[CTRL] To the Euros, it's always Israel's fault
-Caveat Lector- National Post Monday, April 8, 2002 p. A16 by Diane Francis Why is Europe off the hook when it comes to the Middle East mess, condemning Israel and its leader for its disproportionate response against suicide bombers? Europe's Jews should have been given half of Germany after the war as compensation. Then today, another million Jews would continue to prosper in the Arab world, as they had for centuries, while the corrupt and incompetent Arab governments put in place by the Europeans would be fighting one another. Unfortunately, what should have happened did not. But isn't it curious how Europe has nicely finessed all responsibility for what's going on? Instead, its leaders sit back smugly, appalled at whatever action Israelis, and the Americans, undertake. The European Union last week asked Israel to lower the violence. France was appalled. Germany said nothing, which is appropriate. The British wobbled, concerned about their Arab oil franchises and Arab enclaves at home. Belgium threatened to indict Israel's leader for human rights violations. Then the Vatican waded in, which is hardly surprising given its history of hideous alliances, by criticizing the Israelis for reprisals and revenge attacks. Meanwhile, not a peep about Mr. Arafat, whose spin doctors this week didn't hesitate to kit out a toddler in camouflage gear and an Uzi for a photo op. Mr. Arafat, they would say, does not recruit and brainwash children to kill themselves for his cause. He is a freedom fighter. Go figure. To the Euros, it's always going to be Israel's fault. And they always believe that it's always going to be up to the Yanks to fix everything. This shouldn't surprise. After all, it was only American intervention twice last century that prevented the murderous lot from completely destroying each other. Similarly, it was only American post-war aid that rebuilt their economies so that they could now turn around and look down on everything Washington does. So nothing has changed. [...] We know what the Europeans have been all about. They are a bunch of truly nasty tribes. And frankly, they deserve to be reminded that they are in large measure responsible for the tragedy in the Middle East. Eventually, the Americans will have to be involved. But this will take place only after Israel protects its security, murders as many terrorists as it can get its hands on and banishes Yasser Arafat. Then it can sit down with another Arab leader. My best suggestion is the new, bright King of Jordan. Then negotiations should either create two nations, with Jews only in one and Arabs only in the other. Or else the West Bank should become part of Jordan. (The new King, by the way, prides himself on a school curriculum of computer skills and English starting at age seven - not stone-throwing and hatred as taught in the West Bank.) Then a wall between the two must be erected and guarded by European and American soldiers for as long as it takes. And finally, in the interest if justice, all the costs associated with this, and the reconstruction of the West Bank, should be paid for by the Europeans. They deserve no less. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Peterborough's response to the war
-Caveat Lector- http://www.studentrights.ca Twenty-eight high school students from the communities of Peterborough and Lakefield in Ontario feel they are being discriminated against by their school board administration. Fearing terrorist attacks, The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board banned all international trips for their students for an indefinite period. Parents have subsequently organized a private trip to The Hague International Model United Nations conference for these 28 students. The school board administration is refusing to allow any rescheduling of examinations, a routine practice, to accommodate these students. In fact, the Board would reschedule the exams if the students attended a different, Board sanctioned university Model United Nations conference, one that the parents feel is inappropriate for high school students. Parents, students and community members are mystified by the heavy handed treatment directed at this particular group of students. If the Board is willing to be this punitive to these students, they may be willing to be punitive to any group of students. IT COULD BE YOUR KIDS NEXT! If you feel strongly about student and parent rights contact the trustees listed on the site and express your outrage. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Kenneth, what is the frequency?