Re: [CTRL] Outing Spies
-Caveat Lector- The book also reveals extensive KGB operations including: --Attempts to implicate the CIA and wealthy right-wing Americans in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As part of these efforts, the book says the KGB in the 1970s forged a letter from Kennedy's accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, to E. Howard Hunt, the former CIA agent who was convicted in the Watergate break-in. Is anyone else noticing that, little by little, the carefully considered conclusions of Conspiracy Theory are being identified as a product of Communist disinformation? How long before we are all likewise blacklisted as "Communists" or, at the very least, charged with sedition for being disseminators of propaganda from an enemy state? 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] Jim Keith - Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas
-Caveat Lector- Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Steve Wingate" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:20:16 -0700 Subject: SNET: Re: Jim Keith - Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas - SNETNEWS Mailing List --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:12:17 EDT Subject: [MC] re: Jim Keith - Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi ! I heard Jim Keith died a few days ago. I wanted to post this article I previously published in an issue of my newsletter. Sincerely, Neil Brick From SMART Issue #7 http://members.aol.com/SMARTNEWS/Sample-Issue-07.htm This was written by a subscriber. Please use caution while reading this article. It may be triggering for survivors. Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History, edited by Jim Keith, 1993 Feral House, Box 3466, Portland, OR 97208 , $12.95 In his preface to Secret and Suppressed, Jim Keith states that "the people who direct and control the world's financial resources are, to a very large extent, the same people who control and direct the world's media." Secret and Suppressed is a guidebook to alternative views of contemporary events and world history... (which) confronts the reader with disquieting revelations on mind control, secret societies, media disinformation, cults and elite cabals. The hard evidence supplied by many of the articles is startling." About half of the articles in this anthology expose Masonic activity, how it has shaped society in the past and its influence in our lives today. In his article "Sorcery, Sex, Assassination and the Science of Political Control," James Shelby Downard writes, "For years I have been trying to draw attention to Masonic sorcery and its (alleged) relation to political control." He states that "Benjamin . was initiated into Freemasonry at St. John's Lodge in Philadelphia and ... is credited with publishing the first Masonic book in America." He identifies the "House of the Rising Sun," a Masonic meeting place for powerful political figures such as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and George Mason, located in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which as the earliest known record of the Masonic Royal Arch Degree of York, listed in the city annals on December 22, 1753. He discusses the roots of the anti- mason political party that challenged Freemason Andrew Jackson for the presidency in 1826, and the murder of the Mormon prophet which resulted in the men of the Mormon church withdrawing from Freemasonry. (S.M.A.R.T. note: For more information on the Mormons and their connection to the Masons, see Issue #6) He delves deeply into the JFK assassination which he believes is suffused with Masonic symbolism having to do with violence, perversion, conspiracy, death and degradation (specifically, Masonic Greening Rituals). "Masonry does not (allegedly) believe in murdering a man in just any old way and in the JFK assassination, it went to incredible lengths and took great risks to make this heinous act correspond to the ancient fertility oblation of The Killing of the King." He identifies the three hoboes arrested at the time of the assassination as "at least as important symbolically as operationally, and they compromise the 'three unworthy craftsmen' of Masonry... and a mirror or doppelganger of the three assassins who executed the actual murder." He notes that Dealy Plaza is the site of the First Masonic Temple in Dallas and home of the Blue Front Tavern, a Masonic hangout, and that important security strategy was planned for Dealy Plaza by the New Orleans CIA station which was headquartered in a Masonic temple building. He points out that Mason Lyndon Johnson appointed Mason Earl Warren to investigate the death of Catholic President John Kennedy; 33rd degree Mason Gerald Ford was instrumental in suppressing what little evidence of a conspiratorial nature reached the Commission; 33rd degree Mason J. Edgar Hoover was responsible for supplying information to the commission; and former CIA Director and 33rd degree Mason Allen Dulles was responsible for most of his agency's data to the panel. And he asks, "Would it be paranoid to suspect a panel of Nazis appointed to investigate the death of a Jew, or to suspect a commission of Klansmen appointed to investigate the death of a Negro?" In his article "Subliminal Images in Oliver Stone's 'JFK' " which follows, Dean Grace identifies Downard's Three Craftsmen; "A man in a dark suit passes three hoboes being taken into custody by police. There is a hint that the hoboes give a secret hand sign.. later.. .A man in a dark suit passes by the three tramps and gives a secret hand sign for the tramps' benefit. "Also (while) patrolman Smith is testifying on the witness stand... a tall young man wearing a dark suit... turns toward the camera and clearly gives a Masonic sign of distress... holds the palm of the left
[CTRL] Outing Spies
-Caveat Lector- Yea, good example of their fear of "conspiracy" is CEMB ( COMMITTEE TO END MEDIA BIAS) CEMB banned discussion of conspiracy.and postings are being pulled CEMB is a Bush site...only non conspiratorial favorable items to Bush are allowed. They got problems. Censorship is imposed when there is something to hide. . 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 glorious capitalist free market economic system.
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-09-16 18:54:02 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could you give us some specific examples of what you suggest folks can do
against global corporationalists besides whine. Perhaps some examples of
what you,
specifically, are doing would be helpful.
I have no suggestions, at this particular point. But when I DID have
suggestions-- the most concretely practical program I could come up with-- 20
years ago, everyone with whom I discussed it recognized its value "in theory"
but weaselled out because it would be "too much trouble," demanding too big a
change in one's lifestyle, asking too many sacrifices of the things that are
REALLY important to people (never mind FREEDOM!)
I came to realized that 95% of people --ESPECIALLY those who "whine" and
"complain" about the increasing threat to liberty posed by State
totalitarianism-- really prefer the "security" of a prison to the effort and
the risks involved in becoming free. When a choice between the two becomes
inescapable, as a life-or-death dilemma, they might surprise even themselves
by WHICH alternative they actually choose. But no surprise to ME, because
I'm a student of history and the sociological precedents for making the
"wrong" choice are almost endless. So, you're on your own, I'm afraid. I'm
no longer in the "solutions" business. All my energy goes into just trying
to survive the times.
Are you suggesting armed revolt? mass suicide?
Use your own judgment. What will be, will be. Whatever happens, ultimately,
won't be due to any "suggestions," mine OR yours. Whatever *I* might think a
proper response is meaningless. Where do you see anybody acting on my
instruction or following my example? I'm not a leader and don't want to be.
Not MY job to decide for others.
BTW, which of the two, in your view, is more "mass suicide," ACCEPTING life
as one of the walking dead under a fascist dictatorship or dying in an armed
revolt AGAINST it?
Frankly, I'm a little surprised at this coming from you. In part, it sounds a
bit like Adolph's view of Germany's Jews.
Yes, I hope it WAS surprising! I INTENDED it to be shit-disturbing.
Rhetorically, it was rather exhilirating to speak through the persona of an
opposite type, looking at people through the eyes of those I consider my
opponents -- whose attitudes I know pretty well, from having had powerful
people confide in me and speak freely as if I were a "protege."
In the master/slave world of "us and them," I've several times come close to
becoming one of "them" ("them" from YOUR point of view) as one of "us," your
de facto Masters.
Due to my own moral and ethical values, I chose to REJECT that path and to
become instead an adversary and critic, a "traitor to my 'class' " as I was
once actually called!
Now, IRONICALLY, whenever I tell "prey" factually what our "predators" REALLY
think of them and say about them behind closed doors, they simply refuse to
BELIEVE it, instead persisting in the same delusions that MAKE them "prey,"
diehard "suckers" whose Self is so exasperatingly lacking that EVEN I begin
to feel contempt for them
and I have to consider, bitterly, after all this. that maybe I'd made a
mistake CARING.
Could there be anything more disillusioning than ACTING on one's highest and
purest motives, to genuinely try to "save" others ... only to discover that,
for the majority of people, ethics or principles is all just HYPOCRISY, a
game of WORDS and ONLY of words, and SINCERITY is the very thing that
"spoils" that game for them -- because it exposes, simply by way of contrast,
the deep, dark, dirty secret of hypocrisy CENTRAL
to their ego-structure? Nothing could be more ABSURD than trying to "save"
those who --come the test, with its just price-- in the depths of their souls
WANT to be "lost" -- as demonstrated by their choices, proving how COMMITTED
they are to HOLDING ON to the very conditions which cause them "suffering"
(or so they SAY) and from which therefore they want to "escape" (or so they
SAY), appealing to others for "help" in doing so. The true measure of
AUTHENTICITY in a person's desire to change (or to solve any social problem)
is their degree of willingness to ACT on that desire. Thus, if his or her
actions are more than fifty percent to the CONTRARY --OPPOSING feelings
(expressed in action) being stronger-- then it's totally hopeless -- such
division is SELF-defeating.
In most people, FEAR of pain and death (fear often of RISK, even of EFFORT)
is so much stronger than the DESIRE to LIVE--in any worthwhile sense-- that
there's not enough soul-stuff or will or PURPOSEFUL thought to justify even
thinking of them as HUMAN, as anything other than CATTLE. Where *I* differ
from our human predators
(like Adolf, to whom you compare me for stating this) is in wanting to CHANGE
that
condition in myself and others around me, rather than EXULT in it and PROFIT
from it by playing the game as the secret rules for "winning" require -- by
telling you only
Re: [CTRL] SWAT Nation [rant]
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-09-13 18:43:50 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Revolution with guns is self defeating, they would just love that. A recipe for self destruction. This is 1999 not 1799. Agreed. But remember, for Russians, 1909 to 1917 wasn't 1709 to 1717 EITHER ... Nor was it for the more modern European satellites of the USSR just over a decade ago, when, as the Berlin Wall came down, Communist officials were dragged out of their legislatures and literally torn to pieces by their newly "capitalist" subjects. I have to wonder if the same savage spectacle will repeat itself when World Capitalism falls. When the pinball game of Society goes TILT, people stop thinking of what "practical" goals are to be accomplished by "revolution" and what constitutes its victory or defeat. Imagine "road rage" multiplied by the millions, "Falling Down" occurring not only in the workplace, directed toward petty-tyrant bosses and the bureaucracies closest at hand, but toward all institutions similar in character, across the board, constraining people's lives. I'm not talking about anything RATIONAL here, much less anything with concrete programs for social change or defined by some ideological dogma. Which is why I've deliberately invoked the image of the French Revolution, rather than, say, the Russian Revolution. A populist mass-revolt against the overcentralized, militarized power of the State in America would, in my opinion, likely be an NIHILIST-ANARCHIST repudiation of "legitimate" authority in ALL its forms, by ordinary people rather than by intellectuals, because, in the common man's experience here, even the very concept of "authority" has been discredited --can no longer be trusted-- and the realm of the "rational" as we experience it --all its buzzwords, slogans, "ideals," promises, and platforms, all just WORDS (opposed to ACTION for significant change) employed HYPOCRITICALLY, to DECEIVE and MISDIRECT the popular will-- has by now become every bit as suspect. The whole structure of governance, high and low, has become so corrupt that it makes more sense to DESTROY it, in toto, than attempt somehow to "repair" it, piecemeal, at a snail's pace, in the face of its apparent momentum toward ultimate totalitarian evil -- and in that sense, there's an unacknowledged purposefulness in apparently "random" acts of individual destructiveness -- in the common man's frustration come to a boil, in free-floating "rage against the machine" at last overwhelming the tinselly "rational" ego which has failed us --betrayed us-- through its sheeplike clinging to safety and security and its fear of danger, pain, or sacrifice, blind to the "laws of the jungle" in effect all around it. Such a sea-change in collective behavior may not seem "logical" or "rational" to "intellectuals" such as you or me, but it may indeed make "sense" in the opposing mode of dealing with reality, the EMOTIONAL, dominant in the other 95% of humanity. In fact, it's possibly a SANER response than OURS, which is merely to nit-pick, weigh and analyze, judge and categorize (words, words, words!), in our splendid ivory-tower isolation from the more common world of SURVIVAL instincts, wherein blood, sweat and tears are the rule, lacking the luxury of "philosophizing" about human suffering. Like it or not, we "intellectuals" are nothing but "back seat drivers" in times of change. It's the PEOPLE --wisely or foolishly-- who MAKE history, meandering where they will, whether at a trot toward greener pastures, turning tail at the smell of predators, or when kicking down manmade (=mind-made) fences with their hooves, in order to remain wild and free, in expression of their god-given nature, following instincts sounder than ours. The world, on our scale, is still a Newtonian one, driven by "forces of nature" -- and the force of a thousand angry men acting in sympathy (even if unknown to each other) is still more effective than any force exerted by the words of a thinker, just "observing." Revolutions are non-rational -- that fact is fundamental. A revolution is basically a riot writ large, with a riot's violence and looting. Its purpose, initially, is to break through all restraints imposed on frustrated desires and impulses (including HIGHER desires and impulses, i.e., SOCIAL needs) by a structure of ideas and a system of enforcing them through "authority" which has become intolerably oppressive -- i.e., more inimical than protective, evoking increasing outrage rather than our assent and willing participation. A revolt-become-revolution is an entirely sensible effort to break those bonds that persist only as chains and destroy the walls of what most people experience only as a prison. And since no societal structure exists purely in the abstract --without flesh-and-blood human beings whose WILLS make it real in practice-- a revolution demands personal hand-to-hand combat against all those among one's fellow men who are committed to
[CTRL] Roomservice in Asia.
-Caveat Lector- A Trip in the East Be warned, you are going to find yourself talking "funny" for a while after reading this. It was nominated the "best email of 1997". The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review. ROOM SERVICE: "Morny, Ruin sorbees" GUEST: "Sorry, I thought I dialed Room Service" ROOM SERVICE: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??" GUEST: "Uh..yes...I'd like some bacon and eggs" ROOM SERVICE: "How july den?" GUEST: "What?" ROOM SERVICE: "How july den?pry, boy, pooch?" GUEST: "Oh the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, Scrambled please." ROOM SERVICE: "Ow july dee bayhcem...crease?" GUEST: "Crisp will be fine." ROOM SERVICE: "Hokay. An san tos?" GUEST: "What?" ROOM SERVICE: "San tos. July san tos?" GUEST: "I don't think so" ROOM SERVICE: "Judo one toes??" GUEST: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means." ROOM SERVICE: "Toes! toes!..why djew don juan toes? Ow bow singlish moppin we bother?" GUEST: "English Muffin! I've got it! You are saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes , an english muffin will be fine." ROOM SERVICE: "We bother?" GUEST: "No..just put the bother on the side." ROOM SERVICE: "Wad?" GUEST: "I mean butter... just put it on the side." ROOM SERVICE: "Copy?" GUEST: "Sorry?" ROOM SERVICE: "Copy...tea...mill?" GUEST: "Yes, coffee please, and that's all." ROOM SERVICE: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease bayhcem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy... rye??" GUEST: "Whatever you say" ROOM SERVICE: "Tenjuberrymud" GUEST: "You are welcome" 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] Proud to be an Americam (?) Das Goat said...
-Caveat Lector- From Joshua2- 9/17/99 In a message dated 99-09-15 08:29:29 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your Congress likes it the way it is. The corporate elite like it the way it is. When are you all going to believe that those who have don't care at all about the have nots? They really don't. They would hope that not all of them die at one time, because the stench is annoying, but otherwise, they don't care about the poor, the hungry, the children or the infirm. They really, really don't. [Two days ago Das Goat said ... -J2] How true. But to give the devil his due, how on earth COULD anyone who is privileged, rich, and powerful have any concern --much less respect-- for those who are SO gullible and thick-witted, SO lazy, SO timid, SO lacking in the basic survival instincts that one finds even in the lowliest insect, that they are perfectly willing to ACCEPT not just years but centuries and even millennia of enslavement to the likes of THEM -- a quite readily identifiable CRIMINAL class, which owes all it has to its ability to lie, steal, cheat and kill without hesitation or remorse, with no camouflage greater than DISSIMULATION, simply PRETENDING that what they are doing is NOT that but indeed the OPPOSITE? Self-deluding FOOLS are unworthy of respect. WEAKLINGS incapable of self-defense are unworthy of respect. Proud, self-righteous HYPOCRITES are unworthy of respect. ASS-KISSERS and BUCK-PASSERS are unworthy of respect. This recital of negative human characteristics unworthy of anything but CONTEMPT could go almost endlessly, and these descriptions, my friends, can be accurately applied to OURSELVES -- for if it were NOT true, how can you explain the incredible phenomenon of our SUBJECTION to a class of moral monstrosities, these ugliest of human predators whom we, their prey, HONOR rather than DESPISE and reward with the POWER to rule us --power WE give them, abdicating OUR power-- snip - I don't know who this person (below) is or where she is from, but it's quite clear that people are dying all over the world because American Citizens don't have the brains or the balls to stop electing to the Corporate Capitalist Criminal Class the power to Loot, Shoot, and Pollute no matter what the consequences. --- Joshua2 This is what others think of Americans... ( J2 ) SHAME ON THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. FOR HAVING SO LITTLE CONTROL OVER THEIR GOVERNMENT THE DEGREE OF CONTEMPT THE POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC SERVANTS SHOW TO THE CITIZENS DISPLAYS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD JUST HOW LAZY, IGNORANT AND/OR GREEDY AND POWER HUNGRY THE CITIZENS OF THAT COUNTRY ARE. SHAME! DESSEREE ROBYN This is why... (J2) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 September 1999 09:32 Subject: Infofrom CIABASE files on the background to events in East Timor. Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist Below is some information from CIABASE files on the background to events in East Timor. Ralph McGehee http://come.to/CIABASE East Timor, Indonesia. in 1993 Philip Liechty, a former senior CIA ops officer based in Jakarta at the time of the invasion [of East Timor], told me: "Suharto was given green light [by] Kissinger to do what he did. there was discussion in the [U.S.] embassy and in traffic with state department about problems that would be created if public and congress became aware of the type of [American] military assistance that was going to Indonesia at that time. rifles, ammunition, mortars, grenades, helicopters you name it was going straight into Timor. it was covered under the justification that it was for "training purposes only" [but] without heavy us logistical support Indonesians might not have been able to pull it off". leaked minutes of a meeting between Kissinger and his senior staff in dc clearly show Kissinger recommending illegal export of American arms to Indonesian military for use in East Timor. the secret history of Suharto's bloody rise. john pilger. new statesman and society, 9/22/95 East Timor, 75-81 U.S. supplied Indonesian military with weapons used in counterinsurgency ops: rockwell ov-10s which are slow moving planes specifically designed for ci missions against an enemy lacking in anti-aircraft capability. used in vn for search and destroy ops and scorched earth missions. they can carry a heavy load of ordnance (3600 lbs) including bombs, rockets, napalm and machine guns, as well as infra-red detectors. described as one of the deadliest and most versatile light strike and ci craft in world; v-150 armored cars effective in ci ops where enemy has only small arms; bell uh-1 helicopter armed with 40 mm. grenade launchers and miniguns; and the beechcraft t-34 armed trainer aircraft that can carry 1800 lbs ordnance and be adapted for ci role. other equipment named. bulletin of concerned asian scholars v15, #2 1983 49.
