[CTRL] Fw: MRC Alert Special: 'Fewer U.S. Dead = Less TV Coverage of Iraq'
-Caveat Lector- MRC Alert Special: 'Fewer U.S. Dead = Less TV Coverage of Iraq'--2/28/2008-- Media Research Center - Original Message - From: Media Research Center To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 13:54 Subject: MRC Alert Special: 'Fewer U.S. Dead = Less TV Coverage of Iraq' top -- ***Media Research Center CyberAlert Special*** 1:55pm EST, Thursday February 28, 2008 Media Reality Check study: Fewer U.S. Dead = Less TV Coverage of Iraq; Networks Minimize Good News From Iraq, Don't Press Democrats on 'Wrong-Headed' Predictions Below is the text of a Media Reality Check, posted earlier today, recounting the results of a study conducted by Rich Noyes, the MRC's Research Director. For the HTML version online, with a chart, go to: http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2008/fax20080228.asp For the PDF version, a formatted one-pager ready for printing, also with the chart: http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2008/pdf/fax0228.pdf Now the text of the February 28 Media Reality Check study: Fewer U.S. Dead = Less TV Coverage of Iraq Networks Minimize Good News From Iraq, Don't Press Democrats on Wrong-Headed Predictions One year ago, liberal journalists depicted the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq as a certain failure. A lot of people are going to go to bed tonight terrified, MSNBC's Chris Matthews opined just minutes after President Bush announced the policy on January 10, 2007. Other journalists were only slightly more subtle. Many experts warn, it's too little, too late, NBC's Jim Miklaszewski argued on the January 8, 2007 Nightly News. The next morning on NBC's Today, the network's graphic describing Iraq was Lost Cause? At the same time, leading Democrats left themselves no wiggle room as they, too, denounced the surge. Senator Barack Obama called it wrong- headed and countered with a proposal to pull nearly all U.S. troops out of Iraq by March 2008. Senator Hillary Clinton came back from a quick trip to Iraq to declare: I am opposed to this escalation, while another Democratic candidate, Senator Joe Biden, blasted the troop surge as a tragic mistake. One year later, the President's surge strategy is well on its way to succeeding. The Iraqi parliament has passed several laws meeting required political reconciliation benchmarks. Attacks in Baghdad have fallen up to 80 percent in the past twelve months, Reuters reported February 16. Deaths among Iraqi military forces and civilians have dropped by more than two-thirds, from more than 2,000 per month in early 2007 to fewer than 600 per month since November. And U.S. military deaths have also declined, falling from 126 in May 2007 to 40 in January 2008 and just 29 so far in February, with two days left in the month. Yet this good news seems to have diminished the media elite's interest in broadcasting any news from Iraq. MRC intern Lyndsi Thomas helped tabulate all ABC, CBS and NBC evening news stories about Iraq since the beginning of 2007, just as the surge strategy was being implemented. After heavy coverage of the shift to a new Iraq policy in January and February 2007, the TV coverage began to closely track the rising and falling death rates for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. When the number of U.S. fatalities jumped in May, TV coverage jumped, too. When U.S. casualties began to steadily decline, TV coverage of Iraq dramatically decreased. [For more on how the broadcast networks are tuning out the Iraq war, see the February 4 CyberAlert: http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080204.asp#5] While the amount of coverage has shriveled, the tone remains more negative than positive. So far this month, the three evening newscasts have aired just 41 items on Iraq, most (23) just brief items read by the anchor. A mere seven stories were field reports from Iraq. Only ABC's World News (February 13) noted the passage of key legislation by the Iraqi parliament, followed by a unique story the next evening on the success of the surge. The CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News offered no such stories in February, but NBC did find time to report a visit to Iraq by actress Angelina Jolie. Back in December, NBC's Tim Russert conceded that the media were less interested in covering a successful U.S. mission in Iraq, telling anchor Brian Williams that with the surge in Iraq and the level of American deaths declining, it is off the front pages. This is not neutral news judgment, but a great favor to anti-surge Democrats, since TV's lack of interest in Iraq spares them the chore of defending their now-discredited opposition to the surge. Does anyone think the media would have let John McCain off the hook had the surge failed as spectacularly as it has succeeded? -- Rich Noyes
Re: [CTRL] Total Info Radio: 9/11 tvf*ckery, Willie Nelson on 9/11
-Caveat Lector- test -Original Message- From: Total Information [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:30 am Subject: [CTRL] Total Info Radio: 9/11 tvf*ckery, Willie Nelson on 9/11 -Caveat Lector- Total Info Radio: 9/11 tvf*ckery, Willie Nelson on 9/11 http://www.total411.info/2008/02/total-info-radio-911-tvfckery-willie.html [http://totalinfo.podomatic.com/enclosure/2008-02-25T17_07_36-08_00.mp3] MP3 DOWNLOAD Nico Haupt on 9/11 tvfuckery Ron Paul on the NAU Willie Nelson on 9/11 (discussion analysis thereof) -- -- www.total411.info www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Fwd: McCain fortune traced to organized crime
