[CTRL] Fwd: [priory-of-sion] Weir-ere They May Roam ...
From: "Gregory or Cheryl Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Message: 13 Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 17:10:28 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy B. Carmain) Subject: Fwd: [priory-of-sion] Re: HRH Prince Nicholas deVere I've finally managed to enlarge de Vere's genealogy from the Dragon Order web page, and I must say it gets points for sheer inventiveness. Much of it is absolutely certifiable, i.e the descent from Pepin III and the lineage of the Earls of Oxford (with the possible exception of their descent from the Tuatha de Danaan who are mythological beings). However, de Vere's line seems to be grafted on circa 1139 with a younger son of Alberic de Vere, Count of Guisnes by the name of Robert, who I can't seem to locate in my usual sources. This Robert is purportedly the progenitor of the "Royal Vere of Scotland" line (odd since I've never come across a reference to the de Veres as kings of Scotland), wherein the name was corrupted to "Weir" some centuries later. The unbroken line continues down to the present day through various Lords Weir of Vere (?), who surprisingly aren't noted anywhere in Burke's Peerage, Burke's Landed Gentry, Debrett's Peerage, or Ruvigny's Titled Nobility of Europe. This, according to Prince Nicholas, is the line of the Hereditary Dragon Lords of Sarkany Rend - but he stops short of explaining how a Scots family (and the "Royal" family to boot!) came to head up what he identifies elsewhere as a Hungarian order, established by a German Emperor and consort of a Queen of Hungary who was herself of French ancestry... 'tis a mystery still. The line culminates with "HRH The Princeps Draconis, Nicholas II (?) de Vere, Sovereign Grand Master of the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court, Sarkany Rend, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and HRH The Prince Drakenberg". It would appear that "Prince" Michael and the Stewarts have been swept aside for the "Weir de Veres". I faxed these charts to a genealogist chum up in San Francisco, as he is fairly up on his faux claimants as well. Surprisingly, my friend called me to say that he had seen these charts before, although the "Weir de Vere" surname was a new inclusion. He identified "Prince Nicholas" as one Tom Weir, a Scotsman who at one time claimed that the Habsburgs were illegitimate and that they had usurped the throne of the Holy Roman Empire from the de Vere dynasty. Aside from the fact that it's a bit difficult to usurp an elective throne, Mr. Weir's contention that the German "W" is pronounced "V", thus Weir=Vere is a bit off. In German, "ei" is pronounced as a long "i", thus if pronounced in German, "Weir" would be pronounced as "Vire", rhyming with "fire". My colleague seems to think that the author of these very imaginative charts is none other than "Sir" Laurence Gardner himself, apparently a close associate of Mr. Weir. Tim Carmain Timothy B. Carmain Business Manager, Mesa Court Housing University of California, Irvine (949) 824-7533 voice, (949) 824-3046 fax Tim -- How valid then is the below in light of the above? ' Clan Weir The name Weir, like many lowland Scottish names, is of Norman origin from one or several of the places named Vere around the Calvados region of France. The word was introduced into Normandy by the Norsemen from their own word "ver" meaning a station. It appears that Ralph or Radulphus de Ver is the first of the name recorded in Scotland. He was taken prisoner along with Richard the Lion in 1174; he later witnessed a charter by King William I sometime between 1174 and 1184. During the same period he gifted a bovate of land in Sprouston, Roxburgh to the Abbey of Kelso; his brother, Robert de Ver, was a witness to this charter. The Weirs of Blackwood, Lanarkshire, claim their descent from this Ralph de Ver, although this cannot be proven as their name does not appear on record until 1400 when they acquired their lands. Other Weirs were vassals of the Abbots of Kelso and as such held extensive lands in Lesmahagow. Some of the MacNairs in Cowal anglisized their name to Weir or Veir, the Gaelic original being Mac Amhaoir; the "mh" is pronounced "v". MacAmhaoir has been extinct as a name for about two hundred years and the anglicization into Weir may well have contributed to its disappearance. William Weir was created 1st Viscount Weir in 1 938; he had been Secretary of State and Chairman of the Air Council in 1918 and industrial adviser to the Ottawa Conference in 1932. The best remembered of the Weirs is Major Thomas Weir of Kirktown c.1600-1670, the "Bowheaded Saint". Born in Lanarkshire, he was a lieutenant in the army sent by the Covenanters to protect the Ulster colonies in 1641. Later he was a major in Lanark's Regiment and was appointed to command the City Guard of Edinburgh.
[CTRL] Fwd: DRUDGE-REPORT-EXCLUSIVE 01/10/99
X DRUDGE REPORT X 01/10/99 07:08 UTC X WHITE HOUSE DNA CHASE: TEEN DOING 'WELL' AFTER NEWS OF 'NO MATCH' **Exclusive** He had been told all of his life by his mother that Bill Clinton was his father, but late this week, 13-year old Danny Williams of Arkansas learned the truth: He is not. A stunning DNA showdown came to a dramatic conclusion this weekend when it was learned that STAR magazine was in posession of lab results -- results that ruled out Bill Clinton as the father! The DRUDGE REPORT was first to reveal the DNA chase that captured the attention of official Washington in a series of exclusive reports. TIME magazine, in fresh editions, confirms may of the details first reported in this space: "Using the Starr Report's FBI analysis of Clinton's DNA as its reference, STAR paid former prostitute Bobbie Ann Williams and her 13-year-old son for their story and blood samples." "The Starr Report contains sufficient data to make a valid DNA comparison to rule out paternity," TIME magazine reported. The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that 13-year old Danny Williams is now dealing with the news that Bill Clinton is not his father. "Danny is holding up fine... doing quite well," a source close to the situation in Arkansas explained on Saturday. "For him, this was always just a search for the truth," the source added. In what now must be viewed as a cruel hoax by the boy's mother -- Bobbie Ann Williams even gave a paid interview to PARAMOUNT's HARD COPY detailing her "relationship" with Bill Clinton -- the story of sex for money that ended in pregnancy itself, in the end, was debunked and flunked by science. The tale of Bobbie Ann and her son has been running deep in the Arkansas underground for years. The story hit national exposure with a treatment in the GLOBE tabloid in 1992. The GLOBE at the time reported that the mother had passed a lie detector test. A picture of young Danny was legend on the Internet, even becoming a source of questioning at a White House press briefing earlier this week. "The picture on the Internet he looks exactly like the President," declared a reporter at the White House. Press secretary Lockhart: "That's good. And I'm an alien space baby." And while the elite media will bark that it was wrong to report the DNA chase that was unfolding behind the scenes -- until after it is all over, of course -- DRUDGE REPORT readers of all stripes have come to expect details on events rocking and shocking those unfortunate souls who rise to power! Filed by Matt Drudge in Hollywood Reports are moved when circumstances warrant http://www.drudgereport.com for steaks and breaks (c)DRUDGE REPORT 1999 Not for reproduction without permission of the author
[CTRL] Fwd: - electricity [Important. Read this one!]
Subj:Attack of the Dung Beetles - electricity [Important. Read this one!] Date: 99-01-08 13:41:09 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Toews) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In comp.software.year-2000, "Bobbi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Ok, this one starts off a bit slow but it gets real interesting. Six months to put in a new crucial subsystem. Umm, what if the only two vendors in the world now have a twelve month backlog? Also note the "...local municipal utility, who supplies our back up power, ... [doesn't] believe in Y2K I was told." Tony] (Note: this was sent by my husband who is Operations Manager of a power plant, to several of his colleagues and friends. I am posting it for general info.) You know, I've been interested in this Y2K crap for a while now, as a kind of fantasy "Doomsday" scenario. Planet of the Apes, Conan the Barbarian, make a new go of it, all the good stuff. Being the instigator that I am, I liked to throw it out there it and see what kind of reaction I would get. Good study of people. The wife and I were preparing for a disruption in services, like the ice storm we had here last year. Folks around here didn't have power for a month. No water. The local comminutes ran shelters, fuel and food rationing happened, restricted travel, National Guard, that kind of thing. What goes around comes around. At work I got tasked from on high with fixing the "Y2K Problem." No sweat. The only thing that I figured would be goofy would be some software, mostly in accounting, other people interfaced stuff, and the older desktop computers. They needed to be replaced anyway. We and the World could muddle through. The major portion of the plants controls, (remember? I work at a fairly new power plant) although computer operated, were a different breed of machine, and care nothing about the date, they merely control their specific machine and send info to the plants main control computer, which operates valves and various other support devices for the main processes. No big deal. Investigation into the plant's main control computers also showed that it was no big deal, the only thing that (reportedly) would go wrong was some trending functions, which allow us to "look in the past" ( I am the master of the run- on sentence... On a dark and stormy night...) Checking some 40 odd control systems and over 400 circuit cards nothing showed. So far, so good. No indication of Y2K failures. Oh, I've got 2 systems, besides the trending thing, to software de-bug, but they only look to see if a pump has been running for a week straight, if so, the program shifts to the standby pump. Once again, no big deal. I am now down to the "stuff you never think about " level. Embedded chips. Supposedly the real crux of the matter. It seems to me that if the embedded chip doesn't have a people to machine interface, a read out of some sort, or operate on a calendar of some kind, such as: I haven't been serviced in 6 months so I will shut down function, then how could it know or even care, what today's date is ? Silly boy. I ran into a doosey of an "embedded chip." Three of them as a matter of fact. The only three I have looked at so far. This does not bode well... Doosey # 1: The plants phone system will not work. The manufacture of the chip says so. The rest of the system will, but if the brains of the systems don't, what part will? The manufacturer doesn't support this system anymore even though it was built in 1992. Doosey # 2: The meter which reads the total power output of the plant will not work. Who would check a simple meter? Here is the good part: This meter masquerades as a simple output meter, but in reality it sends a signal to the supplementary firing system which controls the Steam Turbine portion of the plant. 36 million watts worth. For $ 95.00 we can get the meter upgraded to Y2K OK status. Consider it done. Doosey # 3: The best one. The gas turbine's (the main source of power heat for this plant and most power plants built in the last 15 years...) fire suppression system central processing unit will not work. The card manufacturer says "We never built anything like that," but I'm looking at the card...and they are sending me a test program for the "card we never built." I went to the manufacturer of the CPUs web site and by gosh, it ain't going to work... Once again, if the brains of the system are not going to work, what part will? That's not the best part. If the fire suppression system is down, the Gas Turbine will not start. If the Gas Turbine is running on Y2K date roll-over, the Gas Turbine will shut down. Violently. If the Gas Turbine is not running, the rest of the plant will not be running. NO POWER to the grid. We could send a false signal to the Gas Turbine to indicate that the fire suppression system is OK, but what would our insurance carrier have to say about that? It appears that I will have to have a whole new fire suppression
[CTRL] Evita, Swiss the Nazis
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.consortiumnews.com/c010699a.html A HREF="http://www.consortiumnews.com/c010699a.html"The Consortium/A - January 7, 1999 Evita, Swiss the Nazis By Georg Hodel On June 6, 1947, Argentina's first lady Eva Peron left for a glittering tour of Europe. The glamorous ex-actress was feted in Spain, kissed the ring of Pope Pius XII at the Vatican and hobnobbed with the rich-and-famous in the mountains of Switzerland. Eva Peron, known as "Evita" by her adoring followers, was superficially on a trip to strengthen diplomatic, business and cultural ties between Argentina and important leaders of Europe. But there was a parallel mission behind the high-profile trip, one that has contributed to a half century of violent extremism in Latin America. According to records now emerging from Swiss archives and the investigations of Nazi hunters, an unpublicized side of Evita's world tour was coordinating the network for helping Nazis relocate in Argentina. This new evidence of Evita's cozy ties with prominent Nazis corroborates the long-held suspicion that she and her husband, Gen. Juan Peron, laid the groundwork for a bloody resurgence of fascism across Latin America in the 1970s and '80s. Besides blemishing the Evita legend, the evidence threatens to inflict more damage on Switzerland's image for plucky neutrality. The international banking center is still staggering from disclosures about its wartime collaboration with Adolf Hitler and Swiss profiteering off his Jewish victims. The archival records indicate that Switzerland's assistance to Hitler's henchmen didn't stop with the collapse of the Third Reich. And the old Swiss-Argentine-Nazi connection reaches to the present in another way. Spanish "superjudge" Baltasar Garzon is seeking to open other Swiss records on bank accounts controlled by Argentine military officers who led the so-called "Dirty War" that killed and "disappeared" tens of thousands of Argentines between 1976-83. During World War II, Gen. Peron -- a populist military leader -- made no secret of his sympathies for Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. Even as the Third Reich crumbled in the spring of 1945, Peron remained a pro-fascist stalwart, making available more than 1,000 blank passports for Nazi collaborators fleeing Europe. With Europe in chaos and the Allies near victory, tens of thousands of ranking Nazis dropped out of sight, tried to mix in with common refugees and began plotting escapes from Europe to Argentina across clandestine "ratlines." At the Argentine end of that voyage was Rodolfo Freude. He also was Juan Peron's private secretary, one of Evita's principal benefactors and the chief of Argentine internal security. Freudes father, Ludwig, played another key role. As managing director of the Banco Aleman Transatlantico in Buenos Aires, he led the pro-Nazi German community in Argentina and acted as trustee for hundreds of millions of German Reichsmarks that the Fuehrer's top aides sent to Argentina near the wars end. By 1946, the first wave of defeated fascists was settling into new Argentine homes. The country also was rife with rumors that the thankful Nazis had begun to repay Peron by bankrolling his campaign for the presidency, which he won with his stunning wife at his side. In 1947, Peron was living in Argentina's presidential palace and was hearing pleas from thousands of other Nazis desperate to flee Europe. The stage was set for one of the most troubling boatlifts in human history. The archival records reveal that Eva Peron stepped forward to serve as Gen. Peron's personal emissary to this Nazi underground. Already, Evita was an Argentine legend. Born in 1919 as an illegitimate child, she became a prostitute to survive and to get acting roles. As she climbed the social ladder lover by lover, she built up deep resentments toward the traditional elites. As a mistress to other army officers, she caught the eye of handsome military strongman Juan Peron. After a public love affair, they married in 1945. As Perons second wife, Evita fashioned herself as the "queen of the poor, the protector of those she called "mis descamisados" -- "my shirtless ones." She created a foundation to help the poor buy items from toys to houses. But her charity extended, too, to her husband's Nazi allies. In June 1947, Evita left for post-war Europe. A secret purpose of her first major overseas trip apparently was pulling together the many loose ends of the Nazi relocation. Evita's first stop on her European tour was Spain, where Generalissimo Francisco Franco -- her husband's model and mentor -- greeted her with all the dignified folderol of a head of state. A fascist who favored the Axis powers but maintained official neutrality in the war, Franco had survived to provide a haven for the Third Reich's dispossessed. Francos Spain was an important early hide-out for Nazis who slipped through the grasp of the Allies and needed a place to
[CTRL] Seldes on Clinton Scandals
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.consortiumnews.com/consor43.html"The Consortium/A - Dec. 5, 1998 Seldes on Clinton Scandals By Rick Goldsmith Rick Goldsmith is the producer and director of Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press, an account of Seldess life and career. The documentary was nominated for the 1996 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The 111-minute film is available, for home viewing only, on VHS videotape by check or money order for $44.95 (includes shipping and handling) from Kovno Communications, 2600 Tenth St. #104F, Berkeley, CA 94710. (Requests for educational or institutional sale or rental of the videotape should contact New Day Films, 888-367-9154 or see www.newday.com.) Over the past year, I've been asked several times, "What do you think George Seldes would have written about the Clinton-Lewinsky affair?" Taking the question literally, the answer is, of course, elusive, unknowable. But pondering the answer, i.e. examining the onslaught of media coverage and its effect on America's politics from what I can surmise would be Seldes's perspective, says volumes about the timeliness -- and timelessness -- of Seldes's journalism. George Seldes was America's most prolific and undoubtedly its most important press critic. He was preceded in this century by muckrakers Will Irwin and Upton Sinclair, and The Nation's Oswald Villard, among others. But each of those writers wrote a book, or an extended article on press criticism, then moved on to other journalistic endeavors. In the late 1920s, Seldes -- already a noted foreign correspondent who had borne more than his share of censorship -- set his sights on the press, sunk in his teeth, and never so much as loosened his jaw for more than two decades. His books included You Can't Print That! (1929), Freedom of the Press (1935), and his controversial Lords of the Press (1938), which profiled the publisher or head of every major American news organization, from the tabloids to the chains to The Associated Press, from the Jewish Daily Forward to The New York Times. In 1940, Seldes founded the newsletter In fact, a combination of press criticism and investigative journalism, which he published each week for a decade, and which served as a model for I.F. Stone's Weekly. What was so flawed -- and so important -- about the press that Seldes should make its scrutiny his life's work? The answer lies, at least in part, in Seldes's early journalistic career. Seldes became a reporter at age 18 in 1909, at the tail end of the progressive/muckraker era. He was exposed as a young man to a journalism of moral righteousness, and to a dedicated group of writers who exposed abuse of power in general and specifically the sins or consequences of monopoly capitalism. Nine years later, Seldes was reporting from the battlefields of France, essentially selling the Great War to the home front. Only after the Armistice did Seldes realize, or let himself realize, that he and his colleagues (American and European) had helped to enable, by falsifying the facts and glorifying war, the greatest orgy of slaughter in the history of mankind. But the Great War was also Seldes's entree, as a reporter, to the great stage of Europe. As Berlin bureau chief for Colonel Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune, Seldes traveled to every capital on the continent, including, in 1922, to Moscow of the newly formed Soviet Union. Sympathetic to the Soviet socialist experiment by upbringing -- Seldes's father had been a spokesperson for the U.S.-based Friends of Russian Freedom during the Russian revolution of 1905 -- Seldes discovered in short order that the Soviet government had no use for a free press. The Soviet press officer proudly proclaimed, "censorship is a brother" of the revolution. Seldes was not-so-politely "asked to leave" after he and three other reporters were discovered smuggling stories out of the country in the diplomatic mailbag. Seldes judged the Soviet Union's form of communism the worst political system he could imagine -- until he reached Italy less than two years later. In late 1924, Italian fascism was two years old. Capitalists the world over, especially in the United States, were impressed with the Corporate State -- an orderly place where might and money united to create the "ultimate business climate." Europe was in terrific upheaval and disarray from the World War I, and fascism's brutal underbelly had not yet been exposed, so the seeming "order" that had been restored in Italy impressed many a foreigner. American muckrakers Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, for example, were early supporters of Italian fascism. And with the death in 1924 of both Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, the charismatic Benito Mussolini, the father of fascism, became the most prominent leader on the world stage. Into this setting stepped George Seldes. He quickly learned of the involvement of Mussolini in the assassination earlier that year of
[CTRL] Mysterious Aerial Spraying ?
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:476996"Mysterious Aerial Spraying ? /A - Subject: Mysterious Aerial Spraying ? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Goddard) Date: Sat, Jan 9, 1999 6:57 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Environmental News Service reports that in remote regions of the U.S., fleets of jets are creating massive grid-work contrail patterns across the sky and apparently are also spraying some kind of substance out of their wing tips that seems to be making people deathly ill. The fleets of jets lay a grid-work pattern of contrails that expand and turn a once clear sky into an overcast, and then according to witnesses a "cobweb" like material falls from the sky, which seems to make people very ill. One witness to these events goes so far as to suggest that with the secrecy said to surround these aerial activities and the illness they seem to induce in those on the ground, there is secret plan in the works for a mass culling of the human race (which United Nations population reports suggest is too large, and the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights does stipulate that your right to life can be revoked if it's deemed to be "contrary to the purposes of the U.N.") Full story: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan99/1999L-01-08-05.html Anybody know of an innocuous explanation for such spraying? Could this be some kind of cloud-formation experimentation? Is such formation-flying consistent with commercial-pilot practice (which airport officials claim to be the case)? __ I just discovered this shocking fact the other day: The United Nations Universal Declairation of Human Rights defines the right to revoke all human rights if and when they are determined to be contrary to the purposes of the U.N. as stipulated in Article 29, which states: "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_udhr.htm So if my right to life is deemed to be contrary to the central purpose, I may not exercise it! :( This is a great contract! Where do I sign? Oh ya, our government already signed us up, how sweet. Visit Ian Williams Goddard -- http://Ian.Goddard.net (+) Something can come from nothing, if, and only if, (-) (-) that something is equal to nothing ((-)+(+) = 0). (+) "[I]n any closed universe the negative gravitational energy cancels the energy of matter exactly. The total energy, or equivalently the total mass, is precisely equal to zero." - + - + Dr. Alan Guth (The Inflationary Universe) + - + - - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] ::: Jerry Newport's Memes :::
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:476869"::: Jerry Newport's Memes ::: /A - Subject: ::: Jerry Newport's Memes ::: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frater Caeruleus) Date: Sat, Jan 9, 1999 10:54 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To all concerned: Sam Moser has become an easy target for you to "kook" -- almost a parody of such types. Yet there are a few dynamics at play here we would all do well to examine more closely and objectively. Not unlike John "Val Valerian" Grace and his Magnum Opus, the Leading Edge Research Site at www.trufax.org, Sam has assembled a great many pieces of the puzzle into a fairly homogenous (i.e. "corresponding in structure because of a common origin"), cogent synthesis which centers on the notions of a Valleean "control system" equipped with various tentacles which exists almost hydra-like behind the scenes of our conscious awareness; our ever-so-fragile consensus reality. From FEMA to fluoridation; from aspartame to aliens; from Masons (i.e. Frere Macons) to Machiavellianism, Sam has cobbled together a remarkably poignant and robust synthesis which forces us all to reexamine what remains hidden from our conscious awareness in surprisingly plain sight. And we laugh at him and call him a "nut." Yet only because there is too much truth in it all -- it makes us nervous and unsettled and, like little children out on the schoolyard, we deprecate him because he causes us to see those things about ourselves and our "reality" which we would rather pretend do not exist. The scientologist Ingo Swann coined a most intriguing phrase in regards to PSI/RV stuff. When anot quite fit into the viewer's own perceptual matrix, there is a strong temptation to reconstruct the data and mash it into a box which makes more "psense" to us. He termed this tautological perceptual artifact "analytical overlay." And what a remarkably poignant phrase, that! When we perceive otherdimensional intelligences, for example, we simply cannot understand them so we dress them in our own preferred costumes of analytical overlay, calling them Martians or Zeta Reticulans or other such nonsense, simply because of our own latter 20th century cultural inculcation. And when confronted with exceptionally clever non-human intelligences which introduce new metaprogramming; new memes into our perceptual matrices, we cannot admit to ourselves the entities are -- as Brother McKenna so astutely remarked -- "not only stranger than we currently imagine but stranger than we currently CAN imagine." No, such admissions are simply out of the question to us more "rational" types so we hastily sweep them under the rug, hoping against hope that we can shield the sight not only from others but from ourselves as well. For it is far too uncomfortable for us to admit there may be others about who -- in their fourth, fifth or sixth density levels of reality -- are as far advanced above us as we third density types are advanced above second density animals or first density rocks or trees on the scale of "density"-based consciousness. So we play the silly game of "skepticism." TRUE skepticism maintains an untainted objectivity when confronting the inexplicable. Yet we are not truly skeptics in the pure sense of the definition. In fact, as an almost absurd caricature of skeptics, we've reduced ourselves to playing Paranormal Policeman; immediately arresting and incarcerating anyone who challenges our fundamental perceptions of the nature of "reality." "So, anyway, you know good and well, it would be beyond the will of God... and the grace of the king." -Brother Jimi, _Electric Ladyland_ Some in these groups are keenly aware of the interstitial analogues at play. For every Outer Order, there is an Inner Order; for every exterior level of Initiation, there is an ethereal counterpart, etc. "There is a feeling that I get in the course of my investigations of being in the presence of a form of consciousness that is truly remarkable. That consciousness has a great sense of absurdity, and also a great sense of humor. The bottom line is that I feel that I've learned something out of this whole exercise, and as long as I'm continuing to learn something I'm going to continue to do it." -Frater Jacques Vallee, Brotherhood of Galactic Science Yet not unlike a freeway, there are a multitude of "offramps" along the way -- offramps which inevitably tempt us all on our various initiatory paths. When we are too shaken; too disturbed to carry on along the path, we seek the refuge of a "rest stop" which offers some of the amenities that connect us back to a simpler time; a time before we were so rudely awakened to what Col. Do Ware has seminally termed the "larger reality." And so we sit in our overheated vehicles, drinking in the scenic view at the rest stop; and slamming a couple cold ones, perhaps, to gird our loins
[CTRL] ILLUMINATI: 2 Seals = Our Doom
-Caveat Lector- from: http://members.aol.com/NCSCIA/Illuminati.index.html A HREF="http://members.aol.com/NCSCIA/Illuminati.index.html"NCSCIA's Home Page 2/A - ILLUMINATI: 2 Seals = Our Doom USCCCN II/AMERICAN FOCUS PUBLISHERS Post Office Box 1185 Edison, New Jersey 08818-1185 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISBN: 1-877858-66-8 Your National and International Source For The Doc Marquis' ILLUMINATI Expose' and Investigative Research Book, Video and Cassette Series... And More... While There's Still Time. *Secrets of The Illuminati *The Illuminati's Protocols (Decoded Volume) *The Illuminati's New World Order Audio Series and... *The Gunderson Chronicles Video Series *Exposing The Illuminati From Within *The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines *Signs and Symbols of Satan *Occult Crime: Analysis and Intervention and Much, Much More! Consider the following and Request More Details! Preview: Chapter One of Doc Marquis'. "SECRETS OF THE ILLUMINATI" "THE TWO SEALS OF OUR DOOM" Few things in this life have held the attention of Man as successfully as that of a good mystery. How many times did we, as young people, pick up a "Hardy Boys" mystery or try to unravel the intricate web of mysterious, unexplainable clues with which Sherlock Holmes had to deal? And yet, for over two hundred years,one of the greatest mysteries, of all time, has been staring us in the face. We wrestle with this mystery every day of our lives without so much as giving it a passing thought.With its majestic wings mightily spread, I am referring to the Great Seals of the United States found on the back side of "Your" One Dollar Bill of United States Currency. Before we continue to address this topic any further, it would be in your interest to physically get out a "One Dollar Bill" and follow along with the illustrations found in this chapterin order that you get the 'big picture'. Looking directly at the back side of the one dollar bill you now hold, you can plainly see that it has two distinct seals between the four number 1'sand the four 'one' words spelled out. How did these two 'Great' Seals originate? Well, I know three storiesdealing with its origins. The first one tells of how Thomas Jefferson, a Mason; Benjamin Franklin, a Rosicrucian; and John Adams, also a Mason,were commissioned, on July 4, 1776, to design these seals. This is the historical aspect. The second storyrelates that these three patriots were given the design by "Illuminated" Masons".The third story holds that, while trying to design this seal in his home, on June 17, 1782, Thomas Jefferson was suddenly approached by a "being", cloaked in black. The "being" allegedly presented Jefferson with a red velvet bag which contained two plaques. Turning around, the "being" walked into Jefferson's garden and mysteriously vanished. The two plaques that were in the red velvet bag were the two Great Seals of the United States. I, personally, agree with the latter story. As you continue in this chapter, you will realize that these seals are too brilliantly put together that it had to be demonically-inspired by Satan. Whichever story 'you' believe, one outstanding fact remains unchanged; these seals were not to inaugurate the Declaration of Freedom, but were designed as a tribute to a 'new world order' that would take overthe Thirteen Colonies of the United States. It was on May 1, 1776, when Dr. Adam Weishaupt founded the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati. Weishaupt was a Professor of Jewish Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany. He was born a Jew and later converted to Roman Catholicism. A former Jesuit Priest, he left the order to form his own organization. It was Weishaupt's belief that only a chosen few had enough "illumination"to guide and rule the world. The problem was simply this: where would he find these few intellectual "lightbearers?" Subsequently, he found them in various lodges and orders of the day. He infiltrated the Jesuit Order, the Masonic lodges, the Rosicrucian Order and other orders of antiquity. But, all this didn't happen without reprisal. Many lodges and orders that had been infiltrated virtually warned Weishaupt to discontinue his activities. Fortunately for Weishaupt, Thomas Jefferson, in 1784, had recently been named the United States Ambassador to France. Jefferson, a Mason, favored Weishaupt's 'new order' and came to his aid. The 'new order' was now guaranteed to continue and it eventually became known as the "Order of the Illuminati." As their founder continued to expand the ranks and membership, two major events transpired; five years after he was named Ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson returned home to become Secretary of State. Shortly after his arrival, on September 15, 1789, the United States Congress officially adopted the Great Seals of the United States which were, originally, and in fact, the Two Great Seals of the
[CTRL] Nixon the Pollsters 12
-Caveat Lector- from alt.mindcontrol - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.mindcontrol:38722"Nixon the Pollsters 1/A - Subject: Nixon the Pollsters 1 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Constantine) Date: Fri, Jan 8, 1999 1:08 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 1995 by Political Science Quarterly. Readers may redistribute this article to other individuals for noncommercial use, provided that the text, all html codes, and this notice remain intact and unaltered in any way. This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from Political Science Quarterly. If you have any questions about permissions, please contact The Academy of Political Science, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1274, New York, NY 10115-1274, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred Citation: Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro, " Presidential Manipulation of Polls and Public Opinion: The Nixon Administration and the Pollsters," Political Science Quarterly 110 (Winter 1995-96 [http://epn.org/psnixo.html]). PRESIDENTIAL MANIPULATION OF POLLS AND PUBLIC OPINION The Nixon Administration and the Pollsters LAWRENCE R. JACOBS AND ROBERT Y. SHAPIRO Political Science Quarterly Volume 110 Number 4 1995-96 LAWRENCE R. JACOBS is associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and the author of The Health of Nations: Public Opinion and the Making of American and British Health Policy. ROBERT Y. SHAPIRO is professor of political science at Columbia University, author of numerous articles on American politics and public opinion, and co-author of The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences. Do opinion polls lead to political responsiveness or to manipulation of public opinion? Political observers have long debated whether public opinion surveys facilitate or undermine representative government. George Gallup argued in the 1940s, that polls are a tool for deciphering public sentiment and enabling policy makers to respond to what their constituents want. [1] By contrast, Walter Lippmann and others have contended that through the mass media elites manufacture the public attitudes they desire and that polls are merely a tool in this process of manipulating public opinion. [2] Although policy makers' use of polls has profound implications for democratic government, there has been relatively little investigation of how politicians actually use polls and interact with pollsters. [3] As part of our research on modern presidents' use of polling, we have conducted interviews, examined archival materials, and collected other evidence regarding the rather remarkable activities of the Nixon administration. We have examined Richard Nixon's use of private polls elsewhere. Here we examine the Nixon administration and the public pollsters -- Louis Harris and the Gallup organization. [4] Our research and that of others reveal that the Nixon administration pursued Harris and the Gallup organization in order to manipulate poll results and public opinion. [5] Ironically, Gallup's optimistic expectation that opinion surveys would only serve to boost government responsiveness is undermined by Nixon's relations with at least two polling organization, including Gallup's. NIXON'S PURSUIT OF THE POLLSTERS In the 1970s, Harris and Gallup were the giants of the polling industry. Because of their prominence, they attracted Nixon's interest and became prime candidates for attack and manipulation by the administration. According to the diaries of top aide H.R. Haldeman, Nixon believed that Harris and Gallup poll "directly affect our ability to govern, because of their influence on Congressmen, foreign leaders. etc." [6] Harry Dent, a top Nixon strategist, recalled being "amazed at how much the people at the top hang on to public opinion polling." The reason was "part ego, but the greater part was to build up their authority and their power in Washington." [7] It was Nixon's operating assumption that political intrigue drove Harris's and Gallup's reports. Reacting to one set of disappointing Gallup figures, the president warned his aides that "somebody is probably putting some influence on Gallup" and that it was important to "find out who it is." [8] Indeed, Nixon used his elaborate private polling operation to "keep the published polls honest." [9] The White House's suspicion and vindictiveness toward polling was typified by Haldeman's reaction to a series of unfavorable California surveys in June 1972; he called for an "all-out attack on the Field Poll in California" with the aim of 'totally destroy[ing] [its] credibility" and ordered aides to 'whack' ABC for one of its polls.