Re: [CTRL] Outing Spies
-Caveat Lector- Das GOAT wrote: -Caveat Lector- The book also reveals extensive KGB operations including: --Attempts to implicate the CIA and wealthy right-wing Americans in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As part of these efforts, the book says the KGB in the 1970s forged a letter from Kennedy's accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, to E. Howard Hunt, the former CIA agent who was convicted in the Watergate break-in. Is anyone else noticing that, little by little, the carefully considered conclusions of Conspiracy Theory are being identified as a product of Communist disinformation? Yes. I have noticed it. How convenient. Does anyone doubt that Western Intelligence had first crack ( no pun intended ) at the old KGBs secrets? If so, couldn't they take advantage of leaking disinformation on any subject what so ever as KGB secrets? Of course they could. This is a golden opportunity for them to rewrite history, and clean up old messes. As our old friend says all the time... Caveat Lector Joshua2 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [Fwd: Indonesia-Timor double agent reveals reconciliation 'charade']
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Indonesia-Timor double agent reveals reconciliation 'charade' Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:22:59 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel) Organization: PACH To: undisclosed-recipients:; /** reg.easttimor: 3766.0 **/ ** Topic: Indon double agent reveals reconciliation 'charade' ** ** Written 7:13 PM Sep 15, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in cdp:reg.easttimor ** Subject: Indon double agent reveals reconciliation 'charade' SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST Thursday, September 16, 1999 EAST TIMOR Double agent reveals reconciliation 'charade' ANNEMARIE EVANS in Macau Rui Lopes could count former president Suharto's son-in-law, Prabowo Subianto, and General Gleny in Jakarta among his closest friends. They have been fighting and working together since the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Since 1985, Mr Lopes, 47, had also been working for Xanana Gusmao's resistance guerillas. Yesterday he revealed the extent of the Indonesian military's plans for the political cleansing of East Timor, and for the arrival of foreign peacekeepers. While "reconciliation" meetings were being organised throughout East Timor this spring between pro-Jakarta militia chiefs and bishops and pro-independence leaders, a massive military build-up was taking place over the border, the East Timorese agent said in Macau. At least 20 battalions - a total of 15,000 soldiers - were stationed in West Timor by June. Some were in Tamrasi and had a secret base in a mountain called Laser, which the Australian military had also used as a clandestine refuge during World War II. The Indonesian military brought in a sophisticated radar from Bandung, West Java, that could track ships in the South Sea. Marines and tanks were taken to the Indonesian island of Kisar, off the eastern tip of East Timor. These had now been driven up through Lospalos in East Timor, Mr Lopes said. "They prepared all this," he said, "because they knew the Australians would intervene." A strategic triangle was set up. There were bases at Balibo on the West Timor border; Kupang, the West Timor capital, would be used for the refugees coming in after the cleansing; and military training was carried out in Atambua, just inside West Timor. Troops would go to the border at night to spy, dressed as civilians. Mr Lopes was president of a pro-autonomy campaign based in Suai, East Timor. He was trusted enough to attend an annual meeting in Austria organised by the United Nations to bring about reconciliation between the two sides. Mr Lopes arrived in Macau on Saturday after fleeing Jakarta. ** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor ** *** This material came from the Institute for Global Communications (IGC), a non-profit, unionized, politically progressive Internet services provider. For more information, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you will get back an automatic reply), or visit their web site at http://www.igc.org/ . IGC is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. *** 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] SWAT Nation [rant]
-Caveat Lector- Whew! In general I agree...but some comments. l. Too late for rational solution, yes. What I am concerned about is a bunch of irrational hotheads fomented by "agents provocateurs" kicking off a self defeating fight against the State. Let events unfold naturally. 2. the situation is now the individual vs the State. and is being carried by events We are essentially observers.to the tide of future history. 3. However some recent revolutions have been very much a small group sparking the masses. Many years ago I was digging around in the Hoover Institution Tower and found a bundle of papers relating to the Sun Yat Sen revolution in China (1912) All the ingredients for a fomented revolution: names of Wall Street bankers, agreements for concessions, Chinese request for funds, even lists of arms shipped, expenditures neatly itemized,above all the names of people involved Chinese and American These were not intellectuals they were entrepreneurs who wanted mineral and railroad concessions. the papers show a business arrangement rather than anything else. . Second the Bolshevik Revolution was a small group Lenin, Trostsky with maybe 10,000 followersand with outside funds.. Same with Hitler, outside help. In fact Putzi Haenfstengl, Roosevelt's college friend, was right at the core of the Nazi movement. 4. There has to be a mass movement for revolution but up to now it has been influenced rather than controled by "leaders" and by outside influences, usually funding. Today I suggest the mass participatory Internet has become a leader along with a more (semi-) "educated" audience. This still leaves intellectual leaders essentially sitting on the sidelines as hypnotized observers.. This revolution in some ways is more like the 1933 Nazi revolution ( and I wonder about Waco and similarity to the Reichstag fire)... A docile general population, outside funding ( cocaine billions), jackbooted thugs. On the other side the Internet and a somewhat more alert educated citizenry. What are the techies in Silicon Valley going to do? These are quite different people to the 1933 German burgers. It may not pan out the same way.as it has before One hacker may be more significant than an M ll tank. This is more of a "mind revolution" than physical revolution. ASU 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] Ellis McKenzie--Barry Seal
Forwarded from CIA-Drugs post from Daniel Hopsicker Re: Chip Tatum From: Daniel Hopsicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] beneath the flickering glow of a torch light last night on a gulf coast beach i met a man who's a good friend of chip tatum. tatum is alive and well, i learned, living within a stone's throw of jimmy buffett and hand-stitching pirate's flags in his spare time in anticipation of the opening of "jolly roger-land," .florida's newest attraction. incidentally, i have never received one piece of bad information from tatum, and a story he wrote on ellis mckenzie over TWO years ago just recently began making sense to me, after i received a box of court documents authenticating every damn thing tatum wrote in the post appended... WHO THE HELL IS ELLIS MCKENZIE? They traveled fast and furious on horseback through the high plains wilderness, trying to lose those who were tracking them. From the top of the bluff, hiding behind a group of boulders, they stared in amazement as the dust from the hooves of their pursuers horses told the story. They were hot on Butch and Sundance's trail. "Who are those guys?!" one of them exclaimed, more than questioned. But it really didn't matter who these pursuers were. The undeniable fact was simple: they were. You may call them what you want. You may name them what you will. It doesn't really matter because it's only a name. As a spy, a covert operative, a talent, an asset or a deep cover operative, your name is your cover. This alias is the thin layer of Kevlar that protects you from the enemy. In my career I have used over twenty aliases in order to conceal my true identity. This applies, not only in the world of espionage, but also in the dark world of crime. One of the most renowned drug pilots of the 1980's was a man named Barry Seal. Even Barry used an alias when he dealt with his friends in South America. But, unfortunately for Seal, a/k/a Ellis McKenzie, the thin Kevlar cover of an alias was not enough to prevent his assassination in 1986. Barry Seal, a/k/a Ellis McKenzie, was shot to death outside of a federal half-way house in Baton Rouge. It was not until 1988 that I would hear his name again. The tasking came in to go to La Ceiba, Honduras, and debrief a drug informant. As I looked at the tasking, my heart jumped. The name of the informant I was to debrief was Ellis McKenzie. Could it be that Barry Seal was still alive? Looking at the remainder of the mission dossier, I realized that this man, Ellis McKenzie, was not Barry Seal. McKenzie was, however, a member of the Seal smuggling organization. Seal had commissioned McKenzie to assemble a small fleet of boats, capable of smuggling drugs to various destinations. It was this man that provided Barry Seal with an alias. The dossier explained McKenzie's relationship with U.S. Customs, among other governmental agencies. To avoid prosecution after Seal was compromised by the DEA, several members of the Seal organization aligned themselves with various law enforcement agencies. McKenzie was recruited into the informant side of the drug smuggling operation by Seal's ex-brother-in-law, William Bottoms. This Bottoms/McKenzie alliance provided a useful tool for continued drug smuggling. Bottoms and McKenzie assured their contacts in Colombia that shipments would remain safe, while assuring their various U.S. law enforcement contacts that they (Bottoms/McKenzie) had and would provide information that would devastate the drug smuggling trade. McKenzie and Bottoms continued smuggling cocaine and heroin into the United States under the protection of U.S. Customs agents. In return, the traffickers would sacrifice shipments and competing drug smugglers in order to appease their government contacts. It was with this data, fresh on hand, that I, as Gene Duncan, a US Army Intel Officer attached to the Defense Intelligence Agency, met with Ellis McKenzie to receive his information. McKenzie explained that the information he had concerned shipments from Colombia to Mexico. That is why he was referred to U.S. Intelligence instead of his normal contacts in U.S. Customs or the DEA. McKenzie got right to the point. He explained that members of the Honduran Air Force were "in bed" with cartel leaders. Drug shipments were being flown from Colombia, over-flying Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, or El Salvador and into Mexico. He stated that Colonel Castro Cabus, the Commander of the Honduran Air Froces in La Ceiba, and Captain Santiago Perdomo, the Director of Civil Aeronautics in Tegucigalpa, were on the cartel's payroll. McKenzie claimed that Cabus and Perdomo controlled the air space over Honduras and allowed drug over-flights rather than putting fighters in the air when these over-flights were reported by radar operators. I thanked Mr. McKenzie for his information and departed. I
[CTRL] (Fwd) New World Order Crisis Factory Retools, Stirs Up Troubl
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:17:10 -0700 To: TiM GW Bulletins [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bob Djurdjevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:"New World Order Crisis Factory Retools, Stirs Up Trouble in Russia, Asia" - TiM GW Bulletin 99/9-4 (Sept. 17, 1999) FROM MOSCOW, RUSSIA Violence Flares Up in Russia, Indonesia NEW WORLD ORDER CRISIS FACTORY RETOOLS, STIRS UP TROUBLE IN RUSSIA, ASIA MOSCOW, Sept. 17 - Greetings from Moscow! Wish it were a postcard. Instead, it could be an e-mail echo of a bomb exploding somewhere in the Russian capital, as the New World Order's Islamic proxies from the Caucasus unleash a reign of terror against the innocent Russian civilians. And whoever else happens to be in the apartment building when the bomb goes off, of course. On our way today from the Sheremetyevo airport into the center of the city, several Moscow police vehicles could be seen pulling suspects over and searching the trunks of their cars. Which brought back memories of Paris and London in the 1970s, when the Arab and the IRA terrorists used to blow up trains and buildings. And of Germany and Italy at about the same time, when the "Red Brigades" and other "red" factions killed innocent people for a lost cause. But the color of terror is green these days. The Islamic green. Both in Russia and in Indonesia, as it is now in Kosovo during NATO's "peace farce." Different countries, different bombs and bullets; similar hatreds stirred up by the NWO Crisis Factory. One constant the world-over is the color of innocent blood. Which is flowing in increased volume as the deadliest century in human history draws to a close. Meanwhile, Indonesian protesters launched a wave of sometimes rowdy demonstrations on Sept. 16 as news broke that a multi-national peacekeeping force of about 8,000 troops would soon be landing in East Timor. Australians will lead this NWO expedition. volunteering about 4,500 candidates for body bags in the cause of global imperialism. Bill Clinton announced that about 200 US troops would be ready to move in 48 hours to support the international peacekeeping mission in East Timor. Although no aircraft will fly into East Timor, and the role of ground troops will be limited, US forces will help provide "communications and logistical aid, intelligence, airlifts of personnel and material and coordination of the humanitarian response to the tragedy," Clinton said, according to the Associated Press. The American troops will be drawn from regional military installations, including Japan, Hawaii, and Guam. Half will be stationed in Darwin, Australia, and half will be placed in East Timor. Nations already committed to sending troops include Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Portugal. Reaction in Indonesia to the news of the U.N. intervention was swift and negative. Crowds gathered outside the Australian and British embassies in Jakarta, but were held in check by police. "There is a genuine feeling among elements of Indonesian society that the country is being treated unfairly by the outside world," the London Telegraph reported on Sept. 16. There is particular resentment at the moralizing human rights lectures being delivered by Portugal, the former colonizer of East Timor, which abandoned the place abruptly in 1974 having ruthlessly exploited its population for four centuries, the Telegraph notes. There is also anger at the similarly lofty tone adopted by Australia, which approved the Indonesian army's invasion of the territory in 1975 and recognized its annexation as a province. The East Timorese question appears to occupy the same place in Indonesia as Northern Ireland does in Britain, or Kosovo does in Serbia - a hope beyond hope that the problem would somehow go away. Analysts say this is what drove President B. J. Habibie to make his startling offer, first of autonomy, then of independence to the 800,000 inhabitants. An observer said: "The idea was to get rid of it once and for all." But that attitude failed to take account of the peculiar place that the scrap of land, inconsequential in the context of the vast 13,677 island archipelago, holds, especially for the military. Relations between Australia and Indonesia hit a new low as Jakarta cancelled on Sept. 16 a four-year-old security agreement between the two countries over the East Timor crisis. The decision coincided with a wave of anti-Australian sentiment which was sweeping through Indonesia as the Australian-led peacekeeping force prepared to enter the province to restore peace. Intimidating telephone calls, including bomb threats, have been received by the Australian embassy in Jakarta, the consulate in Bali and a number of businesses, some of whom have begun withdrawing staff from Indonesia as a precaution. Diplomatic ties between Australia and Indonesia were dealt a further blow
[CTRL] State, UW apologize for radiation tests---testicles were bombarded with rad.
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOEWatch] State, UW apologize for radiation tests---testicles were bombarded with rad. Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:50:04 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: A HREF="http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/1999/0914.html#anchor596920"http://w ww.tri-cityherald.com/news/1999/0914.html#anchor596920/A === State, UW apologize for radiation tests By The Associated Press and the Herald staff The state and the University of Washington have apologized for any harm that may have been done to Walla Walla prison inmates whose testicles were bombarded with radiation in a Cold War experiment. The apology is part of a settlement of a $5 million class-action lawsuit filed in 1996. Details of the settlement are confidential until it is approved by U.S. District Judge Robert Whaley later this month, lawyers for both sides said in a joint statement to a Spokane newspaper. The experiments were conducted in the 1960s on 63 Washington State Penitentiary inmates by Dr. C. Alvin Paulsen of UW. Paulsen did the research under an Atomic Energy Commission contract to study radiation's effects on fertility. Hanford was one factor in prompting the experiments. A 1962 Hanford radiation flash led to testicular problems in three workers. That highlighted that little knowledge existed then on radiation's effects on sperm generation. The state Department of Corrections allowed Paulsen to use prisoners for the experiments until March 1970, when the tests were ordered stopped by the head of the department's research division. "The plaintiffs allege that the research involved improper human radiation experimentation," the statement says. "The University of Washington and the Department of Corrections deny all liability but nevertheless regret that the research may have caused the alleged harm and concerns that the prisoners have expressed in their lawsuit." The settlement will include cash payments to a number of prisoners or their estates, depending on how many make valid claims, said lawyer Bradley Keller of Seattle, who worked on the plaintiffs' case. Several prisoners, including lead plaintiff Robert White of Spokane, said they developed severe health problems from the experiments, including infertility. The experiments, which included a similar program at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, were condemned in 1995 by a Clinton administration review panel. Of the 63 original participants, some 23 had died by the time the defendants were ordered in 1997 to release a list of men who were subjects of the experiments. Whaley earlier dismissed two Hanford contractors - General Electric Co. and Battelle - plus the federal government, which paid for and administered the experiments, from the lawsuit. General Electric used to be Hanford's lead contractor. And Battelle took over operating Pacific Northwest Laboratory in 1965 from General Electric - inheriting a technical support role in those experiments. Hanford documents from that time indicated Battelle was uncomfortable with the experiments. === --- ONElist Sponsor ONElist now has T-SHIRTS! For details and to order, go to: a href=" http://clickme.onelist.com/ad/tshirt1 "Click Here/a DOEWatch List A Magnum-Opus Project --- The real Natl. Sec. Directive Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/doewatch -based near the cryptic named X-10 [god and ten commandments] and Y-12 [yahweh and disciples] nuke weapons plants of the nuclear tabernacle of Oak Ridge. "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one... I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds." -Oppenheimer July 16, 45 at Trinity from 5,000 year old Bhagavad-Gita "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. Anyway we think we have found the way to cause the disintegration of the atom." -Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 45 after Pottsdam and the "baby was born" and grew into "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" and the hydrogen bomb delivered by bomber named "Dave's Dream." Enola Gay's pilot, after Hiroshima, enters "My God' in the log. "The Doctor of the future will give No Medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." -Attributed to Thomas Alva Edison "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell || In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or
[CTRL] Reforms Reach Nigeria's Gas Pumps
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: "Rev. Khandi Konte-Paasewe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Reforms Reach Nigeria's Gas Pumps Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:49:23 -0500 (CDT) The Black List - http://www.theMarcusGarveyBBS.com September 9, 1999 Reforms Reach Nigeria's Gas Pumps By NORIMITSU ONISHI LAGOS, Nigeria -- The humble gas station, once the defining image of Nigeria's seemingly willful collapse, has undergone a striking transformation since the military rulers handed over power to civilians three months ago. Gone are the mile-long lines that choked roads, made fistfights part of the Nigerian streetscape and turned gas stations into high-security zones swarming with soldiers, police officers, thugs and the long-suffering ordinary Nigerians, citizens of the world's sixth-largest producer of oil. Now most gas stations operate the way an Agip station on Iju Road here does: motorists pull up to a pump and drive away a minute later. "There is fundamental change in things," said Abiodun Akinloye, 34, an attendant at the station for six years. "Before, the tension was too high. People were begging to buy fuel and sometimes had to wait for days. Now you buy fuel at the actual price and at your own convenience. Everything has become fine. Everybody is feeling fine." Three months after Africa's most populous nation inaugurated its first civilian Government in 16 years, gas stations offer perhaps the clearest promise of what could become one of the most remarkable political transformations on the continent. Only 15 months ago, Nigeria was in the grip of a rapacious military regime that had turned the country into an international pariah and manipulated oil supplies so that Nigerians often had to pay several times what Americans do for a gallon of gasoline. Today, after a year of traumatic events that pushed this fragile nation to the brink of civil war, Nigeria is intact, but its President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has quickly pushed reforms that are altering its face. Nigerians, an industrious people paralyzed until last year by the brutally repressive military under Gen. Sani Abacha, are now even talking of freedom. "It is like Joseph getting out of the pit to get to the palace in Egypt," said Baba Adi, a lawyer and prominent member of the governing People's Democratic Party. Even the Government's fiercest critics, who argue that it has yet to make lasting changes, acknowledge that there is greater individual freedom. "Even if it's temporary," said Beko Ransome-Kuti, a well-known human rights campaigner who spent three years in jail under General Abacha, "it's a nice holiday." While it may be too soon to talk of democracy, the end of the military state has visibly affected daily lives here. President Obasanjo forbade politicians to drive in convoys with sirens blaring, once a common practice. Several streets in Lagos were renamed for slain prodemocracy activists. The notorious security forces that patrolled cities with unchallenged authority -- known here as Operation Sweep -- have grown tamer. In Lagos, the forces now go by the less sinister title of Rapid Response Squad. On Iju Road, once frequently impassable because of motorists waiting at its many gas stations, the soldiers and policemen once posted at checkpoints every two miles have disappeared. Now, no one shakes down Isaac Bodunrin, 45, and his fellow cab drivers for the equivalent of 20 cents every two miles. "If we can continue like this, there will be progress in this country," said Bodunrin, who often used to end the day with nothing but now makes about $10. "If we can drive free, I can do my job." President Obasanjo has already made changes in many of Nigeria's vital sectors. He established a panel to investigate human rights violations since the mid-1980's and another to look into Government contracts awarded since 1976. He has sent an anticorruption bill to the National Assembly, though many say the proposal goes too far in potentially invading people's privacy. On the burning issue of the Niger Delta, the source of Nigeria's oil wealth but still profoundly poor, President Obasanjo proposed legislation toward its development. In addition, in a highly symbolic act, he permitted the family of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer who was hanged in 1995 for criticizing the Government's oil policies, to claim his body. In the oil industry, the source of almost all of Nigeria's hard currency, he has cut out shadowy middlemen from sales of crude oil and rescinded prospecting contracts awarded to cronies of the military regime. The President, a retired general who was Nigeria's military ruler from 1976 to 1979, shook up the military by forcing about 100 top officers to retire. Most were northerners who dominated the military and ruled the country for all but 10 years since independence from Britain in 1960, and their successors were chosen from diverse regions. His Government also announced plans to
[CTRL] Toxic Mercury Rains on U.S. Midwest
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOEWatch] Toxic Mercury Rains on U.S. Midwest Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:17:36 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: A HREF="http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-14-06.html"http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-14-06.html/A == Environment ENS -- Environment News Service Toxic Mercury Rains on U.S. Midwest CHICAGO, Illinois, September 14, 1999 (ENS) - A new report reveals that the rain and snow falling on cities in the American Midwest contains levels of mercury that far exceed what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers safe. The National Wildlife Federation and 21 state and local partner organizations are launching a Clean the Rain Campaign today to help reduce the health risks from toxic mercury. The report by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) compares mercury contamination levels in rain to EPA safe levels for human health in 20 Midwestern cities and towns. Among the report's findings are mercury levels in rain over Chicago, Illinois that are as high as 42 times EPA safe levels; Detroit, Michigan rain with 65 times safe levels; and rain along the Illinois/Wisconsin border as high as 56 times safe levels. Though emissions from factories and power plants have been cut significantly since this photo of Indiana Harbor was taken around 1960, emissions are still a major source of mercury pollution. "We usually think of rain as pure and clean, and that's the way it should be," said Mark Van Putten, president CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. "But this report reveals that rain falling over Midwestern cities such as Detroit, Chicago and Duluth contains as much as 65 times the EPA safe' level of mercury, which holds out extremely serious health implications for both humans and wildlife." Mercury is a potent toxin. When ingested in even tiny amounts can cause devastating effects on the human nervous system, especially for children and the unborn. Associated illnesses include brain, lung and kidney damage and even death in humans. In wildlife, mercury is a reproductive hazard that can cause harmful effects on species such as frogs, rainbow trout, zebra fish, mallard and American black ducks, loons and terns. "With so much at stake for both people and wildlife, decisive action is needed right now to limit mercury emissions, because once mercury pollution goes up into the atmosphere, rain carries it right back down into the very water humans and wildlife depend on," said Peter Morman, of the Environmental Law and Policy Center. The report is based on scattered monitoring of rain from various Midwestern sources. In Chicago, the University of Michigan Air Quality Laboratory collected 65 samples of rainwater from the Illinois Institute of Technology campus and measured mercury levels ranging from 5.4 parts per trillion to 74.5 parts per trillion. Average mercury levels were 12 times higher than EPAs standard, and even the lowest level measured was more than four times higher than EPA safe levels. "Nationally, more than a third of mercury emissions come from coal fired power plants, with the remainder coming from municipal waste incinerators and medical waste incinerators," said Morman. "In the Great Lakes region, coal combustion causes over half the mercury emissions." Coal contains trace amounts of mercury that are released into the air as it is burned for energy. Rain droplets can form around tiny particles of smog and soot, including mercury contaminants, and carry them back to the earth. The technology to measure the traces of mercury captured by raindrops has only existed since the mid-1990s. There are currently no limits on how much mercury coal burning power plants can emit, but the EPA is studying mercury pollution from the plants with an eye to setting limits. When medical devices such as thermometers and blood pressure cuffs or household items like fluorescent lights, lamps and thermostats are discarded and burned, the residual mercury is emitted into the atmosphere. "A drop of mercury as small as 1/70th of a teaspoon can contaminate a 25 acre lake to the point that the fish in it are unsafe to eat," said Beverly McClellan of the Lake Michigan Federation. "When you consider a typical 100 megawatt power plant emits about 25 pounds of mercury a year, the potential for tremendous ecological and human health problems becomes alarmingly clear." The Clean the Rain Campaign calls on major industry to drastically reduce emissions and asks citizens to help cut mercury pollution by conserving energy, not purchasing consumer products that contain mercury, or if they do purchase them, disposing of them properly at EPA approved recycling centers. The Campaign also calls on federal and state governments to more closely monitor mercury levels in rainfall. In several key locations, the National Wildlife Federation
