[CTRL] Privacy?

1999-08-01 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Here Comes The Beast! Clinton OKs massive attack on privacy (Source: New York, NYT-07-27-99 2104EDT) No. 128, 2 - 8 August 1999 If you thought "Know your customer" was dead, wait until you read the following article. The Federal Government, with William Jefferson

[CTRL] Mencken on Gun Control

1999-08-01 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Editor's note: MSRPA member Jack Tishue brought the following to DownRange's attention. It is a copyrighted article by H. L. Mencken originally published in 1925 (during Prohibition) by The Evening Sun (where Mencken was editor at the time) and reprinted in the March 1,

[CTRL] (Fwd) ZNet Commentary Aug 2 Mokhiber/Weissman and a Chomsky Fo

1999-08-01 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Here then is today's ZNet Commentary... -- Biotech Untamed By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman When Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman wanted to address the National Press Club in

[CTRL] Brits' Secret

1999-07-31 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Britain's Secret Shame Foreign Affairs Editorial Opinion (Published) Keywords: OPERATION KEELHAUL, REFUGEES, NATO, WWII Source: Toronto Sun/Edmonton Sun Published: 7/25/99 Author: Peter Worthington Posted on 07/29/1999 20:24:31 PDT by Antiwar Republican The Edmonton

[CTRL] Good Intentions

1999-07-31 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Neo-colonialism in the Balkans? By our Internet editors, based on an interview by Jeroen Brouwers, 29 July 1999 Picture: The destroyed Mosque in Djakovica, Kosovo (photo Jan Jansen, Amnesty)The international community has reached deep into the pockets to give help to

[CTRL] Globalisation Crisis

1999-07-31 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- - --- DISSENT / SUMMER 1999/ VOLUME 46, NUMBER 3 - --- The Crisis of Globalization James K. Galbraith The doctrine known as the

[CTRL] Moldy-ing Public Opinion

1999-07-30 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- July 30, 1999 WAR PROPAGANDA – AT TAXPAYERS’ EXPENSE It wasn’t enough for the Clintonians that virtually the entire news media marched in lockstep to the beat of the war-drums during the “liberation” of Kosovo; it wasn’t enough that television broadcast nothing but

[CTRL] Hot 'Lanta

1999-07-30 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- www.wsws.org - WSWS : News Analysis : North America : US Violence The Atlanta massacre: what it says about America By Barry Grey 31 July 1999 Back to screen version The US has witnessed yet another

[CTRL] (Fwd) FW: ZNet Commentary July 31 Cynthia Peters

1999-07-30 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Michael Albert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:FW: ZNet Commentary July 31 Cynthia Peters Date sent: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:25:00 +0100 NOTE 1: I

[CTRL] (Fwd) U.S.-Russia, Nuclear Dangers, NATO

1999-07-30 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:53:40 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Progressive Response [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:U.S.-Russia, Nuclear Dangers, NATO

[CTRL] (Fwd) Release: California bank spying

1999-07-29 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 01:45:17 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Release: California bank spying To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Libertarian Party announcements list)

[CTRL] Legal Shenanagins

1999-07-29 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- No. 1312July 22, 1999 TIME FOR CONGRESS TO HOLD THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ACCOUNTABLE VIRGINIA THOMAS AND RYAN H. ROGERS Link to: | Full Text | PDF (746k) | Note: PDF version contains both the Executive Summary and the Full Text.

[CTRL] Influence, Inc., or,

1999-07-29 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- the Virtual Smoke Filled Room Emerges I n f l u e n c e I n c. SUMMARY Nineteen ninety-eight was a tough year for Congress. With impeachment in the air and control of the House of Representatives at stake, Congress stalemated on most of the big policy issues it

[CTRL] (Fwd) Budget Priorities

1999-07-29 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:52:39 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Budget Priorities Institute for Public Accuracy 915

[CTRL] (Fwd) FECInfo

1999-07-28 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: 28 Jul 99 1650 EST From: FECInfo - Public Disclosure, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Complete re-transmission... *** Some of the earlier e-mails had some listings

