Re: [CTRL] Ronald Reagan - Actor, Airhead, or What?

[Samantha L.]

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 Fitzgerald writes that Reagan was the quintessential homespun Everyman,
  rooted in 19th Century Protestant beliefs of national greatness; someone
  with whom people could quickly and easily identify; a great storyteller
  and superb speechwriter as well as performer once he found something
  close to his heart.

  I don't think people really identified with Reagan.  I think the media TOLD
them they did long enough that many of them believed it.

Samantha

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[CTRL] Rockefeller Drug Censor Empire

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He told me to be in the first group -
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Re: [CTRL] Ultraterrestrials (Was: Re: [CTRL] UFO EVIDENCE:)

[Ynr Chyldz Wyld]

From: "Robert F. Tatman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Two possibilities occur to me off the top of my head: first, the
 ultraterrestrials are constantly need fresh genetic material.  Folklore is
 consistent around the globe that they are extremely long-lived, and
 long-lived species usually have low rates of reproduction--hence the need
 for "breeders.".  The second notion, which just occurred to me, is that the
 ultraterrestrials might actually be symbiotic with humans...that is, human
 genetic material, sperm, ova, what-have-you, is a physical requirement for
 them to reproduce.  Think of the legends of incubi and succubi, who "ravish"
 unwary humans in their sleep...

Or perhaps it's not so much a need for fresh genetic material, but a desire,
for whatever reason, to introduce their own genetic material into human DNA...


June

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Re: [CTRL] Ultraterrestrials (Was: Re: [CTRL] UFO EVIDENCE:)

[Ynr Chyldz Wyld]

From: "tenebroust" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 If there are these creatures as you posit, then why is it that they
have to have an agenda?  It may be that there interaction with us is
coincidental, or accidental, or that the times that they actually DO
things to us or with us it is the action of BAD members of that race
who are trying to get ahead in the world, much like humans exploit
other humans.  It could be cultural, or ritual as well.  Maybe we are
the subject of mythology in their culture, and they are merely trying
to study us?

That doesn't explain why for at least decades -- and possibly much
longer -- they've been abducting human beings, and especially their
inordinate interest in our genitalia and reproductive systems.

One would think that they would have found out whatever they needed to
long ago -- especially since they DO display seemingly advanced
technology.


June

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[CTRL] OEN 6/8/00

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De Beers Diamond Monopoly


Those "Blood Diamonds" from Sierra Leone


If we don't control them, they're bloody.

THE sale of "blood diamonds" from Sierra Leone could cause a backlash against
the industry, De Beers, the mining conglomerate, said yesterday.

Sierra Leone's eight-year civil war has been fuelled mainly by the sale of
diamonds from the east of the country, now largely controlled by the rebel
Revolutionary United Front. The mines are the cause of much of the conflict.

De Beers, which controls almost 70 per cent of the world's diamond trade, has
not sold any from Sierra Leone for 15 years. It says the only stones it sells
come either from mines it owns itself, or from those in Canada and Russia. It
no longer buys from dealers, who have been known to mix stones from war zones
with those from legitimate sources.

But critics of the diamond trade say the other 30 per cent is open to abuse.
Diamonds have often been smuggled from eastern Sierra Leone across the border
into Liberia, where corrupt government officials certify them as Liberian.

Calling for tighter self-regulation by the industry, Gary Ralfe, a spokesman
for De Beers in London, said yesterday that Sierra Leone, though accounting
for only one per cent of the global diamond trade, was the rotten apple that
spoilt the barrel.

De Beers has welcomed British moves to seek a United Nations resolution
banning the sale of diamonds from Sierra Leone. But the country is the scene
of only one of a number of conflicts in Africa fuelled by gems. Angola is
another. Half a dozen countries, including Zimbabwe, are involved in a civil
war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in which diamonds and gold are the
main prize.

Britain has criticised plans by Oryx Diamonds, a mining firm linked to
Zimbabwe's government, to exploit a diamond concession in Congo. President
Robert Mugabe has sent 11,000 troops to Congo to support the government
against rebels. In return, Zimbabwe has been awarded major concessions in the
mineral-rich regions of central Congo.

Last September, Zimbabwe's army formed a company, Osleg, to run mining
operations and has since arranged a partnership with Cosleg, a joint
Congolese-Zimbabwean enterprise. Oryx Diamonds, which is trying to get a
London Stock Exchange listing, is involved.

After selling the precious stones, it will keep 40 per cent of the profits
and channel 40 per cent to Osleg and 20 per cent to Cosleg. Mr Mugabe's
government aims to use any profits from Osleg to fund the military operation
in Congo.

Oryx denies that its concession is in a war zone. It says it is acting
legally and the project will bring investment to the region. If there were
any sanctions in place it would abide by them.
The Electronic Telegraph, June 8, 2000
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[CTRL] THE MONEY POWERS

[Kris Millegan]

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Subject: THE MONEY POWERS
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The Money Powers

  " I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and
   causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the
   war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high
   places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor
   to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people
   until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is
   destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my
   country than ever before, even in the midst of war."

  ---Abraham Lincoln - In a letter written to William Elkin less than five
months before he was assassinated.


   "The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires
   against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,
   more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It
   denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw
   light upon its crimes."

  ---Abraham Lincoln


   "A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our
   system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our
   activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of
   the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated
   Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion no
   longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a
   Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant
   men..."

   "Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to
   me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of
   commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of
   something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so
   subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that
   they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in
   condemnation of it."

   ---Woodrow Wilson - In The New Freedom (1913)


   "The fact is that there is a serious danger of this country becoming a
   pluto-democracy; that is, a sham republic with the real government in
   the hands of a small clique of enormously wealth men, who speak
   through their money, and whose influence, even today, radiates to
   every corner of the United States."

   ---William McAdoo - President Wilson's national campaign vice-chairman,
wrote in Crowded Years (1974)


   "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue
   of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks
   and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the
   people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on
   the continent their fathers conquered."

   ---Thomas Jefferson


   "The system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions,
   which, if not covered, will end in their destruction... I sincerely
   believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing
   armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by
   posterity... is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

   ---Thomas Jefferson


   "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
   liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied
   aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power
   should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it
   properly belongs."

   ---Thomas Jefferson


   "... To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn
   around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless
   field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition. The
   incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill
   [chartering the first Bank of the United States], have not, been
   delegated to the United States by the Constitution."

   ---Thomas Jefferson - in opposition to the chartering of the first Bank
  of the United States (1791).


   "We have stricken the (slave) shackles from four million human beings
   and brought all laborers to a common level not so much by the
   elevation of former slaves as by practically reducing the whole
   working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While
   boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact
   that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of
   oppression which,though more refined, is not less cruel than the old
   system of chattel slavery."

   ---Horace Greeley - (1811-1872) founder of the New York 

[CTRL] Fwd: FC: The Dot Com deathwatch -- when a company dies

[Kris Millegan]

Even better:
http://www.fuckedcompany.com/

Also:

In latest dot-com cutback, Salon.com slashes budget and lays off 13
(2000-06-08 07:27:12)
http://www.foxnews.com/national/0608/d_ap_0608_58.sml

Net content companies announce layoffs, money shortages (2000-06-07 19:26:09)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2035978.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni

Oxygen announces layoffs (2000-06-07 17:26:10)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2033779.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni

Salon.com lays off 13 employees (2000-06-07 17:25:42)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2033890.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni

Oxygen lets out some air (2000-06-07 16:19:55)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2033742.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni

CBS Lays Off 24 People in Internet Division (2000-06-07 13:43:22)
http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/060700/cbs.sml

Auction Site Surfbuzz.com Abruptly Closes (2000-06-07 11:45:54)
http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/060600/surfbuzz.sml

Job Losses? Job Gains? That's the Net Economy (2000-06-07 09:14:21)
http://www.time.com/time/daily/0,2960,46792-101000607,00.html

CBS announces sweeping layoffs in Net division (2000-06-07 07:27:22)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2029166.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni

Auction site Surfbuzz shutting down (2000-06-06 18:20:03)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2026695.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni

APBnews lays off all 140 staffers (2000-06-06 11:58:09)
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2582638,00.html

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[CTRL] Fw: [AFIB] Bullets on the Border: Far-Right Vigilantes Sport Hunt Mexican Migrants

[Robert F. Tatman]

To bring some balance to the question of Mexican immigration...

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 BULLETS ON THE BORDER:
 Far-Right Vigilantes "Sport Hunt" Mexican Migrants
 

 AFIB Editor's Intro: In addition to this month's Immigration News Briefs
 from Weekly News Update on the Americas, I've included a report from the
 biweekly, Los Angeles-based La Voz de Aztlan on the heinous violation of
 human rights along the US-Mexico border. An unholy alliance of Immigration
 and Naturalization (INS) agents, vigilante ranchers and racist groups are
 detaining, terrorizing and increasingly, shooting migrant workers in what
 media reports describe as organized "sport hunts". Three workers have been
 killed and seven wounded since May. One rancher was quoted as saying,
 "Humans. That's the greatest prey there is on earth," while Barbara Coe,
an
 anti-immigrant lobbyist praised the vigilantes for "defend[ing] our
borders
 and defend[ing] themselves from the illegal alien savages."
Unsurprisingly,
 the INS and their minions in Congress defend the immigrant-bashers while
 calling for "tougher measures"--including the deployment of National Guard
 and Army units--to stem an alleged "flood" of "illegals" along the border.
 Against a backdrop reminiscent of posses of armed vigilantes hunting
 fugitive slaves across the South, the descendants of settler populations
 occupying annexed Mexican and First Nations land hunt those who seek to
 survive US-imposed economic "reforms". AFIB will continue to update this
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 On May 1, the National Coalition for Dignity and Amnesty for Undocumented
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 to mark International Workers Day by demanding amnesty. The largest action
 was a New York City march attended by several thousand people, most of
them
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[CTRL] Senate approves police searches and seizures without warrants

[lloyd]

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Subject: Senate approves police searches and seizures without warrants
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:15 AM

http://www.ashevilletribune.com/nowarrants.htm

Senate approves police searches and seizures without warrants
Compiled by Dana Davis

The United States Congress is on the verge of passing a Republican sponsored
bill that would eradicate the Fourth Amendment of the United States
Constitution. Article IV of the Bill of Rights states, "The right of the
people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants
shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things
to be seized." In addition, the bill extends its authority to impede upon the
First Amendment Right of "Freedom of Speech."

The Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act, "To provide for the punishment of
methamphetamine laboratory operators, provide additional resources to combat
methamphetamine production, trafficking, and abuse in the United States, and
for other purposes," has already passed through the Senate and was being
deliberated by the House of Representatives as of press time.

In effect, what the provision does is empower the Federal Government, State
Government and local law enforcement agencies, to enter private property –
homes, businesses, automobiles, etc. - for any "criminal searches" without a
warrant and without any legal obligation to inform the private property owner
that a search and seizure was conducted until months later, if at all. If the
bill becomes law, then it would grant the Federal Government power to obtain
"intangible" evidence -- hard-drive data, photographs or copies made of any
documents or family or personal belongings, diaries, etc. – without ever
having to inform the owner that their property was searched. If physical
evidence was taken then the government could wait up to 90 days later, before
having to notify the owner that a secret search of their property ever
occurred.

David Kopel, director of research for the Independence Institute, a Colorado
think tank focusing on Constitutional issues, said the bill was aimed
especially at computer hard drives, which could be copied in an owner’
absence and examined without the owner’s knowledge.

The Senate’s version of the bill (S. 486) was sponsored by Senator John
Ashcroft (R-Missouri). The House Bill (H.R. 2987) was sponsored by U.S.
Representative Chris Cannon (R-Utah).

It’s primary initiative is to increase criminal penalties for the sale,
production and distribution of methamphetamines, appropriate funds to crack
down on "meth labs" where the drug is processed, and fund methamphetamine
treatment programs. However, tucked away deep inside the legal jargon of the
bill are two provisions which go far beyond the realm of methamphetamine
anti-proliferation or even the war on drugs. One measure pertains to police
search and seizure, while the other attempts to dictate Internet
communication.

Under present law, a property owner must be notified immediately of any
possession seized in a criminal search, but the "Notice and Clarification"
section of the methamphetamine bill (S. section 301, H.R. section 6) amends
U.S. Code by stating, "Section 3103a of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: `With respect to any
issuance under this section or any other provision of law (including section
3117 and any rule), any notice required, or that may be required, to be given
may be delayed pursuant to the standards, terms, and conditions set forth in
section 2705, unless otherwise expressly provided by statute.'

A source within the Senate Judiciary committee, speaking on condition of
anonymity, admitted that the language in the search and seizure provision
"slipped by everybody" in the Senate. "(Hatch and the Justice Department)
buried it deep in the bill, and nobody noticed until the thing had already
passed."

"The Secret Searches measure is so outrageous that it would have no chance of
being enacted as a bill on its own, when subjected to public scrutiny and
debate," Kopel asserted. "So instead, the DOJ has nestled the Secret Search
item deep inside a long bill dealing with methamphetamines."

Jeanne Lapatto, spokesperson for the Senate Judiciary Committee and its
chairman, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), said she was unaware of the specific
provisions in question, but defended the goals of the bill. "This is a
bipartisan bill," Lapatto said. "During hearings, no one had any problems
with the overall goal of the bill, which is curbing the horrible problem of
methamphetamines."

Another approach the bill takes to "curbing" methamphetamine usage is by
making it a crime 

[CTRL] Fw: [7] BOOK of REVELATIONS [HTML]

[Rory Winter]

http://www.egroups.com/group/GAIALINK





  
  Please send around the World
  
  www.world-action.com 


   
   
  THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS



  They 
  sang a new song from every tribe 
  and 
  language and people and nation 
  I 
  heard the number of those who were sealed, 
  144,000 from all the tribes 
   
   
  After 
  this I looked and there before me was 
  
  a 
  great multitude that no-one could count, 
  from 
  every nation, tribe, people and language 
  



  Never 
  again will they hunger, 
  never 
  again will they thirst. 
  The 
  sun will not beat upon them, 
  nor 
  any scorching heat






  I saw 
  another mighty angel 
  coming down from heaven 
   
   
  He 
  was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow 
  above 
  his head and his face was like the Sun




  



  * * 
  * * * * * * * * * * 
   



   
   
   


  A 
  great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: 
   
   
  a woman clothed with the Sun, with the moon 
  
  under 
  her feet and a crown of twelve stars 
  on 
  her head







  I 
  heard a sound from heaven 
   
  like 
  the roar of rushing 
  waters 
   
   
  The 
  sound I heard 
   
   
  was 
  like that of harpists 
   
  and 
  they sang a new song 




   
   
  I saw 
  an angel standing in the Sun, 
  
  who 
  cried in a loud voice 
   
   
  "COME, GATHER TOGETHER"






  I saw 
  a new Heaven and a new 
Earth



  I saw 
  the Holy City, the New 
  Jerusalem, 
   
  coming down out of heaven from God, 
   
  prepared as a bride beautifully dressed 
   
  for 
  her husband





  There 
  will be no more death 
  or 
  mourning or crying or pain, for the 
  
  old 
  order of things has passed away 




  The 
  Spirit and the Bride say, "COME!" 
   
   
  And 
  let him who hears say, "COME!" 
   
   
   
  Whoever is thirsty, 
  let him come; 
  and whoever wishes, 
  let her take the free 
  gift of the water of 
  life 
  
  



After 
this I looked and there before me 
was a 
great multitude that no-one could count, 
from every nation, tribe, people and 
language 





COME, GATHER TOGETHER







  www.world-action.com 
   
  World-Action  Rainbow Dream 
  Vision 
  The Book of 
  Revelations and the Native American RAINBOW DREAM VISION 
  
  both say the same thing. First a small group of committed people will 
  come together 
  around the world. Soon they 
  will be joined by a large multitude 
  and the world will 
  change That time has 
  come 
  

[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1

[Ric Carter]

SkeptiNews 000608a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

* Last batch of bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/07_06_2000.html
* Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
* PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh?
* Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com
* No conspiracies were unmasked to produce this bulletin. They're waiting.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Dealy Plaza Cam: http://www.earthcam.com/jfk/
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# STONEHENGE OR BUST update http://sonic.net/~ric/adventure/may2k/may2k2.htm
# Recent UK UFO Sighting: www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m07-007.shtml
# Close encounter: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m07-014.shtml
# Prophecy -- Dance Of Worlds -- Pleiades: http://www.caus.org/os052400.htm

# UFO Update: CHILEANS SAY NASA TOOK CUSTODY OF CAPTURED CHUPACABRAS - TRIO
  CLAIMS ENCOUNTER WITH ALIEN IN IRELAND - HIGH-FLYING UFO SEEN IN CLINTON,
  MICHIGAN - MILLIONS OF FISH FALL FROM SKY ON ETHIOPIA - ZIMBABWE SHOCKED
  BY UNUSUAL HUMAN BIRTH - ASSASSIN AGREES WITH THE VATICAN ON FATIMA -
  RELIGIOUS MANIA SWEEPS MISSISSIPPI HIGH SCHOOL - CHEMTRAILS REPORTED IN
  TWO WESTERN STATES - FACE-TO-FACE WITH AUSTRALIA'S TERROR OF THE OUTBACK:
  http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_23.shtml

: Have you been updated on paranormalities/abductions/UFOs/prophesy lately?
Are you plugged-in to the latest? MUST you be, since you're reading this? Do
you enjoy drowning in paranormal/conspiracy/science/sexuality data? Why not?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Discover the Truth About UFOs, Ancient Landing Sites, Crop Circles, The
  Bermuda Triangle, Pyramids and Good vs. Bad Aliens at FlyingSaucers.com
  http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000606/fl-flying-saucers

# Alien Abductions: Video Case Studies With Budd Hopkins  Carol Rainey.
  Come and join us for an evening of discussion and video presentation
  involving recent case studies conducted by Budd Hopkins. Believe!!!
  http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m08-004.shtml

# Elizabeth Baron -- Leading Trance Medium of Our Time, Unparalleled in
  Accuracy and Documentation -- Offers Proof of Life After Death. 'She's
  the best kept secret in America... the most well- documented medium in
  history and the hardest working 9-to-5 psychic in the country today'
  http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000605/sc-comen-detective

: Are all theories about UFOs, paranormalities, afterlifes etc part of the
well-orchestrated coverup of clandestine military/mindcontrol activities?
Are you in the coverup? Are you well-rewarded by your Illuminati masters?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Did Aids originate in the 1950s when a live polio vaccine was introduced
  to Africa? This often ridiculed theory may just be right. What a pickle:
  http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/the_origin_of_aids/

# At 16, Theodore Kaczynski was duped into taking a series of brutal
  psychological tests. They may have shaped his belief in the evil
  of science: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/06/chase.htm
@ The Phobia List: http://www.sonic.net/~fredd/phobia1.html

# LOW-TECH DNA TEST MAY SEPARATE HUMANS FROM THE NEANDERTHALS - will you
  pass or fail? http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224238
# Washing Machines Will Phone  Surf the Net: humans will be obsolete:
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2607/wr/intermachines_dc_1.html

: Has your conspiracy experimented much on humans/neanderthals/robots/me? Do
you engineer new diseases/disorders/dysfunctions intentionally/accidentally/
randomly? What's your favorite phobia? How did you engineer it? Is it fun??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ CONTRAILS  CHEMTRAILS - "These “weaponized” pathogens target the elderly
  and other immune-compromised victims whose deaths go largely unremarked...
  The culling of “unfit, useless eaters” has begun, with an initial goal
  (based on known mycoplasma  brucellosis mortalities) of 4%-5% fatalities
  among those infected. While significant over time, such subtle increases
  in deaths among aged or ailing people already expected to die soon remain
  statistically stealthy - much less obtrusive than bodies piling up in the
  streets." http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/conchem.html

# CHEMTRAILS OVER MINNEAPOLIS - ST PAUL AND DETROIT:
  http://www.sightings.com/general2/min.htm
# LATEST CHEMTRAIL PHOTOS FROM AUSTRALIA:
  http://www.sightings.com/general2/latest.htm
# SKEPTIC WATCHES CHEMTRAIL ASSAULT ON PORTLAND:
  http://www.sightings.com/general2/skep.htm

: Have you poisoned the populace lately? Do you mask your biowar activities
as UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop/sky/ocean/climate patterns, solar
fireworks? Are "bodies piling up in the streets" an unsightly mess? Why not?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Vatican OKs US Catholic school rules.(AP)Controversial new rules asserting
  tighter control over who may teach theology at Americas 235 Roman Catholic
  colleges  universities have 

[CTRL] NYP: CLINTON'S 'TALK' PALS DO HIS DIRTY WORK

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

New York Post-June 8, 2000

CLINTON'S 'TALK' PALS DO HIS DIRTY WORK

By ROD DREHER

WE'VE long known that the White House employs private
investigators to look for dirt in the private lives of people
critical of Bill Clinton.

But now we know that the Walt Disney Co.'s money pays for the
same kind of work.

Disney's Talk/Miramax book division contracted with New York
writer John Connolly to do a book titled "Insane Clown Posse," a
work-in-progress that dishes what purports to be the slimy
secrets of a host of Clinton critics.

Jonathan Burnham, president of Talk/Miramax Books, said yesterday
that the manuscript hasn't been edited or vetted legally, and no
decision to publish has been made. A company investigation into
author Connolly's methods is ongoing.

