[CTRL] Bush Trying to look Determined -- LOL!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nandotimes.com/front/photopage/0,2081,,00.html ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] San Francisco may approve sex-change benefits
-Caveat Lector- San Francisco may approve sex-change benefits By MARGIE MASON, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (February 16, 2001 5:48 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - The city that symbolizes liberalism and sexual openness is about to extend its health insurance coverage to include sex-change operations for municipal employees. The Board of Supervisors and Mayor Willie Brown are expected to sign the measure within the next couple of weeks. It will extend up to $50,000 in benefits to city workers who want to switch their gender. San Francisco apparently would be the only governmental body in the nation to make sex-change benefits available. The issue was discussed in Oregon, but a commission decided against it in 1999. "I'm very pleased that we're doing it," board President Tom Ammiano said Friday. "We have a noticeable transgender population in San Francisco, and many are city employees." The benefits would be available starting July 1. The benefit would cover male-to-female surgery, which costs about $37,000, as well as female-to-male surgery, which runs about $77,000. It also would cover hormones and other procedures. Transgender advocates said the measure's symbolism is more valuable than the benefits. "I think it's really politically important to do that," said Susan Stryker, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society of Northern California. "Transgender rights are often considered as a joke: 'What are those wacky San Franciscans going to do next?"' Stryker, who had male-to-female surgery 10 years ago, said San Francisco's transgender community numbers about 15,000. The term transgender covers a broad range of categories including cross- dressers, transvestites, transsexuals and those born with characteristics of both sexes. Employees would have to work for the city at least one year before they would be eligible. People wanting sex-change surgery would have to pay 15 percent out of pocket if they use a doctor in the city's health network. If an out-of-network doctor is used, that goes up to 50 percent. ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Swiss favor looser marijuana laws
-Caveat Lector- Swiss favor looser marijuana laws The Associated Press BERN, Switzerland (February 15, 2001 5:28 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - A majority of the Swiss support loosening the laws banning marijuana, according to a survey by a drug and alcohol agency. The figures, released Thursday by the private Swiss Institute for Alcohol and Drug Problems following a study in November, say that 54 percent favor a softening of penalties for smoking, possessing and selling the drug. "Cannabis consumption is becoming normal," institute director Richard Mueller said. In the survey of 1,600 people between the ages of 15 and 74, more than a quarter said they had smoked a marijuana cigarette at least once in their life, with the figure rising to 50 percent among teen-agers and young adults. No margin of error was given for the poll. The study suggests that around 87,000 of the 7 million Swiss smoke a marijuana cigarette daily. The institute supports legalizing possession and use of cannabis, and also wants to allow the sale of small quantities of the drug. However, its thinking is not out of tune with that of the Swiss government. Last year, the government proposed parliament decriminalize marijuana use, though other drugs would remain illegal. Parliament is due to consider it by June. Penalties for use of so-called soft drugs are rarely imposed, and Switzerland is rated as having one of the world's most liberal drug policies. The study said there should still be controls on use of soft drugs in public places, and that any moves toward liberalizing the law should be accompanied by a health education campaign similar to that aimed at tobacco smokers. ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- http://www.smh.com.au/news/0102/17/world/world1.htm Sydney Morning Herald February 17, 2001 Sub civilian was top Republican By Michael Millett, Herald Correspondent in Tokyo Japan has sent an envoy to the United States to demand a full explanation for the sinking of a Japanese trawler by a US nuclear submarine, as news reports confirmed that at least one member of a guest party on board was a senior Republican Party figure. Senior Vice-Foreign Minister Sishiro Eto will demand that search operations continue for nine people who were on board the Ehime Maru and are still missing, presumed dead. Japan has condemned the US Navy for allowing civilians to be at the control stations of the submarine, which was hosting 16 civilian guests. One of the guests of Commander Scott Waddle, the submarine's captain, was what one US newspaper called a Republican "fat cat" with connections to President George Bush. Fourteen of the 16 were donors to a private, non-profit foundation that is restoring the World War II battleship Missouri and whose honorary chairman is the former president George Bush. It was on the deck of the Missouri that Japan's leaders surrendered on September 2, 1945, marking the end of the war in the Pacific. The trip was, apparently, to thank them for their support. "It is outrageous. [The US Navy] is slack," the chief of the Japanese Defence Agency, Toshitsugu Saito, said at a news conference, of the civilians' presence at the controls. President Bush ordered a review of all policies on civilian activity during military exercises after USS Greeneville surfaced rapidly off Hawaii, hitting and sinking the Japanese trawler, which was carrying high school fisheries students. The manoeuvre was apparently performed for the entertainment of the guests, two of whom were seated at controls on the submarine's bridge deck. Five of the 35 crew on the trawler drowned. Four 17-year-old students on a study trip were among those missing and presumed drowned. In Tokyo, the Prime Minister, Mr Yoshiro Mori, is clinging to office by his fingertips, with some senior figures in his Liberal Democratic Party openly calling for a leadership vote next month. A junior coalition partner, New Komeito, yesterday refused to rule out support for a no-confidence motion. Mr Mori was roundly criticised for staying on the golf course after being informed of the trawler's sinking. His stock sank further yesterday after it was revealed that a businessman had bankrolled his 40 million yen ($650,000) golf club membership. Navy officials have confirmed that at the time the Greeneville pierced the hull of the Ehime Maru, sending the trawler and nine of its crew to the ocean floor, two civilians were in the main control positions of the sub. They are adamant that while the VIPs may have had their hands on the controls, they were in no way responsible for the emergency ballast blow that sent the Greeneville rocketing to the surface, or for the crash that followed. The navy has refused to release the names of the civilian guests, citing privacy concerns, although two of them have appeared on US television recounting their version of the events leading up to the collision. One, Mr John Hall, said he had accepted an invitation from the Greeneville's commander to pull the levers to begin the surface drill. The nearest crew member was seated right next to him "elbow to elbow". "I mean, what's important to know here is you don't do anything on this vessel without someone either showing you how to do it, telling you how to do it, or escorting you around," Mr Hall told NBC's Today show. Both men said Commander Waddle had carried out numerous safety checks, including a periscope sweep, before beginning the dive and subsequent ascent. Mr Hall said he distinctly remembered a loud bang and the submarine shuddering, followed by Commander Waddle's exclamation: "Jesus, what the hell was that?" Speaking before a budget meeting in Washington, President Bush said the Hawaiian tragedy had made it necessary for the Pentagon "to review all policy regarding civilian activity during military exercises". Rear Admiral Steve Pietropaoli said that it had been navy policy for decades to allow civilians to visit bases and view manoeuvres as a way of bolstering public appreciation of and support for the armed forces. Pentagon officials said Commander Waddle could face a court martial if he was found to have caused the accident. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of
[CTRL] How it's done: Freedom of owning the press.
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [FAIR-L] FEAR FAVOR 2000: How Power Shapes the News Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:29:01 -0500 From: FAIR-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAIR-L Fairness Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports New Report: FEAR FAVOR 2000: FAIR's First Annual Report on How Power Shapes the News February 14, 2001 FAIR is pleased to announce our first annual roundup of the year's most egregious examples of owner, advertiser and government influence on the news: "Fear Favor 2000: How Power Shapes the News." A "serious" talkshow turns itself into an infomercial for Campbell's Soup, complete with a veteran news anchor leading a chorus of the "M'm, m'm, good!" jingle. A Boston reporter is suspended without pay after writing critically about a bank that is a major advertiser in his paper. A network news show interviews a sock puppet-- a puppet that is the mascot for a company the network's owner has a stake in. Welcome to the sometimes whimsical, frightening world of the corporate-owned media, where the "fear and favor" of the powers that be can shape-- and twist-- the news. A few items detailed in the report: --In the final days of the 2000 presidential campaign, conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review publisher Richard Mellon Scaife ordered all photos and prominent mentions of Al Gore removed from the front page. As a result, the pre-election Sunday edition featured George W. Bush in every front-page campaign-related headline and photo. --The AP's longtime Bolivia correspondent, Peter McFarren, resigned amidst revelations that he had lobbied the Bolivian legislature for a $78 million water privatization project profiting a foundation he presided over. One of the biggest stories in Bolivia, water policy was central to McFarren's beat. After a query from FAIR, the AP did a story on the resignation, but glossed over key aspects. --After receiving pre-publication complaints from various bigwigs, Brill's Content watered down a piece whose subject-- entertainment reporter Lynn Hirschberg-- apparently has too many powerful friends. Brill's editor David Kuhn reportedly told staffers, "You don't understand: I have to go to cocktail parties with these people." Many journalists have heard war stories about controversial articles that got cut or quashed before they were written, or, more chillingly, of careers cut short. The breakneck consolidation of media ownership means news divisions are increasingly subject to corporate control, but it can be difficult to find documentation of specific instances in which this has distorted the news. With that in mind, FAIR has compiled reports of some of the most outrageous examples of "fear and favor" in the newsroom from the last year. We hope "Fear Favor 2000" will serve to support journalists who are struggling to seek truth and report it, empower the public to demand accountability from the media and inspire all of us to fight back when the powerful try to restrict the free flow of information. Read the full report online: http://www.fair.org/ff2000.html *** NEW YORK CITY EVENT: FAIR's Janine Jackson, Program Director and co-host of CounterSpin, will be presenting "Fear Favor 2000" to the public on Friday, February 16 (details below). Joining FAIR will be Blake Fleetwood and Frances Cerra Whittelsey, two former New York Times reporters with their own stories of "fear and favor" in the newsroom. "Fear Favor 2000: How Power Shapes the News" Friday, February 16, 6:30 PM Housing Works Used Book Caf 126 Crosby St (between Prince and Houston), New York *Free and Open to the Public* -- Feel free to respond to FAIR ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). We can't reply to everything, but we will look at each message. We especially appreciate documented example of media bias or censorship. And please send copies of your email correspondence with media outlets, including any responses, to us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . FAIR ON THE AIR: FAIR's founder Jeff Cohen is a regular panelist on the Fox News Channel's "Fox News Watch," which airs which airs Saturdays at 7 pm and Sundays at 11 am (Eastern Standard Time). Check your local listings. FAIR produces CounterSpin, a weekly radio show heard on over 120 stations in the U.S. and Canada. To find the CounterSpin station nearest you, visit http://www.fair.org/counterspin/stations.html . Please support FAIR by subscribing to our bimonthly magazine, Extra! For more information, go to: http://www.fair.org/extra/subscribe.html . Or call 1-800-847-3993. FAIR's INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: FAIR accepts internship applications for its New York office on a rolling basis. For more information, please e-mail Peter Hart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) You can subscribe to FAIR-L at our web site: http://www.fair.org , or by sending a "subscribe FAIR-L
[CTRL] The Council on Foreign Relations are in violation of Title-50
-Caveat Lector- President Clinton, The Council on Foreign Relations are in violation of Title-50 War and National Defense subsection 783. The Council on Foreign Relations is a branch of an international group of co-conspirators called the Round Table Group. Other branches include; Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, the Australian Institute of International Affairs, the South African Institute of International Affairs, the Indian Institute of International Affairs, the Netherlands Institute of International Affairs, the Japanese Institute of Pacific Relations, the Chinese Institute of Pacific Relations, and the Russian Institute of Pacific Relations. The Secretary of the Treasury is the public official responsible for keeping an eye on domestic and international monetary and financial policy. The following Secretaries of the Treasury are members of the Council on Foreign Relations; Robert B. Anderson(Eisenhower), Douglas C. Dillion (Kennedy/Johnson), Henry Hamill Fowler (Johnson), David M. Kennedy (Nixon), William Edward Simon (Nixon/Ford), W. Michael Blumenthal (Carter), G. William Miller (Carter) James A. Baker 3rd (Reagan), Nicholas F. Brady (Reagan/Bush). The National Security Council provides intelligence support to the Secretary of the Treasury. The nature of the support, is classified. The support insures the Department of the Treasury acts in accord with recommended national security policy and makes its full contribution to the attainment of national security objectives and to the particular climate of opinion the United States is seeking to achieve in the world. This opinion is formulated by Council on Foreign Relations members working in an ad hoc committee called the "Special Group" and through a vast intragovernmental undercover infrastructure called the "Secret Team". The "Special Group" and "Secret Team" insure that a well coordinated economic warfare campaign weakens non-Round Table Member controlled companies and benefits Round Table Member controlled companies in the United States and in other nations. Even the most knowledgeable Treasury officials don't understand the role of the National Security Council in international monetary and financial policy. The "Special Group" and the "Secret Team" hide so-called national security objectives behind a veil of secrecy. This is because these objectives are in the best interest of the Round Table Group members, not in the best interest of the American public. In 1969 Paul Volcker became Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs in the Nixon administration. Volcker's boss was Secretary of the Treasury David Kennedy. In his book Changing Fortunes, Volcker writes; "On inauguration day I sat down in my new office in the Treasury...A memorandum arrived from the White House with, as I recall it, the title of "National Security Study Memorandum Number Two." I clearly had not been on the list for Number One but, after all, Number Two was not bad. I didn't really know what a National Security Study Memorandum was in those days, but since it was signed by Henry Kissinger on behalf of the president, it was obviously something to be taken seriously. The memorandum described administrative and other arrangements for the conduct of international monetary affairs by the new administration. It designated the Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs - the position to which I would be nominated - to chair an inter-agency committee on the subject. The previous administration had such a group, so that was no striking new initiative, but it was nice for me to have my bureaucratic position confirmed. The memo also said that in that capacity I should report to Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council. That was unusual news to me, being in the Treasury Department. I went running to Secretary Kennedy's office and said, "You'd better take care of this quick, because it seems to cut you out of the loop." He was not very close to Mr. Nixon at the time, and I sensed his hesitation about what to do. I always suspected he just ignored that part of the directive, because that's certainly what I did. Henry Kissinger had other things to worry about during those days. Besides, one of his stable of assistants, Fred Bergsten, was a member of the inter-agency group, and I knew he was fully capable of keeping Henry informed. I never heard another word about it, and I suspect papers on the intricacies of international monetary affairs ended up at the bottom of Kissinger's in-tray, assuming they ever got that far. But it was to me an interesting lesson in bureaucratic one-upmanship. Kissinger had been designated to his position many weeks earlier, had a staff in place, access to the president, and an instinct to make good use of his head start" David M. Kennedy, Paul A. Volcker, Henry A. Kissinger, and Fred C. Bergsten are all Council on Foreign Relations
[CTRL] FEAR: New Mexico takes the lead on drug issues
-Caveat Lector- Date sent: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:53:07 -0800 From: Brenda Grantland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:FEAR: New Mexico takes the lead on drug issues Send reply to: Brenda Grantland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights http://www.fear.org/ New Mexico takes the lead on drug issues -- Under the leadership of pro-legalization Gov. Gary Johnson, New Mexico is considering eight bills that would dump the worst aspects of drug prohibition. At least two, a medical marijuana measure and an asset forfeiture reform proposal, are seen as certain to pass. (02/14/01) http://www.postnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/FDEDE04B9C3 2BF9F8625 69F300062D2D?OpenDocument -- I am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control. ~~George L. Roman A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [NM] Is the Reverend Jackson really a reverend? by Dan Frisa