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 8:44 pm Subject: [cia-drugs] Fwd: McCain fortune traced to organized crime -Original Message- From: don.stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 7:38 pm Subject: McCain fortune traced to organized crime McCain fortune traced to organized crime Mob figures later implicated in Arizona savings and loan scandal Posted: February 26, 2008 9:29 pm Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2008 WorldNetDaily Sen. John McCain John McCain's personal fortune traces back to organized crime in Arizona, through his father-in-law, according to a report published by a multi-news agency team called Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. IRE reporters Amy Silverman and John Doherty, writing in the Phoenix New Times, note that the father of McCain's wife, James Hensley, was convicted by a federal jury in U.S. District Court of Arizona in March 1948 on seven counts of filing false liquor records. Hensley also was charged with conspiracy to hide from federal authorities the names of persons involved in a liquor industry racket with two companies he managed, United Sales Company in Phoenix and United Distributors in Tucson. The umbrella company, United Liquor, at that time held a monopoly in Arizona, organized and managed by Kemper Marley, who was accused of mob ties by a reporter who was murdered in 1977. Silverman and Doherty report that by 1955, Hensley had launched a Budweiser distributorship in Phoenix, a franchise reportedly bestowed upon him by Marley, who was never indicted in the 1948 liquor-law-violation case – or a subsequent one – despite his controlling role in the liquor distribution businesses. According to Marley's longtime public relations man, Al Lizanetz, the Marley liquor empire was founded by the Bronfman family dynasty of Canada which operated Allied Finance Company, Northern Export Company and Distillers Corporation – the Seagrams, Ltd. empire. As chronicled by the Rumrunners and Prohibition video shown popularly on the History Channel, during the 1920s, the Bronfman family made millions in bootlegging, accounting for half the illegal liquor crossing the border, working in a profitable distribution deal with the infamous mobster Meyer Lansky, who later moved on to establish the crime syndicates in the casinos of Havana, Cuba, in the 1940s and 50s. Arizona in the 1970s drew a who's who of organized crime figures seeking to retire in the sun, including Rochester, N.Y., mob boss Joe Bonanno, who spent his last days along the Lake Havasu shores and in a quiet home in Tucson. In 1977, after Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles was killed when his car was blown up by the mob in a parking lot, a team of 36 journalists from 27 news organizations, known as IRE, published an 80,000 word 23-part series on organized crime in Arizona. Dan Nowicki and Bill Muller, reporting in the Arizona Republic March 1, 2007, documented that in 1953, Hensley was again charged with falsifying records at Marley's liquor firms. Hensley was found not guilty after being defended by William Rehnquist, the future chief justice of the Supreme Court, Nowicki and Muller wrote. In 2000, Hensley, then 80 years old, still controlled the Budweiser distributorship valued as a $200 million-a-year business, with annual sales of more than 20 million cases of beer. On Feb. 17, 2000, Pat Flannery reported in the Arizona Republic that Hensley's beer-distribution empire was the fifth largest in the nation, a Budweiser franchise whose bigwigs hold the No. 2 spot on Sen. John McCain's all-time career list of corporate donors. Since 1982, according to the Center for Public Integrity, Hensley Co. officials have pumped $80,000 into the campaigns of McCain, Flannery wrote. More than a quarter of that has been donated since 1997. Flannery further reported that in 2000, Cindy Hensley McCain, the senator's wife, held a 37.18 percent financial interest in her father's Budweiser distributorship, although she was not involved in day-to-day operations. The McCain's four children held a combined 23.55 percent interest, though their interests were at that time held in trust. Arizona crime connections again surfaced in the 1980s when McCain was implicated as one of the five U.S. senators named in the Keating Five scandal. Charles Keating Jr. and his associates paid McCain some $112,000 in political campaign contributions between 1982 and 1987, while Keating was organizing a massive real estate fraud in the then FDIC federally insured Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. In April 1986, McCain's wife and father-in-law also invested $359,000
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Cocaine galore! £7m of Colombia's finest washes up on Cornish beaches
