[CTRL] OT: Compare Your Tax Savings
-Caveat Lector- To see how you would do under Bush's and Gore's tax plans, go to: http://www.taxclarity.com/ = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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: Weekly - Oil
Stratfor.com's Weekly Analysis - 02 October 2000 _ It's not news, it's intelligence. What else is on Stratfor.com? If you missed it last week, be sure to read our three-part series on the future of the war in Colombia, The Price of War, as the United States prepares to release the first in $1.3 billion in aid. http://www.stratfor.com/SERVICES/giu2000/092700.asp Would you like to catch up on the latest intelligence we've published? Just click on the Intelligence Index. http://www.stratfor.com/world/defaultindex.htm Coming this week: Our forecast for next quarter of 2000. _ Oil and the Coming Global Economic Slowdown Summary Oil prices have exploded. From a low point in 1999, prices have nearly quadrupled. In the back of most minds lurks a fear: Will this rise in prices trigger a depression? Will it be 1973 all over again? The answer lies in looking at the structural and cyclical parts of the world's economies. They - not oil - were at the heart of the 1970s economic downturn and will determine events in this decade, as well. Analysis Since petroleum is the key industrial mineral, without which nothing works, there has been an economic consequence to the recent rise in prices. The most immediately perceptible consequences, however, have been political. Oil prices, which caused civil disobedience in Europe, are now a centerpiece in the American presidential campaign. Prices raise concerns about Asia's ability to recover from the 1997 crash. Embedded in the concern over oil is a deep, dark fear: Will the rise in prices so disrupt the global economy that it will tumble out of control and into a general depression? Certainly, higher oil prices cause pain. But the real fear is whether these oil prices will be the nail in the coffin in the expanding global economy. In the back of everyone's mind is this question: Are we about to experience 1973 all over again? Promote global intelligence. Forward this newsletter to your colleagues and friends! __ The 1973 Arab oil embargo created a massive price rise and economic dislocation, from Tokyo to Paris to Chicago. The explosion in oil prices ushered in a decade of "stagflation" in which inflation soared while economies stagnated. By the end of the decade, the United States experienced double-digit unemployment, double-digit inflation and double-digit interest rates. For Europe, the situation was worse. Even Japan, in the early stage of its economic explosion, experienced derailment. What few people remember is that the 1973 oil shock did not usher in the stagflation period. It may have accelerated it and intensified it, but the slowdown was in the works for quite a while. President Nixon had imposed price and wage controls before the 1973 crisis. The United States was in enough economic trouble for the president to impose unprecedented controls on the economy. What drove the global economy toward stagflation was a set of deep structural and cyclical problems. The first of these was essentially demographic. The global population explosion following World War II took place as people entered a period of family formation -- a time when consumption is highest and savings is lowest. This wave of people created tremendous pressure on commodity and money markets. Then came an inevitable cyclical event. The massive post-war expansion that began in the early 1950s was about a generation old. By the late 1960s, it was, not surprisingly, out of gas. The time had come for a cyclical downturn. Coupled with the demographic, structural reality, a cyclical shift turned into a massive economic, social and political dislocation. Deep cyclical and structural patterns magnified the effect of the oil price rise in 1973. Without these other factors, the prices would not have had the effect they had. Alternatively, the rise in oil prices would not have been possible. It could not have occurred after the 1967 Middle East War. But it could take place in 1973, because of a general rise in commodity prices; the rise in oil prices was at most an exaggeration of something that was happening anyway. _ Today, the real issue is not oil - not any more than it was in 1973. The real issues are the structural and cyclical forces that underpin the economy. By themselves, oil prices are not definitive. They are merely part of the general operating pattern of global economies. The structural pattern remains in place, with positive and negative consequences. In the case of the former, the same demographic factors that created stagflation in the 1970s are now creating powerful patterns of capital formation, particularly in the United States. Much focus has been on the very narrow measure of savings rates, which are
Re: [CTRL] A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the...'state'
