variety of secret operations during the Reagan-Bush era. Those operations included a strange Iraqi pipeline deal, the Iran-contra affair, sensitive U.S. Customs stings, the BCCI scandal, the October Surprise case and a mysterious shipment of Israeli weapons to Colombian drug kingpins. Rappaport was known as one of CIA director William Casey's favorite golf partners. Yet, when the New York Times profiled Rappaport and his hand in the Bank of New York's Russian financial deals, the U.S. intelligence connections were left out. Rappaport's fuller history can be read at Consortiumnews.com, an online investigative magazine. It's located at: http://www.consortiumnews.com This is a free site, but we urge those who wish to support our investigative journalism to buy a copy of Robert Parry's important new book, "Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press $ 'Project Truth' " for just $19.95. Or subscribe to iF Magazine, a print publication, for one year (six issues), $25. Or do both at a special rate of $35. Orders can be placed with Visa/Mastercard by calling 1-800-738-1812 or 703-920-1802. Or by check to The Media Consortium, Suite 102-231, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201. For non-U.S. orders, add $15 for extra postage. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] CONTROLLED MEDIA WILL AGAIN ELECT PRESIDENT
Title: CONTROLLED MEDIA WILL AGAIN ELECT PRESIDENT List correspondents may note that little that I post has been published. That is because I am a journalist by default. Only when I can not find paid journalists who will do the story will I put it out myself. My writings are not publishable in America. That is no publisher will pay a living wage for this kind of material. Yet is it not light years ahead of everything put out by paid journalists? The least of any feature I have published will hold its own in any issue of Vanity Fair or Nation but they do not pay for such material. I can not take credit for the greatness of this series because I had help on a daily basis from, Fletcher Prouty, Victor Marchetti, Alfred McCoy, Peter Dale Scott, Barbara Honegger, Peter Breton, Jim Marrs, Jon Kwitney and Steven Pizzo. What I am is really just a good technical writer transcribing the thoughts of the leaders in this area. And while the paid journalist writes at the 6th grade level I have always written for the cognitive elite. I gave credit to the two writers who had broken the Jackson Stevens connection to Bill Clinton when I wrote this and the follow on CLINTON SELECTED TO BE NEXT PRESIDENT http://www.dcia.com/clinton.html These articles mention many of the reasons I know what I do and also reveal the hidden monolithic nature of the mass media. Remember the JFK assassination, the WORLD TRADE CENTER bombing and the OKC bombing were botched jobs. It was the monolithic cover-up of major media that saved these operations. In the second article I interview Clinton about Jackson Stevens and Hasan Abedi. Now the big thing about this interview is that it was captured by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, FOX, CNN boom mikes and cameras. Clinton was supremely unconcerned that any of this would reach the air. None of it did. This material posted by Sammy Finkelman is very exciting. I would like to get these if possible. He certainly has an inside view and is hard hitting. Brian Downing Quig http://www.dcia.com/control.html CONTROLLED MEDIA WILL AGAIN ELECT PRESIDENT by Brian Downing Quig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monetary and Economic Review April 1992 in mid August 1975 I was completing my first week of research for Congressman James V. Stanton. The preceding week Congressman Stanton was unexpectedly given the chairmanship of an important subcommittee of the House Intelligence Oversight Committee which was mandated to investigate allegations of secret police activity on the part of CIA and FBI. When I called to offer my research services and those of 4 law students from CLEVELAND MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL the congressman's alma mater Stanton assigned us to his administrative director, Mike Sweeney. This first week we were studying the senate testimony of two noted capos of organized crime ))) Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana. They had been called to testify before the CHURCH COMMITTEE, our sister committee in the Senate, about joint CIA/Mafia attempts to kill Fidel Castro. They had both cited the 5th amendment a countless number of times when asked about CIA connections with these contract hits and with the assassination of President Kennedy. They were both due to testify again only this time they were being granted an involuntary immunity. This meant that if they did not answer all questions they could be cited for contempt of congress carrying a possible 3 years imprisonment. Two weeks before I joined the staff, Johnny Roselli's mutilated body turned up floating in an oil drum off the coast of Florida. This sets the stage for the day I walked into the office to find Mike Sweeney and the entire staff in a state of shock. On Mr. Sweeney's desk was the morning edition of the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER with a nondescript three paragraph