[CTRL] QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN WOLF
-Caveat Lector- Full story here. By Dr Richard Boylan. http://www.jps.net/drboylan/WolfQut.htm Dr. Michael Wolf is a 56-year-old man pincered between the horns of a quintessential dilemma. His bosses at the National Security Council have told him that they want him, precisely as a government scientist with ABOVE TOP SECRET clearance, to generate a controlled leakage of major amounts of secret information. That information is about UFO reality and extraterrestrial contact with humans, including governmental involvement Dr. Wolf describes various extraterrestrial races. "One race has orange skin, very large heads and large dark eyes with no irises or whites, and six-fingered hands. During dissection their brains have been found to have four brain lobes, different optic orbs and nerves, and a sponge-like digestive system. ET brains are more developed and connected, and have no corpus callosum." He also described a race dubbed the Semitics, of average height and a generally human-like appearance, except for their very large hooked nose. "This was the race which landed at Holloman Air Force Base, [New Mexico, in the Sixties], and conversed with some generals there." Wolf also described a very human-appearing race called the Nordics. He said, "The Semitics and Nordics come from Altair 4 and 5 and from the Pleiades." He noted, The extraterrestrials eat vegetation and mushrooms, and have different requirements. They absorb energy from the air and [certain] particulates. They don't absorb enough water to need to void; they process thoroughly." Wolf said that "cattle mutilations" tissue harvesting is not related to cloning, but rather is done to acquire nutrients for the hybrid fetuses the ETs create. Dr. Wolf noted that embryonic fluid contains an anti-rejection factor. He is aware that not all cattle tissue harvesting is done by extraterrestrials; some is done by Special Forces teams. Crop circles "were originated by extraterrestrials, and then badly copied by the military, using Strategic Defense Initiative weapons emitting a laser pulsed beam." Wolf noted that "with crop circles made by ETs, the plants were still live and grew, [after being bent into pictographic patterns.] With SDI-weapon crop circles, the plants die. These SDI weapons are operated from a secret base in the Himalayas." Wolf disclosed that famed scientist "Albert Einstein had contact with extraterrestrial intelligence." And that a more recent understanding of Zero-Point energy "has to do with a white hole-black hole scenario." The ETs told Wolf that the Void is filled with energy to be tapped. Wolf further stated that experiments by the U.S. Government using exotic technology "ripped holes in time." 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] socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx. [a re-post for List ...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-07-15 01:32:14 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: House, a shadowy figure who is practically unknown to the American public these days, was one of the most influential men in twentieth century American politics. He engineered the election of Woodrow Wilson to the presidency; he played a key role in the formulation of the Federal Reserve Act; he represented Wilson in the negotiations that finalized the disastrous Treaty of Versailles; also, he was one of the invisible king-makers behind Franklin Roosevelt. All this, and Col. House was only the pawn of even BIGGER "invisible king-makers," namely the "Society of the Elect," governed for decades by Lords Cecil and Balfour -- British prime ministers both, and designers of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (of which the CFR is only the American wing) and a host of other "front groups," not only political but religious and even occult, which served the modern British imperial agenda even when allegedly fostering "Anglo-American collaboration." (But since that agenda was being bankrolled by the Rothschilds, we need to include them among the "Elect.") House took his diplomatic orders directly from Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, and was flattered to have been granted an entre into his "lofty" company. Woodrow Wilson, in turn, took his orders from House. House's "think tank" called, I believe, the Inquiry, was born in WWI under Wilson and it continued to function as an Anglo-American "State Department" during Roosevelt's rise to power. The Rothschilds used middlemen such as House to enlist wealthy Jewish Americans in the Anglo-American "New Deal" plan with which Roosevelt, being the political figurehead at the time, has become identified. There's little purpose in putting the spotlight on House without ALSO mentioning his role in the tight-knit Anglophile "conspiracy" in which he too was only a cog in a larger wheel. Any decent diplomatic history of the WWI period will straightforwardly provide the international chain of command in the Versailles negotiations. What's being called "socialism" here is more a "benevolent feudalism" such as Bismarck was introducing, and for the same reasons: if you didn't throw the peasants a few crumbs, they'll revolt against their aristocratic masters. The blueprint of the "Society of the Elect," as I understand it, was a two-tiered affair -- a "liberal" society for the masses -- but masses STILL ruled autocratically by a conservative, imperially predatory and ambitious, elite. That duplex structure still befuddles "either-or" ideologists who don't "get" Orwell's 1984 --.simplistic minds who can't see foreground and background at the same time. It's "socialism" for the "proletariat" at the bottom AND "fascism" for their rulers at the top. 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] Quarter Century
-Caveat Lector- From Irish Times Thursday, July 15, 1999 Comparison with 1974 shows how far we have come - --- Opinion/Mary Holland Have we passed the Point of No Return? This was the phrase used by Hugo Patterson, the spokesman for the Northern Ireland Electricity Service, on BBC Radio Ulster on May 28th, 1974. He was saying that a complete shutdown of power in Norther Ireland had already begun and could not be reversed. It was this statement, marking the climax of the Ulster Workers' Council strike, which led to Brian Faulkner's resignation and the downfall of the first power-sharing executive. Comparisons have been drawn between Sunningdale and the Belfast Agreement, which faces another moment of crisis today. The accord has been described as "Sunningdale for Slow Learners" because it includes the same ingredients for a settlement - power-sharing in Northern Ireland and institutional links between Belfast and Dublin. The sneer has usually been directed at Sinn Féin - but in fact it serves to underline how far both communities travelled in the intervening years. There has been loose talk this week that Northern Ireland is in danger of losing the best opportunity for peace in this generation and is facing into the abyss. But one has only to look back, in the most cursory way, at the situation that prevailed in 1974 to realise, with gratitude, how utterly things have changed. The violence was at its height. The IRA was committed to securing British withdrawal from Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin had no effective political strategy. The unionist community was so deeply alienated by the Sunningdale proposals that the UWC strike of 1974, organised by loyalist paramilitaries, commanded widespread support among the Protestant middle class, including the civil service. In May 1974 Northern Ireland was facing a crisis where food supplies were running short, there was no gas, the sewage system was threatened and the telephone network was on the verge of collapse as power ran low. Today there is peace, albeit imperfect, on the streets. The political climate has been transformed. The republican movement has accepted the principle of consent and is committed to the political process. We may even see decommissioning, sooner rather than later. The unionist political community has travelled an equal distance. An opinion poll of unionist voters in the Belfast News Letter last week registered widespread opposition to The Way Forward document, while it also showed an overwhelming majority of unionist voters in favour of power sharing - 84 per cent of Ulster Unionist supporters, 71 per cent among PUP/UDP, and 58 per cent approval among those who voted for the DUP. In the debate of the past few weeks the issue of cross-Border bodies, which seemed at one time likely to wreck the Good Friday agreement, has hardly surfaced. As with so much else, the unionist community has taken time to get used to the idea and now largely accepts that closer co-operation with this thriving State makes sense. One could go on and on. The past 25 years have been bitter for both communities. At one level it seemed that for almost 20 years no progress was made. The violence continued. Politics consisted of one botched initiative after another, with failure adding to the sense of hopelessness. But at a deeper level the necessary shifts in attitude were taking place. Some people would argue that what is on offer now could have been achieved in 1974 and that over 2,000 lives would have been saved. We will never know if that is true or not. What we can say is that the long and painful years of learning have helped to bring both communities to where we are today. Last Monday night on Questions and Answers, Inez MacCormack, the incoming president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, spoke movingly of how so called ordinary people have worked to forge understanding across the sectarian divide. It hasn't been easy, not at all. Often they have been frightened and mistrustful. But they have persevered and thus helped to create the sea change in political attitudes in Northern Ireland. At a time like this the whole process can look dreadfully fragile. Tony Blair issues dire warnings about the consequences of failure. The Taoiseach, who really should know better, seems to have caught the British Prime Minister's taste for the apocalyptic. In an article in this newspaper a couple of days ago, Mr Ahern wrote that what happens this week "could determine the future of Northern Ireland for a long time to come, for better or worse". This is nonsense. It will be a marvellous and happy day for all the people of this island if it proves possible to set up a power-sharing executive, with the support of both communities in the North. But if it does not happen, then the two governments and the
[CTRL] East Comes West?
-Caveat Lector- From TheIndependent GERMAN PHONE TAPS ARE ROUTINE GERMANY'S SECRET services can routinely listen to anyone's international telephone calls, as long as they do not pass their findings to the local police, the country's highest court ruled yesterday. The judgment of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe settles a legal battle waged for the last five years by the Tageszeitung newspaper and a law professor, who argued that state eavesdropping was endangering civil liberties. Their target was a law passed in 1994 which for the first time authorised a wide-spread surveillance of German citizens. The Federal Intelligence Service will not say how many calls, fax and data transmissions it intercepts every day, but estimates run into thousands. About 1,400 of its operatives, roughly a quarter of the total, are tapping into satellite traffic. Germany is believed to have the fourth most extensive eavesdropping operation in the Western world, after the US, Britain and Israel. At the service's headquarters in the Munich suburb of Pullach, and at 10 other listening stations, a formidable array of electronic equipment filters calls for their content, looking for key words. Mention "cocaine", "weapons", "revolution" or their various euphemisms, and the call will trigger alarms. The conversation can then be recorded and - until the latest ruling - the police informed of its contents, without the caller ever finding out. But the police must now be kept out, and it will no longer be within the service's remit to trawl the ether for forgers of foreign banknotes. But, to the disappointment of civil rights activists, its other current practices will continue. Its only limitation is computer and telephone technology. No one has yet produced reliable speech-recognition software for the organisation's powerful computers, and the system can easily be overloaded by pranksters. They fought the GDR Stasi over this same sort of issue, no? 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] FURTHER DISCLOSURES BY DR. MICHAEL WOLF
-Caveat Lector- By Richard Boylan, Ph.D. This is a followup to the Nexus magazine article. http://www.jps.net/drboylan/WlfLek1.htm This has the full article.. Michael Wolf, MD, Ph.D., ScD, JD, is scientific consultant to the National Security Council's Special Studies Group (popularly known as MJ-12). In December, he began a new series of disclosures to the author. These are not "leaks", but are sanctioned by the U.S. Government under its "Processed Release of Information" program. It is my conclusion that other The extraterrestrial Federation is working collaboratively with world governments to gradually prepare the general population to accept the reality of, and presence of, extraterrestrial races on Earth. The Federation has wished to avoid any mass panic or major disruption of society that could have come from a premature announcement. And the time is now near, if not already arrived, for the world public to accept contact with races from the stars. The ET Federation has another precondition before they are willing to present themselves openly: Peace on Earth. They are unwilling, short of a global cataclysm, to show themselves publicly, until all major conflicts on Earth have been peacefully resolved. They do not want to emerge and try to share their culture amidst humans shooting at each other and bombs dropping. World governmental leadership has taken the ET Federation's challenge to heart. Thus, the reader may have noticed a concerted international effort in the past several years to resolve major conflicts, some of which have been going on for centuries. Wolf also stated, "We are currently negotiating with an ET mothership to bring the Moon back into its axis." He declared that the Moon is artificial, long ago positioned in its orbit by extraterrestrials. Furthermore, he confirmed that there is an extraterrestrial base on the Moon. When I suggested the base was on the dark side, he did not challenge that assumption. The conversation then turned to Egyptian pyramids. As the movie "2001" reflected reported CIA-asset Arthur C. Clarke's insider knowledge about a real extraterrestrial space messaging beacon, so once more, art imitates real life. In this case, the movie "Stargate" introduced the public to the concept of a special portal, which permitted a person stepping through to travel to another dimension. Dr. Wolf revealed that "The Egyptian pyramids were built by our [ET] ancestors, using sonic technology and other advanced devices." He added that within the Egyptian pyramid complex is a Stargate, which permits access to the ETs existing in a different dimension. He intimated that the Stargate was near the Sphinx's paw. He complained, "Egypt won't allow John Anthony West access to the area, even though the Egyptians don't have the technology to make it work." Dr. Wolf has communicated about the Stargate with his friend, the UN Security Council staff official. "She said, 'We ought to work together to get this out. This will raise consciousness in the general public, and will speed up getting out the fact of extraterrestrial contact into the open..'" As the conversation wound down, Wolf delivered one final bombshell. If, as seems increasingly likely, Al Gore steps into the Presidency, the U.S. will have a President whose family has been personally involved with extraterrestrial encounters. Gore has a child who was seriously ill, and who was cured by the extraterrestrials. "And Vice-President Gore himself has had an ET encounter." Thus, America may soon have an Experiencer President. 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] Latest Revelations from NSC consultant Dr. Michael Wolf
-Caveat Lector- http://www.jps.net/drboylan/ Latest Revelations from NSC consultant Dr. Michael Wolf by Richard Boylan, Ph.D. (c)1998 Late last week I received a phone call from Dr. Michael Wolf, consultant to the National Security Council's Special Studies Group, (popularly known as MJ-12.) He provided new information, and expanded on some previous disclosures. Wolf expanded on his previous revelation that a secret military spacecraft retrieved an extraterrestrial space beacon, dubbed The Monolith, from its position in space, and brought it back to Earth in 1972 for study. The U.S.'s removal of the powerfully-energized Monolith has caused our Moon to destabilize 2% from its normal axis. This in turn has adversely affected Earth's climate. Top International Security officials in communication with extraterrestrial representatives have requested them to restore the Moon to its proper axis. But the ETs have declined to help until the U.S. restores the space beacon to its original position in space. This is consistent with general ET policy of providing helpful advice, but not rescuing humankind from taking responsibility and action to correct our previous folly. The conversation turned to a rash of recent reports of large anomalous objects spotted within our local region of space. Dr. Wolf minced no words about what is known within the highest National Security circles. "There are several large UFOs in our solar system." I spoke with Dr. Wolf next about an experiencer I know, who has had frequent communication from a humanoid extraterrestrial identifying himself as originating from the Altair system. (Altair is a very bright, variable double star in the constellation Aquila, 15.7 light- years from Earth.) This woman experiencer had met this extraterrestrial in the 1950s, in the course of her training for highly-classified intelligence assignments. Wolf was nonchalant about such human-extraterrestrial interactions, having himself worked side by side in classified government laboratories with a human-appearing ET from the Altair system and a "Grey" humanoid scientist from the Zeta Reticuli system. "Altair's fourth and fifth planets are inhabited. In fact, the people from Altair colonized the Pleiades system long ago. The human-looking Pleiadean extraterrestrials some people meet are actually ancestrally Altairians. There are two variants, the Semitic-looking ones and the Nordic-looking ones. The 'Semitics' are the race which landed at Holloman Air Force Base (New Mexico) in the '60s, and conversed with some generals there." Dr. Wolf also revealed that, as a military-intelligence Colonel-physician, he has worked with some very-high military officials who have had close extraterrestrial encounters, and needed some counseling to adjust to their paradigm-shattering experience. We also talked about extraterrestrial-human hybrids, who have been genetically engineered by certain extraterrestrial cultures. More recently, secret U.S. national security projects have attempted to also bioengineer such hybrids, having some success. Wolf characterized such hybrids as having three-helix-strand DNA and fore-lobe brains. "Europa [Jupiter's seventh moon] is a place for such hybrids [to live]." The conversation turned to information I received from an National Security Agency source about NSA's ability to monitor an individual's brainwave and thought activity from special surveillance satellites. Dr. Wolf did not deny such technology, and added, "The government can create confabulated [contrived] memory in a person through Amytal [sodium amobarbitol, a hypnotic drug] and microwave [brain] scrambling." Wolf brought up the current week-long series of specials on the Learning Channel about UFOs and extraterrestrial-human encounters. He touted that as part of the government's conditioning program, which he calls the Processed Release of Information. We got into our on- going argument about the pace and timing of public acknowledgment by officials of ET contact, with my arguing that such time has come. Wolf demurred, saying that the national-security Old Guard, with which he identifies himself, feel the public is not yet ready, and needs more such conditioning. This writer vigorously disagreed, pointing out that the government has consistently misread the public as fools, whereas the public is generally well ahead of government estimates. Dr. Wolf noted that the national security community is divided. The Old Guard of scientists, military and intelligence officers with access to UFO secrets is nearing retirement and want the reality of ET contact to come out, but slowly. The Cabal, a rogue group of young generals, intelligence officers and defense contractors, opposes disclosure, and wants to enjoy for themselves the power, prestige and profit that comes from continuing the monopoly on ET information and technology. Wolf said, "They are the ones who shot a [Star Wars] weapon at a UFO near [Space Shuttle] STS-48." [If
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: The Case for a Do-Nothing Congress
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/14/1999 1:14:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Y2K Immunity. Although it is fair to say that the public and businesses have been widely aware of the eventual arrival of the year 2000 for decades, many software designers failed to design products that will adequately respond to this eventuality, and then failed to take timely corrective action. Congress chose to give them special protections nonetheless. The Y2K immunity legislation would make it much harder for consumers and small businesses that suffer from Y2K failures to be compensated, and would also make it difficult to file class action lawsuits for Y2K harms or injuries. Although President Clinton initially said he "strongly opposed" the legislation, he has now agreed to a compromise measure that closely resembles the earlier version he denounced. Yes, and they are also working on Y2K immunity for insurance companies. Why leave them out? Just what the workings of that business are, I don't know, but it can't be good for the average joe, because Congress doesn't do things for "the little people." 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] Re Christie Todd Whitman
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/14/1999 3:06:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps one of the few female politicians more silly and obnoxious then Dame Whitman is Aunt Thomisina Jackson Lee. Her step and fetchit defense of Massa Kriminal Klinton was one of the more revolting TV spectacles one was forced to endure during the Impeachment Fiasco. How her poor Texan constitutents got stuck with that ex Brooklyn Bigmouth \ Dimbulb must be a depresssing story. Gee, I guess it's all in how you look at it. 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] Warlord Clinton
-Caveat Lector- The Nuclear Warlords by Charles Smith excerpts: In 1998, the Commerce Dept. denied access to all China-Gate documents, citing national security, on the grounds that they could "neither confirm nor deny" their existence. In response, this reporter filed suit in Federal Court, located in Richmond, Virginia, seeking the withheld information. The evidence showed that the Commerce Dept. was withholding details on "military" exports directly to the Chinese Army. The Commerce Dept. is not authorized to issue export licenses to military end-users. Commerce Dept. documents show that SUN Corp., a U.S. computer maker, sold a super-computer directly to a Chinese Army nuclear weapons lab at Yuanwang Corp. The documents also show that the Clinton administration knew that Yuanwang was operated by the Chinese Army. According to U.S. Naval Institute defense analyst Norman Friedman, "The Chinese obtained the computer programs (codes) Los Alamos uses to simulate what happens inside an exploding nuclear warhead. The software is exactly what a designer of an advanced weapon would need." "Softened" Clinton-led export regulations, according to Friedman, "made it possible for the Chinese to buy 600 super-computers on which to run that software. Thus, the Chinese have transformed their weapons development capability in a very few years." According to defense sources, China will soon test a new nuclear weapon design capacity. The Chinese Army Second Artillery Corp. is planning to test launch their latest Dong-Feng (East Wind) 31 missile in celebration of 50th anniversary of the July 1949 take over of China by Mao. The DF-31 is reported to be able to deliver three, newly developed, lightweight, 90 Kiloton nuclear warheads to any target in America. The Chinese DF-31 is a road mobile, nuclear tipped SCUD like missile, that is nearly impossible to find, much less destroy. It is intended to counter the USAF B-2 bomber in a "limited" nuclear war scenario where China and the U.S. would only kill a few million people on each side. The Clinton administration assisted China in its efforts to become the next nuclear super-power. The next cold war has begun and with it will come another expensive nuclear arms race. America can no longer lay claim to dominate the world with fire-power. The decade of peace is over. The defeat of the Soviet empire was squandered by a callous and negligent President more concerned with his sexual antics than nuclear espionage. ...complete story at: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/ 19990713_xcsof_rosenberg_.shtml . 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: Liz Jim Sanders - Sentence passed tomorrow at 1:30 PM Uniondale, NY
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[CTRL] Burning Bush: George Jr.'s Cross to Bear
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.hightimes.com/ht/new/9905/burningbush.html A HREF="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/new/9905/burningbush.html"HIGH TIMES - Burning Bush: George Jr.'s Cross t /A - Burning Bush: George Jr.'s Cross to Bear FILED 05/24/99 One of the only things preventing George Bush's son, George W. Bush Jr., from achieving a mortal lock on the next Republican Presidential nomination are those pesky rumors that he's used recreational drugs. Unlike President Clinton (whose presidency has been oddly defined by his confession that he once attempted to smoke pot but, as an asthmatic, "didn't inhale"), GWB Jr. did more than just experiment once or twice with cocaine, allege the rumormongers, and the man himself has acknowledged that he was a real party animal until a few years ago, before he allegedly "grew up." So far, Bush has neither confirmed nor denied the nose-candy rumors, which is understandable from his point of view. A denial could exhume eyewitnesses or other evidence, and the denials he would have to issue would make Clinton's "I-did-not-have-sexual-intercourse" fibs look like cake in comparison. Of course, any admission that President George Bush's Own Son ever indulged in any illegal recreational drug would probably spell instant doom for any hopes of him, or any other Republican candidate, getting elected to the White House. After all, no one was tougher on illegal drugs than George Herbert Walker Bush Senior. (Unless you were trading arms for coke in Central America, but that's another story.) While the mainstream press has downplayed these rumors, a George Bush parody Website has been having a high old time with them. Fired up by Bush's refusal to address these rumors, these jolly individuals have launched www.gwbush.com, as a continuous parody of Bush's nascent Presidential campaign. So far on the parody site, Bush has promised to launch a new initiative, "Amnesty 2000," to absolve everyone like him who experimented with cocaine before they "grew up." Interviews are also presented with major Bush contributors such as the corrections industry (who benefit directly from the Drug War). The Website itself was formed by an odd partnership. Zack Exley, the Boston computer consultant who set up this parody website and reserved the domain name, describes himself as "a Christian who loathes hypocrisy." Most of the content on the site was provided by RTMARK, a group that "specializes in calling attention to corporate subversion of the US political and electoral process." RTMARK says it is "primarily devoted to anti-corporate activism, and counts the very companies that Mr. Exley works for as some of its targets." Meanwhile, the parody Website is so successful that it's listed as an unofficial Bush campaign site in Yahoo! and other search engines. This in turn inspired the Junior Bush to try to buy the domain names. Exley asked for $350,000, so Bush filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission on May 3 to prevent Exley Co. from running their parody--thus proving not only that he has no sense of humor but a very thin skin. Bush's reaction has set all the "Freedom of the Internet" watchdogs loose on this battle, since it could set precedents for the limits of Internet parody and rights to own domain names. Junior Bush also decided to go out and buy any and every website URL that might be confused as one of his own-- there were 60 of them, according to report--including bushbites.com and bushsux.org. (This desperate attempt at damage control was probably inspired by fellow Republican Rudy Giuliani's anti-Hillary-Clinton Website, www.hillaryno.com although one might think that if Bush were successful at preventing Exley RTMARK from running an anti-Bush Website with a name like gwbush.com, they could turn around and take bushsux.org away from Bush for similar reasons.) According to a press release sent out by Exley and RTMARK: "By reserving the domain names, Exley initially hoped to sell them back to the Bush camp for a small profit. That changed, however, when he [Exley] read news articles that discussed Bush's refusal to deny past cocaine use. His interest in the matter has since escalated into something of a crusade." "Bush won't deny he used cocaine," says Exley, "yet hundreds of thousands of people are serving very long sentences for equivalent or lesser crimes, including many in Texas, where Bush is governor. Clinton just got away with perjury while a hundred people are in jail for that crime. Do we want our children to learn that a crime is only a crime if you don't have power?'" Meanwhile, RTMARK seem more concerned by Bush's attempted power-play on the freedom of the Net. "George W. Bush Jr. apparently thinks small-time folk should have to register with the government before exercising free speech on the Internet," says Rita Mae Rakoczi, a lawyer and RTMARK representative. "The implications of such a precedent could be quite serious." The full text of the Bush
[CTRL] OEN 7/15/99
-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 The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith The most spectacular embezzlement of the period . . . was the looting of the Union Industrial Bank of Flint, Michigan. The gross take, estimates of which grew alarmingly as the investigation proceeded, was stated in The Literary Digest later in the year [1929] to be $3,592,000. In the beginning this embezzlement was a matter of individual initiative. Unknown to each other, a number of the bank's officers began making away with the funds. Gradually they became aware of each other's activities, and since they could scarcely expose each other, they co-operated. The enterprise eventually embraced about a dozen people, including virtually all of the principal officers of the bank. Operations were so well organized that even the arrival of bank examiners at the local hotels was made known promptly to members of the syndicate. Most of the funds which were purloined had been deposited with the bank to be loaned in the New York call market. The money was duly dispatched to New York but promptly recalled while the records continued to show that it was there. The money was then returned once more to New York and put into stocks. In the spring of 1929 the group was about $100,000 ahead. Then, unfortunately, it went short just as the market soared into the blue yonder of the summer sky. This was so costly that the group was induced to return to a long position, which it did just before the crash. The crash, needless to to say, was mortal. = TWA Big Brother The FBI and Flight 800 A Missile Expert Cries Cover-Up The Flight 800 investigation, still at a loss to explain the tragedy, has the right stuff for a thrilling spy novel. Government flacks easily spin the lazy mainstream media to sedate the nervous public. Meanwhile, a band of military insiders heads for the Internet (http://twa800.com) and reaches out to a few sympathetic independent journalists to convince readers that the truth is being hidden. For some reasonat this point only a fiction writer could provide onemany observers believe that the government is covering up the disaster's most likely explanation: it was a missile that three years ago this week, 10 miles south of Long Island, brought down the Paris-bound 747, killing all 230 aboard. As the investigation's third anniversary passes, the mystery is deepening. A few months ago, a retired army officer bearing impressive credentials approached the Voice as an intermediary for a missile expert with a story to tell. This expert is extremely fearful of losing his jobfor more than 20 years he's been a military engineer who specializes in infrared missile technology. Assured of anonymity, he submitted to lengthy interviews by telephone and e-mail, detailing why he believes the investigation of TWA Flight 800 is a cover-up. After spending more than $40 million on the investigation, the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board have not found a definitive answer for why the center fuel tank exploded. Yet they have ruled out a missile as the cause. The NTSB believes an undetermined system flaw produced an electrical spark that ignited jet fuel vapors in the tank. Prior to the official embrace of this mechanical explanation, the missile expert was among several scientists invited by FBI agents to explore the missile theory. He was made privy to evidence suggesting that TWA 800 could have been shot down, consisting of eyewitness accounts of a "flare-like object" shooting skyward moments before the plane exploded. Later he examined the debris in the Calverton hangar. The missile expert has also been in contact with military labs where, he says, the chemists have been unable to make jet fuel vapor explode as the NTSB says it did in TWA 800's center fuel tank. "The labs told the NTSB there's a big problemit can't happen." The NTSB wouldn't listen. He says, "They were adamant that [the labs] had to find something." The evidence adds up, the missile expert believes, to a "70 percent chance" that TWA 800 was downed by a shoulder-launched missile. Like others who have spoken to the Voice, the expert is exasperated with what he sees as a corrupted investigation. Asked why he is speaking up now, he says, "I wanted someone to look at the truth, not whitewash it away." The missile expert says his unit was summoned by the FBI quite early in the investigation and asked to review the eyewitness accounts and check out the potential for a successful missile hit. "We talked to Ted Otto and Steve Bongardt"two agents assigned by FBI assistant director James Kallstrom to examine the missile theory. "We picked missiles and ran computer simulations and shipped the data to Bongardt," the Voice source says. The data showed that virtually any postVietnam era shoulder-launched missile would have had the range and
[CTRL] Information drawn from the ATM Suspicious Activity Reporting System
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.ustreas.gov/fincen/sarbul1.html A HREF="http://www.ustreas.gov/fincen/sarbul1.html"SAR Bulletin/A - SAR Bulletin Information drawn from the Suspicious Activity Reporting System June 1999 Issue 1 Since April 1, 1996, the nations banks, thrift institutions and credit unions have been subject to suspicious activity reporting (SAR) requirements. The centralized database of SAR filings has now attained a critical mass in which reflections of regional, national and international criminal financial activity are embedded. At the same time, a new generation of computer-driven analytic tools has been developed, making it possible to begin analyzing the underlying data for information about such activity. The following "SAR Bulletin" is the first of a series of overviews of trends and patterns in money laundering derived from the SAR database. The SAR Bulletin Series is designed to highlight activities or issues that appear significant based on such factors as: number of reports; number of financial institutions filing similar reports; aggregate dollar values; geographic distribution; and recurrent patterns of activity identified in SAR narratives. In no cases will information relating to particular institutions, businesses or individuals be included in any Bulletin. Whether the information in a particular Bulletin is of relevance to a particular bank, of course, depends in many cases upon that banks operating realities. In all cases, comments or other feedback would be welcome. //s// James F. Sloan Director United States Department of the Treasury - Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Automated Teller Machines A review of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed from July 1997 through mid-April 1999 identified 982 reports noting a BSA/Structuring/Money Laundering violation (in whole or in part) and citing instances of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) activity in the narrative section. These reports were filed by more than 90 different banks in 39 states, plus the District of Columbia and Guam. The narrative sections of the SARs reveal that ATMs are being used domestically and internationally to deposit and/or withdraw large sums of cash on a recurrent basis with the apparent purpose of evading detection by law enforcement. Domestically, the SARs indicate two patterns of structuring of cash transactions to avoid the CTR filing requirement: First, customers make multiple cash deposits and/or withdrawals on the same day at different or single ATM locations. Second, withdrawals are made using a combination of same day counter and ATM activity aggregating more than $10,000for example, cashing a $9,500 check followed by a $500 ATM withdrawal. A third patternreflected in over 30 percent of the SARsinvolves international activity. Funds deposited as cash or wired into accounts in the United States from other nations are subsequently withdrawn within a short period of time from ATMs located in different countries (usually those having a high-risk for money laundering or drug trafficking). The size and number of the withdrawals within short time frames are indicative of potential money laundering. The SARs filed by the banks in question serve to remind us that the precautions financial institutions take to prevent or detect money laundering must deal with ATM systems as effectively as with other parts of banking operations. Bank training programs, internal control systems, and internal anti-money laundering audits must take appropriate account of the risk of misuse of ATM systems. For additional information, comments or questions concerning suspicious transactions involving ATMs, please call FinCENs Office of Research and Analysis at (703) 905-3665. SAR Bulletin is a product of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2070 Chain Bridge Road, Vienna VA 22182. For more information about FinCEN's programs, visit the FinCEN web site at http://www.treas.gov/fincen. General questions or comments regarding FinCEN publications should be addressed to the Office of Communications, FinCEN, (703) 905-3773 Information may also be faxed to (703) 905-3885. Feedback Form Department of the Treasury - Financial Crimes Enforcement Network To: Subject: FinCEN Office of Research and Analysis Fax 703-905-3698 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAR Bulletin Issue 1 ATM From: Title:_ Office/Agency:
[CTRL] Report scolds Justice, FBI handling of China data
-Caveat Lector- http://cnn.com/US/9907/15/justice.china/index.html Report scolds Justice, FBI handling of China data July 15, 1999 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An internal Justice Department investigation released Wednesday revealed "no improper intent to conceal information" relating to the probe of possible Chinese efforts to influence U.S. politics, but questioned the judgment of top FBI and Justice officials. Inspector General Michael Bromwich found that senior officials abandoned Justice Department standards and inappropriately provided too much uncorroborated raw data to the Republican-controlled Congress. "In order to satisfy Congressional committees' demands for information ... the Department adopted a policy of briefing the committees and later the NSC [National Security Council] on information of unknown reliability rather than waiting until that information could be corroborated," the report said. Bromwich released a 22-page summary of his top secret 569- page report. An FBI statement welcomed "many of the suggestions" and said it already taken steps to provide "finished" analyses of raw intelligence data. Important data not given to Reno, Freeh The Inspector General blamed the practice of providing too much uncorroborated raw data to Congress, in part, to a September 1997 incident in which the CIA had provided previously undisclosed FBI information to a Senate panel investigating possible Chinese interference in U.S. campaigns. Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh testified that they were unaware of the information at the time. That led Reno, Freeh and Committee Chairman Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tennessee) to question whether campaign finance investigators were receiving all the FBI's intelligence on Chinese efforts. The Bromwich report revealed that Reno and Freeh did have the information in question, but it was buried in documents and not otherwise brought to their attention. The data related to whether a California businessman from Indonesia, Ted Sioeng, acted on behalf of China in donating $250,000 to the Democratic National Committee and $50,000 to a Republican think tank. Sioeng's attorney denied that China or its officials "directed or funded any political contributions" by Sioeng. FBI division used 'poor judgment' The Bromwich report also cited "poor judgment" on the part of the FBI's National Security Division, which is responsible for catching spies operating in the United States. The document cited "attempts to protect the division's interests" by withholding information at the expense of the rest of the FBI and the Justice Department's campaign task force. Bromwich called on Justice and FBI officials to resolve a dispute over how much to tell the White House's National Security Council about the campaign investigation. The FBI, concerned about protecting the criminal investigation, believed that briefing the White House "was akin to briefing the subject of an investigation about that investigation." Other Justice officials believed the White House needed to receive national security information from the probe. Bromwich, who has announced his resignation from the Justice Department, is known for stinging reports on several high- profile investigations They include probes into the practices of the FBI Crime Lab, the Immigration and Naturalization Service citizenship program and the FBI's role in the Aldrich Ames spy case. The Associated Press contributed to this report. 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] Wm. F. Buckley and Robt Morris BOTH worked for McCarthy AND Draper
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:536866"Wm. F. Buckley and Robt Morris BOTH worked for McCarthy AND Draper /A - Subject: Wm. F. Buckley and Robt Morris BOTH worked for McCarthy AND Draper From: "Kenneth W. Ellis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 July 1999 12:22 AM EDT Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Thin Line Between Fact and Fiction by Robert Bryce Thursday, July 08, 1999 Comments: 145 posts Book Review: The Finish Line is Color Blind : Robert Bryce reviews Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race by John Hoberman. Search A review of The Redhunter: A novel based on the life of Senator Joe McCarthy by William F. Buckley Jr. Little Brown and Company $24.50, 421 pages The Redhunter The line between fact and fiction is so blurry in William F. Buckley's Redhunter that it is impossible to tell where truth begins and ends. But given the topic, the melding of fact and fiction may be appropriate. After all, the book's hero, Sen. Joe McCarthy, had a strained relationship with the truth. As Buckley notes, McCarthy often lied about his opponents to gain political advantage. Buckley's novel is based on an odd concept: write a fictional book about McCarthy, but fill it with true material. Further, include descriptions of numerous real-life events and people and use direct quotes from them. It is a daunting task. But by and large, Buckley is up to the task. And since Buckley worked for McCarthy for several years, he had a front-row seat to many of the events described in the book. Plus, given his close association with McCarthy, Buckley is able to paint a compelling portrait of the man from Wisconsin who, within the span of 12 years, went from being a nobody to being one of the most famous men in America to being censured by the Senate, then to drinking himself to death. The man behind the menace Buckley captures McCarthy's tragic side. Visiting the senator at his home in 1957, just before McCarthy died, Buckley describes McCarthy looking for a bottle of liquor in the kitchen, a bottle that his wife, Jean, had hidden. "Joe bent over and opened the cabinet drawer under the sink. He ran his hand about the empty space. He stood up. His face was contorted. Surprise, indignation, resolution." After prevailing on his wife to give him the bottle, McCarthy turned to his guest and said, "Let's go back in the study now, have a little good-old time." Buckley recounts well McCarthy's personal history. He tells of McCarthy's boyhood, growing up on a farm in Wisconsin, how he failed in the chicken business, and how he got into Marquette University. He discusses McCarthy's foray into politics, winning his first political race, his stint with the Marines during World War II, how he quit the Marines and returned to Wisconsin to run for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Buckley does not flinch in recounting how McCarthy lied about the age of his opponent when he was a candidate for local judge. But the lying worked. McCarthy won the election. Buckley describes the secret meetings between McCarthy and the power-obsessed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover. In one passage, Hoover encourages McCarthy to continue his hunt for Communists, saying that McCarthy is "onto the most important challenge in the history of the United States." Later, Hoover meets with McCarthy to provide names of suspected Communists. And Hoover warns McCarthy that president Harry Truman "doesn't believe the Communist infiltration is that deep." Buckley gives an intriguing account of a meeting attended by McCarthy and former President (and rabid anti-Communist) Richard Nixon when the two senators met with Whittaker Chambers, the man who accused Alger Hiss of being a spy. The Redhunter details the now-famous moment when McCarthy got his comeuppance. It came in 1954, while McCarthy was investigating Communist infiltration of the Army. During a hearing, McCarthy had a heated exchange with Joseph Welch, an attorney representing the Army. It was Welch who finally stood up to McCarthy. "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness," Welch said. "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" What to think? Passages like those make Buckley's book worth reading. And the author does a good job of explaining the context for the Army hearings, including his depiction of Roy Cohn, McCarthy's ruthless general counsel. But throughout the book, the reader is continually questioning Buckley's veracity. How, for instance, could Buckley have possibly known about the dialogue that occurred between Hoover and McCarthy? Yet in interviews about the book, Buckley says the facts are "true to life" in "every conventional sense." The reader cannot help
[CTRL] MI5: The Spycatcher Affair
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="http://www.five.org.uk/security/mi5org/spycatch.htm"MI5: The Spycatcher Affair /A - Book Review of Peter Wright's "Spycatcher" Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright, former assistant director of MI5, published in 1987. Peter Wright joined MI5's A2 branch in 1955 as Principal Scientist; he served until 1976. Before joining he underwent two days training by John Cuckney, whom he quotes as saying of MI5's legal status, "It hasn't got one. The Security Service cannot have the normal status of a Whitehall department because its work very often involves transgressing propriety or the law." Cuckney went on to make clear that MI5 operated on the basis of the 11th commandment - "thou shalt not get caught". In 1951, Burgess and Maclean defected; in 1955 MI6 sacked Philby, who in 1963 defected from Beirut. Much of Wright's career is in pursuing moles in MI5/MI6, in particular he is taken with the theory that Roger Hollis , former Director-General of MI5, was a Russian mole. He writes of his early years in counter-espionage, "For five years we bugged and burgled our way across London at the State's behest, while pompous bowler-hatted civil servants in Whitehall pretended to look the other way." Wright says, "the most extensive microphoning operation [we] ever undertook was in Lancaster House ... which hosted the Colonial conferences of the 1950s and 1960s." He says a "comprehensive microphoning system throughout the building" was installed and used "throughout the rest of the 1960s and 1970s, whenever high-level diplomatic negotiations took place in London." Wright specialised in "bugging" interception activities of various shapes and forms. Some of these activities were rapidly discovered and countered by the Soviets and their allies, which led him to the belief that a mole within MI5 was at work. One of Peter Wright's successes was in listening to (i.e. bugging) the actions of a mechanical cipher machine, in order to break their encryption. This operation was code-named ENGULF, and enabled MI5 to read the cipher of the Egyptian embassy in London at the time of the Suez crisis. Another cipher-reading operation, code-named STOCKADE, read the French embassy cipher by using the electro-magnetic echoes of the input teleprinter which appeared on the output of the cipher machine. Unfortunately, Wright says this operation "was a graphic illustration of the limitations of intelligence" - Britain was blocked by the French from joining the Common Market and no amount of bugging could change that outcome. Particularly interesting is MI5's invention code-named RAFTER, which is used to detect the frequency a radio receiver is tuned to, by tracing emissions from the receiver's local oscillator circuit. RAFTER was used against the Soviet embassy and consulate in London to detect whether they were listening in to A4-watcher radios. Wright also used this technique to try to track down Soviet "illegals" (covert agents) in London who received their instructions by radio from the USSR. Central to "Spycatcher" is Wright's theory that there was a mole at the heart of MI5 for many years, and that the mole was the Director-General himself, Roger Hollis. This theory was based partly on the reports of British/US agents in Soviet-bloc countries, and the reports of Soviet defectors; and partly on the rapid discoveries by the Soviets of actions against them by MI5. The possibilities were narrowed down to Roger Hollis and his deputy-DG, Graham Mitchell. The investigation of Mitchell arrived at no result, and was followed by an internal investigation of Hollis which also gave no results. In 1959 the CIA asked Wright about assassination methods; "we're developing a new capability in the Company to handle these kind of problems, and we're in the market for the requisite expertise."; to which he replied that "we'd certainly have that capability but I doubt we would use it nowadays." MI6 had intended during the Suez crisis to assassinate Nasser using nerve gas, but their plot had been foiled. Wright said the SAS "don't freelance", adding, "the French! have you tried them? It's more their type of thing, you know. Algiers, and so on." He describes how MI6 developed poisons which were tried on a sheep at Porton Down; it started "rolling its eyes and frothing at the mouth", and promptly died. The core of the book is in Wright's 1960s search for a mole, who would have been recruited by the Russians thirty years earlier. The book examines the various people and their inter-relationships from the 1930s, which have relevance to the search for a mole in the 1960s. There is much reference in the book to the student days of people like Blunt and their lives as homosexuals, their membership of secret societies such as the Apostles, etc. One anecdote which was reported in the papers concerns the allegation that Burgess's
Re: [CTRL] [[SC] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1]
-Caveat Lector- "ric carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ALIEN PEST CONTROL. The Prophecy Research Institute in California produces an audio tape for sale. What's on it? Nothing but a high pitched sound. The purpose, you ask? Sean Morton, founder of the Institute says it keeps away aliens since "they function on a relatively simple,three-level energy system, and this overloads their nervous systems". Works fine, too. ### : Are you bothered by infestations of pesky aliens? Are chemical repellents smelly, costly, ineffective? Have you tried hissing? Does it drive them off? Makes me think of the old story about the man sitting on a park bench tearing up a newspaper and throwing the pieces over his shoulder. A cop comes along and asks him, "Just what do you think you're doing?" "Keeping the elephants away." The cop looks around ostentiously. "Elephants? I don't see any elephants here!" "See?" the man replies, "it works!" Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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
[CTRL] Behind the Seersucker Curtain
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.wweek.com/html/cultfeature.html A HREF="http://www.wweek.com/html/cultfeature.html"Willamette Week | Culture Feature /A - photo by George Kelly Behind the Seersucker Curtain You've walked by their headquarters and along streets named after their members. You live in what was--and may still be--their city. But few outsiders know anything about Portland's private clubs. We opened the mail slot and took a peek. BY MATT SCHWARTZ 243-2122 Americans are a friendly breed. We love parties, commerce, war and big cars. And we're joiners. The American handshake is a joyous, kinetic event, and it hurts a little bit, because we like to squeeze. When Alexis de Tocqueville was in between throwing back pints with the likes of Andrew Jackson, he wrote that an American without drinking buddies "would be robbed of one half his existence...his wretchedness would be unbearable." Not wanting to feel wretched, Portlanders seek out places to be around people like themselves. Artists scribble away in coffee shops. Hustlers lounge in pool halls. And rich folks join private clubs. Though it would make for a more exciting story, Portland clubs aren't exactly blood-sealed covens of druidic illuminati. Like the rest of us, steel-haired steel heirs want to drink, play cards, tell dirty jokes and do favors for their friends. But while one of my favors might involve swapping a bag of day-old pastries for a bouquet, private club hook-ups begin with a single malt and end in mergers, plywood sales and campaign contributions. For a time, explicit bylaws and tacit understandings excluded Portland women, blacks and Jews from these private deals. But decades of agitation by City Council, judges and private citizens have opened up even Arlington Club, Portland's "supreme bastion of gentile male chauvinism," according to historian E. Kimbark MacColl's The Shaping of a City. They may smell like your attic, but private clubs remain formidable conglomerates of wealth, connections and power. Will they be around for much of the next century? Here are our predictions. Arlington Club Location: 811 SW Salmon St., at the South Park Blocks. Founded: 1869, by local alpha males and self-made WASPs. Charter membership roll includes the names Reed, Macleay, Ladd, Failing and Cicero H. Lewis (the guy who helped found the Portland Art Museum and the county library system). Insignia: Interlocked red "A" and "C" on a white field Raison d'Être: The club's charter focuses on the "development...social advantage, improvement and enjoyment" of its members. Arlington once provided grist for bored society-page columnists, a service now performed by the Trail Blazers. Building: The neoclassical, ivy-cloaked brick and spotless alabaster pillars evoke Monticello, Harvard, the Pantheon and the structural foresight of the third little pig. Inside, the club offers a wine room, a card room, a large bar, a formal dining room and several private rooms for meetings and rest. Business documents are not permitted in public areas. Members and Guests: Of the nine Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee members WW contacted, eight were Arlington members, including the president of U.S. Bank of Oregon and a senior vice president for Portland General Electric. Dirt: Jews were tacitly banned from club membership until the late 1960s, when the feared Chief Judge Gus J. Solomon campaigned against the policy, allowing prominent attorney Moe Tonkon to join. Women gained entry in 1990. As recently as 1989, minority Arlington members numbered less than 3 percent. There are also persistent rumors of a cabinet full of Playboy. Cost: The approximately 500 members pay $750 each in annual dues. Prospects: The recent resurgence of martinis, steaks, cigars, swing dancing and massive capital gains should preserve the club until 2030, when colonization of city industries by multinationals finally renders local deal-making anachronistic. (Recently colonized territory includes PGE, Blitz Weinhard, The Oregonian and Fred Meyer.) The University Club Location: 1225 SW 6th Ave. Founded: 1898, by college graduates who desired an Oregon equivalent of East Coast university clubs. Sixteen of the University Club's 56 charter members were members of Arlington Club. Insignia: Arlingtonesque union of a "U" and "C" Raison d'Être: Academic camaraderie and discussion of the day's events. Possible covert usurpation of Arlington Club. Building: A superb Jacobethan façade of looming brick and high-arched windows makes the University Club resemble a spookily large gingerbread house. The interior, which club manager John Elmore was kind enough to offer a tour of, is somewhere between a musty rec room and the Musée d'Orsay. More than 200 individual dice cups decorate the bar so members can roll for drinks and dinner. A formal dining room with 30-foot rafters is finished, fittingly, in Oregon
Re: [CTRL] [[SC] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1]
-Caveat Lector- "ric carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : How many alien lifeforms are oozing around you right now that you haven't paid attention to before? Do they breed frenetically? Are paperclips aliens? Ever read "Or All the Seas With Oysters" by Avram Davidson (about 1957)? It's the story of a man who discovers that there is, in fact, an alien lifeform existing in our midst--a *mechanical* lifeform... Have you ever noticed that *you never have both enough paperclips and enough coathangers at the same time*? And ask any cop...every so often they'll find brand-new, *unclaimed* bicycles in the parks, ones that no one has reported stolen. What's the connection? Well, consider this: *what is the only machine that has sexes, and also comes in both juvenile and adult forms?* That's right--the bicycle! Now just suppose that there is a form of machine life, with sexes, capable of reproducing itself: the paperclip is the larva...the coathanger is the pupa...the bicycle is the adult... Look VERY carefully at that paperclip in your desk... Bob, looking over my shoulder cautiously...there's a coathanger in that closet that's been giving me VERY STRANGE looks every time I go in there... = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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
[CTRL] [8] The Marcos Dynasty
-Caveat Lector- An excerpt from: The Marcos Dynasty Sterling Seagrave©1988 Harper Row, Inc ISBN 0-06-015815-8 - Seventeen HEAVY BREATHING THE OLD FILIPINO GAG "Four centuries in a convent, fifty years in a brothel" ceased to be a joke under the Marcoses. Behind the facade of maintaining a puritanical law-and-order regime, Ferdinand was involved with the two main components of organized crime on the Pacific rim-the Japanese and Chinese underworld. Gambling, prostitution, narcotics, and money-laundering were turned over as franchises to international syndicates, sometimes in league with American, British, and Australian organized crime figures. In the Philippines, their main interest was slavery. Control of the media made it possible for Ferdinand to create the impression of law and order, when in fact organized crime thrived in the islands as never before. Under martial law, he was as firmly in control in Manila as the South Korean generals were in Seoul and the Chiang regime in Taipei. An American official in South Korea once remarked with surprising candor, "Between the KCIA [Korean CIA], the civil police, and military intelligence, you've got such a powerful security state here that it's impossible for organized crime to operate without official sanction. If it exists, it's state-sponsored or state-sanctioned." The same was true of Taiwan and the Philippines. The essential difference was ethnic. In Taipei and Seoul, control was kept firmly in the hands of a single ruling ethnic group, while in Manila Ferdinand parceled out franchises to Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Australians, and Americans according to their specialties. Everybody was welcome to a piece of the pie. Manila was the only major Southeast Asian city where the sex trade was run in partnership with the Japanese, with the enthusiastic cooperation of Chinese entrepreneurs and Filipino gangsters and procurers. Ferdinand and Imelda persisted in saying that with their New Society there was no crime, no drug problem, and no prostitution. All three were officially illegal, so they did not exist. In truth, prostitution had become world class. Although Tourism Minister Jose Aspiras would certainly have denied promoting tourism through prostitution, Manila was competing internationally with Bangkok as the top destination for sex tours. In each city, it was modestly estimated that there were one hundred thousand women employed "legitimately" in what was called the "hospitality industry"as hostesses, waitresses, go-go dancers, and massage-parlor attendants. That is, as prostitutes. These statistics included only those women employed in licensed establishments, with health permits and regular venereal disease checkups. The rule of thumb was that at least twice that number-another two hundred thousand in each metropolitan area-worked freelance, part-time, or in unlicensed establishments, With a quarter of a million women thus engaged in each place, the slow incubation of the AIDS virus could produce catastrophic consequences. Manila and Bangkok were also rivals for the number of child prostitutes and young male prostitutes: the estimate for Manila and its satellite towns was forty thousand child prostitutes against twenty thousand in Bangkok. Thousands of young boys and girls in each country were sold into slavery each year, sent off to work without pay in brothels in Japan and South Korea, or were fed piecemeal to European and Australian gays and pederasts. A major difference between the sex trade in Thailand and that in the Philippines was that the one thrived in a country ruled by a succession of military regimes, making it difficult to identify trends with any one leader or party, while the other boomed for twenty years under one man-Ferdinand Marcos. There were other important differences. In Buddhist Thailand, religious tolerance and sexual tolerance had been a celebrated part of the culture since ancient times. There was little stigma attached to the sex trade. When he was asked about it, the urbane former Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj remarked, "I think it is flattering that Westerners find us so physically attractive." In Thailand, there was no special disgrace attached to working as a bar girl or in a massage parlor, and after acquiring a wardrobe, a nest egg, and perhaps a sewing machine, a hardworking bar girl could go back to her village, marry the son of the headman, and begin life over on a better footing. In the Catholic Philippines, with its medieval obsessions and its preoccupation with female virtue, there was no such redemption. When he was "re-elected" in 1969, President Marcos worked out a partnership or joint venture in which the sex trade was operated in collaboration with the big Yakuza gangs such as the Yamaguchi Gumi and the Inagawa Kai. According to INTERPOL, by the early 1970s more than one hundred thousand Yakuza were operating in Japan with interests throughout East Asia, making a profit of well over $5
Re: [CTRL] [[SC] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1]
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Robert Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] "ric carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ALIEN PEST CONTROL. The Prophecy Research Institute in California produces an audio tape for sale. What's on it? Nothing but a high pitched sound. The purpose, you ask? Sean Morton, founder of the Institute says it keeps away aliens since "they function on a rela- tively simple,three-level energy system, and this overloads their nervous systems". Works fine, too. ### : Are you bothered by infestations of pesky aliens? Are chemical repellents smelly, costly, ineffective? Have you tried hissing? Does it drive them off? Makes me think of the old story about the man sitting on a park bench tearing up a newspaper and throwing the pieces over his shoulder. A cop comes along and asks him, "Just what do you think you're doing?" "Keeping the elephants away." The cop looks around ostentiously. "Elephants? I don't see any elephants here!" "See?" the man replies, "it works!" Funny, I thought of exactly the same joke. Other stuff operating on the same principle: amulets/exorcisms to drive away demons; wrapping tinfoil around your snailmail so the FBI can't xray it; "What Would Jesus Do?"; encrypting innocuous email; feng shui; an umbrella in Death Valley to stay dry; etc. But how can one be sure that certain precautions *work*, like guarding against: CIA mind-control rays; invisible aliens/elephants/demons; subliminal messages; subversion; Bilderbergers; incoming asteroids? Sure, maybe you can't SEE the danger, or it hasn't struck YET; but, any time now... 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] [21] Loud and Clear
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Loud and Clear Lake Headly and William Hoffman©1990 Henry Holt and Company 115 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 ISBN 0-8050-1138-2 272 pps out-of-print/one edition --[21]-- 21 Adamson Versus Corbin The supreme court reversal generated movement: Max Dunlap to the less demeaning conditions of Maricopa County jail, where he awaited his bail hearing; Jim Robison from death row to the general population at Arizona State Prison; and John Adamson from a previously undisclosed out-of-state location to Maricopa County Jail, nearer prosecutors ostensibly urging him to drop his demands. In context, how outrageous was Adamson's position? He, at least, had put in some prison time. Neal Roberts never served a day, thanks to that trade of theory for immunity, nor had Gail Owens. Immunity-according-to-Arizona (none for JoDon on a twenty-dollar hash deal, despite the potentially critical evidence he offered) was a wondrous thing to observe. Why shouldn't Adamson go for it? Because, Attorney General Corbin whined, the convicted killer had given his word to cooperate "fully and completely." Given his word to lie would have more accurately described the deal, and to take the Fifth. Prosecutors hadn't uttered a peep at the trial when Adamson's "full and complete" testimony included refusal to answer questions he didn't like. I had to wonder if Schafer and Corbin, wringing their hands, were merely playacting. Did they sincerely want this case tried again? If police and prosecutors had conspired in a broad cover up to protect powerful Arizonans, as gut instinct and vanished evidence told me they had, why should they let their dirty linen be aired in public? Certainly Murray Miller wanted it back in court. "Are we ever ready!" he proclaimed to newsmen. Miller projected the confidence of a fleet admiral backed by nuclear forces squaring off against a leaky rowboat. Don W. Harris, the interim Maricopa County attorney originally slated to prosecute the Bolles murder before being elbowed aside by Bruce Babbitt, now came forward with an inevitable I-told-you-so. Harris said William Schafer, working under "a greedy attorney general who wanted to be a U.S. senator," had brushed aside his suggestions of Mafia involvement in the killing. He repeated earlier charges that "a judge, a civic leader, and others" (people he refused to identify) had pressured him to back off investigations into the role of organized crime in the Bolles murder. Was the contest between Adamson and the prosecution a charade to avoid new trials? I didn't believe Adamson was playing a game, but I suspected Corbin and Schafer were. Adamson was shrewd enough to realize he faced a buzz saw if he took the stand again, and his only safeguards were gaining full immunity, guaranteed immediate release from custody, and a new identity. For these gigantic concessions, he'd bear the opprobrium of being proved a liar. Adamson had working for him a most intriguing argument, hotly debated throughout the Phoenix legal community: that he was being subjected to double jeopardy. He had already gone to court and been sentenced for murder. Could he be prosecuted again if he refused to testify? Adamson said no, that since he had been tried and sentenced once, he had nothing to lose by his refusal to take the stand again. On April 15, 1980, the killer appeared to be winning. Corbin went so far as to offer him new clothes, "improved" confinement, and protection for his family during the course of a new trial. But immediate release from jail was too much even for these prosecutors. On April 18, 1980, at a preliminary bail hearing for Max, Adamson invoked the Fifth Amendment on thirty-one of thirty-two questions asked by Murray Miller. The one answer the con man gave: "'What I said at the preliminary hearing [in 1976] was true." He should have pled self-incrimination on thirty-two of thirty-two, because he laid himself open to perjury with his one answer. His 1976 preliminary hearing testimony was full of lies. The next day Adamson took the Fifth Amendment one hundred and thirty-six times. Superior Court Judge Robert L. Myers did not order Adamson to answer, thus saving him from contempt citations. I couldn't help smiling when I watched Adamson's entrances into the courtroom, wearing a bulletproof vest and surrounded by four U.S. marshals. Whom did he fear? "My people [who] don't give immunity''? Another, vital police report, withheld by the prosecution during the original trial, surfaced to support this supposition. The document, provided by the California Department of Justice, concerned a certain Nicolo Angelo DiVincenzo, described as a "hit man for organized crime" who "allegedly advised that he had been hired to murder John Adamson, arrested for the bombing murder of Bolles in June of 1976. DiVincenzo reportedly stated that he had received the contract to hit Adamson prior to Adamson's arrest because Adamson was a direct link to
[CTRL] [9] Inside The League
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Inside The League Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson©1986 Dodd, Mead Company 79 Madison Avenue New York, N.Y. 10016 ISBN 0-396-08517-2 322pps out-of-print/one edition [re-print/first edition available from: W. Clement Stone, P M A Communications, Incorporated] --[9]-- NINE Victory over communism first. World peace second. -Juanita Castro, 1970 WACL conference AT THE 1979 World Anti-Communist League conference in Asuncion, the international ultra-right finally completed its global journey. Through the League, all the disparate elements from every corner of the earth were united, joined for the stated purpose of opposing Marxism in all its forms. While they differed on the form of the threat facing them, they all profited from the association. For many members of the League, its conferences were nothing more than junkets, a way to escape the heat of Manila or the rainy season in Ghana, to stay in a luxurious hotel and to get their names mentioned in the local paper upon returning. But for others, participation in the League had tangible benefits. Above all else, by 1979 the League had become a means by which governments or private groups could maintain links or coordinate actions with others that, for political or ideological reasons, could not be maintained or coordinated in an official, public capacity. By 1979, at least eight major power groups could be identified within the World Anti-Communist League. Some were the traditional leaders who had formed the League to begin with, but new power blocs had also emerged. TAIWAN By the late 1970s, as one nation after another dropped recognition of the Republic of China on Taiwan in favor of the People's Republic of China on the mainland, the members of the Kuomintang found themselves with a vastly diminished circle of friends. They could no longer pick and choose their allies- they had to accept whoever would accept them. And they accepted them in the apartheid regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia, in the right-wing dictatorships of Latin America, and in the Nazi collaborator bands of Western Europe and the United States. The World Anti-Communist League had become one of the last major instruments of foreign policy for the Kuomintang, and they could not afford to let it languish. For them, the stated aim of the Leagueinternational anti-communismhad quite suddenly become secondary to the greater cause of simply retaining relations with whatever nations or groups they could. KOREA Although it was a military dictatorship at least as repressive as that of Taiwan, South Korea did not share Taiwan's international loss of diplomatic recognition. What it did have by 1979 was a faltering economy in a world that no longer saw it as an indispensable bastion against communism. Although the League served as an excellent podium for the regime to continue its denunciation of North Korean intrigues, another benefit, a commercial one, had emerged. Through relationships struck at League conferences, South Korea became one of the principal arms suppliers to South and Central America. The man who led this campaign was retired South Korean Air Force Colonel Shin Chan. Shin Chan, who attended several League conferences, was also the executive director of the South Korean Association for Promotion of War Industry. THE UNIFICATION CHURCH Theoretically, the Unification Church left the League in 1975 when the Reverend Sun Myung Moon denounced it as a "fascist" organization. Nevertheless, the Japanese Unification Church, the Church's largest and most powerful branch, continued to be the Japanese World Anti-Communist League chapter, and the Church and the League cooperated in many joint operations throughout the world. Just as Reverend Moon's operations were myriad, so, too, were the payoffs he received from his involvement in the League. His organization apparently has three major functions: as a church, as a money laundry, and as an agent for the South Korean government. It was able to facilitate each of these activities through its League affiliation. Relationships nurtured with right-wing Latin Americans in the League led to acceptance of the Church's political and propaganda operations throughout Latin America. From the theological-political standpoint, Latin America is the Moonies' "Promised Land" the more the Latin right denounces Catholicism as being riddled with Marxism, the more attractive the nationalistic anti-communist dogma of the Unification Church appears to be. No doubt Moon dreams about the influenceand moneythat would come from millions of Latin Americans turning their backs on Catholicism in favor of Unificationism. As an international money laundry, through the World AntiCommunist League and its own operations, the Church tapped into the capital flight havens of Latin America. Escaping the scrutiny of American and European investigators, the Church could now funnel money into banks in Honduras, Uruguay, and