They'll have a lot to look into. Several people I spoke with
yesterday who are reportedly in the book say Connolly approached
their friends and associates asking for sleazy details of their
private lives.

One Connolly target, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, even
received a fax from her old boyfriend Bob Guccione Jr. that had
been sent to him from Nils B. Grevillius, a top Los Angeles
private investigator. The PI - who brags on his Web site about
working with Connolly on the book - wanted trash on Coulter, the
fax shows.

Coulter characterized the book's message as, "The entire right
wing is gay except me, but that's because I was having an affair
with Geraldo Rivera. It's absurd."

But gay-sex allegations are only a small part of the book
according to cyber-gossip Matt Drudge, who acquired a copy of the
"Insane Clown Posse" manuscript.

Drudge told me that Connolly's hit list includes Ken Starr and
his deputies, literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, conservative
commentator Laura Ingraham, GOP pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick,
magazine editors R. Emmett Tyrrell and Christopher Buckley, and
Wall Street Journal editorial writer John Fund.

"Insane Clown Posse" even goes after non-ideological targets,
such as Newsweek's Michael Isikoff (called "I-Suck-Off" in the
manuscript, says Drudge) and ABC News' Jackie Judd - both
mainstream journalists who broke Sexgate stories damaging to the
president.

"He seemed friendly," Isikoff said. "Then I learned he was going
around asking friends of mine pretty straight-out for dirt on me.
He never asked me any questions about myself."

Other Connolly targets tell similar stories. Former congressional
investigator Dave Bossie, for example, said Connolly contacted a
number of his friends asking them if he was homosexual.

Said another source: "I know Connolly went to people and said,
'Give me information and I'll protect you.'"

Connolly didn't return messages seeking comment.

Is Connolly a rogue reporter operating without supervision? Few
of his targets believe that.

"This guy has secretaries. He has a staff. He's been hiring
private investigators. He's been flying around the country,"
fumed Coulter. "Who made the decision to fund this guy?"

Coulter said that after an initial meeting with Connolly, he
began calling her incessantly.

Has it really come to this? Talk doyenne Tina Brown and Miramax
honcho Harvey Weinstein have not hidden their affection for the
Clintons.

But how could they give a book contract to a writer conducting
what appears to be scorched-earth recriminations against
journalists and others?

Some believe the book never was intended to see the light of day.
They say it's a shot across the bow intended to frighten
journalists from making too much over Al Gore's ethical problems
in the coming election season.

"There is a level of recklessness here that makes me believe it's
not an actual book but an attempt to intimidate," said Fund.

"It's the Clinton spin-meisters trying to destroy everybody so
nobody will lift a finger against him or Al Gore in the future,"
said Bossie.

Some conservatives are lying low, hoping "Insane Clown Posse"
will die a quiet death in the Talk/Miramax morgue. Not Coulter.

"What is the purpose of this, other than pure vengeance? Are
these people going to follow us the rest of our lives? This is
what the McCarthy era was supposed to be like," she said.

Not exactly. In the McCarthy era, as in the Nixon years, liberals
and all journalists raised hell about sleazy attempts to ruin
lives and intimidate people despised by the powerful into
silence.

No more.

Just one more way Bill Clinton has changed America.

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[CTRL] Microsoft Trustbuster Linked to Clinton 'Secret Police'

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

Newsmax-Inside Cover

Thursday June 8, 2000; 10:23 AM EDT

Microsoft Trustbuster Linked to Clinton 'Secret Police'

Joel Klein is now famous as the Justice Department anti-trust
chief hell-bent on breaking up Microsoft. Few remember his
earlier stint as the Clinton administration's Deputy White House
Counsel.

 But Clinton impeachment witness Linda Tripp does. She worked
alongside Klein as well as his predecessor Vince Foster, not to
mention their boss, White House Counsel Bernie Nussbaum.

 At a weekend gathering sponsored by the website Free Republic,
Tripp had some astonishing things to say about Mr. Klein, some of
which may be of interest to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates:

 "Joel Klein arrived at the White House in December 1993
ostensibly as Vince Foster's replacement. Well, those of us who
knew Vince Foster knew he couldn't be replaced. However, this was
the gentleman that Hillary and Bernie Nussbaum chose to be the
replacement.

 "From the beginning he was quite a questionable character. And I
won't get into specifics except to say that he began to bring to
the office of White House counsel more and more ominous ways of
doing business.

 "(Klein) was also directly responsible for Bernie Nussbaum being
summarily removed as counsel for the president. He lobbied hard
and long to have Bernie removed. Bernie is on record as saying
his hiring of Joel was the single poorest decision he had ever
made.

 "Joel was also a member of the so-called 'Secret Police.' He
liked to have information on people because that gave him
leverage to get the result that he wanted.

 "I have no respect for Joel Klein."


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[CTRL] Cuba, U.S. 'coordinated' Elian seizure strategy

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

["These documents conclusively prove that these were lies, lies,
lies, to the American people."  Duh!  What else is new?  --MS]

June 8, 2000

Cuba, U.S. 'coordinated' Elian seizure strategy

By Tom Carter THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Clinton administration coordinated strategy with "the Cubans"
— presumably the Castro government — to return Elian Gonzalez to
Cuba, newly obtained documents revealed yesterday.

Government memoranda and e-mails obtained by a court order from
Clinton administration agencies reveal that the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS) and the State Department were
involved in negotiations with the Cuban government to arrange a
January visit by Elian's grandmothers to the United States.

The documents, obtained by the public interest group Judicial
Watch under a Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent
court order, reveal:

• The State Department sought to work with "the Cubans" —
presumably the Castro government —in how to manage the way the
incident would be reported in U.S.  newspapers and on television.

• INS Commissioner Doris M.  Meissner ordered that discussions
with Cuba on the grandmothers' visit continue "with the
understanding that INS would not be involved."

• That the INS, to avoid official involvement, sought through
contacts in Miami and Cuba to have representatives of the
Catholic Church take on a public role as an intermediary.

Three months after the grandmothers' visit in late January, the
Justice Department seized the boy from his relatives' Miami home
in an April 22 predawn raid.

"These smoking-gun documents prove what we've suspected all
along, that the Clinton-Gore administration was doing the bidding
of Fidel Castro when it raided the Gonzalez home using 151 armed
federal agents," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch.

A Justice Department spokesman scoffed at suggestions that it had
coordinated events with the Cuban government.  Department
spokeswoman Carole Florman said: "Oh, please.  These are internal
documents between U.S.  government agencies about how we are
going to deal with a foreign government." "They clearly state
that Doris [Meissner] didn't want to be

involved."

There was some outrage on Capitol Hill nevertheless.  "The
Clinton administration said they followed the law," said Rep.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Florida Republican.  "These documents prove
that these were lies, lies, lies to the American people. What
they have done is to follow a plan that originated with Castro
and a terrorist state."

He said that he would ask the House Government Reform Committee,
headed by Rep.  Dan Burton, Indiana Republican, to investigate.
Earlier Republican threats to investigate the seizure subsided
quickly.

The government memoranda, clearly not intended for public
scrutiny, set out the government's aims in stark language.  A
Jan.  15 memo regarding the "grandmothers" says "DM [Doris
Meissner] thinks it would be helpful to continue to discuss this
here in Washington and in Cuba because the grandmother's presence
in the US .  .  .  could well facilitate Elian's return to Cuba."

The memo continues: "DM was FIRM about not having any INS
involvement in this initiative.  If our conversations in Cuba can
proceed with the understanding that INS would not be involved,
then DM would be most interested in hearing more about this
idea."

Another document, an e-mail message titled, "Re: Daily conference
calls re: Elian," says "[Department of State] wants to have a
daily conference call to coordinate press guidance and
communications with the Cubans."

A State Department official insisted yesterday, despite the
e-mail setting out the department's wishes for coordination with
"the Cubans," that its strategy for dealing with reporters did
not involve the Cuban government. "We had press guidance
coordination everyday, including with the U.S.  Interests Section
in Cuba, but never with the Cuban government," said a State
Department official on the condition of anonymity. "Absolutely
not.  Never.  Never."

The document, apparently written by an INS official, was dated
Jan.  19, two days before the grandmothers arrived in the United
States. The grandmothers remained in the country for about a
week, with a brief reunion with Elian in Miami and several days
of meetings with U.S. officials and members of Congress in
Washington.

Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez was plucked from the Atlantic Ocean
last Thanksgiving Day to become the center of an international
custody dispute between the Cuban government and the child's
anti-Castro Miami relatives, who had been granted temporary
custody.

Last week, the 11th U.S.  Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta
agreed with the Justice Department that Attorney General Janet
Reno was within her rights to determine the child's custody.

Miss Reno had ruled in January that the boy belongs with his
father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, and not with the Miami relatives.
Elian, his father, stepmother and several children from his home
in 

[CTRL] Grass Rights Support

[DIG alfred webre]

From restore-L GRASS RIGHTS SUPPORT:
Posted by FoM on June 07, 2000 at 06:44:04 PT
Filmmaker Ron Mann stands up for pot
Source: Toronto Sun

Ron Mann says says he's happy the Ontario Film Review Board "has sobered up
and come to their senses" by giving the green light to his marijuana
documentary, Grass.

But the Toronto filmmaker yesterday questioned the motivation behind last
week's initial ruling that the film violated the Theatres Act by showing
animal abuse -- a few seconds about government testing showed brain-wired
chimpanzees being forced to smoke marijuana. The ruling was
reversed Monday. The movie opens June 16.

"In our society we have temperance outbreaks in which small groups of
people decide to protect others from doing things for pleasure," said Mann,
whose film
pounds home the huge cost and insane commitment to marijuana prohibition.

"I think that was the real agenda behind the censorship. It couldn't be for
what they said it was. I mean, you'd have to ban King Kong if you followed
that logic. They
abused him."

Mann, whose quirky documentaries have included Comic Book Confidential,
Twist and Poetry In Motion, said as a filmmaker "there are two basic
emotions -- to
turn people on to something like I did in Comic Book Confidential, or
anger. In this case I really hated what I learned about drug policy.

"A friend of mine in New York City got arrested during a cleanup at NYU. An
innocent kid thrown in jail for simple possession -- one of 600,000 pot
arrests last
year. Once you put a face on a number, you say, 'Man, this is really
wrong.' It's not about marijuana, but about personal freedom."

Narrated by hemp activist Woody Harrelson, whose services were offered for
free, Grass follows the criminalization of the weed from its earliest days,
as a means
of keeping tabs on Mexican immigrants in the U.S. Southwest.

The movie barrages the viewer with now-ludicrous government propaganda
(remember when pot was supposed to affect your chromosomes?) and frightening
statistics, including the fact that the U.S. in the '90s spent more than
$200 billion on investigation, conviction and incarceration of marijuana
offenders.

Ignored is the equally bizarre history of drug prohibition in Canada, which
used as a template the work of Emily Murphy, whose book The Black Candle
claimed
marijuana was part of a plot by black men to enslave white women.

"I really just told the American story," Mann said. "It's the legislative
history of the U.S., because the U.S. has so much influence on drug policy
around the world. I
didn't go into what's going on in Amsterdam, or industrial hemp, or medical
marijuana.

"It was too much of an epic story to begin with, y'know, starting with
Harry J. Anslinger, the first U.S. drug czar who wanted to throw pot
smokers in jail and throw
away the key.

"That $200 billion does not include the social cost. Someone fails a drug
test and suddenly their whole life, all their civil liberties are taken
away. The reason I made
this film is because I don't believe marijuana smokers are criminals.
They're responsible, hard-working people, adults with families. It's the
recreational drug of choice
for a lot of people."

We mention that the timeline of his film stops at the present, without
positing the future. "People want there to be a happy ending, but there
isn't one," he said.

"On the other hand, when I hear (T.O. Police chief Julian) Fantino talk
decriminalization, I think marijuana laws could be like the Berlin Wall.
Someday, all of a
sudden it'll just fall down and we'll forget why it was there in the first
place."

A father of four -- ages two to 9 -- Mann knows kids are often used as
debate fodder in drug-war talk. "When they grow up, if they choose to smoke
marijuana,
they should have the right to make that decision," he said. "What I hope is
they never get arrested for it."

By Jim Slotek, Toronto Sun
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[CTRL] INFOTERRA: War and the Environment response

[DIG alfred webre]

In a message dated 00-06-08 13:06:04 EDT, you write:


  Infoterra,
  I emphatically agree with the recently posted statement that "War has
always
  been perhaps the single most destructive activity our species indulges
 itself
  in" though I would probably remove the 'perhaps'. I also agree that  "one
of
  the pervasive and systematic obstacles to environmental protection and
  restoration is war, in all its forms" and that the environmental community
 and
  all people of this planet should be doing more to prevent and arrest
 warfare.
  Several comments in a recent letter, however, stirred me to action.
  The first comment that I feel compelled to react to is that none of the
  effects of war are positive. This is a very understandable attitude, as war
  clearly has enormous negative effects both socially and environmentally.
  Nonetheless, there may be a very few potentially positive impacts of war,
  though they are obviously outweighed by the negative. One such possibly
  positive aspect of war is its effect as a method of population control.
  Overpopulation, coupled, of course, with inappropriate consumption
patterns,
  is a serious environmental threat. By reducing the human population, war
may
  thus offer a very limited environmental benefit. There are, of course, far
  better ways of controlling population. Nonetheless, the critique of any
  activity should, I feel, be based on both cost and benefit so as to
 determine
  net cost or benefit of that activity. Population control is one possible
  limited benefit of war, though I'm sure that we all agree that war
 ultimately
  leads to a net cost.
  There are also a few other less significant though arguably positive
impacts
  of war for society and the environment. In some cases military research may
  (often accidentally) lead to the discovery or development of technologies
  which have a positive impact on society/environment. For example, the
  internet, which has (arguably) had a positive impact on civil society and
  proved relatively useful for environmental organizations, would likely
never
  have developed to its current state were it not for initial military
 interest
  and investment.
  A more complicated and less sure-footed argument is that in a few limited
  cases the destruction caused by war could change certain ecosystems in an
  environmentally desirable way. For example, if a battle were to kill of a
  disproportionately large number of exotic predators in a region it could
  potentially lead to greater biodiversity and protection of indigenous
 species
  in that region. I have never seen any documented examples of this
occurring,
  however, and realize that it is a dubious argument at best. I should also
  reiterate that I am not trying to make the argument that war offers any net
  environmental benefit.
  A second comment posted on this list that deserves a response is the
  suggestion that land mines are 'equal opportunity killers'. Again, this is
 an
  understandable comment, with which I agree for the most part. However, it
is
  important to note that land mines actually target certain populations

  disproportionately. Generally, impoverished and rural communities suffer
 most
  severely from land mine attacks. The impoverished have less access to land
  mine detection equipment, and thus cannot clear their land. A common
 response
  by the poor is to let livestock run through the fields to set off mines.
  However, this is cruel to the livestock, costly for the farmers, and
largely
  ineffective. Furthermore, the impoverished have a more desperate need to
 farm
  their fields and are more likely to risk farming a potentially mine laden
  area.  It is also more difficult for them to move to another area that
might
  be mine free.
  In many countries women are also particularly susceptible to mine attacks.
  Women often carry out tasks of subsistence agriculture, and collecting
water
  or firewood. All of these tasks can be very dangerous in land mine ridden
  areas.
  Wildlife is also at particular risk. Unlike humans, animals are
unsuspecting
  of land mines. They do not know to watch their step and often inhabit
remote
  areas unlikely to be demined. The trend to drop huge numbers of mines from
  aircraft is particularly dangerous for wildlife, as these tend to infest
  unpopulated areas that animals inhabit. Thus, while land mines kill with
  impunity, certain people and creatures are undoubtedly at a greater risk.
It
  is perhaps also worth noting, though not relevant to my argument, that left
  over land mines leach chemicals into the ground, polluting the soil and
  poisoning plants, animals, and even humans.

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[CTRL] 11 July Den Bosch [The Netherlands]: peace activists on trial for opposing NATO bombs

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

===
The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU


-Original Message-
From: Herman de Tollenaere [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Globalreflexion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:18 AM
Subject: 11 July Den Bosch [The Netherlands]: peace activists on trial for
opposing NATO bombs


On Tuesday 11 July in Den Bosch ['s Hertogenbosch; The Netherlands], five
peace activists will be on trial for opposing NATO bombs during the 1999 war
against Yugoslavia. They cut perimeter barbed wire of Volkel military
airbase, where F 16 aircraft then took off for Kosovo. In all probability
[the public may not know], there are also still US nuclear bombs at Volkel
airbase.

The case starts Tuesday 11 July , 13.30 o'clock at the "Gerechtsgebouw
[court house]", Prinsengracht 434 in Amsterdam. The court case is public.
So, other peace activists are welcome.

Before the case starts, there may be a demonstration in Den Bosch; however,
this is not certain yet.

Please pass this info on to others.

More info on the case at e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Best wishes,
-
Herman de Tollenaere
-
My Internet site on Asian history and "new" religions:


http://stad.dsl.nl/~hermantl/


See also SIMPOS, information on occult tendencies' impact on society:


http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/simpoeng.htm
-
Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art  historian
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[CTRL] Perjury and the vice president

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

Washington Times-EDITORIAL • June 8, 2000

Perjury and the vice president


 For two and a half years, Attorney General Janet Reno has
obstinately refused to disclose several internal Justice
Department documents and memorandums relating to the department's
investigation of campaign-finance abuses during the 1996
presidential election. For years, Justice has argued that
publicly disclosing the memos would provide defendants with a
road map of the task force's investigation. On Wednesday, the
House Government Reform Committee publicly released numerous
internal documents, including memos written by former task force
chief Charles LaBella and FBI Director Louis Freeh strongly
arguing that the law compelled Miss Reno to seek the appointment
of an independent counsel to investigate President Clinton, Vice
President Al Gore and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, among
others.

 It immediately became clear why Miss Reno has refused to
disclose these documents. Declaring that the documents "expose
the bankruptcy of this investigation," Rep. Dan Burton, the
committee chairman, conveyed the exasperation that Messrs. Freeh
and LaBella have felt for years, noting, "If this is a road map,
it's a road map of a car going around in circles."

 The first of the controversial documents was a Nov. 24,
1997, memo written by Mr. Freeh to Miss Reno, who had to decide
within the next 10 days whether Mr. Gore's federally regulated
hard-money fund-raising solicitations from the White House should
be investigated by an independent counsel. The previous March,
Miss Reno absolved Mr. Gore of any guilt on the basis of Mr.
Gore's assertion that only unregulated soft money had been
raised.

 In September 1997, however, newspaper reports disclosed that
Mr. Gore had in fact raised substantial sums of hard money for
the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from his White House
office. Mr. Gore subsequently claimed he did not know hard money
was being raised. In his Nov. 24, 1997, memo, Mr. Freeh argued:
"In the face of compelling evidence that the vice president was a
very active, sophisticated fund-raiser who knew exactly what he
was doing, his own exculpatory statements must not be given undue
weight." Indeed, Mr. Freeh warned Miss Reno that the Justice
Department was ignoring "reliable evidence" that "contradicted"
Mr. Gore's statements. Miss Reno ignored Mr. Freeh's
recommendation to seek an independent counsel.

 In July 1998, Mr. LaBella, who had been selected by Miss
Reno in 1997 to head the task force after it had become mired in
chaos, sent his 94-page memo to Miss Reno arguing that the law
compelled her to seek an independent counsel to investigate Mr.
Gore, the president, the first lady and Deputy White House Chief
of Staff Harold Ickes, whom Mr. LaBella described as a "Svengali,
assuming power — with the imprimatur of the president — to
authorize DNC and Clinton/Gore '96 expenditures." Noting that Mr.
Gore had received a series of memos from Mr. Ickes and attended
several meetings, all of which discussed the status of the DNC's
hard-money accounts, Mr. LaBella wrote, "Curiously, though
renowned as a policy wonk, the vice president claims he did not
read the memos and cannot recall the meetings." Accusing the
Justice Department of "gamesmanship" and "contortions" to avoid
seeking the appointment of an independent counsel, Mr. LaBella
described his Justice Department superiors as "intellectually
dishonest." Miss Reno ignored the advice of her own hand-picked
task force chief.

 The following month, however, news reports revealed that a
potentially incriminating Democratic fund-raising memo had
surfaced. The memo, which served as the talking points for a Nov.
21, 1995, White House fund-raising meeting attended by Mr. Gore,
contained numerous hand-written notations by David Strauss, Mr.
Gore's then-deputy chief of staff. Mr. Strauss's notes referred
to the requirement that the DNC's media fund must finance its
so-called issue ads according to a "65 percent soft/35 percent
hard" split. And Mr. Strauss's notations defined soft money, in
terms of contributions to political parties, as "corporate or
anything over $20K from an individual." Thus, the first $20,000
that Mr. Gore raised for the DNC from individuals would be, by
definition, hard money. This was important because unregulated
soft money was easy to raise, but highly restricted hard money
was not. The difficult part would be raising the hard money
component (35 percent) of the media fund. Mr. Strauss also noted
how eager Mr. Gore was to make the solicitations: "VP: 'Is it
possible to do a reallocation for me to take more of the events
and the calls?'" and "VP: "Count me in on the calls.'"