[CTRL] Waco Suit

1999-07-28 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Burning Questions Branch Davidian Survivors' Suit May Resolve Concerns Over Feds' Conduct by JOHN COUNCIL Texas Lawyer/TexLaw July 26, 1999 For six years, hundreds of containers of evidence relating to the federal government's raid on the Branch Davidian compound have sat in

[CTRL] Keeperer of the Secret

1999-07-28 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Keeper of the Secret? By WILLIAM ANDERSON The recent deaths of John F. Kennedy, Jr., his bride, and her sister, are tragic for their families, their friends, and the staff at George Magazine. For all of the media hype, however, it is not a national tragedy any more than

[CTRL] (Fwd) ZNet Commentary July 28 Dan Georgakas

1999-07-28 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- -- Hillary as Senator: Just Say No By Dan Georgakas Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign to become the senator for New York offers the New York Green Party a unique opportunity to focus national

[CTRL] From Chechnya With Love

1999-07-28 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Gangs create terror zones at Russia-Chechnya border By David Filipov, Globe Staff, 07/28/99 PictureALYUGAYEVSKAYA, Russia - The last thing Lidiya Semyonova and her friends probably felt was the way their relief abruptly turned to terror. They were strolling back to

[CTRL] Storm Clouds on the Economic Horizon ?

1999-07-28 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : North America : US Economy Dollar fears send tremor through markets By Nick Beams 29 July 1999 Back to screen version Barely weeks after spokesmen for the International Monetary Fund and other global financial institutions

[CTRL] (Fwd) Release: 1999 pork-barrel spending

1999-07-28 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:20:17 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Release: 1999 pork-barrel spending To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Libertarian Party announcements list)

[CTRL] Is that you, Harvey?

1999-07-26 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From BostonHerald http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/colm/sciacca07261999.htm Harebrained stunt dogs Gore campaign by Joe Sciacca Monday, July 26, 1999 As if poor Al Gore didn't have enough problems on the campaign trail, he's now being stalked by a rabbit. A

[CTRL] Roma + : 07-26-99

1999-07-26 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.lineone.net/express/99/07/20/features/f0700view-d.html VIEWPOINT John Laughland Within a month of the end of the bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, Nato governments and Belgrade have struck up a curious alliance. They are united in a conspiracy of silence

[CTRL] Pleading the 25th

1999-07-26 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.mikenew.com/kosovo_ed.html Kosovo: The New World Army Evolves Daniel D. New Based upon the precedent of Macedonia, and the lack of Congressional backbone to stop the placement of American troops under foreign officers, the New World Army is becoming a

[CTRL] Staggering Numbers

1999-07-26 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.gatewayva.com/rtd/dailynews/virginia/pot0726.shtml Going to pot: Weed making comeback / Marijuana growing on rise in Va. Monday, July 26, 1999 BY REX BOWMAN Times-Dispatch Staff Writer ROANOKE -- Some speak about the moonshining that

[CTRL] (Fwd) Tax Cut?

1999-07-25 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:31:35 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Tax Cut? Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National

[CTRL] Royal Tea

1999-07-25 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.morrock.com/homebrew.htm American royalty By SAM WAMMACK TMNS Correspondent July 23, 1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr. apparently flew his private plane into the ocean last Friday night -- causing an accident which killed him, his wife, and his sister-in-law. A

[CTRL] (Fwd) ZNet Commentary July 26 Edward Herman

1999-07-25 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Michael Albert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:ZNet Commentary July 26 Edward Herman Date sent: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:11:59 +0100 Here is today's

[CTRL] Politics of Celebrity

1999-07-24 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : North America The death of JFK Jr. and the politics of celebrity By Martin McLaughlin 24 July 1999 Back to screen version A week-long media barrage on the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. culminated in the burial at sea Thursday of the ashes of

[CTRL] Environmental Issues

1999-07-23 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From TheIndependent (UK) BALKAN AFTERMATH: WAVE OF SICKNESS SWEEPS SERB TOWN MADE TOXIC BY NATO BOMBS THE ECOLOGICAL time bomb is ticking. Nobody knows when or how it will explode. For the moment, the visible effects are almost routine. In recent weeks many people in

[CTRL] Myth-tifying

1999-07-23 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From LA TIMES Friday, July 23, 1999 Commentary Coverage a Senseless Tragedy in Itself By HOWARD ROSENBERG, Times Television Critic Picture: If you dare to raise questions about any of this, you're immediately branded a heartless, soulless, mindless cretin. However .

