[CTRL] How the Serbs outfoxed NATO
-Caveat Lector- How the Serbs outfoxed NATO NATO claims its aircraft destroyed 120 Serb armored vehicles and tons of other military hardware during its recent Balkans bashing. But as reported in this space last week, down in the Kosovo mud our grunts say, "It ain't so." Our warriors say it sure looks like NATO, after blowing a cool $4 billion on bombs and missiles, didn't do the demo job as hyped. Pound for pound of enemy gear destroyed, this is America's costliest war. So how did the Serbs pull the wool over NATO's electronic eyes and foil the most high-tech military force in history? Simple. They used their imaginations and adapted tricks and deceptions that've been around since long before the Trojan Horse rolled into Troy. And our electronic spies in the sky and other high-tech gadgets, gadgeteers and generals fell for it. During the conflict, smart bombs and missiles costing from 50 grand to 2 million bucks repeatedly blew up decoy "tanks," "artillery pieces" and other "targets" made of sticks and plastic, some of which included primitive heat sources for faking out gold-plated thermal-image systems in NATO aircraft. Our guys in Kosovo have found hundreds of imitation tanks, trucks, artillery pieces, missiles and missile launchers, roads and even bridges, which NATO aircraft and cruise missiles had "destroyed." "From up close they look like junk, but from three miles up, they'd look like the real thing," says an Army sergeant. Real roads and bridges were painted to show "battle damage" to con NATO satellites and reconnaissance aircraft into thinking they'd already been knocked out. Another trick used by the Yugoslav army was to set up dummy mobile-air-defense missile units. Many of these were placed next to fake bridges (made out of logs) and mock roads -- strips of black plastic sheeting laid across open fields with "tanks" and other "military vehicles" painted on them. U.S. aircraft flying at 15,000 feet had a field day blowing up these "Serb air defense units" and other dummy targets, while their spinners back at NATO headquarters daily chanted to the world, "We are significantly degrading their air defense and combat ability." Serb commanders worked out that NATO did most of their reconnaissance during the daytime, after which targets were laboriously picked by generals, diplomats and horse-holders for presidents and prime ministers to approve, then assigned to pilots who'd be tasked to zap them. So as soon as darkness fell, Serb units scooted to new positions and began the mock-up game. One Serb commanding officer said, "From the 300 projectiles which NATO has fired, only four have hit something of substance." Another Serb CO said his unit would fire at attacking NATO aircraft and then quickly move his firing batteries, replacing them with dummies. "The time it took NATO's photo-reconnaissance people to identify the point of fire ... and return to bomb the mock-up was a minimum of 12 hours. So we knew when we had to move our equipment -- every 12 hours," he said. The same officer said that Serb army technicians had taken apart an unexploded $1 million U.S. Tomahawk missile and figured out that its targeting largely depended on a chip that guided the rocket by heat sources. As a result, soldiers burned tires parallel to major roads and bridges. The burning tires emitted more heat than the surface of the bridges themselves and attracted the missiles away from the vital bridges. Saddam Hussein used similar tricks during Desert Storm. His heat source was a can with burning oil, set next to a plywood or rubber tank. An Iraqi prisoner of war said he knew of one such "tank" that was "knocked out 10 times" by U.S. aircraft. In February 1991, the Air Force reported they'd destroyed half of Iraq's tanks. This news triggered Stormin' Norman's ground attack. U.S. units on the ground later discovered that only 13 percent of the enemy tanks were knocked out. Luckily, the Iraqis didn't have the stomach for a fight, or we would've paid for this bad call in American blood Fortunately, Milosevic's army bugged out before our ground force hit the deck, or our generals would be relearning the hard way that an opposing army cannot be defanged at 15,000 feet regardless of how smart the weapons and how all-seeing the eyes in the sky. Col. David Hackworth is co-author of the 1989 international best seller, "About Face" and the subsequent "Brave Men." His latest book is "Hazardous Duty." 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
Re: [CTRL] Should homosexuals who areHIV-negative
-Caveat Lector- On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, piper wrote: Once again, whatever 2 consenting adults wish to do in the privacy of their bedroom is their own business, whether they are of the same sex or not... By consenting, Do you imply1) educated 2) able to make an informed choice I meant what I said -- two legal adults, in a consensual relationship -- meaning no coercion... 'Educated' and 'informed' are subjective, not objective, criteria... 3) not pushing their desion on everyone else What do you define as 'pushing'? If a gay monogamous couple wishes to marry, would you deem that desire of theirs 'pushing their desion [sic] on everyone else'? _I_ wouldn't. 4) not leaving us in a position with no way of having a male child naturally? Any males having to be clonned. Well, since we have an exploding world-wide population, there does not seem to be any way that children of either sex will become scarce any time soon... But quite frankly, I have NO idea what you are getting on about regarding 'no way of having a male child naturally'? What is this focus on having male children, either naturally or otherwise? What's wrong with female children? And what does homosexuality have to do with straight couples having children of either sex? 5) Of some ethinic groups being eraticated because they can not clone their males? Boy, you've lost me on that one... But WHATEVER you are on about, I still don't see what that has to do with the right of 2 consenting adults to do whatever they wish in the privacy of their bedroom, without fear of being discriminated against and possibly being beaten up and killed because of their sexual preference. 6) Or are you blind to the fact that in getting us to protect our sexual choice that we soon may not have one??? I guess I am, because your post makes absolutely NO sense to me... and our children are being taught to 'embrace' homosexuals when they should be taught that homosexuality is a sin. I do not think that external sex has to be taught at all! Do you realize that you are responding to 2, possibly 3, different people in your post? You seem to have a problem being able to differentiate between who posted what MY words are the ones preceded by the double '' (it wouldn't have had any '' in what you replied to), all the other quotes, including that one above, are not my words... There is a saying that if someone is so intent on gossiping to youthat when your back is turned they will gossip about you. Wonder what this guy does that is so intresting that the Doctor it pumping him to tell by giving him these juicy tibits. And the supposed doctor is violating Standard Practice if indeed he's sharing such tidbits with a non-medical person not involved with the case...and such gossip could result in the doctor having his license revoked. So I sincerely doubt such a person exists, other that in the original poster's imagination...and if indeed this gossiping doctor IS a real person, _I_ definitely wouldn't want to be treated by him, or anyone else who would violate a patient's privacy in such a manner... June ;-) *===* Kite So many things you want to see And as you ask I'll set you free But as you fly You'll touch the sky And touch the heart Within me Fly away. -- Bob Childs *===* *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** 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] HIV/AIDS hypothesis
-Caveat Lector- Introduction by Kary Mullis Nobel Prize in Chemistry, I993 http://www.duesberg.com/kintro.html IN I988 I WAS WORKING as a consultant at Specialty Labs in Santa Monica, CA, setting up analytic routines for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). I knew a lot about setting up analytic routines for anything with nucleic acids in it because I invented the Polymerase Chain Reaction. That's why they hired me. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), on the other hand, was something I did not know a lot about. Thus, when I found myself writing a report on our progress and goals for the project, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, I recognized that I did not know the scientific reference to support a statement I had just written: "HIV is the probable cause of AIDS." So I turned to the virologist at the next desk, a reliable and competent fellow, and asked him for the reference. He said I didn't need one. I disagreed. While it's true that certain scientific discoveries or techniques are so well established that their sources are no longer referenced in the contemporary literature, that didn't seem to be the case with the HIV/AIDS connection. It was totally remarkable to me that the individual who had discovered the cause of a deadly and as-yet-uncured disease would not be continually referenced in the scientific papers until that disease was cured and forgotten. But as I would soon learn, the name of that individual - who would surely be Nobel material - was on the tip of no one's tongue. Of course, this simple reference had to be out there somewhere. Otherwise, tens of thousands of public servants and esteemed scientists of many callings, trying to solve the tragic deaths of a large number of homosexual and/or intravenous (IV) drug-using men between the ages of twenty-five and forty, would not have allowed their research to settle into one narrow channel of investigation. Everyone wouldn't fish in the same pond unless it was well established that all the other ponds were empty. There had to be a published paper, or perhaps several of them, which taken together indicated that HIV was the probable cause of AIDS. There just had to be. I did computer searches, but came up with nothing. Of course, you can miss something important in computer searches by not putting in just the right key words. To be certain about a scientific issue, it's best to ask other scientists directly. That's one thing that scientific conferences in faraway places with nice beaches are for. I was going to a lot of meetings and conferences as part of my job. I got in the habit of approaching anyone who gave a talk about AIDS and asking him or her what reference I should quote for that increasingly problematic statement, "HIV is the probable cause of AIDS." After ten or fifteen meetings over a couple years, I was getting pretty upset when no one could cite the reference. I didn't like the ugly conclusion that was forming in my mind: The entire campaign against a disease increasingly regarded as a twentieth century Black Plague was based on a hypothesis whose origins no one could recall. That defied both scientific and common sense. Finally, I had an opportunity to question one of the giants in HIV and AIDS research, DL Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute, when he gave a talk in San Diego. It would be the last time I would be able to ask my little question without showing anger, and I figured Montagnier would know the answer. So I asked him. With a look of condescending puzzlement, Montagnier said, "Why don't you quote the report from the Centers for Disease Control? " I replied, "It doesn't really address the issue of whether or not HIV is the probable cause of AIDS, does it?" "No," he admitted, no doubt wondering when I would just go away. He looked for support to the little circle of people around him, but they were all awaiting a more definitive response, like I was. "Why don't you quote the work on SIV [Simian Immunodeficiency Virus]?" the good doctor offered. "I read that too, DL Montagnier," I responded. "What happened to those monkeys didn't remind me of AIDS. Besides, that paper was just published only a couple of months ago. I'm looking for the original paper where somebody showed that HIV caused AIDS. This time, DL Montagnier's response was to walk quickly away to greet an acquaintance across the room. Cut to the scene inside my car just a few years ago. I was driving from Mendocino to San Diego. Like everyone else by now, I knew a lot more about AIDS than I wanted to. But I still didn't know who had determined that it was caused by HIV. Getting sleepy as I came over the San Bernardino Mountains, I switched on the radio and tuned in a guy who was talking about AIDS. His name was Peter Duesberg, and he was a prominent virologist at Berkeley. I'd heard of him, but had never read his papers or heard him speak. But I listened, now wide
[CTRL] Second language education
-Caveat Lector- I believe that it is so important that I have begun teaching my children at home (and learning alongside them). My six-year-old speaks Spanish fluently. My four-year-old can converse with our Polish neighbor in Polish, and is also learning Spanish. I'm finding it much harder to become fluent. I'm not leaving it to American schools [aka Morons 'R' Us] to educate my children. As my husband says "My honor student hired and fired your bully." Tenorlove --- nessie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- that English speaking children of taxpayers should be able to be trained in a second language of their choice so that their scores will go up, too. Absolutely. What's more, it should begin in kindergarten, while language acquisition capabilities are at their maximum. Is it paranoid to consider that America's state run schools put off second language training until later, when it is more difficult, because the powers that be don't want us to be able to understand what is being said about them in the foriegn press? 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 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com 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] Second language education
-Caveat Lector- Hey Tenorlove...good for you!! Far better to know 2 languages than one... Noam Chomsky has written that our ability to learn new languages is at its peak in early childhood when the "language center" of the brain is still growing (hence the ability we have at an early age to learn the language of our parents) and that our ability to learn new languages diminishes with age...not that it's impossible, clearly it's not (though it may seem to be). Bill. 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 Church and Jewish Ideology -Sobran
-Caveat Lector- --- Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a good rat's ass I had no idea this existed! How do you fix them, and what do you serve with them? Tenorlove _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com 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] War on Poverty Yields Few Victories
-Caveat Lector- Instaed of a war on poverty, we should declare war on big business. The state is not the problem. Capitalism and businessmen are the problem. Joshua2 Norse Knight wrote: -Caveat Lector- The purpose of the "War on Poverty" wasn't to end poverty but to grow the State. As it has been written "war is the health of the State". The only thing necessary to end poverty is to get the State off Our backs. Robert Paul 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] War on Poverty: Myth vs Reality
-Caveat Lector- Myth "To the average man on the street, to say someone is poor implies that he is malnourished, poorly clothed, and lives in filthy, dilapaditated, and overcrowded housing. In reality there is little material poverty in the U.S. in the sense generally understood by the public." 1 Heritage Foundation "I didn't agree to take a vow of poverty." 2 William Bennett, declining to take a job as national chariman of the Republican party at a salary of $125,000 per year. Reality In 1995, the poverty line for a single person was $7,470; for a family of 3, $12,590; for a family of 4, $15,150. 3 When asked by a Gallup poll in 1989 what amount of income they would use as a poverty line for a family of 4 in their community, the average person's response waws 24% higher than the official poverty line in that year. 4 Myth "The poor in this country are the biggest piglets at the mother pig and her nipples...They're the ones who get all the benefits in this country. They're the ones that are always pandered to." Rush Limbaugh, radio talk show host 5 Reality The affluent get more from the government than the poor. In 1992, the government spent $464 billion on entitlements that people receive regardless of their income level, such as Social Security, Medicare, veterans' pensions and retirement, and unemployment insurance. That's about ten times more than was spent on AFDC and Food Stamps in the same year. 6 In 1994, 29% of families with income of $150,000 or more received government benefits averaging more than $16,000 through programs such as Social Security. Families with incomes of less than $10,000, in contrast, received benefits averaging less than $8,000." 7 Aid to Dependent Corporations Myth "Corporate welfare is anti-business as well as anti-taxpayer." Cato Institute 8 Reality Despite criticism, corporate welfare has resisted reform, enjoying enormous support from special interest groups and powerful businesses. The federal government doles out $85 billion yearly in direct subsidy programs to private business, a sum that amounts to about a third of the annual federal budget deficit. 9 The total cost of bailing out failed savings and loan associations over a period of 10 years has been estimated at least $200 billion. 10 In 1992, susbsidies to agriculture amounted to $29 billion, more than was spent on AFDC. 11 Corporations are getting more and more tax breaks. The Office of OMB estimates the cost of tax breaks to corporations and wealthy individuals in $440 billion, more than SEVENTEEN times combined state and federal spending on AFDC. 12 Today, federal taxes paid by corporations average only about 24% of profits, compared with about 45% in the 1950s. 13 As a result, corporations now account for a smaller share of tax revenues, leaving individual taxpayers to make up the difference. In 1995, corporate taxes amounted to only 10% of total federal tax revenue compared with 23% in 1960. 14 Myth "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." Rush Limbaugh 15 Reality The main reason for lower poverty rates in Europe is simple: Their tax and transfer programs work better than ours. The US devotes a smaller percentage of its GDP to social expenditures than France, Sweden, the UK, or Germany. 16 They also provide much more support for parents than the US does, in the form of family allowances, publicly subsidized child care, and paid family leaves from work. 17 --- 1 Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, 1-25-98 2 Republican Study Committee, Running from Reality: How Liberals Can't the Failure of the Welfare State, 5-19-94, p. 1. 3 Federal Register 60, no. 27, 2-9-1995, p. 7772. 4 Christopher Jencks, Rethinking Social Policy, NY, Harper, 1992. p.209. 5 R. Limbaugh, The Way Things.., NY: Pocket Books, 1993, p.41. 6 Statistical Abstract of the US 1994, p. 372. 7 David Hage, America's Other Welfare State, USNewsWorld Report, 4-10-95, p. 34. 8 Stephen Moore, How to Slash Welfare Corporate Welfare, NYTimes, 4-5-95, A25. 9 "Go After Corporate Welfare," NYTimes, 1-17-95, p. A18. 10 Folbhre and the CPE, New Field Guide to the Am Econ., p. 9 11 Center for Responsive Politics, Washington 1994. 12 Chuck Collins, "Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy," Dollars and Sense, May-June 1995, p. 15. 13 Folbre and the CPE, p.5.12. 14 Budget of the US Government, Historical Tables 1995 pp 23-24. 15 Qtd. in Steve Rendall, et. al., The Way Things Aren't:.." NY: The New Press, 1995, p. 22. 16 Mishel and Bernstein, The State of Working America, Armonk: SHarpe, 1994. 17 Gary Burtless, "Public Spending on the Poor: Historical Trends and Economic Limits," Danziger, Sandefur, and Weinberg, p. 82. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
Re: [CTRL] TheEagle-L] Factions or Hegelian Game?
