Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity
-Caveat Lector- So, you think Socialism will be any better? Socialism and capitalism are two sides of the same coin. One offers better pay; the other offers a better benifits package. But they both add up to the same thing: the few control the many; the many support the few. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] ALSO
-Caveat Lector- American Law Sources On-line (ALSO) http://www.lawsource.com/also/ The purpose of ALSO! is to provide a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to all on-line sources of American law that are available without charge. This site contains additional links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are available without charge (or available at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers). The source documents are not maintained on the ALSO! server but are stored, in various file formats, in many separately maintained databases located in several countries. New users should read about using ALSO! the first time. Some users should read about finding a lawyer and getting legal advice. This site has a search function that can be used to compile a list of entries containing links to various sources based on user-specified criteria (search key words). Use the links below for introductions to the legal systems of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, at a site maintained by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Quebec, Canada). AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fall Into the Gap
-Caveat Lector- From Wash (DC) Post Air War Exposed Arms Gap Within NATO By William Drozdiak Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, June 28, 1999; Page A1 BRUSSELS The Kosovo war revealed a profound gap between the capabilities of the United States and its European allies that could soon lead to serious friction over how to share defense burdens, according to senior NATO officials and diplomats. The unqualified success of the air campaign against Yugoslavia was tempered at NATO headquarters by the stark realization that Europe has fallen so far behind the United States in the use of precision-guided weapons, satellite reconnaissance and other modern technologies that the allies are no longer equipped to fight the same way. In more than a dozen interviews, NATO political and military authorities said that the lopsided division of labor between the United States and Europe in the air war demonstrated that the alliance is in danger of evolving into a two-tier organization, with gross inequalities of military might that may distort NATO's ability to cope with crises. In the Kosovo conflict, the United States which spends nearly four times as much as its European allies on defense research and development supplied more than 80 percent of the aircraft and nearly all the intelligence resources used to select bombing targets. Meanwhile, the Europeans were relegated to flying mop-up missions, providing host-nation support and deploying the bulk of the 50,000 ground troops in the NATO-led peacekeeping force. Partly to compensate for the overwhelming military role played by the United States, the 15 European Union countries have vowed to pay for most of the economic reconstruction of Kosovo and the rest of the Balkans. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said the rebuilding plan could cost $30 billion over the next six years. "The Kosovo war was mainly an experience of Europe's own insufficiency and weakness; we as Europeans never could have coped with the Balkan wars that were caused by [Yugoslav President Slobodan] Milosevic without the help of the United States," Fischer said. "The sad truth is that Kosovo showed Europe is still not able to solve its own problems. We have to accept the consequences and hope that Europe can grow from this crisis." NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, who will become the European Union's foreign policy czar later this year, said his biggest challenge will focus on a European security policy and on persuading EU governments to reshape their defense forces in ways that are compatible, not competitive, with those of the United States. "We do not need to build a second NATO," Solana said. "It's a matter of political will and harmonizing Europe's military industries, but most of all it's a matter of money. It's hard to say just how much will be enough. Defense budgets will have to rise, but we could accomplish a lot just through better coordination of the way we spend our money." But at a time when there is no strategic threat to NATO and European voters are being asked to surrender cherished social entitlements, it will be politically difficult to justify a new surge in defense spending. "Everyone agrees on the lessons to be learned from the Kosovo experience, but few people here are confident that we will apply them," said a senior NATO intelligence official. "It would take the Europeans two decades to catch up with the Americans even if they had the money and the will to spend it." In his valedictory address last month, German Gen. Klaus Naumann, who was retiring as chairman of NATO's military committee, said the Kosovo conflict confirmed his worst fears that the day is fast approaching when the United States and its European allies "will not even be able to fight on the same battlefield." The air war demonstrated the result of a U.S. investment in military research and development that has dwarfed Europe's in recent years. The United States now devotes $35 billion a year to creating the kinds of advanced weapons and intelligence gathering systems used over Yugoslavia, while European alliance members spend $10 billion a year a sum fragmented into national projects that shrink its impact. Since the end of the Cold War, European governments have slashed their defense budgets in some cases, almost in half. Austria, an EU member that has rejected appeals to join NATO because of its neutral tradition, now spends more money on its state opera company than on national defense. Among the 11 EU states that belong to NATO, many have been reluctant to invest in transforming their armed forces from large standing armies designed to thwart a Soviet-led invasion into the mobile, flexible units needed to cope with new security threats beyond their frontiers, such as the Kosovo crisis. Despite some progress in
[CTRL] A Welcome to Arms
-Caveat Lector- From Wash (DC) Post Excuse me ... did not the Prez make some comment about having to figure out *how* to explain to his European 'friends' *why* the American Government didn't pass more gun control? "" "Europeans are so sanctimonious about their gun-control laws," said Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police and a former ATF official. "But their shock at our rate of gun deaths doesn't keep them from making guns. ... It's ironic that the money goes back to those countries." "" Exporters of Guns Flock to U.S. By Sharon Walsh Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 28, 1999; Page A1 As increasingly restrictive gun laws are enacted in major industrialized countries, gunmakers around the globe are flocking to the biggest and least regulated gun market in the world the United States. At least a dozen entities with familiar names in the United States, from historic Smith Wesson and Winchester to Beretta and Glock, are owned by foreign companies, many of which are legally constrained from selling in their own countries many of the guns they produce. But as countries overseas increasingly have cracked down on gun sales at home, they have not passed similar laws regarding exports. Just more than half of the 1.7 million handguns made or imported in the United States came from foreign companies or were made by their subsidiaries, according to 1997 figures from individual companies and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Gun industry officials say they are simply selling their products in the best possible market. "Companies invest where there are markets, and the U.S. is one of the few places in the world where gun ownership proliferates," said Wendy Cukier, a professor of business and justice studies at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto who has written about differences in international gun laws. "That doesn't change the fact that Americans decide the level of gun ownership they'll tolerate." Jeff Reh, Beretta U.S.A. Corp.'s general counsel, said the U.S. subsidiary is responsible only for marketing guns here. "It's not hypocritical for a company to obey the laws of the country it sells in," he said of the differences in gun laws in the United States and Italy. "It doesn't mean the company agrees the law is logical. It just means it's acting as a good corporate citizen." "Some countries choose to have stricter gun laws. ... We think that's unfortunate," said Travis Hall, public relations manager for Browning and U.S. Repeating Arms Co., which owns the license to make Winchester firearms. Browning and Winchester are sister companies owned by Fabrique Nationale Group, an entity of the Belgian government. Many of their guns are made in Japan, where it is virtually impossible for a private citizen to own a gun. Beretta U.S.A., with U.S. headquarters in Accokeek, Md., is a subsidiary of the Italian gun company P. Beretta S.p.A. Glock Inc., one of the biggest providers of guns to U.S. police departments, is an offshoot of an Austrian company. SIGArms Inc., an importer of handguns in New Hampshire, is a division of Swiss Industrial Group, which imports from Switzerland and Germany. Each of those countries has more restrictive gun laws than the United States. "One of the things that isn't understood about the gun business in this country is the extent of foreign ownership and importing of foreign-made guns," said Tom Diaz, of the Violence Policy Center, a pro gun-control group. "When people talk about guns in America, they tend to talk about patriotism and try to wrap it in the American flag." According to a recent United Nations study on firearms regulation, 29 countries in the past five years tightened rules on the civilian ownership of firearms. Gun manufacturers and other experts say that as tougher gun laws have been enacted overseas, the United States has become even more important as a gun market. "The biggest market [for guns] is in the U.S.," said Ken Jorgenson, general counsel of Smith Wesson, the largest maker of handguns in the United States and a subsidiary of a British conglomerate. Two years ago, after a 1996 elementary-school massacre in Scotland, the British government outlawed the sale of all handguns and ordered the surrender of all existing handguns. With virtually all gun manufacturers privately held, it is difficult to assemble a complete picture of the profits, revenues or even market share in the global gun market. Only one U.S. gun manufacturer Sturm, Ruger Co. is publicly owned and thus discloses financial information, while many foreign-owned companies are part of big corporations that do not break out financial information about their subsidiaries. The U.S. government keeps records only of how many guns each country exports, not how many guns are exported by a particular company, and other governments provide even less information. The Commerce
[CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- (1) By the early 1900s, Nicola Tesla had perfected not only non-mainstream energy systems and electrical motors but, in theory, also PROPULSION SYSTEMS using the aforementioned. (Tesla's published patents do include bizarre new types of vehicles.) (2) While his work was sabotaged and dead-ended in the US by the plutocratic elite (JP Morgan, Westinghouse, et al), its value was recognized abroad, especially by the Royal Society, the "think tank" charged with developing the Empire's own technology. (3) The Rothschilds and other lords of high finance had VAST wealth --more than JP Morgan-- available for investment in any "high tech" with potential -- and all in secret ... (4) RD for new technology need not be PUBLIC, and it need not ever be subject to public scrutiny, e.g., in a state-related (military) or corporatized "industrial" framework. (5) If such RD were to bear fruit in the form of new technological products (inventions), those products would be PRIVATELY owned, and if those PRIVATE owners operated internationally --TRANS-nationally, beyond the legal and political restrictions of any single nation-- no individual nation, and no individual nation's intelligence apparatus, would necessarily be privy to the "proprietary" information relating to these products. (6) Great wealth, such as possessed by hypothetical investors in and developers of this PRIVATE technology, could easily afford to maintain a PRIVATE system of SECURITY equal to, if not superior to, the intelligence services possessed by any individual nation. Moreover, that hypothetical PRIVATE security organization could afford to infiltrate and misdirect lesser intelligence organizations, making efforts at detection more difficult. (7) It took about a generation for Albert Einstein's seminal theorizing (in 1909 to 1915) to become the first manufactured, fully-functioning atom bomb in the mid-1940s, thanks to the efforts of numerous technicians employed by a GOVERNMENT in the top-secret Manhattan Project, many details of which are STILL classified, half a century later. (8) Had Nicola Tesla's theories regarding unique electromagnetic media of propulsion, first appearing around the same time, been taken seriously (outside the US) and been PRIVATELY funded, by parties unknown, a generation of hypothetical SECRET RD by the Continent's best minds would bring us to 1947 -- the first observed "flying saucer" ... Given Tesla technology, almost "magic" itself, who really needs "extraterrestrials"? Just trying out a hypothesis ... Anyone care to raise counter-arguments (contesting any of the assumptions given above in "logical" sequence), provide us with more detail about Tesla's "propulsion" and "vehicle" patents, or modify anything in this hypothesis? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [Reality_Pump] Hyde's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Passes House
Wait for fascist Senate to torpedo this one! CIA Clinton will do everything in his power to stop this one. Doubtful that his veto can be over-ridden even if the Senate goes alongLloyd PS Too good to come to pass. -Original Message-From: Divinewill [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 3:16 PMSubject: [Reality_Pump] Hyde's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Passes House Hyde's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Passes House Easily(press release from the Drug Policy Foundation,http://www.dpf.org)WASHINGTON, June 24 -- The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 1999, a bill sponsored by Reps. Henry Hyde (R-IL), John Conyers (D-MI), Bob Barr (R-GA) and Barney Frank (D-MA), sailed through the House of Representatives by a 375-48 margin at 5:05pm today.This is the most important property-rights legislation to come out of the House this year, said Drug Policy Foundation Senior Policy Analyst Scott Ehlers. Americans are a step closer to being protected from some of the worst abuses of police power.Ehlers said that proponents of the bill were hoping that it would pass by a wide enough margin for the Senate to take notice. The House has clearly and resoundingly said that property rights are important and that the Senate should pass this bill.An amendment by Reps. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) and Anthony Weiner (D-NY), which would have watered down H.R. 1658 and strengthened civil asset forfeiture laws, failed by a 268-155 vote. H.R. 1658 would make numerous changes to civil forfeiture law, including:* Forcing the government to prove that seized property is related to a crime, as opposed to the current practice of the owners' having to prove that their property is not guilty;* Creating an innocent owner defense, whereby property owners unaware of criminal activity occurring on their property could recover their property;* Providing indigent defendants with appointed counsel; and* Eliminating the cost-bond requirement, which currently requires property owners to pay up to $5,000 or 10 percent of the seized property's value in order to contest the seizure in court.(Thanks to the many of you who responded to our asset forfeiture alerts. We will alert you when there is a bill to lobby for in the Senate. Visit http://www.fear.org for further information.) Click Here! Join the move to end modern-day slavery. Check out (http://members.xoom.com/abolitionist) for more details
[CTRL] Fwd: Execution of two Indian men in Nebraska
JB, Have you seen this news? NATIVE AMERICANS EXECUTED - SHERIFF TURNS SELF IN A Sheriff turned himself into the authorities in White Clay Nebraska for the execution of two Oglala Sioux men and is suspected of seven more. I demand justice and call on you to stand up to this blatant act of racism and abuse of power. This is not the first time that this kind of racial and political violence been waged on the Native Americans in this remote corner of the country. Dozens of un-investigatged murders took place after the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee and coincidentally most of those killed were participants in those demonstrations. Unbelievably, yet true, these atrocities have continued unabated to this day. The State Governments of South Dakota and Nebraska as well as the U.S. Government should be ashamed and disgusted that these tragedies could continue and remain unresolved. We recently spent billions to stop this type of ethnic cleansing in Europe. It needs to stop in America today as well and you could begin by stopping it in this country immediately. Additionally I want to see an in-depth investigation of every single murder that has taken place out there since 1973 and a serious, legitmate effort made for a change, to solve and incarcerate those responsible. This is most horrific example of the denial of Human Rights in this country today. This administration has the power to see this issue resolved. Please see that it is done. Genocide, forced relocations and ethnic executions are not the American way, at least not in light of our recent adventures in Europe. Ellis Smith NJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/25/99 11:21:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Kelly Roy writes: We are definitely going to leave tonight at 8:00 p.m. Mountain time, and would like all those interested to join us if they could. A campsite has been erected in Pine Ridge at the Morman church and they have set up tee-pees for supporters. There is absolutely going to be a rally/demonstration at 10:00 at Billy Mills Hall. I hear that the Nebraska police and possibly National Guard will be there. That whole area might be under heavy, armed security, we are expecting them to be wearing riot gear. This will absolutely be a peaceful demonstration. They think it will be another YellowThunder incident. Please forward this to as many people as possible. It is getting pretty intense up there. The Arizona American Indian Movement is already enroute to Pine Ridge. They left their homebase late last night. Pray for us and please publish this information as soon as possible. A-Ho and Mi-gwetch RED DAWN Kelly J. Roy Anishinabe/Meskwaki
Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- Das GOAT wrote: (1) By the early 1900s, Nicola Tesla had perfected not only non-mainstream energy systems and electrical motors but, in theory, also PROPULSION SYSTEMS using the aforementioned. (Tesla's published patents do include bizarre new types of vehicles.) (2) While his work was sabotaged and dead-ended in the US by the plutocratic elite (JP Morgan, Westinghouse, et al), its value was recognized abroad, especially by the Royal Society, the "think tank" charged with developing the Empire's own technology. (3) The Rothschilds and other lords of high finance had VAST wealth --more than JP Morgan-- available for investment in any "high tech" with potential -- and all in secret ... (4) RD for new technology need not be PUBLIC, and it need not ever be subject to public scrutiny, e.g., in a state-related (military) or corporatized "industrial" framework. (5) If such RD were to bear fruit in the form of new technological products (inventions), those products would be PRIVATELY owned, and if those PRIVATE owners operated internationally --TRANS-nationally, beyond the legal and political restrictions of any single nation-- no individual nation, and no individual nation's intelligence apparatus, would necessarily be privy to the "proprietary" information relating to these products. (6) Great wealth, such as possessed by hypothetical investors in and developers of this PRIVATE technology, could easily afford to maintain a PRIVATE system of SECURITY equal to, if not superior to, the intelligence services possessed by any individual nation. Moreover, that hypothetical PRIVATE security organization could afford to infiltrate and misdirect lesser intelligence organizations, making efforts at detection more difficult. (7) It took about a generation for Albert Einstein's seminal theorizing (in 1909 to 1915) to become the first manufactured, fully-functioning atom bomb in the mid-1940s, thanks to the efforts of numerous technicians employed by a GOVERNMENT in the top-secret Manhattan Project, many details of which are STILL classified, half a century later. (8) Had Nicola Tesla's theories regarding unique electromagnetic media of propulsion, first appearing around the same time, been taken seriously (outside the US) and been PRIVATELY funded, by parties unknown, a generation of hypothetical SECRET RD by the Continent's best minds would bring us to 1947 -- the first observed "flying saucer" ... Given Tesla technology, almost "magic" itself, who really needs "extraterrestrials"? Just trying out a hypothesis ... Anyone care to raise counter-arguments (contesting any of the assumptions given above in "logical" sequence), provide us with more detail about Tesla's "propulsion" and "vehicle" patents, or modify anything in this hypothesis? Interesting theory. However, people should read Jacques Vallee's *Dimensions*, Keith Thompson's *Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination*, and Patrick Harpur's *Daimonic Reality*, which basically all point out that, whatever UFOs are, they have been with us for a *long* time. Kelly DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Interviews Wendelle C. Stevens
-Caveat Lector- http://trufax.org/trans/stevens.html This is Wendelle Stevens talking about aliens time-travelling. Includes Area 51. The interview is a little old but I think we need to know what these aliens are capable of doing to us - frightening. This guy is really clued up on ufos, I heard him speak at a conference in Auckland. He said that the ET's are coming from around the universe to study us, as we have so much diversity. Also that our sun is so strong it makes genetic variations which is unusual apparently. Nicky DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Stratfor's Third Quarter Forecast
-Caveat Lector- VISIT OUR NEW INTELLIGENCE CENTERS http://www.stratfor.com/ __ Stratfor's Third Quarter Forecast June 27, 1999 Note: This Forecast should be read in conjunction with Stratfor's Decade Forecast prepared in 1995 (http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/decade.asp), its 1999 Annual Forecast (http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/1999.asp) and its Second Quarter, 1999 Forecast (http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/2q1999.asp) Stratfor's organizing theme for its 1999 Annual Forecast is found in the title: "A New and Dangerous World." That concept remains valid and the fundamental trends identified within that theme remain intact. The most important trend identified in that forecast has now become manifest. We wrote that "Russia and China will be moving into a closer, primarily anti-American alliance in 1999." That process is the most important global trend today. It is well under way and is also intensifying. It should be understood that this trend was not put into play because of the Kosovo crisis, although it is clear that it was intensified and accelerated by it. Indeed, Stratfor's ability to predict the Kosovo crisis in its 1999 Annual Forecast was predicated on this trend already being in place. A critical element in Milosevic's strategy was his view that the deteriorating relationship between Russia and the United States had opened a window of opportunity for dealing with the Kosovo situation. It was precisely because Milosevic saw this process in Russian foreign policy as already under way that he took the risks he did. At the same time, Milosevic's failure to allow U.S.-Russian tensions to mature opened Serbia to a partial reversal in Russian policy that left him in a series of untenable positions. The split between Russia and China on one hand and the United States on the other has still not fully matured. Therefore, the response, a Sino-Russian alliance, has not yet fully taken shape. Nevertheless, matters are rapidly moving in that direction. Therefore, it is our view that the single most important global theme of the Third Quarter of 1999 will be fairly quiet, yet intense, diplomacy between Russia and China as they explore the precise meaning and implementation of their strategic relationship. A summit meeting will take place in Beijing between Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin some time this summer or autumn. The precise date is not altogether certain at this point. There are two reasons for this uncertainty. First, and most important, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done at the ministerial level and below prior to the summit. It is one thing to speak of a strategic alliance. It is another thing to implement one. There are some real issues outstanding between Russia and China. Second, both Russia and China will use the available time to try to extract concessions from the United States and the West in general, under the assumption that they will be eager to prevent a Sino-Russian alliance from solidifying. Both of these reasons point to a fairly slow process. There are fundamental geopolitical issues that need to be resolved by the Russians and Chinese. The most important of these is the status of the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. China is experiencing substantial unrest from Moslem groups in its Xinjiang province. These groups are drawing support from, at least, elements within predominantly Moslem states of the former Soviet Union, and perhaps from some of the states themselves. China clearly wants Russia's help in dealing with that problem. Russia, however, is hesitant at this point to get bogged down in pacifying the region. Yet, at the same time that it is hesitant, there is a growing movement inside of Russia that regards the collapse of the Soviet Union as a monumental error and which dreams of its geographic, if not institutional, resurrection. We think these forces are gaining strength, which means that there is growing support for a more expansionary Russian foreign policy. The geopolitics of the region may actually be a force pulling Russian hard-liners and Beijing closer together. A more important issue on the table is what the alliance will mean in relation to the United States. The purpose of the alliance is twofold. First, it is to create a counter-weight to the United States that would force the U.S. to take Russia and China seriously. The second purpose would be to provide a focal point for secondary states looking for a safe haven from American power, which would, in turn, enhance the power of the Sino-Russian bloc. What this means in practical terms is unclear. It might range from a general policy of coordination to a mutual defense pact pledging each side to support the others' wars. Neither side wants to be excessively exposed to the adventures and vulnerabilities of the other. At
[CTRL] DasGoat 144,000
-Caveat Lector- Well, here it is, the 144,000 that Revelation speaks of, and this information isn't even from a "Christian" source... http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/96/11/09/timfgnmid03001.html?11822 82 Hebron settlers promised expansion FROM CHRISTOPHER WALKER IN JERUSALEM ISRAEL'S Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has promised Jewish settlers that he would expand settlements in the occupied West Bank to compensate for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron, still the subject of negotiations with the Palestinians. According to Israel television, the pledge was made during a private meeting between the Prime Minister and leaders of the ***144,000*** settlers. "When the army vehicles pull out of Hebron, the mobile homes will pull into the settlements," the television reported. About 450 militant Jews live in the centre of Hebron among 120,000 hostile Palestinians. The potential for violence in the city holy to both Muslims and Jews has been growing. Yesterday Yitzhak Mordechai, the Defence Minister, reported to the Cabinet that the atmosphere there was "very tense". Political sources said that Mr Netanyahu's new offer was an attempt to defuse the chance of an explosion of Israeli-Arab violence. Talks on the Hebron pull-out are expected to resume in earnest when Dennis Ross, the American special envoy, returns to the region next week. Yediot Ahronot, the Tel Aviv daily, quoted Mr Netanyahu as telling the settlers: "I will personally see to it that all the delays in your expansion plans (are remedied) and I will make sure that the approved decisions are implemented on the ground." The Palestinians consider settlement construction one of the greatest threats to the already ailing peace process and the United States calls it an "obstacle to peace". Last night the left-wing Israeli pressure group, Peace Now, said: "The Israeli public should note that hundreds of millions of shekels from the Government's budget are about to be invested in new apartments, the expansion of settlements, in caravans and outrageous allocations to 3 per cent of the population." \\|// (o o) oOOo-(_)-oOOo Jamie Stopforth Williams Solution Center x6343 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Razzle-Dazzle
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist Subj: Razzle-Dazzle Date: Thursday, June 24, 1999 03:30:32 AM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quinn's story is totally bogus. There are no such "Mind Control Program Setup" instructions in Dazzle. I challenged him to produce a copy of the program with such instructions and he admitted he never saw one (he was quoting a source and never fact-checked the story). But he's still putting out the disinformation, I see. Why don't you ask him for some evidence? Relevant posts to mindcontrol-l: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MC] Fwd: Dazzle: Screen Saver Mind Control? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 00:19:23 EDT On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 23:28:29 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DAZZLING! But What's Wrong With This Picture? © 1999 NewsHawk Inc. All Rights Reserved The following material was received from a source who has reported that a computer application known as Dazzle is in fact a mind control tool hidden within what is outwardly a screensaver program. = Hi Julleia, I just finished de-compiling my copy of DAZZLE. Still haven't found anything of what you describe. Could you supply some documented references as to where all this is located within the program. I seen the opening and closing screen where it makes reference to the creators of the screensaver. I have yet to see anything about any other creator(s) in these screens. As for the refresh rate of this particule screensaver, You can slow it down to where you can see every change as it is happening, or you can make it as fast as it can go. And you can do screen captures of any of the screens the screensaver makes and save them as PCX files for future reference. I have saved several 3rd 7th. frames with both the built in screen capture and a stand-alone screen capture program and have yet to see anything that could be remotely construed as a subliminal message. I think you should go back to your "un-named source" and get some actual documentation as to these contentions. So far I haven't been able to recreate anything of what you posted about this screensaver. Jim --- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 23:32:54 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Wes Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MC] Fwd: Dazzle: Screen Saver Mind Control? In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Forwarded with permission (list members are advised to exercise caution in running this program; a new virus just unleashed uses a screen saver as a front for a covert program that remotely monitors all computer activity; a screen saver is ideal for that purpose since it's always running in the background). Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 22:31:37 + From: John Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dazzle Hi Jim, ( Wes?)-- I don't have the program and if I did don't think I could run it, as far as I know, as I use a mac. I have no reason to think that my source would be misleading me as they certainly never have before. The document I reproduced is in the manual, and the Russian text file is reportedly on the floppy. I am supposed to be getting both in a couple of days. I would be glad to pass it on as I don't think I'll be able to run it. Till then, can't say much more. Take care John Quinn -- Private message: From: To: Wes Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MC] Fwd: Dazzle: Screen Saver Mind Control? Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:14:28 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes, Here is the most recent version of Dazzle Plus which I purchased and downloaded from the web. I send it to you for your examination. I have spoken with Mr. J.R. Shiflett on two occasions, once in the early 90's and again in 1997. In fact he lives just twenty miles north of the Houston area in the Woodlands and claims that most of the work he does is geared to engineering. He has told me he had trouble making Dazzle a commercial success. Also, the screen saver is still commercially available. That's about all I know with regard to this. The file
Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: nessie [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, you think Socialism will be any better? Socialism and capitalism are two sides of the same coin. One offers better pay; the other offers a better benifits package. But they both add up to the same thing: the few control the many; the many support the few. If you know of an optimal set of political/economic/philosophical social structures, please inform us. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Notes on Conspiracy Theories, Jim Keith
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist Notes on Conspiracy Theories By Jim Keith I recently wrote a scathing review of the latest book by David Icke, The Biggest Secret. What I am mostly critical of in the Icke's work is sloppy thinking; but on reflection it occurred to me that that is what gets my goat about a large portion of the field of UFO/conspiracy writing. The main problem with most conspiracy theorization these days is that many if not most writers as well as readers seem not to have developed anything like an ability to reason, to think well, to discriminate between probable truth and probable falsehood. Certainly there is a sliding scale in this matter, with raving lunacy at one end and Aristotle at the other. I don't claim to be THE role model of rationality to which all should kowtow, by any means. For one thing, I have never read a book on the subject of logic, nor have I taken any academic courses in same. I'm not sure, frankly, that those activities would have improved my thinking, being somewhat of an anti-academic, myself. My belief is that, by and large, the academic system turns out stunted sheep, not the kind of hepcats whose writing I personally dig. There are, without a doubt, certain examples of sloppy thinking that could be pointed out in my own work. Perhaps this shortcoming would have been prevented if I had gone beyond sixth grade in my academic career. I might also not be quite so prone to such criticism if I didn't have to hit deadlines, since I am one of those odd moon-colored creatures who make their living by bashing out books. But I do believe that in some instances I am able to recognize sloppy thinking in my fellow practitioners of, and writers about, UFOs and conspiracy. Icke is one example of the run-of-the-mill in this type of writing today. He is part of a muddle-headed pack that includes many, if not most writers in conspiracy and UFOs, with some of the most well-known suspects being Bill Cooper, George Andrews, Al Bielek, Art Bell, John Lear, Brad Steiger, just about every New Age writer who ever came down the pike, and plenty of others whom I disremember at the moment. For some reason, the UFO field, moreso than the political conspiracy field, seems to specialize in this sort of fugghead. What primarily characterizes a crappy thinker in these fields is that they are stunted in their ability to separate fact from fiction, truth from lies. This can be entertaining, especially to a reviewer with a latent streak of sadism, but it is usually not very enlightening. They can be like Icke, a person who does not even really try to sort out the differentiation between fact and fantasy: to them it is all the same, and if somebody, somewhere said it, then it has to be true. Oh, yeah, Icke gives endless sticky lip service to how careful he is about corroborating his facts, but the bottom line is that his writing and thinking are completely scatterbrained. With a guy like Icke, the ravings of obvious paranoid lunatics and droolers are as much grist for his cogitation as a sober, reasoned examinations, like the kind my friends do. Because they heard it somewhere, that is all it takes for it to be factored in to their mental database. Believing that something is true solely because someone said it and didn't blink is one of the major pitfalls of conspiracy thinking. The fact is, many people are stone lunatics who carry on extended dialogues with their toaster ovens, and are far from being reliable witnesses to fact. People are also prone to tell really reeking fish stories (particularly if there is a book royalty in it), and sometimes to lying to themselves. I have a friend who is like that. He has invented a rather extensive alternative universe in which he is rather wiser, more experienced, is really quite dapper, and has played a much more heroic role in events than he did in real life. He seemingly believes that this altered reality is what actually took place, and will argue so until you remind him of what actually happened. Then he grins sheepishly and talks about his unpleasant childhood and how his dad used to whup him with a belt. He still functions in genteel society in somewhat normal fashion; in fact he is the author of a recent popular book. But if one examines the facts he portrays of his life, it quickly becomes apparent that he has altered them extensively: even, apparently, in his own recollections. Perhaps everyone does this to some extent as a citadel
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Uncle Sam Has All Your Numbers