 Several days after the memo with Mr. Strauss' notations
surfaced, Miss Reno initiated another 90-day preliminary inquiry
to determine whether an independent counsel should be appointed
to investigate Mr. Gore for perjury, among other things. Miss
Reno received 

[CTRL] Coulter-I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT MAN

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

Capitol Hill Blue-June 7, 2000

I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT MAN


By Ann Coulter

I wish I had the sex life that Talk/Miramax Books author John
Connolly fantasizes for me.

In the Clinton-era version of the Pentagon Papers case, cyberstud
Matt Drudge has obtained a draft manuscript of Connolly's book on
the sex lives of Clinton's critics. Miramax has evidently been
funding Connolly's flights around the country, his stays at fancy
hotels, and his hiring of at least one private investigator --
all to investigate the sex lives of various random individuals
whose only common trait is that we probably didn't vote for
Clinton.

On the basis of the excerpts about me, I'd just like to say I'm
looking forward to owning Miramax if it ever publishes any of
this. Among other things, Connolly accuses me of having trysts
with "playboy" Geraldo Rivera at his "oceanfront retreat in New
Jersey." ("Oh Geraldo," I moaned, "there is no protective
function privilege!")

But the thing is, Geraldo is not like Clinton. From what I've
heard of Geraldo's printed oeuvre, he brags about what Clinton
lies about. Connolly inexplicably fails to account for the
absence of published reports about my sexual tryst with Geraldo
within 48 hours of its occurrence. (The sad truth is, my affair
with Geraldo at his "oceanfront retreat" was compromised by the
presence of my brother, Mrs. Rivera and several other guests.)

Everyone in Connolly's book who is not accused of having an
affair with Geraldo is said to be gay, from Ken Starr to Justice
Kennedy, Starr's staffers, various of the elves, and random
Republicans having nothing to do with impeachment. (Who would
have guessed that my association with Geraldo would end up saving
my reputation?) In the Clintonian world, if no one's accused you
of rape lately, you must be gay.

Connolly's theory apparently is that Starr hired several of
Kennedy's clerks, and what the hell would a prosecutor want with
a bunch of former Supreme Court clerks -- unless (!) there was
some sick sexual game afoot ... QED.

Indeed, sex is Connolly's theory for all human interactions.
After going on in unseemly detail about what in delicate society
would be called my "figure," Connolly segues to my sexual tryst
with Geraldo by stating "this fact has not been lost on TV
personality and all-around playboy Geraldo Rivera." So basically
anyone who has ever been alone with my breasts is either having
sex with me or is gay. Starr hires Kennedy's clerks because
they're gay. (I wonder what Connolly thinks Clinton got Buddy
for?)

You have to say, Clinton has given the right wing a reputation
for having extremely active sex lives. First Henry Hyde then Newt
Gingrich, and now it turns out the rest of us are all gay (or are
having an affair with Geraldo Rivera). On the basis of Connolly's
book, conservatives should claim to represent the gay movement
and start issuing a whole new set of demands.

The current position of Talk/Miramax Books is that this
manuscript is a purloined draft of Connolly's book, not in final
form. (Talk/Miramax is also threatening to sue the masterful
Drudge -- but see the Pentagon Papers.) I'm afraid, however, that
once they take out the libel and laughably false stories,
Connolly doesn't have enough left over even for a short pamphlet
-- and a pamphlet written by an illiterate moron at that. In his
typically incomprehensible prose, Connolly calls me a
"self-appointed political analyst." Do they give "political
analyst" degrees somewhere I'm unaware of?

Even within the construct of his own lunatic fantasies, Connolly
can't get his story straight. In one paragraph, he claims that I,
along with Linda Tripp lawyer Jim Moody, wildly made duplicate
copies of her tapes one night while having cocktails (and
presumably sex with Geraldo Rivera). But then in the very next
paragraph he describes how Moody later had to retrieve a tape
from Starr's prosecutors (evidently on a break from their
incessant sodomic practices) to play it for a Newsweek reporter.

I hate to break the flow right when I'm enjoying such a rich and
exciting social life, but if we had this cache of duplicate Tripp
tapes, then why did Moody need to get a tape back from Starr's
office? (And perhaps more urgently: Why didn't I air-drop those
duplicate tapes across America immediately -- as I can assure you
I would have.)

Connolly may be the only man in America who doesn't know what
really happened that night, which has been faithfully reported
in, among other places, the Starr report, Michael Isikoff's book
and various newspapers and magazines.

Michel Montaigne said, "He who has not a good memory should never
take upon him the trade of lying." Connolly can't even remember
what he wrote in the last sentence. You know -- the part just
after I was moaning something about the inviolability of immunity
agreements.



COPYRIGHT 2000 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

Published on June 7, 2000

[CTRL] Another Clinton Body Count Body?

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

From NY Times:

John Millis, 47, Aide in Congress

WASHINGTON, June 5 --

John I.  Millis, a former case officer with the Central
Intelligence Agency who for the last three years served as the
top staff member of the House Intelligence Committee, committed
suicide on Sunday, the police and Congressional officials said
today.  He was 47 and lived in Vienna, Va.

George J.  Tenet, the director of central intelligence, described
Mr. Millis as "a tenacious advocate for a strong national
intelligence capability."

A spokesman for the Fairfax City police said officers were called
to a motel about 8 p.m.  on Sunday because a man was threatening
suicide. Officer Jeff Morrison said that when the police arrived
they found Mr.Millis dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot
wound.  The police said they were investigating the death.

Before becoming a senior staff aide in Congress, Mr.  Millis
served as a case officer for the C.I.A.  for nearly 13 years.
In that period, he lived in Pakistan, working to provide covert
aid to Afghan rebels who were fighting the Soviet army.

=== In 1996 and 1997 he was staff director of a special ===
Congressional committee that investigated the Clinton ===
administration's approval of arms shipments from Iran === to
Muslim forces in Bosnia.

He was named staff director of the House Intelligence Committee,
the top staff position, in 1997.

He is survived by his wife, Linda.



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[CTRL] FEDS DUNK VEEP'S 'ICED TEA' DEFENSE IN FUNNY-$ SCANDAL

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

FEDS DUNK VEEP'S 'ICED TEA' DEFENSE IN FUNNY-$ SCANDAL

By VINCENT MORRIS and BRIAN BLOMQUIST


A new Justice Department document from the funny-money
campaign-funding investigation says Al Gore's famous "iced-tea
defense" is all wet.

Gore told the FBI he missed parts of a key fund-raising meeting
because he drank lots of iced tea and had to take frequent potty
breaks - but a federal prober said Gore's defense can't be true.

The Justice Department prosecutor wrote that former White House
aide Harold Ickes, who ran the fund-raising meetings, always
stopped them when President Clinton or Gore had to leave the
room.


["Not only is there no evidence that this occurred, but the
agents' notes reflect that Ickes told them that when he conducted
meetings, he would halt the proceedings if the president or vice
president stepped out of the room; the meeting would resume when
they returned," the prosecutor wrote in a memo.  --MS]


The prosecutor's name was deleted when Attorney General Janet
Reno's staff turned the document over to congressional probers,
who released it yesterday.

The prosecutor's memo went on to recommend that an independent
counsel be named to investigate Gore's phone calls to
contributors from the White House - an idea Reno rejected.

Another newly released memo, from FBI Director Louis Freeh, said
there was "compelling evidence that the vice president was a very
active, sophisticated fund-raiser who knew exactly what he was
doing." The memo argued that Reno should name an independent
counsel on Gore.

Whether Gore was present is key because the meeting confirmed
he'd be raising so-called "hard money," which is prohibited at
the White House.

Meanwhile, in Tennessee yesterday, repairs began on a run-down
ranch house that Gore rents to a poor, 10-person family for $400
per month.

"I'm tickled pink," renter Tracy Mayberry, 36, told The Post as
she stood on the front porch of her house, which sits a stone's
throw from the Al and Tipper's larger farmhouse in Carthage.

But she added: "I'm not sure how I feel" about Landlord Al - she
claims Gore and his property managers ignored 30 complaints over
10 months and acted only after she spoke to a Nashville TV
station.

Just days after Mayberry told reporters that Gore was a
do-nothing slumlord, a plumber replaced a broken toilet, repaired
a second toilet and measured a kitchen floor to lay fresh
linoleum.

But the house, built in the 1950s next to the highway, still
needs lots of work.  All the walls are filthy, most ceiling
lights lack covers, some electrical outlets are broken, and all
of the plumbing is worn out.

A Gore family friend, Charles Elrod, who is the family's
handyman, said some of the plumbing problems are self-inflicted.




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Re: [CTRL] Perjury and the vice president

[Joe Gillaspie]

FYI

MICHAEL SPITZER wrote:

 Washington Times-EDITORIAL • June 8, 2000

 Perjury and the vice president

  For two and a half years, Attorney General Janet Reno has
 obstinately refused to disclose several internal Justice
 Department documents and memorandums relating to the department's
 investigation of campaign-finance abuses during the 1996
 presidential election. For years, Justice has argued that
 publicly disclosing the memos would provide defendants with a
 road map of the task force's investigation. On Wednesday, the
 House Government Reform Committee publicly released numerous
 internal documents, including memos written by former task force
 chief Charles LaBella and FBI Director Louis Freeh strongly
 arguing that the law compelled Miss Reno to seek the appointment
 of an independent counsel to investigate President Clinton, Vice
 President Al Gore and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, among
 others.

  It immediately became clear why Miss Reno has refused to
 disclose these documents. Declaring that the documents "expose
 the bankruptcy of this investigation," Rep. Dan Burton, the
 committee chairman, conveyed the exasperation that Messrs. Freeh
 and LaBella have felt for years, noting, "If this is a road map,
 it's a road map of a car going around in circles."

  The first of the controversial documents was a Nov. 24,
 1997, memo written by Mr. Freeh to Miss Reno, who had to decide
 within the next 10 days whether Mr. Gore's federally regulated
 hard-money fund-raising solicitations from the White House should
 be investigated by an independent counsel. The previous March,
 Miss Reno absolved Mr. Gore of any guilt on the basis of Mr.
 Gore's assertion that only unregulated soft money had been
 raised.

  In September 1997, however, newspaper reports disclosed that
 Mr. Gore had in fact raised substantial sums of hard money for
 the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from his White House
 office. Mr. Gore subsequently claimed he did not know hard money
 was being raised. In his Nov. 24, 1997, memo, Mr. Freeh argued:
 "In the face of compelling evidence that the vice president was a
 very active, sophisticated fund-raiser who knew exactly what he
 was doing, his own exculpatory statements must not be given undue
 weight." Indeed, Mr. Freeh warned Miss Reno that the Justice
 Department was ignoring "reliable evidence" that "contradicted"
 Mr. Gore's statements. Miss Reno ignored Mr. Freeh's
 recommendation to seek an independent counsel.

  In July 1998, Mr. LaBella, who had been selected by Miss
 Reno in 1997 to head the task force after it had become mired in
 chaos, sent his 94-page memo to Miss Reno arguing that the law
 compelled her to seek an independent counsel to investigate Mr.
 Gore, the president, the first lady and Deputy White House Chief
 of Staff Harold Ickes, whom Mr. LaBella described as a "Svengali,
 assuming power — with the imprimatur of the president — to
 authorize DNC and Clinton/Gore '96 expenditures." Noting that Mr.
 Gore had received a series of memos from Mr. Ickes and attended
 several meetings, all of which discussed the status of the DNC's
 hard-money accounts, Mr. LaBella wrote, "Curiously, though
 renowned as a policy wonk, the vice president claims he did not
 read the memos and cannot recall the meetings." Accusing the
 Justice Department of "gamesmanship" and "contortions" to avoid
 seeking the appointment of an independent counsel, Mr. LaBella
 described his Justice Department superiors as "intellectually
 dishonest." Miss Reno ignored the advice of her own hand-picked
 task force chief.

  The following month, however, news reports revealed that a
 potentially incriminating Democratic fund-raising memo had
 surfaced. The memo, which served as the talking points for a Nov.
 21, 1995, White House fund-raising meeting attended by Mr. Gore,
 contained numerous hand-written notations by David Strauss, Mr.
 Gore's then-deputy chief of staff. Mr. Strauss's notes referred
 to the requirement that the DNC's media fund must finance its
 so-called issue ads according to a "65 percent soft/35 percent
 hard" split. And Mr. Strauss's notations defined soft money, in
 terms of contributions to political parties, as "corporate or
 anything over $20K from an individual." Thus, the first $20,000
 that Mr. Gore raised for the DNC from individuals would be, by
 definition, hard money. This was important because unregulated
 soft money was easy to raise, but highly restricted hard money
 was not. The difficult part would be raising the hard money
 component (35 percent) of the media fund. Mr. Strauss also noted
 how eager Mr. Gore was to make the solicitations: "VP: 'Is it
 possible to do a reallocation for me to take more of the events
 and the calls?'" and "VP: "Count me in on the calls.'"

  Several days after the memo with Mr. Strauss' notations
 surfaced, Miss Reno initiated another 90-day preliminary inquiry
 to determine whether an 

[CTRL] Border counties to end federal prosecutions

[Richard Sampson]

http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/92492_prosecute_08te.html

Drug-case protests to
  begin

  Border counties to end federal prosecutions

  06/08/2000

  By George Kuempel / The Dallas Morning
  News

  AUSTIN - Accusing the U.S. Justice
  Department of "paying lip service" to the
  war on drugs, four state senators
  announced Wednesday that authorities in
  Texas border counties will stop
  prosecuting federal drug cases July 1.

  The lawmakers said taxpayers in the
  border counties - among the poorest in
  the nation - can no longer afford the cost
  of prosecuting hundreds of drug cases
  made by federal agents along the border
  with Mexico.

  Some of these "smaller" drug cases
  involve as much as 250 pounds of
  marijuana, the senators said.

  "For years, border counties, the poorest in
  the U.S., have borne the burden of border
  justice," said state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh,
  D-El Paso.

  "We can no longer bear this burden. The
  federal government must prosecute and
  pay for what it is charged to do."

  Justice Department officials in
  Washington referred inquiries to the U.S.
  attorney's office in Phoenix, which could
  not be reached for comment.

  Sen. David Sibley, R-Waco, accused the
  Justice Department of "paying lip service"
  to its commitment to "zero tolerance" by
  declining to prosecute cases involving
  "lesser amounts" of drugs.

  "'Zero tolerance' does not mean declining
  to prosecute the possession of 50 pounds
  to 250 pounds of marijuana or a pound of
  cocaine," he told reporters.

  The lawmakers displayed for reporters
  109 pounds of individually wrapped
  packets of marijuana - an amount they
  said federal authorities don't think is
  worthy of prosecution in federal courts.

  Mr. Sibley said that some drug dealers,
  aware that federal prosecutors don't want
  to handle cases involving smaller
  amounts,

  are "breaking down" their loads of
  marijuana being shipped into Texas. They
  know if they are caught, "It's get out of jail
  free," he said of the federal policy.

  Mr. Sibley said that policy is punishing
  border residents and putting a heavy
  strain on the state's already overcrowded
  prisons.

  "Our border counties are bearing the cost
  of incarcerating and prosecuting federal
  criminals, while taxpayers statewide are
  paying for prison beds for those
  successfully convicted," he said.

  Joining in the boycott of federally referred
  cases originating from stops at border
  checkpoints and U.S. ports of entry
  beginning July 1 are El Paso, Hudspeth,
  Cameron, Hidalgo and Star counties.

  Prosecutors in Webb and Zapata counties
  already refuse such cases.

  Norma Estimbo Lacy, a spokeswoman for
  the U.S. attorney's office in Houston, said
  the U.S. attorney's office moved more
  staff members to Laredo. She said her
  office probably will move more people to
  Brownsville and McAllen to compensate
  for more refusals.

  El Paso County District Attorney Jamie
  Esparza, who joined the lawmakers at the
  news conference, said the more than 500
  federally referred drug cases prosecuted
  in El Paso alone each year cost the county
  more than $8 million.

  Mr. Esparza, who serves as head of the
  Southwest Border Prosecutors,
  representing prosecutors from
  Brownsville to San Diego, Calif., said he
  has tried unsuccessfully for three years to
  persuade U.S. Attorney General Janet
  Reno and the Justice Department to
  reimburse the counties for prosecuting the
  federal cases.

  "I'm now three years at it, and still no
  relief," he said.

  He said federal authorities have told him
  they fear that if they give special help to
  the Texas counties, they will have to do it
  for the rest of the country.

  Mr. Esparza dismissed that argument. He
  said Texas 

[CTRL] Waco FLIR Reflections

[lloyd]

..

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Subject: Waco FLIR Reflections
Date: Saturday, May 27, 2000 1:26 AM


   NON-GUNSHOT CAUSE OF KEY WACO-FLIR FLASHES DISCOVERED

   The Vector Data Systems report made no effort to explain
   how multiple rapid flashes several times per second could
   occur in fixed locations on the ground as seen in the 1993
   Waco FLIR tape, which multiple experts say are gunshots.
   Recently I proposed this rapid-flash reflection machine
   as a non-gunshot causal theory for those rapid flashes:

http://Ian.Goddard.net/waco/flir07.gif
http://Ian.Goddard.net/waco/flir03.htm

   That reflection machine rapidly vibrates a 1 by 3 foot
   reflective panel up and down several times per second,
   simulating key flash sequences on the 1993 Waco FLIR. It
   isn't likely that such a machine rested next to Mt Carmel!

   Shortly after proposing that reflective machine I realized
   a far more probable causal hypothesis for the rapid flashes:
   the reflective panel isn't being vibrated by a machine, but
   by the free gale-force winds blowing through the scene that
   day, and thus the panel is flapping like a flag in the wind.
   Hypothetical scenario: an infrared-reflecting surface like
   mylar is attached to a board and a loose edge is flapping
   in the wind with a cyclic "flap rate" identical to the
   cyclic rate of key flashes on the Waco FLIR. The flapping
   reflective surface produces a rapid series of flashes in
   one fixed location as seen by the FLIR camera, resolving
   the rapid-flash problem without a machine or a machinegun.

   My plan was to acquire mylar and staple a segment edge to
   a board with a strong fan on it and see if I might be able
   to film it causing rapid flashes of visible light (and thus
   presumably also of IR radiation). However, that's no longer
   necessary: I just acquired the best version of the 1993 Waco
   FLIR I've ever seen, it's dramatically better than the copy
   I've had. To my complete astonishment, on the better copy a
   flapping panel about 1 by 3 feet attached to a fallen-down
   portion of gym wall is visible IN THE EXACT LOCATION THAT
   THE MOST INFAMOUS SERIES OF FLASHES OCCUR AS THE FIRE STARTS!
   That flash series is emphasized by Dr. Edward Allard in both
   "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" and "Waco: A New Revelation."

   This flapping panel in the same location as those key
   flashes also produces flashes at other times during the
   hour before the fire. So it's clear to me that there's a
   flapping panel attached to a fallen board that creates an
   illusion of machinegun-fire as its moving surface causes
   a beam of reflected infrared energy to pass repeatedly
   over the FLIR sensor, just like the panel on the reflection
   machine I proposed http://Ian.Goddard.net/waco/flir07.gif ,
   except the panel next to Mt Carmel was powered by the wind.

   The existence of this flapping panel, or perhaps a segment
   of mylar, is not mentioned in the Vector Data report, which
   made no effort to explain the critical factor of the rapid,
   machinegun-like nature of the flashes on the 1993 Waco FLIR.

   I've come to the sobering conclusion, after analysis of
   (1) a newly-acquired 1993 Waco FLIR video, (2) gunshots
   seen in the Somalia FLIR shown on "Waco: A New Revelation"
   and (3) the Vector Data Report, that ALL of the flashes in
   question on the 1993 Waco FLIR can be shown to be or to
   most-probably be solar reflections, contradicting both my
   previously stated position and the conclusions of infrared
   experts that the gunshot theory has rested on. I'll shortly
   publish an illustrated webpage explaining this conclusion,
   which is supported in large by facts not covered in the
   Vector Data report, and thus shall not be repetitive, and
   shall address key FLIR issues of concern to Waco watchers.

  
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[CTRL] US high court overturns Branch Davidians' sentences

[Dano]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/reuters2605_2318.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court overturned Monday  the
 long prison sentences for five Branch
 Davidians for using  machine guns during
 a shootout with federal agents in 1993 at
  the cult's compound near Waco, Texas.


 The unanimous high court, in an opinion
 by Justice Stephen  Breyer, said a federal judge had
been
 wrong to use a federal  firearm law to increase their
 sentences. Breyer said the jury  should have considered
 the matter.

 Under the law, Breyer said the type of weapon, such as
a
  machine gun, used during a violent crime was an
element
 of an  offense to be decided by the jury and was not a
 sentencing  factor to be determined by the judge.

 Four federal agents and three Branch Davidians were
 killed  during the Feb. 28, 1993, shootout that started
 when federal  agents tried to arrest cult leader David
 Koresh. A standoff  developed, and 51 days later Koresh
 and about 80 followers died  in a fire after agents
injected
 tear gas into the building.

 Nine Branch Davidians who escaped were arrested and
 then put  on trial.

 Jaime Castillo, Brad Branch, Renos Avraam and Kevin
  Whitecliff received consecutive terms of 10 years in
 prison for  manslaughter and 30 years for using machine
 guns during a  violent crime. Graeme Craddock received
 10 years for using a  grenade and a consecutive 10
years
 for using a machine gun.