-Caveat Lector-
This stuff is gibberish. If you take this stuff seriously, you need
to develop judgement. If this is entertainment, say so.
Joshua2
Nicky Molloy wrote:
-Caveat Lector-
By Michael Wagner
Hi all!
I know many of you are well aware of the info provided by
Gunther Rayelan Russbacher (www.rumormillnews.com)
concerning the apparent factions within the world power structure.
For those of you unfamiliar with this, below is a brief synopsis
followed by an analysis.
G. Russbacher, "the October Surprise Pilot", Templar, Austrian
Royal, godson of Kurt Waldheim-- his ex-wife Rayelan--assert the
following based on bona fide sources in places of power:
The world intelligence community is fragmented along three lines:
* Those working for the goal of a monolithic, top-down
"New World Order"; an end to personal national sovereignty,
with central global institutions under elite control (Faction 1)
* Those working for a return to Constitutional rule in the U.S.,
and a return to a form of "constitutional monarchy" throughout
Europe: originally/mainly continental European royals and nobles,
their leadership now hides within U.S. Naval Intelligence.
(Faction 2)
* Rogue agents who follow their own inner voice, and who now
apparently have control of the funding of all black budget
projects world wide--and are therefore able to force desired
compromises between the other two factions.
While I do not doubt the Russbacher's sincerity, nor even necessarily
the "good intentions" of their sources, there is usually a much
deeper game to these intrigues tahn even many of the conspirators
see.
Given the usual divide and conquer antics of esoteric/conspiratorial
agitators, I would not be suprised if the following scenario
ended up being played out:
Everyone knows the theory of the "Zionist" conspiracy; many explain
NWO mainly in these terms. We know the tendency of Europe to slip
into totalitarian rule; they would certainly more vulnerable to it
if monarchy were to return, even under the banner of "constitutionalism"
(that held Fascism back for about a century
here--halve that, then halve it twice more for Europe).
It is therefore an illustrious possiblility that a neo-Fascist,
neo-Roman ("Aryan" alien backed?) federation of (10) kings, allied with a
re-interpreted "Christanity" might portray itself as the savior of mankind
from an evil Jew/Banker/Illuminati(/Reptilian?)attempt
at world domination: thesis + antithesis=synthesis.
It is at least equally likely that the same power (not even
necessarily human) sits behind both "factions", and that "Faction
1" may "out" itself as "the Beast" via a promulgated apocalyptic
scenario--complete with an Antichrist (Maitreya?), demons (posing
as aliens, posing as demons), and an "Armageddon" crisis in the
mideast.
"Faction 2", continental royalty, probably menaing those claiming
descent from Jesus the House of David, could "solve" the
mideast problem by claiming Jerusalem, destroy that Masonic/Illuminist
stronghold, the U.S. (while portraying itself as the savior of the
PEOPLE?), and the regional holdouts of "Zionist"-promoted
toatlitarianism, Russia China (see Daniel 12).
After all the Protocols of Sion (not a "Jew" conspiracy, but a
bunch of Christian super-Catholic hermeticists of supposed
Jewish descent--please, level no charges of anti-Semitism),
in protocol 3, state that the final phase of the operation
before the coming global king is to engender dissatisfaction
with ALL established authority, including that of the (NWO) elite.
Jus one man's speculations, of course...
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[CTRL] The Working Poor: Myth vs Reality
-Caveat Lector- Myth "If working steadily at any job is enough to avoid poverty in the great majority of cases, then features of the economy become largely irrelevant to poverty or dependency. Motivation is inevitably more at issue than opportunity." Lawrence Mead, political scientist Reality Working steadily at a job is NOT enough to avoid poverty. In 1994, an individual working full time at the minmum wage earned $8,840 a year. The EITC could add as much as $2,528, for a total of $11,368. The poverty line for a family of 3 in that year was $11,817. The percentage of workers who earn poverty level wages and receive few or no benefits has increased in recent years. In 1993, 27% of all workers earned less than the amount needed to keep a family of 4 above the poverty level, compared with 24% in 1973. Government programs intended to help workers displaced from their jobs, were cut back in the 1980s. Myth-- "What happened in the 1980s--prosperity at home, strength abroad--directly contradicts every liberal shibboleth." Rush Limbaugh Reality Most families have experienced increased economic stress during the 1980s and 1990s. Facts: Both average hourly wages and median weekly earnings are lower now in terms of real purchasing power than they were in the 1970s. Real wages have declined most dramatically for those without a college degree. Only those families who were able to send another person, usually a wife and mother, into paid employment have been able to increase their total income. THey did so at the expense of time previously devoted to family labor, including child care. The threat of job loss has increased, even among older, better-educated and highly paid workers. Downsizing, layoffs and general restructuring increased the likelihood of an unexpected decline in earnings, especially among lower income workers. Only the richest Americans are paying lower taxes than they were in the 1970s. The tax rate on the rich has declined at the expense of ordinary working people.Tax cuts implemented in 1978 and 1981 on the richest 1? lowered tax revenues. If 1977 tax rates had been in effect in 1992, the government would have enjoyed an additional 164 billion dollars--84billion in additional direct revenues and 80 billion inreduced interest on debt. Inequality inwealth in the US is at its worst point since the 1920s. The richest 20 percent of all households held nearly 85% of the US household wealth in 1989. The top 20 percent of wealth holders received 99% of the total gain in marketable wealth between 1983 and 1989. The top one percent alone garnered about 62 percent. Wealth is now more unequally distributed in the US than in other developed countries, including Great Britain. In other words, during the Reagan-Bush-Clinton years, the United States has been converted into a nation of haves and have-nots... If these dynamics are not reversed, in a few short years, the US will begin to look like a developing country, if it doesn't already, for those of youw ho have visited some of our inner cities 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] Arab Dispossession
-Caveat Lector- In 1948 the UN partitioned Palestine. The Palestinians rejected partition because they thought they could drive the Jews into the sea. They gambled and lost. You pay your nickel, you take your chances. Today's " Peace Plan " is an NWO generated blueprint for destruction. They want to set up a trade zone like NAFTA for the Mid East. The Barak government is a US puppet regime which James Carville helped bring about. The Labor elite are NWO. Netanyahu was a nationalist. The US State Department could not control him. The US interfered in another country's sovereign election to further NWO interests. The " peace plan " CAN NOT WORK!!! Tribalism, not Globalism, is the active ingredient here. Religious dominance is also a major factor. But the absolute bottom line reason that there can't be a sustained Israeli/ Palestinian peace, is that the ecology of the region CAN NOT SUPPORT BOTH POPULATIONS. If the Palestinians get their state, they have every right to expect their people to return from their diaspora. The State will be situated over the only viable ( but dwindling ) fresh water aquifer left in that region. An increased population will require economic development which will require more water for light industries and agriculture, as well as more water for the new arrivals. Development will also bring pollution. Who will control the water? What will happen when there will come a serious drought and there isn't enough water to go around to sustain Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. Jordan is already out of water and barely hanging on. A Palestinian state in that geographic spot will put its inhabitants on a path to destruction. A sovereign entity controls its own resources. Jordan and Israel will not allow them to control the water. All the players will sorely regret this " peace " in the end. Joshua2 Ric Carter wrote: -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Alamaine Ratliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 50 years after the Arab defeat in the1948 war, which resulted in the establishment of Israel, many of Ben-Gurion's stated aims can still be discerned in the language of Israeli and Zionist leaders. Some modifications have become apparent, in large part as a result of Arab resistance, but the biblical language in which Ben-Gurion chose to state his meaning starkly expresses the deeply-rooted nature of these violent fantasies of conquest and destruction. And I suppose the many repeated proclamations of Arab leaders that they would overrun Israel and kill all the Jews are irrelevant, eh? And Palestinians and other Arabs didn't make many Israeli friends by supporting Saddam Hussein launching SCUDs into Israel. But things change. Today I heard Israeli P.M. Barak quoted as saying that a de-facto Palestinian state now exists; so Ben-Gurion's "violent fantasies of conquest and destruction" seem rather antiquated now. Maybe. Unless the telepathic giant squids sew more discord... 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] War on Poverty Yields Few Victories
-Caveat Lector- Absolutely. If there is not a massive restructuring, we're going to see a repeat of the kind of social unrest we saw back in the sixties... On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Nurev wrote: -Caveat Lector- Instaed of a war on poverty, we should declare war on big business. The state is not the problem. Capitalism and businessmen are the problem. Joshua2 Norse Knight wrote: -Caveat Lector- The purpose of the "War on Poverty" wasn't to end poverty but to grow the State. As it has been written "war is the health of the State". The only thing necessary to end poverty is to get the State off Our backs. Robert Paul 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
Re: [CTRL] Arab Dispossession
-Caveat Lector- A Palestinian state in that geographic spot will put its inhabitants on a path to destruction. A sovereign entity controls its own resources. Jordan and Israel will not allow them to control the water. All the players will sorely regret this " peace " in the end. Joshua2 But thats the point. By setting up conflict points at certain key points, it will give the NWO forces the right to intervene-at an appropiate time. Israel is ultimately just another pawn in the game 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] War on Poverty Yields Few Victories
-Caveat Lector- Nurev wrote: -Caveat Lector- Instaed of a war on poverty, we should declare war on big business. The state is not the problem. Capitalism and businessmen are the problem. Joshua2 I am insulted! To imply that they are Capitalist. Theonly thing that some of those politicians have capitalized on is other peoples thoughts and work. Just because you have made money does not mean that you have capitalized on your own assists. To steal other peoples thoughts and ideas is plagiarism NOT capitalism. Call a spade a spade, please. Piper Norse Knight wrote: -Caveat Lector- The purpose of the "War on Poverty" wasn't to end poverty but to grow the State. As it has been written "war is the health of the State". The only thing necessary to end poverty is to get the State off Our backs. Robert Paul -- Any man can stand adversity, The true test is to give a man power. http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/~frame.htm 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: Disinfo Newsletter
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Disinfo-Member) Subject: Disinfo Newsletter Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:37:05 -0600 Here it is, folks, you can exhale now, the brand spankin' new Disinformation Spamwich, coming right your way: Okay, first off, our Associate Editor Alex Burns (our man in Australia) has put some interesting Oz related research online for you weekend reading pleasure. New in The Revolution(r) is Alex's dossier on savvy media prankster John Safran, who sounds ike *our* kinda guy, one part Malcolm McClaren, one part Dr. Hunter S. Thompson! Read about him here: http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=foldertitle=John+Safran And in Police State, you'll find Alex's essay on the infamous Rabelais Four case which resulted in what is possibly the narrowest definition of (so called) "freedom of speech" in the Western world! As Alex points out, Gandhi himself couldn't be published in Australia under the legal definitions these guys are using! Some scary stuff, kids and going on right now. Read about it in our Police State section: http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=foldertitle=Rabelais+Four Also, we're still planning our "Disinfocon" counterculture convention for November, here in New York, so keep watching the skies and keep you calendar free! Speakers will be announced soon! Lastly many of you have no doubt heard of the recent allegations that Disinfo icon Dr. Timothy Leary was an FBI informant, "ratting" on the very people who risked their lives and liberty to help spring him from jail in the 70's. What is not pointed out, either by our friends at The SmokingGun.com or by any of the media outlets who picked up on the opportunity to kick a man when he's DEAD (like Newsweek, the BBC or the heinous SF Chronicle) is that um, he might have been LYING to the Feds to get his ass out of jail! No one was arrested as a result of Leary's testimony. No one. Doesn't this say volumes about the quality of his information? After years of solitary confinement (Leary was next to Charles Manson for a while. I mean he was in THE black hole of the California prison system) how current could his information have been?? H... something doesn't add up, here, does it? The FBI's selectively leaked documents only tell HALF the story, but the media seems happy to repeat that half story parrot-style, all over the place. No doubt what the FBI wanted. Make up your own mind by perusing our Leary section at: http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=foldertitle=Timothy+Leary THIS guy is an FBI "songbird"? Highly unlikely. Make up your OWN mind, don't let others (even us, or especially us) make it for you. Question authority! Think for Yourself And have a great weekend! Love, Your pals at Disinformation. www.disinfo.com Everything You Know is Wrong. P.S.-- If you happen to be in the Baltimore, Maryland area this weekend, don't miss the premiere of "Rest in Pieces" a new documentary on painter Joe Coleman at the Charles Theatre. Shows at 7:30 and 9:30. Joe will also be lecturing at 6PM on Saturday night at the Museum of Visionary Art and at 8PM "psychobilly" legend and one man band Hasil Adkins will be performing in Joe's honor And we hear Joe plans to jump onstage with The Haze and sing a few ditties. Sounds like fun to us! The Disinformation Newsletter Spamwich Brought to you by your friends at Disinformation, the subculture search engine. http://www.disinfo.com Thanks for reading! Subscription/Unsubscription information available at: http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=focusarea=Newsletter
[CTRL] Fwd: [MC] Belgian RA Scandal
This could trigger, please exercise caution [The Guardian] Cover-up claims revive sex scandal Belgian establishment accused of closing ranks to block investigation By Stephen Bates in Brussel Wednesday April 21, 1999 Belgium is being convulsed by new revelations in the paedophile scandal that rocked the country more than two years ago and shook the state to its foundations. Anguish over the abduction and death of girls as young as eight at the hands of a convicted sex offender, Marc Dutroux, together with persistent allegations of official cover-ups, has been revived by an announcement that the chief investigating magistrate in the case wants to reopen medical evidence of sexual assault on the children. And, in further disclosures which Belgium is doing its best to ignore, a book by the highly respected chairman of a parliamentary inquiry into the case claims that his commission's findings were muzzled by political and judicial leaders to prevent details emerging of complicity in the crimes. The revelations, just seven weeks before a general election, could sink the chances of the prime minister, Jean-Luc Dehaene, whose government has been severely damaged by the scandal that made Belgium a byword for horror and incompetence in 1996. The parents of the two girls have reacted with outrage to the news that, 2 years on, the magistrate, Jacques Langlois, wants to reopen the autopsy specifically to see whether Melissa Russo and Julie Lejeune were sexually assaulted. The families, who have faced a nightmarish four years since their children disappeared, and will have to wait another two years before Mr Dutroux is tried, have experienced scarcely credible official callousness during their ordeal. On top of police scepticism when they originally reported that their children had vanished, and an incompetent police inquiry to trace them, the parents were even confronted by the original postmortems' gynaecological revelations of assault during a live television appearance after the bodies were found. Although Mr Langlois has said he does not want to open the children's graves, he has referred the original postmortem findings by three Belgian pathologists to a French expert, Michel Durignon, for medical review. For us it is a confirmation that the inquiry is being mishandled,' said Gino Russo, Melissa's father. 'We had our doubts but this confirms them. What on earth is there left to believe in in Belgium?' The children received what amounted almost to a state funeral in August 1996 after their bodies were found buried in Mr Dutroux's back garden in Charleroi. They had disappeared 14 months before, and had apparently starved to death, locked in a cell in Mr Dutroux's basement, while he served a three-month prison sentence for another crime. The bodies of two teenage girls were also found buried in the garden, with that of Bernard Weinstein, an associate with whom he had fallen out. Two other teenage girls were found alive in the basement cell after the police, who had previously searched the property three times without noticing it, finally broke into the house. Although there is plenty of evidence that Mr Dutroux kidnapped the children, allowed them to die and then buried them, Mr Langlois now apparently wants to establish whether he also sexually assaulted them and, if not, whether anyone else did during his absence in prison. Some psychologists' reports have cast doubts about whether Mr Dutroux is a sexual abuser of girls. Belgians have long been suspicious of an official cover-up of his activities, partly because of the sheer ineptitude of the police investigation and because he was released [Image] early after a previous conviction for sex offences. In a hidebound and bureaucratic country with one of the biggest black economies in Europe suspicions and conspiracy theories flourish - in this case that Mr Dutroux either received protection or that senior figures used his services. One of the rescued girls, Sabine Dardenne, 12, who was locked up in the cell for three months, told police of being taken to a 'beautiful white house' by Mr Dutroux and being sexually assaulted. A parliamentary inquiry in 1997 stilled some criticism by stating it had found no evidence of high-up involvement, but that is being called into direct question by its former chairman. Marc Verwilghen, the Flemish parliamentarian who became the most popular politician in the country after leading the inquiry, claims in a book that the Belgian establishment, including
[CTRL] OEN 7/11/99
-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 A Critique of Religion and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann Most men are born into their religion and accept it without investigation. A study of other religions is generally considered irrelevant, and a knowledge of one's own is rare. Most people know what they like without knowing what they like. One picks and chooses, discounts some parts of the tradition, and emphasizes others. But all this is usually done erratically and rather irresponsibly. One inherits a religion like a house and makes some slight changes to make it more comfortable. One keeps some old beliefs as one keeps old pictures to which one is used from childhood: one does not really like them but they seem to belong there; one is hardly conscious of them, but if they were removed the house would no longer be our childhood home. But one also believes, if only a little, without being at all sure in one's own mind what these beliefs might mean. At that point irresponsibility begins: a belief that is believed, even if only half, is no longer a picture, and it compromises honesty if we treat it like a picture. We are responsible for our beliefs. We are also responsible for our loyalties, even if they do not involve us in beliefs. Adherence to a religion may be the choice of a vehicle for living, the acceptance of a tradition and a way of life. But men who have left a lasting imprint on their religion are rare indeed, and even they were usually more influenced by the tradition than they influenced it. In general, the great religions have molded man; and after his childhood is over, a man is responsible for what he allows to mold him. = Russian Follies Russian Spies Penetrate NATO's Eastern Front Files for blackmailing politicians POLISH counter-intelligence has arrested three army officers on charges of spying for Russia, as evidence grows that Moscow has established networks of agents on Nato's newly-created eastern front. Reports in Warsaw suggest all three were colonels in military counter-intelligence, the nerve centre of Poland's armed forces. They were unmasked by a Russian double agent "bought" by Polish intelligence. The arrests were made in the past two weeks, even though the Polish authorities were first informed of the officers' alleged spying activities in the early 1990s. The officers were left to continue in their jobs, but were moved to less sensitive posts. Polish newspapers suggested that intelligence chiefs postponed the arrests to protect the identity of their Russian source. The military and the government have played down the significance of the incident - the Prime Minister, Jerzy Buzek, last week claimed that two of those detained had retired, while the third held no post with access to important information - but public accusations of spying will deepen Poland's longstanding enmity with Russia, still smarting from the expansion of Nato into its former client states four months ago. But a different story was emerging elsewhere. A counter-intelligence officer said he was shocked by what the officers were alleged to have handed to Russia. He said: "It appears they would pass on everything they knew, without hesitation." The chairman of parliament's secret service committee described two of the arrested men as key officers with access to top-secret papers. The scandal is the most serious since communism's collapse 10 years ago. Although there have been many accusations of treason in Poland, few spies have been caught. Jozef Oleksy resigned as prime minister three years ago after an "imprudent" friendship with a KGB agent, but was never prosecuted. Until the current case, the worst proved incident was when Polish agents swooped on Major Marek Zielenski, a secret policeman, as he handed papers to a Russian military attaché in 1993. He was sentenced to nine years. According to government spokesmen, the officers worked for the Soviet Union until its collapse after the 1991 coup and then, without pause, for Boris Yeltsin's new Russian state. All three were commissioned during the communist era and were said to be motivated by pro-Russian sentiment. They are untypical. Most Poles remain anti-Russian, pro-Western sentiment is strong and intelligence ties are close. One of America's greatest spies was the Polish Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, who passed 300,000 classified documents to the CIA in the 1970s.