-Caveat Lector- nessie wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: > >How I see it is that the US has > >been set-up as a caricature of capitalism and the USSR was set up as a > >caricature of communism/socialism set in place for control of the natural > >resources of the world. > > As I see it they are both capitalism. One is private monopoly capitalism. > The other is state monopoly capitalism. But a boss is a boss is a boss. In > neither case do ordinary people like you and I have real power over > everyday life. In both cases the few control the many, and exploit us to > their own advantage. > > >The human population included. > > We're livestock. Nations are just glorified livestock paddocks. Borders > are fences that our owners use to keep us separated into managable sized > herds. Our rulers themselves care not a fig for nationalism, except as a > tool to manipulate us. Capital has no borders. Capitalism, state-monopoly or otherwise, indeed seems to boil down to "control of the natural resources (of the world)" by the few, at the expense of the many. We have all become a mere number in a world of fictions -- just another commodity on the sacred 'market' -- where an elite few control more then the other 90 or so percent of the population combined. All 'governments' and 'corporations', so-called, are the created and manipulated legal fictions of an elite's avarice. They were created for one purpose: CONTROL; and they "have been only such agreements as they (the 'elite') have found it necessary to enter into, in order to maintain their organizations, and act together in plundering and enslaving others, and in securing to each his agreed share of the spoils". As my beloved, and over-quoted Spooner put it in his 19th Century pamphlets on "Natural Law", and "No Treason": [additions mine] "All political [corporate] power, so called, rests practically upon this matter of money [debt/credit]. Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a "government" [or "corporation"]; because, with money, they can hire soldiers [police/courts, or wage slaves for corporations], and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will. It is with government [and corporations], as Caesar said it was in war, that money and soldiers mutually supported each other" "But all this they can do only by establishing what they call a government, and making what they call laws." "All the great governments [corporations, secret societies, etc] of the world -- those now existing, as well as those that have passed away -- have been of this character. They have been mere bands of impostors, who have associated for purposes of plunder, conquest, and the enslavement [wage slavery for corporations] of their fellow men. And their laws [USC for 'gubbnmint' and UCC for 'corpus-rations'], as they have called them, have been only such agreements as they have found it necessary to enter into, in order to maintain their organizations, and act together in plundering and enslaving others, and in securing to each his agreed share of the spoils. "All these laws [USC/UCC/treaties/CONstitutions/"sacred oaths" of secret societies, etc.] have had no more real obligation than have the agreements which brigands, bandits, and pirates find it necessary to enter into with each other, for the more successful accomplishment of their crimes, and the more peaceable division of their spoils. "Thus substantially all the legislation [USC/UCC/treaties/ CONstitutions/corporate charters] of the world has had its origin in the desires of one class of persons to plunder and enslave others." "In process of time, the robber, or slaveholding, class [the 'elite', 'establishment', etc.] -- who had seized all the lands, and held all the means of creating wealth [commerce] -- began to discover that the easiest mode of managing their slaves, and making them profitable, was not for each slaveholder to hold his specified number of slaves, as he had done before, and as he would hold so many cattle, but to give them so much liberty as would throw upon themselves (the slaves) the responsibility of their own subsistence, and yet compel them to sell their labor to the land-holding class -- their former owners -- for just what the latter might choose to give them. "Of course, these liberated slaves, as some have erroneously called them, having no lands, or other property, and no means of obtaining an independent subsistence, had no alternative -- to save themselves from starvation -- but to sell their labor to the landholders [corporations], in exchange only for the coarsest necessaries of life; not always for so much even as that ['minimum wage' for some, much more for others, usually depending on who one knows, or what 'degrees' one holds from either a college or masonic lodge, or both, or whatnot]. "These liberated slaves [wage slav
[CTRL] AP: New Fed Gov't web site: http://firstgov.gov
-Caveat Lector- WASHINGTON (AP) - Want to track your Social Security benefits? Need to apply for a federal student loan? Having trouble surfing the Internet to find the nearest veterans hospital? Want to reserve a campsite at a national park? Beginning Friday, Americans can do all these things by logging on to a single U.S. government Web site: http://firstgov.gov President Clinton will explain how the site works in an Internet address Friday afternoon The one-stop Internet site consolidates 20,000 government Web sites - some 27 million web pages - into one. The new site allows Internet users to search for government information by topic, rather than by agency. It also is designed to reduce the time Americans now spend traveling to government offices and waiting in line. The site was developed, at no cost to taxpayers, by a team led by Internet entrepreneur Eric Brewer. He's chief scientist at Inktomi Corp., a software developer and marketer in Foster City, Calif. The government will pay $165,000 a month to maintain the site, which can search a half a billion documents in less than one-quarter of a second and handle millions of searches a day. The White House Web site ranked near the bottom among federal Internet destinations, Brown University researchers said. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Lockerbie witness 'lied' to CIA to secure life in US