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist From: ScanThisNews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uncle Sam Has All Your Numbers == SCAN THIS NEWS 6/27/99 You can be sure of one thing, once the establishment news outlets finally pick up on something, it's all over but the crying. Today, nearly every major newspaper in the country is running a front page Washington Post article about the government's massive data collection system that will be used to monitor, track, and control you and your children for generations to come. The article, entitled "Uncle Sam Has All Your Numbers" describes the network of state and federal databases which catalogue information on citizens for use in locating and tracking them across state lines. This is the system that was consummated under the 1994/96 "Contract On America." Of course, none of this is new to readers of Internet-based information sources which have been alerting people about this particular Republican-established totalitarian plot for years. The question now is: What are the American People going to do about it? If you're waiting for Congress to take care of the problem for you, may your chains rest lightly upon you. If you're hoping someone else will win a court case that will relieve you of the burden -- THINK AGAIN! The courts care not about rights, liberty, or freedom, they care only about protecting the system that pays their salary and funds their retirement program. If you do not like the system described below, you basically have three options: 1) Get over your displeasure and go along with whatever you are told to do; 2) Suffer under the delusion that someone else is taking care of the problem for you while you enjoy your comfortable lifestyle; or, 3) Get involved and actively resist the tyranny! Remember singing, "My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside let freedom ring."? What principle of "liberty" incorporates a system whereby the government maintains dossiers on its citizens? What element of "freedom" provides for a government which "has our number"? Can you any longer really call this country the "land of the free" when the very government which is charged with protecting and preserving liberty destroys it? One other most very important point: Don't be fooled into debating the issue of "privacy." Protecting privacy IS NOT the issue. Blackmail artists will protect your privacy -- as long as you comply with their demands! The government is no different. The focus of the debate must be on liberty and freedom. The question must be: Does government have any right, whatsoever, to maintain databases of information about free citizens! The answer is simply NO, not in a free society! The inverse of liberty and freedom is slavery and control. Those who hold information about you control you. As long as the control proponents can succeed in centering the debate around the non-issue of "protecting privacy," they can avoid the real issue of liberty and freedom vs slavery and control. If you engage the argument about privacy -- and that is all you focus on -- what are you going to say once they achieve total control (through the information you have willingly provided to them) but yet they do a great job of keeping your information private, accessible only by authorized government agents? They'll be "protecting your privacy" alright, but you'll have no liberty left. Scott - Uncle Sam Has All Your Numbers By Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 27, 1999; Page A1 As part of a new and aggressive effort to track down parents who owe child support, the federal government has created a vast computerized data-monitoring system that includes all individuals with new jobs and the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and wages of nearly every working adult in the United States. Government agencies have long gathered personal information for specific reasons, such as collecting taxes. But never before have federal officials had the legal authority and technological ability to locate so many Americans found to be delinquent parents - or such potential to keep tabs on Americans accused of nothing. The system was established under a little-known part of the law overhauling welfare three years ago. It calls for all employers to quickly file reports on every person they hire and, quarterly, the
[CTRL] OEN 6/28/99
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Today's Lesson From Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite by Joseph Warren Dauben Georg Cantor (1845-1918), the creator of transfinite set theory, is one of the most imaginative and controversial figures in the history of mathematics. Toward the end of the nineteenth century his study of continuity and the infinite eventually forced him to depart radically from standard interpretations and use of infinity in mathematics. Because his views were unorthodox, they stimulated lively debate and at times vigorous denunciation. Leopold Kronecker considered Cantor a scientific charlatan, a renegade, a "corrupter of youth," but Bertrand Russell described him as one of the greatest intellects of the nineteenth century. David Hilbert believed Cantor had created a new paradise for mathematicians, though others, notably Henri Poincaré, thought set theory and Cantor's transfinite numbers represented a grave mathematical malady, a perverse pathological illness that would one day be cured. Both in his own time and in the years since, Cantor's name has signified both controversy and schism. Ultimately, transfinite set theory has served to divide mathematicians into distant camps determined largely by their irreconcilable views of the nature of mathematics in general and of the status of the infinite in particular. = India vs. Pakistan Wider War in Kashmir? Following NATO's Example WASHINGTON - While President Bill Clinton was in Geneva this month making a speech to the International Labor Organization, his nation Vajpayee of India. Mr. Vajpayee's message was that India might have to attack inside Pakistan if Pakistan did not pull back troops who had seized Indian outposts in the disputed territory of Kashmir. The message stoked already high U.S. fears that India, which has lost more than 100 troops trying to dislodge the Pakistanis, would storm across the cease-fire line that divides Kashmir or open a second front elsewhere on its border with Pakistan, widening the first armed conflict between the rivals since both tested nuclear weapons last year. Mr. Clinton faced the possibility that about 700 Pakistani troops, camped at fire bases 16,000 feet up in the Himalayas, could destroy the rapprochement India and Pakistan began last winter, ignite a regional war and scuttle the administration's dwindling hopes of a constructive new relationship with all of South Asia. The president and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had already sent many messages to India and Pakistan urging restraint. After Mr. Berger and Karl Inderfurth, assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, received Mr. Vajpayee's message in Geneva, Mr. Clinton decided to turn up the pressure on Pakistan, senior officials said. First he persuaded the Group of Seven industrialized countries to include in their final communiqué a statement condemning the ''infiltration of armed intruders'' and demanding ''full respect'' for the de facto border known as the Line of Control. The statement did not call for a cease-fire, an implicit acknowledgment of India's right to defend its territory. Then Mr. Clinton dispatched General Anthony Zinni, commander of the U.S. Central Command, to Islamabad to tell Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his military leaders to pull back to their side of the Line of Control. What happens next will depend on General Zinni's assessment of Pakistan's response, one senior official said, noting that impoverished Pakistan could not afford full-scale war and was counting on receiving a $100 million loan next month from the International Monetary Fund. Washington could hold up those funds to pressure Pakistan. ''We're not making any predictions,'' a senior administration official said. ''It could get worse, if the Indians reach the level of frustration that they need to strike somewhere else.'' That concern rose after Mr. Vajpayee's letter, officials said, because it told Mr. Clinton that the spectacle of Indian troops coming down from the mountains in body bags was raising public pressure on the government. Pakistan's incursion into Kashmir has turned U.S. diplomacy upside down. A year ago, the Clinton administration was orchestrating an international campaign against India after Mr. Vajpayee's government tested nuclear weapons. Pakistan followed with its own tests, but Washington expressed understanding of the pressures that led to that decision and looked for ways to ease the mandatory U.S. economic sanctions triggered by Pakistan's tests. Now India is drawing praise for its restraint in the Kashmir conflict, and it is Pakistan that is being criticized. After initially promising public neutrality, Mr. Clinton has authorized American officials to say there is no doubt that the intruders on the Indian side of the line are Pakistani regulars, as India claims, not
[CTRL] Fwd: SOFTWAR vs. The White House
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Office of the General Counsel Washington, D.C. 20230 May 19, 1999 CERTIFIED MAIL - RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Charles R. Smith Softwar 7707 Whirlaway Drive Midlothian, VA 23 112 RE: Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Appeal Dear Mr. Smith: This responds to your appeal under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552) and the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) from the February 18, 1999 interim response to your February 25 FOIA request. You seek records responsive to your previous FOIA requests to the Department of Commerce that were referred 1o any organization that is not an "agency" for purposes of the FOIA as well as any correspondence regarding yourself or, Softwar that was sent to any organization that is not an "agency" for FOIA purposes. You appealed on February 25, arguing that the documents you received in the interim response were not responsive to your FOIA request, the documents were "not illegally withheld in a claim that they were being reviewed by another 'agency'," and that the White House is not an agency for purposes of the FOIA. We do not entirely agree with your assertions regarding responsiveness and withholding, but we have clarified your concerns through conversations with my staff Consequently, your appeal has been granted in part. We are releasing 33 documents to you in their entirety. These documents consist of letters sent to you regarding your previous FOIA requests or appeals; referral letters that the Department sent to the National Security Council (NSC) and the Office of the Vice President; letters sent to the submitters of confidential commercial information providing them with an opportunity to object to disclosure; and the underlying documents which were referred to these entities and subsequently released. We are releasing a 30 page NSC draft bill of the Electronic Data Security Act of 1996 and referring letter to NSC with one redaction, the name of a National Security Agency (NSA) employee. We are prohibited From releasing the names of NSA employees pursuant to section 6 of Public Law 86-36 (50 U.S.C. 402 note), as incorporated into the FOIA pursuant to exemption (b)(3). See Founding Church of Scientology v. NSA, 610 1:.2d 824, 828 (D.C. Cir. 1979). We are releasing 2 documents, one which was voluntarily provided to the Department by the Bankers Trust New York Corporation and has been partially redacted. The 10 page document which has been partially redacted is titled "Banker's Trust Encryption System and Law Enforcement." Bankers Trust informed us that the document contains proprietary information which it would not would customarily release to the public. National Parks Conservation Ass'n v. Morton, 498 F.2d 765 (D.C. Cir. 1974); holding limited by Critical Mass Energy Project v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 975 F.2d 871 (D.C. Cir 1992), cert. denied 507 U.S. 994 (1993). Nonetheless, Bankers Trust did agree to voluntarily release one paragraph of the document. We are also releasing several documents, in part, which were referred to the White House for review and consultation. Portions of the two letters have been redacted pursuant to the deliberative process and attorney-client privileges, which are incorporated into FOIA exemption (b)(5). In addition, one of the underlying documents that was referred to the White House is being withheld in its entirety under the deliberative process and attorney-client privileges of exemption (b)(5). That document is a February 6, 1996 memorandum that was sent to Departmental officials from a White House official for legal consideration and advice on patent issues involving encryption technology. We are also making a discretionary disclosure of several documents which are not responsive to your request, but appear to be the documents which you are actually seeking. These documents consist of four referral letters and underlying documents which were sent to two U.S. Government intelligence agencies. One of the documents was previously redacted under exemption (b)(4) and provided to you in response to an earlier FOIA request. Another document contains the biographies of 21 individuals. During a March 18, 1999 conversation with a member of my staff, you agreed that, if any referral letters to intelligence agencies were voluntarily provided to you, the Department could redact the names of the agencies. Accordingly, we have redacted the identities and addresses from the documents. Eleven documents which are responsive to your request are duplicative of documents responsive to your April 5, 1997 FOIA request for certain information relating to Clipper technology, James Bidzoes, and RSA, Inc. (Department FOIA request number 97-143). The Department is still consulting with the White House, other Federal intelligence agencies, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice, about these documents. Although none of these documents is currently awaiting solely White House review,
[CTRL] Private Lives Laid Bare on Net
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/20430.html A HREF="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/20430.html"Culture News from Wired News /A - Private Lives Laid Bare on Net by James Glave 12:25 p.m. 25.Jun.99.PDT Voices drift through the ether, over cell phones, from somewhere in Vancouver, British Columbia. In a heavy working-class Canadian accent, a man says good morning to his girlfriend, who is half asleep. She asks him if there's any coffee left. Neither is aware that a hacker known only as DwC is capturing their words with a Bearcat BC200XLT scanner, and netcasting their intimate chat live onto the Internet with Shoutcast, a streaming MP3 service. See also: Cell-Phone Calls Streamed on Net "I think it is an intrusion," said David Jones, director of Electronic Frontier Canada, a group that seeks to preserve free expression in the digital age. Because the man and his girlfriend are using older cellular phones that transmit over radio frequencies without encryption, the conversation can be easily intercepted. Normally such calls can only be heard by someone using a modified scanner, but DwC has taken their conversations to a wider audience all over the world. "[The callers] are using out-of-date technology [and the hacker is] broadcasting it like a radio program," said Jones. "But it is not a radio program. It is a private conversation." And that could land the anonymous netcaster in jail. Section 184.5 of The Criminal Code of Canada states that anyone found guilty of intercepting cellular phone calls "maliciously or for gain" can be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison. Jones said that while Section 183 says that calls made on analog cell phones, or via "radio-based telephone communication" are not considered a "private communication," DwC may still be violating the law under Section 184 by using the intercepted conversations maliciously. Neither the Vancouver Police Department nor the Royal Canadian Mounted Police could be reached for comment. British Columbia has an Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, but that department only oversees the privacy of public bodies, and not individuals. AOL deleted the cellphone Shoutcast channel on Friday. "We removed the listing from the directory," said AOL spokeswoman Tricia Primrose. "When something [like this] comes to our attention we want to act responsibly and swifty to remove it if we think that is appropriate. In this case, we did." The conversations are private, but mundane -- DwC's digital sieve catches the tedium of everyday life. One person gripes about why his insurance won't cover stolen scuba gear. A man on his way to work chats with his sleepy girlfriend. Then there's restaurant reservations, drug deals, someone complaining about her bowel obstruction. Some are intimate, others are disturbing. "He was having financial problems and he hung himself in his garage yesterday," said one voice. "How old was he?" "Fortyish." While the chatter runs in the background, a group of streaming MP3 enthusiasts listens in on an Internet Relay Chat channel. The cyber peanut gallery at times creates a bizarre interplay between reality and the group of technically sophisticated voyeurs. As a woman on a technical support cell call coaches a friend on how to plug in her keyboard, the voyeurs in the channel chime in with their own smart-aleck advice. Only they can hear it. One young audiophile said he couldn't resist the voyeuristic thrill. "I think he's trying to prove that we can't be ignorant to the people listening to the scanners," said the chatter, who described himself as an 18-year-old high school student from Toronto. "It's like it's in the air: You can't stop the waves from going through your body; why not listen to it?" For David Jones, the answer is to junk analog cell phones in favor of more secure digital PCS phones. "We should all have digital cell phones that have strong crypto. It wouldn't matter if we are broadcasting encrypted voice because it would be indecipherable. "Strong crypto keeps out the cops, it keeps out the reporters, and it keeps out this punk in Vancouver who is getting his jollies." Related Wired Links: House OKs Wireless Privacy Bill 25.Feb.99 Bill Restricts Wireless Wiretaps 11.Feb.99 You Make Me Want to Shoutcast 12.Jan.99 Copyright © 1994-99 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is
[CTRL] Boob Job
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times /A - Laissez Faire City Times June 28, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 26 Editor Chief: Emile Zola Boob Job by Don Lobo Tiggre In this weeks news, we saw yet another reportthis time from the Institute of Medicinethat breast implants dont cause any serious illnesses. These reports come as no surprise to those of us who thought the whole flurry of lawsuits against companies like Dow Corning (currently paying a $3.2 billion settlement to women who had silicon breast implants) was a junk-science and hysteria-driven boob job aimed at "soaking the rich." Only, this sort of legal fleecing doesnt just makes boobs out of the duped women, but everyone who thinks that newspapers and TV broadcasts are accurate sources of information. Conspiracy theorists may suspect that such crises are manufactured for the express purpose of creating the public will (read: hysteria) that will push new regulations and other draconian controls through the federal and state legislatures. A simpler explanation is that the greed of trial lawyers functions in a system that gives them no incentive to be on the side of right in such matters. "Loser-pays" tort reform wouldnt guarantee this either, but at least it would give many lawyers a good reason to hesitate before suing restaurants on behalf of women who spill hot coffee on themselves. Whatever the explanation, the main result of such adventures in legal entrepreneurshipbesides fattening trial lawyers billfoldsis an incremental loss of freedom over time for everyone living in the country (boobs and non-boobs alike). Boob Tube Jobs In bed with the trial lawyers are the slavish statists in the media. Again, it may seem to suspicious folks that most American newspaper reporters, talking heads on television, and their editors have never seen a new tax or regulation they didnt like, and that they are pushing the statist agenda. (And obviously they often are.) However, editors dont need to be closet communists in order to seize upon every excuse to dramatize the evil, sick, twisted, ugly, destructive, scary, murderous, salacious, and generally negative from the flow of news that crosses their desks. Its what sells copy. The media helped fan the flames of fear that gave the trial lawyers a constituency to go after the makers of cosmetic surgery supplies, just as they went after big tobacco, and are now going after gun manufacturers. Consider a case on a smaller scale, the new speed limit in Montana: After the U.S. Congress repealed the nationwide 55 m.p.h. speed limit in 1995, many of the more socialist eastern states kept their speed limits low, while large western states (where many people have to drive very long distances on a daily basis) immediately raised their speed limits. Montana adopted a "reasonable and prudent" "basic rule"i.e., they had no daytime speed limit, as long as people were not driving recklessly. Montana is 500 miles wide, and for many Montanans, the speed limit was a steep tax on their time. It was even dangerous, as it kept them on the roads longer, increasing the incidence of drowsiness behind the wheel and other hazards. Most Montanans welcomed the new rule and drove at reasonable speeds, given the type of car they owned and the road conditions. In 1996, the first full year after the "basic rule" was adopted, highway fatalities dropped dramatically, from 216 to 198, the lowest rate since 1989. But thats not the way an editorial from a major Salt Lake City television station portrayed the "basic rule". According to KSL spokesman Duane Cardall, "Montana tried it and it didnt work. It is a good lesson for us all." Its not just the opinion thats disturbing, look at how Cardall carefully presents the facts: "While many motorists approached the basic rule law with responsibility, far too many abused the privilege, endangering not only themselves, but other motorists. The fatality rate skyrocketed, from an average of 200 traffic related deaths per year for the previous decade, to 267 in 1997." Besides the disturbing reference to the right to travel as a "privilege", note that, instead of documenting the initial decrease in fatalities, we are told that the death rate "skyrocketed." This is yellow journalism of the lowest order; the statistics are correct but the impression created is misleading. How can this be anything but a deliberate attempt to mislead the public? Well, perhaps it is, or perhaps its just the result of an editor who knows that "fatality rate skyrocketed" will sell more copy than, "in a complex interaction of alcohol, out-of-state drivers, and other variables, the mortality on Montana highways has fluctuated greatly since the repeal of the speed limit." Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc As it turns out, the 25 percent
[CTRL] [18] Jack Parsons The Curious Origins of the American Space Program
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times /A - Laissez Faire City Times June 28, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 26 Editor Chief: Emile Zola Jack Parsons The Curious Origins of the American Space Program by The Magician Part 18: Bloody Dichondra Dean was watching it all from the car. The two external cameramen had caught Oral Jerry Swagger and Zak entering the restaurant. OJS had been carrying the briefcase with the money. The internal cameraman would film and record part of their dinner conversation. Then . . . Here they came. Zak was carrying the briefcase now. They were shaking hands. Three cameras going. The man inside had followed them out and was making no effort to be non-obtrusive. He caught OJS with his mouth dropping open as he looking directly into the camera lens. Zak came over and got into the car, two cameramen following him, filming. One of them got into the back seat. Zak opened the briefcase and the cameraman leaned forward, filming the money. "Where to?" Dean asked. "Chinatown," Zak said. "I deliver the money and wetheygenerate the wire transfer records. "I sure hope you know what you are doing," Dean muttered, as he started the car. "Relax," Zak said. "Youll get paid shortly. Cash." He tapped the briefcase. Hoova had told him he could keep ten percent. That would be enough to pay Dean, and a few bucks left over for himself. Zak was in a good mood. All the stuff for Hoova had been voluntarya freeby. Now something was coming back. True, Larry Meier hadnt mentioned the part about the ten percent. But that was Hoovas problem. Ten percent. A tithe. Zak snickered to himself. A tithe of a tithe. Ten percent from money OJS had collected as tithes and offerings from his followers. Hoova had told him to leave the tapes under some Mason jars in a paper bag marked "Sally Rand" in the same place as previously. "Chinatown!" Zak yelled. "Chinatown here we come!" Dean only glanced at him and drove in silence. * * * * * Craig hit the button in the Hilton elevator. The woman who had called in to headquarters wasnt there anymore. Vacation or something. But the suspect, Hermes T. Megistus, was still in his room. He hadnt stirred for twenty-four hours, apparently. Craig just wanted to pass by. Check the location of the room number. Any excuse to deal with the endless boredom of waiting for the suspect to make a move. What was he doing in there anyway? Watching TV? Shacked up with some whore? Craig stepped out into the 10th floor and checked the location of the room number. Down this way. Here it is . . . The door was slightly ajar. Shit! Craig thought. It was three a.m. in the morning. It couldnt be the maid. Sowas the suspect there or not? Obviously he had come in or outbut no one had bothered to close the door. Maybe the suspect had just gone down the hall for some ice. Craig looked behind him. No one. But in that case there ought to be a light in the room. The room was dark. Craig hesitated. Then he knocked on the doorjamb. "Mr. Megistus? Hotel security. We noticed your door was open." He waited. Nothing. He listened. No sound. Craig pushed open the door and slipped inside, fumbling for the light switch. He hadnt quite found it yet when he felt the sharp point. A sting in his solar plexus. He was still fumbling with the blade in his belly when he blacked out. * * * * * Edward Lodge was watching a basketball game to pass the time when the STU-III rang on his desk. It was a new product that gave an encrypted communication session. Lodge didnt really trust it. But at least he knew who was calling when it rang. "Yes," he answered, never taking his eyes off the TV screen. "Um, hmm," he said several times as he listened. Then: "Sanitize the trail. We dont want it leading back here." He hung up the phone and yelled at the TV: "Shoot! Shoot!" * * * * * Oral Jerry Swagger had gotten up early that morning. He was dressed in his morning outfitsuspenders, red shirt, bow tiewhen he went out for the paper on the front lawn. Usually the housekeeper delivered it at 7 a.m. along with breakfast. But it was 6:30 and OJ was impatient for the news. The paper was half-way down the stone path to the front gate. OJ opened up the Los Angeles Times, and stood there, reading and shaking his jowls at the sin and corruption of the world. Only gradually did he become aware of some blemish on his spacious front lawn. The lawn had long ago been replanted with dichondra, which gave a uniform green, in place of the patchy and fickle grass. It was a human figure. OJ walked cautiously across the dichondra for a closer look. The man was laying face down. He tapped on the mans shoulder. "Get up!" he commanded sternly. The manstill drunkdidnt move. OJ grabbed his shoulder, and with some effort flipped him
[CTRL] Propagating the Faith
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times /A - Laissez Faire City Times June 28, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 26 Editor Chief: Emile Zola Propagating the Faith by Peter Topolewski We ought to know were in trouble when even the socialists begin labeling some of our most prized methods of governance "Soviet-style". The term is only used derogatorily these days. That massive experiment in bastardized Marxism was once the flagship of socialist dreams. It often matched the best the West had to offer in science, military might, and industrial production. But being the slow, lumbering behemoth it was, the Soviet Union could produce only at great and fatal cost. Through sheer quantity it hoped to produce quality, and so is now sadly remembered mostly as a backward society propped up falsely on myths and crushed under the weight of bureaucratic inefficiency and indifference. A few months ago British Columbias deputy premier Dan Miller used "Soviet-style" to describe the provincial management system for the forestry industry the provinces largest. In the interests of the people and for the good of all who own public land in some ways, and dont in many others the BC government owns 96 percent of forest lands, while private hands own 1 percent. By way of comparison, the US government owns 28 percent of US forest lands while 59 percent is privately held. In France, the government owns 12 percent and the private sector 70 percent. The forestry industry in Canada, and in particular BC, has an unflattering reputation throughout the world for poor stewardship of its public lands. While private ownership is not necessarily synonymous with good stewardship, those countries with a preponderance of privately-held forest lands by and large have a better record of managing the forestry resource. The fact that in Canada no one using the "Crown land" has as direct a stake in it, as they would in private land, must surely explain part of this neglect. "Crown" taken to mean the ruler and all his or her subjects really equals no one. And so rather than representing the "good of all" the Crown effectively represents the good of no one. When the Soviet Unions façade looked its mightiest, it was also known for the pervasive control of its subjects. This is much akin to what forest policy in BC is about a few controlling the many, ostensibly with the interests of the many at heart. It is worth noting that the deputy premiers words caught his party and that of the official opposition off guard. He made it sound as though the socialists (of which he is a member) were ready to relinquish Soviet-style control. In fact, they continue to be one of the biggest proprietors of oppressive control "for the good of all." A Union Pension, Soviet-Style In the last few weeks the deputy premiers party has introduced legislation to cut off union pensions to early retirees who go to work for a non-union firm in the same field. The law will affect about 10,000 union members in 30 multi-employer pension plans; half of these members are in the construction industry. For the average construction worker, who has spent his life plying his trade and contributing to his pension, retirement means collecting a monthly paycheck ranging from $500 to $3000. If the pension is not enough to live on, as many retirees indeed find, one and possibly the only option is returning to work. Realistically, that means returning to what they know best their former field. Coming soon, however, is the Soviet-style law that forbids such practice. That is, the government has ordered that your pension money is not yours to have, but the unions to take away. And you do not have either the freedom or the right to work where you please, rather only the right to work where it might please the government and its union friends. The legislation has been presented as a holy protector of the many that is, the active union members. Proponents of the legislation argue that former members who in retirement go to work for non-union companies undermine the unions; by virtue of their inherently lower wages the non-union companies can outbid unionized ones. In some quarters this has been called competition and is regarded as a virtue. To the government it is a crime, in no small part because competition reveals the false supports holding up the state ordered industriousness. It is no coincidence that this language should be reminiscent of that former Soviet society. The unions that the government wants so vigorously to preserve share the Soviet Unions inflexible, collectivist traits. And so the provincial government legislation is completely in line with the philosophy that the "good of all" need be protected, even, perhaps especially, at the cost of individual liberty. No doubt it is
[CTRL] [3] Chaos and Fractals in Financial Markets
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times /A - Laissez Faire City Times June 28, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 26 Editor Chief: Emile Zola Chaos and Fractals in Financial Markets Part 3 by J. Orlin Grabbe Hazardous World Many things in life are random. They are governed by probability, by chance, by hazard, by accident, by the god Hermes, by fortune. So we measure them by probabilityby our one-pound jar of jam. Places where there is more jam are more likely to happen, but the next outcome is uncertain. The next outcome might be a low probability event. Or it might be a high probability event, but there may be more than one of these. Radioactive decay is measured by probability. The timing of the spontaneous transformation of a nucleus (in which it emits radiation, loses electrons, or undergoes fission) cannot be predicted with any certainty. Some people dont like this aspect of the world. They prefer to believe there are "hidden variables" which really determine radioactive decay, and if we only understood what these hidden variables were, it would all be precisely predictable, and we could return to the paradise of a Laplacian universe. Well, if there are hidden variables, I sure wish someone would identify them. If wishes were horses, David Bohm would ride.[1] Albert Einstein liked to say, "God doesnt play dice." But if God wanted to play dice, he didnt need Albert Einsteins permission. It sounds to me like "hidden" is just another name for probability. "Was it an accident?" "No, it was caused by hidden forces." Hidden variable theorists all believe in conspiracy. But, guess what? People who believe God doesnt play dice use probability theory just as much as everyone else. So, without further ado, lets return to our discussion of probability. Coin Flips and Brownian Motion We can create a kind of Brownian motion (or Bachelier process) by flipping coins. We start with a variable x = 0. We flip a coin. If the coin comes up heads, we add 1 to x. If the coin comes up tails, we subtract 1 from x. If we denote the input x as x(n) and the output x as x(n+1), we get a dynamical system: x(n+1) = x(n) + 1, with probability p = x(n+1) = x(n) 1, with probability q = . Here n represents the current number of the coin flip, and is our measure of time. So to create a graph of this system, we put n (time) on the horizontal axis, and the variable x(n) on the vertical axis. This gives a graph of a very simple type of Brownian motion (a random walk), as seen in the graphic below. At any point in time (at any value of n), the variable x(n) represents the total number of heads minus the total number of tails. Here is one picture of 10,000 coin flips: Much of finance is based on a simple probability model like this one. Later we will change this model by changing the way we measure probability, A Simple Stochastic Fractal Using probability, it is easy to create fractals. For example, here is a dynamical system which creates a Simple Stochastic Fractal. The system has two variables, x and y, as inputs and outputs: x(n+1) = - y(n) y(n+1) = x(n) with probability p = , but x(n+1) = 1 + 2.8*(x(n)-1)/(x(n)*x(n)-2*x(n)+2+y(n)*y(n)) y(n+1) = 2.8*y(n)/(x(n)*x(n)-2*x(n)+2+y(n)*y(n)) with probability q = . We map x and y on a graph of two dimensions. If the coin flip comes up heads, we iterate the system by the first two equations. This iteration represents a simple 90-degree rotation about the origin (0,0). If the coin flip comes up tails, we iterate the system by the second two equations. This second type of iteration contracts or expands the current point with respect to (1,0). To see this Simple Stochastic Fractal system works in real time, be sure Java is enabled on your web browser, and click here. [2] Simple stochastic dynamical systems create simple fractals, like those we see in nature and in financial markets. But in order to get from Bachelier to Mandelbrot, which requires a change in the way we measure probability, it will be useful for us to first think about something simpler, such as the way we measure length. One weve learned to measure length, well find that probability is jam on toast. Sierpinski and Cantor Revisited In Part 2, when we looked at Sierpinski carpet, we noted that a Sierpinski carpet has a Hausdorff dimension D = log 8/log 3 = 1.8927 So if we have a Sierpinski carpet with length 10 on each side, we get N = rD = 10D = 101.8927 = 78.12 smaller copies of the original. (For a nice round number, we can take 9 feet on a side, and get N = 91.8927 = 64 smaller copies.) Since each of these smaller copies has a length of one foot on each side, we can call these "square feet". But really they are "square Sierpinskis", because Sierpinski carpet is not like ordinary
[CTRL] Newspeak
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.26/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times /A - Laissez Faire City Times June 28, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 26 Editor Chief: Emile Zola Newspeak by Sunni Maravillosa Ayn Rand was right when she repeatedly pointed out that words have precise meanings. While it is true that many words have more than one meaning, a good wordsmith will make the intended meaning clear by context and careful use of words. Words are the tools of communication, and, just like any other tool, they can be wielded skillfully or ineptly, used properly or twisted to fit the purpose of the writer. Todays climate of political correctness provides an excellent example of twisting words into new meaningswelcome, Orwellian Newspeak! Such obfuscatory use of language is not new; its a favorite and well-worn tool of propagandists everywhere. Unfortunately, todays liberals (now theres a good example of a word twist) use it to give the appearance of valuing individuals and liberty while snatching more and more choices from a persons grasp. (Conservatives dont try to reinvent language so much as simply repeat their tired old phrases, hoping against hope that someone will eventually take them seriously.) One of the more insidious results of language-twisting is that over time, the culture absorbs the new usage and it becomes accepted. Protests against the shift are apt to be labeled as old-fashioned or purist, and tend to be dismissed. Its through this process that America has become a huge welfare state, that taxes (often labeled "fees") have been largely accepted, and that our freedom has been eroded. Although pro-freedom ideas do make their way into mainstream culture in various media, they are vastly outnumbered by the collectivist ideasconsider how successful "public good" arguments are, for example. A more recent example is the change from "minimum wage" to "living wage"as if the words make any difference to those struggling to live on that salary! So, whats a freedom-loving individual to do to try to counteract these linguistic games? Rather than trying to win on the Newspeak playing field, we are better served resurrecting some words and adding them to our arsenal. Used precisely, and with explanation where required, these thought-bombs can help spread our ideas, and possibly even open the eyes of some who currently swim with the prevailing statist current. A Few Choice Words The first suggestion I have involves an old Soviet term: refusenik. The refuseniks were individualsmostly Jewswho were denied permission to leave the Soviet Union. Many continued to re-apply until they were finally permitted to emigrate; the longest period on record is of a refusenik who waited 20 years before being able to leave. Their livesalready unpleasantbecame more challenging once it became known that they wanted to leave the country, but for most the desire to live in freedom surpassed the obstacles placed before them. It was their refusal to cooperateto live under the communist systemthat led to the states refusal to allow them to leave. We who value our freedom can refuse to cooperate with freedom-destroying laws, and become refuseniks in our own right. Dont like how the second amendment has been gutted? Call yourself a gun-control refusenik. Cant abide by arbitrary laws that limit your freedom of choice of mind-altering substances? Become a War-on-Some-Drugs refusenik. Dislike all forms of tyranny? Youre a control refusenik, a New World Order refusenik, or somesuchyou get the idea. The term refusenik is a particularly good one, because many people think they know what it meansalmost everyone knows it relates to the Soviet Union in an unflattering way. That linkage gives the term extra mileage for our cause. By presenting the choice to ignore laws that stifle liberty as a personal refusal to cooperate, the freedom-enhancing aspects of the choice are emphasized over the law-breaking aspect. If every individual who took issue with some aspect of the states use of force to control its citizens adopted this nomenclature, and started using it in e-mail signature files, on web sites, and in letters to congresscritters, its spread would be phenomenaland unable to ignore. Using this word highlights how authoritarian the United States is becominglike the old Soviet Union was. What a great way to give the statist scum some well-deserved heartburn! Abolitionist is another word with a valuable historical link that ought to be used more frequently. When they hear it, most Americans think of the Civil War, and of the abolitionists who worked to free the slaves. While it appears to many that freedom triumphed, the actual result was to make slaves of us all, in terms of affirmative action, hate speech as a crime, discrimination, and reverse discrimination.
Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- whatever UFOs are, they have been with us for a*long* time. Why should there be a single explanation of what UFOs are? It seems to me that the odds are overwhelming that some UFOs are one kind of thing and other UFOs are something else. While I'm hesitant to dismiss out of hand an extra-terrestrial and/or "inter-dimensional" origin for some UFO, I am extremely skeptical. Occam's Razor dictates that we should consentrate our study on the hypothesis that they are of terrestrial origin, flown in secret by both governments and non governmental enterprises and organizations. Some are prototypes of new technology being flown in tests. Others we should be consider as part of a massive psy-op. The mass, instant pycho-social effects of Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds" was not lost on the power that be. Eleven months later Goebbles went on the radio and told the German people that the Fatherland had been invaded, not by Martians but (even more plausably) by Poles. The Germans fell for it hook, line and sinker. So if the "benevelent space brothers" land and proclaim they are here to help save us from ourselves and by the way meet their official (Nordic looking?) human representatives who will speak for them and should be obeyed, when they head back up the ramp to their saucer, check for a zipper up their back. They're probably not aliens; they're probably aryans, putting one over on us again. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Stratfor's Third Quarter Forecast
__ VISIT OUR NEW INTELLIGENCE CENTERS http://www.stratfor.com/ __ Stratfor's Third Quarter Forecast June 27, 1999 Note: This Forecast should be read in conjunction with Stratfor's Decade Forecast prepared in 1995 (http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/decade.asp), its 1999 Annual Forecast (http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/1999.asp) and its Second Quarter, 1999 Forecast (http://www.stratfor.com/services/giu/2q1999.asp) Stratfor's organizing theme for its 1999 Annual Forecast is found in the title: "A New and Dangerous World." That concept remains valid and the fundamental trends identified within that theme remain intact. The most important trend identified in that forecast has now become manifest. We wrote that "Russia and China will be moving into a closer, primarily anti-American alliance in 1999." That process is the most important global trend today. It is well under way and is also intensifying. It should be understood that this trend was not put into play because of the Kosovo crisis, although it is clear that it was intensified and accelerated by it. Indeed, Stratfor's ability to predict the Kosovo crisis in its 1999 Annual Forecast was predicated on this trend already being in place. A critical element in Milosevic's strategy was his view that the deteriorating relationship between Russia and the United States had opened a window of opportunity for dealing with the Kosovo situation. It was precisely because Milosevic saw this process in Russian foreign policy as already under way that he took the risks he did. At the same time, Milosevic's failure to allow U.S.-Russian tensions to mature opened Serbia to a partial reversal in Russian policy that left him in a series of untenable positions. The split between Russia and China on one hand and the United States on the other has still not fully matured. Therefore, the response, a Sino-Russian alliance, has not yet fully taken shape. Nevertheless, matters are rapidly moving in that direction. Therefore, it is our view that the single most important global theme of the Third Quarter of 1999 will be fairly quiet, yet intense, diplomacy between Russia and China as they explore the precise meaning and implementation of their strategic relationship. A summit meeting will take place in Beijing between Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin some time this summer or autumn. The precise date is not altogether certain at this point. There are two reasons for this uncertainty. First, and most important, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done at the ministerial level and below prior to the summit. It is one thing to speak of a strategic alliance. It is another thing to implement one. There are some real issues outstanding between Russia and China. Second, both Russia and China will use the available time to try to extract concessions from the United States and the West in general, under the assumption that they will be eager to prevent a Sino-Russian alliance from solidifying. Both of these reasons point to a fairly slow process. There are fundamental geopolitical issues that need to be resolved by the Russians and Chinese. The most important of these is the status of the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. China is experiencing substantial unrest from Moslem groups in its Xinjiang province. These groups are drawing support from, at least, elements within predominantly Moslem states of the former Soviet Union, and perhaps from some of the states themselves. China clearly wants Russia's help in dealing with that problem. Russia, however, is hesitant at this point to get bogged down in pacifying the region. Yet, at the same time that it is hesitant, there is a growing movement inside of Russia that regards the collapse of the Soviet Union as a monumental error and which dreams of its geographic, if not institutional, resurrection. We think these forces are gaining strength, which means that there is growing support for a more expansionary Russian foreign policy. The geopolitics of the region may actually be a force pulling Russian hard-liners and Beijing closer together. A more important issue on the table is what the alliance will mean in relation to the United States. The purpose of the alliance is twofold. First, it is to create a counter-weight to the United States that would force the U.S. to take Russia and China seriously. The second purpose would be to provide a focal point for secondary states looking for a safe haven from American power, which would, in turn, enhance the power of the Sino-Russian bloc. What this means in practical terms is unclear. It might range from a general policy of coordination to a mutual defense pact pledging each side to support the others' wars. Neither side wants to be excessively exposed to the adventures and vulnerabilities of the other. At the same time, too loose a relationship leaves room
[CTRL] thug hubbell cops a plea
-Caveat Lector- just reported on fox news channel. no details yet. Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] George W. Bush Jr.
-Caveat Lector- from: http://members.tripod.com/~Borocar/bush.htm A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~Borocar/bush.htm"George W. Bush Jr. and the Ribbon Thing /A - How do you like your blue-eyed boy, Mr. Death? "Medium Rare, please." -- G.W. Bush Hi. I'm George W. Bush Jr. I want to be your next president. No, there's no good reason why I should get the job, but when has that ever stopped a Bush, eh? See. . . you can't answer! Besides, the lame ass conservatives will vote for me, since they would rather compromise with evil than see evil itself (Mr. Algore) in the White House. Hey, with minds like that, how can I lose? But don't worry, folks, I'm really just a good old boy. Just like most of you, I played around with fast women, back when they would look at me (don't worry, they won't anymore). I also played around with drugs, but I've learned my lesson well, and nowadays I believe that an underprivileged inner city youth who gets caught with cocaine (~sniff, sniff~) deserves about twenty five years in the penitentiary. So, as you see, I've matured! I also believe in telling the truth (before it shoots me in the foot), so I wanna come "clean" and let you know that I'm a bit of a madcap. You see, back in my days at the University, I joined an interesting secret society, known as "Skull and Bones." Well, I can't say very much about it (after all, it's a secret society), but I will confess that during my initiation, I spent some quality time laid back buck naked in a moldy old coffin. There's more! While I lay in that dank nasty box, I had a ribbon tied around my weenie. What color ribbon? Sorry, I'm not allowed to say. Anyway, just let me assure you that it will never happen again, and hey, even if it does, don't you think having a ribbon around your thing is less immoral than having the post pubescent lips of an intern clamped tightly in the same position? I just knew you'd see things my way! Thank you, and DON'T FORGET TO VOTE! -- G. W. Bush P.S. If you like, view a picture of the offending Weenie Ribbon here. Alan Keys does not "buy" Bush: Why Bush Fails Alan Key's Litmus Test (you must read this) News from the "Hill:" Republicans - still beating around the "Bush" (Jim Hill) [ Top ] [ See the Weenie Ribbon ] = from: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_keyes/19990618_xcake_why_bush_f.shtml A HREF="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_keyes/19990618_xcake_why_bush_f.sht ml"Why Bush fails my litmus test /A - FRIDAY JUNE 18 1999 Alan Keyes is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. His WorldNetDaily column appears every Friday. You can hear his radio program over the internet via Real Audio. Why Bush fails my litmus test I got an e-mail the other day from someone urging me to get behind George W. Bush so that the Republicans could unite behind someone (anyone?) and, supposedly, win the presidency. I have said for months that I simply would not support George W. Bush. My decision was confirmed again this week when Bush announced that as president he would not have a "pro-life litmus test" for his judicial nominations. Of course, Gore and Clinton will put death-dealers on the Court no matter what, and make it very clear that this is what they are going to do. So why should those of us who understand the devastation that our abandonment of moral principle is causing in American life and conscience be expected to put up with so-called "pro-life" Republicans who simply decline to oppose the culture of death by straightforwardly championing the agenda of life? When George W. Bush says that he isn't going to have a pro-life litmus test, we should ask, "Why not have a litmus test?" The pro-abortion forces have a litmus test. Why does the supposed Republican champion hold that evil people can make evil a litmus test, but good people shouldn't make good a litmus test? Let's examine a little more closely what is really implied by the phrase "litmus test." Refusing to have a litmus test on abortion means, in my opinion, refusing to defend principle, or to uphold integrity. Because if you have integrity and principles, then the principles themselves, and your active defense of them, constitute a litmus test. Since principles have consequences, certain stands on certain issues will be reflective of those principles. So if a leader has a clear sense of the principles that need to govern his judgment and conscience he will be alert for those great issues that can arise under our Constitution -- I call them "Declaration Issues" -- in which our fundamental principles come to the surface and must be defended and renewed. Such principles aren't arbitrarily chosen, and they aren't dependent on the "personal philosophy" of any particular leader.
Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- I'm of the opinion that UFO's are actually interdeminsional/supernatural objects, and then you have the ones the "Government" created... Jamie -Original Message- From: nessie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the "UFO" -Caveat Lector- whatever UFOs are, they have been with us for a*long* time. Why should there be a single explanation of what UFOs are? It seems to me that the odds are overwhelming that some UFOs are one kind of thing and other UFOs are something else. While I'm hesitant to dismiss out of hand an extra-terrestrial and/or "inter-dimensional" origin for some UFO, I am extremely skeptical. Occam's Razor dictates that we should consentrate our study on the hypothesis that they are of terrestrial origin, flown in secret by both governments and non governmental enterprises and organizations. Some are prototypes of new technology being flown in tests. Others we should be consider as part of a massive psy-op. The mass, instant pycho-social effects of Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds" was not lost on the power that be. Eleven months later Goebbles went on the radio and told the German people that the Fatherland had been invaded, not by Martians but (even more plausably) by Poles. The Germans fell for it hook, line and sinker. So if the "benevelent space brothers" land and proclaim they are here to help save us from ourselves and by the way meet their official (Nordic looking?) human representatives who will speak for them and should be obeyed, when they head back up the ramp to their saucer, check for a zipper up their back. They're probably not aliens; they're probably aryans, putting one over on us again. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Jefferson, Hank Williams, Sr., Elvis, and Patsy Cline
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:534157"Jefferson, Hank Williams, Sr., Elvis, and Patsy Cline /A - Subject: Jefferson, Hank Williams, Sr., Elvis, and Patsy Cline From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kansan1225) Date: Sun, 27 June 1999 11:22 AM EDT Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Douglas E. Hunter wrote: Elvis is a combination of "El", which used to denote God or a god. Vis has the same origin as vision or visualize. Therefore, to see Elvis is to see god. Right! Kansan1225 the most entertaining of trolls. Don't take him too seriously, I don't think he takes himself seriously. I think he's playing the "devils advocate" as much as anything. Regards, Doug. P.M. #711 Nashville, TN I do understand that my claims are incredible to anyone who has not studied these matters, but consider the case of the sainted Patsy Cline. Her original name was Virginia Patterson Hensley. She was given the name Virginia because she was born on September 8, the feast day of the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. When she became involved with CLuM operatives in Nashville, they forced her to change her stage name to "Patsy" (Cline was the surname of her husband). She was used by them to sing paeans to the powers of the air, such as "The Wayward Wind", and Rosicrucian anthems, like "San Antonio Rose". Eventually she was sacrificed by them at the young age of 30 in an airplane "accident". This happened on March 5, 1963, at the time of Purim. Purim is a Jewish holiday celebrating the slaughter of Goyim. This "accident" took place a few short months before another "patsy", Lee Harvey Oswald, i.e., the "Powerful Levite Aharon", met his fate in Dallas. Kansan1225 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Dr. Roger M. Firestone wrote: * "Williams" is related to "Levi" only in the delusions of Kansan1225. The two names come from linguistic groups (Indo-European, Semitic) which are completely unconnected. Kansan1225's attempt to relate them through reversing syllables of a German diminutive form of William (and of course, those syllables don't correspond to those of Levi) is utterly laughable. No philologist or etymologist would give the slightest credence to this notion, yet it forms the foundation of most of Kansan1225's insane mutterings. CLuMs do not always follow philology in their productions. Sometimes the prefabricated names of the Conspirators and their victims are encrypted Baconian cyphers. A good example is the name of the CLuM sacrificial victim Elvis Aaron Presley. "Elvis" is an anagram for "Levis", or "Levi's". The decoded CLuM form of his name is "Levi's Aaron Priestly", or "Aaron, the Priestly (descendant) of Levi". Elvis was sacrificed in Memphis on August 16, 1977, at the time of the New Moon of Leo (the Lion of Judah), after a Blue Moon. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Chinese Embassy:Just an Accident Besides They Were Spies
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:534150"Chinese Embassy:Just an Accident Besides They Were Spies /A - Subject: Chinese Embassy:Just an Accident Besides They Were Spies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 26 June 1999 11:11 PM EDT Message-id: 89b83ca0[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chinese Embassy:Just an Accident Besides They Were Spies Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit ... America: The Pathological Liar Spins a New Tale So the Chinese don't buy the tale of old maps and the analyst who wondered but went off on training, etc etc etc? They don't buy it. It's inconvincing. OK... Well, in that case, it never happened, and besides, they deserved it: We didn't kill journalists, we killed spies -- two of them, anyway. Yeah... that's it! They had spies in their embassy! Imagine, just like every embassy in the world. And not only that -- you know the part of the embassy we bombed by accident? Well that was the Intelligence center, and as we all know the Chinese were reliably reported to be helping those Serb savages... But of course, it was just an accident smirk!! Only they don't believe us so now we have the chutzpah to change the whole story and we'll use anonymous leaks to thumb our noses at those Chinese. " * Saturday June 26, 4:34 pm Eastern Time Spies, not journalists, died in China embassy -US WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - Two of the three Chinese killed last month when U.S. bombs hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade were intelligence agents, not journalists as China has said, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. `It is true that they were not journalists. Two were intelligence agents,'' said the official, who asked not to be identified. The official confirmed a report in the New York Times on Friday that two of the three Chinese killed were spies, not journalists. China has said one of those killed worked for the official Xinhua news agency and the other two, a husband-and-wife team, worked for Guangming Daily. The U.S. official said that the bombs, dropped by U.S. B-2 stealth bombers on May 7, `hit a part of the embassy that was involved in intelligence gathering.'' The incident sparked anti-U.S. protests in China and further strained relations between the two countries. The United States repeatedly has apologized to China for the bombing, which also wounded about 20 other people. U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering recently traveled to China to explain what happened, but China said the explanation was unconvincing. The United States has blamed a series of errors, including outdated CIA maps and databases that did not show the embassy had moved to a new location. The intended target, a Yugoslav military procurement office, was located nearby. Defense Department spokesman Ken Bacon said on Thursday an intelligence analyst at the CIA tried to warn colleagues and military officers in Europe that the intended target was not at that location, although he did not know the Chinese embassy was there. In another development, the leader of Serbia's main opposition party told a German newspaper he suspected that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had received an offer of political asylum from China. `I have indications that Milosevic has received an offer to flee to China, get asylum there and therefore not be handed over to The Hague,'' Democratic Party leader Zoran Djindjic said in an interview due to appear in the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag. Milosevic has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal, which is based at The Hague in the Netherlands. = NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = nyteeu-06.27.99-03:10:10-7053 - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity
-Caveat Lector- Just to clear the air from someones earlier brain fart: Jesus Christ is responsible for only one murder; and that is his own. And as far as him personally being responsible for "rape, murder, theft slavery" in a historical sense, those are strong accusations against the person that, whether you like it, disagree with it, understand it or not died for you. "With God all things are possible." -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Teo One Thousand Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 10:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 6/26/99 7:17:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jesus is alive and well, thank you! That' your opinion. The majority of people disagree. And, he doesn't think for ushe guides us, strengthens us, So it's his fault you people have raped, murdered, stolen and enslaved for a millinia and a half? and teaches us forgiveness. and we need all that strength and foregiveness to tolerate the liberals. If you can tell a liberal from a conservative, more power to you. As for me, no matter whether I look to the left or the right, if I look far enough I see EXACTLY the same thing: a bunch of guys with guns who want to tell me how to screw, which drugs to take and when to show up for work. First of all saying that "we all need Jesus" is proselytizing and has no place here. You may have your beliefs but do not try and tell others they need to share them with you. That said, Nessie's response was unnecessarily harsh against the beliefs of the original poster. Saying that "you people" implying this individual and all Christians approve of rape and the other things you identify, as well as carry them out, is just designed to inflame so please refrain from this tactic. One can point out the history of Christianity and make a case for "the church" causing much death and other harm during it's existence but let's NOT make this a personal issue or attack each other in such a way. Thank you. Teo1000 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] They Are the Eggmen
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:533959"They Are the Eggmen/A - Subject: They Are the Eggmen From: "Tom Keske" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 25 June 1999 09:51 PM EDT Message-id: MoWc3.688$[EMAIL PROTECTED] They Are the Eggmen It is curious how two popular threads of news stories can persist at such great length, yet never seem to find their obvious connection, in the public mind. One thread is about emerging diseases- all the new ones that appeared for the first time between the 1960s and 1980s: AIDS, ebola, hanta, lyme disease, Legionnaire's disease, Gulf War Syndrome, mad cow, Chronic Fatigue. The other thread is about biological warfare and bioterrorism: how easy it is, how inevitable it is, how dangerous it is, how little it costs, how even small nations, cults, and individuals are capable of pursuing it. By what willful madness or blindness is it, that the public so little questions the possible relationship between these two threads? Can we really trust that our own governments have really ceased the pursuit of biological and chemical weaponry, and that there have been no accidents, no acts of covert aggression? In 1972, under President Nixon, the U.S. signed the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, an agreement that banned the development and stockpiling of biological weapons. Russia also signed. Was this agreement really observed? We now know the truth in Russia: in 1973, just a year after the agreement, Russia launched Biopreparat, a biowar reasearch-and-production program that was enormous in scale [1]. But what of the U.S.? Nixon had turned Fort Detrick, the notorious biowar research center, into a "cancer research" center. As a later outgrowth, this research would involve eerily AIDS-like viruses. [2] This was "Tricky Dick" Nixon, whose staff admits to plots of political murder [3], who plotted to have Teamster thugs beat up antiwar protestors, who once plotted to stage a phony burglary of GOP headquarters, and try to blame it on Democrats.One of the Watergate criminals, Gordon Liddy, admits in his autobiography to showing a Nazi propaganda film to his own children. The is but the smallest sample to illustrate the flavor of the Nixon White House. Can we really trust this man at his word? Why was it that the Russians continued their biowar research so cynically, barely missing a beat, lying through their teeth? The Soviets were convinced that the U.S. had not ended its bioweapons program, but simply turned it into a "black" weapons program [1]. "The notion that the Americans had given up their biological weapons was thought of as the great American lie", a British intelligence officer recalls [1]. The American public has been conditioned to regard such beliefs automatically as "paranoia" or "propaganda". However, as the Aldrich Ames affair, or the Chinese infiltration of Los Alamos might seem to remind us- the Russians have one advantage that the American public does not: they had well-placed spies. They may well have been in a position to know about matters, where own newspapers can merely guess. Has either country *ever* given up all biowar research, even today? In 1993, a Cambridge multi-millionaire philanthropist, who is also a friend from my high-school and college days, gave a $10,000 award for Moral Courage to a Vil Mirazayanov, a Russian chemist who worked for many years at the Research Institute for Organic Chemistry, a secret institute in Moscow. He was arrested for "revealing state secrets", which roughly translated, means that he blew the whistle on continuing chemical weapons development. Dr. Frank Malinoski, who was a member of the British-American team that inspected the Russian Biopreparat facilities, says "If the Biopreparat was once an egg, then the weapons program was the yolk of the egg. They've hardboiled the egg, taken out the yolk, and hidden it." It is generally believed that the weapons program was taken over by the Russian Ministry of Defense." [1] Meanwhile, there is strong suspicion that even some of the more visible laboratories are conducting weapons-related genetic engineering. In the next few installments, we will try to break open the mysterious eggshell a bit further: has there been any evidence of lab accidents or covert use of biological weapons, in the background of conventional warfare, that might provide some context for the picture of emerging diseases? Tom Keske Boston, Mass. References: [1] The Bioweaponeers, The New Yorker, 3/98, by Richard Preston http://www.jya.com/bioweap.htm [2] Emerging Viruses: AIDS Ebola, Nature Accident or Intentional, Leonard Horowitz, Tetrahedron Publishing. [3] "Will" - the autobiography of Gordon Liddy - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ==
Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity
-Caveat Lector- If you know of an optimal set of political/economic/philosophical social structures, please inform us. You already know the basics. You learned them in kindergarten. Share. Clean up your mess. Don't hit. Learning is fun. Bypass, ignore and/or resist the state and those who control it. Promote and practice self government, direct democracy, mutual aid, mutual defence, and worker-owned, worker self-managed production. Don't exploit the labor, resources and ignorance of others. Share, cooperate, educate. Let no one suffer unnecessarily. An injury to one is an injury to all. Take personal responsibility for the safety, health and well being of each other and quit palming the job off onto the state. Treat each individual as an individual and each group as a group. Don't confuse the two. Judge each by his, her or their own actions, not by those of his, her or their ancestors. Respect each other's right to their own religious (or anti-religious) beliefs and don't try to force others to practice the tenets of your religion. People have the right to do what thay want to, and with, their own bodies; respect thier right and require that they respect yours. Respect and nurture the Earth. War against ignorance. Conserve. Recycle. Create. And above all, DIY. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: (en) Mega unions in S. Africa - What do they mean for socialism
-Caveat Lector- A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ MEGA-UNIONS: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR SOCIALISM? SA Communist Party (SACP) general secretary, Blade Nzimande, is CEPPWAWU's new honorary president. Whether this move could be an indicator of the future formation of a communist-labour political party to the left of the ANC remains to be seen. But workers must not put their faith in this. Remember that political parties, even left-wing ones, continue to exploit the working class because they don't abolish the exploitation of the working majority by a small elite, even if it is an elite of "comrades". And remember also, that the sheer size of a union means nothing to the workers - unless it is internally democratic. Unless the entire membership has direct control over the mega-union, instead of it being controlled by its own elite class of paid bureaucrats, it will never be an effective fighting force for the members and the working class as a whole. COSATU president, John Gomomo, himself warned of this, saying: "We must get back to the basics of trade unionism and prioritise the basic servicing of our members". He also said labour would wage "a bitter offensive" against the ANC's anti-worker GEAR economic policy. Sadly, CEPPWAWU has also indicated it will establish an investment arm to raise funds. The danger of investing in capitalist firms is that workers may one day find themselves prevented by union leadership from striking because the union has investments in the company the workers are fighting. Buthelezi warned that if CEPPWAWU ever decided to strike, it would "stop the whole country". "We know that employers are panicking," he smiled, recalling that in recent years, CWIU had forced chemicals company, AECI and fuel processor, Sasol, to pay millions of Rands into social funds to protect workers who were retrenched. He said this was necessary because about 400 workers a month were being laid off in the sector covered by the new union: chemical, petroleum, packaging, glass and printing. Buthelezi estimated that the CEPPWAWU had the potential to grow to about 150 000 members. He said potential leadership problems had been avoided by having the two founder unions split leadership posts equally between them. Whether this will strengthen the left or the right in the union is not clear. PPWAWU was more conservative and ANC-linked than CWIU. This article is from the South African anarchist group Workers Solidarity Federation. Please link to our web page at http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/wsf.html Our articles from this issue of Workers Solidarity can be found there -- News of interest to anarchist from Revolt http://flag.blackened.net/revolt -- From the African anarchism list http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/africa.html -- News of interest to anarchist from Revolt http://flag.blackened.net/revolt The A-Infos News Service COMMANDS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] REPLIES: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HELP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.ainfos.ca/ INFO: http://www.ainfos.ca/org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Humor: This one is really good!!
