[CTRL] Defense official defends idea of data mining
Title: Government Executive Magazine - 12/2/03 Defense official defends idea of data mining -Caveat Lector- http://www.govexec.com/news/index.cfm?mode=report2articleid=27200printerfriendlyVers=1 Daily Briefing December 2, 2003 Defense official defends idea of data mining By Chloe Albanesius, National Journal's Technology Daily Public misconceptions of privacy and civil liberties issues surrounding the Defense Department's Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) program led to its demise, a Defense official said on Tuesday. The end of TIA, which called for "mining" commercial databases for information on potential terrorists, was the result of "lots of distortions and misunderstandings," Robert Popp, a special assistant to the director for strategic matters at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said at an event sponsored by the Potomac Institute. Popp said TIA researchers were pursuing the project under two agendas: operational, and research and development. The operational aspect called for DARPA to provide RD groups with different technologies in order to "tie many different agencies together," Popp said. And on the research front, DARPA asked whether "there may be other data in the information space that may be useful for the government to exploit in its counter terrorism." "Terrorist acts must involve people ... and plans and activities ... that will leave an information signature," he said. DARPA was "extremely public" in detailing its TIA work, Popp added, but that allowed the project to be "distorted in the public." Asked how he might have handled the situation differently, he said, "When the first onslaught of distortions occurred, we would've been much more public ... to clear the record ... in respect to the public and to Congress." In place of TIA, perhaps there is a "need for a specific intelligence agency to go after terrorists" with a limited charter, said Kim Taipale, executive director for the Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy. "We have a long way to go on this," said Dan Gallington, a senior research fellow at the Potomac Institute. He called for specific congressional oversight committees to handle the situation. "The goal is security with privacy," Taipale added. "[That] does not mean balancing security and privacy but maximizing the set of results you want within those constraints." "It's best solved by using guiding principles, not ... rigged structure or rules that pre-determine where you're trying to get to," he said. "Security and privacy are not dichotomous rivals to be traded one for another in a zero-sum game; they are dual objectives, each to be maximized within certain constraints." Taipale said, "Technology is not the solution" but only a "tool to allocate resources." "In a society that is increasingly digitized, technology creates privacy problems," Taipale said. The problem, therefore, he said, is not controversial programs like data mining, but how to respond to the digitized society. "We really face two inevitable futures," Taipale said. "Develop technologies that are built to provide privacy-protecting mechanisms [or] rely solely on legal mechanisms ... to control the use of technologies." Taipale said specific tech implementations should be subject to congressional oversight, administrative procedures and judicial review. "It's the classic needle-in-the-haystack problem, [but] even worse, the needles themselves appear innocuous in isolation," he said. Brought to you by GovExec.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said,
[CTRL] Cheney Faction Lashes Out Against LaRouche Exposés (Jeffrey Steinberg)
Title: Cheney Faction Lashes Out Against LaRouche Exposés -Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3047cheney_freaks.html This article appears in the December 5, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. Cheney Faction Lashes OutAgainst LaRouche Exposésby Jeffrey Steinberg According to a well-placed Washington source, in October of this year, a series of heated, closed-door debates took place in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. The subject: whether or not to launch a public smear campaign against Democratic Party Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, over LaRouche's year-long campaign to expose the Vice President as the leader of the neo-conservative war party inside the Bush Administration, responsible for the disastrous Iraq war and schemes for a string of future, similar senseless military engagements, all aimed at promoting a unilateral American imperium. While some Cheney political aides opposed getting into such a flight-forward confrontation with LaRouche, some of the office hotheads, including the Vice President himself, as well as his chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, reportedly insisted that the LaRouche exposes could not go unchallenged, according to the source. Now, with the publication, on Nov. 24, of a scurrilous attack on LaRouche by neo-con scribbler Kenneth R. Timmerman, in the Moonie-owned Insight magazine, it is clear that Cheney and company have launched a dirty tricks effort against the Democratic Presidential candidate. Parallel Dirty Tricks in Europe In Europe, a similar Cheney-led smear campaign is underway against LaRouche, emanating out of England, and spreading into Germany and elsewhere. The ostensible subject of the European slander is the suicide death of a young British man, following his participation in a Schiller Institute youth conference in Germany. Despite a thorough investigation into the incident by both German and British authorities, the smears have persisted, confusing many in Europe. The publication of the Insight attack on LaRouche now confirms that the British media slanders of LaRouche are part of the same Cheney-led dirty tricks effort, to subvert LaRouche's Presidential campaign in the United States. A 'Rogue Intelligence Cabal' The Nov. 24 Insight piece, accompanied by a photograph of Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith and Pentagon Office of Special Plans (OSP) head William Luti, accused Lyndon LaRouche of being the architect of a campaign to expose the OSP as a "rogue intelligence cabal," behind the unjustified and unwarranted Iraq war. Timmerman, whose attack on LaRouche is also being promoted by neo-con propagandist Frank Gaffney, through his Center for Security Policy website, lamented, "All this silliness could become deadly serious if Senate Democrats get their way, led by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)." Rockefeller has launched an SSCI probe into the OSP, and, in an Oct. 1 letter to Feith, demanded answers to a series of questions. A subsequent Oct. 30 letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, co-signed by Rockefeller and intelligence panel chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), gave the Pentagon 24 hours to produce the material and supply witnesses. In fact, on Oct. 27, Feith did submit a memo to the SSCI, with a top-secret annex, detailing "proof" that Saddam Hussein had been behind the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaeda terror attacks on New York and Washington. The Feith annex was also leaked to the neo-con Weekly Standard, which published lengthy excerpts from the classified document on Nov. 14, proclaiming "Case Closed"i.e., that Dick Cheney's lying assertions that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 were now "proven." Actual intelligence experts made mincemeat out of the Weekly Standard's effort to defend Cheney by regurgitating the Saddam-ran-Osama bin Laden fairytale. Former Defense Intelligence Agency Mideast head, Col. Pat Lang, debated Weekly Standard author Stephen Hayes on CNN on Nov. 20, and exposed the Feith memo as a cherry-picked collection of raw and uncorroborated intelligence reports. Former CIA officer Larry Johnson told The Hill on Nov. 19, "If anybody doubted that there was such a thing as intelligence with a [predetermined] purpose, this is a case study. Just because someone says something and it gets 'classified' stamped on it, doesn't necessarily mean
[CTRL] [JBirch] Fw: UN Control of the Internet (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:47:22 -0500 From: Andy Hirsh Dlinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], American Freedom Lovers [EMAIL PROTECTED], JBS Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patriot Awareness Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JBirch] Fw: UN Control of the Internet A U.N. grab for Internet control? Proposal expected at global summit in Geneva Posted: December 2, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON - A global summit set for next week in Geneva is expected to provide the venue for a plan to put the Internet under United Nations control. Developing nations - including China, Syria and Vietnam - are pushing for the U.N. or one of its agencies to regulate the Internet, perhaps as soon as 2005. Diplomats from more than 60 countries plan to take up the issue at the U.N. World Information Summit in Geneva beginning next Wednesday. At issue are the operations currently run by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, a California group that assigns Internet protocol addresses and oversees major domains, including .com, .net and .org. The group also helps set technical rules for how the Internet operates. Developing nations said their interests would be better served if the Internet were managed by an intergovernmental group, such as the United Nations or one of its arms. The U.S., represented at the summit by Ambassador David Gross, the State Department's coordinator for international communications and information policy, is opposing the plan. The summit's goal is to achieve consensus on a draft declaration of principles and draft plan of action, which reportedly includes a recommendation to place the governance of the Internet under the U.N. Standardization is one of the essential building blocks of the Information Society, reads the most recent draft of the WSIS Draft Declaration of Principles. There should be particular emphasis on the development and adoption of international standards. Leading the effort is China, which allows its own citizens online access, but only with government surveillance. China has so far been joined in its efforts by representatives of Syria, Egypt, Vietnam and South Africa. Other reports suggest Russia, India, Saudi Arabia and Brazil may be on board, too. Critics of the global Internet idea say certain nations like China want to take away ICANN's duties and place them under governmental auspices, along with increased control over security and content, placing freedom of press and individual freedom of expression at serious risk. The summit is expected to attract more than 50 heads of state and 6,000 delegates who will address issues from the digital divide to Internet governance. The Founding Fathers knew that even the best designed government wouldn't work if the people were not righteous, moral and G-d fearing - if they didn't love liberty and cherish it. If a nation or individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose it's freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too. --W. Somerset Maugham What have you done TODAY to help educate your family, friends, co-workers and neighbors on the proper role of government? Make history with us...Call 1-800-JBS-USA-1 for more information. Andy Hirsh Dlinn SW PA JBS Section Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nowitsyourmove.org http://www.jbs.org $9.95 for fast reliable internet! No annoying pop-ups or banners. http://www.getmysmartisp.com Harness the power of the internet! Earn 24/7: www.coffee.opportunity.com www.masterytv1.opportunity.com www.hirshpro.opportunity.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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.