Re: [CTRL] [[SC] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1]
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Robert Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] "ric carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : How many alien lifeforms are oozing around you right now that you haven't paid attention to before? Do they breed frenetically? Are paperclips aliens? Ever read "Or All the Seas With Oysters" by Avram Davidson (about 1957)? Sure - that's why I mentioned paperclips. Also consider rubberbands. Have you ever noticed that *you never have both enough paperclips and enough coathangers at the same time*? And ask any cop...every so often they'll find brand-new, *unclaimed* bicycles in the parks, ones that no one has reported stolen. Then there are the many bikes that totally vanish, as if... abducted... What's the connection? Well, consider this: *what is the only machine that has sexes, and also comes in both juvenile and adult forms?* That's right--the bicycle! Now just suppose that there is a form of machine life, with sexes, capable of reproducing itself: the paperclip is the larva...the coathanger is the pupa...the bicycle is the adult... Look VERY carefully at that paperclip in your desk... I've switched to plastic paperclips, I'm not sure what *they* meta- morphose into. And as the host organism of a parasitic semi'bent, I must point out the existence of many species of HPVs [Human Powered Vehicles]: mono- bi- tri- quadri-cycles; upright ["wedgies"], semi- and fully-recumbent ["'bents"]; zero-to-many seats; water- and air-borne variants, and even some subs. The ardent researcher will seek to identify the larval and pupal forms of each species. My highly-evolved BikeE semi'bent http://www.bikee.com comes from a far different galaxy than a Huffy http://www.huffy.com bomber. And note that old-style bikes HAD overwhelmed the Chinese Communist Empire; but the transition to Red Capitalism has lead to a surge in automobiles and a drastic drop in the bike population. What alien dominance games are being played out here? Are HPV invaders digging strong beachheads in North America and Europe while being thrown back from the rest of the world? What's the Chinese paperclip situation? Does the advent of plastic paperclips spell the doom of bicycles? 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 Jewish Establishment by Joseph Sobran
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 7/14/99 9:57:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.flinet.com/~politics/aipac/sobran2.htm "Americans ought to be free to discuss Jewish power and Jewish interests frankly, without being accused of denying the rights of Jews. That should go without saying. The truth is both otherwise and unmentionable." --- Joseph Sobran -- "The Jewish Establishment" by Joseph Sobran In the early 1930s, Walter Duranty of the New York Times was in Moscow, covering Joe Stalin the way Joe Stalin wanted to be covered. To maintain favor and access, he expressly denied that there was famine in the Ukraine even while millions of Ukrainian Christians were being starved into submission. For his work Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. To this day, the Times remains the most magisterial and respectable of American newspapers. Now imagine that a major newspaper had had a correspondent in Berlin during roughly the same period who hobnobbed with Hitler, portrayed him in a flattering light, and denied that Jews were being mistreated - thereby not only concealing, but materially assisting the regime's persecution. Would that paper's respectability have been unimpaired several decades later? Gee, what an inappropriate analogy. The truth of the matter is that the news media of Hitler's era, both domestic and worldwide, as well as the political establishments and the intelligence and foreign services of the times all actively and passively concealed and underreported the existence and extent of the holocaust until well into the 1940's with the full extent of the Nazi activities not becoming publicly known until after the end of the war. The New York Times was as guilty of this as the rest of the American press. See the book Beyond Belief : The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945 by Deborah E. Lipstadt (1993) Jack Abrams 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] [Re: [CTRL] Brave New World]
-Caveat Lector- Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Alamaine Ratliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Huxley's hatcheries By MICHAEL R. ALIX TMNS Technology Editor Aldous Huxley ...did write at least one science fiction book, Brave New World (1932). That was almost seventy years ago, when bio-engineering was just a glint in a scientist's eye. Today, the hatcheries of Brave New World are closer to reality. While we endure the growth of the Internet, we look to its generational cousin as a work of horror, Frankenstein's hobby revisited, and wonder where it will lead. As usual, fear-mongers invoke FRANKENSTEIN without having read the bloody book - or maybe they're just anxious to misappropriate a metaphor once again. Mary Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN was NOT about the arrogance and misapplication of science; Victor Frankenstein was NOT a mad scientist/doctor and did NOT use science to raise the dead. Rather, Victor was a failed former medical student who abandoned science when it didn't fulfill his spiritual quest, and turned to MAGIC to animate the dead. His 'creature', his virtual son, then so disgusted him that he ran off. The book is about abandonment, about refusal to take personal responsibility for one's actions. When you hear a speaker link FRANKENSTEIN with alleged misdeeds of science, prepare yourself for a twisty ride along the Luddite path - more distortions are sure to follow. Shelly's *Frankenstein* was essentially a reworking of the story of the Golem, intertwined with some of the Christian Kabbalah and ceremonial magic. It does have a certain kinship to Blake's "Tyger, Tyger" with its dark vision of the Industrial Revolution. (Think of a blast furnace...) But the Romantics were not particularly interested in science, even to condemn it; their interest was indeed in the spiritual quest, by whatever means came to hand... Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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
[CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] Brave New World]
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Robert Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aldous Huxley ...did write at least one science fiction book, Brave New World (1932). That was almost seventy years ago, when bio-engineering was just a glint in a scientist's eye. Today, the hatcheries of Brave New World are closer to reality. While we endure the growth of the Internet, we look to its generational cousin as a work of horror, Frankenstein's hobby revisited, and wonder where it will lead. As usual, fear-mongers invoke FRANKENSTEIN without having read the bloody book - or maybe they're just anxious to misappropriate a metaphor once again. Mary Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN was NOT about the arrogance and misapplication of science; ... When you hear a speaker link FRANKENSTEIN with alleged misdeeds of science, prepare yourself for a twisty ride along the Luddite path - more distortions are sure to follow. Shelly's *Frankenstein* was essentially a reworking of the story of the Golem, intertwined with some of the Christian Kabbalah and ceremonial magic. It does have a certain kinship to Blake's "Tyger, Tyger" with its dark vision of the Industrial Revolution. (Think of a blast furnace...) But the Romantics were not particularly interested in science, even to condemn it; their interest was indeed in the spiritual quest, by whatever means came to hand... My point [however ineptly expressed] was that FRANKENSTEIN has become a code-word, usually followed by bogus assertions and arguments. Similarly, code-words representing Jews, Blacks, Asians and other groups, often preceded by 'The' [ie, The Jews, The International Bankers, The Media, The Eastern Establishment, The Communists, The Welfare Queens, The Chinese], should serve as warning flags that bogosity/demagoguery is forthcoming. And Mary Shelly's referring to 'electricity' in FRANKENSTEIN was akin to modern NewAgers usurping the 'quantum' label to attach to their fantasies - quantum consciousness, etc. Grab a glitzy 'scientific' buzzword and apply it out of context. But I digress. 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: Y2K Conspiracy Goes Mainstream
Y2K Conspiracy Goes Mainstream by Declan McCullagh 3:00 a.m. 15.Jul.99.PDT WASHINGTON -- For many Y2K fanatics, the scariest threat on 1 January 2000 is not technology at all. It's the far more sinister specter of a power-mad president imposing martial law. Dark visions of U.S. Marines stomping through backyards on New Year's Eve 1999 are a staple of innumerable Y2K discussion groups. A typical post: "There is nothing secret about the fact [that the] US, UK and Canada are preparing for martial law." These sorts of ruminations are no longer the sole domain of fringe conspiracy buffs. They got a boost Wednesday from a conference hosted by the staid U.S. Reserve Officers Association, an eminently respectable organization that Congress chartered in 1920. During the full-day meeting, titled "National Conference on Presidential Powers and Executive Orders," and organized by an anti-UN advocacy group, legislators and lawyers warned that President Clinton could see Y2K disruptions as a convenient excuse to call out the troops and declare martial law. "President Clinton might take that opportunity?" asked an audience member from Concerned Women for America. "That is my fear," replied Representative Jack Metcalf (R-Washington). "It seems to me that the only emergency that we might see coming is the Y2K. [With] a power-hungry president, who knows what he might do." Conference organizer Cliff Kincaid agreed: "It appears we don't have a President anymore. We have a king." Kincaid is head of America's Survival, which is devoted to combating global organizations in general and the UN in particular. Attendees seemed suitably scared. There was Carolyn Betts, who was reading "The Day After Roswell," a fictional account of the U.S. government's coverup of a UFO incident. She told Wired News she suspected a clandestine agency had bombarded her Dupont Circle office in Washington, D.C. with high-frequency audio. "Both the people and the dogs had diarrhea," she said, adding that the masonry had started to crumble. For real Y2K conspiracy fans, the highlight of the day was a presentation by William Olsen, a lawyer at a McLean, Virginia, law firm. "We're headed on the road to tyranny," he said. Olsen declined to predict whether martial law -- or similar restrictions, such as military courts, seizure of private property, and suspension of normal due-process rights -- would definitely happen due to Y2K. But he did distribute to the 30-person audience a 27-page legal document he had coauthored. It shows, in exhaustive detail, that whoever occupies the Oval Office has near limitless power to declare emergencies and call out the troops, as President Wilson did in 1914 when he ordered the Army into Colorado with orders to disarm all residents and even police. Could it happen again? Quite possibly, Olsen said. "One wonders what the reaction will be next time." There have been earlier signs that some Washingtonians are considering an aggressive response to Y2K. Senator Robert Bennett, the Utah Republican who chairs the Senate Y2K task force, has asked the Pentagon what plans it has "in the event of a Y2K-induced breakdown of community services that might call for martial law," and a House subcommittee has recommended that President Clinton consider declaring a Y2K "national emergency." Like Olsen, other conference-goers cited history as evidence that martial law could go into effect. They pointed to President Lincoln, who usurped constitutional authority in well-chronicled ways. During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Lincoln's government arrested and tried civilians in military and civilian courts, ignoring rules of habeas corpus. This led to the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act, which restricts using the military for domestic law enforcement. Lincoln's justification was the inherent power of the commander-in-chief and his duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully Executed." When it comes to the use of troops to restore order during riots, however, the President can suspend the Posse Comitatus Act with the stroke of a pen. The law doesn't cover soldiers deployed as authorized by the Constitution or exempted from the act by statute. Further, some worry that courts may not be willing to confront the military during a time of genuine crisis. "A court may simply avoid deciding an important constitutional question in the midst of a war," Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in All the Laws but One. All the more reason to limit presidential authority, especially executive orders, says Congressman Metcalf. "The President's use of executive orders and proclamations is reckless," he said. Metcalf has introduced a nonbinding resolution that says, "It is the sense of the Congress" that executive orders be curtailed. He said he has 71 co-sponsors, including House Judiciary committee chairman Representative Henry Hyde (R-Illinois).
Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] [[SC] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1]]
-Caveat Lector- "Ric Carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Robert Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you ever noticed that *you never have both enough paperclips and enough coathangers at the same time*? And ask any cop...every so often they'll find brand-new, *unclaimed* bicycles in the parks, ones that no one has reported stolen. Then there are the many bikes that totally vanish, as if... abducted... Or...harvested? Is Earth nothing more than a bicycle breeding facility for alien yuppies? Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990715a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Hey, SkeptiChat subscribers: let's see some responses, some discussion!! : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No black helicopters were sighted during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MOON'S LAST VISITOR SPINS TALE OF GUTS, GLORY AND LOSS. Nearly 27 years after Gene Cernan scaled the LM ladder, looked below at his boot-prints etched in the lunar dust, and above, at our stunning blue planet suspended in the "three dimensional" blackness, Cernan wants to be remembered as someone who was there at the start of something bold and audacious -- not the end an glorious era. But those glory days are over. Now it's just the robots and extraterrestrials: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/14/downlinks/ : Has Luna been abandoned to Reptilioids, Nazis and astronauts' ghosts? Will we be able to take it back? Have you bought any real estate there yet? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Are Endocrine Disruptors a Threat to Your Health? For years, researchers have investigated the theory that trace levels of industrial chemicals are hazardous to human health. Although studies have failed to establish a causal relationship, some scientists and activist groups continue to blame trace levels of synthetic chemicals for human illness. Read the executive summary of the American Council on Science and Health's Special Report: http://www.drkoop.com/healthnews/special-reports/acsh/july/endocrine.html : Are you easily poisoned? Is your toxic environment accidental, deliberate, inevitable? Who controls the toxicity? Why are they doing this? Why else?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cautious go-ahead for gene testing at work. (BBC) Employers should be allowed to test for genetically inherited conditions, but only under certain restrictions, according to a UK government advisory body. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_395000/395012.stm # Also: Genetic test boom warning: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_233000/233473.stm # Children 'need to learn about genetics': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_194000/194783.stm @ Links: Advisory Commission report: http://www.dti.gov.uk/ost/ostbusiness/ @ Human Genetics Advisory Commission: http://www.dti.gov.uk/hgac/ @ Sickle cell http://sicklecellsociety.org/employme.htm#anchor117932 : Do you want to test your workers' DNA? Would you keep samples? Would you grow clones of the best workers? Would they be ideal for enslavement? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space race amateurs 'not giving up'. A rocket built by a group of amateur space enthusiasts has disintegrated on its launch pad during an abortive take-off. But the two men behind the White Rose project, which blew up on the North York Moors on Thursday morning, say they'll try again. Pip-pip. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_395000/395277.stm : Have aliens/Russians/demons interfered with your rocket launches lately? Will you persevere? Will individuals ever wrest control of space from Them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Y2K Conspiracy Goes Mainstream. WASHINGTON -- For many Y2K fanatics, the scariest threat on 1 January 2000 is not technology at all. It's the far more sinister specter of a power-mad president imposing martial law. Dark visions of US Marines stomping through backyards on New Year's Eve 1999 are a staple of innumerable Y2K yakk groups. A typical post: "There is nothing secret about the fact [that the] US, UK and Canada are preparing for martial law." They just got a boost from a confab held by the staid US Reserve Officers Association, an eminently respectable group that Congress chartered in 1920. http://wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20751.html : Are you ready for the putsch? Will it be worldwide, or just in the West? Are the black helicopters fueled, armed, waiting? Can/will you run, hide? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ From: "Hilary A. Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] # If the case for extraterrestrial life were put to a jury, it'd likely be out for less than 5 minutes before returning the verdict that we are not alone. No one expects ET to come knocking on the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. But recent findings, including discovering of the first solar system other than our own, convince leading scientists that life probably exists on surfaces and in oceans of distant planets and moons, maybe even in the void of space. http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/9907STSPAP.html # The end of the world is nigh! (again). The world has, it seems, survived Nostradamus's predicted apocalypse on the 4th of July this year; but the Universe is still a dangerous place to live. When some stars get old, they explode as supernovae - and you DON'T want to be near one. A supernova in our galactic backyard might
[CTRL] Taliban refuses to extradite or expel Bin Laden from Afghanistan
-Caveat Lector- Taliban refuses to extradite or expel Bin Laden from Afghanistan Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press For more about Africa, visit Africa News Online. CAIRO, Egypt (July 15, 1999 6:28 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban movement will neither expel suspected terrorist Osama Bin Laden from Afghanistan nor hand him over to the United States, its spokesman was quoted as saying Thursday. But Maulvi Wakil Muttawakil told the Arabic daily Ash Sharq Al-Awsat that Bin Laden, who is in hiding in Afghanistan, is under strict surveillance by Taliban intelligence "to be sure that he is not carrying out illegal acts." "We will not initiate his extradition to any party and will not force him to leave Afghanistan," Muttawakil said in an interview while on a visit to the United Arab Emirates. Washington has asked the Taliban to hand over or at least expel bin Laden so that he can stand trial for his alleged role in last August's U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa. The Clinton Administration has imposed sanctions on the Taliban for harboring bin Laden. The embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. Washington has also put bin Laden, a Saudi exile, on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List and offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest. Muttawkil indicated that the Taliban government has withdrawn its earlier offer to investigate bin Laden if Washington provides enough evidence against him. "We gave them the chance, but by offering the reward they closed that door," he said The Taliban religious army rules roughly 90 percent of Afghanistan and the opposition, comprised of ethnic and religious minorities, controls the remaining 10 percent. The two sides are fighting on several fronts in northern Afghanistan. Last year, the Taliban Supreme Court conducted an inquiry against bin Laden and cleared him of all the charges because the United States did not provide proof of his involvement in the African bombings. http://www.nandotimes.com/global/story/0,1024,70613-111602-792198-0,00.html 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] Ballard, Lusitania, committing US to WWI
-Caveat Lector- Don't hope for any of the insideous skulduggery going on behind the scenes today to even begin to be owned up to till well into the twenty second century, particularly by the Brits. They're a closed mouth bunch, the guys who own Britian. If I'd done the things they've done I'd shut my trap too. They are liars par exelance. Lies, a Churchill admitted, are their bodyguards. They've even gone so far as to falsify a dictionary entry to hide who the Luddites REALLY were and why they had more troops fighting Luddites in Nottingham than they had fighting Napoleon in Spain, and that was during Napoleon's era. They've till haven't admitted their troops held Irish babies aloft on bayonets and used them for target practice, and that was Cromwell's era and there were tens of thousand of witnesses. They were, in fact, under Cromwell's direct command. As for the Lusitania, if you imagine they would let it be revealed that they had their own people slaughtered in their own front yard, just to bring American troops over to save their ass from a war they were losing so few years ago that witnesses still are alive, you are hopelessly nieve. Ain't gonna happen. Period. End of story. Blood from a turnip? maybe. But the truth out of Britian? When hell freezes over. Maybe. 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(2): LRNA Statement on Micro Radio
-Caveat Lector- League of Revolutionaries condemns attack on Micro-radio! Press Release: 7-11-99 For Immediate Release: The League of Revolutionaries for a New America Contact: Sandi Reid 1-800-691-6888 League of Revolutionaries condemns attack on Micro-radio! The League of Revolutionaries for a New America condemns the government's attack on Micro-power Radio. Micro-Power radio has become one of the last opportunities for communities to access electronic media and provide community access to the airwaves. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has agreed to look at changing it's regulations to provide for a Low Power FM category (LPFM) and since that time the FCC has increased it's efforts to shut down Micro-Power stations across the country. In some cases armed SWAT Teams have been used and even stations that have been serving their communities for years, if not decades have been targeted. Including Black Liberation Radio in Illinois and MicroKIND Radio in San Marcos Texas. Since the so-called Tele-Communications Reform bill passed, media (especially radio outlets) has been concentrated into fewer and fewer large corporate hands. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has pushed the FCC to shut down as many Micro-Power radio stations as possible. The corporate media in the US and for that matter worldwide want no challenges to their domination of the flow of information. These media conglomerates exist to forward the agenda of the Capitalist ruling class and do so by excluding news, voices and stories that go against their interests. The battle for media access takes on added importance as a result of the struggles at the Pacifica Network. Pacifica, long a beacon for free speech is currently fighting for it's own life. This could close access to a very important venue for freedom of communication, making the need for "Free Radio" even more important! LRNA asks all people of conscience to step forward and demand that the federal government and the NAB cease their attacks on Micro-Radio Stations and follow through on regulatory changes that will provide for democratic access to the airwaves. Speakers on this as well as on other topics are available. Contact Sandi Reid (Speakers for a New America) 1-800-691-6888 Or contact: Mike Thornton LRNA National Committee Radio Committee Producer: People's Tribune Radio 530-265-9462 530-265-9045 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] The A-Infos News Service COMMANDS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] REPLIES: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HELP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.ainfos.ca INFO: http://www.ainfos.ca/org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Why KPFA and WBAI have been targeted by the US government
-Caveat Lector- From: Ken McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: KPFA: It gets worse PLEASE FORWARD July 14, 1999 More info: http://www.savepacifica.net * Why KPFA and WBAI have been targeted by the US government * An eyewitness account of the armed censoring of KPFA * What you can do * Beware of "incidents" - VERY IMPORTANT for people planning to attend protests - Why KPFA and WBAI have been targeted by the US government Some people not familiar with Pacifica have asked what KPFA and WBAI broadcast. I can answer this from first hand experience. When I lived in New York in the 1980s, I was a frequent WBAI listener. WBAI was the *only* source of information on the US-sponsored atrocities in Central America as they were happening, atrocities Clinton admitted to over a decade later (200,000 killed in Guatemala alone by US-trained death squads and military) WBAI also was the only source of comprehensive and comprehensible information on the arms-drugs-terror network organized during the Reagan administration which involved sending weapons to Iran (a US enemy), cocaine to the United States, and training and support for the terror campaign in Nicaragua which, like US bombing in Iraq and Yugoslavia, targeted civilians and basic social and economic infrastructure. This reporting took place in the 1980s. WBAI broadcast the entire Iran/Contra Gate hearings live. Larry Bensky (banned from KPFA) and Dennis Bernstein (pulled off the air last night by armed guards) provided the only real-time, informed and intelligent commentary on these hearings and their significance available anywhere in the US broadcast world. Just a few of the stories KPFA and WBAI has aired in depth over the years: The massive drug operation run out of the Mena airport during Clinton's term as governor of Arkansas; Hillary Clinton's involvement with SL fraud and the INSLAW fraud; the CIA-enabled, Contra-run enterprise to import tons of cocaine to the US; the ongoing US-engineered holocaust in Iraq. KPFA and WBAI has consistently covered material, in significant detail, that no other broadcast unit in the US and very, very few print outlets have been willing to tackle. And now they are being taken off the air by a Clinton appointee aided by armed thugs in the employ of a company managed by former intelligence operatives - An eyewitness account "I ran into Larry Bensky at about 4:30 PM near KPFA. Larry said that Lynn Chadwick had issued another stern warning that anyone talking about Pacifica affairs on the air would be fired immediately (this after Media Alliance released the internal memo from Micheal Palmer indicating that the board is in active negotiation to sell the network's assets a day after MF Berry firmly denied that any sale was in the works at her invitation-only news conference yesterday.) Pacifica had brought in the station manager from the Houston station which has already been sanitized, as Rafael Ramirez has documented, and he was ready to gag anyone who who violated Chadwick's order. Dennis Bernstein did, of course, in the last 20 minutes of "Flashpoints." He not only ran news of the memo, but aired a statement in support of KPFA by Mumia and another (one of a series being done by notables around the country) by Scoop Nisker.Shortly after 6, Bernstein's newscast was interrupted; it was clear that the guards had come in to remove him from the newsroom. The station went silent. This was heard all over Northern California. I went down immediately. Others heard it on their car radios and also went to the station. When I got there, the front doors were open and a number of people got in the front corridor but were stopped at the lobby by Berkeley police. More people arrived and the police eventually closed off Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. People were furious and shouting "Shame" and "It's OUR station". The local media got into the station with vid-cameras and got some footage. Eventually, the Berkeley police chief announced that if people didn't leave, they would be arrested for trespassing and sent to the county jail at Santa Rita. Many people (including a couple in their 80s that I saw) chose to be arrested. A growing and angry crowd moved to the rear of the bldg as police began bringing people out in handcuffs and putting them into a black mariah. More people kept arriving, and so did police in riot gear. There was a great deal of angry shouting, and near-riot conditions, though Channel 5 reported that the crowd threw rocks at the police, and that was a lie. I left before 9, but the 11 PM news said that hundreds were still down there and were prepared to spend the night. Well, it seems that the events of the past month or so were not accidental. The security guards are from a company that specializes in hostile takeovers, and that is what has happened and what was probably planned. It appears that there will now be a lockout of staff members; Pacifica has seized the station and will try to reprogram it or to
[CTRL] HAARP: PROBING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
-Caveat Lector- http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/9907STRSP.html HAARP: PROBING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS BY JIM WILSON The single most contentious question in science at the end of the 20th century isn't about evolution, the origin of the universe or human cloning, but, "What is the government really up to near Gakona, Alaska?" Officially, this 33-acre gravel pad near the Tok Highway 180 miles northeast of Anchorage is the home of the high-frequency active auroral research program (HAARP). Depending upon who you ask for a more detailed description, HAARP is either a futuristic weapon, a scientific research project, a global mind control schemerivaling network TVor the cause of a reptilian invasion from another dimension. In addition to its real functionswhich we will get to in a momentHAARP has replaced the magic-pellet gasoline substitute as the great techno-legend of our time. (The magic pellet, by the way, is actually calcium carbide. It reacts with water to produce acetylene that will fuel an internal combustion engine, at least until the corrosive exhaust eats through the cylinder walls.) HAARP is not quite as easy to explain as magic fuel pellets. Part of the reason is that it is involved in a fairly complicated area of research. Operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, it houses what is perhaps the most impressive collection of ionosphere research instruments ever assembled. If you are a physicist who explores this region 25 to 500 miles above sea level, you couldn't ask for a better-equipped lab. So large an investment in so remote a location logically raises the question: Why? For the same reason that Willie Sutton hung out around banks. Because of its far northerly latitudewell into northern lights countryGakona is an excellent vantage point for studying the ionosphere. We sit at the bottom of a gaseous sea of dense, electrically neutral gases. This familiar situation changes as we rise into the sky. At higher altitudes, the air becomes less dense. This means the radiation from the sun has less atmosphere to penetrate. Being more energetic, it strips gas molecules of their electrons, turning them into the ions for which this region is named, the ionosphere. The presence of ions and electrons in this layer causes electromagnetic radiation from man-made sources to be absorbed, reflected and distorted. The absorptive and reflective characteristics of the ionosphere are the reason why amplitude-modulated radio broadcasts that can be heard within only a few tens of miles from their transmitters during the day can be heard thousands of miles away at night. The ionosphere's ability to distort signals can produce effects that are downright spooky. Consider the "Luxembourg effect," which sent shivers down the spines of international radio listeners in 1933. "In this case a weak Swiss radio station appeared to be modulated with signals from the powerful Luxembourg station, which was transmitting at a completely different frequency. Music from the Luxembourg station was picked up at the frequency of the Swiss station," explains a Department of Defense (DOD) spokesman. The Pentagon isn't interested in explaining mysteries from the early days of radio. "The continual growth in the number of civilian and military satellite systems whose performance depends on paths passing through the ionosphere, encourages not only good characterization and monitoring of the ionospheric state, but also an examination of what controlled local modification of the ionosphere, using ground [high-frequency] transmitters, could do for and to these systems," says the DOD. HAARP Science Creating that "controlled local modification of the ionosphere" is what the HAARP project is all about. To do this, HAARP team researchers are using a high-power, high-frequency phased array radio transmitter known as the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) to heat pockets of the ionosphere. It will do this by transmitting a narrow beam of high-power radio signals in the 2.8- to 10-MHz frequency range. The antennas needed to beam this energy are enormous. Sitting on a gravel pad, they cover 33 acres with 180 72-ft. towers. The towers are spaced 80 ft. apart, forming a rectangular grid (see photo above). Each tower supports two pairs of crossed dipole antennas. One antenna is tuned to transmit at between 2.8 and 7 MHz. Its companion transmitter at between 7 and 10 MHz. An elevated ground screen acts as a reflector. It is raised about 15 ft. off the ground to allow truck access to 30 transmitter shelters. According to DOD documents, each contains six pairs of 10-kilowatt transmitters. Operating together, they deliver 3600 kilowatts to the antenna network. The signal transmitted from the network of antennas travels upward and is partially absorbed. This heats a pocket of air about 30 miles in diameter and a few hundred yards thick directly over the facility. The remainder of the signal is
Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] Brave New World]]
-Caveat Lector- Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point [however ineptly expressed] was that FRANKENSTEIN has become a code-word, usually followed by bogus assertions and arguments. Similarly, code-words representing Jews, Blacks, Asians and other groups, often preceded by 'The' [ie, The Jews, The International Bankers, The Media, The Eastern Establishment, The Communists, The Welfare Queens, The Chinese], should serve as warning flags that bogosity/demagoguery is forthcoming. And Mary Shelly's referring to 'electricity' in FRANKENSTEIN was akin to modern NewAgers usurping the 'quantum' label to attach to their fantasies - quantum consciousness, etc. Grab a glitzy 'scientific' buzzword and apply it out of context. But I digress. Your point wasn't ineptly expressed. I was going off on a tangent. "Frankenstein" has indeed become a code word for "evil, amoral, bad'n'nasty science"...and has acquired much the image that Godzilla was intended to have in the original movie, before the lovable lizard became a folk hero (at least in Japan). Perhaps someone should write up a glossary of Conspiracy Theory Code Words and Catch Phrases. (Actually, isn't there an alt.conspiracy FAQ?) A related tangent: There is a sort of penumbra where the occult and science overlap; indeed, it can be argued (see Keith Thomas, *Religion and the Decline of Magic*) that this is precisely where science in the modern sense was born. Crowley observed that "Magick, mysticism, and mathematics are triplets"--that is, the magician (=scientist) seeks to *control and manipulate* the Thing in questions; the mystic seeks to *experience* it; the mathematician seeks to *describe* it. Or, as Robert Jastrow says in *God and the Astronomers*, the cosmologists and astrophysicists have been struggling up a very large mountain for a very long time, and have finally reached the summit, only to discover a band of philosophers and theologians waiting for them... (Hmm. That didn't go in the direction I expected it to. Oh well.) Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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
[CTRL] Test Only
-Caveat Lector- DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fw: [InTheShadows] The FBI and Flight 800 A MissileExpert Cries Cover-Up
-Caveat Lector- -- From: MJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fw: [InTheShadows] The FBI and Flight 800 A MissileExpert Cries Cover-Up Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 12:55 PM -Caveat Lector- Hmmm... What about a malfunctioned naval missile? (or a failed test exercise off coastal waters?) I am sure the military has plenty of countermeasures and procedural protocol to safeguard against this sort of thing, but couldnt it be possible? That this was an accident is plausible. The point is the cover up. The second point is why. Hilary DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Saddam, Milosevic ... Fidel Castro?