[CTRL] Inside The CIA with Gloria Steinem
-Caveat Lector- an article from: Blacklisted News, Secret History . . . From Chicago, '68, to 1984 ©1983 Youth International Party Information Service Bleecker Publishing POB 392 Canal St. Station New York, NY 10012 ISBN 0-912873-00-0 - The collapse of Weather hegemony on the Left had repercussions far more extensive than anyone foresaw at the time, The immediate, abject surrender of the McGovernoids of the democratic party organization back to the cold war regulars after the '72 election; the evaporation of the structural heirs of Mobe and the Moratorium when one more effort might have stopped the Rocknone of these had such a terminal effect on the ability of the Left, as a Left, to intervene in various larger situations in a coordinated fashion. In the resulting vacuum, cold-war liberals moved with a vengeance, consolidating Carteroid Centrism in all spheres of ideology, media, and culture. INSIDE THE CIA WITH GLORIA STEINEM by Nancy Borman reprinted from the Village Voice At Random House on March 15, 1976, Feminist Revolution was just another women's book in production. It consisted of a multifaceted analysis of the women's liberation movement edited by members of Redstockings, an early radical feminist group. A self-published edition released the previous fall had stirred up controversy with its indictment of liberals, lesbian pseudo- leftists, and foundation grant feminists. 5000 copies had sold out. Part of the book-some say the most interesting part-was titled "Agents, Opportunists and Fools." It attempted to link the CIA and the corporate establishment to several individuals and institutions connected with Ms. Magazine, hardly frightening material for the publishers, through a subsidiary, Knopf, of The CIA and the Intelligence. Feminist Revolution had passed an initial libel reading by Random House's legal department on March 2nd, and a contract was signed in the office that March morning. 20,000 copies of the book were scheduled to hit the stores in June. That afternoon, an unannounced visitor appeared in the citadel of the free press. A presumably angry Gloria Steinem asked to see Random House president Robert Bernstein. She was there to hand-deliver a letter from her attorney threatening to sue for libel unless the chapter on the CIA was removed from the book. No one knows what Steinem and Bernstein said in their private meeting, and it may have been just coincidence that, within weeks Random House was blitzed with similar threats from other people and groups mentioned in the CIA chapter: Clay Felker, Women's Action AlIiance, Warner Communications, Franklin Thomas, the Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters, and Katherine Graham. But, in any case, publication of Feminist Revolution was delayed nearly 3 years; the printing run was cut to 12,500, despite 13,000 advance orders; and when the book was finally released last month, the chapter on Gloria Steinem and the CIA had been deleted in its entirety. Somehow, the word "abridged" on the cover fails to answer the question: What happened? On March 21st, of this year, 6 weeks after Feminist Revolution was finally published, 5 members of Redstockings held a press conference to argue that their book would be better described as "censored." Katie Sarachild, Colette Price, Carol Hanisch, Sherry Lipsky, and Jane Barry said that at first they had been astonished that Random House caved into pressure to ax the chapter. But they also laid the blame on Steinem and her associates for using "libel" claims to stifle debate within the women's movement and to suppress embarrassing information about themselves. Price pointed out that the Zenger trial, which launched the American tradition of freedom of the press, was a libel case. The near-total blackout on the Steinem/Random House censorship story is reminiscent of the level of enthusiasm Redstockings encountered when they first tried to get coverage for the story of Steinem and the CIA. Their 16-page tabloid "press release" charging that Steinem had covered up a 10-year association with the CIA and that Ms. magazine, which she had founded, was endangering the women's liberation movement struck the 1975 MORE conference like a new war coming over the wire. The hotel was abuzz and people snatched up the releases, but when it came to actually writing the story, nearly everyone bowed out. One reporter criticized the women for not obtaining Steinem's side of the story before publishing the release. Others skimmed the material and dismissed it as old news, which was partially true. Still others thought it was McCarthyistic both in tone and casual conclusions. In 1967 both the New York Times and the Washington Post carried interviews with Steinem in the wake of Ramparts' expose of CIA funding of the National Student Association and other organizations. Steinem was the founder and director of one of those groups, Independent Research Service, for which she had solicited and obtained
[CTRL] Fighting the Cultural War
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.2/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 2/A The Laissez Faire City Times January 11, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 2 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Fighting the Cultural War by Sunni Maravillosa At the Libertarian Party of Colorado convention some years ago, science fiction author L. Neil Smith made a comment that gets repeated in various circles: "You can't fight a cultural war if you ain't got any culture" [1]. Since then, I've seen it interpreted in various ways, one of the most frequent being that the freedom movement doesn't have much of a popular culture. It's also become a convenient excuse: "More libertarians would get elected if our ideas were in the mainstream culture more often"; "We have the best ideas but they're hard to demonstrate"; and "You can't reduce the freedom philosophy to sound bites" are some of the more common ones I've heard, in various forms. Libertarian memes don't get much TV time, but I think that's actually to our benefit--most people seem to turn off their brains when sitting in front of the television. Some folks, desperate for any sign that pop culture acknowledges our existence, cheer each movie that has any hint of a libertarian idea, no matter how fleeting. For example, Independence Day and Mars Attacks have been proclaimed "libertarian films" because in them the White House gets blown up, and the aliens kill Congress, respectively. While these may be among the fond wishes of some libertarians, an anti-government attitude is hardly exclusive to those of us who value freedom. Some truly pro-freedom films exist, and more certainly would help our cause. However, I don't think the large and small screens are the best places to plant our ideas: by and large watching television and movies is a mind-numbing activity that disables higher thought processes. Fiction is fertile ground for spreading pro-freedom ideas--one look at the continued success of Ayn Rand's novels attests to that. The only genre with authors who seem to recognize this is science-fiction writers like L. Neil Smith and F. Paul Wilson have continued in Heinlein's tradition of creating new worlds and universes to explore the implications of the freedom philosophy. They typically do so in ways that are so engaging that it's easy to overlook the political ideas amid all the action, but the ideas don't go away. Many pro-freedom individuals credit these authors, among others, with showing them the value of free minds and free markets. Unfortunately, many people turn up their noses at science fiction, and, with few exceptions, general fiction doesn't contain freedom-oriented themes. The area that is arguably the most overlooked by those who bemoan the lack of a "freedom culture" is mainstream music. Believe it or not, if one looks, one can find strong individualist and other libertarian themes in music that gets airplay around the world, every day. This shouldn't be too surprising; after all, it was the music of the 1960s that helped propel the anti-war, do-your-own-thing ideology of that generation into the Peace and Love movement. Interestingly, even though many of the singers and songwriters of that time proclaimed their socialist ideals, in their rebellion against authority they often expressed sentiments that make libertarians grin. Perhaps one of the best-known examples is from The Who's song "Going Mobile": "watch the police and the tax man miss me, I'm mobile!" [2] The Beatles, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and the Moody Blues are all examples of popular groups of the 60s whose politics were socialist or collectivist, yet contained anti-government or pro-individual lyrics in their songs. In today's music, the message is more often than not clearer--and louder. Yes, the bastion of loud, liberal, sex-worshipping, irritate-your-parents music has a number of bands who eschew the juvenile content for more meaty themes. Rock music still has its share of performers who fall into the same mixed-message category as the 60's groups mentioned above--Sting, Pink Floyd, and John Mellencamp come to mind--but there are other groups who don't seem to have this dichotomy in their songs. The Canadian band Rush is arguably the most libertarian band around. Sometimes described as progressive rock or "hard" rock, Rush resists categorization. The trio--Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart-- weave intricate music around lyrics (almost all by Neil Peart) that almost always warm a freedom-lover's heart. In their early days, the influence of Ayn Rand was clear; an album was titled Anthem, as was a pro- individual song, and the liner notes of the album 2112 contain the credit "with acknowledgement [sic] to the genius of Ayn Rand" [3]. The song "2112" is a musical interpretation of Rand's Anthem. None of the band members claims to be libertarian, yet each release (over 15 studio releases in the band's 24-year existence thus far) contains lyrics sure to please
[CTRL] Face to Face, We're All Geminis - The Future And Its Enemies
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.2/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 2/A The Laissez Faire City Times January 11, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 2 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Face to Face, We're All Geminis a book review by William Westmiller Having been born on June 1st, my astrologic sign is Gemini. The Twins constellation suggests a dual personality. Happy and sad, strong and weak, intelligent and passionate. A proverbial incarnation of the conflicting passions in life. Granting even the smallest credence to the influence of the stars on our lives, I've never met anyone - no matter their birth sign - who wasn't a complex, ever-changing, multifaceted and occasionally conflicted personality. If duality is the criteria, perhaps we're all Geminis. Dualism is a slightly strained effort to comprehend ourselves and society. The distinct emotional and intellectual features we can identify do seem to have degrees, from nearly nothing to the dominance of one characteristic over others. Occasionally, for short periods in our lives, one of those sentiments or inclinations will dominate all others. For good reasons, we'll be timid, even fearful, about our future. Then, in a new context, swing to the extreme of strength, even bravery, in pursuing our dreams. The same occurs with intellectual talents and inclinations. This duality never concerns us at the time, simply because we are fully in the context of our own sentiments. However, when we review them in the abstract, or in the society at large, they seem different. In the abstract, we tend to personify those temporary inclinations as incarnate drives that propel us toward either good or evil. When we consider the extreme poles of emotion and intellect, we fault the devil for our failures and praise divinity for our successes. It seems to add sense to our world to imagine some insuperable force of dualism at work than to understand all the complexities in our lives or in society. So we enjoy neat dualist categories of rich versus poor, conservative versus liberal, strong versus week, libertarian versus totalitarian, arts versus science, or Republican versus Democrat. In her new book, The Future And Its Enemies, Virginia Postrel (editor of Reason magazine) coins her own social dualism, the dynamists versus the stasists. Dynamists are, of course, the friends of the future, demonstrating creativity, enterprise and progress. Happy to have everything always changing all the time. With prolific empirical evidence, she makes the case for allowing these dynamic forces to flow freely. On the other hand are the stasists, those tired, old stick-in-the-muds, who want to suppress or control everything and everybody. Dynamists are our salvation and stasists are our damnation. We would probably all agree, to one extreme or another, with nearly all the examples she presents, but Postrel's dualism suffers the same fault as any. Even the most dynamic among us wants to lay down in a comfortable bed at night, confident that our home is secure, dependent on some prolonged serenity for a peaceful sleep. Even the most temperate and cautious among us will indulge in a passionate art form or apply ourselves to solving a vexing problem. It's no surprise that we are all part-time dynamists or stasists, in nearly every respect. We are all Geminis. Postrel documents a broad assortment of dynamic social and political heroes. And she's always correct. Fostering an environment that allows playful novelties and astounding innovations is a good thing. Many people do marvelous things in wondrous ways. But Postrel begs off any ethical criteria or political guidelines for creating such an environment. In a stiff journalistic commentary, she skips thorough a continuous string of authorities and copious references that get in the way of her clear convictions about justice, liberty and rights, which are always evident in her writing and editing of Reason magazine. Her book itemizes a range of opinions about dynamic rules and guidelines, but lacks the vitality of a central ethical premise. At times, she almost proposes that the means justify the ends, that dynamism forces always lead to favorable outcomes. The dynamic versus stasist dualism falls far short of being an inspirational nostrum. Dynamic human conduct can be a boon to our lives, or a scourge. People can do terrible things with disastrous consequences in a very dynamic way. Temperance, caution, and skepticism can be stasist virtues when it comes to the beneficial evolution of the human condition. Perhaps the other dualisms are equally unsatisfactory. In the context of our lives, we all push and pull, swing and sway, between extremes. Since we're all Geminis, both facets make the whole life, where moderation is the norm, if not the rule. In spite of the grand premise, there emerges some passion and delightful exuberance in Chapter Seven, "Fields Of Play". Postrel almost succumbs to a hearty
[CTRL] The Trans-Asian Express
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.2/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 2/A The Laissez Faire City Times January 11, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 2 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - The Trans-Asian Express by Richard S. Ehrlich Asia Correspondent BANGKOK, Thailand -- In the beginning of the 20th century, the famous Orient Express crossed Europe and rumbled into Istanbul, but despite its exotic name, the train never reached the bamboo gardens and mystical pagodas of destinations here in eastern Asia. Hollywood recreated the train in the film, "Murder on the Orient Express," which hypnotized movie audiences in a plot of aisle-busy intrigue. But even when the train was later resurrected in 1982 as a real-life Venice Simplon-Orient Express, it still couldn't help passengers in Italy who wanted to continue traveling past Turkey. Today, however, people bagpiping atop the chilly highlands of Scotland, or basking in sunny Singapore, are looking forward to the completion of train tracks finally linking their two platforms. Scotland to Singapore by rail? The trip would be a clickity-clacking journey of more than 9,500 miles (15,200 kilometers). Enthusiastic engineers and officials here in Asia are already trying to overcome gritty wars, green jungles and giant gaps, so the trains can run on time. The difficult drilling of an underwater tunnel is also being planned. Actually, two railway journeys are envisaged: a northern route linking Korea, via Moscow, with Europe. And a southern track connecting the Malay Peninsula with the United Kingdom, curving across the Indian subcontinent. Trainspotters, traders and tourists would be able to travel on a previously impossible journey nearly half-way around the world. All in the comfort of a seat-cum-sleeper carriage. In the dining car, you could munch a spicy cuisine and other delights, depending upon your latest longitude. This so-called Trans-Asian Railway would straddle a massive continent never before girdled by steel. When you do climb aboard, be prepared to change trains several times, because Asian nations use different gauge-widths of track. As a result, some trains are thinner than others. Even a fully financed Trans-Asian Railway would not have enough money to replace all the existing tracks to standardize the route. Fortunately, an elaborate metal spaghetti almost links Singapore with the old Orient Express film-fare destination, Istanbul. The blank spots are, however, very, very vexing. Start From Singapore Starting from Singapore is the easy part. If you have major cash to splash, The Eastern Oriental Express, inaugurated in 1993, offers its 30 million US dollar "museum on wheels" to transport you north through Malaysia and up to Bangkok -- the sometimes clamorous, often glamorous, capital of Thailand. The "E and O" is a sister of the Venice Simplon-Orient Express, and recreates an opulent flash-from-the-past Asian train journey. Inspired by its success, the Eastern Oriental Express recently introduced an extension of its route north from Bangkok to Thailand's tourist-friendly town of Chiang Mai. Less extravagant passengers can book relatively inexpensive tickets from Singapore to Thailand on normal government-owned trains, which take the same rail lines. No matter which class you travel, be sure to eye the outside of Kuala Lumpur's Moorish-inspired central railway station -- created in what the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism hypes as "Byzantine Arabian nights" architecture -- because it displays a flourish of domes, minarets and arches. Further north, you pass through Malaysia's cool Cameron Highland, and up the leg of southern Thailand. From Bangkok, a western leg will take you toward Burma's border, halting in Kanchanaburi where the Death Railway's bridge of World War Two is now a pilgrimage site for traumatized former prisoners of war, elderly Japanese guards, and other tourists and scholars. At the Death Railway bridge, anxious wayfarers point to the Trans-Asian Railway's first real gap: how to get further west from Thailand, across France-sized Burma, and into Bangladesh? Engineers would have to patch a route across the jungle-covered, rebel-infested, Thai-Burma border. That future link would be met by a line coming from Rangoon which is slowly being extended south toward Kanchanaburi. Unfortunately, the new sections joining Burma's coastal towns of Ye and Tavoy reportedly use forced, corvee labor because the unelected Burmese military regime insists "volunteer" work crews are a "tradition." Eventually, however, you will pull into the Burmese capital, Rangoon, where colonial-era, British-laid tracks run straight north to the central city of Mandalay, and beyond. Burma's trains continue climbing north, paralleling the Irrawaddy River, to Mogaung town, near Myitkyina. Additional construction for another 180 miles (288 kilometers) or so, due north through Kachin state, would enable a
[CTRL] Lawsuit Alleges FEMA Funded by Laundered Drug Profits
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.2/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 2/A The Laissez Faire City Times January 11, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 2 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Lawsuit Alleges FEMA Funded by Laundered Drug Profits by Uri Dowbenko Speculation about the mysterious origin and funding of the so-called Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has continued for decades. The history of FEMA as an illegal unconstitutional entity has been most recently exposed in an unprecedented lawsuit against the CIA and its alleged drug trafficking and money laundering operations. In September 1998 a $63 million lawsuit (Case No. 98CV11829JLT) was filed by Massachusetts attorney Ray Kohlman on behalf of former Green Beret Bill Tyree. Kohlman, a former legal investigator for attorney William Pepper in the Martin Luther King murder trial of James Earl Ray, filed a 101-page complaint on behalf of his client. The suit, replete with five inches of affidavits and appendices, names the Central Intelligence Agency, former Massachusetts Governor A. Paul Celucci, former Massachusetts Attorney-General Scott Harshbarger, former CIA director and US President George Bush and self-admitted government assassin D. Gene Tatum as defendants in a far-reaching case involving US Government sanctioned drug smuggling, murder, and coverup. Bill Tyree is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife -- a case eerily similar to that of Dr. Jeffrey McDonald, a Ft. Bragg doctor who was framed for the murder of his wife and children in the early 1980s. "In the mid 1970s, while serving in Panama, Tyree and other Green Berets were led into Colombia under the command of Green Beret Colonels Cutolo and Baker to plant radio beacons, so that plane loads of cocaine could fly below Colombian and US radar, and land undetected in Panama," writes former LAPD officer Mike Ruppert in his newsletter (From the Wilderness, P. O. Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, http://www.copvcia.com). "Orders for these missions came from the CIA's Ed Wilson and Tom Clines," continues Ruppert. "Tyree had been a part of many secret missions and was losing his taste for it. His wife was keeping a diary [for which she was presumably murdered, and which later disappeared]." "Five Special Forces Colonels -- Cutolo, Baker, Malvesti, Rower and Bayard -- have died under mysterious circumstances since. The heart of the Tyree documentation consists of an affidavit allegedly written by Colonel Cutolo who was also Tyree's commanding officer at Fort Devens, Mass. at the time of Tyree's arrest. Both were then with the 10th Special Forces." "That fifteen page document gives precise details of CIA drug operations using Special Forces personnel. It also describes how Tyree was framed for the murder of his wife and how Special Forces personnel were used to intimidate and conduct illegal electronic and physical surveillance of anyone who might expose CIA drug dealing." According to the complaint in the lawsuit, "the Plaintiff [Tyree] alleges that the Defendants CIA and George Bush were negligent and failed at the conclusion of Operation Watchtower to monitor the post-Watchtower events and seek legal congressional funding for the origination of FEMA (Federal Emergency Managemnt Agency), and this failure led to the concealment and coverup of Operation Watchtower, written about in the diaries of Elaine Tyree, seized illegally and turned over to Colonel Carone and then to the CIA, which ensured that the Operation Watchtower drug trafficking operation would remain covert, allowing the drug profits from this Operation to be used to circumvent Congress and fund FEMA and continue the pattern of criminal activity." Colonel Carone, who died in 1990, was a CIA paymaster and Mafia-connected money launderer, who incidentally held the rank of full colonel in Army Intelligence. As Oliver North's bagman, he also couriered large amounts of cash in and out of the country. Carone's Complex Relationships According to former FAA investigator Rodney Stich, "Carone had complex relationships." In his underground bestselling book Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies, Stich writes that Carone "was a member of the Gambino family with connections to other crime groups in the eastern part of the United States, a detective on the New York City vice squad, a member of the military and a CIA operative." Stich writes that "Dee [Ferdinand, Carone's daughter] said her father was a detective and bagman in the New York City police department, collecting money that was distributed to captains and inspectors as payoffs for looking the other way where drugs were involved..." "Referring to CIA-Mafia drug trafficking, she said she knew from what her father said that the drugs coming from South America, went to the Colombo, Genovese and Gambino families, and that it was a joint CIA-Mafia drug
[CTRL] Fwd: Weekly Analysis -- January 11, 1999
_ Need to Know Something Fast? Try STRATFOR's Find Facts Service Visit http://www.stratfor.com/findfacts/index.asp Or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Global Intelligence Update Red Alert January 11, 1999 It is Time to Start Thinking About the Ukraine Summary: * Few people outside the region worry much about Ukraine. This will change in 1999. The Ukrainian question will be a major focus of international attention this year, creating stresses within Europe and between the United States and Russia. The issue: will Ukraine join the Russo-Belarus federation. We think economic forces will force Ukraine to federate with Russia. With this, Russian power will return to the frontiers of central Europe from the Black Sea to Carpathians to the Baltic. If Ukraine refuses to federate, Russia will not be able to reassert itself. If it does, there will be no buffer between NATO and greater Russia. The Ukrainian question is going to become front page news in the not too distant future, dwarfing Serbia and Iraq in significance, if not in violence. Analysis: We argued in our 1999 annual forecast that the fate of Ukraine would be one of the critical issues of 1999. We believe that Ukraine will rejoin Russia and Belarus in a Federation. This may not occur in 1999, but the process is already underway, and we believe it is very likely that Ukraine's return to the Russian embrace shortly thereafter. If and when it happens, it will reshape the geopolitics of Eurasia. Since Ukraine is not a nation that most people outside of the region think about very much, we think it useful to focus on it this week and to try to forecast its probable course. Let's begin by recapitulating why we think Ukraine will loom large among issues in 1999. Russia has reached the end of the reform cycle. It is experiencing a massive economic depression, has lost not only its global influence but also territories that Moscow and St. Petersburg ruled for centuries. This is not simply a matter of prestige, although the psychological effect of the loss of empire must not be dismissed, nor should the political consequences of the psychological crisis. Nevertheless, there are other, structural issues, primarily economic ones, which are driving things. The Soviet Union was never a particularly healthy economic entity. Nevertheless, more than most regions of the world, it was fairly self-enclosed. Until the late 1980s, the Soviet Bloc in general and the Soviet Union in particular were only marginally dependent on international trade or foreign investment. They existed as a virtual planet, separated economically from the general global economy. As a result, they lagged far behind the West in economic development. But while they lagged, they did not decline. Their economies and standards of living continued to develop, albeit unevenly, inefficiently, and far behind non-communist growth rates. This growth was due to the availability of secure markets, stable exchange rates, predictable cash flows within the boundaries of the Soviet Union and the communist trade zone called COMECON, which included most of communist Eastern Europe. A fully integrated regional economy, protected from the rest of the world by political, economic and monetary barriers, allowed for a sustainable if inferior rate of growth. The key to this was the availability of predictable markets in the region. The central assumption behind capitalism is that competition serves as a goad to maximize performance. Among nations, this theory manifests itself in the theory of comparative advantages. Every nation has a comparative advantage in some area. There are some things that each nation does best and if every nation sticks to it, then every nation will maximize its income. Competition forces a nation to find and stick to its comparative advantage. It is an excellent theory except in the case of nations whose advantage is insufficient to sustain a minimal, politically acceptable standard of living. When the borders of the old Soviet Union were thrown open, they now had to discover comparative advantages not in relation to each other, but in relation to Germany, France or the United States. The results weren't pretty. The expectation of western economists was that competitive pressure would compel former communist economies to become more productive. After a great deal of stress, this was true for countries like the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. These were the countries that had the greatest economic interaction with the West prior to the fall of communism, which meant that their economies had made necessary, if inadequate, adjustments. An influx of western investment allowed them to improve their industrial plant sufficiently so that, after a few years, they would enjoy sufficient competitive advantage to stabilize their economies and even begin to grow. Outside
[CTRL] The Tessera of Antilia : Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century
-Caveat Lector- from: amazon.com - The Tessera of Antilia : Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Vol 88) by Donald R. Dickson Our Price: $93.00 Hardcover (May 1998) Brill Academic Publishers; ISBN: 9004110321 Availability: This title is currently on back order. We do not have a reprint date for this title, but we expect to be able to ship it to you within 3-5 weeks. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Joshua Report 14 pt4
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/10/99 5:52:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua, you're a horse's behind! And you have shown youself to be quite the conversationalist. Is there any good reason for your rather uncivil and uncouth behaviour? Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [priory-of-sion] Re: Goodbye Michael
In a message dated 1/10/99 7:30:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point, Corey, because Dr. Habsburg is on record as denying any association with this "European Council of Princes". It was created after WWII by an Italian named Victor Busa, aka (at various points in his "illustrious" career), "Monsignor Busa", "Orthodox Archbishop Metropolitan of Bialystock, Patriarch of the Eastern and Western Diaspora", "President of the Republic of Danzig", "President of the Democratic Republic of Byelorussia", "President of the World Parliament for Security and Peace", and "Viktor Timur II, Grand Khan of Tartaria and Mongolia" (I'm not making this up, I swear!). He named Dr. Habsburg as "Honorary President" without ever actually consulting him Hmm . . . Om K - From: Tim Carmain [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---Corey Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Corey Wicks) From: Tim Carmain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too bad for Gardner that (a) Michael isn't a Stewart, and (b) the throne of Scotland isn't vacant. Tim Carmain I can't really say on (a) since geneaolgies aren't my specialty. I'll leave that the the heraldists and Mormons that we have on the list. My contact with the Monarchist League of Scotland says that Prince Michael indeed is far from being recognized as the leading Stewart claimant. And I find the claim of being the president of the European Council of Princes to be rather surprising. It is surprising that Prince Michael would allegedly succeed Archduke Otto von Habsburg as president of such a group. The Habsburgs are far more respected and recognized as a leading European royal house, it would seem. Good point, Corey, because Dr. Habsburg is on record as denying any association with this "European Council of Princes". It was created after WWII by an Italian named Victor Busa, aka (at various points in his "illustrious" career), "Monsignor Busa", "Orthodox Archbishop Metropolitan of Bialystock, Patriarch of the Eastern and Western Diaspora", "President of the Republic of Danzig", "President of the Democratic Republic of Byelorussia", "President of the World Parliament for Security and Peace", and "Viktor Timur II, Grand Khan of Tartaria and Mongolia" (I'm not making this up, I swear!). He named Dr. Habsburg as "Honorary President" without ever actually consulting him, and Dr. Habsburg has had to deny any affiliation with the European Council of Princes on many occasions. "Prince" Michael actually succeeded one of Busa's proteges as President, "Prince Alexis d'Anjou-Durazzo-Dolgorouky-Romanoff de Bourbon-Conde", grandson of Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (who "miraculously" escaped the Bolshevik firing squad in 1918), pseudo-claimant to just about every vacant throne that ever existed historically. He made a fortune peddling fake titles and chivalric orders before his death from AIDS a few years back. He was identified years ago as Alex Brimeyer, native of the Belgian Congo. He spent a good deal of time in jail for fraudulent activity (having first claimed to be a Khevenhuller, and then an Auersperg), but re-emerged each and every time with a new "claim to fame". Other "luminaries" of the European Council of Princes are "Prince Arnaldo Petrucci of Vacone and Sienna" (aka Arnold Petrucci of Brooklyn), "HRH Prince dom Rosario, Duke of Braganza" (aka Rosario Poidimani of Naples, whose "mother", Infanta Maria Ana of Portugal, was born AND died on 14 December 1887 - go figure that one!), "HRH Prince Nicholas de Ligny-Luxembourg de Lascaris-Ventimiglia" (aka Guillermo Lopez-Rios of Buenos Aires), "HRSH King William of Alabona-Ostrogojsk" (aka Bill Mazser, a New Jersey car upholsterer) another "Anjou" whose moniker escapes me but whose real name was Isaac Wolf, and a host of other Byzantine, Visigothic, Swabian, and assorted pretenders of dubious distinction. Owing to your knowledge of legitimate European royal and noble houses, you would be hard-pressed to find a bona fide aristocrat amongst this bunch. And you are right about (b) that the throne of Scotland isn't vacant. However, I suppose that the notion of a Stewart restoration would go hand and hand with Scottish sentiment for independence from England. Interesting that all this talk of the Stewarts happens just as the Scottish Parliament is restored. The Stewarts would naturally claim that the House of Windsor has not served Scotland well, as is indicated in the literature Prince Michael sent me. We keep speaking of "the Stewarts" as though there was still a Stewart (or Stuart) dynasty kicking around to harrass the Windsors. There are collateral cadet lines still existing, but none of them are pressing any claims, backing Michael's, or even claiming Michael as one of their own. Even the family that Michael touts as his father's - the Barons Lafosse de Chatry of Belgium - don't know who this guy is. His grandmother's purported family, the Princes de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, have never heard of
[CTRL] Fwd: [MC] World Of The Strange 1/11/99 Part 1 of 2
[Only the first part of this message is displayed. The entire message has been turned into a text attachment, which you can retrieve by selecting Download. Once downloaded, open it with a word processor or text editor for reading.] EDITORS NOTE...Don't forget about the Writers Contest that is well on it's way...check out the 1/4/99 Issue for details or just mail me for the information... # CONTENTS #1.THE MONTAUK PROJECT AND CAMP HERO TODAY: Part 2 Series 8 of 10 Copyright © 1998 John A. Quinn/NewsHawk Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] http: //www.cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph.html A. Connections To Religions and Other Organizations/Systems The Mormons B. The Pallotine Group C. Other Links D. Ties To The Military E. Bloodlines F. Scientology/Dianetics G. Stanford, Scientology and The CIA H. Stanford Allegedly Involved In CIA Implant/Mind Control Experimentation I. The Long Island Rail Road Massacre J. Minds Control Today Mass Programming--Montauk Boys and Girls #2. MEXICO WATCHDr.Rafael Lara Palmeros' http://www.inexplicata.com/issue2/mexico_watch.html #3. Poem Reptilian By Terry Kimbrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] © copyright1/2/98 #4. Strange Electric People #5. Editors' Notation # #1.THE MONTAUK PROJECT AND CAMP HERO TODAY: Part 2 Series 8 of 10 Copyright © 1998 John A. Quinn/NewsHawk Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www. cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph.html All rights reserved All text within this document not quoted from other sources is the sole property of John A. Quinn/Newshawk Inc. No reproduction without permission. WOTS was granted permission in using this article. Due to the length of this artcile it will be a featured article in the next upcomings issues! Series 8 of 10 http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph2.html CONNECTIONS TO RELIGIONS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS/ SYSTEMS THE MORMONS From "Sue Ellen", a well-known Mormon singer One thing which has been cropping up more and more in the info I've been getting is the tremendously extensive use of children in mind control operations and the unbelievable high level of infiltration into the child care and EDITORS NOTE...Don't forget about the Writers Contest that is well on it's way...check out the 1/4/99 Issue for details or just mail me for the information... # CONTENTS #1.THE MONTAUK PROJECT AND CAMP HERO TODAY: Part 2 Series 8 of 10 Copyright © 1998 John A. Quinn/NewsHawk Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] http: //www.cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph.html A. Connections To Religions and Other Organizations/Systems The Mormons B. The Pallotine Group C. Other Links D. Ties To The Military E. Bloodlines F. Scientology/Dianetics G. Stanford, Scientology and The CIA H. Stanford Allegedly Involved In CIA Implant/Mind Control Experimentation I. The Long Island Rail Road Massacre J. Minds Control Today Mass Programming--Montauk Boys and Girls #2. MEXICO WATCHDr.Rafael Lara Palmeros' http://www.inexplicata.com/issue2/mexico_watch.html #3. Poem Reptilian By Terry Kimbrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] © copyright1/2/98 #4. Strange Electric People #5. Editors' Notation # #1.THE MONTAUK PROJECT AND CAMP HERO TODAY: Part 2 Series 8 of 10 Copyright © 1998 John A. Quinn/NewsHawk Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www. cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph.html All rights reserved All text within this document not quoted from other sources is the sole property of John A. Quinn/Newshawk Inc. No reproduction without permission. WOTS was granted permission in using this article. Due to the length of this artcile it will be a featured article in the next upcomings issues! Series 8 of 10 http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph2.html CONNECTIONS TO RELIGIONS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS/ SYSTEMS THE MORMONS From "Sue Ellen", a well-known Mormon singer One thing which has been cropping up more and more in the info I've been getting is the tremendously extensive use of children in mind control operations and the unbelievable high level of infiltration into the child care and education systems on the part of agencies carrying out these operations. the following was emailed to me in 1998 by a woman who has lived much of her life immersed in the world of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, as well as government psychosexual-abuse mind control programs linked to military bases and kiddie-porn operations. "First off, I am one of 13 children. I am also a professional singer. I have three CD's and 9 cassettes that I have produced for the Mormon (LDS ) music market. I am kind of famous in my market and have won what you might call 'grammy' awards. My albums sell all over the world. "I was raised by Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Maria (Santa Barbara County), California. My sisters Dawn and Priscilla have worse stories than mine, but let's just say we've all experienced some crazy times. My mother was a religious fanatic. She
[CTRL] Fwd: [MC] World Of The Strange 1/11/99 Part 2 of 2
[Only the first part of this message is displayed. The entire message has been turned into a text attachment, which you can retrieve by selecting Download. Once downloaded, open it with a word processor or text editor for reading.] EDITORS NOTE...Don't forget about the Writers Contest that is well on it's way...check out the 1/4/99 Issue for details or just mail me for the information... # CONTENTS #1.THE MONTAUK PROJECT AND CAMP HERO TODAY: Part 2 Series 8 of 10 Copyright © 1998 John A. Quinn/NewsHawk Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] http: //www.cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph.html CONTINUATION G. Stanford, Scientology and The CIA H. Stanford Allegedly Involved In CIA Implant/Mind Control Experimentation I. The Long Island Rail Road Massacre J. Minds Control Today Mass Programming--Montauk Boys and Girls #2. MEXICO WATCHDr.Rafael Lara Palmeros' http://www.inexplicata.com/issue2/mexico_watch.html #3. Poem Reptilian By Terry Kimbrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] © copyright1/2/98 #4. Strange Electric People #5. Editor's Notation # #1.THE MONTAUK PROJECT AND CAMP HERO TODAY: Part 2 Series 8 of 10 Copyright © 1998 John A. Quinn/NewsHawk Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph.html CONTINUATION STANFORD, SCIENTOLOGY AND THE CIA Interestingly, other information about the connection of certain Scientology members to some of the secret government's "unusual" experimental research activities comes from premiere mind control researcher and author Alex Constantine, who has authored a wealth of excellent books and articles on the general topic of government sponsored, administered and operated mind control projects, including certain of those based on electromagnetic/radio frequency transmissions. I quote below a section called "Psychic Spying at the Stanford Research Institute Or CIA Mind Control?" from Constantine's Virtual Government. "Concrete evidence that electronic mind control was the true object of study at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was exposed by the Washington Post in 1977. When the Navy awarded a contract to the Institute, "the scientific ass EDITORS NOTE...Don't forget about the Writers Contest that is well on it's way...check out the 1/4/99 Issue for details or just mail me for the information... # CONTENTS #1.THE MONTAUK PROJECT AND CAMP HERO TODAY: Part 2 Series 8 of 10 Copyright © 1998 John A. Quinn/NewsHawk Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] http: //www.cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph.html CONTINUATION G. Stanford, Scientology and The CIA H. Stanford Allegedly Involved In CIA Implant/Mind Control Experimentation I. The Long Island Rail Road Massacre J. Minds Control Today Mass Programming--Montauk Boys and Girls #2. MEXICO WATCHDr.Rafael Lara Palmeros' http://www.inexplicata.com/issue2/mexico_watch.html #3. Poem Reptilian By Terry Kimbrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] © copyright1/2/98 #4. Strange Electric People #5. Editor's Notation # #1.THE MONTAUK PROJECT AND CAMP HERO TODAY: Part 2 Series 8 of 10 Copyright © 1998 John A. Quinn/NewsHawk Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/text/ph.html CONTINUATION STANFORD, SCIENTOLOGY AND THE CIA Interestingly, other information about the connection of certain Scientology members to some of the secret government's "unusual" experimental research activities comes from premiere mind control researcher and author Alex Constantine, who has authored a wealth of excellent books and articles on the general topic of government sponsored, administered and operated mind control projects, including certain of those based on electromagnetic/radio frequency transmissions. I quote below a section called "Psychic Spying at the Stanford Research Institute Or CIA Mind Control?" from Constantine's Virtual Government. "Concrete evidence that electronic mind control was the true object of study at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was exposed by the Washington Post in 1977. When the Navy awarded a contract to the Institute, "the scientific assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, Dr. Sam Koslov, received a routine briefing on various research projects, including SRI's. As the briefer flashed his chart onto the screen and began to speak, Koslov stormily interrupted, 'What the hell is that about?' Among the glowing words on the projected chart, the section describing SRI's work was labeled, 'ELF and Mind Control.' "'ELF' stands for 'extremely long frequency' electromagnetic waves, from the very slow brain frequencies up to about 100 cycles per second But the 'Mind Control' label really upset Koslov. He ordered the SRI investigations for the Navy stopped, and canceled another $35,000 in Navy funds slated for more remote viewing work. Contrary to Koslov's attempt to kill the research, the Navy quietly continued to fork out $100,000 for a two-year project directed by a bionics specialist. The "remote viewing" team
[CTRL] Fwd: THE SCOOP: A Bookstore Bigger Than Norway
THE SCOOP for January 11, 1998 ___ Disney Rescues Our Children, A Bookstore Bigger Than Norway, A Dole/Newt Bailout Update, Rehnquist's Fringe Activity © 1999 Bob Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [] = italics So Disney pulled 3,400,000 copies of [The Rescuers] off the shelves because of some mystery smut they wouldn't identify. Fear not, friends, your intrepid reporter is on the case. Geez, will anybody [ever] learn that censoring something is the fastest way to get people to want to see it? Apparently not. Like last year, the Insane Clown Posse put out a lousy album no one paid any attention to -- until it got censored by the label, then all of a sudden a mediocre rap group has this cachet of the forbidden like they're Alexander Solzenitzhen's writing from a Soviet gulag. Well, here we go again. Disney says there's something dirty in the [The Rescuers], but they won't say what. And now all anybody wants to know is, OK, what's so awful that they're willing to spend millions of dollars to cover it up? Well, people, I'm not gonna let you down. Here you go: 38 minutes into the film, while Bernard and Bianca are flying around town, there are windows in city buildings going by in the background. If you advance frame-by frame, you'll see two frames where one of the windows contains a tiny, distant picture of a nude woman who is visible from the waist up. Apparently somebody in post-production thought it was funny, although opinions differ as to exactly when the images were inserted. You can see the frames for yourself at the Urban Legends Reference Pages at http://snopes.simplenet.com/disney/films/rescuers.htm. Anyhow, it's completely invisible at full speed, you can't tell who the woman is, she's not doing anything remotely obscene or gratuitous, and absolutely none of you would have any idea it's there if Disney hadn't called such attention to it. So two points: #1 censorship doesn't usually work too well, and more importantly #2, what's so obscene about a nude female body? Since when do children of breast-feeding age have to be protected from the image of... breasts? Excuse me, but the Disney corporation's attitude seems like what our kids really ought to be protected from. ___ Priced any internet stocks lately? This isn't just a speculative bubble. If Richard Branson's balloon was this large, he'd be all the way to Morocco by now. What's more valuable? The bookseller Amazon.com, which has yet to show a dollar in profit and is dwarfed in several respects by several of its competitors, or the country of Norway? You guessed it. Do the math, folks, and according to the speculators now ruling the casino on Wall Street, the market capitalization of Amazon.com now exceeds that of the entire stock market of Norway. Does that sound reasonable to you? It gets better. Suppose for a second that Amazon.com had a complete monopoly on every book sold in the United States. According to [Barron's], the stock is still priced at [fifty times] the hypothetical earnings. Which means Amazon.com is now worth five to ten times what it would be worth if it sold every single book in America. Are we getting close to a crash? Oh, possibly. That hissing sound you hear might just be the airbag getting ready to inflate. Calling the exact timing of market movements is considered almost impossible, but two of the most powerful indicators of an impending downturn are a) the opinions of investment newsletters, and b) the ratio of people buying call options, (a high-risk, high-reward way of betting the market's about to go up quickly) to those buying puts (a similar bet on an impending drop). Both of these groups are notoriously wrong, so when you see all the newsletters going positive, or you see twice as many calls being bought than puts, that's usually a good time to start looking for the exits. Last week, [Barron's] reported what they termed a "buying panic" in call options, and the investment newsletters were more bullish than they've been in seven years. Uh-oh. This is just one guy's opinion here, so take my advice at your own risk -- it could be weeks before a downturn, or even months -- but remember the last time I was this amused by stock overvaluations was literally days before last summer's big pullback (radio edition of The Scoop, broadcast on KNX 1070 AM in Los Angeles 7/11/98). So do your own thinking. Norway, Amazon. Amazon, Norway. Hmm... I don't want to alarm anyone out there, but... RUN!!! ___ Updating earlier stories: In May 1997, this space (along with Mother Jones, which rules) pointed out the odd coincidence between the $300,000 Bob Dole fronted to bail Newt Gingrich's more photogenic end out of his Ethics Committee penalty for lying, and the $300,000 Dole received a few days earlier as a signing bonus to begin working for
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Militia member's trial starts today
- SNETNEWS Mailing List http://www.freep.com/news/mich/qdate11.htm Michigan news briefs January 11, 1999 KALAMAZOO Militia member's trial starts today The marijuana plants Randy Graham is accused of growing at his home in Springfield, near Battle Creek, were one aspect of a violent antigovernment plot, according to federal prosecutors. The government contends the 41-year-old man planned to use the profits from pot sales to finance a militia conspiracy to blow up federal buildings and threaten federal officials with assault and murder. Jury selection in Graham's trial on drug and conspiracy charges is to begin today in U.S. District Court in Kalamazoo. Graham, a member of the North American Militia, has denied wrongdoing. He faces up to 30 years in prisonif convicted. A federal jury in November convicted Bradford Metcalf, 47, of Olivet on conspiracy and weapons charges in the same case. A third defendant, Ken Carter, 47, of Battle Creek is cooperating with prosecutors in exchange for leniency when he is sentenced. Prosecutors likely will use much of the evidence in the Metcalf case against Graham, including FBI tapes of conversations among the defendants. Last month, District Judge Richard Enslen threw out statements Graham made to investigators after Graham told the judge he had been too ill and "bummed out" to understand the legal consequences of his actions. But the judge rejected Graham's plea to quash evidence taken from his home and pickup truck. Federal prosecutors contend Metcalf, Graham and Carter were "potential domestic terrorists" with the firepower to make good on their alleged hatred for the government. "They had a training compound, an arsenal ...and the hatred," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lloyd Meyer said in April. "They were locked, loaded and ready to go." By the Associated Press RICHMOND TOWNSHIP Chemical fumes overcome teen A Macomb County teenager was overcome by fumes Sunday evening while trying to make a bottle bomb. Sheriff's Department Lt. James Cowan said the 17-year-old was at home on School Section Road in Richmond Township with seven young relatives when he tried to use bleach and other chemicals to make the device. Deputies were called at 6:45 p.m. Cowan said the boy, who apparently made the bomb just out of curiosity, was treated and released from Mt. Clemens General Hospital. He said bottle bombs have become a serious public safety issue. "When they explode, they can actually take a person's arm off," Cowan said. By Cecil Angel DETROIT Shooting death is a mystery Police said Sunday they had no motives or suspects in the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old Detroit man in the parking lot of a Marathon gas station on the city's northwest side. The man, whose name was not released by authorities, had finished shopping at the station about 6:45 p.m. Saturday and was entering his vehicle when the gunfire erupted, police said. The station is at Braile and 7 Mile, west of Evergreen. The man was shot several times and died at Grace Hospital, police said. By David Migoya BRIEFLY * Petoskey: The Little Traverse Bay Bands of
[CTRL] Fasting and feasting
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.economist.com/48KQZbai/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ir6917.ht ml A HREF="http://www.economist.com/48KQZbai/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ ir6917.html"The Economist/A - INTERNATIONAL Fasting and feasting B E I R U T ASK a Muslim Arab for his favourite time of year and the odds are he will say Ramadan. For, although the Korans injunction to let nothingneither food, water nor smokepass the lips in daylight hours is taken seriously by most, so too is the celebration that accompanies the breaking of the fast at dusk. What with Christmas and the new year falling during the current month of Ramadan, and the short winter days making the fasting less onerous than sometimes, the people of the Middle East are now enjoying a convergence of festivities they have not seen in 30 years. Throughout the region, Arab bureaucrats notoriously short working days shrink yet further, as hordes of office-workers hurtle home at sunset for the iftar, the first of two special Ramadan meals. Traffic snarls up, and the queues at kebab take-aways and Pizza Hut outlets suddenly double. By the time the traditional cannons signal that it is safe to eat, the streets are deserted and people are tucking into a lavish mealoften in mock-Oriental tents. Despite the fast, grocery sales tend to go up during Ramadan, thanks to the evening feasts. Many Muslims admit to gaining weight during the month; in the Gulf, doctors issue warnings against obesity. Electricity consumption also rises, as the sated masses settle in front of Ramadan specials on television, or flood out to the streets to shop, eats snacks and promenade. The conservative emirates of the Gulf enforce the fast the most stringently. Most have laws prohibiting people eating, drinking or smoking in public during the day. Foreigners caught breaking the rules find themselves slapped with fines or even prison sentences. Kuwaiti members of parliament have called for temporary bans on supposedly irreligious forms of entertainment, such as belly-dancing. They have even mooted a moratorium on female attendants on the national airline. And clerics, like their Christian counterparts at Christmas, routinely rail against the commercialisation of a season originally intended as a time of self-denial. In most of the Levant and North Africa, there is no penalty save embarrassment for breaking the fast. So some savvy café-owners paper over their windows to let the less devout enjoy a cup of coffee or a sandwich away from disapproving eyes. In Beirut, the Arab worlds most liberal city, people sit sipping beer in street cafés in the Muslim half of town as the observant stride past, eyes averted. In Cairo, Christmas lights merge with Ramadan lanterns, but Beirut, with its large Christian population, takes this ecumenical spirit to extremes. One Muslim talks about sitting down on December 24th to a Christmas iftar; others gather for family snapshots in front of a Christmas tree during their evening Ramadan strolls. Even in Beirut, however, some barriers still remain: on the line between the Christian and Muslim halves of the city, the seasonal lights change from cherubs and Christmas trees to stars and candles. ©1999. The Economist Newspaper Limited. All Rights Reserved - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Steamshovel/The Latest Word: Letter from the UK