[CTRL] [Fwd: Encryption: EU Report: U.S. Uses Key Escrow To Steal Secrets]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Encryption: EU Report: U.S. Uses Key Escrow To Steal Secrets Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:19:28 -0500 (CDT) From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; Technology News http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990518S0004 Report: U.S. Uses Key Escrow To Steal Secrets (05/18/99, 9:27 a.m. ET) By Madeleine Acey, TechWeb European plans for controlling encryption software are nothing to do with law enforcement and everything to do with U.S. industrial espionage, according to a report released by the European Parliament on Friday. The working document for the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment panel said the United States has tried to persuade European Union countries to adopt its key escrow or key recovery policies -- allowing backdoor access to encryption programs -- saying this was necessary to read messages exchanged by criminals. But the report details how the UKUSA alliance -- made up of the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- has used its secret Echelon global spying network to intercept confidential company communications and give them to favored competitors. Thomson S.A., located in Paris, and Airbus Industrie, based in Blagnac Cedex, France, are said to have lost contracts as a result of information passed to rivals. "The U.S. government misled states in the EU and [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] about the true intention of its policy," the report adds. "Between 1993 and 1997 police representatives were not involved in the NSA [National Security Agency]-led policy-making process for key recovery. Despite this, during the same period the U.S. government repeatedly presented its policy as being motivated by the stated needs of law-enforcement agencies." The document went on to detail how the agencies specifically studied Internet data. Apart from scanning all international communications lines -- using 120 satellites, microwave listening stations, and an adapted submarine -- it said they stored and analyzed Usenet discussions. "In the U.K., the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency maintains a 1-terabyte database containing the previous 90 days of Usenet messages." The "NSA employs computer 'bots' (robots) to collect data of interest," the report adds. "For example, a New York website known as JYA.COM offers extensive information on cryptography and government communications interception activities. Records of access to the site show that every morning it is visited by a bot from NSA's National Computer Security Center, which looks for new files and makes copies of any that it finds." According to a former employee, NSA had by 1995 installed "sniffer" software to collect traffic at nine major Internet exchange points. The report offered evidence that a leading U.S. Internet and telecommunications company had contracted with the NSA to develop software to capture Internet data of interest, and that deals had been struck with Microsoft, Lotus, and Netscape to alter their products for foreign use. "There can't be any doubt any longer that there's an economic imperative to these policies," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International. "We have been lied to for years. But it will be up to companies like Airbus to take legal action to force a definition of national security in the context of the European Union. Then we can establish a legal framework and appeals process." Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported on Monday that the U.K. government had agreed to take key escrow "off the agenda" and had accepted industry proposals for a "largely voluntary program of co-operation with the security services". Government officials could not confirm the report. But Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, questioned how far any compromise would go. "Will they persist with statutory licensing [of trusted third parties] and criminal legislation on decryption warrants?" he asked. Andrew Dornan of Data Communications International contributed to this report. *** 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. *** 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
[CTRL] Horror in Moscow Makes Worst Fears True
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel) To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: RUSSIA: Horror in Moscow Makes Worst Fears True Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:56:14 -0500 (CDT) /** ips.english: 443.0 **/ ** Topic: POLITICS-RUSSIA: Horror in Moscow Makes Worst Fears True ** ** Written 9:08 PM Sep 13, 1999 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.english ** Copyright 1999 InterPress Service, all rights reserved. Worldwide distribution via the APC networks. *** 13-Sep-99 *** Title: POLITICS-RUSSIA: Horror in Moscow Makes Worst Fears True By Sergei Blagov MOSCOW, Sep 13 (IPS) - The horror pictures of destroyed apartment buildings in Moscow made gloom mongers' most pessimistic scenarios suddenly look increasingly realistic Monday, in the wake of an indiscriminate terrorist campaign. Now the horrors can be found not only on Russia's southern fringe, where bandits and militants from neighbouring breakaway Chechnya are a constant threat, but also in the Russian capital. Together with the images of a destroyed residential block in southern Moscow - where 140 people lived and at least 50 were killed by a powerful explosion -, Russian television announced the city's morgues' phone numbers. Nikolai Kovalyov, chief of Moscow's police department said the attack was carried out by the same group that had destroyed another apartment building on 9 september, killing 94 people. Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin urgently returned from the Asia-Pacific Economic summit in New Zealand. He announced a tough response, but rejected the imposition of the state of emergency. The second deadly blast in five days fuelled rumours that president Boris Yeltsin was going to decree the state of emergency, which would automatically suspend parliamentary elections due in December. Yeltsin introduced tough security measures, but promised that ''all actions will be in accordance with the Constitution,'' apparently clearing up doubts about the issue. The President chaired Monday an emergency meeting with Interior minister Vladimir Rushailo, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Nikolai Patrushev. Yeltsin ordered Luzhkov - one of his main political foes - to have all of Moscow's estimated 30,000 apartment blocks checked by police to prevent further bombings. The Mayor had already linked both blasts to Chechen terrorists, and promised tough action against their supporters in Moscow. Yeltsin also ordered to tighten security measures at nuclear power stations, oil depots and other sensitive sites across Russia. ''We have to join efforts when facing a common enemy,'' Yeltsin said in televised remarks, apparently sending a conciliatory message to his political opponents. However, the message apparently fell on deaf ears. For instance, the leaders of the Federation Council and the State Duma - upper and lower chambers of Russian parliament - made it clear Monday that even in the aftermath of the bombings in Moscow they would not back a decree on emergency rule. Members of the Russian parliament argue that a law on the state of emergency is yet to be approved, and under the circumstances the emergency rule by decree could throw Russia into lawlessness. The state of emergency requires a strong national leader, and none is available at the moment, argued Guennady Zyuganov, chairman of Russian Communist party. Russian former prime minister and presidential hopeful Yevgeny Primakov has also opposed emergency rule in Russia, because it could be used not to combat terrorism but ''to achieve political goals.'' ''We have been pressed into a terrorist war, and we have turned out to be unprepared to this war,'' he said. Only Vladimir Ryzhkov, leader of a pro-Kremlin ''Our Home Russia'' faction in Parliament has said he would probably support emergency rule. A ''de-facto state of emergency has been introduced in combat zones of Dagestan,'' he argued. Russian officials speculated that the latest bombing was in fact the militant's retaliation for the seizure of rebel strongholds in Dagestan by the Russian army. On 12 September Russian troops dislodged the rebels from the villages of Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi, the main stronghold of Islamic fundamentalism in Dagestan, where local leaders announced in September 1998 that they would no longer recognize Russian authorities and pledged to live by the Islamic Sharia law. The two villages had come under intense bombing and shelling over the past three weeks. In a bid to support Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi enclave, hundreds of Chechen rebels crossed last week over into Novo Lak, another Dagestani district, vowing to set up an independent Islamic state. A rebel leader, a Jordanian militant known as Khattab, reportedly threatened Moscow to unleash a terrorist campaign in all Russian cities. Furthermore, the blasts seem to have revived the Kremlin's international support, which had been
[CTRL] A Plan To Reform Earth Day
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel) To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: A Plan To Reform Earth Day Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:22:44 -0500 (CDT) /** headlines: 399.0 **/ ** Topic: A Plan To Reform Earth Day ** ** Written 11:12 PM Sep 13, 1999 by econet in cdp:headlines ** /* Written 5:48 AM Sep 13, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in ef.general */ /* -- "Usual Suspects#17- Earth Day, A Reform Plan" -- */ THE USUAL SUSPECTS LIST - writings for activists by Jim Britell To unsubscribe from this list, simply "Reply" to this message with the word "Unsubscribe" anyplace. Some email programs and servers truncate long posts. This post is long, and ends with the word END. SUMMARY: Because of the near total corporate control over Earth Day, it has deteriorated into the kind of corporate greenwashing that gives a polluting pulpmill a plaque for printing their annual report on recycled paper. But, instead of being the one day of the year polluters can depend on to be "criticism-free", it could be an occasion for community groups and students to do practical, hands-on projects that give people the tools, resources and motivation to solve the most important environmental problems facing their communities - instead of just gumming them. A PLAN TO REFORM EARTH DAY by Jim Britell, 9/11/99 For many years Kalmiopsis Audubon has observed Earth Day by totally ignoring it. Many grassroots, environmental-activist groups do nothing to observe this event and the area of Southern Oregon and Northern California has become known as an "Earth Day Free Zone." The Southwest Environmental Center in Arizona boycotted Tucson's 1999 Earth Day celebration after being told that participants were not permitted to criticize the event's sponsors: Raytheon Missile Systems, Waste Management, and HBP Copper. Earth First! actually crashed the downtown parade with a banner proclaiming: "Raytheon Presents: Kill The Earth Day." The reason many activists avoid Earth Day is that in most cities in the United States, corporations have gained control of local Earth Day planning committees through contributions of time and money. They use their influence to make sure local groups don't do anything to embarrass local polluters or corporate "bad guys". The entire event has become safely diffused, suitably vague, uncontroversial and solidly focused on promoting green consumerism. Earth Day is the one day of the year corporate polluters know they will be practically "criticism-free." Earth Day has become an embodiment of the mindset which watches a local watershed clear-cut and destroyed, devotes volunteer weekends to replanting trees donated by the clear-cutter, then gives everybody awards for "working together". Or has groups of school children taking water samples in a damaged stream channel to collect "monitoring data," while another clear-cut begins on the ridge above them. Or gives an award to a local polluting pulpmill for printing its annual report on recycled paper. A "real" Earth Day would give people the tools, resources, and motivation to stop clear-cuts and clean up pulpmills in the first place. Through a clever exploitation of "what YOU can do," Earth Day displaces citizens' concerns about pollution, environmental degradation, and over-development into a focus on personal behavior and personal consumption patterns. Of course all of us have to improve our personal habits, and recycle more, promote solar energy, use bicycles, and "work together." But "all of us" are not responsible for the clear-cutting of Oregon's forests, the pollution run-off from industrial pig and chicken farms in Virginia, and the pervasive non-enforcement of our environmental laws everywhere. "A few of us" are responsible for really horrific environmental problems and Earth Day could and should be the one day where "bad actors" are called out and named and shamed into cleaning up their acts; instead of the day they get environmental awards. "Acceptable" environmental education, financed by corporations and implemented by local governments and schools (of which Earth Day is merely the most prominent example) is now dedicated almost entirely to insuring the widespread and growing concerns about the environment, pollution, over-development, and sprawl are channeled into harmless activities and dissipated. Corporate sponsors' goals for Earth Day and all environmental education are simple: an individual company's behavior must never be singled out for scrutiny and environmental concern must never be expressed as environmental activism. If they can accomplish this, they are willing to furnish unlimited seedlings, paper bags with green writing, and funds to print brochures on how to recycle product containers that shouldn't have been produced or purchased in the first place. Of course grassroots activists should never discourage activities just because they are non-controversial. It is necessary to find
[CTRL] Anti-Gun Corporations/Corporate Heads
The following listing includes the most prominent national corporations that have lent their corporate support to gun control initiatives or taken position supporting gun control. http://www.concealcarry.org/antiguncorps.htm Folks, You should try not to patronize these traitors to the 2nd Amendment. Note to Non-Browser users. Will furnish text if requested; is too long to include herein. Bard Are you... beginning to think violent rebellion might be the ultimate, dreaded answer? Stop! Wait! There are a lot more things you can do! --from Don't Shoot the Bastards [Bitches] (Yet) by Claire Wolfe http://www.curleywolfe.net/cw/Lodge.html Crooked politicians, illegal aliens, a country in moral decay . . . all of that and more made Steve Vaus mad. So mad that he decided to write a song. The song has become a rallying cry for "patriots" from coast to coast. It is probably the most popular recording on talk radio. Listen and you'll understand why. The music video which was prominently featured on The Nashville Network and Country Music Television is available at Steve Vaus' web site. http://www.stevevaus.com/ A & M Records.url
[CTRL] New Discovery
-Caveat Lector- This is exciting. Rational thinkers everywhere are learning that anarchy is NOT synonymous with chaos. More below: ... http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/sp001639.html Anarchism as defined by Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia Anarchism is an ideology that regards abolition of government as the necessary precondition for a free and just society. The term itself comes from the Greek words meaning "without a ruler." Anarchism rejects all forms of hierarchical authority, social and economic as well as political. What distinguishes it from other ideologies, however, is the central importance it attaches to the state. To anarchists, the state is a wholly artificial and illegitimate institution, the bastion of privilege and exploitation in the modern world. Anarchist Thought Although the roots of anarchist thought can be traced at least as far back as the 18th-century English writer William GODWIN, anarchism as a revolutionary movement arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its immediate objective was annihilation of the state and of all authority imposed "from above downward." Once liberated from political oppression, society would spontaneously rebuild itself "from below upward." A multitude of grass-roots organizations would spring up to produce and distribute economic goods and to satisfy other social needs. Where necessary, these primary associations would form regional and even nation-wide federations. The state, with its impersonal laws and coercive bureaucracies, would be supplanted by a dense web of self-governing associations and free federations. Like other radical ideologies of its time, anarchism intended to complete the "unfinished business" of the French Revolution. It placed special emphasis on the third of the values expressed in the rallying cry "liberty, equality, and fraternity." Anarchists had an enduring faith in the natural solidarity and social harmony of human beings. They believed that the creation of the future society should be entrusted to the free play of popular instincts, and any attempt by anarchists themselves to offer more than technical assistance would impose a new form of authority. They tended to concentrate, therefore, on the task of demolishing the existing state order rather than on social blueprints of the future. While battling the established order, anarchists also battled the alternatives proposed by liberalism and socialism. Like Marxism, anarchism was anticapitalist and scorned liberalism's dedication to political liberty on the grounds that only the propertied classes could afford to enjoy it. They rejected with equal vehemence, however, the Marxist "dictatorship of the proletariat," the idea of capturing and using the capitalist state to achieve a classless society. Political institutions were seen as inherently corrupting, and even the most selfless revolutionaries would inevitably succumb to the joys of power and privilege. Instead of the state "withering away," as the Marxists anticipated, it would simply perpetuate a new bureaucratic elite. This disagreement led to a bitter conflict between Marx and the Russian anarchist Michael BAKUNIN in the early 1870s, after which Marxism and anarchism went their separate ways. Anarchism in Practice Anarchism attracted a following mainly in the countries of eastern and southern Europe, where the state's repressiveness was especially pronounced and communal traditions remained strong. There were some exceptions: the ideas of the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph PROUDHON left a permanent mark on the French industrial labor movement, and Bakunin's views found adherents among the watchmakers of Switzerland's Jura region. Anarchism had its greatest impact in Russia, where numerous anarchist groups participated in the revolutionary movement both before and during 1917. The two outstanding anarchist theorists also were Russians: Bakunin, whose advocacy of popular revolution had considerable influence, and Prince Peter KROPOTKIN, whose writing spelled out some of the constructive sides of the anarchist social vision. Spain and Italy also had vigorous anarchist movements. In only two instances did anarchists have a real opportunity to put their social ideals into practice. During the Russian civil war of 1917-21, (see RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917), the peasant partisan movement led by Nestor Makhno in the Ukraine tried to implement anarchist principles, and in the SPANISH CIVIL WAR of 1936-39 anarchism was a significant force in the regions of Catalonia and Andalusia. The results of these experiments were limited and inconclusive. In the United States, anarchism's influence was confined largely to some of the European immigrant communities, but it did produce a striking representative of American radicalism in the person of Emma GOLDMAN. Because anarchism regarded doctrinal and organizational discipline as contradictions of its principles, it
[CTRL] Advocacy Group Puts Toxic Disaster Information on Internet
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: Mark Graffis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Advocacy Group Puts Toxic Disaster Information on Internet Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 23:48:28 -0500 (CDT) EarthVision Reports 09/14/99 WASHINGTON, September 14, 1999 - A coalition of environmental advocates has decided not to wait for the government to publish information on toxic materials stored throughout the United States. Instead, the groups have taken the initiative to put it on the Internet themselves. The New York Times reported that the public disclosure of information on the risks of chemical accidents, outflanks a new law that suppresses this kind of information on the ground that the details could help terrorists. Now, anyone visiting the site can see a published list of state-by-state summaries of "worst-case scenarios" presented by thousands of companies in the US to the US EPA. The companies originally provided the information as part of an effort to help government agencies and people who live near factories prepare for toxic catastrophes like explosions at chemical plants. The article points out that EPA originally intended to make the information available online. The US Congress, however, intervened and vetoed the initiative in response to warnings by security specialists that electronic dissemination of the information could provide terrorists with a road map to sensitive domestic targets. Because the information was not classified, it was made available through legislated right-to-know policies. The website where the information is posted is called the Right-to-Know Network. It claims to provide free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development. Associated Link: [1]The Right-to-Know Network 1. http://www.rtk.net/ 2. http://204.255.211.112/ColdFusion/news_top10.cfm?start || 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. || http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/thirdeye.html || __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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] [Fwd: I too sent my Son]
-Caveat Lector- Reply from the horse's mouth... Joshua2 Mark McHugh wrote: -Caveat Lector- Bob Stokes wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-09-17 11:57:25 EDT, J2 writes: I know two Christians, one a German, and one an Argentine who went for a summer and converted to Hasidic Judaism of all things. A coworker of mine a few years ago was telling me he used to be a Jew (religion) but quit when the elders told him he could go no further toward becoming a Rabbi because he was not a full-blood Jew, only half Jewish. Sounds like bullshit to me. If his mother was Jewish, and he considered himself Jewish he could become a Rabbi. Any fool who is a Jew can become a Rabbi, and many do. If, on the other hand, his father was a Jew, and his mother was not, then he is not a Jew, and therefore can not become a Rabbi until he goes through the process of conversion as any non Jew can do. He quit and said he enjoyed eating a cheeseburger. That's dedication for you. He would have had to give up a lot more than cheeseburgers to become a Rabbi. Turning him down was the right decision. Jews don't eat cheeseburgers? That has always confused me. Do you have to be of Jewish blood to be Jewish? No. Just a member of the religion, or born into the culture. There is no Jewish " race." I could give up cheeseburgers, but never pizza. You wouldn't have to. Pizza is only non-kosher if made with non-kosher cheese. Mozzarella is a non-kosher cheese, but there are kosher replacements. In my opinion, non-kosher pizza is much better. Regards, Bob Stokes Amen, Bob! I could never be a Kosher Jew, anyway. That no meat and cheese together clause would break the contract. A Jewish friend of mine told me it had to do with one of the sacrificial proscriptions, something to do with boiling lambs in milk. -- Mark McHugh If I remember correctly, it's a calf in its mother's milk. It has to do with cruelty to animals. It goes something like this... Milk is produced by the mother cow as a source of life sustaining food for the cow's child. It would be too painful to the cow mother to see its child killed and made into food in its milk. This of course is antropomorphication, but the intent is admirable. Then the religious establishment took over that kind and simple concept and turned it into a labyrinthine mish mosh of neurosis inducing rules that drive otherwise healthy Jewish females insane. Joshua2 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Larry Patterson Interview 2pm ET FNC
-Caveat Lector- Trooper Rocks New York Media with Tales from Clinton's Crypt From an early morning appearance on the Howard Stern Show to a taped interview on Fox News Channel twelve hours later, recently retired Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson took New York by storm on Wednesday, revealing new details about his six year stint guarding Arkansas' first family. Much of bodyguard Patterson's account is unknown to most Americans, thanks to the President's "real" political bodyguards, the nation's mainstream press. The trooper says he tried to share some of the information with reporters back in 1993, but most weren't interested. Even shockmeister Stern and his jaded K-Rock entourage seemed surprised by some of what Patterson had to say, as the 32-year law enforcement veteran told listeners one startling insider account after another. How much did Hillary know about her husband's Arkansas sexcapades? Stern wanted to know. "When Bill was coming on to some woman," claimed Patterson, "I've heard Hillary tell him, 'Bill, zip up your pants. You can't do anything here.'" "Wow, wow," replied the incredulous shock jock. "He's hornier than me," the king of radio raunch observed, after Patterson explained how Clinton would inquire about the security staff's sex life. Patterson's interrogation on Clinton's personal peccadillos gave way to an exploration of one of the most vexing political questions of the 1990s, during the Clinton bodyguard's afternoon appearance on Sean Hannity's WABC radio show. Why did Ross Perot re-enter the presidential race in the final months of the 1992 campaign, thereby tipping the election to Bill Clinton? The former Arkansas state policeman doesn't claim to know what the Texas billionaire's actual motivation was. But he told Hannity that Clinton and the Bush-a-phobic Perot chatted by phone some "25 to 30" times in mid-1992, an unusual amount of personal contact for two supposed political rivals. From WABC radio the Arkansas trooper made his way to Fox News Channel's mid-Manhattan studios, to tape an appearance on "Hannity Colmes" that will run as soon as Hurricaine Floyd permits the resumption of regular Fox programming. Patterson's first full day of press interviews since NewsMax.com released his story ended on Alan Colmes' WEVD late night radio show, as Patterson's long embargoed account continued to spice up the ever-simmering pot of Clinton allegations. All Rights Reserved © NewsMax.com http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=1999/9/16/11526 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
[CTRL] Vote for the Party of your choice...The Big Business Party.