story in the bottom right collum of the front page. Sam Giancana, the undisputed head of the Chicago mob for 30 years, had been shot 5 times through the face in his own home the night before! What made this especially shocking to us was our knowledge that Giancana was under 24 hour FBI surveillance at the time. More shocking was the newspaper's omission of Giancana's upcoming Senate testimony to us the obvious motive for the rub out. This omission troubled Sweeney, who dispatched me to the nearest newsstand to purchase the NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, LA TIMES and every out of town newspaper available. I returned with more than a dozen --- all of which carried essentially the identical 3 nondescript paragraphs --- all omitting the obvious motive! In a state that could medically be described as shock, Sweeney kept repeating "Tomorrow it could be one of us who is murdered and the newspapers would not mention what we were working on." Beyond our wildest imaginations we had just experienced our first "news black)out". In 1977 I interviewed for the research
[CTRL] Why Giuliani is Gassing NY
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Mosquito as Metaphor: Why Giuliani is Gassing NY Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:20:36 -0500 (CDT) Mosquito As Metaphor: Giuliani Gasses NY Theres nothing uncharacteristic about Mayor Giulianis decision to turn NYC into a poison gas ghetto. Dousing eight million men, women and children with poison gas in order to eradicate encephalitis mosquitoes that so far are unproven to even exist shows the low regard our Mayor has for human life. Six years of previous Giuliani initiatives have been characterized by his enthusiasm for resorting to the most drastic measures available by law, and many that clearly violate the law, in order to eliminate what he considers pests. For Giuliani an emergency situation occurs when a wealthy contributor whispers a complaint about something during a fundraiser or his staff comes up with the possibility of a lightening quick response to an issue that will give him the chance to appear decisive on TV. His thirteen million dollar gas proof bunker in the World Trade Center was built to function as a stage from which to broadcast weekly episodes of Action Rudy, Superhero Savior of New York! Superheros need easily recognizable villains to fight, preferably ones who are hated or feared by the community. Mosquitoes are an even better enemy for Giuliani than the homeless or street artists. Mosquitoes have no friends in high places. Ultimately however, we are all mosquitoes to Rudy Giuliani. When the Mayors Manhattan Institute inspired eradication campaigns were previously focused on squeegee guys, street artists, homeless people and vendors, all of whom were also described as plagues destroying New Yorks quality of life, few people saw any need for alarm. As the Mayor gradually trained his sights on CUNY students, community gardeners and welfare recipients more people became concerned but allowed themselves to be lulled into complacency by the Republican logic of cutting spending and putting people to work. By the time the Mayor was privatizing public hospitals, schools and parks, giving the wealthiest corporations in the City massive tax write offs and denying any groups he disliked the right to freedom of speech and assembly wed all become so used to the arbitrary elimination of rights that, for most New Yorkers, resistance seemed futile. Like the proverbial frogs placed in a pot of cold water that is gradually brought to a boil weve found ourselves unable to jump out of the Mayors police state before it was too late. Just think of the perceptual alterations Giuliani has brought to once liberal New York. The public and the supposedly liberal media have come to accept that police shootings of unarmed and in many cases, completely innocent people, are justified. Daily aerial gassings of the entire City are now routine. We no longer seriously question the hundreds of thousands of illegal searches in minority communities and additional hundreds of thousands of so-called quality of life arrests for non criminal activity that are never brought to trial. The seizing and selling at auction of personal property without the need for a trial or conviction of any crime has become commonplace. Despite a billion dollar surplus and the existence of numerous genuine public health crises in New York no one is seriously questioning the dismantling of what was once the nations best system of public hospitals. Cuts in funding for the most essential public resources including libraries, ambulances, building inspections, public health and even mosquito abatement go totally unchallenged. Like a prison warden gradually cutting rations and privileges in order to psychologically intimidate, the Mayor rules over us the convicts under his charge with an iron hand. In response to those who dare to take a public stand against this bully Rudys retribution is swift and certain. For an elected official like City Council Member Steven DiBrienza the Mayor can place homeless shelters in your district if you get out of line. Federal judges that rule against him find their names in the next days newspaper alongside words like crazy, stupid and insane. Reporters that dare to ask him an embarrassing question or write a story that puts the Mayor in a bad light often find their jobs are in jeopardy. For City-funded agencies such as Housing Works or Legal Aid, massive funding cuts can be implemented to teach them to mind their manners. And for outspoken critics like myself and Christopher Brodeur who cant be fired or have their benefits cut, false arrests and malicious prosecutions follow like the days of the week. Now that the Malathion Madman has intimidated the media, his political opposition and the general public into passively accepting being covered with organophosphate nerve gasses on a daily basis, new frontiers are opening for Giulianis quality of life police state. Forced inoculations can