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/lword.htm A HREF="http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/lword.htm"Letter from the UK/A - The Latest Word: A column not appearing in the newstand Steamshovel. Letter from the UK Robin Ramsay Boys and their Toys 1 the mind-control conundrum continues The mind control story remains impossible to evaluate. Or it is if it's done rationally and honestly. Of course you can do what Alex Constantine does in Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America (Feral Press, Portland, 1997): take the most difficult and tendentious elements of the contemporary paranoid agenda - child abuse (ritual and Satanic), alien abductions, mind control, cults and UFOs - and attribute it all to the CIA without worrying over much about evidence. It makes for an entertaining read but it isn't much help in the long, slow business of persuading the wider world that this is an area they ought to look at. There are three distinct but presumably related areas of activity. One is the use of implants as receivers and/or transmitters. The others are the broadcasting of voices - what has been called synthetic telepathy - and the use of microwaves to influence behaviour. All seem to exist and the technology leading to them has been identified. The patents researched (some have been reported in Lobster --see number 34 for examples), some in Nexus, some in Judy Walls' excellent Resonance (684 C.R. 535, Sumterville, FL 33585; see number 33, for example). The technologies exist in an historical and operational framework which makes both their development, trial on involuntary subjects and eventual deployment not surprising. The opening sentence of story in The Times (London) was: American and Norwegian hospitals were involved in sterilisation experiments on the mentally retarded over a 20-year period up to 1994.9 US and Norway used insane for Nazi-style tests, The Times 29 April 1998. The bastard offspring of Sid Gottlieb and MKULTRA are among us. This year Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued an (undated) press release on their programme developing so-called non-lethal weapons which began in 1993, headed Physiological Responses Applicable to Development of Less-Than-Lethal Weapons. (At point the release refers to Friendly Force!) It describes three avenues being developed based on known physiological responses to energetic stimuli, including a thermal gun, a seizure gun and a magnetosphere gun. But this end of the subject is not yet intellectually respectable enough for the major media and/or politicians to take an interest in it. I mentioned this area recently to a friendly reporter on one of Britain's major daily papers. "Oh, that," he said. "I've had letters about that, mostly written in green ink." The green ink touch was probably an invention, a bit of baloney to convince me that the letters' authors were crazies. Press legend has it that crazies always write in green or purple ink; but I've had my share of letters from crazies and I haven't seen green or purple writing for at least a decade. But I took the hint and dropped the subject. Since the major media won't touch this stuff yet, most of this is happening in fringe magazines and especially on the Internet in dialogue between the victims of these programmes trying to make sense of their experiences. Microwaves The problem for the microwave victims is that of evidence: they can produce none other than the first-hand reports of other individuals and accounts of programs being run by this or that military body. None of which would impress the legal mind. The man who first introduced me to this field, Harlan Girard, runs a group in the United States, the International Committee on Offensive Microwave Weapons, which recently tried to get a legal case going in the United States. To quote from the judgement of Gladys Kessler, a judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, the Committee charged that many federal departments and agencies unlawfully conduct advanced weapons research using human subjects without first obtaining their consentthat the United States, through various federal agencies, has unlawfully failed to promulgate regulations for the protection of human subjects involved in classified research.seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as costs. Judge Kessler rejected the suit on the grounds that the Committee failed to establish standing to sue on behalf of its members, as well as making claims that are too generalized and nonspecific to support a complaint. If the first objection could be overcome, the second still looks insurmountable at present. The most dramatic of the microwaves effects are the voices in the head. Since sounds in the head were produced using microwaves by Dr Alan Frey in 1962, this isn't terribly surprising. But until recently I had not seen anything like a
[CTRL] Fwd: [MC] My Apologies
To All My Readers; It has been brought to my attention of a "Great Blunder" that I had done in this past issue of WOTS...the main story line by John Quinn is a repeat of last weeks issue...even though the other topics (articles are different) I really have no excuse for the grave error I made, but during the time I was setting this article and then receiving the changes, I must have inadvertently the this part twice... Please accept my apologies, this won't happen again... Sincerely Louise -- Louise A. Lowry "World Of The Strange" Weekly Free Newsletter ***Come Link With Us*** WOTS-Web Site: http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange Check Out Our Discussion List Called PARA-DISCUSS http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange/primer.htm http://www.tje.net/services/maillists/para-discuss.htm Plus Don't Forget our Message Board!!! WOTS Newsgroup alt.strange.days GET TOGETHER CHATS ON MONDAY NIGHTS 8PM ET/Go To Web Site To access The Chat Room you Don't have to be JAVA Capable to Join in the fun! "Tis-Strange but true: For Truth is always Strange! Stranger than Fiction! ** MINDCONTROL-L Mind Control and Psyops Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: "unsubscribe MINDCONTROL-L" or "subscribe MINDCONTROL-L". Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED], list moderator
[CTRL] Fwd: The Price We Pay: The 10 Worst Corporations of 1998
What did we learn in 1998? Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates' net wealth -- $51 billion -- is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40 percent of Americans (106 million people). Hundreds of hospitals are "dumping" patients who can't afford to pay. The feds are criminally prosecuting big tobacco companies for smuggling cigarettes into Canada. (Never mind addicting young kids to smoke and thus condemning them to a certain, albeit, slow, death -- can't criminally prosecute them for that.) There's a bull market in stock fraud. Prescription drugs may cause 100,000 deaths a year. Two Fox-TV reporters in Florida are fired for trying to report on adverse health effects associated with genetically engineered foods. The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposes that genetically engineered foods be labelled "organic." Coal companies continue to cheat on air quality tests as hundreds of coal miners continue to die each year from black lung disease. The North American Securities Administrators Association estimates that Americans lose about $1 million a hour to securities fraud. Robert Reich says that megamergers threaten democracy. Corporate crime explodes, but the academic study of corporate crime vanishes. Three hundred trade unionists around the world were killed in 1997 for defending their rights. Corporate firms lobbying to cripple the Superfund law outnumber environmental groups seeking to defend it by 30 to one. Down on Nike? Chinese political prisoners allegedly make Adidas products. Blue Cross Blue Shield Illinois is a corporate criminal. Chemical companies are testing pesticides on human beings. Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, questions whether the Pentagon's financial controls have suffered a "complete and utter breakdown." Environmental crimes prosecution are down sharply under Clinton/Gore. Bush/Quayle had a better record. Bell Atlantic buys Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are illustrations to sell telephone products. Companies that have workers die on the job continue to be met with fines. Criminal prosecutions still rare. This is the price we pay for living in Corporate America. Wealth disparity, megamergers and the resulting consolidation of corporate power, commercialism run amok, rampant corporate crime, death without justice, pollution, cancer and an unrelenting attack on democracy. The 1998 market run-up might make plugged-in America feel good about itself, but big business is eating out the democratic foundation of the country, and when the empty shell crumbles, what kind of chaos might we anticipate? If you have justice on your mind, herewith for the tenth consecutive year is Multinational Monitor's effort to pinpoint those responsible. It is, admittedly, a short list -- the Ten Worst Corporations of 1998. But it is a representative list, and as the damage becomes more apparent, as the outrage at, and contempt for, our fearless leaders grows, surely the list, too, will grow. The Ten Worst Corporations of 1998 are: * Chevron, for continuing to do business with a brutal dictatorship in Nigeria and for alleged complicity in the killing of civilian protesters. * Coca-Cola, for hooking America's kids on sugar and soda water. Today, teenage boys and girls drink twice as much soda pop as milk, whereas 20 years ago they drank nearly twice as much milk as soda. * General Motors, for becoming an integral part of the Nazi war machine, and then years later, when documented proof emerges, denying it. * Loral and its chief executive Bernard Schwartz, for dumping $2.2 million into Clinton/Gore and Democratic Party coffers. The Clinton administration responded by approving a human rights waiver to clear the way for technology transfers to China. * Mobil, for supporting the Indonesian military in crushing an indigenous uprising in Aceh province and allegedly allowing the military to use company machinery to dig mass graves. * Monsanto, for introducing genetically engineered foods into the foodstream without adequate safety testing and without labeling, thus exposing consumers to unknown risks. * Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, for pleading guilty to felony crimes for dumping oil in the Atlantic Ocean and then lying to the Coast Guard about it. * Unocal, for engaging in numerous acts of pollution and law violations, to such a degree that citizens in California petitioned the state's attorney general to revoke the company's charter. * Wal-Mart, for crushing small town America, for paying low, low wages (a huge percentage of Wal-Mart workers are eligible for food stamps), for using Asian child labor and for homogenizing the population; and last, but not least, * Warner-Lambert, for marketing a hazardous diabetes drug, Rezulin, which has been linked to at least 33 deaths due to liver injuries. As the millennium approaches, keep your eyes open for nasty corporate predators in your neck of the woods. Keep a list. Check it twice. Then send along your
[CTRL] Fwd: Secrets Of The Clipper Chip
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/19990112_xcsof_the_secret.shtml In 1993, Vince Foster, Webster Hubbell and Bernard Nussbaum were told about the CLIPPER computer chip. CLIPPER was a secret encryption project intended to monitor all U.S. secure computer communications. The chip was to be mandated by Federal law to be installed in all U.S.-manufactured computers much like the "VEE" chip is for U.S.-made TVs. According to Congressional investigators, Webster Hubbell and Vince Foster were given access to highly classified "encryption" chip designs. Their access included secure encryption algorithms and details on how the National Security Agency (NSA) secretly built the hidden "exploitable" (back door) features inside the CLIPPER chip. In July 1993, the death of Vince Foster came as a major blow to the Clinton administration. Yet, the alleged affair between Foster and First Lady Hillary Clinton over-shadowed the discovery of classified materials in Foster's White House office. After Foster's death, the Clinton White House lawyer Bernard Nussbaum managed to clean out Foster's files while law enforcement officials were kept waiting outside. According to Foster's secretary, Nussbaum removed two binders, marked TOP SECRET, from Foster's office from the National Security Agency. The real history behind the Clinton selection of Foster and Hubbell for a secret computer chip project dates back to the 1980s and leads to William Cravens, former head of an Arkansas- based computer company called Systematics. William Cravens is an old Clinton friend. William Cravens first met the Clintons in the mid-1980s when he was President of Worthen Bank. Mrs. Clinton, along with Rose Law partners Vince Foster, and Webster Hubbell, worked with Cravens on Worthen's legal affairs. It was during the early Clinton years that Cravens also met James Riady, son of Indonesian billionaire Moctar Riady and the owner of the massive LIPPO group. The Riadys jointly purchased the Worthen bank with Arkansas billionaire Jackson Stephens. Moctar's son, James Riady, ran the bank and the employer of William Cravens. In the early 1990s, Cravens left Worthen bank and took the CEO spot at Systematics, an Arkansas-based computer security company owned by Jackson Stephens. Once at Systematics, Cravens selected the Rose Office Law firm to perform some special legal work. One such legal contract involved a top secret intelligence agency, the NSA, and Systematics. Interestingly, during 1993, Cravens would deny that any such work took place and even threatened to sue anyone who dared suggest that the late Vince Foster or First Lady Clinton worked on classified contracts for Systematics. In 1995, Washington Weekly, forced the Clinton administration to admit there was such a contract. The NSA, in response to a Washington Weekly Freedom of Information (FOIA) request, admitted that Systematics had a secret contract involving the construction of a Secured Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF) at an Army base in Georgia. It was also reported that Mrs. Clinton hired Systematics to secure computer records from the Rose Office accounting systems, including data on the now infamous Whitewater land deals and the Riady holdings in the Worthen bank. After Bill Clinton was elected in 1993, Cravens left Systematics and obtained a new job at the Arkansas-based ENTERGY Group, headed by Edwin Lupeburger. According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, Cravens donated money to a Democratic Senatorial candidate in May 1996, listing his employer as "ENTERGY CORP". Cravens, however, had not really left the Clinton/Lippo/China relationship. In 1994, Ron Brown led a delegation of U.S. businesses to China. Among the businesses allowed to fly with the Commerce Secretary was ENTERGY Corp., a U.S.-based utility company that did business in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. Entergy CEO, Edwin Lupberger, traveled to China with Brown and later received a personal letter congratulating Entergy for their success in China. Entergy signed a $2 billion dollar deal with the North China Power Group to build a 1200 megawatt power plant in Datong China. Brown provided U.S. financial backing for the deal. The Entergy deal was worth quite a bit to the Lippo Group. In fact, the Red Chinese North China Power Group renamed the project the "LIPPO Entergy Datong Power Plant", giving top billing to the largest investor and financier. According to an interoffice memorandum written by J. "Chip" Brown, head of the Hong Kong office for Entergy Corp., Entergy officials met Jude Kearney, Clinton's Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce in Washington. Chip Brown sought a spot for Entergy's chief executive on the August 1994 trade trip to China. According to Brown's memo, Kearney "indicated competitive nature of being selected to ride on the plane with the Secretary. Also indicated that politics of the situation were important and he as a
[CTRL] Fwd: [sgra] SGRA NEWSLETTER 1/12/99
The Smoking Gun Research Agency E-Newsletter Topics: [1] Increasing Taos Hum Reports [2] FEMA Follow Up Article [3] Congress Package [4] What's Going On Here? * 1. Increasing Taos Hum Reports In the past week we at the SGRA have received over 7 reports from hearers of the Taos Hum. The Taos Hum is a reported low frequency hum which is heard around the world by many people (called the Taos Hum for it's first reported place, Taos, New Mexico). Many people believed that the hum from Taos was due to an underground base in the area because the hum appears more mechanical then natural. But we now know that the hum cannot be coming from an underground base because it is heard all over the world. So what is it's origin? Well, we still don't know that. We're looking at two main suspects though. Right now the Navy's HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project) and the Navy's E.L.F (Extremely Low Frequency) transmitters are at the top of the list. We hope to be able to bring you more information on this story as we get it. ((( For Further Information See: "HAARP Or Tesla Deathray?" SGRA Publication 1998 "Taos Hum Reports Sheet"SGRA Publication 1998 The HAARP PageWebsite http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/haarpIndex. html The Taos Hum Homepage Website http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/hum/hum1.html 2. FEMA Follow Up Article In the past few weeks I have been following stories and publishing articles related to FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency being the lead of a secret government planing on taking control of the United States come the Year 2000. I have been asked by many to provide sources as to where I have gotten my information, and although I cannot, and will not release all of my sources I intend to give you enough that you will know that what I am saying is not mearly paranoia or a plot against our government. As I have said I feel that most of our government does not know about FEMA's plans, or plans for the New World Order. They have either been kept in the dark, or like most refuse to accept the possibilities that something like this could happen by our government. We need to understand that our government has done many things against the United States people without our knowing. From FBI phone taps to FEMA, government agencies have long sense done things behind our backs. And the fact that officials such as Congress are not aware of these things is simply "Plausible Deniability." The powers given to FEMA were passed through a Presidential Executive Order, which whether Constitutional or not becomes law simply by it's publication in the Federal Registry. In this way Congress is bypassed completely so that they may indeed not know what is going on. Executive Order Number 12148 created the Federal Emergency Management Agency and gave it it's various powers. FEMA had one concept when it was created, to assure the survivability of the United States government in the event of a nuclear on this nation. It was also provided with the task of being the federal coordinating body in times of domestic disaster such as earthquakes, rioting, ext. It's powers grow under the leadership of people like Lt. Col. Oliver North and General Richard Secord, the people behind the Iran-Contra scandal and the looting of America's savings and loan institutions. FEMA has even been given control of the State Defense Forces, a ragtag, often considered neo-Nazi civilian army. Though it may be the most powerful entity in the United States government few people knew about it until just recently. However FEMA is controlling of more than just disasters. FEMA has crept into our personal lives each day. Even mortgage papers contain FEMA's name in small print. FEMA was deeply involved in the Los Angeles riots and the 1989 earthquakes. Much of the Black Helicopter activity in the United States is flown by FEMA personnel. But most of FEMA's black budget doesn't go to helping the United States. FEMA's budget falls into the category of "black" projects. Those are things like Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Area51, and other "nonexistent" projects. What is known is that FEMA only spent about 6% of it's budget on national emergencies. The bulk of their funding has been used to create secret underground facilities around the United States which exact purpose is unknown. One of these facilities is called Mount Weather, and rests in the small town of Bluemont, Virginia just 46 miles from Washington, DC Other FEMA installations are spread out around the US, the exact locations remain unknown. Mt. Weather was discovered by accident by a group of hikers looking for a downed air craft. The suddenly came across a 12ft. high fence with barbed wire ontop labeled "Government Land." Much like Area51 in Nevada the government would like to keep Mt. Weather buried in secret. If the public
[CTRL] Fwd: [BIOWAR] Anthrax Hoaxes Create Costly Wave of Fear
Anthrax Hoaxes Create Costly Wave of Fear By Rene Sanchez Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 11, 1999: Page A1 LOS ANGELES The latest targets were a high school and a popular nightclub. Before that, pranksters here struck courthouses, office buildings and a busy department store, creating chaotic evacuations and mass quarantines, all with the same terrifying, one-word threat: anthrax. A wave of hoaxes involving the lethal bacteria is spreading across Southern California and turning up in states nationwide. It is a fad so alarming, so costly and so confounding to police and public health officials that some almost sound wistful for the days when they had to contend only with phony bomb scares. Since late last year, nearly two dozen anthrax threats have been reported just in greater Los Angeles. They have been sent by telephone or by mail, and all have been proved false. But not before thousands of people at the allegedly contaminated sites have been detained for hours, given urgent doses of antibiotics, even ordered to scrub themselves in makeshift showers that authorities set up in parking lots. None of the incidents appears to be the work of the same group or individual, police say, and so far only one suspect has been apprehended and charged with a hoax. He is a 53-year-old accountant who has been accused of trying to delay his appearance at a bankruptcy hearing by calling a federal courthouse and claiming that anthrax had been released into the air-conditioning system. Anthrax spores, found naturally in diseased sheep and cattle, can also exist in other media, including water and soil. They can be transmitted by skin contact or spread in biological warfare in tiny, odorless clouds of gas that can be breathed by humans. Law enforcement officials say headlines about the grave dangers of biological weapons, along with Hollywood's new fascination with bioterrorism in films and television shows, apparently is convincing madmen and pranksters that there is no better way now to frighten the public. "I think we're dealing with nuts out there who are watching 'The X-Files' too much," said Tim McNally, chief of the FBI's Los Angeles field office. "We have never seen anything like this, and it is causing enormous problems. Any time you have a chemical or biological threat, it has to take the highest priority." The spate of hoaxes here is running public health and safety agencies ragged. Responding to each threat has required extraordinary time, care and money. By some official estimates, nearly $500,000 is being spent, and more than 100 health and safety personnel are being dispatched, for almost every incident. Even after a call has been proved fake, many who were affected by it carry lingering fears that their health has been jeopardized. "This is a terrible psychological crime," said Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Public Health Department. "We're seeing that the public anxiety about this is tremendous." After someone phoned in an anthrax threat to a nightclub in nearby Pomona just after Christmas, scores of firefighters, hazardous material teams and biological experts swept in and shut the place down while they investigated. All 800 people there at the time were forbidden to leave the club for four hours. Just two days earlier in Palm Desert, another Los Angeles suburb, an anthrax scare at a department store sent 200 shoppers fleeing into a parking lot. Health workers rushed to the scene, laid down tarps and set up showers, then required shoppers and sales clerks to remove clothing and rinse off with a bleach solution. They, too, were stranded for hours and were even provided with new clothing. After an anthrax scare at a Los Angeles office building, employees were rushed under guard to a hospital for treatment. And an Anaheim high school was quarantined one day
Re: [CTRL] Slave Documentation
-Caveat Lector- An apologist for slavery and . . . You may think what you want, but do you realize your rationalzations are inhumane. Your contention that owning people, because of interpretations of scripture, is a valid human endeavour is ill- founded. Slavery is wrong, is known by the fact of the actions of slavery, not by any vaunted scribblings. Lord, have mercy, the sufferrings from arrogannce saited by piety. A side-kick , someone to kick around. Embarrased? Shucks, wonder what your side-kick had to endure. The social rules were racist. Valid in the eyes of Jesus aka The Christ? Like I said, I was raised in the South, home of gentlemen/women and racism fostered by an illegal social and political system. The seperate facilities has stopped, why? Because it was wrong. Ladies couldn't even vote untill this century. Slavery comes in many forms. We shall overcome. You write me personally and complain about this post and this person and what are the rules. Yeah, there are rules and rule makers and rulers and yardsticks and junk-yard dogs. I ain'y yo mamma and if ya want a cop call 911. Actions begat reactions and so forth. Chill . . . Om K - In a message dated 1/11/99 1:37:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although prison life is no fun, it appears from evidence of the prisoners that they were better off there than in combat. snip As I mentioned, I grew up in the South... and have lived in the South most of my life. When I was in my late teens, I worked summers in the family business, which required some travel between towns in the South. I had a black "side-kick" or co-worker. It always embarrased me when he could not eat in the regular dining room of road-side restaurants (which have developed into truck stops). There were many reasons for such "social rules," some of which were valid, and others weren't. Most of the time I ate outside, or in the "back room" with Raymond (my co-worker). My family was in the theatre business, and at that time blacks were required to sit in the balcony... there were reasons for that, too, which I will tell you about by private email if you desire - DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Europe Plans Huge Spy Web
-Caveat Lector- from: http://jya.com/eurospy.htm A HREF="http://jya.com/eurospy.htm"Europe Plans Huge Spy Web/A - 7 January 1999. Thanks to RS. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000231145059143rtmo=LKlGGdydatmo= P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/7/ecnspy07.htmlpg=/et/99/1/7/ecnspy07.html UK Telegraph Online, 7 January 1999 Europe plans huge spy web By Simon Davies LAW enforcement agencies have laid the foundations for a massive eavesdropping system capable of intercepting all mobile phone calls, Internet communications, and fax and pager messages in Europe. The plan, known as Enfopol 98, has been drawn up in secret by police and justice officials as part of a Europe-wide strategy to create a seamless web of telecommunications surveillance across national boundaries. The strategy, which has received widespread support in the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council, will oblige all ISPs and telephone exchanges to provide agencies with "real time, full time" access to all communications, regardless of the country of origin. Current eavesdropping techniques require specific authority to be granted within each individual country so that agencies can monitor pre-designated communications within each jurisdiction. Under the proposed system, Europe will create a "one-stop shop" for snooping on communications. Satellite systems such as Iridium will be forced to create "wiretap-friendly" technology, while ISPs must submit to requirements for interception of content. The plan was revealed by the German Internet magazine Telepolis, which recently published details of the strategy. The EU has refused to acknowledge the status of the proposal, but it is now known that Enfopol has passed through the Justice and Home Affairs Council to the stage of draft resolution. So far, national parliaments have scarcely been involved. To the dismay of advocates of strong encryption, Enfopol will function on the principle that all code must be capable of being broken. The Enfopol system will be aided by a "subject tagging" system capable of tracking targets wherever they travel. Known as the "International User Requirements for Interception" (IUR), the tagging system will create a data processing and transmission network that involves not only the names, addresses and phone numbers of targets and associates, but email addresses, credit card details, PINs and passwords. The move to establish Enfopol follows a five-year lobbying exercise by American agencies such as the FBI. When completed, the system will provide a global interception regime. But the proposal has infuriated civil liberties and Internet rights organisations. Ian Brown, technology policy director of Privacy International calls, it a "sniper's bullet to the heart of privacy". - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] OEN 1/12/98
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - US Stocks A Bookstore Bigger Than Norway by Bob Harris Priced any internet stocks lately? This isn't just a speculative bubble. If Richard Branson's balloon was this large, he'd be all the way to Morocco by now. What's more valuable? The bookseller Amazon.com, which has yet to show a dollar in profit and is dwarfed in several respects by several of its competitors, or the country of Norway? You guessed it. Do the math, folks, and according to the speculators now ruling the casino on Wall Street, the market capitalization of Amazon.com now exceeds that of the entire stock market of Norway. Does that sound reasonable to you? It gets better. Suppose for a second that Amazon.com had a complete monopoly on every book sold in the United States. According to Barron's, the stock is still priced at fifty times the hypothetical earnings. Which means Amazon.com is now worth five to ten times what it would be worth if it sold every single book in America. Are we getting close to a crash? Oh, possibly. That hissing sound you hear might just be the airbag getting ready to [deflate]. Calling the exact timing of market movements is considered almost impossible, but two of the most powerful indicators of an impending downturn are a) the opinions of investment newsletters, and b) the ratio of people buying call options, (a high-risk, high-reward way of betting the market's about to go up quickly) to those buying puts (a similar bet on an impending drop). Both of these groups are notoriously wrong, so when you see all the newsletters going positive, or you see twice as many calls being bought than puts, that's usually a good time to start looking for the exits. Last week, Barron's reported what they termed a "buying panic" in call options, and the investment newsletters were more bullish than they've been in seven years. Uh-oh. This is just one guy's opinion here, so take my advice at your own risk -- it could be weeks before a downturn, or even months -- but remember the last time I was this amused by stock overvaluations was literally days before last summer's big pullback (radio edition of The Scoop, broadcast on KNX 1070 AM in Los Angeles 7/11/98). So do your own thinking. Norway, Amazon. Amazon, Norway. Hmm... I don't want to alarm anyone out there, but... RUN!!! The Scoop, Jan. 11, 1999 Information SuperSpyWay India Issues Red Alert Against US Network Software Encryption is weak so the NSA can spy on India THE Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has issued a `red alert' against all network security software developed in the US. And the Central Vigilance Commissioner, N Vittal, is following up on the warning - he might make it mandatory for all Indian banks and financial institutions to buy only software developed in India. The DRDO's concern about US-developed software stems from one basic insecurity - the data traffic and network security software that comes from the US can be easily hacked into and could prove to be a security hazard. Currently US software vendors can export only those "encryption software products" that can be `broken' by the US National Security Agency. This makes the quality of the US software exported to India doubtful from a security point of view. In a letter to the CVC, the centre for artificial intelligence of the DRDO, Bangalore, has said that it has begun to develop secure communication tools and will have an indigenous prototype in place in three months. The CVC is expected to wait for the final product before deciding on the action to be taken. The centre has developed software tools that protect wide area networks from hostile attackers. It is also developing software tools for protecting traffic passing through the network. "The encryption part of the software is complete and only the communication protocols remain to be written," the DRDO unit's letter says. "Since the software has been written by ourselves, there is no upper limit on the security level provided by the encryption in the software exported from the USA," it added. Pointing out the defects in imported software, the letter says that the present `firewall' products on sale by commercial vendors incorporate only rudimentary packet level filtering. These can be compromised easily. It also points out that as per US law, ``no encryption software products can be exported from the US if they are too strong to be broken by the US National Security Agency''. The letter says: ``To put it bluntly, only insecure software can be exported. When various multinational companies go around peddling `secure communication software' products to gullible Indian customers, they conveniently neglect to mention this aspect of the US export law. "Another related point is that when we buy an imported software product that is a `black box' to us, we cannot be sure that
[CTRL] Why you will survive Y2K
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_browne/19990111_xchbr_why_you_wi.shtml A HREF="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_browne/19990111_xchbr_why_you_wi .shtml"Why you will survive Y2K /A - MONDAY JANUARY 11 1999 Why you will survive Y2K By Harry Browne © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com There is good news and bad news regarding the Y2K computer problem. The good news: Civilization isn't going to collapse in the year 2000. The bad news: I don't know where you can unload all the coins and food storage you've acquired. Some companies and some government agencies will have problems on January 1, 2000 -- when some of their computers think it's January 1, 1900. But most companies will have no major problems, and life will go on largely undisturbed. For most of us, the problems of January 2000 will be smaller than the inconveniences we already endure -- such as the power failures from government-sheltered electric companies when we need air conditioning in the summer or heat in the winter. The Y2K problem has been exaggerated by people who don't understand computers, and by computer experts who don't understand how the free market works. Many large companies do need to upgrade old computer systems and databases (although your personal computer probably will have no problems). Upgrading a computer system is a formidable task. But so is moving into a new factory, changing a product line, or dealing with new regulations. Companies deal with such problems as they arise, and one way or another they usually solve them. The Y2K problem seemed uniquely dangerous because millions of companies have to deal with it at the same time. Hundreds of thousands of COBOL programmers would have to be found -- to examine old computer programs, change every date reference, and test the corrections. But, in truth, a widespread problem is easier to handle, because it offers bigger profits to people who can devise solutions. So now there are products like Revolve, Restore 2000, Milligration, and dozens more -- computer programs that go through old programs, fix the date problems, and test the results. These automated solutions eliminate the need for thousands of programmers. The Internet flourished in a similar, unpredictable way. If in 1994 someone had said there would be millions of World Wide Web sites in 1999, you might have assumed he didn't understand computers. Websites are written in a complicated computer language called HTML. Where are the hundreds of thousands of HTML writers necessary to build millions of sites? But software companies came forward with computer programs that enable people to build websites without understanding HTML. Other programs help specialists to produce the more sophisticated, animated, interactive sites. The result is that we do have millions of websites after all. Websites abound and Y2K is being handled because the computer industry is the freest in America -- providing computers thousands of times faster than those of 1985, while selling at a fraction of 1985 prices. Of course, if the Justice Department defeats Microsoft, we may soon have a Federal Computer Agency that delays new products for years -- until it satisfies itself that the products are safe, effective, and non-monopolistic. Then computers and software will become continually more expensive -- just like a hospital stay or health insurance. On the other hand, suppose the medical industry were as free and innovative as the libertarian world of computers and Internet websites -- released from government mandates and red tape. Imagine hospital stays costing, say, $300 a day, wonder drugs for 50 cents a pill, family health insurance for maybe $500 a year. Does that sound too good to be true? Freedom always does. But somehow -- in ways we can never foresee -- it always delivers the goods. Harry Browne was the 1996 Libertarian Party presidential candidate. Many of his articles are published at his website. GO TO HARRY BROWNE'S ARCHIVE CONTACT WND | SUPPORT WND | GO TO PAGE ONE | SEARCH WND ©1999 Western Journalism Center This page was last built 1/11/99; 2:10:46 AM Site scripted with UserLand Frontier Direct corrections and technical inquiries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris
[CTRL] ANSWER OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON TO THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/denial.htm A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/denial.htm"Answer of President William Jefferson Clinton T /A - For the record. Om K - IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES SITTING AS A COURT OF IMPEACHMENT ___ In re Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton President of the United States ___ ) ) ) ) ) ) ANSWER OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON TO THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, in response to the summons of the Senate of the United States, answers the accusations made by the House of Representatives of the United States in the two Articles of Impeachment it has exhibited to the Senate as follows: PREAMBLE THE CHARGES IN THE ARTICLES DO NOT CONSTITUTE HIGH CRIMES OR MISDEMEANORS The charges in the two Articles of Impeachment do not permit the conviction and removal from office of a duly elected President. The President has acknowledged conduct with Ms. Lewinsky that was improper. But Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution provides that the President shall be removed from office only upon Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. The charges in the articles do not rise to the level of high Crimes and Misdemeanors as contemplated by the Founding Fathers, and they do not satisfy the rigorous constitutional standard applied throughout our Nations history. Accordingly, the Articles of Impeachment should be dismissed. THE PRESIDENT DID NOT COMMIT PERJURY OR OBSTRUCT JUSTICE The President denies each and every material allegation of the two Articles of Impeachment not specifically admitted in this ANSWER. ARTICLE I President Clinton denies that he made perjurious, false and misleading statements before the federal grand jury on August 17, 1998. FACTUAL RESPONSES TO ARTICLE I Without waiving his affirmative defenses, President Clinton offers the following factual responses to the allegations in Article I: 1.The President denies that he made perjurious, false and misleading statements to the grand jury about the nature and details of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. There is a myth about President Clintons testimony before the grand jury. The myth is that the President failed to admit his improper intimate relationship with Ms. Monica Lewinsky. The myth is perpetuated by Article I, which accuses the President of lying about the nature and details of his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. The fact is that the President specifically acknowledged to the grand jury that he had an improper intimate relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. He said so, plainly and clearly: When I was alone with Ms. Lewinsky on certain occasions in early 1996 and once in early 1997, I engaged in conduct that was wrong. These encounters . . . did involve inappropriate intimate contact. The President described to the grand jury how the relationship began and how it ended at his insistence early in 1997 -- long before any public attention or scrutiny. He also described to the grand jury how he had attempted to testify in the deposition in the Jones case months earlier without having to acknowledge to the Jones lawyers what he ultimately admitted to the grand jury -- that he had an improper intimate relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. The President read a prepared statement to the grand jury acknowledging his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. The statement was offered at the beginning of his testimony to focus the questioning in a manner that would allow the Office of Independent Counsel to obtain necessary information without unduly dwelling on the salacious details of the relationship. The Presidents statement was followed by almost four hours of questioning. If it is charged that his statement was in any respect perjurious, false and misleading, the President denies it. The President also denies that the statement was in any way an attempt to thwart the investigation. The President states, as he did during his grand jury testimony, that he engaged in improper physical contact with Ms. Lewinsky. The President was truthful when he testified before the grand jury that he did not engage in sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky as he understood that term to be defined by the Jones lawyers during their questioning of him in that deposition. The President further denies that his other statements to the grand jury about the nature and details of his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky were perjurious, false, and misleading. 2.The President denies that he made perjurious, false and misleading statements to the grand jury when he testified about statements he had made in the Jones deposition. There is a second myth about the Presidents testimony before the grand jury. The myth is that the President adopted his entire Jones deposition testimony in the grand jury. The President was not asked to and did
[CTRL] 20/20 Revision
-Caveat Lector- from: http://hail.icestorm.net/twistory/1-15-99.htm A HREF="http://hail.icestorm.net/twistory/1-15-99.htm"1-15-99/A - Nice graphix and embedded links at site. Om k - 1-15-99 20/20 Revision Our eyes sometimes play tricks on us, memories of last Thursday's lunch is often a guess, and we always hear the telephone ring when we don't feel like talking to anyone.Answers to questions, in the strict sense, are either true or false, but it should be recognized that 'truth' itself is subject to change and at any given moment the current 'truth' of something is only another way of describing a consensually accepted opinion.New information changes opinion and suddenly we see things in a different light.Keeping up with the 'truth' can get tricky... When Eric Blair (writing as George Orwell) penned his famous dystopian novel, 1984, he introduced us to the chilling slogan, "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."While Blair was directly inferring reference to the mid-20th century totalitarian practice of not simply killing an enemy, but destroying every record or reference to the individual, the slogan also accurately described methods employed in quondam times. From the tactics of the Catholic Spanish Inquisition in destroying church and public documents of convicted heretics, back to the removal of Akhenaton's name and any trace of his religious reforms from monuments and statuary by Hor-em-heb and Ramses I in ancient Egypt, we may safely conclude that it is not uncommon for those in power to change ...history. The historian's task thus becomes extremely difficult in the face of the destruction of evidential data, and is further complicated when previous 'historians' get it wrong. At the beginning of this century a student of history would have been expected to be familiar with Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, the Greek writings of Herodotus and Thucydides, Caesar's Gallic Wars, the Roman authors Livy, Tacitus, and Suetonius, the Old and New Testaments, and the epic Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons.Maybe a further reading list of historical documents and treaties, a smattering of various sacred texts, and the works of Macaulay, Hume, and Toynbee would bring the student closer to solid grasp of written history.And then, spanning a 40 year period which comprised the middle of this century, we would expect a student to read Will and Ariel Durant's 11 volume The Story of Civilization (published between 1935 and 1975). Many other published histories, both scholarly and popular, have contributed to our better understanding of the past, but in recent years we have seen 'history' move closer to the level of a 'scientific discipline', and farther away from a tale well told.History has changed from a narrative reconstruction to an analytical assessment, and some would like to see it change even more. I initially became aware of the 'new' history with the release of Fernand Braudel's The Structure of Everyday Life (vol. 1 of his 3 vols. Civilization and Capitalism: 15th - 18th Century, New York: Harper Row, 1981-1984).In much the same way as archaeology matured in the late 60s and early 70s with the utilization of dendrochronology with carbon-dating, implementing a multi-disciplinary approach by inviting the participation of botanists, linguists, and other professionals, and basically changing from the adventure-charged model suitable for a Howard Carter or Indiana Jones, to a near-science of demanding exactitude, Braudel was the first (in my humble opinion) to optimize the potential available for the 'new' history.His efforts are inspiring in their accomplishment and serve as a gauge which future histories will be measured against. Not content to simply give the standard dates of this death or that war, Braudel siezes his subject firmly and masterfully addresses the misery of common economic life, subsistence agriculture and diet, available technology, disease and its transmission, and on and on. [Note: For a small sampling of Braudel's details in The Structure of Everyday Life, click here .]Enabled with such thoroughness a student of history may understand the subject with causal explanations instead of simply repeating who, what, and when.The 'new' history provides a 'why'. Besides improved methodology historians have also benefited from such advances in technology as numerous dating techniques and genetic testing. The recalibration of radio-carbon dating pushed back many Bronze Age and Neolithic sites by hundreds and, in some cases, almost two thousand years. Our ability to test DNA cleared up the Romanov mystery, has recently provided insights into the sex lives of Washington, Jefferson, and last week was being threatened against President Clinton and the long-alleged relationship with young Danny Williams, a la the novel and film Primary Colors, but the DNA test proved Clinton was not the father. Besides
[CTRL] The Republic of Oz: The Show Must Go On
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:477446"The Republic of Oz: The Show Must Go On/A - Subject: The Republic of Oz: The Show Must Go On From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Max Kennedy) Date: Mon, Jan 11, 1999 5:59 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It Sucks The Great Blowjob in the Sky Scandal Ive followed the assorted scandals of the last eight or so years very closely. The last time I checked, I had 20,000+ posts, almost all of them crossposted to alt.conspiracy and alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater. Some of these posts may have been cleaned out of Dejanews archives since they were made. Having been too deeply involved in the Conspiracy Theory world, I now know its all bullshit. If I had any doubts, it was confirmed by the Great Blowjob in the Sky scandal. This post will continue to grow, like a huge cock in the sky, as I flesh out the details. I originally wrote this as one long post, but decided instead to slowly increase the size of it as this naked circus continues. I only hope Lewinsky is personally interviewed by all 100 Senators, then it may get very large indeed. Colby Colby was one of my first attempts to post an *original* conspiracy theory. It was largely a sarcastic piece entitled Tip-a-canoe and Colby too. It worked. I also was giving information to Jim Quinn and getting replies as he asked questions to Christopher Ruddy about Colbys death on the air and in *real time*.Quinn runs the most popular talkshow in Pittsburgh, and Ruddy works for the Pittsburgh-Tribune and Scaife. Ruddy seemed surprised to be interviewed about it, but mentioned Quinn in his article he later wrote about Colby's death. Quinn never attributes his listeners even if he reads an entire (script) word for word. http://www.warroom.com/index.stm http://www.newsmax.com/ http://www.ruddynews.com/ http://www.triblive.com/ruddy/foster.html This is the first time I had doubts about what I read from reporters like Christopher Ruddy. I won't bore you with pages of similar incidents right now. We have many weeks yet to go! Was it really what they had discovered, or were they just coming up with facts supporting what people already were predisposed to believe? I dont know if anyone else was wrong, but I do detect cookie crumbs on my fingertips as I write this, and I also note there are no cookies left in the cookie jar. Ron Brown went down. It was suspicious.Ron Brown was heavily into DNC financing and was under investigation,. It was a conspiracy theory that was bound to take off. I threw my hat in, and so did many other people. The conspiracies continued.Boorda offed himself, I made the rounds with a conspiracy theory. Hillary Clinton was caught trying to talk to Eleanor Roosevelt with the help of Jean Houston. It was a good excuse to talk about dancing and trance states, LSD, and "mystery schools". Jean Houstons husband threatened to sue me if I kept it up. It died out on its own, else I would have gone down in a mire of personal glory and lawsuits. However, I was wrong for any pain I caused. I didnt use to care. TWA800 was a hotplate pretending to be a cookie jar..It was the third interesting plane crash in as many months. Since I was still unsure how much of my conspiracy theorizing was "real" or "prophecy", and how much of it was simply being confirmed by (someone) polling opinions on the internet and reporting facts to support useful opinions found, I decided to get in on the ground floor on TWA800 and start creating. http://www.iglou.com/homepages/mkennedy/twa2.html I went through the passenger list with a fine tooth comb. Out of all the passengers on the list, the odds of someone interesting being on that plane for a conspiracy theory were pretty good. Charles Betty was my candidate as an engineer for the Aegis missile system.It tied into the current missile theories, although a standard missile is a "little" large. http://www.iglou.com/homepages/mkennedy/twa2.html It worked. I saw the Aegis theory take root. It even made it into a book, the downing of TWA800, but by that time Charles Beatty had been filed off of the original theory. No matter, by this time George Magazine in their 1996 December issue had mentioned me as one of the more reasonable conspiracy theorists in connection with TWA800. Someone working for George Magazine is pretty astute. Of course Im reasonable about what I am selling. I recall the magazine had a big cover of an angel with strap ons, with the words, What Does America Believe?The challenge had been laid. http://www.iglou.com/homepages/mkennedy/george.html At this point I still didnt want to believe that we had, as one poster on the internet noted at the time, a feedback loop.It is now clear to me we did. Im not saying there isnt a lot of examples of government officials
[CTRL] January 1999 Paradigm Shift
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.illuminati:57508"January 1999 Paradigm Shift!/A - Subject: January 1999 Paradigm Shift! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PStuart) Date: Sat, Jan 9, 1999 4:56 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it happened again! Somehow, we've cast another issue of Paradigm Shift, the journal of Magick, Music, and Media, in glorious, low-tech HTML. http://members.aol.com/para93/ The January 1999 issue features: * Paul Krassner on humor and liberated communication * Erik Davis on Philip K. Dick * Philip H. Farber on a new system of neurolinguistic magick * Aaron Leitch on the Modern Occult Tradition * Jim Donovan of Rusted Root on music and altered states * Black Tape for a Blue Girl * John Densmore of The Doors on Jim Morrison and psychedelics * Robert Anton Wilson's Links for Stoned Surfing * Fallen, a mind-blowing novel by James Curcio Plus... All new poetry, incredible visual art, short stories, and much more... That URL again: http://members.aol.com/para93/ - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Rolling Stone Magazine Was Bribed
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Blacklisted News, Secret History . . . From Chicago, '68, to 1984 ©1983 Youth International Party Information Service Bleecker Publishing POB 392 Canal St. Station New York, NY 10012 ISBN 0-912873-00-0 - ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE WAS BRIBED TO 'KNOCK CHICAGO PROTESTS "We always knew something like this was going on," said Abbie, examining the galleys for the newest Yippie book at the OVERTHROW offices, "but, we couldn't prove it." Of all the later revelations about Chicago, this one was the most important, because the same Xerox, Palevsky, Warner Bros. crew are all continuously emerging, all during the decade, all thru this book, as a key nexus of liberal control-the advance guard of cultural reaction. Like the other selections here, this story is positioned for the sake of the narrative; publication date is noted at the end of most articles. by Mike Chance Rolling Stone magazine was paid $100,000 in the spring of 1968 by the Xerox Corporation in return for a pledge not to support leftist demonstrations at the Chicago National Presidential Conventions that summer. The loan prevented the collapse of Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone, for its part of the arrangement, published several editorials decrying the "Festival of Life" and urging demonstrators to stay away from the convention. After the convention the editorials blamed the demonstrators for causing the trouble. The revelations were made by Ms. Susan Lydon to Yipster Times. Ms. Lydon is one of five principals who formed Rolling Stone when it began in the summer of 1967, along with her husband, rock critic Michael Lydon, Ralph Gleason, Jann Wenner and one other person whose name was unavailable at time of publication. Ms. Lydon and her husband had previously worked for the radical publication Ramparts. After the sell-out, Ms. Lydon left Rolling Stone for "personal and political disagreements with Jann Wenner." Ms. Lydon, who has also worked for Ms. magazine and numerous other popular publications, is currently in the public relations staff of the Arica Institute, a popular psychic growth movement. At the time the loan was made "sometime in the spring of 1968," the Rolling Stone magazine was staffed with leftist-oriented writers. Big names not only from Ramparts but from the relatively new Berkeley Barb and San Francisco Oracle were pouring articles on rock culture into Rolling Stone. The sudden declaration by Jann Wenner in the editorial section of the paper in May of 1966, two months before the convention, that "rock music and confrontation politics don't mix," was greeted with massive disapproval from the burgeoning left. Despite persistent rumors of a sell-out by someone at the highest managerial levels of Rolling Stone, there had been no confirmation until Ms. Lydon's statement. Max Palevsky, Xerox magnate, has been a Rolling Stone backer. It is known that he has personal holdings in the corporation. Palevsky, a liberal Democrat who backed McGovern in 1972 until the Miami Convention, at which time he quickly backed out of his commitments. This extent of his political dealings and their effect on Rolling Stone's politics has long been a subject of discussion among media observers. Insiders at Rolling Stone, and outsiders, have frequently accused Rolling Stone of getting its initial successful impetus from a shady deal. The most common story circulated had it that Warner Communications had struck the deal for $100,000 in the fall of 1970. (See March, 1976, YT). Warner Communications had pulled several culture ripoffs, including the ill-fated "Medicine Ball Caravan." At the time of the alleged 1968 loan, according to Ms. Lydon, Rolling Stone "was on the brink of bankruptcy." Circulation for the paper had begun to drop after the first few months, and major distributors refused to touch it. Without the loan the paper would have folded within weeks. After the Chicago Convention and Rolling Stone's attacks on the left, corporate record ad accounts began to soar for the hard pressed rag. Within a few months it was on its way to being the most successful magazine of the decade. Ramparts magazine, which took no Xerox bribes, has since folded. YIPster Times, June 76 = JANN WENNER BI0 by Aron Kay "The YIP protest-in methods and means-is as corrupt as the political machine it hopes to disrupt." _Rolling Stone Magazine Editor Jann Wenner on May 11, 1968 "Rock writing at one time attracted some of the brightest talents of the Sixties generation of writers; it now is obvious that it draws only opportunists. "There have been numerous instances of pressure applied by record companies to get a certain performer on the cover of a certain magazine strictly on the basis of advertising volume, of pressure applied by magazines to obtain advertising, of pressure applied by writers to obtain junkets, of performers threatening or assaulting writers ... The record industry does exert a great deal of influence and can-and
[CTRL] Fwd: Two VERY SERIOUS Articles Re The POWER GRID: MUST READS!
