[CTRL] Neighbors Complain of Cheney Home Blasts
-Caveat Lector- Neighbors Complain of Cheney Home Blasts Mon Dec 9, 9:54 AM ET By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Neighbors of Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) are being shaken and rattled at least once a day by mysterious blasts at the U.S. Naval Observatory where Cheney lives. The Navy says the explosions are part of a construction project that has been going on for several months now, but won't say more because the project is classified. Navy spokeswoman Cate Mueller described the work as an infrastructure improvement, a utility upgrade. She said they have tried to reassure the neighborhood, which includes the Washington residence of former President Bill and Sen. Hillary Clinton (news - web sites), that the blasts will not damage their homes. She said most understand that, because of national security concerns, they can't reveal details or confine the construction to a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule. Joseph Rieser, who lives a half-block off Observatory Circle, said each blast was almost like thunder because it rolls and it lasts a noticeable period, probably several seconds. It said the explosions rattle windows that aren't shut tight. He said his concern was that neighbors received no forewarning of the project. If this were a normal construction contract I would expect that they would have told the neighbors. Mueller acknowledged that they were not as aggressive up front in warning neighbors about the project. She said the construction is expected to last another eight months, and for the time being there will be one or two blasts a day, each lasting about three to five seconds. The blasts were being carefully monitored to assure they were well under acceptable vibration standards so there would be no damage to either nearby residences or to facilities at the observatory, she said. The Naval Observatory moved to its present location on Massachusetts Ave. in Northwest Washington in 1893. The vice president took up residence on the site in 1974. It houses the master clock of the United States and telescopes dating back to a time when it was one of the premier astronomical observatories in the world. The Washington Post, which reported the issue Sunday, said David Gillard, the observatory's superintendent, had sent the local neighborhood commission a letter noting that due to its sensitive nature in support of national security and homeland defense, project specific information is classified and cannot be released. Jennifer Millerwise, a spokeswoman for the vice president, referred questions about the project to the Navy. ___ On the Net: Vice president's residence: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/life/vpresidence.html U.S. Naval Observatory: http://www.usno.navy.mil/ -- Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com Latest Update: Cydonia in 3-D http://www.anomalous-images.com/Odyssey/Cydonia_3-d.html 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] U.S. Catholic church in uproar
-Caveat Lector- A former Boston archdiocese leader, the Rev. Thomas Daily, now the bishop of Brooklyn, N.Y., said in a sworn deposition this year that the church knew that Shanley had advocated sex between men and boys when it promoted him to lead a parish in 1983. http://www.msnbc.com/news/844789.asp?0cv=CB10cp1=1 -- Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com Latest Update: Cydonia in 3-D http://www.anomalous-images.com/Odyssey/Cydonia_3-d.html 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] Snow Jobs
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: bronxcheerdubya [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:06:34 - Subject:!b_a_Act: Snow Jobs Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snow Jobs CSX's Snow Tapped for Treasury Secretary. We have mixed feelings about the recent Treasury Department shakeup. The resignation of the former Treasury Secretary, long associated with ALCOA (Thomas Mellon and Sons Bank, founded in 1869, helped finance an aluminum reduction company owned by Alfred Hunt and Charles Hall, which became known as Alcoa.) http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/SAA-PghHostCmte/articles/PittsburghHistory .html and his replacement with a new Treasury Secretary is interesting. The new Treasury Secretary is said to be a deficit hawk. That is a good omen if he is allowed to be a deficit hawk in his new post as Treasury Secretary. Dubya's Double-Barreled Depression http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1872 August 31, 2001 Dubya's Double-Barreled Depression To understand Dubya's Double-Barreled Depression we must realize that it is a one-two punch. The first punch came in March of 2000. That's when Dubya knocked McCain out of the running for the Republican Presidential nomination in the South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary. Stock market investors follow an old maxim: Buy Low-Sell High. On January 20th, 1981 the Federal Budget Deficit was ONE TRILLION DOLLARS. Twelve years later after 8 years of Reagan-Bush and 4 years of Bush-Quayle the Federal Budget Deficit was FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS. With Bush the sure Republican nominee as of March 2000 investors realized that a Bush win would mean DejaVu all over again. More budget deficits would loom. Bush lost the election but stole the White House. The worried investors who started selling in March of 2000, when Bush locked up the Republican nomination are still selling and there is NO BOTTOM TO THE STOCK MARKET! Since the peak in the Wilshire 5000 Index in the spring of 2000, stocks have lost $4.4 trillion in value. (As of August 31, 2001- THE LOSSES HAVE CONTINUED TO SKY-ROCKET SINCE THEN!!!) http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/30/mlld.00.html That's quite a number ! The reason for this is simple. When government cuts taxes and increases spending, or proposes to increase it, for things like Star Wars, which is an open-ended expense, (you could spend all of the money that exists on earth and still not have a reliable Star Wars missile defense system!) government ends up living on the equivalent of a credit card. Government starts to borrow money. If government competes with private borrowers for a limited supply of money the price of money goes up. That means that even though the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates this year it will have to raise them, dramatically, as Government goes into deficit spending! When that happens your c.d. rates will far exceed your rate of return on stocks. Anticipating this scenario investors started selling in March of 2000 the minute Bush knocked McCain out of the running for the Republican Presidential nomination in the South Carolina primary. They have not stopped selling since. Only a deficit hawk can return investor confidence to America. The CBO forecasts that the government will tap $9 billion in Social Security reserves this year (2001) because Bush's tax cut and the general economic slowdown have shrunk the surplus in general revenues. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010829/pl/bush_73.html When that happens, Baby Boomers, who are the biggest potential spenders, or savers, in the economy get Worried. Worried Baby Boomers Don't Buy Anything ! Drive down any American road and you will See Baby Boomers behind the wheels of Big SUVs! They buy those things because they are security conscious. Raiding Social Security Worries Baby Boomers! This is the 2nd barrel of Dubya's Double-Barreled Depression! Worrying the Baby Boomers into buying nothing and delivering the coup de grace to the economy. If Social Security won't be there because Dubya is raiding it right now, Baby Boomers reason, it is time to stop buying everything! Baby Boomers are approaching retirement soon. So all purchases by Baby Boomers are Out! PLEASE READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AND THE SERIES Dubya's Double-Barreled Depression http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1872 Part Two Dubya's Double-Barreled Depression http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1878 Part Three Dubya's Double-Barreled Depression http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1905 CSX's Snow Tapped for Treasury Secretary Mon Dec 9th 2002, By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bush (news - web sites) on Monday named John Snow, chairman of railroad giant CSX Corp., as his new Treasury secretary and promised bold new measures to reinvigorate the U.S. economy-and the stock market-before the 2004
[CTRL] French right reorganises in new party
-Caveat Lector- http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/dec2002/fran-d11.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : France French right reorganises in new party By Francis Dubois 11 December 2002 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author On November 17 at a congress in Le Bourget near Paris, the traditional parties of the French bourgeoisie agreed to unite in a new organisationthe Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire [UMP]). Taking part in the fusion were the Gaullist Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), the real backbone of the new movement, and the liberal parties Démocratie Libérale (DL) and the Union Démocratie Française (UDF). The presidency of the new party went to Alain Juppé (RPR), who occupied the post of prime minister in 1995-97 and is a close ally of the current French president, Jacques Chirac. The charter of the grouping states: The founding of our union is a political turning point Our familiesGaullists, Christian Democrats, Liberals, Radicals, social and independentshave, for the first time, united into a single, great movement and, in the course of so doing, overcome old boundaries. However, not all of the classic French right wing participated in the construction of the UMP: a part of the UDF under the leadership of François Bayrou refused to join the new organisation. Other Gaullist leaders, including Charles Pasqua of the RPF (Rassemblement pour la France) and Philippe Séguin, the ex-president of the RPR, who both represent anti- European tendencies, sharply criticised the founding of the UMP. The aim of the Le Bourget congress was to give the impression that the UMP is a party enjoying mass support. According to the organisers of the event, the intention behind what they called this historic event was to create the appropriate framework for a huge gathering. To this end, a total of 15,000 people were brought together from all over France. The congress served as a platform for celebrating the policies of the new French government and its right-wing leaders. Jacques Chirac, the real head of the UMP, did not turn up for the congress. It is presumed he sought to avoid giving ammunition to his critics, who regard the UMP as nothing more than an electoral machine for the president and his protégé Juppé. The new party claims that its membership includes all social layers, and it is especially interested in attracting young people, wage earners and intellectuals. In fact, the UMP is far removed from being a mass party. The publicly acknowledged membership of 164,500 is, even according to the partys leader, a wildly exaggerated figure. A more realistic figure is thought to be about 80,000. Only around 30,000 took part in the various votes conducted by the party on such issues as its name, emblem, the charter, statutes and agenda. Alain Juppé was elected president of the new organisation with 79.4 percent, corresponding to a total of 37,822 votes. The new party, a fusion of functionaries from a number of parties rather than a mass movement, has declared its desire to locate itself on the moderate right, but its ideological borders are anything but clearly defined. With regard to orientation, vagueness predominates: apparently there is no real agreement over whether the party should fish in the moderate right or establish itself as an openly right-wing party. Amongst other ambitions, the party seeks to compete with the Green movement and the Catholic lobby. To this end the UMP has its own ecological wing, blue ecology, and Christine Boutin, the candidate in presidential elections for the anti-abortion lobby, has taken her party into the UMP. Room has also been made for a monarchist movement called Debout la France (Onwards France), which won 14.91 percent of the vote for positions in the new executive. The UMP has distanced itself from politicians of the RPR and UDF who sought to work together with the ultra-right National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen, and now sought to join the new party figures such as Charles Millon and Jean-Pierre Soissons. At the same time it has been argued that the new movement should not seek to keep them out for ever. Just two days after the congress a number of leading members of the ultra-right Mouvement pour La France led by Philippe de Villiers joined the UMP. The main role model for the UMP is the Spanish Partido Popular (Peoples Party [PP]). The chairman of the PP, Jose Maria Aznar, was one of the most prominent guests at the congress alongside Angela Merkel (of the German Christian Democratic Union [CDU]) and Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, a representative of the Portuguese right. Aznar used the congress to hold up his party as an example. Aznar has led the PP since 1989 and has turned it into a reservoir for Christian Democrats, liberals and supporters of the old Franco party, Allianza Popular, where Aznar began his political
[CTRL] daily news, uk weather, business news - online newspaper - The Telegraph
-Caveat Lector- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/11/nirq11.xml/ The United States needs us politically, not militarily, a senior British source said. They can do this by themselves, with a few British troops for the cameras. Britain may scale back its military assistance By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 11/12/2002) Britain may scale back its military contribution to a war in Iraq, particularly if America takes action in the coming weeks, according to senior British sources. Tony Blair has intensified the rhetoric of war in recent days, but Britain has not yet moved any heavy equipment to the Middle East to back up its threat of military action. This is in marked contrast with the United States, which has steadily built up its forces in the Gulf and says it will be ready to go to war in January. Senior Government sources said Mr Blair has been reluctant to order the deployment of forces to the Gulf because it is politically difficult. The reasons include the overstretch in the Army caused by the firemen's strike, the Treasury's reluctance to release the money for a major deployment and the strong opposition in the Labour Party. Well-placed sources said the Government is now considering the option of sending a much smaller force than originally envisaged, perhaps more akin to the British role in Afghanistan than to its contribution in the 1991 Gulf war. The United States needs us politically, not militarily, a senior British source said. They can do this by themselves, with a few British troops for the cameras. But any calls to reduce Britain's role will be tempered by the need to be seen to make a substantial contribution if Mr Blair wants to play a major role in shaping the postSaddam era in Iraq and promoting a new Israeli-Palestinian peace process. British contingency planning in Iraq has envisaged deploying a light armoured division of up to 23,000 men. But the Government's delay in deploying troops to the Gulf means it is now virtually impossible for such a force to fight a campaign before February. An early war in January means Britain would only be able to contribute lighter forces - such as the SAS, 16 Air Assault Brigade and the Royal Marines 3 Commando Brigade - numbering at most several thousand troops, as well as combat aircraft and a naval force. Military planners say the optimum time for the campaign will be before April, after which the Iraqi desert heat will make it increasingly difficult for Allied troops to fight with protective suits against chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. The resumption of United Nations weapons inspections in Iraq raised hopes among some British officials that the process would stretch out over several months and that America would revert to a policy of containment rather than regime change through military force. But Saddam's refusal to admit that he has any weapons of mass destruction - a claim rejected as a lie by Britain and America - and his recent menaces to Kuwait suggest he is in defiant mood and is set for an early collision with the United States. A senior Whitehall source said the Prime Minister still hoped to avoid a war. Tony Blair has fought hard to go down the UN route and wants it pursued as vigorously as possible. If there is any chance of avoiding a war he will make every effort to seize it. Britain has described its policy towards Iraq as a paradox: the best way to prevent a war is to present a credible threat of force. But its own tactics now appear to be undermined by Mr Blair's reluctance to commit forces to the region in preparation for a possible war should Saddam be judged to be in material breach of UN resolution 1441. 10 December 2002: CND asks court to outlaw Iraq war 9 December 2002: US forces ready to strike Iraq 'in weeks' 9 December 2002: Troops see ousting Saddam as chore, not crusade 8 December 2002: British forces on security alert as US stages war games in Gulf 25 November 2002: Blair 'panic' as he prepares appeal to firemen 25 November 2002: You must fight Iraq within your budget, Brown tells the Army 11 November 2002: Resolution 1441 requires 'immediate, unimpeded access to all areas' 10 November 2002: Britain mobilises 15,000 troops for war on Saddam as the UN deadline approaches Related reports Harold Pinter: A bloodthirsty wild animal Thatcher praises Blair over Iraq Embargo hits poor Iraqis Yesterday in Parliament Iraq factfile External links Iraqi inspection update - International Atomic Energy Authority Iraq - Foreign Commonwealth Office Iraq's weapons of mass destruction - 10 Downing Street Military action in Iraq 1990-2002 - Centre for Defence Information Humanitarian implications of military action against Iraq - Global Policy Conflict with Iraq - Americans the World Defence Intelligence Agency News - Ministry of Defence British Army US Department of Defence © Copyright of