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4068986,00.html Lockerbie witness 'lied' to CIA to secure life in US Special report: Lockerbie http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Lockerbie/ Gerard Seenan at Camp Zeist Guardian Thursday September 28, 2000 The Libyan defector who has become the key prosecution witness in the Lockerbie trial is a desperate liar who exaggerated his status as a spy and fabricated key information when a disillusioned CIA threatened to abandon him, a court heard yesterday. Under cross-examination from defence counsel, the credibility of Abdul Majid Giaka yesterday appeared to crumble. The Scottish court in the Netherlands heard Mr Giaka had consistently lied to US intelligence officers in order to achieve his dream of beginning a new life in the west. Defence counsel Richard Keen QC sought to portray Mr Giaka as little more than a garage mechanic who had over-played his position within the Libyan intelligence organisation, the JSO, and had lied about his contacts within Libya for money and to further his own ends. According to CIA intelligence documents produced in court, Mr Giaka had claimed to know senior Libyan officials. But when questioned about these men by Mr Keen, Mr Giaka admitted he had never met many of them and had only a passing knowledge of others. In a bizarre exchange, the court also heard Mr Giaka had told American intelligence officers he was a relative of King Idris of Libya and that Colonel Gadafy, the Libyan foreign minister and the president of Malta were all masons. Mr Giaka refused to reveal how he knew Colonel Gadafy was a mason for "security considerations". Earlier, the court heard that in 1988 Mr Giaka's CIA handlers decided he was not up to scratch as a double agent and threatened to drop him. Defence counsel William Taylor QC said CIA cables from the time made it clear Mr Giaka knew his salary was on the verge of being stopped. Shortly before it was due to be terminated, Mr Giaka told the CIA one of the Libyan accused had once shown him orange-coloured explosive in his desk at Malta's Luqa airport. Mr Taylor said this was a "complete fabrication", framed so that it could not be verified by the CIA. The information, however, was enough to temporarily appease the CIA and it was not until the summer of 1991 that the American intelligence organisation put renewed pressure on Mr Giaka. In a series of clandestine meetings at safe houses in Malta, the CIA told Mr Giaka it was no longer prepared to pay him $1,000 a month and urged him to meet with officials from the US justice department for a complete debriefing. The CIA, however, refused to guarantee a future for him in the US. At this time, Mr Giaka was said to be desperate. He feared for his life, his wife was pregnant and he had "burned all his bridges". Referring to CIA cables, Mr Taylor said: "In the clearest possible manner the CIA have told you what is going to happen to you unless officers from the department of justice think you are going to come up with something which makes you of use as a witness. It is clear as a pikestaff," said Mr Taylor. On July 13 1991 Mr Giaka was taken to an American warship off the coast of Malta. That day, he gave his most crucial evidence against Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, the men accused of the bombing. Mr Giaka told American justice officials that in December 1988 he had watched Mr al-Megrahi and Mr Fhimah take a brown hard-shelled suitcase, flown in from Tripoli, unchecked through customs at Luqa airport. Mr Taylor said Mr Giaka had never before mentioned this to his CIA handlers. "This incident of the brown [suitcase] is an invention that comes up rather late in the day," he said. The prosecution alleges that the bomb which eventually blew up Pan Am flight 103 on December 21, 1988 was planted inside such a suitcase and was put onto a plane at Luqa airport before it was transferred to the Pan Am flight at Frankfurt. The trial continues. [As does the coverup] Guardian Unlimited C Guardian Newspapers Limited 2000 http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Arc
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: FDA conflicts of interest (USA Today)]
-Caveat Lector- -Caveat Lector- FDA advisers tied to industry MJ Ever hear of the Public Choice Model? This unconstitutional, oppressive illusion should be abolished. tenebroust I don't think we can go to a system where there is NO regulation, because it is just asking for trouble from those who would be unscrupulous regardless. MJ We have people who are 'unscrupulous regardless' NOW coupled to this farce which serves to prohibit an individual from choosing for himself ... tenebroust In matters of health I think it is advisable to have truly independant experts evaluate the effectiveness and safety of all products, but that the people should STILL have the last word as to whether they want to try it or not. In other words I think that if you want to take a drug that the FDA says is ineffective or possibly dangerous then I don't think they have the right to keep it from you or you from taking it. MJ This PRIVATE oversight will necessarily occur ... consider UL or Consumer Reports. tenebroust At the same time there does need to be some measure of control over claims, manufacturing protocals, standardization, truth in labelling, etc. MJ Such would fall under 'fraud'. Regard$, --MJ Property is prior to law; the sole function of the law is to safeguard the right to property wherever it exists, wherever it is formed, in whatever manner the worker produces it, whether individually or in association, provided that he respects the rights of others. -- Frederic Bastiat http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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 New American - Embellishing the UN Threat - October 9, 2000.