-Caveat Lector- "Reverend Jackson? Maybe not! Dan Frisa Thursday, Feb. 15, 2001 Is the "Reverend" Jackson really a reverend? Its not clear. But NewsMax has undertaken an investigation to determine the legitimacy of Jesse "Whos your daddy? Jackson claiming the "Reverend honorific. For decades the mainstream media has referred to "Whos your daddy? as the Reverend Jackson. The question remains, however, if he is in fact eligible to have adopted this appellation. From what little information is publicly available, it appears as though Jesse has been cutting corners and playing fast and loose with more than his marriage vows. He may also be improperly referring to himself as "reverend when in reality he might be anything but. Here is his "official biography from the Rainbow/Push Coalition website: "Born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina, Jesse Jackson attended the University of Illinois on a football scholarship and later transferred to North Carolina AT State University. He attended Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the Civil Rights Movement full time in 1965." (Emphasis added.) Notice that his own organization discloses that Jackson merely "attended the Chicago Theological Seminary. He did not graduate, and was not, therefore, an accredited seminarian, according to the Rainbow/Push information. Is he, then, qualified to be referred to as the "Reverend Jackson? Repeated NewsMax calls to the Rainbow/Push coalition headquarters in Chicago remain unanswered. Whether or not Jesse L. Jackson is a bona fide "reverend may seem an insignificant point not worthy of the effort necessary to make an actual determination. However, that this particular title carries with it a certain aura of morality and religiosity which, by its very nature, confers an added degree of both "godliness and credibility unlike any other such title, it is important to ascertain the validity of Jacksons insistence on the use of the title. When he ran for President in 1984, Jackson was invariably referred to as the "reverend Jackson, granting him a more exalted status than would otherwise be the case. Further, unlike the media treatment of the Rev. Pat Robertson, who was derisively referred to as a "reverend" though there was never a question raised about his credentials - Jackson was accorded a modicum of respect and dignity to which he may not, via his credentials, or lack of same, be entitled. His failure to earn a degree from the Chicago Theological Seminary would seem to present a prima facie case of his having no business whatsoever employing the "reverend title when he didnt make the grade. If he has been making use of the title in error, his reputation will have been even further severely diminished at his own hand and ego. He has, of late, laid down a rather reprehensible marker, which ill serves the very people he takes great pains to imply he has the moral authority to lead. Not to mention the rather lucrative and transparent con game he plays with American corporations, who regularly lay down and fall prey to his implied threats, which amount to: "pay up or be singled out for protest in order that he might continue to feather his own nest to the tune of millions of dollars in blackmail. And to be able continue to enjoy special kid-glove treatment by the I.R.S. and state authorities too timid to subject him to the same scrutiny applied to others. Such thinly veiled threats amount to nothing more than a classic protection racket. Whether he is a legitimate "reverend or not remains to be seen. What is sure is the fact that not even an ounce of credibility should be accorded such a shady and demagogic character. Stay tuned as the NewsMax investigation continues, in order to shed light on the ahem "reverend Jesse. * * * E-mail Dan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Frisa represented New York in the United States Congress and served four terms in the New York State Assembly. * * * On the Air: Dan Frisa will appear on these programs, all times Eastern. Check local listings. Listen while visiting NewsMax.com! Feb. 15, 4:55 p.m. WHRW radio in Binghamton, N.Y. Feb. 15, 7:15 p.m. KKSM radio in San Diego, Cal. Visit the NewsMax.com National Resource Page for the Free and Fair Elections Act. See more columns by Dan Frisa. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/2/15/122831.shtml __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths,
[CTRL] [NM] Virginia Military Institute's 1st Cadet 4 Months Pregnant
-Caveat Lector- VMI has not revealed the pregnant cadet's identity, age or any information about the child's father. NewsMax.com Friday, Feb. 16, 2001; 9:42 a.m. EST First Pregnant Cadet at Virginia Military Institute A female cadet at the prestigious Virginia Military Institute is four months pregnant and has decided to stay on, living in the barracks as a cadet in full standing, Institute officials told the Roanoke Times Friday. Because the military school's regulations forbid marriage for cadets, her decision means she's opted to remain an unwed mother. "After weighing the woman's right to privacy, the health of her and the unborn child, the 'morale of the VMI community' and the law, VMI officials offered the woman three options," the Virginia paper reported. "She could take a leave of absence, she could live in separate quarters on the VMI campus, most likely the post hospital, or she could remain in barracks." The pregnant cadet has Institute officials scrambling to comply with legal regulations, since VMI remains under Justice Department supervision as a result of a 1997 lawsuit that ended the school's males-only admission policy. Lawyers for the school have consulted with the Virginia Attorney General's office, the U.S. District Court in Roanoke and the Justice Department in an effort to comply with that decision and to protect the woman's rights. Federal Title IX laws require VMI to treat the pregnancy like any other disability. Some cadets told the Times they thought the pregnancy would be disruptive. "I think it might be a little weird seeing a pregnant cadet march by," Jen Jolin, a former cadet who was among the first women at the academy, told the Times. "I mean, VMI's got an image." Other are more sanguine. "They are accommodating her, and it sounds to me like they're being reasonable," former VMI board of visitors member Charlie Lindsey said. Lindsey, who opposed admitting women to his alma mater, told the Times, "It's just something else they're going to have to get used to." VMI has not revealed the pregnant cadet's identity, age or any information about the child's father. http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/2/16/84211 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Re; FW: Ban All Guns
-Caveat Lector- Yes, we must ban all guns - but that is not enough. I have started a petition drive to ban all baseball bats; knives; sharp sticks and possession of a rock that weighs over 4 ozs. Why does anyone need a knife with a sharp point? Why does anyone need a sharp stick? Why does anyone need a heavy rock? Why do we play the so called game of "baseball" by throwing a hard missle called a "baseball" at at another human being. Why does that person violently "hit" the dangerous baseball with a deadly heavy club??? We must reexamine our violent, hatefilled attitudes. We must stop encouraging our children from playing such "games" or adults paying money to attend such violent, primitive events. Please walk around your property or apartment area. If you see a rock lying about, PICK IT UP - PUT IT IN A BASKET - CALL THE POLICE!! KEEP YOUR CHILDREN AWAY FROM THAT BASKET UNTILL THE POLICE COME AND TAKE IT AWAY!!! flw A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FWD: Ltr to Director of Secret Service/Rptrs Committee for Freedom of Press
-Caveat Lector- 15 February 2001 Brian L. Stafford Director United States Secret Service 950 H St. NW, Suite 8000 Washington, D.C. 20223 Dear Mr. Stafford: This letter is prompted by actions taken by Secret Service agents from the Melville, N.Y., field office against Glenn Given, managing editor of The Stony Brook Press. The undersigned organizations generally represent the First Amendment interests of the news media. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is a voluntary, unincorporated association of reporters and editors that works to defend the First Amendment rights and freedom of information interests of the news media. The Reporters Committee has provided representation, guidance and research in First Amendment and Freedom of Information Act litigation since 1970. The Student Press Law Center, established in 1974, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that provides free legal assistance to high school and college student media around the country. These are the facts of the situation at issue, as we understand them. On Wednesday, February 7, 2001, Glenn Given wrote an editorial entitled "Editorial: Dear Jesus Christ, King of Kings, all I ask is that you smite George W. Bush." This editorial was published in The Stony Brook Press, a student newspaper at SUNY- Stony Brook. The editorial was in the form of an open letter to Jesus. The writer stated that he had recently "found" Jesus in light of the recent election and asked Jesus to "smite" George W. Bush, as well as his Vice President and the cabinet members. The editorial also requested that Jesus smite Carson Daly, host of MTV's Total Request Live. The editorial was clearly a form of satire and political hyperbole. President Bush has extensively publicized his dedication to Christianity. He publicly cited Jesus as his favorite philosopher. His inaugural speech invoked numerous religious themes, and he has established an Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which has been criticized by some as an improper promotion of religion. To invoke religion in stating an opposition to President Bush's administration would therefore be an expected satirical ploy. Moreover, the fact that Carson Daly was included in the panoply of petitioned smitees should have made it obvious that the editorial was satire. Neither the newspaper's editorial board nor the University saw any reason to censor Mr. Given's speech. However, a faculty member contacted the Secret Service, apparently because he or she was disturbed by the editorial. It is our understanding that on February 14, 2001, University police and Secret Service agents arrived unannounced at the newspaper's offices. The agents first demanded to speak to the entire editorial board, but eventually questioned Mr. Given alone when he claimed responsibility for the editorial. Secret Service agents questioned him extensively and asked him to submit to a psychological evaluation which reportedly consisted of personal questions about his family and his parents' divorce. During questioning, Mr. Given was not represented by an attorney, nor was he advised of his rights as an accused. Mr. Given signed, upon request, a waiver allowing the search of his home. Apparently, nothing threatening was found there. He also signed a medical release authorizing the Secret Service to obtain his medical records. Mr. Given was told by Secret Service agents that his editorial was not protected by the First Amendment and that charges could be filed against him. Agents also stated that they may file charges if they received additional complaints about the editorial. Although Mr. Given voluntarily signed the waivers and offered to remove all remaining newspapers from stands, such actions were taken under the threat of arrest and without legal counsel. The paper has since reported that 2000 copies of the newspaper are missing from a storage area, and there is a concern that Secret Service agents seized those copies. We understand that threats against the President are a serious matter, and we in no way mean to imply that the Secret Service should not undertake to protect the President and investigate credible threats. Mr. Given's editorial, however, was not a credible threat. As stated above, the editorial was satire, or, at a minimum, sarcasm. The statute governing threats against the President, 18 U.S.C. 871(a), provides for criminal sanctions against anyone who threatens the President, but the statute must still be read in the context of free political debate. Our position is supported by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705 (1969). In Watts, a young man at a political rally was protesting the draft. He had received a draft card and was supposed to report to the Army. He stated, "I am not going. If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J." Id. at 706. The Supreme Court held that his statement was not sufficient to constitute a "threat"
[CTRL] Fwd: [JoeCherner-Announce]Deposit on Cig Butts
Maine is considering a creative way to deal with the problem of cigarette litter. If the details can be worked out, perhaps this will become a model for other states. Joe Maine Legislator Proposes Deposit on Cig Butts Friday, February 16 Lewiston, ME - State representative Joe Brooks wants to keep Maine clean by putting a 5-cent refundable deposit on cigarettes. He's introduced a bill that would increase the price of a pack of cigarettes by $1, or 5 cents a butt. Smokers could redeem their deposits by bringing butts in batches of 20 to recycling and redemption centers. Joseph W. Cherner, President SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc. a href="http://www.SmokefreeAir.org"http://www.SmokefreeAir.org/a "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead == Message Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe and/or search archives, go to: http://smokescreen.org/?JoeCherner-Announce and log in as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==
[CTRL] [corp-focus] Blue Light Special at the Smithsonian
-Caveat Lector- Forwarded Message: Subj: [corp-focus] Blue Light Special at the Smithsonian Date: 2/16/01 11:31:51 PM Mountain Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Weissman) Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Blue Light Special at the Smithsonian By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Lawrence Small has a great corporate pedigree. For 27 years, Small was a top executive with Citicorp/Citibank. In 1991, he became president of Fannie Mae, the bully on the housing finance market. Last year, he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He didn't bother resigning from the many corporate boards on which he sits today, including The Chubb Corp., Marriott International, Fannie Mae and Citicorp/Citibank. He's chairman of the financial advisory committee of TransResources International, the parent company of Haifa Chemical, an Israeli firm. We ran into Small this week at the Museum of American History. He had turned over the place to Kmart. Kmart and the Smithsonian had become "partners" in bringing to the public a traveling mobile museum featuring a exhibition titled "Wade in the Water: African-American Sacred Music Traditions 1871-2001." The mobile museum is a 48-foot, double expandable trailer, with giant red Kmart signs emblazoned on each side. The trailer will travel to Kmart stores, schools and elsewhere around the nation. At the auditorium, Small said that he was "delighted to work with Kmart on this important project" and thanked the retailing giant for its "generous donation." Brent Willis, Kmart's "chief marketing officer" made some syrupy statement about the benefits of diversity. We wanted to test Willis' corporate rhetoric against the reality at Kmart. So we asked Valerie Stokes, Kmart's vice president for human resources, and the company's highest ranking African-American, how many of the company's 300,000 employees were African American. Stokes said she didn't know. What about a ballpark number? Couldn't tell you. Are any of Kmart's more than 2,100 stores unionized? No. Have there been attempts to unionize? Couldn't tell you. We asked Small how much money Kmart kicked in to fund the project. "Don't know, you'll have to ask Kmart," Small said. We asked the numerous Kmart spokespeople at the event. Don't know. Can't tell you. We asked Small why he was turning over the Smithsonian to Kmart, a company with a poor reputation in America, in a corporate public relations effort to burnish its image? "It's not being used for corporate public relations," Small said. Then, in the very next breath, he asked, "Why shouldn't they get something out of it? They put up the money for it." Well, we wanted to know, is it okay for the Smithsonian, which gets two-thirds of its budget from the federal taxpayers, to partner with major American corporations? At this point, David Umansky, the Smithsonian's director of communications, cuts in. "I want you to understand something," Umansky says. "The Smithsonian is not a government institution. Write this down. Legislation was passed establishing the Smithsonian Institution as a trust instrumentality of the United States -- not the United States government -- but the United States. It is not a part of the executive branch, it is not a part of the legislative branch, it is not a part of the judiciary. It is a separate entity." Got that kids? The Smithsonian gets hundreds of millions of dollars from you and me, and they are before Congress begging for more taxpayer money -- and it is not a part of the government. Umansky wants to know: "Why are you so suspicious?" Well, there should be a stark dividing line between public and private institutions in America. You seem to be the only person in America who believes that, he says. That would come as a surprise to our readers. We have gotten hundreds of responses from readers who are unhappy with corporate control of public institutions, including when we wrote a couple of years ago about the oil companies taking over a part of the Smithsonian for their exhibit on the Alaska oil pipeline. You can get hundreds of people upset about the sunrise, Umansky counters. So, any public institution should be allowed to take private corporate money? If it's used properly, absolutely, Umansky says. For the Smithsonian, there is no problem. It's been 20 minutes now, and we still haven't gotten an answer to how much Kmart spent for this little public relations stunt. Umansky doesn't like the persistence. "Why are you being such an asshole?" he asks. Finally, Umansky gets us an answer on the funding -- Kmart put up $2 million in cash and in kind -- about $500,000 in cash. At a press conference at the National Press Club last year, Small was asked about undue corporate influence over the operations of the Smithsonian. "There is a difference between providing the funding and having an endorsement
Re: [CTRL] McVeigh Wants Execution Broadcast
-Caveat Lector- Has McVeigh admitted involvement in the bombing yet? Explained his motives? Lloyd - Original Message - From: "Tenorlove" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:43 AM Subject: [CTRL] McVeigh Wants Execution Broadcast -Caveat Lector- McVeigh Wants Execution Broadcast The Associated Press Saturday, Feb. 10, 2001; 8:13 p.m. EST OKLAHOMA CITY -- Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh wrote in a published letter that his execution should be broadcast publicly. In a letter published in The Sunday Oklahoman, McVeigh questioned the fairness of limiting the number of witnesses to his execution. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is considering a closed-circuit broadcast to accommodate survivors and relatives of victims. "Because the closed-circuit telecast of my execution raises these fundamental equal access concerns, and because I am otherwise not opposed to such a telecast, a reasonable solution seems obvious: hold a true public execution - allow a public broadcast," he wrote. McVeigh, 32, is set to be executed May 16 by injection at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. McVeigh's attorney, Rob Nigh Jr., confirmed that McVeigh wrote the letter and is serious about broadcasting his execution. "He is in favor of public scrutiny of government action, including his execution," Nigh told the newspaper. About 250 people who survived or lost family members in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building have asked to see McVeigh's execution, but only eight seats are available for witnesses on behalf of victims. A national broadcast is not an option, bureau spokesman Dan Dunne said. "It hasn't been considered. It won't happen," Dunne said. Closed-circuit television has been a part of McVeigh's legal process from the start. His Denver trial was shown to bombing victims at an auditorium in Oklahoma City. In McVeigh's Feb. 1 handwritten letter, he wondered who would be considered for watching his execution. "It has ... been said that all of Oklahoma was a victim of the bombing. Can all of Oklahoma watch?" he wrote. He also complained in the letter about the limits put on his witness list. McVeigh can have six witnesses, including one spiritual adviser, two lawyers and three adult relatives or friends. McVeigh would be the first federal inmate executed since 1963. He dropped all appeals in January and has until Friday to seek clemency from President Bush. The idea of televising executions is not new in the United States. Several states, including Oklahoma, have allowed relatives of murder victims to watch executions on closed-circuit television. In 1994, former talk-show host Phil Donahue tried to get permission to televise the execution of murderer David Lawson, but was denied by the North Carolina Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. McVeigh will not make a legal push for a public execution, but Nigh said he supports the idea. "If it is our collective judgment that capital punishment is a reasonable response to crime, we need to come to grips with what it actually is," he said. Copyright 2001 The Associated Press __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing
Re: [CTRL] [JoeCherner-Announce]Deposit on Cig Butts
-Caveat Lector- Maine is considering a creative way to deal with the problem of cigarette litter. If the details can be worked out, perhaps this will become a model for other states. Joe Maine Legislator Proposes Deposit on Cig Butts Friday, February 16 Yes. A wonderful idea! However, it clearly does not go far enough. We need a deposit on tissues also. Used tissues litter the roadways. Uncaring people blow their noses - and toss the used tissues away...on the roads, sidewalks, even buses, trains and planes. 5 cents a tissue seems reasonable to me. Blow your nose and put it in your pockettake it back to the store for your 5 cent deposit. Not only will this clean up our countryside but will give the homeless and bored teenages something to do to make a few extra bucks. They can scour the countryside and pick up used tissues, earn some money, and do some social good in the process. On the other hand, lets address the REAL PROBLEM which is toilet paper. Tons of used toilet paper are flushed into our waterways every day!! Obviously 5 cents a sheet is a reasonable deposit for toilet paper. Returning that used toilet paper to your local grocery is clearly the proper and socially responsible thing to do. flw A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Elites ubber alles: Wouldn't you know it...