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-Caveat Lector- Euphorian spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it. To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk Top 10 rules for survival Cherie Blair might have avoided the pain of last night's public statement if she had learned from past scandals Jonathan Freedland Tuesday December 10 2002 The Guardian We don't yet know if Cherie Blair's bravura performance last night has saved her future seat on the high court, but her entry into another kind of elite pantheon is already guaranteed. The last 10 days have earned the PM's wife a place in the ever-fattening textbook of political scandal. She is destined to join Peter Mandelson, Norman Lamont, Richard Nixon and, of course, Hillary Clinton in the bumper volume that records the disgrace, deserved and undeserved, that fate routinely heaps on public figures - and which is bursting with advice for future victims yet unknown. It's a rich text, though a painfully repetitious one: the characters and storylines may change, but the same themes come through again and again. The only pity is that Mrs Blair didn't read the book before now. If she had, it might have spared her some agony. Here's a distilled version of its 10 key lessons. 1. It's never the crime, it's always the cover-up. This is the oldest lesson in the book, yet the world's prominent people never seem to learn it. Richard Nixon gave the masterclass 30 years ago: Watergate might have remained a third-rate burglary, had the Nixon White House admitted it from the start. Instead the subsequent lies, deceptions and obstructions of justice produced the biggest scandal in US history. Bill Clinton made the same error when he lied (under oath) about Monica: if he had 'fessed up, it would have been embarrassing, but it would never have ended in impeachment. Likewise if Cherie had said 10 days ago, as soon as the Mail on Sunday got wind of Peter Foster and those Bristol flats, what she said last night, this story would have been dead on arrival: I'm not superwoman, I needed help, Carole Caplin came to the rescue and, yes, I made a mistake in believing her boyfriend was a reformed character. Fleet Street would have reached for the collective sick bag, but Cherie would have won. 2. Get all the facts out in one go. If Mrs Blair had disclosed everything in one shot, her pursuers would have had nowhere to go. Without a hunt for new, undisclosed facts a story soon dies. The folly of the alternative approach has been on display for 10 straight days. In the absence of full disclosure, Cherie was submitted to the drip-drip-drip of daily revelation. All that does is prolong the agony. What's worse, the scandalee looks like he or she has something to hide, only admitting the truth when it's dragged out. Witness Cherie's admission yesterday that she looked up the name of Foster's trial judge: would she have said that if the Daily Mail were not about to publish it? By telling all, early on, the scandal victim keeps the initiative. The instructive parallel here is the Whitewater affair which dogged the Clintons' first term. It could all have been prevented if the relevant papers had been released in a bloc, right at the start: Bill wanted to do that, Hillary said no. Cherie had the same instinct. 3. Context and timing is all. Scandals only blossom if the political climate is right. Judged on substance alone, the most serious scandal of the Blair period remains the Formula One affair, in which Labour took Bernie Eccelstone's cash and did a screaming u-turn to exempt the sport from the ban on tobacco advertising. Yet no heads rolled over that episode. That's because it broke in the autumn of 1997, when New Labour was still basking in a honeymoon glow. Voters had a positive view of Tony Blair which served as a protective shield: the revelations barely left a dent. Now it's different. There is a mood of rising disaffection, unfocused perhaps, with this government which makes people willing to hear such negative talk. Impatience at public service reform, worry about a war on Iraq and anger over university top-up fees and firefighters' pay are all swirling around - making Labour vulnerable, particularly with its own supporters. This episode channels at least two elements of that fury. First, the Blairs are exposed as people with enough cash to buy two classy student flats, even as they consider charging parents big money to give their kids a university education. Second they have #163;500k to spend, even as they refuse the firefighters #163;30k a year. Labour defenders insist Cheriegate is a media invention, but the evidence, whether from public meetings or phone-in shows, suggests the episode has stirred some genuine anger. That may dissipate now that Cherie has appealed above the heads of the Daily Mail, directly to working mothers like her. 4. Hypocrisy is always a
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-Caveat Lector- Euphorian spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it. To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk How Diamond Joe's libel case could change the future of the internet Australian court gives millionaire go-ahead to sue US website David Fickling in Sydney and Stuart Millar Tuesday December 10 2002 The Guardian Once it was heralded as the last bastion of freedom of speech, a realm which transcended national law and the whims of the courts. But last night the internet was facing up to a harsh new reality after Australia's supreme court ruled that a local businessman could sue a website for libel in Melbourne even though it was based in the United States. In a case which opens up a legal minefield for web publishers across the English-speaking world, the high court judges decided that an internet article is published wherever it is read, rather than where the publisher is based. The landmark ruling is the first instance in the developed world of a libel trial being admitted in a foreign jurisdiction purely because of the possibility of an article being downloaded from the internet. Media companies and internet campaigners immediately denounced the decision amid fears that it would open the floodgates for a wave of libel actions from around the world. They said the chilling ruling would seriously undermine the internet's much-cherished reputation for freedom of speech and raised the threat of forum-shopping by wealthy litigants looking for the easiest jurisdiction to ensure their victory in libel proceedings. The case centres on a two-year-old article about Melbourne gold mining magnate Joe Gutnick, published in the American business magazine Barron's. The article, entitled Unholy Gains, alleged that Mr Gutnick - a multimillionaire rabbi nicknamed Diamond Joe who became a local hero in Melbourne after he saved the local Australian Rules football club with a A$3m (#163;1.1m) cash injection - was involved in tax evasion and money laundering. Most significantly, it claimed that he was the biggest customer of Nachum Goldberg, a Melbourne money launderer jailed in 2000 for washing A$42m (#163;15.5m) in used notes through a bogus Israeli charity. Mr Gutnick is suing the American business information company Dow Jones, which owns Barron's as well as the Wall St Journal. He has brought the case in Victoria, where libel laws give him a better chance of winning than in the US, where 98% of Barron's' readers live. The magazine has 14 subscribers in Australia, of which five are in Victoria. But 1,700 of its internet subscribers had paid their bills using Australian credit cards, and the court ruled yesterday that this was enough to admit the case in Victoria. Publishers are not obliged to publish on the internet, the ruling stated. If the potential reach is uncontrollable then the greater the need to exercise care in publication. Barron's offices are in New York, and Dow Jones had argued that the place of internet publication was New Jersey, where the magazine's web servers are based. The company's defence even at one point floated the suggestion of declaring the internet a libel-free zone, based on a 1928 legal decision about the meaning of publication. In a clear indication of how serious the implications of the ruling may be, 18 of the world's biggest media organisations - including AOL Time Warner, Amazon and Yahoo! - made submissions to the court urging the judges to dimiss Mr Gutnick's action. Mr Gutnick said after yesterday's verdict that the case had been a David and Goliath battle against all the strongest media in the world. You have to be careful what you write, and if you offend somebody or write malicious statements about people, like what was done in my case, you can be subject to being prosecuted, he told the Nine Network. Dow Jones issued a statement expressing disappointment at the verdict. The result means that Dow Jones will defend those proceedings in a juris diction which is far removed from the country in which the article was prepared and where the vast bulk of Barron's readership resides. The court made it clear that they were not ruling whether Mr Gutnick had been libelled, merely that the case could now go ahead. Crucially, however, the court made clear that a claim could only be brought in Australia if the person claiming libel had a reputation there that could be defamed. This will make it difficult for many foreign nationals to use the Australian courts to pursue internet libel actions. But the ruling has thrown internet publishers into disarray and left them facing a choice between two equally costly and undesirable options: restricting access to their websites to prevent people in potentially difficult legal jurisdictions reading them; or employing international legal teams to vet all content to ensure that it
Re: [CTRL] Bohemian Grove
-Caveat Lector- (I flew over the Bohemian Grove last week. Most of the cabins are obsured by the forrest. The helicopter to the north at the top of a hill and looks like an owl. The area is spooky. A spooky elite-connected former associate claims to have been there. Another calls it a faggot-place because they have a play where the men dress as women and there are only men there execept for a few in the kitchen. Typical. --SW) Bohemian Grove: Hell-Fire in a Forest The Bohemian Club was established in 1872 in San Francisco as an exclusive club of political and intellectual figures who wished to spend a certain amount of time each year relaxing and interacting in a non-business environment. They began camping on the site of the present Bohemian Grove, located 3 miles east of Monte Rio and 1 mile from the end of the Northwest Pacific Railroad Company, in 1891 but didn't officially acquire the land until 1901. The grove itself is a total of 2437 acres of uncut redwoods, including some that are 2000-3000 years old. The land is occupied by approximately 1500 men -- most of them political and business dignitaries -- for two weeks around Midsummer. The encampment is marked by rituals, talks and entertainment meant to revolve around the relaxation and friendship of the members, rather than their political and economic alliances. On the first Saturday of the camp, an elaborate ritual called the Cremation of Care is held just after dinner. It begins with the procession of a group of men, dressed in red pointed hoods and red robes, some of whom play a funeral dirge while others carry torches. These men also carry a rough, open coffin containing a body made of a black muslin-covered wooden skeleton. According to Domhoff [G. William Domhoff, author of The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats], 'this is the body of Care, symbolizing the concerns and woes that important men supposedly must bear in their daily lives. It is Dull Care which must be cremated.' 'Begone, dull care. Midsummer sets us free!' (chant from the Bohemian Grove) [1] [Bohemian Grove, the virtual-reality version] Pike [Albert Pike, 'patron saint' of the Scottish Rite] was known in his adopted state of Arkansas as a practitioner of Satanism. His reported sexual proclivities included sitting astride a phallic throne in the woods, accompanied by a gang of prostitutes. He would bring to his revels one or more wagon-loads of liquor, most of which he would consume over a period of perhaps 48 hours, until he passed into a stupor. [2] John DeCamp's book, The Franklin Cover-Up, includes Paul Bonacci's testimony about a snuff film of a child being murdered on July 26, 1984 in California in 'an area that had big trees.' At a meeting in Santa Rosa, DeCamp told a group that he had edited out Bonacci's references to an enormous, moss-covered owl and men in hooded red robes because he not know then about the owl at the Grove and thought it 'too far fetched for people to believe.' In the fall of 1992, Paul Bonacci was shown a black and white photo of the moss-covered owl at the Grove and quickly identified it as the site of the July 1984 snuff film described in DeCamp's book. Although this testimony has been available to law enforcement officials since mid-October 1992, no official investigation has been made. [3] This isn't the typical Bohemian Grove expose which claims that the large summer gathering consists entirely of Establishment bigwigs, and that the Cremation of Care ceremony is an occult ritual. My position is that it's the equivalent of the outermost circle of a high-level satanic cult, intended to sift through those invited to attend, and draw the most potentially useful toward the center of the cult. One of the more prominent aspects of the gathering seems to be to puff up the egotism of the newcomers. The supposed exclusivity of the event is mentioned in almost every account I've read. Besides being in itself an appeal to luciferic tendencies (egotism/selfishness), it also tends to make them feel as if they're part of the Establishment, and thus transfer their loyalty away from mankind in general to the Establishment. The participation of high-profile lackeys and the speeches by others are apparently part of this strategy. Based on what I've seen about the speeches, they're just another variety of disinformation. The religious trappings of the Cremation of Care ritual have several purposes, although their main purpose seems to be to create the
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-Caveat Lector- Euphorian spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it. To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk Supreme court to decide on Klan's burning cross Is it freedom of speech or incitement to violence? Julian Borger in Washington Tuesday December 10 2002 The Guardian The US supreme court will today hear arguments about whether the public burning of wooden crosses by the Ku Klux Klan is an incitement to racial violence or constitutionally-protected free expression. The sight of burning crosses near black homes was once a menacing icon of the South. According to Klan lore, the practice originated as a means of gathering ancient Scottish clans, but in the South they were used to scare blacks into fleeing from white neighbourhoods. Two recent cases have reopened the racially charged debate that pits freedom of speech against freedom from intimidation. In one, three white teenagers in Virginia put together an improvised cross and tried to set it alight outside the home of a black neighbour four years ago. In the other, also from Virginia in 1998, a white supremacist, Elton Black, was charged with cross-burning at a Klan rally on private land with the owners' consent, but in a spot where it could be seen from a public road a mile away, drawing complaints from neighbours. In Virginia, as in some other states, the public burning of crosses is banned, but in other states it is legal. The discrepancy arises from different interpretations of the US constitution's first amendment, which forbids laws abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. The Supreme Court last addressed the issue ten years ago, when it overturned a cross-burning ban in Minnesota arguing that the ban was a form of discrimination. Virginia, Florida, California and Washington, have pointed to another Supreme Court ruling, that hate speech in the course of a crime could be considered an aggravating factor in sentencing. They argue that the 1992 decision does not protect people who burn crosses as a deliberate threat. A burning cross - standing alone and without explanation - is understood in our society as a message of intimidation, Virginia's attorney general, Jerry Kilgore, argued in court documents. In both the current cases, the federal government favours state prosecutors arguing that intimidation was not protected speech. Lawyers for the defendants say that the case against their clients is discriminatory, pointing out that the law in Virginia does not ban the burning of circles or squares. According to the defence case submitted to the Supreme Court: It is but a short step from the banning of offending symbols such as burning crosses or burning flags to the banning of offending words. Mr Kilgore argues that the significance of the burning cross sets it apart. He said that even a white man would feel threatened if he woke up and found a burning cross in his garden. Jonathan Turley, a law professor, said the supreme court has a record of being extremely protective of the right to free speech, but said it might choose to distinguish between the Black case, where the cross was used in the course of a meeting, and the other case - in which it was targeted against an individual. The cases offer the court a great amount of flexibility if it wants to develop a new rule, Prof Turley said. Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited 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] ArabNews: What Arabs think about other countries in the world