-Caveat Lector- Vote for the Party of your choice... --J2 -- Business Groups Giving to Democrats By Jonathan D. Salant Associated Press Writer Wednesday, September 15, 1999; 3:47 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- With control of the House up for grabs, business groups that overwhelmingly favored Republicans during the Gingrich years have begun spreading more political money to Democratic candidates. Eight of the 10 biggest corporate political action committees have anted up a larger than usual share of their donations to Democrats in 1999, an Associated Press analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows. In many cases, Democrats -- needing just five more seats to regain a House majority -- are getting their largest percentage of business PAC contributions since the 1994 election, when they lost control of Congress to the GOP. PACs are the donating arms of special interest groups and can give up to $5,000 per election to each federal candidate. That compares with a $1,000 limit for individual donors. PAC directors say they are not boosting donations to Democrats because they expect a change of control in 2000. But they say some new Democratic members who picked up seats in the last two elections are more moderate than more veteran Democrats and more likely to vote with business. ``We normally give to people who support our positions. That includes people on both sides of the aisle,'' said Gary Lytle, vice president of federal relations for Ameritech, which gave 41 percent of its PAC donations to Democrats during the first six months of 1999, compared with 37 percent during the 1998 elections. Added Dan Danner, vice president of federal public policy for the National Federation of Independent Business: ``At this juncture, there are probably more Democrats, at least in the House, who have voted with us than in the past.'' Danner's group gave 11 percent of its 1999 donations to Democrats compared with 7 percent during the 1998 elections. ``Certainly, there are many more people who campaigned as moderates. I don't think there were a heck of a lot of people out there in '98 who campaigned as extreme liberals,'' he said. Another factor is that Democratic lawmakers have made an effort to reach out to the business community. ``Business' success means jobs for our constituents,'' said Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, the Commerce Committee's top-ranking Democrat who led the outreach effort. The increased giving to Democrats by business PACs is further evidence that ideology aside, the business of political giving is often driven by practicality, experts said. ``As long as control of the House is in doubt, we're going to see PACs giving to both Democrats and Republicans,'' said Candice Nelson, an American University associate professor of political science. Republican officials predict things will turn in their favor closer to the election. ``While the PAC community may be hedging bets early, we believe that as the election draws near, the PACs will come to realize that it's actually the labor unions that control the Democrat agenda, not business,'' said Jill Schroeder, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee that raises money for GOP House candidates. While Republican lawmakers traditionally are viewed as more sympathetic to business concerns, corporate PACs tilted only slightly in the direction of the GOP during the 1994 elections, when the Democrats were still in charge of the House and Senate. In those elections, they gave the Republican's congressional candidates a total of $33 million, compared with $31 million for Democrats. In House races, corporate PACs sided with the majority Democrats, giving them $24 million to $20 million for Republicans. But after the GOP takeover of the House, corporate PACs turned decisively Republican in their giving. In the 1998 elections, corporate PACs gave $48 million to Republican candidates and just $23 million to Democrats. Now the pendulum appears to be swinging back a bit. During the first six months of 1999, United Parcel Service gave 28 percent of its PAC money to Democratic candidates, compared with 21 percent during the 1998 election season. Philip Morris, the tobacco and food conglomerate, gave 42 percent to House Democrats this year, compared with 31 percent in 1997-98. Telecommunications giant SBC Communications, which gave 40 percent of its PAC money to Democrats in 1997-98, increased its Democratic giving to 49 percent between January and June of this year. ``Business PACs are probably the most pragmatic givers there are,'' said Larry Makinson, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group. ``They know that there's a chance the Democrats will take control of the House in 2000 and they're preparing for that eventuality by covering their bets.'' © Copyright 1999 The Associated Press DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a
[CTRL] MISSING LINK PROVES LABORATORY ORIGIN OF AIDS
-Caveat Lector- SEPTEMBER 7, 1999 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: JANET WEINER, DIRECTOR, MEDIA RELATIONS, THE COMMON CAUSE FOUNDATION 508-881-3141 DON SCOTT, PRESIDENT, THE COMMON CAUSE FOUNDATION 705-670-0180 BOYD ED GRAVES, JD DIRECTOR-AIDS CONCERNS 216-481-5622 "MISSING LINK" PROVES LABORATORY ORIGIN OF AIDS Cleveland, OH-- In Canada on Saturday, August 21, 1999, American, Boyd E. Graves stunned the international medical community when he presented the AIDS FLOWCHART; the 'research logic flow' of a "hidden" federal program entitled, "Special Virus". The "Special Virus program began in 1962 and produced at least fifteen progress reports that correspond to the schematic. "The flowchart IS the 'missing link" in the definitive proof of the laboratory origin of AIDS. It has already met and exceeded the scrutiny of some of the world's top microbiologists and scientists, including Dr. Garth Nicholson", Graves said. Graves presented the flowchart during his videotaped presentation at the international conference of the Common Cause Medical Research Foundation. In May, 1999, the Foundation appointed Dr. Graves as its Director-AIDS CONCERNS. "We believe we now have an ear or two in Congress", said Graves, " I firmly believe our population control policies should be "open" policies". "We are hopeful for a bipartisan review of the flowchart. The American people, particularly those afflicted with HIV/AIDS, have a constitutional right to exposure and closure on this, the darkest chapter in the history of the world. The flowchart leaves no doubt as to the state's premeditation to kill its own people." -- Dan S 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] AIDS Bioengineering on trial
-Caveat Lector- Fowarded from Boyd Graves - September 17, 1999 Dear Professor Boyle: Judge Wells has issued an Order directing me to refile by October 15th with respect to the federal HIV discrimination issues but to exclude defendant, Secretary Cohen, et al, and the collateral issue of the laboratory origin of AIDS. I AM going to submit a 'motion for reconsideration' within ten days of this 9/16/99 Order. I need a legal beagle right now! I intend to submit every thing I have to show this judge just how wrong she is. In the face of the progress reports and the flowchart of the Special Virus program, it is heresy to conclude that the origin of AIDS is a frivolous issue, unworthy of judicial adjudication. As best I can put together, please send me some legal cites on the issue of setting aside direct evidence and reaching a finding of frivolity under Section 1915(e), because I filed in forma pauperis. In other words, because I did not pay the filing fee, the judge was allowed to use a screening mechanism under 1915 to determine if a poor person's case is worthy of further adjudication. As you know it is commonly used by the federal court to dismiss primarily "prisoner complaints" that might appear to be 'overly-litigious'. If this motion for reconsideration fails, Dr. Garth Nicolson has suggested rebringing this in the World Court. I thought the U.S. Court of Claims (Where France sued the U.S. over Gallo and AIDS). The current EEO battle with Department of Justice coincides with the actions of the federal court. The Court's Order was a big surprise! WOW, we get another shot to watch justice peek under the blindfold and rule in accordance with the tilt of the field. The longer you play on a tilted field, the more level it seems (becomes).This issue of eugenics is essentially racism. It is reflected in NSSM-200, Nixon's July 18, 1969 "Special" Message to the Congress on Problems of Population Growth, and a number of other official documents. It is reflected in the activities of the United Nations' Agency for International Development (AID) whose only purpose is to coordinate the depopulation efforts. The United States has been sending money to AID for 32 years! Please let me know if you've got an honest lawyer in tow. However, give my email address to some third year moot courter with a heart. I need a ton of research to improve our chances. Thanks for any immediate input. The people have another shot and I intend to take it, unless, perhaps you might want to enter your appearance? PLEASE let me know, thanx, Ed Graves 216-382-9252 ps. the case is Graves v. Cohen 1:98 CV 2209, filed 9/28/98, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio. eg -- Dan S 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] court decision
-Caveat Lector- Hi ! Below please find information about a recent court decision. Sincerely, Neil Brick Excerpts from : http://www.survivorship.org/html/molestation_article.html Tuesday, August 31, 1999 Home Edition Section: PART A Page: A-1 Rescinding of Molestation Case Deadline Upheld By: MAURA DOLAN L.A. TIMES LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER The California Supreme Court decided Monday that a defendant may be charged with child molestation even if the alleged crime took place years or decades before a complaint was made to police. In a 4-3 ruling, the state high court said a 1994 state law that virtually eliminated the statute of limitations for child molestation can be applied retroactively to child molestation cases in which the legal deadline for prosecution had expired. The ruling, described as the first of its kind in the nation, is expected to unleash a barrage of prosecutions against defendants whose victims kept their molestations secret for years. It also could encourage other states to rescind statutes of limitations retroactively for child sexual abuse. Previously, many such victims went to civil court and obtained monetary compensation but could not seek criminal prosecution if the statute of limitations for child molesting, generally six years in California, had expired. The ruling stems from a state law enacted five years ago that said suspects may be prosecuted for child molesting within one year after a complaint to law enforcement has been made. Some California courts refused to apply the law to cases in which the statute of limitations for prosecution had expired. The Legislature responded by passing another provision in 1996 that clearly stated that the new child molestation law was to be applied regardless of when the alleged crime was committed. Justice Marvin Baxter, writing for the majority, noted that lawmakers across the country in the 1980s began to increase the time in which child molestation charges could be filed. Lawmakers "became increasingly aware that young victims often delay reporting sexual abuse because they are easily manipulated by offenders in positions of authority and trust," Baxter wrote. "Prosecutors have wide latitude in . . . determining whether and when indictments should be filed," wrote Baxter. "Such discretionary decisions offend the United States Constitution only where unfair tactics or improper motives are involved." Mendocino Deputy Dist. Atty. Beth Normansaid victims have varied reasons for waiting many years to report that they were molested as children. She said some fear retribution or are embarrassed. "For many years, there is just too much shame attached to report it," Norman said. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: *X* MARKS THE SPOT--Made Up Of MAJOR Ley Lines
9.18.99 *X* MARKS THE SPOT--Made Up Of MAJOR "Ley Lines" The following was received from a NewsHawk respondent. We've correlated the information she brings up with some other sources, who confirm her statements. The two lines which make up the *X* along which many mass shooting incidents have occurred in the past 2-3 years, are in fact considered to be major, very powerful "earth grid" or "ley" lines. Such lines would correspond to major acupuncture meridians in the human body according to the principals of acupuncture. Certain locations along these lines would be especially strong "power spots". NewsHawk Inc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message Subject: Re: *X* MARKS THE SPOT! Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:24:49 -0700 From: "Jane" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is going to sound extremely off-the-wall, but I looked at the plot of the "line of destruction" angling down across the map from Oregon to Alabama, and was struck by the fact that I have seen that line before. I have a friend who is a ley-line enthusiast who also works for the USGS as a mapmaker. She showed me *this same line* plotted on the map, as a master force line. It seems it's a hidden rift/fault line that is only visible if you're using satellite maps of the US and know the signs to look for. She's used to looking at aerial photos for doing topographic maps, so it jumped right out at her. If you extend the OTHER line up through Ohio and upstate New York, it follows the path of a ley line that some other folks I know mapped out, years back. Ley linetheory claims that the ancients tapped "dragon force" by performing rites and sacrifices at sacred sites of power adjoining (but not directly on) the ley, and at sites at ley meeting points such as Glastonbury. Or Washington DC, which was laid out according to ley theory and Masonic symbology. (And for that matter, ever wonder why the Pentagon is a pentagon? I don't.) For some reason, geomantic traditions have been big in the power circles for centuries. Food for thought. Jane
[CTRL] Letters From Ft. Worth Killer Point to CIA MindControl
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 3:55 PM Subject: [MC] Fwd: [RuMills] Letters From Ft. Worth Killer Point to CIA MindControl In a message dated 99-09-17 01:15:28 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Rumor Mill News Readers: Matt Drudge obtained the following letters which were written by the man who killed the people in the Ft. Worth church. After reading the letters written by Larry Gene Ashbrook, I am convinced that he was a victim of CIA mind control. I believe he was programmed as an assassin. Each time one of these mass murders occurs, there are the tell tale signs of mind control. The contolled media will never investigate this. We must go around them and barage our Congressmen and Senators and demand that they open an investigation into the goverment's use of mind controlled "sleepers" as assassins and agent provocatuers. (Don't bother writing Senator Dianne Feinstein, (D) CA, she has been covering up the mindcontrol operation at Jonestown for 20 years now.) CHURCH KILLER WROTE CRAZED LETTERS TO LOCAL PAPER According to publishing sources, Larry Gene Ashbrook, the madman who slaughtered seven parishioners at the Wedgwood Baptist Church Wednesday evening, sent two letters to the FORT-WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM over the summer -- letters the paper plans to reprint in Friday editions! The STAR-TELEGRAM'S Karen Rouse reports that the letters describe "bizarre tales of encounters with the Central Intelligence Agency, psychological warfare, assaults by co-workers and druggings by police." Stephen Kaye, a city editor and one who received the letters, said on Thursday that they contained "outlandish things", and described the letters as "hard to follow." "My immediate reaction was that there was not much we could do for him." Ashbrook even came by the STAR-TELEGRAM's offices and visited Kaye -- who described the killer as "the opposite of someone you'd be concerned about... He couldn't have been any nicer." The eerie letters, which are dated July 31 and August 10, were handed over to the Ft. Worth police on Thursday. TEXT OF LARRY GENE ASHBROOK'S LETTERS -- AS OBTAINED BY THE DRUDGE REPORT: City editor Stephen Kaye Fort Worth Star-Telegram 400 W. Seventh St. Fort Worth, Texas, 76102 July 31, 1999 Sir: I am interested in relating to you some events I have experienced. If these events are true, then they would indicate a serious injustice against me. Specifically: the denial of due process for me in the investigation of me as a suspected serial murderer. I use the term -investigation- loosely. It was not so much an investigation as it was a continuous intereference in my life and employment for a period of possibly twenty years. Three operative terms apply to this situation: First; rumor control, this was one method by which those investigating me used to create problems for me: Second: Psychological warfare, this was the general mode of of operation: Third: Plausible deniability, the ideas those involved would proffer in order to divert blame from themselves. The first experience I had which became a clue to my future problems occured in July of -79.- Soon after reporting to a deployment site with the U.S. Navy squadron, I attended a social event. While there I was pulled aside by a young man who was in that squadron and he asked me some odd questions. The questions involved the murder of someone I had no knowledge of. The tone of his questions became almost accusatory. This was the first of three similar events which occured during my active duty with the Navy from -79- to -83.- What I eventually began to wonder was if there were any reason for me to be a suspect in any murder. As I now know, there were several abductions or murders of young women in Fort Worth and Arlington during the -70s- when I lived in the area. After I moved back to Fort Worth in -84- the odd events became a major problem in my life and occurred both on and off the job. The seriousness of the events and the humiliation I sufered made it impossible for me to keep a job. The most pronounced situation began soon after I began work at the Photo-Etch Company in 1986. Shortly after I was hired as a machinist I was put on the evening shift with another employee who was hired about a week after me. We were the only workers at the company during that shift. At some point around September of that year in the evening I was taking a break when the other employee walked up to me and made a somewhat veiled indirect threat. It went like this: -I have a lot of friends on the police force, in fact I know a woman police officer who can kick your (deleted) all over the place.- This was the beginning of continuous troubles on the job at that company. When I attempted to remedy the problems through the proper channels I got no where. The troubles included minor physical abuse and general disrespect by
[CTRL] capitalist wit and wisdom (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message --- Attitudes of the Rich and Famous... The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it Capitalism, call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. Al Capone The point is that you can't be too greedy. Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal (written with Tony Schwartz, 1987). Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. Walter Bagehot, 19th Century English economist Greed is all right, by the way . . . I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. Ivan F. Boesky, U.S. financier. Commencement Address, 18 May 1986, School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley. Boesky's words were later picked up in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street (1987), spoken by Gordon Gecko. Boesky himself was later convicted of conspiring to file false documents with the federal government, involving insider trading violations, and agreed to pay $100 million in fines and illicit profits. The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for not by our labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in his infinite wisdom has given control of property interests of the country, and upon the successful management of which so much remains. George F. Baer (Railroad Industrialist) They don't suffer. They can't even speak English. Baer, answering a reporters' question about the suffering of starving miners Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. Economist John Maynard Keynes I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general, emperor. Quoted in: Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923). Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), English author. Lady Clarinda, in Crotchet Castle, 1831 Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. William Howard Taft, U.S. Republican president, Popular Government, 1913. I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal, (1987; written with Tony Schwartz). We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. E. M. Forster, British novelist, essayist. Howards End, 1910. A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1514. The Führer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when he is having tea with his friends during the night, or when he is training his dogs! Martin Bormann, German Nazi leader. Annotations to letter, Dec. 25, 1943, from his wife Gerda (published in The Bormann Letters, ed. by Hugh Trevor-Roper, 1954). Today, almost forty years later, I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism. Albert Speer, German architect, Nazi official. The Slave State, (1981). I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. Jean Giraudoux, French writer, diplomat Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. Walter Bagehot, 19th Century English economist Any man who pays more for labor than the lowest sum he can get men for is robbing his stockholders. If he can secure men for $6 and pays more, he is stealing from the company. Stockholder of American Wollen (Lawrence, Massachusetts) 1911 Told to the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick We'll drive the goddamned sons-of-bitches into the river and drown them. We'll starve them. We'll kill every damned man of them or drive them, together with the Socialists, from the city! Judge Davis, Minot, North Dakota, 1912, Referring to striking Wobblies. I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are. Margaret Culkin Banning, The quality of Mercy, 1963 The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied . . . but written off as
[CTRL] Wal-Mart busts organizers (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- September 16, 1999 Wal-Mart Gets Restraining Order By The Associated Press BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas judge ordered union organizers to stop distributing leaflets at Wal-Mart stores nationwide after the company complained they were disrupting workers and entering private areas. Wal-Mart argued that the United Food and Commercial Workers Union handed out literature to employees while they were working and that organizers entered prohibited areas of stores, such as meat-cutting rooms. Benton County Chancellor Don Huffman, in an order issued Wednesday, told the union to stay off Wal-Mart's property ``throughout the United States.'' A spokeswoman in the union, which is based in Washington, had no immediate comment Thursday. The union and Wal-Mart have been at odds for some time. Last December, nearly 1,000 union protesters swarmed Bentonville's city square after a march from Wal-Mart's headquarters. Wal-Mart's court action says union representatives have trespassed at 160 of its more than 600 Supercenters. ``We're usually pretty accommodating when it comes to unions wanting to protest or leaflet,'' said Wal-Mart spokesman Mike Maher. ``They've gone too far and we're not going to stand for it.'' While the judge ordered the union off Wal-Mart property nationwide, legal experts questioned whether the order would stand in other states. ``The validity of this order outside Arkansas is questionable,'' said University of Arkansas law professor Howard Brill. ``The judge can enforce this order if it's violated inside Arkansas by holding the union in contempt of court. ``But the court has limited power to enforce it outside Arkansas, and it would be up to the discretion of another state whether to recognize the order.'' ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. -- 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] Allan Nairn's Arrest Situation and Statement, and the Fate of Timor , and the Timorese (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:56:34 +0100 From: Michael Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ZNet Free Update -- Allan Nairn's Arrest Situation and Statement, and the Fate of Timor and the Timorese Hello, Another Update from ZNet regarding Timor --- Please go to ZNet's Timor Pages at http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Timor/timor_index.htm for regularly updated information and analysis bearing on the events in East Timor If you want one preferred piece to get up to speed and inform yourself as quickly as possible, ZNet's best overarching effort to succinctly situate the events and our responsibilities is our Question and Answer Article, the work of Shalom, Chomsky, and Albert: http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Timor/qanda.htm --- You may have heard, already, that U.S. journalist Allan Nairn, arrested a few days ago seemingly solely for deportation, is now facing prosecution in Indonesia. Benny Mateus, the chief justice of Nusa Tenggara Province intends to prosecute Nairn for two violations of Indonesian immigration law, a local immigration official in Kupang, West Timor has informed Nairn. Nairn is to be charged with engaging in unauthorized activities and overstaying his two-month visa. Both acts are considered illegal under sections 50 and 52 of the Indonesian immigration laws. If convicted, Nairn could face 10 years in prison. Nairn, who was arrested in Dili on September 14, was one of the last journalists reporting from East Timor. Indonesian forces transferred him to Kupang in West Timor, a part of Indonesia. A local immigration official, Mr. Zurya, has been interrogating Nairn at the immigration facility in downtown Kupang for several days. According to Indonesian officials in Kupang, while Mateus is seeking to charge Nairn, the Minister of Justice, Dr. Muladi, and the Minister of Information, Yunus Yosfiah, are inclined to deport Nairn. The detainment and possible prosecution of a U.S. journalist, the only one on the scene, is of course generating tremendous concern in the United States. The key point about Nairn's arrest, however, and our efforts to free him, for those who are informed and have broad and consistent moral values is that we need to work to free Nairn while at the same time continuing to address the plight of the Timorese, and, for that matter, while we work to convince those aroused only by Nairn's situation that they need to broaden their focus. For example, approximately 100,000 East Timorese have been driven from their country into West Timor, which is a part of Indonesia. These folks are under the auspices of the Militia and Indonesian Army and there are no observers. Their plight is unknown, but there is every reason to fear for their lives. All efforts of virtually any sort to publicize and arouse concern for Allan Nairn and outrage at his incarceration will help him and also all East Timorese. But, such efforts will be that much more effective, on both counts, if they occur in context of continuing attention the lot of the worst off and most defenseless...and if they emphasize not solely a violation of a Western Journalist by the Indonesians, but their quarter century-long willful violation, abetted by their U.S. sponsors, of the rights and lives of the Timorese. Nairn himself has no confusion on these matters. He is not only courageous, but consistent, not only a fine reporter, but also a moral, socially concerned and consistent person. In fighting for Nairn's freedom we should learn from his focus and courage and keep the broader context and issues always forefront. Here then is Nairn's Own Statement to his captors (point l8 of the interrogation report on Allan Nairn, the part where the Immigration chief asks him to handwrite his position). Nairn's Statement in West Timor to his Captors I know that the army has put me on the black list. They did this because I watched their soldiers murder more than 271 people at the Santa Cruz cemetery. This crime was the responsibility of the Indonesian army commander, General Try Sutrisno and the Minister of Defense, General Benny Murdani. The murders were committed with American M-16 rifles. The American government also bears some of the responsibility because they have armed, trained, and given money to the TNI/ABRI, even though they knew the TNI/ABRI is led by murderers and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Timorese, Acehnese, West Papuan and Indonesian civilians. Because I survived the massacre and denounced the crime to the outside world, the TNI/ABRI and the Suharto government banned me as a "threat to national security." That ban has been reaffirmed by each subsequent TNI/ABRI commander, including General Tanjung and General Wiranto. I do not think that I am a threat to the Indonesian or Timorese people, but I hope that I am a threat to General Wiranto and General Tanjung, and the other present and former