-Caveat Lector- -- From: MICHAEL SPITZER [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Humor: This one is really good!! Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 10:01 PM -Caveat Lector- On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Hilary A. Thomas wrote: This one is really good!! snip It would have been better, and a tad more real, had it gone something like this: Dear Jesus, I've thought about being a good boy this year and can I have a bicycle? Leroy Well, Leroy looked deep down in his heart, which by the way was what his mother really wanted. He knew he had been terrible and was deserving of almost nothing. He crumpled up the He crumpled up the letter, threw it in the trash can, ran down to his school and ripped one off, a much nicer one than his momma could have ever afforded in a million years. I forgot to mention that he felt good about himself after he ganked his new bike, and he appreciated this "new" bike much more than any new one his momma would have bought him because felt in his heart that HE WORKED FOR AND EARNED THIS ONE! Hiya Michael, I can see by Part 1 and 2 of your accounting that you're going for the touch of realism. I like it!!! Hilary DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Corruption of language
-Caveat Lector- -- From: Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Corruption of language Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 9:56 PM -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Richard Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most effective conspiracies are implemented so slowly that no one ever notices them. Languages evolve. If one believes that at some point their language was at a pinnacle of perfection, able to describe every item and event that humanity encountered, then ANY change is corruption. Thus, any change in American English since the days of misogynestic slaveholding theocracy amounts to 'corruption' and is bad bad bad... Yes'em. It be bad, bad, bad The KJV bible didn't mention kilobytes, so you shouldn't either, eh? kilobytes, kilobytes, kilobytes...hehehe Of course, if you use a cellphone, eat organic foods or know how to edit your Win98 registry, you're one of the corrupted and are damned damned damned... How about if I do one out of three? Ric "corrupting language on a daily basis" Carter Er, shouldn't this read: Ric "corrupting language, small furry creatures, and the occasional elm tree?" Hilary DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- supernatural Nothing is supernatural. There is, however, much of nature that we do not yet understand. believe Believe is what we do when we don't know for sure. In short, belief is nothinhg morer than a hopeful guess, uually based on nothing more than hearsay. When I don't know for sure, and I absolutely have to guess, I don't believe; I doubt. This way I'm right more often than I'm wrong. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity
-Caveat Lector- Jesus Christ is responsible for only one murder; and that is his own. Agreed. (Assuming, of coure, that the story is more or less true.) And as far as him personally being responsible for "rape, murder, theft slavery" in a historical sense, those are strong accusations against the person That's not what I said. Don't put words in my mouth. I said, I say, and I will continue to say that Christians have raped, murdered, stolen and enslaved more than any other single group in history, though their first cousins the Muslim run a fairly close second. I say this because it is the truth. Commies aren't even in the running. They were flash-in-the-pans and lasted less then a century. As for the Nazis, it remains to be seen. At the moment, they are doing better than ever, epecially since they switched shirt colors to white. "Tarnug" this is called in German, "The magical hood that renders it wearer invisable." I'm not saying (necessarily) that Christians have committed their depredations for a millinia and a half BECAUSE they were Christians. I DO say that Christianity did not make them refrain. that, whether you like it, disagree with it, understand it or not died for you. You're welcome to believe that if you want. I don't. I'm also tired of hearing about it. I don't need "died for." I take full responsibility for my own actions and their consequences, and for nobody else's. I do, however, appreciate your concern for what you consider my immortal soul. Thank you for your concern. I do believe that there was probably a real live guy named Jesus who was apparantly a pretty nice guy, smart, compassionate, and articulate. How much of what he is alleged to have said he actually did say, there is no way to know for sure. How much of what he actually said was censored from scripture by those who exploit and distort his story for their own ends is also impossible to tell. Much, would be a good guess. Reincarnation, for example, was part of Christian belief until it was voted out at the Council of Nicea and scripture was "adjusted" accordingly. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- nessie wrote: whatever UFOs are, they have been with us for a*long* time. Why should there be a single explanation of what UFOs are? I don't believe I said that there was one single theory explainig UFOs. I suggested three excellent books to read on the topic. It seems to me that the odds are overwhelming that some UFOs are one kind of thing and other UFOs are something else. While I'm hesitant to dismiss out of hand an extra-terrestrial and/or "inter-dimensional" origin for some UFO, I am extremely skeptical. Occam's Razor dictates that we should consentrate our study on the hypothesis that they are of terrestrial origin, flown in secret by both governments and non governmental enterprises and organizations. Some are prototypes of new technology being flown in tests. Others we should be consider as part of a massive psy-op. The mass, instant pycho-social effects of Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds" was not lost on the power that be. Eleven months later Goebbles went on the radio and told the German people that the Fatherland had been invaded, not by Martians but (even more plausably) by Poles. The Germans fell for it hook, line and sinker. So if the "benevelent space brothers" land and proclaim they are here to help save us from ourselves and by the way meet their official (Nordic looking?) human representatives who will speak for them and should be obeyed, when they head back up the ramp to their saucer, check for a zipper up their back. They're probably not aliens; they're probably aryans, putting one over on us again. Or elves. They do the same thing - with quite a lot of glee. Kelly DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Private Lives Laid Bare on Net
-Caveat Lector- Kris Millegan wrote: Private Lives Laid Bare on Net by James Glave 12:25 p.m. 25.Jun.99.PDT Voices drift through the ether, over cell phones, from somewhere in Vancouver, British Columbia. In a heavy working-class Canadian accent, a man says good morning to his girlfriend, who is half asleep. She asks him if there's any coffee left. This is so hilarious! I'd like to point out that there is no heavy Canadian working class accent. Now, if you are in the Maritimes - aye, they do have a wee bit of an accent and some of em talk really fast! In Quebec, well of course there they speak French and/or Irish - so yep! Accents there! In Ontario, where there are no accents, the *boyfriends* ask the *girlfriends* if there is any coffee. See, a lot of men are incapable of making it themselves! But that's okay! Some men just need to be taken care of! Now - heading out into Western Canada - well, nobody cares what they think anyway. Perhaps they do speak with foreign accents out there. You should write and ask the *Alberta Report* that. Kelly DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- Or elves. They do the same thing As does, so it seems, ELF. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Humor: This one is really good!!
-Caveat Lector- Hilary A. Thomas wrote: From: MICHAEL SPITZER [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Humor: This one is really good!! Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 10:01 PM On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Hilary A. Thomas wrote: This one is really good!! snip It would have been better, and a tad more real, had it gone something like this: Dear Jesus, I've thought about being a good boy this year and can I have a bicycle? Leroy Wow! CTRL is a fascinating list! I never thought about writing a letter to Jesus before! What a great concept! I wonder what his email address is? Does anyone have it! Please! Give it to me! Here is a rough draft of my letter: Hi Jesus! It is me. Yes, you-know-who yet-again. This time, all I want is a stupid freaking bike with like red stripes on it okay? That is all I am asking! Nothing else! Okay? Okay. Oh! And since I said 'nothing else' you'll probably stick me in some singularity of a universe where just me and the bike exists, right? Right! So, I don't want the stupid friggin bike, okay? Okay! Thank you good sir for allowing me to hastily withdraw my petition for a bike. Kelly DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] David Icke....The Greatest Secret.....AND FreeMasons
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reptoids.com/_discarticles/00ad.htm ***The creepy part about these gatherings is when new pieces of information fit PERFECTLY with that which we already know. I went to the lecture on a lark. I love new information and unusual experiences. Mr. Icke is definitely entertaining...the crowd was there from 1 pm to 10:30 that night...with only a few breaks. And even then, most were eating sandwiches while swamping Icke for more individual answers. Three things struck me specifically. 1.] When he spoke of the evil these people are involved in, he specifically said, trust your own instincts. He assured us we had the equipment to detect the evil in the likes of Hillary and Bill. Mind you this audience looked like a high school PTA meeting. Very suburban, very white, very middle class. THEN, HE DROPPED THE BOMBSHELL ON ME SPECIFICALLY. Ickes said, "you want to see evil, look into the eyes of FEMA director ---."[sorry, I can't remember the name]. But I don't have to remember the name. I saw that Clinton appointee on television after some natural disaster, and was stunned by my instinctive reaction to his image. I said to myself and whomever was with me--"That man is evil. I don't even think he is human, he is so evil...can't you see it?" I couldn't look at the image...much the way I mute the television and turn the channel if I hear or see the clintons. 2] When Ickes spoke of the reptilian worship and symbolism, by these groups, throughout history, I was struck again. Last summer I took my daughter to Paris. We toured the Loire Valley castles, specifically le Chateaux Chenonceau, Chambord, and Villandry. EVERYWHERE, and I mean EVERYWHERE, there were serpants, and even more salamanders. Francis I was obsessed with salamanders...they were etched into stone on mantles, ceilings, and flooring. SALAMANDERS! At the time, I thought it kooky, now I think it's spooky. 3] Icke talked of their obsession with ritual, symbolism and astrological wheels, obilisks, and pentagrams. I thought of my visit to congress, two years ago...At the Senate Judiciary hearings, I looked up at the ceilings and wondered why in the hell, in congress were there so many astrological wheels and signs of the zodiac. On the floor of congress, on the ceilings. Icke's slide show included aerial photos of Washington, Paris, and London, the street designs and relationships between statues and buildings. It was creepy...again astrological wheels, obilisks, pentagrams. Then he names the architects and street designers...all free masons. Scoff if you like.,..the man answered more than a few of my questions and caused me to have many many more*** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Orphans of War
-Caveat Lector- From Boston Globe On-line BOOK REVIEW Absorbing look at CIA's role in Tibet By Michael Kenney, Globe Staff, 06/25/99 Pictures a young CIA operations officer in 1958, John Kenneth Knaus was asked to lecture on Sino-Soviet relations to a group of men identified only as ''Asians'' at a covert site near Washington. But realizing that his audience was Tibetan ''trainee guerrillas,'' including a brother of the Dalai Lama, Knaus scrapped his ''standard semi-academic presentation'' in favor of what he hoped would be ''a useful exposition of how their fight was related to the free world's stand against communism.'' Useful or not, Knaus was invited to stay for a new year's celebration featuring Tibetan dumplings and ''lots of American beer.'' Now retired from the CIA and an associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Knaus recounts the story of the Tibetan resistance and the CIA's role, in an absorbing and valuable book, resisting the temptation to turn the story into a personal memoir. The CIA's involvement with the Tibetan resistance began in the early 1950s, just a few years after Mao Zedong's victory in China and the advance of his People's Liberation Army troops into Tibet. As the Korean War was winding down, Knaus writes, ''covert action against communism [had] attained an importance among the CIA's missions that would not be equalled until the Reagan administration.'' Support for the Tibetan resistance ''was tailor-made for a covert action program designed to challenge communist consolidation.'' And Knaus is almost certainly right when he notes that ''if Americans had known about it, they certainly would have supported it.'' The first air drop of arms and supplies to the Tibetan guerrillas was made in the early summer of 1958. By early 1959, Knaus writes, the Volunteer Freedom Fighters force controlled ''large pockets of central Tibet'' and had the Chinese forces ''definitely under siege.'' There was now ''a full-scale commitment'' to support the Tibetan resistance and the CIA's training camp was moved from outside Washington to the more Tibet-like surroundings of a mountain pass near Aspen and Vail, Colo. Knaus was the political ''ghegen,'' teaching propaganda techniques, ''supplemented by practical instruction in the use of a portable mimeograph.'' Quoting the officer then in charge of the CIA's China operations, Knaus writes that ''there was something so `special' about Tibet'' - including a romantic ''Shangri-La factor'' - that well into the early 1960s there was ''no opposition ... to whatever the CIA proposed in support of the resistance.'' But already the tide was turning. In response to the early victories of the Tibetan guerrillas, China increased its forces in Tibet. Within a month after the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa in March 1959, CIA Director Allen Dulles was reporting that ''the resistance boys had been badly trapped.'' The revolt in Lhasa had been crushed, and there seemed to be ''nothing more'' that the CIA could do at that time. Still, there was initial support for the operation from the Kennedy administration, for whom a newly created Special Frontier Force ''embodied the boldness and innovation of the New Frontier and the new administration's desire to meet the challenges of the Cold War in new ways.'' But John Kenneth Galbraith, the newly appointed ambassador to India, took ''an instant dislike'' to what he called ''a particularly insane enterprise'' involving ''dissident and deeply unhygienic tribesmen.'' By 1968, the United States cut back on its support for the guerrillas, and in one of the many curious details of this story, the last military operation of the New Frontier's SFF was with the Indian Army during the Bangladesh War of 1971. Citing officials involved in President Nixon's meetings with Chinese leaders in Beijing in February 1972, Knaus disputes the notion that Nixon agreed to drop support for the Tibetans. But even if ''Tibet had not been on the table in the Beijing talks,'' he writes, ''the era of official support for the Tibetan cause was over.'' Knaus concludes that the ''basic flaw'' of the operation ''was not in the logistics but in the concept.'' The Tibetan guerrillas did not resemble the resistance fighters of Nazi-occupied Europe who ''benefitted from a greater military effort,'' nor did they operate from a ''secure territorial base'' as Mao's own forces had done before 1949. ''Orphans of the Cold War'' is an authoritative account of largely unknown events in a still-unresolved struggle. But it derives its intensity from the personal factor. Knaus recalls his relations with Gyalo Thondup, a brother of the Dalai Lama and the man ''most responsible for obtaining the CIA's support for the resistance.'' They shared a sense of ''the great danger and adverse odds'' faced by the guerrillas sent back into Tibet. ''They were the best and the bravest of
[CTRL] Humor: More Great Stuff
-Caveat Lector- If women ruled the world... -Women with cold hands would give men prostate exams. -PMS would be a legitimate defense in court. -Men would get reputations for sleeping around. -Singles bars would have metal detectors to weed out men hiding wedding rings in their pockets. -A man would no longer be considered a "good catch" simply because he is breathing. -Fewer women would be dieting because their ideal weight standard would increase by 40 pounds. -Shopping would be considered an aerobic activity. -Men would not be allowed to eat gas-producing foods within two hours of bedtime. -Men would be secretaries for female bosses-working twice as hard for none of the credit. -Little girls would read "Snow White and the Seven Hunks." -Men would bring drinks, chips and dip to women watching soap operas. -Men would HAVE to get Playboy "for the articles" because there would be no pictures whatsoever. -Men would learn phrases like "I'm sorry", "I love you", "You're beautiful," and "Of course you don't look fat in that outfit." -Men would be judged entirely by their looks, women by their accomplishments. -Men would sit around and wonder what WE are thinking. -Men would pay as much attention to their woman as they do to their cars. -All toilet seats would be nailed down. -Men would work on relationships as much as they work on their careers. -TV news segments on sports would never run longer than 1 minute. -All men would be forced to spend one month in a PMS simulator. -During mid-life crisis, men would get hot-flashes and women would date 19 year olds. -Overweight men would have their weight brought to their attention constantly. -After a baby is born, men would take a six-week paternity leave to wait on their wives hand and foot. -For basic training, soldiers would have to take care of a two-year-old for six weeks. (That would take care of birth control!!!) ++ THE BENEFITS OF BEING FEMALE We got off the Titanic first. We can scare male bosses with mysterious gyneco-logical disorder excuses. We never ejaculate prematurely. We get to flirt with systems support men who always return our calls, and are nice to us when we blow up our computers. When we buy a vibrator it is glamorous. When men buy a blow up doll it's pathetic. Our boy friend's clothes make us look elfin and gorgeous - guys look like complete idiots in ours. We can be groupies. Male groupies are stalkers. We can cry and get off speeding fines. We've never lusted after a cartoon character or the central figure in a computer game. Taxis stop for us. We don't look like a frog in a blender when dancing. We can hug our friends without wondering if she thinks we're gay. We can hug our friends without wondering if WE'RE gay. We know The Truth about whether size matters. New lipstick gives us a whole new lease on life. If we have sex with someone and don't call them the next day, we're not the devil. Condoms make no significant difference in our enjoyment of sex. If we're not making enough money we can blame the glass ceiling. We can sleep our way to the top. Nothing crucial can be cut off with one clean sweep. It's possible to live our whole lives without ever taking a group shower. If we cheat on our spouse, people assume it's because we're being emotionally neglected. WE never have to wonder if his orgasm was real. If we forget to shave, no one has to know. We can congratulate our teammate without ever touching her ass. If we have a zit, we know how to conceal it. We never have to reach down every so often to make sure our privates are still there. If we're dumb, some people will find it cute. We have the ability to dress ourselves. We have an excuse to be a total bitch at least once a month. We can talk to people of the opposite sex without having to picture them naked. Our friends won't think we're weird if we ask whether there's spinach in our teeth. There are times when chocolate really can solve all your problems. Gay waiters don't make us uncomfortable. We'll never regret piercing our ears. We can fully assess a person just by looking at their shoes. We'll never discover we've been duped by a Wonderbra. ++ Love, Lust Marriage LOVE - When your eyes meet across a crowded room. LUST - When your tongues meet across a crowded room. MARRIAGE - When you try to lose your spouse in a crowded room. LOVE - When intercourse is called "making love."' LUST - When intercourse is called "screwing." MARRIAGE - When intercourse is a town in Pennsylvania. LOVE - When you argue over how many children to have. LUST - When you argue over who gets the wet spot. MARRIAGE - When you argue over whose idea it was to have kids. LOVE - When you share everything you own. LUST - When you steal everything they own. MARRIAGE - When the bank owns everything. LOVE - When it doesn't matter if you don't climax. LUST - When the relationship is over if you don't climax. MARRIAGE -
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990628a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No Theosophists were seriously injured during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NYSE boss, Colombia rebel boss meet. BOGOTA (AP) It was an unusual pitch by the head of the New York Stock Exchange, delivered in Colombia's steamy southern savannah to a senior commander of the hemisphere's oldest/largest leftist insurgency: Make peace and get great economic benefits from global investors. "We are very aggressive in trying to pursue international mark- ets and opportunities." The promise of capitalism for Marxist FARC terror- ists: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560092355-1b8 : Which terrorist insurgents would you like to invest in? Would you like to own a piece of the emerging FARC state? Would cocaine profits be adequate? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Flying saucer' grounded. (BBC) A Russian aviation project which tried to turn science fiction into science fact has been thwarted by lack of funds. Aviation engineers in the Russian city of Saratov developed a small proto- type craft 2 years ago. But the project is now broke and has been shelved. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_379000/379221.stm : Would you like to invest in flying saucers? Do you want to supply flying saucers to Marxist terrorists? Are flying saucers already smuggling drugs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Los Alamos postpones biowarfare test. (AP) Scientists have postponed ind- efinitely a planned Monday open-air release of bacteria that would have been used to test biowarfare detectors intended for battlefield use. The planned tests at Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory have raised questions about the lab's openness with the public as scientists expand their research into identifying and defending against biowarfare agents. Accidents? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560083536-964 : What types of biowar tests would you like in your neighborhood? Would you prefer local biowar test be run by gov't, business, terrorists, aliens? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ROD SUSKIN. iafrica.com is proud to welcome on board one of South Africa's top Astrologers - Rod Suskin. Rod's alternative lifestyle page offers books, links, a weekly horoscope by Rod and - starting early July - a daily horoscope! http://rodsuskin.iafrica.com/?src_id=tmp0326 : What nation has the top astrologers? Is "foremost astrologer" an oxymoron? Is astrology a mind-control device, like religion, videogames and the Net? Does "alternative lifestyle" translate to "show me the money, suckers" ??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Scream' evidence barred from trial. (AP) The boys were obsessed with the horror movie "Scream." They talked about it many times to each other and with friends. Then they moved to replicate those in the 1996 Wes Craven film. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560091104-244 : Do violent media presentations make you want to kill? Do war movies incite wars? Is your mind-control program working successfully? Is the judge trying to suppress disclosures of media mind-control programs? What's his payoff?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ How High Is High? Venetian women of the 15th Century wore platform shoes as a status symbol - and some shoes were almost a meter high! Pictorial history of a staggering trend: http://fashion.iafrica.com?src_id=tmp0326 : Are disabling fashions forms of social control? Are aliens behind platform shoes, foot-binding, wasp-waisted corsets, body piercings, sheathe dresses? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # French revive Paris Mean Time. (BBC) As part of their millennium cele- brations, the French are once more laying claim to the Prime Meridian. "The French are revolting again. This time it is over the location of the line of longitude from which all time zones are referenced." Whew: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_38/380035.stm @ Links: Greenwich - the home of time: http://www.greenwich2000.com/ @ Universal Time - promoting metric time: http://www.universal-time.org/ @ Atomic Web Clock: http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/javaclck.htm @ Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM): http://www.bipm.fr/enus/ : How many time systems does Earth need? Which is your favorite? Do you have your own time system? Does anyone else use it? Did you steal it from aliens? Are you as revolting as the French, Reptilioids, UFOlogists, me? Or worse?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Muscular robots planned for Mars. (BBC) Scientists are developing a robot, which will walk on legs using artificial muscles, to explore Mars. A pro- totype of the machine - called a Birod (Biomorphic Robot with Distributed power) - has been built at the University of Arizona. Hunky little monkey:
[CTRL] [7] The Ohio Gang
-Caveat Lector- An excerpt from: The Ohio Gang Charles L. Mee, Jr.©1981 M. Evans and Company, Inc. 216 East 49th Street New York, New York 10017 ISBN 0-87131-340-5 218 pps out-of-print/one edition --[7]-- XIX. The Hardings in the White House "NO RUMOR COULD have exceeded the reality," Alice Roosevelt Longworth said, having tagged along with Congressman Longworth to a poker game in the White House. "The study was filled with cronies, Daugherty, Jess Smith ... and others, the air heavy with tobacco smoke, trays with bottles containing every imaginable brand of whisky stood about, cards and poker chips ready at handa general atmosphere of waistcoat unbuttoned, feet on the desk, and spittoons alongside." Harding thought he would like wienerwurst and sauerkraut for dinner, but Mrs. Harding thought they were unsuitable for the White House. Harding wanted toothpicks on the table, but Mrs. Harding thought they were vulgar. Harding wanted to chew tobacco, but Mrs. Harding would not allow it. "She says," Harding told a visitor, as he surreptitiously tucked a cut into his cheek, "cigars are all right, but it's undignified to chew." Mrs. Harding was extremely nervous. Each time she and Evalyn Walsh McLean had been together at a reception with a group of the smart set, Mrs. Harding would ask Evalyn afterward, "What did they say about me?" When William Allen White, the editor of the Emporia, Kansas, Gazette called at the White House, he found Mrs. Harding "well-groomed, neatly dressed and highly marcelled when in public. She had a determined mouth, but her eyes lacked decision. They reflected ambition, but they had a clouded, puzzled look, rather than the clear brightness which is associated with an active and logical mentality." Samuel Hopkins Adams, one of the other journalists who kept a particularly close watch on the White House, thought Mrs. Harding "overdid it; she tried too hard to be a great lady. Uncertain of herself, she took refuge in volubility and effusiveness. . . . She was prone to be overrouged and overcoiffured, often overdressed." As for Harding himself, when he first took office, he did not quite fit in at the White House. Several people noticed that his trousers were too long. In time, however, Mrs. Harding got him spruced up, so that one day when William Allen White came to call he noticed that the president was dressed "with exact sartorial propriety, with exactly the kind of boutonniere he should wear, with precisely the gray stripe in his trousers that the hour required, with a proper dark four-in-hand tied most carefully. For a moment or two, while he was offering cigars and moving festively out of the preliminaries of a formal conversation, he was socially and spiritually erect. But as we sat in the south sunshine flooding through the windows of his office, he warmed and melted and slouched a little." He played golf at least twice a week, and he was overjoyed whenever he managed to shoot in the nineties. Colonel Starling of the Secret Service followed Harding around the course and kept track of his score and of the side bets he kept making with those who played with him. "He played," Starling said, "as if his life depended on every shot, and he made so many bets that sometimes he was betting against himself." He played most often at the Chevy Chase Club, and he loved to bet with his partner six dollars Nassau against their opponents: a bet of six dollars out, six dollars in, and six dollars across. He would lay a side bet with his partner on low score, and then, as the game moved along, he would double up his bets, betting on individual holes, and then on individual shots as they went down the fairway. "I had to keep accounts," said Starling, "and it was a job for a Philadelphia lawyer." At the end of the round, the players would repair to a house set aside for the president at Chevy Chase. Starling would get out the key to the liquor cabinet and bring out the scotch and Bourbon, and a black man named Taylor would serve highballs while Starling made his calculations and announced the winners. Harding would take a single drink, and then, when the bets were settled, he would turn to Starling and say, "Telephone the Duchess and say I am on my way home." Twice a week, he would convene the poker sessions at the White House. Ohio friends, cabinet members, senators, visiting businessmen, and political acquaintances would gather after dinner. Never more than eight would sit at the table at one time, though the cast of characters would shift sometimes in the course of the evening. Mrs. Harding hovered, not playing, but fetching drinksnervous, some thought, about letting Warren out of her sight. Daugherty called her "Ma"; Ned McLean called her "Boss"; and some of the other regulars picked up Harding's habit of calling her "Duchess." "We played at a rectangular table in the north end of the room," said one of the regulars about the sessions in the White House library. At one session,
[CTRL] [7] Other Altars
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Other Altars - Roots and Realities of Cultic and Satanic Ritual Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder Craig Lockwood©1993 CompCare Publishers 3850 Annapolis Lane, Suite 100 Minneapolis, MN 55441 612.559.4800/800.328.3330 ISBN 0-89638-363-6 255+pps out-of-print/one edition. --[7]-- Part II Within The Circle "When the acts and magical beliefs of present-day folkloric groups are subjected to a systematic-sychronic interpretation ... the prehistoric antiquity of a great Part of what is concealed in the elements that have come down to us appears convincingly attested to. We then realize ... that folkloric testimonies have their roots in a much more remote time and are much more widely diffused than we thought." -Roman Jakobson, 1966 - Chapter 7 Shamans, Magic, And The Mind "[Shamans] are of immense social significance, the psychological health of the group largely depending on faith in their powers ... the various psychic powers attributed to them must not be too readily dismissed as mere primitive magic and 'make believe,' for many of them have specialized in the working of the human mind, and in the influence of mind on body and body on mind." -A.P. Elkin, 1945 Among those societies that use magical language and wield magical power, the shaman is an important fixture. Ethnopsychologist Holger Kalweit, a German who has made a lifetime study of the cross-cultural psychological aspects of shamanism, notes in his book Dreamtime and Inner Space: The World of the Shaman, "Everywhere and at all times, cultures have striven to produce and train people of parapsychic ability so that they might effectively support the struggle for the survival of the tribe or community in question." Cultures and societies vary in their attitudes. Eighteenth, century Polynesians conferred respectful titles indicating degrees of spiritual authority on hunas, who possessed this specialized occult knowledge. In sixteenth-century France, anyone suspected of holding superstitious folk beliefs could be made a public barbecue. Contemporary Korean shamans, the Mu dang, are "organized in a professional association," but are considered to be on the "lowest rung of the social ladder, along with prostitutes, shoe-menders, soothsayers, Buddhist monks, and dancing girls," according to Kalweit. What's the difference between a shaman, a witch, and a sorcerer? Anthropologists, scholars, and other experts on and practitioners of the occult, esoteric religions, and witchcraft don't always agree. Sometimes those terms are used as stand-ins for more specific words. English nouns such as adept, alchemist, augurer, conjurer, diabolist, diviner, enchanter, initiate, magician, magus, necromancer, priest, priestess, thaumaturge, shaman, sorcerer, warlock, witch, and wizard are applied to, and used by, practitioners of magic and those who write about many different kinds of magic. Any of the above practitioners may adhere to one or more forms or schools of occult, esoteric, religious, and ritual or ceremonial magic. Some are benign, others maleficent. Terms such as shaman, medicine man, medicine woman, and witch doctor have been used to describe persons who practicein whatever way-medical healing or curative magic. These labels, however, are not definitive. In the popular media they are used somewhat interchangeably, and often inaccurately. Many of these titles are honorific in their native languages. They generally denote respect, but in some cases also carry a connotation of fear. Others, such as the Middle English terms warlock and wizard, are used more by Hollywood than everyday practitioners of the occult. Terms like witch doctor come complete with negative Western cultural associations. Most contemporary Europeans or Americans wouldn't consider taking a medical problem to an old person in a dusty hut who diagnoses while in a trance state. Most Africans, including many with Western educations, however, would consult this respected old person first. Translating specific, non-English magical appellatives into English is challenging. English, especially American English, no longer provides as many linguistic distinctions. According to Ruth-Inge Heinz in Shamans of the Twentieth Century, when the Tungus of Siberia translate their word saman it means: "Social-functionary-who-with-the-help-of-guardian-spirits-attains -ecstasy- in-order-to-create-a-rapport-with-thesupernatural-world-on-behalf-of-his-group - members." Translated into English as witch doctor, which Westerners equate with a Tarzan movie-image, the meaning gets lost. Yet there are cultures in which a witch doctor serves the specific function of curing people from curses placed upon them by sorcerers or evil witches. On occasion the cultural overlay of a conqueror-language such as English gives us a term that is once or, in some cases, twice removed from the original non-English term. And the native term itself can have many subtle, or
[CTRL] Secret Zodiacs of Washington DC: Was the City of Stars Planned by Masons?