[CTRL] In Rumsfelds Shop
http://www.amconmag.com/12_1_03/feature.html December 1, 2003 issue Copyright 2003 The American Conservative In Rumsfelds Shop A senior Air Force officer watches as the neocons consolidate their Pentagon coup. By Karen Kwiatkowski Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski recently retired from the U.S. Air Force. Her final posting was as an analyst at the Pentagon. Below is the first of three installments describing her experience there. They provide a unique view of the Department of Defense during a period of intense ideological upheaval, as the United States prepared to launchfor the first time in its historya preventive war. In early May 2002, I was looking forward to retirement from the United States Air Force in about a year. I had a cushy job in the Pentagons Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, International Security Affairs, Sub-Saharan Africa. In the previous two years, I had published two books on African security issues and had passed my comprehensive doctoral exams at Catholic University. I was very pleased with the administrations Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sub-Saharan Africa, former Marine and Senator Helms staffer Michael Westphal, and was ready to start thinking about my dissertation and my life after the military. When Mike called me in to his office, I thought I was getting a new project or perhaps that one of my many suggestions of fun things to do with Africa policy had been accepted. But the look on his face clued me in that this was going to be one of those meetings where somebody wasnt leaving happy. After a quick rank check, I had a good idea which one it would be. There was a position in Near East South Asia (NESA) that they needed to fill right away. I wasnt interested. They phrased the question another way: We have been tasked to send a body over to Bill Luti. Can we send you? I resisteduntil I slowly guessed that in true bureaucratic fashion and can-do military tradition my name had already been sent over. This little soire in Mikes office was my farewell. I went back to my office and e-mailed a buddy in the Joint Staff. Bob wrote back, Write down everything you see. I didnt do it, but these most wise words from a trusted friend proved the first of three omens I would soon receive. I showed up down the hall a few days later. It looked just like the office from which I came, newer blue cubicles, narrow hallways piled high with copy paper, newspapers, unused equipment, and precariously leaning map rolls. The same old concrete-building smell pervaded, maybe a little mustier. I was taking over the desk of a CIA loaner officer. Joe had been called back early to the agency and was hoping to go to Yemen. Before he left, he briefed me on his biggest project: ongoing negotiations with the Qatari sheiks over who was paying for improvements to Al Udeid Air Base. I was familiar with Al Udeid from my time on the Air Staff a few years before. Back then we seemed to like the Saudis, and our Saudi bases were a few hours closer to the action than Al Udeid, so the U.S. played a woo-me game. Now that we needed and wanted Al Udeid to be finished quickly and done up right, it was time for the emirs to play hard to get. Joe gave me the rundown on counterterrorism ops in Yemen and an upcoming agreement with the Bahraini monarch to extend our military-security agreement, locking in a relationship just in case those Bahraini experiments with democracy actually took off. I had an obligatory meeting with the deputy director, Paul Hulley, Navy Captain. This meeting followed a phone call in which I hadnt been as compliant as I should have been with a Navy Captain, and since Paul had handled my bad attitude with candor and grace, I was determined to like himand I did. I gave him my story: I was a year from retirement and, more importantly, I was in a car pool. Id be working a 7:15 to 17:30 schedule. He was neither charmed nor impressed. He advised that Id need to be working a lot longer than that. Then we stepped in to meet Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Bill Luti. I knew Luti had a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts and was a recently retired Navy Captain himself. At this point, I didnt know what a neocon was or that they had already swarmed over the Pentagon, populating various hives of policy and planning like African hybrids, with the same kind of sting reflex. Luti just seemed happy to have me there as a warm body. My second omen was the super-size bottles of Tums and Tylenol Joe left in his desk. The third occurred as I was chatting with my new office mate, a career civil servant working the Egypt desk. As the conversation moved into Middle East news and politics, she mentioned that if I wanted to be successful here, I shouldnt say anything positive about the Palestinians. In 19 years of military service, I had never heard such a politically laden warning on such an obscure topic to such an inconsequential player. I had the sense of
[CTRL] The Conservative Case Against George W. Bush
http://www.amconmag.com/12_1_03/cover.html December 1, 2003 issue Copyright 2003 The American Conservative Righteous Anger The Conservative Case Against George W. Bush By Doug Bandow Some liberals admit that they hate President George W. Bush. Many conservatives say they are appalled at this phenomenon. Indeed, some of them believe any criticism of the president to be akin to treason. So much for the political tone in Washington. American politics have never been for the faint-hearted. Even George Washington suffered some public abuse, and presidential campaigns involving revolutionary luminaries John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were vitriolic. After the Civil War, Republican candidates routinely waved the bloody shirt; one GOP stalwart denounced the Democrats as the party of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. The GOP did not treat Harry Truman with kid gloves, and Democrats never let fairness impede their attacks on Barry Goldwater in 1964. Richard Nixon was widely reviled on the Left. Some fringe partisans expressed sorrow that John Hinckley failed in his assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. And then there was Bill Clinton. Some Republicans saw him as a drug-dealing murderer whose wife killed family friend Vincent Foster. Now Jonathan Chait of the New Republic says simply, I hate President George W. Bush. Not one to hold back, he explains, You decide Bush is a dullard lacking any moral constraints in his pursuit of partisan gain, loyal to no principle save the comfort of the very rich, unburdened by any thoughtful consideration of the national interest, and a man who, on those occasions when he actually does make a correct decision, does so almost by accident. More concisely, charges James Traub in the New York Times Magazine, George Bush is a craven, lazy, hypocritical nitwit. Chaits recent essay has triggered a spate of conservative responses. Bush is wonderful, liberals are irrational, and the whole thing is bad for America. These are rather hilarious arguments coming from conservatives. For instance, New York Times columnist David Brooks calls the phenomenon of the Bush haters a core threat to democracy. Yet, as Brooks acknowledges, the Clinton years were also well populated with haters. Brooks now regrets having not spoken out more clearly against the latter. Better late than never, perhaps, but his conversion looks awfully convenient, as does that of other conservative Bush defenders. Hatred of Bill Clinton never made sense. In contrast, anger was fully justified. I never understood why conservatives invested so much emotion in Clinton. He was a charming and bright but enormously flawed, highly ambitious man of few principles. That warranted criticism, not hatred. But I joined in early and often. During his first summer of discontent I urged Clintons critics to pile on as opposition mounted to his policies. Over the years there was a moral imperative to take aim in the target-rich environment: the attempted government takeover of the health-care system, the pork-barrel stimulus package, the use of jackboot tactics against critics of federal policies, the endless claims of victimization, the unjustified Kosovo war, the sale of administration access for campaign contributions, the special-interest Whitewater and cattle-futures pay-offs, the sustained efforts to cover up such abuses, and the presidential perjury in federal court proceedings. Clinton was properly impeached. He should have been removed from office. The rule of law demanded no less. Similarly, though George W. Bush is very different from Bill Clinton, hatred makes no sense. But anger is appropriate. Much of the liberal case against President Bush is barely short of silly. His election was not illegitimate. Whether or not the candidate with the most votes should win, thats not what the U.S. Constitution says. Blame the Founders, not George W. Bush. Complaints about Bushs fabled inarticulateness and privileged background are superficial. More worrisome are his partisan focus, demand for personal loyalty, and tendency to keep score, but these are hardly characteristics warranting hatred. The charge that hes a crazy right-winger is beyond silly. Other than tax cutswhich have benefited the rich only because the rich paid, and still pay, most of the taxesvirtually nothing of conservative substance has happened. Government is more expansive and expensive than ever before. Jonathan Chait must have been smoking funny cigarettes when he wrote, [I]ts not much of an exaggeration to say that Bush would like to roll back the federal government to something resembling its pre-New Deal state. Sad to say, inaugurating limited private retirement accounts is not the same as eliminating Social Security, let alone dismantling the Leviathan that has grown up in Washington. James Traub contends, Todays Republican Party is arguably the most extremethe furthest from the centerof any governing majority in the nations history. This is the