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=20965 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY What Arabs think about other countries in the world By James Zogby, Special to Arab News Published on 11 December 2002 Americans are frequently asked by public opinion pollsters to give their evaluations of other countries in the world. Most often, respondents are asked whether they have a favorable or unfavorable attitude toward these other nations. Until now, no such systematic effort has ever before been made to determine how Arab public opinion feels about other countries in the world. The recently released book What Arabs Think, a landmark view of Arab public opinion, commissioned by the Arab Thought Foundation, undertakes such an investigation. Utilizing the same methodology and approach used in surveying US public opinion, Arab respondents from eight countries were asked to describe their attitudes, both favorable and unfavorable, toward thirteen other countries from different parts of the world. The countries evaluated were: Russia, China, United States of America, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Iran, Japan, Turkey, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The results of this survey are fascinating. Some observations about the countries under evaluation Of all the countries covered in the poll, only France received a consistent net positive rating from respondents in all eight Arab countries. Frances best favorable to unfavorable ratio comes from Morocco and Lebanon, where nine in 10 were positive, while its poorest showing is still a net positive score of 50 percent in Saudi Arabia. Canada, Japan and Iran received positive favorability ratings from respondents in six of the eight countries surveyed, while China and Germany were viewed positively in five of the eight Arab countries. It might be surprising to some to note that Iran received very high favorable ratings in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and also recorded high positive ratings in Lebanon and Egypt. At the other end of the continuum, Israel received the lowest favorability score of any of the thirteen countries covered in our study, only breaking out of single digit favorability ratings among its own Arab citizens. Still, this community gave Israel only a 16 percent favorability rating. In no other country did the state score higher than eight percent. Also receiving net negative scores from respondents in all eight countries were the US and the United Kingdom. The favorability ratio given to the US was significantly lower than that given to the UK, and was especially low in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and among Arabs in Israel. (It is interesting, for comparison purposes, to contrast the very negative attitudes of the Arab respondents to these two English-speaking countries with more positive Arab attitudes toward Canada). Turkey also did quite poorly, receiving only slightly net positive ratings in two of the eight countries surveyed. Observations about the Arab respondents Overall, Jordanians seemed to be the most favorably inclined toward the countries covered in the survey. They granted positive favorability ratings to nine of the thirteen countries under evaluation, although none received exceptionally high positive percentages. While Lebanese rated eight countries favorably, the favorability scores they offered to those countries were among the highest of all of those given by Arab respondents. The Lebanese gave six countries greater than a 60 percent favorability rating, with five of the six receiving a greater than two to one favorability ratio. Other Arab countries expressing far more positive than negative feelings toward the thirteen countries covered in the study were Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Clearly, the responses point to an Arab concern with the US and Israel. It is not, as some might hasten to construe, an anti-Western sentiment at work, since France and Canada, both Western countries, were among the countries receiving the highest favorability ratings. Germany also received strong positive scores from most Arab respondents. As we found in an earlier study conducted by Zogby International in April of 2002, Arab unfavorable attitudes toward the US were a function of US policy in the Arab world. In that study, which we called Impressions of America, we found that although Arabs who were polled in five Arab countries (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon and UAE) had strong favorable attitudes toward American science and technology, freedom and democracy, education, movies and television, and also had largely favorable attitudes toward the American people. However, they had extremely negative attitudes toward US policy vis-à-vis the Arab world, Iraq, and most especially toward Palestine. The book, What Arabs Think, actually takes this examination of Arab attitudes toward the US one step further by asking the 3,800 respondents from the eight
[CTRL] NY Daily News - Ideas and Opinions - Richard Cohen: Republicans can lie, Dems can't. Why?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/42141p-39766c.html New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com Republicans can lie, Dems can't. Why? Tuesday, December 10th, 2002 I'm in Bill Clinton's head as he reads the morning papers. I arrive just as Clinton turns to the story saying that Elliott Abrams has been named the Bush administration's Middle East honcho. A blast of white heat engulfs me. Can you believe that? I hear him say. Elliott Abrams. The same guy who twice lied to Congress. He pleaded guilty to withholding information from a Senate committee and then a House committee. The only reason he wasn't strung up for perjury is that he wasn't under oath - a distinction without much of a difference. This guy could have taught me some lessons. He was asked if the Reagan administration had solicited a $10 million loan from the sultan of Brunei for the Nicaraguan Contras. He said the report was 'false.' Later, he said the answer was technically correct because the money hadn't yet arrived. It's all a matter of tense - a case of what you mean by 'is.' The second lie was even more of a jaw-dropper. He denied that the Reagan administration was helping the Contras. I just looked up what he said. 'It's not our supply system.' But it was their supply system. And Congress had passed a law forbidding aid to the Contras. He broke the law. He lied about it. He got convicted, and then he got a presidential pardon from Pappa Bush. I don't get it. I lied about sex, which, of course, wasn't really sex anyway, and I got impeached for it. All these Republicans were jumping up and down, saying my case wasn't really about sex, but about the rule of law. No man can be above the law. Yeah, right! But no man tells the truth about sex, either. You know what Abrams said later, in his book? He was the victim of an overzealous prosecutor. What does he know about an overzealous prosecutor? Keyhole Ken Starr took a bogus sexual harassment charge by Paula Jones and turned it into a capital crime. Abrams was prosecuted by one of Santa's elves. This really frazzles me. Where's Henry Hyde bellowing about how the government can't function if officials don't tell the truth? 'Truth-telling is the heart and soul of our justice system,' he told the House when they were trying to lynch me. Well, what about truth- telling when it comes to Abrams? And what about Tom DeLay, that sanctimonious hypocrite? He and Hyde are in Congress, the very body that Abrams lied to. Not a peep, though. So it isn't just about truth. It's about ideology and politics. These guys will get on the radio with Oliver North or Gordon Liddy, but they only care about truth, honesty and the American way when a Democrat's involved. Republicans can lie, but Democrats can't. I guess it's a rule, but I don't like it. I know what they're gonna say: that I lied to protect myself. It was selfish. Abrams lied to protect a secret policy. That was noble. But you can't allow government officials to decide for themselves when to lie and when to tell the truth. They all gotta tell the truth, especially to Congress. Bush ran on this platform of moral purity. Then he turns around as President and chooses liars for high government positions, and no one says a peep. I'm waitin' on those hyperventilating hypocrites on talk TV to say something. The country's about to go to war on little more than the President's word. Maybe he won't lie. But he's hired people who have. I should have been born a Republican. It's even better than being in love. You never, ever, have to say you're sorry. 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] BBC NEWS | Business | eBay hit by credit card scam
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2564725.stm Wednesday, 11 December, 2002, 09:16 GMT eBay hit by credit card scam The world's largest online auction site eBay has been targeted by fraudsters using a shadow site to steal credit card details from its 55 million customers. The scam involved sending e-mails to customers asking them to log on to a Florida-based website - ebayupdates.com - and re-submit their financial details. [eBay] never asks its users for their user ID and password eBay We at Ebay are sorry to inform you that we are having problems with the billing information of your account, the e- mails said, writing the name incorrectly with a capital E. We would appreciate it if you would visit our website [Ebay Billing Center] http:// www.ebayupdates.com and fill out the proper information that we are needing to keep you as an Ebay member. US internet watchdog SANS Institute Internet Storm Center has issued a warning about the site. Taken down In a statement to BBC News Online, eBay said it never asks its users for their user ID and password. Fraud constitutes less than 0.01% of all transactions that take place on the site, it added. The shadow site has been taken down. The e-mails began appearing about a week ago. eBay warning The WHOIS database of websites showed ebayupdates.com was registered in Niceville, Florida on 6 December this year. California-based eBay has issued warnings on its site about e-mails asking for passwords or credit card details. Some members have reported attempts to gain access to their personal information through e- mail solicitations that are falsely made to appear as having come from eBay, the company said. These solicitations will often contain links to web pages that will request that you sign in and submit information...eBay employees will never ask you for your password. In November it was reported that some eBay customers' e-mail addresses could be seen on the company's website. See also: 04 Oct 02 | Business QA: How to beat online fraud 05 Dec 02 | Business Internet auction scam uncovered 26 Nov 02 | Business Fraud fears still hamper online sales 19 Jul 02 | Business Optimistic eBay's profits double 08 Jul 02 | Business Buoyant eBay snaps up bills firm Internet links: SANS Institute Ebay The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Business stories now: eBay hit by credit card scam Olympic Airways bailout was 'illegal' Venezuela crisis deepens CW investors 'to seek inquiry' US keeps interest rates on hold Internet shopping set for new record EU proposes new merger rules IMF: Israel can cope without US aid Links to more Business stories are at the foot of the page. E-mail this story to a friend 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] 'Christian Zionist Embassy' Vilifies Christian Leader for Criticizing Israel
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabia.com/newsfeed/article/english/0,14183,347574,00.html 'Christian Zionist Embassy' Vilifies Christian Leader for Criticizing Israel December 08, 2002, 08:58 PM The letter, written in a vitriolic tone, demanded that the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem punish and banish Rev. Hanna Atallah .. OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - The so-called Christian Embassy, in West Jerusalem, run by a group of European and North American Jews, has sent a threatening letter to the Christian Orthodox Patriarchy headquarters in East Jerusalem, demanding the dismissal of an outspoken Orthodox leader for criticizing Israeli state terror against Palestinians. The letter, written in a vitriolic tone, demanded that the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem punish and banish Rev. Hanna Atallah because of his incitement against Christian Zionism churches. The letter also recommended that Atallah be declared an enemy of Judaism and Jews. The Orthodox Church dismissed the letter as insignificant, adding that the so-called Christian embassy of Jerusalem was not an authentic Christian body. Those people are not really Christians, they are Zionist Jews in heart who bear Christian names and titles in order to deceive common people, said a source at the Orthodox Patriarchy offices. The raison d??tre of this group is to enlist Christian support for Israels genocidal terror against Palestinians, Muslims and Christians alike. In light, I would like to ask: Since when supporting terror and murder and all other acts of repression represent the way of Christ? The Christian embassy, while ignoring Christian Palestinians, often raises money to build Jewish-only settlements on the West Bank and Gaza Strip and also finances the transfer of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Palestine. -IAP News (iap.org). Redistributed via Press International News Agency ... . Top Stories© 2002 PINA . 6,000 U.S. Dollars for Every Israeli Since 1973 . Israeli Chief of Staff Justifies Killing of Civilians . U.S. Journalists to Be Fingerprinted on Entering Iran . Fatah, Hamas Confirm their Talks will Resume Soon . Hard-Liners Tighten Grip on Likud - Two Civilians Shot Dead . Security Council To Release Iraqi Arms Declaration to Some Members . Trial of Saudis in Morocco Put Off . Palestinians' Right to Return Discussed at Copenhagen Conference . Sudan Attacks Garang's Visit to Nuba Region . Israel Bans President Arafat from Attending Christmas Mass in Bethlehem arabia.com is a registered trademark of Arabia Online (Guernsey) Ltd. © 2002 Arabia Online (Guernsey) Ltd. All rights reserved. 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] Jimmy Carter - Nobel Lecture
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/2002/carter-lecture.html © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2002 General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language. Publication in periodicals or books, or in digital or electronic forms, otherwise than in summary, requires the consent of the Foundation. On all publications in full or in major parts the above copyright notice must be applied. Jimmy Carter Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2002 Your Majesties, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I accept this prize. I am grateful to my wife Rosalynn, to my colleagues at The Carter Center, and to many others who continue to seek an end to violence and suffering throughout the world. The scope and character of our Center's activities are perhaps unique, but in many other ways they are typical of the work being done by many hundreds of nongovernmental organizations that strive for human rights and peace. Most Nobel Laureates have carried out our work in safety, but there are others who have acted with great personal courage. None has provided more vivid reminders of the dangers of peacemaking that two of may friends, Anwar Sadat and Yitzak Rabin, who gave their lives for the cause of peace in the Middle East. Like these two heroes, my first chosen career was in the military, as a submarine officer. My shipmates and I realized that we had to be ready to fight if combat was forced upon us, and we were prepared to give our lives to defend our nation and its principles. At the same time, we always prayed fervently that our readiness would ensure that there would be no war. Later, as President and as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, I was one of those who bore the sobering responsibility of maintaining global stability during the height of the Cold War, as the world's two superpowers confronted each other. Both sides understood that an unresolved political altercation or a serious misjudgment could lead to a nuclear holocaust. In Washington and in Moscow, we knew that we would have less than a half hour to respond after we learned that intercontinental missiles had been launched against us. There had to be a constant and delicate balancing of our great military strength with aggressive diplomacy, always seeking to build friendships with other nations, large and small, that shared a common cause. In those days, the nuclear and conventional armaments of the United States and the Soviet Union were almost equal, but democracy ultimately prevailed because of commitments to freedom and human rights, not only by people in my country and those of our allies, but in the former Soviet empire as well. As president, I extended my public support and encouragement to Andrei Sakharov, who, although denied the right to attend the ceremony, was honored here for his personal commitments to these same ideals. The world has changed greatly since I left the White House. Now there is only one superpower, with unprecedented military and economic strength. The coming budget for American armaments will be greater than those of the next fifteen nations combined, and there are troops from the United States in many countries throughout the world. Our gross national economy exceeds that of the three countries that follow us, and our nation's voice most often prevails as decisions are made concerning trade, humanitarian assistance, and the allocation of global wealth. This dominant status is unlikely to change in our lifetimes. Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment. Within our country, ultimate decisions are made through democratic means, which tend to moderate radical or ill- advised proposals. Constrained and inspired by historic constitutional principles, our nation has endeavored for more than two hundred years to follow the now almost universal ideals of freedom, human rights, and justice for all. Our president, Woodrow Wilson, was honored here for promoting the League of Nations, whose two basic concepts were profoundly important: collective security and self- determination. Now they are embedded in international law. Violations of these premises during the last half-century have been tragic failures, as was vividly demonstrated when the Soviet Union attempted to conquer Afghanistan and when Iraq invaded Kuwait. After the second world war, American Secretary of State Cordell Hull received this prize for his role in founding the United Nations. His successor, General George C. Marshall, was recognized because of his efforts to help rebuild Europe, without excluding the