-Caveat Lector- Sydney Morning Herald February 17, 2001 Sub civilian was top Republican By Michael Millett, Herald Correspondent in Tokyo Japan has sent an envoy to the United States to demand a full explanation for the sinking of a Japanese trawler by a US nuclear submarine, as news reports confirmed that at least one member of a guest party on board was a senior Republican Party figure. Yes, this is true. The civilian who worked the periscope was a Republican. Not only was he a Republican...he was also legally blind. The sub commander had no choice but to permit the blind Republican to operate he periscope...he didn't want to violate the Americans with Disability Act. flw A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] How it's done: Freedom of owning the press.
-Caveat Lector- FAIR is pleased to announce our first annual roundup of the year's most egregious examples of owner, advertiser and government influence on the news: "Fear Favor 2000: How Power Shapes the News." This is so upsetting. To think that those who own the media are interested in their own profit and cater to advertisers...who would of known!!! So disillusioning. And here I thought that the media was run by honest, truth seeking journalists who only reported the facts. Another fantasy bites the dust!! flw A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [NM] Virginia Military Institute's 1st Cadet 4 Months Pregnant
-Caveat Lector- Subject: [NM] Virginia Military Institute's 1st Cadet 4 Months Pregnant VMI has not revealed the pregnant cadet's identity, age or any information about the child's father. NewsMax.com That damm Jesse Jackson - at it again!! flw A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Germans knew of Holocaust horror about death camps
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,439168,00.html Germans knew of Holocaust horror about death camps Details of deaths of Jews and other groups in concentration camps were well publicised John Ezard Saturday February 17, 2001 The Guardian The mass of ordinary Germans did know about the evolving terror of Hitler's Holocaust, according to a new research study. They knew concentration camps were full of Jewish people who were stigmatised as sub-human and race-defilers. They knew that these, like other groups and minorities, were being killed out of hand. They knew that Adolf Hitler had repeatedly forecast the extermination of every Jew on German soil. They knew these details because they had read about them. They knew because the camps and the measures which led up to them had been prominently and proudly reported step by step in thousands of officially-inspired German media articles and posters according to the study, which is due to be published simultaneously in Britain and the US early next month and which was described as ground-breaking by Oxford University Press yesterday and already hailed by other historians. The reports, in newspapers and magazines all over the country were phases in a public process of "desensitisation" which worked all too well, culminating in the killing of 6m Jews, says Robert Gellately. His book, Backing Hitler, is based on the first systematic analysis by a historian of surviving German newspaper and magazine archives since 1933, the year Hitler became chancellor. The survey took hundreds of hours and yielded dozens of folders of photocopies, many of them from the 24 main newspapers and magazines of the period. Landmark Its results, Professor Gellately says, destroy the claim - generally made by Germans after Berlin fell in 1945 and accepted by most historians - that they did not know about camp atrocities. He concludes by indicating that the only thing many Germans may not have known about was the use of industrial-scale gas chambers because, unusually, no media reports were allowed of this "final solution". However, by the end of the war camps were all over the country and many Germans worked in them. Yesterday OUP said his study exposed "once and for all the substantial consent and active participation of large numbers of ordinary Germans". Its head of historical publishing, Ruth Parr, called it a landmark study of the terror. "He asks and answers some very difficult questions about how much the ordinary German people knew about the Nazi atrocities, and to what degree they supported them," she said. A leading British-born Holocaust historian, Professor Michael Burleigh, said the book was "original and outstanding, genuinely important". Another authority on the camps, Professor Omer Bartov, of Brown University, Rhode Island, US, described Backing Hitler as "path-breaking - a crucial contribution to our understanding of the relationship between consent and coercion in modern dictatorship". Conventional wisdom among post war historians has been that - as Lord Dahrendorf, ex-warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, says in his study Society and Democracy in Germany (1966) - "It is certainly true that most Germans 'did not know' about National Socialist crimes of violence; nothing precise, that is, because they did not ask any questions_." A common explanation among influential modern German historians, including Hans-Ulrich Thamer in his study Wooing and Violence (1986) is that the Nazis "seduced" an unwilling or passive public. Gellately, professor in Holocaust history at Clark University, Massachusetts, offers a mass of detail to support the theme of an earlier work, Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, which caused an international sensation in 1995. Goldhagen's theme was that "what the Nazis actually did was to unshackle and thereby activate Germans' pre-existing, pent-up anti-semitism". Gellately began his inquiry after finding a press report -published as routine - of a woman reported to the Gestapo for "looking Jewish" and allegedly having sex with a neighbour. "For decades my generation had been told that so much of the terror had been carried out in complete secrecy," he writes. His media trawl, with a research assistant, found that as early as 1933 local papers reported the killing of 12 prisoners by guards at Dachau, the first to be set up as a "model" concentration camp initially for communists. On May 23 the Dachauer Zeitung said the camp was Germany's most famous place and brought "new hope to the Dachau business world". By 1934 the main and widely read Nazi-owned paper Volkische Beobachter was reporting a widening of policy to other "political criminals" including Jews accused of race defilement. By 1936 communist prisoners were no longer mentioned: in a photo-essay in the SS paper Das Schwarze Korps emphasised the camps as places for "race defilers, rapists, sexual degenerates and habitual criminals". This
[CTRL] LaRouche warned that Bush would launch war versus Iraq
http://207.150.197.195/pages/iraqrelease021601.htm Press Release LaRouche warned that Bush would launch war versus Iraq FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 16, 2001--On three separate public occasions since George W. Bush was anointed as President of the United States, Lyndon LaRouche warned that a Bush Administration would launch a war against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Today's air strikes against targets near Baghdad confirmed the deadly accuracy of LaRouche's warnings. On Jan. 5, 2001, LaRouche delivered a paper, "Dialogue Among Cultures: The Road to Peace," at an international conference in Khartoum, Sudan on the Nile River development, in which he warned of a coming "clash of civilizations." He explained, "At this moment, the intent is to deploy the lunatic types of U.S. Protestant fundamentalists, such as President-elect George Bush's nominee John Ashcroft, closely associated with the incoming U.S. Bush administration, to foster an atrocity against the sacred Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, for the purpose of detonating the potential for a new Israeli-Arab war. This war is intended, not only to continue the destruction of Arab states such as Syria and Iraq, but to engage Iran, too, as a target of Israeli attacks, and thus spread the warfare through regions of the world associated with Muslim populations and their neighbors." On Jan. 20, 2001, the day that George Bush was inaugurated as President, LaRouche appeared on RMN radio in the Philippines, and he even more explicitly warned of an imminent strike against Iraq. "What [the Bush administration] is going to do, is attempt to charge ahead foolishly, like an army charging into enemy gunfire," he warned. "It will attempt to bully the world into an attitude of submission to whatever comes out of Washington... We see the Middle East situation, which could have been managed, but we see that the policies of the Bush crowd have actually played into being about the potential of a very early war in the Middle East, spreading against Iran, and so forth... It will try to have a military expedition against Iraq again." Again, on Jan. 27, 2001, LaRouche wrote, in a major strategic study published in Executive Intelligence Review, "Look At What Happened In Brazil," that "At the present moment, the respective and overlapping intentions of the new U.S. administration and London, on the matter of exploiting, strategically, the potential for a new Middle East War, is a center-piece of the strategic policies of relevant factions among governments, policies reflecting the way in which the deployment of the WWF [World Wildlife Fund] and related assets will be folded into what putatively mad Zbigniew Brzezinski's Samuel P. Huntington has defined as his geopolitical scheme for a 'Clash of Civilizations' between the Islamic world and 'the West.' "The repercussions of the presently threatened outbreak of Israeli attacks upon Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, in addition to the Palestinians, with or without 'Desert Storm'-like roles of the military forces from NATO, will largely determine the way in which strategic cultural subversion is deployed, globally... "A new Middle East war of the general type and implications indicated, will occur or not, whether or not certain specified incidents materialize. It will occur only if the combination of the Israeli government and certain Anglo-American circles wish to have it occur. If they should wish it to occur, the incidents to 'explain' that occurrence, will be arranged, just as the Hitler regime concocted the incidents used as pretext for the invasion of Poland. "Contrary to widespread childish opinion, most of the important things that happen in the world, happen because powerful forces intend them to happen, not because of some so-called 'sociological' or other merely statistical coincidence of the types reported for the popular edification of the easily deluded. The new Bush administration wishes to settle accounts with Iraq, in memory of the passions of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former U.S. President George Bush. As long as that remains a prevalent Anglo-American intention, a new Middle East war, bigger than any yet seen, is more or less inevitable under presently reigning global influences, whether or not any significant number of Israeli or Islamic leaders wish it to occur." LaRouche observed that today's events in Iraq conform precisely to this formulation, with the only additional feature being the coincidence of the attack with the formation of the new Ariel Sharon "national unity" government--ie. war cabinet--in Israel. Further adding to the evidence of the Anglo-American willful decision to launch military operations against Saddam Hussein's Iraq without benefit of credible pretext, was the news report, aired on CNN, that Iraqi opposition figures, led by Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, were brought to
[CTRL] Skolnick-UPDATE TO MARC RICH STORIES
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/mrupdate.html UPDATE TO MARC RICH STORIES 2/14/01 by Sherman H. Skolnick The Chief Federal Prosecutor in New York City is compiling proof that Clinton, while President, was bribed with millions of dollars to grant a presidential pardon to purported super-criminal Marc Rich. Holed up in Zug, Switzerland, Rich has been in huge illegal deals with Clinton's sometimes pals George Bush the Elder and sons George W., Neil, and Jeb. Enough evidence exists to send both Clinton and Bush Family members to prison, say those intimately familiar with the facts. Ex-President Clinton has been ratting on his Bush Family confederates. Bill has direct evidence that the Elder Bush has been a kingpin in the massive dope trafficking from South East Asia, "The Golden Triangle". Bush's dope traffic business partners reportedly have been General Colin Powell [who also covered up the Viet Nam Mia Li massacre] now U.S. Secretary of State, and Powell's long-time side-kick, Richard Armitage, now Deputy Secretary of State, this trio fingered by a Burmese General for whom they built a highway to facilitate his dope shipments. The pardon bribery loot went, in part, through corrupt former high-level IRS officials and their laundering operation on the Dutch St. Maartens Island, in the Caribbean. [Visit our website for related details.] Part of the pardon bribery gang, according to witnesses and evidence available to the New York Federal Grand Jury, include key traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. One of them reportedly is Rahm Emanuel, former top official in the Clinton White House who is a dual citizen, U.S./Israel. Rahm ostensibly is the Acting Deputy Chief for North America of Israel's secret political police, The Mossad. After leaving the White House, Rahm became a managing director of Wasserstein Perella Co., at their Chicago office. With Rahm's supervision, they have reportedly been specializing in laundering huge funds tied to the Red Chinese and their secret police, washed through certain Chicago's La Salle Street commodity brokers, such as reportedly REFCO-LFG Division [Richard Friedman Co.] The Red Chinese, with Wasserstein's apparent connivance, have reportedly been repeatedly attempting to smuggle into the U.S. AK-47 submachine guns manufactured and marketed by a Red Chinese firm run by Wang Jun, who is also reputed head of the Red Chinese Secret Police. [Wang Jun has been a PRIVATE law client of Kenneth W. Starr, supposed "Independent" Counsel investigating Bill and Hillary Clinton.] Some AK-47 shipments have been seized enroute to U.S. inner-city narco-terrorists. Clinton, the stool pigeon, is leaking hot items of specific criminality of the Bush Family, from documents he removed from White House files, to the major networks who so far, are using it for blackmail, not to inform the public. ABC Network wants the American CIA to renew the highly lucrative secret subsidy deal by which ABC News finances and staffs their overseas bureaus as a spy operation. As we have mentioned in exclusive stories for more than a decade, CBS News, 1988-89, upon losing the CIA subsidy, closed a number of their overseas intelligence gathering bureaus while ABC News, upon getting the subsidy instead of CBS, opened more of theirs. [Ted Koppel, a Canadian citizen, has a long espionage background and his ABC "Nightline" Program often has Foundation "consultants" known by him to be CIA but never on-camera identified as such.] The whole mess comes as the U.S. heads for what some contend is a financial meltdown. Called by critics the alleged "President", or White House RESIDENT, George W. Bush may not know how to deal with the apparent on-coming Depression and may go bananas, so say skilled psychiatrists who recognize him as having what they call a "nut house" face. A constitutional crisis may be in the works. A small group of highly dedicated U.S. Admirals and Generals, out of uniform, and seeking refuge in a Paris suburb, have repeatedly vowed in the past to arrest Clinton, under the Uniform Military Code, for documented treason, as their Commander-in-Chief. [We are the only ones to run exclusive stories about that.] They now vow to arrest BOTH George W. Bush AND Clinton for high crimes including treason. Confidants of Albert Gore, Jr., speaking on the promise they not be publicly identified, contend Gore is the actual and proper elected "President" who was not inaugurated. Similar, some say, to the strange presidential election of 1876, where Rutherford B. Hayes, by corrupting a Congressional election commission, became the alleged "President", although Samuel Tilden [like Gore] won the popular vote while Hayes was thus fraudulently awarded the Electoral College vote. [Al's distant relative Gore Vidal wrote about this, which is near identical to the year 2000 alleged Presidential election, in his book "1876" re-published right before November, 2000.] Tilden was blocked by
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [JoeCherner-Announce]Deposit on Cig Butts
-Caveat Lector- I think this legislator needs a hobby. Tenorlove who doesn't smoke anymore, but sees in the War on Tobacco a microcosm of the War on Society. --- Bob Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 From: "Joe Cherner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "JoeCherner-announce" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JoeCherner-Announce]Deposit on Cig Butts Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:02:28 -0500 Maine is considering a creative way to deal with the problem of cigarette litter. If the details can be worked out, perhaps this will become a model for other states. Joe Maine Legislator Proposes Deposit on Cig Butts Friday, February 16 Lewiston, ME - State representative Joe Brooks wants to keep Maine clean by putting a 5-cent refundable deposit on cigarettes. He's introduced a bill that would increase the price of a pack of cigarettes by $1, or 5 cents a butt. Smokers could redeem their deposits by bringing butts in batches of 20 to recycling and redemption centers. Joseph W. Cherner, President SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc. a href="http://www.SmokefreeAir.org"http://www.SmokefreeAir.org/a "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead == Message Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe and/or search archives, go to: http://smokescreen.org/?JoeCherner-Announce and log in as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] == __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Editorial didn't warrant Secret Service probe, critics say