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 8:25 pm Subject: [cia-drugs] Cocaine galore! £7m of Colombia's finest washes up on Cornish beaches http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/28/drugsandalcohol Cocaine galore! £7m of Colombia's finest washes up on Cornish beaches · Suitcase sized packages worth £1m each · Theory that they have floated from Caribbean Frank Partridge is partial to a spot of beachcombing. He likes to pop down to Pentreath Beach on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall and find out what odds and ends have been washed in by the tide. But rather than the usual hunks of weather-beaten wood and pieces of broken lobster pot, Partridge's latest expedition yielded a rather more valuable haul - a package of cocaine with a street value of more than £1m. As a law-abiding citizen - and clerk of the local parish council - Partridge knew he had to had to prevent the drugs from falling into the wrong hands. I thought if I didn't take it, someone who might not go to the police would. So he dragged the 25kg (55lb) package off the beach and rolled it home in a wheelbarrow. Such events have become almost routine in Cornwall. Within the last three weeks five similar hauls - more than £6m worth - have been discovered on the county's beaches. Another big haul, worth more than £1.5m, washed up on a beach in north Wales and a single package, worth a mere £100,000 or so, was found in south Wales. Devon and Cornwall police are working with Interpol and other global agencies to try to find out how the drugs are ending up on British beaches. The origin does not take much detective work; some of the packages are marked Colombia in faded writing. But how they ended up in the sea remains a puzzle. The age of the packages, and the presence of warm water-loving barnacles suggests they may be floating all the way across the Atlantic from the Caribbean. One theory is that smugglers dumped the cocaine overboard as they were pursued by American or British anti-drug patrols. Police are worried that other packages may be heading to the UK, or may have already arrived, and could fall into the hands of people less scrupulous than Partridge. Patrols have been stepped up on beaches and customs and coastguard officers have been asked to keep an eye out, but 500 miles of Devon and Cornwall coastline is a challenge to police. They are also concerned that the cocaine in the packages is particularly pure and so could harm an innocent person if they accidentally consumed it. The first of the packages washed up in Bude, north-east Cornwall, at the start of the month. A few days later a wildlife researcher, James Saulino, came across packages of drugs at Kynance Cove, on the Lizard in the south of the county, while he was carrying out a study of porpoises. The drugs, in a package about the size of a suitcase, were wrapped in sacking and then layers of plastic. Saulino realised he was looking at something worth more than £1m and called the police. As I sat there alone waiting for the police, I was waiting for a little mini-sub to surface and two guys with machine guns, he said. I think it's the strong south-westerlies. This cocaine has come a long way. It's incredible. I always thought the day would come when we would find something extraordinary but I expected an exotic crustacean or turtle, not millions of pounds of cocaine. Last Saturday another package was found near Portscatho, also on the south coast but further east. And on Sunday a package was dragged up in the nets of a fishing trawler in Mount's Bay in the far west of Cornwall. The fishermen handed it over to the Penlee lifeboat crew, who passed it on to the police. Then on Monday Partridge, 57, set off for the beach with his two dogs, Tyla and Bessie. I often comb the tideline if I have time, he said. When I saw the package I knew what it was immediately - it was tied up in thick rope, with hessian layers underneath. Luckily I'm one of the good guys, but you wonder how many of these packages might have turned up and not been reported. I phoned the police straight away. They sent down a WPC who immediately said: 'Can you keep this quiet?' I think they're a bit worried about attracting undesirables in a new Klondike situation. I told them I'd try but we're a tiny little village down here and it's difficult to keep anything that quiet. The police have yet to confirm that the latest three packages do contain cocaine - but Detective Inspector Martin Warren, of the force's serious and organised crime team, said they almost certainly did. Another Lizard local, Tony Muller, 65, who saw the package, said: It's like a film script really. The package would be worth around a million and half pounds I'm told, and it must belong to a very angry
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] American System vs. Anglo-Dutch System Dialogue