As, always, . . . Om K - Subj: Two VERY SERIOUS Articles Re The POWER GRID: MUST READS! Date: 99-01-08 14:54:10 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hammell) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IAHF LIST: I just read the 80 page report of the North American Reliability Council (NERC) which submitted a report to the US Dept. of Energy entitled "Preparing the Electrical Power Systems of N.America for Transition to the Year 2000" I've also read Roleigh Martin's carefully considered criticisms of this report which can be found in two "MUST READ" articles that the site won't let you cut and paste due to how its formatted. Having read the NERC report and Martin's criticisms, I am even MORE glad that I'm actively preparing to get entirely clear of Miami. For: 1) How Confidant Are We Now That We Will Have Electrical Power in 2000? Go to: http://www.y2ktoday.com/modules/home/default.asp?id=372feature=type= Also read: 2) "Critical But Peripheral Issues With the NERC Report" Also by Roleigh Martin http://www.y2ktoday.com/modules/home/default.asp?feature=trueid=484 You can get to the NERC report off a link from these articles. You will need Acrobat reader to view. It can be downloaded for free if you don't already have it. ** IAHF website maintained by webmaster, Jan Rosenstreich, Mystic Gateway Holistic Center - http://www.castle.net/~mystic/ Donations needed for trips to Washington to Secure Congressional Oversight Hearing: IAHF 2411 Monroe St. Hollywood, FL 33020 USA 800-333-2553, 954-929-0507 fax, http://www.iahf.com,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Roleigh Martin: How Confident Are We Now That We Will Have Electricity in 2000? 10/1/98 Author: Roleigh Martin On August 17, 1998, the North American Reliability Council (NERC) submitted a report to the U.S. Department of Energy, entitled "Preparing the Electric Power Systems of North America for Transition to the Year 2000: A Status Report and Work Plan." Reviews of the NERC report have been made by Rick Cowles, Dick Mills and Sheri L. Garris. I personally did not find any additional items of encouragement from the report, so you will have to read these other reviews to hear their few words of praise. If one only researches Y2K by talking to Y2K project managers or Y2K public relation officials, one is led to believe that, for the most part, there will be no problems. However, the track record of finished large scale projects by government and corporate entities leads me to believe there is no justification in accepting the conclusion that there will be no major problems. Those who have this attitude should read the Y2K books of Capers Jones and Ed Yourdon, two of the best known project management analysts in Information Technology history. I want everyone to think back to their own days in school. We all can remember the mandatory deadlines for turning in tough assignments. These deadlines often resulted in people turning in poorly done assignments that were given too little time and attention. Just because everyone turned in the assignment on time, does not mean that everyone received a passing grade. When we hear Y2K utility project managers give their project presentations at legislative or Public Utility Commission hearings what they essentially are telling us is "how far are we are on our homework." Not one of the utilities in any of the hearings I have attended have told the audience how well they are being graded by a teacher (an outside consultant whose job it is to grade them). We all know that in international testing, Americans are notorious for over-rating their test successes as they leave the testing room. Nevertheless, self-grading does not make a utility a Y2k success. We are 100 percent in the dark as to how well any of our utilities are doing from a teacher's scoring standpoint. The Most Blatant Alarm Raised In The NERC Report Across the board, the project managers have started late, if at all, on the Y2k problem. The utility industry is outrageously, poorly managed. We all know how to count to 2000, yet the utility industry has abandoned Y2K compliancy, and are instead going for Y2K readiness. (see the latest North American Reliability Council (NERC) Y2K report According to page 25 in the NERC report: "Y2K Ready means a system or component has been determined to be suitable for continued use into the Year 2000. Note that this is not necessarily the same as Y2K Compliant, which implies fully correct date manipulations. Consistent with practices across other industries, the NERC assessment process has adopted the term Y2K Ready and does not use the term Y2K Compliant." = Peripheral but Critical Issues with the NERC Report 11/2/98 Author: Roleigh Martin Missing from the NERC report are examples of failures that have occurred in some power plants which
Re: [CTRL] Living in corporate America.
-Caveat Lector- Free at last, all mighty, free at last. Michael, your persistent challegenges for 'ideal'-'logical' purity bemoan the fact that the table is set and full of diners. Arrogant actors in a unduly, elaborate Greecian theatre of the absurd There is money in the bank and expectations of millions that 'continuity' of ' the System' shall continue. By wrapping many fates with their own the 'Conspiracy' attempts to set the stage, and picks the plays, actors and script. Epic scenes, casts of millions, gripping drama, raw sex, blood violence, pacing and pathos. I believe it was Mao, who said something like,"Power come from the end of a gun.' Revolutionary rhetoric. I would estimate that of over 50% of all consumer manufactured goods are coming from Communist China. Why? Well, because the capitalist built their latest and best manufacturing plants there? Why? Cheap Labour. Huge Market. And moreAloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris. Who Benefits?-- Where is the money going?. One would assume that China is making a profit, plus the agents? These are questions about the very real non-idealogical cryptocracies that we live in. These cryptocracies are very zeitgist in their outlook and use dogma to stifle. What do you do with the defective slaves? What do you do with the defective slaves? Do you set them aside? Do you boil them in oil? Do you deceive them, As, you bleed them, All the while? What do you do with the defective slaves? Do you get them to fight one another? You know, To save you the bother? Now, you lose, By the way, Everytime; But the play is the game, And it aint always the same. And isnt being a player, Better than, Being the game? What do you do with the defective slaves? Effectively, cajoling away, Away down the river, Away till the time, A will and a way, For the defective slaves. (C) !997 R. A. Kris Millegan Roads [EMAIL PROTECTED] MHO Om K - In a message dated 1/12/99 5:04:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nurev wrote: Historian Arnold Toynbee studied 21 past civilizations, looking for common factors in their demise. The two most important ones were the EXTREME CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH, and inflexibility in the face of changing conditions within and around them. Aaaah ... but were they FREE societies? Regard$, --MJ -- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Malaysia/Afghanistan
Need to Know Something Fast? Try STRATFOR's Find Facts Service Visit http://www.stratfor.com/findfacts/ Or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Global Intelligence Update Red Alert January 13, 1999 Possible Bin Laden Group Attempts Transit Through Malaysia Summary: * Seven Afghan nationals, reportedly arrested and detained in Malaysia on January 7 as they attempted to board a London-bound flight using forged Italian passports, may have been connected with Saudi terrorist financier Osama Bin Laden. This incident and increasing Bin Laden linked guerrilla activity in the Philippines suggest the potential for terrorist acts following the end of Ramadan on January 19. Analysis: China's Xinhua news agency reported on January 7 that Malaysia immigration authorities had detained seven Afghan nationals at the Bayan Lepas International Airport, when the group attempted to board a Singapore Airlines flight for London. Malaysian authorities stated that the reason behind the arrest was that the Italian passports that the Afghanis were carrying were believed to be forged, obtained most likely through the help of an Italian national who was also arrested. Penang Immigration Director, Md Saad Md Akhir, said that the seven Afghanis had been under investigation since they entered Malaysia on December 7 last year, via the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, using Afghan passports. They are believed to have acquired forged Italian passports from the Italian national after entering Malaysia, and to have tested them by entering Singapore on December 8 and returning to Malaysia on December 15. This incident may be nothing more than a failed attempt at illegal immigration, but circumstances surrounding the incident suggest it warrants further scrutiny. First, the possibility that these seven men were simply attempting to emigrate is hard to believe. They traveled out of Afghanistan, a country sending very few abroad, on official passports. In Malaysia, rather than simply requesting asylum or traveling elsewhere under their own documents, they somehow tracked down a man who could provide them with forged passports. The criminal effort to mask their identity, combined with their point of departure and target destination, is suspicious in and of itself. The seven may have been on a covert mission for Afghanistan's Taleban regime, but we suspect another sponsor -- Osama Bin Laden. As we have been monitoring in our Asia Intelligence Updates, Saudi terrorist financier Osama Bin Laden, currently based in Afghanistan, evidently maintains contacts and possibly banking operations in Malaysia. Furthermore, he has apparently recently used Malaysia as a transshipment point for arms, money and personnel to the Philippine Muslim extremist groups Abu Sayyaf and the Salafiyah Fighters. It is possible that these Afghan nationals were some of Bin Laden's "Afghan Arabs," traveling under Afghan passports, using Bin Laden's contacts in Malaysia to prepare for a mission in the United Kingdom. The London destination is particularly noteworthy. While London hosts an array of Middle Eastern opposition groups, possible targets for a Taleban-sponsored operation, it has also been Washington's staunchest ally on Mid East policy. This showed itself most clearly in the joint U.S.-UK air strikes against Iraq, Operation Desert Fox. Following the terrorist attacks last year on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the retaliatory strikes by the U.S. against targets in Afghanistan and Sudan, security has been bolstered at U.S. and British embassies, amid fears of further attacks by Bin Laden's network. Still, since last August, Bin Laden has not retaliated on a grand scale. However, as we have been observing and reporting, groups backed by Bin Laden have been on the move, and U.S. planners have clearly been bracing for trouble. U.S. embassies around the Persian Gulf went on a heightened state of alert on December 14, with the State Department warning of "the strong possibility" of terrorist attacks on U.S. interests over Christmas or the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan. U.S. citizens in Kuwait, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Yemen were told to be extra vigilant over the next 30 days. The threat increased when, on December 16, the U.S. and British launched strikes on Iraq. On December 25, Bin Laden called on Muslims to avenge the air strikes on Iraq, stating, "it is the duty of Muslims to kill American and British nationals in retaliation for the air strikes against Iraq." While the arrest of these Afghanis in Malaysia may have interrupted a plot to attack U.S. and British interests in London, Bin Laden's group and allies are clearly on the move again, with multiple target options. On January 2, Bin Laden said that attempts by Washington to disrupt his finances, arrest him or execute him have failed even though there have been
[CTRL] OEN 1/13/98
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Spy Toys NSA Declares Furbys a Security Threat However, they fall apart under interrogation Move over, Aldrich Ames. The National Security Agency has targeted a new national security threat capable of blabbing secrets to U.S. adversaries: the Furby. As harried parents scrambled in the weeks before Christmas to get their hands on these homely, high-tech cyberpets that supposedly repeat what they hear, the supersecret spy agency put out a "Furby Alert" on its internal intranet in early December and banned the Furby from Fort Meade. "Personally owned photographic, video and audio recording equipment are prohibited items. This includes toys, such as 'Furbys,' with built-in recorders that repeat the audio with synthesized sound to mimic the original signal," the Furby Alert warned NSA workers. "We are prohibited from introducing these items into NSA spaces. Those who have should contact their Staff Security Officer for guidance." What the punishment is for having a Furby on your desk at Fort Meade or how many Furbys actually are infesting NSA could not be immediately discerned. But with all transgressors under orders to turn themselves in, former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker speculated that "getting them [the Furbys] out is going to be almost harder than getting them in." "You'd have to take them to the basement," Baker deadpanned, "and sweat them a lot." Equipped with computer chips and the same kind of infrared transmitters and receivers found in TV remote controls, these $29.99 wonders (sometimes going for much more) speak, sleep, make weird noises and supposedly interact with their environment, repeating some of what they hear. It's hard to imagine them divulging state secrets, but who knows more about pulling in what it hears than the NSA, which intercepts electronic communications around the world using satellites and other highly classified means. NSA officials were worried, said one Capitol Hill source monitoring the intelligence community, "that people would take them home and they'd start talking classified." Steven Aftergood, who directs the Federation of American Scientists' project on government secrecy, said he wasn't surprised that the NSA, which is nothing if not bureaucratic and secretive, had drawn the line on Furby. "They can't simply say, 'Be smart, don't do anything to compromise security,' " Aftergood said. "There has to be a page in the security manual that says, 'No dolls with tape recorders.' " The Washington Post, Jan. 13, 1999 Impeached POTUS Clinton Pays Paula Jones $850,000 Hillary's cash balance falls WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton mailed a check for $850,000 to Paula Jones on Tuesday to settle her sexual harassment allegations, officially ending the sensational legal battle that cast his presidency into crisis. In the week his Senate impeachment trial was to resume, the president drew about $375,000 from his and Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal funds and got the rest of the settlement, about $475,000, from an insurance policy, a White House official told The Associated Press. ``This ends it. The check is being Fed-Exed'' to Bill McMillan, one of Mrs. Jones' lawyers, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official said the personal funds were drawn from the Clintons' blind trust, which was valued in their financial disclosure statement at between $1 million and about $5 million. None of the money was drawn from his legal defense fund, which raises money from private citizens to defray his legal bills, the official said. Still unclear is how much money from the check will make it into Mrs. Jones' bank account. As the settlement was reached in November, Mrs. Jones still faced an outstanding claim by Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert Davis, the two lawyers who quit her case last year and filed an $800,000 lien against any settlement in order to collect legal fees. ``I don't think it's been decided yet'' how much Mrs. Jones will receive, said her friend and adviser, Susan Carpenter McMillan. ``We did hear they are sending out the check. We hope to receive it soon,'' Carpenter McMillan said. While the check ends the litigation, the fallout from the controversy still haunts the president. Mrs. Jones' lawsuit brought to light the president's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and set in motion a criminal investigation that resulted in a historic House vote last month to impeach Clinton. The president files his trial brief on Wednesday, and House prosecutors on Thursday will begin presenting to the Senate their case that the president obstructed justice in the Jones lawsuit and lied about it before a federal grand jury. Clinton reached a settlement with Mrs. Jones on Nov. 13 after four years of litigation. Under that settlement, Clinton didn't admit any wrongdoing or apologize and
Re: [CTRL] Slave Documentation - H.H.
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/12/99 7:24:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- An apologist for slavery and . . . You may think what you want, but do you realize your rationalzations are inhumane. No I don't... As a matter of fact, if you could read (and understand what you read), I have repeatedly said that I do not advocate the enslavement of anyone. I do not personally approve of slavery. Seems you would finally get that through your head. Gee, Hawk, thanks for your condescending attitude. I am sure you are ready to listen. 1. Oh, you don't PERSONALLY approve of slavery. Well, I guess that makes you a good person(PC) or do you have someother reason for you letting us know that you don't PERSONALLY approve of slavery. Have you ever heard of the word hypocrite? hyp-o-crite (h p2õ-kr t1) n. A person given to hypocrisy. hy-poc-ri-sy (h -pÄk2r -sT) n., pl. hy-poc-ri-sies. 1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. 2. An act or instance of such falseness. from: A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9901aL=ctrlD=0O=A P=67326"CTRL archives -- January 1999, week 1 (#625)/A Hawk sez: I do not say that "owning a human being is a humane idea" -- but neither is it an inhumane act. - in-hu-mane ( n1hyá-mEn2) adj. Lacking pity or compassion. in-hu-man-i-ty ( n1hyá-man2 -tT) n., 1. Lack of pity or compassion. 2. An inhuman or cruel act. a-pol-o-gy (õ-pÄl2õ-jT) n., 2.a. A formal justification or defense. b. An explanation or excuse. a-pol-gist n. 1. One who argues in defense of any person or cause. slav-er-y (slE2võ-rT, slEv2rT) n., 1. The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household. 2.a. The practice of owning slaves. b. A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force. ra-tion-al-i-za-tion (rash1õ-nõ-l -zE2shõn) n. 2. An instance of rationalizing. ra-tion-al-ize (rash2õ-nõ-lhz1) v. r 3. To devise self-satisfying but incorrect reasons for (one's behavior). from: A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9901aL=ctrlD=0O=A P=67326"CTRL archives -- January 1999, week 1 (#625)/A Hawk sez: I personally do not wish to own a slave nor be a slave. - Gosh, again, how noble. Gee, you wouldn't wish to be a slave. But by your vaunted interpretation of scribblings you give PROVIDENTIAL AUTHORITY to the actions of slaveholding. Which I will stand-up again, and again and say -you are wrong. === Your contention that owning people, because of interpretations of scripture, is a valid human endeavour is ill-founded. A "valid endeaver?" Of course its a "valid endeavor." Murder is a "valid endeavor," if it accomplishes the perpetrator's goal. That doesn't make it a "desirable" activity in which to engage one's self. So you say that owning humans is a "valid endevor" val-id (val2 d) adj. 1. Well grounded; just. 2. Producing the desired results; efficacious. 3. Having legal force; effective or binding. 4. Logic. a. Containing premises from which the conclusion may logically be derived. b. Correctly inferred or deduced from a premise. 5. Archaic. Of sound health; robust. en-deav-or (Rn-dRv2õr) n. 1. A conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt. 2. Purposeful or industrious activity; enterprise. ear-nest1 (ûr2n st) adj. 1. Marked by or showing deep sincerity or seriousness. 2. Of an important or weighty nature; grave. Again, you are a hypocrite. In "desirable' to you mean worth doing, advisable or is it wrong to do? == Slavery is wrong, is known by the fact of the actions of slavery, not by any vaunted scribblings. Is it "wrong" because YOU say its wrong? Or because an amendment to the Constitution says its wrong? What makes an action "wrong?" Your bemuddled "logic" -- if such it could be called -- is "X (and action) is wrong because the action of X is wrong." I fear you'll have to improve before your "argument" is convincing to anyone who can string a group of words together and form a logical statement. == Thanks again for mocking my syntax. I am so sorry that you have a problem understanding it. I was paraprhasing some wise words from a wise man. 'By the fruits, ye shall know the tree" Slavery is wrong from the actions of slavery. Simple. Now, some words from "Hypocrite hawk" from: A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9901aL=ctrlD=0O=A P=67326"CTRL archives -- January 1999, week 1 (#625)/A That is merely your opinion, and it does not comport with the Bible. You are welcome to it, and you are certainly not alone in that opinion. But I base my criteria on "stronger stuff" than personal opinion. I would have to reject slavery,
[CTRL] Fwd: FC: Censored Australian crypto report liberated
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:52:41 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Greg Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Censored Australian crypto report liberated Declan, This may be of interest to you. Regards, Greg Taylor Electronic Frontiers Australia -- EFA has obtained access to an uncensored copy of the "Review of Policy relating to Encryption Technologies" (the Walsh Report) and this has now been released online at: http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Crypto/Walsh/index.htm The originally censored parts are highlighted in red. The report was prepared in late 1996 by Gerard Walsh, former deputy director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). The report had been commissioned by the Attorney-General's Department in an attempt to open up the cryptography debate in Australia. It was intended to be released publicly and was sent to the government printer early in 1997. However, distribution was stopped, allegedly at a very high (i.e. political) level. EFA got wind of this and applied for its release under FOI in March 1997. This was rejected for law enforcement, public safety and national security reasons. We persisted, and eventually obtained a censored copy in June 1997, with the allegedly sensitive portions whited out. The report was released on the EFA website, and in the subsequent media coverage the department claimed that the report was never intended to be made public, a claim that is clearly at odds with Gerard Walsh's understanding of the objectives, as is obvious from his foreword to the report. It has now come to light that the Australian Government Publishing Service, which printed the report, lodged "deposit copies" with certain major libraries. This is a standard practice with all Australian government reports that are intended for public distribution. The Walsh Report is quite possibly the first instance where a report was withdrawn after printing but before any public release. It is believed that the Attorney-General's department was unaware that not all copies had been returned to them. To this day, the report remains officially unreleased, except for the censored FOI version. Interestingly, several Australian government sites now link to the report on the EFA website. Quite possibly, this situation would have remained unchanged, except for an alert university student, Nick Ellsmore, who recently stumbled across an unexpurgated copy of the report, gathering dust in the State Library in Hobart. The uncensored version has now replaced the censored report at the original URL. The irony of this tale is that the allegedly sensitive parts of the report, which were meant to be hidden from public gaze, are now dramatically highlighted. The censored sections provide a unique insight into the bureaucratic and political paranoia about cryptography, such that censorship was deemed to be an appropriate response. The official case for strict crypto controls is conseuently weakened, because much of the censored material consists of unpalatable truths that the administration would prefer to be covered up, even though the information may already be known, or at least strongly suspected, in the crypto community. This apparent unwillingness to admit the truth is an appalling indictment on those responsible for censoring the report. It is indicative of a bureaucracy more anxious to avoid embarrassment and criticism than adhere to open government principles and encourage policy debate. Even worse, the censorship was performed under the mantra of law enforcement and national security, a chilling example of Orwellian group-think. There are also some controversial recommendations in the report that demand attention, since they could well be still on the current policy agenda, in Australia or elsewhere. Examples are proposals for legalised hacking by agencies, legalised trap-doors in proprietary software, and protection from disclosure of the methods used by agencies to obtain encrypted information, an apparent endorsement of rubber-hose code-breaking. On top of all this is the matter of allegedly sensitive material being released to public libraries. It would seem that a number of copies have been gathering dust now for at least a year. So far the sky hasn't fallen, nor has the country succumbed to rampant threats to national security. Attached is a brief summary of what seem to be the important censored items, including a few which make the Attorney-General's Department look somewhat precious, to put it mildly. The more interesting exercise is to scroll through the report until you see red ;-) Greg === Paragraphs censored for reasons of national security, defence or international relations - A statement that there are "design flaws" in US and British key recovery proposals (1.2.52 and 1.2.57) - An opinion that
[CTRL] Fwd: [priory-of-sion] pos fraud article notes (LONG)
From: "Ludo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notes On Part One of "The Unknown Treasure : The Priory of Sion Fraud And The Spiritual Treasure of Rennes-Le-Chateau" by Robert Richardson from The Rennes Observer Begins by recognising importance of the subject of Rennes-le- Chateau to genuine students of the Western esotoric tradition, but decries increasing trend of the publication and promotion of material that is "purely hypothetical, which is neither factual or experiential, and which, in some cases, is entirely fabricated" Posits that the story popularly known to the 30,000 annual visitors to Rennes-le-Chateau is false, that while the area has "genuine spiritual importance, the information forming the core publicity about it is was fabricated in the last several decades for deliberate ends." Claims that the fabricated evidence was fed to well-intentioned authors, and that the underlying disinformation has been re-iterated and perpetuated by later, similarly well-intentioned authors seeking to elaborate on the RLC story Breaks the elements of the RLC story down to four elements: 1) The story of Father Berenger Sauniere and his contemporaries 2) The story of what Sauniere found 3) The story of how and why a 20th century group fabricated the false history of what they pretended was an ancient esotoric society called the Priory of Sion 4) The story of how writers, publishers and readers swallowed and embellished the disinformation created by the so-called Priory of Sion Decides that in order to take a fresh look at the significance of RLC, it is necessary to investigate the Priory of Sion fraud, to see what group created it, and how Essay begins with a look at the occult revival in mid-19th century France, citing Paris as a centre for esotoric groups and the increasingly open discussion of occult subjects. Points out that many esotoric groups were founded and then just as quickly broke up into competing splinter groups, with many individuals belonging to several different esotoric orders. Claims that this background created "a confusing climate of overlapping memberships and affiliations." that continues to impact on cultural and esotoric thought today. He claims that some of the theories about reforming society that arose during the French occult revival would not become widely known until after the Russian revolution. The main thrust of these theories was to attack the errors of the "corrupt and morally bankrupt society spawned by the Second Empire of Napolean III", seeing the policies as stemming from a mistake made in the past. He agrees that such a conclusion was easy to make since France's socio-political structure had been in a state of turmoil since the Revolution. Claims that until 1905 (when the government formally separated the Catholic church and the state), 3 factions were locked into a battle "which would forever end the institutional power and priviledges of two of the combatants: 1) The Royalists (the old ruling classes and those favouring their return) 2) The Church (a Royalist ally seeking to maintain its historic power base) 3) The Repubulicans (composed in the RLC territory of the Languedoc primarily of freemasons, the working classes and influential rural citizens. During this time of chaos, there were increasing calls to reform and change society, "to return it to a spiritually focused state from which mankind could reform an increasingly dehumanised world." Places origins of "synarchy" in the 1880s with a man called Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre. Claims that forty years later, after bubbling along in esotoric circles, synarchy entered the political mainstream. Defines synarchy (or joint rule) as a combination of the esotoric and the political - select groups of initiates influencing groups which represent different aspects of society. Saint-Yves d'Alveydre's model was the Knight Templars, who he saw as secretly directing the society of their time in this way. He believed that a return of Templar principles would leads to the creation of an ideal society. Claims that the principles were seen as a threat by the Royalists, Church and far right, adding fuel to their belief that freemasonry was their natural enemy - and as such the influence of freemasonry and synarchy had to be ended, leading to the denouncing by the French far right of Jews and Freemasons "with the same breath" Says that these attitudes were further spurred on by influence of Papus and the banding together of fourteen initiatic orders (including the Traditional Martinist Order, The Order of Hermes and AMORC) into a federation called F.U.D.O.S.I - which was seen as a new power centre against the far right. The far right responded by founding a host of pseudo-esotoric groups with far-right attitudes and pro-Catholic stances in an attempt to counter- balance their influence. Identifies one group which appears to fall into this category, which was founded at the time : Alpha Galates
[CTRL] Dissembling, Deception, and Lies
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:478121"Dissembling, Deception, and Lies/A - Subject: Dissembling, Deception, and Lies From: Ralph McGehee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Jan 13, 1999 9:53 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --A8E69707B1A57BDC44EFCC35 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --A8E69707B1A57BDC44EFCC35 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Pubpao" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Pubpao" Dissembling, Deception and Lies The Agency's domestic propaganda operations are continuous and massive although hidden from sight -- and I assumed, illegal. However, we have a document released under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that sets forth the operations of the Agency's Public Affairs Office (PAO). The below are partial quotes from that document. After quoted details from that document, further below is a brief examination of the CIA's clandestine use of the domestic media in the 50s' 60s' and into the seventies. It should be noted that the CIA ran massive media operations around the world to overturn other governments -- this subject is huge and also requires study. The best available example of this usage is contained in the Church Committee's report of the Agency's covert operation to overthrow the Allende government in Chile from 1963 - 1973. I posted extensive quotes from this document recently and they can be found at my web site: http://www.members.tripod.com/CIABASE/index/html Ralph McGehee CIABASE 20 December 1991 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence (After a number of introductory remarks the document sets forth the programs of the Public Affairs Office (PAO). A. MEDIA 1) Current Program: a. PAO now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation. This has helped up turn some "intelligence failure" stories into "Intelligence success" stories...In many instances, we have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold, or even scrap stories b. PAO spokespersons build and maintain these professional relationships with reporters by responding to daily inquiries from them over the telephone (3369 in 1991), by providing unclassified background briefings to them at Headquarters (174 in 1991), and by arranging for them to interview the DCI, DDCI and other senior Agency officials (164 in 1991). c. PAO responds to numerous requests from authors, researchers, filmmakers, and others seeking information, guidance, or cooperation from the Agency...Some responses can be handled in a one-shot telephone call. Others, such as Life Magazine's proposed photo essay, BBC's six-part series, Ron Kessler's requests for information for his Agency book, and the need for an Agency focal point in the Rochester Institute of Technology controversy drew heavily on PAO resources. d. PAO has also reviewed some film scripts about the Agency, documentary and fictional, at the request of filmmakers seeking guidance on accuracy and authenticity (sic). In a few instances, we facilitated the filming of a few scenes on Agency premises. Responding positively to these requests in a limited way has provided PAO with the opportunity to help others depict the Agency and its activities accurately and without negative distortions e. PAO coordinates the preparation of detailed background materials, usually in QA format, on major news issues for the DCI and the DDCI for their appearances before media groups, world affairs councils, universities, and business and professional groups. PAO also prepares verbatim transcripts of their interviews with reporters and their appearances before media groups. 2) Recommendations: (This section generally calls for expanding public relations efforts.) B. ACADEMIA 1) Current Program a. The Agency has a wide range of contacts with academics through recruiting, professional societies, contractual arrangements and OTE. PAO has recently been designated the focal point for all information about CIA's relations with the academic community. As such, PAO is building a database of information about Agency contacts with academia-conferences and seminars, recruiting officers and scholars-in-residence, contracts, teaching--and serves as the clearinghouse of such information for Agency employees. b. PAO officers also speak to approximately 250 academic audiences a year. Subject areas vary, but the focus on the structure and functions of the CIA, its role in the intelligence community, the intelligence process, and congressional oversight. PAO has developed a speakers' package for Agency officers and retirees who speak in public, including an annually updated QA
[CTRL] Pinochet Murder Mystery
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:478098"Pinochet Murder Mystery/A - Subject: Pinochet Murder Mystery From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ifmagazine) Date: Wed, Jan 13, 1999 9:22 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A potential witness in the human rights case against Gen. Augusto Pinochet disappeared in Uruguay a few years back. The witness had been one of Pinochet's technical experts on assassinations, a scientist who had developed the nerve gas, Sarin, for Pinochet's intelligence arm, DINA. The scientist "disappeared" after being sought for a human-rights trial in Chile. He reappeared briefly in Uruguay at a police station as he begged for protection and claimed that he was to be executed on Pinochet's order. Armed men then arrived and took the scientist away. Years later, authorities found what they believe to be the scientist's remains. This murder mystery that bears on the current legal wrangling over a possible human-rights trial for Pinochet in Spain can be found at The Consortium web site at http://www.consortiumnews.com The Consortium is a free web site but we urge those who wish to support our investigative reporting to subscribe to our bi-monthly publication, iF Magazine, which also contains new articles about the Pinochet case, the connection to former President George Bush and behind-the-scenes accounts of the Washington impeachment battles. A subscription to iF Magazine costs $25 a year and can be obtained with Visa/Mastercard either by e-mail or by calling 1-800-738-1812 or 703-920-1802, or by check to The Media Consortium, Suite 102-231, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Pirate Issue
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:478013"The Pirate Issue/A - Subject: The Pirate Issue From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mik*_ Schn*der) Date: Tue, Jan 12, 1999 11:49 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (This is why I will always be using Macs, even if Steve Jobs is a bozo.) Mac Addict #30 Feb 99 "Special Pirate Issue" ...among other featured articles: BEAT THE MAN: Set up a renegade internet radio station! (That's right, blowhard! You can take your incoherent ramblings to the web and reach more people than Rush and Howard combined. All you need is Quicktime 3.0, a Mac, and a modem.) Fake IDs: cheap, easy and illegal! (The latest round of printers and scanners makes is easier and cheaper than ever for the unscrupulous to fake an identity. Our own Robert Capps discovers just how easy it is -- and reports on what hardware to watch for.) -- What a great article! Scanners, printers software reviewed. This would be a killer combo with John Newman's "Understanding US Identity Documents" (Available through Loompanics Unlimited). * * * * And the very best reason to own a Mac: A Customs Check in the Peoples Republic Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:18:12 -0400 From: "K. N. Cukier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Searched at UK Border for Net Porn Sender: "K. N. Cukier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some days it's a bad hair day, other days you see the suite of Western values since the Enlightenment quashed in an instant by a single, soulless, civil servant. Here's what happened to me last Friday when I arrived in London from Paris on the channel tunnel train: As I walked through UK immigration, two guys pulled me aside, flashed badges, and said: "UK Customs. Come with us." They walked me behind a wall where they handed me off to one of a fleet of waiting agents. A customs officer told me to lay my computer bag on the table, and inspected my ticket and passport. After learning I was a reporter, she demanded to see my press card (issued by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and asked about where I was going in London, why, and for how long. "Do you know there are things that are illegal to bring into the UK?" she asked. "Uh, yeah There are *many* things that are illegal to bring across borders -- do you have in mind any thing in particular?," I said. "Illegal drugs, fire arms, bomb making materials, lewd and obscene pornographic material" I felt a rush of relief. I was late and now was assured I could get on with my journey. "I am carrying none of that," I replied, staring directly at her, with a tone of earnest seriousness. "Is that a computer in your bag?" "Yes." "Does it have Internet on in?" Here, I confess, I really didn't know how to answer. What does one say to a question like that?? I was struck dumb. "I use the computer to access the Internet, yes," I said, rather proud of myself for my accuracy. "Is there any pornography on it?" she said, stoically. Here, I figured out what's going on. But I'm mentally paralyzed from all the synapses sparkling all at once in my head: Does she not understand that Internet content is distributed around the world? That I'm just dialing a local number, be it in France or the UK, and that whether I cross a border is moot to what I'm able to access? "There is no pornography stored on the hard drive," I stated. "Do you mind if I check." she says rather than asks, and begins to take the computer out of the bag. "I'm just going to hook it up over there and scan the hard drive..." she continues. And then her face turns dour. "Oh! It's an Apple," she says, dejectedly. "Our scanner doesn't work on Apples." [And by the time they figure that out, I'll be they wouldn't have the slightest clue how to extract porn from an encrypted Shrinkwrap archive!] At this point, it's all a little bit too much, too fast, for me to handle. From seeing my personal privacy ripped out from under me with a computer-enema to an immediate about-face and witnessing my oppressors flounder in the pap of their own incompetence was just too much to bear. Then, of course, I sort of relished the irony of it all. I swung into naive-mode: "Oh. Oh well," I said and began packing up. "Why not?" "I dunno -- it just doesn't," she said. "Is this a common thing that you do? Scan PCs?" "It happens quite often," she said. (Note: I wrote this entire dialogue immediately after the incident, but that particular quote I wrote the moment we parted, to have it exactly right.) "Do you catch a lot?" "Sometimes," she says, cautiously. What's the fine? The penalty?" I asked. She started to become uncomfortable and tried to move me along. "It depends. Every case is different. It depends what they have." "What about if I had encryption -- do you check for that too?" I said, disdaining the risk that she might want to check the computer "by hand" since I'd mentioned the dreaded C-word "Huh?! I don't