[CTRL] Controlling The News (Part 26)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a737.htm CONTROLLING THE NEWS Part 26 (November 21 2003 )Here we are again with the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination upon us. There will have to be the usual retrospectives. Of course, Oswald acted alone. Of course he did not but it has been established that he did to cover up what actually happened so we should interview his wife and others such as Gerald Posner and then forget the entire silly mess for another year. New book out that says LBJ was involved. Another one last year said the CIA did it. No publicity for either thesis. (November 22) The Pentagon is getting nervous over the continuing, highly orchestrated and deadly, Iraqi resistance. Or as the White House says, disorganized, minimal local bandits and criminals.. Our reporters are being threatened with unspecified problems if they dont toe the party line. That line? Everything is going to plan now (Question here: Whose plan? If the chaos in Baghdad is part of a plan, someone should be shot.) No negative comments about unhappy and mutinous GIs. No pictures of GIs who have been killed by mobs and mutilated. Especially no pictures or stories about enraged soldiers slaughtering locals in revenge for commando raids. Wolfowitz had an accident with his bladder when rockets slammed into his hotel recently. They mopped up after him as he fled to the airport. These men can certainly dish it out..especially from the safety of a Pentagon bunkerbut they cant take it. Odds are there will be some kind of a demonstration or, to be blunt, a mutiny of the troops, around Christmas. (November 23) The CIA has struck again, this time in Georgia. No, they have not blown up Atlanta but the former Soviet Republic has fallen securely into our hands. We want the area for an oil pipeline since the Taliban are restive again in Afghanistan and the projected Unocal pipeline to the sea is not possible at this point. This is also a shot across Putins bows warning him to be more cooperative with us or find us right on his doorstepthe next target will be the Ukraine. The Bush people are thinking about all the Ukrainians living in the US that might vote for George if he makes a show of liberating their people from the evil neo-Commie Putin. (November 24) hard wired phone companies are going the way of the dinosaur. Government loves this because it is so much easier to snoop on cell phones without bothering to get a warrant. And on this subject, look for a complete resurrection of the FBIs 70s anti war programs. These people will never learn. The repressive activities of these people toppled LBJ and will, if continued, topple BushHe is threatening the Canadians with various trade sanctions if they dont stop deserting GIs from taking refuge therethere is a sick joke about Bush having a picture of Hitler on one wall of his bedroom and another of Jesus on the otherSome joker put up a picture of Bush and the Saved Thanksgiving turkey. Caption was This turkey was reprieved and the addition was, which turkey? Not nice gentlemen. Someone might see this and drop a dime on all of us (November 28) Recent publication of an interview with General Franks brings up the institution of martial law by the Administration. There has been some muted but high-level discussions of this subject. Franks is a functioning idiot but the idea of Bush winning the 04 election like he did the last oneby outright fraudis a topic inside the Beltway. Plans have been drawn up for the eventuality that some kind of an attack, whether by groups in support of the President or actual foreign terrorists, will happen in the US and the lid can go on. The two groups that are Bushs most devoted supporters are the Born Again lunatics and the very far right. The first group actually believes the bs that God mandated a Bush presidency and that to lose him to secular humanists must be prevented by any means possible. And for these twisted souls, anything that they feel God wants is OK with them. They are the type that hear little voices in their heads that they believe is God telling them to kill their wives or shoot into that nice yellow school bus full of little African Americans. (The Bush people, especially the AJ, detest blacks because the Jewish elite around him detest blacks.) The ultra right is quivering with joy at the thought of the rest of us praying in schools, goose-stepping up and down the streets like Hitler Youth while American troops occupy most of the world in a New Roman Empire. Of course this is loonie froth on a tankard of stale ale but keep an eye on the nut fringe. This does not mean that Bush and his people would order a hit but it does mean that they would be the very first to exploit it, and the American public, to the hilt. Dont forget the Reichstag Fire in Germany and the ease with which Hitler passed his Enabling Act which clamped the iron collar on the neck of the public. =
[CTRL] Press Ignores Widow's Bush Treason Lawsuit
Title: 9/11 IN NEVERNEVERLAND Press Ignores Widow's Bush Treason Lawsuit -Caveat Lector- The American big media, which are controlled by a handful of billionaires,are full co-conspirators with the Bush administration in the cover-up of what really happened on 9/11 and in the campaign of deceit and lies which justified the Iraq War. - SM http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=40847 [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] The Rumor Mill News Reading Roomhttp://www.rumormillnews.com 9/11 IN NEVERNEVERLAND Press Ignores Widow's Bush Treason Lawsuit Posted By: mailbag for W. David KubiakDate: Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 6:26 p.m. 9/11 MEDIA ALERT: Press Ignores 9/11 Widow's Bush Treason Suit 9/11 IN NEVERNEVERLAND Widow's Bush Treason Suit Vanishes in Blink of Media Eye by W. David Kubiak "The decision 'not to do the story' appears to be multiplying all over the nation." -- Fred Powledge, ACLU "Whoever said `no news is good news,' was BADLY misinformed." -- Dan Rather Think you're already amazed, alarmed or appalled enough by the state of US journalism today? Chew on this a while and think again. Grieving New Hampshire widow who lost her man on 9/11 refuses the government's million dollar hush money payoff, studies the facts of the day for nearly two years, and comes to believe the White House "intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen" to launch a so-called "War on Terrorism" for personal and political gain. She retains a prominent lawyer, a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, who served with distinction under both Democrats and Republicans and was once a strong candidate for the governor's seat. The attorney files a 62-page complaint in federal district court (including 40 pages of prima facie evidence) charging that "President Bush and officials including, but not limited to Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Ashcroft and Tenet": 1.) had adequate foreknowledge of 911 yet failed to warn the county or attempt to prevent it; 2.) have since been covering up the truth of that day; 3.) have therefore abetted the murder of plaintiff's husband and violated the Constitution and multiple laws of the United States; and 4.) are thus being sued under the Civil RICO (Racketeering, Influence, and Corrupt Organization) Act for malfeasant conspiracy, obstruction of justice and wrongful death. The suit text goes on to document the detailed forewarnings from foreign governments and FBI agents; the unprecedented delinquency of our air defense; the inexplicable half hour dawdle of our Commander in Chief at a primary school after hearing the nation was under deadly attack; the incessant invocation of national security and executive privilege to suppress the facts; and the obstruction of all subsequent efforts to investigate the disaster. It concludes that "compelling evidence will be presented in this case through discovery, subpoena power, and testimony [that] Defendants failed to act and prevent 9/11 knowing the attacks would lead toâ?| an 'International War on Terror' which would benefit Defendants both financially and politically." Press releases detailing these explosive allegations are sent out to 3000 journalists in the print and broadcast media, and a press conference to announce the filing is held in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on November 26th (commemorating the end of the first futile year of the independent National 9/11 Commission). Imagine the world-churning implications of these charges. Imagine the furor if just one was proved true. Imagine the courage of this bribe- shunning widow and an eminent attorney with his rep on the line. Then imagine a press conference to which nobody came. (Well, more precisely, imagine a press conference at which only FOX News appears, tapes for 40 minutes, and never airs an inch.) Now imagine the air time, column inches and talk show hysteria that same night devoted to the legal hassles of Michael, Kobe, and Scott Peterson, and divide that by the attention paid to our little case of mass murder, war profiteering and treason. (OK, this is really a trick question because no number divided by zero yields any answers whatsoever, which evidently in this case is the result preferred.) When you present documented charges of official treachery behind the greatest national security disaster in modern history and the press doesn't show, doesn't listen, doesn't write - just what in fact is really being communicated? That despite all the deaths, lies, wars, and bizarre official actions that flowed from 9/11 there's actually nothing there to be investigated at all? That addressing desperate victim families' still unanswered cries for truth is not a legitimate journalistic concern? That news will now be what the