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:21 pm Subject: [cia-drugs] American System vs. Anglo-Dutch System Dialogue I don't believe in sovereignty. ? ? http://larouchepac.com/news/2008/02/27/economist-magazine-russia-editor-i-advocate-lisbon-treaty-10.html American System vs. Anglo-Dutch System Dialogue Economist Magazine Russia Editor: I Advocate the Lisbon Treaty 100%...I hate the Westphalian System! Edward Lucas, the current editor for Russian and Eastern European affairs for the Economist Magazine, the official publication of the British Empire, has written a new book, The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West. During a book signing, prior to a lecture he was to deliver at the Watson Institute at Brown University in Providence, RI, two LaRouche PAC organizers, Alexandra Peribikovsky and Matthew Ogden, drew him into a pointed dialogue during which he exposed his lust for the Lisbon treaty process, in order to eliminate the sovereignty of nation-states and bring to an end of the era of Westphalia. Because the dialogue yielded some juicy quotes from this explicit British imperialist, a paraphrase follows, with some direct quotations included: LPAC: What do you think of the Kennebunkport process, launched at the meeting of Putin with Bush? LUCAS: (Thick British accent) Bush said he looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul; I would have seen the letters KGB. LPAC: Many people have compared the Kennebunkport proposal to Reagan's SDI. LUCAS: I think the concept of strategic defense is highly over-rated. (He began to go into his spiel about so-called pipe-line politics, the title of one of the chapters in his new book). LPAC: While Putin was involved in the meetings around Kennebunkport, many leading people in Moscow were repeatedly discussing the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt. LUCAS: Well! I think Putin has his own reasons for bringing up FDR! LPAC: Both the Kennebunkport proposal and the SDI are reminiscent of Roosevelt's post-war Russian-American alliance. In fact, the Russian-American partnership goes all the way back to the Civil War and even the American Revolution. And, ironically, America was always allied with the Russians, against the British! LUCAS: World politics were different back then. LPAC: In the context of the crash of the entire world financial system, what do you think about the United States entering into an alliance with Russia and China, to stabilize the dollar, like Roosevelt did during the Bretton Woods? LUCAS: Why should Russia be a party to that sort of conference? Economically, Russia is now a third-rate power. They have no economic power. They're at the level of a Holland, or a Belgium. Why should the Dutch, or the Belgians, have a seat at the table discussing a new world system? LPAC: Brussells wants to dictate the new world system, actually! The Lisbon treaty would give the president of a United Europe a seat in Belgium. LUCAS: (direct quote) I am a strong advocate of the Lisbon Treaty. I support it 100%! We should end all of this discussion and debate about an EU Constitution, and just do it! Just make it happen! LPAC: So you advocate the elimination of sovereignty for the nations of Europe? LUCAS: The nations of Europe don't need sovereignty! They no longer need to be separate states; Europe needs to create its own internal market. LPAC: That reminds me of the idea of a Pan-Europe, a One Europe, of Edward Mosely, the British fascist from the 1940's... LUCAS: Oh, you mean Oswald Mosely. LPAC: What you're advocating would mean the end of the Westphalian System. LUCAS: (direct quote) I HATE THE WESTPHALIAN SYSTEM! The world needs to move beyond the age of Westphalia! LPAC: You don't believe that governments should exist to promote the general welfare of its people? LUCAS: I believe in international security organizations, like NATO...International governing institutions. LPAC: You know, here in the United States of America, we Americans value highly the idea of national sovereignty. LUCAS: I don't know much about the American system of politics, but I don't believe in sovereignty. By the way, are you two part of some specific political party or group? I am beginning to notice a certain consistency in your questions __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Brzezinski Seizing Control Over US Policy In Slow-Motion Coup
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:26 pm Subject: [cia-drugs] Brzezinski Seizing Control Over US Policy In Slow-Motion Coup http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=67533 Brzezinski Seizing Control Over US Policy In Slow-Motion Coup Good background info on Gropebama here. By: Webster G. Tarpley WASHINGTON DC — Events of the past few days indicate that the Zbigniew Brzezinski faction of lunatic Russia haters have now won the upper hand inside the secret councils of the Anglo-American finance oligarchy, displacing the hitherto dominant George Shultz-neocon faction. Although George Bush and his cronies still occupy the White House, the policies that are being carried out are coming from the Brzezinski left CIA machine. Brzezinski has returned to public prominence in recent months due to his role as top establishment controller for the Obama campaign. But Brzezinski is not waiting for the outcome of the November elections to take over key parts of the US government. Brzezinski and his left CIA allies are already moving to assert their strategy, even as the neocons and their characteristic obsessions are moved to the back burner. The probability of an attack on Iran or Syria is declining, even as the danger of confrontation with Russia, China, and Pakistan * all much more dangerous targets to trifle with * increases exponentially. 