[CTRL] Killer Stone Cold Sober
-Caveat Lector- http://news.excite.com/news/u/990923/10/news-churchshoot Church shooter not on drugs Updated 10:01 AM ET September 23, 1999 FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 23 (UPI) Laboratory tests have revealed the gunman who killed eight people, including himself, in a Fort Worth church last week was not under the influence of alcohol or any other drug. Dr. Nizam Peerwani, the Tarrant County medical examiner, also reported Wednesday that he found no signs of brain tumors or other abnormalities in the body of Larry Gene Ashbrook. Police, who are reviewing more than 70 witness statements, have found no explanation for Ashbrook's shooting spree, but some experts say facts about his life suggest he may have been mentally ill. Ashbrook, who was described by neighbors as a moody loner, was disturbed about his inability to keep a job, according to writings found in the home he had shared with his father. He was also upset about his father's recent death. A spokesman for Ashbrook's family has said they were never aware of him being diagnosed with a mental illness. The family donated his body to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas for research and education. Ashbrook walked into the Wedgwood Baptist Church during a youth rally Sept. 15, shooting and killing seven people, and then turning the handgun on himself. Seven more people were wounded. Related Stories More funerals from church shooting (Sep 20 1:09 pm ET) http://news.excite.com/news/u/990920/13/news-churchshoot DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Columbine Confession
-Caveat Lector- http://news.excite.com/news/u/990923/15/news-columbine Shooter's diary published on-line Updated 3:41 PM ET September 23, 1999 DENVER, Sept. 23 (UPI) An on-line magazine has published portions of a diary it says was written by Eric Harris, one of two students at Columbine High School who shot 15 people dead last April, including themselves. In one excerpt carried by http://salon.com/ Salon.com, Harris allegedly writes, "I hate the f___ world." But the journal has only about a dozen entries over a one-year period, and the Denver Post on Thursday reported Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone as saying the diary may not be authentic. "The theme sounds the same, but not the words," Stone said. "I think we've got a bogus deal there. I don't believe those are legitimate excerpts." In the alleged journal entries, Harris appeared to hate indiscriminately. He aimed his venom at blacks, Hispanics, whites, slow drivers and even Star Wars buffs. One entry reads: "You know what I hate? Star Wars fans: Get a friggin' life, you boring geeks. You know what I hate? People who mispronounce words, like 'acrost,' and 'pacific' for 'specific,' and 'expresso' instead of 'espresso.' You know what I hate? People who drive slow in the fast lane, God, these people do not know how to drive. You know what I hate? The WB network Oh Jesus, Mary Mother of God Almighty, I hate that channel with all my heart and soul." The excerpts offer solutions that range from global to local. "If you recall your history, the Nazis came up with a 'final solution' to the Jewish problem: Kill them all," an entry read. "Well, in case you haven't figured it out yet, I say, 'Kill mankind.' No one should survive." Then later: "I live in Denver, and dammit, I would love to kill almost all of its residents." At some point Harris focused on his school and wrote in a forward- looking passage: "Don't blame the school. Don't f___ put cops all over the place. Just because we went on a killing spree doesn't mean everybody else will. The admin. is doing a fine job as it is. I don't know who will be left after we kill, but dammit, don't change any policy just because of us." Another entry delivered a morbid threat, saying, "If there's any way in this f_ -up universe we can come back as ghosts, we'll haunt the life of any one who blames anyone besides me and V (vodka)." Related Stories Columbine families to split $1 million (Sep 22 11:37 am ET) http://news.excite.com/news/u/990922/11/news-columbine DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] The Cokeheads' Country