[CTRL] Bush and Blair Are In Trouble (John Pilger)
Title: ZNet | Iraq | Bush And Blair Are In Trouble -Caveat Lector- http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=4589sectionID=15 ZNet | Iraq Bush And Blair Are In Trouble by John Pilger; December 02, 2003 Shortly before the disastrous Bush visit to Britain, Tony Blair was at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. It was an unusual glimpse of a state killer whose effete respectability has gone. His perfunctory nod to "the glorious dead" came from a face bleak with guilt. As William Howard Russell of the Times wrote of another prime minister responsible for the carnage in the Crimea, "He carries himself like one with blood on his hands." Having shown his studied respect to the Queen, whose prerogative allowed him to commit his crime in Iraq, Blair hurried away. "Sneak home and pray you'll never know," wrote Siegfried Sassoon in 1917, "The hell where youth and laughter go." Blair must know his game is over. Bush's reception in Britain demonstrated that; and the CIA has now announced that the Iraqi resistance is "broad, strong and getting stronger", with numbers estimated at 50,000. "We could lose this situation," says a report to the White House. The goal now is to "plan the endgame". Their lying has finally become satire. Bush told David Frost that the world really had to change its attitude about Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons because they were "very advanced". My personal favourite is Donald Rumsfeld's assessment. "The message," he said, "is that there are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns." An unprecedented gathering of senior American intelligence officers, diplomats and former Pentagon officials met in Washington the other day to say, in the words of Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and friend of Bush's father: "Now we know that no other president of the United States has ever lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably ... The presumption now has to be that he's lying any time that he's saying anything." And Blair and his foreign secretary dare to suggest that the millions who have rumbled the Bush gang are "fashionably anti-American". An instructive example of their own mendacity was demonstrated recently by Jack Straw. On BBC Radio 4, defending Bush and Washington's doctrine of "preventive war", Straw told the interviewer: "Article 51 [of the United Nations Charter], to which you referred earlier - you said it only allows for self-defence. It actually goes more widely than that because it talks about the right of states to take what is called 'preventive action'." Straw's every word was false, an invention. Article 51 does not refer to "the right of states to take preventive action" or anything similar. Nowhere in the UN Charter is there any such reference. Article 51 refers only to "the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs" and goes on to constrain that right further. Moreover, the UN Charter was so framed as to outlaw any state's claimed right to preventive war. In other words, the Foreign Secretary fabricated a provision of the UN Charter which does not exist, then broadcast it as fact. When Straw does speak the truth, it causes panic. The other day, he admitted that Bush had shut him out of critical talks in Washington with Paul Bremer, the US viceroy in Iraq. Straw said he was "not party to the talks, not a party to his [Bremer's] return visit". The Foreign Office transcript of this leaves out that Straw had complained that "the UK and US [are] literally the occupying powers, and we have to meet those responsibilities". The US disregard for its principal vassal has never been clearer. Both are now desperate. The Bush regime's panic is reflected in its adoption of Israeli revenge tactics, using F-16 aircraft to drop 500lb bombs on residential areas called "suspect zones". They are also burning crops: another Israeli tactic. The parallels are now Palestine and Vietnam; more Americans have died in Iraq than in the first three years of the Vietnam war. For Bush and Blair, no recourse to the "bravery" of "our wonderful troops" will work its populist magic now. "My husband died in vain," read the headline in the Independent on Sunday. Lianne Seymour, widow of the commando Ian Seymour, said: "They misled the guys going out there. You can't just do something wrong and hope you
[CTRL] Fwd: Is this adm. capable of the truth??
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[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- === THE DAILY MIS-LEAD http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1140490l=10731 === AS WHITE HOUSE CHANGES STORY, BRITISH AIRWAYS REFUTES BUSH STORY OF PILOT SIGHTING In his trip to Baghdad, President Bush said he would have immediately turned around had his cover been blown. In trying to play up the secrecy and dangerous nature of the trip, Bush's aides said that a British Airways pilot spotted the president's plane, radioing, Did I just see Air Force One? The White House said Air Force One responded: Gulfstream 5 - a code word to disguise the plane - and the British Airways pilot seemed to sense he was in on a secret and replied 'Oh.' But now it appears the story was a complete fabrication, designed only to hype the story. According to Reuters, British Airways said yesterday that none of its pilots made contact with President Bush's plane during its secret flight to Baghdad on Thanksgiving, contradicting White House reports of a midair exchange that nearly prompted Bush to call off his trip. Making things worse, the White House revised its story after revelations of the distortion. The White House now says it had left the wrong impression and that actually the conversation took place between Air Force One and the airport tower in London. But again, British Airways refuted this tale, with a spokesman for the company telling media that none of its pilots has come forward to acknowledge either making or overhearing the purported conversation. Read the Mis-Lead -- http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1140490l=10732 === Subscribe to the Daily Mislead! Go to http://www.misleader.org and enter your e-mail address in the Receive the Daily Mislead box in the top-left corner of the page. To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with only the word remove in the subject line of your e-mail, or visit http://daily.misleader.org/unsubscribe/ and follow the instructions listed there. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's
[CTRL] Who Caused the Palestinian Diaspora?
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http://www.counterpunch.com/bisharat12032003.html
December 3, 2003
Who Caused the Palestinian Diaspora?
Origins of the Middle East Crisis
By GEORGE BISHARAT
In early October, I meandered the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland with
easy-laughing Mahmoud. We were bleary-eyed from international travel,
and from many hours of animated discussions at our conference.
Scholars, lawyers and activists had converged to explore ways to
implement the rights of Palestinians to return to and regain their homes,
seized by Israel in 1948. This fate had befallen Villa Harun ar-Rashid, the
Jerusalem home of my late grandfather, Hanna Ibrahim Bisharat. We had
been inspired by accounts of successful campaigns for housing restitution
for refugees and other dispossessed peoples in Bosnia, South Africa and
Rwanda.
The sky was leaden, the wind off the slate lake bracing. But the fountain
at the end of the lake lofted exuberant white plumes of water toward the
heavens, and seemed to elevate with them our hopes and dreams for a
more just and peaceful future.
Little did we suspect that in other conference rooms across the same
city, Israelis and Palestinians had been conducting covert, informal
negotiations for two years toward what are now touted as the "Geneva
Accord." The agreement, while envisioning a Palestinian state in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, studiously avoids mention of the very rights Mahmoud
and I, and many others, are fighting to protect. The negotiators,
prominent private citizens, include former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi
Beilin and former Palestinian Information and Culture Minister Yasser Abed
Rabbo.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has vehemently attacked the unofficial
pact, and the negotiators have been condemned as irresponsible
meddlers. The accord has no chance of adoption in the immediate future.
Its principal objective may have only been didactic: to teach Israelis there
is an alternative to the militaristic policies of Sharon.
The pointed silence regarding the Palestinian right of return, however,
means that an important opportunity has been missed to apprise Israelis,
and the world, of a critical reality. No real or lasting peace will be
achieved in the area until Israel finally admits the long-denied truth,
accepts moral responsibility and apologizes for its forcible exile of
Palestinian refugees 55 years ago.
In 1948, three quarters of a million Palestinians were driven from what
became Israel, their homes, land and possessions taken over by the new
Jewish state. Most were victims of direct military attacks, forcible
expulsion orders or a deliberate campaign of terror and intimidation,
fueled by actual massacres. A post-war internal report from the Haganah (a
quasi-official Jewish militia) stated that of 391,000 Palestinians who had fled
by June, 1948, some 73 percent had done so in response to Jewish military
operations.