-Caveat Lector- Editorial didn't warrant Secret Service probe, critics say The Associated Press NEW YORK (February 16, 2001 9:36 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Secret Service has been accused of trampling on the free speech rights of a college student who wrote a satirical editorial asking Jesus to "smite" President Bush. The letter was published last week in the Stony Brook Press at the State University of New York campus in Stony Brook. It was written by Glenn Given, 22 the paper's managing editor. Titled "Editorial: Dear Jesus Christ, King of all Kings, All I ask is that you smite George W. Bush." It also asked Jesus to strike down Bush, his cabinet and MTV personality Carson Daly. A faculty member apparently contacted authorities. Given said two Secret Service agents and a campus police officer showed up Wednesday to interrogate him. They had him sign waivers authorizing them to check his medical records, threatened to charge him with a crime and searched his apartment, according to a letter of protest sent to the Secret Service by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "The editorial was clearly a form of satire and political hyperbole" in response to Bush's well-publicized devotion to Christianity, the letter said. "We believe it is inappropriate to harass a journalist, editor, writer or citizen for exercising his or her right to free speech." Given said his work was "a piece of absurdity." A Secret Service spokesman in Washington, Tony Ball, said the agency had received the letter, but declined to discuss the case. "We take all threats seriously," Ball said. "We don't have the luxury to do otherwise." ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Inquiry into new claims of poll abuses in Florida
-Caveat Lector- Inquiry into new claims of poll abuses in Florida by Julian Borger in Washington and Gregory Palast The Guardian Saturday February 17, 2001 The US civil rights commission was yesterday investigating allegations by the BBC's Newsnight that thousands of mainly black voters in Florida were disenfranchised in the November election because of wholesale errors by a private data services company. Information supplied by the company, Database Technologies (DBT), led to tens of thousands of Floridians being removed from the electoral roll on the grounds that they had felonies on their records. However, a Guardian investigation in December confirmed by Newsnight found that the list was riddled with mistakes that led to thousands of voters - a disproportionate number of them black - being wrongly disenfranchised. The scale of the errors, and their skewed effect on black, overwhelmingly Democratic voters, cost Al Gore thousands of votes in Florida in an election that George Bush won by just 537 votes. Moreover the Florida state government, where Mr Bush's brother Jeb is governor, did nothing to correct the errors, and may have encouraged them. Under DBT's contract, seen by Newsnight, the company was obliged to check its data by "manual verification using telephone calls and statistical sampling". DBT was paid $4.3m for its purge of the voters' roll, but company officials confirmed that they did not call voters they had included on their list to check if they had identified the right person. James Lee, a vice-president of ChoicePoint, which bought DBT last May, said: "Florida law prevents names from being removed from the voting roll unless the information is confirmed by local officials - not us." But he told Newsnight that the Florida state government made it clear that it "wanted there to be more names than were actually verified as being a convicted felon". Blacks make up about 15% of the overall Florida population, but half the state's prison population, so the errors tended to erase their names disproportionately from the electoral roll. State officials have denied it was their responsibility to check the felons list, arguing that it was the duty of the individual counties. A few counties found it was so full of mistakes that they dumped the list altogether. Some sent out warning letters to the people who had been stripped of their voting rights, putting the burden on them to appeal. But most simply accepted the flawed list, and removed thousands of names from the rolls. The civil rights commission was due to question ChoicePoint executives yesterday about their role. One commissioner, Christopher Edley, said: "There is a lot of public concern that the contractor who was selected to do this is a firm that seems to have ties to the Republican party." Under a 19th-century Florida law, convicted felons are barred from voting for life. DBT was hired, in part, to comb through computerised records around the country to identify former felons registered to vote in Florida. After wrongly identifying 8,000 Florida voters with Texas misdemeanour records as felons, it supplied a revised list of 57,770 "possible felons" to Florida's secretary of state, Katherine Harris. The list was full of mistakes mainly because of the criteria DBT used. It compared its list of felons with the Florida voting rolls by looking for a rough match between the names and dates of birth. Thus, a Christine Smith could have been disqualified if there had been a Christopher Smith of the same age with a felony record somewhere in the US. DBT also used race as a matching criterion, skewing the impact of the errors even more against black voters, of whom nine in ten 10 voted for Mr Gore. A Guardian investigation in Hillsborough county, Florida , found that many black voters who had participated in previous elections suddenly found themselves barred in the 2000 poll. One found he had lost his vote because of a 1959 arrest for sleeping on a public bench. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL
[CTRL] DNC chairman declares a Gore victory
-Caveat Lector- "Gore wins!" Democratic National Committee chairman declares a Gore victory Salon.com Feb. 15, 2001 "Al Gore Wins the Election!" That's the triumphant declaration in an e-mail sent to political reporters Thursday by Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Jenny Backus. As the Miami Herald continues its audit of Florida's undervotes, and a prestigious media consortium examines the state's overvotes and undervotes, the DNC is keeping track of results from other media recounts across the state. And the news is good for Gore. According to the certified Florida results, Bush won the state by 527 votes. But Backus says recounts by the Orlando Sentinel, Palm Beach Post and the Chicago Tribune Co. collectively show Gore picking up 1,617 votes, giving him a "winning" margin of 1,080 votes. Last week, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Gore would have gained more than 200 extra votes if Orange County had conducted a hand recount of all its ballots that machines could not read. An earlier investigation of overvotes in Lake County showed a 300-vote pickup for Gore. The Chicago Tribune examined more than 15,000 undervotes and overvotes in the 15 counties with the highest rate of rejected ballots, and found a net gain of 366 votes for Al Gore among the uncounted ballots. An examination of so-called dimpled ballots in Palm Beach County by the Palm Beach Post had Gore picking up 682 additional votes if those ballots had been counted as votes. Palm Beach County Election Commissioner refused to count the dimpled chads, however. Meanwhile, representatives from the Miami Herald, which once promised on its Web site to release its results around Inauguration Day, now say they are unsure when they'll be finished. "We have been figuring on a number of weeks from now," said Scott Univer, general counsel for the accounting firm BDO Seidman, which is conducting the recount -- they call it an "audit" -- for the Herald. "I think the process has hit a snag. There was a lawsuit in one of the counties (that) led to the county election officials counting the ballots." The lawsuit Univer refers to is in Duval County, which uses the punch-card balloting system and where there are roughly 5,000 undervotes. The Herald has sued to get those ballots released. But the DNC isn't waiting for those results. "The numbers don't lie: Al Gore carried Florida and won the 2000 election," new DNC national chairman Terry McAuliffe said in the statement. "It's too bad that Bush was so afraid of counting the votes that the press had to do it. Bush should keep these numbers in mind as he pushes his radical right-wing agenda." Meanwhile, the Washington Times blasted the media's recount process in a report earlier this week. "Things are still loony in the land of chads. At least one of those people recounting the Florida ballots was drunk, the Republican Party of Florida claims. According to several witnesses, temporary workers hired by media groups reviewing ballots for a third or even fourth time 'routinely violated their own analysis standards, and in at least one case, have conducted their review while intoxicated.'" Conservatives also point to another Herald investigation in 25 Florida counties that revealed more than 2,000 illegal ballots were cast by people who signed affirmations swearing they were eligible to vote, but were not. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Satellite map reveals mans destructive nature
-Caveat Lector- Satellite map reveals man's destructive nature http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Environment/2001-02/satmap170201.shtml Unique atlas shows that humans have radically altered half the surface of the Earth Reports by Steve Connor in San Francisco 17 February 2001 A new scientific picture of the world, showing how man has left an indelible mark on the planet that is visible from space, was published yesterday by scientists who warned that the Earth was undergoing an unprecedented transformation. The map, compiled from satellite images, shows almost a quarter of the Earth's surface has been entirely transformed, either by being covered over, by roads and buildings or ploughed up for crops. Another quarter has been exploited to a lesser degree, but in a way that has completely altered its natural state. A rapidly growing human population, rising economic expectations, continual decline in natural resources and increasing pollution by industrialised countries are leading to a crisis of epic proportions. This stark warning is contained in a new atlas of the world showing how humans have had a devastating impact on the natural environment. The report, compiled by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was published on the opening day of its annual meeting in San Francisco. "We have become a force of nature comparable to volcanoes or to cyclical variations in the Earth's orbit," the report warns. "As we enter the third millennium, the destiny of the planet is in our hands as never before, yet they are inexperienced hands. We are modifying ecosystems and global systems faster than we can understand the changes and prepare responses to them." The main satellite map in the AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment shows the full extent of human influence. The swath of pink, denoting complete transformation, covers not only the developed world of North America and Europe, but vast areas of Asia and Africa. No continent except Antarctica is unscathed. "Humans are perhaps the most successful species in the history of life on Earth. From a few thousand individuals some 200,000 years ago, we passed 1 billion around 1800 and 6 billion in 1999. Our levels of consumption and the scope of our technologies have grown in parallel with, and in some ways outpaced, our numbers," the report says. "But our success is showing signs of overreaching itself, of threatening the key resources on which we depend. Today our impact on the planet has reached a truly massive scale. In many fields our ecological footprint outweighs the impact of all other living species combined. "We have transformed approximately half the land on Earth for our own uses, around 11 per cent each for farming and forestry, and 26 per cent for pasture, with at least another 2 to 3 per cent for housing, industry, services and transport. The area used for growing crops has increased by almost six times since 1700, mainly at the expense of forest and woodland," the report says. Images from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite, operated by Nasa and the US Geological Survey, yielded the principal map on human transformation of the land, said Lars Bromley of the AAAS's Directorate for International Programs. "You can determine whether something is paved over, whether something is bare soil, a ploughed field, or whether it's normal land cover," Mr Bromley said. "You can detect a lot of the sources of pollutants, basically from the northern hemisphere. When people see the extent of the transformation they are surprised." Past attempts to estimate global land use, have been hindered by the lack of full geographical coverage, which is not a problem with a polar-orbiting satellite, Mr Bromley said. "By getting this eye-in-the-sky view you can prove that ... this cropland is far more extensive than anybody recognised." The atlas shows the extent to which soil erosion has affected a substantial part of the Earth's surface that has gone under cultivation and then been abandoned. "Worldwide, an estimated 12 million hectares of croplands fall out of use for this reason each year. Economists have estimated the value of this lost soil, in terms of nutrients and water-holding capacity, at about $400bn," the report says. Fresh water has also been degraded. "Chronic or acute water shortage is increasingly common in many countries with fast-growing populations, becoming a potential source of conflict," the report says. "The distribution of water resources around the globe is highly unequal ... Canada has more than 30 times as much water available to each citizen as China. "Today it is estimated that 31 countries with 8 per cent of the world's population mostly in Africa and the Middle East have water shortages. By 2025 the figure is likely to have risen to 48 countries and 35 per cent of population ... The crisis is likely to be worsened by the deteriorating quality of water, polluted by industrial wastes and sewage
[CTRL] Fw: Architect-to-the-stars Arne Hasselqvist, dead at 63
-Caveat Lector- This just in today...I kept the listowners comments included One has to wonder about those 'valuable documents' June - Original Message - Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 5:09 PM Folks, what story, if any, does this obit remind you of? I seem to recall some rich old jet-setter who died under similar circumstances, locked in the bathroom of his flat on... the Italian Riviera? Malta? Sorry for the fuzzy details -- my memory isn't what it used to be -- but this is bugging me. JR - - - - - http://www.latimes.com/obituary/20010217/t14344.html Saturday, February 17, 2001 Arne Hasselqvist; Architect Created Celebrity Homes Arne Hasselqvist, 63, a Swedish architect known for designing celebrity homes in the Caribbean. Hasselqvist, 63, and his son Lukus, 23, were found dead inside their rental apartment in Nassau, Bahamas, after firefighters extinguished a blaze. Fire crews said the Hasselqvists had been evacuated from the burning duplex but apparently returned to try to save valuable documents. They were believed to have died from smoke inhalation. They had lived on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines for many years and were in the Bahamas to work on a home in the Old Bahama Bay resort on Grand Bahama Island. Hasselqvist, who ran his own international architectural design firm in St. Vincent, West Indies, designed and built homes on Mustique for celebrities including Britain's Princess Margaret, designer Tommy Hilfiger and musicians Mick Jagger and David Bowie. On Monday. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Mind Control Electronic weapons