[CTRL] New World Order
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:477975"New World Order/A - Subject: New World Order From: "Muad'ib" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Jan 12, 1999 8:12 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am researching for some time now the New World Order that presidents all over the world have talked about all this past century , i am interested to share views with people that possess information about it , i am not interested in theorys , that i can find for myself , i am interested in factual information about this subject in order to form enough evidence on the structure that supports the future implementation of this World Government and if possible expose it. I do not care if you are CIA or FBI or MOSSAD , i make a plea to anywone who might have information about this subject to reveal it , it concerns you all , it threatens all your families , all around the western world . I also have to make a warning to all that discuss this subject , some with fear some with no knowledge of what is it really about. The World Government is in place for some time now , it is not a theory it is reality . Those who are afraid don't be , all you have to do is to be aware , search for information and share with others , thats freedom only hope nothing else but theyre exposure can save us all , there is no place to run to. Those who do not believe i make a plea , please give the benefit of the dought and search for FACTUAL information about the illuminati , the bildberg group , the trilateral comission and all other groups like FEMA , CFR , MI5 , check their logos and symbols and compare with the old illuminati order , then read what is their ideology , you will see that we can only question their goals and expeculate who they are, because the new world order is a reality , for you to understand more i will quote a statement of 25th birthday of the trilateral commission: "We know, for sure now, that the future will involve more than the three corners of our triangle. Technology has abolished time and space as the traditional basis of governance. A new form has to emerge and with more actors. The qualities of innovation we demonstrated for the last twenty-five years are challenged again. The moment is coming when it will be clear to all, in particular to us-friends and members of the Trilateral Commission -- that the best, maybe the only, way to defend the interests, traditions, and hopes we cherish will be to place them resolutely within the context offered by the disciplines and opportunities of a genuine world order, genuine because created and recognized by all as fair and legitimate. The first global history of mankind is about to start. A new window is opening. The challenge is clear." (http://www.trilateral.org/nagp/regmtgs/25us/tributes.htm) Do you bet your sons and loved ones lives that there is really nothing to worry about , without even checking for yourself ??? If you have sensitive information to send , my public pgp key is at bottom. please send all your emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Only those who have the courage to open their eyes , are able to see" Carlos G. -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use http://www.pgpi.com mQGiBDab910RBADGLIsetSxbJz0g4056VnXr4cN+izRY36QcKQC6+xFNLzANJML2 IFHNS6kOyVeC9YLkA46YDaHXFNW8qxXap3lHhq59Lsfay5h+c4uMLCgoG34cuaDS Ryp1nfxk5txtM6Arh/ZEISo3Peb0Dr0ALLMoxS4VKyeMviPRp8aeFnqGpwCg/9An LAlj2o/+Ww+xWWM8LEvf19sD/1sFSiH4l9E6vPdsLaCWAyRQd+gGdSeujDZnOQYo FhMUbwohwoJP6QpSiaGZ0/VG4EMP1f1UAdd4UDePbpBjGZ2UfFuHLNDmZff3AKSP 5eVEvbIk8arY8/mXQpuwUBdbqT+hoZREJHW/llxsMmF+dVjZY6ps9y6wuNOj7MzZ xpVZA/4jTTQaNqaCVp404raZbyl1GqVDqKZCvjgoU3Y2/0rv28Bfj6+xKrJnylj3 nLa0pmVcMvS/J3XjAhRbvvs6eozMtH3PyUFY5T3P1eO6KE8fqYJIS3cBtgwMG7wc otSlpaI9yb36ePU5AEjmHewovugcoMOWqOTmsNrBMilIkVCs6LQ6Q2FybG9zIEFs ZXhhbmRyZSBkb3MgU2FudG9zIEdhbHZlaWFzIDxmZWRha2ltQGhvdG1haWwuY29t PokASwQQEQIACwUCNpv3XQQLAwIBAAoJEHRfJzDHE+sE4rgAnRC5CDE4QCex3NPR 7jUHALUfSBwjAJ9/crPYbi5gM7Q54or8q3p6zlSkd7kEDQQ2m/ddEBAA+RigfloG YXpDkJXcBWyHhuxh7M1FHw7Y4KN5xsncegus5D/jRpS2MEpT13wCFkiAtRXlKZmp nwd00//jocWWIE6YZbjYDe4QXau2FxxR2FDKIldDKb6V6FYrOHhcC9v4TE3V46pG zPvOF+gqnRRh44SpT9GDhKh5tu+Pp0NGCMbMHXdXJDhK4sTw6I4TZ5dOkhNh9tvr JQ4X/faY98h8ebByHTh1+/bBc8SDESYrQ2DD4+jWCv2hKCYLrqmus2UPogBTAaB8 1qujEh76DyrOH3SET8rzF/OkQOnX0ne2Qi0CNsEmy2henXyYCQqNfi3t5F159dSS T5sYjvwqp0t8MvZCV7cIfwgXcqK61qlC8wXo+VMROU+28W65Szgg2gGnVqMU6Y9A VfPQB8bLQ6mUrfdMZIZJ+AyDvWXpF9Sh01D49Vlf3HZSTz09jdvOmeFXklnN/biu dE/F/Ha8g8VHMGHOfMlm/xX5u/2RXscBqtNbno2gpXI61Brwv0YAWCvl9Ij9WE5J 280gtJ3kkQc2azNsOA1FHQ98iLMcfFstjvbzySPAQ/ClWxiNjrtVjLhdONM0/XwX V0OjHRhs3jMhLLUq/zzhsSlAGBGNfISnCnLWhsQDGcgHKXrKlQzZlp+r0ApQmwJG 0wg9ZqRdQZ+cfL2JSyIZJrqrol7DVes91hcAAgIP/jxVXuZFg98e48aYvFI6s2Bs DbatEpr8ky+y36EsTuEQCuqStcbBLj7lJBqthR1ck+yjmzcPh+9oiee4PZGv14HQ NUqkL52Zv4WwVcc594rNP97vgcN4ogIJTTGEvLrZr/83NeaMSmQ/IxmbOefKZTgc /3UxzjRBHrmLsxKfqkLW534456LJrUW2bloJhCgzDB9BcVp5nBMOJceETYdF/Mx1
[CTRL] Fwd: Mysterious Spraying Update
MYSTERIOUS SPAYING SAID TO BE SECRET-MILITARY OPERATION The Environmental News Service (http://www.ens.lycos.com) has a follow-up to their report about multiple sightings around the U.S. of massive grid-work patterns in the sky being created by fleets of jets that fly back and forth and spray down a material that seems to make people ill. (see http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan99/1999L-01-08-05.html) In their follow-up [1], ENS interviews Thomas Farmer, an ex-Raytheon Missile Systems engineer who's been tracking the mysterious spraying incidents for over a year. Farmer has confirmed that jets used to spray are Air Force jets, and he's made several collections of the cobweb-like, or "angel hair," material the jets are spraying out, which made him, just like many others, sick after contact. It appears to be a substance used to seed (build) clouds. ENS reports that Farmer is "fairly certain the contrail phenomena is one part of a military weather modification weapons system." The ENS report then observes that a sub- set of the military plan to use weather as a weapon and create a "Weather Force," is massive cloud-seeding that will work in with the HAARP antenna in Alaska, which is the U.S. military's primary weather-weapons system, which can exert effects on locations across the earth. The openly-stated goal for the U.S. military is to "own the weather" [2] by year 2025 and to thereby be able to bring target populations to their knees by "storm enhancement," "storm modification," and being able to "induce drought." [1] So rather than natural laws of solar-heating and earth-rotation directing the weather, the weather will be determined by who is pleasing or displeasing our military masters, or then again, perhaps power does not really corrupt. A U.S. military webpage [3] states that weather modification by the military is intended to allow for "storm triggering/enhancement using airborne cloud seeding." That military webpage also says: "A global network of sensors provides 'weather warriors' with the means to monitor and accurately predict weather activities and their effects on military operations. A diverse set of weather modification tools allows manipulation of small- to-medium scale weather phenomena to enhance friendly force capabilities and degrade those of the adversary. Many of the sensors required for this system are assumed to be...part of the global information management system (GIMS)..." Apart from allowing for an Orwellian-weather tyranny, military-weather control could lead to environmental catastrophe, since the desire to exert control will conflict with and overpower rational environment con- siderations, particularly if control is directed under the cover of military secrecy. Deliberate large-scale modification of the weather must be the most dangerous thing we could do to our planet, and it appears that military-weather-control planning is being done in secret, outside the realm of democratic oversight, just where it needs to be for the worst outcomes! __ [1] Read The Full Environmental News Service Report "Mystery Contrails May Be Modifying Weather" (1/12/99): http://www.ens.lycos.com/ens/jan99/1999L-01-12-01.html [2] Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025: http://www.au.af.mil/au/database/research/ay1996/acsc/96-025ag.htm [3] Military Weather Analysis and Modification System: http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume4/chap03/b9_2.htm After my first message on this topic one person replied saying the grid pattern of contrails appeared in their area in Idaho and 13 people (mostly old) died shortly there after. Another person responded saying they've seen unique grid-work contrail patterns in Georgia. _ Web Pages On The HAARP Weather-Weapon System: NEXUS article on HAARP: "Vandalism in the Sky" http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/vandalism.html And at: http://www.icom.net/~nexus/HAARP.html . http://www.haarp.com http://www.xyz.net/~nohaarp/pandora.htm http://www.relaypoint.net/~patriot/haarp1.htm Cloud Seeding Weather Modification Pages: http://www.tecom.army.mil/tts/1997/proceed/abarnes/sld004.htm http://rams.atmos.colostate.edu/gkss.html http://ae.atmos.uah.edu/AE/ams_97a.html http://www.atmos-inc.com/weamod.html http://www.dri.edu/ASC/WxMod/HomePage.html http://www.au.af.mil/au/database/research/ay1996/saas/coble_bb.htm http://www.wmi.cban.com http://earth.agu.org/revgeophys/czys01/czys01.html ___ IAN GODDARD'S ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN JOURNAL --- http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm - the critics are raving - "Shouldn't this be expunged?...[since] it is spreading fear and suspicion of the government." Lesley Stahl (CBS - 60 Minutes) Call the police! Newsday reports that "another site linked to Goddard's" is linked to
[CTRL] CTRL(1)The Maximum Wage
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: The Maximum Wage by Sam Pizzigati The Apex Press (C) 1992 777 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017 212/953-6920 ISBN 0-945257-45-7 - A very intersting and well researched book. I found it to be very informative. Personally, I would like the 'Fed' gone and non-usurious notes issued by the government. MHO Om K - pp. 37-59 2. The Wars Against Wealth Nobody gave Hattie Caraway much of a chance. In the 1932 Arkansas election for United States senator, Caraway, a caretaker incumbent appointed to the seat held by her late husband, faced six other candidates. A week before the election, no one in Arkansas politics considered her a viable contender.(1) But Hattie Caraway had, in her brief stint as senator, made one very astute move. She had earned the gratitude of the junior senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long, by supporting his proposed Senate resolution to limit the wealth and incomes of America's richest people. In the closing weeks of Hattie Caraway's campaign, Long repaid the favor. He brought his tax-the-rich and share-the-wealth message to the Depression- ravaged farmers of Arkansas, all the time singing Hattie Caraway's praises. "Think of it, my friends!" Long told one cheering rally. "In 1930 there were 540 men in Wall Street who made $100,000,000 more than all the wheat farmers and all the cotton farmers and all the cane farmers of this country put together." "And you people," the homespun Long added, "wonder why your belly's flat up against; your backbone!"(2) On Election Day, Hattie Caraway pulled a political miracle. She won her Senate bid, receiving more votes than the other six candidates combined. In 1932, such was the power and the reach of Huey P. Long. Today, we remember Huey Long, if we remember him at all, as a rustic eccentric, the root of a Louisiana political dynasty, a colorful political clown who never missed a parade, a dark, evil force whose strong-arm tactics as governor helped earned him the label as "the most dangerous man in America." What's been forgotten is what Huey Long had to say and the political significance of his immense popularity. For a brief few years, Long led the most popular campaign against rich people in American history. Huey Long, a critical biographer noted years ago, "dared put his fingers into the real ulcer of social evil in American life," the inequitable distribution of wealth.(3) And he spoke a political language Depression America could understand. "Unless you redistribute the wealth of a country into the hands of the people every fifty years, your country's got to go to ruination," Long warned. "Too many men running things that think they're smarter than the Lord."(4) Most Americans found Long's analysis of the Depression eminently sensible. "There's too much concentration of wealth among a few people," Long noted in one 1932 interview.(5) "Now as long as the government permits the pilin' up of huge individual fortunes, which is expressly forbidden in Leviticus, we are goin' to have crime and spoilin' and trouble," he added in another.(6) In 1932, on the floor of the United States Senate, Long proposed that the tax laws "be so revamped that no one man should be allowed to have an income of more than one million dollars a year" and that "no one person should inherit in a lifetime more than five million dollars withoutworking for it."(7) "What is a man going to do with more than $1,000,000?" Long asked his Senate colleagues.(8) "If we could distribute this surplus wealth, while leaving these rich people all the luxuries they can possibly use, what a different world this would be."(9) Long's resolution received only a handful of Senate votes, but people-and politicians-took notice. In the 1932 Presidential campaign, Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover both echoed Long's egalitarian message. FDR, accepting the Democratic nomination, announced that Americans "look to us for guidance and for a more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of the national wealth."(10) Hoover told a campaign rally in New York's Madison Square Garden that he longed for an America "where wealth is not concentrated in the hands of a few, but diffused among the lives of all" (11) One month after FDR's election, Long reintroduced his Senate resolution. This time, his proposal to cap wealth and income received 20 yeas.(12) The "Long Plan" that the senator from Louisiana put before the Senate and the American people was to go through several variations. But the basics always remained (constant: a ceiling on the income and wealth of the very rich that would create a floor of decency for everyone else. One early version of the plan proposed a 1 percent tax on all individual wealth between $1 million and $2 million, with that tax rate progressively increasing until it reached 100 percent on all fortunes over $100 million. The effect, said Long, would limit "the size of any one
[CTRL] Michael Levine - The DEA's Exiled Dissident
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: High Times, January 1999, No. 281 Trans-High Corporation©1999 235 Park Avenue South, 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 ISSN #0362-630X 12 issues/$29.95US 12 issues/$37.45Foreign http://www.hightimes.com - Michael Levine - The DEA's Exiled Dissident the high times interview By BILL WEINBERG Michael Levine is a veteran of 25 years of undercover work with four federal agencies an three continents. He is now the Drug Enforcement Administration's most prominent and outspoken critic. From the Golden Triangle to the Andes, he claims his efforts to snare the dope trade's biggest bosses were sabotaged by the DEA "suits"and CIA pressure. The story of his operations against the Bolivian coke mafia is detailed in his books DEEP COVER (Delacorte, 19901 and THE BIG WHITE LIE (Thunder's Mouth Press, 19931. His newest book, TRIANGLE OF DEATH (Dell, 19961, coauthored with his wife, Laura Kavanau, is a thriller based on his real-life experiences. He also hosts the weekly EXPERT WITNESS radio show an New York's WBAI-FM, in whose studios this interview took place. HT: So why is an ex-DEA agent doing talk radio? Michael Levine: Because we're seeing the complete abdication of the media from any role whatsoever as a watchdog. I was the senior US law-enforcement officer in the Southern Cone, and you can't imagine a greater betrayal of the trust of the American people than what I observed. And that is the support by CIA and their assets of the takeover of Bolivia by drug dealers and escaped Nazis. The "Cocaine Coup" of 1980, which turned the South American drug trade into a major industry. Right. I mean, it happened right under the nose of the media. Newsweek wrote an article that was so far off-base on the Bolivian revolution that I did what was probably one of the dumbest things of my life. I wrote a letter to them on embassy letterhead saying, "You missed the whole story, the story was the CIA betrayed us." Why was it a mistake? They never called me, and I was put under investigation. And, lo and behold, who seized that something was really wrong with the Bolivia coverage? HIGH TIMES. Dean Latimer. I'm gonna paraphrase his article [August 1981]: He said, "The government did this incredible, giant sting operation, and they don't want any credit for it. Something is wrong." And that was a reference to... The Roberto Suarez case, which was sabotaged all around me. And HIGH IMES was actually the only member of the media that was on the right track. I should have written HIGH TIMES instead of Newsweek' It would've got out! Let's start at the beginning. How did you become a DEA agent? A guy stuck a gun in my stomach when I was in the military police and pulled the trigger over a three-dollar hat. It misfired. I was amazingly lucky. The event inspired a profound change in me. I was in a rush to live. I thought I could become this James Bond type of undercover agent. I was very good at undercover. I could speak fluent Spanish. I knew the streetsI was a bad kid, I had been arrested twice before I was sixteen. I was getting paid to hang out in the Bronx like when I was a kid. With IRS intelligence, in '65, I was one of the few guys who could go down in the street and get bolita, Spanish numbers. I could pass as anything. But it was a meaningless game to me, it was just a lot of thrills. And then I found out that my brother David was a heroin addict. Suddenly, the whole thing seemed to come home. I believed all the rhetoric, you know? I believed that the drug dealer was the lowest. And I decided I was saved for a reason, and that was to get into narcotics enforcement. So you were with the DEA from the inception of the agency? Yeah. In '70, I transferred from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms into the hard-narcotics-smuggling unit of Customs. And that was my first run- in with the CIA. It was US v. Liang-Sae Tiw, et al. It began with a July 4, 1971 heroin arrest at JFK airport. He became my informer. He made heroin runs from Bangkok, Thailand. We busted his pick-ups, who were distributing nationwide, in a Florida swamp. I go undercover to meet their connection in Bangkok. These guys loved me, they wanted to take me up to Chiang Mai. But the case started coming apart. I wasn't getting operational fundsI'm this Mafia guy and I'm lying like hell and they're getting ready to kill me. So I started really screaming to my superiors, and I was brought into the American Embassy at midnight. I meet the boss of Customs there, Joe Jenkins, and a bald guy in a guayabera shirt who tells me, "You're not going to Chiang Mai." When we left, Jenkins turns to me and says [sotto voce], "That guy is CIA." So I followed my orders to bust the guy I was dealing with, and close the case. I was given a special Treasury Department award. But I didn't go to Chiang Mai and get the suppliers. Years later, I was put on the DEA desk tracking tribal factions in the Golden Triangle, and learned that the
Re: [CTRL] Mr. Blackwell
-Caveat Lector- Looking for devils, scapegoats. Jewish religion is not a monolith. I would recommed that you go to a local synagogue and talk to some real live jewish folk about your concerns. A Wise man once said,paraphrasingly"Do not take oaths." Extrapolate on that. Look more at enterprises using intell/mob type operational capabilities and proclivities. MHO Om K In a message dated 1/14/99 6:31:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. If anyone can give a benign interpretation to the Jewish Kol Nidre prayer, supposedly "absolving" all who say it from any oaths than made in the past year or will make in the coming year --- if anyone can give a benign interpretation to this Kol Nidre prayer -- I'm willing to listen and would love to hear it. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [2] House Brief for Impeachment Trial
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/housetext011199.htm A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/housetext011199.htm"Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accu /A --[2]-- For the record. Om K - WAS THIS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? The President essentially admitted to making these statements when he knew they were not true. Consequently, he had painted himself into a legal corner. Understanding the seriousness of the President "coaching" Ms. Currie, the argument has been made that those statements to her could not constitute obstruction because she had not been subpoenaed, and the President did not know that she was a potential witness at the time. This argument is refuted by both the law and the facts. The United States Court of Appeals rejected this argument, and stated, "[A] person may be convicted of obstructing justice if he urges or persuades a prospective witness to give false testimony. Neither must the target be scheduled to testify at the time of the offense, nor must he or she actually give testimony at a later time." United States v. Shannon, 836 F.2d 1125, 1128 (8th Cir. 1988) (citing, e.g., United States v. Friedland, 660 F.2d 919, 931 (3rd Cir. 1981)). Of course Ms. Currie was a prospective witness, and the President clearly wanted her to be deposed to corroborate him, as his testimony demonstrates. The President claims that he called Ms. Currie into work on a Sunday night only to find out what she knew. But the President knew the truth about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, and if he had told the truth during his deposition the day before, then he would have no reason to worry about what Ms. Currie knew. More importantly, the President's demeanor, Ms. Currie's reaction to his demeanor, and the blatant lies that he suggested clearly prove that the President was not merely interviewing Ms. Currie. Rather, he was looking for corroboration for his false cover-up, and that is why he coached her. JANUARY 18 THE SEARCH FOR MS. LEWINSKY Very soon after his Sunday meeting with Ms. Currie, at 5:12 p.m., the flurry of telephone calls in search of Monica Lewinsky began. (Chart S) Between 5:12 p.m. and 8:28 p.m., Ms. Currie paged Ms. Lewinsky four times. "Kay" is a reference to a code name Ms. Lewinsky and Ms. Currie agreed to when contacting one another. (ML 8/6/98 GJ, p. 216; H.Doc., 105-311, pg. 936) At 11:02 p.m., the President called Ms. Currie at home to ask if she had reached Lewinsky. (BC 7/22/98 GJ, p. 160; H.Doc. 105-316, p. 702) JANUARY 19 THE SEARCH CONTINUES The following morning, January 19, Ms. Currie continued to work diligently on behalf of the President. Between 7:02 a.m. and 8:41 a.m., she paged Ms. Lewinsky another five times. (Chart S)(Exhibit 8) After the 8:41 page, Ms. Currie called the President at 8:43 a.m. and said that she was unable to reach Ms. Lewinsky. (BC 7/22/98 GJ, pgs. 161-162; H.Doc. 105-316, p. 703) One minute later, at 8:44 a.m., she again paged Ms. Lewinsky. This time Ms. Currie's page stated "Family Emergency," apparently in an attempt to alarm Ms. Lewinsky into calling back. That may have been the President's idea, since Ms. Currie had just spoken with him. The President was obviously quite concerned because he called Betty Currie only six minutes later, at 8:50 a.m. Immediately thereaft er, at 8:51 a.m., Ms. Currie tried a different tact, sending the message: "Good news." Again, perhaps at the President's suggestion. If bad news does not get her to call, try good news. Ms. Currie said that she was trying to encourage Ms. Lewinsky to call, but there was no sense of "urgency." (BC 7/22/98 GJ, p. 165; H.Doc. 105-316, p. 704) Ms. Currie's recollection of why she was calling was again fuzzy. She said at one point that she believes the President asked her to call Ms. Lewinsky, and she thought she was calling just to tell her that her name came up in the deposition. (BC 7/22/98 GJ, p. 162; H.Doc. 105-316, p. 703) Monica Lewinsky had been subpoenaed; of course her name came up in the deposition. There was obviously another and more important reason th e President needed to get in touch with her. MR. JORDAN AND MS. LEWINSKY'S LAWYERS JOIN THE SEARCH At 8:56 a.m., the President telephoned Vernon Jordan, who then joined in the activity. Over a course of twenty-four minutes, from 10:29 to 10:53 a.m., Mr. Jordan called the White House three times, paged Ms. Lewinsky, and called Ms. Lewinsky's attorney, Frank Carter. Between 10:53 a.m. and 4:54 p.m., there are continued calls between Mr. Jordan, Ms. Lewinsky's attorney and individuals at the White House. MS. LEWINSKY REPLACES HER LAWYER Later that afternoon, at 4:54 p.m., Mr. Jordan called Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter relayed that he had been told he no longer represented Ms. Lewinsky. (VJ 3/5/98 GJ, p. 141; H.Doc. 105-316, p. 1771) Mr. Jordan then made feverish attempts to reach the President or someone at the
[CTRL] [1]House Brief for Impeachment Trial
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/housetext011199.htm A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/housetext011199.htm"Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accu /A --[1]-- For the record. Om K - CLINTON ACCUSEDMain PageNews ArchiveDocumentsKey PlayersTalkPolitics Section House Brief for Impeachment Trial Monday, January 11, 1999 Following is the full text of a "trial memorandum," in which House impeachment managers summarize their case and the evidence against President Clinton. The document was delivered Jan. 11 to the secretary of the Senate. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Sitting as a Court of Impeachment In Re Impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton TRIAL MEMORANDUM OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Now comes the United States House of Representatives, by and through its duly authorized Managers, and respectfully submits to the United States Senate its Brief in connection with the Impeachment Trial of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. SUMMARY The President is charged in two Articles with: 1) Perjury and false and misleading testimony and statements under oath before a federal grand jury (Article I), and 2) engaging in a course of conduct or scheme to delay and obstruct justice (Article II). The evidence contained in the record, when viewed as a unified whole, overwhelmingly supports both charges. Perjury and False Statements Under Oath President Clinton deliberately and willfully testified falsely under oath when he appeared before a federal grand jury on August 17, 1998. Although what follows is not exhaustive, some of the more overt examples will serve to illustrate. At the very outset, the President read a prepared statement, which itself contained totally false assertions and other clearly misleading information. The President relied on his statement nineteen times in his testimony when questioned about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. President Clinton falsely testified that he was not paying attention when his lawyer employed Ms. Lewinsky's false affidavit at the Jones deposition. He falsely claimed that his actions with Ms. Lewinsky did not fall within the definition of "sexual relations" that was given at his deposition. He falsely testified that he answered questions truthfully at his deposition concerning, among other subjects, whether he had been alone with Ms. Lewinsky. He falsely testified that he instructed Ms. Lewinsky to turn over the gifts if she were subpoenaed. He falsely denied trying to influence Ms. Currie after his deposition. He falsely testified that he was truthful to his aides when he gave accounts of his relationship, which accounts were subsequently disseminated to the media and the grand jury. Obstruction of Justice The President engaged in an ongoing scheme to obstruct both the Jones civil case and the grand jury. Further, he undertook a continuing and concerted plan to tamper with witnesses and prospective witnesses for the purpose of causing those witnesses to provide false and misleading testimony. Examples abound: The President and Ms. Lewinsky concocted a cover story to conceal their relationship, and the President suggested that she employ that story if subpoenaed in the Jones case. The President suggested that Ms. Lewinsky provide an affidavit to avoid testifying in the Jones case, when he knew that the affidavit would need to be false to accomplish its purpose. The President knowingly and willfully allowed his attorney to file Ms. Lewinsky's false affidavit and to use it for the purpose of obstructing justice in the Jones case. The President suggested to Ms. Lewinsky that she provide a false account of how she received her job at the Pentagon. The President attempted to influence the expected testimony of his secretary, Ms. Currie, by providing her with a false account of his meetings with Ms. Lewinsky. The President provided several of his top aides with elaborate lies about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, so that those aides would convey the false information to the public and to the grand jury. When he did this, he knew that those aides would likely be called to testify, while he was declining several invitations to testify. By this action, he obstructed and delayed the operation of the grand jury. The President conspired with Ms. Lewinsky and Ms. Currie to conceal evidence that he had been subpoenaed in the Jones case, and thereby delayed and obstructed justice. The President and his representatives orchestrated a campaign to discredit Ms. Lewinsky in order to affect adversely her credibility as a witness, and thereby attempted to obstruct justice both in the Jones case and the grand jury. The President lied repeatedly under oath in his deposition in the Jones case, and thereby obstructed justice in that case. The President's lies and misleading statements under
[CTRL] The Walsh Report
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Crypto/Walsh/index.htm A HREF="http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Crypto/Walsh/index.htm"The Walsh Report /A - Embedded links at site. Om K - Review of Policy relating to Encryption Technologies (The Walsh Report) The full report is rather large (96 A4 pages) and three versions are provided here: 1. Separate HTML files for each chapter 2. The complete report (HTML) suitable for downloading (308K) 3. ZIP version of the complete HTML report (99K) Update - December 1998 In December 1998, several uncensored copies of the Walsh Report were found in public and university libraries in Australia. These are believed to be deposit copies lodged by the Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS) after the report was printed but before the decision by the Attorney-General's Department to withhold it from commercial sale. The report is not listed by AGPS, which is the normal channel for obtaining government publications. The missing sections have now been incorporated in the online version and are highlighted in red. History of the Report and its release under FOI In February 1997, the Australian Attorney-General's Department put a hold on the public release of the Walsh Report, an important review of Australian cryptography policy. The report, entitled Review of policy relating to encryption technologies, is the outcome of a study conducted in 1996 by Gerard Walsh, a former deputy director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). Publication of the report was eagerly awaited by members of the law enforcement community, other government departments, commerce, and the online community. It was expected that the report would examine the the various issues in the crypotography debate and encourage further comment and consultation. The report was listed for sale by the Australian Government Publishing Service in January 1997, but was hurriedly withdrawn from the list 3 weeks later, following an enquiry by Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) as to the reasons why it was not actually available for sale. The original intention had apparently been to allow for a 3-month consultation period for public comment. EFA then released a Media Statement calling for the release of the report. In March 1997, EFA applied for release of the report under the Freedom of Information Act. This request was denied, quoting various sections of the Act relating to national security and law enforcement as justification for the denial. EFA then submitted a request for review of the decision, and this request was successful, resulting in the release of an edited photocopy of the report in June 1997. This is an important report and covers a number of issues of relevance to the global cryptography debate. A number of paragraphs were deleted from the copy supplied to EFA. These have been identified in the report, together with an annotation referring to the section of the report under which that paragraph was claimed to be exempt from release. However, in December 1998, the missing sections were obtained. The originally deleted paragraphs have been highlighted in red. Reproduced below are the 3 sections of the Act under which parts of the report were deleted. The full text of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 is available online from the Australian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII). Freedom of Information Act 1982 - Sect 33 Documents affecting national security, defence or international relations 33. (1) A document is an exempt document if disclosure of the document under this Act: (a) would, or could reasonably be expected to, cause damage to: (i) the security of the Commonwealth; (ii) the defence of the Commonwealth; or (iii) the international relations of the Commonwealth; or (b) would divulge any information or matter communicated in confidence by or on behalf of a foreign government, an authority of a foreign government or an international organization to the Government of the Commonwealth, to an authority of the Commonwealth or to a person receiving the communication on behalf of the Commonwealth or of an authority of the Commonwealth. (2) Where a Minister is satisfied that a document is an exempt document for a reason referred to in subsection (1), he or she may sign a certificate to that effect (specifying that reason) and, subject to the operation of Part VI, such a certificate, so long as it remains in force, establishes conclusively that the document is an exempt document referred to in subsection (1). (3) Where a Minister is satisfied as mentioned in subsection (2) by reason only of matter contained in a particular part or particular parts of a document, a certificate under that subsection in respect of the document shall identify that part or those parts of the document as containing the matter by reason of which the certificate is given. (4) Where a Minister is satisfied that information as to the existence
[CTRL] [3] House Brief for Impeachment Trial
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/housetext011199.htm A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/housetext011199.htm"Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accu /A --[3]-- For the record. Om K - MOTIVE FOR LIES TO STAFF It is abundantly clear that the President's assertions to staff were designed for dissemination to the American people. But it is more important to understand that the President intended his aides to relate that false story to investigators and grand jurors alike. We know that this is true for the following reasons: the Special Division had recently appointed the Office of Independent Counsel to investigate the Monica Lewinsky matter; the President realized that Jones' attorneys and investigators were investigating this matter; the Washington Post journalists and investigators were exposing the details of the Lewinsky affair; and, an investigation relating to perjury charges based on Presidential activities in the Oval Office would certainly lead to interviews with West Wing employees and high level staffers. Because the President would not appear before the grand jury, his version of events would be supplied by those staffers to whom he had lied. The President actually acknowledged that he knew his aides might be called before the grand jury. (WJC 8/17/98 GJ, pgs. 105-109; H.Doc. 105-311, pgs. 557-557) In addition, Mr. Podesta testified that he knew that he was likely to be a witness in the ongoing grand jury criminal investigation. He said that he was "sensitive about not exchanging information because I knew I was a potential witness." (Podesta 6/23/98 GJ, p. 79; H.Doc. 105-316, p. 3332) He also recalled that the President volunteered to provide information about Ms. Lewinsky to him even though Mr. Podesta had not asked for these details. (Podesta 6/23/98 GJ, p. 79; H.Doc. 105-316, p. 3332) In other words, the President's lies and deceptions to his White House aides, coupled with his steadfast refusal to testify had the effect of presenting a false account of events to investigators and grand jurors. The President's aides believed the President when he told them his contrived account. The aides' eventual testimony provided the President's calculated falsehoods to the grand jury which, in turn, gave the jurors an inaccurate and misleading set of facts upon which to base any decisions. WIN, WIN, WIN President Clinton also implemented a win-at-all-costs strategy calculated to obstruct the administration of justice in the Jones case and in the grand jury. This is demonstrated in testimony presented by Richard "Dick" Morris to the federal grand jury. Mr. Morris, a former presidential advisor, testified that on January 21, 1998, he met President Clinton and they discussed the turbulent events of the day. The President again denied the accusations against him. After further discussions, they decided to have an overnight poll taken to determine if the American people would forgive the President for adultery, perjury, and obstruction of justice. When Mr. Morris received the results, he called the President: And I said, "They're just too shocked by this. It's just too new, it's too raw." And I said, "And the problem is they're willing to forgive you for adultery, but not for perjury or obstruction of justice or the various other things." (Morris 8/18/98 GJ, p. 28; H.Doc. 105-316, p. 2929) Morris recalls the following exchange: Morris: And I said, "They're just not ready for it." meaning the voters. WJC Well, we just have to win, then. (Morris 8/18/98 GJ, p. 30; H.Doc. 105-216, p. 2930) The President, of course, cannot recall this statement. (Presidential Responses to Questions, Numbers 69, 70, and 71) THE PLOT TO DISCREDIT MONICA LEWINSKY In order to "win," it was necessary to convince the public, and hopefully the grand jurors who read the newspapers, that Monica Lewinsky was unworthy of belief. If the account given by Ms. Lewinsky to Linda Tripp was believed, then there would emerge a tawdry affair in and near the Oval Office. Moreover, the President's own perjury and that of Monica Lewinsky would surface. To do this, the President employed the full power and credibility of the White House and its press corps to destroy the witness. Thus on January 29, 1998: Inside the White House, the debate goes on about the best way to destroy That Woman, as President Bill Clinton called Monica Lewinsky. Should they paint her as a friendly fantasist or a malicious stalker? (The Plain Dealer) Again: "That poor child has serious emotional problems," Rep. Charles Rangel, Democrat of New York, said Tuesday night before the State of the Union. "She's fantasizing. And I haven't heard that she played with a full deck in her other experiences." (The Plain Dealer) From Gene Lyons, an Arkansas columnist on January 30: But it's also very easy to take a mirror's eye view of this thing, look at
Re: [CTRL] Slave Documentation - H.H.