[CTRL] New NIH Study Shows Marijuana Linked To Lethargy
-Caveat Lector- From: http://www.theonion.com/onion3001w/marijuana.html The National Institute of Health released the results of a controversial new study today, one that links the drug marijuana to sitting around and getting high. The study, a comprehensive five-year survey of drug use among Americans, also suggests a possible connection between marijuana and getting baked off your ass. "We have found that where there's marijuana," explained Institute spokesperson Roger Krell, "there's also a good chance of finding stoners on a couch passing around a bong." Krell added that in such situations, "There is also a strong likelihood of finding incense, a TV, and some chips, usually Ruffles." Krell would neither confirm nor deny the alleged link between marijuana and Pink Floyd's The Wall. He would confirm, however, that the album rules. "There is some seriously fucked-up shit on that album," he said. "Especially side two. Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb..." Marijuana, or "pot," as it is called on the street, is a harmless drug that helps you relax and feel mellow. Its only known side-effects are occasional uncontrollable laughter and mild hunger, or "the munchies." Not everyone agrees with the survey's findings. "Getting high is the least of marijuana's uses," said Matt Henner, President of Hemp For Victory and a total pothead. "The ancient Egyptians used hemp to build the pyramids. In the 1930s, the WPA used it to construct bridges and dams. Today it is used for medicine and as a non-polluting alternative to gasoline." Henner then admitted he was "wasted beyond belief." According to experts, drug use among 15-24 year olds is cool. "That's really the cool age to do drugs," said U.S. Drug Czar Bertrand Seaver. "When you're young, that's the thing to do. In fact, studies show that teenagers who smoke pot are far more likely to be accepted by the in-crowd." While drug use among young people is cool, experts say older people who still do drugs are losers. "A young person who does drugs is healthy and normal," said Harvard sociologist Beth Henterpen. "But if a guy's like 45, and he's still getting high, it's like, 'Get a life!'" Marijuana also has been proven to have the wonderful side-effect of enhanced sexual sensations, enabling some users to achieve transcendental states of erotic bliss. The study found that this link, however, was severely limited in many subjects because they had, due to sitting around all the time, never actually met members of the opposite sex. "But if they did," said Krell, "then it'd be amazing." So far, the study has met with formal protest by only two groups. The Alabama-based Center for the Christian Family, claimed the findings to be terribly inaccurate, noting marijuana's ability to "make users think they can fly and jump out of buildings, like on Quincy, as well as its tendency to induce demon possession, homicidal rampages, and homosexuality." Another group to object to the study was California rapping group Cypress Hill. "Marijuana's not linked to sitting around, man... It's linked to cruising the Barrio with a 40 and a 12 gauge, blowing pendejos away," said group member DJ Muggs. "Hand onna pump, puffin' on a blunt... la la la la laaa..." 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] War on Poverty Yields Few Victories
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-07-11 12:14:52 EDT, you write: Instaed of a war on poverty, we should declare war on big business. The state is not the problem. Capitalism and businessmen are the problem. When you look even further the bankers control the Corporations with their money. Convert the Federal Reserve from a private institution to a bank for the United States and the Corporations will be put in their place sice they no longer will have an endless supply of money. Then, make it illegal for lawyers to hold office and any President, congressperson, Governor, Mayor, or cleck in the government that takes a bribe will go to jail for the rest of their lives, lobbyists included. Then, if you really want to overcome poverty ... when a corporation is loaned money from the US bank ... the shares will go to the workers, not the worthless managers, CEO's and nonworking pukes that steal money from those who do work. Soon there will not be any poverty for those willing to work. Lastly, eliominate the IRS and have a flat 10% sales tax on everything and government can use that money to run government, thereby limiting the power of government (no deficeit spending allowed). Regards, Bob Stokes 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] Sovereignty
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/10/1999 5:33:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 99-07-08 18:13:36 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rights have meaning only if there is a remedy for their violation. The Supreme Court's deecisions mean that there is no remedy against state governments even when they violate rights created by federal law. The Bill of Rights is a FEDERAL document, is it not? Kiss your rights goodbye ... Let's hear it for devolution --dis-integration-- here in the newly dis-United States. I see you've been studying the latest decisions of the Rehnquist Court. I hate to say it, but I think what you say is truer than I would like it to be. And just think, the Reagan/Bush Supreme Court has years to go before anyone is likely to die or retire. Wait until they've had another couple of years to accomplish their ends. Prudy 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 myths refuted
-Caveat Lector- myth- "Dependence passes between generations; children raised in families that receive welfare assistance are themselves three times more likely to be on welfare than other children when they become adults." Heritage Foundation 1 Reality- POVERTY, not welfare, gets transmitted from generation to generation. Women who grow up on welfare are more likely to receive welfare than other women. But that doesn't mean that welfare CAUSES intergenerational dependence. Children who grow up in poor families are more likely than others to be poor, just as children who grow up in rich families are more likely than others to be rich. 2 A family's income level is a good predictor of how well its children will be educated. Adult sons have a 60% chance of having approximately the same income as their fathers. 3 Public school quality, largely determined by educational expenditures per student, is strongly influenced by the size of the local tax base. Wealthy communities generally have better schools than poor ones. School quality has a positive effect on future earnings, even controlling for differences in family background 4 In 1992, more than 40% of high school dropouts explained that they had to support their families, had to care for a family member or were unable to work and go to school athte same time. 5 POOR PEOPLE HAVE LESS WEALTH TO TRANSFER TO THEIR CHILDREN. IN 1989, MORE THAN HALF THE POOR HAD NO FINANCIAL ASSETS AT ALL, AND MORE THAN HALF THE REMAINDER HAD LESS THAN $1,000. 6 "The real explanation of why the poor are where they are is that they made the mistake of being born to the wrong parents, in the wrong section of the country, in the wrong industry, or in the wrong racial or ethnic group. Once that mistake has been made, they could have been paragons of will and morality, but most of them would never even have had a chance to get out of the other America." Michael Harrington 7 - 1 Heritage Foundation, Combattiang Family Disintegration.., Wash DC, 4-8-94, p. 8 2 Leonard Beeghley, The Structure of Social Stratification in the United States, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 198; Gary Solon, "Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States," American Economic Review, 82, no. 3 (June 1992). 3 Jere Behrman and Paul Taubman, "The Intergenerational Correlation Between Children's Adult Earnings and Their Parents' Income: Results from the Michigan Panel Study of Dynamics," Review of Income and Wealth 36, no. 2 (June 1990), pp. 115-27. 4 David Card and Alan Kreuger, "Does School Quality Matter?" Journal of Political Economy 100, no. 1 (February 1992), p. 1040. 5 Drop-Out Rates in the US1992, National Center for Education Statistics. 6 Patricia Ruggles, Drawing the Line: Alternative Poverty measures and Their Implications for Public Policy (Wash DC: Urban Institute Press, 1990), p. 150. 7 Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States, Baltimore: Penguin, 1963, p. 182. 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] TheEagle-L] Factions or Hegelian Game?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/10/1999 7:33:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Those working for a return to Constitutional rule in the U.S., and a return to a form of "constitutional monarchy" throughout Europe: originally/mainly continental European royals and nobles, their leadership now hides within U.S. Naval Intelligence. (Faction 2) Sorry folks, the Rehnquist Court has just negated the Constitution, Congress and Federal Laws. Perhaps they might try for a U.S. monarchy, since we have the Bush family ready to reign for years and years. Prudy 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] OEN 7/11/99
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Today's Lesson From A Critique of Religion and Philosophy Most men are born into their religion and accept it without investigation. If this model were valid, people wouldn't convert to new religions - there'd be no Mormons, Moslems, Methodists, we'd all be pantheists. Fact: when conquerors sweep into a region, they usually bring their belief systems along with them, forcibly changing the thought patterns of the conquered into their paradigm, their Dominant Heresy. The various Xian, Moslem, Hindu, Communist sects are mostly imposed, not inherited. 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] responsibility
-Caveat Lector- Myth- "By blaming everything on society, comteporary liberals are really tring to escape the personal responsibility that comes with being an American. If society is responsible for everything, then no one is personally responsible for anything." Newt Gingrich (1) "Theirs is an anti-American credo, which abhors American political and governmental institutions and this nation's capitalistic economy. Their value system is at war with the Judaeo-Christian tradition upon which this country was founded..." Rush Limbaugh (2) Reality Personal responsibility should be accompanied by social responsibility. And social responsibility is CENTRAL to the Jewish and Christian traditions. "Woe to them that take away the right of the poor." Isiah 10:1 "Defend the poor and the fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy." Psalms 82:3 'Love thy neighbor as thyself." Matthew 5:43 "All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; In doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichmann chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows? To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it." Dr. Martin Luther King (3) 1) Gingrich, N. To Renew America, NY: Harper, 1995, p. 39 2) Limbaugh, R. See, I Told You So, NY: Pocket Books, 1993. p. 261 3 King, Martin Luther, Jr. qtd. in America's New War on Poverty, ed. Robert Lavelle and the Staff of Blackside, SF: KQED Books, 1995, p. 184. 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.S. To Send Envoy to Cuba
-Caveat Lector- Sunday July 11 1:10 PM ET U.S. To Send Envoy to Cuba WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration has given the U.S. Chamber of Commerce approval to send its president, Tom Donahue, to Cuba this week to promote private enterprise, the White House said Sunday. The Donahue delegation will include Craig Fuller, chief of staff when George Bush was vice president, Time magazine reported. P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said a license for the trip was issued by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which ruled the visit a ``people-to-people'' exchange and not an effort to support the government of Cuban President Fidel Castro. ``It is a private initiative that is consistent with the president's policy of finding ways to help the Cuban people while continuing to isolate the Castro regime,'' Crowley said. As head of the Chamber of Commerce, Donahue has opposed U.S. trade sanctions against any country, including Cuba. He is described as seeking contact with Cuban entrepreneurs and laying the foundation for an independent Chamber of Commerce in Havana, the Cuban capital, according to the magazine report. -- "Those who want to hear the voice of pagan gods in wind or thunder, who want to see the fairies dance in the moonlight, who can believe that faith can move mountains, can follow the thread on the pages of this book. It is a fragile thread; it cannot bear the weight of facts and dates" -Kate Seredy, "The White Stag" ICQ: 9815080 Operator Taliesin_2 of #SacredNemeton on IRC PaganPaths 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.S. To Discuss China Bomb Payments
-Caveat Lector- Saturday July 10 5:08 PM ET U.S. To Discuss China Bomb Payments WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration is sending officials to Beijing to discuss payments for 20 people injured and families of three killed in the mistaken U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The State Department said Saturday that Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering ``conveyed our willingness to provide a humanitarian payment'' when he visited Beijing last month to apologize for the ``awful tragedy'' of the May 7 bombing. Department legal adviser David Andrews will head the delegation going to the Chinese capital this coming week, the department said. In addition to following up on the offer of payments, it said in a statement, Andrews' group will ``discuss issues related to property damage.'' The administration contends a series of errors, including erroneous CIA maps pinpointing the embassy as a Yugoslav government building, led to the mistaken attack during NATO's air campaign to drive Yugoslav forces out of the Serbian province of Kosovo. -- "Those who want to hear the voice of pagan gods in wind or thunder, who want to see the fairies dance in the moonlight, who can believe that faith can move mountains, can follow the thread on the pages of this book. It is a fragile thread; it cannot bear the weight of facts and dates" -Kate Seredy, "The White Stag" ICQ: 9815080 Operator Taliesin_2 of #SacredNemeton on IRC PaganPaths 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] FBI Investigated King's Successor
-Caveat Lector- Sunday July 11 12:24 PM ET FBI Investigated King's Successor By DAVID PACE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Within a month of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI began investigating King's successor, looking for the same type of ``immoral activities'' the bureau had tried to use to discredit King, newly released FBI files show. The files, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, include an April 22, 1968, memo from FBI headquarters ordering an investigation of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy. He had been King's right-hand man since the two led the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955 that launched the civil rights movement. Abernathy died in 1990. The memo asked the Atlanta FBI office to search its files for ``background information'' on Abernathy and to begin following all his activities ``through established informants and sources.'' The investigation continued until 1974. FBI spokesman Tron W. Brekke said the Abernathy files ``should be viewed in their historical context and should in no way infer that the FBI currently initiates investigations utilizing the standards of that era.'' Before King's April 4, 1968, assassination, the FBI had used wiretaps to gather detailed information about his private life and extramarital affairs and had leaked it to reporters and government officials in attempts to discredit him. The FBI files on Abernathy - previously released only to an attorney for James Earl Ray, the man who pleaded guilty to killing King - suggest the FBI under former Director J. Edgar Hoover hoped to use similar information to discredit Abernathy after he became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ``Little information has been developed regarding promiscuous activity on the part of Abernathy,'' the Atlanta FBI office told headquarters in an April 29, 1968, memo responding to what Atlanta called ``the bureau's recent request for information dealing with immoral activities on the part of'' Abernathy. Atlanta noted that FBI headquarters in 1964 had been sent transcripts from a 1958 Alabama court case in which a woman accused Abernathy of having ``normal and abnormal sexual relations'' with her when she was 15. It also noted that Abernathy had contact with a woman in San Francisco in 1965 ``that suggested a degree of affection between them.'' ``Our limited knowledge of Ralph Abernathy suggests he might have had some extramarital experiences,'' the Atlanta office concluded. ``It by no means supports the conclusion his experience has been extensive or may be continuing.'' A month later, Hoover had the Washington, D.C., field office checking out allegations that Abernathy was ``involved in illicit relations with white women'' and had been ``beaten by five Negroes who surprised him in bed with a white woman.'' The Washington office reported back that three confidential sources, as well as the local police department and the U.S. Park Police, had been unable to confirm any aspect of the allegation. The FBI files do not provide the source of the allegation. The FBI files, heavily censored to remove information considered by the FBI to infringe on the privacy rights of others, include several instances in which the bureau used sexual information in an attempt to undermine Abernathy. In November 1968, FBI headquarters approved sending a detailed report on the woman's testimony from the 1958 Alabama Court case to church officials in Pittsburgh, where Abernathy was scheduled to speak. In 1970, Vice President Spiro Agnew called Hoover to complain about Abernathy's ``inflammatory pronouncements.'' Hoover wrote that Agnew ``said he thought he was going to have to start destroying Abernathy's credibility so anything I can give him would be appreciated.'' The next day, the FBI sent Agnew a report that included ``militant statements'' by Abernathy, as well as ``information about sexual immorality, Abernathy's luxurious accommodations during the Poor People's Campaign and his support of the Black Panther party.'' Abernathy had complained in 1975, when the FBI's attempts to discredit King were fully disclosed by a Senate investigation, that he had been investigated by the FBI far more than King. His FBI files, however, do not bear that out. While the bureau released 1,169 pages of Abernathy files, its preassassination file on King includes some 16,000 pages. There also is no evidence in the files that Abernathy ever was the target of an FBI wiretap. Abernathy was ostracized by many prominent civil rights leaders shortly before his death because he wrote in his 1989 autobiography that King had a weakness for women and that on the night before he was killed, he had sexual encounters with two women and fought with a third. -- "Those who want to hear the voice of pagan gods in wind or thunder, who want to see the fairies dance in the moonlight, who can believe that faith can move mountains, can follow