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,615330,00.html There was a curious mystery when we lived in the United States some years ago. Dan Rather, the star newscaster on CBS, one of the big three networks, was set upon near his home in New York by two smartly-dressed men who kicked and punched him, while repeatedly demanding: Kenneth, what is the frequency? The men were chased off, and Rather recovered after a short visit to hospital. The enigmatic nature of the attack, and especially the inexplicable question, resonated for a long time with Americans, not least because Rather is generally thought to be one commercial short of a natural break. The attack (nothing was stolen) has never been explained. Until this month, perhaps. The new issue of Harper's Magazine has an article by Paul Limbert Allman, in which he describes reading the work of Donald Barthelme, an obscure but highly regarded writer of fantastical stories. Barthelme had a running character called Kenneth - not an especially common name in the States - and in one story a man describes to his psychiatrist an erotic fantasy. The shrink then asks him: What is the frequency? Just a coincidence perhaps, except that Allman went on to discover that both Rather and Barthelme started media careers in Houston, Texas, at the same time. It is almost inevitable they knew each other, and indeed one Barthelme story includes the character of an arrogant and confused journalist called Lather. So a man who had made an enemy, or at least a rival, of a moderately known novelist is attacked by people apparently quoting from the man's work. But who? Barthelme is now dead, and in any case, if he knew Rather well enough to detest him, one assumes Rather would have recognised him. Perhaps the mystery is not solved, but has turned in a different direction. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Canadian explorers find 'lost city' off coast of Cuba
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalpost.com/ Friday, Dec. 7, 2001 p. A1 Canadian explorers find 'lost city' off coast of Cuba Andrew Cawthorne, with files from Michael Higgins, National Post Reuters, with files from National Post HAVANA - Canadian researchers believe they have found a 6,000-year-old underwater lost city built by an unknown civilization. The find off the coast of Cuba conjures up visions of the fabled lost city of Atlantis, although the research team said it is too early to draw conclusions about their discovery. However, using an underwater robot, the explorers have been able to confirm granite-like structures, some perpendicular, circular and triangular, on the seabed at a depth of 650 metres. It's a really wonderful structure which looks like it could have been a large urban centre, said Paulina Zelitsky, a Soviet-born Canadian ocean engineer. The researchers from B.C.-based Advanced Digital Communications said they believe the mysterious structures could have been built at least 6,000 years ago -- or about 1,500 years older than the pyramids at Giza. It would be totally irresponsible to say what it was before we have evidence, Ms. Zelitsky said. She said the structures might have been built by unknown people when the area was above water. She said volcanic activity might explain how the site ended up below the Caribbean Sea. In July, 2000, ADC researchers, using sophisticated side-scan sonar equipment, identified a large underwater plateau with clear images of symmetrically organized stone structures that looked like an urban development partly covered by sand. From above, the shapes off the Guanahacabibes Peninsula on the Caribbean island's western tip resembled pyramids, roads and buildings, they said. In July this year, ADC researchers, along with the firm's Cuban partner and experts from the Cuban Academy of Sciences, returned to the site in their ship, Ulises. They said they sent an underwater robot down to film parts of the area, which covers 20 square kilometres. Those images confirmed the presence of huge, smooth, cut granite-like blocks, the researchers said. Most of the blocks, measuring between about two and five metres in length, were exposed, some stacked one on another. Others were covered in sediment and the fine, white sand that characterizes the area. The intriguing discovery provided evidence that Cuba at one time was joined to mainland Latin America via a strip of land from the Yucatan Peninsula, researchers believe. There are many new hypotheses about land movement and colonialization, and what we are seeing here should provide very interesting new information, Ms. Zelitsky said. ADC is the deepest operator among four foreign firms working in joint venture with President Fidel Castro's government to explore Cuban waters containing hundreds of treasure-laden ships from the colonial era. The Canadian company already has discovered several historic sunken Spanish ships. In an earlier high-profile find, ADC was testing equipment in late 2000, off Havana Bay, when it spotted the century-old wreck of the American battleship USS Maine. The ship had not been located since it blew up mysteriously in 1898, killing 260 U.S. sailors and igniting the Spanish-American War. Atlantis, and its supposed advanced civilized race, has fascinated humanity for centuries and is surrounded by myths. One myth portrays Atlantis as a huge, beautiful continent peopled by a race of intelligent, scientific-minded people whose advanced civilization was destroyed in a flood or an earthquake after losing a major battle against the Athenians. Others claim it was destroyed during a volcanic eruption. The Greek philosopher Plato used the rise and fall of Atlantis as a parable to show how the gods punished those who worshipped false gods. Atlantis has been variously placed in the Atlantic, on the island of Crete, on the volcanic island of Thera north of Crete, on the Canary Islands, in the Bermuda Triangle and in Scandinavia. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A