[CTRL] Magical Oily NATOical Tour/Expedition - MONTE

1999-07-23 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- KARABAKH, ABKHAZIA – WHERE NEXT FOR NATO? "Kosovo may become a next step in the evolution of a new European or even international order" Michael Lemmon, US Ambassador to Armenia, April 1999. It would have been unthinkable even a year ago to imagine the NATO alliance

[CTRL] Ted Mack Redux ?

1999-07-22 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Wednesday, July 21, 1999 Pacific Prospect Cox Report Was 'an Exercise in Amateur-Hour Paranoia' PictureThe House report on Chinese spying drew sinister implications out of tenuous reasoning. By TOM PLATE PicturePicturePicturePicture ADVERTISEMENT Picture Picture:

[CTRL] Cox Sure ?

1999-07-22 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- July 22, 1999 The Silence at the Times Memo To: Howell Raines, NYTimes editorial page editor From: Jude Wanniski Re: Chinese Espionage at the National Labs There has been a lot going on in the last week or so about the China Espionage story that had been so big in the

[CTRL] Reassessment

1999-07-22 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- ISSUE 1518Thursday 22 July 1999 Picture PicturePictureNato admits air campaign failed By Tim Butcher and Patrick Bishop NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia had almost no military effect on the regime of President Milosevic, which gave in only after Russia

[CTRL] China Policy?

1999-07-21 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Clinton: "What's GOOD for Kosovo's 1.8 Million Albanians is BAD for 21 Million Taiwanese" Does Clinton Have the Republican Senate in his Back Pocket on his Changing China Policy? By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources, (www.originalsources.com) July 21, 1999

[CTRL] Tragicness

1999-07-21 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From Slate.CoM frame game Dead Kennedys By William Saletan Drawn by the scent of blood in the water, the media have swarmed the crash site of John F. Kennedy Jr. While pedestrian reporters investigate the disaster, pundits debate the more entertaining question: Why

[CTRL] Stormont

1999-07-21 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Wednesday, July 21, 1999 IRA warns on progress of Agreement 10.00 p.m. The IRA tonight issued a hardline statement which is highly critical of both unionists and the British government for the lack of progress in implementing the Belfast Agreement. A strongly-worded

[CTRL] Ethnic Justice ?

1999-07-21 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- July 21, 1999 Albanians Vent Their Anger On Roma By Jeremy Bransten For 600 years, the Yugoslav town of Kosovo Polje has stood for martyrdom and defeat. It was here in 1389 that the Turks vanquished the Serbs, launching centuries of Ottoman domination. And it was here

[CTRL] CTBT

1999-07-21 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Publications of the Center for Security Policy No. 99-D 82 --- -- --- DECISION BRIEF 21 July 1999 Non-Starter: Clinton's Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is Unworthy of Senate's Time -- Let Alone Its

[CTRL] The Sol(ana) Also Rises

1999-07-20 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From TheIndependent (UK) KOSOVO FACES `TOTAL ANARCHY' THE DANGER facing Kosovo is no longer starvation but descent into anarchy, the Liberal Democrat leader, Paddy Ashdown, warned yesterday. Mr Ashdown, on a fact- finding mission to the province, the latest of many

[CTRL] (Fwd) Pacifica Crisis

1999-07-20 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Tuesday, July 20, 1999 Uproar Over Free

[CTRL] (Fwd) Reason-Express: REx29, v2

1999-07-20 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:46:26 -0500 From: "Jeff Taylor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Reason Express List Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Reason-Express: REx29, v2

[CTRL] Teddy the DrugStories

1999-07-20 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From counterpunch.org July 15, 1999 Ted K., the CIA LSD It turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, was a volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Michael Mello, author of the recently

[CTRL] All Aglow

1999-07-20 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Wednesday, July 21, 1999 Radiation used to develop varieties of plants geneticist - --- By Dick Ahlstrom, Science Editor Consumers seem frightened of genetically engineered foods but indifferent to

[CTRL] Bow-Wake?