-Caveat Lector- From Mind Control-L : Hi All - Back to haarping again ;-) I really think this list needs to address formally the various levels of formal scientific research and evidence. This thread is now discussing the areas where the various strains of levels of evidence in mind control research intersect. For example: -Peer review science -Published scientific journal -Administrative regulation proceedings (eg National Environmental Policy Act- NEPA Environmental Impact Statement) FORTUNATELY, the issue of HAARP"S detrimental environmental impact has been legislatively and administratively initiated. The environmental impact information which led to the US Congress requiring an environmental impact statement, in contravention of the US Navy's categorical denials of ANY environmental impact by HAARP, were THE EARTH ISLAND ARTICLES previously posted. Earth Island are public champions, IMHO. It may offend the sensibilities of peer review-oriented analysts on the list, but the Earth ISland articles were given awards for their public service, which led to the US Congress determination. When Earth Island was rebuiding its website, we (EcoNews Service) offered to reprint the award winning Earth ISland articles, and they are at: http://www.globalpsychics.com/lp/Insights/HAARP_project.htm http://www.globalpsychics.com/lp/Insights/HAARP_project1.htm PEER REVIEW: Let me repeat here the arguments of the previous post on the procedural SPECIOUSNESS of constantly asking for peer review research on issues involving covert black ops operations like HAARP. "Peer review" is not a mantra. RESEARCH QUOTE: Thanks. I am glad to get the information to you. But the "peer review" issue remains a razor's edge question - more proper for "in vitro" science than "in vivo" public interest investigation. Mind control issues are more "in vivo", because there apparently is a covert force attempting to actively mask and hide the technology. That is a key issue in mind control "research". Thus, I still think that the "peer review" question is a touchy subject in mind control research, and should be used sparingly and consciously. Something Rotten at the Core of Science? by David F. Horrobin http://news.bmn.com/hmsbeagle/95/viewpts/op_ed END OF QUOTE The US Congress and the implementation of administrative law under the National Environmental Policy Act do not require peer-review research in order to make HAAARP comply with NEPA, so why should this mlist require more? HAARP MIND CONTROL EFFECTS - Finally, I submit that the following initial finding raises a presumption that HAARP may in fact implement mood altering mind control on human populations. Again, the appropriate standard for mind control research here is advocacy science, not peer review science. From Mind Control-L re HAARP Limbic System: I'm looking for support in the literature for Marshall D. Smith's hypothesis that .9 Hz affects the limbic system, and "...would seem to be the base beat frequency of the two HAARP pulse generators as they beat together sweeping upward through the Schumann Frequency." (http://elfrad.org/2000/haarp.htm): According to an article in Journal of Neurotherapy, http://www.snr-jnt.org/NFBArch/Reprints/aa-nt.htm: "There are three main patterns of hippocampal [limbic] field potentials: 1) theta or RSA (rhythmic slow activity), between 3 and 11 Hz (depending on species); 2) LIA (large amplitude irregular activity) in a broad range between 0.5 and 25 Hz; 3) beta, fast waves between 20 and 60 Hz. Rhythmic inputs can entrain oscillations in the hippocampus across a range of frequencies." .9 Hz would fall into the LIA area, but I'm not sure what that means--perhaps there's someone on the lists with knowledge of neurology? However, there is an interesting correlate of .9 Hz: It is approximately the resonant frequency of the lunar-earth system, as explained by Charlie Plyler at http://www.elfrad.net/Moon.htm: "This frequency varies from .9 to .95 hertz. The signal above has a center frequency of .9373 hz. The wavelength of this frequency is 319,877km or 198,711 miles. We are aware of the fact that a moving body in free space that possesses a magnetic field will generate a frequency with a wavelength equal to the distance from another magnetic body such as our earth. The moon at this time was 387,692 km or 242,307 miles distant. This was fairly close to the wavelength of the anomalous signal. If we were detecting the presence of the moon, it seems that we would be logging the signal for a greater duration of time rather than a few minutes." If we accept the hypothesis that mammalian neural functioning is developed phylogenetically by driving from exogenous electromagnetic rhythms in nature, there should be a concomitant of lunar motion. That's normally thought of as correlated with the the mammalian
[CTRL] The politics behind the Iraq airstrike
Behind the Headlines by Justin Raimondo Antiwar.com February 17, 2001 PRELUDE TO WAR The politics behind the Iraq airstrike It was just another "routine mission" in Iraq, said President Bush, as 24 US and British aircraft bombed the outskirts of Baghdad for the first time since 1998. But is it just another day in the neighborhood, as Mr. Rogers would have it, or is it the first phase of Desert Storm II? The sense that we are being talked down to, like children, increased as a Pentagon spokesman averred that the US was acting in "self-defense": "It reached the point that it was obvious to our forces that they had to conduct the operation to safeguard those pilots and the aircraft. In fact (it was) essentially a self-defense measure," said Marine Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold. Iraq, it seems, had lately been challenging US airflights over the so-called "no flight zones" that trisect Iraq. Why, they even had the temerity to lock their radar on to US and British warplanes, who were merely asserting their God-given right to violate the sovereignty of any country. But please don't think that this was an act of war, oh no: while "we will enforce the 'no fly' zone, both south and north," said our spanking brand-new (and clearly nervous) President, "our intention is to make sure the world is as peaceful as possible." That's why we're gonna bomb the h*ll out of anyone who contests our peaceful intent. Furthermore, says Bush, we'll make damn sure Saddam doesn't have "weapons of mass destruction" – you know, like the nukes Ariel Sharon has pointed at Baghdad. IN THE NO SOVEREIGNTY ZONE Our pilots were "in danger," the administration avers, and therefore we had to "respond." It is, of course, useless to point out to such people that our pilots were intruders in Iraqi airspace: since national sovereignty is a concept that the US no longer recognizes (not even in regard to itself), then how is it possible to answer such an Orwellian argument? We are "defending" ourselves halfway across the earth, in the name of a "no-fly zone" unilaterally declared by us, with only the fig-leaf of a vaguely-worded UN resolution to cover the nakedness of our aggression. There is, of course, only one way to eliminate the danger to our pilots, and that is to stop violating Iraqi airspace, cease the relentless pounding of Iraq, and – while we're at it – lift the sanctions that have decimated an entire generation of Iraqi children. Such a rational policy, however, will obviously never be adopted by this administration. FEELING QUEASY? I must admit, though, that our rookie President did seem rather queasy at the prospect of having to announce a US attack on Iraq while in the middle of his visit to Mexico: in his comments Bush went out of his way to emphasize that he had made the decision, all by himself: "It was a mission about which I was informed and I authorized." Well, yes, at least we hope so, but obviously there was some question about that, not least of all in the President's own mind. Of course, you say, I couldn't know what is going on in the presidential brain. But faces reveal emotions, and often much more. The look on Bush's face, as he answered questions about the bombing, betrayed what seemed to me like an enormous reluctance: one wonders if his advisors told him that Friday is a holy day in Iraq, like Sunday is here, and that people are generally out on the street walking with their families. Probably not. TESTING GROUND This airstrike was used as a testing ground in two senses: first, as an experiment to see how the new "standoff" weapons that allow long-distance targeting work. Since US policymakers have discovered that war is tolerable to Americans just as long as all the casualties are on the other side, military technology has been developed to achieve just this result: I guess we'll have to wait for the smoke to clear to see how the testing went, but in the meantime what is striking is the utter cowardice of this attack. As in the Kosovo war, where NATO warplanes bombed from 30,000 ft., hitting plenty of civilian targets in the process, Americans want to "stand off" while they inflict mass destruction on their demonized "enemies": it is a vicious, strangely womanish strategy, entirely motivated by political considerations and fear: it is as if our leaders fully realize that the entire Middle East isn't worth a single American life – and they don't want anyone else to realize it, either. RUN IT UP THE FLAGPOLE Secondly, the airstrike is a test run to see how much political support there is for a more extended conflict. The results, so far, must be heartening to the War Party: here in the supposedly "leftist" Bay Area, where "antiwar" sentiment is alleged to be strong, our congressional delegation was interviewed on the local news, and all three – Nancy Pelosi, Mike Honda, and some other liberal Democratic swine – supported the attack, with few if any
[CTRL] Bush draws first blood
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/iraq-f17.shtml US-British air strikes on Baghdad: Bush draws first blood By Barry Grey 17 February 2001 In his first foreign policy decision, newly installed President George W. Bush authorized an unprovoked air attack on the outskirts of Baghdad, escalating the ongoing US war against the Persian Gulf country. Twenty US and four British warplanes, taking off Friday morning (US time) from land bases in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman in the Persian Gulf, attacked thirty targets at five separate sites near the Iraqi capital. According to American officials, the sites were radar and command and control installations. The raid was the first attack on targets outside the so-called “no-fly” zones and the first assault on the Baghdad region since the four-day air war carried out by the US and Britain in December of 1998. Since that time American and British planes have carried out hundreds of strikes against Iraqi targets, civilian as well as military, in the southern and northern no-fly zones that were established by the US and its allies in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War. These zones, which cover most of the land mass of Iraq, were decreed without even the legal fig leaf of United Nations resolutions. According to Iraq, some 300 Iraqis have been killed and more than 800 injured since the US and Britain began conducting almost daily air strikes in the no-fly zones. Only last Sunday seven people were killed and seventeen houses destroyed in air strikes in the south, and on Tuesday two children were killed and their mother injured in a bomb explosion in the southern province of Kerbala. These brutal actions are carried out as part of a sanctions policy that has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis from disease and malnutrition since the end of the Gulf War. To this day American diplomats are holding up billions of dollars of imports needed for civilian transportation, electric power generation, the oil industry and medical treatment on the grounds that they could potentially be put to military use. Friday's strikes typified the lopsided and cowardly character of the US persecution of Iraq. The warplanes fired their high-tech missiles from within the southern no-fly zone, more than thirty miles from their targets and well beyond the reach of Iraqi anti-aircraft fire. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein condemned the attack and said it was part of preparations by the US, in alliance with Israel, to launch a larger assault “against the Arab nations and the Palestinians.” Iraqi TV showed shots of numerous injured civilians and claimed that one woman had died in the bombing raids. In the hours following the strikes reports surfaced of massive demonstrations by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip denouncing the US-British aggression. A leading official from the Russian Defense Ministry called the attack “an affront to international security and the world community,” and a French Foreign Ministry spokesman disassociated Paris from the bombings, saying, “We were neither told nor consulted on these raids.” Bush authorized the air strikes on Thursday, prior to leaving for a one-day meeting in Mexico with newly elected President Vicente Fox. At a press conference at Fox's ranch on Friday, following the raids, Bush said he had authorized the attack, which he characterized as a “routine” implementation of US policy toward Iraq. While denying that the raids marked a shift in US tactics, he issued a thinly veiled warning that further large-scale attacks would come if the regime in Baghdad continued to challenge US war planes patrolling the no-fly zones. In an example of the “newspeak” that has become the hallmark of US foreign policy, Bush said, “Our intention is to make sure the world is as peaceful as possible.” This posture of pacifism by means of long-range, precision-guided missiles was reiterated by Pentagon spokesman Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, who told a press conference that the air strikes were a “self-defense measure.” Newbold's claim is based on the tortured logic that is routinely used to justify Washington's vendetta against a defenseless nation. Starting from the premise that the United States has the right to trample on Iraqi sovereignty and keep the country in a state of constant terror and semi-starvation, Washington concludes that any measures taken by the Iraqi regime to defend itself against US bombers are aggressive actions that threaten the lives of American airmen. Accordingly, recent efforts by Iraq to strengthen its anti-aircraft defenses are portrayed as further evidence of Saddam Hussein's demonic role in the Middle East. This absurd position is accepted uncritically by virtually the entire political establishment and retailed to the public by the mass media. Democratic Party support for Friday's raids on Baghdad was signaled by Samuel Berger,
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 162
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 162 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Biowarfare Warning --Anarchists Plot Protests To Disrupt Election --NSA listens to bin Laden --Send in the Goons --CSIS predicts anarchists will bring violence to global summit --Radicals want violence at Quebec summit, says CSIS === Biowarfare Warning http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v285n6/ffull/jwm10001-3.html by Joan Stephenson, PhD Australian scientists who inadvertently created a deadly mouse virus issued a warning last month that the global Biological Weapons Convention should be strengthened to reflect concern that their approach could be employed to modify human viruses for use as biological weapons. The lethal mouse virus was the unintended creation of investigators at the Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) for the Biological Control of Pest Animals, Canberra. The researchers, who were attempting to create a contraceptive vaccine to be used for pest control, used mousepox virus as a vector to introduce genes for mouse egg proteins into mice for the purpose of stimulating antiegg antibodies to curb fertility. (The types of mice used in the study are normally resistant to mousepox infection.) However, when the researchers introduced another element, a gene for interleukin 4 (IL-4)to the mousepox vector to help boost antibody production, they made a surprising discovery: instead of having the desired effect, the modified mousepox virus suppressed the animals' cell-mediated immunity and killed all the mice within 9 days. The gene alteration also made vaccines that normally protect mice against mousepox less effective. Although mousepox does not affect humans, the discovery raises concern that analogous modifications to such human viruses as smallpox could create deadly human pathogens against which current vaccines are ineffective. The CRC study is reported in the February issue of the Journal of Virology. === Anarchists Plot May Protests To Disrupt Election BY STEWART TENDLER AND DANIEL MCGRORY The Times, London 02/13/01 EXTREMIST groups are plotting to paralyse London with violent May Day protests 48 hours before the expected general election polling day. Intelligence reports say that organisers are recruiting support from abroad to choke the capital on May 1. They intend the protests to spill over to election day. Police are monitoring "electronic traffic" between anarchist groups to thwart their plans, amid fears that ringleaders are intent on causing more trouble than at last year's May Day protests. Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said that he was drawing up plans to cancel all leave over the May Day period and was considering a ban on all protests in the capital. He has been shown intelligence reports on how organisers want to exploit the timing of their May 1 protest to embarrass the main political parties. British anti-capitalist protesters are urging extremists from abroad to visit because of the publicity that the London rallies would get so close to a general election. The fears of the police are shared by ministers, who are daunted by the prospect of campaigning on law and order while there are running street battles around the capital. Every security agency in the country has been told to concentrate its efforts on uncovering then blocking the protesters' plans. Sir John said that if necessary he would borrow officers from neighbouring forces to reinforce the Metropolitan Police ranks. Sir John, speaking to The Times to mark his first year as leader of Britain's biggest force, said that last year the protesters planned to take over a government building in Whitehall and challenge police to remove them, but they were thwarted. This year he said that the Yard had drawn up contingency plans. "We will have the resources to meet, match and beat (the protesters). We cannot have the streets of London descending into anarchy, people being physically hurt or damage done. That cannot be allowed," Sir John said. The problem with the police and other intelligence services eavesdropping on the protesters is that the groups know that their planning on the Internet is being monitored. Aware that anyone can access such websites, the organisers are believed to be sending false information. The belief is that there will be a major protest at a well-known, symbolic London venue, which will be advertised on the Internet - but the real trouble will come from breakaway groups that will strike at alternative sites.