 The firearm law imposes a five-year sentence but allows
a
  10-year term if the weapon was a semiautomatic firearm
 and a  30-year term for use of a machine gun or
grenade.


 The ruling sends the case back to the judge for a new
  sentencing.

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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2

[Ric Carter]

SkeptiNews 000608b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/07_06_2000.html
* Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
* PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh?
* Site of latest notices, updates, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com
* No inferior lifeforms were forcefully evolved to produce this bulletin.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Twirling Hippy: http://sugarmegs.org/twirler.gif
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Scope maps 100,000 galaxies. (AP) - Astronomers using a robotic telescope
  in Australia have mapped 100,000 galaxies in the region of the universe
  surrounding the Milky Way, quadrupling the number of galaxies plotted.
  Scientists said the map - the most detailed 3D picture of the cosmos yet -
  demonstrates that galaxies can cluster like continents measuring millions
  of light-years across. But the map also appears to show that the growth of
  these "super clusters" as limited, which astronomers describe as "the end
  of greatness." www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567168608-274

# A meteorite worth its salt. (BBC) Water-bearing salt crystals from dawn
  of the solar system have been found in a meteorite. I'm just wet with
  envy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_783000/783048.stm
# MORE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431496.stm

: Have you found/hidden any water/meteors/planets/galaxies/universes lately?
Does the universe grow/evolve/decay faster than you can keep track of? Have
organisms/galaxies/universes seen their best days? Is greatness obsolete??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Fossils Boost Life Origins Theory (AP) Researchers have found what they
  believe are fossils 3.2 billion years old, suggesting that life on Earth
  originated in volcano-heated ocean depths where sunlight never entered.
  Wet, warm, wild: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000608/01/early-life

@ MORE: We've all heard of the age-old dispute of Evolution vs. Creationism
  http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/ORIGINS/origins.html and most of
  us remember the Creationists' recent forays into the US education system,
  but let's not forget that the theory of evolution is not undisputed in the
  science community http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/ either. Do
  check out this http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/topics.htm topical
  index on the matter. Evolve from http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/

: Are you highly evolved? Will you be devoured by entities that continue to
evolve after you've stopped? Do your thoughts/arguments/beliefs/biota/psyche
evolve faster/slower/tangential to you? What's your favorite creation model?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Crispy critters make for tasty treats. (U-Wire) Edible insects -- some may
  feel those two words don't even belong in the same sentence. However, the
  Edible Insects Web site, http://www.eatbug.com, said most people have
  probably inadvertently consumed over a pound of insects in a lifetime.
  And some just crave chitin: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000606/odd-44

# Pesticides residues too high in children's food - apples/grapes sickening:
http://reutershealth.com/archive/2000/06/07/eline/links/2607elin025.html

# You can eat it, drink it, snuff out a blaze with it or dance in it --
  perhaps even build a spacecraft with it. Interesting stuff, this foam.
  Manna from...? http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion_224120.html

: Would you rather eat bugs, pesticides, plastic, aliens, robots, me? Do y'r
fellow-plotters eat well? Do you? Do the Reptilioids? Have you eaten (m)any
bugs lately? Is that only fair, since bugs eat people? Are foam bugs better?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Libertarians? Nothing more than conservatives without morals. Maybe that's
  a problem, and maybe not, eh? http://www.spintechmag.com/0005/jl0500a.htm
@ Socialism: French rationalism and German sentimentality. Multiculturalism?
  well... http://www.hudson.org/American_Outlook/articles_sp00/vazsonyi2.htm

@ SPIN! On becoming right-wing scum: one day you begin to think affirmative
  action isn't fair, and before you know it you've joined the NRA. Bother...
  http://weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_5_36_00/ferguson_bkart_5_36_00.html

@ Of course it's racist to think that a single intellectual could tell The
  Truth About Blacks. It'd take at least, say, two or three. Conveniently,
  they're all at Harvard: http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i37/37a01801.htm

: What's your favorite political/economic/social ploy? Does your conspiracy
feed political programming into the minds of the populace?Are all successful
politicos Illuminati/Reptilioid/Bilderberger tools/spawn/dupes? Are you? Eh?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# BONDED. 38 years after his birth in the murky waters of Dr. No, the cell-
  uloid James Bond has become the ageless hero of modern global culture. A
  tool of the IMF/WTO/WB/CIA? 

Re: [CTRL] THE AGE OF DISCOVERY DISPELLING MYTHS [Monsanto/Cow's Milk]

[John Taylor]

You have fallen for a fallacy . At the time of columbus scholars new that
the world was a globe and knew how big it was. which is why they oppose
columbus as they said the gap between india and europe was too big to reach.
The fallacy that people thought the world was flat was put out at the end of
the last century in order to discredit the church and show that the church
was holding everyone in the dark age. Since the intellectual elite were
antichristian, this became the accepted view.



-

6) "I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the
dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't inquire
too closely into the case of the tenth."

Theodore Roosevelt, "The Winning of the West," 1896

Considerred racist today-the book gives an account of how the indians gave
as good as they got.
History has 3 sides...my side your side and the truth

-

7) "I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted.  He is
showing an ability that is amazing and he seems to be gaining his
victories without much bloodshed."

Gandhi, 1940

Naziism contains much of Hinduism(including the swastica) and hence it is
quite natural  for ghandi to have been soft on Hitler. Also they had a
common enemy.

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[CTRL] BBC: New targets in Zimbabwe

[John Taylor]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_78/780172.stm

Tuesday, 6 June, 2000, 17:28 GMT 18:28 UK
Zimbabwe fear spreads

The "war veterans" have now turned their attention to teachers
Schoolteachers and judges in Zimbabwe fear they are becoming the latest
targets of President Robert Mugabe's government and party.

In the last fortnight, supporters of the ruling Zanu-PF party have
attacked schools, after a cabinet minister accused teachers of
"polluting the minds" of young people.

And the government has told white judges that they are not qualified to
preside over Zimbabwean courts - a comment which has prompted fears of
interference in judicial independence.

The Zimbabwe Teachers Association says at least 200 schools have been
disrupted by intimidation and attacks.

In the Eastern Highlands town of Chimanimani, the self-styled war
veterans who support President Mugabe moved into secondary and primary
schools, dragging the teachers from their classrooms.

Several teachers were beaten, some to the point of unconsciousness, and
needed hospital treatment.

Other teachers, accused of being opposition MDC supporters were stripped
naked in front of their students.

In previous Zimbabwe elections, schools have been used as polling
stations and teachers employed as polling officers.

Some commentators believe that teachers are perceived to be capable of
influencing the outcome of the election - which is why Zanu-PF
supporters are targeting them at a time when a crucial election is
approaching.

'Barbaric' attacks

A teacher at a Midlands school which was the target of an attack said
the only way to remain safe was to feign support for the ruling party.

"Our school head advised us to cover ourselves, so we all bought Zanu-PF
membership cards," he said.

The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe blames the government for
what the union calls "unwarranted, barbaric and nefarious" attacks.

Recently Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa accused teachers of
"polluting the minds" of young people.

Staff at health clinics have also been targeted, with opposition
supporters who have been injured in political violence being prevented
from entering clinics.

Judges under fire

The government used the state-owned media at the weekend to attack the
white judges who comprise a substantial proportion of Zimbabwe's still
independent judiciary.

The government's relationship with the courts has deteriorated over the
past year, to the point where it disregarded two court orders to act
against the illegal occupation of farmland by Zanu-PF supporters.

Government spokesman Jonathan Moyo said white judges who held foreign
citizenship were not qualified to preside over Zimbabwean courts.

"No sane Zimbabwean should expect the judiciary to be headed by a
foreigner - especially a British - 20 years after our independence, just
like it would be insane to have a foreign or British president or
speaker of parliament," he said in the state-owned Sunday Mail newspaper

Two of Zimbabwe's five supreme court judges are white, including Chief
Justice Anthony Gubbay. Four of the 20 high court judges are white.

Mr Moyo's remarks have prompted speculation that the government might
move to remove the white judges from their posts - an action which would
destroy the principle of an independent judiciary.


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[CTRL] hypnosis

[John Taylor]

http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/webtwo_features_hypnosis.htm
The secret of hypnosis

Hypnosis can be explained as a form of self-induced sensory deprivation…well
perhaps.

(Copyright, John McCrone, March 1991)

Hypnotists with swinging fob watches are out. Far more effective ways of
putting people into a trance have been discovered which, with their
employment of confusion and word twisting, are not too far removed from
brainwashing techniques. Yet while the practice of hypnosis has made
considerable strides of late, science is still uncertain whether the
phenomenon even exists.

Hypnotism has been studied for over 200 years. For a long time, the only way
known of putting subjects into a trance was to get them to focus on a spot
on the ceiling or a monotonous pendulum while the hypnotist commanded them
to fall asleep. However, this "authoritarian" method has since widely been
replaced among hypnotherapists by an indirect technique pioneered by the US
therapist, Milton Erickson. Today, a hypnotist uses a careful manipulation
of the conversation they have with their clients to "lead" them into a
trance state.

As Stephen Brooks, director of the training group, British Hypnosis
Research, explains it, there is none of the traditional mumbo-jumbo that
used to be the hypnotist's stock in trade. Instead, the aim of modern
techniques is to drop hypnotic suggestions casually into the conversation.
The patient's attention is first directed inwards by asking them out of the
blue if their hands feel heavy or if they can remember some pleasant
holiday. This relaxes the subject and the hypnotist can then drop hints into
the conversation about the sort of experiences the patient should expect to
feel under hypnosis; sensations such as weightlessness and involuntary
behaviour.

Finally, when the patient has been led into a deeply relaxed state - one so
relaxed that the critical faculties have been dulled to a small point of
consciousness - the hypnotist starts confusing the patient with non
sequiturs and apparently pointless remarks. Confused, but too relaxed to
struggle for understanding, the patient's tendency is to seize hold of
almost anything the hypnotist then suggests as their new hypnotic reality.

The technique is much like brain washing in relying on confusion followed by
the planting of a new belief system. However Brooks stresses that brain
washing relies on much more brutal confusion techniques such as terror and
isolation, and is carried out with quite different aims in mind than those
of a therapist! That at least is the modern practice of hypnosis - and a
method highly successful at overcoming resistance as most patients never
realise that the therapist has switched from ordinary conversation to the
hypnotic induction. However, what about the science behind hypnosis?

There is a strong body of scientific opinion that would say the many people
experiencing Ericksonian hypnosis - or its more highly packaged derivative,
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) - are merely feigning a trance state to
please the hypnotist. A combination of social pressure to perform and
everyday knowledge about the way hypnotised people are suppose to behave,
are enough for cooperative patients to fake the experience. Like being
drunk, even people who have never touched a drop usually can do a good job
of acting tipsy.

This hypothesis that hypnotic trance states are merely feigned was taken up
enthusiastically by researchers in the 1980s, particularly in Canada. Their
methodology was to take two groups of subjects, one whom believed themselves
hypnotised and one whom had been told to fake a trance, and then test them
for how similarly they behaved. Astonishingly, the fakers could even match
the hypnotised in demonstrations where they had to ignore pain - although it
is true the fakers were never tested with something like the tooth root
canal extractions which some hypnotised patients can withstand.

The non-state theorists - researchers such as Nicholas Spanos of Ottawa and
Graham Wagstaff of Liverpool University - did much to dispel many of the old
myths about hypnosis. It was found that apparently vivid memories recalled
under hypnosis were as liable to be imagined as real. Proof of this led to a
Home Office warning in 1988 against the use of evidence gained under
hypnosis. Other evidence, such as experiments showing that subjects with
induced deafness or amnesia could still respond normally in carefully
designed experimental tests, seemed to prove the non-state theorists' case
that no special trance state exists. But a few years ago, neurologists using
brain scans and other monitoring devices started coming up with support for
the belief that hypnosis is a genuinely altered state of awareness.

A key feature of the trance state is the ability of subjects to experience
intense hallucinations at the suggestion of the hypnotist. These visions
have none of the paleness of ordinary imaginings and are as vivid as dreams.
David 

[CTRL] (Fwd) What the meaning of I*S Is

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Another Clinton outrage
Foreign Affairs Opinion (Published) Keywords: IRAN
Source: Oakland Tribune
Published: June 7, 2000 Author: Charley Reese
Posted on 06/07/2000 10:04:02 PDT by JeanS

EVERY time I think the Clinton administration has reached the apex of outrages,
it tops itself.

The latest? The administration apparently intends to trade a young woman's life
for some secret back-room deal it is trying to make with the mullahs ruling
Iran.

Mahnaz Samadi, 35, an Iranian feminist and human-rights activist who was
granted political asylum in 1995, was arrested this year and is being treated by
the Immigration and Naturalization Service almost as inhumanely as the Iranian
government treated her. Her alleged crime? She tried to liberate Iran --
 not during the years she has lived in this country but before she arrived.

Now make sense out of this. The U.S. government has officially branded Iran as a
sponsor of terrorism. It has passed all kinds of punitive laws against Iran. Yet
it has now belatedly decided that those Iranians who fight against the same
Iranian government the United States opposes are now terrorists.

Since she was granted asylum, Ms. Samadi has simply made speeches on behalf of
human rights and particularly on behalf of the rights of women in Iran.

She was arrested in Iran at the age of 17, sexually abused, tortured and held in
prison for four years. She was forced to watch her younger brother being
tortured. He and another brother were later executed. Her parents died of a
broken heart. Her younger sister was imprisoned for 10 years.

When she was released, she continued to work in the underground for human
rights until 1991 when she went into hiding in Iranian Kurdistan to escape
arrest. She went to Iraq and there joined the resistance. Later she went back to
Iranian Kurdistan and finally made her way to the United States.

Now, get this. The resistance she joined, the National Liberation Army, was not
designated a terrorist organization at the time she was a member. The Clinton
administration arbitrarily labeled it terrorist in 1997 -- two years after she
was granted asylum. Members of Congress, members of the U.S. Senate, and
parliamentary majorities in Britain, Italy and Belgium have recognized the NLA
as a legitimate resistance organization.

Ms. Samadi, arrested in Buffalo, N.Y., has been subjected to the federal
shuffle -- suddenly moved from one jail to another -- denied bail, and is now
being held in an Alabama county jail, far away from her attorneys and the people
who are trying to help her. Even though a federal judge has transferred her case
to Arlington, Va., the INS has refused to move her from Alabama. When her
attorney visited her, the Farsi translator was denied admission, and after every
visit by her attorney, she is strip-searched. If the Clinton administration
sends this woman back to Iran, it will be an act of coldblooded murder. She will
be tortured and publicly executed, and the Iranian government is already saying
publicly that Clinton is going to deport her -- before she's even had a hearing.
Obviously the administration is hoping to trade an innocent human life for some
favor from the mullahs. What, I don't know, but the evil of this administration
has no bottom.

IT'S bad enough to send a 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez back to be brainwashed in
Cuba so some American businessman can cut a deal with Castro. Now it is
condemning an innocent woman to death in pursuit of some hidden agenda.

Even Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., normally an ardent Clinton supporter, is
raising hell about this, as indeed the American people should. To condemn an
innocent woman to death because she tried to liberate Iran is blasphemy against
the Declaration of Independence.