[CTRL] FBI Reaching out to Militia Groups
-Caveat Lector- Sunday July 11 12:28 PM ET FBI Reaching out to Militia Groups By C. BRYSON HULL Associated Press Writer DEW, Texas (AP) - Born out of the destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, a little-noticed program has made strange bedfellows of FBI agents and militia members. On the orders of FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno, agents in the 56 FBI field offices around the country have been finding ways to reach out to members of militia groups in their local areas. The program, established just weeks after the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people, has been an open secret with positive consequences for the nation's top police agency and the militia movement. ``I think you're seeing it throughout the communities, law enforcement trying to reach out and say, 'We're human beings, too,''' said FBI spokesman Bill Crowley, who is an agent in the Pittsburgh, Pa., office. ``The idea we're pushing is that it's not a crime to be a member of the militia, or to be an FBI agent, for that matter.'' The FBI has been pleased that many members of the nation's militias are in agreement. ``They are our FBI. We needed to get a face on them,'' said Raymond Smith, a commander with the Texas Freedom Fighters and a member of the National Militia Advisory Board. ``Our government can't be our enemy. If it is, we're in trouble.'' The outreach program takes many forms. In Texas, several meetings have taken place in hinterland burgs like Dew, a community of 71 people located some 100 miles south of Dallas. Crowley said the No. 2 agent in the Pittsburgh office, which includes the militia hotbed of West Virginia in its territory, was a guest on a shortwave radio show highlighting militia topics. In early 1996, the head of the FBI's Kansas City office spoke to about 100 members of the Missouri 51st Militia at the group's annual meeting. The meetings give militia members a chance to meet people like FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Danny Defenbaugh, who has been the subject of dozens of Internet newsgroups because of his role in leading the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. The sit-downs also help the FBI set the record straight on its motives. Last year, Defenbaugh requested a meeting in Dew to dispel rumors that he was charged with disbanding the groups. ``They get to realize you have integrity, and that you're a human being,'' said Defenbaugh, who heads the FBI's Dallas office. The militia movement aims to protect Constitutional rights and provide for the nation's defense in times of war or emergency. Generally, the groups believe in state's rights and a limited federal government. The FBI and some militia groups are at loggerheads largely because of a 1992 incident at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 1993 Waco standoff with the Branch Davidians that ended with the death of about 80 people. At Ruby Ridge, an FBI sniper shot and killed the unarmed wife of white separatist Randy Weaver, the day after Weaver's 14-year-old son and a deputy U.S. marshal were killed in a firefight. Smith and other like-minded militia members said they believe they are fighting the same enemy as the FBI: people who want to undermine the Constitution and the American way of life. ``What we believe and what they think are not that far different,'' said Lynn Van Huizen, a commander with the Michigan Militia Corps-Wolverines. ``We're all concerned Americans. We all have to raise our kids here.'' Federal agents and militia members say the outreach program helps distinguish true Constitutional militia members from hate groups and changes the public perception that militias are ``anti-government.'' ``Christian Identity groups, Ku Klux Klan, Nazi groups, they claim to be a militia. The media gets a hold of it, and that group is a militia,'' Smith said. ``Once you break the law, you are no longer militia. We don't want Americans killing Americans.'' -- "Those who want to hear the voice of pagan gods in wind or thunder, who want to see the fairies dance in the moonlight, who can believe that faith can move mountains, can follow the thread on the pages of this book. It is a fragile thread; it cannot bear the weight of facts and dates" -Kate Seredy, "The White Stag" ICQ: 9815080 Operator Taliesin_2 of #SacredNemeton on IRC PaganPaths 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] ...the time has come for us to civilize ourselves..
-Caveat Lector- "No one has starved." Herbert Hoover, assessing the seriousness of the Great Depression in 1931 "I see one third of a nation ill-=housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." Franklin D. Roosevelt, second inaugural address in 1937 "The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct, and immediate abolition of poverty. " Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1967. 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] A Pittsburgh, PA Mystery solved????
-Caveat Lector- Friday July 9 12:43 PM ET 'Mystery' Of Bomber Crash May Soon Be Solved PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Mystery buffs should prepare themselves for a letdown if a warplane said to be carrying everything from nerve gas to a nuclear bomb is pulled from the Monongahela River this summer, a researcher said Friday. ``As far as secret cargo, we're going to find absolutely nothing,'' predicted Robert Shema, an aquatic biologist involved in the search-and-recovery mission for a B-25 bomber that plunged into the river Jan. 31, 1956. ``It was simply an accident -- this plane ran out of gas,'' he said. Occurring at the height of the Cold War in a region surrounded by missile bases, the crash become one of Pittsburgh's most beloved and enduring mysteries. Stories circulated that the plane was transporting billionaire-turned-recluse Howard Hughes, nerve gas, or a nuclear bomb. Some even insisted the U.S. military, concerned about the plane's secret cargo, pulled the plane to the surface in the dead of night, dismantled it and shipped the parts down the river on barges. ``At that time we were really at odds with the Soviet Union and there was a lot of suspicion surrounding military activity,'' said Betty Arenth, senior vice president of the Sen. John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, which is planning an exhibit on the bomber. ``The disappearance of that plane really fueled people's worries and concerns.'' Shema said extensive research on the accident has shown the plane carried nothing more than a crew of six on a flight from Michigan to Olmstead Air Force Base in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Two crew members drowned and four survived. Shema and five other researchers say they think they have located the plane under 20 feet (6 meters) of water and a pile of muck and silt. The recovery effort is set to start this month, with the group using electronic equipment to pinpoint the plane's remaining parts and divers or recovery equipment to bring them to the surface. -- "Those who want to hear the voice of pagan gods in wind or thunder, who want to see the fairies dance in the moonlight, who can believe that faith can move mountains, can follow the thread on the pages of this book. It is a fragile thread; it cannot bear the weight of facts and dates" -Kate Seredy, "The White Stag" ICQ: 9815080 Operator Taliesin_2 of #SacredNemeton on IRC PaganPaths 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] OEN 7/11/99
-Caveat Lector- On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Ric Carter wrote: If this model were valid, people wouldn't convert to new religions - there'd be no Mormons, Moslems, Methodists, we'd all be pantheists. Fact: when conquerors sweep into a region, they usually bring their belief systems along with them, forcibly changing the thought patterns of the conquered into their paradigm, their Dominant Heresy. The various Xian, Moslem, Hindu, Communist sects are mostly imposed, not inherited. Not so. For example, take a look at the graves of the court yards in Eastern Europe (I saw many approaching 15-17 hundrd years old when I was there). Every 30-50 ft archaeologists dig today (say in a castle's court on a cliff 500 ft above Lake Bled, Yugoslavia) they find another set of graves representing the people of about 200-300 years earlier. Even though history written by that circa's ruler's paid historians (as well as these rulers's official art, architecture, poetry, literature, theatre, music, etc., etc.) invariable claim their conquered people to have the same cultural and religious beliefs as their current rulers ... it is OBVIOUS WITH EVEN A CASUAL LOOK (i.e., at the peasant grave's dressing, preparation, artifacts, orientation of the bodies, how children were burried touching or in the arms of parents, etc., etc., etc., ALL SHOW WITHOUT A DOUBT) that the people NEVER CHANGED, not in THOUSANDS OF YEARS (dozens of dyanasties). And remember, the people buried in the castle's court were THE MOST LOYAL of that dynasty's. IF ANY OF THE CONQUERED PEOPLE would have been demonstrably practicing the cultures and religious beliefs of their rulers (as most official historical accounts would suggest), it would have been these that were buried WITHIN SIGHT OF WINDOWS OF THE CASTLE ITSELF that would have demonstrated such (i.e., the kings, rulers, etc., KNEW FULL WELL/ALLOWED THEIR PEASANTS TO KEEP THEIR CULTURE/RELIGIONS...HAD TO!). Best, Mike = Kaddish, Kaddish, Kaddish, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = 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] Health care: myth and reality
-Caveat Lector- myth "We have the best health care in the world--despite all the alarm that has been raised about it in the past few years." Newt Gingrich (1) "There was no health care crisis in this country, at least not until Hillary got her mitts on health care." Rush Limbaugh (2) reality Health care delivery in the U.S. is excellent for some but terrible for others. Though we have some of the best medical facilities in the world, many people lack access to them. Infant mortality rates are lower in 21 other countries, including Canada, Germany, and Japan. Infant mortality rates are higher among African American children than in 40 other nations, including Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Cuba. (3) The number of Americans who lack health insurance is growing. In 1993, 17% of the population under age 65 lacked health insurance, up from 13% in 1980. (4) Many low income families cannot afford health insurance. In 1993, 35% of all Americans under age 65 with family incomes of less than $16,000 lacked health insurance, compared with 5% for those with family incomes of $50,000 or more. (5) More and more employers are reducing health benefits for their employees. (6) Racial and ethnic inequalities in health insurance access are large. Among people under age 65, 34% of all Latinos and 23% of all African-Americans lacked health insurance, compared with 16% of all whites. (7) Individuals without health care insurance are often unable to obtain adequate medical care. Although Medicare covers all people age 65 and over, Meicaid provides assistance for only about half of the poor. (8) In 1991, uninusred patients had death rates significantly higher than privately insured patients. (9) --- 1) Gingrich, N. To Renew America, NY: Harpers, 1995. p. 176 2) Limbaugh, R. See, I Told You So, NY: Pocket Books, 1993, p. 168. 3) The State of America's Children, p. 28. 4) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health U.S. 1994 Chartbook, p. 35. 5) Health US 1994 Chartbook, p. 35. 6) The State of America's Children, p. 28. 7) Health US Chartbook, p. 35. 8) Poverty in the U.S., 1992 (Bureau of the Census, P-60, no. 185), p. 32, Table 7. 9) Robert Lavelle, America's New War on Poverty, SF: KQED Books, 1995, p. 143. 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 Working Poor: Myth vs Reality
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-07-11 12:38:39 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Real wages have declined most dramatically for those without a college degree. Another fact, which I saw cited in the local newspaper last week: One third of poor families is headed by a parent who has a college education, and that percentage is growing. Increasingly, a college degree adds little in earning potential. The "global market" is geared toward producing a low-paying, minimum-skills "service economy," and menial labor constitutes the vast majority of jobs that account for low unemployment statistics and periodic increases in employment. College-educated teachers, nurses, and nearly all others in the "helping" sphere are seeing their social status progressively being eroded, with new hires in those professions getting less training, lower wages, and fewer benefits. A college education pays off big only in certain areas, e.g., for MBA holders in Finance from Ivy League institutions, and in the high-tech arena, where one may find the upper 10% of wage-earners, a degree means nothing without proven mastery of other specialized skills not yet taught in schools. 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] NWO / Arab Dispossession
-Caveat Lector- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:46:44 + From: Michael A. Hoffman II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1956 British Conspiracy LONDON - A secret protocol has been found documenting that Britain, France and the Israelis agreed to fabricate an excuse to bomb Egypt in the 1956 Suez crisis, London's Times newspaper said Thursday. The secret agreement, known as the Sevres Protocol because it was signed at Sevres near Paris, was discovered in the Negev Desert by the makers of a BBC documentary on the Suez crisis. A British copy of the protocol was ordered destroyed by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, the newspaper said, and a French copy by that government. The Israeli copy that has survived was signed by then-prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. Under the scheme, the Israelis attacked Egyptian positions near the Suez Canal, then Britain and France called on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to allow their forces into the area to ensure safe passage for ships. Given the Egyptian leader's strong nationalism, France and Britain knew that Nasser would refuse. When he did, the Israelis bombed Egypt, which was invaded by France and Britain. The protocol also documents that Eden later lied to Parliament when he denied any knowledge of Israelis' plans, the newspaper said. 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] *NEW* Is income tax legal? *NEW*
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_franke/19990709_xcdfr_is_income_.shtml FRIDAY JULY 09 1999 THE POWER TO DESTROY Is income tax legal? Evidence suggests 16th Amendment never ratified Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on the validity of the income tax. By David Franke © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- Evidence strongly suggests that the 16th Amendment, which establishes the income tax, was not approved properly as required by the Constitution and was fraudulently ratified. "If this evidence is true, the income tax is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," says Robert L. Schulz. Schulz is head of We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc., a New York state-based organization that hosted a symposium in Washington last week on the topic, "Are the Income and Social Security Taxes Legal?" The foundation twice sent registered letters to President Clinton, Senate President Pro Tempore Trent Lott, and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, as well as the Internal Revenue Service, asking them to send representatives to the symposium who could explain the government's case for the legality of the income tax. They received no response, much less a speaker, but part of the conference was covered by C-SPAN and that resulted in hundreds of friendly responses from viewers. A key speaker at the symposium was William J. Benson, author of a two-volume investigative report on the ratification of the 16th Amendment entitled "The Law That Never Was." Benson was a special agent with the Illinois Department of Revenue for 10 years. He was fired after uncovering evidence of corruption in the agency. It took more than six years to get his case into a federal court, but the jury awarded him "a large amount," he says, for violations of his First Amendment rights. What followed his victory is an even more amazing story. Benson delved into the history of the federal income tax -- the granddaddy of the state income taxes -- and became suspicious. He noted irregularities in the ratification of the 16th Amendment and pressed on in his research. That research took him to the archives in the state capitals of each of the 48 states that were part of the United States in 1913, when the 16th Amendment was passed by the Congress. The Constitution requires ratification of amendments by three-fourths of the states, and Benson's meticulous research says this was never properly done. Secretary of State Philander Knox declared the amendment ratified on the basis of a report from his solicitor, but that report was "fraudulent," says Benson. In each state archive, Benson uncovered the records of that state's consideration of the proposed amendment. To present a legally acceptable case "you must have documents that are notarized and certified," he explains. "Otherwise they're considered hearsay in court." All total, Benson collected 17,000 documents, all properly notarized and certified by officials of the states. And what they reveal is shocking. The ratification required by at least 36 states -- three-fourths of the 48 states then in existence -- has to be identical to the amendment passed by Congress. Benson cites federal documents affirming that for state approval to be acceptable, neither words nor punctuation can be changed. And the states may not violate their own state constitutions in ratifying the amendment. Of the 48 states, here's the story: Eight states (Rhode Island, Utah, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Florida, Virginia and Pennsylvania) did not approve or ratify the amendment. Texas and Louisiana were forbidden by their own state constitutions to empower the federal government to tax. Vermont and Massachusetts rejected the amendment with a recorded vote count, and only later declared it passed without a recorded vote after the amendment was declared ratified by Knox. Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, California and Washington violated their state constitutions in their ratification procedures. Minnesota did not send any copy of its resolution to Knox, let alone a signed and sealed one, as required. And Oklahoma, Georgia and Illinois made unacceptable changes in wording. (Some of the above states also made such changes, in addition to their other unacceptable procedures.) Take 48 states, deduct these 21, and you have proper ratification by only 27 states -- far less than the required 36. Benson's story doesn't end with the compilation and publication of his research. As expected, his evidence that our present system of government is based on a fraud did not get a friendly reception in Washington. Benson says a senatorial aide attempted to bribe him. Suppress all copies of your books, he was told, and "you will live in comfort for the rest of your life." Benson didn't
[CTRL] And Hulk Hogan, for Vice President.