-Caveat Lector- The New American - Embellishing the UN Threat - October 9, 2000http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/10-09-2000/vo16no21_uncharter.htm The UN threat needs no exaggeration, yet some well-intentioned activists have done just that. Embellishing the UN Threat by William Norman Grigg The recent furor over the so-called "Charter for Global Democracy" offers a perfect illustration of how "gilding" the UN threat can undermine the credibility of the movement to restore U.S. sovereignty. "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw perfume on the violet . or to add another hue unto the rainbow," observed Salisbury in Shakespeare's King John, "is wasteful and ridiculous excess." It is similarly pointless and counterproductive to exaggerate, to the point of caricature, genuine dangers, such as that posed by the United Nations to the national sovereignty of the United States. The UN menace is real, tangible, and growing, and sufficiently ominous without the spurious ornamentation of contrived or exaggerated threats. The recent furor over the so-called "Charter for Global Democracy" offers a perfect illustration of how "gilding" the UN threat can undermine the credibility of the movement to restore U.S. sovereignty and sow defeatism among those who are properly alarmed over the UN's activities. Charter 99 (the actual name of the "Charter for Global Democracy") is the work of a private organization based in London. The document, which was inspired by the 1995 Commission on Global Governance report entitled Our Global Neighborhood, describes itself as an "open letter" to the heads of state participating in the UN's Millennium Summit. However, it was neither funded nor officially approved by the UN. Charter 99 is organized around 12 proposed measures for strengthening the UN and expanding the world body's jurisdiction, including a global taxing authority, a standing UN army, a fully functional International Criminal Court, and so on. These are UN proposals of long-standing, and THE NEW AMERICAN has reported extensively upon these and other dangerous initiatives that are underway at the world body - with the support of the U.S. government. In substance, Charter 99 is no different from scores of similar broadsides that clutter the tables at the non-governmental organization (NGO) forums at UN conferences and summits. Forests have been denuded to create the documents that have been generated by pro-UN NGOs, all of which energetically support the escalating empowerment of the body as an actual world government. Most of these documents are little more than activist ephemera, written with great passion, distributed by their authors with great sincerity, and forgotten with great alacrity. Charter 99 is no exception - or, in any case, would have been, had it not been thrust into the spotlight by a well-intentioned but misguided campaign by a group of UN critics. Is It the End? The June edition of Insider's Report, the newsletter of the Virginia-based American Policy Center (APC), described Charter 99 as "The 'Final Solution' For American Independence." According to the newsletter, at the Millennium Summit "Global Governance under the control of the United Nations will be established. World leaders will vote to give the UN oversight of international conflicts. They will give the UN the power to be judge and jury over violators of international law." The vehicle for this dramatic development, according to the newsletter, is "The UN's Charter for Global Democracy [which] has been created to essentially replace the UN's fifty-year-old Charter." "The Millennium Assembly [sic] is the final act in a UN drive for power that began a decade ago," continues the APC report. Referring to the 1995 Commission on Global Governance report Our Global Neighborhood, the APC asserts: "That report detailed UN plans that will now be placed into action through the Charter for Global Democracy which will be voted on and approved by world leaders at the Millennium Assembly [sic]." Under the grim scenario sketched out by the APC, the Millennium Summit sets the stage for the abolition of U.S. independence by executive decree. "In 1776, with the stroke of a pen," concludes the newsletter, "the Declaration of Independence marked the beginning of the greatest experiment in national government ever conceived. Today, however, unless Congress stands united - determined to block not only the UN Charter, but also every effort to implement it - it will take only the stroke of Bill Clinton's lame-duck pen to change our nation, and history forever." An APC fax alert disseminated on September 5th urged Americans to participate in a "phone-in" timed to coincide with a press conference scheduled for the morning of Thursday, September 7th. "If you do nothing at noon Thursday, the mechanism will be in place for: a standing UN army; UN global taxation; a UN International Criminal Court; UN gun control," warned the fax alert. The purpose of the press