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AER
~~~
Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960)
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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 

[CTRL] Humanitarian Heroinism

[Alamaine]

From
http://www.balkanpeace.org/our/our03.shtml

}}Begin
The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
BALKAN - ALBANIA - KOSOVO - HEROIN - JIHAD
The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
www.balkanpeace.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Research Analysis
May 2000

The biggest paradox in the international war on drugs is connected to the
Balkans and the explosion of terrorist activities in that troubled area.
However, it relates less to drugs and arms and more to the major participants
in this deadly game.

Terrorist organizations at the top of America’s most wanted list are receiving
tacit support in the Balkans from the Clinton administration. The "most wanted"
terrorist in the world today, Osama bin Laden, who declared a "fatwa" against
the US, is being abetted by the Clinton doctrine. In the Balkans, we are
witnessing a true paradox where several mortal enemies - Iranian revolutionary
guards, Osama bin Laden and the CIA - are standing shoulder to shoulder while
pursuing diametrically opposite goals.

Drugs Finance Terrorism

Earlier reporting has confirmed that terrorism in the Balkans has been
primarily financed through narcotics trafficking. Heroin - worth 12 times its
weight in gold - is by far the most profitable commodity on the markets. A
kilogram of heroin, worth $1,000 in Thailand, wholesales for $110,000 in Canada
with a street value of $800,000.

In fact, heroin trafficking has become so beneficial to the cause of Albanian
separatism that the predominantly Albanian-inhabited towns of Veliki Trnovac
and Blastica in Serbia, Vratnica and Gostivar in FYR Macedonia, and Shkoder and
Durres in Albania have become known as the "new Medellins" of the Balkans. Via
the Balkan Route, heroin travels through Turkey, FYR Macedonia, Kosovo and
Albania en route to western European markets. The value of the heroin shipped
is $400-billion (US) a year. As early as 1996, the US Drug Enforcement Agency
(DEA) detailed the Balkan Route in its annual report. In 1998, the DEA stated
that Kosovo Albanians had become the second most important traffickers on the
Balkan Route.

These predominantly Albanian drug barons from Kosovo ship heroin exclusively
from Asia's Golden Crescent, an apparently inexhaustible source. At one end of
the crescent lies Afghanistan, which in 1999 surpassed Burma as the world's
largest producer of opium poppies. From there, the heroin base passes through
Iran to Turkey, where it is refined, and then placed into the hands of the
Albanians who operate out of the lawless towns bordering FYR Macedonia,
Albania, and Serbia. According to the US State Department, four to six tons of
heroin move through Turkey every month.

"Not very much is stopped", says one official. "We get just a fraction of the
total". Not surprisingly, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has flourished along
the route. Its dependence on the drug lords is difficult to prove, but the
evidence is impossible to overlook.

In 1998, German Federal Police froze two bank accounts belonging to the "United
Kosova" organization at a Dusseldorf bank after it was discovered that several
hundred thousand dollars had been deposited into those accounts by a convicted
Kosovo Albanian drug trafficker. According to at least one published report,
Bujar Bukoshi, Prime Minister of the "Kosova" Government in Exile, also
allegedly controlled the accounts.

In early 1999 an Italian court in Brindisi convicted an Albanian heroin
trafficker named Amarildo Vrioni, who admitted obtaining weapons for the KLA
from the Mafia in exchange for drugs.

Last February 23, Czech police arrested Princ Dobroshi, the head of an Albanian
Kosovo drug gang. While searching his apartment, they discovered evidence that
he had placed orders for light infantry weapons and rocket systems. No one had
questioned what a small-time dealer would be doing with rockets. Only later did
Czech police reveal he was shipping them to the KLA. The Czechs extradited
Dobroshi to Norway where he had escaped from prison in 1997 while serving a 14-
year sentence for heroin trafficking.

It's therefore not surprising, say European law enforcement officials, that the
faction that ultimately seized power in Kosovo -- the KLA under Hashim Thaci --
was the group that maintained the closest links to traffickers.
In its report about the KLA and heroin smuggling, the Montreal Gazette wrote:

"...Michael Levine, a 25-year veteran of the DEA (US Drug Enforcement Agency)
who left in 1990, said he believes there is no question that US intelligence
knew about the KLA's drug ties. "They (the CIA) protected them (the KLA) in
every way they could. As long as the CIA is protecting the KLA, you've got
major drug pipelines protected from any police investigation", said Levine, who
teaches undercover tactics and informer handling to US and Canadian police
forces, including the RCMP. "The evidence is irrefutable," he said, explaining
that his information comes from "sources inside the DEA".

The Albanian Medellin connection is particularly 

[CTRL] Canadian Non-Smoking Gun

[Alamaine]

From NEWSMAX.COM


}}Begin
CommentMax
Gunfight at the Canadian Corral
Dr. Michael S. Brown

June 5, 2000 Americans breathed a sigh of relief this week as our national gun
rights debate took a break from the overheated rhetoric of recent months. Much
needed comic relief was provided by Rosie O'Donnell. The gun-hating talk show
host admitted that she is protected by bodyguards armed with guns.

Unfortunately, things are not going as well for our Canadian cousins. A poorly
crafted and mean spirited law called the Firearms Act (C-68) was forced through
Parliament in 1994 by the ruling Liberal Party. In an ugly example of cultural
warfare, the Liberals used falsified statistics to convince members of
Parliament that Canada was suffering from an epidemic of gun violence. The
result was a strict new law with Draconian penalties on gun owners.

The law passed despite the Justice Minister's inability to show that Canada's
previous sixty years of handgun registration had prevented any crimes.
The law has two major parts, which are very similar to proposals by the
American anti-gun lobby. The first phase requires all gun owners to obtain a
license. They must comply by the end of this year or face up to ten years in
prison. The second phase is the registration of all firearms, which must be
complete by January, 2003. Again, the penalty for violations is up to ten years
in prison.

As a final insult to honest citizens, the type of handguns most suitable for
self defense are banned outright by C-68. Confiscation of these guns from law
abiding owners will be easy due to the existing registration system, but
criminals have never registered their guns and will not be affected.
Apparently, Canadian criminals have a more effective lobby than the gun owners.

The Liberal sponsors of the law estimated start-up costs for the new system
would be under 85 million dollars. So far, it has consumed over $300 million
and massive annual operating costs are being predicted. Over 1,400 government
workers have been assigned to the project. Despite this commitment of
resources, the system is plagued by long delays and error rates as high as 90%
have been reported by outside analysts.

Even if Canadian gun owners were planning to cooperate, the size and complexity
of the task would be overwhelming. The gun owners, however, are not
cooperating. Only 10% have turned in the lengthy application forms and many
have announced that they will never comply with such an unfair law.

The Law-abiding Unregistered Firearms Association (www.lufa.ca) is planning
organized civil disobedience. This new organization has grown from nothing to
16,000 members since it was founded in November of 1998. Their plan is to wait
until the first gun owner is charged with failing to obey the new law. Then,
tens of thousands of gun owners will present themselves at RCMP stations across
Canada and announce that they are in violation of C-68.

Perhaps the Liberal politicians will send them all off to prison, but harsh
action would harm the warm fuzzy image the party wants to project. There is a
good chance the whole licensing scheme will collapse as firearms cases clog the
courts and cost the Liberals their majority in Parliament. This is not certain,
as they are masters at generating public support.

One Clintonesque tactic takes advantage of the fact that many license
applications are rejected due to errors. The Liberals claim this represents the
number of "potential criminals" who have been denied access to firearms as a
result of the wonderful new law. They are obviously borrowing this tactic from
the U.S. administration which has made similar false claims for the Brady bill.

Another useful gambit takes advantage of any change in the crime rate. If crime
decreases, the Liberals will say that this proves the effectiveness of gun
control and ask for even stricter anti-gun laws. If crime increases, they can
say that the current law is inadequate and will still have a reason to ask for
stricter laws. They probably think they can't lose.

The Canadian Supreme Court may invalidate the law. If not, a moment of
reckoning will occur sometime after January 1, 2001. Americans could learn a
lot from this episode, but our media has historically ignored both Canadian
affairs and anything that shows the failure of gun control. A priceless lesson
is likely to be wasted.

References:
The Canadian Firearms Act
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/FTP/EN/Laws/Chap/F/F-11.6.txt
Member of Parliament Garry Breitkreuz
http://www.garry-breitkreuz.com/
Failure of Canada's previous handgun registration system
http://www.ssaa.org.au/RCMP.HTML
Law-abiding Unregistered Firearms Association
http://www.lufa.ca/
The Canadian Firearms Centre
http://www.cfc-ccaf.gc.ca/Default-en.html

Dr. Michael S. Brown is an optometrist who moderates a large e-mail list for
discussion of gun issues in Washington state. He may be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or www.geocities.com/rkba2000

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[CTRL] Fwd: UNDERNEWS Jun 8

[William Shannon]

UNDERNEWS
June 8, 2000
Free-range journalism for over 35 years
from Washington's most unofficial source
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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
Editor: Sam Smith
1312 18th St. NW #502, Washington DC 20036
202-835-0770 Fax: 835-0779 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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WORD

If to live is to be influenced and to influence . . . surely to die is to be
no longer able either to influence or be influenced, and a man cannot be
held dead until both these two factors of death are present. If failure of
the power to be influenced vitiates life, presence of the power to influence
vitiates death. And no one will deny that a man can influence for many a
long year after he is vulgarly reputed dead." -- Dr. Gurgoyle in Samuel
Butler's 'Erewhon Revisited'

TINA AT LARGE

Tina Brown, who did to the New Yorker what Ron Brown did to the Commerce
Department -- namely make it a subsidiary of the Clinton machine -- seems on
her way to becoming the John Rocker of the boomer set. The uproar over her
latest book project, a hatchet job on critics of Clinton, isn't dying down.
Said Washington Post gossipist Lloyd Grove on Rivera Live, "It's turned from
buzz to a buzz saw."

Now Matt Drudge, who broke the story, reports that seven sources have
described their conversations with the author, John Connolly, "conversations
during which the author labeled members of the Office of the Independent
Counsel as 'fags', 'faggots' and 'queers.'

According to Drudge, Connolly writes in the draft introduction of his book,
"There are no less than six gays involved in the [Lewinsky] case. Two of the
'elves', and three of Starr's young male proteges were gay..."

Drudge also dug up a March 30, 1998 issue the Nation which claimed White
House aide Sidney Blumenthal was briefing members of the media about the sex
lives of investigators. "Blumenthal had told them directly of the same-sex
orientation of a member of Starr's staff," wrote Nation reporter Doug
Ireland. "Two of the members of the media I spoke to about the Starr
allegations also said Blumenthal had described at least two other media
figures to them as gay." Blumenthal denied the allegations.

Meanwhile conservative columnist Ann Coulter says of her alleged tryst with
Geraldo Rivera, "The sad truth is, my affair with Geraldo at his 'oceanfront
retreat' was compromised by the presence of my brother, Mrs. Rivera, and
several other guests." Writes Coulter, "Clinton has given the right wing a
reputation for having extremely active sex lives. First Henry Hyde then Newt
Gingrich, and now it turns out the rest of us are all gay (or are having an
affair with Geraldo Rivera). On the basis of Connolly's book, conservatives
should claim to represent the gay movement and start issuing a whole new set
of demands.

"The current position of Talk/Miramax Books is that this manuscript is a
purloined draft of Connolly's book, not in final form . . . I'm afraid,
however, that once they take out the libel and laughably false stories,
Connolly doesn't have enough left over even for a short pamphlet."

Finally, this further note on Tina Brown. Inside reports that during the
Talk/Miramax party for Martin Amis a young woman in a white dress was
observed wandering through the crowd and talking into a head-set. She turned
out to be Tina Brown's assistant at Talk "and one of her jobs at such fetes
is to troll the room and pass on information about who's come in, who's
leaving, and where everybody is. Her reportage is transmitted to another
assistant, who trails the boss and feeds her the most relevant information."

http://www.drudgereport.com

INFOWARS

THE NEW YORK TIMES got caught misreporting recently with a story that
declared that Seattle protesters had "hurled Molotov cocktails, rocks, and
excrement at delegates and police officers." After complaints, the Times ran
a correction noting that the protests "were primarily peaceful," and that
any objects thrown were aimed at property. The Times also admitted that no
protesters were accused of throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails at delegates
of the police.

ERITREA

AGENCE FRANCE PRESS: The UN refugee agency UNHCR confirmed Wednesday figures
given by the Eritrean government that 1.5 million people have been displaced
by the country's war with Ethiopia and drought . . . In Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia said this week that its troops had broken Eritrea's military
capacity after three weeks of fighting, and had repulsed attacks by Asmara's
forces in eastern Eritrea. In an interview with the Ethiopian Herald
newspaper, Ethiopia's army chief described Eritrea's forces as broken and no
longer in a position to threaten Ethiopia's sovereignty .

OOPS

NEWSMAX: Just over a year ago, Australia followed in the footsteps of mother
country Great Britain and made law a total ban on hand guns. The gun ban and
confiscation program cost the Australian government more than $500 million.
Sometimes using 

[CTRL] Waco FLIR Reflections/Goddard the Schill

[Gavin Phillips]

I've been very suspicious of Ian Goddard since he cowardly backed down from
his position vis-a-vis TWA 800 about 18 months ago when interviewed by the
mainstream media.

Now he is telling us that the Waco FLIR footage are solar reflections when
that scenario has been discounted by several experts. Edward Allard, Carlos
Ghiglotti,
a solar reflection report mentioned in "Waco: A New Revelation" and my own
eyes.

Goddard mentions the Vetor Data report which is worthless because they are
not an independent company having close ties to the US government.

 A HREF="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a392480c744aa.htm"Was Vector
Data Systems Bought Off by the BATF? [Free Republic]/A


According to Dave Hardy Carlos told him the protocols were wrong in the tests.

 A HREF="http://toogoodreports.com/spotlight/050900.htm"Toogood Reports |
In The Spotlight/A

"I talked to him after the (British firm's) recreation, and his assessment
was that it was pure junk -- the aircraft wasn't even at the right altitude,
they didn't have the right procedures to verify that the sensor was
functioning comparable to the one of April 19 (1993). (He said) the best
thing that could be done with any resulting tape -- and this is before the
results were known -- was to drop it in the waste can. ...
End quote.

Ghigliotti, who studied the tapes for hundreds of hours was adamant about
gunfire coming from government agents. Gavin.

 A HREF="http://toogoodreports.com/spotlight/050900.htm"Toogood Reports |
In The Spotlight/A

Ghigliotti was hired by the House Government Reform Committee to review tapes
of the Waco siege. He made headlines last fall by confirming that government
troops fired into the church on April 19, 1993.

"I conclude this based on the ground view videotapes taken from several
different angles simultaneously and based on the overhead thermal tape,"
Ghigliotti told The Washington Post last October. "The gunfire from the
ground is there, without a doubt."

Ghigliotti said the tapes also confirm Davidians repeatedly fired at FBI
agents during the assault, though he noted return fire came from the building
only on the occasions when government tanks actually penetrated or demolished
the walls. About 80 Branch Davidians perished that day, some from the fire,
others from gunshot wounds.

Goddards full of it. Gavin Phillips.


 From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]:

 From: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Waco FLIR Reflections
 Date: Saturday, May 27, 2000 1:26 AM


NON-GUNSHOT CAUSE OF KEY WACO-FLIR FLASHES DISCOVERED

The Vector Data Systems report made no effort to explain
how multiple rapid flashes several times per second could
occur in fixed locations on the ground as seen in the 1993
Waco FLIR tape, which multiple experts say are gunshots.
Recently I proposed this rapid-flash reflection machine
as a non-gunshot causal theory for those rapid flashes:

 http://Ian.Goddard.net/waco/flir07.gif
 http://Ian.Goddard.net/waco/flir03.htm

That reflection machine rapidly vibrates a 1 by 3 foot
reflective panel up and down several times per second,
simulating key flash sequences on the 1993 Waco FLIR. It
isn't likely that such a machine rested next to Mt Carmel!

Shortly after proposing that reflective machine I realized
a far more probable causal hypothesis for the rapid flashes:
the reflective panel isn't being vibrated by a machine, but
by the free gale-force winds blowing through the scene that
day, and thus the panel is flapping like a flag in the wind.
Hypothetical scenario: an infrared-reflecting surface like
mylar is attached to a board and a loose edge is flapping
in the wind with a cyclic "flap rate" identical to the
cyclic rate of key flashes on the Waco FLIR. The flapping
reflective surface produces a rapid series of flashes in
one fixed location as seen by the FLIR camera, resolving
the rapid-flash problem without a machine or a machinegun.

My plan was to acquire mylar and staple a segment edge to
a board with a strong fan on it and see if I might be able
to film it causing rapid flashes of visible light (and thus
presumably also of IR radiation). However, that's no longer
necessary: I just acquired the best version of the 1993 Waco
FLIR I've ever seen, it's dramatically better than the copy
I've had. To my complete astonishment, on the better copy a
flapping panel about 1 by 3 feet attached to a fallen-down
portion of gym wall is visible IN THE EXACT LOCATION THAT
THE MOST INFAMOUS SERIES OF FLASHES OCCUR AS THE FIRE STARTS!
That flash series is emphasized by Dr. Edward Allard in both
"Waco: The Rules of Engagement" and "Waco: A New Revelation."

This flapping panel in the same location as those key
flashes also produces flashes at other times during the
hour before the fire. So it's clear to me that 

[CTRL] Feds Enter Search For Source Of Tainted Smack

[William Shannon]

Vol. 6, No. 1349 - The American Reporter - June 8, 2000


 PENTAGON, C.D.C. ENTER SEARCH FOR SOURCE
OF TAINTED HEROIN THAT HAS KILLED 32
IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES

American Reporter Staff
Hollywood, Calif.
LOS ANGELES -- Several weeks ago, the Internet tropical disease mailing list
Pro-MED, to which this newspaper has occasionally contributed, first heard
reports of an alarming number of deaths of unknown causes associated with the
use of heroin by drug addicts in Glasgow, Scotland.

Since that time, addicts have begun to die in Ireland, England and Wales
while experts struggle to understand the origins of the disease that is
killing them. Currently, the verified death toll is 32 in Ireland and the
United Kingdom, according to official sources in those countries.

Most recently, the Centers For Disease Control and the Pentagon have entered
the investigation, according to this comprehensive report from Martin
Hugh-Jones, a distinguished professor of veterinary medicine and contributor
to ProMED and other medical journals who became interested when several of
the deaths were attributed in the press to anthrax infections. Anthrax, a
disease that originates in cattle and can spread to humans, has since been
ruled out as a source of the unknown disease, he reports.

This Mr. Hugh-Jones' June 7 report to ProMED:

The number of confirmed cases in the Greater Glasgow area now stands at 33,
with 15 deaths. Nineteen of those cases, including eight of those who have
died, have been women. In Dublin, Ireland, 8 have died and 15 are ill with
similar symptoms. Seven heroin injectors in England and Wales (places have
not been revealed) have died since 24th April and are believed to be from the
same cause(s).

Greater Glasgow Health Board said microbiologists suspected the condition had
been caused by a form of anaerobic bacteria -- the class of bacteria which
includes the causes of botulism, tetanus and gas gangrene. The condition
appears to affect heroin addicts who inject the drug into the muscle or under
the skin, rather than into a vein. Victims suffer a septicaemia-type illness
and need intensive care, but some have died from multiple organ failure
within hours.

According to Dr. Brian Duerden, medical director of the Public Health
Laboratory Service in London, "The pattern of illness is one of localized
infection at the injection site, followed by a systemic infection similar to
a toxic shock reaction. It is highly suggestive of a Clostridia infection. If
in fact it is ClostridiaD, it is very difficult to detect under normal
laboratory conditions."

To augment their investigation, officials from both countries called upon the
CDC in Atlanta. "There has been excellent cooperation amongst the
international community. Doctors are talking to doctors and that is what we
need," said Maureen Browne, communications director of the Eastern Regional
Health Authority in Dublin, Ireland. "The police forces of both countries
have their investigations as well, but our concern is assessing and managing
the public health risk."

Officials ruled out anthrax as a potential contaminant early on. They also
explored the possibility that citric acid, mixed into the heroin, may be the
culprit.

"The citric acid may certainly be contributory to the problem," Duerden said.
"It causes localized tissue damage and necrosis at the injection site and may
be establishing the ideal environment for a superinfection to grow, but the
clinical signs clearly point to a bacterial infection."

The patients hospitalized have all had white blood cell counts between 4,000
and 135,000, which would support the bacterial superinfection theory.
However, these individuals have not responded to broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Jai Lingappa was seconded to Glasgow from CDC [in] Atlanta and Kristy Murray
to Dublin. [Editor's note: "Seconded" means that that the named officials of
the CDC were sent in person to the cities mentioned.]

Dublin newspapers carried a bleak message for heroin addicts. Large
advertisements warned there could be contaminated supplies of the drug on
sale and urged users to contact a doctor immediately if they noticed any
unusual symptoms, particularly an abscess or swelling close to an injection
site.

Whether these measures will reach those who are most vulnerable, the
thousands of addicts who inject heroin and are not in touch with any of the
social services provided, is a cause for serious concern. One counsellor said
yesterday: "If an addict needs heroin, he or she will inject."

The crisis has focused a harsh spotlight on a problem which most Irish people
would prefer to ignore since it hardly impinges on the more comfortably off
sections of a society doing well in a time of economic boom. Ireland's
addicts are the youngest in Europe, with an average age of 24, compared with
34 in the Netherlands. The overwhelming majority come from the most socially
deprived areas of large cities, although senior police officers have 

[CTRL] Yemeni Martians Fight For Secrecy!!!

[William Shannon]

London Telegraph Reports "Martians' Arab heirs fight NASA over Pathfinder
Spacecraft"


London Telegraph Reports "Martians' Arab heirs fight NASA over Pathfinder
Spacecraft"
Yemeni Men Claim They Own Mars, Their Ancestral Home
Aisling Irwin, the London Telegraph Science Correspondent, reported Wednesday
that a lawsuit has been filed against NASA "to prevent it revealing any more
details about conditions on Mars."

It seems that three men, from Yemen claim that they own Mars and that their
permission should have been sought by NASA before the US Pathfinder
spacecraft landed on July 4 and released a buggy called Sojourner which has
been testing the planet's rocks and soil, sending back photos which reveal a
landscape as inhospitable as the Arizona desert.

The Yemeni men, Adam Ismail, Mustafa Khalil and Abdullah al-Umari say,
apparently with a straight face, that Mars was the home of their ancestors
thousands of years ago, the Al-Thawn weekly newspaper reported.

The men want NASA to suspend releasing the results of any further
explorations, and any information about the Martian atmosphere, surface or
gravity, until the court case is over. In documents presented to Yemen's
prosecutor general, the men claimed: "We inherited the planet from our
ancestors who lived on it 3,000 years ago."

Just think. If we Americans had known about this sooner we could have save
millions of dollars. Instead of sending Pathfinder to Mars, we could have
just asked Adam, Mustaf and Abdullah to tell us all about their ancestral
home.

In spite of this remarkable revelation, the Telegraph observed, "NASA showed
no sign of suspending its activities yesterday announcing that the soil on
Mars is made up of a silt that is finer than talcum powder."

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Re: [CTRL] Yemeni Martians Fight For Secrecy!!!

[Franklin Wayne Poley]

Please tell me: Is there a parallel between these people saying they are
Martians and the rightful heirs to Mars and the "Jews" or "Semites" saying
they are the rightful heirs to the lands of the Ancient Israelites?
FWP
(Learned Elder of Zion)

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, William Shannon wrote:

 London Telegraph Reports "Martians' Arab heirs fight NASA over Pathfinder
 Spacecraft"


 London Telegraph Reports "Martians' Arab heirs fight NASA over Pathfinder
 Spacecraft"
 Yemeni Men Claim They Own Mars, Their Ancestral Home
 Aisling Irwin, the London Telegraph Science Correspondent, reported Wednesday
 that a lawsuit has been filed against NASA "to prevent it revealing any more
 details about conditions on Mars."

 It seems that three men, from Yemen claim that they own Mars and that their
 permission should have been sought by NASA before the US Pathfinder
 spacecraft landed on July 4 and released a buggy called Sojourner which has