Palestinian villagers were often attacked at night, from two or three sides,
while a road to the closest Arab country was left open. Their flight was
hastened by news of massacres committed by Zionist forces, the most
infamous of which occurred on April 9, 1948 in Deir Yassin. Up to 254
mostly unarmed Palestinians were slaughtered. Some were paraded in
Jerusalem on trucks before being executed.
Describing the July 10, 1948 attack on Kweikat, near Haifa, a villager
attested: "We were awakened by the loudest noise we had ever heard,
shells exploding and artillery fire ... the whole village was in panic ... Most
of the villagers began to flee with their pajamas on. The wife of Qasim
Ahmad Said fled [mistakenly] carrying a pillow in her arms instead of her
child."
Exile involved more than material deprivation. Palestinians lost their homes,
belongings, fields, orchards, workshops, possessions, professions -- but
more than that they lost their human dignity. Any people that has suffered
massive wrongs -- African- Americans, Japanese-Americans, Jews --
understand the special wound of victimization for who you are, not what
you have done.
Like slavery for African-Americans, internment for Japanese-Americans and
the Nazi holocaust for Jews, the "Nakba" ("Catastrophe") was a seminal
event in the consciousness of the Palestinian people. No act of the
Palestinians justified their expulsion. Their only "crime" was that they were
born Christians and Muslims in a place coveted by the Zionist movement
for an exclusive Jewish state, and refused to slink off into history as a
vanquished people.
As Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, once candidly admitted to
a colleague: "If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel.
That is natural: We have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us,
but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from
Israel, it's true, but 2,000 years ago, and what is that to them? There has
been anti-Semitism, the Nazis,
[CTRL] No, anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1098625,00.html No, anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism As an idea, a Jewish homeland was always controversial. As a reality, Israel still is - and it is not anti-Jewish to say so Brian Klug Wednesday December 3, 2003 The Guardian >From the beginning, political Zionism was a controversial movement even among Jews. So strong was the opposition of German orthodox and reform rabbis to the Zionist idea in the name of Judaism that Theodor Herzl changed the venue of the First Zionist Congress in 1897 from Munich to Basle in Switzerland. Twenty years later, when the British foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour (sponsor of the 1905 Aliens Act to restrict Jewish immigration to the UK), wanted the government to commit itself to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, his declaration was delayed - not by anti-semites but by leading figures in the British Jewish community. They included a Jewish member of the cabinet who called Balfour's pro-Zionism "anti-semitic in result". The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 has not put an end to the debate, though the issue has changed. Today, the question is about Israel's future. Should it become a "post-Zionist" state, one that defines itself in terms of the sum of its citizens, rather than seeing itself as belonging to the entire Jewish people? This is a perfectly legitimate question and not anti-semitic in the least. When people suggest otherwise - as Emanuele Ottolenghi did on these pages last Saturday - they simply add to the growing confusion. Ottolenghi contends that "Zionism comprises a belief that Jews are a nation, and as such are entitled to self-determination as all other nations are". This is doubly confused. First, the ideology of Jewish nationalism was irrelevant to many of the Jews, as well as non-Jewish sympathisers, who were drawn to the Zionist goal of creating a Jewish state in Palestine. They saw Israel in purely humanitarian or practical terms: as a safe haven where Jews could live as Jews after centuries of being marginalised and persecuted. This motive was strengthened by the Nazi murder of one-third of the world's Jewish population, the wholesale destruction of Jewish communities in Europe, and the plight of masses of Jewish refugees with nowhere to go. Second, you do not have to be an anti-semite to reject the belief that Jews constitute a separate nation in the modern sense of the word or that Israel is the Jewish nation state. There is an irony here: it is a staple of anti-semitic discourse that Jews are a people apart, who form "a state within a state". Partly for this reason, some European anti-semites thought that the solution to "the Jewish question" might be for Jews to have a state of their own. Herzl certainly thought he could count on the support of anti-semites. What is anti-semitism? Although the word only goes back to the 1870s, anti-semitism is an old European fantasy about Jews. The composer Richard Wagner exemplified it when he said: "I hold the Jewish race to be the born enemy of pure humanity and everything noble in it." An anti-semite sees Jews this way: they are an alien presence, a parasite that preys on humanity and seeks to dominate the world. Across the globe, their hidden hand controls the banks, the markets and the media. Even governments are under their sway. And when revolutions occur or nations go to war, it is the Jews - clever, ruthless and cohesive - who invariably pull the strings and reap the rewards. When this fantasy is projected on to Israel because it is a Jewish state, then anti-Zionism is anti-semitic. And when zealous critics of Israel, without themselves being anti-semitic, carelessly use language, such as "Jewish influence", that conjures up this fantasy, they are fuelling an anti-semitic current in the wider culture. But Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is no fantasy. Nor is the spread of Jewish settlements in these territories. Nor the unequal treatment of Jewish colonisers and Palestinian inhabitants. Nor the institutionalised discrimination against Israeli Arab citizens in various spheres of life. These are realities. It is one thing to oppose Israel or Zionism on the basis of an anti-semitic fantasy; quite another to do so on the basis of reality. The latter is not anti-semitism. But isn't excessive criticism of Israel or Zionism evidence of an anti-semitic bias? In his book, The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz argues that when criticism of Israel "crosses the line from fair to foul" it goes "from acceptable to anti-semitic". People who take this view say the line is crossed when critics single Israel out unfairly; when they apply a double standard and judge Israel by harsher criteria than they use for other states; when they misrepresent the facts so as to put Israel in a bad light; when they vilify the Jewish state; and so on. All of which undoubtedly is foul. But is it necessarily anti-semitic?
[CTRL] Zionist Firsts
-Caveat Lector- http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=Board=news_internationalNumber=1078628t=-1#Post1078628 Here are some Confirmed Zionist firsts: Grenades in cafes, first used against Palestinians in Jerusalem on 17 March, 1937. Delayed-action, electrically timed mines in crowded market-places: first against Palestinians in Haifa, 6 July, 1938. Blowing up a ship with its civilian passengers still on board: first in Haifa, 25 November, 1940. The Zionists did not hesitate to blow up their own people to protest the British policy of strict Jewish immigration to Palestine. The ship Patria had 1,700 Jewish immigrants. Assassination of government official outside Palestine: first used against the British in Cairo, when on 6 November, 1944 Lord Moyne was assassinated by the Stern Gang. Yitzhak Shamir, a member of the Irgun and later leader of the Stern Gang was behind the plan. . Taking of hostages to put pressure on a government: first used against the British in Tel Aviv, 18 June, 1946. Blowing up government offices with their civilian employees and visitors: first used against the British in Jerusalem, 22 July, 1946. The toll was 91 Britons, and 46 injured in King David Hotel. Begin, who masterminded and carried out the attack, admitted that the massacre was coordinated with and carried out under the instruction of the Haganah. Booby-trapped suitcase: first used against the British Embassy in Rome, 13 October, 1946. Booby-trapped car parked alongside buildings: first used against the British in Sarafand (east of Jaffa) on 5 December, 1946. Flogging of hostages: first used against the British in Tel Aviv, Natanya and Rishon, 29 December, 1946. Letter-bombs sent to politicians outside Palestine: first used against Britain when twenty letter-bombs were sent from Italy to London between 4 and 6 June, 1947. Murder of hostages as a reprisal for government actions: first used against the British in Natanya area on 29 July, 1947. Postal Parcel-bomb sent outside Palestine: first used against the British in London, 3 September, 1947. The first Mideast airplane hijacked was committed by Israel in 1954 when a civilian Syrian airliner was hijacked after taking off. (In December 1954, Israeli military jets intercepted a civilian aircraft in Syrian airspace that had recently taken off from Damascus, and forced it to land within Israeli territory. Syrian passengers were detained for 48 hours, pending negotiations over the fate of five Israeli soldiers who had been captured inside Syrian territory while mounting wiretapping installations.) An excerpt from the *Israeli* book (Palestinians: The Making of a People, by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel s. Migdal) The sequence of events in Dayr Yasin is now scarcely disputed. The villages nonbelligerency pact with local Jewish forces did not spare it being swept into the Jewish offensive to break the Arab stranglehold on Jerusalem. Following an intense battle between Palestinian militiamen and Irgun forces with some Haganah mortar support, Palestinian forces departed and the Irgun entered the village on April 9. In brutal acts of revenge for their losses, the Jewish fighters killed many of the remaining men, women, and children and raped and mutilated others. Those not killed immediately were ignominiously paraded through Jerusalem And here are some good books with which to confirm these incidents: http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/qbib.htm The moral posturing that puts all blame on Palestinians while excusing all Israeli provocation is the height of hypocrisy. www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[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] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Dirty Secrets of the Pharma-Cartel: Part Four (The 'New' Eugenics)