Re: [CTRL] Konformist: Homosexual-Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Well folks, if you are not aware of the fact that the below article is fake, I don't know who you are. This article was retrieved from www.onion.com and if you look at the bottom at the masthead, or click here, http://www.onion.com/info/masthead.html which prints the following information. Copyright The Onion® is a satirical newspaper published by Onion, Inc. The Onion® uses invented names in all its stories, except in cases when public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental. The content of this web-site--graphics, text and other elements--is © Copyright 2000 by Onion, Inc., and may not be reprinted or retransmitted in whole or in part without the expressed written consent of the publisher. The Onion® is not intended for readers under 18 years of age. It is SATIRICAL, please do not promote this type of literature on this list. I can't believe that someone would take this as serious. Jeesh, Nate -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yardbird Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 7:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Konformist: Homosexual-Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal (fwd) -Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 15:33:59 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Konformist: Homosexual-Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9068/6/_/1406/_/970342522/ -_-> Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Homosexual-Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal SAN FRANCISCO -- Spokespersons for the National Gay & Lesbian Recruitment Task Force announced Monday that more than 288,000 straights have been converted to homosexuality since Jan. 1, putting the group well on pace to reach its goal of 350,000 conversions by the end of the year. "Thanks to the tireless efforts of our missionaries nationwide, in the first seven months of this year, nearly 300,000 heterosexuals were ensnared in the Pink Triangle," said NGLRTF co-director Patricia Emmonds. "Clearly, the activist homosexual lobby is winning." Emmonds credited much of the recruiting success to the gay lobby's infiltration of America's public schools, where programs promoting the homosexual lifestyle are regularly presented to children as young as 5. "It's crucial that we reach these kids while they're still young," Emmonds said. "That's when they're most vulnerable to our message of sexual promiscuity and deviance." "When I grow up, I want to be gay," said Christopher Linn, 8, a second-grader at Philadelphia's Lakeside Elementary School, one of thousands of public schools nationwide that actively promote the homosexual agenda. "I don't want to have a family or go to church." "Straight people don't have any fun," said Teddy Nance, 11, after watching Breeders Are Boring!, an anti-heterosexual filmstrip, in his fifth-grade class at Crestwood Elementary School in Roanoke, VA. "Gay people get to do whatever they want." In addition to school programs that target youths, the NGLRTF launched a $630 million advertising campaign this year in an effort to convert adults to homosexuality. The campaign, which features TV and radio spots, as well as print advertising in major national magazines, has helped convince thousands of people to leave their spouses and families for a life of self-gratification and irresponsibility. "The gay lifestyle is for me," said James Miller, an Oklahoma City father of four who recently moved to Provincetown, MA, to pursue a career in bath-house management. "When I was a family man, I constantly had to worry about things like taking the kids to Little League practice, paying for their braces, and remembering my wife's birthday. But now that I'm gay, I'm finally free to focus all my energy on having non-stop, mind-blowing anal sex." Though Emmonds said gays have been tremendously successful in tearing at the fabric of society and subverting basic decency, she stressed that their work is far from over. "For all the progress we've made, America is still overwhelmingly heterosexual," said Emmonds, who is calling for an additional $2.6 billion in federal aid to further the gay agenda. "If we are to insidiously penetrate American society, as we constantly do each other's orifices, we need more money and resources. Without such help, this country will remain the domain of decent, moral, God-fearing Christians. And that would be a sin." Copyright (c) 2000 Onion, Inc., All rights reserved. If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswi
[CTRL] Fiji Coup Plotters breach amnesty
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0010/02/A27432-2000Oct2.shtml Coup plotters breached immunity: Fiji court Source: AFP|Published: Monday October 2, 11:58 AM In a landmark decision that could decide the fate of coup plotter George Speight, who is facing treason charges, Fiji's High Court today found his group had breached conditions for immunity. Justice Peter Surnam was giving judgment in an appeal by the state in a case of attempted murder against Speight supporter Isoa Karawa. Karawa had been released by the magistrates court on the grounds that he was covered by an immunity granted to Speight and his group in return for ending a siege of parliament. Karawa had faced charges over the shooting of a television cameraman shortly after the May 19 coup. Overturning the magistrates court decision, Surnam said