[CTRL] IT/Ginger revealed!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.drudgereport.com/matt91j.htm X DRUDGE REPORT X SUN DEC 02 2001 10:54:28 ET X DEVELOPING: 'IT' REVEALED; 'SEGWAY' SELF-BALANCING PEOPLE MOVER TIME MAG REVEALS INSIDE DETAILS OF WHAT INVENTION 'IT' IS Award-winning Journalist John Heilemann Spent Three Months on Story for TIME 'IT' UNVEILS THIS WEEK UNDER OFFICIAL NAME: SEGWAY The Segway 'Will Be to the Car What the Car was to the Horse and Buggy,' Inventor Dean Kamen tells TIME 'The Big Idea is to Put a Human Being into a System Where the Machine Acts an Extension of your Body' MORE New York -- Dean Kamen's long-awaited, secret invention, the Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy, he tells TIME on the eve of his product's unveiling. Kamen imagines them everywhere: in parks and at Disneyland, on battlefields and factory floors, but especially on downtown sidewalks from Seattle to Shanghai. Cars are great for going long distances, Kamen says, but it makes no sense at all for people in cities to use a 4,000-lb. piece of metal to haul their 150-lb asses around town. In the future he envisions, cars will be banished from urban centers to make room for millions of empowered pedestrians - empowered, naturally, by Kamen's brainchild, reports John Heilemann in next week's issue. The invention is set to be unveiled Monday morning during ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA. MORE The Segway is a self-balancing people mover - powered by batteries and controlled by tilt-sensors and five solid state gyroscopes - that looks like a rotary lawnmower. The magic is in the balancing act no matter how hard you try, it won't let you fall. For the past three months, Kamen allowed TIME behind the veil of secrecy as he and his team grappled with the questions that they will confront - about everything from safety and pricing to the challenges of launching a product with the country at war and the economy in recession. There is no denying that the Segway, previously code-named IT and Ginger, is an engineering marvel, reports Heilemann, who rode on the machine many times. Developed at a cost of more than $100 million, Kamenis vehicle is a complex bundle of hardware and software that mimics the human bodys ability to maintain its balance. Not only does it have no brakes, but also no engine, no throttle, no gearshift, and no steering wheel. And it can carry the average rider for a full day, nonstop, on only five cents' worth of electricity. Kamen explains how the Segway works: When you walk, youire really in what is called a controlled fall. You off-balance yourself, putting one foot in front of the other and falling onto them over and over again. In the same way, when you use a Segway, thereis a gyroscope that acts like your inner ear, a computer that acts like your brain, motors that act like your muscles, wheels that act like your feet. Suddenly, you feel like you have on a pair of magic sneakers, and instead of falling forward, you go sailing across the room. As Kamen and his team were working on the IBOT wheelchair - a six-wheel machine that goes up and down curbs, cruises effortlessly through sand or gravel, and climbs stairs - it dawned on them that they were onto something bigger. We realized we could build a device using very similar technology that could impact how everybody gets around, he says. The IBOT was also the source of Gingeris mysterious codename. Watching the IBOT, we used to say, Look at that light, graceful robot, dancing up the stairsi so we started referring to it as Fred Upstairs, after Fred Astaire, Kamen recalls. After we built Fred, it was only natural to name its smaller partner Ginger. With Ginger, as with the IBOT, Kamen explains, the big idea is to put a human being into a system where the machine acts an extension of your body. With the Segway, Kamen plans to change the world by changing how cities are organized. To Kamenis way of thinking, the problem is the automobile. Cities need cars like fish need bicycles, he says. Segways, he believes, are ideal for downtown transportation. Unlike cars, they are cheap, clean, efficient, maneuverable. Unlike bicycles, they are designed specifically to be pedestrian friendly. A bike is too slow and light to mix with trucks in the street but too large and fast to mix with pedestrians on the sidewalk, he argues. Our machine is compatible with the sidewalk. If a Segway hits you, it is like being hit by another pedestrian. Ordinary consumers won't be able to buy Segways for at least a year, a consumer model is expected to go on sale for about $3,000, Heilemann reports. For now, the first customers will be deep-pocketed institutions such as the U.S. Postal Service and General Electric, the National Parks Service and Amazon.com institutions capable of shelling out $8,000 apiece for industrial-strength models. TIME also takes a hard look at the question of whether this product will really make it in the consumer market. The consumer
[CTRL] Mayor banishes Satan