[CTRL] Laser missiles allow high-altitude attack
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-86870,00.html Laser missiles allow high-altitude attack BY LINUS GREGORIADIS RAF Tornados, American F16s and carrier-based F14s and F18s were used as the strike aircraft in yesterday’s raids. Six Tornado GR1s based in Kuwait dropped Paveway laser-guided missiles, which can be accurate to within a few yards from an altitude of up to 35,000ft. In addition to the 24 American and six RAF aircraft that carried out the attacks, another 50 aircraft were understood to have been involved in the operation, including one or two RAF Tornado F3s, which escorted the planes, and two VC10 tankers. Each of the Kuwait-based GR1s, which can fly at 600mph with a normal payload and arrive over Iraqi targets within minutes, can carry up to three Paveway missiles. The aircraft is also fitted with two Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and two 27mm Mauser cannons for defensive use. GR1 bombers were also involved in an attack on Iraqi sites near Baghdad at the end of 1998 and the beginning of 1999. During the Gulf War the GR1 was used for some of the most dangerous missions when it flew at low altitude to bomb runways. The aircraft were equipped with JP 233 runway denial bombs which scattered explosive charges designed to make enemy airfields unusable. The aircraft had the highest casualty rate of any warplane. Six were lost within the first four days. Four crew members were killed and four were captured. In yesterday’s attack the laser-guided missiles, which cost £22,000 each, enabled British pilots to fly at higher altitudes than they could during the Gulf War ten years ago. Low-flying tactics were blamed for the loss of the six jets. John Nichol, a former Gulf War Tornado navigator, told Sky News last night that the attack amounted to a “pretty strong message from Washington”. He said that attacks occurred on a daily basis in Iraq but were often not widely reported. “What is going on here is that we have a new Administration in America and this is about using the big stick, as it were.” “This is saying there is somebody new on the block and we are going to deal a little bit more aggressively with outrages in Iraq,” he said. During airstrikes in December 1998, Tornado GR1s used 1,000lb Paveway 2 bombs on raids on concrete command-and-control bunkers. The Tornados, which are currently the subject of a £1billion upgrade, were flown in pairs, one being equipped with a thermal imaging airborne laser designator to pinpoint the target. The versatile F16 fighter, which can fly at 1,500 mph, can perform much tighter turns than RAF Tornados. It is manufactured by Lockheed Martin and can be armed with Harm and Strike anti-radar missiles. From April 1999 to March last year RAF pilots flew a total of 2,683 sorties in the no-fly zones, 2,233 of which were in the southern zone.
[CTRL] HAARP power increased; tie-in with antimissile tests
-Caveat Lector- From Mind Control-L: HAARP power increased; tie-in with antimissile tests and massiveRussian war-game Feb 17, 2001 16:01 PST I'd like to request reports from radio amateurs and short wave listeners on this current HAARP increased-power signal. Please specify your lat/long (or city), times (Z times preferred), relative signal strengths, and any related observations or phenomena. Marshall Smith tells me he is also planning to post further information to www.brojon.com on his .9 Hz measurements. We need further reports from other researchers to corroborate and update these important observations. Posted with permission from Marshall Smith, 02/17/01: http://geocities.com/brojongazette/frontpage/bj0201.html HAARP TRASMITTER NOW RUNNING AT FULL POWER Can be Easily Heard Around the World on Shortwave Radio -BJNews by Marshall Smith As of this morning, Saturday Feb 17, 2001, HAARP began doing testing with greatly increased FULL power. The transmitter can now be heard all day long on 3.39 MHz. Very early this morning about 3 AM, HAARP could be heard at it's "old" normal signal strength. About 4 AM the signal changed in both its pulse timing and inter-pulse spacing. At 4:30 AM the signal strength suddenly increased tremendously. Unlinke previous mornings, there was no regular F-layer daytime fade out when the sun rose here in California about 6:45 AM. I continued to monitor during the daylight. I have never heard the HAARP signal during the daytime before. The sun rises in Gakona Alaska about 10 AM PST. The received signal again increased from about S5 to S9 at 10:05 AM. With sunlight at both the transmitter and receiver there is no F-layer skip to bend the signal around the planet. This means this is an extremely powerful direct groundwave signal. And I'm only receiving the leakage off the sidelobes of the antenna array. The full HAARP design power is supposed to be about 350 Megawatts. But that is only the published spec, not necessarily what is done in practice (as in those CB'rs running illegal 1Kwatt linear amplifiers). There is a planned Air Force "Star Wars" test with two vehicles, one from California and the other in the south Pacific, similar to last summer's failed test. The tentative published launch is set for late March or April. I will monitor HAARP to confirm it is running full power during the launch, as it was last summer. Last summer's "failure" is exactly what a HAARP device is supposed to do; destroy the electronic controls of a vehicle so the second stage cannot separate from the booster. A very cheap, simple way to knock down missiles launched from anywhere on the planet. It also can destroy military satellites in low orbit. Maybe that's why the Russians and Chinese have been complaining in the last several weeks about Bush's intention to "build" the star wars system. Maybe they've been losing some of their "secret hardware." But of course, they won't say that in public. Its now 11 AM PST, on Saturday the 17th, and the signal is blasting in with the powerful pre-pulse tone around S+20 and the main signal about S9. The signal varies 3 to 6 db over a series of several pulses. Since this is not due to F-layer skip fading, I must assume they are slewing the beam of the antenna in various directions, and thus changing the amount of the sidelobes in this direction. This must be a test of a simulated space warfare game with multiple targets. Rapid slewing of the antenna in just a matter of a minute or two is not useful for submarine communication, nor for their stated purpose of doing "ionospheric research." To show the HAARP signal is abnormally large, at this time, the 80 meter band is silent and WWV at 5 MHz cannot be heard, as would be expected during the daytime. WWV at 10 MHz is barely heard but does not even register on the S meter. Tuning back to 3.39 MHz, the S meter jumps off the top of the scale. Even Russian woodpeckers never did that, and they were aimed along the ground not out into space. I have no way to estimate how many Gigawatts that represents. It may be only coincidence but just several days ago, Russia announced it will be conducting a massive space war game, including the launch of numerous missiles, from both ground sites and submarines. Of course this is only a coincidence. You Think. Check out the details in Bill Gertz's article Russian forces conduct massive war-games exercise (http://washingtontimes.com/national/default-2001215225141.htm). And then don't forget you read it first in BroJon Gazette. For more information about HAARP, how the transmitter works and to hear what the transmitter sounds like, go back to the front page (www.brojon.com) article about the HAARP facility and follow the
[CTRL] CLINTON:My Reasons for the Pardons
-Caveat Lector- February 18, 2001: New York Times My Reasons for the Pardons By WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON HAPPAQUA, N.Y. Because of the intense scrutiny and criticism of the pardons of Marc Rich and his partner Pincus Green and because legitimate concerns have been raised, I want to explain what I did and why. First, I want to make some general comments about pardons and commutations of sentences. Article II of the Constitution gives the president broad and unreviewable power to grant "Reprieves and Pardons" for all offenses against the United States. The Supreme Court has ruled that the pardon power is granted "[t]o the [president] . . ., and it is granted without limit" (United States v. Klein). Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared that "[a] pardon . . . is . . . the determination of the ultimate authority that the public welfare will be better served by [the pardon] . . ." (Biddle v. Perovich). A president may conclude a pardon or commutation is warranted for several reasons: the desire to restore full citizenship rights, including voting, to people who have served their sentences and lived within the law since; a belief that a sentence was excessive or unjust; personal circumstances that warrant compassion; or other unique circumstances. The exercise of executive clemency is inherently controversial. The reason the framers of our Constitution vested this broad power in the Executive Branch was to assure that the president would have the freedom to do what he deemed to be the right thing, regardless of how unpopular a decision might be. Some of the uses of the power have been extremely controversial, such as President Washington's pardons of leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion, President Harding's commutation of the sentence of Eugene Debs, President Nixon's commutation of the sentence of James Hoffa, President Ford's pardon of former President Nixon, President Carter's pardon of Vietnam War draft resisters, and President Bush's 1992 pardon of six Iran-contra defendants, including former Defense Secretary Weinberger, which assured the end of that investigation. On Jan. 20, 2001, I granted 140 pardons and issued 36 commutations. During my presidency, I issued a total of approximately 450 pardons and commutations, compared to 406 issued by President Reagan during his two terms. During his four years, President Carter issued 566 pardons and commutations, while in the same length of time President Bush granted 77. President Ford issued 409 during the slightly more than two years he was president. The vast majority of my Jan. 20 pardons and reprieves went to people who are not well known. Some had been sentenced pursuant to mandatory-sentencing drug laws, and I felt that they had served long enough, given the particular circumstances of the individual cases. Many of these were first-time nonviolent offenders with no previous criminal records; in some cases, codefendants had received significantly shorter sentences. At the attorney general's request, I commuted one death sentence because the defendant's principal accuser later changed his testimony, casting doubt on the defendant's guilt. In some cases, I granted pardons because I felt the individuals had been unfairly treated and punished pursuant to the Independent Counsel statute then in existence. The remainder of the pardons and commutations were granted for a wide variety of fact-based reasons, but the common denominator was that the cases, like that of Patricia Hearst, seemed to me deserving of executive clemency. Overwhelmingly, the pardons went to people who had been convicted and served their time, so the impact of the pardon was principally to restore the person's civil rights. Many of these, including some of the more controversial, had vigorous bipartisan support. The pardons that have attracted the most criticism have been the pardons of Marc Rich and Pincus Green, who were indicted in 1983 on charges of racketeering and mail and wire fraud, arising out of their oil business. Ordinarily, I would have denied pardons in this case simply because these men did not return to the United States to face the charges against them. However, I decided to grant the pardons in this unusual case for the following legal and foreign policy reasons: (1) I understood that the other oil companies that had structured transactions like those on which Mr. Rich and Mr. Green were indicted were instead sued civilly by the government; (2) I was informed that, in 1985, in a related case against a trading partner of Mr. Rich and Mr. Green, the Energy Department, which was responsible for enforcing the governing law, found that the manner in which the Rich/Green companies had accounted for these transactions was proper; (3) two highly regarded tax experts, Bernard Wolfman of Harvard Law School and Martin Ginsburg of Georgetown University Law Center, reviewed the transactions in question and concluded that the companies "were correct in their U.S. income tax
Re: [CTRL] [JoeCherner-Announce]Deposit on Cig Butts
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/17/01 11:07:56 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the other hand, lets address the REAL PROBLEM which is toilet paper. Tons of used toilet paper are flushed into our waterways every day!! Obviously 5 cents a sheet is a reasonable deposit for toilet paper. Returning that used toilet paper to your local grocery is clearly the proper and socially responsible thing to do. When I saw this article it made me think what could happen if the ecology pukes got hold of this idea -- next thing you know there would be a "tax" on fast-food wrappings and your BigMac would cost an extra dime, not to mention all those soda cups, even the yuppies would have to pay more for their milk with coffee in it and their coffee with chocolate in it. Then if the gun confiscation pukes took this idea we would have deposits on shell casings and maybe even the bullet itself ... can't have all those lead projectiles laying arond everywhere. Maybe I should keep this to myself before it gives the anti-gunners some more ammunition -- so to speak. Regards, Bob Stokes I loved the toilet paper idea, it was a riot. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Skolnick-UPDATE TO MARC RICH STORIES
On 17 Feb 01, at 15:45, Sherman H. Skolnick wrote: Called by critics the alleged "President", or White House RESIDENT, George W. Bush may not know how to deal with the apparent on-coming Depression and may go bananas, so say skilled psychiatrists who recognize him as having what they call a "nut house" face. See the attached image. (fr-big-odd.jpg) Steve ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com fr-big-odd.jpg
Re: [CTRL] McVeigh Wants Execution Broadcast
-Caveat Lector- I'm not sure, Lloyd. What concerns me is that he won't ever get a chance to talk; he will probably be kept incommunicado until his execution. And it will be written in the chronicles that McVeigh and Nichols acted alone. History is always written by the winners, and the losers are We, the People. Tenorlove --- Lloyd Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Has McVeigh admitted involvement in the bombing yet? Explained his motives? Lloyd __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FR: Vince Foster - Marc Rich Connection
-Caveat Lector- See http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a8bece36b3c.htm = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYT: U.S. Diplomats Turned Aside Israeli Push on Rich's Behalf
-Caveat Lector- NYTimes February 17, 2001 U.S. Diplomats Turned Aside Israeli Push on Rich's Behalf By JAMES RISEN with ALISON LEIGH COWAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 Senior diplomats in the Clinton administration initially blocked Israeli lobbying efforts on behalf of the fugitive Marc Rich but were bypassed in the final decision-making when the president granted Mr. Rich a pardon on his last day in office, current and former United States officials said. The Israeli government first approached senior American diplomats in support of Mr. Rich in 1995, the officials said. At the time, the Israeli government was not asking for a pardon for Mr. Rich but rather tacit American acceptance of a proposal to allow him to travel more freely around the globe without fear of being arrested and returned to the United States, officials said. But the Israelis soon dropped the matter when they met with unified resistance from senior State Department officials. Israeli leaders never again raised the Rich matter with American diplomats, officials said. It was not until the final days of the Clinton administration that the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, in telephone conversations with Bill Clinton, personally asked him to pardon Mr. Rich, officials said. Current and former United States officials say they do not believe the matter was raised by Mr. Barak until late December or January, and they believe that was the first time the Rich case was broached in official channels since 1995. Mr. Rich's lawyer, the former White House counsel Jack Quinn, and other defenders of Mr. Clinton's pardon of Mr. Rich have said that it grew out of Mr. Clinton's desire to help Mr. Barak and foster Middle East peace, not from political donations from Mr. Rich's former wife, Denise Rich. In an interview on Thursday with Geraldo Rivera, Mr. Clinton said, "Israel did influence me profoundly." But despite the personal requests by Mr. Barak to Mr. Clinton, clemency for Mr. Rich was never an issue in the Middle East peace talks that Mr. Clinton kept alive until he left office. "This was not a factor in the Middle East talks," said Dennis Ross, the Clinton administration's longtime Middle East envoy, who said he did not know about the pardon until he read about it in the newspaper after it was announced. Mr. Ross, who remained involved in Mr. Clinton's Middle East peace efforts until the final days of the administration, said that he had not been asked about the Rich pardon by the president. Other senior Clinton officials deeply involved in American-Israeli relations said they had not been consulted by the president, either. Through a spokeswoman, the former secretary of state, Madeleine K. Albright, said that she had not been consulted by the president about the pardon. George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, who played a critical role in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and was frequently in Israel for meetings on them, was never approached by the Israelis seeking a pardon for Mr. Rich, a spokesman said. Nor was he consulted by the president on whether to pardon Mr. Rich, the spokesman said. Samuel R. Berger, Mr. Clinton's national security adviser, has said he was not consulted. Some Justice Department officials have also complained that they were not consulted until the last minute about the Rich pardon, which was handled by the White House. In 1995, Mr. Ross and Martin S. Indyk, the United States ambassador to Israel, both rebuffed efforts by senior Israeli officials, including the foreign minister, Shimon Peres, to persuade the United States to agree to allow Mr. Rich greater freedom of movement around the world. The Israeli officials said that Mr. Rich had proposed raising billions of dollars to help Israeli government efforts aimed at economic development of the West Bank and Gaza Strip as part of a Middle East peace agreement, and that he had said he needed to be able to travel more freely to do so. But after checking with State Department lawyers and the Justice Department, Mr. Ross rejected the proposal. Mr. Indyk also rebuffed the Israeli approach. "I had never heard of him, but I was very uneasy when I found out about Rich's background," said Mr. Ross, who recently left government. He said he turned the matter over to a State Department lawyer and never agreed to any Israeli proposals about Mr. Rich. Mr. Ross said he never again heard from the Israelis about Mr. Rich. He was present for conversations between Mr. Clinton and Mr. Barak at the end of Mr. Clinton's term and was aware that Mr. Clinton had told Mr. Barak he would consider his request for pardons for both Mr. Rich and the convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Although Mr. Rich had the support of Mr. Barak and Mr. Peres, there was far more pressure on the White House to pardon Mr. Pollard than Mr. Rich, according to several government officials. But the White House apparently considered a