conditions of the decree granting immunity had clearly been breached because all arms stolen by the coup plotters had not been returned to the military as required. If there has been a failure by Speight and his group to return all arms ... then in my judgment that would indicate a fundamental breach of the provisions of the Immunity Decree, he said. The army had offered Speight and his followers immunity on condition they turned over all their arms and released all government hostages, including now-deposed prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry. It later said the group had forfeited the immunity because it failed to meet all conditions of the agreement, since weapons were still at large. http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] RadTimes # 54
-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 54 - September, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- LUVeR Alternative News is offering a daily audio show using selected stories from RadTimes & other non-mainstream sources. Check it out! --- Contents: --- --'Civilian Army' of Americans Helps Fight Colombia's Drug War --Invasion of SWAT Teams Leaves Trauma and Death --America's Call For Workers' Rights Ignored At Home --Globalization, Suicide and a Wake Up Call --A goulash of causes unites a potpourri of protesters Linked stories: *Webcasters Caught in RIAA Web *Gene Foods Don't Make UK Cut *Review sought of Clinton's 1998 bombing of Sudan *Supreme Court to decide if drug checkpoints violate the Fourth Amendment *Scientist berates Greens for ignorance --- Begin stories: --- 'Civilian Army' of Americans Helps Fight Colombia's Drug War Published on Wednesday, September 20, 2000 in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel by E.A. Torriero and Pedro Ruz Gutierrez FLORENCIA, Colombia - The hotshot pilot swoops down at 200 mph in his Vietnam-era crop duster, gliding only 50 feet over the coca valleys he has been hired to destroy. Colombian soldiers carry the body of a rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in Fusagasuga, about 50 miles south of Bogota, on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2000. Seven FARC rebels were killed in combat Tuesday with soldiers in Colombia's ongoing civil conflict. At least 35,000 people have been killed in the conflict in the last 10 years. (AP Photo/Scott Dalton) The U.S. Army veteran earns $90,000 a year tax-free as a civilian pilot, but he understands the downside of this job very well. More than once, he's had to dodge bullets from peasants and guerrillas trying to protect Colombia's multibillion-dollar cocaine trade. This is one pilot who won't mind giving up a big paycheck should his working conditions continue to deteriorate. "If we start getting into a civil war, I'm out of here," said the pilot, whose employer has ordered its workers not to talk to the media. "Americans will be targeted." For now, though, he is part of a growing civilian army hired by Uncle Sam to help fight Colombia's war on drugs, to be financed largely by $1.3 billion in U.S. aid. Daredevil pilots with military experience, retired top brass and former Green Berets are all part of the effort as the first $300 million in aid heads to Colombia next month. Expertise in intelligence and law enforcement is a must. Fluency in Spanish and knowledge of counter-terrorism, jungle warfare and counter-surveillance is a plus. While there are limits to the number of American military people who will be involved in training Colombian troops, there are fewer restrictions on how many U.S. civilians can be hired by defense contractors. Hundreds of Americans, lured by hefty salaries for hazardous work, will play a key role battling guerrillas and traffickers who live off the illicit drug trade. "Every pirate, bandit -- everyone who wants to make money on the war -- they're in Colombia," said one congressional aide in Washington, who said he would speak candidly only if he were not identified. He described efforts to snare contracts as a "free-for-all." "This is what we call outsourcing a war," he said. Much of the effort, however, will come from companies very familiar to the U.S. government. At least a dozen U.S. firms are lining up to bid on Uncle Sam's foreign venture. FARC commander Fernando Caicedo sits in a retaurant in a small town near the FARC headquarters. He says that Plan Colombia and its introduction of military helicopters will lead to a full civil war in southern Colombia. TOM BURTON/ THE ORLANDO SENTINEL Pay is high, but so are the risks. The crash of a U.S. Army spy plane that killed five American soldiers last summer underscored the potential for casualties. Relatives, including those of Capt. Jose Santiago Jr. of Orlando, dispute the official Army version of pilot error and suggest a rebel missile could have shot down the reconnaissance plane. Three civilian pilots of Reston, Va.-based DynCorp. and EAST Inc., under contract with the State Department, have died in plane crashes since 1997. DynCorp did not return telephone calls asking for information on its Colombia activities. DynCorp. has up to 30 pilots and crews in charge of fumigating coca fields with glyphosate, a stronger version of the household weedkiller Roundup. The company's presence has grown from only a few pi