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sptimes.com/News/112901/news_pf/Citrus/Mayor_banishes_Satan_.shtml Mayor banishes Satan from Inglis By ALEX LEARY St. Petersburg Times, published November 29, 2001 Copies of a proclamation announcing the ban are stuffed into fence posts at the four entrances to town. INGLIS -- The words just flowed from Carolyn Risher's pen as she sat at the kitchen table Halloween night. She wrote fast, ignoring commas and periods. When the Inglis mayor finished, she put the fierce rhetoric down on official town stationery complete with gold seal. Be it known from this day forward that Satan, ruler of darkness, giver of evil, destroyer of what is good and just, is not now, nor ever again will be, a part of this town of Inglis. Satan is hereby declared powerless, no longer ruling over, nor influencing, our citizens. She made five copies. One was kept for her office wall, which is covered with pictures of Elvis, framed letters of thanks and a painting of the Last Supper. The rest were rolled and stuffed into hollowed-out fence posts placed at the four entrances to the town. The posts, painted with the words Repent, Request and Resist, were sealed and capped. You're either with God or against him, Risher, 61, and a lifelong resident, said from her office on Wednesday. I'm with him. So are a lot of other people in the town of 1,400, most of whom Risher describes as good Christians. I have a lot of respect for her because she did that, said Martha Eiland, who was shopping for sea shells at a gift shop on U.S. 19. But the mayor's public act of faith has drawn criticism from some who say it oversteps the line between church and state. It reminds me of the Taliban. If you're not Muslim, you're worthless, said Bob Farnan, the owner of Port Inglis Restaurant. She just reversed the situation. A waitress at the restaurant, Polly Bowser, is organizing a petition to have Risher ousted. Risher's letter, which makes several references to Jesus Christ, could be offensive to people with other faiths, Bowser said. I am not knocking any one faith, Risher said in the interview. I am praying for the whole community. One person's beliefs are fine, but not on town letterhead, said Steve Young, who was sipping a beer at the Mouse Trap. It doesn't seem appropriate. Mayor Risher, whose affable demeanor and solid roots in the community have kept her in office for the past decade, is unapologetic. If I had thought I was doing something wrong, I would have not done it, she said. It just felt like it was something I could do for the community, mostly for our young people. Risher said she got the idea after Pastor Richard Moore of Yankeetown Church of God announced plans to place the fence posts. Moore asked his congregation to skip one meal a day for a 40-day period that ends in mid December. As the elected leader of this community, she was stepping out as a Christian and trying to do something positive, Moore said. We've gone so far in the separation of church and state it's almost like Christians don't have rights anymore. The proclamation is not a reference to a single event, Risher explained, but an overall sense of concern. She speaks of drunken drivers, fathers who molest their daughters and people who steal from their neighbors. Town Clerk Sally McCranie, who signed the proclamation, offered another observation: Kids in town, she said, have taken to dressing in all black and painting their faces white, a style known as Goth. We are taking everything back that the devil ever stole from us, Risher wrote. We will never again be deceived by satanic and demonic forces. Despite being the talk of town, Risher said she has received only one complaint about the proclamation. A business owner called her to warn against possible legal action. That prospect does not seem to worry her. Town Attorney Norm Fugate declined to comment, saying questions must be asked at Town Commission meetings, so everyone can hear his response. As for being impeached, Risher said that's unlikely. It would require a super-majority vote of the commission, and she is confident she has the backing of most of the officials. I'm biased, said commission member Sherry Ely, who owns Golden Nugget Pawn and Gun and attends the same church as Risher. She was just trying to take a stand. We have to believe in things and fight for them. 'We exercise our authority over the devil in Jesus' name' (Editor's Note: The following is a proclamation issued by the town of Inglis and carrying the town seal and logo.) Be it known from this day forward that Satan, ruler of darkness, giver of evil, destroyer of what is good and just, is not now, nor ever again will be, a part of this town of Inglis. Satan is hereby declared powerless, no longer ruling over, nor influencing, our citizens. In the past, Satan has caused division, animosity, hate, confusion, ungodly acts on our youth, and discord among our friends and loved ones. NO LONGER! The
[CTRL] JFK doctor dies
-Caveat Lector- JFK doctor dies Charles A. Crenshaw believed that Oswald wasn't lone gunman November 19, 2001 By DRAKE WITHAM and LINDA STEWART BALL / The Dallas Morning News Dr. Charles Andrew Crenshaw, one of several who treated President John F. Kennedy's gunshot wounds nearly 38 years ago, went to his grave insisting Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone gunman. Dr. Crenshaw, chairman emeritus of the Department of Surgery at John Peter Smith Hospital, died of natural causes at his Fort Worth home Thursday. His family said Dr. Crenshaw's health had been deteriorating in recent years. He was 68 years old. Dr. Charles Crenshaw He was quite a guy, said Dr. David McReynolds, chairman of the surgery department at John Peter Smith. He's one of those guys that demanded respect, earned it, and got it. It wasn't Chuck. It was Dr. Crenshaw or The Chief. Dr. Crenshaw started the surgery department at John Peter