1999-07-19 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Publications of the Center for Security Policy No. 99-D 81 - --- DECISION BRIEF 19 July 1999 Don't Let the F-22 Fall Victim to a Defense 'Train Wreck' (Washington, D.C.): When the House

[CTRL] AlbanAm PAC Information

1999-07-19 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.siri- us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980- 98.html Just the beginning ... extensive list at site SIRIUS: The Strategic Issues Research Institute Benjamin C. Works, Director 718 937-2092; www.siri-us.com; E-mail: [EMAIL

[CTRL] (Fwd) NCPA Policy Digest 7-19-99

1999-07-19 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:09:56 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "John C. Goodman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:NCPA Policy Digest 7-19-99 National Center For Policy

[CTRL] Tangled Webs - Balkans

1999-07-17 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Gets better the further down one reads Hawks and Eagles: "Greater NATO" Flies to the Aid of "Greater Albania" By Diana Johnstone Spring-Summer 1999 # 67 On March 24, NATO launched its first full-scale aggressive war against a sovereign state. It was certainly not

[CTRL] (Fwd) ZNet Commentaries July 17 Vandana Shiva

1999-07-17 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Michael Albert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:ZNet Commentaries July 17 Vandana Shiva Date sent: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 21:58:49 +0100 Here is today's

[CTRL] Unity

1999-07-17 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From Int'l Herald Tribune Paris, Saturday, July 17, 1999 British Press Chases the 'Huns' Again and Germans Feel the Pain - --- By William Drozdiak Washington Post Service

[CTRL] (Fwd) [FAIR-L] Action Alert: ABC AGREES WITH DRUG INDUSTRY: AF

1999-07-16 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:26:49 -0400 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: FAIR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[FAIR-L] Action Alert: ABC AGREES WITH DRUG INDUSTRY: AFFORDABLE

[CTRL] Sheaism

1999-07-16 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Via www.transnational.org/features/nothingcompares.htm Nothing in My 30 Years of Reporting Wars Compares with the Present Propaganda Dressed as Journalism By John Pilger New Statesman, London 12th July 1999 On 17 June, the Guardian published a letter by Ben

[CTRL] Quarter Century

1999-07-15 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From Irish Times Thursday, July 15, 1999 Comparison with 1974 shows how far we have come - --- Opinion/Mary Holland Have we passed the Point of No Return? This was the phrase used by Hugo

[CTRL] East Comes West?

1999-07-15 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From TheIndependent GERMAN PHONE TAPS ARE ROUTINE GERMANY'S SECRET services can routinely listen to anyone's international telephone calls, as long as they do not pass their findings to the local police, the country's highest court ruled yesterday. The judgment of the

[CTRL] Right Away

1999-07-15 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From NewsMax Whittling Away Our Constitution One Right at a Time Ken HamblinJuly 15, 1999 Add another name to our nation's hall of shame _ and one even scarier subtext, if you read carefully. Media reports have been rife with details about how Benjamin Nathaniel Smith,

[CTRL] KPFA

1999-07-15 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Via Z-Mag.OrG FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: July 13, 1999 Belinda Griswold 415-546-6334 x313 CONTROVERSIAL EMAIL RECEIVED DETAILING POSSIBLE CLOSURE OF KPFA AS LAWSUIT IS FILED TO FORCE ACCOUNTABILITY COMMUNITY LEADERS DECRY CRACKDOWN BERKELEY, CA - At a press

[CTRL] After Tiananmen

1999-07-15 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : Asia : China A hand held out to Beijing: US policy after Tiananmen Square By James Conachy 15 July 1999 Back to screen version Censored US State Department documents from 1985-1989, obtained under Freedom of Information legislation and now

[CTRL] Sharing the Wealth ...