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Dirty Secrets of the Pharma-Cartel: Part Four Mary Louise November 25 2003 http://www.prisonplanet.com/pp210803vaccine.jpg Nicknamed compassionate conservatism, by the influential neo- conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, the new eugenics is a repackaged modern version of early 20th century Eugenics, to make these dangerous ideas more acceptable to the general public. Presented as an effort to improve human health, this pseudo science developed by eugenicists playing God, and applied by government, is possibly the greatest threat to humanity ever devised. According to advocates of eugenics such as the Rockefellers, Henry Ford, and Margaret Sanger, the government should decide who can reproduce and which medical or psychological conditions should qualify for sterilization or euthanasia. MI has received subsidies from large conservative foundations, as well as funding from major pharmaceutical companies and Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank, the main sponsor for the Manhattan Institute. The Enron, Bush, Baker, Rockefeller Connection - http://www.globalpress.com/bush_baker_enron.shtml Chase Manhattan Bank's Right-Wing Relationships - http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/00-12%20Winter/chaseman.html The religion of Eugenics is alive and flourishing in such things as the Human Genome Project, genetic alterations of the food supply, UN population control measures, mandatory vaccinations, pesticide misuse, welfare reform, school vouchers, national ID card, war on drugs, and the prison-industrial complex. Headquartered at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory on Long Island, NY, which is the location of the Eugenics Research Office started by the Harrimans in 1910, the Human Genome Project is advancing an agenda that would shock most people, if they truly understood it. Eugenics is called scientific racism because behind the foundations, that financed the research, publication, and distribution of books by social scientists, are former Nazis, supremacists, proponents of depopulation, defense contractors, and pharmaceutical companies with ties to IG Farben. In the final analysis, however, the eugenic description of human life reflects the prejudices of eugenicists (scientists, doctors, psychologists) and policy-makers, rather than scientific facts. The Human Genome Project and Eugenics - http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/00-09%20FALL/thehuman.html Margaret Sanger was a socialist, feminist, and a disciple of Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky, as was Adolph Hitler. Sanger was also founder of the American Birth Control League, which became the American Birth Control Federation and later changed to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which has recently filed a suit challenging the partial birth abortion ban. The deceptively worded ban isn't even a ban; it has simply been redefined. Her scientific racism was based on the belief that to be a valuable part of society people must demonstrate a good quality gene pool, otherwise, dysgenic groups with objectionable inheritable traits should have their fertility curbed, along with other inferiors and undesirables. On the basis of health instead of punishment, she recommended a rigid policy of sterilization and mandatory segregation, by corralling large segments of the population on homesteads (concentration camps), where they would work under the supervision of competent instructors their entire lives (A Plan for Peace, published in Birth Control Review, April 1932, pp.107- 108). She also wrote the controversial Pivot of Civilization. The Eugenic Connection - http://www.trdd.org/EUGBRE.HTM The Manhattan Institute was founded in 1978 by William Casey, who later became the CIA director during the Reagan administration. As a top intelligence operative, Casey helped the CIA bring thousands of Nazi
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Saudi Prince Shot Dead In Terror Ambush
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=85805list=/home.php Saudi Prince Shot Dead In Terror AmbushDec 03, 2003 Source: Gulf Daily Editors Note: It is interesting that there has been no reference whatsoever to this terror act in Western press. It is unlikely that this is an Al-Qaida operation for mainstream press misses no opportunity to attribute ever violent act to the group and it would most likely be on every major news channel as a way of peddling the false propaganda that Al-Qaida targets Muslims. This style of killing has all of the earmarks of a CIA assassination and follows recent speculation that the CIA and Mossad are active in destabilizing operations inside the Kingdom.A Saudi prince was ambushed and killed by suspected Islamic extremists while hunting gazelles in the Algerian desert. Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Rashid was shot and killed during the night of Thursday to Friday in a confrontation in which nine people were killed and several injured, Algerian newspapers said. Al Rashid was described as a wealthy businessman and the editor of the Saudi illustrated magazine Fawasel. He was part of a group of several Saudis accompanied by Algerian security forces that had been hunting rare desert species such as gazelles and great bustards for several weeks. The hunters' convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles was ambushed in the Djelfa region, 250km south of Algiers. Three Saudis and four Algerians were taken hostage and later rescued unharmed about 40km away in an operation by security forces, the El Khabar daily said.Officials neither confirmed nor denied the reports.Le Soir d'Algerie said the Saudi government sent a special aircraft to Algiers on Friday to take back the prince's body.The newspapers said the attack was probably carried out by members of the largest Islamic extremist movement in Algeria, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which in September claimed its allegiance to Al Qaida. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[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 ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [smashthestate] Patrick Henry - Enemy of the State
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Patrick Henry: Enemy of the State http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken93.html by Ryan McMaken Little is said today of Patrick Henry. He still makes it into a book on American history here and there primarily because he was without a doubt one of the greatest (if not the greatest) orator of his generation, and when the American revolution became imminent in the 1770s he was among those who had the greatest grasp of when the conflict would come and what it would bring. The episode in his life that apparently warrants mention by mainstream historians is his speech to the House of Burgesses which was meeting illegally without the consent of the Crowns governor. It was late March 1775 before the farmers of Lexington and Concord had had the opportunity to humiliate the most powerful army on Earth and Henry knew that a clash of arms was near. In an effort to win support for a bill that would raise an army for Virginia and illegally appoint officers without the consent of the Crown, Henry clamored for the Virginia militia to take arms against the British: The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding armsLet it come. I repeat, Sir, Let it comeIs life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Today, these comments are treated as hyperbole, a mere gentlemans exercise in arousing legislators to action. With Henry, nothing could be further from the truth. For as Murray Rothbard has pointed out numerous times, the court historians of our age would have us believe that the American revolution was no revolution at all, but merely an unfortunate disagreement among refined compatriots. But for Patrick Henry and he was certainly not alone in such sentiments British rule was nothing short of barbaric tyranny, a despotism to be ripped from American soil no matter what the price in blood. In 1775, Patrick Henry was not simply attempting to arouse the passions of his fellow Virginians. He was suggesting a practical course of action: arming the population of Virginia against the troops of the British Crown. By late April he was making good on his own exhortations, and following the British seizure of a cache of arms owned by the Virginia militia, Henry himself led a militia company in a raid on the British capturing British funds as compensation for the theft of the arms. The governor of Virginia declared Henry an outlaw, and he went into hiding as a champion of the Revolution. Henry never wavered in his support of American independence during the eight years of the Revolution, but perhaps his most valiant effort to preserve American liberties came with the ratification debates over the Constitution of 1787. Henry was a defender of the Articles of Confederation, the government formed during the waning days of the Revolutions, and which had provided the colonies peace and international recognition ever since. At the Virginia ratification debates of 1788, Patrick Henry denied that the propaganda of the Federalists was based on anything but scare tactics, and defied the Federalists to provide convincing evidence that the Articles of Confederation had not provided what the colonists had fought for in the Revolution. Indeed, Henry contended, to adopt the new Constitution would be akin to a Revolution greater than the one just finished, except this revolution was of an older variety: Revolutions like this have happened in almost every country in Europe: similar examples are to be found in ancient Greece and ancient Rome: instances of the people losing their liberty by their own carelessness and the
[CTRL] priest pulled gun, statute of limitations, Iraqis deny accounts of fierce fight