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.blackwells.com/quicklinks.shtml A HREF="http://www.blackwells.com/quicklinks.shtml"Blackwell's Quick Links /A - Secret Zodiacs of Washington DC: Was the City od Stars Planned by Masons? David Ovason £ 17.99 Publisher: Century Publishing Co.Ltd. Binding:Hardback Status:Not yet published ISBN:071267909X Full Bibliographic Information Title: Secret Zodiacs of Washington DC: Was the City od Stars Planned by Masons? Author(s): David Ovason ISBN:071267909XStatus:Not yet published Readership: Binding:HardbackPublisher: Century Publishing Co.Ltd. Copyright 1997 BH Blackwell Ltd DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990628b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No Vegetarians were seriously overfed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Return to Tunguska. (BBC) Scientists are about to return to the site of the 20th Century's most devastating cosmic impact. Harbinger of future: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_38/380060.stm @ Links: Tunguska expedition: http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/ @ Asteroid and Comet impact hazards: http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/ # Meteorite is possible ice age culprit http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_233000/233199.stm # Don't try this at home! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_93000/93678.stm # Space dust 'did for dinosaurs' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_89000/89397.stm : What's your favorite meteorite impact? D'ya wanna devastate a biosphere? What planet would you most like to slam? Would you do it for money or fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CONCEIVING A CLONE: http://library.advanced.org/24355/home.html @ The Details: Here is all the information you'll ever need on cloning and biotechnology. Follow the development of cloning on the timeline, learn of the various techniques used to create clones, view animations of important processes, and read about scientists whose accomplishments have made clon- ing a reality. http://library.advanced.org/24355/data/detailsnav.html @ Reactions: The recent cloning developments fostered a large scale debate on the morality ethics of duplicating humans and other creatures. Here you can learn about common cloning misconceptions, views from both sides of the cloning debate, and what the government is doing to prevent human cloning research. http://library.advanced.org/24355/data/reactionsnav.html @ Interactions: After learning about cloning and related biotechnology, step into our cloning discussions let your views be known. Or enter our sci- ence lab and perform your own cloning experiment on the web. If you feel you are a cloning expert, test your knowledge by taking our cloning questionnaire. http://library.advanced.org/24355/data/interactionsnav.html : Have you cloned anything/anyone lately? Are you a clone? Have you had sex with your own or anyone else's clone(s)? Is clone sex a growth industry??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ CloneLinks: # UK gov't human cloning ban condemned: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377425.stm # UK keeps human cloning ban: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377031.stm @ Human cloning: The debate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377420.stm @ QA: What is cloning? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377180.stm # Cloning may lead to 'medical revolution': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_376000/376810.stm # Cloning - where will it end? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377046.stm # UK Government response to human cloning: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_377000/377154.stm # First cloned human embryo revealed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371378.stm # Pig clone for the millennium: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_343000/343230.stm # Dolly goes to market: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_335000/335870.stm @ Society, Religion and Technology Project - Church of Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_335000/335870.stm @ Human Genetics Advisory Commission: http://www.dti.gov.uk/hgac/ @ The Council for Responsible Genetics: http://www.dti.gov.uk/hgac/ @ Clone Zone: http://newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/clone/clone.html @ Geron Corporation: http://www.geron.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mice help women stay fertile. (BBC) Researchers in Canada have developed a technique which may enable women to have children at any age they choose. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_379000/379884.stm @ Links: Female Reproductive System: http://aafp.org/patientinfo/body.html @ Royal College of Obstetricians Gynaecologists: http://www.rcog.org.uk/ @ CHILD - The National Infertility Support Network: http://www.child.org.uk/ @ Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority: http://www.hfea.gov.uk/org/ @ Fertility and Sterility: http://www-east.elsevier.com/fert/ : How much fertility is enough? How many humans are to many? Where will we put all the extras? Will rising populations be harvested by aliens? Edible? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # SEN. HATCH SAYS HE'S RUNNING IN 2000 - U.S. to become Mormon theocracy: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/27/hatch/ * FBI, CIA and other gov't agents document widespread gov't corruption: http://www.defraudingamerica.com/ * Gov't
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990628c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No prohibitionists were liquored-up during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The trillion dollar surplus. (BBC) The US Gov't says it is heading for a budget surplus $1,000bn bigger than expected in the next decade- and plans to pay off the entire national debt. Bondholders shocked at the prospect: news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_economy/newsid_38/380217.stm Or see: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/10/news-economy-budget # US budget surplus beckons: news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_economy/newsid_269000/269729.stm Or see: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/12/news-clinton-surplus @ Links: White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ @ Congressional Budget Office: http://www.cbo.gov/ : Does paying off the US nat'l debt advance or hinder the Bilderberger plot? What would you do with the money? Will taxes be ended? Will death go next?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Abandoned Bag Of Skulls Mystifies Indian Police. PATNA, India (Reuters) - 88 human skulls were found in a bag abandoned at a railway station ticket office in eastern India. "There are both children's' and adult skulls." The abandoned blue air bag was spotted by railway staff and handed over to railway police who opened it to discover the neatly cut bowl-like skulls. Cops are mystified by the abandoned bag of skulls but are examining every possibility from murder to ritual abuse to illegal skull smuggling despite a federal ban. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/11/odd-india-skulls : Would you like a bag of skulls? Would you lose the bag? How would you use 88 skulls? Are they decorative, utilitarian, ritually significant, untidy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Online Ouija. Ask a question aloud, then find the answer by using your mouse as an electronic planchet. Ask everybody to place one hand on the mouse and let it move to "its own position". Click on the button once the mouse has stopped. Before clicking the button make sure that the cursor rests within the board. http://www.math.unh.edu/~black/cgi-bin/spirit.cgi : What's your favorite fortune-telling technique? Does it work? Do you use it to take money from people? Are you entertaining, accurate, greedy, wry? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Heavy Security Surrounds Panchen Lama In Tibet. SHIGATSE, Tibet, China. A 9-year-old boy picked by Beijing as Tibet's 2nd holiest figure is under heavy police protection because of fears for his safety on his 1st return to the Himalayan region. The Panchen Lama was escorted in a 21-vehicle cop motorcade to a sacred Buddhist ritual in his own monastery in Shigatse, Tibet's second city. Chinese authorities are using the visit to try to boost the legitimacy of the 11th Panchen Lama against a rival named by the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled god king and Buddhist spiritual leader. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990628/07/international-china-tibet : What religious leader or pretender would you most like to assassinate? Do you recognize religious leaders appointed by govt's? Do you recognize gov't leaders appointed by religions? Will there be a TV movie of the Pachen Lama? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # SEA LIFE THREATENED BY NOISE POLLUTION - '...an acoustics traffic jam': http://cnn.com/NATURE/9906/28/sea.noise.ap/index.html # Also: Century's growth leaves earth noisy, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560079737-257 @ The Internet's Largest Waste of Space - Currently, it's 40,000,000 pixels by 40,000,000 pixels: http://www.geocities.com/~sampieri/waste.htm @ Virtual Dog. That's right! A Virtual Dog of your own! Feed him! Pet him! Clean up after him! Chat about him! http://www.virtualdog.com/ # FBI wants spy-hunting division - CIA objects to competition: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560081900-c4d # Study: FBI poor on convictions rate - worst of any federal agency: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560083629-176 # Oswald files may have nothing new - coverup still ironclad: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560095039-290 # Starr must turn over Tripp tapes - wiretap prosecution proceeds: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560081555-d5d # TIANANMEN SQUARE REOPENS WITH TANK-PROOF PAVING AND KITE-FLYING BAN: http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9906/28/china.tiananmen.01/index.html # China might offer Milosevic asylum - Beijing collects dictators: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560081567-7c2 # Orthodox church attacks Milosevic - biting the hand that fed it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_38/380143.stm # Cambodia tells farmers: No more pot. Drugs industries booming:
[CTRL] Exceptional France
-Caveat Lector- From NewStatesman The French exception is on a roll Lionel Jospin has snubbed the Third Way - with excellent results, writes David Lawday PictureHe really is a stubborn fellow, Lionel Jospin. The French prime minister receives some wonderful tips from Tony Blair on how to run France and refuses to follow them. After all, Blair gets things right, doesn't he? True, Europe rather eludes him. But elsewhere the British PM has shored up the west's moral high ground. Right on Kosovo. Right on economic liberalism. Right on refusing to see politics in terms of right and left (being modern's the thing). Right on recruiting big fellows such as Bill Clinton and Gerhard Schroder as co-religionists. Sensible countries ought to have no hesitation about marching with Blairism. Not all countries, though, are sensible. The mad thing about France is that not only does it balk at Blairism, it is doing rather well out of the heresy. Under Jospin, who locates himself squarely on the left - the old left, he might rib Blair - the "French exception" appears to be on a roll. Dire warnings from liberal capitalist visionaries in America and Britain that France has got it all hopelessly wrong remain, well, dire warnings. Jospin stands his ground. "The Third Way? The new centre? No thank you. I prefer to follow our own path." The French left does not imitate, it has its own original face. Yes to the market economy, Jospin incants, but no to the market society. You would think Jospin finds virtue in being wrong. Any duffer knows France is overtaxed, inflexible and handcuffed by regulation. Unpardonably centralised, too. The state just won't step back. Actually it can't step back. At its head, strong as ever, is a masterful political-administrative elite schooled precisely to maintain the state's grasp. When Blair and Schroder argue, as they do in their recent Third Way/Neue Mitte manifesto, that high public spending and state meddling in the market are the road to ruin, who else but France can they be waving their warning finger at? Deluded Jospin, with what he calls his government of the plural left - socialists, communists, greens - thinks being modern is to marry expensive welfare with a free-ish market and somehow, under the state's organising genius, make it work. Poor chap. Yet France is working. Frankly, it's almost an insult to Blairism. Economic growth of 3.2 per cent was racily higher than either Britain's or Germany's last year and looks set to continue. The highly taxed French are spending. Inflation is so low you can't see it. The budget deficit stays sagely within the tight bounds set by membership of the euro. The country continues to run up trade surpluses that Gordon Brown can only envy. If they could admit it, the French may be better salesmen than lovers. Jospin's France even permits itself extraordinary experiments such as the 35-hour working week. Put down as a reckless national skive by Third Way fans, the reform promises some practical, albeit unplanned, economic advantages: while missing its stated aim of reducing unemployment, it is ushering in a new age of labour flexibility. This is all very confusing. The Germans proverbially define total happiness as "to live like God in France". No doubt Blair as well as Schroder suspects God may have a hand in France's performance. Beyond providing the best wine and cheese money can buy, however, the French have talents they advertise less. They are unusually efficient. Of workers in all the large European countries, the French are the most productive. Per capita income is well ahead of Britain's. France has rapidly stripped itself of old industry. The price of such efficiency is high unemployment (still 11 per cent plus), which is indeed a drawback but one that the French seem to accept as a hard fact of life. Also, France gets things done. When it wants new high-speed rail lines or a national super-stadium in Paris to stage the World Cup, it doesn't wait around to find the money or search endlessly for participation by private capital, it builds them with a nod from parliament - then leaves it to its ingenious mandarins to organise the financing (hence high taxes). I sense there is another strong reason for France's resilience. The Europe that so flummoxes Britain has kicked in to assist France. As both Blair's new Labour and Schroder's Social Democrats were nosediving in the European elections, the errant French prime minister's Socialist Party fared very nicely. Having settled well and truly into Europe, France draws new self-confidence from the union. The French are reaping important psychological benefits from Europe, and this assurance lifts economic performance - which, incidentally, is just what the founders of the euro expect the common currency to do. A French majority, small but extraordinary when you consider how "exceptional" the French love to be, favours a bona
[CTRL] Under the Dust
-Caveat Lector- From NewStatesman The lust for blood. What triggers landmark events in history is often fictions that people believe, not events that actually took place - --- Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late-Medieval Jews Miri Rubin Yale University Press, 266pp, £25 Picture: Buy this book now! - --- Lisa Jardine PictureIn her important book Fiction in the Archives, the American historian Natalie Zemon Davis showed how, in 16th-century France, the stories of extenuating circumstances related by hapless individuals under sentence of death appealing to the king for a royal pardon were concocted around stereotyped incidents. To escape a murder charge the plaintiff had to produce an emotionally compelling scenario constructed out of familiar components: a quarrel in the family kitchen, a knife grabbed in "hot anger", an accidental blow struck in the course of a domestic task. Such stories were designed to tug at the listener's emotions and convince them of the individual's innocence. Davis's analysis challenged the traditional assumption that the reputable historian dealt in hard evidence and objective fact. What, she asked, was the historical status of the archival stories she had uncovered? Now Miri Rubin gives us the other, more sinister side of this coin. If some conventional tales can help you escape a murder rap, others can rouse your neighbours to violent action against you. Never mind that there is no evidence, that the accusation reeks of superstitious impossibility. What triggers landmark events in history, Rubin explains, is often fictions that people believe, rather than incidents that actually took place. And once a tale is judged believable, what follows is certainly real enough: local minorities are persecuted, driven from their homes, tortured and killed, as happened so brutally in Kosovo. At the end of the 13th century, for example, a vividly realistic story began to circulate in Europe. From location to location its details varied, but from telling to telling the shape of the story remained essentially the same. In a local community a dishonest Christian stole consecrated communion wafers from the church and sold them to a Jew to whom he owed money. The Jew proceeded to "test" the host - attacking it with knives, burning it, burying it in the dirt. The wafer, however, proved indestructible; the only sign of the assault was that where it had been pierced and abused, drops of blood appeared. Meanwhile the Christian realised the error of his ways, repented and confessed what had happened to the local priest. Outraged by the act of desecration, he and the locals hauled the Jew before the authorities to be tortured till he confessed his crime and eventually mutilated and put to death as a heretic. In some versions of the story it is a sinful woman who purloins the blessed wafer; sometimes it is a converted Jew, betraying the faith that has welcomed him in. Sometimes the stolen wafer miraculously produces a vision of Christ himself, prompting the conversion of those participating in the outrage; in some versions it is a conspiracy of Jews which solicits the theft, and the outcome of the incident is a lynch-mob massacre of thousands. The point is, as Rubin explains in Gentile Tales, that it is the very familiarity of the components, the cliched nature of the tale, that gives it its currency. People believe that these things have happened in their village, under their own noses, because they have heard such stories before: they know they have already "really" happened somewhere else. Like the sensationalised stories in a Sunday newspaper, the banally predictable nature of the narrative and its outcome make it more, not less, plausible. By 1500, stories told in northern Europe against Jews of their purloining and torturing the host had evolved and developed their own kind of ghastly narrative elegance. Like some kind of black mass, the desecration and mutilation of the holy wafers mimicked and inverted the most elaborate of contemporary eucharistic beliefs. It is unlikely that the Jewish community was even conversant with such subtleties, let alone inclined to mock and parody them. Moreover, on the eve of the Reformation, Christians themselves were abandoning the most baroque of the rituals surrounding the communion bread and wine. Still, whole communities could be goaded into an anti-Semitic frenzy on the strength of a single such tall tale, so powerful is the hold of the familiar. One of the many strengths of this rigorously argued book is the care with which Rubin excavates the compelling reasons why the desecration of the host stories were believed, while avoiding dignifying them with truth status herself. Thus she points out that such stories were most
Re: [CTRL] Inside Bohemian Grove
-Caveat Lector- According to C(K)athy O'Brien, co-author of "Tranceformation of America," the yearly party at Bohemian Grove is an evil affair: human sacrifice, sexual orgies, and the obligatory oaths and homage to Lucifer, "the Lightgiver." Christian researcher Constance Cumbey has also made similar charges. Of course, some researchers do tend to see a demon under every bush, but there is something sinister in the fact that no outsiders are allowed in to observe "the festivities." The Russian River area is a beautiful spot. When I went to Sonoma State, we used to picnic in the area..but if I'm not mistaken, the area is considered to be a "power spot." On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Ric Carter wrote: -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Andrew Hennessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] could it be that the secret government in order to allay the fears of the masses simply 'allowed' a reporter into Bohemian Grove to witness a staged event that conveyed the impression of total innocence and sporty fun eg. 'mock druidic ritual' - etc I live a few miles upriver from Boho Grove and every year I see the helis flying overhead bearing the participants, hear the stories of the hookers imported for the festivities, catch a sniff of what's going on there. There's enough documentation, there've been enough penetrations of events, to convince me, a die-hard skeptic, of the dead-serious nature of the Boho conclaves. This really IS a club of The White Guys That Run Things, and they really DO play around with rituals sex power. If you don't believe me, come on up to the Russian River with a UHF scanner and listen in to the traffic. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] DRUGGING AMERICA
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.druggingamerica.com/ A HREF="http://www.druggingamerica.com/"Government insiders and former drug traffickers /A - DRUGGING AMERICA A Trojan Horse Rodney Stich Book Available July 31, 1999 *** Several dozen present and former government agents and operatives, and former drug traffickers, provide the author, Rodney Stich--also a former federal investigator--with thousands of hours of secret insider information, thousands of documents, and other data, revealing the sham war-on-drugs inflicted upon the American people by officials in the three branches of the federal government. This site and this book--and the author's other books--can do many things for many people, including, for instance: Obtain an understanding, from many government and other insiders, of endemic corruption in government that threatens people and businesses in all walks of life. Provide the information necessary to avoid the tragic financial and personal consequences when targeted by any of the thousands of government agents, informants and prosecutors, most of who are looking for victims, innocence being of no consequence. Help to FORCE the revocation of draconian mandatory minimum sentencing laws, forfeiture laws, and conspiracy statutes, that put many innocent people in prison, that puts many people in prison far longer than the offense justifies, and the seizure of assets from innocent people or seizures of property far in excess of the alleged offenses. Help to reduce the possibility of you or a loved one being one of the many thousands of yearly victims of the draconian prison sentences, forfeiture statutes, and conspiracy statutes, that have already destroyed tens of thousands of lives and families. Help to bring about the release of many who are in prison, especially on drug-related charges. General description of contents in Drugging America--A Trojan Horse. Value of Drugging America book to its readers. Partial list of deep-cover agents and operatives, former drug traffickers, and other insiders, who provided highly sensitive insider information for Drugging America. Rodney Stich's background qualifications. Table of contents from Drugging America--A Trojan Horse. Intent of this site and the books. Crimes of coverups: America's leaders! America's political prisoners Federal agents, deep-cover operatives, and concerned American citizens, who have been sent to prison on fabricated charges to prevent them from reporting to the American people the corruption within the CIA, DEA, Justice Department, and other federal offices. These are political prisoners, and many of them are the true American heroes who fought to bring to justice high-level criminal activities, and who were fraudulently charged and sent to prison. Sample of men, women, and families that Department of Justice employees fraudulently charged, who were then convicted and sentenced to prison. Partial listing of judges involved in obstructing justice, as detailed and documented in one or all of the following: Drugging America, Defrauding America and Unfriendly Skies. Sample of book reviews on Stich's books. Sample of comments by readers of Stich's books. Other books by Rodney Stich. Links to other sites. Order form. Insider information wanted on corrupt government personnel and operations. Whistleblower pages of insiders revealing high-level government misconduct. Drugging America reveals, for instance: Describes the tactics used by the army of government agents, government informants, and Justice Department prosecutors who prey upon and fabricate crimes against the men and women of the United States. Sample list of men, women, and families, destroyed by these scams, sometimes leading to suicide. One of America's great growth industries: incarcerating tens of thousands of men and women, many of whom are either innocent of any crime, or of greatly exaggerated offenses. The tactics used by the thousands of government agents and government informants to trap, charge, and imprison thousands of men and women every year, victims who are often totally innocent, or innocent of offenses far less than charged. And how you can reduce the chance of becoming one of the thousands of victims being imprisoned in America's great growth industry. Why your innocence means nothing to government personnel who will lie and perjure themselves as they seek to imprison their prey. Tomorrow, this could be you, just as thousands of other men and women thought it could not happen to them, as they started a long prison sentence or even life in prison--although they did nothing to justify the sentence. Learn how your "friendly" members of Congress voted for draconian prison sentences to make themselves look good to a naive public and thereby win votes at the expense of thousands of destroyed lives. Fifty years of CIA drug trafficking into the
Re: [CTRL] David Icke....The Greatest Secret.....AND FreeMasons
-Caveat Lector- It's not a secret. Most Masonic 'truths' are always placed under the noses of uninitiated As my deceased grandfather (33rd degree Freemason) used to say, non-Masons will never be able to figure out the real meaning of Masonic symbolism. Not even members of the lower grades are privy to what the craft is all about. Yet, everywhere, you can see the power and glory of the brethren. Our country was, is, and will always be a masonic stronghold. It's not a coincidence that Masons are still invited to lay the cornerstones of most major government building projects. (Take a look at the spooky New World Airport at Denver.) Freemasonry has not only played a role in shaping our political institutions...it's crept into our language as well: "on the level," "square," etc. For an interesting look at masonic doings, read William Still. Although he has been faulted for an over-reliance on the work of Eustace Mullins (alleged anti-semite). Better yet, read Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike. On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Daniel Holly wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.reptoids.com/_discarticles/00ad.htm ***The creepy part about these gatherings is when new pieces of information fit PERFECTLY with that which we already know. I went to the lecture on a lark. I love new information and unusual experiences. Mr. Icke is definitely entertaining...the crowd was there from 1 pm to 10:30 that night...with only a few breaks. And even then, most were eating sandwiches while swamping Icke for more individual answers. Three things struck me specifically. 1.] When he spoke of the evil these people are involved in, he specifically said, trust your own instincts. He assured us we had the equipment to detect the evil in the likes of Hillary and Bill. Mind you this audience looked like a high school PTA meeting. Very suburban, very white, very middle class. THEN, HE DROPPED THE BOMBSHELL ON ME SPECIFICALLY. Ickes said, "you want to see evil, look into the eyes of FEMA director ---."[sorry, I can't remember the name]. But I don't have to remember the name. I saw that Clinton appointee on television after some natural disaster, and was stunned by my instinctive reaction to his image. I said to myself and whomever was with me--"That man is evil. I don't even think he is human, he is so evil...can't you see it?" I couldn't look at the image...much the way I mute the television and turn the channel if I hear or see the clintons. 2] When Ickes spoke of the reptilian worship and symbolism, by these groups, throughout history, I was struck again. Last summer I took my daughter to Paris. We toured the Loire Valley castles, specifically le Chateaux Chenonceau, Chambord, and Villandry. EVERYWHERE, and I mean EVERYWHERE, there were serpants, and even more salamanders. Francis I was obsessed with salamanders...they were etched into stone on mantles, ceilings, and flooring. SALAMANDERS! At the time, I thought it kooky, now I think it's spooky. 3] Icke talked of their obsession with ritual, symbolism and astrological wheels, obilisks, and pentagrams. I thought of my visit to congress, two years ago...At the Senate Judiciary hearings, I looked up at the ceilings and wondered why in the hell, in congress were there so many astrological wheels and signs of the zodiac. On the floor of congress, on the ceilings. Icke's slide show included aerial photos of Washington, Paris, and London, the street designs and relationships between statues and buildings. It was creepy...again astrological wheels, obilisks, pentagrams. Then he names the architects and street designers...all free masons. Scoff if you like.,..the man answered more than a few of my questions and caused me to have many many more*** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a
[CTRL] Humor: Flight Attendant Annoucements
-Caveat Lector- SIGHTINGS Flight Attendant Announcements You Probably Won't Hear From Brad Millard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5-7-99 Airline Chat - Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the "in-flight safety lecture" and their other announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been heard and reported: * "There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane..." * After landing: "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride." * As the plane landed and was coming to a stop at Washington National, a voice came over the loudspeaker: "Whoa, big fella. WHOA!" * After a particularly rough landing during thunderstorms in Memphis, a flight attendant on a Northwest flight announced: "Please take care when opening the overhead compartments because, after a landing like that, sure as hell everything has shifted." * From a Southwest Airlines employee "Welcome aboard Southwest Flight XXX to YYY. To operate your seatbelt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every other seatbelt, and if you don't know how to operate one, you probably shouldn't be out in public unsupervised. In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with two or more small children, decide now which one you love more." * "Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but we'll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your money, more than Southwest Airlines." * "Your seat cushions can be used for flotation, and in the event of an emergency water landing, please take them with our compliments." * Once on a Southwest flight, the pilot said, "We've reached our cruising altitude now, and I'm turning off the seat belt sign. I'm switching to autopilot, too, so I can come back there and visit with all of you for the rest of the flight." * "Should the cabin lose pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the overhead area. Please place the bag over your own mouth and nose before assisting children or adults acting like children." * "As you exit the plane, make sure to gather all of your belongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses." * "Last one off the plane must clean it." * And from the pilot during his welcome message: "We are pleased to have some of the best flight attendants in the industry... Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight..." * Heard on Southwest Airlines just after a very hard landing in Salt Lake City: The flight attendant came on the intercom and said, "That was quite a bump and I know what ya'll are thinking. I'm here to tell you it wasn't the airline's fault, it wasn't the pilot's fault, it wasn't the flight attendants' fault... it was the asphalt!" * Overheard on an American Airlines flight into Amarillo, Texas, on a particularly windy and bumpy day. During the final approach the Captain was really having to fight it. After an extremely hard landing, the Flight Attendant came on the PA and announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Amarillo. Please remain in your seats with your seatbelts fastened while the Captain taxis what's left of our airplane to the gate." * Another flight attendant's comment on a less than perfect landing: "We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal." * An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile, and give them a "Thanks for flying XYZ airline." He said that in light of his bad landing, he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment. Finally everyone had gotten off except for this little old lady walking with a cane. She said, "Sonny, mind if I ask you a question?" "Why no Ma'am," said the pilot, "what is it?" The little old lady said, "Did we land or were we shot down?" * After a real crusher of a landing in Phoenix, the Flight Attendant came on with, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Capt. Crash and the Crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we'll open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal." * Part of a flight attendant's arrival announcement: "We'd like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: The Corporate Takeover of Pacifica
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:37:57 -0700 From: San Francisco Liberation Radio [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Corporate Takeover of Pacifica: A Corrupt Institution Grows Richer While Micro Radio Starves (please post far and wide) One of my favorite shows on San Francisco Liberation Radio these days is the "What's Going On?" program, which airs Fridays from 4-5 p.m. I listen to it each week because it keeps me informed regarding the latest events at KPFA in Berkeley--and what's happening--or shall we say "what's going on" at that station is a rather amazing spectacle to behold. Friday, June 25, 4 p.m., the Richmond District of San Francisco: We hear the strains of Marvin Gaye's familiar song and then Jeff Blankfort, the host of the show, begins to speak, "You're listening to Marvin Gaye and this is 'What's Going On'..." Jeff has been an activist in the Free Pacifica/Take Back KPFA movement for at least as long as I've known him, which is about the last six years or so. This should give you a clue that what's "going on" at KPFA didn't come about overnight. Nonetheless events over the past couple of months alone have taken some astonishing twists and turns. For those who live outside California, KPFA is a listener-supported station which has been the heart and soul of the Bay Area activist community since its founding fifty years ago. What's befalling the station now has some of the markings of a corporate takeover in the classic sense of the word. Jeff, however, who's been following the situation far closer than have I, feels there are perhaps even more sinister forces at work, believing the station (and the whole five-station Pacifica Network as well) to be the target of "a governmental operation without the usual disguises." Jeff's latest? That Pacifica management was apparently miffed by what it perceived as kid glove treatment meted out by the Berkeley Police to protestors in front of KPFA on June 20. "The latest news, folks out there, is that Mary Francis Berry, the head of Mr. Clinton's U.S. Civil Rights Commission--it sounds like an oxymoron, 'U.S. Civil Rights Commission'--called Robert Fisher, the associate attorney general in the Justice Department, whom she works with presumably--and had HIM call Joe Brand in the COPS Department--that's the community police operation of the U.S. Justice Department--and HE called Dash Butler, (chief) of the Berkeley Police, to let Mr. Butler know that he (Brand) and those above him, were concerned with the soft treatment that those who were arrested in Berkeley in front of Pacifica on Monday morning received from the Berkeley Police. "This naked move," continued Jeff, "by Mary Francis Berry--M.F. Berry, and those initials are really appropriate in this situation--raises to a new level the--or drops to a new low--the baseness which this Pacifica operation is associated with. "Before that, we found out that because of shots that were shot into the Pacifica building the night Nicole Sawaya (former KPFA general manager) was fired on March 31--in which nobody was injured--this building was unmarked and it wasn't even identified as Pacifica--the windows were clouded over--usually that means a sweat shop going on behind there... "In any case, what happened is that Pacifica is turning over all the emails and voice mails (regarding Sawaya's firing) it has received from angry listeners--legitimately angry listeners--to the Berkeley Police, who will give it then to psychologists to determine if any of KPFA's listeners and critics have 'violent tendencies,'" said Jeff. What's surprising about all this is not that people are angry enough to hold protests in front of the station, or that Pacifica management is now in the business of having its listeners investigated by the police. No. The part I find the most amazing is that people still give money to that station. Recently I heard that during its latest fundraising marathon KPFA took in something like well over $600,000 in pledges. The good news is that a great many of these pledges--perhaps as high as 75 percent--were made "under protest." Given the undeniable "baseness" of Pacifica, which gets, I'm told, somewhere around 17 percent of this money, that, I suppose, is some consolation. However, each passing day brings a new seemingly insurmountable feat of arrogance from the management calling the shots in this corpus delicti, and the latest rumor is that those who made protest pledges may not be able to claim their donations as tax exemptions.