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/ "Truth will ultimately prevail where there be pains taken to bring it to light." --- George Washington The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. --- P.J. O'Rourke Sir Rudyard's reasoned rhymes still rule in America. If Kipling were now in the Colonies, he might add these verses to his classic: When Billy was of draft age, Southeast Asia was the cause; Tho' Uncle called, he ducked it without a moment's pause. Now 'e's safe within the White House, the artful dodger yet, Impeachment proof an' O so brave, when Kosovo's the bet. For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that, but when Billy needs a boost, 'E throws Tommy to the lions, to keep the chickens off the roost. An' it's Tommy this an' Tommy that an' any war's OK As long as it's not Billy boy they're chuckin' in harm's way. --- From the heart of a vet, J.D. Wetterling Bard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colleen Jones) I have decided this is my choice for President.. And Hulk Hogan, for Vice President. Colleen --- ONElist Sponsor ONElist: your connection to like-minds and kindred spirits. Freedom is never Free
[CTRL] JUST A TEST !!!!!
-Caveat Lector- TEST 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] on vacation
-Caveat Lector- I'll be away for a week or so playing Rock Music with my band in Europe. I hope that everyone hangs in there, ps: Discovered that the name CLINTON reveals a deadly secret Creepy Lizard Invasion Non Terrestrial Organisms Now 'goodbye america I love you ... don't you know me I'm your native son ..' 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] Sovereignty
-Caveat Lector- They are al working toward the same goal and following the same guide book. It does not matter at all who is sitting on the court nor who appointed them. The fact that Clinton has all but endorsed GWBushJr should speak volumes. The game plan is put into play when the laws are originally enacted by "our" legislators. When have we seen a truly surprising ruling by the supreme court? I have not been surprised in recent memory. Amelia - Original Message - From: Prudence L. Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Sovereignty -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/10/1999 5:33:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 99-07-08 18:13:36 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rights have meaning only if there is a remedy for their violation. The Supreme Court's deecisions mean that there is no remedy against state governments even when they violate rights created by federal law. The Bill of Rights is a FEDERAL document, is it not? Kiss your rights goodbye ... Let's hear it for devolution --dis-integration-- here in the newly dis-United States. I see you've been studying the latest decisions of the Rehnquist Court. I hate to say it, but I think what you say is truer than I would like it to be. And just think, the Reagan/Bush Supreme Court has years to go before anyone is likely to die or retire. Wait until they've had another couple of years to accomplish their ends. Prudy 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] Draft-dodging rapist liar Clinton Uses IRS To Punish Critics
-Caveat Lector- (scroll slowly to the Main Post, so you don't miss these goodies) "FREE SPEECH! Use it, or lose it!" --- Ken Hamblin http://www.hamblin.com/ "Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?" --- Doug Quirmbach, Moderator The Awakening Lions List "The President...He is an unusually good liar." --- Sen. Kerry (D-Neb.) "Woe to those who decree unjust statutes and to those who continually record unjust decisions, to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor of My people of their rights..." Isaiah 10 vs 1-2 "If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign." --- Bill Clinton, July 1974 "The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not." --- Hillary Clinton - 1992 60 Minutes interview "In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." --- attr. George Orwell - July 1999 PUBLISHER'S PAGE My Open Letter To Mel White http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/publisherspage1.htm (A gay minister named Mel White is circulating an open letter to Jerry Falwell, demanding that I stop preaching that homosexuality is sin. He says that he plans to circulate several such open letters. If I do not comply with his wishes, he then threatens to lead a Ghandi type movement against me nationally.) CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM Christians Must Remain Involved http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/activism.htm WASHINGTON CONFIDENTIAL http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/wc.htm THE GAY AGENDA It's Elementary: The New Gay Public Education Outreach http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/Gay1.htm THE FAMILY Take Back America http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/staver.htm Falwell: Take Back Our Children http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/family1.htm We Need An Army of Attorneys To Take Back America http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/staver2.htm SCHOOL VIOLENCE Father of Slain Student Tells Congress: "Leave NRA Alone" http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/schoolviolence.htm SEXUAL POLITICS APA Apologizes Under Pressure Over 'Adult-Child Sex' Study http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/sexualpolitics.htm THE MEDIA Listen America With Jerry Falwell http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/themedia.htm THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE Clinton Names Openly-Gay Hormel to Ambassador Post http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/politics.htm THE ABORTION LEGACY The Big Cruel Lie http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/abortion.htm === TA DA!! You finally reached the Main Post: Clinton Uses IRS To Punish Critics by Larry Klayman Judicial Watch Imagine you founded an organization dedicated to the preservation of basic principles upon which this country has thrived. Issues like individual freedom, personal responsibility, and ethics in journalism. Not horrible terms, and not even so much because you wanted to antagonize those who didn t share your view; rather, because you firmly believed in these principles as a means by which an orderly society should function. Imagine then if you lived under a government which didnt share your principles, and because they didnt, they decided -- as arbitrarily as you would choose a movie -- that they would send an investigatory body like the IRS into your offices to interrogate you without cause. Try to envision a group of these detached individuals camped in your office, rifling through your personal papers, admitting to you that it was a political inquiry, and then making claims to be compiled into formal charges against you. What you ve just heard is what the Western Journalism Center went through with its own government -- the Clinton Administration. Perhaps one of the most startling and disturbing accounts of the Nixon Presidency, beyond Water-gate itself, was Nixon, on tape, discussing with chilling detachment, plans to use the IRS to threaten political opponents. In 1974, this was a landmark and most egregious breach of the public trust. Today, despite the Clintons systematic testing of Americans threshold of tolerance, the song does, and must, remain the same. The story of the Western Journalism center started with a simple, if bulky, White House document and ended in a $10 million lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the IRS for abuse of power. Like any good story, it takes the requisite twists and turns, often leaving the viewer or reader befuddled as to how people placed in a position of trust can bring themselves to act as they do. The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce, a 331-page manifesto
Re: [CTRL] FBI Reaching out to Militia Groups
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/11/1999 3:36:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ``I think you're seeing it throughout the communities, law enforcement trying to reach out and say, 'We're human beings, too,''' said FBI spokesman Bill Crowley, who is an agent in the Pittsburgh, Pa., office. ``The idea we're pushing is that it's not a crime to be a member of the militia, or to be an FBI agent, for that matter.'' I'm truly amazed that first we have Ruby Ridge and then the FBI reaching out to militia groups. The juxtaposition of these two matters is mind boggling. Prud 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] U.S. To Send Envoy to Cuba
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/11/1999 3:37:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration has given the U.S. Chamber of Commerce approval to send its president, Tom Donahue, to Cuba this week to promote private enterprise, the White House said Sunday. About time. Prudy 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] BE COUNTED!! Should the draft be reinstated? [WND Survey]
-Caveat Lector- Only if it includes the politicians and the wealthy plutocrats who actually start the wars. Jamieson On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Bard wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.becounted.com/ Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. --- Unknown Bard 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 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] War on Poverty Yields Few Victories
-Caveat Lector- Joshua2 wrote: "Instead of a war on poverty, we should declare war on big business." I agree if you mean corporate business" "The state is not the problem. Capitalism and businessmen are the problem." The State creates the problem by giving privileges to big business. The word capitalism means many things to many people...if you mean mercantilism you're right. Robert Paul 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] War on Poverty Yields Few Victories
-Caveat Lector- William Hugh Tunstall wrote: "If there is not a massive restructuring, we're going to see a repeat of the kind of social unrest we saw back in the sixties..." That's what we need except most will argue for more statism, the very poison that creates poverty. Robert Paul 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] War on Poverty Yields Few Victories
-Caveat Lector- Piper wrote: "To imply that they are Capitalist. The only thing that some of those politicians have capitalized on is other peoples thoughts and work." Most people have no idea what capitalism is...that ideology has been defined mostly by it's enemies and incompetent supporters. I'd rather use the word free enterprisea separation of state and economics with privileges for none. With un-alienable rights for all instead of regulatable, taxable privileges and licenses. Robert Paul 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] War on Poverty Yields Few Victories
-Caveat Lector- Bob Stokes wrote: "When you look even further the bankers control the Corporations with their money." This is true, but... "Convert the Federal Reserve from a private institution to a bank for the United States" To give that bank a state sanctioned monopoly would still leave power in the hands of the Plutocracy. "and the Corporations will be put in their place" We can put them in their place by ending limited liability and other privileges. "Then, make it illegal for lawyers to hold office" There would be no problem with "liars" holding office if you took away their monopoly and excluded them from legislative or executive office. "the shares will go to the workers," The shares should go to the investors not to political beneficiaries. "eliminate the IRS and have a flat 10% sales tax on everything" Let's just eliminate the IRS and cut government down to size. The constitution provides for all the necessary taxation to support proper government. Robert Paul 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] Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies? [Posse Comitatus Act]
-Caveat Lector- "Can Soldiers Be Peace Officers? The Waco Disaster and The Militarization of American Law Enforcement" by David B. Kopel and Paul M. Blackman One of the most significant trends of federal law enforcement in the last fifteen years has been its militarization. The logical, perhaps inevitable, consequence of that militarization was seen in the disaster at Waco, Texas, resulting in the deaths of four federal agents, and seventy-six other men, women, and children. In this article, we use the Waco tragedy as a starting point to examine the militarization of federal law enforcement, and similar trends at the state and local level. Part Two of this article sets forth the details and rationale of the Posse Comitatus Act--the 1878 law forbidding use of the military in law enforcement. Part Three explicates how that Act was eroded by the drug war in the 1980s. The article then discusses how the drug exception to the Posse Comitatus Act was used to procure major military support for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) raid against the Branch Davidians--even though there was no real drug evidence against them--and how the drug exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act [ http://www.posse-comitatus.org/ ] have made such abuses endemic. Part Four examines the fifty-one day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian residence, with a focus on the destructive role played by the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, an essentially military force which has proved counterproductive in a civilian law enforcement context.(p.620) In Part Five we look at the problem of groupthink, its role in the Waco tragedy, and the importance of keeping groupthink-prone institutions--like the military--out of law enforcement. Finally, Part Six offers a broader view of the problem of the militarization of federal law enforcement. We examine the proliferation of federal paramilitary units and federal efforts to promote the militarization of state and local law enforcement. After explaining the direct connection between the drug "war" and law enforcement militarization, we propose numerous statutory remedies to demilitarize law enforcement. Soldiers are not peace officers. At all levels of policing, it is time that police officers be restored to their honored status as peace officers. Police ethicist John Kleinig notes: "Were police to see themselves primarily as social peace-keepers, they would be less inclined to 'overkill' in their dealings with both ordinary citizens and those whose disruptive activities properly require their intervention."[186] To help prevent future Wacos, and the needless loss of life of law enforcement personnel and other persons, law enforcement in the United States should be demilitarized. Cicero's advice to the Roman republic, "Let the soldier give way to the civilian,"[187] must be heeded by those who are intent on preserving the American republic, and the rule of civil law. Read the entire Article, at: http://www.2ndlawlib.org/other/kbmilpol.html#h2 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
Re: [CTRL] Should homosexuals who areHIV-negative
-Caveat Lector- Wonder what this guy does that is so intresting that the Doctor it pumping him to tell by giving him these juicy tibits. So sorry to disappoint you.it was in a room full of people at a party and few doctors were sharing some emergency room stories. And we all had a good laugh at the expense of a few local homos who have nothing better to do than deplete the stock of gerbils at the local pet shops. 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] Canadian victims of CIA brainwashing experiments, Orlikow, et al. v. US
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Conspiracy Theory Research List) Here's some info, Sincerely, Neil Brick http://www.radix.net/~jcturner/anat-1.html Foreword Our courts serve us best when the law advances the public interest. Occasionally this happens in suits brought solely to protect a private party's personal interest, but more often progress is made through a test case brought and designed to further both public and private goals. Our decade long fight to secure redress for the Canadian victims of CIA brainwashing experiments, Orlikow, et al. v. United States,1 is an example of such a public interest litigation. But this case involving the CIA goes far beyond the typical public interest litigation precisely because it addresses an area of lawbreaking where normal political and legal remedies are not available. As the late Senator Frank Church concluded, after leading the congressional investigation of the CIA's improper activities in the 1950s and 1960s, that agency was "a rogue elephant" operating outside the law and protected by a shroud of secrecy. This is an account of that rogue elephant's reckless experimentation upon unwitting Canadian citizens, as well as the story of a public interest litigation against an opponent of immense power and dubious purpose. The forty years since 1950 have been an unprecedented period of national security hysteria fueled by the likes of the Dulles brothers, Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Helms, and implemented through repressive measures enacted by the state and federal legislatures. In the course of this hysteria, individual liberties have too often been sacrificed in the name of national security. During this period, federal court decisions have occasionally restored liberties and protected traditional constitutional values, but these judicial successes have been few and far between. The clash between liberty and national security has never been as stark as in the inhumane and illegal sponsorship of the Canadian brainwashing experiments by our most powerful national intelligence agency -- an institution that was created to protect and to preserve the very freedoms that were so devastated in those irresponsible experiments. After years of effort, vindication was won through the payment of nearly a million dollars to the CIA's victims by the governments of the United States and Canada in response to the federal suit. This review of the CIA's actions in the United States and Canada demonstrates how completely unprincipled was the Agency's original brainwashing program, as well as its course of legal manoeuvers years later when it was required to answer for its misconduct. The story of the brainwashing suit and the barriers that were overcome before the CIA's victims were finally compensated, illustrates both the formidable hurdles presented and the unique satisfactions gleaned in a public interest law suit. __ 1 682 F. Supp. 77 (D.D.C. 1988) (Civ. No. 80-3163) 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] Masonry Beyond the Light by William Schnoebelen.