-Caveat Lector- "Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms countered the claim by explaining the US was providing information to Cuba on suspected drug planes that could have prompted Cuba to shoot down civilian planes." Panel Urges Clinton To Indict Castro By TOM RAUM .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of a House panel and Cuban-American leaders accused the Clinton administration today of stalling in a long-running investigation of Cuba's shooting down of two civilian aircraft in 1996. They suggested Fidel Castro should be indicted in the inquiry. The episode over the Florida Straits, between Cuba and the Florida Keys, claimed the lives of four. ``Castro ordered the shoot down. We need President Clinton to say that Fidel Castro does not enjoy immunity as head of state for this crime. That's what needs to happen here,'' George Fowler, general counsel of the Cuban American National Foundation, told the House Judiciary crime subcommittee. The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., agreed that Castro should be indicted. ``I will do whatever it takes within my power'' to bring the case to a close, including finding out why U.S. fighter jets were not scrambled to intercept the Cuban MIGs that shot down two civilian planes in the February 1996 incident, McCollum said. He said that, if necessary, Congress would issue subpoenas to force appearances by administration witnesses who have refused to appear. Jeffrey Houlihan, a Customs radar operator in Riverside, Calif. who followed the incident on his screen, said he was ``startled'' when he saw images of the three small Cessna civilian aircraft being pursued by fast-moving blips he took to be Russian-built Cuban MiGs. He told the panel he immediately made an emergency call to the Southeast Air Defense unit at Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base and was told, ``We're handling it. Don't worry.'' Houlihan told the panel he did not know why the Air Force did not launch its own fighter jets. A former Air Force radar controller, Houlihan said it was standard practice for the United States to put its planes in the sky whenever a Cuban fighter is seen heading toward the United States. ``I asked the Air Force - are you seeing what I'm seeing? It looked like two aircraft were shot down,'' Houlihan said. Jose Basulto, the pilot of the only surviving aircraft, said two Cuban MiGs pursued him for 53 minutes before abandoning the chase about 30 miles west of Key West. Basulto is the founder and president of the Miami-based Brothers to the Rescue, which routinely flies humanitarian missions to help refugees in rafts and boats. The Defense and Justice Department were invited but declined to send witnesses to the hearing, McCollum said. In a December 1998 memo, the Pentagon's inspector general, Eleanor Hill, told lawmakers that ``national security classifications prohibit us from providing detailed responses,'' including to the question of why U.S. jets were not launched in the incident. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who is of Cuban descent, told the panel, ``We know who is ultimately responsible for this blatant act of aggression. Yet, the Department of Justice has yet to conclude its investigation and issue indictments against the Castro regime.'' In December 1997, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence King in Miami demanded that the Cuban government pay a bit more than $187 million to the relatives of three Cuban-American pilots who died in the incident. The fourth man killed was not a U.S. citizen, and his relatives were not eligible to sue under the terrorism law, the court held. Cuba maintains that the planes violated Cuban airspace and even flew over land to scatter political pamphlets. Meanwhile, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and House International Relations Committee Chairman Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y., jointly wrote to President Clinton demanding that the United States halt cooperation with Cuba in the war on drugs. They protested that the United States was providing information to Cuba on suspected drug planes that could prompt Cuba to shoot down civilian planes. ``Providing such information risks exposing U.S. officials to criminal liability,'' Helms and Gilman wrote. 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] Iran's Tiananmen Square
-Caveat Lector- Tehran Under Tight Security By AFSHIN VALINEJAD .c The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iranian police kept Tehran under a tight leash Thursday, manning checkpoints across the Iranian capital and demanding identity papers as they searched for the students who ignited a week of pro-democracy protests. Several student protesters were missing, one student told an Iranian newspaper. A news agency reported that some people were being interrogated by the police - and another newspaper described scenes of hysteria when one busload of detainees was driven off to prison. Government officials said those found guilty of damaging public property during the protests will be tried as ``enemies of the state'' and could face the death penalty. The protests brought to a head the power struggle between hard-line clerics who have been in control of the government since the Revolution and moderates who back the reformist President Mohammad Khatami. The streets were unusually quiet Thursday around Tehran University, the stronghold of the pro-democracy activists who have mobilized the most significant unrest since the Islamic revolution of 1979. The protests began June 9, hours after police stormed a dormitory on the campus, leaving one person dead and 20 others seriously injured. The Information Ministry said ``several people'' had been arrested in connection with the dormitory raid and the ``subsequent riots in Tehran.'' The ministry statement did not give the number of detainees, but said they were being interrogated, the official Iranian news agency reported in a dispatch received in Dubai. Security forces defused a bomb planted by insurgents in northwest Tehran on Mullah Sadra Avenue, the Tehran Times reported Thursday. The bomb was ``very powerful and could have inflicted heavy losses if exploded,'' it said. The pro-government paper also said troops also discovered ``a hideout of terrorists'' in the city, adding that the ``terrorists were disguised as protesting students.'' The insurgents were not identified, but Iranian authorities usually refer to members of the Iraqi-based opposition group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, as ``terrorists.'' One protest leader, Ali Afshari, said a number of pro-democracy student demonstrators were seized by conservatives during Wednesday's huge pro-government rally in downtown Tehran, the Neshat daily reported. Hard-liners at the rally ``attacked a group of student protesters,'' Afshari was quoted as saying. ``They beat the students, then tied their hands and feet with wire and took them to an unknown location in a waiting ambulance.'' It was not clear how many students were seized nor how they were identified in a crowd estimated at 100,000 people. Another newspaper reported disturbances outside the headquarters of the Tehran Law Enforcement Forces when a bus holding detained protesters left the premises. Mothers cried out to see their sons and shouted for information about who was on the bus and where it was going, the reformist Kar va Kargar newspaper reported Thursday. They were told that some detainees were being transferred to the city's Evin and Eshrat Abad prisons. Tehran residents, in calls to Dubai, said Iran's mobile phone network failed to work for a second day Thursday. It was not clear whether the authorities had shut down the network, but during the demonstrations earlier this week, protesters had used mobile phones to coordinate their moves and warn each other of approaching police. The week of protests began after the hard-line conservatives, who control many branches of the government, banned a moderate newspaper last week, sparking a small protest from the students. After the resulting police raid on the dormitory, students and pro-reform civilians took to the streets in the thousands - one demonstration drew 25,000 people - and the protests spread to eight other Iranian cities. But the hard-liners have regrouped in the past few days and succeeded in banning all protests except one for their own supporters on Wednesday. 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
[CTRL] By the Way, Sorry About the Crusades
-Caveat Lector- Crusades Apology 900 Years Later By SALAM ABUMARAQ .c The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) - To most, the Crusades are ancient history. Not to Prince Albrecht zu Castell-Castell, a descendant of one of the Christian knights who nearly a millennium ago conquered Jerusalem and massacred Muslims and Jews in the name of God. On Thursday, the German aristocrat with white hair and ruddy cheeks finally got a chance to apologize to descendants of the Muslim warrior Saladin for his ancestor's crimes, which he said have burdened his conscience for years. Castell-Castell was one of dozens of Western Christians who delivered apologies to Israel's chief rabbi, the top Muslim cleric and anyone in the streets of Jerusalem who would listen. Thursday marked the 900th anniversary of the Crusaders' conquest of Jerusalem on July 15, 1099. In the runup to the date, about 500 Christians from Europe, Australia and the United States joined a so-called Reconciliation Walk, setting out three years ago from Cologne, Germany, where the first Crusade was launched in 1096, and tracing the path of the Crusaders to the Holy Land. In Jerusalem, the Christians held hands as they sang and prayed Thursday outside the walls of the Old City. Wandering through the cobblestone streets, they visited shops and handed out pamphlets with apologies in Hebrew and Arabic. Afterwards, the group separated; some met with Israel's chief rabbi, Meir Israel Lau, at the Great Synagogue, and others with the top Muslim cleric in the city, Mufti Ikrema Sabri. ``We are deeply sorry for the atrocities committed by our forefathers,'' read the framed message handed to both. ``Where our forefathers were driven by hatred and prejudice, we wish to express love and solidarity.'' During the Crusades, which lasted from the 11th through the 13th century, tens of thousands of Muslims and Jews were killed. The Roman Catholic Crusaders also wrested control of Christian holy sites from their Eastern Orthodox stewards. Lau, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, said he was not sure he had the mandate to accept the apology, but welcomed it nonetheless. ``Better late than never,'' he said. Among the marchers was John Strobole, 74, a retired U.S. Air Force pilot from Chico, Calif. ``I grew up believing that the Crusades were a fine thing, and I was shocked when I learned of the massacres they carried out among the Muslims, the Jews and Eastern Orthodox Christians,'' he said. At the mufti's, Muslim officials introduced the visitors to Amin Maraka and Mousa Sider, descendants of the Muslim conquerer Saladin, who retook Jerusalem in 1187. Castell-Castell's interest was piqued. He began speaking to the two elderly Palestinian men in German, with his granddaughter translating into English and a Palestinian woman translating from English into Arabic. The prince, wearing a white Reconciliation Walk T-shirt, introduced himself as the descendant of Count Ludwig who came to the Holy Land in 1228. Then, with his hand on his heart, he apologized. ``I have borne the burden of my ancestors,'' he said. The descendants of Saladin accepted, and quickly brought up the Palestinians' modern struggle for independence. Asking the prince to take their message back to Europe, they said: ``We must be together always, not trying to crush others.'' 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] NATO Needs a Head
-Caveat Lector- The presiding Secretary-General is leaving NATO to become the European Union's first minister of defense. New NATO Secretary-General Sought By JEFFREY ULBRICH .c The Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Wanted: Secretary-General for NATO. Must be political heavyweight. An excellent communicator. And an effective manager. Must not be from the United States, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, Poland, Hungary or the Czech Republic. NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana - a Spaniard who won the war in Kosovo, moved the Western military alliance into a new era of enlargement and drastically revamped its strategy - is leaving to become the European Union's first coordinator for foreign and defense policy. Filling his shoes will be no easy task. ``People are writing richly speculative articles,'' said one NATO ambassador, insisting that ``the position at the moment is that there are no formal candidates.'' The ambassador, like everyone else at the 19-nation alliance's headquarters who was asked about the search for Solana's successor, declined to speak on the record. The lack of formal candidates leaves NATO observers little to work with beyond a handful of ``names being mentioned.'' So far, there are only four. The most prominent is German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping. He certainly wins the highest praise, but his boss, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, says he needs the 51-year-old Scharping at home. Others include Paddy Ashdown, 58, the departing leader of Britain's Liberal Democratic Party; former Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, 58, and Hans Haekkerup, 53, Denmark's defense minister. Selecting a new secretary-general, like everything else at NATO, is done by consensus. The dean of the NATO ambassadors, Sir John Goulding of Britain, has been consulting with his fellow ambassadors to see if consensus is forming around any particular name. So far, NATO officials say, nothing has emerged. Solana's four-year mandate ends in December, but he is expected to leave sometime in October to start his new job. Best guess among NATO officials is the new man - and it will be a man - will be named in September, when all NATO foreign ministers are in New York for the U.N. General Assembly. The new secretary-general must be a politician with clout, somebody who can forge consensus when things get tough, said one NATO official. He must be able to explain effectively the alliance strategy in tough spots like Kosovo. And he must be able to manage a large bureaucracy. There are limitations. By tradition, he can't be an American because the United States already holds the top two military jobs in the alliance. He can't be French, because France still has not rejoined the integrated military command, which it left in 1966 when President Charles de Gaulle became upset over American influence. Italy already has a deputy secretary-general and it's too soon to have another Spaniard. Somebody from the three new members - Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic - would probably rile the Russians. Some people at NATO still believe Scharping could fall on his domestic political sword in the end and take the NATO job for the good of the alliance. Others think not. Most write off Dehaene as a nonstarter. Solana's predecessor, Willy Claes, also a Belgian, was forced to resign because of a political scandal back home. The voters just kicked Dehaene and his party out of office, in large part due to other scandals. Ashdown, though attractive in some ways, has never held a Cabinet post or a high government job. He does, however, have significant military experience, something Solana - an anti-NATO peacenik in his youth - never had. Haekkerup is the least known of all but has solid experience. ``It's unfortunate there is such a poor list,'' said Gordon Adams of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. ``Solana is a hell of an act to follow. He has been a superb secretary-general.'' 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
[CTRL] Swiss Probe of Kremlin's Money-Laundering
-Caveat Lector- Russian Corruption Scandal Revived By JUDITH INGRAM .c The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) - The opening of a Swiss criminal probe into possible money laundering by aides to President Boris Yeltsin has revived a corruption scandal that allegedly reaches the highest levels of power in Russia. A Swiss official said Wednesday that a criminal investigation had been launched into alleged money-laundering by Kremlin financial manager Pavel Borodin and other Russian citizens. Swiss prosecutors have asked Swiss banks to freeze assets of 22 people suspected in the case, including Borodin, his wife, and top members of Yeltsin's administration, according to Swiss media reports. ``We have reason to suspect it was bribe money being laundered,'' Swiss investigating judge Daniel Devaud was quoted by The Moscow Times as saying. Borodin rejected the allegations. ``Neither I nor my wife have anything to do with Swiss bank accounts,'' he was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. ``All these media attacks on me have been made on clearly political orders.'' The Kremlin had no comment, but Yeltsin was expected to defend his top financial aide - the man responsible for providing housing and other material comforts for the president and his family. ``There will be a very sharp reaction from the presidential administration, because now there's talk about concrete names ... people close to Yeltsin,'' said Yevgeny Volk, director of the Moscow office of the Heritage Foundation. Corruption has long played a leading role in Russian life at all levels, often dictating such everyday decisions as who will get a business license or whose son will be excused from army service. It has positively bloomed in post-Soviet Russia, where savvy businessmen with political connections have been able to get rich quickly through the privatization of state-owned property. While Yeltsin has not been personally linked to corruption allegations, his administration has done little to fight endemic graft in the government. The Kremlin has been fighting persistent opposition and media allegations of influence-peddling by the members of Yeltsin's close circle, including his daughter Tatyana Dyachenko. She has been tied to controversial tycoon and Kremlin insider Boris Berezovsky, who is also being investigated for his involvement in the finances of Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot. The first reports of the kickback scandal emerged in January, when Swiss officials at Russia's request searched the offices of a construction company called Mabetex. Russian investigators suspected that Mabetex had bribed top officials for lucrative renovation contracts. In February, Swiss Federal Prosecutor Carla del Ponte informed Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov that Mabetex had been regularly transferring large amounts of money to a Swiss bank account. Skuratov has been battling to keep his job ever since, and says that attempts to remove him from office are an effort to curb the probe. Yeltsin suspended Skuratov, but he has refused to leave. Russian prosecutors searched Borodin's office in March and confiscated documents involving Mabetex, but no charges have been made. Both Mabetex and the government say they did no wrong. Borodin's lawyer, Boris Kuznetsov, said in an interview Thursday in the Kommersant daily that the allegations against Borodin were ``a purely political action against the president of Russia, initiated by Swiss Prosecutor Carla del Ponte.'' Del Ponte has continually pledged Swiss support in Russia's inquiry. Swiss prosecutors have also been investigating the tycoon Berezovsky and his involvement in the finances of Aeroflot, headed by Yeltsin's son-in-law, Valery Okulov. In April, Russian prosecutors issued a warrant for Berezovsky's arrest on charges of hiding Aeroflot's hard currency earnings in Swiss firms. The warrant was later revoked. Last week, though, Swiss prosecutors seized a large number of documents from two firms in Lausanne, Switzerland, that are linked with Berezovsky: Andava and Forus Service. The tycoon founded the companies in 1994, one day after Aeroflot was privatized, Russia's Izvestia daily reported on Thursday. Berezovsky is accused of funneling $250 million through the two firms. 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] China's Own Neutron Bomb
-Caveat Lector- China: We Have Our Own Neutron Bomb By JOE McDONALD .c The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) - China declared today that it had invented its own neutron bomb, making an unprecedented disclosure about its nuclear arsenal to counter and reject U.S. accusations of atomic spying. The timing of the announcement came as the furor over spy claims by a U.S. congressional panel led by Rep. Christopher Cox was dying down. Still, China is in the midst of its harshest campaign of criticism of rival Taiwan in three years, and has threatened to attack the island. China is known to have exploded a neutron bomb in 1988, but in keeping with its secretive military traditions, apparently never announced its achievement. The bombs are meant to produce a smaller blast than conventional nuclear weapons but more intense radiation, limiting physical damage while killing large numbers of people. In Washington, White House press secretary Joe Lockhart sought to reassure Americans about the threat of China's neutron bomb. ``We have no doubt that our nuclear deterrent is strong enough to protect our national interests,'' he said. Zhao Qizheng, the chief government spokesman, said Chinese scientists developed neutron bombs and miniaturized atomic warheads in the 1970s and '80s. The United States developed neutron bombs in the 1970s, but said it never deployed them. Calling the Cox report on Chinese spying ``utterly absurd'' and racist, Zhao rejected suggestions that China built the bombs only by relying on stolen U.S. technology. ``The Chinese can't be as smart as the Americans, therefore they must have stolen the technology,'' he said. Zhao also gave details of programs to develop anti-submarine microwave technology, missile design techniques and technology to launch multiple satellites from a single rocket. Zhao said China, which exploded its first nuclear bomb in 1964, was driven by the nuclear threat of the U.S.-Soviet arms race. ``China had no choice but to carry out research and development of nuclear weapons,'' he said. After developing atomic and hydrogen bombs, Zhao said, it was ``quite logical and natural for it to master the neutron bomb technology through its own efforts over a short period of time.'' In Tokyo, the chief Japanese government spokesman said that although having neutron technology doesn't violate international arms-control agreements, Japan would ask China to exercise restraint in developing it. ``We hope that efforts toward nuclear arms reduction will be strengthened further,'' the Kyodo news agency quoted Hiromu Nonaka as saying. China has threatened to attack Taiwan after Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui said last week the two governments have ``state-to-state'' relations, all but rejecting Beijing's insistence that the island is part of its territory. Taiwan and the mainland have been ruled separately since China's civil war 50 years ago. Beijing has said it reserves the right to use force against the island if it declares formal independence. A sharply worded commentary Thursday in China's military-run Liberation Army Daily said the armed forces were ready to attack Taiwan if necessary to enforce Beijing's claim. ``(We) will not tolerate separatist conspiracies nor sit idly by to let even one inch of territory go,'' said the commentary, which was reprinted in major newspapers nationwide. Zhang Qiyue, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, would not comment on whether the neutron bomb disclosures were meant as a threat to Taiwan. She would not say whether China has a neutron bomb in its arsenal now. But Zhang repeated Beijing's warning to Taiwan not to ``underestimate the firm resolve'' of the Chinese government to enforce its territorial integrity. ``Lee Teng-hui and the Taiwan authorities must ... stop all activities aimed at splitting the motherland,'' she told reporters. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] No Malpractice Liability for HMOs, GOP Decides
-Caveat Lector- Senate Nixes Patient Suits vs. HMOs By DARLENE SUPERVILLE .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Turning to one of the most contentious issues in the weeklong debate over health maintenance organizations, the Senate today killed a Democratic provision that would have enabled patients to sue their health plans. Health plans that fall under federal regulations cannot now be sued. The Senate voted 53-47 against the provision, which Democrats had argued would force insurers to put a patient's health before the company bottom line. President Clinton said he was bewildered by the rejection of the provision and lashed out at Republicans, who control the Senate. ``The health insurers won't let them do it,'' Clinton said. ``It's a sad day for health care in America. But we're not done yet and this won't die.'' The sponsor of the doomed amendment, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said: ``This is the heart of the debate. This is what the patients' bill of rights is all about.'' Republicans countered by saying patients would actually suffer because of the cost and expense of lengthy court fights. ``This is a terrible idea,'' said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. ``It will add expense throughout the system and will not benefit patients who need it when they need it.'' Senators also were expected to adopt a four-part amendment by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, covering the areas of long-term and emergency room care, access to medical specialists and obstetrician-gynecologists. The GOP bill would: Create a new tax deduction for long-term care, though Republicans gave no details on how they would pay for the $5.4 billion, five-year plan. Strengthen a GOP provision on emergency room care by ensuring that sick people would not pay more for visiting a hospital that is outside the health plan's network. It also would require coverage for follow-up care after the patient's condition has been stabilized. But it would apply only to the 48 million people covered by federally regulated plans. Require ``timely'' access to medical specialists, but not those outside a plan's network. It also only applies to the 48 million. Assure unfettered access to obstetricians for pregnant women, but only allow direct access to gynecologists for unspecified ``routine care.'' Covers 48 million. The Senate was expected to pass the GOP bill today. But as the White House again signaled President Clinton's intention to veto the Republican bill, Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I., continued to work with a handful of Democrats to forge an acceptable compromise. Chafee noted that both bills were doomed, since the Senate was expected to defeat the Democratic version. ``And the American people won't be one bit better off than they were when we started this,'' he said at a news conference. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said most of the negotiations have centered on the liability issue. The compromise bill would allow lawsuits in federal courts, but not in state courts as the Democrats would. It would ban punitive damages and, in an effort to win more GOP support, would cap damages for pain and suffering. ``This is a classic congressional moment,'' said Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. ``Are we going to adopt the 70 percent we agree on or are we going to just leave it where it is and do nothing.'' In action Wednesday, the Senate refused, 52-48, to extend new rules for health maintenance organizations to some 161 million people with private insurance regulated by the states. The result is that many of the new Senate provisions would apply only to the 48 million people covered by federally regulated insurance plans. ``The point ... is that the states have acted. They've acted without any mandate or prod from Washington and they've acted in a way to tailor their laws to their marketplace,'' said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. ``One size does not fit all.'' Democrats disagreed. ``On every single amendment the people lose and the HMOs win,'' complained Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a physician who is helping to lead the GOP effort, said some ``very good'' Democratic ideas would be folded into the final bill. ``We'll deliver,'' he told reporters. The Senate also rejected, 53-47, a Democratic proposal to require HMOs to pay for treatment by specialists, even those outside of a plan's network. The GOP version would require ``timely'' specialist care, but not from outside doctors. It approved, 55-45, a GOP measure requiring coverage of doctor-recommended overnight hospitalization for women treated for breast cancer. Democrats support the idea, but voted against the proposal because it eliminated one of their provisions easing access to clinical trials for the dying or seriously ill. Both parties have offered new federal rights for patients in HMOs or other managed care plans, but Republicans are more modest on virtually every issue. Democrats accuse Republicans of turning their backs on millions of Americans who are
[CTRL] China Ready to Invade Taiwan
-Caveat Lector- Chinese Military Threaten Taiwan BEIJING (AP) - Vowing to defend every inch of Chinese territory, China's military today threatened to use force against Taiwan if President Lee Teng-hui declares independence on the island. In a sharply worded commentary run in newspapers nationwide, the military's newspaper, the Liberation Army Daily, said the armed forces stood ready to enforce a long-standing government policy to attack Taiwan, if need be, to uphold China's claim to the island. The commentary echoed warnings delivered Wednesday and carried in newspapers today by Defense Minister Chi Haotian. Chi, a career political commissar in the military, said the People's Liberation Army would ``smash any attempts to separate the country.'' The rhetoric is the most aggressive used by China's leaders since Lee provoked Chinese outrage Saturday by suggesting that China and Taiwan are separate, equal countries. The tone also underscored the military's strengthened hand over policy-making since NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia two months ago. Separated during a civil war 50 years ago, Beijing and Taipei have for years claimed to be part of ``one China'' - a concept that has kept Beijing from declaring war to retake the island. Although Lee maintains he still supports eventual reunification, his government this week declared the ``one China'' policy a hindrance to Taiwan. ``Every warrior in the entire army is furiously indignant over Lee Teng-hui's evil plot to separate the motherland,'' the Liberation Army Daily said in the front-page commentary. ``In the struggle between upholding unification and opposing separatism, we ... will not tolerate separatist conspiracies nor sit idly by to let even one inch of territory go,'' the newspaper said. The newspaper, which is run by the political office of the 2.8 million-member PLA, heaped scorn on Lee, accusing him of exposing ``his ugly face of separatism.'' In a sign of the military's influence, the Liberation Army Daily commentary was reprinted on the front-pages of all major national newspapers, including People's Daily, the authoritative voice of the ruling Communist Party. After NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy on May 7, conservatives in the party and the military accused reformist members of the leadership for being pro-American and not taking seriously U.S. attempts to contain China. Leaders have promised the military more funding to upgrade weaponry and protect China from foreign bullying. The Liberation Army said that the ``modernizing'' PLA has sufficient military strength and resolve to defend the nation's territorial integrity. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990715b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Chinese neutron bombs were detonated to produce of this bulletin. Yet. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HAARP: PROBING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS. The single most contentious question in science at the end of century 20 isn't about evolution, the origin of the universe or human cloning, but, "What is the gov't really up to near Gakona, Alaska?" Officially, this 33-acre gravel pad near the Tok Highway 180 miles NE of Anchorage is the home of the high-frequency active auroral research program (HAARP). Depending upon who you ask for a more detailed description, HAARP is either a futuristic weapon, a scientific research project, a global mind control scheme-rivaling network TV-or the cause of a reptilian invasion from another dimension. Better than the magic-pellet petrol substitute: http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/9907STRSP.html : Are you involved in disinformation re: HAARP? Is HAARP conspiratology dis- information to distract us from something else? What's really being hidden? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ABDUCTEE.NET - While some UFO-related sites amount to little more than a gray page with heavily exclamated text reading "I WUZ ABDUCTED!!!", this hub offers a great deal more content, taste, a far higher design ethic. Read abductee stories or report your own, discover government cover-ups, or chat with fellow UFO-heads. A galaxy of other options awaits you on this -- the final frontier. Never be seen again: http://www.abductee : Did you report your abduction to im/proper authorities, friends/family [if any], the Net? Who believes you? Have you been tracked ever since? By whom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. terrorist threats detailed. WASHINGTON (AP) - An anthrax release in Boston, a North Korean sale of nuclear bombs, an Iraqi nerve-agent attack on U.S. troops, were among the potential threats to Americans cited by a commission urging gov't action to combat such risks. "We are woefully un- prepared..." Proposed laws would tighten export controls on items that might be used to manufacture heavily destructive weaponry, and would have all worldwide transactions recorded electronically. We'll be watching you: see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=256028-571 : Can you brew up awesome terrorist weapons out of common components? Do ETs help you master terror-technology? Does your implant warn of gov't probing? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bible Sales Beyond Grave Spark Police Probe. LONDON (Reuters) UK cops are investigating a "Christian Bookshop" that is sending bills to dead people for bibles. The company had sent invoices to people who had recently died, demanding payment for bibles and a book called "Jesus of the Holy Land." "It's a scam. There is no evidence of an order being placed. There is no evidence of books being delivered." The outstanding debt was put at $40, accompanied by a demand to the estates of the dead for prompt payment. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990715/08/odd-crime-bibles : If death and taxes are inevitable, are religious scams too? If Mormons can baptize/convert the dead, why can't your belief system assess the dead? Are the dead the ideal customers, since they can't complain or demand refunds? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Turkey offers Israel water. JERUSALEM (AP) - Turkey could solve Israel's chronic water shortage by hauling enormous water-filled plastic bubbles by tugboat across the Mediterranean, Turkey's president said. Such a project could eventually supply Israel with up to 140 billion cubic feet of water a year. Israel Turkey already have close military economic links, and the ties would strengthen if Turkey becomes Israel's major water supplier. Nearby Arab countries, especially Syria, are watching the Israeli-Turkish ties with great concern, fearing the alliance could dominate the Middle East. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560287305-089 : Should icebergs be hauled to LosAngeles? Are giant water bubbles easy tar- gets? Do Arab states deserve to be dominated? Does Turkey have crop circles? Can giant water bubbles be hauled to distant space colonies? Is dependence on water a surmountable limitation? Can we evolve to drink vacuum? Want to? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Experimental Method Delivers Drugs To Brain. WASHINGTON (Reuters) French researchers have used tiny capsules called microspheres to deliver cancer drugs directly into the brains of patients. The method helped double the survival time of 8 patients and may offer a new and better way to treat brain tumors. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990715/01/science-cancer-brain : What drugs do you want to deliver directly to your brain? Do microspheres interfere with alien implants,
[CTRL] Feds Weigh Doomsday Scenarios
-Caveat Lector- U.S. Terrorist Threats Detailed By DAVID BRISCOE .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Concerned about a series of doomsday scenarios ranging from an anthrax release in Boston to an Iraqi nerve gas attack on U.S. troops, a government commission proposes a far-reaching reform of agencies now handling such threats. President Clinton said the recommendations ``deserve serious consideration.'' He directed his national security adviser, Sandy Berger, to coordinate an interagency assessment and to report back within 60 days. The commission's report released Wednesday details a plan to give the vice president the lead role in preventing and dealing with the threat of weapons of mass destruction and calls for appointment of a high-profile national director for nonproliferation In a separate report, a congressional study estimated it would cost a city of 500,000 about $1.3 million to acquire basic equipment to prepare for a hazardous material incident and $12 million to be ``highly prepared'' for a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear event. The commission's main proposals and conclusions were disclosed last week in interviews, but former CIA Director John Deutch, who headed the panel, released details of its work Wednesday. ``We believe the country needs to be better protected,'' Deutch said, introducing his congressionally-established 12-member panel at the Capitol. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the commission's vice chairman, announced plans to introduce legislation today that would tighten export controls on items that might be used to manufacture heavily destructive weapons, including requiring electronic registration of all sales of such products- a practice he said should be adopted worldwide. ``We are woefully unprepared, and we would like to see something done before some incident occurs,'' Specter said. The commission concludes that the top levels of government are ``not effectively organized to combat proliferation'' and recommends more presidential and vice presidential involvement in the issue, as well as a reorganization of the nearly 100 agencies now dealing with the issue. One commission member, former Democratic Sen. James Exon of Nebraska, dissenting from the report's main recommendation, urged greater Cabinet-level involvement and a nonproliferation director who would report directly to the president. ``What has been crafted, in my opinion, is another lower-level 'working group,''' Exon said. To underscore the motivation for its proposals, the commission listed four scenarios it said could occur: Anthrax is released in a Boston subway station during rush hour, sending 6,000 people to hospital emergency rooms. Analysts estimate that North Korean scientists have assembled 10 nuclear weapons, and intelligence reports say North Korea is planning to sell two. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein orders Scud missiles carrying nerve agents fired upon U.S. troops in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. A disgruntled Russian scientist at Ozersk acquires 44 pounds of highly enriched uranium and sells it to Iran. ``These events have not taken place,'' it said. ``But they could.'' In the separate General Accounting Office report, investigators compiled estimates of the resources it would take to meet a catastrophic attack on a U.S. city of 500,000. The report cautions that the estimates and accompanying list of needed supplies are meant only to be illustrative of possible needs. For a typical hazardous materials incident, it estimated $1.3 million to procure materials ranging from duct tape to mobil comand posts and another $3.3 million to sustain the preparedness over 10 years. For a high level of preparation, the estimates were $12.2 million for initial procurement and $42.9 million over a decade. 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] Amish Gene Therapy
-Caveat Lector- "[The Amish] will be the first subjects in a test of a process called chimeraplasty, which involves tricking the body into correcting a gene mutation. If successful, the technique could be used to treat up to 80 percent of all genetic diseases." Amish Are Subjects in Gene Testing By JENNIFER BROWN .c The Associated Press STRASBURG, Pa. (AP) - Lancaster County's Amish and Mennonite people, the plain folk who mostly live, work and dress the way they did during the 19th century, are nevertheless serving as test subjects in one of the most advanced areas of medicine - gene therapy. Scientists hope to learn more about genetic diseases by studying members of the insular community, people who often ride in horse-drawn buggies and don't have electricity but are willing to climb into an MRI machine. ``I can see how it could be confusing if you don't understand our beliefs,'' said Leon Newswanger, a Mennonite whose son will be one of the first participants in human trials of a new gene therapy. ``But if we don't do whatever it takes, if we know what could help - then that is worse.'' The Amish and Mennonites, known as the Plain community for their simple, dark clothes and rural way of life, have a higher rate of certain inherited diseases than other people. They have become instrumental in genetic research because the estimated 75,000 sect members are descended from just 47 families. The sects have been providing blood samples and family histories to geneticists for years. Similarly, scientists have studied Ashkenazi Jews, Cajuns in Louisiana and other groups with a high degree of genetic uniformity. ``Amish people know the reality of genetic diseases and so any advances are welcomed,'' said Dr. Holmes Morton, who opened the Clinic for Special Children in the heart of Pennsylvania's Amish country in 1990. It is one of the most advanced gene research clinics in the country, situated in a timber-frame house surrounded by fields plowed by mules. Newswanger's son, Marlin, and two other children from Morton's clinic will be the first subjects in a test of a process called chimeraplasty, which involves tricking the body into correcting a gene mutation. If successful, the technique could be used to treat up to 80 percent of all genetic diseases. All three children are stricken with Crigler-Najjar, a rare liver disease that is more common among Amish and Mennonites. About 300 people worldwide have Crigler-Najjar; 16 trace their roots to Lancaster's Plain sects and are being treated by Morton. Crigler children suffer severe jaundice and must sleep under special rehabilitating lights for up to 16 hours a day to prevent deadly brain damage. Altogether, Morton treats hundreds of children with more than 70 rare genetic diseases, and many regularly undergo MRIs and complicated blood tests and may be hospitalized for months at a time. Some children must be fed special formulas and vitamins - another contrast in a community where nearly all the food is homegrown. ``This is what it takes to keep him alive,'' said Glenda Groff, a Mennonite whose 8-year-old son has a genetic disorder called maple syrup urine disease, which is fatal without a proper diet. The disease - extremely rare in the general population but more common among Mennonites - prevents the body from processing certain amino acids, which then become toxic. One of the symptoms is urine that smells like maple sugar. With the opening of Morton's clinic, many Amish and Mennonite have shed their traditional fatalism about disease. ``There is a perception in the Plain community that some things are a fact of life,'' said Rebecca Smoker, an Amish worker at Morton's clinic. ``For years, these children lived their short little lives and died without any medical person seeing them because everybody knew they were going to die.'' 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] G.W.Bush-Foot firmly in mouth.