[CTRL] Lockerbie Conviction Chances in Doubt
-Caveat Lector- [The tone of these two articles is so different from the ones published by the Guardian.] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56673-2000Oct1.html Lockerbie Conviction Chances in Doubt Printer-Friendly VersionBy Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, October 2, 2000; Page A12 CAMP ZEIST, Netherlands - After more than 50 days of trial, the prosecution case against two Libyan intelligence officers in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial is drawing to a close, and there is a growing sense among experts that hopes for a criminal conviction are in trouble. "This was a highly circumstantial case from the beginning," said Vincent Cannistraro, former counterterrorism chief for the Central Intelligence Agency, who worked on the early part of the bombing investigation and has continued to follow the case. "The forensic evidence has shown a link between the bomb and Libyan intelligence. What they haven't proven is the specific hands" that planted it. Libyan agents Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, 48, and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, 44, are charged with murder and conspiracy in the bombing of over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. All 259 people on the plane died - including 189 Americans - as well as 11 on the ground. The trial is being conducted at this former U.S. military base 25 miles southeast of Amsterdam under Scottish law, which prohibits lawyers in the case from discussing the proceedings. But in a unique arrangement to benefit relatives of victims, prosecutors are briefing them at the end of each session. Prosecution lawyers from Scotland, as well as U.S. Justice Department observers, continue to rebut doubters and insist that their strategy is working, relatives said. "They seem very confident," said Kathleen Flynn of Montville, N.J., whose 21-year-old son, John Patrick, was killed on the plane. She said she, too, is confident: "The bottom line is, if you have followed this carefully, it is coming together nicely." The indictment alleges that the accused worked in concert with others "to further the purposes of the Libyan intelligence service." But the tortured compromise that the British and U.S. governments reached with Libya to get custody of the two defendants for trial puts only them - not the country or the intelligence agency - in the dock. The prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the two agents specifically are guilty. "No one can say how [the judges] will rule, but the prosecution looks like it is experiencing problems" in linking the accused directly to the crime, said John Grant, professor of law at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., and emeritus professor at the University of Glasgow. Since 1991, when Megrahi and Fhimah were indicted in the United States for the bombing, the American government has expressed confidence in the case against them, which was outlined in detail by administration officials at the time. But that optimism seemed to be tested last week when a supposed key witness, a Libyan double agent paid by the CIA, testifying under the pseudonym Abdul Majid Giaka, was relentlessly and, in many eyes, successfully attacked on the stand by defense attorneys. They labeled him a fraud and a liar who changed his story and concocted evidence to stay on the U.S. government payroll and collect a $4 million reward for information leading to a conviction in the bombing. Giaka, seeming hesitant and uncertain, stumbled several times under the barrage. He has been in a U.S. witness protection program since 1991 when he was whisked off the Mediterranean island of Malta, where the prosecution alleges that a suitcase bomb that destroyed the Pan Am 747 originated. In Malta, Giaka worked with Fhimah at Libyan Arab Airlines, which they both allegedly used as cover for their roles in Libyan intelligence. As an intelligence operative - the defense preferred to paint him as a self-deluded, onetime car mechanic - Giaka said he also came into contact with Megrahi. "While you have been in America, have you been able to dip into gems of American literature, such as their short story writers like James Thurber?" asked Fhimah's attorney, Robert Keene. "Have you encountered someone called Mitty, first name Walter?" The fictional Mitty is a fantasist who escapes his dreary life by imagining himself in heroic situations, and the comment from Keene was typical of the sarcasm visited on Giaka during cross-examination. There were two key elements in his testimony: that the two defendants kept explosives at Malta airport and that Megrahi arrived in Malta days before the bombing carrying a brown Samsonite-like suitcase similar to the one investigators believe contained the bomb. Megrahi was met by Fhimah, Giaka testified. Despite some pre-testimony speculation that he was an eyewitness, Giaka did not say he saw the Libyans do what they are alleged to have done: place an unaccompanied bag on an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt, where
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