 been testing the planet's rocks and soil, sending back photos which reveal a
 landscape as inhospitable as the Arizona desert.

 The Yemeni men, Adam Ismail, Mustafa Khalil and Abdullah al-Umari say,
 apparently with a straight face, that Mars was the home of their ancestors
 thousands of years ago, the Al-Thawn weekly newspaper reported.

 The men want NASA to suspend releasing the results of any further
 explorations, and any information about the Martian atmosphere, surface or
 gravity, until the court case is over. In documents presented to Yemen's
 prosecutor general, the men claimed: "We inherited the planet from our
 ancestors who lived on it 3,000 years ago."

 Just think. If we Americans had known about this sooner we could have save
 millions of dollars. Instead of sending Pathfinder to Mars, we could have
 just asked Adam, Mustaf and Abdullah to tell us all about their ancestral
 home.

 In spite of this remarkable revelation, the Telegraph observed, "NASA showed
 no sign of suspending its activities yesterday announcing that the soil on
 Mars is made up of a silt that is finer than talcum powder."

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Re: [CTRL] Rockefeller Drug Censor Empire

[ThePiedPiper]

civil court 9am June 8, 2000
Ft. Worth, Texas
Tarrent County
360th court

Criminal court
McLennen County - Texas [Waco]
if the DA does decide to prosecute
Was arrested and spent a night in jail
FIVE days after the alleged abuse.

The kids are with a abusive father curtsey of CPS
but
looking at what I wrote it could seem like I was abusive.

My 9 year old who is almost as tall as I am was not going to
listen to me and was hysterical.  My life guard training kicked in
and by Texas Good Samaritan law I treated him as an adult and
slapped him on both cheeks when he proceeded to kick my head.
(I was leaning on his stomach on the ground) I tapped his head
open handed (lightly).

No bruises - light stinging slaps only - not for discipline.
but illegal to do to a child.
He had lied about why he had been suspended that day at school and
If his dad can say that Michael was not abused but that the child was
attacking him.  Michael may not be protected by the child abuse law.
Michael was doing something that would have adult consequences and was
treated as an adult.

- Next time will take Michael to the therapist instead!
I also have an young CPS agent and she has a young supervisor.
Not having fun.
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[CTRL] Case dropped against 'love' suspect

[Shane A. Saylor, Eccentric Bard]

Case dropped against ‘love’ suspect

Authorities couldn't produce more
evidence implicating Reonel Ramones

REUTERS

MANILA, June 7 — Philippine authorities said on Wednesday they had dropped a
case against a bank worker suspected of involvement in the “Love Bug” virus,
which caused billions of dollars in damage to computers around the world.

SENIOR STATE prosecutor Jaafar Dimaampao said there was no law, which could
be used to prosecute 27-year-old Reonel Ramones.
   “As far as Ramones is concerned, the case is closed,” Dimaampao told
reporters.
   The prosecutor said the National Bureau of Investigation could not
produce the extra evidence ordered by a court to allow a case against the
man to proceed under the Access Device Act.

The act deals with illegal use of passwords for credit cards or bank
accounts for money.
   Ramones was arrested by NBI agents after a preliminary investigation
of the origin of the “Love Bug” led to a flat, which he shared with his
girlfriend.
   He was later freed by the Justice Department due to lack of evidence,
but was made to face criminal charges.

Ramones claimed it was a case of mistaken identity.
   The NBI has identified other possible suspects, including computer
school dropout Onel de Guzman.
   De Guzman’s lawyer said his client may have accidentally sent out the
virus by mistake.
   NBI and Justice Department officials did not say if they would bring
any charges against other suspects.
   The computer virus, which appeared in emails titled “I Love You,”
destroyed user files, stole passwords and passed itself on through the
address books of affected computers.
   It hit major agencies around the world, including the U.S. Pentagon
and the British parliament.

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[CTRL] Gold Derivative Banking Crisis

[William Shannon]

'Gold Derivative
Banking Crisis' Document
Races Around World
From Bill Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6-8-00

"It ought to be quite the summer for gold!"


Deutsche Bank, along with some help from Goldman Sachs, bashed gold early
today taking it down almost $6, but the funds came in as buyers, taking it
back up late in the day. August gold finished at $290, only down $1.80. Good
ole $290 again. That is the price the manipulators have been defending for a
couple of years now. They are at it again.

Word to me was that some hedge funds were buying. This is very important
news. I received a call today from Europe that the "Gold Derivative Banking
Crisis" document is being distributed around the world at a furious pace and
it is going to the highest levels of the banking world.This is not
supposition. One of the most prominent bankers in Europe has ALREADY received
4 copies and "the document" was only made public 5 days ago.

A futures broker was also called by a well known and signficant futures
trader and queried the broker, "have you seen this report that is SO bullish
for the gold price?"

If the GATA document (which can be obtained for free at www.GATA.org) is
circulating to this degree and to the right people, then it is only a matter
of time before the big money crowd starts buying gold in earnest.

The document is a mouthful to digest. But once the investment community
realizes that the bullion banks are in a bind - big time - investors will
make their move to buy gold. Historically, when banks - be it central or
otherwise - have screwed up to this degree - the Soros' of the world have
taken them on.

They will most likely do so again. After all, the downside in gold is $20 to
$30. The upside on this trade is $300 to $600. For that matter, just pick a
number.

The Office of the Controller of the Currency gold derivative numbers for Q1
were released yesterday. They show another big derivative build up as the new
total of notional off-balance-sheet gold derivative contracts has risen to
$95.5 billion from $87.6 billion. The big increase came at Chase Bank. I am
sure Reg Howe, Mr. Derivative himself, is doing a report on this, so I will
leave the details for him to present to you.

What does this all mean? It is simple. There is too much gold being consumed
at too cheap a price. There is a DEARTH of PHYSICAL GOLD. Only PAPER gold is
holding down the price. The bullion banks, their clients and heavily hedged
gold producers have an exposure that is frightening. Once that exposure is
understood by serious money types, they will buy gold. CHECKMATE for the
shorts as I mentioned yesterday.

On a less dramatic note, crude oil roared back today after being down $1 to
close up 20 cents on the day at $29.95 per barrel. The price of oil is headed
up as is the price of gold.

The dollar was weak all day too as it sank to 106.16. Firm oil price, a soft
dollar and little physical gold around to meet current demand. What a
combination!

Thanks so much to so many of you out there that have been behind GATA,
spreading the word on the building crisis in the gold market and sending the
GATA document all over the world.

The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee is trying to find out what the gold
leaving the New York Fed is all about and why it is being categorized in the
trade data.

A GATA committee member is doing yoeman work contacting the Customs people,
the Commerce Department, the Census Bureau and the New York Fed. I thought
you might like to see some of the kind of repartee going on behind the
scenes:

Bill, Reg, Chris -I just talked to a John Kohler at the Foreign Fiduciary and
Financial Service Staff of the NY Fed. This is the gist of part of our
conversation:

"Do you not handle the paperwork for the gold transactions in and out of the
Vault?"

"I can't answer everything for reasons of security..."

"Can't you tell me your own responsibilities or the responsibilities of your
office? Do you not handle the paperwork when a foreign government instructs
the Fed to physically transfer its gold to a dealer?"

"Yes."

"What Customs paperwork do you fill out?"

"None."

"Are you aware that once demonetized this is an import and should be declared
as such?"

Long silence.

"Or if not demonetized, debited against current account?"

"I can't tell you about our accounts for reasons of security."

"I'm not asking about accounts, I'm asking about accounting! That's not
security! Aren't you aware that there is a separate category in Customs for
monetary gold?"

Pause. "Yes."

"And are you declaring such to Customs?"

"No."

"Why?"

At which point Mr. Kohler excused himself, said other personnel were
involved, and referred me to Susan McLaughlin, the staff director.

Stay tuned...

W

Report on phone conversation w/Ms. Susan McLaughlin:

She knows of no Customs forms that need be filed when the Fed transfers gold.
She thinks it is the responsibility of someone else, either someone at the
Fed or else the recipient's responsibility. She 

[CTRL] Chupacabras Captured!!!???

[William Shannon]

Chileans Say US
Took Custody Of
Captured Chupacabras
By Joseph Trainor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Editor - UFO Roundup Vol 5, No 23
6-8-00


Residents of Calama, a city in northern Chile, claim that NASA took custody
of the three Chupacabras reportedly captured by the Chilean army two weeks
ago.

According to reports obtained by Marcial Campos Maza, a reporter for Chile's
EFE new service, Chilean troops captured the three creatures in the desert
near the Radomiro Tomic mine north of Calama. During the pursuit, a firefight
ensued in which one Chilean soldier was reportedly killed.

The three creatures--a male, a female and a child-- were held at the
regiment's barracks for several hours. Then a NASA team reportedly arrived by
helicopter to take custody of them.

Some residents of Calama, however, claimed that that the Chupacabras were
"creations" of NASA.

"'The gringos had at least three genetic experiments run away from them, and
they've only been able to capture two of them,' said Dagoberto Corante, a
Chilean architect."

"Residents of Calama and nearby communities continued to blame NASA, the U.S.
space agency, for the apparitions and attacks of the mysterious Chupacabras,
which has killed man farm animals in the region and in other parts of Chile.
Several dozen goats, pigs, chickens, rabbits and other animals turned up dead
in northern Calama and its environs during late April (2000)--their bodies
completely exsanguinated (drained of blood--J.T.) and un-devoured by the
mysterious predator."

Stories continue to spread of "the Chupacabras' alleged destructiveness and
their ability of leaping 3-meter (10-foot) tall walls, its ability to walk
unmolested among dogs, while police and volunteers who have set out after it
find only scattered footprints in this area of desert terrain 1,500
kilometers (900 miles) north of" Santiago de Chile, the national capital.

"According to Dagoberto Corante, one such creature was captured by elements
of a local (army) regiment in an operation that resulted in the death of one
soldier, but the (Chilean) military have allegedly refused to discuss the
matter."

"'It was said that the captured animal was kept all day at at the regiment's
barracks until NASA experts arrived to take it away.' said Corante, who is
well-known and respected in the area where the Chupacabra feasted on blood
and spread fear among the population."

"'On the day that the event transpired, the military even closed the (Calama)
airport for several hours to enable the landing of a helicopter conveying
American scientists,' he added, 'although no one is quite sure why they had
to close down an airport in order for a helicopter to function--those are
devices able to land anywhere, and the fact has given rise to much
speculation.'"

(Editor's Comment: Obviously the "secret team" wanted to arrive unobserved.
Helicopters landing in public always draw a crowd.)

"Mario Ramos, a respected resident of San Pedro de Atacama, where he owns a
butcher shop, largely agrees with Corante's story and concerns, and while he
doesn't care to discuss the subject, agreed that a soldier had indeed
perished during the Chupacabra's capture."

Scott Corrales, author of the books Chupacabras and Other Mysteries and
Forbidden Mexico is not so sure that NASA performed the retrieval. He writes,
"The fact is that a number of (USA) agencies (take your pick--S.C.) shield
themselves behind NASA's glowing reputation overseas to conduct covert ops.

If a bunch of military men turn up in the back country of any South American
nation, they're more than likely to find themselves pinned down by unfriendly
fire. If they swap their cammo for lab coats and say NASA, everyone will say,
'Oh, NASA! The guys who put us on the Moon. Right this way.'" (Muchas gracias
a Scott Corrales y Gloria Coluchi para esa historia.)

(Editor's Comment: I just can't see NASA administrator Dan Goldin as a Boris
Karloff-type mad scientist cooking up monsters in the lab. I'm wondering if
these creatures had anything to do with the UFO crash in northern Argentina
weeks ago. Welcome to Varginha 2. I wonder what's on the menu tonight at Camp
Condon. Army-issue tuna-and-noodles!? Maybe it will taste better with some
ketchup on it.)

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Re: [CTRL] UFO EVIDENCE:

[Samantha L.]

In a message dated 6/7/00 7:24:50 AM Central Daylight Time,
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  So it wouldn't be that divinity is magically bestowed, but that to be
free
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   roam the universe, a civilization would have to achieve a certain level
of
   enlightenment first in order that harm might not spread.
  

  I must admit that your idea has a certain something to it that makes
 me wonder, but then again it is just a theory you have.  There really is no
 justification for the idea, though it would be great if we could be assured
 that only good and kind moral beings would come to us.

  True, 'tis just a theory.  But I have a question:  why haven't we continued
to send manned craft to the moon?  It's not as if we've exhausted all
exploring options.  Why did we cease?

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Re: [CTRL] Ultraterrestrials (Was: Re: [CTRL] UFO EVIDENCE:)

[Samantha L.]

In a message dated 6/8/00 6:49:29 AM Central Daylight Time,
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 That doesn't explain why for at least decades -- and possibly much
  longer -- they've been abducting human beings, and especially their
  inordinate interest in our genitalia and reproductive systems.

  One would think that they would have found out whatever they needed to
  long ago -- especially since they DO display seemingly advanced
  technology.


  June

  June actually wrote the above?:-)

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[CTRL] Fwd: AIDS Origins

[Kris Millegan]

 "The date when SIV first evolved to HIV makes it "unlikely'' that a
polio vaccination campaign in the late 1950s can be blamed for the rise of
AIDS.
 "Some researchers have suggested that a polio vaccine made using
chimpanzee kidney cells could have transferred HIV into humans between 1957
and 1960."


Study: HIV Began in 1930s Africa

By PAUL RECER

WASHINGTON (AP) - AIDS evolved from a benign simian infection into a
human-killer in the early 1930s, long before it was recognized as a disease,
but it stayed in remote Africa until jet travel, big cities and the sexual
revolution spread it worldwide, a new study suggests.

Researchers measuring the rate of genetic change in HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS, found the current strains originated from a common ancestor that
first evolved from a simian virus in southwest Africa between 1915 and 1941,
with 1931 the most likely year.

``It could have been in humans even before that,'' said Tanmoy Bhattachary, a
researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. The
study appears Friday in the journal Science.

Bhattachary said the most common form of HIV worldwide evolved from simian
immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, that was in the chimpanzee. SIV genetically
converted to HIV either while it was in the chimp or after a human contracted
SIV.

The disease did not become a worldwide menace, he said, until people left the
isolated areas of Africa and carried the virus around the globe.

``It could have evolved in humans and stayed in a very small population, such
as a village,'' said Bhattachary. ``That is typically what most new diseases
do. They are in an isolated population and then something happens and it
starts spreading all over.''

The findings are consistent with earlier studies that suggested that HIV
originated early in this century and then was spread when Africa became less
isolated.

Bhattachary said the date when SIV first evolved to HIV makes it ``very
unlikely'' that a polio vaccination campaign in the late 1950s can be blamed
for the rise of AIDS. Some researchers have suggested that a polio vaccine
made using chimpanzee kidney cells could have transferred HIV into humans
between 1957 and 1960.

Although the new research could not eliminate that possibility entirely,
Bhattachary said, the fact that HIV originated before the polio vaccine means
``you can probably discount that scenario''

A type of AIDS virus called HIV2, which occurs mostly in Africa, may have
originated from sooty mangabeys, a type of African monkey, the study says.

But HIV1, the virus that has caused a pandemic, came from the chimpanzee, a
primate more closely related to humans.

A form of HIV1 called Group M is the major virus spreading throughout the
world. It has infected about 50 million people and killed 16 million.
Bhattachary said Group M may have crossed over from chimp to humans only
once, or evolved from SIV in only one patient.

``Our study shows that the M group had a single origin,'' he said. ``It could
have come from one animal or from one human.''

Other forms of HIV, he said, had ``multi-introductions.''

The most common form HIV in the United States, called subgroup B, first
evolved between 1960 and 1971, with 1967 being the most likely year, said
Bhattachary.

Clinical symptoms of what later became known as AIDS were reported in the
United States in the late 1970s. AIDS was formally diagnosed and named in
1981. The HIV1 virus was isolated and confirmed in 1983.

John P. Moore, a microbiologist and AIDS researcher at Cornell University in
New York, said the study by Bhattachary and his colleagues is ``outstanding
and significant. They have looked into this very carefully.''

Moore said the findings emphasizes how science needs to be concerned and
alert to the risks of cross-species viral transmissions, many of which are
lethal or cause serious illness in humans.

Another researcher, Jim Moore of the University of California, San Diego,
said the Los Alamos study is consistent with his findings that conditions in
colonial Africa were ripe, starting in the late 19th century, for a new virus
to take hold and spread.

Colonial powers forced people out of villages, causing many to live in the
jungles, surviving by hunting and gathering, said Moore, who is unrelated to
the Cornell scientists. A major food was meat from chimps and monkeys.

``This created conditions ideal for the transfer (of a virus) from chimps and
a spread into small populations,'' said Moore.

Later, he said, large work gangs were organized to build roads and mines,
with some construction organizations promoting prostitution to keep the
isolated workers content. HIV is a sexually transmitted disease.

In more recent decades, an age with easy transoceanic travel and the sexual
revolution, millions of people have been in and out of Africa.

Moore said campaigns to vaccinate the African population against small pox
and other diseases may even have helped HIV spread, saying, 

[CTRL] Fwd: L.A. Times Lies About Notorious BIG Murder Suspect ‹ Brill's Content Report

[Kris Millegan]

L.A. Times Lies About Notorious BIG
Murder Suspect ‹ Brill's Content Report

Posted May 23
Updated May 24
Clarification May 26

NOTORIOUS L.A.T.

In a December, 1999, front page story, the Los Angeles Times ran the name
and picture of a man it identified as a suspect in the murder of rapper
Notorious B.I.G. So what did the paper's editors do when one of its
reporters discovered the story was wrong? They fought amongst themselves,
and sat on the facts.
By John Cook
It's every newspaper editor's nightmare: Two of your star reporters identify
a police suspect in a high-profile celebrity murder. You give it big play:
page one, above the fold. You print the suspect's name and publish his
photograph. The story turns out to be dead wrong. What do you do next?
If you're an editor at the Los Angeles Times, you do absolutely nothing.
That's what happened for more than a month after Times editors realized that
their December, 1999, story identifying a man named Amir Muhammad as a
suspect in the 1997 murder of the rapper Christopher Wallace, a k a The
Notorious B.I.G., was wrong. By early March, according to two newsroom
staffers, the lead detective on the case told a Times reporter that Muhammad
was not a current suspect in the murder, and hadn't been one when the
original story ran in Dec. The Times waited until May 3 to report this fact.
THE BLOCKBUSTER STORY THAT WASN'T
Why did the paper wait so long to correct the record? The follow-up story
was delayed nearly two months while editors fought over whether the paper
should simply report the new facts of the case, or revisit the mistakes that
were made in the first story that wrongly identified Muhammad, according to
two editors and one reporter at the Times.
That original story, by Metro reporters Matt Lait and Scott Glover, was a
big scoop for the paper. Lait and Glover thought they had uncovered a
connection between the rapper's murder and the Rampart Division
police-corruption scandal, a story the same pair had broken in September.
The Times reporters wrote that police suspected an ex-Los Angeles cop named
David Mack in a murder-for-hire scheme to kill Wallace. And since Mack was
once partners with the officer at the center of the corruption scandal, a
potential blockbuster link between the two stories existed, and the L.A.
Times would be out in front on both.
Under the murder-for-hire theory, Mack's triggerman was his college friend,
Amir Muhammad, who appeared to match details the police had on the shooter.
Even though the reporters Lait and Glover were unable to find Muhammad, the
paper ran the story, printing his name and driver's license photo.
THE STORY FALLS APART
But even on cursory examination, the article didn't hold up. It quoted just
two sources on the record, both of whom dismissed the theory -- and didn't
reveal until later in the article that police detectives were also pursuing
a second theory for the murder that didn't involve Muhammad. The article
even stated that police sources "refused to say which theory, if any, was
being given more credence."
Chuck Philips says he was skeptical when he saw the piece. A veteran
reporter at the Times business desk, Philips, 47, had shared a Pulitzer for
beat reporting in 1999 for his coverage of the music business, a beat that
involves covering a lot of crime stories. "Chuck is sort of the world's
authority on rap violence," says his editor, Mark Saylor.
Philips had been following the Wallace investigation closely, but had never
heard about the Mack-Muhammad theory reported by Lait and Glover. So he set
out to find Amir Muhammad. It took him three days, according to Philips and
Muhammad's lawyer. 
After a few weeks of cajoling, Philips says he convinced Muhammad to speak
on the record, and by the first week of March the business reporter had
heard another version of events from David Martin, the lead detective on the
Wallace murder case. Martin told the reporter Muhammad had not been a
suspect when the story ran. The LAPD officer in charge of the unit
investigating the crime, Lieutenant Al Michelena, confirmed to Brill's
Content that Muhammad is not a suspect and was not one when the Times story
ran in December.
Asked about that, L.A. Times executive editor Leo Wolinsky said, "That's
revisionist history. There's a bit of a disconnect within the police
department."
Muhammad declined to comment for this article, but his lawyer, Bryant
Calloway, described his client as a 40-year-old Southern California mortgage
broker with a young daughter. He says his client had nothing to do with
Wallace's murder and had no idea his name had surfaced in connection with
the case until he saw the L.A. Times article on December 9. Muhammad's first
thought upon reading Glover and Lait's piece, says Calloway, was "concern
for his safety and the safety of his family." He feared that an irate
Notorious B.I.G. fan might try to avenge the murder. "His life stopped,"
says Calloway. "The first three or four days he didn't leave 

[CTRL] CIA-DRUGS SYMPOSIUM IN EUGENE, OREGON THIS SAURDAY 6/10/2000

[Kris Millegan]

MEDIA RELEASE

May 30, 2000Contact:Kris Millegan
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CIA-DRUGS SYMPOSIUM IN EUGENE, OREGON

CALENDAR LISTING:
Saturday, June 10, 8 a.m. - 10:00 p.m., Wheeler Pavilion, Lane County
Fairgrounds.   Drug Symposium featuring  nationally known researchers and
scholars who will explore U.S. government involvement in the drug trade.
Peter Dale Scott, Rodney Stich, Michael Ruppert, Daniel Hopsicker.

EUGENE, OREGON: Eight nationally-known speakers offer a free, day-long drug
symposium on Saturday, June 10, to explore why narcotics are so easily
available on the streets of America.   Concerned parents, political leaders,
law enforcement personnel and the general public are invited to a series of
three workshops and two films to be shown at the Wheeler Pavilion, Lane
County Fairgrounds.

Evening keynote speaker, Dr. Peter Dale Scott, is a prolific author and
public speaker from the University of California at Berkeley, who has been
delving into the politics of the cocaine trade for some 20 years.  He is
author of Cocaine Politics and co-author of The Iran Contra Connection.  He
is joined by Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer
who discovered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) bringing drugs into the
United States.  Ruppert is publisher of From the Wilderness magazine, which
deals with the effects of illegal, covert operations on American society.

Celerino "Cele" Castillo is a 12-year veteran of the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA), who served in El Salvador and Central America from 1985
to 1990.  His book Powderburns exposes CIA and DEA collaboration with drug
traffickers in Central America.  Catherine Austin Fitts served as Assistant
Secretary for Housing, and as Federal Housing Commissioner.  Fitts and
Castillo will speak about what they saw taking place in the drug trade from
inside the U.S. government.
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REGIONAL DRUG SYMPOSIUM IN EUGENE
(continued)

Rodney Stich, author of Unfriendly Skies, Drugging America, and Defrauding Ame
rica is a retired Navy pilot and federal inspector who, at the age of 78,
continues his 40-year campaign to expose corruption in the U.S. government.

Dedon Kamathi, a UCLA-educated black activist and recording producer,
utilizes Rap conferences as a method of delivering social change messages.
He is co-chair of the Crack the CIA Coalition, as well as U.S. representative
to the All African People’s Revolutionary Party.  He co-chairs the African
United Front and has lectured extensively on CIA covert drug activities,
including at the Green Party National Convention.

At 6:00 p.m. author and filmmaker, Daniel Hopsicker, will present In Search of
 American Drug Lords, a television documentary (55 minutes) that includes the