-Caveat Lector- chatterbox Mister Bush's Neighborhood By Timothy Noah Chatterbox is dumbfounded at the light media coverage of the news that George W. Bush sold his Dallas house in January 1995--after he was elected governor of Texas--with a covenant stipulating that it be occupied by "white persons only, not excluding bona fide servants of any race." The story, which Matt Drudge broke two days ago and which the Associated Press and CNN confirmed yesterday, is nowhere to be found in today's New York Times, Los Angeles Times, or Wall Street Journal. The Washington Post ran a brief item about it under the headline, "Bush Campaign Calls Whites-Only Covenant on House a Non-Issue," and the New York Post ran something dismissive in its Page Six gossip column. Judging from Nexis, the only major U.S. newspapers to run stand-alone articles about the Bush covenant today were the Boston Globe and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The Bush campaign yesterday released a one-line statement from the candidate on the matter: "There is no deed restriction because it is null and void under Texas law and has been since 1984." Actually, whatever law Texas passed in 1984 is beside the point, since, as Eve Gerber observes in Slate's "Explainer" column, racial covenants have been effectively null and void under federal law since 1948, when the Supreme Court made it illegal for courts to enforce them, and 1968, when Congress made it illegal for private individuals to honor existing racial covenants or to write up new ones. But that hasn't stopped politicians from catching hell when racial covenants on their houses have been unearthed during the past half-century. John F. Kennedy hit Richard Nixon with the issue during the 1960 presidential campaign. Later, it came out that JFK's house had a racial covenant, too; he hadn't known about it. Dianne Feinstein tagged Michael Huffington about a racial covenant on his house during her 1994 Senate race; Huffington then tagged her back, because she had a racial covenant on her house, too, which she hadn't known about. (In both instances, Chatterbox is taking the aggressor at his/her word because he can't imagine any candidate would be stupid enough to knowingly make an accusation so likely to boomerang.) Bush spokeswoman Mindy Tucker has been telling reporters that Bush, too, did not know of the covenant when he sold the house. It's possible she's telling the truth; if she is, this is a one-day story of little consequence. But some vaguely problematic additional facts have come out. According to CNN, Dawn Moore, an agent for the company that did the title search for the 1995 sale, says she sent Bush the deed restrictions with the closing papers. So, now we have to believe that Bush had the information but didn't read it. OK, that's still plausible; this was obviously a busy time for Bush, and nobody reads everything handed to them at a house closing. But this wasn't Bush's only transaction involving this house; he also bought it in 1988, at which time there would have been an earlier title search. Meanwhile, Bush spokeswoman Tucker has been saying that Bush's former neighborhood, Preston Hollow, was a place where (unenforceable) racial covenants were the norm. The Washington Post quotes Tucker saying, "All the houses in that neighborhood have it." Hmm. Does that mean nobody in Preston Hollow knew its houses had racial covenants? Or does that mean that Bush's neighbors did know about the covenants but never got around to telling Bush about them during the seven years he lived there? Bush's second line of defense on the covenant issue may turn out to be the remarks of his real-estate broker, Steve Collins, who told AP that to delete the offensive wording Bush would have had to collect signatures from 75 percent of Preston Hollow's residents and go through a costly and lengthy legal process. "Why would someone volunteer for that when they didn't need to?" Collins said. Well, you might want to do it if you were a major political figure and were rich enough to own a piece of the Texas Rangers. "You don't gain anything by doing it," Collins told AP. "They don't mean anything." But if they didn't mean anything, it wouldn't be difficult to get your neighbors to sign a petition doing away with them. Or would it? Perhaps Chatterbox is being a little unfair about the petition difficulty. Frank Michelman, an expert on restrictive covenants at Harvard Law School, told Chatterbox: "Think about your average Joe who is approached by somebody who says here's a little instrument I would like your signature on." Average Joe is going to ask himself whether this little instrument is going to affect his property value. In this case it clearly wouldn't, since the racial covenant has no legal force. (Indeed, Chatterbox thinks, it ought to help, since some people wouldn't want to buy a house knowing it had an unsavory racial covenant.) But still, Michelman argues, Average Joe would want to talk to his
[CTRL] SUBTERRANEA BRITANNICA: The Study and Investigation of Man-Made and Man Used Underground Places
-Caveat Lector- SUBTERRANEA BRITANNICA (http://www.stonix.demon.co.uk/sub-brit/) About Sub Brit Formed in 1974, Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted the the study and investigation of man-made and man-used underground places. It brings together people with an interest in all types of underground space - from deneholes to dug-outs and from souterrains to subways. Indeed, as the list shows, there are at least seventy categories of underground excavations that are of particular interest to our members. Most people, however, confine their interest to just one or two specific areas of research and investigation. As a result, there are among our many members experts in particular types of underground structure, such as ice houses or limestone quarries. In one instance, because of the great deal of interest in the subject, a sub-group has been formed called the Research Study Group or RSG, specifically devoted to the study of structures related to the Cold War period. There are some areas of underground study that are so specialised and complex, coal mines and other types of working mine for example, that they are better covered by specialist professional mining and engineering societies. Consequently, Subterranea Britannica tends to devote its energies more in the direction of older, smaller and more neglected underground features. Subterranea Britannica is recognised as an authoritative body within this specialist area of industrial archaeology and research. As such, it enjoys links to similar organisations and societies both in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe. These bodies include: The Council for British Archaeology; The National Association for Mining History Organisations; Société Française d'Étude des Souterrains, France; Arbeitskreis für Erdstallforschung, Germany; Société Belge de Recherche et d'Étude des Souterrains, Belgium; and Studiegroep Orderaadse Kalkensteengroeven (SOK), The Netherlands. The Society publishes a bulletin, as well as producing regular newsletters for the membership. Two conferences are held each year, usually in London and Cambridge. In addition, field trips to visit interesting underground sites are arranged during the year in various parts of the UK and Europe. Being a responsible organisation, all underground excursions are conducted within strict safety guidelines and always in conjunction with the owners or authorities responsible for the site. The organisation encourages the publication of any research and has access to extensive information files as well as a library of relevant books and journals. = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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] UN Thugs Place OUR National parks off-limits
-Caveat Lector- Now, where can I find a UN flag to burn? DEFINE: De ting you get for breaking de law. Powered by Pegasus Mail for Windows v 3.11 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] No Malpractice Liability for HMOs, GOP Decides
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/15/1999 4:37:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Republicans countered by saying patients would actually suffer because of the cost and expense of lengthy court fights. What the GOP wants, the GOP gets. 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] UN Thugs Place OUR National parks off-limits
-Caveat Lector- I have a couple questions I hope you won't mind answering.. I have a hard time seeing what's wrong with it - don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I know it's right, but I can't see much bad. It seems like a good thing in that it keeps people from screwing up nice places. Which we do all the time. I don't see how buying up land in national parks forces people into the more manageable cities. As far as I know people don't live in national parks. Can you explain it more? I don't like the idea of it being UN owned, though. What is the global biodiversity plan? Thanks -Original Message- From: Bard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 2:40 PM Subject: [CTRL] UN Thugs Place OUR National parks off-limits -Caveat Lector- "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence then an armed man." --- Thomas Jefferson http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/19990715_xnjdo_national_p.sh t ml THURSDAY JULY 15 1999 --- - National parks off-limits U.N.-designated panel calls for increased 'buffer zones' --- - By Jon E. Dougherty © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Last year a United Nations-designated panel, at the behest of the Clinton administration, called for the creation of uninhabited "buffer zones" around several U.S. national parks. Since then roughly two dozen U.S. parks and preserves, covering millions of acres of public land, have been included in the plan. Now, however, new plans to expand these zones are in the works, and the outrage has reached a near fever pitch among experts who say these U.N.-designated sites are merely attempts to "globalize" huge portions of the United States -- with taxpayers picking up the tab. Henry Lamb of Eco-Logic -- a watchdog organization that monitors U.N. activities and U.S. sovereignty issues -- told WorldNetDaily that one example -- at Yellowstone National Park, where the creation of a larger buffer zone is well underway -- was "just a sign of things to come." "Inside Yellowstone, the U.S. Park Service is shutting down campgrounds as the park is being prepared to become the core of a huge biosphere reserve, as part of the United Nations global biodiversity plan," he said. "Once established, no human activity will be permitted in the area," even though U.S. taxpayers must continue to fund the maintenance and upkeep of Yellowstone and other popular outdoor tourist sites. Lamb said that in order to increase the buffer zone around Yellowstone, the Park Service drove local businesses away by refusing to maintain access roads. When the businesses folded as a result of heavy financial losses, the land was bought with taxpayer money and a larger zone of inaccessibility was created by default. "Once they buy the land, the government is obviously not going to resell it," he said, thus creating permanently larger buffer zones. "The purpose of establishing sites as U.S. national parks was to have people in them enjoying them," Lamb added. "But the Clinton administration has completely bought into this U.N. notion that our land ought to be their land, managed by them. And as such, it ought to be uninhabited as well." He said if most Americans "knew what was going on (with their national parks), the uproar would be deafening." In the case of Yellowstone, Lamb said the government's acquiescence to the U.N.'s agenda cost a gold mining company about $30 million and in the end prevented them from mining one ounce of known gold reserves, even though the government indicated they initially would have allowed it. "The owners of the Crown Butte New World gold mine, which is outside of Yellowstone National Park," he said, "were told by the government to comply with a list of environmental requirements before they could move in and begin mining." But after being threatened with non-stop litigation from environmental groups funded by U.N. agencies that could have lasted decades, the mining company finally agreed to a deal that leaves at least $650 million of known gold reserves in the ground instead. That deal provided the company with about $65 million dollars for "more exploration." Of that amount, the government said about $21 million had to be used for "environmental clean-up." Lamb said that Congress has consistently ignored Clinton administration orders and directives designed to implement many of the U.N. mandates. Clint on, he said, is implementing U.N. directives via executive order and presidential directive "because then he doesn't have to worry about getting
[CTRL] Fw: AANEWS for Thursday, July 15, 1999
-Caveat Lector- from: AMERICAN ATHEISTS subject: AANEWS for July 15 1999 A M E R I C A N A T H E I S T S #604 ~~ 7/15/99 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... * House debating RLPA * Court strikes portion of DeMent-Alabama ruling * Resources * About this list... HOUSE DEBATING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTION ACT Few Cite Separation: Nadler Version Limits Coverage The House of Representatives opened debate this morning on the controversial Religious Liberty Protection Act (RLPA). Two versions of the measure are on the floor, one offered by Rep. Charles Canady of Florida, a second more restricted writing presented by Rep. Jerrold Nadler of N.Y. At issue at this point in the discussion is whether or not RLPA should trump the nation's civil rights law and other anti-discrimination statutes. A vote on the amended is expected shortly, and a tally on the Canady bill (HR 1691) could come later this afternoon or sometime this evening. A special AANEWS dispatch will be sent out at that time. The Religious Liberty Protection Act would hold government to a "compelling interest/least restrictive means" test when dealing with faith-based groups and practices. It is based on the old Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the historic BOERNE v. FLORES decision in 1997. Justice John Paul Stevens opined that thanks to RFRA, churches and other religious groups possessed a legal instrument which "no atheist" could hope to obtain, and thus constituted an impermissible establishment of religion. The battle over RLPA has pitted a coalition of religious groups and some advocacy organizations, against an equally broad range of opponents. Many of the latter disagree only with certain portions of the Religious Liberty Protection Act, and have attempted to have the legislation amended so it would be accommodating. Legal groups, for instance, worried that RLPA might compromise security inside the nation's penal system, by allowing inmates exemption from regulations so that they may pursue questionable religious activities. Others, like historic preservation groups and municipal agencies, worry that the law would create an incentive for churches to ignore land use and zoning ordinances. RLPA, like its predecessor, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, was crafted in order to adjust the balance between religious exercise and the enforcement of "neutral" and generally applicable legal statutes. In EMPLOYMENT DIVISION v. SMITH (1990), the high court ruled that the First Amendment's protection of the free exercise of religion did not extend to religious exercise that is burdened by a neutral law of general applicability. That, backers of RFRA/RLPA argued, changed dramatically the standard the court had used since 1963 established in case like SHERBERT v. VERNER; in SHERBERT, a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who refused to work on her religion's Saturday Sabbath was awarded unemployment compensation which had previously been denied. Other decisions came into play as well before EMPLOYMENT DIVISION and the historic BOERNE v. FLORES which struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. In LYNG v. NORTHWEST INDIAN CEMETERY PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION (1988), for instance, the court opined that rendering an individual's obligation to obey a law continent on religious belief thus permitted that individual "to become a law unto himself," a contradiction of "constitutional tradition and common sense." Critics of RFRA and the Religious Liberty Protection Act charge that the legislation thus encourages "special rights" for churches, mosques, temples and other faith-based groups. The House opened deliberations at 10 a.m.(ET) with a prayer by Rev. James Ford, official chaplain of the body. During a session of off-topic one minute speeches, C-SPAN interviewed Larry Wirtham of the Washington Times news paper, who provided background on the RLPA, and said that opposition to the measure came from municipalities worried about land use and zoning problems which they might encounter as a result of the act. While acknowledging that RLPA enjoyed universal support from America's religious community, he did not mention opposition from state-church separaitonists worried about the First Amendment consequences of the legislation. Debate then began on a modified version of RLPA. Even those supporting the new rendition claimed that the bill was necessary in order to protect religious groups from encroachment by state and local governments. Considerable attention was paid to the fact that the measure enjoyed the support of
[CTRL] Fw: Second Dispatch -- AANEWS, July 15, 1999
-Caveat Lector- from: AMERICAN ATHEISTS subject: AANEWS for July 15 1999 (Second Dispatch) A M E R I C A N A T H E I S T S #610 ~~ 7/15/99 (Second Dispatch) 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" -- RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTION ACT CLEARS HOUSE The Religious Liberty Protection Act was approved by the House of Representatives today this afternoon, 306-118. The measure survived attempts to amend it, after congress turned down a proposal by Rep. Jerrold Nadler that would have limited the scope of the act, and not allowed groups to cite religion in trumping anti-discrimination laws and other civil rights legislation. Nadler Amendment Defeated After nearly two hours of debate, the House voted on the Nadler version of RLPA. The amendment failed on a voice vote, and during a recorded vote, C-SPAN interviewed Janet Parshall of the Family Research Council. She opined that there had been "a tremendous, systematic assault by the Supreme Court over the past 35 years," -- a figure not cited by some RLPA boosters who only go as far back as the EMPLOYMENT DIVISION v. SMITH ruling. Parshall said that "we have lost perspective," and that "95% of all Americans believe in god, they have a creed, they have a house of worship." She also described RLPA as a "wall of protection instead of a wall of separation," in defining the relationship between church and state. Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Fund predicted that if passed, RLPA would be declared unconstitutional. He praised the goal of RLPA, but said that he had problems with the means being used, specifically the commerce and spending clauses. Farris also argued that RLPA "helps only the big denominations," rather than small groups of religious believers. "The bills is a hoax on the American public, the people pushing it know better, it will be declared unconstitutional." The Nadler amendment on roll call failed 190-234. With today's passage of RLPA in the House, the measure now moves to the Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to hold further hearings on its version of the legislation; capitol hill watchers predict that RLPA may face a tougher time in the Senate. A breakdown of representatives' vote will be available later this evening on the American Atheists FLASHLINE web site. ** RESOURCES FROM AMERICAN ATHEISTS... * For information about American Atheists, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please include your name and postal mailing address. * For a free catalogue of American Atheist Press books, videos and other products, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kindly include your postal mailing address. * The American Atheist Magazine is now on the web! Check out select articles from the current or back issues, as well as special web-only features. Visit us at http://www.americanatheist.org * If you are a current member of American Atheists, sign up for our e-mail discussion group, aachat. We have over 120 participants who discuss topics such as Atheism, religion, First Amendment issues and lots more! Contact Margie Wait, the Moderator, through [EMAIL PROTECTED] or send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ABOUT THIS LIST... AANEWS is a free service from American Atheists, a nationwide movement founded by Madalyn Murray O'Hair for the advancement of Atheism, and the total, absolute separation of government and religion. You may forward, post or quote from this dispatch, provided that appropriate credit is given to AANEWS and American Atheists. Edited by Conrad Goeringer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Representative for American Atheists is Margie Wait, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To subscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[CTRL] Right Away
-Caveat Lector- From NewsMax Whittling Away Our Constitution One Right at a Time Ken HamblinJuly 15, 1999 Add another name to our nation's hall of shame _ and one even scarier subtext, if you read carefully. Media reports have been rife with details about how Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, the youthful white supremacist who is our nation's newest incarnation of hatred personified, was able to purchase two handguns _ a .380-caliber semiautomatic and a .22-caliber handgun _ to use in pursuit of his grotesque racist ideology. His rampage included firing shots at six Orthodox Jews in Chicago, murdering former Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdson _ a black man _ shooting at an Asian couple in Northbrook, Ill., and killing 26-year-old Won Joon Yoon, an economics student from Bloomington, Ind. What Smith did was repulsive, and I commend him for the consideration he showed us by extinguishing his own unhappy, twisted little life at the end of his shooting spree. Unfortunately, his legacy may be yet another nail in the coffin in which the gun-grabbers hope to entomb our Second Amendment rights to keep and bear firearms. Ironically, the same weekend Smith began his rampage, USA Weekend published the results of a survey indicating that more than half of Americans are ready to trade some of their unique freedoms for greater personal and community safety. ``Fifty-two percent say the right to bear arms should be modified or eliminated,'' the report said. Don't get me wrong, now. I respect the opinions of those Americans who responded to USA Weekend's poll, even those 52 percent with whom I find myself in such complete disagreement. Why am I being so accommodating toward people whose views in this matter I find both shortsighted and highly dangerous? Because I understand, as I can only wish they did, that the Constitution they're so ready to casually tamper with is the very document that guarantees them the right to be in opposition to me and my view of this world. I also understand, perhaps better than they do, how dizzying it can be to be bombarded by liberal screeds about the evils inherent in our Second Amendment rights _ even though these rights make us unique among all the nations on this earth. Not so coincidentally, I suspect, I happened upon another story in the same publication on the same day, with a headline that I found just as alarming. ``1st Amendment a Loser in Poll,'' it said. ``Too Much Press Freedom Seen.'' According to this article, a surprisingly similar 53 percent of those questioned in a survey _ conducted under the auspices of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville _ believe ``the press has too much freedom,'' representing a rise of 15 percentage points since 1997. I talked with Paul McMasters, the center's ombudsman and a leading defender of the First Amendment, on my syndicated talk-radio show. According to him, my take on this poll _ that Americans are being dumbed down about the rights our forebears gallantly defended _ was uncomfortably accurate. His evident concern about the Vanderbilt poll results made me hope that some of those folks in academia _ and especially those who adore the liberal media, who have been working to make the Bill of Rights into a document more to their liking _ may at last be beginning to understand something we Second Amendment nuts have grasped for a long while. That simple thought is that, without the Second Amendment, there's a good chance there'll be no First Amendment. It's apparent, at least to me, that you can't selectively dupe the American people. You can't coax them into willingness to throw away one inalienable right, while making sure that they cherish another. They can't be brainwashed to shrug off one right _ the right to bear arms _ and remain passionately protective of another right _ the right to free speech. No matter how much that scenario fits the political agenda of the left. The Vanderbilt poll makes it frighteningly apparent that, if you propagandize to abolish the Second Amendment _ making us more like Australians, Mexicans and the English _ then you had best be prepared to cope with a populace ignorant and indifferent about the First Amendment. This chilling reality was confirmed by McMasters, when he told me that, of all our inalienable rights which were mentioned in the survey, the one that provoked the most negative reaction was freedom of the press. c.1999 Ken Hamblin Ken Hamblin is the author of Pick a Better Country. He writes a column for the Denver Post and has been a radio talk-show host for 15 years. His program is syndicated by American View Inc., and currently is carried by 120 stations across the country. AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
[CTRL] KPFA
-Caveat Lector- Via Z-Mag.OrG FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: July 13, 1999 Belinda Griswold 415-546-6334 x313 CONTROVERSIAL EMAIL RECEIVED DETAILING POSSIBLE CLOSURE OF KPFA AS LAWSUIT IS FILED TO FORCE ACCOUNTABILITY COMMUNITY LEADERS DECRY CRACKDOWN BERKELEY, CA - At a press conference at 1:30 p.m. today, Media Alliance Executive Director Andrea Buffa will release a controversial email she received yesterday that describes plans by Pacifica Radio to close KPFA and possibly sell another Pacifica station, WBAI in New York. The email appears to have come from Pacifica board of directors member Michael Palmer. "We are working to confirm the authenticity of this email and call on Michael Palmer and Pacifica Board Chair Dr. Mary Frances Berry to immediately publicly confirm or refute this email," Buffa said. Phone calls by Media Alliance and several Pacifica board members to Palmer have not been returned. Local Internet service provider IGC was contacted about verifying the path by which the email was sent to Media Alliance. IGC's tech services department has stated that the email looks to have legitimately been sent from Palmer's account. The full text of the email is available at www.zmag.org or www.counterpunch.org. The press conference takes place immediately preceding a hearing at Berkeley Municipal Court at which charges will be filed against a group of peaceful protesters who blocked the entry to Pacifica Foundation's office in Berkeley last month. The demonstrators prevented Pacifica Foundation Executive Director Lynn Chadwick from entering her office on June 22. Chadwick initiated a citizen's arrest when Berkeley police refused to cite the activists. Local community leaders decried the decision, calling it a terrible contradiction. Meanwhile, a group of local stations' advisory board members from Los Angeles, Berkeley and New York is pressing ahead with a lawsuit intended to reverse Pacifica's recent governance changes that eliminated local say on the national board. Oakland attorney Dan Siegel will file suit within the next few days to restore the last shred of local control at Pacifica: the ability of local station boards to recommend members to the national board. Seigel will also attend the press conference. "Pacifica, when faced with the question of changing its method of choosing its leadership, opted for the least democratic option imaginable. It is time to revisit this issue, and it should be unnecesssary to require a court order to do so," Siegel said. Yesterday, Pacifica national board chair Dr. Mary Frances Berry arrived in Oakland, told neither staff nor listeners of her visit, and attempted to negotiate with KPFA's union leaders. Shop stewards met with Berry to remind her of her promise to meet with the KPFA steering committee, which both listeners and staff have designated as their representative, and refused to negotiate further. KPFA paid staff, volunteers, local advisory board members, subscribers, and listeners will continue to press Pacifica to: 1) Rehire respected KPFA station manager Nicole Sawaya, whose termination touched off massive protests in Berkeley and the firing of two veteran programmers because they violated Pacifica's on-air "gag rule"; 2) Participate in mediation and allow for investigation of the dispute between local interests and the national bureaucracy; and 3) Reverse the disciplinary or adverse actions taken against KPFA and Pacifica staff since Sawaya's termination. And the referenced lettre: Letter Regarding Proposed Pacifica SALE The following letter was sent to Andrea Buffa, the Executive Director of Media Alliance. As the header notes the intention was apparently for Michael Palmer of the Pacifica Board to send it to Mary Berry the chair of the board. Efforts to determine its veracity have been pursued by many actors through many avenues...as of yet final authenticity is not absolutely certain...the principals are not answering calls, but traces of the source do accord with this being a real letter...see: Related Press Release -- From: Palmer, Micheal @ Houston Galleria, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Mary Francis Berry', [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Dr. Berry, I salute your fortitude in scheduling a news conference opportunity in the beloved Bay Area regarding one of the most pressing issues of our time But seriously, I was under the impression there was support in the proper quarters, and a definite majority, for shutting down that unit and re-programming immediately. Has that changed? Is there consensus among the national staff that anything other than that is acceptable/bearable? I recall Cheryl saying that the national staff wanted to know with certitude that they supported 100% by the Board in whatever direction was taken; what direction is being taken?