From: Mark Keesee [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Wall Street Journal September 24, 1999 Editorial Review Outlook The Cokeheads' Country If it weren't for the fact that so many Americans working for Fortune 1000 companies think the most important thing in life is sucking cocaine up their noses, nobody in the U.S. would much care about Colombia. But the reality is that tens of thousands of Colombians -- peasants, judges, mayors, journalists--have died with bullets in their heads so that American office workers could feel unusually good about themselves for a few hours. Until George Soros spends enough money to make recreational drugs legal at corporate lunches, it will be America's problem that the sovereign nation of Colombia is on its way to becoming the world's first drug republic. Alas, Colombia is a case study in how U.S. policy makers fail at what they get paid to do. Colombia is a nation of 38 million people, where a homicidal guerrilla movement's modus operandi is to invade a town, murder the mayor, open the jails and start taxing the peasantry who raise coca plants for the drug lords. The heavily armed guerrillas then protect everybody in the production line from the Colombian military and police. Because of the resulting stalemate, Colombia's hapless president has effectively ceded control of an area about the size of Switzerland to the guerrillas and their drug-gangster partners. In short, rural Colombia is close to what a country will look like, say Russia, when the law finally loses for good and the criminals win. [[Andres Pastrana]] Colombia's President, Andres Pastrana, has been in the U.S. this week to plead his case to the United Nations and to meet with President Clinton and members of Congress. He wants $3.5 billion in international aid. Colombia is the U.S.'s number one supplier of cocaine. While coca cultivation is down in neighboring South American countries, Colombia now reportedly looks like the coca equivalent of a Nebraska cornfield. So what have we done about all this? In 1993, the Clinton administration shifted the emphasis of drug control policy away from attacking drug traffickers along their transit routes in favor of moving the anti-drug offensive into the source countries. The weapon of choice is crop eradication. Not surprisingly, Colombia since has grown increasingly violent. Indeed, thanks to the healthy cocaine export market (that is, American users) and a stepped-up effort to eradicate the plants, guerrilla tax coffers are brimming. As a consequence of this fiscal surplus, the gangsters are able to buy plenty of weapons. In other words, with Colombia's guerrilla-gangster army armed to the teeth, it is U.S. policy to fight them with herbicide. How did U.S. policy arrive at such a dead-end? Step one was to reach an American political consensus that Colombia should be forbidden to use its army to fight back. The Colombian army was portrayed in the U.S. and Europe as a "human rights violator." The existing, largely incompetent army has long been weakened by its own historic isolation from the civilian government. But the U.S. Army program at Fort Benning, Ga., which teaches Latin American officers how to behave like professionals, has cut funding for students and is under pressure to close. Working out of this mindset, Congress says it is in favor of sending military funds to Colombia to fight the drug lords, but it can't be used to violate the human rights of the guerrillas. So what's left? The U.S. exhorts Colombia to bomb the fields! Without a modern, efficient army, Colombia can never establish law and order outside the big cities. As a result of U.S. policy, drug money from our value-free yuppies fuels a law-of-the-jungle rural society in Colombia, where the winners rob, kill, kidnap, maim, and extort the weak. This is the manifesto of both the Marxist guerrillas and their enemies, the vigilante paramilitary. Millions of peasants are caught in this crossfire. This thriving criminal underworld threatens to destabilize the entire Andean region. Guerrillas are now popping up in Ecuador; and they have long taken advantage of the wild, untamed Venezuelan border area. The U.S. military withdrawal from the Panama Canal also weakens the region. With no upside in sight, President Pastrana wants to strike some kind of a peace deal with the guerrillas, though they've virtually made double-crossing his overtures an entertaining national sport. Still, even the white-flag-waving president now seems to recognize that reasonable negotiations require that the state regain some control and that to do so Colombia is going to need a strong, modern, professional army. We should help them acquire it. For now, though, it is de facto U.S. policy to deprive the people of Colombia of any such ability to clean up their own mess. So long as the Clinton administration and Congress are willing to hold this position, they should stop whining all the time about our drug problem with
Re: [CTRL] Deceptive IRS Code Words
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The courts are ultimately the ones who would decide any issue involved and they always side with the IRS in all matters of "interpretation." == SM: The IRS HAS an interpretation of what someone who decides he/she is not obligated to pay an income tax, for instance. The IRS calls such "tax protestors." People HAVE won such cases. An elderly couple in Michigan is taken to court every year by the IRS and every year charges against them are dropped. see: http://www.denial-of-due-process.com/tp/ref/protester_def.htm __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Republicans Push Pentagon to Stay at Howard Air Base - Military Sets Up in Ecuador and Dutch Antilles