[CTRL] Fw: FTC commissioner Orson Swindle's remarks at Net tax panel
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Swindle was long-winded but made a lot of sense. But it's still unclear (as perhaps you might expect from a kickoff meeting) in which direction the members are heading. One analysis I rather like is that corporate reps are looking out for their own firms' interest first and if they can successfully head off being hit w/add'l taxes, then they may be inclined to link arms and offer a unified front later in the process. --Declan] Address to the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce Commissioner Orson Swindle Federal Trade Commission June 22, 1999 It is a pleasure to be with you this afternoon. As is always the case for Federal Trade Commissioners, it is important for me to note that my comments today are my own and in no way represent the views of the Commission or of any other Commissioner. Thank you, Governor Gilmore, for allowing me to participate in this important discussion. Also, thanks to all the other members of the Commission for dedicating your time and efforts to this important endeavor. Rarely has an advisory commission*s work been so important. Rarely will an advisory commission*s work be followed so closely. Rarely will an advisory commission have the opportunity to make a great and lasting impact on public policy in the United States. I wish you the best of success. Before addressing the topic of Policy Perspectives On Taxation In Cyber Space, it might be helpful to share with you some personal thoughts gained from my years of experience as a federal official. First and foremost, our Founding Fathers had it right: government should play only a minimal role in our lives. I believe it was Will Rogers who once observed: *All government programs have three things in common: a beginning, a middle, and no end." Given the tremendous benefits that typically flow from private markets, government intervention in these markets should be undertaken only when it is clearly necessary. We in government, responsible for regulation and for economic and tax policy, should be ever mindful of the Hippocratic Oath -- "First, do no harm."Before embarking on any type of government activity, asking ourselves, "Does this make sense?" might serve us all well. This meeting is being held at a pivotal point in history. The government can choose to adopt policies that promote the development of electronic commerce, thereby allowing Americans to realize the potential of this dynamic medium. Or the government can choose policies that hinder or stifle electronic commerce*s development. This is the choice that we confront today. The history of taxation seems to indicate that every time a new product, a new industry, a new form of social organization, or even a new economic concept of income or wealth has arisen, governments have moved to tax it. As President Reagan said, *The government*s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.* page 2 Taxation is a tangible form of regulation. There comes a time -- and in my view, it ought to come with great frequency -- to rationalize, consolidate, and simplify the existing regulatory code before adding new chapters to it. That same requirement should apply to the tax code. While fundamental tax reform is clearly far beyond the scope of your Commission, I believe we would all be remiss in our various responsibilities if we failed to consider the long-term consequences of not implementing fundamental tax reform. My current vantage point is that of a regulatory policymaker and law enforcer. Congress created the FTC, and has given the FTC authority to act in certain situations in which government intervention in private markets may be needed. The role of the FTC is to enforce laws against conduct or transactions that are anticompetitive and against unfair or deceptive acts or practices. The FTC is responsive to Congressional interest on a variety of subjects where the agency is called upon to apply its regulatory expertise to study a particular issue. Understanding the consequences of our actions is essential to decision making, as it should be in all government policy and action. Even when government action is motivated by noble intentions, careful consideration must be given to unintended consequences. Ah, there's the rub. As we all know from our own experiences, good intentions do not always carry the day. There are seemingly always unintended consequences. If our experiences teach us but one thing, surely it must be, "Look before you leap." The Question To Consider The question before the Commission today is whether policymakers should apply a Depression-era tax system to the economy of the 21st Century. The answer to that question will have an enormous
[CTRL] Fw: Anarchism and the Net, by J.Reagle
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 08:42:21 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anarchism and the Net Declan, I thought you might be interested in the following, your comments would be welcome: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/reagle/regulation-19990326.html ABSTRACT Many think the Internet is a good thing because it is unregulatable. The Internet is good, but not because it cannot be regulated. Like anything else, policies are voiced and implemented on the Internet. The true strength of the Internet is that, as an institution, it exhibits characteristics of policy formation that appeal to one's sense of liberty. This is not solely because of maxims like "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," or "No one knows you're a dog on the Internet." Free speech and privacy are laudable characteristics of the early Internet, however they are neither absolute nor guaranteed forever more. In fact, mechanisms of identifying oneself and controlling content can be useful as well as invasive. Instead, what makes the Internet a "good thing" is its anarchical characteristics of policy formation, such as decentralization, consensus, and openness that real world social structures have striven for -- some with more success than others. I examine these characteristics in the context of popular Internet quotations (and anarchist principles) that act as the belief system of the Internet. ___ Regards, http://web.mit.edu/reagle/www/ Joseph Reagle E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E independent research account -- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ -- DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Al Gore's War on High Tech, from the American Spectator
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Well, it's Wired News not Wired Magazine, but who am I to complain? --Declan] The American Spectator July 1999 AL GORE'S WAR ON HIGH TECH Forget the image -- the veep loathes Silicon Valley By Grover Norquist Declan McCullagh, a writer for Wired magazine, was watching CNN's "Late Edition" last March 9 when Vice President Al Gore told host Wolf Blitzer that "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Blitzer didn't question Gore's claim, but McCullagh did. In fact, the first plans for what became the Internet were devised by MIT's Lawrence G. Roberts in 1966 -- when Al Gore was all of 18. Moreover, neither of the two men who've been nominated for a U.S. postage stamp for actually inventing the Internet is named Al Gore. (They are Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, who published "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection" in 1974, years before Gore was old enough to serve in Congress.) In the Web pages of Wired News, McCullagh reported on Gore's cavalier attempt to take credit for the work of others. He also sent an e-mail alert to the several thousand subscribers of his Politech mailing list. From there, at the speed of light, Gore's lie entered the popular culture, from teenage slang to Jay Leno's monologue, and is now as well known as Dan Quayle's spelling of "potatoe." It is of a piece with Gore's claim that he and Tipper Gore were the models for Eric Segal's Love Story or his boast that he grew up ploughing hillsides in Tennessee. [...] Like Bill Clinton before him, Gore has posed as a New Democrat. He was a member of the Democratic Leadership Council that supposedly stood for a Democratic Party no longer tethered to labor unions, trial lawyers, and big city machines. Yet every time these pillars of the old Democratic Party have clashed with the high-tech world, Gore has sided with the forces of the past. Every time. [...] [I do not think this article is yet up on http://www.spectator.org/. You'll have to pick it up on the newsstands. --DBM] -- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ -- DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: ET Disclosure on Global Politics pt1
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: David Wilcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: UFOTruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 9:17 AM Subject: ET Disclosure on Global Politics pt3 UFOTruth - http://UFOTruth.listbot.com ET Disclosure on Global Politics, Immediate Future Earth Changes and Ascension Events -by David Wilcock et al. Greetings, members of our growing global Internet family. The following article is a collection of the most recent "Global" material that we have received in my deep-trance psychic readings. It contains everything pertinent in this category that was dictated from May 1, 1999 up to June 20, 1999. The messages in this article are of an extremely urgent nature, as they deal with a series of massive events that are going to unfold in the very near future upon our planetary sphere. These events will dramatically, permanently affect every living person on Earth. The key question is exactly what these effects will be, and how to prepare yourself to reap the positive benefits of what is about to happen. Please remind yourself that I am not aware of the vast majority of the content of what is being said in these readings until I transcribe the tapes myself. Therefore, these readings are as much of a puzzle and surprise to me as they are to anyone else; I simply make myself available for them to come through me. Over the last three years I have learned to tune myself into a very deep trance that allows the information to come through unfiltered, without any significant distortions. This purity of contact lends itself to highly accurate future prophecies and strange sentence structures and wordings, since my conscious mind does not distort the results that I receive. The forces responsible for these words have full access to the "probability vortexes" for our own future, so we must always look ahead for the events that they prophesy, as they have proven their accuracy on an ongoing basis. All of this work has been fastidiously documented, and soon we will have the entire 3000-page catalog of readings and dreams available in archive form on the ascension2000.com website. This is actually the third major article in a series that has been posted on the website about the current negativity and wars on the planet and how they might trigger a land shift on Earth. We will see how the forces were scanning the situations surrounding the Kosovo crisis, and how the prediction was made in a dream of Milosevic's imminent surrender. We will also see the continually developing idea that the Ascension itself will happen only moments before these mega-Earth Changes get started. We have increasing reasons to believe that the time period of the Aug. 11, 1999 solar eclipse / Grand Cross conjunction could act as a "trigger-point" for these changes, and therefore for the Ascension as well. A Nostradamus reading from the 1500's suggests that the land shift / Ascension event itself might not occur until two months after this conjunction, in October. A recent article about this reading is also on the ascension2000.com website. The Ascension we are speaking of is a fundamental raising of the personal vibrations of many people to a higher level of frequency, actually rendering them invisible to those remaining in the third dimension. I have written a massive, 300-page "tour de force" about this from the scientific perspective, entitled Convergence. This book may be downloaded and read free of charge on my website, www.ascension2000.com. I have received many Emails from people who say that Convergence is "the best book they have ever read," "completely redefining everything they understand and believe about their lives on Earth." As time continues to tick forward, we may or may not see events occur on Aug.11 exactly. However, based on our scientific understanding of the hyperdimensional physics at work in our galaxy and Solar System, we have every reason to believe that this conjunction will significantly increase the strength and power of the fourth-dimensional vibrations that are streaming into the Earth and its inhabitants. We will also see a reading in this article that explains that this eventual burst of energy from the Galaxy's core will actually be physically visible in our skies! This might possibly be related to the idea of a "Coronal Mass Ejection" from the Sun, although it was not directly stated one way or the other in the reading itself. [Note: I just saw "11:11" on the clock as I reread this sentence. That is the exact time that the sun goes corona during the Aug. 11 eclipse.] So, what we can make from all this is that "at the last minute," we have been able to figure out the hard science behind what is an eminently spiritual event on Earth. Most people look at this Ascension in terms of faith, and would not realize that it could actually be studied scientifically. We believe that this work will attract a great deal more attention once the first 'wave' of Ascension has
[CTRL] Fw: ET Disclosure on Global Politics pt2
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: David Wilcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: UFOTruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 9:17 AM Subject: ET Disclosure on Global Politics pt3 UFOTruth - http://UFOTruth.listbot.com -BEGIN PART TWO: "ET UPDATE?"- Thursday 5 / 27 / 99 - 7:18 a.m. The average brother (in your colonial building) was open to a whole host of different tactics that would explain why the constitution was in deferment. As they asked me if I was holding onto something, but not realizing anything about what that question meant, I had to reply with a question. And that question was, "Can despair and injustice be allowed to continue in the world?" [Note: Based on the other readings in the articles before this, the "something" that the ETs are holding onto is the knowledge of the imminent use of further Earth Changes to counterbalance the current negatively polarized political and societal situations on Earth. So, by balancing out our negativity as per the Law of Karma, they are helping to stop "despair and injustice from being allowed to continue in the world." Obviously the "brother in the colonial building" is about the various forces in the United States Government.] Their minds are clever with hatred. Part of what we are seeing here [in the present world picture] is the machinations of the deeper plan. I vaulted down the reading text room, screaming. Now here and thereafter, this had really become something much more wonderful than I had ever imagined before. So from our perspective, things are indeed looking pretty good, I think. Tie a tether to the balloon of the Spirit and be prepared for the ride as the Upgrade looms closer. Many scientists will be quite puzzled and perplexed about this afterwards, but this is definitely not [going to be] an optical illusion. [Note: The reading is saying here that the cataclysmic changes need not be feared for those who are following the basic teachings of service to others, reaching the critical 51-percent threshold that makes them 'Ascension Compatible.' This is the "Upgrade" that they are speaking of.] DREAM: There was some kind of parade going on that was supposed to be unique to Virginia. I then found out that it was actually like a military operation; there were military guys all up and down, and they didn't even want me to talk. I was trying to fix my car - that was the big thing. I tried to talk on my phone and someone just immediately shut me up. Then, I went back to this house that belonged to a spiritually minded woman I know. I looked up into a large tree in the end, and saw something so horrifying that I almost threw up right on the spot. The tree was totally overcome with festering slime, and there were all these babies in little amniotic fluid sacs hanging off of it. It was a really big tree and there were a lot of them, stretching over the roof of the house and into the yard. [Note: If we look at the context between these two paragraphs above, the obvious implications in this dream are that this horrible pestilence being referred to has to do with the highly negative military actions now occurring on the planet. I have omitted the more graphic details for our squeamish readers.] Since I didn't see anything else I could do to stop this pestilence, I decided to start hurling rocks up at them. Even though I should have been afraid, I felt like I was just doing a necessary job and that it could be taken care of if I worked at it long enough. I did not feel that I was in danger, despite the horrors of the task I was undertaking. After this whole baby scene, I found this person who was like my brother's girlfriend. We were walking outside and I asked her if this tree thing was really a big problem. She said no, and that there were some guys who were coming to take care of it. I then realized that the horrifying clean-up work that I had chosen to do was not really my responsibility at all. I then looked over and realized that my car was over in the next door neighbor's driveway, and it was unbelievably new looking! There was no rust on it, and it looked very nice- it was brand new, shiny and polished. That was when I realized that someone had obviously taken really good care of my car in order to have it become so completely renewed in this fashion. [Note: Some obvious things about the dream metaphor here are the idea of a new car being formed. This is the new vehicle, or body, that those who Ascend will be inhabiting in the fourth dimensional Earth that is now being born. Also there is again the repetitive metaphor of the idea of not worrying about Earth Changes and pestilence, as the Ascension happens before the worst of these events. Furthermore, the "guys who were coming to take care of it" refer to the Extraterrestrials.] READING: In order to finish a large Experiment, we need to react to the Divine will of all forces involved. The free-will decisions of your people still determine the course of future
[CTRL] Fw: ET Disclosure on Global Politics pt3
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: David Wilcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: UFOTruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 9:17 AM Subject: ET Disclosure on Global Politics pt3 UFOTruth - http://UFOTruth.listbot.com -BEGIN PART THREE: "ET UPDATE?"- DREAM: I had some incredible telekinetic abilities in this dream, including the ability to dig holes in some soil that looked like grain. I was only trying to dig a nine inch deep hole, but I ended up using so much of my psychic power that I vaporized all the grain, in what appeared to be like three of the stalls in a barn. Then after that, they were filled up with something else. Later on in the dream, I was actually able to recreate this food in other places, as well as hammer in nails at a distance through focused psychokinesis. [Note: This portion certainly seems to be about food losses - entire giant rooms of grain suddenly ceasing to be present, as well as the idea that those Ascended could recreate them.] READING: The senate makes tougher laws on gun restrictions as a result of this whole debacle. Meanwhile, the fish fillet continues to settle down into a new predicament, and the oceans have been raped long enough; they cease to be viable in the future long-term scenarios. That is yet another problem that we face here and should not be ignored. [Note: Another obvious statement about the imminent food shortage problems that we face.] Nor should the dividers that would settle up the lands amongst themselves fail to realize that the clubhouse they are playing in is not impervious to damage from outside forces such as ourselves, who would seek to right these situations. So don't fret and fume about the politics that you see on the Earth, as the focus, as always, is upon your own spiritual growth, enlightenment and Ascension. [Note: Again, the forces are saying that even now that the war is over, there may still be Earth Changes in the Balkans "to right these situations" if they become too warlike or greedy. We have already seen an earthquake in Kosovo right in the middle of the war, as well as the almost constant bad weather that NATO had to contend with during their bombing campaign.] We can say that the y2k collapse will indeed be of the ice storm variety, relative to the listing in the article that David has recently seen. Bearing that in mind, it is important to continue to prepare your food supplies, as we have always noted. Most importantly are to store the brown rice and dried beans in large 50-pound bags. [Note: The article they are referring to was on the Sightings website, and was supposedly the results of a Department of the Navy / DIA think-tank on the y2k situation. They classified the possibilities of social problems into four main categories: 1. Tornadoes - Short-term disasters in small, isolated areas. 2. Hurricanes - Short-term disasters in larger areas. 3. Floods - Long-term disasters in large areas. 4. Ice Storm - Long-term disasters throughout the entire national infrastructure. Obviously, the message being given to us here by the readings is to be prepared. However, the further implications are that many of those who will Ascend might not be around for the brunt of these disasters and land shifts. We should still prepare as though we will be around for them; if not for ourselves than for others.] The Amtrak train station is boarding its passengers as the vehicle into higher realms now. And thus, as you do this, keep your focus on the Ascension and on the validity of these experiences in our society. You will notice that more and more, you are becoming a being of light, able transcend the difficulties and hardships all around you. That was the point of this dream this morning as well. [Note: What they mean by this was that the telekinetic ability to hammer nails at a distance to build new houses, and also the ability make food and water disappear and reappear are the Christlike abilities of a person who has Ascended.] D: I also just again cued on "Taepo Dong Missile." Wednesday 6 / 16 / 99 - 4:34 a.m. The world inbreeds the more that time goes on. Even some of our most secure sources revealed that knowledge to us. The human embryo develops in its sac a little while longer, and we already know the outcome of that particular question. [Note: The first sentence above seems quite similar to what was said by the ET's who spoke through Betty Andreasson; namely that humankind would become sterile. The second sentence about the developing embryo obviously has to do with the Ascension / rebirth that we are waiting to see. It also has to do with the genetic program of the Extraterrestrials to produce the bodies we will inhabit in the new fourth dimensional Earth that we are all so looking forward to becoming a part of.] To keep a journal or diary on these utterances is quite good, and remind yourself that when we have completed the mission, all failures will only be seen in the Light of missed
[CTRL] [6] Inside The League
-Caveat Lector-
an excerpt from:
Inside The League
Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson©1986
Dodd, Mead Company
79 Madison Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10016
ISBN 0-396-08517-2
322pps out-of-print/one edition
[re-print/first edition available from:
W. Clement Stone, P M A Communications, Incorporated]
--[6]--
Six.
I suspected the Tecos were involved. If they're fighting the communists, they
must have links to the death squads. For fear of being caught, they've
compartmentalized their thing.
-Former League member
IN EARLY APRIL 1970, heavily armed police in the northern Mexico city of
Hermosillo sealed off a section of Calle 14 de Abril and, with guns drawn,
stormed one of its buildings. In its cluttered rooms, they discovered Nazi
magazines and leaflets, piles of Hitler's book, Mein Kampf and code books.
Most intriguing of all were a half-dozen grotesque papier-mache masks.
The masks were props used at initiation ceremonies for one of Mexico's most
violent and feared secret societies. The raid was a strike against the Tecos,
a network of some three or four hundred neo-Nazis whose members were divided
into cells and took oaths of blind obedience to their leaders. But the Tecos
were not young swastika-clad misfits who plastered their bedroom walls with
posters of Hitler; they were some of Mexico's most influential
leadersindustrialists, bankers, and college professors-and had been accused
of coordinating innumerable acts of violence, including dozens of political
assassinations, in previous years.
The Hermosillo raid did not result in a large government investigation or
dissolution of the Tecos. In Mexico, where corruption is rife and where the
institutionalized ruling political party has a long tradition of
tolerating-and playing off-extremist movements of both the left and right,
the Tecos were able to control the damage done by the 1970 raid and continue
their activities. They were still in place when the World Anti-Communist
League came looking for a Latin American affiliate in 1972.
Not only were the Tecos allowed to establish the Mexican League chapter, they
were given a mandate to form the entire South and Central American regional
organization of the League. Naturally, they chose kindred spirits, quickly
making the Latin American AntiCommunist Confederation (CAL) one of the
region's most powerful and deadly ultra-right federations. As "Lobo," the
Honduran doctor/ assassin, told one of the authors in 1983, it was a
federation that served as a coordinating body for death squads throughout the
region. In recent years, the slogan of the once-obscure Tecos, Contra la
guerrilla roja, la guerrilla blanca ("Against the red guerrilla, the white
guerrilla"), has been put into practice throughout the continent.
Ironically, this prestige and influence, this "miracle," to quote the Tecos,
would probably have never occurred if it hadn't been for the financial
assistance of the U. S. government and some of America's largest
philanthropic foundations.
The Tecos trace their historical roots to the Mexican Revolution of the
1910s. Mexico was in the grip of a violent civil war that was greatly
exacerbated by government anti-clerical campaigns. The Catholic Church, which
owned vast tracts of the country, bore the brunt of the revolutionary zeal of
a wide range of groups, ranging from impoverished and landless peasants to
leftist intellectuals. Priests were murdered and churches were bombed or
sacked.
To defend the Church and fight back, the Legion of Christ the King, or Los
Cristeros, was formed. The counterrevolutionary Cristeros were a secret army
that, like the Holy Crusaders they emulated, rode into battle with the
blessings of priests. For them, this wasn't a revolution but a holy war, and
they were fully prepared to die for their God and the Virgin against the
"Satanists." In the ensuing strife, which took tens of thousands of Mexican
lives, the Cristeros played their role.
Upon the success of the Mexican Revolution, the Cristeros were officially
disbanded. In the 1930s a French Jesuit priest, Bernardo Bergoend, sought to
unite the Mexican Catholic opposition to counter the anti-Church government
that had been installed.
Bergoend advanced a scheme for double organization; one group was to concern
itself with political mass action, the other was to be a section devoted to
social action. Bluntly, the mass organizations were to be directed from above
by a select leadership, i.e., a secret society.
Tecos ... represented the effective leadership of this entire complex The
members, especially the younger ones, were expected to fight, wherever and
whenever this was indicated, for the interests of the Church and the
country.[1]
In these early days, the Tecos were not strictly a fascist organization; they
were basically devout Catholics and traditionalists who took up arms to
defend the old, established order. That changed, however, after World War II.
Through the efforts of two men, a Mexican Nazi who had
[CTRL] [14] Loud and Clear
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Loud and Clear Lake Headly and William Hoffman©1990 Henry Holt and Company 115 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 ISBN 0-8050-1138-2 272 pps out-of-print/one edition --[14]-- 14 JoDon Don Devereux and I sat in the Westward Ho Coffee Shop. We met, or talked on the phone, every day, and often went from these confabs to conduct interviews or research. "Last night," Devereux said, "as I thumbed through my old IRE notes, I came across the name Michael JoDon." "What's JoDon about?" "I can't recall exactly; I've misplaced my notes on him. All I have is a name, a phone number, and a reference to Monte Kobey. Kobey was, I think, related by marriage to Bradley Funk and was indicted with Ned Warren for land fraud." The mention of Ned Warren captured my attention. Sent to Arizona in the late 1960s by New York City underworld bosses, Warren worked his way up to a fifty-year prison sentence in 1978 for land fraud. When he called himself The Godfather of Land Fraud, he didn't exaggerate. He bilked tens of millions of dollars from thousands of investors. Warren and his cohorts engineered gold and diamond swindles (flecks of gold were shotgunned into the walls of a depleted mine); oil, gas, and coal scams; the sale of arthritis and cancer cures (the arthritis remedy was a simple cactus juice and water concoction); and of course the staple: "a dream tract of land" that turned out to be an arid desert nightmare, the cruelest sort of fraud directed mainly at people who had worked a lifetime to save enough to buy a retirement home. Not surprisingly, Don Bolles was among the first in the nation to investigate and expose Arizona land fraud operations. My interest was piqued, however, by more than Ned Warren. There were those Mafia connections, and of course the name Bradley Funk always made my ears prick up. "Did you ever meet with JoDon?" I asked. "Yeah. He told me he dated Kara Kobey, Monte's daughter, and he overheard part of a conversation about the Bolles murder. I didn't have time to pursue it then. But when I found the name in my notes, I thought you might want to." "What do you know about JoDon?" "Practically nothing. He was an informant for the Scottsdale Police Department, and they had some sort of falling out." " Let's call that number now." We carried Styrofoam cups of coffee to my suite. More would be ordered up if locating JoDon outlasted four cups. So obsessed had I become with trying to find ways to free Dunlap and Robison that every waking hour was devoted to the caseincluding fun times with Terri Leeand at night, visions of death chambers and exploding cars would blast me out of sleep. Even threatening phone calls, which I probably would have taken more seriously in less hectic times, got ignored. I'd received four already, the last only two days before. "Get out of town tonight, asshole," rasped a menacing voice. And added, just so I understood: "Fuckin' asshole, you don't leave tonight, you'll end up like fuckin' Bolles." My four threats from nameless, faceless callers amounted to a trickle compared to the flak Devereux was encountering on the street. Constantly being told his life was in danger, the journalist could believe it after that pickup truck tried to run him down in the alley. But neither of us was going to back off. We'd probably have to get into a new line of work if we did, and in any case be always haunted by the knowledge that we didn't have what it took. "May I speak to Michael JoDon, please," I asked when a voice answered the ringing phone. "This is his father. Can I help you?" "Mr. JoDon, my name's Lake Headley. The Dunlap defense committee has retained me to investigate the Bolles homicide. We're trying to accumulate enough evidence for new trials. I'm sitting here now with Don Devereux of the Scottsdale Progress. Mr. Devereux spoke with your son about a year ago and tells me Michael has information on the Bolles killing. I'd like to talk with him." "I'm sorry. He's not here. My son is a fugitive." "From what? Why is he a fugitive?" "He's wanted for sale of hashish to an undercover policewoman. They framed Michael, Mr. Headley, because he knows too much about the murder of Don Bolles. He realized he can't get a fair trial, and he left the state. Actually, he's afraid for his life." "I assure you, Mr. JoDon, I'm not a police officer and I have no interest in jailing your son. I only want to talk to him about the Bolles killing." "He knows a lot about that. But I don't know if he will talk to you. And he's a long way away." A long way? Distance didn't matter. If he knew "a lot" about this murder, I'd travel around the world to see him. "Can you get in touch with Michael?" I asked. "To tell the truth, I have no idea where he is. He calls me once a week, but says it's better that I don't know his whereabouts." "When is he due to call again?" "Day after tomorrow." "Mr. JoDon, please do me a big favor. Give your son a message.
Re: [CTRL] [SC] Media Violence
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: gene johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SkeptiChat list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 11:24 AM Subject: [SC] Media Violence # 'Scream' evidence barred from trial. (AP) The boys were obsessed with the horror movie "Scream." They...moved to replicate killings in the 1996 Wes Craven film. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560091104-244 : Do violent media presentations make you want to kill? Do war movies incite wars? A brain center in the reptilian-similar or emotional brain becomes more sensitive to triggering the release of aggressive and defensive behavior, the more the organism is exposed to violence. The subject bilateral center, the amygdala ( almond-shaped ) is responsible for releasing reflexive and rapid aggressive behavior and can potentiate more complex, higher order behavior as well. Since the amygdala system is sensitive to visual and auditory stimuli, violent multi- media cinematic presentations add to the conditioning and sensitiza- tion of this structure and lower the threshold for the release of violence behavior. Acting out of aggressive behavior patterns in 'play' is frequently seen in children who have been exposed to violent film and television presentations. Pleasurable and reinforcing endo-opiates are released after violent episodes. Extra passionate lovemaking by couples after an argument rides and enhances the endo-opiate pleasure waves. Ape-Angel Today I heard a report on the radio [I'll try to track it down in net news] that an extensive, long-term study shows that ALL youthful violence is related to: food allergies/sensitivities. The leading foods correlated with youthful violence are wheat, corn, and: sugar. Hell, I was a hyper kid, and I was very violent, and I consumed all the sugar I could get hold of. I'm not surprised by these findings at all. The Western hemisphere was conquered by Europeans for the benefit of druglords, growing and transporting the most powerful of psychogens: coffee and cocoa [caffeine], tobacco [nicotine], and sugar cane and its byproduct rum [alcohol]. Sugar is a substance of abuse, same as opiates, cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, gunpowder. The difference is, we ENCOURAGE our youth to abuse sugar - then we act surprised when, their growing bodies and minds over-amped by its effects, they explode in violence, especially in a culture that's extolled and honored violence for so long. Are violent behaviors triggered by media depictions of violence? Well, maybe. Does every person exposed to media violence, react with more violence? Nope. Do kids who have access to guns kill more people than those without such access? Yup. Canadian and European kids are exposed to violent US media - Japanese kids see even MORE hard- core violent/sexual media - yet those kids DON'T go postal as much as US kids. Why not? They don't have guns. Maybe it's a conspiracy. Maybe the druglords, the gunlords [Chinese weapons makers, US distributors], and the medialords are working together to zap generations of kids worldwide, more cattle to be harvested by their Reptilioid masters, eh? Maybe they're experimen- ting with various combinations of alcohol, tobacco, sugar, media, guns, different levels of each in different markets, to determine the optimal mix for harvestable populations. Ric "or maybe they're just a bunch of greedy bastards" Carter DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Inside Bohemian Grove
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: William Hugh Tunstall [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Ric Carter wrote: From: Andrew Hennessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] could it be that the secret government in order to allay the fears of the masses simply 'allowed' a reporter into Bohemian Grove to witness a staged event that conveyed the impression of total innocence and sporty fun eg. 'mock druidic ritual' - etc I live a few miles upriver from Boho Grove and every year I see the helis flying overhead bearing the participants, hear the stories of The Russian River area is a beautiful spot. When I went to Sonoma State, we used to picnic in the area..but if I'm not mistaken, the area is considered to be a "power spot." Ah, another SSU alumnus. Yah, this is a "power zone" all right, but most places over which people have contested are "power spots", one way or another. Do locations gain Power by being fought for, or do people desire such places because of their Power, or both or none of the above? If ever-increasing population levels result in more people fighting over more places, will the whole Earth become so charged-up with Power that it explodes? Are Boho participants just Reptilioid/Republican stooges? What's the plot? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] More Free Stock
-Caveat Lector- Here's another start up company offering free stock... There is a new company that does business on the net called PopularLink. They are going public soon. They are offering free stocks to anyone who registers with them. They ask for no personal information and they don't spam. To get the free stock, go to their web site at www.PopularLink.com and click Bonus. After you fill out your e mail address, you will receive an e mail with a pin number. When you fill out the information for the free stock, reference the E-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (then, I will receive one share of stock for every person that registers). When you reference people to this free stock offer, you will receive one more share of stock for every person who fills out the form and references your e mail address. Please remember too include my E-mail address when you join them. I appreciate your help. The last company to try this was Yahoo and Amazon.com see ya at the bank... DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] revolutionary brotherhood (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message - Citation: Journal of Social History Winter 1998, v.32, 2, 455(3) Author: Weisberger, William R. Title: Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840.(Review) (book reviews) reviewed by William R. Weisberger COPYRIGHT 1998 Peter N. Stearns By Steven C. Bullock (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., 1996. xviii plus 421pp. $49.95). This encompassing and stimulating study by Steven C. Bullock reveals much about the prominent place of Freemasonry in America between 1730 and 1840. Bullock's major aims are to examine the ideological features of Masonic ritualism and to explain the institutional functions and operations of the order's grand and local lodges. He advances convincing theses concerning the ritualistic attractiveness of Enlightenment doctrines associated with deism and Newtonianism, concerning the privacy and sociability of Masonry's local lodges, and concerning the great appeal of the order to members of middle-class elites in America. Bullock well demonstrates also that Masonry was intimately involved in attempting to create an enlightened republic and a mercantile society in America between 1790 and 1825 and that as a result of the Antimasonic movement, the Craft was seriously discredited in many regions of the North between 1826 and 1840. This work is both chronologically and topically arranged and contains eleven chapters and four parts. In the first part of the book, Bullock explains the origins and evolution of Speculative Freemasonry in Augustan England and in colonial America. Unlike most scholarly studies which deal with the rise of the modern Masonic movement, Bullock's work does devote attention to occult legacies and to operative masonry in its treatment of the formation of the Modern Grand Lodge. However, Bullock, like Margaret C. Jacob and this reviewer, accentuates the ideological and institutional connections between the Enlightenment and Modern London Masonry. The author lucidly demonstrates that the first three Masonic degrees, among other things, embodied doctrines of deism, Newtonianism, and Palladianism; he also argues that these three degrees fused the teachings of classical civilization with those of eighteenth century society and thus revealed the importance of order and harmony within Nature. There also are fine sections about the activities of the London Grand Lodge and its local lodges; Bullock shows that this grand lodge, which was established in 1717, operated according to Whiggish doctrines specified in a constitution. Local lodges were involved with tavern and club life, helped to foster genteel practices, and recruited their members from noble and middle-class elites and from the Royal Society and other cultural institutions in the city. Under the jurisdiction of the Modern London Grand Lodge, colonial Freemasonry flourished. Bullock shows that local lodges, which were responsible to provincial grand masters, quickly emerged during the 1730s in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Charleston; he maintains that colonial Masons constituted a "United Party of Virtue" and that the concepts of love, honor, benevolence, gentility, and privacy explained why they wished to associate with the order. The author presents a fine occupational analysis of members of lodges in Boston and in Philadelphia; these lodges - and probably others in the colonies during the 1750s and 1760s - consisted predominantly of merchants, of some physicians, lawyers, and soldiers, and of a few artisans. Many members of these lodges occupied leadership positions in other civic institutions and consequently were boosters. In the second part of the book, Bullock first discusses Ancient Masonry and then the Craft's role in the American Revolution. There is a detailed chapter concerning the emergence and the consolidation of Ancient Freemasonry in the colonies. Bullock shows that this system, which came in the 1750s from England to America, and which had slightly different rituals and practices from those of Modern Masonry, especially appealed to members of artisanal groups in Boston, in Philadelphia, and in other eastern colonial cities. Forcing the decline of Modern Masonry, Ancient lodges by the 1760s became firmly established in colonial settlements in both piedmont and backcountry regions. The members of lodges in these two regions perceived Ancient Masonry as being a source of cosmopolitanism and republicanism and looked to it for social activities and contacts. Ancient lodges as well assimilated into a common setting individuals of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds and recruited to their ranks professionals, merchants, military men, and
Re: [CTRL] Humor: This one is really good!!