-Caveat Lector- scroll for news articles Priest found guilty of assault for pulling gun on church official AP 12/3/03 "LEBANON, Pa. - A Serbian Orthodox priest accused of pulling a gun on the council president of the church where he had presided for 15 years has been convicted of assault and reckless endangerment. However, a jury found the Rev. Filip Velisavljevic innocent of charges of terroristic threats and unlawful restraint stemming from a fight that both men testified was over who would control church businessVelisavljevic testified during the trial that he pulled the gun to protect himself after church council president Frederick Pantelich cornered him in a church office and became threatening, including hefting a stool above his head. The gun went off during a struggle, they testified. The bullet apparently grazed the priest's foot. Pantelich, 69, had testified earlier Tuesday that he pleaded with Velisavljevic. "I was begging him not to shoot me," he said. Velisavljevic also faces a civil lawsuit in which the council alleges he took at least $5,800 in religious items from the church, and that he defrauding the church of about $10,000. Some of the items have been returned to the church, but Velisavljevic has denied taking others." http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1203PriestGun03-ON.html fwd from L Moss-Sharman Cardinal urged to aid new law 12/1/03 Chicago "Two dozen advocates for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy picketed Holy Name Cathedral on Sunday afternoon and called on Cardinal Francis George to oppose challenges to a new state law that lengthens the statute of limitations for seeking civil damages in abuse cases. The challenges are not from the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, the advocates said, but George was asked to take a stand. One challenge has been made in an abuse suit filed in Cook County, said Barbara Blaine, president of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. The archdiocese is one of the suit's many defendants but has not challenged the constitutionality of the law signed in July. The Springfield diocese has challenged the law as a defendant in an abuse suit scheduled for a hearing Tuesday in Sangamon County." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/north/chi-0312010117dec01,1,6984629.story article describes violence http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=469253host=3dir=75 Iraqis deny US accounts of fierce fight with 'guerrillas' By Phil Reeves in Samara 02 December 2003 To Ali Abdullah Amin, the accusations and denials that were yesterday flying about the latest battle between the occupiers and occupied of Iraq - the fiercest engagement, some say, since the early days of the US-led invasion - were irrelevant. He was not interested in whether the American military was telling the truth when it said that its troops had killed 54 "attackers" - shorthand for Iraqi guerrillas who carried out a double ambush against a US convoy in the Sunni town of Samarra on Sunday which turned into a running fire fight. Nor was he wondering about the denials made by Iraqi hospital officials and policemen, in the face of what the Americans have presented as a crushing defeat for the pro-Saddamists, Baathists, ex-soldiers and other fighters who are violently opposing their presence. Iraqi officials say only eight people died, including a 71-year-old Iranian pilgrim called Fathollah Hejazi, whose charred passport they were showing to all-comers. The old man had, it seems, come to visit the ancient gold-domed Shi'ite mosque in this once-peaceful town on the banks of the Tigris. Ali Abdullah Amin was interested in none of these things. What he cared about, as he lay beneath a grubby yellow blanket in his hospital bed, was the pain in his bandaged legs, both of which were seeping blood from bullet wounds, and the hole in the left side of his stomach. "My legs hurt, my legs hurt," the little boy moaned, as he cried in the arms of his 22-year-old cousin, Jamal Karim. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL
[CTRL] A Coverup That Won't Stay Covered
-Caveat Lector- http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts20.html A Coverup That Wont StayCovered by Paul Craig Roberts CNN recently reported that "the Justice Department is re-examining its investigation into the 1995 death of a federal prisoner that the victims family alleges was murder at the hands of the government." The victim was Kenneth Michael Trentadue. At 7 AM on August 21, 1995, officials from the Oklahoma Medical Examiners office arrived at the new Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center for the body of a man recently picked up for parole violation who allegedly was a suicide by hanging. The astonished state officials saw a body with scalp split to the skull in three places, throat slashed, and a body completely covered in blood, bruises and burns. As law requires, the officials asked to see the cell in which the alleged suicide occurred. Federal officials pulled rank and refused on the grounds that a federal investigation was underway. A federal investigation was not underway. The state officials told the prison officials that the bodys condition required FBI notice and protection of the cell as an undisturbed crime scene. Associate Warden Max Flowers, however, ordered the cell to be cleaned before any investigation could be done. Flowers claimed that medical staff informed him that Trentadue was HIV-positive and that it was urgent to remove the infectious blood. Trentadue was not HIV-positive. Dr. Fred B. Jordan, the Chief Medical Examiner of the state of Oklahoma, was stunned at the destruction of evidence by federal authorities and at the way federal officials blocked his office from carrying out required duties. In a memo to the file dated December 20, 1995, Dr. Jordan described his frustration over being stonewalled by top Department of Justice officials in Washington. He recorded that he confided to the Assistant U.S. Attorney in Oklahoma City that "I felt Mr. Trentadue had been abused and tortured." Two years later Dr. Jordan said on a Fox News Interview (July 3, 1997): "I think its very likely he [Kenneth Trentadue] was murdered. Im not able to prove it. I have temporarily classified the death as undetermined. You see a body covered with blood, removed from the room as Mr. Trentadue was, soaked in blood, covered with bruises, and you try to gain access to the scene and the government of the United States says no, you cant. "They [the federal government] continued to prohibit us from having access to the scene of his death, which is unheard of, until about five months later. When we went in [the cell] and luminoled, it lit up like a candle because blood was still present on the walls of the room after four or five months. But at that point we have no crime scene, so there are still questions about the death of Kenneth Trentadue that will never be answered because of the actions of the U.S. government." Dr. Jordans effort to do his job brought him under great pressure and harassment from federal authorities. Realizing his peril, on August 25, 1997, Dr. Jordan wrote to IRS Commissioner Margaret Richardson: "The requirements of my job as chief Medical Examiner for the State of Oklahoma are currently bringing me into an uncomfortable juxtaposition with the United States Department of Justice. In order to protect myself from retribution, I would like information as to how to request a protective audit from your agency. By this, I simply mean a standard audit in order to avoid having your agency used to harass me as I proceed with my inquiries into a death that directly relates to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City." In a hand written memo to his file dated October 22, 1997, of a telephone conversation with U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D, ND), Dr. Jordan recorded: "confirmed my feelings that the investigation was crippled, the decedent was at the least beaten, we havent found the truth and probably wont, reiterated my lack of trust in the Fed. govt and the Dept of Justice in particular." Unable to secure from Dr. Jordan a ruling that Trentadues injuries were self-inflicted, the DOJ sought the cooperation of Dr. Bill Gormley, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Dr. Gormley came to the same conclusion as Dr. Jordan and came under the same pressures. In a memo to file dated May 30, 1997, Kevin Rowland, Chief Investigator in the Oklahoma Medical Examiners Office records a telephone call he had from Dr. Gormley: "The basic purposes for his call was to 1-find out what they [DOJ] are up to because he was very suspicious, and 2-ask if I might be able to explain why they only wanted certain testimony from him, since he told them that we had already given them the truth. He was troubled that they only seemed interested in him saying it might be possible these injuries are self-inflicted." Senator Orrin Hatch (R, UT) threatened the DOJ with Senate Judiciary Hearings on the case. However, FBI documents (Dec. 5, 1997 and Jan. 28, 1998) indicate that FBI agents
[CTRL] Israel Approves More Homes In Settlements
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29686-2003Dec2?language=printer Israel Approves Construction Of More Homes At Settlements By John Ward Anderson Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, December 3, 2003; Page A16 JERUSALEM -- The government of Israel has approved the construction of more than 1,720 new houses in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip this year, according to critics of the settlements who say they undercut a U.S.