[CTRL] After Tiananmen
-Caveat Lector- WSWS : News Analysis : Asia : China A hand held out to Beijing: US policy after Tiananmen Square By James Conachy 15 July 1999 Back to screen version Censored US State Department documents from 1985-1989, obtained under Freedom of Information legislation and now published on the Internet, provide a damning indictment of the conduct of the Republican administration of President George Bush in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The documents prove that the US government was not concerned with the suppression of the Chinese working class, but the possibility that it may cause disruptions to the political, military and economic relations developed with the Beijing regime since 1971. In the days immediately following the military assault on the capital, with virtually every urban centre of China convulsed with protests and demonstrations, US officials were preoccupied with trying to assess whether Deng Xiaoping would get away with the military crackdown or whether it had aggravated the social and political tensions in China to the point of civil war. Cables and summaries on June 6 itself are dominated by reports, later to be downplayed, that fighting was breaking out between the 27th Army deployed by Deng Xiaoping into Beijing and other military units sympathetic to the students and workers. A summary prepared for the US Secretary of State refers to the Chinese government and military heads as feeling like they are fighting for their lives and surrounding their residences with armoured vehicles and troops. From June 9, following the first public appearance and a speech by Deng Xiaoping, the US officials became convinced that the regime would survive and Washington responded accordingly. On June 30, Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and national security advisor Brent Scowcroft made a secret visit to Beijing for discussions with Deng Xiaoping. The day before, the State Department prepared a document entitled Themes, to provide the Chinese government with an outline of the US attitude toward what it described only as the recent developments. It makes little mention, and no condemnation, of the murder of thousands of Chinese workers and students. The document openly states that how the GPRC (Government of the Peoples Republic of China) decides to deal with those of its citizens involved in recent events in China, is, of course, an internal affair and refers to the personal friendship that president Bush had with so many of China's leaders. It details the mutual foreign policy interests shared by the US and China, such as blocking Soviet influence in North Korea and Asia generally, assisting China in dealing with what are described as Vietnamese threats to China's interests and facilitating better relations with Japan. In reference to the limited diplomatic sanctions imposed by the US following the massacre, it states that president Bush wants to manage the short-term events in a way that will ensure a healthy relationship over time. It warns China, however, of the pressure on the president by both public opinion and elements in the US Congress, and the demands for legislation to end many aspects of our economic, military and political relationship. It assures Beijing that president Bush will resist these pressures and concludes by stating that the degree to which the President is able to maintain his current prudent course will depend, in large measure, on how events develop over the coming weeks in the PRC. Further arrests and executions will inevitably lead to greater demands in the US to respond. Efforts at national reconciliation, on the other hand, will find a cooperative US response. The cooperative US response was forthcoming regardless of the fact that arrests and executions did not halt in the slightest. By 1990 investment was entering China at an unprecedented rate to exploit a subdued working class, facilitated by the open US market. This is the actual historical record that should be considered whenever official concerns are expressed in Washington regarding human rights in China. - --- Copyright 1998-99 World Socialist Web Site All rights reserved 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) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
[CTRL] Fw: Interviews on Skull Bones: Antony Sutton Eric Samuelson
-Original Message-From: Timothy Aho [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Watch Unto Prayer [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Wednesday, 7 July 1999 13:24Subject: Interviews on Skull Bones: Antony Sutton Eric Samuelson To: The Watchmen From: Watch Unto Prayer[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://watch.pair.com/pray.htmlDate: July 6, 1999 Antony Sutton, author of America's Secret Establishment, has pioneered research and exposure of the internationally powerful Order of Skull Bones. The following interview of Mr. Sutton was conducted by Kris Millegan, whose web site also carries extensive information on the Skull Bones secret society. Another worthwhile source of information regarding Antony Sutton and Skull Bones promises to be John Bryant's interview of conspiracy research scholar, Eric Samuelson. To hear this two hour live interview, tune in tomorrow -- Wednesday, July 7 -- to Truth Radio Network: http://www.truthradio.com/index2.html Liberty Forum with John Bryant can be heard via Internet at 4:00-6:00 p.m. Pacific Time, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Central Time and 7:00-9:00 Eastern Time. (For instructions on downloading RealPlayer Radio, click on the Listen! icon at the top of the Truth Radio Network Home Page.) The Truth Liberty Forum is also available on Satellite C Band Spacenet 4, Channel 19, Audio 7.58 and on FM stations in Fresno, Calif. and Monroe, La. (See Radio Broadcasting list on the Truth Radio Network web site.). An interview with Antony C. Sutton, Researcher Emeritus By Kris Millegan Conspiracy Theorist Research, Radical and Singer-Songwriter (and author of best Bones piece on the Net)http://site034145.primehost.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htmJuly 1, 1999Little Red Hen (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) Well, now, ain't life grand here in these United States. Now, I don't know but I do believe I am being told, by our corporate media, that George 'W' Bush is gonna be the next president and there ain't nothing us peons can do about it. 'W' has already got the cash and all the 'friends' a guy could want. Billy-boy has shown that personal peccadilloes don't matter. And, gee whiz, 'W's were just youthful indiscretions anyway. The Mighty Wurlitzer is playing loud and strong; Project Mockingbird has come home to roost and it looks as though a foreign secret society will for the third time put their 'juvenile' in the White House. The latest 'spin' has 'W' just being a president of his ol' college frat house, DKE, who maybe did some strange initiation rituals--yeah, right,--ya wanna buy a bridge . .? George 'W' Bush is a member of a 167-year old secret society at Yale University, Skull and Bones. Skull and Bones, has been shown to be founded as a chapter of a secret society based in Germany. Some say it is just a college club; other say much more and point to 'W's grandfather's filching of Geronimo's remains; of the financing of Nazis and Communism; of drug smuggling; of eugenics; of manipulation of our social and political arenas through the Hegelian method of thesis, antithesis--resulting towards the desired synthesis--a New World Order;--and more . . . But then this is not just a story about 'W', or Skull and Bones, but also the story of a courageous man, his dutiful journey and consequent battles with the powers-that-be. Antony C. Sutton, 74, has been persecuted but never prosecuted for his research and subsequent publishing of his findings. His mainstream career was shattered by his devotion towards uncovering the truth. In 1968, his Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development was published by The Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Sutton showed how the Soviet state's technological and manufacturing base, which was then engaged in supplying the North Vietnamese the armaments and supplies to kill and wound American soldiers, was built by US firms and mostly paid for by the US taxpayers. From their largest steel and iron plant, to automobile manufacturing equipment, to precision ball-bearings and computers, basically the majority of the Soviet's large industrial enterprises had been built with the United States help or technical assistance. Professor Richard Pipes, of Harvard, said in his book, Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's Future (Simon Schuster;1984): In his three-volume detailed account of Soviet Purchases of Western Equipment and Technology . . . [Antony] Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as 'extreme' or, more often, simply ignored. The report was too much and Sutton's career as a well-paid member of the academic establishment was under attack and he was told that he would not survive. His work led him to more questions than answers. Why had the US built-up it's enemy? Why did the US build-up the Soviet Union, while we also transferred technology to Hitler's Germany? Why does Washington want to conceal these
[CTRL] Sharing the Wealth ...
-Caveat Lector- ... of knowledge, technology, whathaveyou From World Tribune Key N. Korean missile parts "made in Japan," lawmakers charge July 14, 1999 By Edward Neilan Special to World Tribune.com TOKYO--Globalization is already a fact of life in the international missile and military armaments "community." Or, put another way, no country's military weapons arsenal is completely homemade; every nation relies on some imports, some more than others. This was the point made indirectly by two young Japanese members of the Diet's upper House of Councillors recently at a press conference promoting their article in the current issue of a leading political magazine on "Japanese components used in North Korean Taepodong missile." Ichita Yamamoto,41, and Keichiro Asao, 35, are bringing a new level of transparency to discussion of security affairs. Previously, such debate on North Korea's missiles was virtually taboo for a range of political and social reasons, not the least being the complications surrounding Japan's 600,000-strong Korean minority. All that changed last Aug. 31 when Pyongyang launched a three-stage rocket, part of which flew over Japan into the Pacific Ocean. North Korea said its rocket was fired to send a satellite into orbit, but Japan said it was for testing a Taepodong missile. The event lifted the lid on a debate in Japan over what to do about the threat from its next-door neighbor. In their article, lawmakers Yamamoto and Asao claim key parts of the Taepodong and North Korean semi-submersible boat used in a raid on South Korea were "Made in Japan." For that matter, each of the spy boats was powered by three U.S.-made Mercury marine engines. The youthfulness shown by the lawmakers was enhanced by the fact that they were speaking fluent English, a rarity among Diet members. Both were educated in the United States---Yamamoto at Georgetown University and Asao at Stanford University. "We're still too young to be taken seriously by our political colleagues, but we'll get there," said Yamamoto, who has held a Councillor seat for four years. As for a suggestion to directly cut off remittances from Korean residents in Japan to the North, both said it was too politically sensitive a step at this time. "If North Korea persists in its missile testing, such steps can be weighed," said Asao. The pair did not allege that Japanese manufacturers knew their products were ending up in North Korean missiles and other weapons. Many such components are sold on an "off the shelf" basis and do not require documentation. A Japanese military analyst attending the press conference claimed that Japanese components were used in the U.S. Patriot missiles deployed in the Gulf War. "Semiconductor chips in sophisticated missiles can come from a variety of sources--U.S., Japan, South Korea or Taiwan,"he said. North Koreans can openly buy parts in the electronics bazaar at Tokyo's Akihabara district and ship them to the North on Pyongyang's own shipping line which sails regularly from Niigata Port on the Sea off Japan. Because Japan has no security law, a variety of sophisticated radar, sonar and other guidance systems can be purchased openly and sent to the North and assembled into completed missiles. There have been reports that a Pyongyang test of a Taepodong-2 missile, with a range of 4,000 to 6,000 miles, is imminent. Other reports have suggested China is asking North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to refrain from raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula through another missile test. But analysts point out that raising tensions, then backing off, repeatedly, has been the North's policy scenario played for nearly 50 years since the Korean War gunfire ended in an uneasy truce. Japan needs to demonstrate deterrence and diplomacy toward North Korea but so far neither seems to be a visible reality. Will it take a direct hit in Hibiya Park by a yet-to-be-tested Taepodong-4 to stir the Diet into meaningful action on this issue? Edward Neilan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is a veteran journalist, based in Tokyo, who covers East Asia and writes weekly for World Tribune.com. July 14, 1999 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990715c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Hey, SkeptiChat subscribers: let's see some responses, some discussion!! : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No Y2K consultants went postal during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia struggles with laggard Y2K program. Russia is in deep trouble with its Y2K preparations and could be facing economic chaos as a result. The country has neither the time nor money to make the appropriate fixes in either the public or private sector. http://www.silicon.com/a31517 : Is Russia doomed, a test-bed for Armageddon? How much would you pay for Russia? Can we sell Russia to the Reptilioids? Would they want it? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russians create new heavy element. (BBC) Scientists have created a new element in the periodic table which has 114 protons. Bob Lazar objects: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_395000/395320.stm # Also: New superheavy elements created: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_363000/363968.stm @ Links: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: http://www.lbl.gov/ @ Table of Elements: http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/index.htm : Is Russian science beyond the carrying capacity of the nation? Can Element 114 create time warps, reverse environmental collapse, battle superstition?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Neo-NAZI Shooters Are Stooges Of British Commonwealth Secret Services. Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, who died July 4 after a Midwest racist shooting spree, was a member of the "World Church of the Creator." The group had gone out of existence in the 1991-93 period, and was revived under the direct control of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada's domestic intelligence agency, acting in partnership with other British Commonwealth secret services. Canada's intelligence services report directly to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and to the British secret services. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/nail.htm : Ah, but who controls the Queen? What's the real power behind Euro.royals? Do UK Dutch royals really control the world's drug trade, or vice-versa? Are all the BBC news items cited in this bulletin just their disinformation? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROAD RAGE CAN TURN US ALL INTO BEASTS BEHIND THE WHEEL. Most of us - even those classified as "low-anger" - exhibit a lot of angry behavior when we get behind the wheel. The good news is that even the angriest can learn to control this behavior - if they realize that they have a problem. Or die trying: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14234 : Does driving turn you into a GOD, with the power of life and death? Every pedestrian you don't run down - have you granted them life? Every wheelchair you sideswipe, every rabbit armadillo you cream - have you become Death?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Revealed - BBC Booked Julie Andrews For Doomsday Entertainment. National anthem? Too solemn. Disco hit Stayin' Alive? Frivolous. BBC execs liked the music of Julie Andrews when they chose shows to be aired if Britain came under nuclear attack. The BBC, it has emerged, distributed a supply of comedy, drama religious programmes to an underground network of radio stations intended to maintain morale while survivors of a nuclear blast sheltered in their cellars. The cache, packed in black boxes, included The Sound of Music, Andrews's 1965 hit. The secret schedule was intended to be broadcast for up to 100 days of nuke.war. The radio stations, equipped with iron rations, pingpong and bunk beds, were maintained until 1993. Then the Cold War ended. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/booked.htm : Would you rather hear SOUND OF MUSIC for 100 days straight, or be nuked? What entertainment would you choose? What would Reptilioids like to hear? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FDA DELETES ONE INTERNET HEALTH CON-ARTIST. There are many bogus health claims on the Internet - but here is an example of out and out fraud. The FDA recently cracked down on somebody selling phony HIV home-test kits - but, unfortunately, there will probably be lots more con-artists to take his place. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14235 : Do you buy medical products off the Net? Is the choice: your money or your life? Do you sell bogus medical products? Do you conspire to destroy humans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SUBTERRANEA BRITANNICA. (Sub-Brit) Formed in 1974, Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted the the study and investigation of man-made and man- used underground places. It brings together people with an interest in all types of underground space - from deneholes to dug-outs and from souter- rains to subways. Indeed, as the list shows, there are at least seventy categories of underground
Re: [CTRL] East Texas
-Caveat Lector- I hear there are plenty of small east Texas towns where black folk amble in only to ne'r be heard from again...especially if they stay after darkkinda creepy no??? 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #4
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990715d - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Hey, SkeptiChat subscribers: let's see some responses, some discussion!! : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No cropcircle-making entities appeared during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Boy In Holland Claims To Have Witnessed Crop-Circle Formation. And what he saw is just incredible! A small, misty pinkish-purple light, like a small football, floating across an enormous field to this spot about 50 meters behind his house. And this is where snow circles occurred a couple years ago, and a circle in mustard seed last spring, and a couple of circles in other crops nearby. It came right back to this area and stopped, "hanging" in the air over this spot. Then, it started to elongate, spread out, be- coming thinner and thinner looking like a disc, and then he saw a sharp electrical discharge. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/cropform.htm @ Crop Circle Comes Down In Nashville TN. This site is about the crop circle that appeared recently in Brentwood Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, app- roximately 5 miles south of downtown Nashville on I-65. This crop circle lies quite near to the Interstate itself. http://cdfnet.com/cropcircle/ : Do you like making crop circles near interstate highways because of the easy access? Have you ever been caught? Do you blame the mind-control rays? Do you use electric footballs? Do you drug witnesses? What's your agenda?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Functions of PC put on single chip. SANTA CLARA, CA (AP) National Semicon- ductor Corp. unveiled a new computer chip that puts most of the functions of a PC on a single chip, a move that will bring more power and function- ality to small information devices. NSC is targeting the chip for use in "information appliances" such as TV set-top boxes, hand-held information devices such as the Palm Pilot, and, eventually, car navigation systems. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560300031-40a : How small will PCs go? Would an array of these chips make a cheap super- duper-computer? Do you want an array of these implanted in your head? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO WEAR. A German company develops the ultimate tool for reporters: a wearable device that delivers you-are-there coverage of breaking news. Or just get a shortwave radio implanted in your head: http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20748.html # BREAKING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER. International scientists test a translation system that can convert the babble of up to six languages. Curses too? A wearable version is aimed at travelers. Get THAT one implanted fast - see http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20747.html : Do you want to be wirelessly, seamlessly wired into the entire world, with no language barriers? Should we all be? Will we become a group-mind? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # Some Plants Found To Have Nervous Systems Like Humans. Plants have nervous systems similar to those found in humans and animals, according to a gov't scientist who's identified and cloned a dozen genes responsible for nerve- like signals in plants. The research may lead to the development of plants that won't get stressed out by bugs or bad weather. Scientists have long suspected that plants possess some sort of nervous system. Further studies could lead to the engineering of crops that could be naturally resistant to insects and disease. "These crops may eliminate the use of pesticides." And they're fun to torture: http://sightings.com/politics4/plants.htm # HOUSE LEADER SCORNS UN NET TAX PLAN. House Majority Leader Dick Armey came out swinging against a United Nations proposal to tax email and funnel the cash to developing nations. "Let them eat cake," he hip-hopped, snarling. http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20739.html # WIZARDS OF OS MEET IN BERLIN. Open source freeware faiths meet academia when the Wizards of OS conference brings techies together with artists and theorists. These folks are inventing the future while nobody's watching: http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/20727.html # Cell Phone On Your Belt Brings Radiation To Guts. LEAVING a mobile phone clipped to your waist leads to a hotspot of radiation being pumped into the liver and kidneys. Yet thousands of people are now attaching mobiles to their belts as they switch to hands-free kits, thinking they are safer. The changeover came after warnings that the brain can be affected by harmful rays if users spend too long with their mobiles clamped to their ear. But using a phone while it is clipped to your belt could be even MORE dangerous. Baked broiled:
[CTRL] More gubbmint' intrusion...
-Caveat Lector- Why can't the republicans in Congress STOP sticking their upturned noses into the PRIVATE LIVES of the American people??? Exactly WHO wants "big government"? Not me, and it seems the "liberals" are of similar opinion...hmmm... 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] East Texas
-Caveat Lector- Bill, Can you please give sources or some verification of this that you have heard? Otherwise, I would think folks in East Texas are offended. I have not heard of any regions in our country where folks just disappear. Would be rather like a Bermuda Triangle on land. Amelia - Original Message - From: William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] East Texas -Caveat Lector- I hear there are plenty of small east Texas towns where black folk amble in only to ne'r be heard from again...especially if they stay after darkkinda creepy no??? Bill. 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
Re: [CTRL] Re Christie Todd Whitman
-Caveat Lector- Prudy, I could be mistaken, of course. Was fairly certain I had read it. My Internet Service Provider is rather like two tin cans connected by a string that we made as children. I receive chunks of e mail sometimes out of sequence. Do others have this problem? Amelia - Original Message - From: Prudence L. Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Re Christie Todd Whitman -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 07/15/1999 12:22:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: S I saw the previous post. It came through just fine. That's really odd. I kept getting messages from the listing that they couldn't send it. Oh well. 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
Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] [[SC] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1]]
-Caveat Lector- bicycle breeding Sounds awfully painful. _ 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] G.W.Bush-Foot firmly in mouth.
-Caveat Lector- My mother had a restrictive covenant on her house in Nebraska. It stated that if any drinking or gambling took place on the property, it would revert back to the estate of the seller's grandmother, who originally owned the land on which the house was built. My mother discovered it during the closing. Her realtor (this was back in the days before lawyers handled real estate closings) told her that in order to get it removed, she would have to get a lawyer and go to court, it would delay the closing, it would be expensive, etc. Nebraska's liquor laws being what they were (dry Sundays), the fact that the state had just raised the drinking age to 20 and the fact that I, then 16, would be living in the house, the request would probably have been denied. Since it involved behavior, not physical attributes, it may have actually been enforceable. The realtor also said the title insurance would cover legal costs if the seller tried to take back the house. The seller went off to Africa on mission, I partied quite hearty in that house, with nary a repercussion. Bush probably felt like my mother, it was too big a pain in the butt to bother. _ 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
[CTRL] Kosovo news from Fr. Sava (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message m Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:39:45 +0200 From: "Fr. Sava" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Two Alarming Kosovo Reports, July 12 and 13, 1999 THE REPORT FROM LIPLJAN, KOSOVO July 12, 1999 Today, on the Feast Day of SS Apostles Peter and Paul, I served a Holy Liturgy in my parish church in Lipljan together with my colleague priest Fr. Zivojin Kojic (from 8.00 9.30 a.m). The church was almost full of people. At that time a larger group of Albanians, which were not from Lipljan, began gathering in the main streets of Lipljan, in the areas where Serb inhabitants live (95%). This gathering soon turned into a riot against the local Serb population and was continued with burning of several Serb houses, throwing of Molotov cocktails and real bombs in Serb homes and courtyards. True, the Albanians had announced their "peaceful demonstrations" two days ago, but this were not peaceful demonstrations but a real terror. Around 11.00 several Serb houses were stoned in Aca Marovic Street and Kosovska Street. The Molotov cocktails were thrown on four Serb houses. The owners of these houses are: Bozidar Aksic, Slavisa Simionovic, Zoran Brkljac and Ilija Cepkenovic (all from Lipljan) as well as on the building owned by Ljubinko Andjelkovic, a Serb from Lipljan too. Three houses have almost completely burned down while the fire in Cepkenovic house as well as in the building was put down by the local Serbs. At 13.30 unidentified Albanians threw a bomb on the house of Miladin Mladenovic. In this incident his son Zoran Mladenovic (32) and his friend Djordje Kocinac (33) were wounded. The latter is an IDP from Stimlje. The both wounded Serbs were transported by KFOR soldiers to a British military hospital in Lipljan where they were given a medical treatment. Soon after a bomb was thrown on the house of Ognjen Todic. In this bomb attack Milutin Kostic (44) was seriously wounded. He was also taken by KFOR to the military hospital but was immediately transported by a helicopter to Skopje. The third bomb was thrown on the house of Ljubomir Smiljic, but thank God, it did not explode and was deactivated by KFOR patrol later. Miladin Mladenovic (53) was brutally beaten by unidentified Albanians while he was on his way to visit his wounded son and his friend who were in the KFOR hospital in Lipljan. He was seriously injured around his neck and ear. Another Serb, Novica Savic (70) was beaten by Albanians in the field near his house in Novo Toplicane village. In this incident Novica Savic was seriously wounded by a knife. He was given a medical treatment in the military hospital. The KFOR soldiers reportedly told him that he was lucky because he was not taken to prison. According to their words, he used his gun in self defense. In fact, the weapons was not used by him but by one relative of his who wanted to protect him. With great regret we must say that on all our requests KFOR was not effective enough to prevent burning of homes and the mentioned bomb attacks. We admit that the KFOR patrol deactivated an unexploded bomb and took the statements from the eye witnesses. At 18.00 KFOR authorities convened a meeting with Serbs in Novo Naselje in Lipljan and asked from Serbs to give over their weapons until 9.00 on July 13. When the local Serbs asked explanation about these incidents in Lipljan the KFOR officer did not say anything but only kept insisting that the weapons should be given over to KFOR. He said: "I am not a politician but a soldier." These tragic events disturbed the Serb population which is a majority population in Lipljan because Serbs understand these demonstrations as provocations and the burning of their homes and armed attacks by Albanians as an organized campaign of expulsion of the Serb majority population from Lipljan. During the previous days we have demanded the protection from the local KFOR command in Lipljan. Our Bishop Rt. Rvrd. Artemije personally contacted Brigadier Bailey who in his turn personally and with a letter reassured the Bishop that the decisive steps would be undertaken to protect the Serb community in Lipljan. That was also conformed to us by a British KFOR colonel in Lipljan, sent by Brigadier Bailey. During the conversation Padre Brian Walton was also suggested to remain in contact with me as a local Lipljan priest. So far we have had only one contact during the distribution of the humanitarian aid for Rabovce village near Lipljan. Many of Albanian attackers seem not to be the native inhabitants of Lipljan. So far we have already reported the names of several Albanians from Lipljan and the neighboring villages who were organizing and leading such acts of violence. These are: Agim Tasholi from Bandulic village, Agron Gashi from Lipljan and Rasim Azemi from Lipljan. Reporting to you about this intensified wave of violence and terror by Albanian groups against
Re: [CTRL] Re Christie Todd Whitman
-Caveat Lector- Prudy, I got your message 3 times. There is a conspiracy afoot to stress out email senders by making them believe their mail did not send when it actually did. passes a large gin tonic through the computer to Prudy This will make the evil email conspiracy people go away. Tenorlove who would have passed the whole bottle over, but most of the gin found its way to her mouth instead _ 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
[CTRL] IFG Seattle Teach-In (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Subject: ESPFwd: IFG Seattle Teach-In From: The International Forum on Globalization The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is organizing a Teach-In on the World Trade Organization (WTO), to be held in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday November 27, 1999. The event will take place at the 2,500-seat Benaroya Seattle Symphony Hall a few days before the WTO Ministerial meeting. Most of the Teach-In events will be free to the public. The Seattle Teach-In will focus on the problems of economic globalization and, specifically, on the activities of the WTO and other international agreements and institutions. Panels of speakers will address the current failed economic model, and focus on areas such as agriculture, the environment, human rights, labor rights, consumer rights, food safety, public health, and many more issues that are affected by the WTO. We will keep you posted on more specific Teach-In information as it develops. The following is a partial list of featured speakers: Maude Barlow Council of Canadians - Canada Walden Bello Focus on the Global South - Thailand John Cavanagh Institute for Policy Studies - U.S. Tony Clarke Polaris Institute - Canada Edward Goldsmith The Ecologist - U.K. Randall Hayes Rainforest Action Network - U.S. Colin Hines Protect the Local, Globally - U.K. Martin Khor Third World Network - Malaysia Andrew Kimbrell International Center for Technological Assessment - U.S. David Korten People-Centered Development Forum - U.S. Tim Lang Center for Food Policy - U.K. Sara Larrain RENACE (Chilean Ecological Action Network) - Chile Jerry Mander Public Media Center - U.S. Anuradha Mittal Institute for Food and Development Policy - U.S. Helena Norberg-Hodge International Society for Ecology and Culture - U.K. Mark Ritchie Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - U.S. Vandana Shiva Third World Network - India Steven Shrybman West Coast Environmental Law - Canada Victoria Tauli-Corpuz Indigenous Peoples' Network for Policy and Education - Philippines Lori Wallach Public Citizen - Global Trade Watch - U.S. For More Information, please contact: International Forum on Globalization 1555 Pacific Avenue San Francisco, CA 94109 Tel: (415) 771-3394 Fax:(415) 771-1121 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = 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: [RuMills] PLOT TO ASSASSINATE GORE
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Subj: Plot to Assassinate Vice President Gore?
Date: 7/15/1999 2:52:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sherman Skolnickone)
PLOT TO ASSASSINATE VICE PRESIDENT GORE?
by Sherman H. Skolnick,
Two or more airplanes were all headed reportedly for a crash with Air
Force Two carrying Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., as his plane flew over
the Chicago area The incident apparently occurred July 9, 1999, but was
kept embargoed, that is, delayed or suppressed, until an eleven paragraph
story ran in the Chicago Sun-Times, July 14, 1999. So far, others in the
mass media have steered clear of the story? Why?
Like the murder of President Kennedy, were the mass media either
informed in advance or ordered how, if at all, to run the story?
One of two major newspapers in Chicago, the Sun-Times is owned by
British tough-nose financier Conrad Black jointly with reportedly
mysterious Red Chinese and ethnic Chinese billionaires who have an
unpublicized armlock on the Chicago markets. Their fortunes based
reportedly on dope smuggling into the U.S. primarily through Chicago, of
high purity heroin called "China White", clandestine weapons deals, and
the harvesting of human body parts sold to U.S. hospitals. The body
parts, sold as casually as auto pieces, are from political prisoners in
mainland China arbitrarily condemned to death as the orders come in for
hearts, livers, kidneys, and such. [So as not to damage the human body
parts, the political prisoners are not shot but rather, beheaded.]
The illicit funds are a massive river of loot reportedly laundered on the
Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the
Chicago Board Options Exchange. Although an open secret, major
newspapers, such as the Sun-Times, and other financial papers like the
Wall Street Journal, publish virtually nothing about the Chinese and the
Chicago money laundries. The Chinese funds are disguised as soybeans
and foreign currency trading. Are the Chinese through the Sun-Times
story blackmailing Clinton into silence about nuclear secrets sold or given
to the Chinese?
Under a headline "Quirk of radar jars VP's plane", the Sun-Times had
details such as "Gore was in the government 747 traveling from Seattle
back to Washington when the pilot received urgent instructions from air
traffic controllers to make a jarring 60 degree turn to avoid a crash. Radar
showed a second plane 25 miles away--only a couple of minutes apart--at
the same 33,000-foot altitude and in conflict with the vice president's
aircraft. Air Force Two was traveling about 600 m.p.h."
According to other sources, the FAA and the Sun-Times are reportedly
concealing that yet a third plane likewise almost crashed into Gore's
plane.
Aviation sources familiar with air traffic control say they never heard
of a situation where two or more airplanes were all headed for a crash
with another plane. Foul play, they contend, should rightfully be
suspected when two OR MORE airplanes were all somehow steered into a
possible crash with the Vice President's plane.
Here are some other factors that assassination researchers would
consider:
1. Reportedly fronting for the Chinese in Chicago in the reputed
clandestine deals as well as blackmail and extortion, is Rahm Emanuel,
for many years Clinton White House Senior Advisor and now a
heavy-hitter with Wasserstein Perrella, Chicago unit of a New York
based financial services firm that reportedly handles deals for the Red
Chinese. Described as a campaign fund "fixer" and expert in blackmail,
Rahm Emanuel in recent statements seems cold to the idea of supporting
Gore as Presidential candidate in the 2000 election. {By the way, with
more expected dirty tricks like the apparent air crash scenario, there is no
guarantee that the 2000 election will be conducted just as usual.]
2. TheGore presidential campaign has, or is about to obtain, a reputed
picture clearly showing presidential hopeful George W. Bush, now Texas
governor and son of the elder Bush, snorting cocaine with Bill Clinton.
More and more people, of course, are becoming aware that Bill has been a
cocaine user whose nose is rodded out from the same. But it might come
as a campaign surprise, helpful to Gore, to show George W. with Clinton.