-Caveat Lector- "Hilary A. Thomas" wrote: -Caveat Lector- -- From: AOL User [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Humor: This one is really good!! Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 4:04 PM -Caveat Lector- How can there be humor in an illegal act followed by a threat? Sure, this is clever. But sends the wrong message. I have often noted that many members on this list are completely devoid of a funny bone!!! Lighten up - it's life. Hilary Good one. Got any more? Joshua2 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Humor: This one is really good!!
-Caveat Lector- AOL User wrote: -Caveat Lector- I would not advocate this as a joke. And I do not think most people would. I would. It was a cute joke. To do so would be immoral to me as it teaches theft and threatening. I don't understand people who think the tenor of this joke is just "a joke" and we all should "lighten up". It reminds me of the frog in the cold water who didn't notice the heat turning up slowly and steadily. Although I agree with Hilary that, unfortunately, the joke exemplifies life these days. I strongly suggest you give up religion and take up bestiality sex and drugs. It could only improve your personality. Dr. Laura J2 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [Fwd: Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Re: [CTRL] Our Founding Fathers on Christianity Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 22:32:46 -0700 From: nurev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Nurev Independent Research To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nessie wrote: -Caveat Lector- Tell ya what, Ric, when we can elect our bosses, when we can elect our landlords, when we can hold referendums on the price of bread, then I'll start thinking this place is on its way to becoming a democracy. In the meantime, let's be frank; it's a fascist police state. If you have any doubts, dress in old clothes, leave your money, credit cards and IDs at home and go for a walk at night in a rich neighborhood. The only real democracy is direct democracy. Electoral politics is a scam. We don't choose our leaders. We choose some of their henchmen. Big whoop. It's hard for most people to give up that last illusion. To do so means to admit powerlessness and gullibility. So against all logic people like Ric, which is the vast majority after all, would rather rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic, than actually change the situation. You can't change the system by voting. It's simply not designed for that purpose. Joshua2 = DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NO MANDATE: To vote or not to vote in 2000.
-Caveat Lector- = == ELECTION 2000 NO MANDATE ! == DON'T VOTE ! IT JUST ENCOURAGES THEM. The accumulation of wealth brings with it an accumulation of power and influence disproportional to the actual numbers of wealthy groups, and individuals existing in a society. 1) I believe there is a way to break the hold of big money on the Presidency, and other major political positions at the national governmental level. This can be achieved by modifying our views on how to utilize the electoral process to recapture and strengthen the limited democracy we had. Whatever power voters had was stolen from the American people by U.S. and foreign moneyed interests. 2) Nullifying political bribery by the Duopoly can be accomplished in a non-violent manner, and DOES NOT REQUIRE ACTIVE COOPERATION AMONG GROUPS WITH DIFFERING IDEOLOGIES. Please consider the following: The diversity and size of the U.S. plays right into the hands of the ruling class and their institutions. It's easy to keep a society like this divided along natural fault lines. Class, race, religion, gender, sexual preference, occupation, philosophical outlook, regionalism, and multiculturalism, are some reasons that truly mass movements are almost impossible to organize in this country. The obvious exceptions are war, and disaster. Though there are more people getting involved in grass roots politics, they are organizing around narrow interests. I'm not belittling those interests. I'm simply saying that the mass power of the public is not being focused on the weak points in the system. Those are, the ability to effect change through voting ( or not voting ), spending ( or not spending ), and paying taxes ( or withholding your taxes ). The problem with voting, is that those who have stolen the democratic process, present us with the option of picking any one of THEIR candidates that we like. The process of running for any national office, is actually a filtering process that "BOTH" parties use to insure that only those acceptable to the ruling class will be presented to us for rubber stamping. Thus, they have taken the choice out of our choosing process. Most people now realize that something is very wrong here, and are quite angry about it. This is not democracy. ["Don't cling to a political party that has been converted to neo-conservatism. [[ Like Clinton/Gore's " New Dems," or " New Labor " in Britain, or " Third Way " Socialists. - J2 ]] Once the party has been taken over, maintaining solidarity on the outside while seeking change from within merely gives them more time. When the spirit of the party is dead, shed the old skin and create something new". - TIPS ON HOW TO OPPOSE CORPORATE RULE - from the book " Economic Fundamentalism " by Dr Jane Kelsey, U of Auckland, NZ ] Because he was elected with only 43% of the vote (1992- in a three way race ), Clinton was perceived as being politically weak, and forced to compromise more than he really wanted to. Of course that didn't extend to pro business issues like NAFTA and GATT and Fast Track. Reagan, on the other hand was perceived as having won by a "landslide", and had a strong mandate to do anything he wished, while the press cowered before the will of the people. Consequently, he became the " teflon " president. ( Referring of course, to the substance between his ears.) The point is, the importance of the perception of popular support. Imagine a President elected by only 35% or less. How difficult might it be for such an unpopular elected official to raise taxes, cut social programs, get us into an oil war, or turn our national forces over to the institutions of World Federalism like NATO and the U.N., when so few would have voted for him (/her)? I am convinced that elections in the near future will incorporate "third" parties. This will become necessary to maintain the illusion of democratic participation. The Duopoly has played itself out. Too many voters hate the Democrats, AND the Republicans. Successful "third" parties will also be owned by Big Business. Why give up a good scam? This will then camouflage the lack of democracy for yet one more generation, while rich ruling "elites" around the world link up to achieve their long held dream of a worldwide economic system with them in charge. If this scenario does in fact play out, then imagine what it would take to dislodge them from positions of power around the world. I have a simple, do-able plan to stop, or at least slow down this process of fake democracy. The solution is to allow people the choice of NOT voting. Legitimize not voting as the only real choice in a field of hand picked candidates, and you will have a defacto "NO MANDATE" movement. A national expression of no confidence for all the world to see. The American Emperors have no cloths. Not voting will require legitimization.
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: KN4M 06-27-99
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist The Konformist 27 June 1999 Index Keithfest at Steamshovel Kenn Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FeedBack: Tim Beckley on Jim Keith Robert Parry's Lost History Robert Parry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Free Trade At Work Five Marines Need Your Help BIG-NAME CANDIDATES BOW TO MEDIA POWER Norman Solomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A Call for Action from Luna Keithfest at Steamshovel Date: Saturday, June 26, 1999 12:40:35 AM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Steamshovel web site has some more thoughts by Mr. Keith in its "Offline Illumination" column. The "Latest Word" column for this week also contains a response to Jim's "Casebook on Alternative 3" by Leslie Watkins, the author of the original Alternative Three book. Previous "Latest Word" columns, still clickable include a back-and-forth on "Revising Reality" by Jim Keith and Excluded Middle editor Greg Bishop. http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/offline.htm http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/lword.htm kt ** This is a response to my latest article from prominent UFO/conspiracy publisher Tim Beckley in which he suggests that I deliberately put errors in my email list so that people can't reply to what I say. There is only one error in that thinking: if I had, then I wouldn't have been able to mail to the list, either. Anyway, I offered to mail Tim's comments to my list, and they follow. Jim Keith From: Tim Beckley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) While Keith may have some basic truth here in the "believability factor" of UFOs and Conspiracies he should be the last to cast the first stone. I recall in his Black Helicopters One book that he printed photo after photo of sign posts with flourescent markings on the back indicating that they were roadmaps for UN troops to follow when they take away our civil rights. First off how could UN troops take control of anything...we see how totally ineffective they are in dealing with situations around the world. Any farmer with a pitchfork in Kansas could take on an entire battalion of UN forces and beat their ass. Furthermore if he had done any research he would realize by talking to any road crew that the markings and codes on the back of these signs are codes as to where the signs get posted on highways, etc. Are UN troops supposed to stop at every crossroad and get out of their tanks and read the signs...we can just point them in the wrong direction so that they end up outside Jim Keith's front door and David Icke's problems will be solved. Yes lets put our skull caps on and do some rational thinking but less of calling the kettle black . . . has Keith nothing better to do than write e mail after e mail being critical of others; why doesnt he at least do what Peter G. from CAUS does and send out poetry once a week? Besides we should all join forces because they want to make a law banning all unsolicited e mails like the ones Jim has been sending lately (only kidding I tell people there is always the discard button). Also Jim how can we forward this to your list as there seems to be a few deliberately misspelled e mails so the entire mailing is returned? Hasn't your list the right to hear responses or is this a one way street?. ** Subj: Robert Parry's Lost History Date: Saturday, June 26, 1999 05:59:41 PM From: Ifmagazine How did the vaunted Watergate press corps of the 1970s become the Monica Lewinsky press corps of the 1990s? What's true and what's not about cocaine trafficking by Ronald Reagan's Nicaraguan contras? What happened to honest reporters when they tried to tell the American people what was really going on? Did the CIA oversee a secret plan in the 1980s to manipulate U.S. public opinion, so-called 'Project Truth'? The answers are part of Robert Parry's just-published 300-page book, Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press 'Project Truth.' Parry is the former AP-Newsweek reporter who broke many of the stories now known as the Iran-contra affair. He currently edits iF Magazine and the online publication, Consortiumnews.com Packed with formerly secret documents, the book explains how the Reagan administration engaged in a domestic-propaganda scheme called "perception management." Not only was disinformation systematically fed to the American people on a variety of foreign policy topics, but retaliation was exacted against journalists, political leaders and citizen activists who wouldn't go along. The book reveals how White House aide Oliver North sicced the FBI on his
[CTRL] Fwd: UNDERNEWS Jun 28
UNDERNEWS Sam Smith June 28, 1999 The Progressive Review 1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 202-232-5544 Fax: 202-234-6222 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INDEX: http://prorev.com RECENT UNDERNEWS: http://prorev.com/indexa.htm TODAY'S HEADLINE NEWS: http://prorev.com/altnews.htm ALTERNATIVE NEWS SOURCES: http://prorev.com/hot.htm THE REVIEW FORUM: http://prorev.com/letters.com DONATIONS AND ORDER FORM: http://prorev.com/order3.htm For a free subscription to our e-mail updates send your postal address with zip code. To unsubscribe, reply with the word 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. Copyright 1999, The Progressive Review. Matter not independently copyrighted may be reprinted provided TPR is paid your normal reprint fees, if any, and is given proper credit. While there is no subscription fee for UNDERNEWS, donations are welcome and can be made by check to the address above or by credit card at http://prorev.com/order3.htm Because of its quantity, TPR's mail is not always answered, but it is always read. The editor is cheered or remorseful as appropriate and posts some of the more interesting messages at http://prorev.com/letters.htm THEOLOGY IN WASHINGTON Added Cmdr. David B. McDonald, the supervisor of police Y2K planning, "We want to reassure the residents and visitors to the District that even if Armageddon comes, we will assist and protect the public." -- Washington Post PARENTING IN WASHINGTON FROM AN AD IN A WASHINGTON WEEKLY: We are looking for a babysitter/housekeeper for our busy family. We are working parents with six year old twins. The twins are a boy and a girl and will be in first grade in the fall We live in a large house in the Palisades which is close to pool, library, parks, shopping and restaurants. The job requires that the babysitter/housekeeper arrive at 7:30 to get the kids out of bed, make their beds and breakfast, help them get dressed and drive them to school by 8:45 am. Between 8:45 and 3:00 (or later if the kids have after school activities) the babysitter/housekeeper must be available to take care of kids if they are sick, to accept deliveries and let repair people into the house and do laundry and light housekeeping At 3:00 pm the children must be picked up from school and taken to after school activities and any other appointments such as allergy shots. The children should be fed dinner, bathed and helped with putting on their pajamas. At 7:00 pm, one or both parents return home. . . OF SLAVERY AND STARDOM When the NBA's $8-million-a-year Larry Johnson referred to himself and his co-payers as "rebellious slaves," he took a public whipping. Johnson later refused to back down at a news conference called by the NBA and the Knicks. Here's some of what he said as reported in the Philadelphia Daily News: JOHNSON: Let me ask you a question. Did I lie? Oh, OK. I'm telling the truth. Y'all know it. REPORTER: This is what people see. People see you have an $84 million contract. JOHNSON: $84 million contract. REPORTER: You work for a company, a multibillion-dollar company. JOHNSON: Work for a company. Keep going. We've got to stay after practice to continue this. REPORTER: And you could go teach in high school for work. JOHNSON: Teach in high school, keep going, keep going. REPORTER: Yet you bring up the word 'slave'. JOHNSON: Bring up the word 'slave.' Keep talking. REPORTER: And people say, 'What the hell is he talking about?' JOHNSON: What the hell is he talking about? Reporter: What the hell are you talking about? JOHNSON [to Knicks media relations coordinator Lori Hamamoto]: Hold on. Y'all want me to talk to the media. I'm going to talk to the media Listen, no man can rise above .. the conditions of his people. Understand that? I am privileged and honored by the situation I am in. No question, I have an excellent opportunity. And this is a beautiful country, the best country, but it's not holy. It's not righteous. We talked about what's going on in Kosovo. We talk about Algiers. Well, what's going on here? Here's the NBA, full of blacks, great opportunities, they made beautiful strides. But what's the sense of that .. when I go back to my neighborhood, I see the same thing. Huh? I'm the only one who came out of my neighborhood. Everybody I knew is either dead, on drugs, in jail or selling drugs. So am I supposed to be honored and happy just because of my success? Am I supposed to be honored, happy and whatever just because of my success or that brother's success? Well, yes, I am. Still, I can't deny the fact of what has happened to (African-Americans) over years and years and years, and we're still at the bottom of the totem pole. I can't turn my head to that. REPORTER: And that's your point? JOHNSON: That's my point. Any more questions? SOUNDS OF PACIFICA -- According to Pacifica
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[CTRL] Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power(fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Citation: Pacific Historical Review Feb 1996, v65, n1, p150(2) Author: Hardy, B. Carmon Title: The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power. (book reviews) reviewed by B. Carmon Hardy COPYRIGHT American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch 1996 In this first volume of his long-anticipated study of the Mormon hierarchy, Michael Quinn provides a detailed history of the beginning of Mormon patterns of authority through 1844. The book contains an unmatched account of the shifting, evolving conceptions of Mormon leadership (extending its analysis of some issues to the present), and the influence of exigency on ecclesiastical form. Employing the encyclopedic style characteristic of all his writings, Quinn's narrative moves the reader to agreement with most of his conclusions by dint of the enormous quantity of materials cited. Not only is the text heavily documented, but every notation also amounts to a near-exhaustive bibliographical essay. Nearly two-thirds of the book consists of such references, of illustrations, seven appendices, and a twenty-four page index. Quinn shows earliest Mormonism to have been more fluid and egalitarian than it eventually became. The more centralized, sometimes secret array of councils and quorums that existed by the time of Joseph Smith's death in 1844 was the product not only of restorationist claims but also of conflict, revelation and, occasionally, retrospective alterations of earlier documents. The license taken by Mormon leaders in amending historical records to justify new policies is one of the most disturbing discoveries in the book. Such activities were congruent with what Quinn calls "theocratic ethics," the assumption that truth can be sacrificed in behalf of a higher principle - a resort the hierarchy employed in connection with subjects like the Danites (a protective and sometimes avenging militia) and, of course, polygamy. Other important contributions of the book include its evidence of the extensive overlap of Mormon membership in organizations like the Missouri Danites, Free Masonry, and the Council of Fifty with their common oaths of secrecy and theocratic aspirations; the serious nature with which Smith pursued his ultimately unsuccessful candidacy for the presidency of the United States in 1844, involving diversion of church missionaries from religious to political proselyting activities; and the compromised, ambiguous arguments made by all claimants wishing to succeed the prophet. Quinn's exploration of the crisis of leadership following Joseph Smith's assassination is the most searching ever made - revealing, among other things, the possibility that one of Smith's brothers, Samuel, may have been poisoned as a victim of the nasty struggle among disputants. The author provides an excellent overview of events involved in the emergence of Mormonism's two, best-known divisions: the "Reorganized" branch which rallied around the prophet's son, Joseph Smith III, and those who followed Brigham Young to the Great Basin. While the work does not ignore polygamy, in my view it deserves yet more attention as a reason for opposition to the prophet. Quinn gives the impression that Smith's theocratic pretensions were the primary cause for dissent from his leadership in Nauvoo. I would also like to have seen more consideration given the intensely patriarchal formulations of Mormon control. While modest, largely ritualistic gestures of female empowerment occurred, Mormon leaders were, if anything, more devoted to masculine authority at home and church than most Americans of the day. But these are differences of emphasis only and, like the few errors that appear in the text (most notably accreditation of the forged Jonathan Dunham document on page 373, note 193), they in no way diminish the lustre of Quinn's achievement. No student of the Mormon experience, including church officers responsible for preparing descriptions of hierarchical lineage, can afford to ignore this impressive account. It will remain a commanding source on the origin of Mormon authority structures for years to come. B. CARMON HARDY California State University, Fullerton DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] Fw: [SC] Media Violence
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: gene johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SkeptiChat list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [SC] Media Violence Ric Carter wrote: - Original Message - From: gene johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SkeptiChat list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 11:24 AM Subject: [SC] Media Violence # 'Scream' evidence barred from trial. (AP) The boys were obsessed with the horror movie "Scream." They...moved to replicate killings in the 1996 Wes Craven film. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560091104-244 : Do violent media presentations make you want to kill? Do war movies incite wars? A brain center in the reptilian-similar or emotional brain becomes more sensitive to triggering the release of aggressive and defensive behavior, the more the organism is exposed to violence. The subject bilateral center, the amygdala ( almond-shaped ) is responsible for releasing reflexive and rapid aggressive behavior and can potentiate more complex, higher order behavior as well. Since the amygdala system is sensitive to visual and auditory stimuli, violent multi- media cinematic presentations add to the conditioning and sensitiza- tion of this structure and lower the threshold for the release of violence behavior. Acting out of aggressive behavior patterns in 'play' is frequently seen in children who have been exposed to violent film and television presentations. Pleasurable and reinforcing endo-opiates are released after violent episodes. Extra passionate lovemaking by couples after an argument rides and enhances the endo-opiate pleasure waves. Ape-Angel Today I heard a report on the radio [I'll try to track it down in net news] that an extensive, long-term study shows that ALL youthful violence is related to: food allergies/sensitivities. The leading foods correlated with youthful violence are wheat, corn, and: sugar. Food allergies can release histamine, a neuromodulator which can have an additive effect on activation of emotion-related brain centers and on brain centers related to circuit switching ( thalamic nuclei ). By these mechanisms food allergies may have a secondary effect on violence. Wheat provides a substrate for glutamate, an excitatory amino acid transmitter in the brain. Sugar is converted to glucose, the primary source of brain energy. An overflow of glucose ( hyperglycemia ) can lower firing thresholds of brain circuits, another additive, but secondary effect that could be related to the release of violent behavior. The release, targeting, and sustaining of violent behavior is controlled by many interacting factors. There is no simple etiology or single cause. For example, at a higher control level than the wet brain discussed above, is the social modeling effect on the release of violence. Monkey see nasty, monkey do nasty. Hell, I was a hyper kid, and I was very violent, and I consumed all the sugar I could get hold of. I'm not surprised by these findings at all. The Western hemisphere was conquered by Europeans for the benefit of druglords, growing and transporting the most powerful of psychogens: coffee and cocoa [caffeine], tobacco [nicotine], and These brain chemicals are activators and modulators. sugar cane and its byproduct rum [alcohol]. Sugar cane yields the primary brain food. Sugar is a substance of abuse, same as opiates, cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, gunpowder. A high concentration of most any homeostatically controlled substance can alter the set point of brain servo control systems and lead to addictive behavior---related to intaking sufficient substance to match the distorted hyped set point. The difference is, we ENCOURAGE our youth to abuse sugar - then we act surprised when, their growing bodies and minds over-amped by its effects, Food product manufactures design many food products to have immediate, rapid, and powerful effects on metabolism. Rapid release of insulin is reinforcing and leads to the release of serotonin, a calming neuromodulator. This pattern can distort the homeostatic glucostats in the brain and glucoregulatory systems. A number of control set points are distorted and that drives addictive behavior toward hi-sugar foods. Salt works in a similar fashion. The short run and the immediate rules in sets of vicious circles: Quarterly company balances, pressure for larger stock dividends, moremore... secondary addictions...The Reapers collect. The Grim Reaper waitsoverweight, diabetes, heart disease, stroke.And so it goes..for a little longer. Ape-Angel -- they explode in violence, especially in a culture that's extolled and honored violence for so long. Are violent behaviors triggered by media depictions of violence? Well, maybe. Does every person exposed to media
Re: [CTRL] David Icke....The Greatest Secret.....AND FreeMasons
-Caveat Lector- http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37772cef7a7e.htm http://no-more-secrets.net/masonic.html http://no-more-secrets.net/murals.html http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index.html - Original Message - From: William Hugh Tunstall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] David IckeThe Greatest Secret.AND FreeMasons | -Caveat Lector- | | It's not a secret. | | Most Masonic 'truths' are always placed under the noses of uninitiated | | As my deceased grandfather (33rd degree Freemason) used to say, non-Masons | will never be able to figure out the real meaning of Masonic symbolism. | Not even members of the lower grades are privy to what the craft is all | about. | Yet, everywhere, you can see the power and glory of the brethren. | | Our country was, is, and will always be a masonic stronghold. | | It's not a coincidence that Masons are still invited to lay the | cornerstones of most major government building projects. (Take a look at | the spooky New World Airport at Denver.) | | Freemasonry has not only played a role in shaping our political | institutions...it's crept into our language as well: "on the level," | "square," etc. | | For an interesting look at masonic doings, read William Still. Although | he has been faulted for an over-reliance on the work of Eustace Mullins | (alleged anti-semite). | | Better yet, read Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike. | | | On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Daniel Holly wrote: | | -Caveat Lector- | | http://www.reptoids.com/_discarticles/00ad.htm | | | | ***The creepy part about these gatherings is when new | pieces of information fit PERFECTLY with that which we | already know. | | I went to the lecture on a lark. I love new information and | unusual experiences. Mr. Icke is definitely | entertaining...the crowd was there from 1 pm to 10:30 that | night...with only a few breaks. And even then, most were | eating sandwiches while swamping Icke for more individual | answers. | | Three things struck me specifically. | | 1.] When he spoke of the evil these people are involved in, | he specifically said, trust your own instincts. He assured | us we had the equipment to detect the evil in the likes of | Hillary and Bill. | | Mind you this audience looked like a high school PTA | meeting. Very suburban, very white, very middle class. | | THEN, HE DROPPED THE BOMBSHELL ON ME SPECIFICALLY. Ickes | said, "you want to see evil, look into the eyes of FEMA | director ---."[sorry, I can't remember the name]. But I | don't have to remember the name. I saw that Clinton | appointee on television after some natural disaster, and was | stunned by my instinctive reaction to his image. | | I said to myself and whomever was with me--"That man is | evil. I don't even think he is human, he is so evil...can't | you see it?" I couldn't look at the image...much the way I | mute the television and turn the channel if I hear or see | the clintons. | | 2] When Ickes spoke of the reptilian worship and symbolism, | by these groups, throughout history, I was struck again. | Last summer I took my daughter to Paris. We toured the Loire | Valley castles, specifically le Chateaux Chenonceau, | Chambord, and Villandry. | | EVERYWHERE, and I mean EVERYWHERE, there were serpants, and | even more salamanders. Francis I was obsessed with | salamanders...they were etched into stone on mantles, | ceilings, and flooring. SALAMANDERS! At the time, I thought | it kooky, now I think it's spooky. | | 3] Icke talked of their obsession with ritual, symbolism and | astrological wheels, obilisks, and pentagrams. I thought of | my visit to congress, two years ago...At the Senate | Judiciary hearings, I looked up at the ceilings and wondered | why in the hell, in congress were there so many astrological | wheels and signs of the zodiac. On the floor of congress, on | the ceilings. | | Icke's slide show included aerial photos of Washington, | Paris, and London, the street designs and relationships | between statues and buildings. It was creepy...again | astrological wheels, obilisks, pentagrams. | | Then he names the architects and street designers...all free | masons. Scoff if you like.,..the man answered more than a | few of my questions and caused me to have many many | more*** | | DECLARATION DISCLAIMER | == | CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic | screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters | and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright | frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects | spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL | gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; | be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust
Re: [CTRL] [SC] Skeptic News - Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- # Mice help women stay fertile. (BBC) Researchers in Canada have developed a technique which may enable women to have children at any age they choose. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_379000/379884.stm First its human/bovine hybrids... Now we are cross-breeding with mice. What a conspiracy: A world populated with Mouseketeers! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Stratfor's Third Quarter Forecast
-Caveat Lector- Perhaps events in the Sub-Continent would bear watching for clues to their ultimate designs. If not on the West then perhaps on each other. Jim DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Uncle Sam has all your numbers
-Caveat Lector- Uncle Sam Has All Your Numbers By Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 27, 1999+ADs- Page A1 As part of a new and aggressive effort to track down parents who owe child support, the federal government has created a vast computerized data-monitoring system that includes all individuals with new jobs and the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and wages of nearly every working adult in the United States. Government agencies have long gathered personal information for specific reasons, such as collecting taxes. But never before have federal officials had the legal authority and technological ability to locate so many Americans found to be delinquent parents +IBM- or such potential to keep tabs on Americans accused of nothing. The system was established under a little-known part of the law overhauling welfare three years ago. It calls for all employers to quickly file reports on every person they hire and, quarterly, the wages of every worker. States regularly must report all people seeking unemployment benefits and all child-support cases. Starting next month, the system will reach further. Large banks and other financial institutions will be obligated to search for data about delinquent parents by name on behalf of the government, providing authorities with details about bank accounts, money-market mutual funds and other holdings of those parents. State officials, meanwhile, have sharply expanded the use of Social Security numbers. Congress ordered the officials to obtain the nine-digit numbers when issuing licenses +IBM- such as drivers', doctors' and outdoorsmen's +IBM- in order to revoke the licenses of delinquents. Enforcement officials say the coupling of computer technology with details about individuals' employment and financial holdings will give them an unparalleled ability to identify and locate parents who owe child support and, when necessary, withhold money from their paychecks or freeze their financial assets. +ACI-They never get away from us anymore. It's just wonderful. . . . What you're trying to do in child support is build a box, four walls, around a person,+ACI- said Brian Shea, the acting executive director of child-support enforcement in Maryland. +ACI-It has in some ways revolutionized this business.+ACI- But privacy experts and civil libertarians say the scope of the effort raises new questions about the proper line between aggressive public policy and intrusive government snooping. In pursuing an objective that is almost universally applauded, the government has also created something that many Americans have staunchly opposed: a vast pool of fresh personal information that could be used in a variety of ways to monitor their lives. +ACI-What you have here is a compilation of information that is much better and more current than any other data system in the U.S.,+ACI- said Robert Gellman, a lawyer and privacy specialist in the District. +ACI-All of the sudden we're on the verge of creating the Holy Grail of data collection, a central file on every American.+ACI- Already lawmakers, federal agencies and the White House have considered expanding the permitted aims of the system to include cutting down on fraud by government contractors, improving the efficiency of the government and pinpointing debtors, such as students who default on government loans. Under the system, every employer must send information about new hires and quarterly wages to state child-support agencies. State officials gather the data, along with information on unemployment benefits and child-support cases, and then ship it to computers run by the Administration for Children and Families. ACF officials then use computers to sort and send back to state authorities reports about people obligated to pay child support. Government officials say the system is safe, accurate and discreet. They also say it is secure. Because it has, among other safeguards, systems that confirm the accuracy of
Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- Just trying out a hypothesis ... Anyone care to raise counter-arguments (contesting any of the assumptions given above in "logical" sequence), provide us with more detail about Tesla's "propulsion" and "vehicle" patents, or modify anything in this hypothesis? Interesting theory. However, people should read Jacques Vallee's *Dimensions*, Keith Thompson's *Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination*, and Patrick Harpur's *Daimonic Reality*, which basically all point out that, whatever UFOs are, they have been with us for a *long* time. Kelly Care to suggest that Tesla initiated the first 'human UFO', given that the Hindu Vimanas x000bc and reverend kirk in 1697ad in scotland suggest a long history ? Andrew Hennessey DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Secret World of U.S. Communism
-Caveat Lector- At 07:48 AM 6/27/99 -0700, you wrote: -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Peter L. Sroufe [EMAIL PROTECTED] What Atty. General Bobby Kennedy supposedly did not know at the time, but the CPUSA did, was that the American Communist party then - and back to its beginnings in 1919 - was bankrolled by the Kremlin. And of course they were spectacularly successful, which is why we all speak Russian now and listen to THE INTERNATIONALE on our MP3 players, eh? Comrades Reagan, No! No! No! Reagan was a detached, amiable, old doofuss. He didn't know what was going on! Stick to the party line, comrade. Greenspan and Gates were perfect 'plants', eh? Greenspan: a Jew was the ultimate plant. There is no "inside" information more "inside" than what Greenspan knows. The linchpin of the "Federal Reserve" money cartel. Gates: an innocent but cagey techno-geek who got too rich too quickly for the comfort of the globalist elite. Rubin (Jew, Globalist) and Cantor (Jew, Globalist) ordered President Penis to dispatch Janet Reno (dim but servile female token) and Department of Justice anti-trust goons to crush his ribs. Comrades Jobs, Gingrich and Bush might not have done so well, but they were even less obvious in their "deep-cover" positions, eh? Ya sure. Comrade Jobs ((Jew, greedbag) was recently observed "entertaining" the Rent-A-President at his California mansion, and plying him with "campaign donations" undoubtedly with the desire to see another of computer industry rival Gates' ribs crushed, or perhaps a kneecap broken. "Comrade" Gingrich: an articulate and charismatic threat to the regime who had to be discredited and disposed of. He was. "Comrade Bush": a clueless Yankee, who didn't realize when he said "new world order" that there really was a "New World Order" and that he was expected to be working in its behalf. NWO realized he didn't have his heart in their game when he looked at his watch during debate with Clinton. And of course they were spectacularly successful, which is why we all speak Russian now and listen to THE INTERNATIONALE on our MP3 players, eh? After the Democratic Convention of 1980, Teddy Kennedy and his retinue did in fact drive to the hospital room of the dying socialist icon Michael Harrington, join hands, and sing the Internationale. The Kremlin, the Berlin Wall, and the Kremlin-backed CPUSA went out of business only because the goals of Communism had succeeded. America had become a one-party system (with a "Blue" and a "Gold" crew just like a nuclear submarine), with a controlled press, socialized retirement, a government monopoly on primary and secondary education, a radicalized tenured establishment in the universities, bureacratic control of all business activities, greatly diminished property rights largely through "environmental regulation", a confiscatory tax system, and an elitist nomenklatura just like the Soviet Union. The Cold War ended because the Commies won. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] U.K. Wants ISPs To Build In Interception
-Caveat Lector- Technology News U.K. Wants ISPs To Build In Interception (06/25/99, 3:40 p.m. ET) By Duncan Campbell, TechWeb The British government has become the first in Europe to openly propose internationally agreed requirements for ISPs to build technology into networks that would allow for police surveillance. Under proposals for changes to the Interception of Communications Act announced by the Home Office this week, all communications service providers (CSPs) would be required to build interception software or hardware into their systems. The law -- if passed -- will apply to all types of new communications services, including Internet telephony, TV conferencing, paging, and satellite based personal communications systems. The International User Requirements have been drawn up over the past six years by a group founded by the U.S. FBI, called the International Law Enforcement Telecommunications Seminar (ILETS), which meets in secret. The group excludes representatives from industry or civil rights organizations, and has attempted to standardize its objectives as an International Telecommunication Union requirement. According to this week's "white paper," every type of network will be covered, including VPNsoperated through the Internet or other TCP/IP systems. The new law will also cover interception of business telecom services, ranging from basic networks of a few lines found within a small office to large networks linking offices, in both the public and private sectors, the document says. Under the present British Interception of Communications Act, only licensed public telecom operators have to provide government tapping facilities within their networks. However, ISPs must surrender any stored communications data they have, including e-mail, Web-access records, and service details, if served with an order. Home Secretary Jack Straw now proposes all CSPs be required to take reasonable steps to ensure their system is capable of being intercepted. "This will be an ongoing requirement CSPs will have to consider each time they develop their network or introduce new services," Straw said. "CSPs will also be required to provide reasonable assistance to effect warranted intercepts." This will include real-time access to data about their subscribers and information about services they have used, including logs of telephone calls, e-mail, or website accesses. A key part of technical arrangements to be made will ensure operators will not be able to know what information has been copied from their systems. The British government said the new law would make full provision for human-rights legislation, Straw said. But according to Madeleine Colvin of Justice, the international human-rights organization and British section of the International Commission of Jurists, the proposed law would not achieve this. "There are major gaps in what these proposals suggest for controlling surveillance methods. For example, how is anyone to know if their human rights may have been abused if they are never going to be told that their e-mail has been intercepted by the government?" he asked. Related Stories: Europe Votes For ISP Spying Infrastructure Report: U.S. Uses Key Escrow To Steal Secrets DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
[CTRL] conscience on campus (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message Citation: The Progressive Dec 1998, 11(1) Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara Title: Conscience on Campus.(criticism of Berkeley student David Cash) by Barbara Ehrenreich COPYRIGHT 1998 Progressive Inc. At last, Berkeley students have found an issue compelling enough to wake them from their torpor: sophomore David Cash, the moral reprobate who witnessed his friend threaten and commence to molest a seven-year-old girl, Sherrice Iverson, in the stall of a women's restroom in Nevada. Cash simply walked away, tactfully giving his friend a little privacy. The perpetrator, Jeremy Strohmeyer, who was convicted of sexually assaulting Sherrice and then drowning her in the toilet, is now behind bars for life, while Cash is free to pursue his studies of--god help us, nuclear engineering--on the Berkeley campus. Cash reportedly boasted last summer that his new-found notoriety as Strohmeyer's pal had boosted his ability to score with women. But most Berkeley students, understandably enough, do not want to risk using the same dining hall utensils or handling the same reserve books that may have encountered David Cash's noxious touch. They want him expelled, and since the administration refuses to do so on the grounds that Cash, technically speaking, has committed no crime, they want him shunned. "Do not sit near him in the dining hall or in class. Refuse to be his roommate or his lab partner. If he talks to you do not hear him," urges one first-year student in the Daily Cal. Fearing vigilante attacks, the administration has assigned a security guard to Cash, and students are complaining about this, too, as if the guard's wages were already showing up on their tuition bills. So what do you do: salute the sensitivities of today's Berkeley students or bemoan the fact that their target is, in the scheme of things, so tiny? Affirmative action, for example, which was banned by California's Proposition 209 two years ago, rates only a fraction of the emotional intensity surrounding Cash. There were two days of pro-affirmative action protests in October, but they were organized by U.C. faculty members and generated only a lukewarm response from the now overwhelmingly white and Asian American student body. It may be that, at some subconscious level, Cash is a coded way of taking up the race debate that Prop. 209 so rudely ended. He is white, as is Strohmeyer, while Sherrice Iverson was black as well as poor. What the state seems to be saying, through its university system, is that it will in no way bestir itself to educate black kids but doesn't mind nurturing the kind of people who so lightheartedly assent to their murders. Sherrice Iverson, if she had lived so long, might very likely have been rejected by U.C.-Berkeley, while Cash, who may bear some responsibility for the fact that she will never grow up to college age, studies on in what is called good standing. No one among the anti-Cash enrages, however, is arguing that the Sherrices of this world should be allowed to matriculate--just that they shouldn't be flushed away at such an early age. But there's more to Cash-bashing than a displaced debate about affirmative action. What, after all, is his crime? He did not kill; he only turned away from the killing site, and this is something we almost all do every day, whether that site is Rwanda or Kosovo or the overworked gas chambers of our own nation. As Cash explained, "I do not know this little girl. I do not know starving children in Panama. I do not know people who are dying of disease in Egypt." Moral responsibility, in other words, extends no further than a few close drinking friends. Similarly, the students at Berkeley this semester have neglected to protest welfare reform, the severe mistreatment of environmental activists in Northern California, or Clinton's compulsive waggings of the dog. A conference on incarceration, held on a September weekend and featuring Angela Davis and other luminaries of the California left, brought a temporary influx of black faces to the campus but barely roused any students from their dorms, and those who were around walked by the outdoor guerrilla theater performances with the same studied coolness usually bestowed on ragged nutcases waving Bibles. If students find Cash hateful, it may in part be because he embodies what is most hateful in themselves. It's not entirely the students' fault. The campus almost seems to be designed, geographically, to inculcate moral isolationism. Walk from Sproul Plaza, where antiwar protesters once massed before marches, out toward the burrito-and-sprouts joints of Telegraph Avenue, and you run a gauntlet of outstretched hands and Styrofoam cups, The beggars are so numerous and, in some cases, so patently undeserving--skinheads and Goth kids demanding beer money--that after a
[CTRL] FW: ACLU ACLU Action Update -- Congress Attacks Reproductive Rights!