-Caveat Lector- Here's some info on the Masons, Sincerely, Neil Brick Book Review The following article is about the book, "Masonry Beyond the Light" by William Schnoebelen, ordering information follows the article. Warning: Excerpts from the book may be triggering, please use caution while reading this article. Though the book is Christian based and contains quotes from the Bible, I believe the information is well researched. (Please note: all accusations are alleged.) After buying a book called "The God Makers." Mr. Schnoebelen realized that "in the chapters on the Mormon temple, the authors brilliantly drew parallels between the temple rites and Freemasonry it showed the occult and Luciferian roots of ... convincing me of both the Mormon cult's falsity and the Masonic lodge's peril. The book provided me with a starting place to begin some serious research into the dangers of the Lodge. My own background in occultism, witchcraft and even Satanism... provided me with a comprehensive knowledge of occult and esoteric (hidden, high level) Masonry and ceremonial magick." "Additionally, I was deeply involved in American Masonry for over nine years and went through both Scottish and York Rite bodies, the Mystic Shrine and the Order of the Eastern Star. I held offices in a half-dozen Masonic bodies... each of these offices demanded a high degree of zealous involvement, memory work and study. " (Page 17) The author mentions that he will use as references for his book, "The Ritual Monitors," specifically "Duncan's Ritual Monitor" which is "substantially identical to the modern ritual work in Freemasonry." (page 25) He also used Authoritative Writings from largely 33rd degree Masons, information from the "Masonic Bible" and other Masonic writers. "If the lodge is just a "club", it would be harmless. Yet by all fair standards and by the words of its own scholars, it is a religion... One of the standards for Masonic admission is the belief in a supreme being. This is borne out by the "Ritual Monitor" Because Masonry requires the belief in a supreme being, it therefore has the first distinctive mark of a religion Does Masonry express this belief in conduct or ritual. The answer to this question is Yes. Masonry is highly ritualized, much more than most Christian churches. Lodge ceremonies are replete with prayers, funeral rites, and initiations... Masonic ritual experts from the Grand Lodge observe the ritual teams in action and critique them for minor infractions of either wording or gestureMasons conduct funerals, open and close every meeting with prayer..." (pages 32-33) The author also believes that Masonry has a code of ethics. "Solemn norms of behavior are enjoined upon every Mason... Masons are sworn to expect torturous death at the hands of their brother Masons as the immediate result of violating any of their rules... the Masonic belief system also includes: 1) The immortality of the soul. 2) The judgement of Masons by the labors they have wrought. 3) A belief in extending charity and beneficence to all, and especially to brother Masons..." (page 34-35) The author concludes that "Freemasonry bears all the distinctive features of a religion according to the dictionary!" (page 35) Mr. Schnoebelen also quotes two famous Masons. Albert Pike, a 33rd degree Mason said, "Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion and its teachings are instructions in religion." Albert Mackey, a 33rd degree Mason said, "The religion of Freemasonry is not Christianity." (Page 36) In a different chapter, he talks about his beliefs while he was a Mason. "When I applied for Lodge membership, I was a witch...I was stupid enough to think the witch god, Lucifer, was the supreme being So when two Masons name calling to check me out as a candidate, and asked me if I believed in God, I said yes, without hesitation knowing that my god was Lucifer... After a couple of years, I met two high ranking Masons who were worshipers of Lucifer. One was a famous ritualist in the York Rite, and one was a Master of a Lodge. (Page 45) God has different names in the Masonic Lodge. During the Royal Arch degree (York Rite) the name is JAH-BUL-ON. "JAH... represents the name Yahweh or Jehovah, the name of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob... BUL . . .represents the name Ba'al or Bel... the name of the god of Jezebel and Ahab, perhaps the most wicked couple ever to sit on the throne of Israel...ON.. represents the name of the Egyptian sun god... That is the god of Pharoah!" (page 57-58) In the degree of the Knights of East and West (17th degree) in the Scottish rite... there is a "sacred" .. This name is Abaddon 'And they had a king over then, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon (Revelation 9:ll)...these terms mean "destroyer" and the angel of the bottomless
[CTRL] Plea For Help Re: More NEW CYDOINA IMAGES (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- A quick fax would be nice, if for no other reason than out of respect and appreciation for all the hard work Jason has done for us over the last few years. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:26:36 -0700 From: Jason Martell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [*STAR*] 1999 NEW CYDOINA IMAGES The MGS spacecraft flew over the "famous" Cydonia landforms again--for the first time since April 1998--on June 27, 1999, at 10:53 UTC (Greenwich Time Zone). The new MOC images shown here provide the highest resolution view yet obtained of the "Cydonia city" landforms. http://www.msss.com/mars/global_surveyor/camera/images/7_8_99_cydonia/index.html However, This gives us, the public community, a perfect edge on timing to start faxing in your requests to NASA and Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. If enough people tell them to take images of Cydoina, we just might get lucky! The MGS camera is in perfect position to snap off more images of Cydoina. The power is in our hands to make some sort of noise about these issues! Please help us get more images of Cydoina with your faxes, emails, and phone calls. Jason Martell mars-earth.com [Image] = Kaddish, Kaddish, Kaddish, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = 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] History of the Hunley
-Caveat Lector- [Unable to display image] Hunley to rise again This article was written in 1995, shortly after the rediscovery of the Wreck of the Hunley. The historical information is still valid, hence the article remains available. For more details about the recovery project, please click here. The history of the Confederate Submarine Hunley and its rediscovery by Ray Taylor When the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic off Charleston Harbour in 1864, it became the first submarine ever to sink an enemy ship. Unfortunately for the crew, they did not live to enjoy their fame, and mystery still surrounds the sinking of their craft. Now, that mystery looks set to be solved with the recent discovery of a wreck that is almost certain to be the remains of the Hunley. A group of scientists from the University of South Carolina first became interested in the Hunley in 1980, when American explorer and author of Raise the Titanic Clive Cussler set out to locate various Civil War wrecks off Charleston Harbour. He used a device called a Magnetometer which was towed back and forth across the harbour to help locate any large metal objects on the sea bed. A magnetometer works by measuring the Earth's natural magnetic flux and then detecting any anomalies caused by large metal objects resting on the sea bed. A good operator can detect any object, and work out the approximate shape, using the instrument. With this process, Cussler managed to map the position of eight fairly large objects. But it wasn't until 1993 that the University invited Cussler to return to Charleston Harbour to help locate these sites a second time so that a team of divers could 'ground-truth' them. This they did in 1994, but without much success. However, says Chris Amer - who is head of underwater archaeology at the University - they did find some other iron-clads, included what remains of the wreck of the Housatonic. Cussler continued with his group to look for sizeable anomalies, dropping buoys over suitable sites, allowing a team of divers to investigate. By May 3rd this year, they had pinpointed the location of what Amer believes to be the remains of the Hunley. 'An underwater video shows what could be one of the turrets,' says Amer. The wreck lies a couple of feet under sediment but a small section has been exposed to show rivets and other features. Unfortunately, now that a section has been exposed, it is likely to deteriorate much faster. Amer is quick to point out that the wreck would not have been exposed but for an over-zealous diver. Further visits to the site of the Hunley have since allowed divers to work out an outline of the craft using long probes and metal detectors. On the basis that the exact shape of the object in the mud is a close match of drawings taken from contemporary eye-witness accounts of what the Hunley looked like, Amer is confident he has found what is left of the craft. In Amer's own words, 'if it looks like an elephant, smells like an elephant and tastes like an elephant, it is an elephant.' The next phase for Amer and his team, is to take identification a stage further. Given the delicate balance of chemical forces that has stabilised around the remains, the last thing anyone wants to do is to disturb the site. Instead, electronic systems will be used to provide an ever more detailed picture of the Hunley and its immediate environment - and this will be a joint effort between Amer's team, which will provide scientific expertise, and Cussler, who will put up a lot of the money and specialised equipment required. Next, Cussler's team will investigate the site with a sonar profiling craft known as the Cherub. This will be towed from the surface at a depth of about 5-feet above the sea bed, while on-board equipment will produce many different electronic profiles of the Hunley. When pieced together by computer, the result will be a fully three dimensional image of the craft, its contents and the surrounding material, with detail resolved down to two or three cm. It will be possible to view slices through the craft in much the same way as modern computer-aided tomography allows doctors to take visual slices of the body. The archaeological team is as much interested in the sediment deposits around the hull as with the hull itself, since the ability of divers to raise the Hunley will depend a lot on how well it has, or has not, been preserved. 'We are hoping it can show the differences in sediment structure and determine the amount of corrosion,' says Amer. This will show how much metal is left. 'If there is a lot of metal there we can hook some slings under it and pull the thing up,' he says. Once this survey has been completed, Amer will pass on the results to various teams of specialists who will help assess the results to decide ,firstly, if the remains are those of the Hunley and secondly, to determine what condition they are in. There are several possibilities. At one end of
[CTRL] Fw: AANEWS for Sunday, July 11, 1999
-Caveat Lector- from: AMERICAN ATHEISTS subject: AANEWS for July 11, 1999 A M E R I C A N A T H E I S T S #606 ~~ 7/11/99 http://www.atheists.org ftp.atheists.org/pub/atheists/ http://www.americanatheist.org - A Service of AMERICAN ATHEISTS "Leading The Way For Atheist Civil Rights And The Separation Of State and Church" -- In This Issue... * Testimony concludes in Silverman discrimination hearing * Few in House expected to oppose RLPA * TheistWatch: Want big bucks? Do a religion-based study... * Resources * About this list... ARGUMENTS OVER, JUDGE WEIGHS DECISION IN SILVERMAN CASE Separation Activist Smeared By Team Lawyer For "Tawdry Little Spectacle" * It's all over but the verdict. That is the situation in a legal dispute pitting Pennsylvania atheist and First Amendment activist Carl Silverman against the Hagerstown Suns baseball team which, charges Silverman, discriminated in its promotion of a "church bulletin" discount night. Arguments in Silverman's case concluded late last month before Administrative Law Judge Georgia Brady, who could wait until mid-October before rendering a decision. Silverman is asking the court to end the six-year-old promotion which offers fans money off the regular admission ticket price to Suns' games if they produce a bulletin from a church. Arguing that the team is a "public accommodation," Silverman says that the practice discriminates against persons who might not have a religious belief. Silverman, a Pennsylvania resident, says that he to took his family to nearby Hagerstown, Maryland in April, 1998 to see the Class A minor league Suns play. On that day, the club was having a promotional "church bulletin" discount. "I informed the ticket clerk that, 'I'm not religious and I don't have a church bulletin.' " Silverman was then told that he would have to pay the full price of admission. He soon filed a "Charge of Discrimination" complaint with the Maryland Commission on Human Relations. The Commission agreed with Silverman and quietly suggested that the Suns drop their church promotion and settle the matter for a token fine. Team management became increasingly belligerent, though, and as the story spread on the news wires, religious groups expressed praise and support for the Hagerstown Suns. Suns General Manager David Blenckstone declared, "We have never required fans to have a religious affiliation to receive our special Sunday discount. We only ask that they provide a church bulletin." On June 12, 1998, the Commission issued a "Cease and Desist" order, and on July 29, 1998 ruled that there existed "probably cause" for a valid charge of religious discrimination against the Hagerstown Suns. Team management responded by promoting a "Faith Community Night," and announced that a portion of the receipts would be used for legal defense against Silverman and the MHRC. Suns players also began wearing an angel "halo" insignia on the uniforms. The hearing before Judge Brady began in late June, with Suns attorney Joseph A. Schwartz III suggesting that Mr. Silverman "targeted the team" after reading about the promotion. He accused the First Amendment activist of "wanting a controversy," adding further insult by declaring, "This is a pretty tawdry little spectacle of posturing, trying to set up a case." Schwartz then compared his clients to "the little engine that could" in standing up to Silverman, and opined that other forms of ball team discount promotions like Boy Scout nights or senior citizens discounts were in legal jeopardy as a result of the complaint. Under questioning, Silverman challenged the church bulletin promotion saying, "By publicly presenting a religious document that I don't agree with and don't subscribe to I'd be making a statement that I don't believe in..." Schwartz also suggested that Silverman could have gotten the discount by presenting a copy of an "atheistic newspaper" or some other item. The Suns' Director of Ticket Sales testified that he offered Mr. Silverman a copy of a church bulletin so he could obtain a discount. Silverman's attorney, Michael Berman, then asked to see the specific church bulletin in question, but was told that it had been discarded. He also question the claim, noting that previous accounts of the case contained no mention of Silverman being gratuitously offered a religious bulletin so he could get into the game at the discount price. The team's owner, Winston Blenckstone, told the hearing that Silverman or anyone else could have received the church bulletin discount by writing "nonreligious" on a blank piece of paper. The Hagerstown Herald-Mail newspaper observed that according to Blenckstone, "A broad definition of church bulletin has always been in effect." Michael Berman then
[CTRL] The Hunley - Read now
-Caveat Lector- Dear Friends: There is an excellent movie about a prototype submarine built by the Confederacy called the Hunley on TNT playing right now and it will play again once its finished. It's based on true story and is well acted and has a little bit of everything in it, war, love, suspence and surprising ending. God Bless; Bill 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] [SonsofLiberty] On 'White' Minorities
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: John Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why is everyone silent in view of ALL (and the emphasis is on ALL) Germans having lost it ALL by the end of WWII. Everything that every German owned It's called, "losing the war." To avoid getting screwed-over, don't lose wars. To avoid losing wars, don't start them. If your only apparent option is war, you've not been too clever. Rather than fighting [and possibly losing] a war yourself, be clever. Trick or bribe or frighten someone else to do the fighting. Conspire to let some other poor bastard die for a cause. WW II was initiated by the leaders of the Jewish World Congress: Ah, so the WJC encouraged Italy's adventure in Ethiopia, Italian and German support of Franco in Spain, Germany's annexation of Czech Sudentenland and invasion of Poland? And the WJC instigated Japan's invasions of Korea, China, Taiwan, Indochina? And since WWII was really just a continuation of WWI, then the WJC impelled the Serb assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and provoked the Balkan Wars that led up to WWI? Damn clever of them, eh? Ya sure, by golly. Ric "if name calling of Jews is jew-baiting, and name calling of Reds [communists] is red-baiting, then is name calling of Aryans [the master race] master-baiting?" Carter, curious... 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] Watergate Rising
-Caveat Lector- From www.insightmag.com/articles/story2.htm Beginning Just What Is a War Criminal? - --- By James P. Lucier - --- Jerome Zeifman, former Watergate committee counsel, has filed charges before the International Criminal Tribunal that threaten Bill Clinton with a war-crimes indictment. Picture: We have achieved a victory for a safer world, for our democratic values and for a stronger America Unnecessary conflict has been brought to a just and honorable conclusion," said President Clinton in his address from the Oval Office on June 10. . . . . Victory? "The decision to attack Yugoslavia [was] counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life [is] senseless and excessively brutal," wrote former President Jimmy Carter in a New York Times op-ed article on May 27. . . . . "The proposed deployment to Kosovo does not deal with any threat to American security as traditionally conceived," former secretary of state Henry Kissinger wrote in the Washington Post on Feb. 22, a month before the bombing campaign was unleashed. . . . . There is a pattern here, and it is creating concern on both left and right. "The armed forces of the United States have participated in nondefensive, aggressive military attacks on former Yugoslavia, which have not been necessary to defend the national security of the United States," writes Jerome Zeifman, former chief counsel for the House Watergate committee, in allegations seeking the indictment of Clinton and Secretary of Defense William Cohen for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. These formal legal documents have been submitted to the [U.N.-established] International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or ICTY, at The Hague. End of excerpt Text of Proposed IAE Indictment of President Clinton and Defense Secretary Cohen for War Crimes The full text is available on the IAE Website at www.iethical.com. AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 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] TV Guide: The Hunley
-Caveat Lector- On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Bill Richer wrote: There is an excellent movie about a prototype submarine built by the Confederacy called the Hunley on TNT playing right now and it will play again once its finished. It's based on true story and is well acted and has a little bit of everything in it, war, love, suspence and surprising ending. Here's what TV Guide writes: The Hunley 120 min. Fact-based account of the submarine CSS Hunley's 1864 siege of Charleston. Cast: Armand Assante, Donald Sutherland Rating: TV-14 Category: Other, Action, Adventure, Drama, Movie Originating Country: USA Release Year: 1999 Date Time Channel Sun 11 7:00 PM 26 TNT Sun 11 9:00 PM 26 TNT Wed 14 5:00 PM 26 TNT Sat 17 3:00 PM 26 TNT Sun 18 10:00 AM 26 TNT = Kaddish, Kaddish, Kaddish, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = 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] Raw Power