[CTRL] LAT: House Panel May Face Wall of Silence in Rich Inquiry
-Caveat Lector- Saturday, February 17, 2001 House Panel May Face Wall of Silence in Rich Inquiry Testimony: Clinton aides could claim executive privilege on what they know about financier's pardon. By ROBERT L. JACKSON Los Angeles Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON--Congressional investigators are hoping to learn more from former President Clinton's top aides about what led to his last-minute pardons, but prospects of obtaining their testimony are far from certain. The House Government Reform Committee has asked Clinton to waive any executive privilege claims that could keep aides such as former White House lawyers Bruce Lindsey and Beth Nolan from disclosing what they know, but the panel has received no response. "No decision has been made on that," said Julia Payne, a spokeswoman for Clinton. Lindsey, a former Arkansas colleague who was Clinton's closest confidant on matters attracting public scrutiny, fought hard against testifying three years ago before independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's grand jury in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation. But Lindsey ultimately was forced to do so when the Supreme Court refused to review a lower court's decision compelling his testimony. The high court said presidential aides have no privilege against testifying in a criminal investigation, but the justices did not address the right of aides to remain silent in a congressional inquiry. Lindsey, Nolan and John Podesta, Clinton's chief of staff, all refused to testify at the House committee's first hearing Feb. 8 on Clinton's controversial pardon of fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich. But officials of the panel said they will issue subpoenas to them next week for a second hearing on March 1. None of the three could be reached for comment Friday. Investigators believe that Lindsey privately recommended against a pardon for Rich after conferring with Arthur Levitt, then-chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, on Clinton's last full day in office on Jan. 19. Rich and his business partner, Pincus Green, were fugitives in Switzerland for 17 years after being charged with tax evasion and trading oil with Iran in violation of a 1979 American embargo of that country. Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), the committee chairman, wants to ask Lindsey whether Clinton indeed rejected his advice, according to spokesman Mark Corallo. And--if Clinton did reject Lindsey's advice hours before he left office--why. The clemency for Rich and Green was among 176 pardons and commutations granted by Clinton in his last hours in the White House. Roger C. Adams, the Justice Department official assigned to review all pardons, told a Senate committee Wednesday that he was surprised by the action in the Rich case. Adams told of receiving a post-midnight phone call from the office of White House Counsel Nolan asking for data on Rich and Green, whose names he did not recognize. Corallo said the committee has postponed by one week seeking immunity for Denise Rich, the former fugitive's ex-wife. Denise Rich has refused to answer questions about substantial political contributions that she made to the Democratic National Committee in the months preceding the pardon, as well as a gift of $450,000 to Clinton's still-unbuilt presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., and about $100,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's successful campaign for the U.S. Senate. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft asked for the brief postponement before he signs off on congressional immunity for Denise Rich, the potential target of a new grand jury investigation by federal prosecutors in New York. Mary Jo White, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, is seeking financial records to determine the source of Denise Rich's contributions and whether they were directly linked to the pardon application for the father of her children. Any effort to buy a pardon would amount to a criminal act. Political contributions made from funds originating from abroad also would be a criminal violation, officials said. Denise Rich said through her New York attorney, Martin Pollner, that she has done nothing wrong and that she knows of no illegal acts by anyone else. If Lindsey, Nolan and Podesta all should refuse to testify on grounds that their conversations with Clinton were privileged, legal experts believe they could be compelled to answer questions in the new grand jury case in Manhattan. But whether a congressional committee could pierce their silence is "legally uncertain," said one attorney familiar with the issue. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a
[CTRL] WP: Clinton Ignored CIA in Pardoning Intelligence Analyst
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17274-2001Feb16.html Clinton Ignored CIA in Pardoning Intelligence Analyst Clemency for Only Official Convicted of Leaking Classified Information to Media Draws Criticism By Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 17, 2001; Page A06 President Bill Clinton ignored a recommendation from the CIA last month when he pardoned former Navy intelligence analyst Samuel L. Morison, the only government official ever convicted of leaking classified information to the media. While Clinton's pardon of former CIA director John M. Deutch caught CIA officials by surprise, the president solicited advance comment from the agency on the possibility of pardoning Morison, who leaked three secret spy satellite photographs to Jane's Defence Weekly in 1984. But Clinton ultimately disregarded the agency's position and approved a pardon application Morison submitted to the Justice Department more than two years ago. "We said we were obviously opposed -- it was a vigorous 'Hell, no' ," said one senior intelligence official. "We think giving classified information to people who are unauthorized to receive it is a bad thing to do and giving pardons to people who are convicted of doing that sends the wrong signal to people who are currently entrusted with classified information." The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence this week launched an inquiry into both intelligence-related pardons, asking CIA Director George J. Tenet in a letter whether he or anyone else in the U.S. intelligence community had advance knowledge that Clinton was considering pardoning either Deutch or Morison. Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), the committee chairman, expressed particular concern about Clinton's decision to pardon Deutch without informing federal prosecutors, who had just finished negotiating a plea agreement with the former spy chief over the mishandling of classified information on unsecure home computers. The agreement -- nullified by the pardon -- called for Deutch to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for the retention of classified information and to pay a $5,000 fine. It remains unclear whether Deutch asked for a pardon or whether Clinton acted on his own. After Clinton issued 176 pardons and commutations on Jan. 20, his last day in office, Shelby and Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sharply criticized the Deutch and Morison pardons. Pardoning the only government official ever convicted of leaking classified information, the intelligence chairmen said, would do nothing to stop a torrent of media leaks in Washington. Indeed, Shelby said the pardon only underscores the need for new legislation explicitly criminalizing leaks. But civil libertarians and First Amendment advocates lauded Clinton for pardoning Morison, arguing that the Reagan administration had inappropriately turned Morison's 1984 leak into a test case of whether the espionage statutes applied to unauthorized disclosures to the media. "The pardon itself was an act of moral courage," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' project on government secrecy. "The president had nothing to gain by granting the pardon. The action was only going to irritate hard-liners in Congress and the intelligence community." By pardoning Morison, Aftergood said, Clinton struck a blow for press freedom with a move that could make it difficult for prosecutors to convict government officials for media leaks in the future. "There's been one and only one [successful] prosecution of leaks to the media -- and now there's been a pardon," Aftergood said. "It sends a signal that this is not something that should be prosecuted." Reached at his home in Crofton, Md., Morison said yesterday in an interview that he was wrong to leak satellite photos of a Soviet aircraft carrier to Jane's. But he said he did so to alert the public that the Soviet Union was preparing to vastly expand its naval reach, and that he took no payment for the photographs. Morison, 56, the grandson of famed naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, said he is gratified by the pardon. "My family is very appreciative -- it removes a stigma," Morison said. "And if you know my family, that means a lot." © 2001 The Washington Post Company = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with
[CTRL] Bush Signals Saddam
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bush Signals Saddam By Alan Sipress and Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, February 17, 2001; Page A1 The U.S. airstrikes against Iraqi antiaircraft positions yesterday, though billed by American officials as routine self-defense, marked an exceptional step by President Bush that foreign policy analysts said signaled a more confrontational approach to Baghdad. In both scope and location, the raids went beyond the more limited responses by the Clinton administration to Iraqi challenges to U.S. and British aircraft. And while national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said this was the fourth enforcement of the "no-fly" zone since Bush took office, it was the first time the president himself authorized the action. "There's nothing routine about this at all," said Richard N. Perle, a former Pentagon official and foreign policy adviser to Bush. "There's been a lot of talk about how the administration will be tested by Saddam Hussein. Maybe the administration has decided to test Saddam rather than be tested by him." The desire to send a tough signal to Iraq, however, does nothing to resolve the more fundamental conflict within the administration over how far to go in trying to depose Saddam Hussein, an issue that has frustrated U.S. officials since Bush's father launched allied response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait a decade ago. At the same time, the administration's apparent willingness to engage in wider military strikes against Iraq may not be cost-free. The moves could escalate differences with some U.S. allies â other than Britain, which joined in yesterday's action â and create resistance to the continuation of United Nation sanctions on the Iraqi regime. Bush officials have spoken repeatedly about the importance of symbolism in foreign policy. Twice in the past two weeks â first in approving funds to Iraqi opposition groups for renewed activity inside Iraq, now with yesterday's military action â the administration has acted to reinvigorate U.S. policy toward Iraq and demonstrate its determination to step up pressure on Saddam Hussein. Taken together, administration officials said, the actions â limited as they may be by themselves â are designed to show the Iraqis and others around the world that Bush and his foreign affairs advisers have made policy toward Iraq a priority in their early calculations. "This policy of pushing Iraq off the front page, which was the Clinton administration policy in 1999 and 2000, is clearly over," said Ivo H. Daalder, a Clinton administration official now at the Brookings Institution. The new administration's policy, he added, is designed to "put Iraq squarely on the front page." American aircraft had struck Iraqi antiaircraft targets nine times this year, but yesterday's attack was larger and more carefully orchestrated. The raids by U.S. and British aircraft, which struck targets outside the no-fly zones for the first time since late 1999, set off air raid sirens in Baghdad that have been mostly quiet in recent years. "This was a very deliberate, planned procedure," said Pentagon spokesman Adm. Craig Quigley. In the last six months, the U.S. Air Force has scaled back the intensity of its patrols over the two no-fly zones, trying to avoid brushes with Iraqi forces, while waiting to see whether the new administration intended a muscular approach toward Saddam Hussein, according to a senior Air Force general. The administration's decision to send an early signal to Iraq underscores in foreign policy what Bush's initial actions on domestic policy also have shown: that what he said during the campaign will have consequence now that he is president. "The strongest impression I have of Bush so far is that what he says before the election is very relevant to what he does after," said Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. "It seems to me he sent all kinds of signals during the campaign that he considered U.S. policy toward Iraq bankrupt, that the status quo was unacceptable and that his administration would pursue policies to change that." During his debate with then-Vice President Gore last October, Bush criticized the Clinton administration for allowing the coalition assembled against Iraq during the Persian Gulf War to deteriorate and said he wanted to persuade voters he would do a better job. Asked directly if he believed Iraqi policy was a failure of Clinton, Bush replied, "I do." At least once during the campaign, Bush was forced to clarify his policy after a comment left the impression that, as president, he would use evidence that Saddam Hussein was trying to develop weapons of mass destruction as an excuse to try to eliminate Hussein himself. Later he said he was speaking only about taking out the weapons, not the Iraqi leader. Administration officials said yesterday the airstrikes did not represent a new policy, but the
[CTRL] China markets new anti-aircraft system
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! China markets new anti-aircraft system Continued weapons proliferation worries West, neighbors -- -- By Jon Dougherty 2001 WorldNetDaily.com In Beijing's bid to become a larger player in the world of arms exports, China is set to begin export of its latest anti-aircraft gun and surface-to-air missile system currently in use by the People's Liberation Army. According to Jane's Defense Weekly, China's Type 95 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun/surface-to-air missile system -- originally known as the Type 90-II and Type 90-III -- entered service with the PLA several years ago. The new system, however, was finally revealed in 1999 during a military parade in Beijing. Earlier models, including the Type 62 and 88 models, were also equipped on tracked tank chassis, but were considered largely ineffective weapons to employ in the defense of Chinese mechanized infantry units because of limited range and outmoded firepower. These models were equipped with twin 37mm guns; a separate model, the Type 80, was equipped with twin 57mm guns. Also, most of these models were never mass-produced. But the newer upgraded Type 95s are equipped with fire-control technology, "consist of a new full-tracked armored chassis on the roof on which has been installed a new one-person, power-operated turret armed with four 25mm cannons and four fire-and-forget surface-to-air missiles," Jane's said. Also, a "bank of four electrically operated forward-firing smoke grenade launchers is mounted on either side on the lower part of the turret for self-protection," said Jane's. Additionally, the Type 95 is equipped with a CLC-1 pulse-Doppler search radar mounted on top of the vehicle that has a range of 11 km, or 6.8 miles. Reports say the radar has been optimized specifically to detect lower-altitude aircraft such as helicopters and low-flying ground-attack planes. The 25mm cannon, which is already in service with the PLA in other applications, has a cyclic rate of fire of 600 to 800 rounds per minute per barrel. About 1,000 rounds of 25mm ammunition are carried, and the empty cartridge cases are ejected outside of the turret, Jane's said. Reports indicate that the Chinese SAMs mounted aboard the Type 95s are similar to Russian-built Igla-1 missiles, and may have a range from 10 to 3,500 meters (maximum 2.1 miles). Besides defending against airborne threats, the twin-25mm cannons also have a secondary role against ground targets and would be able to destroy most light-armored fighting vehicles. The system is being promoted for export by China North Industries Corp., which is the same company that conspired with another Chinese company, Poly Tech, to import 2,000 fully automatic AK-47 rifles in the hopes of selling them to American street gangs and drug dealers. That deal was discovered after company representatives attempted to make the sale to U.S. agents posing as buyers in 1996. U.S. and Western officials are becoming increasingly concerned about the proliferation of modern weapons by China and other nations, noting that with each new system offered, U.S. forces face greater danger worldwide. In a statement made to the U.S. House of Representatives on July 11, 2000, Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., expressed concern over increasing Chinese weapons proliferation -- specifically over China's alleged assistance on ballistic missile technology to Pakistan. "I have long been concerned, as many of my colleagues in Congress have been, about transfers of technology by the People's Republic of China that contribute to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or missiles that could deliver them," he said. "Since 1992, Beijing has taken some steps to mollify American concerns about proliferation, including promises to abide by the Missile Technology Control Regime, which it has not joined, and accession to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty," he added. "But the director of the CIA reports that the People's Republic remains a key supplier of technology inconsistent with nonproliferation goals." Also, according to noted Asian expert Al Santoli, national security adviser to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., other nations -- especially those neighboring China -- are becoming alarmed about unrestricted Chinese weapons proliferation. "In recent months, Thailand has been increasingly vocal about the sale of weapons by Beijing to [various] drug-trafficking armies," Santoli wrote last September in a report on Asian security issues. "On Sept. 1, the Thai Foreign Ministry optimistically reported to the media that its diplomats had reached an agreement to work with China on a counter-narcotics policy in the Golden Triangle. However, this agreement should be viewed with skepticism," he said, because "Thai security experts believe that Beijing is determined to control