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 5:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ACLU ACLU Action Update -- Congress Attacks Reproductive Rights! TO: ACLU Action Network FR: Bob Kearney, ACLU Field Director DT: June 28, 1999 The culture wars continue. After several attacks on the First Amendment, the House of Representatives is set this week to launch an assault on a womans right to choose. This Wednesday, June 30th, the full House is scheduled to vote on HR 1218, a bill that we call the "Teen Endangerment Act." This legislation would allow for the prosecution of anyone other than a parent -- including a grandmother, aunt or older sister -- who transports a minor across state lines for an abortion, unless the young woman has already met the obligations of her state's parental involvement law. Instead of helping young women deal with the difficult circumstances of an unintended pregnancy, this bill would deny already vulnerable minors the assistance of trusted adults, endangering their health and violate their constitutional rights. TAKE ACTION! Send a FREE FAX to your representative urging them to oppose this dangerous attack on reproductive rights, and read more about the dangers of this legislation, online at: http://www.aclu.org/action/custody106.html --- You are currently subscribed to action as: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Some email programs allow you to click on a web address and automatically go to the site. Others, like AOL, do not. If you use an email program that does not provide for clickable web addresses, copy the URL and paste it into your web browser. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Rule Britannia: free trade and dope (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Citation: Monthly Review Oct 1997, v49, n5, p35(8) Author: Newsinger, John Title: Britain's opium wars. (fact and myth about the opium trade in East) by John Newsinger COPYRIGHT 1997 Monthly Review It is a little known fact that during the reign of Queen Victoria, the British capitalist state was the largest drug pusher the world has ever seen. The smuggling of opium into China was by the 1830s a source of huge profits, played a crucial role in the financing of British rule in India and was the underpinning of British trade throughout the East. This is one of those little historical details that are often overlooked in the history books where the opium trade is either played down or ignored altogether. Most recently Professor Denis Judd's Empire, a 500-page history of British Imperialism has no discussion of either the trade or the wars it occasioned, while the prestigious Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire has a couple of brief inadequate and uninformative paragraphs, a mere passing mention.(1) The opium trade deserves more attention. It was, in the words of John K. Fairbanks, "the most long-continued and systematic international crime of modern times."(2) The production of opium in India first came under British control in the course of the eighteenth century. In the 1760s, some one thousand chests of opium (each weighing 140 lbs) were smuggled into China and this figure gradually increased to 4 thousand chests in 1800. By the 1820s the traffic in opium began to increase dramatically with over 12 thousand chests being smuggled into China in 1824, rising to 19 thousand in 1830, 30 thousand in 1835 and to 40 thousand chests (2,500 tons of opium) in 1838.(3) The British energetically encouraged poppy growing, on occasion coercing Indian peasant farmers into going over the crop. By the end of the 1830s the opium trade was already, and was to remain, "the world's most valuable single commodity trade of the nineteenth century."(4) The opium trade was of vital importance to British Imperialism at this time. It was one corner of an Eastern triangular trade that mirrored the eighteenth century Atlantic slave trade. The smuggling of opium turned a large British trading deficit with China into a substantial surplus, paying for British tea imports from China, for the export of British manufactured goods to India and for a substantial proportion of British administrative costs in India. The opium trade was "the hub of British commerce in the East."(5) By the end of the 1830s a sixth of British overseas trade was with China and nearly two-thirds of that trade was in opium. In view of the tremendous importance of the trade, its neglect by economic historians and the historians of the British Empire is all the more surprising. The Opium Capitalists The opium trade was clearly not a small-scale affair carried out by small-time crooks and gangsters. Instead, it was a massive international commerce carried out by major British trading companies under the armed protection of the British state. According to Sir William Jardine of Jardine Matheson, the opium trade was "the safest and most gentlemanlike speculation I am aware of." In a good year profits could be as high as $1,000 a chest](6) His wealth was sufficient to buy him a seat in the House of Commons in the early 1840s and to get him the ear of the government. Jardine Matheson was the most successful of the opium smuggling companies, and is still a major financial and trading company today. Jardine's partner in the enterprise, James Matheson, best shows the use to which the profits from drug pushing could be put. In the 1840s he too became an MP, sitting in the Commons for twenty-five years. He went on to become a governor of the Bank of England, chairman of the great P and O shipping line, and the second largest landowner in Britain. He bought the Isle of Lewis in Scotland and spent over pounds 500,000 building himself a castle there] The import of opium into China was, of course, illegal, but the British companies engaged in the trade systematically corrupted or intimidated the Chinese authorities so that it continued with little interruption. Depot ships were anchored off the coast, selling the drug to Chinese smugglers who carried it ashore for distribution. By the 1830s, the scale of the problem forced the Chinese government to respond: the country was being drained of silver to pay for the opium, its administration was being corrupted by foreigners and the extent of addiction (estimates of the number of addicts go as high as 12 million) was seen as a threat to both state and society. In March 1839, the Emperor sent a special Commissioner, Lin Tse-Hsu to Canton to stamp out the trade once and for all. Lin confined the British merchants in Canton to the European Factories,
Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 6/28/99 7:44:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (8) Had Nicola Tesla's theories regarding unique electromagnetic media of propulsion, first appearing around the same time, been taken seriously (outside the US) and been PRIVATELY funded, by parties unknown, a generation of hypothetical SECRET RD by the Continent's best minds would bring us to 1947 -- the first observed "flying saucer" ... Given Tesla technology, almost "magic" itself, who really needs "extraterrestrials"? Just trying out a hypothesis ... Anyone care to raise counter-arguments (contesting any of the assumptions given above in "logical" sequence), provide us with more detail about Tesla's "propulsion" and "vehicle" patents, or modify anything in this hypothesis? Interesting theory. However, people should read Jacques Vallee's *Dimensions*, Keith Thompson's *Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination*, and Patrick Harpur's *Daimonic Reality*, which basically all point out that, whatever UFOs are, they have been with us for a *long* time. Kelly I think we are talking about the "modern" wave, the saucers and discs of this century, differ in some ways from older craft observed in the past. I think the hypothesis is a good one to explain the REAL, nuts and bolts things that fly in the sky of the late 20th century. Additionally one must state that Renato Vesco in his work on German UFO's of the second world war stated that much of that information went to the British! And that they had facilities in Canada to develop the tech, and that is why some of the earliest sightings of UFO's (modern ones, after W.W.II) were in the Pacific northwest (Maury Island, and Kenneth Arnold in the mountains of Washington State are a couple of examples). Yes, there were UFO's throughout history but there is a distinction IMO between those and what we have today, at least partly. The phenomenon which created UFO's in the past probably still accounts for some activity today as well, but we have other things in the sky as well. The phenomenon which created UFO's in the past may THEMSELVES be of a technological nature (i.e., nuts and bolts craft), remnants of a past EARTH civilization, no aliens necessary. These craft found hidden, or built using ancient plans (remember the Mahabarata, and the supposed war that Atlantis fought, and the air chariots of old that Kings and warriors rode in). All are avenues of exploration. Teo1000 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Tesla Invented the UFO
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 6/28/99 10:39:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: whatever UFOs are, they have been with us for a*long* time. Why should there be a single explanation of what UFOs are? It seems to me that the odds are overwhelming that some UFOs are one kind of thing and other UFOs are something else. While I'm hesitant to dismiss out of hand an extra-terrestrial and/or "inter-dimensional" origin for some UFO, I am extremely skeptical. Occam's Razor dictates that we should consentrate our study on the hypothesis that they are of terrestrial origin, flown in secret by both governments and non governmental enterprises and organizations. Some are prototypes of new technology being flown in tests. Others we should be consider as part of a massive psy-op. The mass, instant pycho-social effects of Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds" was not lost on the power that be. Eleven months later Goebbles went on the radio and told the German people that the Fatherland had been invaded, not by Martians but (even more plausably) by Poles. The Germans fell for it hook, line and sinker. So if the "benevelent space brothers" land and proclaim they are here to help save us from ourselves and by the way meet their official (Nordic looking?) human representatives who will speak for them and should be obeyed, when they head back up the ramp to their saucer, check for a zipper up their back. They're probably not aliens; they're probably aryans, putting one over on us again. Excellent commentary, that exactly follows my own reasoning on the matter. Teo1000 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Grassrootsreform
-Caveat Lector- The political process within the States party to the constitution of the United States for the United States of America is apparently rife with corruption, and downright misdirection of facts. Within the this State, the State of Maryland, elections appear to be ceremonial. The entrenched political machine known as a Social Democracy controls this process through the administrative tribunals. These legislative tribunals provide legitimacy to apparent illicit acts of restricting the franchise within the exterior boundaries of Maryland to aliens with permanent lawful residence. Read the perjury oath on the voter registration card. Then define the citizen of the United States in Title 5, section 552, definitions. This State, the State of Maryland, has erected barriers to secure the monopoly of the political process. Penetration of these Barriers is improbable due to the failure of the people to understand the process of administrative remedy. The people of Maryland have been induced through a corrupted process to compulsory acceptance of an alien and foreign jurisdiction. No political party can reform an entrenched corrupted system that boldly holds what appear to be corrupted elections. This fact appears to have been proven in the Courtroom of William J. Theime in Arundel County in January of 1995. When the plaintiff proved that over six thousand votes were fraudulent, the Administrative officer of the Legislative tribunal pronounced that this was not enough to overturn the ten thousand win vote margin. The people of Maryland were put on notice that this State, the State of Maryland apparently has made corruption of the electoral process legitimate upon its face. The People of Maryland have one way to assert their unalienable rights. The First Article of the Maryland Declaration of Rights, states unequivocally that the People of Maryland can terminate any system of governance within Maryland as they deem expedient. Unfortunately the system known as this State, controls the public and parochial schools, where the foundations of the Republic are lost in the double speak of the Social Democracy. This State, operating within the exterior boundaries of Maryland, is fiction of law, defined as the District of Columbia. The Administrators of this State, are under contract to the United States. These officers of the public Trust have apparently, willingly, knowingly, and intentionally pillaged the assets, of Marylanders for the public profit of this State. This State, within the exterior boundaries of Maryland, controls over 53 billion dollars of liquid and hard assets. As of June, 30th, 1998, this State had profits for one fiscal year of over five billion dollars. Yet this State has the third highest tax burden in America. The people of Maryland appear to be held in abeyance by an apparent concerted action of Federally Licensed voice, and video media. The Los Angeles Time News Mirror Syndicate controls the major print media, which apparently propagates the political correct view of the Social Democracy. History has proven that all systems of despotic tyranny will consume themselves and their arrogant supporters. The people of Maryland were amongst the first people of America to historically fight for liberty. It was a contingent of Marylanders fighting under the Command of General George Washington on Long Island, that held the defensive line during the battle of Long Island which allowed the American Army to regroup and escape defeat at the hands of the British. Marylanders were celebrated as the old line state. It was during the Second civil war in America when Maryland was brutally occupied by the Army of the Potomac. As of April in that year, 1861, Maryland ceased to exist as an independent and Sovereign State and fell to the occupation enforced by a force of arms of the United States, now operating as the Federal Corporation, United States Code, Title 28, section 3002, paragraph 15(a). Remedy within the political process can occur here in Maryland, but only when the people of Maryland comprehend that the People are the origin of all lawful, and sovereign authority. The cost of liberty is eternal vigilance "In a age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell -- From: ROBERT K PAVLICK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Grassrootsreform Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 11:10 PM Grassrootsreform is a "reflector" for those interested in the Third Party Movement and the Reform Party founded by Ross Perot. Not all contributors are Reform Party members so you will find many divergent views which do not neccessarily reflect official Reform Party stands on issues. Robert K Pavlick 123-A Abner Ct Bridgeport, Ct 06606-5859 Tel/fax 203 372-7784 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list.
[CTRL] Freedom.org [**a MUST BOOKMARK**]
A politician is like an elephant - he has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, he proceeds best by grasping the tail of his predecessor. Global taxation gaining momentum http://www.freedom.org/ Comparison of Republican Candidates on the Issues: http://www.gopatgo.org/000-p-record.html Reform Party Phone (972) 450-8800 Fax (972) 450-8821 Tax Plan: http://www.reformparty.org/principles/platform1997/tax-reform.html http://www.reformparty.org/ Bob Smith for President Tax Plan: http://www.smithforpresident.org/issues.htm http://www.smithforpresident.org/ United States Taxpayers Party 1-800-2 VETO-IRS Tax Plan: http://www.ustaxpayers.org/ustp-96p.html#Taxes http://www.ustaxpayers.org/ Patrick J. Buchanan Tax Plan: http://www.gopatgo.org/000-c-taxes.html http://www.gopatgo.org/ Alan Keyes Tax Plan: http://keyes2000.org/issues/taxandspend.html http://keyes2000.org The Constitution Party Tax Plan: http://www.constitution.net/policys/tax.htm http://www.constitution.net/ The Draft Jesse Ventura for President Committee Tax Plan (developing): http://news.mpr.org/features/199808/05_mccalluml_venturatax/index.shtml http://www.presidentventura.com/ The Libertarian Party Tax Plan: Select "Text Files" on the Left. http://harrybrowne2000.org/ Steve Forbes Tax Plan: http://www.forbes2000.com/hq/policy_agenda/economic_security.html#flattax http://www.forbes2000.com/ THIRD PARTIES http://www.ccnet.com/~suntzu75/thirds.htm Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! Freedom.org.url
[CTRL] Socialism in America [the enemy within]
-Caveat Lector- Socialism in America is alive, well, and growing. Aided by such influential Congressmen as John Conyers, Ranking Member of the House Judicial Committee, David Bonior, the pit-bull-dog who successfully whipped Newt, Maxine Waters, the President's outspoken defender in the impeachment debates, and nearly fifty Representatives, socialism is advancing in America behind the "Progressive" label. Here are a few excerpts taken directly from the web page of the Democratic Socialists of America. http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html http://sovereignty.net/ Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [Fwd: Powell on Letterman [6/28]]
"I'm sure the people of Arkansas will make a fine choice." ---retired General Colin Powell, on the David Letterman Show [6/28], in response to Letterman's mention of rumors re a possible WJC run for Senate in Ark. [Note: Of course, based on Powell's tone and look, the General was implying that there's no way in heck that WJC will get elected as Senator in Ark.] ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [CTRL] NO MANDATE: To vote or not to vote in 2000.
-Caveat Lector- As far as 'voting' goes, this is another cute idea who's time has come and gone- it used to work, but now it works against us. It's a kind of mantra with which we like to convince ourselves: "If only we vote for our guy!" "If only I campaign for my guy/gal..." "If only I give more $..." "If only we reform the voting laws..." It goes on and on and sadly it doesn't ever quite add up. Some of us are realizing that this system of voting isn't working, but we don't know why. We have no idea that by 'voting' we help to keep the facade of 'democracy' going, and playing into their hands! For the REAL info on voting- go to www.networkamerica.org. A few minutes of reading will 'blow your mind!' Voting will never be the same, and things will fall into place. It is the one piece of puzzle for which you've been searching for a lonnnggg time!! It's a link connecting past and present. You'll see -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of nurev Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] NO MANDATE: To vote or not to vote in 2000. -Caveat Lector- = == ELECTION 2000 NO MANDATE ! == DON'T VOTE ! IT JUST ENCOURAGES THEM. The accumulation of wealth brings with it an accumulation of power and influence disproportional to the actual numbers of wealthy groups, and individuals existing in a society. 1) I believe there is a way to break the hold of big money on the Presidency, and other major political positions at the national governmental level. This can be achieved by modifying our views on how to utilize the electoral process to recapture and strengthen the limited democracy we had. Whatever power voters had was stolen from the American people by U.S. and foreign moneyed interests. 2) Nullifying political bribery by the Duopoly can be accomplished in a non-violent manner, and DOES NOT REQUIRE ACTIVE COOPERATION AMONG GROUPS WITH DIFFERING IDEOLOGIES. Please consider the following: The diversity and size of the U.S. plays right into the hands of the ruling class and their institutions. It's easy to keep a society like this divided along natural fault lines. Class, race, religion, gender, sexual preference, occupation, philosophical outlook, regionalism, and multiculturalism, are some reasons that truly mass movements are almost impossible to organize in this country. The obvious exceptions are war, and disaster. Though there are more people getting involved in grass roots politics, they are organizing around narrow interests. I'm not belittling those interests. I'm simply saying that the mass power of the public is not being focused on the weak points in the system. Those are, the ability to effect change through voting ( or not voting ), spending ( or not spending ), and paying taxes ( or withholding your taxes ). The problem with voting, is that those who have stolen the democratic process, present us with the option of picking any one of THEIR candidates that we like. The process of running for any national office, is actually a filtering process that "BOTH" parties use to insure that only those acceptable to the ruling class will be presented to us for rubber stamping. Thus, they have taken the choice out of our choosing process. Most people now realize that something is very wrong here, and are quite angry about it. This is not democracy. ["Don't cling to a political party that has been converted to neo-conservatism. [[ Like Clinton/Gore's " New Dems," or " New Labor " in Britain, or " Third Way " Socialists. - J2 ]] Once the party has been taken over, maintaining solidarity on the outside while seeking change from within merely gives them more time. When the spirit of the party is dead, shed the old skin and create something new". - TIPS ON HOW TO OPPOSE CORPORATE RULE - from the book " Economic Fundamentalism " by Dr Jane Kelsey, U of Auckland, NZ ] Because he was elected with only 43% of the vote (1992- in a three way race ), Clinton was perceived as being politically weak, and forced to compromise more than he really wanted to. Of course that didn't extend to pro business issues like NAFTA and GATT and Fast Track. Reagan, on the other hand was perceived as having won by a "landslide", and had a strong mandate to do anything he wished, while the press cowered before the will of the people. Consequently, he became the " teflon " president. ( Referring of course, to the substance between his ears.) The point is, the importance of the perception of popular support. Imagine a President elected by only 35% or less. How difficult might it be for such an unpopular elected official to raise taxes, cut social programs, get us into an oil war, or turn our national forces over to the institutions of World Federalism like NATO and the U.N., when so few would have
[CTRL] WHO Urges Developing Nations to Battle Infectious Diseases
-Caveat Lector- WHO Urges Developing Nations to Battle Infectious Diseases The World Health Organization (WHO) has offered cost-effective priorities for developing countries to battle the spread of infectious diseases. These include drugs to treat AIDS that may be too expensive for many developing countries. But just $14 for a year's supply of condoms could prevent infection in the first place. An insecticide-soaked net for the bed to protect people from malaria- bearing mosquitoes costs $10; 26 cents buys a dose of measles vaccine; 33 three cents buys oral rehydration salts that can save a child dying from severe diarrhea and 27 cents buys five days of antibiotics for pneumonia. One problem is raising the money. The World Health Organization's $208 million budget is still $50 million short. The report aims to convince governments of developing countries that illness causes poverty just as much as poverty causes illness, so that national policies reflect sound health recommendations. Lauren Neergaard, The Associated Press "WHO urges effort to battle disease in developing nations" as published in The Seattle Times, June 18, 1999, C7 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Does anyone have the web address to The Australian?
-Caveat Lector- DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] SKEPTICS Re: [SC] Skeptic News - Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Cathy Laughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Mice help women stay fertile. (BBC) Researchers in Canada have developed a technique which may enable women to have children at any age they choose. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_379000/379884.stm First its human/bovine hybrids... Now we are cross-breeding with mice. What a conspiracy: A world populated with Mouseketeers! Well, the young Annette *was* pretty hot. But would human women rather be thought of as foxy, mousey, ratty, or cows? And remember that Disney was part of the old anti-Red conspiracy - so those Mousekateers couldn't even express socialist tendencies without being thrown to HUAC. Things may have improved slightly - there are even GLBT Mousekateers now. But I digress. Would it have been better if the fertility advancements had involved chickens, goats, dogs, other lab animals? Are mice downtrodden? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] (Fwd) Gore and AIDS Drugs
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:27:49 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Gore and AIDS Drugs Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Monday, June 28, 1999 GORE AND AIDS DRUGS Vice President Gore's role in setting policies for AIDS drugs in countries such as South Africa has become a simmering issue. These analysts are available to explain why: ROBERT WEISSMAN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.corporatepredators.org Co-director of the Essential Action organization founded by Ralph Nader and co-author of "Corporate Predators," Weissman said: "Africa is suffering from an AIDS epidemic that U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher equates with the plague that decimated Europe in the 14th century. But while treatments are available to enable many people with HIV/AIDS to live relatively normal lives, the pharmaceutical industry has priced them out of reach. When countries like South Africa seek to undertake to lower the cost of essential medicines for HIV/AIDS, the U.S. government shamefully bullies them, threatening them with trade and other sanctions. Gore has played a leading role in carrying out this unconscionable policy. It is time he reversed himself and U.S. government policy, so that people's health needs triumph over industry greed." JULIE DAVIDS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] A member of ACT UP Philadelphia, where Gore will be fundraising today, Davids said: "Al Gore has played a pivotal role in threatening trade sanctions against South Africa for their 1997 law which permits the generic manufacture of AIDS drugs, even though such a law is allowed by trade agreements that the U.S. has signed. The pharmaceutical companies oppose this law not because they would lose any money directly -- they can't sell significant amounts of AIDS drugs in South Africa at the prices they are charging -- but because they don't want people in the U.S. and other wealthy nations to realize that these drugs cost pennies to make." PETER LURIE, M.D., [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.citizen.org/hrg A medical researcher with Public Citizen's Health Research Group, Dr. Lurie (who has conducted research on AIDS in South Africa, where he is from) said: "Right now, HIV is spreading in South Africa at a rate about as high as anywhere in the world. For the U.S. government to prevent the South Africans from using a perfectly legal mechanism for addressing this terrible epidemic is unconscionable." ELLEN MILLER, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.publicampaign.org Executive director of Public Campaign, Miller said: "Why is Al Gore leading the Clinton administration's efforts to prevent Third World countries like South Africa from producing or buying affordable generic versions of critically needed AIDS drugs? The answer: there's literally millions of dollars in hard and soft money contributions to be had by serving the interests of the pharmaceutical industry. The Gore campaign is well-positioned to reap a bumper crop of pharmaceutical cash." For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths,