-Caveat Lector- From www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Jul/11/opinion/RUBIN11.htm Trudy Rubin / Worldview Much of world sees Kosovo war as a show of raw American power TETOVO, MACEDONIA - Americans were told the war in Kosovo was a humanitarian struggle to prevent the murder and expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. But ask the leading ethnic Albanian politician in neighboring Macedonia, where hundreds of thousands of Kosovar refugees took shelter, and he sees things very differently. Arben Jaffari, ally of Kosovo leaders and spokesman for the large number of ethnic Albanians in Macedonia, believes the war was about power, pure and simple. "It proves there is a new relationship between global forces and that NATO is on top," he tells me. "The war tested weapons, it tested political loyalties, it showed that the Russians have nothing to offer," he says with relish, sitting in his political office in this all-Albanian town. Jafferi is busy writing an article entitled "The Kosovo war: leading the world towards a new century." Welcome to the real world. We think we bombed to save Albanians' lives, but they think we bombed to show who really runs the world. And they are not the only ones. Much of the world is busy trying to assess the meaning of NATO's bombing campaign to the 21th century world. They care little for the irony that NATO bumbled into the war, believing that Yugoslavia would give in within days. They see the war as a victory for raw American power. After all, three-quarters of the missions were flown by Americans. Only European leaders endorse the argument that NATO intervention was humanitarian. Other parts of the world are more likely to assume some deeper geopolitical motive. The Chinese think we bombed their embassy to show who was boss. Russian resentment of a perceived NATO dictate is plain in Pristina. Commanders of the 700 Russian troops who dashed to take the airport ahead of NATO have sulked to themselves, refusing to send a liaison to the media center in downtown Pristina run by KFOR (the predominantly NATO force in Kosovo). Russian generals in Moscow are said to believe that NATO is redefining Europe's power balance, outflanking Russia to the south by basing 50,000 troops in the Balkans and contemplating the accession of several new Balkan members to NATO. So it will be instructive to see how the 3,600 Russians scheduled to deploy in Kosovo relate to U.S., French, and German commanders within whose sectors they will be based. Two thousand Russians will soon arrive inside the American sector. Will they play by NATO's rules? Gen. John Craddock, U.S. commander within Kosovo, says he believes the terms governing the Russian presence are clear: "I'll tell them what they can and cannot do. I have tactical control." But will Russians commanders on the ground obey Craddock or follow their own interests? Already, Russian commanders say they won't arrest suspected Serbian war criminals in Kosovo. NATO-Russian military relationships in Kosovo will reveal whether Moscow still wants to cooperate with the western alliance. The Europeans, too, have had strong reactions to the U.S.-led bombing campaign. Dismayed at the technology gap between European and U.S. forces, they are determined to prove that their militaries of are ready for prime time. The British have taken the lead, led by the tough Gen. Mike Jackson, who is the commander of KFOR. They have the biggest force, at 13,000, and play tough. They are happy to run the show if U.S. politics dictate that U.S. forces should take a backseat, running the quietest of the five Kosovar zones, in the southeast. But pacifying Kosovo, after the war's end, doesn't prove European troops can match the Americans. That will take bigger defense budgets, which European publics don't support. Moroever, the Europeans have taken on other huge challenges in Kosovo, in an effort to demonstrate political strength. Along with the United Nations, they've pledged to set up civilian government in Kosovo, and to reconstruct Balkan economies. In effect, they have pledged to do for the Balkans what the United States did for them with the post-World War II Marshall Plan. This is a tall order. It's not clear that European governments have the will or the wallet. If they don't, it may dash British and French hopes that the European Union can become more of a political and military force. So consider Kosovo a power testing ground, where challengers jockey to narrow the U.S. lead. - --- Trudy Rubin's column appears on Wednesdays and Fridays. Her e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Picture - ---Inquirer | Search | Classifieds | Yellow Pages | Money| Technology| HOME team | Health | Philly Life | Headbone Zone | Video | Site Index
Re: [CTRL] BE COUNTED!! Should the draft be reinstated? [WND Survey]
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 7/11/99 5:18:05 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. it is easier to stab someone in the back than it is to look them in the eyes. society is built upon this principle; and it is universal among those who rule. how can you put so much faith and hope in peace, when the only future it has to offer is war ? -Joshua A. Galle guard yourself with the weapons of knowledge, and the armor of wisdom. victory is won as much through strength of mind and will, as through brawn and steel. 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] BE COUNTED!! Should the draft be reinstated? [WND Sur...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 7/11/99 5:22:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Only if it includes the politicians and the wealthy plutocrats who actually start the wars. And the sons who are all too often protected through bribery 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] BE COUNTED!! Should the draft be reinstated? [WND Sur...
-Caveat Lector- Don't forget their daughters! Jamieson On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, DIG Anonymous wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 7/11/99 5:22:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Only if it includes the politicians and the wealthy plutocrats who actually start the wars. And the sons who are all too often protected through bribery 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] Letter of the [LAW]
-Caveat Lector- LIBERTY LAW - CROSS THE BAR MAKE YOUR PLEA - FIRST VIRTUAL COURT, USA Presiding JOP: William Gordon, Constable: Robert Happy, Clerk: Kerry Rushing Go to the USC annotated or regular USC and the proof is there in front of your eyes for all to see in the front part of the code. Here is how they tell us that the bill of rights is DEAD in the private law of theirs - United States Code. BILL OF RIGHTS AND AMENDMENTS Article [I] Article [II] Article [III] ect. Article [XII] Article XIII Article XIV Article XV Article XVI Article [XVII] Article [XVIII] ect. Here it is right in front for all to see. Articles I-XII are in BRACKETS Articles XIII to XVI are NOT IN BRACKETS Article XVII are in BRACKETS So the United States Constitution, not the constitution of the United States of America is the slavery (XIII), 14th amendment (one man's constitution), 15th (voting) and 16th (IRS). Nice constitution for the sheeple. Brackets in the law are for information ONLY or deletions. There ARE NOT PART OF THE DOCUMENT. You can verify this by the government style manual, legal secretary manuals, dictionaries, etc. The Constitution, Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and Articles of Confederation have the titles changed in USC. They print this, make it "legal" and we must learn to read!!! In Alaska, the document has been changed from "Constitution of the State of Alaska" to "The Constitution of the State of Alaska". Note the addition of the word "The". 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] Oil Popline
-Caveat Lector- From NewsUnlimited (TheGuardian) Oil pipeline disaster 'imminent' Michael Sean Gillard, Andrew Rowell and Melissa Jones Monday July 12, 1999 An ecological disaster far worse than the Exxon Valdez catastrophe in Alaska 10 years ago could happen at any moment, according to six senior employees of the company that runs the 800-mile Alaskan oil pipeline. The six whistleblowers have written to BP Amoco's chief executive, Sir John Browne, and three US congressmen warning of an imminent threat to human life and the Alaskan environment from irresponsible oil operations there. The letter contains evidence of compliance failures, falsified safety and inspection records, intimidation of workers and persistent violations of procedures and government regulations. The whistleblowers fear a possible rupture of the ageing pipeline or an explosion at the Valdez oil tanker terminal. BP Amoco owns 50% of the company, Alyeska, which operates both installations on its behalf. The Exxon Valdez disaster was one of the most ecologically destructive spills ever. The Alaska state government blamed oil industry complacency and broken promises. The whistleblowers, all senior employees on the 22-year-old Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (Taps), believe conditions exist today for an even worse disaster. "It's not a matter of if it is going to happen, it's when it is going to happen," said one. The group provided the Guardian with evidence of compliance failures, illegalities and mismanagement: Alyeska's quality assurance programme, vital to the safe operation of Taps, is being deliberately undermined by middle management. Alyeska executives turn a blind eye to "the culture of harassment, intimidation, retaliation and discrimination". Alyeska executive management instructed middle managers not to issue critical audit reports of Taps safety and quality compliance because it could "negatively influence" their employment prospects. Alyeska executive management instructed middle managers "to disregard and/or circumvent" compliance manuals and codes of conduct and to "tone down, alter or delete negative reports including internal audits and surveillance reports". Maintenance and inspection records before 1996 are lost and audit results were falsified to make it seem otherwise. Record keeping is "totally dysfunctional" and Alyeska executive management is hiding the problem from government regulators. The six whistleblowers are risking their careers. They say they represent a much bigger group of concerned employees who are too afraid to speak out because of an embedded "shoot the messenger" culture in the Alaskan oil industry. The scandal is a blow to Sir John, who has spent two years repositioning BP as the leading "green" oil and gas company. The letter demands "immediate intervention" by the chief executive and the US government to "send credible and qualified auditors to verify the evidence" that the whistleblowers are willing to provide. The Guardian has established that senior executives in Alaska were made aware of many of these problems. But the group says Alyeska is gambling with people's lives and the environment by not addressing the problems. "It's more dangerous now than it ever was because Alyeska is being run by spin doctors," said one whistleblower. The last time senior Taps inspectors blew the whistle, in 1993, there was a congressional investigation in Washington. An audit questioned the integrity and safety of the pipeline, which carries 1m barrels of oil a day. BP Amoco and Alyeska's other main owners, Exxon and Arco, were told to address the many "imminent threats" identified by the auditors. Six years later, the whistleblowers say these safety issues have been "consistently disregarded". Last night no one from BP Amoco was available to comment. This latest scandal could threaten BP Amoco's proposed merger with the US oil giant Arco, announced last April. The $26bn deal would give the company a near monopoly in Alaska with 74% of the oil fields and 72% of the pipeline. However, the merger is under anti-trust investigation by the European Commission - with a decision due in October - and by the US senate. Environmental and safety considerations could now be used by political and environmental lobbyists to frustrate the merger. This is especially so in Alaska, where Alyeska's licence to operate the pipeline is also under government review. In Britain, safety concerns have been raised in the North Sea, where BP Amoco is the largest producer. Charles Woolfson, a senior lecturer in industrial relations at Glasgow University, said cost-cutting across the oil industry was creating the conditions for another Piper Alpha disaster. "Testimony from offshore workers suggests they feel safety is being compromised," he said. "The Exxon Valdez didn't happen out of the blue. There were serious
[CTRL] Economic Chaos Benefits
-Caveat Lector- From www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/current.htm Masterstroke: Who Benefits from World Economic Chaos Picture By SUSAN BRYCE While the Packer and Murdoch controlled media keep Australians updated on corrupt IOC officials and cricket scandals, and we digest the latest information about the Clinton presidential penis over our soggy breakfast corn flakes, the world economic crisis is pushed to the back of editorial agendas. The International Monetary Fund is set to undergo some of the most sweeping reforms in its history and the benefactors will be the worlds largest financial institutions. Meanwhile the Australian government slavishly pushes ahead with structural adjustments, fuelling the hungry fires of the globalisation juggernaut as our hard won freedoms are traded for the IMFs economic disasters. The myths of globalisation have been fully exposed and debunked in the wake of the Asian financial collapse, the ongoing disintegration of the Russian economy, and the recent shocks in Latin America. "Instead of economic prosperity and social stability that it promised for all nations, globalisation has brought economic turmoil, political and social tension, and widespread devastation to the worlds peoples and resources."1 In the wash up from this debacle, the winners are the purveyors of globalisation: the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a group of about six international banks. The world economic crisis being experienced at present is a masterstroke for the funny money people at the IMF and a financial coup détat for the international banks. Basking in the glory of "saving" the Asian economies, the IMF is currently waging a campaign based on fear of further economic calamity, to institute a series of sweeping changes to its charter. The IMF wants an amendment to its Articles of Agreement that would make promoting unfettered capital movements one of the purposes of the IMF and to extend Fund jurisdiction over such movements. This amendment would effectively give the IMF the authority to regulate national investment policies, with an eye towards eliminating any restrictions on capital flows. It is a back door attempt to achieve the aims of the OECD inspired Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), which was stopped by citizen opposition.2 As part of its ongoing campaign to achieve these amendments, the Managing Director of the IMF Michel Camdessus, is openly advocating increased trade liberalisation, prodding countries to open up their economies, more than ever before, to foreign capital. Camdessus told the National Press Club in Washington on April 2, 1998, the IMF will encourage member countries "to liberalise capital flows in a prudent and properly sequenced way that will maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of freer capital movements. To this end, work is under way on an amendment to the IMFs charter that would make the liberalization of capital movements one of the purposes of the Fund, and extend its jurisdiction to capital movements," Camdessus said. The premature liberalisation of capital markets pushed by the IMF is one of the main causes of the Asian crisis. It was financial market "reform" that allowed Thai, South Korean and Indonesian banks to tap into short-term international loans in the early 1990s. Hundreds of billions of dollars in loans flooded in as the factories of the Asian tiger economies increased their exports to phenomenal levels, fuelling a decade of rapid growth. Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia were left smothered in bad debts, preventing companies from getting working capital to keep producing. When the Thai baht was devalued by 40%, the countrys unrepayable foreign debts, low level of foreign reserves, heavy deficits and open financial exchanges spearheaded its decline into economic abyss. South Korea and Indonesia suffered a similar fate. A cartel of international banks including BankAmerica, Citibank, Chase Manhattan, J.P. Morgan, Bankers Trust, Bank of New York, the First National Bank of Chicago and Morgan Guaranty with upward of US$20 billion in loan exposures in South Korea3,4, were bailed out to the tune of US$35 billion. The IMF acted as a free insurance broker as the foreign loans of international banks went bad. The standard operating procedure of the IMF is to bail out Wall Street and other lenders5, doling out harsh punishment to borrower countries, socialising the risk and privatising the profits. The IMFs Asian bailout conditions were dependent upon stringent compliance to the Fund's economic regime of Structural Adjustment Programmes. In return for the bailout, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea agreed to further open their economies to foreign investors and allow unprecedented Foreign Direct Investment in factories, agriculture, service operations (eg: tourism and banks), as well as portfolio investment in stocks, bonds and
[CTRL] Persistence of Class
-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Britain Blair denounces public sector workers to an audience of Venture Capitalists A man haunted by the persistence of class By Julie Hyland 12 July 1999 Back to screen version Prime Minister Blair took the opportunity of a speech July 6 to the Venture Capitalists Association conference in London to vent his spleen against public sector workers. Unveiling a £50m fund to back budding entrepreneurs, Blair said his Labour government wanted to be the "champion of entrepreneurs", and to bring about a "revolution" in peoples attitudes towards what he called the "front-line troops of Britain's new economy". "We need society as a whole to applaud you", he continued. In a departure from his prepared speech, Blair told the audience of speculators that British culture is "fundamentally anti-meritocratic." "Too often in Britain, if people saw someone with money, they were jealous of them, whereas in the US they wanted to emulate them". The years of "snobbery" against people making money was particularly entrenched in the public services, he went on. "Try getting change in the public sector and the public services. I bear the scars on my back after two years in government and heaven knows what it will be like after a bit longer. People in the public sector were more rooted to the concept that 'if it has always been done this way it must always be done this way' than any group of people I have come across." He would continue to try and "tear down the barriers to upward mobility" and help to change such "unhealthy" public attitudes, he pledged. Faced with an immediate barrage of criticismparticularly from public sector employeesBlair's spokesman attributed the Prime Minister's deviation to "stress". There is undoubtedly an element of truth in this. His outburst came amidst growing problems for the government in a number of areas. Blair was the most belligerent supporter of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. But the last weeks have exposed that, far from safeguarding Kosovar Albanians, NATO's actions inflamed ethnic conflicts within the region. Its aftermath has created a new wave of refugees and atrocities against Serbs and gypsies. In Northern Ireland, Blair's attempts to seal the so-called "peace process" through a combination of horse-trading, contradictory assurances and "deadline" ultimatums has yet to come to fruition. In Britain, mass abstentions in recent local government and European elections dealt a further blow to the Prime Minister who had sought to utilise them to establish his credentials as a popular leader. But Blair's attack on the public sector was specifically directed. As well as slashing spending, the government is attempting to push through their Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Under this scheme, the entire public sector is being put up for grabs to the highest bidder. Private contractors will build, own and operate a range of servicesincluding schools, hospitals, roads, etc. Blair, in his speech, offered the Venture Capitalists Association government money as an inducement for them to participate in this "risk-taking", but highly profitable, venture. He also promised them further opportunities in the telecommunications market and called on pension fund managers to stop being too cautious in investing in risk-taking ventures. An element of Blair's frustration is rooted in the mounting opposition to his government's attack on the public sector. Far from being resistant to change, public services have changed beyond recognition over the last two decades under both Tory and Labour administrations. Whilst Blair praised the "get rich quick" spirit, some five million public employees have faced an effective wage freeze that has left them amongst the poorest paid workers in Britain. More than 60 per cent of full-time workers now earn less than the average wage of £20,770 per annum. The average has been skewed upwards due to large increases for a small group of high earnersexecutive pay increased by 7 per cent and boardroom bonuses by 23 percent last yearand the exclusion from the survey of 6 million part-timers, who mostly earn less than £100 a week. The growing levels of inequality have greatly exacerbated social problems and placed further strains on public services. Labour's response is to blame public sector workers for "failing their consumers" and to starve them of cash. The resulting crisis is then used to legitimise privatisation. Millions of public sector employeeswho looked to Labour for salvation after two decades of Tory attacksregard the government's actions as a betrayal. At the British Medical Association (BMA) conference last week, doctors openly denounced Blair's policies and complained that their hopes that health care would be safe in Labour's hands had been "massively disappointed". Beleaguered on all sides, Blair