1999-07-15 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- ... of knowledge, technology, whathaveyou From World Tribune Key N. Korean missile parts "made in Japan," lawmakers charge July 14, 1999 By Edward Neilan Special to World Tribune.com TOKYO--Globalization is already a fact of life in the international missile and

[CTRL] Striking Light

1999-07-15 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : Science Technology : The Internet and Computers New techniques to boost the Internet's capacities By Luciano Fernandez 16 July 1999 Back to screen version The rapidly increasing demands being placed on international communications networks

[CTRL] All Ears

1999-07-15 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From TheIndependent (UK) HOW BRITAIN EAVESDROPPED ON DUBLIN THE MINISTRY of Defence "Electronic Test Facility", a rather mysterious 150-ft high tower stands isolated in a British Nuclear Fuels Limited site at Capenhurst, Cheshire. Locals knew that the tower housed a

[CTRL] Brave New World

1999-07-14 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.morrock.com/tech.htm Huxley's hatcheries By MICHAEL R. ALIX TMNS Technology Editor July 14, 1999 Aldous Huxley, often mistakenly taken for a science fiction writer, did write at least one science fiction book, Brave New World (1932). That was almost

[CTRL] Pinochet Papers

1999-07-13 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : South Central America Clinton's selective declassification Chile documents expose criminal role of US foreign policy By Bill Vann 13 July 1999 Back to screen version The Clinton administration's release of some 5,800 documents relating to

[CTRL] Camille on Hillary

1999-07-13 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.iwf.com Picture Picture: The Women's Quarterly Logo - --- By Camille Paglia Picture Interview: I Told You So! I Told You So! Camille Paglia sounds off to TWQ editor Charlotte Hays about

[CTRL] No Lessons

1999-07-13 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Via NewRepublic Kosovo no War, no Foreign Affairs News Keywords: KOSOVO, Source: Anchorage Daily News Published: July 2, 1999 Author: George C. Wilson Posted on 07/12/1999 18:19:25 PDT by rollin Anchorage Daily News July 2, 1999 No War, No Lessons After

[CTRL] Encounters

1999-07-12 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From TheNewStatesman How the CIA plotted against us The NS made the left seem clever. Something had to be done, reports Frances Stonor Saunders Picture"Have you seen Encounter?" Mary McCarthy asked Hannah Arendt in October 1953, after reading the debut issue. "It is

[CTRL] GOP Loom-ing

1999-07-12 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Excerpt from San Jose Merc News http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/hoover12.htm Published Monday, July 12, 1999, in the San Jose Mercury News Bush renews think tank's link to high-level GOP policy BY MARY ANNE OSTROM Mercury News Staff Writer In his first

[CTRL] Constitution

1999-07-12 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Via SpinTechMag.CoM SpinTech: July 12, 1999 Picture How The Constitution Aids Federal Power-Grabbers by Sunni Maravillosa Hologram of Liberty, by Kenneth Royce (AKA Boston T. Party) (Javelin Press, 1997) 229 pgs. ISBN # 1-888766-03-4 At age five or so, I discovered

[CTRL] Watergate Rising

1999-07-11 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.insightmag.com/articles/story2.htm Beginning Just What Is a War Criminal? - --- By James P. Lucier - --- Jerome Zeifman,

[CTRL] Raw Power

1999-07-11 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Jul/11/opinion/RUBIN11.htm Trudy Rubin / Worldview Much of world sees Kosovo war as a show of raw American power TETOVO, MACEDONIA - Americans were told the war in Kosovo was a humanitarian struggle to prevent the murder and

[CTRL] Oil Popline

1999-07-11 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From NewsUnlimited (TheGuardian) Oil pipeline disaster 'imminent' Michael Sean Gillard, Andrew Rowell and Melissa Jones Monday July 12, 1999 An ecological disaster far worse than the Exxon Valdez catastrophe in Alaska 10 years ago could happen at any moment, according