-Caveat Lector- Lord, have mercy, lady. Shall I really go through your noise, what is your point? [1] Hawk is offering classic apologist argumentation. So are you by the way. So there were black slave owners. That does does not mean slavery is/was wrong? And your argumenyt is racist. [2] Oh, Carlene, so what is apropriate, let some apologist tell lies backed up by his own personal interpretations of scripture? [3] How noble and hypocrotical [4] So you want to ba a slave? Again your answers are racist. [5] Weren't we benevolent. We did it for their own good. Again, you want to be a slave? [6] Nice, massa, . . . I guess if ya get raped nicely, It's OK. [7] I am sure the courage the gentleman showd was 'instilled' into him by the institution of slavery. You are getting close to being a gooberette. [8] Again, ya want to be a slave? [9] Invoking, Lincoln for what reason? [10] Well, then that makes it right. . . [11] Standing up for man and god. [12] Yes slavery was wrong then and now. Options - lick the boot or stand tall [13] Hawk is a hypocrite for espousing supernatural authority for the institution of slavery for chauvanistic reason, while stating that he wouldn't want to be a slaveholder or slave, whilst particpating in said supernaturals' 'universe'. [14] "separate but equal" was unconstitutional and void 'ab intio'. [15] Read it. Show me . . . [16] The nature of the day is not legality. Separate but equal was a sham and unconstitutional. In a message dated 1/13/99 2:17:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- An apologist for slavery and . . . You may think what you want, but do you realize your rationalzations are inhumane. [1]"""No...I don't see him apologizing...and like I noted in a previous post...there were black slave owers and there were white slaves as well...but that tends to be over looked...look at my other post for references in regard to this. h do not personally approve of slavery. Seems you would finally get that through your head. I don't either, and I have the sense to realize that was acceptable than is not necessarily so nowand things that are acceptable now will not be acceptable in the future. You have different societies and different mores...will find a reference if you really need oneand you can not justify or condemn a society..the past on the mores and beliefs of the now. Have you ever heard of the word hypocrite? [2]"""Sorry to get in the middle here..but this post...oh well...did you ever hear of the term.never mind...not appropriate on the list. I do not say that "owning a human being is a humane idea" -- but neither is it an inhumane act. personally do not wish to own a slave nor be a slave. - Gosh, again, how noble. Gee, you wouldn't wish to be a slave. [3]Didn't this gentleman also say he did not want to own slaves as well, Which I will stand-up again, and again and say -you are wrong. [4]I am sorry don't understand what he is wrong about. === Blacks are deprived ? http://memory.loc.gov/ gi- bin/query/D?wpa:8:./temp/~ammem_DgOA::@@@mdb=cwar,fsaall,vv,detr,wtc,dag,gotts cho,horyd,nfor,papr,wpa,aap,bdsbib,nawbib,consrvbib,varstg,presp,cowellbib,cal bkbib,suffrg,pan,gmd,mcc,toddbib,mgw,hlaw,bbpix,award97,ncr,musdibib,alad,lhbu mbib,hh,bbcards,mussm,rbpebib,raelbib http://e.usia.gov/education/amstudy/hislink.htm [5]Do you really know what there options were ? If they stayed in Africa what do you think would of happened ?? Many times being a slave was safer than other alternatives at the time. [6]Look at the following article and see what is all providedI know your mind is set one way, but look at the other side of the coin. Here is an article you might enjoy...and it is documentated. """Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Thurs. Nov. 26, 1998 SecD-14 "Slaves' descendants honor slavemaster of ancestors" "Defying political correctness, decendants of Panola County, Texas, slaves are dedicating a historical marker to the slaveholder who brought their families here. .The marker will be dedicated to Spearman "Major" Holland who brought slaves to East Texas in the 1840's. "Holland Quarters, a black community four miles north of Carthage in Panola County on land once used as a plantation. has been home to generations descended from Holland's slaves. . Research has shown that Holland was know for generosity toward his slaves... According to Barbara Jefferson-Bonner, a Panola County historian. She stated "He was a great guy. He cared for his slaves in a unique kind of way. When Spearman left here, hye left his thousands of acres to slaves, who were ancestors of mine." .During the Civil War, Spearman served as a captain in the Texas State Troops, 4th Brigade. After the war he moved away and left the land to the slaves...His brother was known to have bought slaves and then free them. [7]""
[CTRL] Fwd: Surprise! Bush for President in 2000
Ex-House Member Wants Bush for GOP WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two decades ago, as a freshman member of the House, Gerald B.H. Solomon tried to get his Republican colleagues to support Ronald Reagan for president over GOP primary opponent George Bush. Solomon, who recently retired from the House and is now a lobbyist, again is getting involved in presidential politics -- this time for Bush's son, Texas Gov. George W. Bush. While the governor has yet to disclose his presidential intentions for 2000, Solomon is trying to enlist his former colleagues in a Draft Bush movement. ``He is the most electable and one I think is almost guaranteed to be elected,'' Solomon said. ``He is a conservative with compassion. That's what Ronald Reagan was.'' Solomon said some lawmakers have already signed on, but he would not disclose any names. Bush is expected to make a decision on a presidential run in the spring.
Re: [CTRL] Slave Documentation - H.H.
-Caveat Lector-
You sir are still a hypocrite and you are not a follower of Jesus AKA The
Christ.
Who wrote Corinthians?
Paul/Saul the persecuter and Roman stooge.
Do unto others as you would have them to do you.
What day do you keep as the sabbath?
In a message dated 1/14/99 11:16:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way, I looked up the bible passage that supports the position that
slavery
is not evil, but never-the-less, if a person can be free, it is a preferable
status.
1 Cor 7:19-21
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but {what matters
is}
the keeping of the commandments of God.
20 Let each man remain in that condition in which he was called.
21 Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able
also
to become free, rather do that.
(NAS)
Now, my position has been clearly stated a number of times, that slavery is
not
declared "evil" or "sinful" in the Bible.. I have also stated that I would
NOT
want to be a slave... I think verse 21, above, supports that position. Thus,
adhering to that position does not qualify me for the vaunted title of
"Hypocrite"
...
-
Aloha, He'Ping,
Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
Roads End
Kris
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Re: [CTRL] Slave Documentation - H.H.
-Caveat Lector- Gee, You are pretty crafty with your answers there. Gosh , I just don't know but like I say you are a hypocrite coward still in the pocket of a corrupt government and military. Ignorant also. Om K In a message dated 1/14/99 11:35:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Short memory, hawk? I am sometimes afflicted with short memory... What are specifically addressing? hawk sez: I was in the USAF for almost seven years as a professional military officer and aviator. During three of those years, I was involved in what later became known as the "Delta Force," but which then was "Blue Triangle" and a couple of other secretive names. As such, I engaged in numerous "informal" wars, insurrections, and general mayhem for the govm't of the U.S. -- often not even allowed to wear the uniform (we called these "T-shirt and blue-jean missions). I was also in VietNam quite a bit, before the conflict became a "war." In all of those missions, we were directly involved on the "wrong" side, or were sticking our noses into other peoples' affairs, generally helping some dictatorial govm't obtain or maintain its harsh control over the populace. Then, for three more years, I was directly involved in intelligence gathering operations. For three years, every morning, I saw "raw intelligence" -- information that had not been "laundered" for public consumption. Not one time -- and I mean not even ONCE -- did the truth about what was going on reach the average American. We were lied to on a continual basis, and are being lied to at the present time. I was trained in the process of developing "cover stories" about things that happened, . . . Then dufus asked: Oh, Hypocrite, you didn't answer my query about your intel secret ops? Cat got your tongue? Hawk said: I don't think I saw any query about intel secret ops. OK... I still don't know what questions or query you asked about "intel secret ops." As for my response that I didn't know what you were talking about, not one time, in all my USAF career was what I did called "intel secret ops." Its a phrase you made up, so far as I know. You seem to "make up" quite a lot of stuff. Now, just what was it you wanted to know concerning what YOU call "intel secret ops"? Hawk DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [priory-of-sion] Secret societies 1776-1871 reading list - comments?
From: Mike Lacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having finally managed to get hold of a copy of the reading list for a course in Secret societies and the revolutionary movement in Europe, 1776-1871, offered at a prominent University in the UK in the early 1990's (and possibly still going now, although this reading list dates from the early '90's), I would appreciate any listees comments on it. Primarily as a medievalist I am at a loss with this time period, and feel it time for some self improvement - any comments on this reading list, and recommendations from it, are most welcome. Cheers, Mike Secret Societies and the Revolutionary Movement in Europe 1776-1871 School of History Optional Unit HIST 360 Recommended Reading Students taking this course are urged to read the first two books on the reading list as soon as possible. Unless otherwise indicated, nearly all the listed books/articles/photocopies can be found in the Short Loan Collection in the University Library. Introductory Works: J.M. Roberts: The mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) N.H. Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1964) N.H. Webster: World Revolution: the Plot against Civilisation (1921) N. Cohn: Warrant for Genocide (1967) N. Cohn: Europe's Inner Demons (1974) R. Hofstadter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1966) G.S. Wood: Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century, The William and Mary Quarterly (1982), 401-441 General Works: R. Partner: The Murdered Magicians: the Templars and their Myth (1982) C.W. Heckthorn: Secret Societies of all Ages and Countries (1875) J.H. Lepper: Famous Secret Societies (n. d.) H. Vivian: Secret Societies, Old and New (1927) A. Deraul: Secret Societies: Yesterday and Today (1966) N. MacKenzie: Secret Societies (1967) I. Wilkins and H. Strydom: The Broederbond (1979) S. Knight: The Brotherhood; the Secret World of the Freemasons (1984) R.J. Goldstein: Political Repression in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1983) J.H. Billington: Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (1980) Seminar 1: The Psychology of Belief in Secret Societies: J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) N.H. Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1964) R. Hofstadter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1966) Seminar 2: The Origins of Freemasonry: J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) esp. chapters 2-4 D. Knoop and G.P. Jones: The Genesis of Freemasonry (1957) D. Stevenson: The Origins of Freemasonry. Scotland's Century (1988) R. Partner: The Murdered Magicians: the Templars and their Myth (1982) N. MacKenzie: Secret Societies (1967) esp. chapters 6-7 S. Knight: The Brotherhood: the Secret World of the Freemasons (1984) pp. 1-45 Seminar 3: Enlightenment and Freemasonry on the Continent: M.C. Jacob: The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (1981) J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) esp. chapter 5 K. Epstein: The Genesis of German Conservatism (1975) R. Shackleton: The Encyclopedie and Freemasonry, in W.H. Barber, et. al The Age of the Enlightenment: Studies presented to Theodore Bestermann" (1967) C. Garret: Swedenborg and the mystical Enlightenment In late Eighteenth-Century England, Journal of the History of Ideas, 45 (1984) C. Garret: Respectable Folly: Millenarians and the French Revolution in France and England E. Stoeffler: German Pietism during the Eighteenth Century (1914) Seminar 4: The Illuminati and Attacks on Freemasonry: J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) N.H. Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1964) J.H. Lepper: Famous Secret Societies (n. d.) esp. chapter 15 R. Le Forrestier: Les Illumines de Baviere et la Franc-maconnerie allemande (1914, reprinted 1974) V. Stauffer: New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (1918) Seminar 5: The Impact of the French Revolution: A. Goodwin: The French Revolution (1953) N. Hampson: The French Revolution: a Concise History (1975) N. Hampson: The First European Revolution (1969) W. Doyle: The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989) M. Lyons: The Directory (1975) Seminar 6: The Plot Theory of the Revolution: J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) esp. pp. 181-213 M. Williams: Revolutions, 1775-1830 (1971) esp. pp. 30-33 J. Robison: Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments (1797) J. Robison: New Light on Jacobinism (1798) W. Playfair: The History of Jacobinism, its Crimes etc. (1796) A. Barruel: Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme (1798) A. Barruel: A History of Jacobinism (1797-98) K. Epstein: The Genesis of German Conservatism (1975) esp. chapters 9-10 M.L. Kennedy: The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution, the First Years (1982) C. Brinton: The Jacobins: an Essay in the New History (1961) esp. chapter 2 V. Stauffer: New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (1918) esp.
[CTRL] [24b] George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography / The New World Order
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.radix.net/~tarpley/bush24.htm A HREF="http://www.radix.net/~tarpley/bush24.htm"Bush book: Chapter -24-/A --[24b]-- It was also in the early summer of 1990 that it gradually dawned on many taxpayers that, according to the terms of the Savings Loan bailout championed by Bush during the first weeks of his regime, they would be left holding the bag to the tune of at least $500 billion. Their future was now weighted with the crushing burden of a defacto second mortgage, in addition to the astronomical national debt that Reagan and Bush had rolled up. This unhappy consciousness was compounded by the personal carnage of the continuing economic contraction, which had been accelerated by the shocks of September-October, 1989. An ugly mood was abroad, with angry people seeking a point of cathexis. They found it in Neil Bush, the president's marplot cadet son, the one we saw explaining his March 31, 1981 dinner engagement with Scott Hinckley. As even little children now know, Neil Bush was a member of the board of directors of Silverado Savings and Loan of Denver, Colorado, which went bankrupt and had to be seized by federal regulators during 1988. Preliminary estimates of the costs to the taxpayers were on the order of $1.6 billion, but this was sure to go higher. The picture was complicated by the fact that Neil Bush had received a $100,000 personal loan (never repayed, and formally forgiven) and a $1.25 million line of credit from two local land speculators, Kenneth Good and William Walters, both also prominent money-bags for the Republican Party. In r eturn for the favors he had received, Neil Bush certainly did nothing to prevent Silverado from lending $35 million to Good for a real estate speculation that soon went into default. Walters received $200 million in loans from Silverado, which were never called in. This was a prima facie case of violation of the conflict of interest regulations. But instead of keeping quiet, Neil Bush showed that the family tradition of self-righteous posturing even when caught with both hands in the cookie jar was well represented by him: he launched an aggressive campaign of proclaiming his own innoncence; it was all political, thought Neil, and all because people wanted to get at his august father through him. Sleazy Neil Bush's pontificating did not play well; Neil sounded "arrogant and flip" and the result, as People magazine commented at the end of the year, was "a public relations fiasco." Posters went up in Washington emblazoned with the call to "Jail Neil Bush," while out in Denver, the Colorado Taxpayers for Justice marched outside Neil's downtown office (where Neil had answered questions about his ties to the Hinckley family in on March 31, 1981) carrying placards and chanting "Yes, Neil, it's wrong to steal!" and "Give it back, Neil!" [fn 19] Neil was looking forward to public hearings organized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to probe his malfeasance; there was talk of a criminal indictment, but this eventually dwindled into a $200 million civil suit brought against Neil and 10 other former Silverado officials for "gross negligence" in their running of the affairs of the bank. Bush's immediate reaction to the dense clouds gathering over Neil's head was to step up a scandal he saw as a counterweight: this was the "Keating Five" or "Lincoln Brigade" affair, which hit Senate Democrats Cranston, Riegle, Glenn, and DeConcini, plus Republican McCain. Some SL loans showed "excesses," Bush was now ready to concede, and some were "foolish and ill-advised." But, he quickly stipulated: "I don't want to argue in favor of re-regulating the industry." And Bush was also on the defensive because, while he mandated $500 billion for the SLs, he wanted to veto a measure providing for unpaid parental leave for working mothers, despite a campaign promise that "we need to assure that women don't have to worry about getting their jobs back after having a child or caring for a child during serious illness." Bush now specified that he was not endorsing "mandated benefits" from government, but was just supporting collective bargaining to allow such leave. What to do if employers refused to grant leave? "You've got to keep working for them until they do," answered Bush with the ancien regime "let 'em eat cake" logic of a Marie Antoinette. [fn 20] At a press conference in mid-July, Bush was asked if he agreed with son Neil's self-defense campaign, which was premissed on the idea that the attack was a purely political smear, all because the poor boy's name happened to be Bush. The issue was focussing public attention on all the inherent rapacity of the predatory Bush family. George launched into an enraged, self-righteous monologue: I agree that the president ought to stay out of it, and that the system ought to work. And I have great confidence in the integrity and honor of my son. And beyond that, I'm -- say no more. And if he's done
Re: [CTRL] Conspiracy Theories
-Caveat Lector- Howdy Jim, Here is a short book list: Hiram's Key Second Messiah Born in the Blood America's Secret Establishment Scarlet and the Beast, Vol. 1, 2, 3 Treason in America These may help you understand how fremason were corrupted and infused with lucerferian socerey. When a german house took-over 'leadership of freemasonary, they didn't understand it, rewrote it to their liking and then along came Pike and rewrote it again. Pike is a very interesting character, comes from a little town in massachusetts with a bunch of other gameplayers, town was built on opium running. A very interesting story. Toss in some Bonsemen, british fronts and bank shills and you get quite the 'organized' lot. The hoodwink has been going on for generations and there is more than 'greed' and simple 'powermongering'. There are multi-generational cults using very sophisticated and technical mind-control techniques to influence human events. And not in a positive way IMHO. This cult has used our own taxmonies to biuild a national security state for the nefariousness. My daddy was OSS/CIA he told me his understandings of it years ago, I didn't know what to think and couldn't even comprehend what he was saying. But he was right on and there was more besides. I will repost my treatise on Skull and Bones, there is a bibliography at the end. Jim, I understand what you say and most mason are good people and we will all need each other, if'n we are ever going to breaks the bonds of the cabal. But what Linda, is saying is quite true and lays down one of the main controlling factors in the 'conspiracy' and that is to get to area first, size it up, get in on the ground floor and then spend time and lots of money. If you do the research, you will be amazed at what you will discover. Om K In a message dated 12/10/98 6:00:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm really curious as to your sources about the 'linking up' of the lodges. I know that there are several different Masonic orders, and I will admit that I think that they do hold some political clout, but in what way do you feel that they are a unified group? Please give me some references. Thank you for your input. I find this all very interesting. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. 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] Everything you wanted to know about Skull and Bones but were afraid to ask -repost
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A piece I wrote early 96, I am an intelligence brat, my Daddy was branch chief
head of East Asia for CIA (a job later held by Ted Shackley). Got family
photos of Ed Lansdale and boys in Vietnam in 56, he was a visitor at the
family home, according to Mom, who calls him Eddie.
Om
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Everything you wanted to know about Skull and Bones but were afraid to ask
Three threads of American social history -- espionage, drug smuggling and
secret societies -- intertwine into one.
Elihu Yale was born near Boston, educated in London, and served with the
British East India Company, eventually becoming governor of Fort Saint George,
Madras, in 1687. He amassed a great fortune from trade and returned to England
in 1699. Yale became known as quite a philanthropist; upon receiving a request
from the Collegiate School in Connecticut, he sent a donation and a gift of
books. After subsequent bequests, Cotton Mather suggested the school be named
Yale College, in 1718.
A statue of Nathan Hale stands on Old Campus at Yale University. There is a
copy of that statue in front of the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Yet another stands in front of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts
(where George H.W. Bush ('48) went to prep school and joined a secret society
at age twelve).
Nathan Hale, along with three other Yale graduates, was a member of the
"Culper Ring," one of America's first intelligence operations. Established by
George Washington, it was successful throughout the Revolutionary War. Nathan
was the only operative to be ferreted out by the British, and after speaking
his famous regrets, he was hanged in 1776. Ever since the founding of the
Republic, the relationship between Yale and the "Intelligence Community" has
been unique.
In 1823, Samuel Russell established Russell and Company for the purpose of
acquiring opium in Turkey and smuggling it to China. Russell and Company
bought out the Perkins (Boston) syndicate in 1830 and moved the primary center
of American opium smuggling to Connecticut. Many of the great American and
European fortunes were built on the "China"(opium) trade.
One of Russell and Company's Chief of Operations in Canton was Warren Delano,
Jr., grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt. Other Russell partners included John
Cleve Green (who financed Princeton), Abiel Low (who financed construction of
Columbia), Joseph Coolidge and the Perkins, Sturgis and Forbes families.
(Coolidge's son organized the United Fruit company, and his grandson,
Archibald C. Coolidge, was a co-founder of the Council on Foreign Relations.)
William Huntington Russell ('33), Samuel's cousin, studied in Germany from
1831-32. Germany was a hotbed of new ideas. The "scientific method" was being
applied to all forms of human endeavor. Prussia, which blamed the defeat of
its forces by Napoleon in 1806 on soldiers only thinking about themselves in
the stress of battle, took the principles set forth by John Locke and Jean
Rosseau and created a new educational system. Johan Fitche, in his Address to
the German People, declared that the children would be taken over by the State
and told what to think and how to think it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel took over Fitche's chair at the University Of
Berlin in 1817, and was a professor there until his death in 1831. Hegel was
the culmination of the German idealistic philosophy school of Immanuel Kant.
To Hegel, our world is a world of reason. The state is Absolute Reason and the
citizen can only become free by worship and obedience to the state. Hegel
called the state the "march of God in the world" and the "final end". This
final end, Hegel said, "has supreme right against the individual, whose
supreme duty is to be a member of the state." Both fascism and communism have
their philosophical roots in Hegellianism. Hegellian philosophy was very much
in vogue during William Russell's time in Germany.
When Russell returned to Yale in 1832, he formed a senior society with
Alphonso Taft ('33). According to information acquired from a break-in to the
"tomb" (the Skull and Bones meeting hall) in 1876, "Bones is a chapter of a
corps in a German University General Russell, its founder, was in Germany
before his Senior Year and formed a warm friendship with a leading member of a
German society. He brought back with him to college, authority to found a
chapter here." So class valedictorian William H. Russell, along with fourteen
others, became the founding members of "The Order of Scull and Bones," later
changed to "The Order of Skull and Bones".
The secretive Order of Skull and Bones exists only at Yale. Fifteen juniors
are "tapped" each year by the seniors to be initiated into next year's group.
Each initiate is given $15,000 and a grandfather clock. Far from being a
campus fun-house, the group is geared more toward the success of its members
in the post-collegiate world.
The family names on the Skull and Bones roster roll off the tongue like an
elite party
[CTRL] Pike and Satanism: from the Civil War to C. Fred Kleinknecht
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from:
http://www.etext.org/Politics/LaRouche/iclc.0320.larouche.pike
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Albert Pike and Satanism, From the Civil War to C. Fred Kleinknecht by
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. {During the 1992 presidential campaign, Lyndon
H. LaRouche and his vice presidential running mate, the Reverend James
Bevel, launched a mobilization to remove the statue of General Albert
Pike from its place of honor in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square. On
February 1, the campaign drew an angry attack from freemasonic leader C.
Fred Kleinknecht, who attempted to defend both Pike and the Ku Klux Klan
from LaRouche and Bevel's attack. On April 19, Reverend Bevel and
historian Anton Chaitkin are scheduled to go to trial on charges of
``statue-climbing,'' for a non-violent demonstration they led at the
Pike statue. They face possible six-month prison terms for this
``crime.'' On March 21, Mr. LaRouche addressed a conference of the
Schiller Institute and the International Caucus of Labor Committees in
Northern Virginia, via audiotape, explaining the issues of this fight.
The following is the text of his speech.} Recently, there was a letter
and an accompanying document attacking me issued by the Supreme
Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry, one C. Fred Kleinknecht. The issue which the document
addresses explicitly, is my proposal to remove from its position on U.S.
government property in Washington, D.C., the ugly statue of a traitor, a
war criminal, a racist, and a satanic degenerate, General Albert Pike,
who was one of the leading predecessors of Mr. Kleinknecht as Sovereign
Supreme Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry. Moreover, Mr. Pike--General Pike, as he is sometimes
called--is the author of a book called {Morals and Dogma,} which is
considered by many members of the Scottish Rite in the United States a
virtual bible, or at least the anti-bible, of that section of
Freemasonry; and that book, {Morals and Dogma,} is a book consistent
with the satanic religious beliefs explicitly adopted and advocated by
General Pike. General Pike, of course, was the founder of the Ku Klux
Klan; that is not disputable on the basis of the evidence in hand,
though Mr. Kleinknecht proposes to dispute it. What I wish to do here,
is to identify the nature of the core or characteristic issue at stake
between me and the fellow who has engaged me publicly for this debate,
Sovereign Supreme Commander C. Fred Kleinknecht. The Party of Treason As
the letters of Albert Pike to Giuseppe Mazzini illustrate the point,
Pike, like Mazzini, was a satanist; and like Mazzini, was an
{instrument} of a circle in London headed or associated prominently with
Lord Palmerston, the author of the Opium Wars against China, among his
other ``virtues.'' The object of Pike's endeavor and that of Palmerston
and also Mazzini, was to destroy the United States, a continuing
commitment since our War of Independence, this time by means of
fomenting a division of the nation between one part of the nation
controlled by the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite and other
parts of the nation. This was a conspiracy of traitors--and they were
all in the leadership {conscious traitors} to the United States, that
is, acting as agents of a Britain which {used them} in an effort called
the Civil War or the Secession, to destroy the United States by
dismembering it and thus making the entire Western Hemisphere virtually
a colony of the British Empire. These people were not honest rebels,
they were traitors. This Party of Treason was born among the Tory B
ritish sympathizers of the period of the American War of Independence.
Because of a treaty arrangement, these people, who were traitors in
effect to the United States then, stayed behind in large part and
{formed} what became the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in its modern form
within the United States. They were famous as the slave traders, they
were famous as the partners of the British East India Company, i.e.,
Lord Palmerston's Britain, in running opium principally into China (the
Lowell family, for example, from which McGeorge Bundy is descended, was
part of this gang of treasonously inclined opium traders). They were the
Perkins Syndicate of Salem, Massachusetts, from which a lot of the
Massachusetts blueblood families, so-called, derived their wealth; and
they were also part of the Russell Syndicate out of Russell and Co. in
Connecticut, the Russell and Co. which is the controlling interest from
then, early in the nineteenth century to the present day, at Yale
University--which gave us, of course, such things as George Bush. These
people were notorious in 1814 as having been part of British agent Aaron
Burr's conspiracy to destroy the United States; they were part of what
was called the Hartford Convention of 1814, a conspiracy by traitors to
the United
[CTRL] Fwd: [priory-of-sion] Re: Dragon Order
From: Tim Carmain [EMAIL PROTECTED] R. Guemenee wrote: Perhaps I should rephrase it as families who would be identified by those on this list as bloodline descendants of Christ. I did not mean to imply that the United Nations, European Parliament, or any other international or governmental organization _recognizes_ Grail families. Nor do they recognize the "Ecumenical Orthodox Jacobite Patriarchate of Antioch". It's clear that you're quoting directly from their book "Upward Nobility! - How to Make It Into the Royal and Noble Ranks". The EOJPA is nothing more than a scam operation, peddling fraudulent titles of nobility and faux chivalric orders. It has no connection to the legitimate Jacobite Church, otherwise better known as the Syrian Orthodox Church, and they engage in no "ecumenical" pursuits whatsoever. The patriarch is a Frenchman living in Rotterdam, whose homosexual lover, the "Duke of Campobello"(aka the Cuban emigre Antonio Boada), is the front man for an ingenious web of title peddlers. Some of the individuals who the Patriarchate maintains "excellent" relations with are: - His Majesty King William of Alabona and Ostrogojsk, aka Bill Mazser, an auto upholsterer in New Jersey who just happened to be the heir to a fabulous Crusader kingdom that no-one but the Patriarchate has ever heard of; - His Serene Highness Prince Douglas de St. Michel de Clermont, a medal caster in Vancouver who had his long-lost principality "rehabilitated" through the good offices of the Patriarchate, even though there is no record of this feudal state ever having existed; - His Royal Highness Dom Rosario, Duke of Braganca, son of the late Infanta of Portugal, who unfortunately was born and died on the same day in 1887; - the late Prince Alexis of Anjou-Durazzo-Dolgorouky-Romanov de Bourbon-Conde, aka Alex Brimeyer, native of the Belgian Congo who just happened to be the grandson of Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (slaughtered in 1918) and son of the long-lost Anjou heir to the Sicilian throne; - too many "de jure" Byzantine Emperors to list here; - highly unlikely Visigothic and Aztec claimants from Spain; - and one ludicrous Belgian-turned-Scotsman with a flair for falsifying genealogical records. I could go on ad nauseam, but suffice it to say that "birds of a feather flock together". As to their association with the Dragon Order, yes - the EOJPA does maintain "cordial" relations with the order, or so they claim. I usually like to get the other side of the story before I draw conclusions. However, there is more than one group calling itself the Dragon Order. I don't know whether either of them claims to be the "revived" order founded by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg in 1387. In either case, it would be a fallacy, as the order went defunct in the 1440s. Pommarede To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left.
Re: [CTRL] 021.xxx Democracy is Coming to the USA.
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/10/98 10:33:14 AM, you wrote: If you have people who actually want democracy (not cons using people so THEY can get control) then I will be glad to outline the plan. No, a republic is fine. Thank-you. Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Jewish propaganda exposed.[2]
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Denying the Holocaust Deborah Lipstadt The Vidal Sasson International Center for the Study of Antisemitism(C)1993 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Free Pree Macmillan, Inc. New York, NY ISBN 0-02-919235-8 - The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank's diary has become one of the deniers' most popular targets. For more than thirty years they have tried to prove that it was written after the war. It would seem to be a dubious allocation of the deniers' energies that they try to prove that a small book by a young girl full of musings about her life, relationship with her parents, emerging sexuality, and movie stars was not really written by her. But they have chosen their target purposefully. Since its publication shortly after the war, the diary has sold more than twenty million copies in more than forty countries. For many readers it is their introduction to the Holocaust. Countless grade school and high school classes use it as a required text. The diary's popularity and impact, particularly on the young, make discrediting it as important a goal for the deniers as their attack on the gas chambers. By instilling doubts in the minds of young people about this powerful book, they hope also to instill doubts about the Holocaust itself. On what do these deniers and neo-Nazis build their case? A brief history of the publication of the diary, and of some of the subsequent events surrounding its production as a play and film, demonstrates how the deniers twist the truth to fit their ideological agenda. Anne Frank began her diary on June 12, 1942. In the subsequent twentv-six months she filled a series of albums, loose sheets of paper, and exercise and account books. In addition she wrote a set of stories called Tales From the Secret Annex.* [*The Secret Annex was the name Anne gave to the family's hiding place.] Anne, who frequently referred to her desire to be a writer, took her diary very seriously. Approximately five months before the family's arrest, listening to a clandestine radio she heard the Dutch minister of education request in a broadcast from London that people save "ordinary documents--a diary, letters from a Dutch forced laborer in Germany, a collection of sermons given by a parson or a priest." This would help future generations understand what the nation bad endured during those terrible years. The next day Anne noted, "Of course they all made a rush at my diary immediately."[30] Anxious to publish her recollections in book form after the war, she rewrote the first volumes of the diary on loose copy paper. In it she changed some of the names of the principal characters, including her Own (Anne Frank became Anne Robin.[31] When Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz and returned from the war, he learned that his daughters were dead. He prepared a typed edition of the diary for relatives and friends, making certain grammatical corrections, incorporating items from the different versions, and omitting details that might offend living people or that concerned private family matters, such as Anne's stormy relationship with her mother. He gave his typed manuscript to a friend and asked him to edit it.[32] (Other people apparently also made editorial alterations to it.) The friend's wife prepared a typed version of the edited manuscript. Frank approached a number of publishers with this version, which was repeatedly rejected.* [*Even after the diary was published to wide acclaim in Europe, American publishers were wary. Ten rejected it before Doubleday published it in 1951. It was an immediate success.] When it was accepted the publishers suggested that references to sex, menstruation, and two girls touching each other's breasts be deleted because they lacked the proper degree of "propriety" for a Dutch audience. When the diary was published in England, Germany, France, and the United States, additional changes were made. The deniers cite these different versions and different copies of the typescript to buttress their claim that it is all a fabrication and that there was no original diary. They also point to the fact that two different types of handwriting-printing and cursive writing-were used in the diary. They claim that the paper and the ink used were not produced until the 1950s and would have been unavailable to a girl hiding in an attic in Amsterdam in 1942. But it is the Meyer Levin affair on which the deniers have most often relied to make their spurious charges. Levin, who had first read the diary while he was living in France, wrote a laudatory review of it when Doubleday published it. Levin's review, which appeared in the New York Times Book Review, was followed by other articles by him on the diary in which he urged that it be made into a play and film.[33] In 1952 Otto Frank appointed Levin his literary agent in the United States to explore the possibility of producing a play. Levin wrote a script that was turned down by a series of producers.
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Disinformation December Spamwich
From your "close personal friends" at Disinformation. http://www.disinfo.com "Disinformation: We're doing' it for the kids." All right you groovy little fuckers! Win a FREE (that's right FREE) laptop computer when you sign up for your FREE Disinfo.net email address. It's EASY!!! All you have to do is give us your intimate personal details so we can sell your data profile to the CIA! http://mail.chek.com/laptop_all.php3?domain=disinfo.net [Richard, are you really sure you want to let the readers know that we're, you know, playing both sides of the fence, so to speak? Just a thought --Brian] [Brian, what the Hell?? They'll think we're joking about the CIA thing anyway, right? Let's leave it in, but edit this bit out before you send it, OK? THAT would be pretty embarrassing, huh?--Richard] And don't forget to look in the Headshop for all the FIENDS on your shopping list. http://headshop.disinfo.com 20% off everything in the Disinformation mindfuck emporium. All proceeds go to further the cause of EVIL B L A T H E R p a r a n o r m a lp r o v o c a t e u r i s m Blather is a free weekly zine published from a house on ex-military land in Arbour Hill, Dublin, Ireland by Blathermeister General, Dave (daev) Walsh. Each issue rattles the cage of whatever paranormal pabulum has strayed into the editorial trap - UFOs, lake monsters, weird Irish locations and studies of synchronicity...all in Blather, the wonder-zine. http//www.blather.net Sign up for the NEW Konformist Email zine If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Research Intelligence League List (KRILL), please visit http://www.eGroups.com/li st/krill/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit and join Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist "My God they're going to kill us all!" Steamshovel Press NEW issue out NOW!!! http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/ It's a conspiracy! Articles on "The Finders," mind control assassins, how Yuppies were "manufactured" by New York magazine (???) and more. Makes a GREAT stocking stuffer for the paranoid on YOUR gift list. Available in fine bookstores in criminally conscious cities across this great land of ours NEW in Revolutionaries! "Rascal guru" Gurdjieff. Here's a preview: http://www.disinfo.com/rev/rev_gurdjieff.html "Take the 'wisdom' of the East and the 'energy' of the West and then seek." - Gurdjieff. From his first appearance in Moscow and St Petersburg in 1912, the enigmatic philosopher and memetic engineer Gurdjieff attracted the interest of occultists and the Western intelligentsia. His teachings (often referred to as the 'Gurdjieff Work' or 'Fourth Way') became widely known through the writings and lectures of his pupil, the famous Russian mathematician and journalist Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky, and were later propagated by Alfred Richard Orage, John Godolphin Bennett, Rodney Collins, and Dr. Maurice Nicoll. Utilising 'stolen' teachings from a wide range of groups that he had encountered (including the Yezidis, the Russian Orthodox Church, and Sufi 'Bektashi' and 'Naqshbandi' sects in the Hindu Kush and Pamir regions), Gurdjieff developed a unique system designed to enable individuals to overcome ingrained cognitice defects, become more conscious, and awaken the seeds of the Higher Self's Objective Conscience. Recognizing that all spiritual movements eventually succumb to entropy, Gurdjieff ended his masterful use of PSYOPS adversity and confrontation at his 'initiatory laboratory' in Fontainebleu (France), concentrating upon conveying his worldview through the mammoth portable mythos "Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson", which developed deeper esoteric themes drawn from Sufi, Zoroasterian, Sumer, and Egyptian literature. His later work with small groups in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s, the subsequent books, the sacred dances, the piano music composed with musician Thomas de Hartmann, and the now extensive biographical and critical literature serve as a testament to the enduring legacy of this Magus. Many of Gurdjieff's concepts influenced Twentieth Century culture, including the Leary/Wilson/Lilly models of 'conscious evolution', the revitalization of Gnostic Christianity, scientific research on 'split brain' neurology and 'multiple intelligences', Gaia eco-consciousness and the reciprocal maintenance of natural systems. Popularization of Sufi Initiation occurred via Oscar Ichazo's 'Arica' Institute, the 'false Sufism' of E.J. Gold, and the stories of Idries Shah. After his death in 1949, Gurdjieff's legacy was disseminated through many people, coinciding with the fragmentation of groups into secular
Re: [CTRL] William: Jews use Christian blood for matzoh.
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/10/98 7:47:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Edward Britton wrote: I am sure that there are at least fifty members of this list who are not aware of the history behind the originally posted claims and, as such, the post will only fuel the fires of hatred within the ranks of "the lowest form of the human species.". I would like to address this issue Yes and no, one must be exposed to learn how to fight and react in nullifying, uplifting manner. Also, if you think that post was bad, and are concerned, as we should be. As the scenario and game plans seem to have much similarity to pre- wwII 20s and 30s. I would suggest ya hang out at alt.conspiracy and watch the trash go by, and then do some searches on the web, you will find very sophisticated sites selling the 'blood libel' and other very gripping, emotional tales. And dealing with this comes with the territory. in understanding, Om K In a message dated 12/10/98 7:47:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Edward Britton wrote: -Caveat Lector- William: Nurev's post is a revival of an ancient slander (dating back to the Middle Ages) against the Jewish people. It was a lie then. It is a lie, today. Only the lowest form of the human species would give it any credence. I am fully aware of the slander's origin. I still have the right to express my vehement distaste for this kind of trash--transmitted for whatever reason. I am sure that there are at least fifty members of this list who are not aware of the history behind the originally posted claims and, as such, the post will only fuel the fires of hatred within the ranks of "the lowest form of the human species.". - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. 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] OEN 12/10/98
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Tainted Blood Scandal Arkansas Merchants of Death by Paul Craig Roberts If news stories trickling out of Canada are true, impeachment is too good for Bill Clinton. Drawing and quartering would be more appropriate. According to these reports, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are conducting a criminal investigation of an illegal blood collection scheme with links to then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. During the 1980s, "hot blood" contaminated with hepatitis C and HIV was taken from Arkansas prisoners and sold to Canada, where the plasma ended up in blood products for hemophiliacs. According to Mark Kennedy, an investigative reporter for the Ottawa Citizen, the prisoners' plasma was sold to Canada for about $50 a unit, and the revenues were split between Health Management Associates, the private firm that ran the blood program for Cummins State Prison in Grady, Arkansas, and the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Allegations of Governor Clinton's involvement surfaced on the Canadian TV program "Bynon" on October 15. According to Dr. Michael Galster, a doctor in private practice who treated Cummins' prisoners for the state, the FDA shut down Health Management Associates three times during the 1980s for its improper practices. The blood program, however, was too profitable to stay shut. Each time, HMA was able to regroup and continue the blood program. According to Dr. Galster, a 1986 public inquiry into HMA's operations produced a deposition that HMA was kept in business by Governor Clinton's intervention in its behalf. According to Dr. Galster, one deposition alleges that Clinton told HMA officials, who boasted of their contacts to him, that if they would pay $100,000 to a designated judge, "he would see to it that their contract would be renewed for the next two years." Dr. Galster says that news reports show that Clinton defended HMA on dozens of occasions from media attacks on its practices. The suffering caused in Canada by contaminated U.S. blood has been a major political issue in that country for the past five years or more. A commission headed by Justice Horace Krever was established to determine how prison plasma ended up in Canadian veins. The failure of Canada's regulatory authority is a hotly debated issue, as is compensation by the government of the victims. Dr. Galster says that during the 1980s he often noticed prisoners with Band-Aids over the vein in their arm. Unable to find reports of blood work in their files, he questioned the prisoners, who responded to his inquiries by explaining that they had just donated blood. Dr. Galster knew the prisoners were too ill to be blood donors. But it did not occur to him that the state prison would be involved in profiteering on dirty blood, and he assumed that HMA had a method of filtering or cleansing the plasma. It was only years later when he read a Canadian report tracing the contaminated blood to Arkansas that he put two and two together. The result was a fictional novel, "Blood Trail," written under the pen-name of Michael Sullivan. Dr. Galster thought that his thinly disguised novel would prompt U.S. journalists to investigate. But he found that he over-estimated the investigative inclinations of the U.S. media, at least where Mr. Clinton is concerned. Galster began investigating himself, and found the truth to be a more amazing story than his fiction. Dr. Galster has turned the documents he has uncovered over to the Mounties, who might or might not be permitted by the Canadian government to bring charges where they belong. No doubt Galster is interested in promoting his book, but he seems genuinely outraged that public officials were part of a business that did not mind infecting and killing people if a dollar could be made. At any rate, Galster's evidence has reinvigorated a debate and an investigation that the Canadian government had hoped was over. Ottawa reporter Mark Kennedy shows no signs of letting go of the story. Recently, he interviewed two of the Arkansas officials who ran the prison plasma business. He was stunned when they defended the business as a way of providing prisoners with "pocket money." Dr. Galster says prisoners have told him, and are willing to testify, that they were paid in narcotics for their blood. Some prisoners were so drained of plasma that they were left on the point of death, a condition that Dr. Galster says is cited in the FDA reports. Canadian reporters are amazed that their U.S. counterparts have ignored this story. Distributed by Creator's Syndicate, Dec. 31, 1998 Information Warfare Computer Virus Hits House Impeachment Proceedings Class.D macro virus is uninvited guest Pasadena -- December 8: The House of Representatives gained an uninvited guest this week for impeachment hearings -- the macro computer virus called "Class.D." Nearly the entire
[CTRL] FLYNT UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FEDERAL CRIME: 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1505
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Tat for tit? Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:478636"FLYNT UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FEDERAL CRIME: 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1505/A - Subject: FLYNT UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FEDERAL CRIME: 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1505 From: Koleshak--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Jan 14, 1999 7:03 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LANDMARK FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST FLYNT AND MOLDEA WITH CRIMINAL DIVISION Mark Levin/e-mail 11/14/99 Mark Levin NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Eric Christensen January 14, 1999 Landmark Legal Foundation Files Complaint Against Flynt and His Private Eye (Herndon, VA) Landmark Legal Foundation today formally asked the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division, and the United States Attorney for the District Columbia, to open immediately a federal criminal investigation into possible violations of Title 18, Section 1505 of the United States Criminal Code. 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1505 states, in part: Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress - shall [be fined not more than $250,000 and/or imprisoned not more than five years per violation]. Landmark president, Mark R. Levin, said, "We believe Larry Flynt and his private detective, Dan Moldea, are, and have been, attempting to corruptly influence the congressional impeachment process. They are apparently attempting to stop Republican members of Congress from criticizing during the impeachment-trial proceedings by threatening to disclose embarrassing personal information purchased by Flynt. This appears to violated federal law. The Criminal Division of the Justice Department has the duty, and the jurisdiction, to put an end to these coercive tactics." Landmark is a public interest law firm and ethics watchdog group with offices in Herndon, VA and Kansas City, MO. Copies of Landmark's complaint are available to the media upon request. END FREE REPUBLIC: http://209.67.114.212/ - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Anarchism - Humanity's Safety Net?