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Re: [CTRL] Israeli Censors Ban Movie About Jenin
Title: Re: [CTRL] Israeli Censors Ban Movie About Jenin -Caveat Lector- While Im against censorship in any form, Israel never claimed to not have it. Democracies operate with censorship all the time, they are not exclusive concepts. Note I clearly state that I think censorship is wrong, but it does not make a country not a democracy. on 12/10/02 9:03 PM, William Shannon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/10/2002 8:02:47 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Censor bans movie on Jenin offensive I'm SHOCKED that this could happen in the only democracy in the Middle East!! Bill. A HREF="" 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="" of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="" 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 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you. Samuel Adams NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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] Israeli Censors Ban Movie About Jenin
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/11/2002 10:41:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Democracies operate with censorship all the time, they are not exclusive concepts. Yes they are. If a democracy feels it is necessary to censor the information its people receive, then it is a democracy in name only. Prudy A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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] 250 U.S. Military in Kuwait Sickened
-Caveat Lector- This is a printer friendly version of an article from www.heraldtribune.com Article published Dec 11, 2002 250 U.S. Military in Kuwait Sickened KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Some 250 U.S. military personnel have been treated for food poisoning after eating at a camp south of Kuwait City, and two of them are hospitalized, an American military spokesman said Wednesday. The Army soldiers, Navy sailors and Marines were treated Monday for symptoms of food poisoning at the Oraifijan installation and released back to work within 24 hours, Sgt. First Class David Dismukes said. We don't know at this point what it is, Dismukes told The Associated Press, declining to say if terrorism was suspected. He said laboratory test results were expected later Wednesday. Only two have been admitted to the Kuwait Armed Forces Hospital for further evaluation, he said, declining to provide any further information about their condition. U.S. contractor Brown and Root provides food to the facility, about 35 miles south of Kuwait City. The company also does cleaning and general labor, Dismukes said. There are around 12,000 U.S. military in Kuwait, a major ally of Washington in the Gulf. Most are involved in exercises under a defense pact signed after the 1991 Gulf War that liberated Kuwait from a seven-month Iraqi occupation. A U.S. Marine was killed and a second was wounded Oct. 8 when two Kuwaiti Muslim fundamentalists opened fire on a group of Marines taking a break from training on the island of Failaka. The attackers were killed by other Marines. On Nov. 21, a Kuwaiti policeman shot and seriously injured two U.S. soldiers after stopping their car on a highway. Kuwait could become a launching pad for a U.S. attack on Iraq if the United Nations approves. A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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] 'Christian Zionist Embassy' Vilifies Christian Leader for Criticiz...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/11/2002 7:40:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - The so-called Christian Embassy, in West Jerusalem, run by a group of European and North American Jews, has sent a threatening letter to the Christian Orthodox Patriarchy headquarters in East Jerusalem, demanding the dismissal of an outspoken Orthodox leader for criticizing Israeli state terror against Palestinians. The letter, written in a vitriolic tone, demanded that the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem punish and banish Rev. Hanna Atallah because of his incitement against Christian Zionism churches. The letter also recommended that Atallah be declared an enemy of Judaism and Jews. Well, you know how it is. I guess we have a little preview here of what Israel is going to be like when she feels no further requirement for the good opinion of the various Christian nations and the funds they provide. Prudy A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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] Israeli Censors Ban Movie About Jenin
-Caveat Lector- While I¹m against censorship in any form, Israel never claimed to not have it. Democracies operate with censorship all the time, they are not exclusive concepts. Note I clearly state that I think censorship is wrong, but it does not make a country not a democracy. People confuse 'democracy' with a free society. 'Democratic' societies are usually authoritarian. In a democracy, the majority tyrannize the minority. A democracy can legalize slavery if the majority votes for it. Most modern democracies degenerate into oligarchies wherein the influential few manipulate the majority through a structured electoral process strictly controlled by political parties that in turn are controlled and funded by the influential few. The only guarantee of a free society is a Constitutional Republic that guarantees minority rights against the tyranny of the majority. That is why the US is supposed to be a constitutional republic - NOT a democracy. Unfettered democracy equals tyranny. 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: [CIA-DRUGS] Lockerbie bomb and CIA drugs Re: Interview W/ Victor Ostrovsky - Ex-Mossad agent speaks out
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Bob, this is the source info: -Victor Ostrovsky: How Mossad got America to bomb Libya and fight Iraq by, Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy Revealing the facts as I know them from my vantage point of four years spent inside the Mossad was by no means an easy task. Coming from an ardent Zionist background, I had been taught that the state of Israel was incapable of misconduct. That we were the David in the unending struggle against the ever-growing Goliath. That there was no one out there to protect us but ourselves - a feeling reinforced by the Holocaust survivors who lived among us. We, the new generation of Israelites, the resurrected nation on its own land after more than two thousand years of exile, were entrusted with the fate of the nation as a whole. The commanders of our army were called champions, not generals. Our leaders were captains at the helm of a great ship. I was elated when I was chosen and granted the privilege to join what I considered to be the elite team of the Mossad. But it was the twisted ideals and self-centered pragmatism that I encountered inside the Mossad, coupled with this so-called team's greed, lust, and total lack of respect for human life, that motivated me to tell this story. It is out of love for Israel as a free and just country that I am laying my life on the line by so doing, facing up to those who took it upon themselves to turn the Zionist dream into the present-day nightmare. The Mossad, being the intelligence body entrusted with the responsibility of plotting the course for the leaders at the helm of the nation, has betrayed that trust. Plotting on its own behalf, and for petty, self-serving reasons, it has set the nation on a collision course with all-out war. One of the main themes of this book is Victor's belief that Mossad is out of control, that even the prime minister, although ostensibly in charge, has no real authority over its actions ... The Mossad - believe it or not - has just 30 to 35 case officers, or katsas, operating in the world at any one time. The main reason for this extraordinary low total, as you will read in this book, is that unlike other countries, Israel can tap the significant and loyal cadre of the worldwide Jewish community outside Israel. This is done through a unique system of sayanim, volunteer Jewish helpers. My first six weeks were uneventful. I worked at the downtown office, essentially as a gofer and filing clerk. But one chilly day in February 1984, I found myself joining 14 others on a small bus. ... This course was to be known as Cadet 16, as it was the sixteenth course of Mossad cadets. He walked briskly to the head of the table while the other two sat at the back of the room. My name is Aharon Sherf, he said. I am the head of the Academy. Welcome to the Mossad. Its full name is Ha Mossad, le Modiyn ve le Tafkidim Mayuhadim [the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations]. Our motto is: 'By way of deception, thou shalt do war.' It's the old Trojan dick trick. He lit a cigarette. What's that? I couldn't help smiling; I'd never heard it called that before. I knew that would get your attention, he said, grinning. Shimon activated Operation Trojan in February of this year. I nodded. I'd still been in the Mossad when that order was given, and because of my naval background and acquaintance with most of the commanders in the navy, I participated in the planning for the operation as liaison with the navy. A Trojan was a special communication device that could be planted by naval commandos deep inside enemy territory. The device would act as a relay station for misleading transmissions
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: That old Hegelian magic
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- In the latest issue of LOBSTER is an article by Colin Challen MP titled "The party of business and the business of party" in which he reviews David Osler's book "Labour Party Plc," which Challen says: 'seeks to show that Labour, or should we say New Labour has become a slave to the private sector, thus turning its back on its roots.' I can't argue with that. Challen then observes that New Labour: "has become what we always feared: the American model of business politics has achieved a much greater purchase on the British scene thatn most people would think healthy. The US model, to recap, is more concerned with personality than partisanship." Challen then proceeds to quote from Dick Morris, the former senior Clinton aide who said thus: 'That's why the centre is so viable, and that's my idea of triangulation: take the best of each and merge them. That's not political immorality, it's an act of political sagacity and a recognition of the notion of [the?] Hegelian triangle - the thesis, the antithesis, and the synthesis - which Hegel posits and which Marx and I agree is how history moves forward.' Perhaps not so odd considering Clinton is a Rhodes scholar. Then from the Internet the following piece I was just sent. http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/rhodes.htm REVIEWING THE RHODES LEGACY By William F. Jasper "In America, where idealism is the yardstick used to judge a generation's collective virtue, Rhodes scholars are its masters," says Rhodes scholar Peter Beinart. "They are chosen as much for their public-spiritedness as for their academic prowess. Not all want to run for elective office, but the bulk think their talents can be most fully realized through public service. Like Clinton, my peers believe earnestly in government. Above all, they believe in themselves in government." Writing in the "My Turn" section of Newsweek's January 16th issue,Beinart, a 23-year-old student now in his second year at Oxford University, offers a perceptive critique of the "Rhodie" tendency to giddily embrace idealism as "summum bonum". Beinart notes that "such idealism should be refreshing. Yet after a year at Oxford, it makes me uneasy. The committment to government my colleagues express so passionately is rarely linked to a clear vision of what government should doI'm afraid that the idealism for which Rhodes scholars receive praise is less an antidote to the problems of American politics than a symptom of them." "Lacking a vision of political service in pursuit of specific ends,"observes Beinart, "the rhetoric of idealism allows Rhodes scholars to justify and celebrate political service per se. Idealism masks an ideological vacuum." PROBLEM IDEALISM On the pernicious potential of misdirected idealism Bienart scores some important points. However, it is not idealism per se, but a particular kind of idealism, of which Rhodies are typically imbued, that is the problem under consideration here. And it is certainly not an idealism proceeding from an "ideological vacuum." If that were the case, we would expect to see idealism manifested and expressed in a diversity of shapes and forms, as for instance: Christian idealism versus humanist/pagan/atheist idealism, individualist versus collectivist idealism, libertarian versus totalitarian idealism, nationalist versus globalist idealism, etc. The Oxonian idealism, however, seems to run almost invariably along the humanist/pagan/atheist, collectivist, totalitarian, globalist, elitist lines. Perhaps Beinart's peers do not explicitly subscribe to such a nasty idealism, but, apparently, it is implicit - at least in the formative stages - in their
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Drugs, Guns and Money
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/03/books-lewis.php DECEMBER 6 - 12, 2002 Drugs, Guns and Money Busted, a new anthology, and the case for legalization by Judith Lewis (Illustration by Tavis Coburn) JUST ABOUT EVERYONE HATES THE WAR ON Drugs. Public officials and pundits at every point along the political spectrum, from the governors of New Mexico and Minnesota to the former mayor of Baltimore, have railed against its wastefulness; Detroit Police Chief Jerry Oliver blames it for exacerbating inner-city crime. William F. Buckley calls it a plague that consumes an estimated $75 billion per year in public money; Christopher Hitchens has labeled it grotesque, state-sponsored racketeering. According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center last year, three-quarters of the country believes the drug war is failing. Enter the words end the war on drugs into Google, and you'll get some 2,400 links, leading to the Web sites of religious groups, corporate-media sources and drug-legalization advocacy groups. You might also get a couple of sponsored links -- paid advertisements Google coughs up when you search for certain keywords. One evening I got two: an ad for Questia.com, where you can research the War on Drugs at the world's largest online library, and another for www.mymeds.org, advertising Xanax, Valium, Lortab, etc. (Import a 90-day personal supply). The irony is obvious, and clichéd enough to be comical: As Mike Gray points out in the introduction to his new anthology, Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington's War on Drugs, the U.S. government spends over $40 billion annually to promote the cause of a drug-free America, while Bob Dole appears on national television shilling for Viagra. Marijuana is non-lethal and non-addictive, but you can't talk about it on the phone; Xanax is known to be dangerously addictive and Valium is responsible for thousands of deaths by overdose every year, but both are readily available with the click of a mouse. There has never been a drug-free society anywhere, argues Gray, also author of the 1998 Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out, least of all in the United States where the dividing line between legal and illegal seems almost whimsical. This deep societal muddle-mindedness finds a parallel in public attitudes toward the control of illegal substances. Despite a majority vote of non-confidence for the drug war, the Pew study found that most Americans still defend its tactics. Over half of the people interviewed believed that arresting and locking up both drug users and dealers were the best solutions to our drug problems, even while our prisons fill to bursting with nonviolent offenders. Just as many poll participants agreed that more needed to be done to halt the importation of illegal substances, even though attempts to shut down the international market have only contributed to a more sophisticated network of international criminals willing to risk their lives to satisfy the lucrative American market. And so the drug war continues unabated, with the Bush administration -- for which legalization proponents once held out hope -- amping up spending on interdiction and enforcement and aiming to expand punishable offenses to include driving while under the influence of yesterday's marijuana. The DEA, in an effort to make wayward states comply with the federal ban on any kind of marijuana use, has stooped so low that it's raiding California hospices and carting away the terminally ill. The War on Drugs, says Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance, a think tank advocating drug-law reform, just keeps getting bigger and
[CTRL] Selling The Iraq War To The U.S.