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.nonviolence.org/for/panama/34.htm A HREF="http://www.nonviolence.org/for/panama/34.htm"Republicans Push Pentagon to Stay at Howard Air /A - Number 27, July 1999 Panamá Update Fellowship of Reconciliation Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean 995 Market St. #801, San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel: (415) 495-6334, Fax: (415) 495-5628, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Republicans Push Pentagon to Stay at Howard Air Base Military Sets Up in Ecuador and Dutch Antilles by John Lindsay-Poland As U.S. troops gradually withdraw from Panama, the Pentagon is scrambling for other sites in the region to conduct the military operations carried out from the isthmus. In the wake of failed negotiations for a military "counter-drug center" on U.S. bases in Panama, the Defense Department appears not to have had a "Plan B". The U.S. Air Force signed short-term agreements with Ecuador and the Netherlands in April to use three airfields for anti-drug flights in the Caribbean -- the Dutch protectorates of Aruba and Curacao, and Manta, Ecuador. The airfields replace Howard Air Base in Panama, where operations ended on May 4 as part of implementing the Torrijos-Carter Canal Treaties. HANDOVER OF PANAMA BASE HINDERS ANTI-DRUG EFFORTS Pubdate: Sun, 30 May 1999 Source: The Washington Post Page: A19 Author: Douglas Farah, Washington Post Foreign Service The turnover of a U.S. military base to Panama earlier this month has left a gaping hole in American counter-drug efforts in Central America and the Caribbean, forcing the Clinton administration to scramble for new facilities that can be used to track drug shipments from South America. All U.S. forces are scheduled to leave Panama, formerly headquarters for the U.S. Southern Command, by the end of the year under terms of the Panama Canal treaties. On May 1, Howard Air Force Base was turned over to Panama, depriving the United States of a base for 22 surveillance aircraft and causing a sharp drop in anti-drug coverage of the region. To maintain a presence in the area, the Clinton administration has hastily negotiated a short-term agreement with the Netherlands to station aircraft at the airports in the Dutch Caribbean protectorates of Aruba and Curacao. It negotiated a similar agreement with Ecuador to station airplanes in the Pacific coast city of Manta. Washington is seeking a third such agreement in Central America and, to that end, is currently negotiating with Costa Rica. All of the new airfields, however, will require substantial improvements -- including new maintenance facilities and housing -- that will cost more than $100 million, Pentagon officials said. U.S. aircraft flew about 2,000 surveillance missions out of Howard last year, gathering intelligence for the United States and for counter-drug forces in other countries in the region, officials said. Pentagon officials said that even under ideal circumstances it will take two to three years to regain the surveillance capability that existed in Panama. All the cocaine and most of the heroin used in the United States is produced in South America and moved north by airplane or ship through Central America and Mexico or through the Caribbean. In a May 20 letter to Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, four Republican congressmen warned that the loss of Howard has presented the United States with "one of the worst disasters in our U.S. counterdrug history." "These counterdrug flights are essential for information sharing with other countries in the region, for eradication and narcotics interdiction," said the letter from representatives John L. Mica (Fla.); Benjamin A. Gilman (N.Y.); Mark Edward Souder (Ind.); and Robert L. Barr Jr. (Ga.). "Without these essential flights the department is creating a wide open door to drug traffickers and destroying the first line of defense against illegal narcotics traffickers." The letter said that "failed negotiations" with Panama and "the absence of adequate advance planning" had endangered the drug war. Barry R. McCaffrey, the administration's national drug policy director, said he was "worried" by the loss of Howard but blamed the delay in getting the new bases operational on then-Panamanian President Ernesto Perez Balladares, who, he said, had agreed privately to extend the U.S. presence in Panama, then backed out last September. "I'm very disappointed," McCaffrey said. "It has put us in a scramble." Ana Maria Salazar, deputy assistant secretary of defense for drug enforcement policy, said at a congressional hearing May 4 that the Pentagon could not approach other countries about hosting U.S. surveillance aircraft until after the talks with Panama formally ended. This left very little lead time to put other agreements together, she said. The opening of the centers in Aruba and Curacao will eventually allow the United States to fly about 65 percent of the surveillance missions flown out of Howard last year, Pentagon officials said. That level