-backed peace plan that mandates a freeze on settlement expansion. The planned building is in addition to at least 1,000 homes and other infrastructure projects under construction in the West Bank, which Israel is also encircling with a massive fence complex, according to groups and officials that monitor settlement activity. Two weeks ago, Israeli soldiers began expanding the boundary of Beitar Ilit, a community of more than 20,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews about five miles southwest of Jerusalem. Beitar Ilit is one of the fastest-growing settlements in the West Bank; it added 2,900 residents last year. Last week, Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim announced that several unauthorized settlement outposts -- many of them just a trailer on a remote hilltop between existing settlements -- would soon be categorized as legitimate settlements. "I've never seen settlement expansion at such a rate, ever," said Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian political analyst, who claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pushing ahead with settlements while the peace process drags on. "He's stealing time to impose his own facts on the ground by practically annexing more than half the West Bank" with the fence project, Barghouti added, "and imposing ghettoization on Palestinian villages that will mean the destruction of a two-state solution." The Jewish settlers acknowledge their goal is to add more housing. "Our target is to grow and expand as much as possible," said Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, a spokesman for the Yesha Council, the settlement umbrella organization. In recent weeks, U.S. officials have criticized Israel's refusal to stop building both settlements and the barrier snaking through the West Bank. The officials have said the moves complicate the revival of the peace plan known as the "road map," and could undermine a final accord. The road map, which was adopted by the Israelis and Palestinians at a summit meeting in Aqaba, Jordan, on June 4, obligates Israel to freeze "all settlement activity (including natural growth of settlements)" and "immediately" dismantle the estimated 56 outposts established since Sharon took office in March 2001. "Israel should freeze settlement construction, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people and not prejudice final negotiations with the placements of walls and fences," President Bush said in a speech two weeks ago in London. Sharon's spokesman, Raanan Gissin, said Israel was committed to removing a few dozen outposts but added, "We can't evacuate them when we're under attack. That only encourages more terrorist activity." Israel has also agreed to freeze the number, but not the size, of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Gissin said. He said Israel has an "understanding" with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell that natural growth is permitted. "People have the right to live and multiply and give birth, and we are not going to throw them out," he said. U.S. officials have denied that Powell made any agreement permitting the natural growth of settlements. In addition to 635 new homes approved before the Aqaba summit, the Israeli government has approved the construction of at least 1,092 more in the West Bank since adopting the road map, according to Peace Now, a group that is critical of settlements and that monitors housing construction contracts. The total of 1,727 homes approved so far this year is roughly the same as in the previous two years, before Israel adopted the road map, according to the Foundation for Middle East Peace, a Washington-based research group that monitors settlement policy. Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz have been quoted in the Israeli press in recent days as saying that Israel has dismantled 43 outposts since the Aqaba summit. The government refused several requests to provide a list of the outposts. Instead, it referred a reporter to testimony in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, two weeks ago in which Gideon Ezra, a minister without portfolio in Sharon's government, named 10 outposts that had been evacuated. Peace Now, which keeps authoritative settlement data, claims that 15 outposts have been dismantled since Aqaba, including seven that were built after the summit. Five outposts established after Aqaba have not been dismantled, according to the group, for a net decrease of three outposts since the peace plan was adopted. Israel's settlement program is highly controversial and over the
[CTRL] Bush's Operation Clean Sweep--World War IV in 2004
from http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/98/387/11402_politics.html - Bush's Operation Clean Sweep--World War IV in 2004 - 12/01/2003 05:30 Even though Bush II will lose the popular vote in the US presidential election of 2004, his Electoral College victory seems assured. With Republican party governors firmly in charge of Florida, California, Texas and New York, and supported by a whopping Bush campaign war chest approaching $200 million, dubious electronic voting schemes courtesy of Diebold, Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors (http://www.blackboxvoting.com), it seems certain that Bush will make it back to the Oval Office through the back door that is the Electoral College. And if not the Electoral College then by benefit of a rebel attack on US soil which kills thousands of Americans and leads to the suspension of the US Constitution. That according to General Tommy Franks, USA (Ret.), who opined in the magazine Cigar Aficionado that the US will have to shed its constitution in favor of a military style of government. Even the notorious aristocrat Alexander Hamilton would have been appalled as such a statement, as would Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. But these are mediocre times in history; particularly, and dangerously, in America where its people have eliminated those who might have continued to wage a struggle for an equitable form of government in the US, as well as engage the world through international treaty building. Mediocre times produce the very worst that the world has to offer: Reagan, Bin Laden, Bush, Hussein, Sharon, and Blair. None but the feeble minded could draw inspiration from such a ghastly lineup of leaders. This is the world as it has become absent the shortened lives of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X and Yitzhak Rabin, all of whom were murdered for their beliefs, or, rather, for the threat they posed to the established interests. Even Nikita Khrushchev was removed from power in the then USSR in 1964 for trying to push his country towards a more peaceful coexistence with the rest of the world. The threats these titans of history posed to the established order of their day was not so much monetary as it was ideology. Each of them planted in the minds of those who would listen the thought that the established order of war, racism, poverty, and income and wealth disparity could and should be questioned. However, those who pull the strings could not stand an ignorant populace that questioned the order of things. And so their fate was, it seems, preordained by disgruntled individuals agitated by those portions of business and government who were wedded to the status quo. And so, JFK and Khrushchev, King and RFK, and Malcolm X and Rubin were terminated and Americans, and the world, found themselves at the mercy of Bush and Bin Laden, Hussein and Blair, and Reagan and Sharon. Crippled Opposition With the election of Bush II in 2004, the ideological and economic fracturing of America will be complete and, for the foreseeable future, permanent. The three branches of the US government, corporations, and the majority of state's governors and state houses will be controlled by those Republicans and Democrats who have become indistinguishable in their belief that the government's only role in America is to make it safe and ludicrously easy for small and large corporations to make a profit without the drag of government regulations, programs and taxes that, in their view, steal from the bottom line. With those folks at the helm, 2002 and 2003 saw the US federal and state governments give the business community trillions of dollars of hand-outs in the form of tax cuts, regulatory relief and legislation that allowed businesses to rape and pillage the American landscape and its middle and lower classes. The latter group's struggle is getting worse. Even as its industrial, service and information technology jobs are exported to other countries, these Americans are being forced to work longer hours, endure more expensive privatized health and welfare benefits, and higher prices for feeding, clothing and educating their children. Slowly but surely, Americans from the middle and lower classes find themselves at an increasing distance from their rulers, yet must bear the burden of profit and war for these same dastardly people. But those that rule have in their malleable plebian audience a strange group of middle and lower class acolytes. Among them, the notorious Christian right and an estimated 5 to 9 million American-Muslims who handed Bush II over 90 percent of their vote in the last presidential election. That group, along with neo-con Latinos and Asians, seem to have forgotten the struggles they waged to reach, what once was, a republic with a semblance of representative democracy. Are they trying to recreate the religious-military dictatorships of their own home countries? Bush II certainly has
Re: [CTRL] Bush's Operation Clean Sweep--World War IV in 2004
>from http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/98/387/11402_politics.html - Bush's Operation Clean Sweep--World War IV in 2004 - 12/01/2003 05:30 My apologies. I neglected to notice that Bill Shannon had posted this piece several days ago.
[CTRL] Poll: 7 in 10 do not think Iraq war reduced threat of terrorism
Title: Poll: 7 in 10 do not think Iraq war reduced threat of terrorism -Caveat Lector- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/12/03/national1015EST0518.DTLtype=printable www.sfgate.com Return to regular view Poll: 7 in 10 do not think Iraq war reduced threat of terrorism Wednesday, December 3, 2003 ©2003 Associated Press URL: sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/12/03/national1015EST0518.DTL (12-03) 07:15 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven in 10 Americans do not think the war in Iraq has reduced the threat of terrorism, according to a poll released Wednesday. The poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland also found strong support, 71 percent, for the United Nations taking the lead to help establish a stable government in Iraq. That's up from half in April. President Bush and administration officials frequently say the efforts in Iraq are central to winning the war on terror. Attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq have been sharply increasing throughout the fall and terrorists have struck targets in Turkey and Saudi Arabia in recent weeks. Despite apparent uneasiness with this country's military presence in Iraq, two-thirds said they don't think U.S. troops should withdraw until there is a stable government. That's down 14 points from April, however. That Iraqi government wouldn't have to be friendly to the United States, in their view. Four in five respondents agreed that Iraqis should be able to choose their own government, even if that government is unfriendly to the United States. The poll of 712 people was conducted by Knowledge Networks from Nov. 21-30 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. ©2003 Associated Press www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[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