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/06/60minutes/main532107.shtml Selling The Iraq War To The U.S. Dec. 6, 2002 (CBS) Politicians have had to sell the public on going to war since Colonial times, but they never had the arsenal of advertising and communications techniques the Bush administration is using to sell a possible war on Iraq. Bob Simon reports on those techniques and those employed by the elder Bush prior to the 1991 Gulf War. Simon reminds viewers that a horrible story spread widely by the first Bush administration prior to the Gulf War about Kuwaiti babies pulled from incubators by invading Iraqis turned out not to be true. The current Bush administration may be also misinforming the public in its efforts to justify a possible second war with Saddam Hussein. One example of misinformation, according to physicist and former weapons inspector David Albright, was the Bush administrations leak to the media in September about Iraqs attempt to import aluminum tubes which administration officials claimed were headed for Iraqs nuclear program. I think it was very misleading, says Albright, who directs the Institute for Science and International Security. Albright says the tubes could be possibly used for a nuclear program, but were more suited to conventional weapons production. Government experts thought that too, Albright tells Simon, but administration officials were selectively picking information to bolster a case that the Iraqi nuclear threat was more imminent than it is, and, in essence, scare people. Simons report examines the administrations use of Madison Avenue to produce an ad campaign aimed at improving the image of America in the Muslim world. He also interviews a former CIA agent who investigated the oft-mentioned report that hijacker Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague several months before the deadly attacks on 9/11. Despite a lack of evidence that the meeting took place, the item was cited by administration officials as high as Vice President Dick Cheney and ended up being reported so widely that two-thirds of Americans polled by the Council on Foreign Relations believe Iraq was behind the terrorist attacks of 9/11. © MMII, CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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] Israeli Censors Ban Movie About Jenin
-Caveat Lector- flw, Well said!! JR - Original Message - From: flw To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Israeli Censors Ban Movie About Jenin -Caveat Lector-While I¹m against censorship in any form, Israel never claimed to not haveit. Democracies operate with censorship all the time, they are notexclusiveconcepts.Note I clearly state that I think censorship is wrong, but it does notmake a country not a democracy.People confuse 'democracy' with a free society. 'Democratic' societiesare usually authoritarian. In a democracy, the majority tyrannizethe minority. A democracy can legalize slavery if the majority votesfor it. Most modern democracies degenerate into oligarchies whereinthe influential few manipulate the majority through a structured electoralprocess strictly controlled by political parties that in turn arecontrolled andfunded by the influential few.The only guarantee of a free society is a Constitutional Republic thatguarantees minority rights against the tyranny of the majority. That iswhy the US is supposed to be a constitutional republic - NOT ademocracy.Unfettered democracy equals tyranny.flwA HREF="'http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.orghttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/ADECLARATION DISCLAIMER==CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandicscreeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These aresordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups withmajor and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, andalways suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives nocredence 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.htmlA HREF="'http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives'>http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Ahttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A HREF="'http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrlhttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/ATo 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=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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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[CTRL] Fwd: Israeli Children Suffering
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[CTRL] A washingtonpost.com article from: alamaine@uffdaonline.net
-Caveat Lector- You have been sent this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a courtesy of the Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com A question arises as to when nations exceed their legal authority and become pirates. To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40649-2002Dec11.html U.S. Releases Missile Shipment to Yemen By Ahmed Al-HajSAN'A, Yemen #150;#150; The U.S. Navy released the shipment of North Korean-made Scud missiles it seized, sending the vessel and its cargo on their way Wednesday to the original destination of Yemen.PWhite House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the United States had authority to stop and search the vessel, but not to seize it.PThere is no clear authority to seize the shipment, Fleischer told a news conference in Washington. The merchant vessel is being released.PYemeni Foreign Ministry officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press the decision followed high-level contact between Yemen and the United States.PThe official Saba news agency said the United States had assured Yemen that the shipment would be released as long as the Yemen-North Korea deal was concluded on legal basis.PVice President Dick Cheney told Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh that President Bush ordered the shipment to be returned, Saba reported. Fleischer said Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell had talked with Yemeni authorities.PThe Spanish navy had stopped the ship Monday off the Arabian peninsula, and U.S. authorities boarded it on Tuesday. The action came after intelligence officials watched the ship for weeks as part of an interdiction operation in the U.S.-led war on terrorism.PSpanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo said Wednesday the unflagged vessel was carrying 15 Scud missiles hidden in a cargo of cement.PWe became aware of the departure of the ship from North Korea that was carrying what we believe to be weapons of concern, Fleischer said. This was a non-flagged vessel, which gave us further concern. And the vessel was destined for Yemen.PWe had a concern about what was on it. We had a concern before ascertaining, indeed, that it was going to Yemen, that it may have been heading for a nation that is a potential terrorist nation.PAs a result, the action that was taken, where the ship was stopped and boarded, Fleischer continued. We have looked at this rnational law prohibiting Yemen from accepting delivery of missiles from North Korea.PThe Bush administration in August imposed sanctions on the North Korean company Changgwang Sinyong Corp. for selling Scud missile parts to Yemen. At that time, U.S. authorities asked Yemen why it bought the parts; San'a apologized and promised not to do so again, two defense officials said Wednesday in Washington.PUnder the U.S. sanctions, Changgwang Sinyong Corp. will be barred for two years from obtaining new individual export licenses through the Commerce or State departments for any controlled items. The sanctions have little practical effect, one official said, because there is so little commerce between the United States and North Korea.PBefore the ship was freed, Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kerbi summoned U.S. Ambassador Edmund J. Hull to tell him the arms shipment was a property of the Yemeni government and its armed forces and demanded that the United States should hand the shipment over to Yemen, Saba reported.PThe weapons contained in the shipment were to be used for defensive purposes as Yemen has no aggressive intentions toward any country, and owning such weapons would not harm the international peace and security, Saba quoted the official protest handed to Hull.PYemeni officials had refused further details about the deal, including from what threat the Scud missiles were designed as a defense.PThe Saba agency said the memo given to Hull claimed the shipment was part of a long-standing deal with North Korea. A senior Yemeni official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Americans knew of the deal.PTrillo, Spain's Defense Minister, said the U.S. Navy had been planning to take the ship to Diego Garcia island, a British island leased to the United States as a military base.PSpain's role in the shipment's seizure earned the country a Yemeni protest memorandum as well in which San'a said the Spanish navy didn't serve (to improve) relations betw was silent Wednesday about the interception of the ship, but said it had the right to develop weapons to defend itself.PIt is necessary to heighten vigilance against the U.S. strategy for world supremacy and 'anti-terrorism war,' the North's official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said in an editorial.PAll the countries are called upon to build self-reliant military power by their own efforts, the newspaper said. It was unclear whether the editorial was a response to the interception, as North Korea usually takes several
[CTRL] Wetware
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] profile on a famous DARPA researcher: Hans P. Moravec - AI specialist http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/hpm.cv.htmlis the piece from which the following is snipped: Hans Moravec is a Principal Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He has been thinking about machines thinking since he was a child in the 1950s, building his first robot, a construct of tin cans, batteries, lights and a motor, at age ten. In high school he won two science fair prizes for a light-following electronic turtle and a tape-controlled robot hand. As an undergraduate he designed a computer to control fancier robots, and experimented with learning and automatic programming on commercial machines. During his master's work he built a small robot with whiskers and photoelectric eyes controlled by a minicomputer, and wrote a thesis on a computer language for artificial intelligence. He received a PhD from Stanford University in 1980 for a TV-equipped robot, remote controlled by a large computer, that negotiated cluttered obstacle courses, taking about five hours. Since 1980 his Mobile Robot Lab at CMU has discovered more effective approaches for robot spatial representation, notably 3D occupancy grids, that, with newly available computer power, promise commercial free-ranging mobile robots within a decade. His books, Mind Children: the future of robot and human intelligence, 1988, and Robot: mere machine to transcendent mind, 1998, consider the implications of evolving robot intelligence. He has published many papers and articles in robotics, computer graphics, multiprocessors, space travel and other speculative areas. ~ DARPA To Support Development Of Human Brain-Machine Interfaces http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/020820071329.htmis the piece from which the following is snipped: Devices including "neuroprosthetic" limbs for paralyzed people and "neurorobots" controlled by brain signals from human operators could be the ultimate applications of brain-machine interface technologies developed under a $26 million contract to Duke University sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The contract is part of DARPA's Brain-Machine Interfaces Program (http://www.darpa.mil/dso/thrust/sp/bmi.htm), which seeks to develop new technologies for augmenting human performance by accessing the brain in real time and integrating the information into external devices. ~ the following is snipped from http://mirror.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/telcomine.e-zine/99-7 In a remarkable invention, US scientists have developed a biological computer made of leech neurons that can think for itself.The neuron computer works in a way similar to the human brain. According to BBC, "Leechulator" as thedevice is known as, is the brainchild of Professor Bill Ditto, from the Georgia Institute of Technology. According to him the silicon computer is a dumb machine whereas these biologicalcomputers powered with neurons will cometo the correct answer by themselves based on the partial information provided to them. At present, the computer is able to performonly simple mathematical functions, but the aim is to devise a new generation of fast and flexible computers that can work out forthemselves on how to solve a problem. This approach to computing is particularly suitedto pattern recognition tasks like reading handwriting, which would take enormous amounts of power on a conventional computer.In this invention Leech neurons are used as leeches have been extensively studied and understood and are known to form their own connections from one to another. Each neuronhas its own electrical activity and respondsin its own way to an electrical stimuli. These features can be used to make each neuronrepresent a number. The neurons then inter-linkto perform calculations. ~ Kazerooni and his colleagues have made what may be the world's most advanced motorized exoskeleton. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) regards exoskeleton technology as promising enough to deserve a $50 million, 5-year commitment to fund Kazerooni's lab and others. This spring, the agency awarded first-year grants under the program. is snipped from Dances with Robots http://www.sciencenews.org/20010630/bob8.asp ~ Such positioning requires nanometer-scale precision, something beyond the sensitivities of lithography or other micro-positioning devices. Instead, the team is using chunks of biomolecules called peptides to latch onto specific sites of the neuron. is snipped from Electronic Mind Over Gray Matter http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48572,00.html ~ Imagine being able to land a jumbo jet without ever taking control of the stick. NASA scientists recently demonstrated the ability to control a 757 passenger jet simulation, using only human muscle-nerve signals linked to a computer. is snipped from NASA SCIENTISTS USE
[CTRL] Satellite Images of Massive 'Chemtrail' Spraying
-Caveat Lector- http://www.memes.org Conspiracy: Satellite Images of Massive 'Chemtrail' SprayingPosted by: souljah on Dec 10, 2002 - 07:46 PM Somebody is bound to say this is normal air traffic. Just so you know, I used to work directly with air traffic control in the U.S. Navy and I can tell you unequivocally that air holding patterns are CIRCULAR. What you will see here simply does not fit that bill.DOWN WITH THE ELITEhttp://members.ams.chello.nl/jsteenis/ Contral, Chemtrail, or Atmospheric Research?http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1018mode=threadorder=0thold=0Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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 Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
[CTRL] Pope on Immigration
-Caveat Lector- URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4985 The Pope's Left-turn on Immigration By Jim Kalb FrontPageMagazine.com | December 10, 2002 Here's the Pope's message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which I gather is an annual event in the Catholic Church: To Overcome Racism, Xenophobia and Exaggerated Nationalism. What he says is in one sense typical -- it follows the line all respectable Christian religious leaders now follow -- but in another sense quite extraordinary: He speaks of undocumented migrants as among the most vulnerable of foreigners, of the Christian duty to welcome whoever comes knocking out of need, of true acceptance of immigrants in their cultural diversity, and of Christ, who through us wishes to continue in history and in the world his work of liberation from all forms of discrimination, rejection, and marginalization. He urge[s] Catholics to excel in the spirit of solidarity towards newcomers among them. Such openness builds up vibrant Christian communities. Therefore, Christians must struggle to overcome any tendency to turn in on themselves. He further points out that if newcomers feel unwelcome as they approach a particular parish community because they do not speak the local language or follow local customs, they easily become 'lost sheep'. The loss of such 'little ones' for reasons of even latent discrimination should be a cause of grave concern to pastors and faithful alike. He further requests that Catholics work with other ecclesial communities to create societies in which the cultures of migrants and their special gifts are sincerely appreciated, and in which manifestations of racism, xenophobia, and exaggerated nationalism are prophetically opposed. He notes, however, that solidarity does not come easily. It requires training and a turning away from attitudes of closure, which in many societies today have become more subtle and penetrating. To deal with this phenomenon, the Church possesses vast educational and formative resources at all levels. I therefore appeal to parents and teachers to combat racism and xenophobia by inculcating positive attitudes based on Catholic social doctrine. What does all this add up to? First, it appears that every country should have open borders. If they aren't open, some migrants will be undocumented and therefore become the special objects of hospitality and care. But if we have to welcome and care for them anyway, why not make it official and give all comers papers at the border? Second, the flood of immigrants should be welcomed by local communities just as they are, and truly accepted in their cultural diversity. No boundaries of any kind may be drawn, because even the hint of a boundary would be latent discrimination. The Catholic Church should use its vast resources to inculcate such attitudes, and work with others to spread them through society generally. That, as all social concerns bureaucrats agree, is the prophetic function of the Church. But what of the local culture? The Pope also invite[s] the immigrants to recognize the duty to honor the countries which receive them and to respect the laws, culture, and traditions of the people who have welcomed them. So it appears the net effect is to be a world without boundaries of any kind, in which each is equally present to all others and each respects and honors the particularities of all. By calling for such a thing the Pope is saying nothing new but simply repeating with his usual intellectual and moral fervor the view all official moral teachers hold today. What he and other moral teachers leave unexplained, however, is how the particularities that are to be honored will be able to exist as anything but individual idiosycrasies in a world utterly without boundaries in which no culture is authoritative because each is equally present and equally honored. The short answer is that they won't. A culture is a particular complex of habits, understandings and loyalties that are normative although mostly unstated among a particular group of people. As such, it requires boundaries. A culture can exist as a culture only among a group of people who have grown into it together and feel that among themselves they can take it for granted. Such conditions cannot exist in a group that feels obligated to be utterly and continuously open to numerous new arrivals, avoiding even latent discrimination, and called to honor them in all their otherness. What the Pope is calling for is therefore not the honoring of culture but the abolition of culture by the abolition of every social setting in which any particular culture can exist. Surely that is wrong. A culture is a mode of being human, and is always particular. Because man is a social animal, participation in culture -- and therefore in a particular culture -- is necessary for a fully human life. If it weren't needed, why all the talk in the Church about inculturation?