1. KOSOVO - The independence of Kosovo has opened a new crisis front in Eastern Europe, with the potential for very nasty complications in regard to Russia. This is the essence of the Brzezinski anti-Russian policy. Kosovo independence is of course a flagrant violation of all existing norms of international law, most notably the Helsinki CSCE treaty of 1975 which finally put an end to World War II by declaring that all borders in Europe were to be considered final unless and until any changes had been agreed through mutual consultation of the interested parties. Since the Serbian government in Belgrade is vehemently opposed to Kosovo independence, the unilateral actions of the US, British, and NATO are the very essence of international anarchy. The new regime in Kosovo goes far beyond the usual kleptocracy of NATO puppets favored by Brzezinski and his circles. The new regime in Kosovo is essentially the terrorist KLA, an organization devoted to gun-running, drug-running, and trafficking in human slaves. The KLA is a Balkan version of Al Qaeda, and both are wholly owned creations of the CIA and British intelligence. With Kosovo independence, the US, British, and NATO stand ready to use armed force to defend the right of a terrorist gang to assert sovereignty over a segment of modern Europe. The criminal obscenity of this policy could hardly be greater, but for Brzezinski all methods are legitimate provided that they increase tension with Moscow, and in that respect Kosovo independence is already a glowing success. 2. US EMBASSY, BELGRADE - The attack on the US embassy in Belgrade, Serbia by gangs of drunken students is a classic Brzezinski operation. The tactic of having an incensed rent-a-mob of swarming adolescent patsies attack the US Embassy in order to gin up a crisis is one of Zbigniew's signature specialties. During the time that Brzezinski was running the foreign policy of Trilateral puppet Jimmy Carter, there were bloody attacks on the US embassies in Pakistan and in Afghanistan, both countries that featured prominently in Brzezinski's arc of crisis theory. Most famous of all was of course the attack on the US embassy in Teheran, Iran, which led to the taking of hostages and the huge international crisis which helped to doom the Carter administration to extinction at the polls. If US diplomats or State Department personnel are taken hostage anywhere in the world in the weeks and months to come, this must be attributed to Brzezinski. 3. SPACE WARFARE - The shooting down by the Pentagon of a US satellite over the Pacific is a very provocative military stunt designed to intimidate both Moscow and Beijing, who happened to be Brzezinski's immediate targets. This reckless and irresponsible action has raised the specter of an uncontrolled arms race reaching into outer space. 4. SYRIA - Zbigniew Brzezinski himself, fresh from addressing a retreat of House Democrats in Williamsburg Virginia, is now in Syria at the head of a RAND Corporation delegation. The purpose of this mission should not be construed as peace in the Middle East, although some foolish observers may read it in that way. Brzezinski's goal is immediately to lessen Russian influence in Syria, including the closing of certain naval facilities that the Russian navy has maintained in that country. In the longer run, Brzezinski would like to turn both Syria and Iran into components of the ring he means
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] White House column was copied | The Journal Gazette
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 1:18 pm Subject: [ctrl] White House column was copied | The Journal Gazette Last updated: February 29, 2008 2:38 p.m. Hide photos White House column was copied By Sylvia A. Smith Washington editor http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/NEWS/194943667/1002/LOCAL File Tim Goeglein WASHINGTON - A Fort Wayne native and White House official acknowledged Friday he copied large portions of an essay that appeared in a Dartmouth College publication and presented them as his own in a News-Sentinel column. It is true, Tim Goeglein wrote to The Journal Gazette in an e-mail. I am entirely at fault. It was wrong of me. There are no excuses. He said he wrote to the author of the essay, Jeffrey Hart to apologize, and do so categorically and without exception. Nancy Nall, a former News-Sentinel columnist who writes a blog from her home in Michigan, detailed the nearly word-for-word similarities of eight paragraphs of Goeglein's 16-pargraph essay about college education, which appeared in the News-Sentinel on Thursday, and Hart's column, which was written about a decade ago. Kerry Hubartt, editor of the News-Sentinel, said his newspaper learned of the apparent plagiarism Friday when Nall wrote about it. He said the newspaper had removed Goeglein's column from its Web site and that editors were checking Goeglein's past columns for any other examples of copying. He said when the paper's investigation is complete, readers will be notified. If we think it's warranted, we will certainly apologize to our readers, Hubartt said, adding that if the investigation substantiates that Goeglein copied Hart's writings, we would not use any columns (of Goeglein's) in the future. Goeglein has worked in the Bush White House since 2001 as the Bush administration's liaison to religious organizations. He formerly worked for then-Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind. Copyright © 2008 The Journal Gazette. All rights reserved. News service copy is used with permission. The information contained in the report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Journal Gazette or granting news service. -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. CTRL@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Om Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] An invention called 'the Jewish people'