The picture, supplied by government agents, would open the whole
question of George Herbert Walker Bush and his sons, Jeb, Neal, and
George W., being involved with Clinton and others in dope smuggling
through the southern states including through the Mena, Arkansas airport
arranged by CIA. According to European publications, Jeb Bush, with his
Columbia-born wife, are reportedly implicated with known criminals in
Spain and elsewhere laundering dope
[CTRL] AficanAmericanSuppressesAmericanHeritage[Virginia]a bard bomb on radical left
-Caveat Lector- Source: Middle American News, July 1999, page 7 General Lee's Portrait Removed subtitled: America's Heritage Suppressed In Richmond, Virginia A museum at Richmond, Virginia, former capital of the Confederacy, removed an outdoor portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee because a black city councilman said it was offensive to "my community." ['community' is a socialism buzzword; klintoon and his spouse use it all the time] The councilman, who says his name is "Sa'ad El-Amin," [no doubt a Muslim (Moselm) with an African heritage] compared Gen. Lee to Adolf Hitler and threatened to organize a boycott of the opening festivities planned for the city's renovated downtown Canal Walk. Lee's portrait was just one of 28 others on display as part of a mural on Richmond's flood wall designed to celebrate the city's heritage. Other portraits include Indian Chief Powhattan and Gabriel Prosser, a slave who tried to lead a revolt. As Middle Americans lose political and cultural influence in the u.S. under the pressure of mass immigration and multiculturalist ideology, radical new elites are suppressing and de-legitimizing the heritage they intend to replace. In just two recent incidents, George Washington's name was removed from all-black [Negro] school in Louisiana, and in [the PDR of] California, Aztec religious displays [human sacrifices?] are being erected in public parks. El-Amin said that after seeing a newspaper photograph of Gen. Lee's picture, he met with James J. McCarthy [assume he is of European Caucasian heritage], executive director of the Richmond Riverfront Development Corp. which is responsible for renovating Canal Walk. El-Amin told McCarthy, "Either it comes down or we jam." [not sure what 'jam' means] El-Amin says it is okay to put up pictures of Gen. Lee in private homes, but not on public property. "He is offensive to the African American [should have said, Americans of Negro heritage] community [that buzzword again] because of what he stood for." he said. "It should be no earth-shattering revelation that African Americans [read Americans of Negro heritage] are offended about the whole situation in which we were dehumanized made into chattel property through slavery. There was no apology made for that and no reparations. [look out, folks! he wants to suck of your tax dollars] And Lee defended that." Lee is universally regarded by scholars as one of history's brilliant generals. President Abraham Lincoln offered Lee command of the Union troops, but he declined. Lee, who owned no slaves, was superintendent at West Point, and was president of Washington College, later renamed Washington and Lee. His father, Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, served in the Revolutionary Army under George Washington, and was a congressman from Virginia who urged the state to ratify the Constitution. The suppression of the Lee portrait follows on the heels of an earlier campaign by multiculturalists against Richmond's famed Monument Boulevard. Dedicated to historical figures from the Confederacy including Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart and Jefferson Davis, the boulevard now features a statue of a black [an American of Negro heritage] tennis player from the 1970's. Richmond, which is about 55 percent black [Americans of Negro heritage], has been trying to attract businesses and tourists to the downtown area. Visitors and tourists were chased away after a decade of shooting, stabbings, and robberies. [brackets] added by Bard. Gonna limit my comment on the above to the apparent fact that the good citizens of The Commonwealth of Virginia have been grossly negligent in the protection of not only their heritage, but the protection of all "Americans" heritage, inasmuch as The War of Northern Aggression Against the South AKA The War Between the States involved the entire Union. I might add that it was NOT a Civil War because neither of the two opposing factions fought for control of a central governing authority. Could comment more, but I have to watch my blood pressure. lol I trust this article, if remembered at election time, will make some small contribution to move you off you arses and go to the Polling Place. Think I'm racist? Racists have an Agenda to enslave you; and my agenda, if you will, is exposing the tax-sucking scum of the radical left. (read my Post on "..socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx") 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
[CTRL] Fw: [TheEagle-L] Fwd: FULL ALERT 30 DAY WARNING
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Alan DeWalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 16 July 1999 11:33 Subject: [TheEagle-L] Fwd: FULL ALERT 30 DAY WARNING From: "David E. Rydel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: (Recipient list suppressed) Subject: Fwd: FULL ALERT 30 DAY WARNING Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:14:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 15 09:16:38 1999 Received: from [204.254.120.13] by hotmail.com (2.0) with ESMTP id MHotMailB957545900BBD82197D3CCFE780D08E60; Thu Jul 15 09:16:38 1999 Received: from daveryde (port105.maxc02.bignet.net [204.254.122.105])by ren.bignet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA06233;Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:08:36 -0400 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 X-Originating-IP: [171.212.214.25] From: "Randy Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FULL ALERT 30 DAY WARNING Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:21:26 PDT FULL ALERT OF ALL U.S. ARMED FORCES, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY ARMY FORCES, LOCAL MILITIAS. We can expect a war in Asia at any moment. This could include Korea(s), Taiwan, China and Japan. The situation is still developing. China has threatened to use nuclear technology, and Taiwan has put its forces on alert. This situation could deteriorate quickly as forces try to get the jump on Y2K degradation of forces. Meanwhile the American Revolution is still on track. Ideally the ARA will be able to get control of many U.S. Continental Forces from the treasonous Pentagon led by the Treasonous Commander in Chief. The ARA has 4 Divisions in a parallel army ready to fight a guerrilla war for our sovereignty and freedom in the U.S. We do not know what side CONUS U.S. Forces will take in the upcoming battles, but we know that the traitors in Washington will use any means to put down the rebellion. We can only assume that Taiwan will be left to fend for themselves considering Clinton policy but the Asian situation is still developing. A war in Asia may be a method of vacating questionable U.S. forces out of CONUS who might otherwise support the revolution. All personnel throughout the U.S. should begin inventory of family and personal items for their family and survival value. All personnel in the U.S. should begin a daily and weekly preparation calendar. 30 DAY WARNING ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com MyPoints-Free Rewards When You're Online. Start with up to 150 Points for joining! http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/475 eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/theeagle-l http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications 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] AficanAmericanSuppressesAmericanHeritage[Virginia]a bard bomb on radical left
-Caveat Lector- klintoon and his spouse use it all the time Mercy me, I thought it was klintoon and HER spouse! whips out church fan reaches for smelling salts _ 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
[CTRL] Fwd: Re: Comments
A few comments from a former FAA inspector and activist against government corruption: What is being done to the Sanders is continuation of a pattern of government corruption that I have documented for the past 20 years, in Unfriendly Skies, Defrauding America, and Drugging America. This corruption continues because good people won't get informed and speak out until it happens to them. The hard-core corruption proven in these books, with input from dozens of courageous people, could help if used in an imaginative manner. But unless people help us in these other areas, there will be, and there are, many people like the Sanders that are being tragically victimized. Rodney Stich Rodney Stich, E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unfriendlyskies.com http://www.defraudingamerica.com http://www.druggingamerica.com
[CTRL] U.S. House Intelligence Panel Passes Encryption Bill
-Caveat Lector- Thursday July 15 6:41 PM ET U.S. House Intelligence Panel Passes Encryption Bill Full Coverage Internet Privacy By Aaron Pressman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Intelligence Committee Thursday approved legislation to relax strict U.S. export limits on computer data scrambling technology, watering down some of the bill's provisions but not adding a controversial amendment opposed by high-tech companies and privacy advocates. Two years ago, the committee amended a similar measure to require that all data scrambling products include a ``back door'' allowing law enforcement and national security agencies to decode any message. But Thursday, the committee decided not to add such a provision, which companies argue is technically difficult and costly to meet and privacy advocates fear would lead to surveillance abuses. The committee did weaken the bill's relaxation of export limits on data scrambling, or encryption, products. The committee also added a provision allowing the government to require contractors to use encryption with ``back door'' access in dealings with the government. Three House committees have already approved the legislation with stronger export limit relief. The Intelligence Committee's version is not expected to be considered when the full House considers the bill, likely in the fall. The House Rules Committee is expected to send a version with stronger export relief approved by other committees to the House floor. None the less, supporters of greater encryption exports said the Intelligence panel's change of heart from two years ago signaled the strength of effort to relax the export limits. ``We've come a long way in two years,'' said Alan Davidson, staff counsel at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology. ``It's a significant shift for the debate. The experts and the marketplace have demonstrated that mandatory plain text access doesn't work.'' Encryption has become an increasingly critical means of securing global communications and electronic commerce over the Internet. But law enforcers and national security agencies fear criminals and terrorists will use encryption to hide their nefarious activities. The Clinton administration has taken a compromise approach, allowing weak encryption products to be exported with exceptions for sales to companies in certain industries like banking and health care. The administration has allowed exports of strong encryption products that included a back door access feature. The bill being considered by the House, authored by Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte, would allow exports of any product that was generally available from non-U.S. companies. The Intelligence Committee junked that provision, replacing it with a rule allowing export of medium strength products as long as the sellers reported to the government who they sold the products to. Companies have in the past opposed such a requirement, which is difficult to follow for mass market software like Web browsers or e-mail programs that are sold in retail stores and over the Internet to millions of customers. The Intelligence version of the bill would also allow the President to permit stronger encryption exports if doing so would not harm national security. -- "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] Part of Energy Dept. Budget Blocked
-Caveat Lector- Thursday July 15 12:31 PM ET Part of Energy Dept. Budget Blocked By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - In another fallout over allegations of Chinese espionage, a House subcommittee today directed that $1 billion of the Energy Department's budget be withheld until Congress reorganizes the department's nuclear weapons programs. Rep. Ron Packard, R-Calif., chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water, said reforms to improve nuclear weapons security were essential before the $1 billion in DOE operating funds will be reinstated. The subcommittee action was taken as the panel approved the fiscal 2000 energy and water appropriations bill. The legislation will be considered by the full House in the coming months. The Energy Department has a budget of about $18 billion, but most of that goes to contractors. The $1 billion withheld for DOE operations represents a large part of the department's direct, noncontractor spending. The money is to be withheld until Congress restructures the department's national security programs or establishes an independent agency to oversee and manage their operations, Packard said. There has been growing sentiment among lawmakers to create a largely autonomous agency within the Energy Department responsible for nuclear weapons programs, including operation of the three nuclear weapons labs and security. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has said he is willing to accept in theory creation of a semiautonomous agency as long as it's clear the energy secretary has authority over the agency. He also wants security and counterintelligence functions to be departmentwide and not confined to the agency. A largely Republican proposal gaining momentum in the Senate would create a semiautonomous agency, but insulate it more from the rest of the department than what Richardson has been willing to accept. Meanwhile, some Republican members of the House, including Packard, would prefer to have the nuclear programs taken away from the Energy Department altogether, and create a totally independent agency. But House members are divided on the issue. Seven House committee and subcommittee chairmen wrote a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., this week urging him to oppose any effort to restructure the Energy Department without further hearings and review. Reps. Tom Bliley, R-Va., the Commerce Committee chairman, and F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis., the Science Committee chairman, warned against trying to make ``quick fixes'' at the Energy Department that could harm science research programs and hinder safety and environmental protection at the weapons facilities. -- "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. House Panel Tries To Force Anti-Spying Reform
-Caveat Lector- Thursday July 15 5:17 PM ET U.S. House Panel Tries To Force Anti-Spying Reform By Vicki Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel Thursday moved to withhold $1 billion to force the Energy Department to overhaul its counter-espionage programs after China's alleged theft of U.S. nuclear secrets. An Appropriations subcommittee agreed during a closed session to bar the Energy Department from spending $1 billion of the roughly $4 billion it is slated to use on nuclear weapons next fiscal year until its security programs have been restructured or spun off to a separate agency. Rep. Ron Packard, a California Republican who chairs the subcommittee, accused the department of failing to protect weapon secrets ``through chronic security and counter-intelligence problems,'' and said the money should be blocked until reforms are made. The nuclear weapons measure was part of a $20.2 billion bill to fund programs at the Energy Department and Army Corps of Engineers in fiscal 2000, which starts Oct. 1. The bill must go through the full committee and the House. The Senate in June passed its version of the bill without the funding restriction. Responding to reports of lax security at the Energy Department's nuclear weapons laboratories and allegations China stole nuclear secrets over 20 years of espionage, Packard and some other Republicans want nuclear weapons programs to be put under a separate agency. Plans also circulated largely among Republicans to put weapons programs, including the three nuclear weapons laboratories, under a semi-autonomous agency within the Energy Department. But other lawmakers urged a cautious approach to restructuring, with top Republican and Democratic members of the House Commerce Committee and Science Committee urging careful deliberations. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has said he would accept a semi-autonomous operation within the agency, as long as the secretary keeps oversight of it. Richardson expects compromise restructuring legislation to pass this year, so ``this legislation will have no impact on DOE funding,'' his spokeswoman said. The Appropriations subcommittee in a statement after the closed meeting said it also agreed to cut the department's nuclear weapons spending to $4 billion in fiscal 2000 from this year's $4.4 billion. That includes the $1 billion it would withhold. The panel cut the department's overall nuclear defense spending -- including cleanup of contaminated production sites and efforts to stem the spread of nuclear weapons -- to $11.2 billion. That is down $1.2 billion from this year and $1 billion below the White House request. In another dig at the $18 billion Energy Department, which for years has fended off efforts in Congress to abolish it altogether, the subcommittee voted to slash spending for travel by contractors that carry out a number of its operations. After reports of excessive cost incurred by the agency's contractors, the panel cut the travel allowance to $125 million next fiscal year from the current $250 million. -- "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] The Church and Jewish Ideology by Joseph Sobran
The Church and Jewish Ideology (Reprinted from SOBRAN'S, May 1999, page 4) The prevalent Jewish myth today is not the founding myth of Abraham or Moses on Sinai, but the story of Jewish persecution. In our time the Jews are defined less by ancestry than by "anti-Semitism," which is cited for many purposes, including the legitimation of the state of Israel. Most Zionists no longer claim that God gave the Holy Land to the Jews; instead they contend that the Jewish state is necessary as a haven for world Jewry. According to this modern myth, the Jews are in no way responsible for their own unpopularity from ancient times. What, then, is the source of such persistent hostility to this fundamentally innocent people? Why, the Catholic Church, of course! Many Jewish scholars find the seed of anti-Semitism in the Gospels of Matthew and John, where the Jews are depicted as engineering the Crucifixion, with the assistance of Romans who "know not what they do." Some Jews have even demanded that the offending passages be deleted from the Scriptures, not realizing (or caring) that Christians regard their holy books as off-limits to human editing. Others persist in blaming Pius XII for failing to condemn Nazism more strongly for its persecution of the Jews of Europe. The Catholic Church in particular has been targeted as the historic matrix of anti-Semitism; and unfortunately, many churchmen have accepted the role of defendant against accusers who will never acquit the Church or drop the case. In recent years the Vatican has tried, as far as possible, to appease Jewish objections. The Second Vatican Council, mindful of Nazi crimes, proclaimed that today's Jews don't share the guilt of the Jews who conspired to murder Christ. Pope John Paul II has been especially eager to cultivate good relations with the Jews, even making an unprecedented visit to a Roman synagogue a few years ago. He has gone so far as to name Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List as one of his favorite films - though it contains scenes of nudity and simulated intercourse. In this spirit, the Vatican last year promulgated We Remember, a statement of repentance for the failures of the Church and the mass of Christians during the Holocaust (or Shoah, the Hebrew word that has become current lately). Its theme was that "erroneous and unjust interpretations of the New Testament" have contributed to anti-Semitism; and that the Church, though never a party to persecution, should have done more to oppose the "unspeakable tragedy" of the Shoah, which "can never be forgotten." The statement also affirmed the Church's "very close bonds of spiritual kinship with the Jewish people" and the "Hebrew roots of [Catholic] faith." Many Jews resented the statement's exculpation of the Church for the Shoah itself. The document distinguished sharply between regrettable Christian attitudes toward the Jews throughout European history (it made no reference to Jewish attitudes toward Christians) and the virulent nationalist and racialist anti-Semitism that arose in the nineteenth century. Predictably, a Jewish historian has rejected this distinction. In an article in the April issue of Commentary, "The Pope, the Church, and the Jews," Robert S. Wistrich, professor of modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, attacks We Remember for defending Pius XII and for minimizing the Church's guilty role in fostering anti-Semitism through the ages. Wistrich belittles Pius's efforts to protect Jews as not only insufficient but lacking in "moral courage." As for the nineteenth-century anti-Semitic ideologies, they "presupposed a cultural framework that had been fashioned by centuries of medieval Christian theology, ecclesiastical policy, and popular religious myth." This is nothing new for Commentary, which has previously carried articles blaming Christianity itself for the Holocaust. Wistrich doesn't cite, though he might as well have, the charge of the Jewish scholar Jules Isaac that "the permanent and latent source of anti-Semitism is none other than Christian religious teaching of every description, and the traditional, tendentious interpretation of the Scriptures." Isaac's work and influence helped shape the Second Vatican Council's statement about the Jews. By such reasoning as Wistrich's, it would be easy to blame the Jews for bringing persecution on themselves. After all, they have been unpopular not only in Christian countries, but in pagan and Muslim lands. Cicero, Tacitus, Juvenal, and other Roman authors inveighed against them. They have repeatedly migrated to Christian countries and have been repeatedly expelled, for reasons that have usually had little to do with theology - though the obscene blasphemies against Christ and his mother in the Talmud, unique in religious literature, besides reflecting oddly on Jewish demands for Christian tolerance and for the cleansing of offensive passages in the
[CTRL] Commission details possible terrorist threats against Americans (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- From: http://wire.nj.com/cgi-bin/nj_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/WASHINGTON/a0688_AM_DoomsdayThreat Commission details possible terrorist threats against Americans By DAVID BRISCOE The Associated Press 07/14/99 3:05 PM Eastern WASHINGTON (AP) -- An anthrax release in Boston, a North Korean sale of nuclear bombs and an Iraqi nerve-agent attack on U.S. troops were among the potential threats to Americans cited Wednesday by a commission urging government action to combat such risks. "We are woefully unprepared, and we would like to see something done before some incident occurs," said Sen. Arlen Specter, the commission's vice chairman. Specter, R-Pa., said he would introduce legislation Thursday to tighten export controls on items that might be used to manufacture heavily destructive weaponry and wants to have all worldwide transactions recorded electronically. The main proposals of the 12-member panel, headed by former CIA Director John Deutch and including a wide range of government and private nonproliferation experts, were disclosed in interviews last week. The commission on Wednesday released 265 pages of report and documentation that spells out fears of potential doomsday weaponry. The material also details a plan to give the vice president the lead role in preventing and dealing with the threat of weapons of mass destruction, which the commission says has increased markedly in recent years. "We believe the country needs to be better protected," Deutch said. The commission concludes that the top levels of government are "not effectively organized to combat proliferation" and recommends the president appoint a "national director to combat proliferation." The director would coordinate diplomatic steps to stop the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The director also would oversee a special government panel, made up of assistant secretaries from various agencies, that would seek to prevent the targeting of Americans and to respond to any catastrophic attack at home or abroad. Deutch said placing the government's nonproliferation efforts under a single budget and director would help in preparing to deal with "a calamitous eventuality." One commission member, former Democratic Sen. James Exon of Nebraska, dissenting from the report's main recommendation, urged greater Cabinet-level involvement and a nonproliferation director who would report directly to the president. "What has been crafted, in may opinion, is another lower-level 'working group,"' Exon said. He agreed with the extent of the threat and proposed an even more aggressive response. The proposal already has received a cool response at the Pentagon. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre said last week that the existing lines of authority are sufficiently clear and do not require the appointment of a special coordinator. Among the scenarios outlined in the report by the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: --Anthrax is released in a Boston subway station during rush hour, sending 6,000 people to hospital emergency rooms. --Analysts estimate that North Korean scientists have assembled 10 nuclear weapons, and intelligence reports say North Korea is planning to sell two. --Iraqi President Saddam Hussein orders Scud missiles carrying nerve agents fired upon U.S. troops in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. --A disgruntled Russian scientist at Ozersk acquires 44 pounds of highly enriched uranium and sells it to Iran. = 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
Re: [CTRL] socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx. [a re-post for ...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 7/15/99 4:15:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All this, and Col. House was only the pawn of even BIGGER "invisible king-makers," namely the "Society of the Elect," governed for decades by Lords Cecil and Balfour -- British prime ministers both, and designers of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (of which the CFR is only the American wing) and a host of other "front groups," not only political but religious and even occult, which served the modern British imperial agenda even when allegedly fostering "Anglo-American collaboration." (But since that agenda was being bankrolled by the Rothschilds, we need to include them among the "Elect.") House took his diplomatic orders directly from Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, and was flattered to have been granted an entre into his "lofty" company. Woodrow Wilson, in turn, took his orders from House. House's "think tank" called, I believe, the Inquiry, was born in WWI under Wilson and it continued to function as an Anglo-American "State Department" during Roosevelt's rise to power. The Rothschilds used middlemen such as House to enlist wealthy Jewish Americans in the Anglo-American "New Deal" plan with which Roosevelt, being the political figurehead at the time, has become identified. One would then be forced to ask the question is the Anglo establishment still in control of this country? It seems to me that they had a stranglehold on our "secret" agencies for years, right up through Angleton and Dulles. Are they still the ones that are directing American activities, or are they merely a higher level player in the Internationalist arena? 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] AficanAmericanSuppressesAmericanHeritage[Virginia]a bardbomb onradical left
-Caveat Lector- The tax sucking scum are nowhere near limited to the radical left, that is a farcical statement when it is considered that boy george bush was the first to openly declare new world order. He and his ilk worship one thing and one thing only and that is Conflict For Profit...you are prey to their machinations it seems. Consider The Prison Industry, very wealthy and conservative constituents sucking tax all over the place there; runaway law enforcement, All of it one GREAT government Conservative Welfare Bestowal amounting to simple slavery of the mass, and Much Much More!...here is a little info you might find useful and it involves some of the most conservative people in the history of the United States: On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND TREASON. The petition for Articles of Impeachment was thereafter referred to theJudiciary Committee and has YET TO BE ACTED ON. Congressman McFadden on the Federal Reserve Corporation Remarks in Congress, 1934 AN ASTOUNDING EXPOSURE Reprinted by permission 1978 Arizona Caucus Club Congressman McFadden's Speech On the Federal Reserve Corporation Quotations from several speeches made on the Floor of the House of Representatives by the Honorable Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania. Mr. McFadden, due to his having served as Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee for more than 10 years, was the best posted man on these matters in America and was in a position to speak with authority of the vast ramifications of this gigantic private credit monopoly. As Representative of a State which was among the first to declare its freedom from foreign money tyrants it is fitting that Pennsylvania, the cradle of liberty, be again given the credit for producing a son that was not afraid to hurl defiance in the face of the money-bund. WHEREAS Mr. McFadden was elected to the high office on both the Democratic and Republican tickets, there can be no accusation of partisanship lodged against him. Because these speeches are set out in full in the Congressional Record, they carry weight that no amount of condemnation on the part of private individuals could hope to carry. The Federal Reserve-A Corrupt Institution "Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation's debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the National debt several times over. "This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Fed and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. "Some people who think that the Federal Reserve Banks United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lender. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy votes to control our legislatures; there are those who maintain International propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime. "These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. Those bankers took money out of this Country to finance Japan in a war against Russia. They created a reign of terror in Russia with our money in order to help that war along. They instigated the separate peace between Germany and Russia, and thus drove a
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Re: Comments
-Caveat Lector- Everybodys waking up at once...BOOM! Kris Millegan wrote: Subject: Re: Comments Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:16:51 -0700 From: Rodney Stich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Diablo Western Press To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few comments from a former FAA inspector and activist against government corruption: What is being done to the Sanders is continuation of a pattern of government corruption that I have documented for the past 20 years, in Unfriendly Skies, Defrauding America, and Drugging America. This corruption continues because good people won't get informed and speak out until it happens to them. The hard-core corruption proven in these books, with input from dozens of courageous people, could help if used in an imaginative manner. But unless people help us in these other areas, there will be, and there are, many people like the Sanders that are being tragically victimized. Rodney Stich Rodney Stich, E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unfriendlyskies.com http://www.defraudingamerica.com http://www.druggingamerica.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] The Church and Jewish Ideology by Joseph Sobran
-Caveat Lector- WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE BIBLE AND THE TORAH AGAINST THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA, THERE ARE NO REALISTIC CORRELATIONS POSSIBLE FOR US, AND THOSE REMNANT DOCUMENTS AMOUNT TO NOTHING MORE THAN WORTHLESS PIECES OF HISTORICAL LITTERYOU HAVE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WRONG THINGS BRO. TRY THIS: Agache, R. et al., Tabula Imperii Romani: Condatte-Lutetia London 1983. Alexander, M. British Folklore, Myths and Legends, 1982 Barrett, W.H. Tales from the Fens, London 1963 Bethel, D. Cheshire, London 1979 Biel, J. The Late Hallstaat Chieftans Grave at Hochdorf Antiquity55 pgs 16-18 1981 Bowker, J. Goblin Tales of Lancashire, Lancaster, 1883 Bradley, R., and Gordon, K., Human Skulls from The River Thames, their dating and significance, Antiquity62, 503-509, 1988 Briggs, K., A dictionary of Fairies, London 1976 Bromwich, R.,Trieodd Ynys Prydein (The Welsh Triads) Cardiff 1979 Brothwell, D. The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People, London, 1986 Burl, The Stone Circles Of The British Isles London 1976 Chadwick, N.K. Early Literary Contacts between Wales and Ireland in Moore D. (ed.) The Irish Sea Province in Archaeology and History Cardiff 1970 Chaney, W., The cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England Manchester 1975 Collingwood, R.G., and Wright, R.P. The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1965 Cross, T.P. and Slover, C.H. Ancient Irish Tales, Dublin 1969 Cunliffe, B., Iron Age Communities in Britain, London 1974 Dudley, D. R. and Webster G., The Rebellion of Boudicca London 1962 Duffy, J., Patrick in His own Words, Dublin 1975 Ellison, A., A Native Roman and Christian Ritual Complex of the 1st millenium AD:excavations at West Hill Uley, 1977-9 Committee for rescue Archaeology in Avon Gloucester and Somerset Occasional Papers No.9 305-28 1979 Esperandieu E., Recueil General des Bas-Reliefs, Statues et Bustes de la Gaule Romaine, Paris, published 1907, 1910 1911 1915 1918 1922 1925 1928 1938 1949 1955 1966 Farnborough England Feachem, R.W. Medionemeton on The Lines of Antoninus Pius, Scotland, Collection latomus 103 210-216 1969 Fox, C., A Find of The Early Iron Age from Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey, Cardiff 1946 Frere, S.S., Rivet A.L.F. and Sitwell N.H.H. Tabula Imperii Romani Brittania Septentrionalis, London 1987 Gardener, J.F. Caesar: The Conquest of Gaul London 1982 Glob, P.V. Jernaldermanden fra Craubelle, Aarhus 1959 The Bog People, London 1969 Hatt, J.J. The Ancient Civilization of the Celts and Gallo-Romans London1970 Jackson, K., Language and Early History of Early Britain Jones, G. and Jones, T. The Mabinogion, London1975 Kendrick, T. The Druids, London 1928 Kenner, H., La civilisation et l'art celtique en Carinthie in OGAM VIII pt3 21-38 1956 Kinsella, T. The Tain Oxford 1969 Klindt Jensen O., Denmark London 1957 Kruta, V. Les Celtes, Paris 1978 Laing, L., Celtic Britain London 1979 Le Roux, F., Le Calendrier gualois de Coligny et la fete irlandaise de Samain, OGAM 337-42 1957 Lewis, M.J.T., Temples in Roman Britain, Cambridge1966 Macalister R.A.S. Tare: a Pagan Sanctuary of Ancient Ireland, London 1931 --Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum Dublin 1945 MacCana, P., Celtic Mythology, London 1970 MacCulloch, J.A., The Religion of the Ancient Celts, Edinburgh 1911 Mackie, E., The Megalith Builders, London 1977 Macneill, M. The Festival of Lughnasa, Oxford 1962 Martin, M., A description of the Western Islands of Scotland (a republication of the original of 1703) London 1934 Mattingly, H. Tacitus: The Agricola and The Germania, London 1970 Megaw, J.V.S., Art of The European Iron Age, Bath, 1970 Mommsen, Th., Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, by G.I. Solinus, Berlin 1958 This is half of it...let me know if you get done and need some moreB Bard wrote: The Church and Jewish Ideology (Reprinted from SOBRAN'S, May 1999, page 4) 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] Right-Left Coalition to Oppose War?