[CTRL] How's it been?!
-Caveat Lector- Conspiracy: Satellite Images of Massive 'Chemtrail' SprayingPosted by: souljah on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 07:46 PM EST Somebody is bound to say this is normal air traffic. Just so you know, I used to work directly with air traffic control in the U.S. Navy and I can tell you unequivocally that air holding patterns are CIRCULAR. What you will see here simply does not fit that bill. Mind Virus: WetwarePosted by: souljah on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 06:31 PM EST "Imagine being able to land a jumbo jet without ever taking control of the stick. NASA scientists recently demonstrated the ability to control a 757 passenger jet simulation, using only human muscle-nerve signals linked to a computer." Government: National Center for PrivatizationPosted by: souljah on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 06:07 PM EST "In 1984, between the establishment of the National Center for Privatization and President Reagan's executive order to permanently establish low fees for public land grazing, Willard Garvey wrote a letter to the President which disclosed the real objective of the National Center for Privatization -- to wit, that non-profit organizations and the private sector might render the cumbersome machinery of representative government obsolete! " Government: Global Hawk, Artificial Intelligence, Boeing, DARPA, and September 11Posted by: souljah on Monday, December 09, 2002 - 09:55 PM EST The (September 11) attacks also caused disruption for satellite and space companies across the USA. Someone was using some HIGHLY classified frequencies. Government: Echelon, PROMIS, and Artificial IntelligencePosted by: souljah on Monday, December 09, 2002 - 09:53 PM EST "Since FRS software makes such effective use of bone structure, a ski mask or bandanna probably wont defeat it. If it can see through a beard and sunglasses, how much good do you think a rag over your face is going to do? A loose, rubber mask may spoof FRS, but don't bet your freedom, or even your life, on it. No one who takes an active role in organizing public dissent is safe from the withering gaze of techno-repression. Toss Echelon, Carnivore, Prosecutors Management Information System (or PROMIS), and High-Definition TV into the mix, and its a whole new world." Gaia: Turning Nature into Oil FieldsPosted by: souljah on Saturday, December 07, 2002 - 07:25 PM EST A few weeks ago, officials of the American Petroleum Institute met in Denver to discuss their chief goal for the new Congress: an energy bill that would open up public lands in the Rocky Mountain West to further oil and gas exploration. 9-11: I.N.S. Deporting 'Magic Boy' Rudy DekkersPosted by: valis on Saturday, December 07, 2002 - 05:21 AM EST "The I.N.S. is acting to place the prime suspect in a wider-ranging 9/11 conspiracy investigation out of the reach of the Independent Investigation." At the instigation of Bush Administration officials the Immigration and Naturalization Service is preparing to deport the man whose Venice, FL. flight school served as a magnet for Mohamed Atta's terrorist cadre, effectively placing him beyond the reach of the upcoming 9/11 investigation, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. Note: Also see: Venice Airport Used for Covert Ops: What they're hiding down in Venice, FloridaAlso see: "A Lear Too Far": Terror Flight School Owners' Plane Seized for Heroin TraffickingAlso see: Atta Girlfriend's Wild 3-Day Party in Key WestAlso see: Key Witness 'Disappears' in Venice FLAlso see: Magic Dutch Boy Escapes Fiery Plane CrashEven stranger, both Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris were providing celebrity endorsements to Hilliard's operation well after the company's Lear (N351WB) had been busted by DEA agents armed with machine guns. Government: Iran-Contra, Harken, the Bushes, Al Martin, HUD, and ArmitagePosted by: souljah on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 05:16 AM EST According to "The Conspirators," the crimes and cover-ups of Iran-Contra have never ended. 9-11: Mohamed Atta, Florida, Falwell, and September 11Posted by: souljah on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 05:15 AM EST The new evidence adds to existing indications that Mohamed Atta and his terrorist cadre's flight training in this country was part of a so-far unacknowledged U.S. government intelligence operation which had ultimately tragic consequences for thousands of civilians on September 11. Theory: Zinn: Obedience and DisobediencePosted by: souljah on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 05:13 AM EST "Are we not more obligated to achieve justice than to obey the law? The law may serve justice, as when it forbids rape and murder or requires a school to admit all students regardless of race or nationality. But when it sends young men to war, when it protects the rich and punishes the poor, then law and justice are opposed to one another. In that case, where is
Re: [CTRL] Selling The Iraq War To The U.S.
-Caveat Lector- On the Cleanup Wars http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/octopus.html Ohio Rep. Kucinich on Iraq http://www.progressive.org/nov02/kuc1102.html U.S. Bombing Watch: When was the last time the U.S. Bombed Iraq? http://www.ccmep.org/us_bombing_watch.html http://www.memes.org DOWN WITH THE ELITEhttp://members.ams.chello.nl/jsteenis/ Contral, Chemtrail, or Atmospheric Research?http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1018mode=threadorder=0thold=0Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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 Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
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-Caveat Lector- The list has been killed because it was compromised by questionable moderators that I erroneously trusted. I cannot outright kill the list because the co-moderatorship that I gave to these inviduals is permanent and the list cannot be deleted without their permission. So, to protect everyone from their eyes, I unsubbed everyone. The most important of what I continue to work on will be posted at the following: http://www.memes.org I will also be working on a web page. It will undergo a major overhaul in the spring but you can, if you wish, see it in its former,neandertalesque form at http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/thirdeye.htmlThe PSY-OP list at yahoogroups will again (for only God knows how long) be active, however and you can subscribe to it by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/messages for IT'S gist. See also: http://www.synearth.net ...and don't forget that on october 21 of every year it's the internationally known JAM ECHELON DAY http://aspin.asu.edu/hpn/archives/Oct99/0035.html http://aspin.asu.edu/hpn/archives/Oct99/0045.html DOWN WITH THE ELITEhttp://members.ams.chello.nl/jsteenis/ Contral, Chemtrail, or Atmospheric Research?http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1018mode=threadorder=0thold=0Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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 Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
[CTRL] We'll use nukes, US warns Iraq
-Caveat Lector- We'll use nukes, US warns Iraq America warned Saddam Hussein it would retaliate with a nuclear attack if Iraq used weapons of mass destruction. The White House said it would "respond with overwhelming force" including "all options" if the US, its troops or its allies were struck by biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear arms. A six-page White House policy blueprint entitled the National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction said the options include a "conventional and nuclear response". Officials said the report, which is to be presented to Congress, is intended as a warning to Saddam. "The language speaks for itself, and I think it does apply to any state that would use weapons of mass destruction against us," a senior Bush Administration official said. President George Bush's father sent a similar warning to Saddam in January 1991, on the eve of the Gulf War. The older Mr Bush told the Iraqi leader in a letter that he would pay a "terrible price" if he used chemical or biological weapons. The new report states: "The United States will continue to make clear that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force - including through resort to all of our options - to the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, our forces abroad, and friends and allies." It added: "We will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes and terrorists to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." America is also preparing to use land mines in a war with Iraq, despite US policy that calls for a ban on mines everywhere in the world except Korea by next year. The US has stockpiled anti-personnel land mines at its military bases in countries ringing Iraq, according to Pentagon records. Some of the mines are stored on Diego Garcia, a British-owned island in the Indian Ocean where US forces have a base. Up to 20,000 people are killed or maimed worldwide each year by land mines, according to the United Nations. Of those, 80 per cent are civilians and one-third are children. But a Pentagon spokesman told USA Today the mines play a "vital and essential role" in battle by restricting where the enemy can move and protecting American troops. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, a prominent critic of land mines, said their use in Iraq would be a "terrible mistake". "They are outmoded, indiscriminate weapons that have been banned by every other Nato member except Turkey, and they should be banned by the United States," he told USA Today. "We have other far more effective and precise weapons to do the job."©AAP 2002 A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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] Henry Kissinger: We Can Do Anything We Want!
http://www.babelmagazine.com/issue85/kissinger.html Henry Kissinger: We Can Do Anything We Want! by Victor Thorn “The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.” Henry Kissinger With the appointment of Henry Kissinger as chairman of the “Independent” 9-11 Investigative Commission, those who front the New World Order have officially told the American people that they can do anything they want to without any retribution or backlash. Oh sure, the Internet was buzzing with activity for a few days after this appointment and a few editorialists are writing columns, but in essence, this is just another example of their utter lack of regard for us. And what are we doing? Nothing. We’re still sitting around watching Big Brother stomp his mighty boots all around us while the War Machine gets ready to indulge its bloodthirsty appetite yet again. Mike Pope wrote in The Tallahassee Democrat, “Henry Kissinger should be tried for crimes against humanity, not put in charge of a commission to investigate the September 11, 2002 tragedy.” He continues, “Kissinger is notorious around the world for his direct role in orchestrating some of the bloodiest interventions carried out by Washington over the past five decades. He has ordered and sanctioned the destruction of civilian populations, the assassination of inconvenient politicians, and the kidnapping and disappearance of soldiers, journalists and clerics. That he has eluded punishment for his actions is a testament to how the crimes of the rich and well-connected seldom receive the full application of justice.” And now George W. Bush and his handlers have shown the entire world that we will not only harbor this depraved madman, but we also condone his actions by putting him in charge of this investigation. When added with the atrocities that will result from the Homeland Security Act, we’ve all but surrendered any fight that we had left as a people. WHY? When are we going to start fighting back? How much further do they have to push us until we’re completely defenseless lackies with no hope for future rights? Kissinger is the final slap in our faces, the last indignity. Can’t you see what message they’re DIRECTLY sending to us? WE CAN DO ANYTHING WE WANT TO, AND WHO’S GOING TO STOP US? When the news of Kissinger’s appointment broke and they saw our computers buzzing with indignation, the Controllers must have been laughing with glee. And why shouldn’t they? Through our inaction, we’ve essentially given them carte blanche to do anything that they want to. In their position, would any of us act differently? Probably (because we actually have a conscience and regard for our fellow man), but that’s beside the point. What I’m trying to hammer home to you is the following: If we continue doing what we’re currently doing – writing articles and sending them around the Internet without doing anything else, nothing in the world will get any better. In fact, things will only get worse because the status quo will prevail. What we need to do is become organized like they are. The Controllers hold conferences in Geneva, Washington, D.C., New York City and Vienna. They pool their resources and plot out future courses of action. Then they implement their plans. And what do we do? We continue to remain fractured, apart from each other, and unorganized. Why? What are we afraid of? What do we have to lose? The answer is that we don’t have anything to lose because what we do have they’re slowing taking away from us! Don’t you get it? The entire complexion of the world is changing right before our very eyes, but it’s for THEIR BENEFIT, not ours. And how do we react? We don’t! We still do nothing. Why? Every single person reading this article should go to our WING page (World Independent News Group – http://www.victorthorn.com/babel/wing.htm) and start contacting every other person and group and let them know that ORGANIZATION AND ACTION are our only alternatives. Then they need to tell every friend, colleague, family member, neighbor, and person on their e-mail list to log onto the WING page and start finding out the truth for themselves. We have links to over 100 of the absolutely best sites existing in the world today. But we need to tell the people running these sites that information isn’t enough. We need to follow-up and show that we have strength in numbers, too. If we all come together and let our voices be heard in unison, the powers-that-be will realize that we’re not going to simply lie down and let them steamroll over us. Why shouldn’t we do this? Why shouldn’t we organize a massive rally that cannot be ignored? There are no good reasons not to. Don’t we care about our rights, our Constitution, and our freedom? If we do, then we should start acting like it! Freedom isn’t simply a notion; it’s an ACT – the ACT OF FREEDOM. Or, as a plaque on the Korean
[CTRL] U.S. interceptor missile test over Pacific fails
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/12/11/missile.test/index.html U.S. interceptor missile test over Pacific fails Wednesday, December 11, 2002 Posted: 11:06 AM EST (1606 GMT) VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (CNN) -- The U.S. military's project to develop a long-range missile capable of finding and knocking out another missile in midair suffered a setback Wednesday. The Pentagon said a failure of a booster rocket prevented an intercepting warhead from reaching its target during testing with a long-range ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean. The Missile Defense Agency said in a statement that it was not able to complete the test because the kill vehicle interceptor and booster rocket failed to separate, preventing the interceptor -- called the exo-atmospheric kill vehicle -- from engaging the target warhead in space. The modified Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile was launched (at 3:26 a.m. EST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. About 20 minutes later and 4,800 miles away, a missile carrying an interceptor was launched from the Ronald Reagan Missile Test Facility in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Booster has failed before The statement said the interceptor's booster rocket, which also failed during a previous test, was an incidental part of the test and its failure prevented the military from testing the equipment in question. A Pentagon spokeswoman said the systems under scrutiny did not indicate problems. The official also said an operational booster rocket is under development and will begin testing next spring. The flight test, the eighth in the series, would have been the first for a development radar and an airborne laser prototype. Five of the tests have successfully "killed" their targets, and three have failed. Testing of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system began in October 1999. The intercept was to have been the first involving a nighttime launch of an interceptor missile. It was intended to destroy the "enemy" missile at a point some 140 miles above the central Pacific. A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""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] Condi Rice rebukes China's Xiong on nuke threat to L.A....