[CTRL] Women's Campaign Keeps Mother Out of Jail (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:39:37 -0400 From: DAMN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DAMN: 18-SEP-1999: Women's Campaign Keeps Mother Out of Jail Title: Women's Campaign Keeps Mother Out of Jail Date: 18-SEP-1999 Author: Kathy Durkin Source: Workers World, Sept. 23, 1999 issue (by way of Diane [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Style: News story Reference: http://www.workers.org/ww/1999/walrond0923.html Tabitha Walrond, a young Black woman who lost her two-month-old son, Tyler, and was then wrongfully prosecuted for responsibility in his death, received five years probation from New York State Supreme Court Judge Robert H. Straus on Sept. 8. The state and media had attacked Walrond from the time the state brought charges against her in a racist, anti-poor, anti-woman campaign. She was vilified for being a poor, teenaged mother. The prosecution was determined to imprison her; she faced up to four years in jail. But a campaign by women's groups, community activists and international supporters stopped the state from jailing her. Picket lines, publicity and a letter-writing campaign demanded the charges be dropped and no punishment be leveled against Walrond. Nine hundred people from as far away as Japan had written letters, postcards and e-mails to the court on Walrond's behalf, asking that she not be punished. Many were women who had had similar problems with breast-feeding their infants but had received medical help from private physicians and health-care workers. When Tabitha Walrond sought medical help for her baby, she was turned away from a clinic for lack of a Medicaid card. According to Susan Tipograph, Walrond's attorney, "The letter-writing campaign made a big difference. Every one of the 900 letters supported Tabitha Walrond. Some were read by the judge into the record, especially from mothers with similar experiences. Not one letter was unfavorable. The support meant a great deal to all of us." This case exposed the hypocrisy of a system that will prosecute a young, oppressed, single mother while denying her child medical care. It showed that while the state is quick to persecute and vilify poor people, it exonerates the government officials responsible for providing decent health care. It also showed that health care itself is in jeopardy for many and that there are limitations and dangers inherent in privatized medical care. Women's rights and health-care advocates brought the policies of Medicaid, New York City hospitals and health maintenance organizations under public scrutiny for limiting care. They pointed out the responsibility of the Human Resources Administration, which administers welfare and Medicaid programs. A report issued by the Committee on Women's Issues of the New York City Council stated that there is a "pattern of restricting accessibility to medical care for infants and young children." States that have cut welfare now have fewer children receiving Medicaid coverage than need it. The restrictions and privatization of the health-care system are part and parcel of the cuts in the welfare program made under the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. That bill has been accompanied by cuts in all social services, including public education and public housing, that affect poor people. Workfairness is a group that fights for the rights of people receiving public assistance and those on workfare. It sent over 100 letters to the judge supporting Tabitha Walrond. William Mason, co-chair of Workfairness, said, "How many mothers and other poor people will face the same situation and be blamed in the future for the faults of the health-care system?" For more information, contact: Workers World 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011 E-maill: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.workers.org This is the DAMN News Email list http://damn.tao.ca To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asking to: unsubscribe damn ***DAMN DISCLAIMER - IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE*** DAMN receives many unsolicited reports and tries but can not verify all information contained within. DAMN therefore disclaims responsibility for the information in this message and urges you to contact the reporter personally for further verification. 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
[CTRL] Stockholm Demonstration Against the Marketplace (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:58:26 -0400 From: DAMN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DAMN: 15-SEP-1999: Stockholm Demo Against the Marketplace Title: Stockholm Demo Against the Marketplace Date: 15-SEP-1999 Author: A-Infos News Service Source: kurt svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by way of Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Reference: http://www.ainfos.ca/ 11 September--During the Swedish national elections last year, 1998, a group of libertarian activists in Stockholm initiated a collaboration under the name of "Against the Dictatorship of the Marketplace". Amidst all the political hype, the group cemented relations with the entire extra-parliamentary left resulting in a demonstration 2000 people strong. The initiating group has continued their organising during the past year. And today it was time to repeat the success. Under a sunny sky, and amidst busy Saturday afternoon consumers, circa 1500 anarchists, libertarian socialists, environmental activists, immigrants and diverse leftist groups gathered in central Stockholm. They marched together behind the common demand that the "Dictatorship of the Marketplace" be demolished, through revolutionary action if necessary, so that the rising needs and desires of the ever-disenfranchised working class be fulfilled. Extra-parliamentary political speakers, poets, theatre groups and musical ensembles entertained the gathering before they began marching towards the Stockholm Bourse House. Along the way Saturday shoppers were meet with high spirits, reverberating slogans and colourful banners (ok, they were mostly black and red!). As the demonstration passed the Royal Palace, a large portion of the anarchist block broke away from the demonstration to "storm" the bulwarks of this overbearing building which is a symbol of class oppression - all to the roaring cheers of the rest of the demonstration and the dismay of the palace guards and ever-present police forces. Upon reaching the Bourse House, two activists scaled the walls and hung up a banner decorated with the well-known anarcho-symbol "SaboCat" and the slogan "Environmental Struggle - Class Struggle". More speeches and music rounded-off the event. As is usual on these occasions, preparedness for fascist provocation was high and only a few of these scum dared to show themselves. They were quickly and neatly dispatched. The overall picture of the event can be said to be an astounding success as, despite a lower number of participants, the political hype in society (such as was coupled to the elections last year) has been minimal and the demonstration has only been noted in the leftist press. For more information, contact: kurt svensson c/o brand box 150 15 s-104 65 stockholm sweden E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [pgp keys available upon request] This is the DAMN News Email list http://damn.tao.ca To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asking to: unsubscribe damn ***DAMN DISCLAIMER - IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE*** DAMN receives many unsolicited reports and tries but can not verify all information contained within. DAMN therefore disclaims responsibility for the information in this message and urges you to contact the reporter personally for further verification. 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] More on East Timor and the unions (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- In a message dated 9/17/99 4:54:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj: More on East Timor and the unions Date: 9/17/99 4:54:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LabourStart) LabourStart - http://www.labourstart.org "The bans will stay until the voilence stops," says the acting national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) in a statement linked to on LabourStart today. The MUA has been blocking all shipping to and from Indonesia in Australian port. Even as UN peacekeeping troops prepare to enter East Timor, the global trade union campaign continues unabated. LabourStart's special new page on East Timor has a new and much simpler URL now: http://www.labourstart.org/easttimor/ Please add this link to your union's website today! I also wanted to share the following article with you -- passed on from the labor-l mailing list: International Labor Solidarity Actions Put Pressure On Indonesia By Elaine Bernard In contrast to organized labor's division over what should be done about the Kosovo crisis, the current mayhem and mass killing in East Timor has galvanized a powerful and unified response from unions internationally. Organized labor, and most especially unions in Australia, Canada, and Europe have not only fired off press statements, but they have also been urging their members to join with other groups in protest. Additionally, where possible, they have urged unions to take political, financial and even industrial action to pressure their own governments and the Indonesian government to stop the killing and recognize the results of the August 30th referendum which voted overwhelmingly for independence of East Timor. Even the historically cautious and somewhat conservative international labor central, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) has sprung into action, condemning the Indonesian government and military and calling on their members -- 213 member organizations in 143 countries -- to take action. It's unfortunate and a long forgotten tragedy that the labor movement had not rallied support to the people of East Timorese 24 years ago when Indonesia first invaded and occupied the territory -- waging a genocidal campaign against the indigenous population and crushing their human rights. But a Cold War-driven approach to international relations within the labor movement prevented most national labor federations and the ICFTU from taking effective action against Indonesian aggression. Today, however, as unions rally to the cause of peace, democracy and the rule of law for the people of East Timor, labor is taking important steps in forging a new, international solidarity, based on universal human and labor rights. And that's why it is so important for labor to join forces with its allies in the community on behalf of the rights of the people of East Timor. Universal rights, whether labor or human rights, need to be observed and movements need to be organized and mobilized to see that they are enforced. Without human rights there can be no labor rights. The ICFTU, in a statement dated 10th September 1999, "invited its affiliated organisations thoughout the world to join a large mobilisation campaign aimed at isolating Indonesia politically and economically at the world level and ensuring the immediate despatch of an international force to East Timor in order to halt massacres and enforce the sovereign decisions' of the Timorese people and of the United Nations." Additionally, the ICFTU announced that it was preparing plans for a "large-scale, world-wide mobilization" for September 30th, one month to the day after the referendum in which the East Timorese chose independence. In its most recent statement issued on September 13th, Bill Jordan, General Secretary of the ICFTU, asked trade unions to continue their pressure on "their national governments in order that they formally recognise East Timor independence." Jordon further urged, "the suspension or cut of all military aid and/or co-operation to Indonesia" and for unions "to keep the pressure on Indonesia." This week alone, unions in Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, San Marino, Portugal and Spain have all mounted protests or actions. In a press release dated September 13th, Jennie George, President of the Australian labor central, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and titled "union action to continue until peace restored in East Timor" outlined the "Campaign for Peace" which calls for "bans to be placed on all Indonesian government and commercial interests in Australia; the withdrawal of services (other than those considered essential) from Indonesian government and commercial interests; and a consumer boycott of Indonesian products and services." The ACTU has also called for the Australian
[CTRL] HateWatch News and Updates (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: 16 Sep 1999 23:22:18 - From: HateWatch Updates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HateWatch News and Updates HateWatch Updates - http://hatewatch.org HateWatch is a nonprofit, educational and activist resource combating the growing threat of online bigotry. After four years, HateWatch has become a leader in the fight for online civil rights. If you would like to stay up to date on HateWatch's activities and to learn how you can help, sign up for HateWatch's mailing list by sending the following information to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is by our education and participation which will help make the web a more tolerant community. Name: (Individual or Business) Address: City: State: Zip Code: Country: Day Phone: Evening Phone: How you found out about HateWatch: HateWatch News for September 16,1999 **Skinhead murder suspects might be in area** Two neo-Nazi skinheads wanted in connection with a bludgeoning death near Philadelphia may be in the Spokane area or North Idaho, authorities say. Paul Minton, 23, and Keith James Pearce Jr., 21, told associates they intended to flee to the West, detectives in Norristown, Pa., said Wednesday http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=091699ID=s635706cat= **Attack treated as hate crime** Santa Cruz police have arrested two self-described ``skinheads'' on hate-crime charges for allegedly beating up a young Latino man and woman Tuesday night. Police said the attack marks the first hate-crime arrests this year in Santa Cruz, whose residents hope to declare the town a ``hate-free zone.'' http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/hatearrest16.htm **German Soldier Fined for Video** A former soldier who filmed other soldiers acting out rapes, killings and neo-Nazi skits was convicted Thursday of inciting public violence and displaying banned symbols. Judge Petra Beuther fined 26-year-old Mike Rueggeberg $2,075, saying said the videos, made public in 1997, had severely damaged the military's image. http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990916/V000153-091699-idx.html **Coats criticizes Klan rally report** The head of City Council's Public Safety Committee says Mayor Michael R. White's administration has "insulted" council by failing to provide complete information on what it cost the city to provide extensive security during August's Ku Klux Klan rally. "Those are not the true figures," Councilman Roosevelt Coats said after a committee hearing yesterday at which administration officials handed out a document showing the "cost for KKK" as $340,871 in overtime pay to police, fire and Emergency Medical Services workers. http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/c16rall.ssf **Legislature approves $500,000 for facility to promote tolerance** Gov. Gray Davis pledged Tuesday to sign a bill that would help create a California Unity Center here to promote racial and religious tolerance and help law enforcement track hate groups. ``We are one America; we are one state,'' Davis said. ``And if we teach people at a very young age that value, I think that is the surest and best way to combat the hatemongers that terrorize young people and terrorize society.'' http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/unity15.htm __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN Messenger Service lets you stay in touch instantly with your family friends - Visit http://messenger.msn.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] 18SEP99 Press Release, Global Peace Walk2000 Berkeley Benefit Gathering
-Caveat Lector- Global Peace Walk2000 Berkeley Benefit Gathering Press Release of Saturday, September 18, 1999 Regarding EVENT on September 26th Sunday Please Re-Cycle, Re-Copy Pass-It-On... Global Peace Walk P.O. Box 170245 San Francisco, CA 94117-0245 (415) 863-2084 (413) 895-8588 (e-fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.globalpeacenow.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Living on the Globe with All Our Friends Global Peace Walk 2000 Benefit Concert Living on the Globe with All Our Friends, Global Peace Walk 2000 Benefit Concert will be at the Berkeley Community Theater (1930 Allston Way / Martin Luther King Jr. Way) on Sunday, September 26th, 1999 from 6 - 11pm. Featured artists are: Bernie Worrell The WOO Warriors, P-Funk Guest Star Extravaganza; Dr. Locos Rockin Jalapeño Band, Rockin' musical cruise blending the funky Latino ritmos of San Francisco and East L.A. with the gritty Tex-Mex blues; Chaksam-Pa, Tibetan Dance Opera Company; All Nation s Singers Dance Group, Traditional Native American Singers Dancers; and Will Scarlett, Harmonica Player, recorded with the original Hot Tuna toured with Brownie McGee. There will be a Global Peace Now Human Resolve Ceremony by Rev. Yusen Yamato, Global Peace Walk Initiator. Berkeleys Mayor Shirley Dean will make an appearance. MC for the event will be Dennis Jennings, Native American activist, artist cultural leader. There will also be a Navajo Rug Sale Raffle that benefits Hopi Navajo Resistance at Big Mountain, Arizona. Tickets are $20 (balcony); $25 (lower floor). Kids are welcome (12 under FREE). Tickets will be available at the Berkeley Community Theater Box Office on the day of show starting at 4pm. Tickets are also available at BASS outlets: 415-478-BASS, www.basstickets.com, Tower Records, The Wherehouse... For more information, call 415-267-1877. The Public is encouraged to bring donations for Global Peace Walk 2000: Food, Survival Supplies, Cash/Checks, Support Vehicles, Cell Phones, Camping Goods, Clothing Shoes, Office Equipment, and Lap Top Computers. Those who would like to be a part of Global Peace Walk 2000 in any way and volunteer, can contact us at: 415-267-1877, PO Box 170245, San Francisco, CA 94117; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; www.globalpeacenow.org Global Peace Walk 2000 will take its first step from the War Memorial Building in San Francisco on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s Birthday on January 15, 2000 bringing out the prayer of Global Peace Now! as a universal human resolve to spread across the United States. Along the way, the Peace Walkers will be carrying petitions, messages information to educate network with people groups on the following issues: Abolition 2000 - A Call to Ban Nuclear Weapons Worldwide; Protecting our Land Life other Environmental Social issues; Native American issues (i.e., Leonard Peltier, Big Mountain, Az., Ward Valley, Ca); Sustainable Global Economy (i.e., Permaculture, Hemp); Creating a Culture of Peace and a Spiritual United Nations; the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement; as well as other issues that people bring to us along the way. On October 9, 2000 (Columbus Day), the Global Peace Walk will arrive in Washington DC and bring the petitions a Message of Peace to our governmental leaders. The walk will arrive in New York City at the United Nations on October 24th, 2000 (United Nations Day) bringing the petitions a Message of Peace to our world government leaders, and reaffirm the original principle of the United Nations Charter, to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war and to reaffirm faith in the dignity of human rights and to live together in peace. Since the Global Peace Walk project was initiated in 1995 walking from New York City to San Francisco for the United Nations 50th anniversary, the Global Peace Walk has received hundreds of letters and proclamations of support from religious, political, community and cultural leaders towards the creation of a worldwide Global Peace Zone. Global Peace NOW! # # # Please Re-Cycle, Re-Copy Pass-It-On... [fwd by] David Crockett Williams 18SEP99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chartered Life Underwriter, Bachelor of Science of Chemistry, New-Energy Technology Designer 20411 Steeple Court, Tehachapi CA 93561 GENERAL AGENCY SERVICES Phone: 661-833-3309; Fax 561-658-2735 http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html Global Emergency Alert Response http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 Capital Hills Research Center http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/chrc.html Global Peace Walk Project http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html Global Peace Walk2000 Zone2000 Year2000 http://www.globalpeacenow.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
[CTRL] Borden of Yale '09
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Borden of Yale '09 Mrs Howard Taylor China Inland Mission No date - pps.286 - William Whiting Borden was a wealthy gentleman, who passed on young. He had some interesting things to say about Bones and secrecy. Om K - May 24, 1906. This was Tap Day, rather an interesting event to witness for the first time.[1] On the first stroke of five o'clock the tapping began, and continued for about three-quarters of an hour. Tapping is rather a misnomer, for they hit the men most tremendously and rush them off to their rooms. B.C. went Scroll and Keys and B.B. [William McCormick Blair] was the last man tapped for Skull and Bones. Bill Barnes also went Bones. This is a great honour, as it means lie is bead of that Society for next year. It's all very well in a way, but they make entirely too much of it, it seems to me. Well as a result of this excitement I haven't done my work as I should, and must get busy now. 'The day when the senior societies make known their elections-the most coveted honour in an undergraduate's career. Skull and Bones, Scroll and Keys and Wolf's Head are the senior fraternities. As, collectively, they only take in about forty-five new members each year, the large majority of aspirants is necessarily disappointed. p. 119 = CHAPTER VIII SOPHOMORE 1906-1907. Æt. 18-19 "His lamps are we, To shine where He shall say: And lamps are not for sunny rooms Nor for the light of day; But for dark places of the earth Where shame and wrong and crime have 'birth; Or for the murky twilight grey Where wandering sheep have gone astray, Or where the lamp of faith burns dim And souls are groping after Him." A. J. FLINT. WAS it one result of the step taken at the Lakeville Conference that in sophomore year Borden was drawn into most unexpected and fruitful] work for others? The Living Water was flowing out in new, unlooked-for channels. But first be bad to face the, fraternity question which bad been causing him a good deal of exercise of mind. There were five junior (Greek letter) societies at Yale, as well as the three senior fraternities already referred to in Borden's letters. Unless a man had been elected in sophomore year to membership in one of the five, the senior societies would as a matter of course pass him by. Each of the junior societies received thirty new members annually, and as with the senior fraternities, the greatest possible secrecy was observed in all their proceedings. A fraternity man would "keep still" if his society were even mentioned. It was this secrecy and the exclusiveness of the system that troubled Borden, whose uncle had been one of the founders of Wolf's Head, of which his brother wasa member. "He could have had anything here that be wanted wrote Dr. Kenneth Latourette in this connection. But, though feeling no less than others how hard it would be to be shut out, Borden had his misgivings. His friend Charles Campbell recalls: Shortly before College opened, Bill asked me to come to Poughkeepsie[1] to talk over the society question. He invited James _,%T. Howard and E. F. Jefferson at the same time. The discussion centred about such questions as these: Could we as Christians go into a secret society? Would such action harm or help our work for Christ? It was a new thought to most of us. We had taken the society system -,-cry much for granted, and had never questioned whether it was right or wrong for us to join one of the fraternities. But Bill took nothing for granted. He was a servant of Jesus Christ, and everything must be tested and bear the stamp of Christ's approval before be would enter upon 1 The element of secrecy was one of Bill's difficulties with regard to joining a fraternity. As a Christian be felt that he should not go into anything that be did not clearly understand beforehand. Then he feared that the fraternity system led to the forming of cliques in the college. He did not wish to be set apart from the class, Further, Bill did not wish to have anything come between him and God. He bad given himself wholeheartedly to Christ, to be His follower pure and simple, and he wanted that relation kept always real. Therefore he felt he had no right to vow allegiance to any secret, man-made organization. This attitude is entirely comprehensible to the thoughtful Yale man who thinks back to his freshman year and remembers bow certain men lose their beads and set out to make a fraternity as the be-all and end-all of existence. I remember Bill's telling me of one classmate who said that be should consider his college course a failure unless he made Delta Kappa Epsilon among the first ten elected. Happily such insanity does not continue long after the verdant stage. This man, as I remember, never made Delta Kappa at all, but another fraternity in its second election, and I am sure he did not, as a senior, think his course a failure -certainly we, his classmates, did not. [1] A place on one of the most beautiful
Re: [CTRL] The glorious capitalist free market economic system.