[CTRL] Economic Chaos Benefits

1999-07-11 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/current.htm Masterstroke: Who Benefits from World Economic Chaos Picture By SUSAN BRYCE While the Packer and Murdoch controlled media keep Australians updated on corrupt IOC officials and cricket scandals, and we digest the latest

[CTRL] Persistence of Class

1999-07-11 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Britain Blair denounces public sector workers to an audience of Venture Capitalists A man haunted by the persistence of class By Julie Hyland 12 July 1999 Back to screen version Prime Minister Blair took the opportunity of a speech

[CTRL] Human Development Report

1999-07-11 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.undp.org/hdro/ HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1999 Globalization with a human face Global markets, global technology, global ideas and global solidarity can enrich the lives of people everywhere. The challenge is to ensure that the benefits are shared

[CTRL] The Good Old Days ...

1999-07-10 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- ... these are ... From TheFreeRepublic ""Both Syria and Vietnam are scrambling to modernize their armed forces in order to be able to repel massive air raids similar to those carried out by NATO in Yugoslavia, according to an official at Rosvooruzhenie."" Countries Race for

[CTRL] Gunzin the U.S.

1999-07-10 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From TheEconomist http://www.economist.co.uk/editorial/freeforall/19990703/index_sf 8740.html Only part is given as the whole article is long and has some nifty multi-colour charts that add to the understanding of the assertions contained therein. AER 3rd July 1999

[CTRL] No. Ireland: 07-10-99

1999-07-10 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From TheNation July 26, 1999 Ulster Must Not Say No See below for background and related information. Northern Ireland's peace process faces its gravest crisis since George Mitchell negotiated the Good Friday accord--graver even than after last summer's bombing in

[CTRL] Arab Dispossession

1999-07-10 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.ahram.org/weekly/1998/1948/index.htm Beyond the introduction {given below} is a list of linked articles. 1948-1998 Picture: 50 Years David Ben-Gurion, one of the father founders of Israel, described Zionist aims in 1948 thus: "A Christian state should be

[CTRL] Boox

1999-07-09 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.booklineandthinker.com/page12.html Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley Hardbound $39.95 1348 pages As a highly respected professor at Georgetown, Quigley (Surprise! Bill Clinton was one of his students) in this important book (over 20 years in the

[CTRL] Behind the Headlines

1999-07-09 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- PicturePicturePicturePicturePicturePicturePictureP icture July 9, 1999 THE ELITES VERSUS THE INTERNET The elites hate the Internet, and with good reason. In the Information Age, the priesthood of "experts" is debunked and defunct. It used to be that all legitimate news

[CTRL] (Fwd) Compassionate Conservatism?

1999-07-09 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 08:35:09 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Compassionate Conservatism"? Institute for Public

[CTRL] (Fwd) Pinochet, Democratization

1999-07-09 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- The Progressive Response 9 July 1999 Vol. 3, No. 24 Editor: Martha Honey Compiled by: Tim McGivern and Erik Leaver - - The Progressive Response (PR)

[CTRL] Columbia, The Gem of?

1999-07-09 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- Published Friday, July 9, 1999, in the Miami Herald In Colombia, everyday `awful things' stranger than fiction By JUAN O. TAMAYO Herald Staff Writer BOGOTA, Colombia -- One wonders what Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, creator of the magical world of

[CTRL] Compound Cleansers

1999-07-09 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From SF Chronicle NATO Bombing Left Serbian City in Toxic Nightmare Refinery, fertilizer plant and petrochemical complex destroyed Mark Fineman, Los Angeles Times Tuesday, July 6, 1999 ©1999 San Francisco Chronicle URL: http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm

[CTRL] Great Society '99 Tour

1999-07-09 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.mises.org The Magical Government Tour By LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL, JR. [posted July 9, 1999] The press puppy-dogged Bill Clinton as he traveled the country exploiting the troubles of others to pad his legacy. Oozing the compassion that he kept under wraps as he