-Caveat Lector- The following appeared in the December 1995 issue of OUT OF STEP, my monthly newsletter, under the headline "Calling for a Left-Right Anti-War Coalition": "So Clinton is getting his damned shooting war - er, his 'peacekeeping intervention.' American troops are being launched into what has already been the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II. After his November 27 television address, the president quickly fled the country while the nation's money powers, intelligentsia, and media fell into line behind his plan. "The New York Times called Clinton's plan 'limited, achievable and in accordance with American national interests.' The Miami Herald agreed with the president that 'only America has the armed might and geopolitical suasion to make this peace agreement work.' And the Los Angeles Times chimed in by calling Clinton's arguments for intervention "compelling." It continued: 'The United States has no choice. Clinton said the U.S. troops should be out in a year; that sounds optimistic. Congress must question that target date. But the president's cause is right.' "In a bizarre analysis, Brent Scowcroft, national security advisor to President George Bush, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that to not send 20,000 troops to Bosnia would be a 'catastrophe for U.S. reliability.' He then added that if troops are deployed, 'the possibility for significant reverses, if not disaster, is fairly high.' Sounds like a no-win situation, doesn't it? Henry Kissinger, never far from any significant moves toward a New World Order, weighed in with some uninspired comment: 'I do not believe we have a vital national security interest in Bosnia. But the president has committed us and I don't believe that Congress will disavow the president at this stage. That would be harmful to the United States.' "Then, of course, the Republican Party leadership caved in to Clinton's desires 'reluctantly.' "But not so the American people. They don't seem to really have the stomach for another Iraq, or Somalia, or Haiti, or any U.S. military presence on foreign soil. Curiously, Clinton's TV talk was not followed immediately by the usual polling results. Instead, it took a day or two for any solid polling numbers to come in as Clinton's journalistic lapdogs scrambled to gather 'good news' for their man in the White House. And even then, the president's planned I-FOR - 'peace implementation force' - garnered a lackluster 46-percent support. This number will likely rise as the troops actually arrive in Bosnia accompanied by the expected patriotic pomp, then nosedive after the first few American deaths are revealed and the body bags start arriving home. "The most stirring speech given at last month's annual meeting of the paleo-right John Randolph Club in Northern California erupted from Justin Raimondo, libertarian political activist and author of Reclaiming the American Right, a well-written history of the Old Right of Albert Jay Nock, H.L. Mencken, and Garet Garrett. Raimondo called for the building of a new America First Committee, following closely the anti-war and anti-imperialist model of more than 50 years ago. Declaring that the anti-war movement is now located on the Right, Raimondo concluded, 'We must act and organize now to stop the War Machine of the Power Elite!' "Raimondo's correct. The time to act and organize is now. And I think his call for a new America First movement is well-intentioned. But his right-wing vision may be too small. Take a look at the articles on intervention in Bosnia that appear on page two of this issue - one from the Far Left, the other the Far Right. We have now a rare opportunity to forge a solid coalition of New Left and Hard Right - anti-imperialist, anti-war, anti-interventionist, anti-conspiracy, anti-statist, and strongly anti-power elite - to fight the American Warfare State, now led by Bill Clinton but led earlier by every president since Woodrow Wilson. "The idea of such a coalition isn't new. The late founders of modern libertarianism, Murray Rothbard and Karl Hess, tried to build such a Left-Right Opposition back in the late '60s. Well, it's time to try again - particularly while the real Left is demoralized by liberal-centrists of the Clinton school and the hardcore libertarian Right is compromised and sold-out by political hacks of both the Republican and Libertarian Parties. "Earlier this year, my friend Samuel Edward Konkin III, of the Movement of the Libertarian Left, reintroduced the idea of a radical Left-Right partnership. He wrote in a pamphlet titled 'What's Left?': 'While we can and should discuss and debate the merits and demerits of a Left/Libertarian coalition, ultimately, someone will have to, as libertarians say, take the risk and make the investment.' "The time is now to take the risk and make the investment. "It's never been truer than it is today, friends: we have nothing to lose but our chains." The following appeared in the
[CTRL] Adbusters: David Grossman finally get his due
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/26/grossman.html A HREF="http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/26/grossman.html"Adbusters: David Grossman finally get his due /A - DAVID GROSSMAN FINALLY GET HIS DUE DAVE GROSSMAN, the Arkansas psychologist and former US army colonel profiled in "Headrush" [Adbusters, Spring 1999] has sometimes sounded like a broken record proselytizing on the harm violent pop-culture imagery particularly shoot-'em-up video games can do. Finally, he has been vindicated. Too bad it took 14 dead kids to make it happen. The recent massacre in Littleton, Colorado, so perfectly fit the template Grossman warns of right down to the perpetrators' obsession with morbid video games (the killers rehearsed their crime in a simulated Littleton before carrying it out) that Grossman seemed almost to have forecasted it. A huge question mark hung over America; here, suddenly, was a guy with some answers. Within a week Grossman had become a minor celebrity in his own right. President Clinton mentioned him in his Saturday radio address to the nation. The next day, he appeared on 60 Minutes, playing Doom with Ed Bradley, blowing limbs off his targets and explaining how efficiently the game was training him to kill. "People watched that," Grossman says, "and the mind of a nation just went 'click." Grossman guested on Larry King Live, The Today Show, Meet the Press. Networks dispatched crews to his Jonesboro home. On May 2, he testified before a senate subcommittee on youth violence. It has been a strange turnabout in the life of a man who has heretofore been shut out of network TV (because, he maintains, his anti-TV-violence message isn't exactly advertiser-friendly). In the end, the message grew too potent for the medium to resist. What's next for Grossman, and his crusade? Much depends on what happens in Peducah, Kentucky, where a $130 million dollar class action suit against the video game industry is scheduled to go to trial next year. "Keep your eye on Peducah," says Grossman. "This is the Lexington and Concord of the culture war. This is the shot heard around the world. This is going to be the first step in the revolution that's going to throw off the oppression of violence and the tyranny of the media moguls. I really believe it. Once an idea gets loose, you can't rein it in." - Bruce Grierson - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Big Brother's E.T. Injectable Micro-chip (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- BIG BROTHER'S IMPLANTABLE/INJECTABLE MICRO/BIO-CHIPS http://x35.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=500822145CONTEXT=932064228.364970123hitnu m=0 = 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
Re: [CTRL] U.S. House Panel Tries To Force Anti-Spying Reform
-Caveat Lector- Isn't it funny the nuclear jargon being bandied around again, when, according to this article, there is right now a Full Global Shield in place which makes all nuclear weaponry obsolete on Earth. Very valuable in space colonization, necessary actually, but the Godless monkeys running things are using the media contrived ignorance of the people as a literal club, over the head of the ignorant people, the slave force, us: Mystery In Alaska by Mark Farmer Popular Science Magazine September 1995 At a remote facility ringed with barbed wire, a brand new array of 36 antennas rises from the black spruce forest that stretches hundreds of miles across Alaska. Completed in December 1994 and now undergoing testing, the antenna field is the visible part of a powerful and sophisticated high-frequency radio transmitter designed to transform areas of the upper atmosphere into the equivalent of huge lenses, mirrors, and antennas. This little known Pentagon sponsored radio physics project, called the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is officially intended to expand knowledge about the nature of long range radio communications and surveillance using the fluctuating ionosphere (See "Way up in the Ionosphere"), the portion of the upper atmosphere extending from 35 miles to 500 miles above the Earth's surface. According to program manager John L Hecksher of the Phillips Laboratory at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts, potential military applications of the HAARP research include developing Department of Defense for detecting cruise missiles and communicating with submarines. "Although HAARP is being managed by the Air Force and Navy, it is a purely scientific research facility that poses no threat to potential adversaries and has no value as a military target," he says. But thats just the publicly announced part of the program. HAARP also has a secret agenda: pursuing more exotic military goals, such as locating deeply buried weapons factories thousands of miles away--AND EVEN ALTERING THE LOCAL WEATHER ABOVE AN ENEMIES TERRITORY. A 1990 internal document obtained by Popular Science says the programs overall goals is to "Control ionospheric processes in such a way as to greatly improve performance of military command, CONTROL, and communications systems." It provides a description of the following applications: * Injecting high frequency radio energy into the ionosphere to create huge, extremely low frequency (ELF) virtual antennas used for earth penetrating topography--peering deep beneath the surface of the ground by collecting an analyzing reflected ELF waves beamed down from above. * Heating Regions of the lower and upper ionosphere to form virtual "Lenses" and "Mirrors" that can reflect a broad range of radio frequencies far over the horizon to detect stealthy cruise missiles and aircraft. * Generating ELF radio waves in the ionosphere to communicate across large distances with deeply submerged submarines. And, patent documents filed during an earlier research effort that evolved into the HAARP program outline further military applications of ionospheric-heating technology: * Creating a "Full Global Shield" that would destroy ballistic missiles by overheating their electronic guidance systems as they fly through a powerful radio-energy field. * Distinguishing nuclear warheads from decoys by sensing their elemental composition. * MANIPULATING LOCAL WEATHER. When the HAARP facility is fully constructed, it will include several sensing and analysis systems. At its heart is the antenna field, which now (1995) is a demonstration version of a larger planned array named the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) which will include 360 antennas. The IRI is designed to temporarily modify 30 mile diameter patches of the upper atmosphere by exciting, or heating their constituent electrons and ions with focused beans of powerful radio energy. A household analogy would be a microwave oven, which heats food by exciting its water molecules with microwave energy. (Snip) Virtual lenses and mirrors will be generated in the ionosphere, if the IRI works as intended (1995). By precisely warming a patch of the lower ionosphere, the IRI reduces its density relative to the surrounding atmosphere. An "Ionospheric Lense" thus formed can in turn focus a radio beam into the upper ionosphere. Normally, most high frequency radio waves broadcast from the ground are absorbed or scattered in the lower ionosphere, and few of them reach such high altitudes. Next the focused radio beam excites a patch of the upper ionosphere to form a virtual mirror. Finally, a radio communication signal broadcast by the IRI, focused through the lens and reflected from the mirror can be directed far over the horizon. (Snip) Proprietary phased-array (Local Arrays) transmitting, steering, and pulsing techniques built into the IRI will permit rapid aiming of the radio frequency
[CTRL] The FBI and Flight 800-- A Missile Expert Cries Cover-Up (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- ***CHINESE ESPIONAGE THE ASSASSINATION OF RON BROWN?*** J. Adams November 13th, 1996 Found on the net: http://w3.nai.net/~virtual/sot/ Thanks to the internet, information is available from a variety of media sources around the world that brings to light profound truths that would otherwise be completely repressed. One example of this is the case to be made that TWA Flight #800 was shot down by a missile, either by terrorists or by friendly fire from a U.S. naval vessel. snip to footnotes 4. TWA 800 may have been hit with such a missile. Our sources have indicated that a significant number of portable surface-to-air missiles are missing from inventories and are in Muslim hands in the United States. The rumored strategy has been to hit 747's on take-off. We understand that the TWA flight to Tel Aviv, Israel, was scheduled to leave JFK at 8:00 PM, but was on a gate hold due to a late passenger. Did they hit the wrong plane? == Jim Wilson wrote: Well, well. The plot thickens... if, of course, the rumor is true. Is there any documentation of this trade of takeoff slots? Jim Wilson --- Jim Duey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting tidbit I heard was that Benjamin Netanyahu, who had recently been elected PM of Israel was visiting the US. His plane was leaving NY that night, but for some reason or another gave up their takeoff slot. TWA 800 then took off in that slot. FWIW, caveat lector, etc. "Brenda C. Jinkins" wrote: July 14 - 20, 1999 by robert davey The FBI and Flight 800 A Missile Expert Cries Cover-Up The Flight 800 investigation, still at a loss to explain the tragedy, has the right stuff for a thrilling spy novel. Government flacks easily spin the lazy mainstream media to sedate the nervous public. Meanwhile, a band of military insiders heads for the Internet (http://twa800.com) and reaches out to a few sympathetic independent journalists to convince readers that the truth is being hidden. For some reasonat this point only a fiction writer could provide onemany observers believe that the government is covering up the disaster's most likely explanation: it was a missile that three years ago this week, 10 miles south of Long Island, brought down the Paris-bound 747, killing all 230 aboard. As the investigation's third anniversary passes, the mystery is deepening. A few months ago, a retired army officer bearing impressive credentials approached the Voice as an intermediary for a missile expert with a story to tell. This expert is extremely fearful of losing his jobfor more than 20 years he's been a military engineer who specializes in infrared missile technology. Assured of anonymity, he submitted to lengthy interviews by telephone and e-mail, detailing why he believes the investigation of TWA Flight 800 is a cover-up. After spending more than $40 million on the investigation, the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board have not found a definitive answer for why the center fuel tank exploded. Yet they have ruled out a missile as the cause. The NTSB believes an undetermined system flaw produced an electrical spark that ignited jet fuel vapors in the tank. Prior to the official embrace of this mechanical explanation, the
[CTRL] Braveheart-memorial plaque erected near place of execution
-Caveat Lector- Let Freedom ring (it can again in 2000 Folks.) Sir William Wallace died for what he believed in. Would you make the same sacrifice? Your answer denotes the value you place on freedom vs. slavery. Wouldn't you rather receive a paycheck which represents the full value of your labor? The parasitic taxsuckers would finally have to find 'gainful' employment. It's frightening at the number of people who don't realize the extent to which they have become enslaved to the felons operating the the private corporation they like to call the Federal Reserve System. Find out about the billions they took us and our ancestors for in the late 1920s and early 1930s, notwithstanding what their doing right now. I would have inserted a .jpg, but didn't want to hear the screams. lol So go to this wonderful Site and view this splendid memorial Plaque, plus two other fine graphics. The captions for the three pics, are: 1. This is the memorial plaque erected near his place of execution. 2. This is the general location where it is believed Wallace was executed. The body was quartered and beheaded. Wallace's head was hanged over London Bridge and the remaining body parts were posted throughout Scotland to deter others from continuing Wallace's struggle for Scotland's independence. 3. This is the Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland. http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/2411.html In today's society "they" don't quarter your body and behead you, they throw you into a Federal Penitentiary and suck your brain. Love you all, (radical leftist scum not included) lol Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: DRUDGE-REPORT 7/15/99
-Caveat Lector- X DRUDGE REPORT X THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1999 21:59:02 ET X BRADLEY CAMPAIGN BANKROLL NEARLY EQUALS GORE'S; TOPS IN CALI AND NY Democratic presidential runner Bill Bradley has stockpiled nearly as much cash as Vice President Al Gore, unexpectedly tightening the Democratic race, according to new campaign finance reports. Ceci Connolly reports in Friday editions of the WASHINGTON POST that Gore has spent far more than either Bradley or GOP prince George Bush. "Although Gore has raised $17.5 million -- about $1 million less than his campaign estimated two weeks ago -- he had just $9.3 million left, less than $2 million ahead of Bradley," reports Connolly. Gore raised about $8.7 million in the past 3 months, but he's spent $6 million. Connolly: "The bulk of his money went to direct mail firms and consultants of every stripe -- pollsters, communications gurus, media strategists, computer experts and fund-raising consultants. The vice president's team spent about $1 million on catering, including more than $100,000 at New York's opulent Pierre Hotel." In Gore-Tech California, Bradley outraised the vice president $1.6 million to $1 million. In New York, Bradley collected more than twice as much as Gore, $1.4 million to $597,000. And Bradley was so strong in New York that he even outdid Bush at the bank! [Bush raised $1.3 million in NY to Bradley's $1.4 million.] X X X X X WHO IS GOING TO RUN WARNER BROTHERS? Now that Robert Daly and Terry Semel, the co-chairmen of WARNER BROTHERS, have decided to kiss Burbank goodbye -- just who is in the running to head one of Hollywood's biggest studios? TIME WARNER chair Gerald Levin tells reporters that the decision will be his. "I am the CEO," Levin says. "I will think this through." The Godfather of Wilshire Boulevard Bernie Weinraub writes in Friday's NY TIMES that speculation for a replacement is centering on Leslie Moonves, a former head of WARNER BORTHERS television and now president and chief executive of CBS television, Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer of NEWS CORP., Jeff Bewkes, chairman and chief executive of HOME BOX OFFICE [and Ted Turner pal], Joe Roth, chairman of WALT DISNEY STUDIOS and others. Semel and Daly had been considering leaving the studio for some six months, the LOS ANGELES TIMES is planning to report in fresh editions, but made their final decision while flying back from Europe together on the company's corporate jet Sunday night. "We had 12 hours on the plane together and it was a highly emotional experience," Semel tells the paper. "We decided we were not going to stay." X X X X X ANGRY BOB WOODWARD PLANNING RESPONSE TO CRITICS He may be holding at #1 on The List with his superseller SHADOW, but authorreporterpundit Bob Woodward is set to lash back at his critics in a soon-to-be published editorial planned for the pages of the WASHINGTON POST. According to newspaper sources, Woodward is currently at work on a direct response to an editorial that appeared in his very own paper! On July 6, writer Geneva Overholser hit Woodward in the POST for his "unorthodox methods." Overholser questioned how Woodward "recreates behind-the-scenes events as if he'd been in the room -- full of detail, characterizations and direct quotes, much of it unattributed." She poked: "This causes confusion, and not just for readers wondering who told Woodward what and why." To make the case, Overholser pointed out that former Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry and former White House lawyer Jane Sherburnere have said that Woodward's constructed conversations involving the First Lady "are inaccurate." Woodward, completely angry over the POST editorial, is getting ready to fight back -- with 800 choice words of his own. Developing... X X X X X SUNDAY WAR: 'MEET THE PRESS' BEATS 'THIS WEEK' BY AN INCH Last Sunday morning, Tim Russert topped Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson by less than 32,000 viewers, according to NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH. A tight ratings battle has erupted between the two public affairs shows, with each claiming victory in recent weeks. The Sunday media church session of July 11, 1999: MEET THE PRESS was No. 1 in total viewers attracting 2.943 million, ABC's THIS WEEK was second with 2.911 million, CBS' FACE THE NATION was third with 2.676 million and FOX's NEWS SUNDAY was fourth with 1.204 million. While one senior ABC staffer characterized the latest squeakerrating as a "statistical tie" -- NBC's media spokeswoman Barbara Levin moved into press release action declaring a win. "MEET THE PRESS WITH TIM RUSSERT' WINNING STREAK CONTINUES FOR 51 WEEKS AS NO. 1 SUNDAY MORNING..." slugged Levin in her AP NEWS EXPRESS sermon. [Can I get a witness?] X X X X X KUBRICK FILM TO RECEIVE MIXED REVIEWS The nation's newspaper
Re: [CTRL] Big Brother's E.T. Injectable Micro-chip (fwd)
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Re: [CTRL] Right-Left Coalition to Oppose War?
-Caveat Lector- "One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then the preeminent New York journalist, was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders of his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor Swinton offered a toast to the independent press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by replying: "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. "The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." (Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.) Lloyd Miller wrote: -Caveat Lector- The following appeared in the December 1995 issue of OUT OF STEP, my monthly newsletter, under the headline "Calling for a Left-Right Anti-War Coalition": "So Clinton is getting his damned shooting war - er, his 'peacekeeping intervention.' American troops are being launched into what has already been the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II. After his November 27 television address, the president quickly fled the country while the nation's money powers, intelligentsia, and media fell into line behind his plan. "The New York Times called Clinton's plan 'limited, achievable and in accordance with American national interests.' The Miami Herald agreed with the president that 'only America has the armed might and geopolitical suasion to make this peace agreement work.' And the Los Angeles Times chimed in by calling Clinton's arguments for intervention "compelling." It continued: 'The United States has no choice. Clinton said the U.S. troops should be out in a year; that sounds optimistic. Congress must question that target date. But the president's cause is right.' "In a bizarre analysis, Brent Scowcroft, national security advisor to President George Bush, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that to not send 20,000 troops to Bosnia would be a 'catastrophe for U.S. reliability.' He then added that if troops are deployed, 'the possibility for significant reverses, if not disaster, is fairly high.' Sounds like a no-win situation, doesn't it? Henry Kissinger, never far from any significant moves toward a New World Order, weighed in with some uninspired comment: 'I do not believe we have a vital national security interest in Bosnia. But the president has committed us and I don't believe that Congress will disavow the president at this stage. That would be harmful to the United States.' "Then, of course, the Republican Party leadership caved in to Clinton's desires 'reluctantly.' "But not so the American people. They don't seem to really have the stomach for another Iraq, or Somalia, or Haiti, or any U.S. military presence on foreign soil. Curiously, Clinton's TV talk was not followed immediately by the usual polling results. Instead, it took a day or two for any solid polling numbers to come in as Clinton's journalistic lapdogs scrambled to gather 'good news' for their man in the White House. And even then, the president's planned I-FOR - 'peace implementation force' - garnered a lackluster 46-percent support. This number will likely rise as the troops actually arrive in Bosnia accompanied by the expected patriotic pomp, then nosedive after the first few American deaths are revealed and the body bags start arriving home. "The most stirring speech given at last month's annual meeting of the paleo-right John Randolph Club in Northern California erupted from Justin Raimondo, libertarian political activist and author of Reclaiming the American Right, a well-written history of the Old Right of Albert Jay Nock, H.L. Mencken, and Garet Garrett. Raimondo called for the building of a new America First Committee, following closely the anti-war and anti-imperialist model of more than 50 years ago. Declaring that the anti-war movement is now located on the Right, Raimondo concluded, 'We must act and
Re: [CTRL] The Church and Jewish Ideology by Joseph Sobran
-Caveat Lector- Bill, Many thanks for directing my attention to the list of Right Things to try. u can bet on it that i look at a few of them. bard 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 by Joseph Sobran
-Caveat Lector- You are welcome thanks for your time...write rite rightwhat IS is not workingand there is a lot that should be and is notbut, Light Happens. Glad to be on this list. B Bard wrote: -Caveat Lector- Bill, Many thanks for directing my attention to the list of Right Things to try. u can bet on it that i look at a few of them. bard 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] FW: NAACP lawsuita racist mistake [2d Amend.]
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 3:20 PM To: Libertarian Party announcements list Subject: Release: NAACP lawsuit NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.lp.org/ === For release: July 15, 1999 === For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Anti-gun lawsuit by the NAACP is really an attack on civil rights, say Libertarians WASHINGTON, DC -- The NAACP is making a "racist mistake" by filing a lawsuit against gun manufacturers -- and is following in the shameful footsteps of the Ku Klux Klan, the Libertarian Party charged today. "With this lawsuit, the NAACP is not only attacking the civil rights of African-Americans, but is also continuing the legacy of the KKK and other racist organizations that have historically tried to keep guns out of the hands of blacks," said Steve Dasbach, the party's national director. "Politics makes strange bedfellows -- and what could be stranger than the NAACP climbing into bed with the grand wizards of the KKK by supporting their racist agenda?" This week, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced at its national convention that it will file a federal suit in New York on Friday against 85 gun manufacturers for "dumping guns into black communities and turning them into war zones." The NAACP -- which argued that "the illegal trafficking of firearms disproportionately affects minority communities" -- wants the court to ban sales at gun shows and limit how many guns can be sold in one transaction. But the reality is, the gun control measures endorsed by the NAACP will disproportionately affect minority communities, where people are exposed to higher crime rates and slower police response times, said Dasbach. "The NAACP apparently wants to limit the ability of its members to defend themselves and their families against violent crime," he said. "That's shameful enough, but what's even worse is that this lawsuit continues the disgraceful legacy of white racists who don't think blacks can be trusted with guns." In fact, anyone who studies history knows that gun control laws have frequently targeted African-Americans, said Dasbach -- going all the way back to the post-Civil War period, when Southern whites were determined to keep guns away from emancipated slaves. According to Don B. Kates, an author who studied post-Civil War gun laws, a flurry of Southern states passed laws designed to ban or tax inexpensive handguns so poor blacks couldn't afford them, including Tennessee (1870), Arkansas (1881), and Alabama (1893). That trend continued into the 20th Century. In 1902, South Carolina banned the sale of handguns to everyone except "sheriffs and their special deputies: i.e., company goons and the KKK." In 1911, New York City passed the Sullivan Law, which allowed police to screen handgun applicants -- so they could reject blacks, eastern Europeans, and Jews. And in 1968, Congress passed more gun control legislation, partly in response to the urban riots that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. "Given America's shameful legacy of attempting to deprive African-Americans of basic civil rights -- by denying them the right to exercise the Second Amendment -- it's baffling that the NAACP would join this attack," said Dasbach. "This lawsuit is a betrayal of everything a civil rights organization should represent." Ironically, the NAACP itself has a history of using firearms to defend African-Americans from racists, he noted. In Monroe, North Carolina in 1957, for example, 60 armed blacks from the local NAACP chapter were able to repel an attack from a KKK motorcade after the Klansmen shot at the house of Dr. Albert E. Perry, the NAACP vice president. "It would be a shame if such despicable attacks against black Americans became more common in the future -- because the NAACP had disarmed its members," said Dasbach. "As that incident in Monroe proved, the best way to protect minority communities is by giving them the freedom to defend themselves." The Libertarian Party http://www.lp.org/ 2600 Virginia Ave. NW, Suite 100 voice: 202-333-0008 Washington DC 20037 fax: 202-333-0072 For subscription changes, please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject line -- or use the WWW form. Bard DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed.
[CTRL] CIA reassesses: Exposure to nerve gas in Gulf War less than thought (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- From: http://www.newstimes.com/news/today/nab.htm CIA reassesses: Exposure to nerve gas in Gulf War less than thought By DAVID BRISCOE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ After eight years and more than $100 million, special Pentagon and CIA offices say they have done about all they can to find a cause for the mysterious Gulf War illnesses. The CIA's special assistant on the issue told a presidential panel on Tuesday that new evidence shows the number of soldiers exposed to low levels of chemical agents in the 1991 conflict is much lower than estimates made two years ago. Both the CIA investigator, Robert D. Walpole, and another key official in the quest for a cause, Pentagon special assistant Bernard Rostker, told the Special Oversight Board on Gulf War illness they expect no new sweeping conclusions. Up to 30,000 veterans of the war have complained of mysterious maladies such as fatigue, joint pain and memory loss they claim are related to their service in the Gulf, but several Pentagon and outside investigations have failed to pinpoint a cause. ``We are pretty close to closing the books,'' said Walpole. He said he expects three final CIA reports on exposure to chemical, biological or radiological agents in the Gulf to be completed by September or October, although intelligence assessments and examination of any new information would continue. ``We've turned over all the biggest stones. Now we need help in determining when the stones get too small to turn over,'' said Rostker in an interview after Tuesday's panel hearing at which several veterans also appeared. The National Gulf War Resource Center, which has been critical of Pentagon handling of the issue, called for Rostker's resignation but a continuation of his office's investigative work. Paul Sullivan, center executive director, told the panel that many veterans believe depleted uranium used in U.S. munitions caused their illness. Rostker said there is no evidence of this and that depleted uranium shells saved lives in the Gulf by destroying Iraqi and protecting U.S. tanks. Former Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., board chairman, said that even if major aspects of the investigation have concluded without finding a cause, case studies and investigation of war data bases could still be conducted, and the issue is far from closed. Rudman also proposed investigation by the National Institutes of Health to settle a the debate over the danger of depleted uranium used in U.S. munitions. The CIA in 1997 estimated that 10,000 soldiers may have been exposed to low levels of nerve agent from inadvertent destruction of rockets at a site called Khamisiya Pit. The Pentagon at that time acknowledged that up to 100,000 soldiers may have been exposed to low levels of chemical agents during the war. In all instances, officials said, levels were too low to cause health problems. ``We now estimate _ in most cases _ that less agent was released, primarily because more precise data is now available,'' said the CIA's Walpole. ``The smaller release ... would probably result in far fewer troops exposed compared to 1997 estimates,'' he said, giving no precise estimate. He said the CIA was never satisfied with its original analysis because it was made to meet a short deadline and based on limited data and worst-case scenarios. Environmental degradation of the chemicals, which were left over from the Iran-Iraq war, also could not be accurately calculated in 1997, he said. The latest CIA analysis resulted from evidence provided by the U.N. Special Commission that oversaw troop activities during the war, Walpole said. Several sites were re-evaluated, including the Khamisiya Pit. Only one-fourth of the originally estimated 500 rockets were found around the pit and explosives were placed less optimally than previously assumed, Walpole said. Investigation at three other sites also showed no evidence of contamination of Western troops, he said. Copyright 1999 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. = 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.
Re: [CTRL] the reliability of recovered memory
-Caveat Lector- Hi ! Here are a few posts about the veracity of recovered memory. Sincerely, Neil Brick From: http://members.aol.com/SMARTNEWS/Sample-Issue-26.htm With an often biased media barrage that the false memory syndrome exists, even those survivors with a great deal of documentation and many years of memories may occasionally doubt their memories. I wanted to share a few quotes from: "Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law" by Brown, Scheflin and Hammond," (ISBN 0-393-70254-5) W.W. Norton and Co. New York and London, C 1998 (http://www.wwnorton.com) Page 365-366. The book has excellent information about memory studies and a chapter called "The False Logic of the False Memory Controversy and the Irrational Element in Scientific Research on Memory" (pg. 382) From chapter 11: "A Critical Evaluation of the Memory Scientific Experiments," section: "WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT MEMORY FALLIBILTY?" "Loftus's claim that human memory in general is fallible (1979a,b) and that therefore memories recovered in psychotherapy are equally fallible (1993) is both overstated and oversimplified (Koss et al., 1995)." The conclusion that "negative emotional arousal hinders accurate...memory" (Loftus, 1980, p.78) is misleading..." Loftus' conclusion only applies "to laboratory simulation studies of memory for complex visual presentations" when a certain type of information is measured. "These simulation studies rarely show memory fallibility with respect to the emotional arousing event itself." Generalizing findings on memory fallibilty are misleading when "certain types of visual information presented in the laboratory" are transferred to the "autobiographical memory of patients in psychotherapy." "The early studies... led to a distorted view of memory fallibilty because they were biased toward assessing memory performance in terms of" all the information contained in "a complex visual stimulus presentation (Clifford Hollin, 1981; Clifford Scott, 1978)" or because they looked for "peripheral background details..." "More sophisticated studies...have clearly demonstrated that memory is well and accurately retained for the gist of a central action... or a negative emotional event even over long retention intervals," where "only the peripheral background details are poorly retained." This compares to "...Bartlett's (1932) original studies on memory for the War of the Ghosts,... gist memory was well preserved while memory for minor details was highly inaccurate." "General, overstated claims about memory fallibility" don't take into consideration "the complex interaction of variables that affect memory performance." From: http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page/Sample-Issue-27.htm The information for the following article came from "Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law" by Brown, Scheflin and Hammond, W.W. Norton and Co. New York and London, C 1998 (http://www.wwnorton.com) Page 370-381 and is written by the editor of S.M.A.R.T. The base rates for memory commission errors are quite low, at least in professional trauma treatment. The base rates in adult misinformation studies run between zero and 5 percent for adults and between 3 - 5 percent for children. Out of about seven to 10% of the general population that may be highly hypnotizable, four to 6 percent of high hypnotizable subjects may "produce hypnotic psuedomemories for peripheral details (of a memory) in response to suggestions" in a waking state or hypnotized with controlled situational influence. The 4-6 percent may rise in terms of report rates to 80% under some conditions of social influence. Extreme social influence can be compared to brainwashing or social influence to the following criteria, several of which must happen for the possibility of an untrue memory to occur: patient is highly suggestible (in terms of memory), with low to moderate suggestibility a therapeutic situation must contain a number of the following: patient is quite uncertain about the past event, suggestions of peripheral details (not central plot actions of a memory), source credibility (an authority figure), patient bias (previous information), authority figure bias (has set belief about what happened), systematic misleading (rather than free recall), emotional manipulation (blame or rejection for not producing the desired result or praise for the desired result), behavioral response (individual journal or oral narrative to group of trauma or action against perpetrators), milieu control (total information control in and out of therapeutic or other context) and psychophysiological manipulation (breaking down the subject's defenses, assaults self esteem or person's core or causes subject to regress). "Occasional unwitting misleading suggestions (Yapko, 1994a), even the suggestion of a diagnosis of abuse, cannot adequately explain illusory memories of child sexual abuse." (p. 379) Occasional suggestions about abuse are not generally effective, except in highly suggestible