-Caveat Lector- DasGoat has given us quite a large pill to swallow! I wish to state that many of his views are shared by me. In other areas of life it is apparent to me (he is coming from a political perspective for the most part, though not exclusively, my experience is sociologically, with people in personal relationships and group dynamics) that people really do, for the most part, fit the mold that DasGoat iterates for us so baldly and so correctly. People desire some indefinite change; "Let's get more freedom." (How is it defined? They don't know themselves.) "I hate the government, just look at what happened in (with). . . . Waco; Ruby Ridge, TWA800, the burdensome taxes, the terror tactics of the police, drug laws, mind control, media manipulation, the war in Kosovo, the bombing of Iraq, and on and on I could go. Each issue is not fully understood by those who cry the mantra of opposition. What do they want? They don't know, they just whine that "something's got to be done." Will they actually get off of their asses and DO something, ANYTHING AT ALL? In my experience the answer is NO. Now it is fair to add that in many, if not most or all, cases the people who do actually DO something are the first targeted with real weapons, be they physical, political, or emotional/manipulative. Having said that though, if one was REALLY serious about something needing to be done then the possibility, admittedly very real, of dying, or getting put away should be no cause for a total paralysis of action. That is the case in my experience, not as wide and impressive as MR. Goat's. 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] Borden of Yale '09
-Caveat Lector- Maybe all the "Christians" flocking to Bush should ask these same questions or at least ask Bush to answer them.how can they support a candidate with satanic associations? 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] SWAT Nation [rant]
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-09-18 10:35:36 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: l. Too late for rational solution, yes. What I am concerned about is a bunch of irrational hotheads fomented by "agents provocateurs" kicking off a self defeating fight against the State. Let events unfold naturally. It's a sad fact indeed that you, being as astute as you are, must agree with me But yes, what most of us are concerned about here on CTRL is that there at least *appears* to be some effort by the government, through its "agents provocateur," to foment random acts of mass violence IN ADVANCE of the more rationally-directed equivalent occurring, in order to justify exactly the kind of repressive government measures that would be needed if the latter were to manifest -- with the support of a frightened or angry public, which would NOT be the case should the latter occur. I can't decide whether such incidents as the Columbine mass-murder or the by now stereotypical "falling down" of unbalanced losers like Buford Furrow are products of a government program to create "mind controlled" assassins --time-bomb "agents in place"-- or just natural "random" expressions of free-floating collective rage in a populace starting to reach the breaking point thanks to the cumulative weight of all our culture's social and economic injustices, in which the government plays a major role. In other words, there's no telling whether such incidents are DIRECTLY or, through a pile-up of unfortunate social circumstances resulting in individual psychotic breakdowns, only INDIRECTLY connected with government strategy common in a pre-revolutionary period. But the government is certainly responding as if they WERE, if only in how the opportunity is seized in calculated fashion to institute such programs as gun control, pre-emptive "profiling" of those who MIGHT revolt (for less psychotic reasons), and mass surveillance of the citizenry beyond what is justifiably needed in a free society. That impression is even stronger when we note how the mechanisms for repression were already being put in place a decade ago, under the presidency of George Bush, back when such acts of random mass violence were statistically rare -- only continuing the "contingency plans" drawn up during the Nixon era, and later the Reagan era, for "martial law" to control domestic resistance to the State's imperialistic foreign policy and muzzle a citizenry increasingly recognizing and distrusting its Nazi-like behavior. The government today is behaving exactly as J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon did when faced with rational dissent or legitimate protest -- it's promoting a "demonology" (the "Communist menace" back then, the threat of "foreign and domestic terrorists" nowadays) to justify its own authoritarianism and absolutism, altogether self-servingly. If domestic covert ops (MK-Ultra, "Operation Chaos," etc) and "agents provocateurs" were standard operating procedure back then, why should we think they aren't NOW, under roughly analogous circumstances? You're correct, in my opinion, about Waco (and the World Trade Center and Murrah Building bombings) being "Reichstag fires." The government is acting systematically as if preparing to head off a REVOLUTION, NOT "terrorism" (foreign or domestic) and psychotic breaks in "lone nuts" with guns. Of course, the government is no doubt also trying to "provoke" what might APPEAR to be a "revolution," as a preferred alternative to the REAL thing, and government agents (Ollie North and Gordon Liddy come to mind, and perhaps "militia" types like Bo Gritz) have already infiltrated the milieu from which the public has been led to believe a real "revolt" MAY come, hoping to steer such a "revolt" safely back under fascist control. BTW, when in history has a ruling oligarchy ever "let events unfold naturally"? LOL 2. the situation is now the individual vs the State and is being carried by events We are essentially observers.to the tide of future history. The best we can hope for, IMHO, is that an influential segment of the general public will be able to RECOGNIZE what's going on and at least not be "hoodwinked" by the State.. 3. However some recent revolutions have been very much a small group sparking [for] the masses. Many years ago I was digging around in the Hoover Institution Tower and found a bundle of papers relating to the Sun Yat Sen revolution in China (1912) All the ingredients for a fomented revolution: names of Wall Street bankers, agreements for concessions, Chinese request for funds, even lists of arms shipped, expenditures neatly itemized,above all the names of people involved Chinese and American These were not intellectuals they were entrepreneurs who wanted mineral and railroad concessions. the papers show a business arrangement rather than anything else. . Second, the Bolshevik Revolution was a small group Lenin, Trostsky with maybe 10,000 followersand with outside funds.. Same
[CTRL] Texas Tragedy/Mind Control
-Caveat Lector- http://www.angelfire.com/wy/1000/DallasMassacre.html Texas Tragedy/Mind Control? From: "NewsHawk Inc." Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: NewsHawk Inc. 9.16.99 September Massacre-- Dallas/Fort Worth Location No Surprise NewsHawk made public last month information given to us by a professional, well-respected and highly-credible resident of Denver, Colo. This information indicated that rumors were rampant within the goth underworld of both Denver and Dallas/Forth Worth that a shooting massacre was going to occur at a school in one of these locations sometime in early September. Our source in fact indicated that the Dallas/Forth Worth area, according to his knowledge, was MOST likely to be the target location for yet another horrifying episode of mass murder and mayhem, enacted by mind-controlled "Manchurian Candidate" killers subjected to extensive 'MK-Ultra"-type mind-manipulation techniques by rogue government intelligence agencies who are beholden to globalist, New World Order power brokers. On Wednesday, September 15, just before 7 p.m. (Central Time) one of POSSIBLY TWO gunmen stormed into the Wedgwood Baptist Church in a quiet middle-class neighborhood on the southwestern edge of Forth Worth. He shouted anti-religious curses, tossed at least one pipe bomb up the isle of the church and ordering his victims to "stay still" while he pumped a hail of bullets into hymn-singing teenage worshipers in the crowded church, killing seven people and himself, officials said. So, it DIDN'T happen at a school; but it DID take place in a school-like setting in which hundreds of teenagers were present; and once again, as at Columbine, severe anti-religious/anti-Christian sentiments were expressed by the shooter(s?). Again the objective is to terrorize and stampede American society--in PARTICULAR Christians, who have as a group so far been strongly AGAINST gun control--into supporting more stringent gun control/registration laws in the U.S. No doubt this incident of mass murder was ALSO designed to both turn the nation's attention away from the constantly unraveling Waco monstrosity AND send a message to Texas officials that perhaps they can find something else to do but force the Pandora's Box of Waco wide open. No doubt this is a message to "Dubya" as well, who has been rather slow to completely endorse severe, extensive gun control in either Texas or in the nation, of which he hopes to soon be President. We're sure Dubya got the message this time. Watch for him to show some sudden support for restrictive gun control legislation in the VERY near future. Some "oddities"-- There are reports of another gunman or participant being involved. An unidentified firearm NOT belonging to the known shooter was found near his body. Thursday morning Forth Worth city official Pat Svacina made a peculiar and rather troubling statement about the mass murder Wednesday night; saying, "there are some indications that something may not be right." And a BIGGIE: according to some reports ATF agents were on the scene at Wedgewood Baptist within a few MINUTES of the outbreak of the shooting (shades of Columbine!). NO WORD of pipe bombs having apparently been utilized had yet been made public. WHAT WAS ATF DOING THERE?! More inconsistencies, contradictions and irregularities will doubtless arise in the hours and days to follow regarding this latest scripted, planned staged and implemented covert government massacre. More as the story develops. John Quinn/NewsHawk Inc. From: "NewsHawk Inc." Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: NewsHawk Inc. -- Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/ For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.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
[CTRL] Internment Camps are real! Read and Learn! Billy Dee Reports!]
-Caveat Lector- It pays to be persistant! One more from Mark too. SNETNEWS Mailing List Try our website: http://www.bignet.net/~eagleflt/ for some photos. Mark Original Message Subject: [TheEagle-L] Internment Camps are real! Read and Learn! Billy Dee Reports! Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:58:34 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have put my report and reply to this reply below. Billy Dee -- Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:23:15 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[TheEagle-L] Re: Internment camps BS Nicola These pictures have been around the net for a couple of years now. They don't prove squat. Your statements are completely unsubstantiated. Give me a quote from a person who is qualified to make such statements that I have some way of verifying. Hello! Well, this is your lucky day! I am a qualified person on the subject of American detention center's. In fact, for your information, our organization was the one that blew the whistle on the government secret project called, "Operation Garden Plot", which started in the late 50's or the early 60's.And it was our organization that put pressure on the government to own up and fess up to the over 100 detention center's that exist in this country today. They each house 20,000 people (although they are empty accept they are fully staffed and ready). About 4 years ago I sent one of my director's in the field to get as much information as possible about these alleged (at that time they were alleged) detention center's that were allegedly being built for such people as political dissindent's, militia people, Right wing Christian,s only to name but a few. Obviously, I was just shocked to hear such allegation's. Do my director set out for a weekend, under the directions of a close political friend and source (who told here where to look.) and she photo'd those the camps that are in Georgia. And, she also gave excellant road direction's to the camp. On top of that, I was sent by a congressmen about 4 years ago a file called "Operation Garden PLot". This file is where it all began and we started to piece together a very unbelievable situation. Could it be that our government has been secretly building detention center's for future us to house those that they feel are direct dangers towards the government, among other reasons? Well, so began our almost 1 year investigation and research. Finally after we had all the information in, we sent out press release's of this information and posts demanding answers from our government. None came! Then in the summer of about 4 years ago, there was a CNN clip on tv that I saw a CNN spokesmen twice question Slick Willy (Clinton) about the alleged detention center's. Clinton shot back both times he was asked with a very angry and upset look in his face and voice and refused to make any comments on that. Well, that alone showed me that he knew this was true! Keep in mind that the CNN spokesmen had read our posts on our research and investigation's on the alleged D.Camps (alleged still at that time). Then in October of that year, Congressmen Gonzales made a public appearance on tv (hopefully at least some of you will remember that), and he stated that the Detention center's were indeed truth! And that these center's have been built. And he further stated publically that is was part of a secret project since the early 60's. And there you have it! If that is not enough for you, then I would be happy to send you a copy of that file called "Operation Garden Plot". I have sent that file out at least about 600 times so far in the past 4 or years. Plus, I do have other file's on the camps that our director found! Your welcome to get copies of those. Maybe someone else on the list recalls exactly what I am talking about with these detention center's. This is old information by the way. But I guess there still many people who have not heard about it. I think it would be a good idea to repost our original posts on the detention center's to educate and enlighten those still unaware of the truth and reality of the d.t. center's. Thank You Billy Dee Founder Of UFOSSI --- http://members.theglobe.com/stargazr2653/family.html Pow camp built in Kingwood WV! The first picture is of a pow camp set up in Fort Dix New Jersey(courtesy of Newswatch Magazine) It is here for reference only. The rest are original Kingwood WV pictures. It is not finished as of yet. The barbwire is not up. Compare to the one in Fort Dix. This camp is part of a $6.8million expansion project at Camp Dawson Army Base near Kingwood WV. These will be used to hold the people deemed dangerous
[CTRL] [Fwd: [Fwd: SNET: Bad Vibes: HAARPing over Littleton]]
-Caveat Lector- Thought you may be interested in the news that HAARP was involved in the Littleton shootings as well. --- Subject: SNET: Bad Vibes: HAARPing over Littleton Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:24:37 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:@[EMAIL PROTECTED]; - SNETNEWS Mailing List Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Bad Vibes: HAARPing over Littleton From Kent Steadman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 1. HAARP-spike coincided precisely with the shootings. As far as I can determine: The east-west peak (HAARP) occurred at 10:40 PDT and the north-south peak occurred at 1:20 PDT. The shootings began between 11:00 and 11:30 PDT. See overlay at: http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/quakes/littmap.gif General info: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbitback29.html 2. We caught two radar anomalies, after the fact, in the Mountain West, with perhaps some we missed, still sleuthing. UTAH, ARIZONA ANOMALIES http://www.toledolink.com/~flash/FLASH17.htm General info: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html 3. On the 4/16 was the most awesome and unprecedented magnetic event that seriously compressed the earth's atmosphere. See: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/storm18.html Also see current CMEs the most powerful upsurge yet in Cycle 23: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html 4. Plasma fireball reported over Missoula, Montana area. See: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html 5. EMAIL: Over the last week many people here on Hatteras Island, NC, have been aware of a low frequency rumble that we feel as pressure on our ears as much as hear. http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html Kent Steadman ORBIT http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist - Send "subscribe snetnews " to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Posted by: [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: [Fwd: HAARP went WILD on Day Of Texas Church Shooting]]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [Fwd: HAARP went WILD on Day Of Texas Church Shooting] Will they be using HAARP to stimulate the religious sector of the brain when they get the holograms up and running? Nicky Original Message Subject: HAARP went WILD on Day Of Texas Church Shooting Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:34:32 + From: "NewsHawk Inc." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: NewsHawk Inc. 9.18.99 HAARP went WILD on Day Of Texas Church Shooting The "HAARD" evidence is in. The covert government's ultra-powerful global-wide HAARP project, KNOWN to have mind, mood, and THOUGHT-manipulating capabilities and agendas according to REAMS of official internal documentation, was transmitting at MAJOR peak levels on the evening of September 15, when the shooting massacre broke out at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth. Magnetic variations, as shown by charts from the official HAARP website, went absolutely BONKERS on the 15th, with fluctuations going literally off the scale in both directions. See the charts at this webpage -- http://skywatch.iwarp.com/texas/ Magnetic fluctuations of such magnitude are some of the telltale signs, as described in official government HAARP documentation, of mind altering transmissions being broadcast by the system. Such a massive, widespread transmission would have an impact on virtually EVERYONE within a targeted area to some extent or other; but would have an even greater influence on any "pre-programmed" mind controlled operatives (victims) being impacted by the transmissions. Such as one Larry Ashbrook, the very guy who was never the same after returning from his NAVY stint (HAARP has been under total control of the Navy for 2 years now); who had complained--quite coherently and lucidly--for quite some period of time to a number of people that he was being subjected to "psychological warfare" experiments, drugged against his will and subjected to other forms of bizarre harassment by the CIA, law enforcement etc.. We think Larry Ashbrook was right. And it seems damn likely that HAARP transmissions were part of the mind control techniques the shadow government used to trigger the Fort Worth church massacre. John Quinn/NewsHawk Inc. 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] *X* MARKS THE SPOT--Made Up Of MAJOR Ley Lines]]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [Fwd: *X* MARKS THE SPOT--Made Up Of MAJOR "Ley Lines"] Original Message Subject: *X* MARKS THE SPOT--Made Up Of MAJOR "Ley Lines" Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:42:52 + From: "NewsHawk Inc." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: NewsHawk Inc. 9.18.99 *X* MARKS THE SPOT--Made Up Of MAJOR "Ley Lines" The following was received from a NewsHawk respondent. We've correlated the information she brings up with some other sources, who confirm her statements. The two lines which make up the *X* along which many mass shooting incidents have occurred in the past 2-3 years, are in fact considered to be major, very powerful "earth grid" or "ley" lines. Such lines would correspond to major acupuncture meridians in the human body according to the principals of acupuncture. Certain locations along these lines would be especially strong "power spots". NewsHawk Inc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message Subject: Re: *X* MARKS THE SPOT! Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:24:49 -0700 From: "Jane" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is going to sound extremely off-the-wall, but I looked at the plot of the "line of destruction" angling down across the map from Oregon to Alabama, and was struck by the fact that I have seen that line before. I have a friend who is a ley-line enthusiast who also works for the USGS as a mapmaker. She showed me *this same line* plotted on the map, as a master force line. It seems it's a hidden rift/fault line that is only visible if you're using satellite maps of the US and know the signs to look for. She's used to looking at aerial photos for doing topographic maps, so it jumped right out at her. If you extend the OTHER line up through Ohio and upstate New York, it follows the path of a ley line that some other folks I know mapped out, years back. Ley linetheory claims that the ancients tapped "dragon force" by performing rites and sacrifices at sacred sites of power adjoining (but not directly on) the ley, and at sites at ley meeting points such as Glastonbury. Or Washington DC, which was laid out according to ley theory and Masonic symbology. (And for that matter, ever wonder why the Pentagon is a pentagon? I don't.) For some reason, geomantic traditions have been big in the power circles for centuries. Food for thought. Jane 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 glorious capitalist free market economic system.