[CTRL] (Fwd) ZNet Commentary July 9 Marc Weisbrot

1999-07-08 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- -- Fed's Pre-emptive Strike Is Aimed at Workers By Marc Weisbrot The Fed launched a "pre-emptive strike" this week against an unseen enemy -- inflation -- by raising interest rates one-quarter

[CTRL] Fanciful Finance

1999-07-08 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.cbpp.org PicturePicture Revised July 2, 1999 Much of the Projected Non-Social Security Surplus Is a Mirage Large Majority of Surplus Rests on Assumptions of Deep Cuts in Discretionary Programs that Are Unlikely to Occur by Sam Elkin and Robert Greenstein

[CTRL] Purchasing Power

1999-07-08 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.publicampaign.org - THE COIN-OPERATED CONGRESS Ellen S. Miller and Micah L. Sifry (Posted June 30, 1999) Two weeks ago, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called on the Supreme Court to rule

[CTRL] (Fwd) Poverty of Ideas?

1999-07-07 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:44:09 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Poverty of Ideas? Institute for Public Accuracy 915

[CTRL] Go Long ... Go Lon ... Golan

1999-07-07 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.security-policy.org/papers/1999/99-D76.html Publications of the Center for Security Policy No. 99-D 76 - --- DECISION BRIEF 6 July 1999 The Next U.S. Peacekeeping 'Boot' To Drop:

[CTRL] KLA Konnexion

1999-07-07 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From FreeRepublic **CIA/NATO + KLA*** Foreign Affairs Opinion (Published) Keywords: HEROIN DEALING Source: Janes, Wall Street Journal et al Published: July 6 Author: Michael C. Ruppert Posted on 07/06/1999 23:14:10 PDT by Bluegoose ***KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY AND

[CTRL] Freeee-do-o-o-m!!!

1999-07-07 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/colm/wayne07041999.htm Degradation of independence by Wayne Woodlief Sunday, July 4, 1999 On this Independence Day, we aren't really as free as we think we are, or want to be. In America, at the cusp of a new century,

[CTRL] Sovereignty

1999-07-07 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_williams/19990707_xcwwi_stat e_sove.shtml State sovereignty - --- © 1999 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Reading an article in this April's Chronicles magazine,

[CTRL] Fraternal Order of Medians?

1999-07-07 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : The Balkan War Was CNN involved in a NATO effort to assassinate the Serbian information minister? By Chris Marsden 8 July 1999 Back to screen version On Friday, July 2 the Independent newspaper in Britain ran an article by its

[CTRL] (Fwd) Release: egg warning

1999-07-07 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.lp.org/ === For release: July 8, 1999

[CTRL] France GMO Foods

1999-07-07 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From Environment News Service EU Pressures France for Refusal to Market Biotech Crops BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 7, 1999 (ENS) - The European Commission is pushing ahead with legal action against France for failing to authorise genetically modified organisms (GMOs) which

[CTRL] (Fwd) (ENS) NEWS JULY 7, 1999

1999-07-07 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE (ENS) MAN DROWNS IN ORCA POOL AT SEAWORLD ORLANDO 60% OF AMERICA'S LIQUID TOXIC WASTE INJECTED UNDERGROUND MUSK DEER ENDANGERED BY DEMAND FOR PERFUME, MEDICINE EU PRESSURES FRANCE FOR REFUSAL TO MARKET BIOTECH

[CTRL] ABCs of Foreign Policy

1999-07-06 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From Boston Globe Picture: Boston Globe Online: Print it! THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING - --- America's double-edged sword By Globe Staff, 07/05/99 Picturehe air campaign

[CTRL] What is War?

1999-07-06 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From www.harrybrowne2000.net/ What is war? by Harry Browne The politicians' stirring phrases are meant to keep our eyes averted from the reality of war -- to make us imagine heroic young men marching in parades, winning glorious battles, and bringing peace and

[CTRL] Bankrupt Republicans

1999-07-06 Thread Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- From Dissent http://www.igc.org/dissent/current/current.html Picture - --- DISSENT / SUMMER 1999/ VOLUME 46, NUMBER 3 - ---

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