story of CIA agent/drug smuggler Adler Berrimen "Barry" Seal.

Local organizer and speaker, Kris Millegan, says this riveting program was
booked into Eugene because Lane County has a highly educated and concerned
community with a history of speaking out on social justice issues.  Millegan
says plans are underway to repeat the program in Washington D.C. later this
year.  A suggested donation of $7 per session or $20 all-day will help to
cover production costs and allow organizers to continue their efforts to
expose the real truth behind America’s drug problem.

For more information, see the CIA-drug internet site:
www,ctrl.org/ciadrugssymposium/ For conference information, contact Kris
Millegan at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Schedule:
7:30 a.m.   Doors open
8 – 10 a.m. America’s Secret Heartbeat (free film)
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.   Mike Ruppert  Kris Millegan
1 – 5 p.m.  Cele Castillio , Catherine Austin Fitts  Dedon Kamathi
6 pmIn Search of American Drug Lords (free film)
Daniel Hopsicker, Rodney Stch  Peter Dale Scott, Phd.
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[CTRL] Fwd: [corp-focus] Which Way, CFA?

[Kris Millegan]

Which Way, CFA?
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

The Consumer Federation of America is at a crossroads. Set up in 1968 to
advocate in Washington, D.C. for consumer interests, the Federation is
being consumed by Washington's corporate culture. Will it seek to reverse
course and get back to its consumer roots? Or will it become just another
corporate front group?

Perhaps the hottest consumer issue of the next few years, genetically
engineered (GE) foods, will severely test its resolve.

Who's in charge of this issue at Federation? None other than Carol Tucker
Foreman, who during the previous decade worked as a lobbyist for Monsanto,
making sure that the highly controversial genetically engineered bovine
growth hormone made it into our milk supply without labeling.

"We see no evidence that Foreman represents anyone other than herself,"
says Ronnie Cummins, national director of the Organic Consumers
Association. "And we resent the fact that the media describes Foreman as a
leading spokesperson for American consumers on food safety issues."

But President Clinton sees it differently. Last month, the Clinton/Gore
administration nominated Foreman to be the U.S. "consumer advocate" to the
Biotech Consultative Forum, a group formed at the behest of the biotech
industry.

The Forum, dominated by experts partial to the industry, will prepare a
report for the December 2000 U.S.-European Union summit.

John Stauber, managing editor of the Madison, Wisconsin-based PR Watch,
says that the problem for the biotech industry is that GE foods were
pushed onto the market too fast. The result: a political and economic
train wreck internationally. European consumers don't want the technology
-- with or without labeling. And to insure that the "no GE foods" virus
doesn't spread across the Atlantic, the industry needs impartial "consumer
advocates" to speak on its behalf.

In Foreman and the Federation, they have a winner. Foreman believes that
"agricultural biotechnology has the potential to provide enormous benefits
to society." But she realizes that American consumers are "skeptical, even
cynical, with regard to the benefits of genetically engineered foods."

When it comes to food risks, "the population tends to be extremely risk
averse and not always rational about food."

But she wants biotech foods on the market, and the only question is how to
get it. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, she has organized a
project with the Federation, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group,
Consumers Union and the Center for Science in the Public Interest to
"develop an optimum regulatory regime" to ensure the safety of genetically
engineered foods. The project has hired a University of Texas Law
Professor, Thomas O. McGarity, to draft legislation.

Foreman is skittish on the question of mandatory labeling of genetically
engineered products. She has refused to support legislation currently
pending in Congress that would require mandatory labeling. Other major
consumer groups have endorsed the legislation.

"She knows the bills are out there," said Richard Caplan of USPIRG. "We
think it is the correct consumer position to endorse those bills, and it
is frustrating that the Consumer Federation of America has not endorsed
these bills."

One reason Foreman might be reluctant -- mandatory labeling could
dramatically reduce the market for genetically engineered foods.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported on April 30 that Japanese importers
and manufacturers of many common food products -- like tofu, miso and
canned corn -- are almost certain to switch to non-genetically engineered
ingredients if they're forced to label.

"I don't think anybody will label containers genetically modified," James
Echle, the director of the Tokyo office of the American Soybean
Association, told the Star-Tribune. "It's like putting a skull and
crossbones on your product."

Foreman's industry connections are indicative of a growing problem within
the Federation: corporate influence. Next week, for example, CFA will give
its annual public service award to Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York),
friend of Wall Street, and hardly a consumer champion. And the
Federation's executive director, Stephen Brobeck, estimates that as much
as 10 percent of the group's $3.1 million budget comes from corporate
donors.

Stauber points out that at a recent conference on food policy sponsored by
the Federation in Washington, D.C., most of the participants came from the
agribusiness and biotech industry. Underwriters, benefactors, sponsors and
patrons included the Food Marketing Institute, Archer Daniels Midland,
IBP, Inc., Unilever, Tropicana -- the heavy hitters of agribusiness.

Brobeck says that when Foreman joined Consumer Federation of America, "she
completely severed any ties with Monsanto."

"Just for appearances sake, we have decided that Monsanto cannot
contribute in anyway to CFA," he told us. "They can't come to the dinner.
They can't come to 

[CTRL] Of closets and Clinton;

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The Nation
March 30, 1998
By: Ireland, Doug

Of closets and Clinton; charges of leaks by White House media adviser Sidney
Blumenthal about sexual preferences of some of Kenneth Starr's staff



Outing the same-sex affinities of public figures against their will is a very
serious matter. Among responsible journalists who are gay, it is considered
verboten unless the person who is to be outed meets the stringent criteria of
what is known in the trade as the Barney Frank rule. As articulated by the
openly gay Democratic Representative from Massachusetts during a
Republican-driven orgy of gay-baiting several years ago--when Frank
threatened to retaliate by publicly naming a number of closeted Republican
House members--the Frank rule, in essence, posits that the only circumstance
in which outing is justifiable is if the person in question is using a
position of power and influence to engage in gay-bashing as a matter of
politics or policy.

The first indication that the Clinton White House might be violating the
Frank rule came in late February, when MSNBC reported that Clinton loyalists
had been leaking derogatory rumors about members of independent counsel
Kenneth Starr's staff, including matters of "sexual preference" (at MSNBC,
which likes to portray itself as the hip news network, it has apparently
escaped notice that same-sex attraction is not a matter of choice, and that
the correct term is "sexual orientation").

As both a journalist and as someone who's gay, my interest was sparked, and I
began making calls to determine whether the outing accusations were true.
Three members of the media confirmed to me that Sidney Blumenthal, the White
House media counselor, had indeed been spreading such stories: They'd heard
him do it. These reputable members of the Beltway media agreed to tell me
what they knew only if guaranteed complete anonymity; they were afraid of
losing access to White House sources, and of possible reprisals. Two said
that Blumenthal had told them directly of the same-sex orientation of a
member of Starr's staff, and a third said he had been present for a
conversation in which Blumenthal made such a comment to a third person.

The claims about Blumenthal's activities go beyond Starr's office. On the
February 25 Nightline, ABC's Chris Bury reported that Blumenthal "is not only
suspected [of] leaking damaging material about Starr's staff, sources tell
Nightline he has been disparaging aggressive reporters on the Lewinsky story
to their colleagues in the media." Two of the members of the media I spoke to
about the Starr allegations also said Blumenthal had described at least two
other media figures to them as gay. One of those sources, as well as other
people who know Blumenthal, described him as fascinated by sexual gossip that
they said he recycles as part of his defense of the Clintons.

When I called Blumenthal, he branded the outing charges a "complete lie."
When told my sources said they had heard the outing information from his
lips, he reiterated, "They did not." People who know Blumenthal maintain that
he is not a homophobe.

Reporters' fears of White House retribution are hardly groundless. The
excellent new book by Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz, Spin
Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (Free Press), recounts how
Blumenthal, "still writing for The New Yorker but increasingly whispering
political advice to Hillary," had dreamed up an attack on Washington Post
reporter Susan Schmidt for her coverage of the Clinton scandals that was to
be used to undermine the respected reporter with her newspaper. Although
dissemination of the critical assault on Schmidt was eventually squelched by
presidential press secretary Mike McCurry, Kurtz's book is replete with
details of other reporters considered guilty of lese-majeste who were frozen
out of White House access or had corn plaints lodged against them with their
bosses.

While I was making my inquiries, a column by Michael Kelly, a senior writer
for National Journal, appeared in the March 5 Post under the heading
"Clinton's Whisperers." Kelly wrote: "One particularly aggressive campaign
involves a prosecutor who is a bachelor, and who has been the subject of
smears concerning both his professional conduct and his past sex life 
Other recent calls to Starr's office from journalists reportedly have
concerned such pertinent matters as whether a member of the investigation was
a closeted homosexual and whether another person was involved in a sexual
relationship with a reporter."

Kelly's column provoked a curious response from William McDaniel, a lawyer
for Blumenthal, which the Post published on March 9. When I called Blumenthal
to ask him about the outing charges, he referred me to the letter. "Mr.
Blumenthal has not been involved in any way in the spreading of any of the
stories that are specified in Mr. Kelly's article or any similar 

[CTRL] Hollywood freezes out Republicans, says Bo

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 Hollywood freezes out Republicans, says Bo
By Simon Davis in Los Angeles






 Bo Derek Official Web Site


 Hollywood Reporter


 Republican National Committee


 Democratic National Committee


 National Coalition on Television Violence



  ACTORS in Hollywood are ostracised and denied work if they openly support
the Republican Party, Bo Derek has claimed.

Bo Derek: the actress claims she has been told she will never work again

The staunch Republican who found fame in the 1979 film Ten likened current
discrimination towards conservatives to the blacklisting of alleged
Communists in the Fifties. She said those who showed themselves to be liberal
Democrats were more likely to get work.

She told reporters in Hollywood: "They (the Democrats) are very adamant and
almost militant in their views. It's tough to have a nice, open conversation
of any kind. People get really angry and they treat me as though I'm some
hateful monster."

Hollywood, which has long been a liberal redoubt within the traditionally
Republican state of California, is controlled by a series of liberal-minded
supporters of Bill Clinton, such as Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Whoopi
Goldberg, who each host profitable fundraising events for the President.

One closet Republican who works for the Hollywood agency CAA said: "All the
studio heads are liberals and everyone who isn't a liberal is pretending to
be because they think it will help them get ahead. That may sound cynical,
but you have to work any angle you can to make it in this very tough
business."

Derek claimed she was advised to keep her views to herself "if she knows
what's good for her". She said: "I have been told that I will never work
again."

Some observers maintain that, while there may be a strong Democratic presence
in Hollywood, actors of a good enough calibre will always get work despite
their political views. "Out of work actors always look for an excuse and a
reason for why they aren't getting any work," said a reporter for the
Hollywood Reporter, the film industry's leading trade newspaper.

However, Jack Abramoff, a former film producer and now a lobbyist, said those
who openly displayed conservative views faced rejection in Hollywood. He
said: "I know people who didn't get jobs because they said they were
Republicans. They are too afraid to speak out about it now because they don't
want to go through that again."

However, even high profile Republican supporters such as Bruce Willis, Kevin
Costner, Mel Gibson and Arnold Schwarzenegger no longer promote their
conservative views in public, preferring to stay silent. Last week
Schwarzenegger announced that he would not pose with a gun to market his
latest film The 6th Day because it was irresponsible.

"If people say movies lead to violence, we should make a concession," said
the 52-year-old actor, in an unusual bout of political correctness.






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Reno Subpoenaed for Raid Documents
NewsMax.com
Thursday, June 8, 2000
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee today subpoenaed Attorney General
Janet Reno for all documents on the heavily armed federal raid in Miami to
seize 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez. It announced plans to subpoena the State
Department also.
``We want everything, so if hearings aren't justified we won't hold them,''
said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. ``If they are,
we will.''

Hatch called for a State Department subpoena after the public interest group
Judicial Watch reported that the federal government collaborated with Cuba's
dictatorship during the fight over Elian.

``These smoking-gun documents help prove what we've suspected, that the
Clinton-Gore administration was doing the bidding of Fidel Castro when they
raided the Gonzalez home using 151 armed federal agents,'' Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton said.


Hatch said: ``I believe this modification is warranted so as to inform the
Congress and the public of any involvement by the State Department and the
Cuban government in the raid. If there was no such involvement, let's
establish that. We will all be better served by getting the facts out.''

The State Department subpoena will be considered next week, Hatch said.

Justice Department spokesman Carole Florman said, "We have complied with
every request for documents, and they have had in their possession ...
everything they are subpoenaing."

Florman denied any coordination between U.S. officials and the Cuban regime.

Judiciary Democrats had mixed reactions to the Justice Department subpoena.

Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., said that exposing all the details would
quash conspiracy theories. ``This will deflate, not inflate, the issue,'' he
said.

Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the committee's ranking Democrat, argued that
Republicans "once again transform this committee's oversight responsibility
into a partisan opportunity."

``Senator Hatch is delighted to send out subpoenas. He's delighted to send
letters. He's delighted to send staff members,'' Leahy said. ``The only thing
he doesn't want to do is hold full-scale Elian hearings ... because the
American people know what we know, that the child belongs with his parents.''

Hatch responded that armed assaults on private homes are ``not America."

``There are many people in our society who are very concerned with the way
that house was assaulted: in the middle of the night in full combat gear,
automatic or semiautomatic weapons drawn, the home trashed without any real
mention in the court document that they were concerned about violence,''
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Red Army: U.S. Won't Help Taiwan When We Attack
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Thursday, June 8, 2000
High-ranking Chinese army officers believe U.S. capabilities in response to
an invasion of Taiwan would be weak because any level of American casualties
would cause support to wane back home.
"We are not afraid of the United States or any other foreign forces, for we
are assured that we can win the war in the end," an unidentified Chinese
general told the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao newspaper in mid-May.

He said that any U.S. intervention on behalf of Taiwan has "already been
taken into account in our military preparations."

"The question is how far can the U.S. go in its interference," he was quoted
as saying. "A slight increase in its casualties will lead to domestic
pressure that will prove too much for it to bear."

China has long been cultivating "strategic relationships" with Russia, the
general said. "We have other strategies to use in such a war, for example, a
China-Russia alliance is also a move that can touch the United States on its
sort spot."

Indeed, recent polls suggest that most Americans don't have the stomach to
defend either Taiwan or a host of other traditional U.S. allies, including
South Korea, should war break out. A poll commissioned by NewsMax.com said an
overwhelming majority of Americans - 69 percent - said the U.S. should not
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[CTRL] Deterrent power of self-protection

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Deterrent power of self-protection
By Jerry Andrews

There are a few topics that cause instant tension.

Pro-life, pro-choice probably heads the list.

Assisted suicide would not be far behind.

And then there are guns.

Gun ownership and use has taken on a life all its own. The rhetoric on guns
has taken on a total right, total wrong tone; there seems to be no middle
ground. To confuse the issue, statistics on homicide and police shootings
are all lumped together with accidental shootings. And they are stirred in
with self-defense statistics. Unfortunately, President Clinton has taken
every opportunity to exploit the tragic loss of life in school shootings.
Our most heartfelt sympathy goes out to the parents, but as with many other
sensitive issues, the emotions do not fit the facts.

The Million Mom's March purportedly organized by Hillary Clinton's Hollywood
friends, the Thomases, and Dan Rather's publicizing of it may have actually
done a disservice to rational and intelligent gun controls. The March seems
to have galvanized the broad cross-section of law-abiding middle Americans
who own guns and intend to keep them. In nearly every political race where
gun ownership has been an issue, the pro-gun candidate won. This may be
troubling for Al Gore and why he is backing off, publicly at least, from his
previous gun-free America talk. Outside of large urban areas, the possession
and legal use of firearms is very popular. One only has to drive across the
country to understand what open spaces mean and why you see gun racks in
pickup trucks.

Instead of the inflammatory language and impossible numbers touted by
Handgun Control, Inc. (30,000 deaths a year) the real facts are more
interesting. For instance, Israel has the highest gun ownership and an even
lower crime rate than Canada where they only have pictures of handguns to
look at. In England the only people who have guns are the military and the
aristocracy. Yet the overall crime rate for England and Wales is 60 percent
higher than in America. While here you're more likely to be shot to death,
in England you are more likely to be bludgeoned or strangled to death. But
dead is dead.

An interesting statistic in the Los Angeles Times this week said "drowning
continues to be a leading cause of accidental death, particularly for
children." While children's deaths are tragic from any cause, it is
particularly reprehensible that the shameless exploitation of school
shootings by Clinton and Gore will cloud the issues for a constructive gun
control consensus. Clearly the current White House capitalizes on turf
warfare by gang members, convenience store hold-ups and drug deals gone bad
as reason to take guns away from the rest of the nation.

In fact, guns at home, or concealed in "carry" state, are a major deterrent
to crime. In every state where carry laws have been enacted, the crime rate
has gone down. The real statistics show that a citizen's right to defend
himself, and especially herself, deters crime. Yes, a few people, even
children, will accidentally die, but many times more will live because of
the deterrent force of self-protection.

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4th Amendment
safe -- for now
'Sneak and peek' measure would have
allowed secret searches by feds

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By Patrick Poole
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com


Civil liberties advocates are breathing a cautious sigh of relief after
congressional officials put a halt to an attempt by Justice Department and
FBI lobbyists to change the federal search warrant requirements to allow
federal law-enforcement officials to conduct so-called "sneak and peek"
searches.

Breaking the story nationally two weeks ago, WorldNetDaily reported that a
provision authorizing the change had been quietly inserted into both the
Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act (S. 486/H.R. 2987) and the Bankruptcy
Reform Act (H.R. 833) currently under consideration by Congress.

The stated intent of the "sneak and peek" proposal is to allow federal agents
to enter a suspect's home to install software that can read and transmit
encryption keys and passwords to agents as they are typed for decoding
encrypted communications. The suspect would not be notified for 90 days that
the keyword-capture software had been installed.

Officials would also be authorized to make copies of computer hard drives,
financial records and other "intangible" items without ever notifying the
suspect that they had been copied. Current search warrant standards require
law enforcement authorities to notify a suspect when entering a residence for
a search and to provide a list of items seized.

The Methamphetamine bill had been scheduled for mark-up in the House
Judiciary Committee on May 24, but the bill's sponsors postponed the hearing
after an odd liberal-conservative coalition headed up by Rep. Sheila Jackson
Lee, D-Texas, and Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., expressed their concerns and
threatened a vote to remove the measure from the bill. A Senate version of
the bill, which passed Nov. 19 by unanimous consent, included the provision
at the insistence of the bill's sponsor, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.

Brad Alexander, spokesman for Barr, told WorldNetDaily that the bill may not
come back up for consideration in the House, rendering the Senate version
moot.

"If it does come up, we're confident that we can pull it out of the House
version and keep it out of any final version that would come out of the
conference committee," he said. "It looks like the Fourth Amendment is safe
for now."

The same provision was included in the bankruptcy reform package, which has
already passed both the House and Senate and is currently being considered by
a conference committee. While it appeared that the measure might slip
through, the prospects of that occurring appear unlikely after a surprise
champion entered the fray -- the National Rifle Association (NRA).

Kirsten Rowe, an NRA lobbyist, told WorldNetDaily that her group weighed in
on the matter after hearing about the ramifications of the proposal from
congressional staff.

"Our concerns are primarily directed towards Second Amendment issues, but at
our heart we are also a civil rights organization concerned about the rest of
the Constitution," she said. "Once we heard about this, we understood that
this measure would eviscerate the Fourth Amendment as we know it, so we went
to work on the conference committee members, who have agreed to remove it."

But civil liberties groups say that they are not only concerned about the
"sneak and peek" proposal itself, but they are troubled by how the provisions
were concealed in both bills.

Rachel King, legislative counsel for the ACLU's Washington, D.C., office,
told WorldNetDaily that the bill's language never mentions search warrants,
making the changes hard to identify.

"If the Justice Department thinks that these measures are absolutely needed,
they ought to be willing to defend them in public, not bury them in some bill
where they will never be seen," she said.

Attorney General Janet Reno has argued that the measure is needed to combat
terrorism and to assist law enforcement in dealing with cybercrime and
kidnapping cases. Last year, the Justice Department included the measure in a
draft version of the Cyberspace Electronic Security Act, but it was removed
from the final version after civil liberties organizations expressed their
opposition to the search warrant requirement changes.

Some congressional officials remain wary that the measure might appear again
in other bills as the legislative session continues. Alexander said that the
proposal could be dropped into one of the massive appropriation bills later
this year.

"The appropriations process is a tempting vehicle to sneak these things
through, particularly in an election year, so we're going to keep our eyes
open for things like this," he said.

But he added that public awareness of the issue and the large numbers of
citizens contacting their elected representatives 

[CTRL] Barr pleads the Fourth

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Representative fights proposed
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Members of Congress are expressing outrage after Department of Justice and
FBI lobbyists tucked an unseen provision into an anti-drug bill that expands
their power to conduct "black bag" jobs, allowing them to enter homes,
conduct searches and seize certain items without telling anyone.

Congressional critics and civil liberty advocates are charging that the
measure, part of the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act ( HR 2987, S.
486), would be in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The bill, which was approved by the Senate on Nov. 19 by unanimous consent,
is scheduled to be considered by the full House Judiciary Committee this
morning. One committee member, Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., told WorldNetDaily that
he intends to offer an amendment to remove the offending sections of the
bill.

According to Barr, even though the changes would come from an anti-drug bill,
the provisions in question would apply to virtually any search conducted by
the federal government.

"This isn't dealing with just drug investigations; it changes the section in
the U.S. Code that deals with federal warrant notice and inventory
requirements," he said. "That's the primary reason I object to it, because it
affects all criminal law."

Current law requires federal agents to announce their presence before
entering a premise and to provide an inventory of confiscated items at the