-Caveat Lector- from : http://maxpages.com/anarchism - As always, Caveat Lector. FYI Om K - A HREF="http://maxpages.com/anarchism"Education -- Anarchism -- http://maxpages.com/a /A - Anarchism - Humanity's Safety Net Anarchism is the anti-political philosophy that rejects the State as evil. The State is defined by archeologists as a monopoly of force over a geographic area(1). It has been shown to have been created only through violence and coercion (2). But the State has only existed for a few thousand years compared to the millions of years of human evolution.Thus,the State is an unnecessary evil. Humanity has shown that it Can exist and function without the State for hundreds of millenia.(3) 1. Embers, CE Embers, M (1985) Cultural Anthropology 2. Carneiro, RL (1970) SCIENCE 169: 733-738 3. Barclay, H (1990) PEOPLE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT: An Anthropology of Anarchy (Left Bank) Given the violence and terror that is characteristic of governments and ruling classes it is ironic that those who oppose the State, the Anarchists, are falsely called terrorists. In fact, real anarchy cannot be created through violent revolution. Violence would merely re-create a monopoly of force, i.e., a State and ruling class. We have been brought to the brink of extinction by the nuclear terrorism invented and nurtured by the State. Humanity has an ultimate safety net against statist terror: anarchism. Through nonviolent means we can scientifically and socially discredit the State and save our species and the biosphere. Relevant Links Anarchist Studies (Refereed Journal) http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/AS.html Essays in Libertarian and Anarchist Thought http://www.anarchista.com/essays/index.html A-Infos : Anarchist News Service http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ Internet Anarchist University http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/iau.html Project Chameleon : @narchist paradigms http://maxpages.com/chameleon International Libertarian Network http://maxpages.com/libertarian radical libertarian international forum http://www.delphi.com/rli - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Bank Accounts to be Forfeited Under KYC Rules
- SNETNEWS Mailing List I just keep wondering how much more of this crap we are going to let them shove down our throats ?! Mark == SCAN THIS NEWS 1/14/99 The material that follows is taken straight from the web pages of the Financial Actions Task Force (FATF), the international organization that is forcing all U.S. banks to develop identification and monitoring systems so that the banking transactions of every American can be monitored. A link to the FATF web page is included below. (The term "member," when used in their documents, means any country that is a member of the Global-7 organization.) In the U.S., the FDIC and the Federal Reserve Banking System are among the federal agencies currently in the process of instituting these "Know Your Customer" requirements in the form of regulations. Read what the consequences will be for those who rebel under the KYC rules: severed banking relationships; blocked bank accounts; suspicious transaction reports being filed; forfeited accounts... And, for the bankers who won't comply with KYC rules: fines for individuals and the possibility of imprisonment... --- EVALUATION OF MEASURES TAKEN BY FATF MEMBERS DEALING WITH CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION http://www.oecd.org/fatf/evaluati2.htm Introduction 1. This paper presents a synthesis of measures taken by FATF members in relation to customer identification requirements and record-keeping rules. It deals with both the identification regime set up by members and the practical problems which may have arisen. 2. The "know your customer" policy is probably the cornerstone of the forty FATF Recommendations. While all members have generally implemented the Recommendations dealing with customer identification and record-keeping, there is a need to examine the effectiveness of the identification regimes in place and to see whether some refinements are necessary in order to solve the problems encountered in the most difficult situations by financial institutions. 3. The paper first describes the customer identification and record-keeping systems in FATF members. It then addresses specific issues such as anonymous accounts, identification of the beneficial owner, identification in cases where there is no face-to-face contact between the customer and the financial institution, and future challenges linked to the development of new technologies in electronic payments such as stored value cards. Finally, the conclusion will endeavour to provide an overall assessment of the effectiveness of identification regimes and their impact on money laundering activities. [snip] --- (iv) Compliance (a) Measures in case of failure of identification - 27. When the customer has not been adequately identified, various measures can be taken by the relevant institutions: * sever the relationship with the customer (including refusal to open the account or refuse the transaction; * block the account from withdrawals; * make a suspicious transaction report; * possible forfeiture of the account after a certain period of time; * keep the record of the data concerning the identification. 28. The above-mentioned measures can apply either separately or together. For instance, after an account has been opened, a financial institution may block the funds and simultaneously make a suspicious transaction report. However, this position has been subject to criticism as incompatible with the principle of good faith in business relations. 29. For most members, in no circumstances should transactions be permitted on a account before the customer's identity has been established. However, financial institutions may discover later that the identification checks were not satisfactorily completed. In this case, the institutions should, as a minimum, be required to disclose information to the relevant authorities. This issue of severing business relations at this stage is nevertheless questionable. In fact, it is important to keep an audit trail in all cases and not to authorise withdrawals in cash. (b) Sanctions for non compliance with identification requirements 30. The sanctions applicable to the institutions in cases of non compliance with respect to customer identification are as follows: * fines for individuals, companies and financial institutions; * the possibility of imprisonment for individuals (members of the board, directors, managers, employees, representatives or other persons who permanently or occasionally render services to them); * disciplinary sanctions (warning, suspension of activity, or withdrawal of agreement in most serious cases); * rectification of any weaknesses in customer identification as identified in the banking supervisory process; * cease and desist, removal and prohibition and other such actions. 31. Again, the above-mentioned sanctions can be applied either in
[CTRL] OEN 1/15/98
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Impeached POTUS "His lies were not few or isolated but pervaded his whole testimony." THE prosecution of Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice opened yesterday in the august and sombre precincts of the US Senate. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, head of the Supreme Court, rapped his gavel and called Henry Hyde, lead "manager" of the prosecution team, to the well of the upper chamber. Mr Hyde told the 100 senators hanging on his words that they were now the custodians for generations of future Americans of the sanctity of sworn oaths and the simple words "I do", spoken by the President when he promised to protect the law, and spoken by themselves when they promised to do impartial justice. As Mr Clinton's jurors, they would decide whether those two words would be preserved in the future, "or go the way of so much of our moral infrastructure . . . full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". For the first time in 131 years America's top politicians sat as a jury and weighed evidence presented by the House of Representatives that the sitting president is an incubus on the government - a scoundrel who must be removed from office. Mr Hyde handed over to James Sensenbrenner, a fellow prosecutor and hardline conservative, to outline the case against Mr Clinton and to explain the need to call witnesses. He told the Senate that Mr Clinton's lying to friends and family about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, was a betrayal, but his lying in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit and to the grand jury, made it a public matter. Mr Sensenbrenner said: "That is an offence against the public," and said that it was a vital national issue that "a poor and powerless person" should be able to claim the protection of the law against a man at the pinnacle of power. "What he did was criminal, time and time again," he insisted. He warned the Senate that if it decided that Mr Clinton should be acquitted on the grounds that his lies were excusable efforts to conceal nothing more serious than an embarrassing affair, it would make harassment law and all laws relating to sex unenforceable. Mr Sensenbrenner listed a catalogue of alleged lies in the grand jury evidence of Aug 17, saying the President's falsehoods "were neither few in number nor isolated but, rather, pervaded his entire testimony. "He has not owned up to the false testimony, the stonewalling and legal hair-splitting and obstructing the courts from finding the truth. He must be held accountable to the only constitutional means the country has available: the difficult and painful process of impeachment." Every leading political figure in America bar one - the defendant - was on hand for an event which no one now alive has seen before. Rather than staying holed up in the White House while his fate was being decided, the President left Washington, first for Virginia to talk about community policing, then for New York for a get-together with his quasi-confessor Jesse Jackson. But Mr Hyde suggested that it would be a good idea for Mr Clinton to come back to the Capitol and testify personally at his trial. He said: "We're all interested in hearing from the President as a witness. Under Senate rules, we don't have any right to call him, but we can request the Senate invite the President over, so we may do that." This drew a hostile response from Joe Lockhart, the chief White House spokesman, who said Mr Clinton had already testified to the grand jury. He said: "This late hour request from Henry Hyde once again illustrates that this is really about politics." The prosecution, he said, "bent, shaped and twisted the rules" to suit itself. But several Senators believe that Mr Clinton should appear in the well of the upper chamber. Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, said: "It may be that the President will have to testify. That depends on whether he feels he has to come here to make his case because he may be having a more difficult time than he currently anticipates." This sort of comment, hinting that things may unravel for Mr Clinton, intensified tension, amid clear signs that last week's vaunted "bipartisanship" is disintegrating. Tom Daschle, the minority leader, and more than a dozen other Senate Democrats, met Abbe Lowell and other anti-impeachment lawyers from the House for a briefing on the best answers to prosecution allegations. It heightened suspicions among Republicans that despite lofty talk of "duty" and "impartiality", many Democrats have already made up their minds to acquit Mr Clinton and are intent mainly on assembling justifications for doing so. Mr Daschle said the meeting was "simply to be better briefed on the House proceedings", but Lindsey Graham, a prosecutor, hoped that the Democrats would similarly seek out David Schippers, the majority counsel, to get a balanced view. The
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Bread and Circuses - Part 1
- SNETNEWS Mailing List BREAD AND CIRCUSES * - Part 1 The off-year elections are behind us, and we cannot help but draw certain parallels with other advanced Welfare states in Europe. Having seen the failure of collectivist economies in the former Soviet Union and the East Bloc, and particularly the dramatic differences between the economies of East and West Germany, one would be inclined to think that the way shead to market economies would be the obvious choice, at least in the West. The economic turn-around in Britain under the Tories, which made the UK the most competitive market in Europe, arguably triggered the move to the right in Italy, France, Sweden and others. That this effort was to be extremely short lived on the Continent was a lesson that American politicos, particularly Republicans, failed to consider. THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA There will no doubt be reams of articles on the election attacking the conservative wing of the party whose Contract with America swept so many to victory in 1994. We predicted in our December, 1994, issue, "reform attempts would simply be swallowed up in legislative and bureaucratic inertia." Indeed, the Contract was alright with the establishment as long as nothing was actually done. But when freshmen Republicans began to push an agenda of true welfare reform, the party leadership panicked and began to play dead. In due course, efforts to scuttle the Department of Education, enact universal tax relief, prevent the socialization of medicine and other reforms were abandoned. Having failed to follow up on the Contract, the only successful Republican strategy in 40 years, the Republicans seemed totally confused by the "reform program" of the "New Democrats", who, headed by Bill Clinton, appeared to steal the thunder from the stalled Contract with a socialist version of their own. Mr. Gingrich (a member of the Council on Foreign Relations) got his come-uppance from the establishment through his book deal scandal, which cost him a $300,000 fine and neutralized his leadership. Since then he had been ineffective in leading his House majority in the advancement of any real Republican agenda. "THE NEW DEMOCRATS" What had so confused Republicans would have been abundantly clear if they had taken the trouble to look abroad. John Major, upon inheriting the prime ministership from Margaret Thatcher, almost immediately began to abandon the conservative programs which had kept the Tories in power for eighteen years, particularly, the issue of European Monetary Union (EMU). If any European nation could successfully stand alone against the threat to national sovereignty posed by EMU, it was insular Britain, whose economy was vibrant while those of Continental nations were moribund. It was probable that the ineffectual Major, in seeking what is euphemistically called the "centrist" position, guaranteed the demise of the Tories. What Clinton and the "New Democrats" had achieved by stealing the rhetoric of "free trade" in the Americas (NAFTA), the "New Labour" candidate Tony Blair used to advance Britain toward EMU. We have postulated that New Democrats, New Labour in Britain, and Neo-socialists on the Continent, after viewing the economic collapse in the former Soviet Union, have realized that the immensely inefficient Welfare states of the West, with their burdensome national debts, their current accounts deficits, their continuing trade imbalances, their overinflated credit markets and their falling paper currencies, are in severe decline-with which they must come to terms if they are to preserve their power bases. (This is the explanation for the attacks against industry in the United States-tobacco, gun manufacturers, and even automobile companies; hundreds of billions must be extorted from the private sector to shore up the sagging Welfare state.) What it amounts to is that neo-socialists of whatever stripe, rather than abandoning the proven failure of Welfare state ideology, plan to streamline it more along the lines of a multi-national fascist dictatorship. To do this, they must adopt the rhetoric of the establishment right, which has never championed the dismantling of the Welfare state, only improvements in its efficiency. This is where the confusion sets in-both New Democrats and New Republicans want essentially the same thing, and conservative Democrats and Republicans who have the only viable alternatives, are pilloried as destroyers of the "social safety net". THE LABOR BACKLASH Karl Marx, the father of Communism, an intellectual like all revolutionaries, who nevertheless dress in workers' clothing (Lenin, Mao, Castro, etc.) understood perfectly that they needed bodies to flesh out their revolutions. These could not come from the estates which Marx wanted to overthrow-the aristocracy and the church, so they had to come from the least educated, working class, who could be easily confused and exploited through the tortuous path of Marxist dialectics.
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Murder by Media (a new book); Helmets Are In; Bikes Are Out (a travel vignette - TiM GW Bulletin 99/1-3, 1/15/99).
- SNETNEWS Mailing List FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA A Web version of this article can also be seen at: www.truthinmedia.org/Vignettes/wa-99.html NOTE: To cancel the e-mail editions of our reports, just reply REMOVE or UNSUBSCRIBE, followed by your e-mail address. - Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 98/1-3 15-Jan-99 - Topic: AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS --- A New Book: "Murder By Media. Death of Democracy in Australia" * * * * An Aussie Travel Vignette: Helmets Are In; Bikes Are Out * * * * A NEW BOOK: "MURDER BY MEDIA. DEATH OF DEMOCRACY." (see instructions at the end for a SPECIAL DISCOUNT for TiM readers) WESTERN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 15 - The clock is ticking. Time is running out on the establishment media who murder the truth day in and day out. A new book is about to be released in Sydney, Australia, which will pinpoint who the perpetrators of this crime against freedom are. The book's title is "Murder by Media. Death of Democracy" (ISSN 1441-6476). But it could have been also called defending the truth in media. For, if there were the truth in the establishment media these days, there would be no need for the Truth in Media. Nor for books like this one, published by Scott Balson, an independent Australian publisher. The book's launch will take place at 1 PM on Friday, January 22, 1999, outside the gates of the Sydney's "Channel 9" TV station on Artarmon Road. Mr. Balson will also address the media. "Murder by Media, Death of Democracy in Australia," is based on three years of research undertaken privately by Mr. Balson on the Internet, by assessing thousands of articles and "opinion" pieces which have appeared in Australian newspapers. Although the book is largely Australian based, it also includes an "American Chapter" written by a US based geopolitical analyst and columnist, yours truly, the TiM editor. The book heralds the arrival of a new era as we pass from the Information Age into the Age of Enlightenment. "It is my belief that the time has now run out for many journalists and editors in Australia," said Mr. Balson. "They have usurped their right to be upholders of 'freedom of speech,' and custodians of objective and balanced reporting - by denying it to others. Simply put, they have failed dismally." "Murder by Media, Death of Democracy in Australia," clearly challenges their track record in recent years. For objective, honest journalists, as well as the public thirsty for truth and nothing but, the information contained in the book is invaluable. This book looks behind the scenes, and exposes just how the Big Business behind the major parties control and manipulate the political system to their own benefit." "What Australians must not lose sight of is that journalistic ethics today are seriously compromised, because there are not many options left for a journalist who upsets the duopoly of the Packer or Murdoch media," Mr. Balson said. " Under the polarized Packer/Murdoch media empires (the two Aussie media dons), Australia has lost its democracy in the true sense of the word. The book's stats: approximately 120,000 words; 272 pages; 40+ color photos; over 400 links to various Internet sites. An overview of the book, and an order form on-line, are available at: http://members.tripod.com/balson . The book may be ordered by sending a payment of A$27 or US$25 (which includes airmail postage) to Scott Balson, P.O. Box 11, Mt. Crosby News 4306, Queensland, Australia (E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). If you identify yourself as a TiM reader when ordering the book, you will be entitled to a SPECIAL TRUTH IN MEDIA DISCOUNT OF US$5, for a net price of US$20 per book. You can also buy the book at your nearest Dymocks book store the national Australian distributors for the book - but the TiM discount does not apply there. The signing of books will take place at the George Street branch of Dymocks in downtown Sydney on Saturday, Jan. 23rd, between noon and 2 PM. International inquiries may be directed to Scott Balson by dialing (from the US) 011-61-7-3201-1353; or 011-61-015-477-609 (mobile phone); or at 011-61-2-9439-1388, while the publisher is in Sydney - Jan 22-24, 1999; or by e-mail any time to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- AN AUSSIE TRAVEL VIGNETTE: HELMETS ARE IN; BIKES ARE OUT WESTERN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 15 - "What's the Rottnest Island's obsession with helmets?", this writer asked an attendant of the only bicycle rental shop on this beautiful tiny Indian Ocean island, half an hour by (fast) boat west of Perth, and a favorite vacation or weekend spot of both the Perth residents and visitors. The reason for the question was that there were signs everywhere reminding the customers that helmets are mandatory. And while the bikes were not, they
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Feds not need satellites to track civilians - now they use your cell phone
- SNETNEWS Mailing List (sent to USCMike1's 9,750+ readership - please re-post to your own mailing list) "Feds not need satellites to track civilians - now they use your cell phone" Big Brother has been watching you and logging your every phone call and travels. USCMike1 Thanks to IdsRus for forwarding this post. Subj: Satellites that track people Date: 99-01-15 00:39:06 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W.G.E.N.) === SCAN THIS NEWS 1/14/99 All cellular phones now incorporate the same technology discussed below. In 1998 the FCC began requiring cellular service providers to develop systems that would allow a cell-phone user to be located anywhere within the coverage area in case the user dials 911. By 2001 the cellular system will be able to locate a phone within a 125-meter radius. [see: 'E911' Turns Cell Phones into Tracking Devices] [http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/9502.html] -- Satellite Offenders by Joseph Rose 13.Jan.99.PST http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17296.html Satellites that track people are no longer reserved for enemies of the state. Global Positioning System technology is now being used to monitor convicted criminals on probation, parole, home detention, or work release. SecurityLink, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Ameritech, said the Satellite Monitoring and Remote Tracking system, or SMART, allows corrections officials to watch an offender's every move. It gives prisons and jails "the ultimate electronic monitoring solution when they need it most," said SecurityLink project director Ed Maier. ---[snip--- "Now, for the first time, we have the technology to monitor an offender's whereabouts in real time," said Bill Kimberlin, chief probation officer for the Sandusky Municipal Court in Sandusky, Ohio, which began using SMART two weeks ago. ---[snip--- Developed by Pro Tech Monitoring Equipment of Palm Harbor, Florida, SMART uses the 24-satellite system to track the location of offenders around the clock. Convicts carry a small tracking device, which receives coordinates from GPS satellites and communicates them to a monitoring center. - Send "subscribe snetnews " to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CTRL] Slave Documentation - H.H.
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/15/99 9:20:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- My, my getting testy aren't we. In a message dated 1/14/99 11:58:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Gee, hypocrite hawk, how come we are not still doing this today? Taking slaves in warfare? I mean the Bible says we can; sez H. Hawk. We, who? I'm not, for one reason, because I'm not fighting any wars at this time... Maybe later. = Well, let us see, hawk didn't answer this question. Just some 'cute' words. = I told you why "we" are not taking slaves in warfare.. One reason is because I am not engaged in any applicable warfare in which slaves might be taken.. Another reason is, as I have said many times, I do not want any slaves. If by "we" you mean the United States, I cannot answer for the govm't... I could only presume that they would rather kill people than take slaves. It doesn't mean that they necessarily have an aversion to slavery... and in fact (to keep this topical), I venture there are plans (conspiracies) in the pot right now to enslave people. = Again a 'cute' answer, while evaded any real answer. I submitt that 'we' as a nation do not take slaves is because it is Wrong and can't be sold under even wuth some muddle-headed 'religious doctrine'. Not because our government wishes to kill humans instead of taking slaves -a truly ignorant answer. Conspiracies to decieve people and to 'enslave' them to political and technocratic pogroms is different than the institution of humans OWNING other humans. = So a slave has his personal sovereignty? I would submit that his personal sovereignty has been stolen. You just continue to show yourself to be an ignorant hypocrite. And you continue to show yourself the equivalent of a gradeschool fool... I think whatever you are doing, you are needed somewhere as the village idiot. = Again, hawk has not answered any question or dealt with the issue at hand but has resorted to name calling and more 'cute' answers. I submit again, does a slave have personal sovereignty? = I do not know the definition of words or phrases you concoct. If by "personal" you mean "as an individual" and "sovereignty" you mean absolute control over his affairs, then my answer is "No, a slave does not have personal sovereignty." In fact, neither do non-slaves. = Ok, who took the personal sovereinty from the slave? Does this not constitute theft? Again you try and change the subject by commiserating on the political realities of today. = Did Jesus have long hair? I don't know... = Hawk can you please tell me what rules are valid in the Old Testament and which aren't? = Which "rules" are you asking about? I don't know how you are using the word, "valid." If you mean do the "laws" of Leviticus have jurisdiction over Christians, the answer is "no." If, for instance, you mean "The 10 Commandments," the answer is "None of them." and I base that on, among other passages, Romans 7. There are many passages (particularly entire book of Galatians, and much of Ephesians) that teach specifically, "If you wish to apply any portion of the law upon yourself as an obligation, then you must apply all of it. It is a package deal." However for you, as a Celtic Bhuddist, whatever in the hell that is, it ALL applies to you, according to my understanding of New Testament doctrine on this matter. = So if none of the above rules apply, why did you hypocritically quote certain 'rules' from Numbers to back-up your assertion that slavery isn't a wrong action. I have never claimed to be a Celtic Buddhist. So what are the rules, Pope Hawk? And how come you favour the words of saul/paul over the words of Jesus the Nazerite AKA The Christ? Do you really enjoy showing the world your hypocrisy and ignorance? There is some entertainment value, though. = Hawk - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[CTRL] Fwd: Canadian Court Ruling on Kiddie Porn
Canada Rules on Child Porn Case VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- A provincial judge ruled Friday that Canada's law against possessing child pornography violates the freedom-of- expression clause of the country's Charter of Rights. ``There is no evidence that demonstrates a significant increase in the danger to children caused by pornography,'' ruled Duncan Shaw, a justice of British Columbia's Supreme Court. He said the section of the Criminal Code that outlaws possession of child pornography is invalid because it violates charter provisions guaranteeing freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression. The case involved pornography possession charges against John Sharpe. Police raided his home near Vancouver in April 1995, seizing compact disks, photos and writings about child pornography. Prosecutors argued that allowing people to possess child pornography puts children at risk from pedophiles. But Shaw said the contention that materials depicting illegal sex with children actually prompt people to commit such acts was ``only assumption.'' ``The intrusion into freedom of expression and the right of privacy is so profound that it is not outweighed by the limited beneficial effects of the prohibition,'' Shaw wrote. The provincial attorney general, Ujjal Dosanjh, said he needed time to study the ruling before commenting or deciding on an appeal. However, Barry Penner, justice spokesman for the opposition Liberal Party in the provincial legislature, said the province should appeal immediately ``to look after children ... and protect them from being abused by sexual deviants.''
[CTRL] Fwd: Antichrist a Jew, Says Falwell
At the First Coming, Jesus Christ was a Jew. At the SECOND Coming, though, if he's STILL a Jew, he's the Antichrist. Falwell: Antichrist Probably Jewish WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell said the Antichrist is probably alive today and is a male Jew. He also believes the second coming of Christ probably will be within 10 years. In a speech Thursday about the concern people have over the new millennium, Falwell told about 1,500 people at a conference on evangelism at Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist is male and is a Jew. ``Who will the antichrist be? I don't know. Nobody else knows,'' said Falwell, whose Sunday morning services at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg are carried by television stations nationwide. ``Is he alive and here today? Probably. Because when he appears during the Tribulation period he will be a full-grown counterfeit of Christ. Of course he'll be Jewish. Of course he'll pretend to be Christ. And if in fact the Lord is coming soon, and he'll be an adult at the presentation of himself, he must be alive somewhere today.'' According to the Bible, the Antichrist will spread universal evil before the end of the world but will be finally conquered at the second coming of Christ. Falwell, the chancellor of Liberty University in Lynchburg and founder of the now-defunct Moral Majority, said Friday in Williamsburg that he did not intend for his statement to be anti-Jewish. He said he meant only that the Antichrist must be Jewish because Jesus Christ was a Jew. ``If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, he has to be Jewish,'' Falwell said. ``The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish.'' Rabbi James Rudin, the director of inter-religious affairs for the American Jewish Committee in New York, said the comment surprised him because he knows Falwell is a strong supporter of Israel and is not anti-Jewish. ``This is part of what I call millennial madness,'' Rudin said. ``To single out any one man and particularly to identify him as Jewish plays into some latent and historical anti-Semitism from the past.''
[CTRL] Fwd: UN and World Bank Confer
U.N., World Bank Discuss Assistance WASHINGTON (AP) -- The heads of several U.N. agencies and the World Bank chief met Friday to explore how they can bridge the gap between the time humanitarian emergency aid runs out and longer term development aid arrives. ``War doesn't end with a neat peace process,'' said Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which provides immediate care and shelter for refugees. ``When the war subsides, our work supposedly subsides and ... then the development agencies arrive much later,'' she added. ``This in-between period is very important because if this is addressed properly perhaps we can prevent the recurrence of conflict.'' The meeting at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, also included World Bank president James Wolfensohn and the heads of the U.N. Development Program, the World Food Program and UNICEF, the U.N. children's fund.
[CTRL] Fwd: Hillary: It Takes a Village -- on Mars
Okay, let me guess ... Whose law firm will make big bucks (through a government monopoly) handling the title to Martian real estate for aging yuppies with Alzheimer's? Mrs. Clinton, Kids Dream of Mars WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and arts officials kicked off planning Thursday for the first permanent station on Mars by some of the schoolkids who may eventually go there. Youngsters are being asked to think about the year 2030 and a ``Millennium Mars Project.'' So far, only small experimental vehicles have been landed on Mars. ``We will all be reliving, through these young people's imagination, what it means to create a new world,'' Ms. Clinton said during the kickoff at the National Air and Space Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution. The idea is to get pupils and high school students working with scientists and technicians on the design for a permanent Mars settlement, according to officials at the National Endowment for the Arts, which is putting $500,000 into the project. ``Our young citizens will not only imagine what new dance and music and painting will emerge in a community on Mars,'' said NEA Chairman Bill Ivey, ``but they must also consider what our interplanetary pioneers will carry with them. They will need creative minds -- imagination and ingenuity -- to solve the problems they are certain to encounter as they invent their new world.'' Before her speech, Mrs. Clinton and Donna Shirley, who managed the Mars Pathfinder project, met 15 pupils from Washington's Anne Beers Elementary School. Sitting under a prototype space suit for visitors to Mars, they talked about work the children have done on how they imagined living conditions would be -- based on what has already been discovered about conditions on the planet.
[CTRL] Fwd: Clinton to Sell Federal Agencies, Cheap
Sale of Gov't Housing Agency Mulled WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration is considering a proposal to privatize a government housing agency as it searches for more money for next year's budget, but the potential impact on consumers remains unclear. The White House's budget arm is considering the plan to sell the Government National Mortgage Association, known as Ginnie Mae, for several billion dollars to help offset the costs of new spending programs. Ginnie Mae is a wholly owned government corporation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It guarantees securities backed by pools of mortgages that are issued by private institutions. The mortgages are insured by the Federal Housing Administration or guaranteed by the Veterans Administration or by the Rural Housing Service. ``It's a conceptual proposal that still needs to be developed,'' said Victor Lambert, a HUD spokesman. ``It's an intriguing concept, but the devils are in the details.'' Ginnie Mae increases the supply of credit available for housing by guaranteeing payments even if borrowers can't make them. It generates $400 million a year for the government, but can bring in as much as $600 million. That is reason enough for the cash-strapped housing department to be less than eager to relinquish it, say some. ``HUD never likes to lose anything, because they've lost so much already,'' says Calvin Bradford, who runs a fair housing and lending consulting firm in Williamsburg, Va. Almost 19 million homes have been financed through Ginnie Mae securities. The agency finances more than 12 percent of all the nation's mortgages. President Clinton has already trumpeted proposals to increase military readiness, improve food safety and expand Medicare. The sale of Ginnie Mae could be one way to balance out the expenses in the budget plan, along with a proposal to raise taxes on cigarettes. The impact of any Ginnie Mae sale on home loans is unclear. Any charter to set it up a privatized company must answer whether Ginnie Mae has the backing of the Treasury Department and whether it will change the fees it pays as incentives to lenders to service loans. HUD will not speculate on the potential impact of any sale, calling it ``premature,'' Lambert said. According to a person familiar with the negotiations, HUD helped revise a plan initially proposed by the budget office to make it more ``tailored and practical.'' One possible result is that the administration could bar mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from bidding to buy it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-chartered mortgage market companies that function like commercial corporations and are publicly traded. They compete with FHA, part of the housing department, which insures mortgage loans. ``I assume they want this privatized Ginnie Mae to stand on its own and compete against Freddie and Fannie,'' said bank analyst Bert Ely of Alexandria, Va. Last month, the administration also considered adding a fee to Fannie Mae transactions. The plan was dropped after drawing strong opposition from those ``who did not want to see a tax on homeownership,'' said John Buckley, Fannie Mae's senior vice president for communications.