[CTRL] Iraq vows to fight US
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Latest News - World 17 February 07:50AM -- Singapore Time Iraq vows to fight US BAGHDAD -- Iraq vowed on Saturday to fight on to victory against the United States and blamed the first US bombing of Baghdad in two years on a Zionist plot. BAGHDAD -- Thirteen-year-old Hussein Ali, with his brother Hasan by his side, recovering at the al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad. Iraq claimed that Hussein was among those injured in the air raids by the US and Britain. -- AP The pledge came in an official communique released by the Iraqi News Agency after President Saddam Hussein chaired a meeting of military and political chiefs in Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council and the ruling Baath party. 'The aggression will not force Iraq to give up its rights,' said the statement. 'Aggression and threats do not discourage Iraq.' 'Iraq will continue to fight them on land, in the air and at sea. Iraq will finally win and Palestine will be freed,' it vowed. 'This aggression is explained by a Zionist and American plot and prepares the ground for operations by the Zionist entity against the Arabs and Palestinians,' the communique said. Two dozen US and British warplanes struck five Iraqi radar and command posts north of the 33rd parallel, US authorities said. According to the communique the bombings hit the suburbs of Baghdad. 'As they step up their aggression, the Iraqi people, army and courageous leadership will resist more strongly against the forces of evil.' The communique went on to accuse Saudi Arabia and Kuwait of being 'accomplices in crime' because they shelter US and British air bases. -- AFP *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Boom decade seen for U.S. electronic warfare business
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Boom decade seen for U.S. electronic warfare business SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Saturday,February 17, 2001 WASHINGTON âThe U.S. electronic warfare market is expected to grow rapidly over the next decade. Market analysts expect the Pentagon to sign multi-billion dollar contracts for systems. Foreign sales are also expected to increase. The Forecast International/DMS predicts that the EW market will be fueled by upgrades of land, air and sea systems. The Newtown, Conn. firm said that platforms are becoming too expensive to replace. "The next 10 years are definitely the decade of production and procurement for the U.S. defense electronics market," Forecast International/DMS analyst Richard Sterk said. "Based on current production alone, defense electronics is predicted to generate nearly $128 billion in forecast sales, averaging about $12 billion a year." In its annual review of the U.S. defense electronics market, Forecast International/DMS said many of the next-generation defense electronics systems developed in the late 1990s are now being produced and deployed. This latest production run is expected to continue until at least 2015. The result is that the EW market will become the healthiest and most profitable segment within the overall U.S. defense industry, the report said. The firm said procurement will surge in 2005 to $13.9 billion as the newest versions of military electronics equipment begin deployment. The following two years will be the peak and from 2008 a slight drop is expected. "Over the next 10-year period a frenzy of electronic equipment procurement, upgrades, and modernization is forecast," Sterk said. By 2010, the report said, the U.S. defense market will level off at $10.9 billion. For the next decade, production lines will be running at full speed, producing the latest high-tech equipment. At that point, the market will decrease as money is pumped into research and development for more advanced systems. The firm said U.S. contractors must keep their systems affordable with advanced capabilities and off-the-shelf components. "Systems and products will need to be modular and easily adapted to different wants and changing requirements, and upgrades a matter of months, not years," Sterk said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Defector Lifts Lid on the Business of Terror
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Defector Lifts Lid on the Business of Terror NewsMax.com Wires February 17, 2001 The scene outside the American embassy on a hot summer day in 1996 would have been a familiar one in a hundred different cities: a long line of aspiring emigrants waiting patiently at the visa window for a form to fill in or an appointment to make. But the nervous Sudanese man in the queue had something else in mind. "I don't want visa," he said in broken English. "But I have some information for your government... about people, they want to do something against your government." That was over four years ago. We still do not know the location of the embassy - it remains secret for reasons of US national security - but we do know the name of the Sudanese man in the queue. It is Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, and the people he wanted to warn the US embassy about were his former employers, Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organisation. Mr al-Fadl, now 37 years old, has a new identity under a federal witness protection programme, along with $20,000 (13,500) as starting capital for a new life. Since his defection, he has been referred to in official documents as CS1 (Confidential Source One). But he has resurfaced under his real name this month in New York as a star witness in the trial of four men accused of plotting, on Mr Bin Laden's orders, the 1998 bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in which 224 people were killed. As he defected two years before the bombs went off, Mr al-Fadl can say nothing about the events of that bloody August in east Africa, but what he did provide in the Manhattan courtroom has been riveting none the less. As a founding member and trusted official in al-Qaeda (roughly translated as the Base), he was in a perfect position to give a comprehensive account of its far-reaching operations. He gave evidence in faded jeans and a white knitted skull cap. The court artist was not permitted to draw his portrait. Modern Like any other multinational enterprise in the era of globalisation, al-Qaeda appears to have diversified its product, producing roads and bridges as well as bombs and booby traps. It is arranged, not in an old-fashioned vertical hierarchy, but in a modern horizontally integrated array of loosely affiliated groups, drawing shared goals and philosophy from the centre but operating independently. It is as if Mr Bin Laden had been consulting the most up-to-date management gurus. What Mr al-Fadl had to say helped explain why his former boss appears so powerful and invincible and, paradoxically, why his sudden death or disappearance would be unlikely to stem the unpredictable violence in which al-Qaeda specialises. The most striking feature of Mr al-Fadl's testimony was all the banal detail of the nine-to-five grind of a career in terrorism. In al-Qaeda's offices in Khartoum, the boss sat in the first office on the left. There were board meetings, wage nego tiations and the firm took care of its employees' healthcare. There were perks for employees, such as free tea and groceries, and an in-house specialist for the interpretation of dreams. A travel department obtained tickets and passports to order. As in all multinational corporations, al-Qaeda appears to suffer from constant friction and mutual envy among the various national groups working for it. Mr al-Fadl had joined the organisation at the beginning, in Afghanistan in 1990, when Mr Bin Laden, the maverick heir to a Saudi construction fortune, decided to divert the money and resources he had poured into the mojahedin war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, and channel into a new jihad - against the "snake", the United States. Mr al-Fadl recalled Mr Bin Laden and his closest advisers issuing a fatwah against the US at the time of the Gulf war. He said: "The fatwah, it say we cannot let the American army stay in the Gulf area and take our oil, take our money and we have to to do something to take them out. We have to fight them." When the newly formed al-Qaeda decamped to Sudan on the invitation of a radical Islamic regime in Khartoum, Mr al-Fadl became a trusted employee. He once delivered $100,000 in cash to an al-Qaeda member in Jordan (where the organisation arranged for customs officers to overlook the dollar-stuffed bag), and on another occasion he was sent off with enough money to buy 50 camels to smuggle weapons into Egypt. But he bristled at the fact that the Egyptians in the organisation earned far more than his $500 a month and appeared to wield more clout. He confronted his boss with his complaints, but Mr Bin Laden told him the Egyptians were paid extra to help them visit their families back home. "He say ... some people, they got citizenship from another country and they go back over there for regular life," Mr al-Fadl told the court. "And he says that's why he try to make them happy and give them more money."
[CTRL] CONGRESS ACTION: February 18, 2001
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! CONGRESS ACTION: February 18, 2001 = LEGISLATIVE MISCHIEF: Leftists often complain about conservatives who seek to "tamper" with the Constitution to advance their agenda -- proposing amendments to ban flag burning, permit school prayer, require a balanced budget, set congressional term limits, make it harder to raise taxes, and make English the official language -- while themselves pretending to be defenders of the Constitution against an onslaught from the "right-wing". One of the most farcical aspects of Clinton's impeachment was his attempt to portray himself as a victim in a battle to preserve the Constitution: "I did the right thing to stand against a tide that would have done permanent and terrible damage to the Constitution and the framework. . I was right to stand and fight for my country and my Constitution and its principles." And Willie Sutton should be commended for his work in preserving the security of our banking system. But in the 107th Congress, it's the democrats who are trying to advance their agenda through Constitutional amendments. Five amendments proposed at the start of the new Congress are attributable to democrat anger that Al Gore lost the election: House Joint Resolution 1, James Clyburn (D-SC), ".to provide for the appointment by the States of Electors for the election of the President and Vice President on the basis of the popular vote of each Congressional district of the State and for the appointment of two electors by each State on the basis of the total popular vote of the State." House Joint Resolution 2, John Dingell (D-MI), ".to permit the Congress to limit expenditures in elections for Federal office." House Joint Resolution 3, Gene Green (D-TX), ".to abolish the electoral college and to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States." House Joint Resolution 4, Jose Serrano (D-NY), ".to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President." Serrano no doubt has visions dancing in his head of a President-for-Life Bill Clinton to emulate four-term Franklin Roosevelt. House Joint Resolution 5, William Delahunt (D-MA), ".to abolish the electoral college and to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States." All these resolutions have been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary, which is chaired by James Sensenbrenner (R-WI). John Conyers (D-MI), Barney Frank (D-MA) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) are on the committee, and on the Subcommittee on the Constitution as well. The disinformation that will be spread about the nature and purpose of the Electoral College, during debate on H.J.Res.1, 3, and 5, will be a wonder to behold. But far more divisive is another bill sponsored by John Conyers, House Resolution 40, "To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies.". The purpose of H.R.40 is revealed in the short title of the bill: the "Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act". H.R. 40 is "to establish a commission to.examine the institution of slavery". The commission will "address, among other issues.Whether the Government.should offer a formal apology on behalf of the people of the United States. Whether.any form of compensation to the descendants of African slaves is warranted. .what should be the amount of compensation, what form of compensation should be awarded, and who should be eligible for such compensation." The basic premise of H.R.40 is deceptively simple: slavery was evil, whites owned slaves, blacks were slaves, therefore blacks are owed reparations from whites for the evils of slavery. But the basic premise of this piece of legislation is also highly racist -- it requires the presumption that all whites today are tainted by the evil of slavery centuries ago, and that all blacks today are victims of that evil. Is that at all logical? Slavery was evil (it still is, although we hear precious little from black leaders about the slavery that still exists today in places like Sudan, Mauritania, and Ghana). But even in the pre-Civil War American South, slavery was not universal. Even in the South, three-quarters of whites never owned slaves (and according to one writer citing the 1830 census, nearly 4000 free blacks owned slaves). Then came the Civil War, fought, according to conventional wisdom, to end slavery. When anyone defends the
[CTRL] The UN and your basic rights
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Just in case you have not heard, the UN is on a campaign to revoke all of the rights that we, as Americans take for granted. Tell your Congressmen to "Get US out of the UN." poster available from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership: A HREF="http://www.jpfo.org/poster-ungc.htm" http://www.jpfo.org/poster-ungc.htm/A [Unable to display image] But your firearms ownership rights is not where the UN's plans stop. They are planning (and slowly, but surely they are getting) a worldwide socialist dictatorship. If you are not already, please help us stop them. ~geo February 16, 2001 ALERT: Powell Cozies Up to UN -- Will your gun rights survive? Does the United Nations recognize and protect your right to keep and bear arms? Not hardly. Yet Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed on February 14 the Bush Administration's "strong support of the work of the United Nations." Does the Administration also support the U.N. sponsored programs to disarm civilians? There is absolutely no "Second Amendment" in the U.N. Charter or any of its resolutions -- civilian disarmament plans are underway. Does the Administration also embrace the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights? That document protects almost none of the American fundamental rights while it directly fosters world socialism. Does the Administration intend to give authority over U.S. land and the U.S. military forces over to U.N. control? Will the Administration go along with a world income tax? Secretary of State Powell said: "We obviously are bound by U.N. resolutions and we're not trying to modify those." This statement, although given in the context of sanctions on Iraq, leaves little doubt: the Administration considers itself "obviously" bound by U.N. resolutions. When the U.N. passes a resolution to register, tax or confiscate privately-owned firearms, will the Bush Administration be "obviously bound"? Will Attorney General Ashcroft "enforce the law of the land" -- and thus enforce the U.N. resolutions to destroy the Second Amendment? To protect our Bill of Rights, we must continue to educate Americans about how the United Nations gravely threatens our freedom and our way of life. We cannot depend upon President Bush and Secretary Powell to save our rights -- we must remain actively watching and protesting the increasing power and influence of the United Nations. What to do: Get educated -- and help educate others. Get copies of "Gran'pa Jack #5: The United Nations is Killing Your Freedoms!" Order copies in volume to pass out to others. Gran'pa Jack exposes the truth about the U.N. anti-freedom programs, and particularly the elimination of the right to keep and bear arms. Get the facts -- and pass the word! Click on: http://www.jpfo.org/gpjack5.htm The Kofi Annan poster says it all ! Click on: http://www.jpfo.org/poster-ungc.htm Express your views about the United Nations to Secretary Colin Powell. E-mail questions on or opinions about U.S. foreign policy: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact: The Honorable Colin Powell Secretary of State U.S. Department of State Washington, D.C. 20520 Fax: 202-261-8577 Home page: www.state.gov E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] News reference: Evelyn Leopold, Powell Signals Days of U.S. Dumping on U.N. Over, Reuters, February 14, 2001, http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nrn/20010214/p1/un_powell_dc_1.html *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A