[CTRL] Human Development Report
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.undp.org/hdro/ HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1999 Globalization with a human face Global markets, global technology, global ideas and global solidarity can enrich the lives of people everywhere. The challenge is to ensure that the benefits are shared equitably and that this increasing interdependence works for peoplenot just for profits. This years Report argues that globalization is not new, but that the present era of globalization, driven by competitive global markets, is outpacing the governance of markets and the repercussions on people. Characterized by shrinking space, shrinking time and disappearing borders, globalization has swung open the door to opportunities. Breakthroughs in communications technologies and biotechnology, if directed for the needs of people, can bring advances for all of humankind. But markets can go too far and squeeze the non-market activities so vital for human development. Fiscal squeezes are constraining the provision of social services. A time squeeze is reducing the supply and quality of caring labour. And an incentive squeeze is harming the environment. Globalization is also increasing human insecurity as the spread of global crime, disease and financial volatility outpaces actions to tackle them. The Report recommends an agenda for action: reforms of global governance to ensure greater equity, new regional approaches to collective action and negotiation and national and local policies to capture opportunities in the global marketplace and translate them more equitably into human advance. In addition to the ranking of 174 countries on the human development index (HDI), this years Report presents a new table on trends in human development from 1975 to 1997 for 79 countries. This new table reveals that, overall, countries have made substantial progress in human development, but that the speed and extent of progress have been uneven. This Report also includes special contributions. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen describes the success of the human development index in bringing a human face to the assessment of development processes. Professor Paul Streeten gives a 10-year perspective on the Human Development Reports. And media magnate Ted Turner appeals for partnerships with the United Nations to face the new global challenges of our times. Human Development Report 1999 was prepared by a team of eminent economists and distinguished development professionals under the guidance of Richard Jolly, Special Adviser to the Administrator of UNDP, and Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Director of the Human Development Report Office. The panel of consultants included Adebayo Adedeji, Philip Alston, Galal Amin, Lourdes Arizpe, Isabella Bakker, Yusuf Bangura, David Bigman, Bob Deacon, Meghnad Desai, Nancy Folbre, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Gerry Helleiner, K. S. Jomo, Azizur Rahman Khan, Martin Khor Kok Peng, Jong-Wha Lee, Michael Lipton, Nguyuru Lipumba, Raisul Awal Mahmood, Ranjini Mazumdar, Süle Özler, Theodore Panayotou, Alejandro Ramirez, Mohan Rao, Changyong Rhee, Ewa Ruminska-Zimny, Arjun Sengupta, Victor Tokman, Albert Tuijnman and John Whalley. The 1999 Human Development Report will be launched on the 12th of July in London, UK. Ordering Information From http://www.undp.org/hdro/indicators.html This site lists all kinds of statistics -- listings for Industrial Countries: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS Statistics from the 1998 Human Development Report Human development index (All countries) Gender-related development index (All countries) Gender empowerment measure (All countries) Human poverty profile and index Women's access to education Women's participation in economic and political life Health profile Education profile Profile of people in work Unemployment Access to information and communications Social stress and social change Aid flows (disbursed) Aid flows (received) Military expenditure and resource use imbalances Financial inflows and outflows Growing urbanistaion Population trends Energy use Profile of environmental degradation Managing the environment National income accounts Trends in economic performance From IrishTimes Monday, July 12, 1999 Poverty here second worst in developed world - --- By Paul Cullen, Development Correspondent Ireland has the highest levels of poverty in the industrialised world outside the USA, according to a report from the United Nations published today. For the second year in a row, the Human Development Report ranks Ireland 16th out of 17 Western countries, with 15.3 per cent of the population living in "human poverty". For the first time in many years, Ireland has fallen in the main ranking of social progress used in the report prepared by the UN Development Programme. Ireland now ranks 20th of the 174
[CTRL] North Korean missile tests strain relations in Asia
-Caveat Lector- North Korean missile tests strain relations in Asia Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press By THOMAS WAGNER TOKYO (July 11, 1999 1:22 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Given North Korea's history of isolation and secrecy, it's never really possible to know what motivates its communist government, especially when it plays brinkmanship. But whatever North Korea hoped to achieve by stepping up its missile program, it has put China, its main ally, in a difficult diplomatic position and motivated East Asia and the United States to step up their military readiness. It all began last August, when North Korea surprised everyone by suddenly test-firing a new class of ballistic missile that flew across Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean. The Taepodong-1 missile is believed to be fairly inaccurate, and therefore not all that effective militarily. But the possibility of one hitting a city in Japan sent shockwaves through the country. The test also helped Japanese legislators adopt new defense guidelines to strengthen Tokyo's military alliance with the United States by expanding the role that Japanese forces are allowed to play while assisting U.S. forces in Asia. It was the first time the guidelines had been updated since 1978, something never easy to do in Japan, where military issues have been extremely sensitive since World War II. Besides the 50,000 U.S. forces based in Japan, the United States also guards the region with 36,000 in South Korea. In Washington, U.S. legislators quickly began using charts showing that Alaska and Hawaii could fall within range of North Korea's Taepodong-1 missile. And that information helped them build the support they needed to pass legislation approving the development of a new American missile defense system. Japan and the United States also agreed to fund a joint research project on a proposed Theater Missile Defense system in the Pacific. Taiwan said it would be interested in either buying or getting protection from such a missile defense shield. The whole plan has drawn bitter criticism from China. If North Korea had then redirected the world's attention away from its fledgling missile program and back toward its battered economy and famine, it probably could have quickly reduced tensions in the region. Pyongyang may even have persuaded Japan to resume food aid that it suspended after the first missile test. But since then, North Korea has indicated that it may be about to test-fire a more advanced Taepodong-2 missile, which might be able to reach as far as the west coast of the United States. U.S. and Japanese officials have said their forces have detected signs North Korea is preparing for such a launch. On July 2, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung visited Washington to meet with President Clinton to discuss this and other issues. The two warned North Korea that any further missile tests on its part would pose "a serious obstacle to peace." In late June, the Group of Eight issued a similar statement during its summit meeting in Germany, expressing deep concern about North Korea's missile proliferation. The G-8 leaders did so at the request of Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, the only Asian country that belongs to the group of industrial powers. North Korea replied by saying once again that testing ballistic missiles is its "sovereign right" and criticized the United States for suggesting that another launch would threaten its bilateral agreements with Pyongyang. Worse still, President Kim's spokesman said Wednesday that North Korea is building what appears to be a missile-launching base in the mountainous area of Yongjudon near the Chinese border. A South Korean newspaper said the site would be difficult for U.S. forces to attack because it's so close to Chinese territory. In addition to prompting countries such as South Korea and Taiwan to call for improvements in their own militaries - such as longer-range missiles and better missile defense systems - North Korea's behavior also has put China in a difficult position. China is North Korea's only remaining ally in Asia, even though Beijing long ago dropped many of the closed-market, hardline communist policies that Pyongyang still clings to. Since President Kim was elected 17 months ago, Beijing has publicly supported U.S. and South Korean efforts to expand peaceful contacts with North Korea. China has backed Kim's "sunshine policy" of social and economic engagement with North Korea and allowed peace talks between North and South Korea to be held in Beijing. But that was before NATO jets mistakenly bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during the fighting in Yugoslavia. That, and the Chinese spy scandal in the United States, have strained relations between the sole superpower and the rising power, and reduced Beijing's cooperation with the United States. State media have called the NATO attack, and the U.S.-Japan alliance, part of a Washington
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Sunday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990711a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 defibrillating divas were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW CYDONIA IMAGES. The MGS [Mars Global Surveyor] spacecraft flew over the "famous" Cydonia landforms again -- for the first time since April 1998 -- on June 27, 1999. The new MOC images shown here provide the highest resolution view yet obtained of the "Cydonia city" landforms. http://www.msss.com/mars/global_surveyor/camera/images/7_8_99_cydonia/ : Do Martian cities have the same problems as Earth cities - gangs, drugs, homelessness, congestion, crooked cops/politicos, alien abductions, smog? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Close Encounters of the Possession Kind. Psychologist William Baldwin Ph.D is one of many practitioners of a new therapy called spirit releasement, which is based on the notion that sometimes the spirits of the newly-dead, still addicted to an aspect of earthly existence (alcohol, smoking, fear, etc.), attach themselves to a living human with a similar addiction, and thereby compound the addiction in the human, often causing him or her sev- ere depression. Exorcism therapy: http://www.newpara.com/baldwin.html : Are you possessed by an addicted spirit? Does that make a good excuse? Are you depressed? Is this why? Is being possessed better than being alone? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New NIH Study Shows Marijuana Linked To Lethargy. The National Institute of Health [U.S.] released the results of a controversial new study today, one that links the drug marijuana to sitting around and getting high. The study, a comprehensive five-year survey of drug use among Americans, also suggests a possible connection between marijuana and getting baked off your ass. http://www.theonion.com/onion3001w/marijuana.html : Are you lethargic? Do you smoke pot? Is that a good excuse? Does cannabis muck with your alien implant? Does your implant slow you down? By how much? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AIR PRESSURE FALLS ON MIR. Russia's aging Mir space station has developed a problem which is causing air pressure to slowly drop but the three-man, Russian-French crew is in no immediate danger."There is no danger. The air pressure has been dropping for about two weeks. They are calmly trying to find what is causing the problem." The 13 year-old station is no longer hermetically sealed: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/10/mir.reut/index.html : Do you fret when the air pressure on your space station drops? Do you have patches, a back-up air supply, an escape hatch? Is this a plot to dump Mir? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The UFOCHAT.COM Space Station. Skywatch International and UfoChat.com have joined forces; we want to announce a new Virtual UFO Community with Online conferences, Panels, Lectures, Research Groups, etc. with members working as teams, overseen by expert researchers in real time visual environments. We open the Space station on July 22nd. http://www.ufochat.com/Tour.htm : Would you rather chat about UFOs or on UFOs? Do you feel a sense of commu- nity with UFOlogists, aliens, MIBs, me? Would you like sex with UFOlogists, aliens, MIBs, me? Do you have a 'designer' implant? What color is it? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # College joins thousands in search for life in space. As of noon Thursday, Paul Perone's PC at Broward Community College had not detected an alien civilization. But every now and then, he could not resist checking the screen, to see if something in deep space was beaming a radio message at planet Earth. "You see a spike," he said, referring to sudden blips on a multicolored bar graph, "and you say, `Wow!' Am I being contacted by an alien?" http://herald.com:80/content/fri/news/broward/digdocs/089877.htm : Have you been contacted by an alien lately? Is your college, community or bedroom full of aliens? How d'ya distinguish them from humans? D'ya bother? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Stone Pages. Stone circles, dolmens, standing stones, cairns, barrows and hillforts: The Stone Pages is the most comprehensive online guide to European megaliths and other ancient sites. The designers of this website has personally visited and photographed all 288 archeological sites you will find throughout this site. Besides the photographs, they provide a history of the site as well. http://utenti.micronet.it/dmeozzi/HomEng.html : Have you built any megaliths lately? Did aliens help you? Will you build any more? Do you know how now? Will aliens help anyway? Do you resent them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 200,000 Year Old Female Baby found in MOON Rocks! In 1969 Apollo 11 astro- nauts brought back what appeared to be an aborted baby in a rock that was found during their historic expedition. For 24 years, NASA kept the
[CTRL] How Would Humans React If ET's Landed (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- How Would Humans React If ET Landed? - NIDS Roper Poll From: http://www.sightings.com/ufo3/react.htm PRESS RELEASE National Institute for Discovery Science June 7, 1999 NASA and the scientific community are actively searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life, but what if we were confronted with undeniable proof that ETs exist and have been visiting Earth? A nationwide survey by the Roper Organization has uncovered the following: ...one out of four Americans think most people would "totally freak out and panic" if such evidence were confirmed. ...eighty percent of influential Americans think the US government would classify or suppress evidence of extraterrestrial life. The Roper survey was conducted on behalf of the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), a privately funded scientific research organization based in Las Vegas, NV. The pollsters asked a nationwide sample of 1,971 men and women a variety of questions concerning a sudden confirmation of extraterrestrial life. (The poll has error margins of 2.5 percent.) Among other findings: When asked what they thought UFOs were: 25% thought they were alien spaceships 19% said UFOs are normal events that are misinterpreted by witnesses, and 12% thought they were secret government programs 9% said hallucinations 7% said travelers from other dimensions. When asked whom they would choose to make first contact with ETs on Earth: 20% said the military 29% said scientists 14% said the government 11% said religious leaders, and 20% said a private organization that had planned for such a contingency. "There have been no systematic studies about the potential impact of confirmed contact", says Dr. Colm Kelleher, deputy administrator of NIDS. A 1960 report by the Brookings Institute and an internal RAND document from 1968 predicted profound social consequences if contact were confirmed, but there have been no follow-up studies. For more information about the Roper survey and about NIDS, keep reading, or visit the NIDS website at: http://www.accessnv.com/nids When asked how they would react psychologically to confirmation of advanced extraterrestrial life: 32% said they were "fully prepared to handle it" 17% said they would "rethink their place in the universe". Yet when asked how they think OTHERS would react to the same news: 25% said that "most people would totally freak out and panic" 10% said most others would "act irrationally and become dangerous to others 14% said that others would "begin to act very strangely" 36% said "most people would be very concerned", and only 13% said "most people would handle the information in a calm and rational way". Since 1995, NIDS has been conducting scientific research into unconventional and novel areas including aerial phenomena research. NIDS's president and founder is Robert Bigelow. The Las Vegas based organization employs a staff of Ph.D. level, multi-disciplinary scientists and is advised by a world class science advisory board. Kelleher pointed to ongoing serious scientific studies on the remote possibility of an asteroid striking the planet. "On the other hand we have no government programs, no contingency plans that are in the public domain for coping with the possibility of E.T. contact. Yet these numbers from Roper say that 80% of the trend-setters in America do not trust the government to inform the public and one in four of the general public think there would be total panic if confirmation of advanced extraterrestrials occurred", said Kelleher. The full text of the poll can be accessed on the NIDS website at: http://www.accessnv.com/nids. Or contact Dr. Colm Kelleher at NIDS at 702-798-1700 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jean Henry of the Roper Organization can be reached at: 914-698-0800 = Kaddish, Kaddish, Kaddish, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = 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.