time that they are seized. But buried at the end of the "Defeat Meth Act"
lies Section 6, entitled "Notice Clarification," which would allow searches
of homes, vehicles and workplaces without any notice. The provision would
also allow federal law enforcement officials to make copies of "intangible"
items, such as computer drives and financial documents, for future
examination without ever informing the person subject to the search that the
items had been seized.

Another section of the bill would relieve agents from giving property owners
subject to the secret searches an inventory of seized items -- leaving
citizens completely blind to the government's actions.

"This bill would gut the Fourth Amendment, because how can a person challenge
a warrant if they never find out about it until after the harm has been
done?" questioned David Kopel, research director for the Independence
Institute and a leading constitutional scholar.

Barr said he became aware of the bill's provisions late last week and began
to contact other congressional members to organize an effort to strip out the
offending portions when the bill comes before the Judiciary Committee for
mark-up today. His efforts face an uphill battle because Rep. Chris Cannon,
R-Utah, the bill's House sponsor, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the chairman
of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, are defending the provisions as
necessary for law enforcement officials to conduct their duties.

He also said that he was surprised to learn that the exact same provisions
were included in a bankruptcy reform bill, HR 833, that passed both houses
earlier this year and is currently being considered by a conference
committee.

"We're talking with the conference committee members to get it removed from
the bankruptcy bill. They met on Thursday evening and discussed it," he said.
"We're remaining hopeful, but nothing has been finalized yet."

Barr, a former federal prosecutor, also sharply criticized the Justice
Department and FBI for burying the far-reaching measures in an unrelated
bill.

"This is typical behavior from the DOJ and the FBI on these types of issues.
Rather than having a fair and open hearing where members can weigh the
proposal on its merits, they go to one of their allies in either house and
have it slipped in a bill," he said. "That's certainly not the way to conduct
business when you're dealing with people's civil liberties."

Kopel echoed those sentiments, saying that the FBI has difficulty trying to
pass liberty-eroding legislation.

"They're sneaking it into a bill because they know it can't stand the
scrutiny of public inquiry," said Kopel. "They understand the American public
would not be happy if they found out that their civil liberties are under
assault from the very people charged with defending the Constitution."

This is not the first time that the Justice Department has resorted to covert
tactics to implement unpopular measures. In the last few hours of the 1994
session, for instance, Congress enacted the Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act, which required telephone firms to configure their equipment
to make it easier to wiretap the nation's communication systems. The law
passed over strong opposition from civil liberties organizations after the
FBI promised telephone companies $500 

[CTRL] Burton: Gore's E-Mails Disappeared

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 Burton: Gore's E-Mails Disappeared
NewsMax.com
Friday, June 9, 2000
WASHINGTON - Rep. Dan Burton has released a written admission by the White
House counsel that none of the e-mails from the vice president's office from
March 1998 through April 1999 were saved on backup tapes.
Burton, appearing on CNBC's "Hardball" Thursday night, said he thought the
failure to save the e-mails may have been "deliberate."

Until this recent revelation, the Burton-led Committee on Government Reform
and the several investigative bodies looking into the White House e-mail
matter had been led to believe that all Office of the Vice President e-mails
had been saved.

"Three weeks ago, the committee interviewed a witness who told us she had
written a memo to the vice president, at the vice president’s request back in
April 1999 about the fact that e-mail in his office had not been properly
archived," said Burton, R-Ind. "We wrote to the White House counsel asking
why that memo had not been turned over even though the language of our
subpoena called for it.

"On Wednesday, we received a reply from the White House telling us that
'[Your letter] has led us to discover that a technical configuration error
apparently prevented e-mail on the OVP server from being backed up from the
end of March 1998 through early April 1999.'”

"We also learned that the vice president's staff wanted his records to be
managed differently than other records in the White House. The committee was
told that the vice president himself was warned in April of 1999 about
problems with his records management. Apparently, neither the vice president
nor anyone on his staff cared enough to notify the White House counsel, this
committee or any of the independent counsels who had outstanding document
requests.

"This is consistent with what was happening in the Office of Administration
and the White House Counsel's Office. It is obvious that the White House
continues to pursue its strategy of willful ignorance. At every turn they
have fought to preserve their cluelessness."

On March 23, 2000, the committee heard testimony from the Northrop Grumman
contractors who discovered the White House e-mail problem. In 1998 these
nonpartisan contract employees discovered a computer glitch that failed to
preserve hundreds of thousands of e-mails that came into the White House from
1996 through 1998. The e-mails had not been archived as is required by
federal law, nor produced to Congress, the Justice Department or any of the
several independent counsels - all of whom were investigating allegations of
corruption in the executive branch.

Chairman Burton has called for a special counsel to investigate the e-mail
matter. To date, Attorney General Janet Reno has failed to respond to his
request.

"This is just the latest outrage in this whole unfortunate matter," Burton
said. "First, the White House counsel certified that we had all documents
responsive to our subpoenas. Then the White House led us to believe that all
the missing e-mails had been saved on thousands of backup tapes. Now we learn
that not even that is true.

"The White House failure to turn over records about problems in the vice
president’s office is yet another example of the ethical minimalism that
governs White House document production."






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[CTRL] rapist hits Gates but leaves Exxon alone??

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Microsoft Is Fined $100 Billion
James Davidson

May 1, 2000

"While Joel Klein and his Justice Department were publicly and distastefully
celebrating Judge Jackson's decision, the market capitalization of Microsoft
was dropping by more than $100 billion. That's not some theoretical figure.
It is a loss in real wealth – in many cases, in retirement savings – of more
than two million direct shareholders of Microsoft and of tens of millions
more who have substantial holdings of Microsoft in their mutual funds and
annuities. ... The NASDAQ carnage has been wide-ranging. And why not? The
Internet intervention of government, often in league with trial lawyers,
threatens every high-tech firm in America."
– James R. Glassman, Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2000.
Microsoft is fined $100 billion

For many years, Silicon Valley was Death Valley as far as politicians were
concerned. Candidates trolling for dollars and lobbyists seeking to squeeze
rents from successful companies usually came away empty-handed in dealings
with New Economy companies. High tech entrepreneurs were getting rich
without help from government.

Even worse, as far as the politicians were concerned, the new entrepreneurs
were insufficiently motivated to pay the kind of protection money that has
flowed in torrents from Old Economy companies and corporate executives
accustomed to the normal perils and blandishments of government
intervention. Many of the big boys of the New Economy, most prominently Bill
Gates, the world's richest man, paid less tribute to politicians than a
junior vice president at General Motors.

It did not go unnoted. Under prodding from some of Microsoft's politically
active competitors, like Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, and America
Online, owner of Netscape, the Clinton [In]Justice Department brought an
antitrust action against Microsoft. As everyone knows, the judge in the
case, Thomas Penfield Jackson, appears to have totally swallowed the
competitors' view of Microsoft, including the strange notion that Microsoft
abused consumers by giving them free Internet software.

I am not a Microsoft shareholder, but like most owners of PCs, I am a
Microsoft customer. While not without fault, the company has indisputably
helped make personal computing much cheaper and more practical than it would
have been otherwise. Indeed, it is the very usefulness of Microsoft and its
products that make its example informative. Judge Jackson's unfavorable
ruling on Monday, April 3, touched off a steeper high tech sell-off than
even five Fed interest rate hikes could engineer.

In theory, the government clobbered Microsoft for violating some almost
metaphysical points of antitrust law. But don't waste your time reading law
books. The $100 billion loss to Microsoft shareholders, as well as the one
trillion dollars lost from the value of other high tech companies,
disappeared for an altogether different reason. Microsoft paid the price
because the company and its executives failed to contribute enough money to
the Democratic Party.

You can bet your last nickel that if Bill Gates had been paying gaudy sums
to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom or sponsoring illegal fund raisers in
Buddhist temples, he would never have been targeted by Janet Reno's brigade.
Had Gates contributed as avidly to the Clinton re-election as the People's
Liberation Army, Microsoft would not only have its near-term future intact,
it would probably be running the Panama Canal to boot. If Gates had
contributed to politicians instead of to education, the Antitrust division
of the Justice Department would have spent the last two years filling crates
with useless documents about the courtship between Exxon and Mobil.

Why did the Clinton administration go after Gates but leave Exxon alone?
Because there was no need for the politicians to pound the oil industry over
the head. Oil executives have known that their industry was in thrall to
politicians since even before an antitrust ruling broke John D.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil into 30 pieces at the beginning of the 20th
century. By its end, the Clinton administration was perfectly content to let
two of the bigger of those pieces merge back together.

Make no mistake. The government attack on Microsoft is not a genuine, if
misbegotten, attempt to make markets work better, as some infatuated A-Level
students of antitrust theory suppose. It is something less exalted and far
more primitive: a power play. Politicians act like jealous dogs. They want
to establish their dominion over any new sphere of wealth that technology
and economic development bring to the fore. Once upon a time, they fretted
that John D. Rockefeller was becoming too powerful. So they sliced and diced
his company.

The politicians want to be the big dogs in the road. To that end, they are
content to impose ruinous costs on anyone who threatens to escape from their
thrall.

If chopping $25 billion out of Gates' net worth knocks $20,000 off the value
of your 

[CTRL] Worldwide Lunch Program

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Date: Thursday, June 01, 2000 8:26 AM

FYI...
http://www.electronic-townhall.net


AP Washington - 05/30/2000

Worldwide Lunch Program Proposed
by PHILIP BRASHER
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton has asked his
administration to consider establishing an international school lunch
program similar to the federal one that subsidizes meals in American
schools.

Former Sen. George McGovern, U.S. representative to the U.N.
Food and Agriculture Organization, proposed the feeding program
to Clinton last week at a meeting with Agriculture Secretary Dan
Glickman and other administration officials.

After Clinton heard McGovern's pitch, ''We were instructed to go and
flesh the idea out,'' Glickman said Tuesday at a nutrition conference.
''The president gave us a green light to go out and develop this
program.''

An estimated 300 million children in Africa, Asia and Latin America
suffer from malnutrition, including 150 million, mostly girls, who
don't go to school, McGovern said.

The Agriculture Department subsidizes lunches for 27 million U.S.
children, including 15 million who get meals for free or at reduced
prices. The program cost $6 billion last year.

The availability of free lunches would improve nutrition overseas,
attract kids to school who otherwise would get no education and
provide an outlet for surplus U.S. farm commodities, McGovern said.

''Nobody has been able to find a better way to get them to school
than to offer them lunch,'' he said.

McGovern was a leading advocate for federal nutrition programs
while serving in the Senate from South Dakota in the 1960s and
1970s. He ran for president three times, in 1968, 1972 and 1984.

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Re: [CTRL] Worldwide Lunch Program

[[to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]]

In a message dated 06/08/2000 10:15:16 PM Central Daylight Time,
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 'Nobody has been able to find a better way to get them to 


FREE  FOOD!
Nobody has been able to find a better way to get them to.willingly
put on the chains of slavery.
This is the way it was done in America.why not the world?

Drug pushers often use this same tactic.
First they give away some "free samples".
Then when they have the new customer "hooked" on the drug
they have that person under their control.

Years ago, the Federal Government began offering "free funding"
of school lunch programs. The stated purpose was to make sure
that no child in America went hungry at school.
The School Districts were the real targets.
They were the ones that got "hooked" on the "free money" from Washington.

Once they were hooked, the government had them under control.

Example:  When the Federal Courts ordered massive bussing of
students to achieve "racial balance" in the nation's schools, many
school districts didn't want to comply.
They were abruptly informed that if they did not obey, they would
lose all Federal Funding including the money for the School Lunch Program.
The result was that the nation's school districts shut up and obeyed.

Same thing with the 55 MPH nationwide speed limit on all the
highways a few years ago.  Some states didn't want to reduce
the limit to 55.  But they quickly obeyed when they were threatened
with the loss of all federal highway funding.

So now Clinton is calling for a "Free Lunch Program" for the world.
There is absolutely nothing in the U.S. Constitution that gives the
Federal Government the power to use federal funds to pay for school lunches,
even in our own country.  There is less than absolutely nothing in our
Constitution that give the government the power to fund a global
free lunch program.

Of course, Bill Clinton regards our Constitution as toilet paper
and treats it accordingly.

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Re: [CTRL] Chupacabras Captured!!!???

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 According to reports obtained by Marcial Campos Maza, a reporter for Chile's
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  ensued in which one Chilean soldier was reportedly killed.

  The critters were armed?

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Charles Manson the Solar Lodge of the OTO

[tenebroust]

One thing is absolutely certain, what with the O.T.O., the Solar Lodge, The Family, 
The Process Church of the Final Judgement, and numerous other, "end times" or "occult" 
"religious" or quasi-religious movements and their many interesting connections, this 
whole area is rife with disinformation, and manipulation by intel. and others to suit 
the purposes of the elite hoi polloi.


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[CTRL] Ultraterrestrials

[tenebroust]

Since we are speculating we might try to address some of these issues.  What if the 
so-called abductions of today, since I'm sure most would agree that abductions (as 
opposed to interaction and weird events not involving actual abduction-and possibly 
experimentation) are a relatively new phenomenon, are merely a mental scenario and do 
not take place at all.  Much as the "glamour" that has been suggested as a power these 
beings possess is a mental manipulation, could they not also instill mental frameworks 
of another kind that could be interpreted this way?  Let us not forget that 
psychologists have put alien visitation and abduction in the same class with the 
so-called "hag phenomenon" and the supposed action of witches in days of yore, where a 
person would awaken to a feeling of presences in the room with them, and sometimes 
feel as though a weight of another being was pressing down upon them and they were 
helpless and unable to move.  There certainly does seem to be an inordinate interest 
in sex and sexuality that's for sure, but could that not aso be a byproduct of mental 
tampering, especially if the ental contact is such that it invokes profound physical 
symptoms, which may involve orgasm, as well as pleasure (this may be a way they 
control the people they interact with, or make them more "relaxed", etc.).  Just some 
thoughts.  Of course IF they are physical beings AND they really DO abduct people then 
there would have to be some purpose for it.  Would we have genetic similarity?  I 
think that we would if we each developed according to similar evolutionary lines, and 
it seems they are very much like us in the way they look and behave.  Interbreeding 
could be a possibility.  Perhaps they use us for pleasure, whether "toying" with us 
for amusement, or satisfying their own prurient interests.


On Thu, 08 June 2000, Ynr Chyldz Wyld wrote:


 From: "tenebroust" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  If there are these creatures as you posit, then why is it that they
 have to have an agenda?  It may be that there interaction with us is
 coincidental, or accidental, or that the times that they actually DO
 things to us or with us it is the action of BAD members of that race
 who are trying to get ahead in the world, much like humans exploit
 other humans.  It could be cultural, or ritual as well.  Maybe we are
 the subject of mythology in their culture, and they are merely trying
 to study us?

 That doesn't explain why for at least decades -- and possibly much
 longer -- they've been abducting human beings, and especially their
 inordinate interest in our genitalia and reproductive systems.

 One would think that they would have found out whatever they needed to
 long ago -- especially since they DO display seemingly advanced
 technology.


 June

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Re: [CTRL] Senate approves police searches and seizures without warrants

[tenebroust]

I'll certainly sleep better at night with this new law in effect.  Not only is the 
premise of "combatting drugs" erroneous and unnecessary, but the broad range of powers 
it delivers is ridiculous.  How can one give such powers to agencies which have shown 
themselves to be abusers of the power they already have?  The Justice Department, 
BATF, and most Police Forces throughout the country rely upon "drug money" for new 
weapons and materiel, this gives them more power to build bigger arsenals and more 
"tactical response teams" so they can do MORE "dynamic entries" and find more ILLEGAL 
drugs, which will do nothing to reduce drug use (a goal that society has no business 
even trying anyway) and will only have as its end result bigger police forces who take 
more things and kill more people and have less oversight, and are not required to 
follow even the barest framework of the constitution and the protections this country 
was established under.
A sorry day indeed.  I would say we might have a prayer of it being overturned in the 
Supreme Court, but fat chance there since they are busy stripping away our rights 
every chance they get.



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 Subject: Senate approves police searches and seizures without warrants
 Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:15 AM

 http://www.ashevilletribune.com/nowarrants.htm

 Senate approves police searches and seizures without warrants
 Compiled by Dana Davis

 The United States Congress is on the verge of passing a Republican sponsored
 bill that would eradicate the Fourth Amendment of the United States
 Constitution. Article IV of the Bill of Rights states, "The right of the
 people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
 unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants
 shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and
 particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things
 to be seized." In addition, the bill extends its authority to impede upon the
 First Amendment Right of "Freedom of Speech."

 The Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act, "To provide for the punishment of
 methamphetamine laboratory operators, provide additional resources to combat
 methamphetamine production, trafficking, and abuse in the United States, and
 for other purposes," has already passed through the Senate and was being
 deliberated by the House of Representatives as of press time.

 In effect, what the provision does is empower the Federal Government, State
 Government and local law enforcement agencies, to enter private property –
 homes, businesses, automobiles, etc. - for any "criminal searches" without a
 warrant and without any legal obligation to inform the private property owner
 that a search and seizure was conducted until months later, if at all. If the
 bill becomes law, then it would grant the Federal Government power to obtain
 "intangible" evidence -- hard-drive data, photographs or copies made of any
 documents or family or personal belongings, diaries, etc. – without ever
 having to inform the owner that their property was searched. If physical
 evidence was taken then the government could wait up to 90 days later, before
 having to notify the owner that a secret search of their property ever
 occurred.

 David Kopel, director of research for the Independence Institute, a Colorado
 think tank focusing on Constitutional issues, said the bill was aimed
 especially at computer hard drives, which could be copied in an owner’
 absence and examined without the owner’s knowledge.

 The Senate’s version of the bill (S. 486) was sponsored by Senator John
 Ashcroft (R-Missouri). The House Bill (H.R. 2987) was sponsored by U.S.
 Representative Chris Cannon (R-Utah).

 It’s primary initiative is to increase criminal penalties for the sale,
 production and distribution of methamphetamines, appropriate funds to crack
 down on "meth labs" where the drug is processed, and fund methamphetamine
 treatment programs. However, tucked away deep inside the legal jargon of the
 bill are two provisions which go far beyond the realm of methamphetamine
 anti-proliferation or even the war on drugs. One measure pertains to police
 search and seizure, while the other attempts to dictate Internet
 communication.

 Under present law, a property owner must be notified immediately of any
 possession seized in a criminal search, but the "Notice and Clarification"
 section of the methamphetamine bill (S. section 301, H.R. section 6) amends
 U.S. Code by stating, "Section 3103a of title 18, United States Code, is
 amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: `With respect to any
 issuance under this section or any other provision of law (including section
 3117 and any rule), any 

Re: [CTRL] UFO EVIDENCE:

[tenebroust]

The issue of moon exploration is fraught with all kinds of conspiracy theories.  Of 
course NASA might be right and there just was not enough funding or interest to 
maintain the program.  It could also be that there is something there which 
discourages our continued exploration, be it the "Alternative 3" scientific moonbases, 
the supposes Nazi bases, or aliens from elsewhere.  Then again maybe we didn't go to 
the moon at all, ever.
I think it was a number of things which have limited further exploration, including 
the idea that there was little interest to fuel more money for the program, BUT I will 
say this, it seems to me that there has been a suppression of positive societal 
influence on space exploration in general.  It seems to me that military types are 
against the proliferation of space flight and more exploration because it infringes 
upon an area they have effective control over and would endanger secret operations and 
programs they are running.



On Thu, 08 June 2000, "Samantha L." wrote:


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   So it wouldn't be that divinity is magically bestowed, but that to be
 free
  to
roam the universe, a civilization would have to achieve a certain level
 of
enlightenment first in order that harm might not spread.
   
 
   I must admit that your idea has a certain something to it that makes
  me wonder, but then again it is just a theory you have.  There really is no
  justification for the idea, though it would be great if we could be assured
  that only good and kind moral beings would come to us.

   True, 'tis just a theory.  But I have a question:  why haven't we continued
 to send manned craft to the moon?  It's not as if we've exhausted all
 exploring options.  Why did we cease?

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: AIDS Origins

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Science steps in again to reassure us that they know it all.  If their new findings 
are correct, then how is it that AIDS seemed to spring up so blatantly in the 
Homosexual communities of major American cities, and Haiti?  I don't see a connection 
with Africa there.


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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Charles Manson the Solar Lodge of the OTO

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elite hoi polloi



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[CTRL] World's Blood Suppy Contaminated

[Carl Amedio]

 More than half of the world's countries fail to perform full tests on
donated blood, increasing the risk of spreading AIDS and other diseases,
according to the World Health Organization (WHO). From five to ten percent of
people with the AIDS virus are estimated to be infected via blood
transfusions. A reliable and safe blood supply is still out of reach for
millions of people around the world because of lack of commitment and support
on the part of many governments. Annually, more than 13 million units (pints)
of blood, almost one-fifth of the world's annual consumption, are not tested
for all infections that could be transmitted by transfusions. In addition to
AIDS, many other diseases -- such as hepatitis B and C, malaria and syphilis,
can be transmitted through transfusions. Each year, unsafe transfusion and
injection practices are estimated to account for 8 million to 16 million
hepatitis B infections, 2.3 to 4.7 million hepatitis C and 80,000 to 160,000
HIV infections. WHO concedes that blood testing is expensive, costing between
$40 and $50 per unit. It also is not always reliable, if carried out by
inadequately trained staff or with inadequate equipment. WHO hopes to change
this by helping countries install national blood safety programs.

Associated Press, "Much of world's blood supply not fully tested, creating
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