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-09-18 17:53:25 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DasGoat has given us quite a large pill to swallow! I wish to state that many of his views are shared by me. In other areas of life it is apparent to me (he is coming from a political perspective for the most part, though not exclusively, my experience is sociologically, with people in personal relationships and group dynamics) that people really do, for the most part, fit the mold that DasGoat iterates for us so baldly and so correctly. People desire some indefinite change; "Let's get more freedom." (How is it defined? They don't know themselves.) "I hate the government, just look at what happened in (with). . . . Waco; Ruby Ridge, TWA800, the burdensome taxes, the terror tactics of the police, drug laws, mind control, media manipulation, the war in Kosovo, the bombing of Iraq, and on and on I could go. Each issue is not fully understood by those who cry the mantra of opposition. What do they want? They don't know, they just whine that "something's got to be done." Will they actually get off of their asses and DO something, ANYTHING AT ALL? In my experience the answer is NO. Now it is fair to add that in many, if not most or all, cases the people who do actually DO something are the first targeted with real weapons, be they physical, political, or emotional/manipulative. Having said that though, if one was REALLY serious about something needing to be done then the possibility, admittedly very real, of dying, or getting put away should be no cause for a total paralysis of action. That is the case in my experience, not as wide and impressive as MR. Goat's. Thanks for "getting it," dude. As I hope everyone else has understood by now, my post was a "Devil's Advocate" piece, expressing sentiments that I don't ENTIRELY share (but share just enough to understand completely), to give you all the otherwise improbable experience of being addressed, face to face and with brutal honesty, by those on the opposite side of the equation reflected in Conspiracy Theory. An encounter with your "Shadow," you might say. There's something important EMOTIONALLY as well as INTELLECTUALLY to be learned from such a "wake-up call," the equivalent of finding oneself one day on a real battlefield in real war, stripped viscerally of all candy-coated buffers against seeing the life-or-death realities of the "law of the jungle," suddenly inescapably aware of what frighteningly thin ice the artificially manufactured oasis of "security" in our society really rests on. Better to face such a realization early, in order to steel oneself emotionally, than too late -- when already enveloped by it without any opportunity to prepare oneself fully for coping with the exigencies of "fight or flight." If it's any consolation to readers who may have felt antagonized by it, unfairly so, this "bitter pill" is something I MYSELF have to swallow TOO and it's just as unpleasant to ME. We can afford the luxury of being casually indifferent to the Serpent in our Garden, but NOT when the same creature we THINK we know rears its ugly head in full strength as a fire-breathing Dragon. As no doubt some of you do now too, I fear for the future of our nation and the fate of our (at least theoretical and tentative) "free society, and it's becoming REAL fear, gut-level, not just a sentiment in the head -- and I hope to God (or whatever the operative determinative of space, time and personal fate is)-- that we, all of us, can be spared the ordeal of experiencing life as it can be in a worst case scenario. What should we DO? I'm more of a THINKER than a DOER, in case you hadn't noticed. I've got no no easy answers, even for myself; but it's necessary, IMHO, to begin asking that question with a much more serious tone than we've been doing up until this point. 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: Mobilizing against globalization could bring revolution to Seattl
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart Toward Freedom http://www.towardfreedom.com/sep99/wto.htm Sept/Oct 1999 THE WTO'S RIGGED GAME Mobilizing against globalization could bring revolution to Seattle MARK WEISBROT AND NEIL WATKINS Should countries have the right to set health and safety standards for the food their citizens eat? Should they be allowed to exclude foreign-produced foods that don't meet national standards? Or should these questions be decided by the World Trade Organization (WTO)? Like it or not, these issues are being decided right now. In the latest trade dispute between the world's two largest trading partners, the US placed sanctions worth about $117 million on European goods in late July. The goal is to force the Europeans to import US beef that is raised with growth hormones. Ordinarily, the decision to place 100 percent tariffs on French truffles, foie gras, and other delicacies that most of us have never tasted would violate our international trade agreements. But, in this case, the US has the backing of the WTO, a 134-nation body that was created four years ago to negotiate and govern world trade. Ruling that Europe's ban on hormone-treated beef is illegal, it authorized the US to impose retaliatory trade sanctions against the European Union. Consider the arguments: The Europeans don't allow beef that is treated with growth hormones to be sold in their markets, regardless of where it's produced. They just don't think it's all that safe to eat. But most US beef is, in fact, treated with these hormones. So the government, at the request of the US beef industry, filed a complaint at the WTO, arguing that the ban was an unfair restriction on trade. The WTO's rules say that any health or environmental standard that affects trade must be supported by scientific evidence. Thus, it appointed a three-judge panel, which decided in March 1997 that there wasn't enough scientific evidence to justify Europe's ban on hormone-treated beef. An independent panel of scientists, assigned by the European Commission to consider these questions, reached a different conclusion. They found that one of the six hormones commonly found in beef is a "complete carcinogen." For the other five, they concluded that further study would be needed - although anyone reading the 142-page report would undoubtedly wonder why the US allows these drugs to be pumped into its livestock. Well, if most people actually knew what they were eating, they probably wouldn't - especially those most susceptible to the effects of the hormones, such as children and pregnant women. But there are no labeling requirements for these extra ingredients in US hamburgers. Regardless of how one assesses the scientific evidence, shouldn't the Europeans be allowed to err on the side of caution if they so choose? Most people would say yes. This case is particularly outrageous because everyone agrees that the law against hormone-treated beef was designed to protect Europe's consumers, not its domestic cattle industry. And the law applies without discrimination to both domestic and foreign producers. Yet, the WTO insists that an unaccountable, three-judge panel, meeting in secret, can overturn a European law - simply because it has an adverse impact on trade. Clearly the tail (trade) is wagging the dog here. And this is exactly what environmental, consumer, and labor groups warned would happen when the WTO was created four years ago. Its track record has validated these warnings. In 1997, for instance, the US Environmental Protection Agency weakened its regulations on contaminants in imported gasoline, in order to comply with a WTO ruling that found these rules to be an unfair trade barrier. The enforcement of the US Endangered Species Act - specifically, the protection of sea turtles - has also been compromised by recent WTO rulings. From the point of view of big business, and especially large multinational corporations, these aren't disturbing developments. For them, it's only natural to see human beings and the environment as mere instruments for expanding global trade and commerce. They are quite comfortable with having these decisions made by a tribunal of an international organization where they can have the predominant influence - unencumbered by any congress, parliament, or other elected officials that might have to care what ordinary citizens think. The WTO is their creature, and so it has been pretty consistent in taking the side of business against the rights of citizens and the global community. As more people are beginning to see, this is the crux of the problem. Institutions like the WTO, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank - as well as commercial agreements embodying the same principles, like NAFTA or the recently derailed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) - are deliberately designed to transfer power over economic decision-making from
[CTRL] Founding Fatherhood
-Caveat Lector- From www.antiwar.com/orig/history1.html Editorial Note: Today in History September 17, 1999 On this day in 1787, the United States Constitution was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, in Philadelphia. How the Founders would have been horrified by the federal monstrosity that has succeeded their labors: a federal government that has been bloated, out of all proportion, beyond their wildest imaginings. Also on this day, in 1796, President George Washington having declined a third term issued his Farewell Address in Philadelphia. That historic speech is as relevant today as the day it was written and delivered perhaps it is even more relevant. For today, America reigns over a vast empire far more powerful than that lorded over by King George III and the danger to our republic has never been greater. We seem to have forgotten the advice left to us by the Father of our country, and sorely need reminding. And so here is a portion of Washington's Farewell Address for the delectation of our readers, who may or may not be familiar with its sage advice. Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct. And can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantage which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which enobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld; and it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity, gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with
[CTRL] Tb or not TB / Heartfelt
-Caveat Lector- From the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_45/450791.stm Friday, September 17, 1999 Published at 23:45 GMT 00:45 UK Picture Picture World: Europe Picture Russian TB threatens the world Picture One in 10 Russian prisoners is thought to have TB Picture By Madrid Correspondent Daniel Schweimler World experts in the treatment of tuberculosis have warned that the disease in Russian prisons is a timebomb waiting to go off. Speaking in Madrid at the International Conference on Lung Health, they said that unless urgent measures are taken to stop what they call "the prison TB pump", the incidence of the disease in Russia will keep growing and inevitably spread to the rest of the world. The incidence of tuberculosis in Russia has more than doubled since 1991 and a quarter of those cases are in Russian prisons. TB breeding grounds The conditions in these under-heated, under-resourced, overcrowded buildings is ideal for the spread of the disease, which is killing about 5,000 prisoners a year. Picture: [ image: Scientists are testing traditional herbal remedies as they search for new cures]Scientists are testing traditional herbal remedies as they search for new cures The head of Russia's prison medical service, Colonel Alexander Conets, told delegates that thanks to a greater openness in Russian society, they could firstly admit that there is a problem and secondly seek help in trying to deal with it. But 100,000 prisoners are released from Russian jails every year, many of them infected with TB. Lee Reichman from the National Tuberculosis Centre in the United States said the problem would not remain confined to Russia. "Tuberculosis is an infectious disease, it spreads from person to person," he said. "So it must spread and it's being incubated in Russian prisons, and unless we do something about this incubation, when it gets out it's going to be a disaster." Resistance spells danger But what is also worrying health experts is the increase of a new form of drug resistant TB which has developed because of widespread misuse of antibiotics. This new strain of the disease is expensive to treat and is also finding a perfect breeding-ground in Russian jails. Picture: [ image: Cold, crowded and underfunded - Russian prisons provide ideal conditions for spreading TB]Cold, crowded and underfunded - Russian prisons provide ideal conditions for spreading TB A number of international organisations, with the backing of the World Health Organisation (Who), have launched a pilot project in the central Russian region of Tomsk to try to deal with this new strain of TB. It is expensive and there are fears that funding for the project could be misused. Hopefully the World Bank is going to come in with a major loan, but the local problems in Russia - where there's currently chaos and worse - will make it difficult to receive the loan or use it properly," said Mr Reichman. According to speakers at the conference, there is no time to lose - the accelerating spread in Russian prisons of HIV, the virus that can lead to Aids, will they say lead to an explosion of TB among inmates. The message from the Madrid conference is clear: that as we enter the new century, Western countries and international organisations must provide the commitment and the financial resources to address public health threats on a global scale. From the Telegraph (UK) www.telegraph.co.uk ISSUE 1576Saturday 18 September 1999 Hearts taken from 11,000 babies By Sean O'Neill HOSPITALS have removed and retained, without parents' consent, the hearts of at least 11,000 children who died of cardiac disease in the past 40 years. Large collections of damaged and malformed hearts are stored at major hospitals across the country. The organs were removed from the bodies of children during post mortem examinations for which consent was given. But permission was not sought from families to store the hearts for decades to carry out medical research. Relatives did not know that they were burying their children without their hearts. The largest collection is held at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, which has amassed 2,500 hearts since the late 1950s. In London, the Royal Brompton Hospital and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital have catalogued and stored some 2,000 hearts each. There are 1,500 kept in Birmingham and a further 1,000 in Leeds. Hospitals in Southampton, Newcastle, Manchester and Bristol have retained about 500 each. The widespread practice of tissue retention came to light following the scandal of high death rates in paediatric cardiac surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Helen Rickard, who uncovered the practice when she discovered that her daughter Samantha had been buried without her heart, will give evidence on Monday to the public inquiry into events at Bristol. Mrs Rickard, whose
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Campaign to End Media Bias [CEMB]
-Caveat Lector- No, that's simply not true. If you check out the site http://www.egroups.com/group/cemb/info.html you'll see that the Coalition To End Media Bias [CEMB] is against any and all media bias in the political process. The one against GWB --re the coke question-- is only one of many. Just ask any of the folks who have already joined the CEMB effort. It's been a great surge lately. Folks are coming up with tons of instances of media bias, etc. It's a completely volunteer grassroots effort at the national level. Check it out for yourself. Don't believe the conspiracy against CEMB. See http://www.egroups.com/group/cemb/info.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- CEMB is only interested in "bias" against Bush...nobody else is in the race according to CEMB..from CEMB postings so far anyways. 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] [Fwd: [MC] RUMOR? Fwd]
?? E-mail Rumor Completely Untrue http://www.usps.gov/news/press/99/rumor.htm A completely false rumor concerning the U.S. Postal Service is being circulated over the Internet via e-mail. The e-mail message claims that a "Congressman Schnell" has introduced "Bill 602P" to allow the federal government to impose a 5-cent surcharge on each e-mail message delivered over the Internet. The money would be collected by Internet Service Providers and then turned over to the Postal Service. No such proposed legislation exists. In fact, no "Congressman Schnell" exists. The U.S. Postal Service has no authority to surcharge e-mail messages sent over the Internet, nor would it support such legislation. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ** MINDCONTROL-L Mind Control and Psyops Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: "unsubscribe MINDCONTROL-L" or "subscribe MINDCONTROL-L". Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED], list moderator
Re: [CTRL] SWAT Nation (Rant)
-Caveat Lector- Das Goat wrote: BTW, when in history has a ruling oligarchy ever "let events unfold naturally"? LOL 2. the situation is now the individual vs the State and is being carried by events We are essentially observers.to the tide of future history. The best we can hope for, IMHO, is that an influential segment of the general public will be able to RECOGNIZE what's going on and at least not be "hoodwinked" by the State. Since I'm not nearly as articulate or poetic as Goat, I'd just like to post the following excerpt from an article one of LaRouche's associates wrote about his research into how the oligarchy of Venice controlled the destiny of the age in which it lived, and has actually perpetuated itself into the present day. The evil that we see everywhere we looked is the same evil that existed in the 15th Century, the 14th and back as far as you want to go. The problem in dealing with this evil is that "normal" people conceive of evil in terms of minor vice and cannot conceive of the massive proportions to which an oligarchy will go to preserve its mode of existence. Below is a small excerpt only from the article, but I recommend reading it in its entirety. The site will also take you to other articles in the series written by Don Phau, who, by the way, was one of the LaRouche associates imprisoned for several years by LaRouche enemies. Linda Minor "The Venetian method is the method of not taking sides, but playing sides against one another, to one's advantage. You go into a country, you go among a people, you go to an individual person, and you corrupt them by knowing the principle of corruption which is imbedded in every person. That principle of corruption is the person's self-ego as an autonomous ego, as a microcosm, in counterposition, in struggle, against the macrocosm. Not the individual as a part of a macrocosm, as a reflection of the macrocosm; not the individual as imago Dei--in the image of God the Creator--but the individual as a sensual creature in war against not all but the all, to correct the ordinary reading of Hobbes. Once you understand that method, you can see the examples of how that method is consciously applied by the Venetians, in philosophy and elsewhere. That is what empiricism is, what materialism is, in the form in which people like Pompanazzi, Gasparo Contarini, and so forth, introduced it [into western philosophical thinking]. " ---Lyndon LaRouche http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/venphau1.htm Venice: The Methodology of Evil -- Part I by Donald Phau Printed in The American Almanac, May 16, 1994. snip Venice's navy was the power which was the basis for its domination of world trade from the thirteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth century. With its geographical location, Venice controlled all commerce between the East and the West. All trade with India, China, and the Mideast, unless it went on dangerous routes over land, went through Venice. The Venetian State controlled all commerce, i.e., it was hardly an example of free enterprise. Clement writes: ``Private owners of vessels were not allowed to send cargoes to ports where Venice sent fleets. Vessels were built and fitted out by the State, and put up at auction to be bidden for by the merchants, the voyages all being made according to regulations, and a good share of the profits paid to the State. Private owners were licensed before freightening a ship, and no ship not commanded by a Venetian was permitted to sail from the lagoons. Ships of war guarded the mouths of the rivers, and all foreign vessels were liable to inspection. All kinds of goods carried in Venetian ships were obliged to be taken to Venice before they could be sent to any other port.'' ... Venice used every trick and deceit to try to play off one nation against the other to regain her empire. Her main weapon was her diplomats. At the beginning, Venice formulated one strategy to ally with France against the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximillian. In return, France would aid her in reconquering her lost cities. Part of her strategy, which we will focus on, was to keep England, a growing power, neutral. In 1515, the Serenissima sent one of her most capable diplomats, Sebastian Giustinian, to London. Giustinian's diplomatic dispatches provide an insight into the ``principle of evil'' at work. The ambassador's task was to profile England's new King, Henry VIII, and his court, gain Henry's confidence and manipulate him to Venice's ends. In one of his first dispatches from London, he acknowledges his instructions to act with deceit to accomplish his mission. He writes: ``I shall keep well on the watch to learn everything, and will endeavour to ingratiate myself well with these lords, and of the result, my letters shall inform your sublimity.'' Guistinian's assignment to England came at a transition point in Venice's strategy for control of Europe. With the opening of the route around southern Africa in 1498, the
Re: [CTRL] SCOOP: This Week In [... Hypocrisy]
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-09-15 17:00:04 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G.W.Bush sending all those people to prison for cocaine possession is comparable to J.Edgar Hoover condemning all homosexuals. By doing so, it gives the "impression" that they would never stand for, nevermind partake in such activity. It's just a smokescreen for them to hide behind from the public's view. While all along they are as "guilty" as the ones they persecute/prosecute. They were and are the biggest of hypocrites; and neither deserved to be in any elected or assigned office-ever! "Among the cases of hypocrisy [Larry] Flynt has documented: snip "[Item 2:] A high-ranking Republican who had phone sex with a woman; she recorded it " 'I dont't have moral values,' the politician boasted, 'I just talk about them on TV.' " The above from "Inside Flynt," by Denise Hamilton, "an inside look into what makes Flynt's investigative team tick," in the SF Weekly, Sept 15-21, 1999, text available at: http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/current/feature.html. It also includes certain intriguing factoids such as this: "These days, he has a wide variety of friends ... Flynt was the late John F. Kennedy Jr's [personal] guest this year to the annual White House correspondents' dinner ..." "Flynt has long aspired to be a Washington player. His short-lived magazine 'The Rebel' sought to do investigative political journalism on a grand scale ... [until it] was shut down after Flynt was shot and paralyzed in 1978 ..." His current goal? "To expose the HYPOCRISY [of our "reputable" leaders] and let people know that it crosses party lines and no [institution] has a monopoly on it." 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] Plutocrats and the WTO
-Caveat Lector- SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE "A shadowy international group increasingly tells governments what they can and can't do. Activists are taking on the World Trade Organization at its first ever U.S. meeting this fall." by Daniel Zoll San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 15, 1999 When [California] state assembly members Patricia Wiggins (D-Santa Rosa) and Tom Torlakson (D-Martinez) introduced legislation requiring government contractors to use U.S.-made materials, they hoped to give a boost to domestic industry. The legislature passed the "Buy American" bill last week. Now it just has to pass muster with an unelected panel of trade representatives based in Switzerland. In approving the bill, California lawmakers withstood heavy lobbying from the California Council for International Trade, which represents Chevron, Boeing, the Gap, and some of the other biggest corporations doing business in the state. Those corporations say giving preference to local companies is illegal under rules passed by the Geneva-based World Trade Organization. They should know: they helped devise the WTO in the first place. Thanks to the WTO, the Buy American bill, now sitting on Gov. Gray Davis's desk, faces an uncertain future. It could be the latest victim of global "free trade" measures that are tying the hands of national, state, and local governments. Since its founding in 1995, the WTO has weakened the U.S. Clean Air Act, ruled against European food safety laws, and watered down a U.S. environmental law protecting endangered sea turtles -- all in the name of free trade and corporate profits. Although the WTO's sweeping authority is still unknown to most Americans, the backlash against free trade rules is gaining momentum. When the WTO holds its first ministerial on U.S. turf, in Seattle in November, it will be greeted by protesters from around the world: AIDS activists, organic farmers, food safety defenders, environmentalists, union members, and hundreds of others. The activities are set to include rallies, a teach-in, press conferences, an anti-WTO daily newspaper, street theater, and general civil disobedience; organizers are billing it as the "protest of the century." "It's like a carnival against capitalism," Kevin Danaher of San Francisco-based nonprofit Global Exchange says of the anti-WTO events planned for Seattle. "The whole rainbow is going to be there: the labor groups, the environmental groups, the sweatshop groups. This is the Woodstock for the global economy." Consistently corporate The WTO consists of 134 member countries, along with 33 nations with "observer" status. Under the WTO's dispute settlement process, countries can challenge each other's laws and regulations as trade barriers. Decisions are made in secret by a panel of unelected, unaccountable trade bureaucrats who are not subject to conflict-of-interest laws. Since its founding in 1995, the WTO has been remarkably consistent: virtually every single time a public health or environmental law has been challenged, the WTO has ruled it illegal. In its very first decision, the WTO ruled in favor of foreign oil refiners and against the U.S. Clean Air Act, which required refiners to produce cleaner gas. The WTO can also be counted on to lower public health standards at every opportunity. Under WTO rules, countries are not required to have minimum food safety standards -- but they can be penalized for setting standards that are higher than guidelines allowed under global trade rules. Last year the WTO ruled on behalf of the Clinton administration that Europe's import ban against beef from cattle treated with certain growth hormones was illegal. As a result, the E.U. must change its law or face harsh trade sanctions. Sometimes, the mere threat of a challenge in the WTO is enough to induce a country to change a law or policy designed to protect health or the environment. That's what happened when Guatemala, in accordance with UNICEF guidelines, tried to ban baby formula packaging that associated formula with healthy, fat babies. After the U.S. State Department, at the behest of Gerber Products, threatened to challenge the regulation at the WTO, Guatemala dumped the law. If multinational corporations and other WTO boosters get their way, those rulings are just the beginning. Free traders hope the Seattle meeting will launch a "Millennium Round" of trade talks that would dramatically expand the WTO's authority into areas such as investment, competition policy, and government procurement. Also planned is a global agreement on deregulating the trade in forest products, which activists are calling the "free logging" agreement. There is even talk of negotiating a so-called Multilateral Agreement on Investments, which would restrict governments' ability to regulate foreign investment and currency speculation. Global government Activists are seizing the WTO ministerial as a
[CTRL] Enter the Devil...