-Caveat Lector- December 11, 2002 Chinese general told threat against U.S. unacceptable By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES The White House told a visiting Chinese general yesterday that comments he made in 1995 suggesting China would use nuclear weapons against Los Angeles were unacceptable. The discussion came during a meeting between Chinese Lt. Gen. Xiong Guankai, deputy chief of staff for intelligence, and White House National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. The meeting was part of the appeal by the Bush administration to warn China against making further nuclear threats and to make clear to Gen. Xiong that China should not miscalculate in thinking it could win an arms race with Taiwan, or that it could coerce the island into reunification. An additional message for the general was that Chinese help in getting North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program is important to U.S.- Chinese relations. Gen. Xiong is in Washington with a delegation of Chinese officials who met Monday at the Pentagon with defense officials as part of a strategic dialogue that had been put on hold after last year's aerial collision between a Chinese jet and U.S. EP- 3E spy plane. Miss Rice chose to meet with Gen. Xiong to underscore our view of international security and particularly the issue of Taiwan, a senior administration official said of the meeting. Other administration officials said plans for the meeting sparked a dispute among officials on the National Security Council staff who opposed the meeting because it would be viewed as rewarding a foreign general who threatened to attack the United States. Gen. Xiong told former defense official Charles Freeman in 1995 that the United States would not come to Taiwan's defense in any conflict with China because it cared more about Los Angeles than Taipei, the Taiwanese capital. The remark was reported to the White House at the time as a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons against the United States Miss Rice and two aides met with Gen. Xiong and three other Chinese military officials in her office at the White House West Wing. She stressed that the United States does not support Taiwan independence but that we have the means and will to meet our commitments to Taipei, the senior official said. Miss Rice also told Gen. Xiong that the administration is committed to its obligations under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which calls for the United States to meet Taiwan's defensive needs. The Bush administration announced last year it was selling guided missile destroyers and submarines to Taiwan to bolster its forces against China's military buildup, especially of short-range missiles. Miss Rice also said that any differences must be resolved peacefully and without resort to force or coercion, the official said. She said there is no justification for the continued buildup of Chinese missiles along the Taiwan Strait, the official said, noting that it is the Chinese buildup of missiles and other forces that increases tensions in the region. And we believe that enhancing peace and stability in the region should be begun with the end, and then the reversal of this buildup, the official said. Chinese President Jiang Zemin suggested to President Bush in Crawford, Texas, in October that China would be willing to reduce the missile deployments opposite Taiwan if the United States curbed arms sales to Taiwan. U.S. officials said the offer was an informal suggestion rather than a serious proposal. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus 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: Smallpox Vaccine Test Results from Baylor College of Medicine
-Caveat Lector- --- Start of forwarded message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Smallpox Vaccine Test Results from Baylor College of Medicine Date: 12/11/02 3:56:48 PM Please forward this important article to others in your network(s). Thank you. Smallpox Vaccine Test Results from Baylor College of Medicine Foreword by Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H. The following article by Jon Rappoport is the first I?ve seen reporting the harmful and possibly devastating effects of the Bush administration?s rapidly advancing smallpox vaccination program. These results were previously predicted as expected outcomes by this author and many, many others. I interject this foreword to alert you to the additional support cited below for the thesis raised earlier that the smallpox vaccination program is part of a genocidal agenda facilitated by the Bush administration?s ?War on Terrorism? and their current efforts to ?immunize? the population against smallpox and later anthrax. In reality, this policy aims to induce chronic illness, additional healthcare expenditures (including pharmaceutical sales) and, ultimately, population reduction in America. Given the information below, and far more published elsewhere, this is certainly the anticipated outcome of this ?preventative plan? for homeland insecurity. The ?additional support,? I refer to, comes from identifying Baylor University and their College of Medicine as the site of this initial study. The following information was compiled for the book Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse (Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 1999; www.tetrahedron.org; 1-888-508-4787) by this author along with Dr. Joseph Puleo. Based on reputable sources, Past President George H. W. Bush?s Secretary of State, James Baker III (Florida vote scam overseer for the current president), was reported to have owned part of the vaccine manufacturing company against whom ailing Gulf War veterans had filed a lawsuit. Moreover, Mr. Bush is said to have been a major shareholder in that company?Tanox Biosystems of Houston. It is also well known that this past president, father to the current president, has served in an official capacity at Baylor University for some time. Not long before becoming CIA director, certain intelligence regarding Tanox?s collaborative studies with Baylor College of Medicine concerning Mycoplasma infections and related vaccinations was available to the elder Bush. Tanox was also closely linked to Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, who, under employment by The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, isolated and patented a ?Pathogenic Mycoplasma? originally taken from an AIDS patient, that somehow contaminated many of the vaccines given to allied military personnel traveling to the Middle East in lieu of ?Operation Desert Storm.? Only the French soldiers who did not receive the American made vaccines did not develop GWS during this earlier war with Iraq. Further, what would seem inconceivable without seeing the documents reprinted in Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse, Tanox and Baylor College of Medicine first tested their Mycoplasma-infected vaccines on Huntsville, TX prisoners. As a result, the prisoners, and others in the community with whom the prisoners made contact, developed GWS long before the Gulf War. Thus, GWS could have been, and probably was, predicted and effected. Furthermore, evidence compiled by lawyers for the class of people sickened by Mycoplasma incognitas and related illnesses, from Huntsville, Texas, revealed more astonishing documents. These, also published in Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse, showed that Baylor College of Medicine investigators collaborated on studies of vaccinated Huntsville prison inmates beginning in 1968. Mycoplasma inoculations, as well as Mycoplasma vaccination studies, were listed as having begun in 1970 under U.S. Army contracts. Incredibly, Baylor?s contract literally raised the specter of ?ethnic cleansing? or racial genocide as it proved cervical cancer studies comparing Christian versus Muslim women, as well as Jewish versus Black women, were in progress. Thus, to have this Bush administration authorized smallpox vaccine study be conducted at Baylor, where the senior Bush has served in an official capacity, with imput from the Tanox-linked College of Medicine is chilling. This is especially so considering the fact that today, unlike the early 1970s when the early Mycoplasma studies began, Mycoplasma is now considered among the most common vaccine contaminants. It is also currently linked to the recent onset of pandemic Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome and many other illnesses, including certain expressions of HIV/AIDS. In conclusion, as I wrote elsewhere and said often, if you see ?first responders? coming to inoculate you with ?cow pus,? which is virtually what the smallpox vaccination is in its purest unadulterated form, run away and hide. Monday,
[CTRL] clergy abuse, child murderer rate, Iraq inspections, Surveillance technology
-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors N.H. diocese admits likely violations Signs agreement with AG's office By Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Staff, 12/11/02 "The Roman Catholic Diocese of New Hampshire yesterday became the first diocese in the country to admit it may have violated criminal law by failing to protect children from sexually abusive priests. Facing the likelihood that the diocese would be indicted Friday on multiple counts of violating New Hampshire's child endangerment statute, Bishop John B. McCormack signed a legal agreement with the state acknowledging that the attorney general's office had accumulated sufficient evidence to secure convictions." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/345/metro/N_H_diocese_admits_likely_violations+.shtml Criminal Investigation - Church impedes state probe into abuse, Reilly says By Walter V. Robinson and Sacha Pfeiffer, Globe Staff, 12/11/02 "Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly said last night that the Archdiocese of Boston has been using ''every tool and maneuver'' to impede a criminal investigation by his office that he said has documented an ''elaborate and decades-long'' scheme by the church to cover up crimes of sexual abuse by priests. Reilly declined to say how his office has responded to the archdiocesan tactics. But law enforcement officials, who declined to be identified, said Reilly's investigators have had to use grand jury subpoenas to get at church documents - despite public pledges by church officials to cooperate with the attorney general's office. Asked in an interview whether Cardinal Bernard F. Law has received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury, Reilly said: "No comment.'' Reilly said the church has given the public a false impression that it is cooperating with prosecutors. In fact, he said, ''the archdiocese has used every tool and maneuver available to them to keep us from the facts we need to come to a resolution of this investigation." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/345/metro/Church_impedes_state_probe_into_abuse_Reilly_saysP.shtml from L Moss Sharman Ex-priest preyed on teen boys, court told 5 victims relate abuse to boost bid for long sentence By Matt O'Connor "Testimony revealed for the first time that the Chicago archdiocese learned of McCaffrey's sexual misconduct as early as 1980 but returned him to parish duties after he had undergone in-patient treatment. The archdiocese has previously said its records indicated it first learned of the allegations of sexual wrongdoing against McCaffrey in 1987. He was removed from parish duties in 1991 due to reforms instituted by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. McCaffrey...admitted he resumed molesting underage boys within months of his release from the sexual-addiction treatment center in 1980. He said he had entered the center at the direction of the archdiocese. McCaffrey admitted molesting at least 12 to 14 boys during hisyears as a priest, but under cross-examination by Assistant U.S. Atty. T. Markus Funk, he acknowledged he really didn't know how many he victimized because there were so many." http://www.chicagotribune.com/ Infants Now Murdered As Often As Teens Actual Rate May Be Higher, Experts Say By Laura Sessions Stepp, Washington Post Staff Writer 12/10/02 "The homicide rate for U.S. infants is now virtually equal to the murder rate for teenagers, according to a new analysis of government data that revealed a surprising demographic milestoneIn fact, experts said, a child is at greater risk of being murdered during the first year of life than in any other year until the age of 17, when guns become more accessible." http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-12/10/content_656131.htm Iraq accuses US of seeking to test hi-tech weaponry Xinhuanet 2002-12-10 06:32:51 CAIRO, Dec. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- A visiting Iraqi official on Tuesday accused the United States of seeking to test its hi-tech weaponry in a war on his country. "The United States does not want to see UN arms inspectors succeed, therefore, it could attack Iraq and test new weapons, even though Iraq honors its commitments," Hassan Abdul Moneem al-Khattab, president of the Iraqi planning committee, told reporters. "Iraq is in favour of any solution which keeps the region free from any war," said al-Khattab, who made a stopover here on his way to Morocco. www.europarl.eu.int/stoa/publi/166499/execsum_en.htm STOA PUBLICATIONS STOA Interim Study · Executive Summary · September 1998 PE 166.499/Int.St./Exec.Sum./en AN APPRAISAL OF THE TECHNOLOGIES OF POLITICAL CONTROL Updated Executive Summary prepared as a background document for the September 1998 part-session Surveillance technology can be defined as devices or systems which can monitor, track and assess the movements of individuals, their property and other assets. Much of this technology is used to track the activities of dissidents, human rights activists, journalists, student leaders, minorities, trade union leaders and political opponents. A huge range
[CTRL] Israel targets civilians and UN personnel with impunity
-Caveat Lector- http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/dec2002/isra-d12.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Middle East Israel targets civilians and UN personnel with impunity By Jean Shaoul 12 December 2002 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author Israel has unleashed a wave of attacks in densely populated areas in the West Bank and Gaza, killing and wounding Palestinian civilians and United Nations personnel. As far as Ariel Sharons government is concerned, civilians and UN personnel are no longer simply collateral damage but legitimate targets. But the worlds leaders have stood by and simply wrung their hands as Sharon has intensified his war of terror. The Israeli army has stepped up its raids into the impoverished and squalid Gaza strip refugee camps in recent months in an effort to kill militants it believes are leaders of anti- Israel resistance. The attacks are becoming an almost daily occurrence. On December 8, Israeli forces demolished a two-story Palestinian house near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in Gaza. On December 4, Israeli security forces carried out a targeted assassination. Helicopter gunships fired three missiles in Gaza City, killing Mustafa Saba, whom Israel claimed was responsible for the deaths of seven Israeli soldiers earlier in the year. The following day, Israeli armed forces opened fire on Palestinians near the Zionist settlement of Rafiah Yam, killing a 40-year-old woman, Nahla Aqel, and injuring her four- year-old son and fourteen-year-old daughter, both of whom are believed to be in a very critical condition. Her seven-year-old son was also wounded. A second woman was shot in the head. Eyewitnesses said they were walking in the middle of the street. Later that night, during Eid el-Fitr, the celebrations to mark the end of the fast of Ramadan, Israeli troops used 25 tanks, armoured personnel carriers and helicopters gunships in a pre-dawn raid on the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing 10 people, including two employees of a UN humanitarian agency. The missiles destroyed the home of Aiman Shasniyah, the target of the attack, but he escaped unharmed. The Israeli authorities claimed that most of the victims were fighters, but Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, denied this, saying that only two of the victims were members of its military wing, and four were supporters. Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, said, It is a new massacre. What happened is a continuation of the massacres against the Palestinian people. Israel justified the carnage with the claim that five of the dead were members of the militant group Hamas. We encountered a lot of resistance and the forces fired at armed gunmen, said Brigadier Yisrael Ziv, commander of security forces in Gaza. Palestinian sources flatly contradicted the Brigadiers claim, saying that at least seven of the nine killed were civilians. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said that the victims included two of its own personnela teacher and school attendant. The school teacher, 32-year- old Ahlam Riziq Kandil, was killed in her home. Osama Hassan Tahrawi, the 31-year-old school attendant, was killed along with six friends and relatives when a rocket fired from a helicopter hit him as he stood in his backyard. This brings to five the number of UN staff killed this year and three in as many weeks. On November 22, an Israeli soldier shot 54-year-old Iain Hook in the back from a rooftop some 25 metres away, using a telescopic sight. Hook, a British UN official, was leading a UN project to rebuild the Jenin refugee camp, parts of which were destroyed last April by the Israeli army. Security forces then prevented an ambulance reaching the compound for 25 minutes. As a result, Hook bled to death before the ambulance reached the hospital. At first, the Israelis tried to say that he had been shot outside the compound while standing among Palestinians. When that story became untenable, they changed their line and said that they had mistaken him for one of the Palestinian gunmen. The UN dismissed their claim, saying that it was totally incredible since its staff had said that there were no gunmen in the area and if there had been, some of the Palestinian gunmen who were supposedly around him would also have been shot. Indeed, there was no evidence of any gun battle before Hooks death. The incident points to Israels barely concealed stand that since the UN collaborates with Palestinians, it has now become a legitimate target. Western reaction Criticism from Western leaders has been muted. They confined their remarks to perfunctory noises about the loss of life, but did not demand that any action be taken against such flagrant breaches of international law. Javier Solana, the European Union commissioner for foreign affairs, said that an operation in such a densely populated area could only lead to the
[CTRL] Weather Engineering in Serbia?