[CTRL] OEN 1/16/99
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - It Takes a Parking Lot to Raise a Cub Black Bears Prefer Hondas Toyotas BEARS in Yosemite National Park in California know exactly where to go foraging for food - they choose either Honda or Toyota cars. Forest rangers are convinced that the animals have learned to select specific models. Last year was a record for what rangers call "car clouting". Yosemite black bears clawed into 1,103 vehicles, causing £400,000 of damage, according to the Wall Street Journal. In only two months, bears broke into 28 Hondas and 21 Toyotas. By contrast they tampered with only two Buicks and one Lexus. Steven Thompson, the park's biologist, said mother bears were teaching their cubs how to "clout". A favourite technique was to insert claws just above the rear side door, then pull the door frame down to knee level. This creates a handy stepladder for bears to claw their way through the back seat and into the boot. Mr Thompson said "clouting" resulted from campers keeping food in cars rather than storing it in steel bear safes now installed at most camp sites. One camper, Richard Walther, told rangers he watched as a bear peeled two doors off his Honda, then carefully folded down the back seat to get into the boot, where he pushed a button to open a cooler full of food. "This bear clearly knew what he was doing," said Mr Walther. Park officials are considering how to keep Yosemite's population of up to 500 black bears out of the car parks. Rangers said one solution might be to drive them away with packs of trained dogs. The London Telegraph, Jan. 16, 1999 Crisis in Brazil Brazil Allows Real to Float Stock Market is happy Brazil was finally forced to float its currency yesterday, abandoning its attempt to engineer an orderly devaluation against the dollar after Latin America's largest economy suffered a week of mounting capital flight. The Real quickly fell to R$1.58 against the dollar, but later settled at R$1.43, representing a devaluation of 16 per cent since the start of the week. On Wednesday, the central bank had attempted to stem the crisis by an effective devaluation of about 8 per cent. Brazilian financial markets rebounded strongly in the afternoon as investors in São Paulo, the country's financial centre, greeted the news with a mixture of relief and euphoria. Shares on the São Paulo stock exchange soared 33.4 per cent, its second highest ever rise, while the price of the most liquid Brazilian international bond, the C-Bond, jumped 15.3 per cent. The positive response led some economists to predict the devaluation could be controlled. In an attempt to win international support for the new exchange rate policy, Pedro Malan, finance minister, and Francisco Lopes, the new president of the central bank, travelled to Washington last night to meet senior officials at the US treasury and the International Monetary Fund, which in November agreed a $41.5bn (£25.1bn) rescue package for Brazil. The Brazilian central bank said it would announce a new foreign exchange policy on Monday. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, president, broke off his holiday for the second time in a week to return to Brasília. In a televised address, he said stability depended on Congress approving the government's fiscal austerity plans. Economists said the government was most likely to confirm a floating exchange rate regime on Monday, although they said that the sort of currency board system that neighbouring Argentina uses was also a possibility. Mr Lopes did not rule out a revised system of trading bands. Investors were pleased that the government had not used up more reserves to defend the currency. Opinion was divided, however, over the likely impact on economic activity. "Everyone was expecting the currency to overshoot, but the fact that it did not leaves room for sharp rate cuts," said Dany Rappaport, chief economist at Santander Investment in São Paulo. However, Francis Freis-inger at Merrill Lynch in New York said uncertainty surrounding the currency would keep rates high. "Lower rates will ultimately depend on progress on the fiscal side," he added. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which weakened on Wednesday and Thursday, rose 219.62 points to close at 9,340.55 in New York. European markets finished strongly with the FTSE 100 index in London closing 120.8 higher at 5,941 while the Paris and Frankfurt markets were both around 1.4-1.5 per cent higher. The Financial Times, Jan. 16, 1999 Crisis in Brazil Brazil Faces Up to Harsh Reality Defending the indefensible in international finance is a quick route to bankruptcy. So one cheer to Brazil for allowing its currency to float. As a result, it has kept a hard-currency warchest of over $30bn - even more, if one adds in money coming from the
[CTRL] Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com
-Caveat Lector- fom: http://www.americanmafia.com/ A HREF="http://www.americanmafia.com/"Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - The Organ /A - Quite the site. A taste. Lots of embedded links. Om K - The Mob Busters Mafia User Forum Howard Stern Fans Mafia Site Search Al Guart Exclusive January 16 1999 Read and Write Mafia Notes Would you be my neighbor? Mug Shots Galore Crime Stuff to read and enjoy Do gangsters really "chat"? Other places to find Mafia stuff NEWS COVERAGE and FEATURES Exclusive Al Guart's New York View The Strong Arm of the Law and Junior Gotti Congressman Traficant and the murder of Charlie Carrabia JR from New York writes a shocking story of scandal, bribery and murder online bookshop Current News on Organized Crime - Yahoo! Recent Mafia Developments --- January 7 1999--- Check for Added Items John "Junior" Gotti is out of jail awaiting a racketeering trial. His release was secured by a $10-million bond. He is confined to home and visitors are limited to family members. Gotti spent Christmas Eve with his wife, their three children, his mother, sisters Angela and Victoria, and their families. On Thanksgiving, federal prosecutors refused to let Victoria's husband, Carmine Agnello visit. The Feds believed 36-year-old Agnello is a Gambino Crime Family associate. Gotti attorneys filed an appeal and after legal arguments, the prosecutors agreed to let Agnello spend Christmas Eve at the Gotti home. From the New York Post --- January 1999--- New York: John Gotti Jr. was released in October from jail on $10 million bond. Gotti had been held since January of 1998 when he was indicted for being the alleged street boss of New York's Gambino Mafia family. Gotti Jr. will wear a monitoring bracelet on his ankle to assure that he does not leave his house except to meet with his attorneys. Additionally, his phone will be tapped. The F.B.I. believes the Gambino crime group is still run by John Gotti Sr., the "Dapper Don" who is serving a life sentence. Las Vegas: Southern California Mafia underboss Carmen Milano and 16 other Los Angeles and Buffalo mobsters were charged in February in a 101-count racketeering indictment. Bobby Siller, F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge in Las Vegas said," there was an attempt by the Los Angles mob to infiltrate Las Vegas..." Milano, 68 and a disbarred attorney, is the brother of Peter Milano, the boss of the L.A. mob. The Milanos are sons of the late Anthony "The Old Man" Milano, former Cleveland Mafia consigliere. [more] continued on Page 2 - see Recent from your host Rick Porrello Happy New Year and welcome to AmericanMafia.com, the new Organized crime and Mafia Super Site! I am your host Rick Porrello, a police officer and author. In 1932 my grandfather and uncle, Cleveland mob leaders, were killed. Curiosity about my roots culminated in nine years of research and the publication of The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia. Later I wrote To Kill The Irishman: The War that Crippled the Mafia. "The Irishman" has been optioned for a movie. I conceived AmericanMafia.com to be THE top mob site. And we're well on our way. We've only been on-line a month or so and the interest has been tremendous. We've had hundreds of visitors from all over the globe - Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Finland, Norway Germany, Romania, Australia, the U.K., Canada and the United Arab Emirates, and we would like to thank our new friends all over the world for visiting! Here in the U.S. we're also making friends fast - John B. from Chicago, Charlie M. from Youngstown, Russ M. from Texas, Jim F. from Cleveland, and J.R. from New York - too many to mention. They've all become regular visitors with great suggestions and input. I thank you all. [more] continued on Page 2 - see Welcome Exactly What Is The Mafia? Question to Porrello: Exactly what is the Mafia? The Mafia, more specifically the Italian-American Mafia, is a group of criminals organized into "families," and operating primarily in North America. Also known as La Cosa Nostra, at one time there were 26 families in the United States - roughly one for each major city. The Mafia "commission," composed of bosses of numerous families, mostly New York, was the overseeing authority for all of the other La Cosa Nostra families. The Mafia has its roots in Sicily, where the larger and more powerful Sicilian Mafia operates from. ...and with
[CTRL] Fwd: [MC] Letter From the UK by Robin Ramsey of Lobster Magazine
Dear People: If you have not read Robin Ramsey's discussion of mind control/electronic harassment, please take the time to go to http:/www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/ Click on "The Latest Word" Robin had asked me to write an article for his magazine. When he got my article, he claimed it was too weird. I thought I had toned things down a bit. Anyway, he didn't use the article, but wrote another article using some of the information I supplied. Also, his the article, he makes reference to The Konformist on-line magazine where my article, "The Voices in My Head?", is supposed to be archived. You know what is nice? That Robin Ramsey thinks I have the best theory about electronic harassment. That is what I thought. ; Anyway, any comments you have and want to share after reading Robin's article, I will forward to him. KK ** MINDCONTROL-L Mind Control and Psyops Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: "unsubscribe MINDCONTROL-L" or "subscribe MINDCONTROL-L". Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED], list moderator
[CTRL] Fwd: CFR Joint Chief of Staff Chairmen
Council on Foreign Relations Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The Joint Chiefs of Staff were created in 1949. Since then there have been 14 Chairmen. At least seven of Chairmen were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Department of the Army Pamphlet No. 525-7-1, The Art and Science of Psychological Operations, states, "As the principal military advisors to the president, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are directly concerned with Psychological Operations (PSYOPs). They serve as the immediate military staff of the Secretary of Defense. They are in the chain of command that runs from the president to the Secretary of Defense, through the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the commanders of unified and specified commands. The chain of command to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) also runs from the Secretary of Defense through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Joint Staff is organized into directorates concerned with: Personnel (J-1) Operations (J-3) Logistics (J-4) Plans and Policy (J-5) Communications-Electronics (J-6) The intelligence function for the Joint Chiefs of Staff is undertaken by the Defense Intelligence Agency. All of these directorates have varying degrees of interest in PSYOP. In addition to the directorates, the activities of the various special assistants occasionally involve PSYOP. It is the director, J-3 (Operations), however, who has the responsibility in all matter pertaining to the psychological aspects of military operations. His principal staff assistant for PSYOP is the deputy director for operations (counterinsurgency and special activities) or DOCSA. DOCSA is supported." (Vol. I pgs 99-100) A list of Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, indicating Council on Foreign Relations membership follows: (1997-present) Shelton, Henry H. General, US Army. Appointed 14th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1997. Formerly: Commander-in-Chief, US Special Operations Command; Lieutenant General, US Army. Commander, XVIII Airborne Corps. Commander, Joint Task Force 180, multinational force, during Haiti 94 intervention; redeployed to CONUS with JTF 180 staff on 25 Oct 94 (1993 - 1997) Council on Foreign Relations Member Shalikashvili, John M. General, US Army. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 1 Oct 1993 - Sep 1997 (1993) Jeremiah, David E. Admiral, US Navy. Served as acting CJCS, 1-24 October 1993. (1989 - 1993) Council on Foreign Relations Member Powell, Colin L. General, US Army. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 1 Oct 1989 - 30 Sep 1993. (1985 - 1989) Council on Foreign Relations Member Crowe, William J., Jr. Admiral, US Navy. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 1 Oct 1985 - 30 Sep 1989. (1982 - 1985) Council on Foreign Relations Member Vessey, John W., Jr. General, US Army. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 18 Jun 1982 - 30 Sep 1985. (1978 - 1982) Council on Foreign Relations Member Jones, David C. General, US Air Force. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 21 Jun 1978 - 18 Jun 1982. (1974 - 1978) Brown, George S. General, US Air Force. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 1 Jul 1974 - 20 Jun 1978. (1970-1974) Moorer, Thomas H. Admiral, US Navy. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 3 Jul 1970 - 30 Jun 1974. (1964 - 1970) Wheeler, Earle G. General, US Army. Chief of Staff of the Army: 1 Oct 1962 - 2 Jul 1964. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 3 Jul 1964 - 2 Jul 1970. (1962 -1964) Council on Foreign Relations Member Taylor, Maxwell D. General, US Army. Chief of Staff of the Army: 30 Jun 1955 - 30 Jun 1959. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 1 Oct 1962 - 3 Jul 1964. (1960-62) Council on Foreign Relations Member Lemnitzer, Lyman L. General, US Army. Chief of Staff of the Army: 1 Jul 1959 - 30 Sep 1960. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 1 Oct 1960 - 30 Sep 1962. (1957 - 1960) Twining, Nathan F. General, US Air Force. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 15 Aug 1957 - 30 Sep 1960. (1953 - 1957) Radford, Arthur W. Admiral, US Navy. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: 15 Aug 1953 - 14 Aug 1957.. (1949-1953) Bradley, Omar Nelson U.S. Army officer (born Feb. 12, 1893, Clark, Mo., U.S.--died April 8, 1981, New York, N.Y.) who commanded the highly effective 12th Army Group, which helped ensure the Allied victory over Germany during World War II. General of the Army, US Army. Chief of Staff of the Army: 7 Feb 1948 - 15 Aug 1949. He later served as first chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (1949-53). roundtable __ (this article is posted on the RoundTable website at: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/wwcfrjcs.html ) Title-50 War and National Defense § 783 states - "It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to combine, conspire, or agree with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship, the direction and control of which is to be vested in, or exercised by or under the domination of control of, any foreign
[CTRL] Fwd: Federal Judge Makes Clinton Remark
Bill Clinton will be remembered for a long, long time for the wrong things. Best Regards, Marshall Houston Portland, Oregon http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990116/V36-011699-idx.html Federal Judge Makes Clinton Remark By Hans Greimel Associated Press Writer Saturday, January 16, 1999; 2:26 a.m. EST PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- After the first week of tense testimony in a closely watched abortion trial, tempers flared when a federal judge chided a witness by saying: ``Truthful means truthful. ... This is not a Clinton deposition!'' The remark Friday, which prompted a call for a mistrial from defense lawyers, came just minutes before U.S. District Robert E. Jones was about to recess the jury for the weekend. He quickly downplayed the statement as an ill-timed joke. ``I sincerely apologize,'' Jones told a courtroom echoing with both gasps and laughter. ``May the record reflect that the court is smiling and the witness is smiling.'' Defense lawyers, however, weren't smiling. They accused the judge of ruining the credibility of their witness, Wisconsin anti-abortion activist Monica Miller, who had simply responded to a question by asking: ``What do you mean by truthful?'' ``You yelled at this witness,'' defense attorney Denis Brenan told Jones. ``You've impugned this witness' credibility with your outburst. I call for a mistrial.'' Jones denied the motion and moved on from the gaffe, which for the moment overshadowed a case that during its first week has put the tactics of abortion foes on trial. Plaintiffs -- including Planned Parenthood and several abortion doctors -- claim that posters targeting abortion doctors and a Web site detailing personal information on ``baby butchers'' violate a 1994 federal law that bars threats of force against abortion doctors and their patients. Lawyers for more than a dozen defendants acknowledged the posters and ``The Nuremberg Files'' Web site contain strong statements and graphic images, but they maintain it is only constitutionally protected political speech. The Web site attracted national attention last October when it crossed through the name of Dr. Barnett Slepian after he was killed by sniper fire in his home outside Buffalo, N.Y. Other doctors who have been killed are also checked off, and those merely wounded are shaded out in light gray. © Copyright 1999 The Associated Press
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Antichrist a Jew, Says Falwell
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/16/99 4:29:06 PM, you wrote: He later became a well known philosopher/mystic named something like Krishna Namurati. Yes, J. Krishnamurti and basically he told the theosphist, no deal. Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: The Lancet on Gulf War Syndrome
Study Confirms Gulf Illness Claims LONDON (AP) -- Persian Gulf War veterans have a rate of general ill health at least twice as high as forces who stayed home or were sent to Bosnia, according to a new study of British troops. The Lancet, a British medical journal, published a study this week that confirms what previously has been reported in studies of U.S. and Canadian veterans -- that while no definable disease could be found, going to the Persian Gulf in 1991 affected troops' health. The study of 8,195 soldiers, sailors and pilots -- the first to compare Gulf War veterans with troops who served in another hazardous conflict around the same time -- is the largest of symptoms to date. The men, half of whom had retired from the military, filled out questionnaires about their current health. They all reported a variety of 59 ailments, including chronic fatigue, hair loss, rashes, headaches, joint pain, memory loss, heart problems and nervous system disorders. There was hardly any difference between the Bosnia troops and men who served at the time of the Gulf War but were not deployed. Regardless of the ailment, however, vets who served in the Persian Gulf were about twice as likely to complain of it than the other two groups studied, the researchers said. ``The evidence is unequivocal that going to the Gulf affects your health,'' said Dr. Simon Wessely, one of the researchers from King's College at the University of London. The researchers don't know why ailments were more common in Gulf War vets, but said the study shows there is no single cause, either physical or psychological, and that attempts to look for a ``smoking gun'' will not succeed. ``We have to look at a multitude of causes and their interactions,'' Wessely said. The researchers also found that hazards of war -- ranging from using pesticides and seeing dead bodies to getting diesel fuel on your skin -- were linked to more symptoms, regardless of whether the men had served in the Gulf or somewhere else. The study did find a slight increase in ill health in those who had vaccines against biological threats such as anthrax or plague. Receiving multiple vaccinations against routine infections also was linked to a modest increase in illness, but only in the Persian Gulf group and not in Bosnia. In an editorial in the Lancet, a scientist with the National Institutes of Health called the study one of the most definitive conducted to date and said it added weight to the argument that no unique ``Gulf War Syndrome'' exists. In his editorial, Stephen E. Straus, chief of the laboratory of clinical investigation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, drew parallels between the ailments cited by Gulf War vets and soldiers who fought in World War I. ``Although the possibility of some still unappreciated environmental factor cannot be dismissed entirely,'' he wrote, ``the Gulf War seems to differ from others only in a quantitative sense and in the intensity of public discourse about it.'' But Dr. Robert Haley, an epidemiologist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center who believes a particular ``Gulf War syndrome'' exists, criticized the research. He said the scientists' questions were too vague, so it was not surprising they found the same symptoms in all of the veterans. ``They found questions that by their nature are not unique. They didn't ask the right questions,'' he said. Haley's research on a small number of patients has previously concluded that some Gulf War veterans suffer from distinct symptom clusters caused by chemical poisoning and that some may suffer neurological damage from nerve gas or pesticides.
[CTRL] Fwd: Janet Reno Frustrates Republicans
Predicted reaction: The Atty General gets charged with contempt of Congress. Reno Rejects Clinton Campaign Probe WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite House Republican allegations, the Justice Department says there is no ``specific and credible information'' that President Clinton's former campaign manager received an illegal $1 million payment in connection with a controversial office building development. Attorney General Janet Reno announced Thursday that she was ending the investigation into lawyer and lobbyist Peter Knight, a former top aide to Vice President Al Gore who ran Clinton's re-election campaign in 1996. The decision means that no independent counsel will explore Knight's financial dealings. Knight received $1 million from Tennessee developer Franklin Haney shortly before becoming Clinton's campaign manager. Republicans on the House Commerce Committee issued a report last month questioning whether the money was an illegal contingency fee for helping get the Federal Communications Commission to move to Haney's Portals development in Southwest Washington. Haney and Knight both have said the $1 million payment represented legal fees for Knight's work on several Haney projects over a three-year period. Committee Republicans criticized Reno's decision Thursday. ``The legal burden is on the attorney general to show why the evidence contained in the report is not specific and credible,'' the committee said in a statement. ``The Justice Department's cursory response utterly fails to meet this legal obligation. We expect a full explanation of this decision.'' Acting Assistant Attorney General Dennis Burke said in a letter to the committee chairman, Rep. Thomas Bliley Jr., R-Va., that the allegations against Knight were investigated as part of a Justice Department campaign task force's probe of Haney. ``The task force concluded that the evidence does not support the report's view that Mr. Haney's payment to Mr. Knight was a contingency fee,'' Burke wrote. As a result of the task force's investigation, Haney, a longtime supporter of Gore, was indicted last month on 42 counts alleging he made illegal donations to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign and to two senatorial candidates.
[CTRL] DEA Assassins Hit Viet Vet Rad/ Inside the CIA's Miami Training Camps
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Blacklisted News, Secret History . . . From Chicago, '68, to 1984 ©1983 Youth International Party Information Service Bleecker Publishing POB 392 Canal St. Station New York, NY 10012 ISBN 0-912873-00-0 - Old news, but the cryptocracys' tactics don't change much. Om K - If they really wanted to get you, all the denials by DEA officials that domestically they were engaged in the equivalent of CIA assassinations of foreign leaders or revolutionaries would do you little good . . . DEA Assassins Hit Viet Vet Rad Scott Camil was shot in the back by a federal Drug Enforcement Administration assassin named Dennis Fitzgerald"accidentally," according to agents Fitzgerald and William Porter, whose car he was struggling to get out of at the time, Porter and Fitzgerald, posing as coke dealers starting a straight business front, had first approached Camil to buy some business cards from his family office supply company. Because Camil lived, it became necessary to charge him with "sale of cocaine"2.5 ounces allegedly left with Camil by a mysteriously unidentified hitch-hiker whom agents claim to have let leave the car unscathed before the shooting. Other agents "found" $2300 after hanging around Camil's house for 5 hours. It was not the first time he was targeted by the government. Camil served 20 months with the marines in Vietnam and came home thoroughly disillusioned with U.S. policy. One of the original coordinators of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, he was a target in Florida when 8 vets were indicted in July of '72 for plotting to assault the 1972 Republican convention with slingshots and bows and arrows. These charges were finally thrown out of court. After checking out this interview Scott allowed that, while there's nothing he'd rather leave unsaid, we should make it clear that our interviewer took the initiative in drawing out details of the historical development of the VVAW. He's very guarded in meeting and talking to people now. D.E.A. informer Barbara Bastile Ives, paid by the government to fuck Camil, said "Yeah, we set him up. That's our job." ON HIS BUST Q. What do you think of the parallel of your case and Tim Leary's: DEA use of a government prostitute? A. It makes it really hard-it really does. I mean, you meet someone, they seem really nice. You become close to them, and they start spending weekends with you. Then they introduce you to a "close friend," the dude shoots you, and they turn out to be an agent. She made a statement to the press it was a set-up; that this was her job. She was assigned to come up here from Orlando and go out with me. Basically what it comes down to is that she deceived me, and she was being paid by the government to sleep with me. That's the first time they ever pulled that one on me. Q. Is it true that after the Gainsville Eight trial the federal prosecutor came up to you and said, "We're going to get you yet!"? A. No. He said it in front of a taxicab driver who took him to the airport. The cabbie came back to us and told us he said "We're still going to get Camil and two others." Q. What happened to you personally after the trial? A. I started working on a book on the Gainesville 8 trial and the other trials I had during that time. I was still speaking, but I limited my speaking to the Gainesville 8 case, the abuse of force by the government, universal amnesty. (I prefer to call it repatriation), and the JFK assassination, on which I've read just about everything written. I keep in active contact with the Assassination Information Bureau in Massachussetts. There's no doubt in my mind that the government killed the President. Q. Ever seen the pix of E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis in Dallas? A.. I believe they were involved because I believe Connally was involved, I believe Nixon was involved, I believe Gerald Ford was involved, and that those people were all connected together-and I couldn't swear under oath those pictures were them, but I do believe those pictures are them. Now concerning current events, here you have Colby, who was head of the Phoenix Operation in Nam. Now he's head of the CIA, and what do you get? A whole bunch of supposed refugees, of whom I'm sure a good percentage are Project Phoenix assassins. And they owe their allegiance not to the American government or the American people, but to the CIA. I could see the next Watergaters not being Cubans, but Vietnamese. Now they've got someone to do their dirty work who's had plenty of practice. Q. What made the government so upset that they did this number on you? A. I don't know if it was something I was doing then, or if it was something I had done before and maybe had the potential to do again. I feel the main objective was to stop the book, and that feeling is based on the fact that while agents Dennis Fitzgerald and William Porter were shooting me in the street, other agents were raiding my house with a search warrant that called
[CTRL] Fwd: Weekly Analysis -- January 18, 1999
Need to Know Something Fast? Try STRATFOR's Find Facts Service Visit http://www.stratfor.com/findfacts/ Or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Global Intelligence Update Red Alert January 18, 1999 Brazil's Message: Forget the Global, Think Local Summary: * The decision to float Brazil's real triggered widespread fears that another phase in a global economic crisis is about to begin. Having passed through rounds of the Asian and Russian crises, there is a sense that Brazil's devaluation is part of a greater threat to the international economic system. We do not see this as a global problem, but rather as a series of regional problems. By devaluing, Brazil is clearing the decks of an essentially healthy economy. With this finally out of the way, the long-term investment atmosphere in Brazil actually improves. We not only remain bullish on Latin America, but also are increasingly convinced that to understand international economics forget the global, think local. Analysis: The Brazilian decision to float the real shocked financial markets around the world on Wednesday, triggering fears that another round in the global crisis is about to begin. There was a sudden sense that the resilience the world economy had shown since the summer might have been illusory, and that a cancer in the global economy was still gnawing away at its innards. For a moment, it seemed that a legitimate panic was setting in. By Friday, a very different sensibility was in place. The real had fallen about 15 percent, which was not inconsiderable, but did not represent a catastrophic implosion. The Sao Paolo stock market rose 33 percent in one day's trading, while most of the world's markets, save some in Asia, also surged. In a matter of days, the world went from panic to confidence, with emotions cycling as rapidly as markets. The week's events were fascinating not only because of what they told us about the resilience of the Brazilian economy in particular and Latin American economies in general, but because of what they told us about the global economy. To be more precise, the events in Brazil are telling us that we are not living in a world of global economies that are of one fabric, but of geographically differentiated, highly fragmented economies. Put another way, it is not a small world after all and CNN has not created a global village. It is a very large and complex world, and events in one part of the world may have very little effect on things happening in other parts. One of the foundations of the great fear of a global economic meltdown is the feeling that the world economy is of a single fabric and that whatever happens in one place immediately effects things happening in other places. This sense of global vulnerability has created a psychology constantly on the verge of panic. Since at any moment something bad is happening somewhere in the world, the global sensibility immediately generates a sense of global vulnerability. Thus, Brazil's problems (or Russia's or Japan's or China's) are immediately seen as a harbinger of global disaster. There is a sense that there is an intractable, global problem that simply cannot be solved and that this represents a fundamental threat to the international economic system. The proof: something is always going wrong somewhere. Now, in a peculiar contrarian sense, this is all to the good. The hysteria of the month helps to deflate markets periodically and keeps investors on their toes. For this reason, we hesitate to debunk it, especially since it provides excellent buying opportunities. However, there is, strictly speaking, no global financial problem. Rather, there are a series of regional problems, which, while they do influence each other, do not flow from the same cause, cannot be solved by any single means, and do not affect each other nearly as much as people believe. Things may well be terrible in some parts of the world, but that does not mean that the world as a whole is on the brink of catastrophe. There are three regional crises: * Asia: a crisis developing over the long-term, rooted in public policies deliberately designed to prevent recessions, that has permitted massive, systemic inefficiency and unacceptably low rates of return on capital to undermine the long-term viability of the region's economies. The problem is particularly severe in Japan, which is among the few major markets to have declined since September. Japan's problems are deep, intractable and probably insoluble without a political smash-up. Nevertheless, Japan and Asia's problems have had minimal impact on the U.S. and Europe until now, and we see no reason why it should have a greater effect in 1999 than it did in previous years. * Russia: the inability of the Russian and other economies of the former Soviet Union to convert from a command to a market economy. Essentially, the cost of re-capitalizing
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Bread and Circuses - Part 2
- SNETNEWS Mailing List BREAD AND CIRCUSES * - Part 2 EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION January 1, 1999, barely a month away, is euro day. We have insisted for the last two years that the euro was so important to the international socialist agenda that nothing would be allowed to stand in its way-not the crash of Asian markets, the collapse of hedge funds, the failure of the Russian banks, or the threat of impeachment of Bill Clinton. Consequently, it was necessary for the Fed to pump huge amounts of liquidity into the US market, all the while relying on administration "massaging" of economic statistics to pretend that inflation was non-existent, while huge bailouts were arranged to keep the global markets afloat a little longer. The whole idea of the euro is to create a currency monopoly in Europe. Without competing strong currencies, like the D-mark, EC bankers can inflate at will without the embarrassment of declining foreign exchanges rates-indeed, Continental foreign markets will simply be obsoleted by the fixed exchange rates of national currencies with the euro at the beginning of the year. But, in ordering a fascist Europe (state directed private economic activity), the socialist super-bureaucrats are faced with an immense task-they must come to terms with rampant unemployment, for failure to do so could surely trigger the early demise of European Monetary Union. But, by extending thousands of new regulations on business, Brussels has thus guaranteed both higher unemployment and the ultimate economic failure of EMU. If there is anything that will save Europe from depression it must be the abandonment of state strangleholds on business. All of this is further complicated by the compulsion to admit former Soviet Bloc states into the common market. Already, those states which had hoped to benefit from the levelling process are being told that they must forego many of the economic benefits of EC in order that funds may flow to their poorer neighbors in the East. This is certain to fire resentment in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland, whose support for EMU was based on their becoming the primary beneficiaries thereof. Make no mistake-EMU will be broadened to include the "former" communist states in Europe because the underlying purpose of the whole scheme, while couched in economic terms, is political-that is to say, it intends the dominaton of nations and populations. Meanwhile, Tony Blair, New Labour prime minister of Britain, is busily dismantling the traditional English way of life by attacking the very fundamentals of national sovereignty. On his hit list are the House of Lords (and ultimately the Monarchy), the pensions of widows, the rights of those on state aid to engage a lawyer, revisions to the National Health Service and the pitifully few tax breaks for business which had contributed to the rise of the economy and the restoration of English competitiveness in Europe. THE IMPACT ON AMERICA While Americans rightfully worry about the impact on the dollar once the euro arrives, the larger and more immediate question which no one seems to be addressing is this: once the euro is a fait accompli, will the Fed withdraw its intervention in the market, allowing the long overdue collapse of our financial bubble to take place? Consequently, our urgent message to readers is this: After January 1, 1999, the risk of equity holdings, both in the United States and abroad, is greatly increased-the prudent course of action being, as we have constantly counseled, to sell at least 50% of equity positions by the first of the year. As for our foreign currency holders, since Brussels will fix the exchange rates between the eleven EMU currencies with the euro on December 31, 1998, you have less than one month to convert EMU currencies to non-EMU currencies, particularly those longer term assets which could suffer most by being denominated in euros, such as bonds, annuities, endowments, etc. There is urgent reason to accomplish these prudent measures now. When the "bread" runs out, the "circuses" will become deadly. (conclusion) ___ * From THE HARD MONEY INVESTOR, December 1998 issue, Hal Bryan, Editor Published monthly: $39/yr PO Box 11, Enumclaw, WA 98022 Mr Bryan is an associate of Committee to Restore the Constitution __ STATE LEGISLATIVE SOLUTION TO 'BOOM AND BUST' ECONOMY In the present climate of economic emergency it appears that the greatest stumbling block to acceptance of necessary data for financial survival, and the conclusions which must be reached by the individual, is the feeling of 'unreality' which the truth holds for the very people who seek it. The impending economic/political disaster is permitted its fantastic rate of growth through no other factor as much as incredulity masked as apathy. The resulting inaction of the people is
[CTRL] Odds Ends Year 2000
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.3/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.3/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 3/A The Laissez Faire City Times January 18, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 3 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Odds Ends Year 2000 by Zola Laissez Faire City TimesAsian correspondent, Richard Ehrlich, has taken time off to act as a media consultant to Leonardo DiCaprio, who is making a movie The Beach in Thailand. We couldn't think of a better choice, given Richard's command of the language and the local scene. But luckily he still had time to send us an article about an unusual shrine on the grounds of the Hilton Hotel in Bangkok. As for Leonardo DiCaprio, his most recent role was in the Titantic, a movie parable about the unsinkable U.S. stock market. The Dow went up on Friday by almost as many points as it went down on Thursday, but on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday the Dow sank also. It was helped along by a little foreign exchange crisis in Brazil, where the real sank against the dollar by about 10 percent. The Brazilian stock market, the Bovespa, fell 5.05 percent this past Wednesday, and 9.97 percent on Thursday. We decided to sit tight on our put. We might have sold it if Friday had been a down day also, but it wasnt. Some readers were warning us to get out, because Clinton is going to announce a bribe to Wall Street in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. "Washington, Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- President Bill Clinton may use next week's State of the Union address to suggest expanding 401(k) programs for low-income workers and to lay the groundwork for investing a small portion of the Social Security trust fund in financial markets, two White House aides close to the discussions said." Who knows if Wall Street will take the baitwe already know they cant calculate. But low-income workers contributing to 401(k) programs isnt going to generate much cash. As for investing the Social Security trust fund in the stock marketwhat a joke! There isnt any trust fund! Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, and there is temporarily a cash flow surplus on a year-to-year basis (i.e. money coming in this year is bigger than money going out). Were not talking about a lot of surplus cash in the first place, so a "small portion" of it funneled to Wall Street wont go far. But the Dow will probably rally just from the sight of Clinton appearing on TV. Clinton is Wall Streets symbol of reality denial. But well take our chances, even though we have no doubt that Clinton will, as usual, treat government revenue as his personal piggy bank. Hes also getting ready to wag the dog again, treating the U.S. military as an adjunct to his personal defense team. But all the anti-Impeachment bribes Clinton has to offer cant cover all the accidents waiting to happen to financial markets. Our time horizon is March 18, not tomorrow. Millennial Calculations Speaking of dates, its annoying enough when people cant get the end of the century or the end of the millennium right. The Twentieth Century ends on Dec. 31, 2000. The Twenty-First Century begins on Jan. 1, 2001. The Third Millennium, according to the Gregorian calendar, also begins on Jan. 1, 2001. The Third Millennium ends on Dec. 31, 3000. The latter date will also be the last day of the Thirtieth Century. But its more disturbing when people confuse the Y2K problem with Gregorian date calculations, and then compound this with totally irrelevant allusions to the year Jesus was born. The latest inanity along this line I came across said, in effect, "the millennium really began on Jan. 1, 1995, because Jesus was born 4 B.C." Assuming the statement has any meaning whatsoever, the calculation is off by a good 2 years, and realistically by 2 years. Lets sort through this nonsense. I first went through these types of calculations long ago in theology class. But its not a matter of theology, its a matter of simple arithmetic. Dagny Deb in her excellent article on calendars vs. computer time, Year 2000: What is Time?, already covered the basics. But let me take a stab at it also. It is not surprising that many associate the Y2K problem with apocalyptic prophecy. After all, we have those in the money-making Apocalypse Business like Gary North (see Declan McCullaghs There's Something About Gary) who once assured us that there would be a nuclear war with Russia, and then that we would run out of hospital beds by 1992 because of AIDS. He now parades Y2K as the latest gimmick to market his survival tools, and given his previous history its no wonder people associate Y2K with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. But hes not the only culprit: in England, a number of ministers are interpreting Y2K as Gods punishment. (For electing fascist Tony Blair, presumably.) Lets get some things straight. "Millennium" simply means a 1000 years. Thats all. You can start a millennium any day you
[CTRL] The End of Laissez Faire?
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.3/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.3/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 3/A The Laissez Faire City Times January 18, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 3 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - The End of Laissez Faire? by Wolf DeVoon Last September, as global financial markets were crashing, the economics editor of The London Times, Anatole Kaletsky, noted with approval the soothing words of Alan Greenspan, which created a temporary stock market rally. "[C]apitalism can prosper only with the support of sound government," Kaletsky declared, and went on to say that capitalism would survive global crisis, but "free-market fundamentalism won't" (Anatole Kaletsky, "Farewell Laisser-faire," The Sunday Times, Sept. 10, 1998). Now first let me note that Anatole Kaletsky is a sober, well-informed, intelligent man. I've often admired his ability to brush aside all the transparent hoopla of governments and brokers, identifying long-term trends and economic principles that matter most. His writing style is crisp and lucid. I wish there were more editorial page writers with Kaletsky's commitment to reason, clarity, courage and objectivity. In truth, I envy the man. He richly deserves the position of privilege and public trust conferred by The London Times. On those many occasions when I've said that better minds should do the work of defending human rights, it was Anatole Kaletsky's class of cranium I specifically hoped to invoke as the powerful champion I know I am not. All that said, when Kaletsky is wrong, he is terrifyingly wrong. Analyzing the uptick in global share prices immediately after Alan Greenspan's evasive, carefully-worded intimation that the Federal Reserve would inject additional liquidity this year, Kaletsky argued that the Wall Street response to Greenspan's hint of lower interest rates and easy money "implies a recognition that capitalism can prosper only with the support of sound government -- that political institutions have a legitimate and indispensable role in managing the capitalist system." Bloody hell. With friends like that, markets need no gravedigger. Whether he came to praise capitalism or to bury it, Kaletsky implicitly justified fascism, especially the "sound government" variety pioneered by Adolph Hitler, Ferdinand Marcos, Idi Amin, General Soharto, and every tinpot demogogue who ever held his hand out for soft loans backed by the IMF or U.S. tax dollars. Unbelievably, Kaletsky goes on to say that free-market theory "is now in full retreat" and that economic direction by government is "the consequence of an historical conjuncture... ranging from Roosevelt in the United States to such less savory economic heroes as Hjalmar Schacht, the president of Hitler's central bank." If it was foolish for a State Department policy wonk (Francis Fukuyama) to proclaim the End of History as a victory for capitalism, Kaletsky has cobbled something infinitely worse: the End of History as the rationing of freedom. Lenin was quoted exactly so: "Liberty is precious, so precious it has to be rationed" -- and there is little ambiguity in Kaletsky's version of the statist creed. He insists that there has been a global paradigm shift; we cannot rely on market forces; the necessary role of government is to stabilize and manage macro- economic demand on an ad hoc, pragmatic basis: "How exactly governments do this -- through interest rates, taxes, currency management or whatever -- depends on ever-changing conditions. But the fact that capitalism requires some degree of external management is impossible to dispute," Kaletsky sniffs. Oh, yeah? I'm a simple tradesman, so I'm going to dispute it in parables, not paradigms. "Capital" means capital plant and equipment. When it's time to cut a bar of steel in half or punch a tunnel through a mountain, all the haircuts, sovereign debts, central bankers, and newspaper columns in the world ain't gonna do it. Long before your paper banknotes and derivatives can be swapped, some jerk like me has to pick up a capital hammer and hit a capital nail accurately on its head to get the job done. However decorative and amusing Disney movies, tourists, sportsmen and priests purport to be, in reality consumption contributes nothing to the work of production. Whether the capital in question is a paintbrush, or a petrochemical plant, or an oil rig, or the pipe-welding robots and steel mills that make it possible to exploit a naturally inaccessible, dangerous, useless raw muck, the productive power of tangible investment in the form of industrial plant and equipment is the literal (and largely forgotten) basis of capitalism. I know this seems distant from Kaletsky's thesis -- that central bankers and sovereign fiscal policy exert a beneficial and stabilizing influence upon otherwise chaotic "capitalist" markets. However, I ain't quite done, yet. Before you can have a market, you need goods. Pieces of
[CTRL] Is It Time to Sell Onions on the Internet?
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.3/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.3/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 3/A The Laissez Faire City Times January 18, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 3 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Is It Time to Sell Onions on the Internet? by Brad Lips Amid the various traditions of December hanging stockings, spinning dradels, and disposing of unwanted fruitcakes something new occurred during the holiday season of 1998: Internet commerce came of age. Boston Consulting Group reports that online sales from Thanksgiving to Christmas more than tripled from prior-year levels. America Online said its 15 million accounts alone were responsible for $1.2 billion in Internet holiday sales. Such numbers may well pique the interest of Washington's policy-makers, who are always attentive to new sources of revenue or new opportunities to expand their regulatory scope. So it is worth investigating how life is evolving out on the digital frontier and whether government bureaucrats will be able to justify any change to the present "hands off" policy. To date, the most successful Internet retailers are operating on business models that are fairly similar to traditional mail order companies, but with more informative presentations, faster feedback and delivery, and often steeper discounts. There are, however, other booming services, which could never have developed outside of cyberspace and this is where things get interesting. A company called eBay, for instance, conducts online auctions by matching sellers with potential buyers who bid on collectibles from rare coins to Beanie Babies over a period of days. To a first-time user, the potential for fraud may seem high, given the relative anonymity of participants in these transactions. One can imagine regulators will want to safeguard the public by establishing standards of conduct, requiring licenses for online trading, or using any of their regular tricks to bring conformity to an evolving marketplace. But users of eBay would find this kind of regulatory red tape irrelevant. They create order in this trading universe on their own, by shaming users who fail to deliver goods satisfactorily and by praising those who exceed expectations. A buyer on eBay called Sorny says of his transaction with seller Diamon: "Item well packaged and arrived in good time. Good to do business with." Other sellers were tarred with criticisms, such as "Product not as described. Junk. Over 30 days in shipping. Beware!" These comments are complimented by a "feedback score" which quantifies the number of happy vs. unhappy customers of a particular buyer, so new users can gauge whether or not they want to do business with a particular individual. The feedback mechanisms of eBay show how markets can be self-regulating. This is particularly true on the Internet where the costs of collecting and distributing information are essentially nil. Not only are government agencies unnecessary to these processes, they could have the unintended effect of undermining the existing rules with which current users voluntarily comply. Stepping outside of cyberspace and into the arena of premium produce, we find a real-world example of how a regulatory body that is supposed to serve consumers can wind up operating to their detriment. Onions grown in Vidalia, Georgia, are known for their unusual sweetness, which scientists attribute to the area's low-sulfur soil and mild winters. In 1988, in order to protect the Vidalia name from abuse by imposters, Georgia's State Legislature mandated that only onions grown within a 20-county region could legally represent themselves as Vidalia onions. One problem: some onion farms within these boundaries have higher sulfur levels than others and produce onions that are rather unspectacular. As a result, consumers have no guarantee that a purchase of Vidalia onions would be blessed with Vidalia sweetness. An entrepreneur named David Burrell sought to remedy this situation. He developed a system to measure the sulfur content of an onion and use Global Positioning Satellite technology to predict the sulfur content of the rest of a crop. Burrell could therefore separate the good from the merely ordinary and put a label on it: "Certified Extra Sweet by Vidalia Labs Inc." Once it became apparent that supermarkets would pay a premium for Burrell-approved onions, farmers who peddle not-so-sweet onions became alarmed and turned to the government to intervene. A legal suit followed and a state judge issued a order to stop Burrell from testing onions for the remainder of the harvest season. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Georgia's agricultural commissioner Tommy Irvin promised to stop Burrell from testing onions ever again. His explanation "A sweet Vidalia onion is a sweet Vidalia onion. We don't need a test to tell us what we already know for a fact." is a quintessential example of paternal
[CTRL] Tyranny, Canadian Style
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.3/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.3/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 3/A The Laissez Faire City Times January 18, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 3 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Tyranny, Canadian Style by Peter Topolewski During one of the events at the 1997 APEC meeting in Vancouver, BC, "protestors" gathered along a procession route to hoist signs decrying then Indonesian leader Suhartos abuses of power. Publicly displaying disapproval and calling for change is, in Canada, generally considered a right. This particular display, however, Surharto never saw. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrived, under the auspices of removing a security threat, to disperse the protesters. With little warning the RCMP opened up industrial-sized pepper spray canisters on the crowd. Clubs and strip searches followed. Peaceful Canadians exercising their right to free speech: the protestors and the public felt the RCMP treated them with excessive force. After more than 40 public complaints were filed, an inquiry was convened to determine whether the RCMP had acted rightly or wrongly. But the question the RCMP tactics imply, and which is not being officially asked, is did Prime Minister Jean Chretien order the crackdown? Many suspect he did exactly that to fulfill a promise to protect Suhartos sensitive self esteem. If Chretien ordered the crackdown he explicitly violated Canadian rights and freedoms and his time as PM should be at an end. His governments tactics during the RCMP inquiry, and the controversy in which the inquiry has been mired since day one, indeed suggest that Chretien was the triggerman. But to this day he looks infallible: arcane procedure, diffuse comments, and a professional aloofness have kept him far removed from, and largely indifferent to, the wrongdoings of APEC 1997. While around the world the Prime Ministers Office is not generally considered a pinnacle of power, it does by virtue of the structure of Canadas government enjoy a somewhat unchecked authority. Whereas Clinton may be threatened by Republicans and by his own party for his unholy dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, Chretien announces, and his Liberal party pursues, whatever legislation his Cabinet proposes his party vote for. Its that--or theyre out in the cold. Chretien is particularly deft letting his Cabinet ministers take total heat for contentious issues and legislation, as though he is the delusional leader mothballed away in the rulers palace, oblivious to the underlings rule. Health Minister Alan Rock has borne the brunt of public outcry over numerous scandals and a tainted blood supply, and Finance Minister Paul Martin continues today to battle fallout from the fudged bookkeeping that has allowed Chretien to claim Canadas first budget surplus in decades. It is this power system, and Canadas cryptic procedures of justice, that look to keep the truth of Chretiens role in APEC 97 hidden, and perhaps the question of his innocence or guilt from even being raised. In this light the PMs rule in Canada looks like a nightmare of the bureaucratic kind--oppression made civilized. The Inquiry The shenanigans begin with that most Canadian of procedures, the toothless independent public inquiry. It was clear from the start that the whole exercise was half serious and half for show. The inquiry was lead by the RCMPs Public Complaints Commission: its mandate, to look into the RCMPs use of force towards protestors at APEC 97. With the PMs culpability removed at the outset, lawyers, protestors, and the RCMP began the tedious, and for all intents and purposes useless, task of recreating in minutiae for the inquiry panel the events that lead to violent confrontation. From there it got weirder. The pepper spraying took place along a route to an APEC event at the University of British Columbia. UBC is not known for its social activism, but it is a university and the students there managed to muster the requisite protestors to fulfill the idealist image. Early in the inquiry each side debated about the physical details and measurements of the entourage route, the placement of barricades, the off-limits zones, the position of the police, and the placement of anti-Suharto signs. These signs, the RCMP stated without flinching, posed a security threat how exactly, they never answered satisfactorily; but if justice was to be served, determining the precise location of the signs was of supreme importance. Much hair-splitting, video tape, and crude map-making followed. Not long into the inquiry for truth, however, trouble arose. The students lawyers told the inquiry panel that they could not continue to work unless they were paid. Students claimed the inquiry was over (and therefore justice denied) if their legal fees were not paid by the government. Typically in such affairs government is the source of legal funding, but Chretiens