-Caveat Lector- from: http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/venphau2.htm Venice: The Methodology of Evil -- Part II by Donald Phau Printed in The American Almanac, May 23, 1994. Introduction In the first part of this series, we introduced the reader to the Italian city-state of Venice, also called the Serenissima or ``most serene republic.'' This small city on the Adriatic Sea was, for over 600 years a major European empire. We learned how its methodology of evil, practiced by its ambassadors throughout the world, targeted, profiled, and corrupted the kings and the courts of Europe. We saw that an alliance of European nations with the Vatican wiped out Venice's empire between 1509-1513. Venice responded and rebuilt, by turning nation against nation through the perfected use of the art of ``divide and conquer.'' In this second part we hope to give the reader an understanding of how the Serenissima's methodology of evil sought to reach into and steal mankind's very soul. We will see how Venice instigated the religious wars of Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, killing millions and devastating nations. As in Part I of this series, we will make extensive use of the contemporary reports written by the ambassadors of Venice, using their own words to illustrate one point: Venice's strategy was to never take sides, especially in the very battles they provoked. In the wars between Catholics and Protestants, Venice's goal was to turn the victims of both sides into a mindless, pagan mob. Such a mob could then be easily used as a battering ram against the institutions of Venice's enemies. Reflecting this knowledge are the words of one Venetian ambassador, who, commenting on the spread of Protestantism, said that ``as a result, doubts and uncertainties arise in men's minds; they don't know which is the true faith, and, not satisfied with any of them, they end up believing in none.'' Alarmed by Venice's near-annihilation by the League of Cambrai, a faction of the Venetian nobility decided to regroup, and to formulate a new war strategy. A network was formed, consisting of young nobles from the University of Padua, and another group which had decided to become Camaldolese monks, an order of the Benedictines. Together, these cultural warriors laid the ideological groundwork for radical Protestantism as the new weapon of religious warfare. The Vatican and the Catholic Church, the one institution which could unite the Christian nations of Europe, was especially targeted by Venice. The strategy was twofold: to penetrate and corrupt the Church itself, while simultaneously creating a mass anti-Catholic movement to destroy the Church from the outside. Venice, of course, would be on both sides. Venice's targeting of the Roman Catholic Church was on the level of epistemological warfare. Venice's real enemy was the concept that man is made in the image of God, and is therefore endowed by the Creator with a spark of divinity which separates men from the beasts. The Church's responsibility was to protect this spark given to man. Venice's strategy was to snuff out this spark forever or, like the Devil in Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical Historie of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus, to steal man's soul. Once this was accomplished, the Vatican would be just one more tool in Venice's policy of divide and conquer. Enter the Devil... Venice's key agent in its new strategy was the Venetian nobleman Gasparo Contarini. Let's take a quick trip back in time to learn more. The year is 1501 and we are sitting in a gondola on one of Venice's canals. We watch, as Gasparo Contarini, his belongings packed, leaves his palace for the day's trip to Padua. Gasparo is 18 years old and he is going to complete his education at the University of Padua. All the noble families of Venice had been sending their brightest sons to Padua for many years. Gasparo's brothers had entered business or were managing the family's extensive land holdings. But he was being prepared for other things. The family itself dated its ancestors to the Roman tribunes of the fifth century. Throughout Venice's history, the Contarinis would give the city of Venice eight doges and 22 bishops. Venice by this time had grown from a city of 65,000 people a century earlier to an empire of millions. But as Gasparo took the road to Padua, Venice was on the decline and the power of Spain, England, and France was growing. The discovery of the trade route around the Cape of Good Hope of Africa in 1486, 15 years earlier, had already shifted trade centers to the northern cities of Europe. Venice's role as the crossroads between East and West was being eclipsed. At Padua, Contarini threw himself into his studies, especially of Aristotle. Four years before his arrival, the Venetian Senate had voted up funding for the first chair dedicated to the study of Aristotle, and
[CTRL] China Conference Exhibition (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [OPPORTUNITY-LIST] China Conference Exhibition Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:43:31 -0700 From: Bob Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On November 1-3, 1999, the California Energy Commission will conduct the 1999 China Energy Conference and Exhibition in Irvine, California. This is an opportunity for California energy technology and service companies to meet with more than 120 directors and managers of Chinese enterprises and government decision-makers. The Chinese participants want to make their facilities energy efficient, reduce air pollution and explore options for on-site power, steam generation and chilled water. For details, please go to: http://www.energy.ca.gov/export/china Bob Aldrich = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, 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] SWAT Nation (Rant)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-09-18 22:55:04 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd just like to post the following excerpt from an article one of LaRouche's associates wrote about his research into how the oligarchy of Venice controlled the destiny of the age in which it lived, and has actually perpetuated itself into the present day. The evil that we see everywhere we looked is the same evil that existed in the 15th Century, the 14th and back as far as you want to go. Hell, let's be thorough and go all the way back to the first High Civilization in SUMER -- which is also where Buckminster Fuller's analysis of our ULTIMATE problem led him. Otherwise, thanks, Linda, for keeping readers up to speed on the principles of genuine power, which today are no different than as earlier given in Machiavelli and Sun Tzu, only more sophisticated as applied also through our new technological, industrial, and scientific (not to mention sociological and psychological) tools used as weaponry.. 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] Reagan under the Bush Regency
-Caveat Lector- A look back at the "Reagan" administration, with Ronnie a ventriloquist's dummy. "Reagan was fading throughout his eight-year presidency, and the decline began with the assassination attempt in 1981, Reagan's first year in office. "``His thoughts became slower, his speech became slower, he deliberated more, he hesitated more when he spoke,'' Morris said in an interview last year. ``He lost his quickness. And for the rest of his presidency it was a very, very slow and steady mental and physical decline.'' Reagan Biography Stirs Controversy WASHINGTON (AP) - After 14 years of researching former President Ronald Reagan, a prize-winning biographer is stirring controversy even before the book is released to the public. Some historians, writers and Reagan associates are questioning Edmund Morris' decision to use a fictional narrator who interacts with Reagan as part of the narrative, The New York Times reported Saturday. The 860-plus-page book, ``Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan,'' is scheduled to be released Sept. 30. Although Morris is only 59, he depicts himself in the book as a Reagan contemporary who, for example, caught a glimpse of Reagan as a teen-ager playing in a 1926 high school football game. The fictional Morris traces Reagan's life from his birth in 1911 through the 1990s. ``I was expecting the definitive book on Ronald Reagan,'' former Reagan aide Lyn Nofziger told the newspaper. ``But how am I going to get the definitive book if there's a fictional character in it? Maybe if I read the whole book I would be pleasantly surprised. But just the idea of mixing fact and fiction is something that's disturbing me.'' ``Edmund has either engaged in an act of genius or a most remarkable leap off the precipice,'' Anthony Doland, the Reagan administration's chief speech writer, told the Times. The Times said it viewed the book on the condition that direct quotations from it not be used. Morris did not return a message left Saturday at his Washington home Reagan aides granted Morris unusual access to Reagan over the years, allowing him to interview the president an average of once a month and travel overseas with him. Morris, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for his only other book, ``The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,'' signed a contract for a Reagan biography in 1985. It originally was scheduled to be released in 1991. Morris reportedly received a $3 million advance from Random House. Morris has said little about what he saw while observing the Reagan presidency. Among the few insights he has offered: Reagan was fading throughout his eight-year presidency, and the decline began with the assassination attempt in 1981, Reagan's first year in office. ``His thoughts became slower, his speech became slower, he deliberated more, he hesitated more when he spoke,'' Morris said in an interview last year. ``He lost his quickness. And for the rest of his presidency it was a very, very slow and steady mental and physical decline.'' The Times said Random House apparently has not released many copies of the book. Employees at a Washington bookstore specializing in political works said they had not received any copies, which they said was unusual for a book scheduled to go on sale in only a matter of days. In Random House publicity material, the publisher tells readers that the narrator is ``not quite Edmund Morris'' in the early parts of the book, the Times said. ``He is in effect a literary projection of the author back through time,'' it said. The newspaper said early copies of the book circulating privately include references to the fictional Morris' early diaries. Those early copies do not provide any explanation of the fictional character. ``I understand that a lot of what historians do incorporates techniques that fiction writers do,'' said Mark Gilderhus, author of the college textbook ``History and Historians. ``But there still is a difference and that is that historians should be constrained by the evidence,'' he told the Times. Random House has granted Newsweek exclusive rights to an excerpt set to appear in its Sept. 27 issue. 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]/
[CTRL] Rauchen Verboten !
-Caveat Lector- From The Independent (UK) REVEALED: HOW NAZIS STUBBED OUT SMOKING WHEN HITLER and Eva Braun committed suicide on 30 April 1945, a little ceremony was held at the Fuhrerbunker. Liberated at last from the tyrannical house rules, the residents lit up. Then they poured petrol on the corpses and set fire to them, too. Even by his own standards, Hitler's hatred of smoking was extraordinary. Braun, Joseph Goebbels and the other unfortunate addicts who shared a roof with the Fuhrer in the last days of the war had to sneak out into the smouldering ruins of Berlin for a few furtive drags. Braun covered up her guilty secret by chewing mints. Half a century later this first smoking ban at a public place seems enlightened, at least from an American perspective. A US scholar has assembled compelling evidence to prove that, largely because of Hitler's obsession, not only the bunker but wartime Germany as a whole was at least 20 years ahead of the rest of the world in nailing tobacco as the cause of lung cancer and in attempts to curb the filthy habit. The implications are enormous. Millions of people puffed on after the war, oblivious to the dangers. On proper medical advice, some might well have given up smoking and lived a good few years longer. A reappraisal of German medical science is also in order. The experiments of Josef Mengele and his ilk debased the work of an entire generation of German scientists. It has been assumed no worthwhile work was done by Third Reich biologists, so tainted were they all by their search for racial purity and related pseudo-science projects. The Nazis could build rockets - curing human ailments was not their forte. The historian Robert Proctor, author of The Nazi War on Cancer, explodes that myth, only to raise more questions: how did the knowledge gathered in the Third Reich become lost, and why did it take the medical establishments in Britain two decades and in the US even longer to rediscover it? Or did they know it all along? First, the evidence. It all goes back to the day the young Adolf Hitler chucked his last packet of cigarettes into the Danube. Smoking, he decided, was bad for him, and therefore bad for Germans. Tobacco was one of the first things he would try to wipe off the face of the Earth. Soon after he reached power, millions of posters proclaiming nicotine as "poison for the Aryan race" were printed. Measures were promulgated, restricting the sale of cigarettes to women, cutting soldiers' rations on the Eastern Front and banning smoking in cars, trains and buildings. Members of the Hitler Youth were drafted in to spread the message with their inimitable subtlety. At the same time, money was poured into research. A link between rising consumption of alcohol and tobacco and the incidence of stomach and lung cancers had long been suspected. The first breakthrough came in 1939, when a PhD student at Cologne University demonstrated for the first time a connection between smoking and lung cancer. In 1942 Hitler helped to set up the Institute for the Struggle Against the Dangers of Tobacco at Jena with 100,000 Reichsmarks from his own budget. A year later the Jena scientists came up with the goods. Two researchers, Eberhard Schairer and Erich Schoniger, had carried out a statistical analysis of the correlation between tobacco and lung cancer, using a group of smokers as well as a control group. Their study, described by Professor Proctor as the "crown jewel of 20th- century epidemiology", established that smokers ran an increased risk of lung cancer. To put this finding into perspective, Britain's Medical Research Council claims to have been the "first national institution in the world to accept formally the evidence that tobacco is a major cause of death". The research council took that leap of faith in 1957. Germany did not just investigate, it acted on its findings. As early as 1939 the Nazis convened a congress on the dangers of tobacco, attended by 15,000 scientists. In the same year Hermann Goering forbade soldiers from smoking on marches, in the streets or on patrol. Cigarettes could not be sold to women, drivers faced lawsuits for criminal negligence if found smoking at the wheel. Research continued, with mixed success. Hitler was convinced of tobacco's lingering genetic effects. But scientists did not dare to report the results of their fertility studies, which showed that nicotine was, if anything, making laboratory rats more randy. Like the rest of German life sciences, much of the tobacco research was motivated by the Nazis' preoccupation with "racial hygiene" and inevitably ended up in blind alleys. Stomach cancer also drew a blank. But the rest of their research has stood the test of time. "If it hadn't been for the war and the fact that this research had ideological grounding, the Jena study would be considered a classic early epidemiological work,"
[CTRL] (Fwd) ZNet Commentary / Sept 19 / Nikos Raptis / European Labo
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Michael Albert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here then is today's ZNet Commentary... -- European Labor By Nikos Raptis The Building The German word "Reichstag" means parliament. In colloquial German it also means the parliament building. It is not an exaggeration to say that this building, the Reichstag, is a very important part of the history of the 20th century. On the evening of February 27, 1933 Putzi Hanfstaengl, a Harvard educated German-American friend of Hitler (see ZNet Commentary of June 4, '99) was in bed from a heavy cold and high temperature. "In mid-evening he was awakened by the cries of the housekeeper: the Reichstag was on fire. He shot out of bed looked out of the window, saw the building in flames and immediately rushed to ring up Goebbels, saying, breathlessly, that he urgently had to speak to Hitler. When Goebbels asked what it was about, and whether he could pass on a message, Hanfstaengl said: 'Tell him the Reichstag is burning.' 'Is that meant to be a joke?' was Goebels reply. (Source: Kershaw, Ian, "Hitler," W.W. Norton, N.Y., 1998, p. 457) Hitler and Goebbels set off at once for the blazing Reichstag. "When they arrived, they found Hermann Goering,...already inside the building giving orders - the first of which, characteristically , had been 'Save the tapestries!' The valuable Gobelin, which were his personal property,... Goering had been president of the Reichstag since the end of August 1932... Hitler's first comment on arriving at the blazing Reichstag had been: 'Good riddance to the old shack.' The 'old shack' was, of course, hardly ancient, being exactly forty years old - but he put its burning in excellent use." (Source: Read, Anthony Fisher, David, "The Fall of Berlin," W.W. Norton, N.Y., 1992, p.25,26) On Feb. 28 1993, the day after the fire, Hitler's dictatorship began with the enactment of a decree "for the Protection of the People and the State" (in our days, "For reasons of National Security"), which dispensed with all constitutional protection, of political, personal, and property rights. But "the rounding up of Communist deputies and functionaries had already been set in train during the night in raids carried out with massive brutality. Communists were the main target. But Social Democrats, trade unionists and left wing intellectuals... were also among those dragged into improvised prisons, often in the cellars of SA or SS headquarters, and savagely beaten, tortured, and in some cases murdered." (Source: Kershaw, p.460) All these happened only one week before the national elections. Hitler got 43.9 % of the vote and the Left 30.6% (the Social Democrats 18.3 % and the Communists 12.3 %, in spite of the terror). The man arrested as the arsonist was Marinus van der Lubbe who "came from a Dutch working-class family, and had formerly belonged to the Communist Party youth organization in Holland. He had eventually broken with the Communist Party in 1931 He was twenty-four years old, intelligent, a solitary individual, unconnected with any political groups, but possessed of a strong sense of injustice at the misery of the working class at the hands of the capitalist system... he was determined to make a lone and spectacular act of defiant protest... in order to galvanize the working class into struggle against their repression." (Source: Kershaw, p.456-7) Others believe that the fire had been organized by Goering and Goebbels and that van der Lubbe was a simple minded young Dutch communist. Van der Lubbe, after a long imprisonment and a show trial, was eventually beheaded. The Reichstag fire is the subject of continued debate and research. "The consequences of the Reichstag fire were, of course, always more important than the identity of whoever instigated the blaze." (Kershaw, note 112, p.732) The Greek Construction Workers After the German government decided to move the capital of Germany from Bonn back to Berlin it was inevitable that the Reichstag would be restored. (or rather rebuilt). Also inevitably, the rebuilt Reichstag in 1999 should have a garage. The contractor of the 3-level underground garage is the German construction company ARGE ROHBAU. As usual there is one or more subcontractors. One of the subcontractors is the Greek construction company OCTOPUS. The Greek construction workers according to the contract should have been paid 48 German Marks (about US $ 26) per hour, instead they were paid 15 German Marks (about US $ 8) for the unskilled worker and 18 German Marks (about US $ 10) for the skilled worker. Last November there was a report in the Greek press (ELEFTHEROTYPIA, Nov,, 20, '99, p.17) that 50 Greek workers of OCTOPUS had not been paid for months by ROHBAU, the German contractor. The Greek owner of OCTOPUS claims that the Germans owe him about half a million US dollars. The Germans accused the Greek subcontractor of
Re: [CTRL] Rauchen Verboten !
-Caveat Lector- You can push this argument too faranybody in Germany in 1945 will tell you that the currency used was not marks or the allied money but coffee and cigarettes...especially cigarettes.. ASU 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. Army Sergeant First Class Steven Barry (ret.), WACO
-Caveat Lector-
Steven Barry was on Drudge, Fox News Channel, 10PM PacTime 9/18
According to Matt he is the second person to come forward
regarding the use of Delta Force.
Bard
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/09-27-99/vo15no20_waco.htm
Two years ago in these pages ("Quartered Among Us," September 1, 1997), U.S.
Army Sergeant First Class Steven Barry (ret.), who at the time was an active
duty Special Forces soldier, pointed out that the Waco episode illustrates
the danger of "fusing
military and law enforcement operations." SFC Barry
noted that the FBIs Hostage Rescue Team is a carbon copy of the Combat
Action Group (CAG) of the Pentagons Joint Special Operations Command: "HRT
uses the same equipment, the training is identical, and HRT uses CAGs
training facilities, instructors, and standard operating procedures."
"Trial Balloon"
"Waco was not an aberration," concluded SFC Barry. "It was a trial balloon
sent up by those who perceive a coalition of military and law enforcement
to be a good thing. It was, therefore, a portent of the future. And the
militarys involvement in that unspeakable outrage, along with its
subsequent cover-up of its involvement, bodes ill for Americas future."
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COMPLETE ARTICLE:
Vol. 15, No. 20
September 27, 1999
Table of Contents More on Waco
Waco Deception Up in Smoke
by William Norman Grigg
Clinton Administration scandals display a common pattern. The initial
disclosures of wrongdoing are indignantly denied. Pleas are issued by
Administration spokesmen for people to "stay calm" and wait for "all the
facts" to come out. A cover-up of the relevant facts is then undertaken.
When damaging facts leak, Administration spin-controllers minimize their
significance, or if necessary preside over a controlled release of
further facts over a protracted period of time. When the full truth about
criminal misbehavior, or some significant portion thereof, is finally made
public, Administration spinners and their media allies insist that the
public has grown weary of the matter and that its time to "move on."
This approach has served the Administration well in its efforts to surmount
the Chinagate treason scandal, the Lewinsky affair, and numerous other
episodes. Not surprisingly, the FBI has followed a similar approach in
managing disclosures about its conduct in the 1993 slaughter of the Branch
Davidian sect in Waco, which is the subject of a federal wrongful death
lawsuit by survivors and families of the victims. An order from U.S.
District Judge Walter Smith requiring federal authorities to turn over all
relevant evidence left from the April 19, 1993 siege turned up a shell
casing from an M-651 CS canister, a 40 mm incendiary grenade "that releases
tear gas with a burning explosive capable of sparking fires," observed the
Dallas Morning News.
Spin Strategy
Confronted with inescapable facts, the Justice Department followed standard
Clinton Administration procedure. First came the admissions of proven facts
that had long been denied. In late August, Danny Coulson, a founder of the
FBIs "Hostage Rescue Team" (which was involved in both the Davidian
massacre and the murder of Randy Weavers wife and son at Ruby Ridge) told
the Dallas Morning News that pyrotechnic grenades had been used by the FBI
during the final assault on the Mount Carmel church. After stalling for a
news cycle by issuing further half-hearted denials, the FBI, in the words of
the August 26th New York Times, "backed away from six years of unqualified
denials to Congress and to the public" and admitted that the canisters
which were "pyrotechnic only in a limited sense," the Bureau hastened to
specify had indeed been used at Waco. (The "limited sense" qualification,
which savors of Bill Clintons equivocation over the meaning of the word
"is," offers another example of sophisticated dishonesty.)
The coinage of new euphemisms is a major Clinton Administration industry,
and FBI spokesmen enriched the vocabulary of double-speak by allowing that
they would have to "recant or modify" the previous unqualified denials that
FBI personnel had fired upon the Branch Davidians on that tragic April
morning. This provided a segueway into the next step of the Administrations
familiar spin strategy playing for time to devise a new cover story: "We
ve seen the reports, and were trying to get to the bottom of them," stated
Justice Department spokesman Myron Marlin. Attorney General Janet Reno and
FBI Director Louis Freeh, clinging to the story that they have been the
helpless victims of unreliable information, promised a new, comprehensive
investigation of the matter which is to say that they began the search for
a subordinate who would be a credible scapegoat.
Unfortunately for the FBI and the Justice Department, the chosen spin for
the "discovery" of the pyrotechnic shell casings undermines their case. The
Bureaus official line is that