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: dexxxaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 21:41:22 - Subject:[SO] I Didn't Know This A Message Sent To Viewzone Regarding Unusual Weather: 010801vzkosovo * * * What is happening ? During the NATO military operations in Serbia in 1998 witnesses reported weird phenomenon. Weather during the last and the worst bombing campaign around the Serbia was very strange. Huge black clouds materialised out of the blue sky, and stayed there until the end of the campaign which is couple of weeks. There was no rain falling from the clouds. What did fall on Belgrade was hailstone the size of eggs. You can still see the marks it left on houses. During that time witnesses describe strange lighting in the sky that lasted for hours that didnt look like anything anybody saw before. The thunders that accompanied the strange lightning were equally strange. They were hundreds of times stronger than any thunders anybody remembers. They were so loud that they were louder then the sound of bomb explosions. Couple of days before the capitulation of Serbian army was signed a very strong earthquake stroke Belgrade. The weather cleared very soon after the bombing campaign was over. Since then the climate in Serbia has changed considerably. Serbia experienced one of the worst draughts in its history. For last two years it looked as if the rain and snow were missing Serbia on purpose. This was before everywhere else around Serbia the climate is still the same as it ever was. So we can not talk about the global warming or natural climatic changes because the neighbouring countries to the west, east, north or south that are not affected. Last year Serbia had 8 months without a drop of rain. This continues even as we speak as Serbia didnt get any snow this year. Even worse the temperature at the moment is 19 degrees Celsius. Last week scientists in Serbia released the report which states that the electromagnetic field over Serbia is punctured. The hole is almost the size of Serbia. it starts at the border between Kosovo and Albania in the south and ends near Yugoslav Hungarian border in the north. The reason for conducting the measuring was the strange behaviour of the cloud masses that twice a year come to Balkans from Libya. Normally they would unload their cargo of water over Balkans. In last two years however they would hit the southern border of Kosovo, and as the river flaws around the island in its current the cloud masses split and completely miss the Serbian territory leaving an empty hole visible in the satellite pictures. The first time the scientists noticed this phenomenon was at the December 28. 2000. The cloud masses divided into a stronger eastern and weaker western stream and went around the Serbian territory. The same happened on December 31 when the rain that would usually fall in Serbia went east and caused over 200 ml of rain per square meter in the territories east of Kosovo. All of this is about to cause the possibly the worst draught ever to hit Serbia and potentially a famine as the crops would be destroyed if rain or snow doesnt fall in Serbia soon. Could somebody help me find out if there was anything unusual happening in the electromagnetic world during the final days of bombing of Serbia which is summer 1999. Also does anybody have any indication that anything unusual happened with earth electromagnetic field on 28.12.2000. or 31.12.2000. Yours Goran Pavlovic Reporting from Serbia * * * Viewzone || HAARP - the Weapon --- End of forwarded message --- -- Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com Latest Update: Cydonia in 3-D http://www.anomalous-images.com/Odyssey/Cydonia_3-d.html 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
[CTRL] ArabNews: Whom do you pin the medal on?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=21027 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY Whom do you pin the medal on? By Fawaz Turki Published on 12 December 2002 Consider the tomahawk, that ax-like weapon with a piece of bone or metal inserted at the top, that was used by Native Americans to fight, albeit futilely, early American settlers who encroached on their ancestral land, their water resources, and their food supplies in the prairies of the Old West. Then consider the Tomahawk, a deadly missile that, in February 1991, hit an air-raid shelter in Baghdad, killing hundreds of civilians. For many centuries, soldiers went to war to fight each other one on one, on neutral ground, celebrating the idea of close combat with an enemy that matched them in armor. Bravery was the measure of man, and death in battle in pursuit of a cause was seen as a noble end to a life. Many cultures, including that of classical Arabs, that had disdained, for example, use of the bow and arrow as a weapon used in warfare, echoed the Homeric hero. My way, we read in the Iliad, is not to fight my battles far away from my enemies. Long-range killing is a comparatively recent phenomenon in human history. To enlist technology in the service of the application of force against a perceived enemy, often with tragic consequences, is to enlist it as a weapon of mass destruction. Combatants in World War II, and American B 52s in Vietnam, dropped massive tonnage after massive tonnage of bombs, from great heights, often at night, on areas where women and children slept. This kind of warfare conduces inevitably to moral callousness in society. So consider in that regard when, last Sept. 26, Israelis had one of their American-made Apache helicopters (another appropriation from Native Americans) hovering high above Gaza in pursuit of a yellow Mercedes that they had already marked with a laser stain. Around noon that day, the gunship fired two 100-pound Hell-fire anti-tank missiles (great name, no?) at the car, aiming to kill one of its occupants, Muhammed Deif, a Hamas militant, but ended up instead killing two of the passengers and injuring 43 passersby, including 15 school children, some seriously. Deif, though bloodied, escaped. Two months earlier, going after another Hamas official, Salah Shehadeh, yet another Apache gunship, again hovering high in the sky, above that same strip of misery in occupied Palestine, dropped a one-ton bomb on an even more crowded neighborhood, in the dark of night, killing Shehadeh, yes, but also 16 men, women and children, virtually all of them as they lay asleep in their beds. As international castigation of Israel poured forth, the debate among its military planners, according to reports in the Israeli media, was not about the moral callousness of these acts but over whether the missiles aimed at Deif were sufficiently large and lethal, and if not, why not. A moral abyss beckons a society that has absorbed, as if by a process of osmosis, that kind of application of force in pursuit of political goals. Or in pursuit of material gains. Take the issue of why the US a country whose arsenal of weapons evolves rapidly, and its deadliness exponentially, between one war and the next is going to invade Iraq. Till quite recently, the public debate was dominated by how Americas chief interest in going to war against Iraq was to save the world from Saddams weapons of mass destruction and, perhaps as a dividend, to bring regime change to the country, with the end result of rewarding it with the blessings of Western democracy, John Lockian liberalism and economic prosperity. Does that profession of intent pass the smell test? Except for those lost souls demonstrating in their European capitals, and in Lafayette Park in Washington, holding up slogans like Largent pour lecole, pas pour la guerre du petrole, and No blood for oil profits, few people thought to use the O-word. In recent days, commentators have taken up the issue in the mainstream press, namely whether or not the US has really manufactured this whole crisis with Iraq in order to grab its oil and flood the market with it, thereby bringing a drop in prices, and providing an opportunity for American oil companies to get in line to sign contracts with a country that has 11 percent of the worlds reserves. Some strategists, and not just those writing in the pages of Nation magazine, have even argued that there is a more elaborate plan afoot: If Iraq, which is now producing a fraction of its capacity, were to pump oil in a post-Saddam era at a rate to match its reserves, this could end Saudi Arabias domination of world oil markets. (Saudi Arabia has 25 percent of the worlds proven reserves, the largest anywhere.) Why would America, you ask, concoct such a diabolical plan? Well, because it could. And at little cost. When an exceedingly sophisticated nation like the
[CTRL] ArabNews: Christian fundamentalists and American hegemony
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=21028 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY Christian fundamentalists and American hegemony By Dr. Abdul Qader Tash Published on 12 December 2002 The American writer Grace Halsell did not exaggerate when she said that Christian Zionists in Washington were more dangerous than the Zionist lobby. In 1989, Muhammad Sammak translated Halsells book Prophecy and Politics into Arabic. The book discussed the dangers posed by militant Christian fundamentalists to the Arab world but Arab policy- makers did not pay much attention to her warnings. Though a few Arab writers have written about the dangerous course taken by religious fundamentalists in the US, serious efforts have yet to be made to warn the Muslim and Arab public about the increasing influence of the anti-Muslim religious fundamentalist lobby in the United States. It may not be a matter of pure accident that the Christian fundamentalists in Switzerland have established a new organization to elicit public support for Israel. The organizations activities include encouraging Israel to continue with its expansionist policies. The organization recently issued a statement, which was endorsed by several Christian priests, to justify every Israeli act including the inhuman repression of Palestinians. A founding leader of the Swiss organization, who is also a member of the countrys Parliament, said Israeli acts in the Palestine were only the execution of Gods will and that the whole of the Palestine should be returned to Israel. The best solution to the issue, according to him, would be to expel all the Palestinians from Palestine and send them to Jordan, Iraq or Egypt where they could establish an independent state. The menacing call to drive out the Palestinians has been timed to coincide with US preparations to attack Iraq. The Christian fundamentalist leader, Pat Robertson, announced at a recent meeting that Israel had a legitimate right to take full control of Jerusalem and its neighborhoods. He added that Palestinians, who had no right over the Promised Land, should return to where they came from. There are strong reasons to believe that Christian Zionists, including Robertson, aim to goad the US into launching a new crusade against Islam - beginning with the occupation of Baghdad. The fundamentalist leaders also vie with each other in attacking Islamic traditions and values. They have also unleashed a malicious campaign to vilify the Prophet, peace be upon him, in the media across the United States and beyond its borders. An unholy alliance between Christian Zionists and a group called neo-conservatives in key positions in the American administration has lately emerged. The alliance aims not only at supporting Israel as it fulfills its territorial ambitions but also at increasing the military might of the US in order to guarantee US domination of the world. An American senator spelled out his nations ambition to control the world as long ago as 1898 when he said Americans were a race destined to defeat all other people. He urged his compatriots to dominate new markets and countries if the situation demanded it. Impotent civilizations and incompetent races should disappear under the feet of the lofty civilization built by the American people, he added. The Americans still have the same mindset. They believe in the principle of survival of the strongest and the sovereignty of a superior race. Arab News Opinion 12 December 2002 Copyright © 2002 ArabNews All Rights Reserved. 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