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 1:18 pm Subject: [ctrl] An invention called 'the Jewish people' w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/959229.html Last update - 17:30 28/02/2008 An invention called 'the Jewish people' By Tom Segev Israel's Declaration of Independence states that the Jewish people arose in the Land of Israel and was exiled from its homeland. Every Israeli schoolchild is taught that this happened during the period of Roman rule, in 70 CE. The nation remained loyal to its land, to which it began to return after two millennia of exile. Wrong, says the historian Shlomo Zand, in one of the most fascinating and challenging books published here in a long time. There never was a Jewish people, only a Jewish religion, and the exile also never happened - hence there was no return. Zand rejects most of the stories of national-identity formation in the Bible, including the exodus from Egypt and, most satisfactorily, the horrors of the conquest under Joshua. It's all fiction and myth that served as an excuse for the establishment of the State of Israel, he asserts. According to Zand, the Romans did not generally exile whole nations, and most of the Jews were permitted to remain in the country. The number of those exiled was at most tens of thousands. When the country was conquered by the Arabs, many of the Jews converted to Islam and were assimilated among the conquerors. It follows that the progenitors of the Palestinian Arabs were Jews. Zand did not invent this thesis; 30 years before the Declaration of Independence, it was espoused by David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and others. If the majority of the Jews were not exiled, how is it that so many of them reached almost every country on earth? Zand says they emigrated of their own volition or, if they were among those exiled to Babylon, remained there because they chose to. Contrary to conventional belief, the Jewish religion tried to induce members of other faiths to become Jews, which explains how there came to be millions of Jews in the world. As the Book of Esther, for example, notes, And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them. Zand quotes from many existing studies, some of which were written in Israel but shunted out of the central discourse. He also describes at length the Jewish kingdom of Himyar in the southern Arabian Peninsula and the Jewish Berbers in North Africa. The community of Jews in Spain sprang from Arabs who became Jews and arrived with the forces that captured Spain from the Christians, and from European-born individuals who had also become Jews. The first Jews of Ashkenaz (Germany) did not come from the Land of Israel and did not reach Eastern Europe from Germany, but became Jews in the Khazar Kingdom in the Caucasus. Zand explains the origins of Yiddish culture: it was not a Jewish import from Germany, but the result of the connection between the offspring of the Kuzari and Germans who traveled to the East, some of them as merchants. We find, then, that the members of a variety of peoples and races, blond and black, brown and yellow, became Jews in large numbers. According to Zand, the Zionist need to devise for them a shared ethnicity and historical continuity produced a long series of inventions and fictions, along with an invocation of racist theses. Some were concocted in the minds of those who conceived the Zionist movement, while others were offered as the findings of genetic studies conducted in Israel. Prof. Zand teaches at Tel Aviv University. His book, When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? (published by Resling in Hebrew), is intended to promote the idea that Israel should be a state of all its citizens - Jews, Arabs and others - in contrast to its declared identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Personal stories, a prolonged theoretical discussion and abundant sarcastic quips do not help the book, but its historical chapters are well-written and cite numerous facts and insights that many Israelis will be astonished to read for the first time. The mosquito from Kiryat Yam On March 27, 1948, a meeting was held in Hiafa concerning the fate of the Bedouin of Arab al-Ghawarina in the Haifa area. They must be removed from there, so that they, too, will not add to our troubles, Yosef Weitz, of the Keren Kayemeth (Jewish National Fund), wrote in his personal diary. Two months later, Weitz reported to the organization's director, Our Haifa Bay has been evacuated completely and there is hardly a remnant of those who encroached our border. They were probably expelled to Jordan; some were allowed to remain in the village of Jisr al-Zarqa. The fate of the Arab al-Ghawarina Bedouin has recently made the