Smith single-handedly in 1966, Dr. McReynolds said, and was its backbone in those early years, on call practically every night. But some controversy surrounded Dr. Crenshaw's later years when he recounted his emergency room treatment of Kennedy and Oswald in two books questioning the findings of the Warren Commission. Dr. Crenshaw, an emergency room doctor at Parkland Memorial Hospital on the days Kennedy and Oswald died in November 1963, wrote about his experience in the 1992 book JFK: Conspiracy of Silence. In it, Dr. Crenshaw detailed his contention that Kennedy had been shot twice from the front, contradicting the findings of the Warren Commission that Oswald was the lone assassin, firing from behind the president. It was just supposed to be this little book, a paperback in which he wanted to say what he saw, said his wife, Susan Lea Crenshaw. Then it just exploded, and he was getting all of this national, and even international, attention. JFK Travel back in time almost four decades to the saddest day in Dallas history. The book was criticized by some fellow doctors. He was disappointed that some of the other doctors did not come to his defense, Ms. Crenshaw said, adding that the few who did remain good friends. I'm very sad that he died, Dr. Bob McClelland said. The professor of surgery at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas was in the operating room at Parkland when Dr. Crenshaw, then a resident, found him. The pair rushed to the emergency room to help tend to the president. He was a very bright person, Dr. McClelland said of Dr. Crenshaw. Of course, he got a lot of notoriety with that book he wrote. He certainly was not writing on the basis of his imagination. ... Unfortunately, there were some misconceptions about it on both sides of the fence - on his side, and on the side of people who criticized him. The published account made him somewhat of a hero in the eyes of those who have said all along that there was more than one gunman. Other doctors spoke out, but he was the most vocal of them, said Tom Bowden, president of the Conspiracy Museum in Dallas. That's the key. Mr. Bowden said Dr. Crenshaw was well known among those who discount the Warren Commission's findings. Many were eagerly awaiting his next book, released last week. Unfortunately, a lot of the witnesses of those days are dying off, Mr. Bowden said. That does create a loss for the conspiracy community, those guys who believed in what we believe in. Dr. Crenshaw's second book, Trauma Room One, includes the first book, plus information about lawsuits that Dr. Crenshaw brought against his detractors and details that had come out since his first book was published, Ms. Crenshaw said. He was so happy that the book came out, Ms. Crenshaw said. He just wanted to live long enough for this book to come out so it would prove that what he said in the first book was true. But she said her husband's true passion was medicine. His legacy is not a book, she said. His life was building John Peter Smith Hospital, and that's his legacy. Dr. Crenshaw was born and raised in Paris, Texas, before graduating from Southern Methodist University in 1953 with a bachelor's degree. He earned a master's degree in biology from East Texas State Teacher's College, now Texas AM-Commerce, in 1955 and a doctorate from Baylor University in 1957. He earned a medical degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1960 and interned at the Veterans Administration Hospital in 1961. He completed his assistant residency in surgery at Parkland in 1965 and his senior residency in surgery in 1966. He served as the chairman of the surgery department of John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth from 1966 to 1992, and he was a member of several medical associations. Services will be at 3 p.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church, 100 Penn St., in Fort Worth. Cremation will precede the services. Besides his wife, Dr. Crenshaw is survived by his son, Charles A. Crenshaw II; his daughter, Adelaide Andrews; and two
[CTRL] inspired piece of adbusting
-Caveat Lector- An inspired piece of adbusting: http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.harrison4/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Think Twice ...
-Caveat Lector- thew wrote: fair enough though as you know I'm not one who looks to some deity for the source of morals - but as the son of holocaust camp survivors, I do see that some wars are worth fighting - perhaps moral wasn't exactly the right word to use... but I can't quite come up with a better one at the moment Don't let the world get you down at this particular moment. It's still a barbaric place and there's nothing that people seem to like doing more than kicking a dog when it's down. Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] For George: Sex and Martyrs
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalpost.com/ National Post Saturday, November 3, 2001 p. SP17 Understanding sexual impulses in the mind of the extremist Fanatics throughout history have had a hypocritical attitude toward sex. The men who crashed two planes into the World Trade Center claimed to be pious but spent the night before the attacks with prostitutes Dr. Norman Doidge Saturday Post Here's a contradiction. Many of the mass murderers who destroyed the World Trade Center went to prostitutes and lap dancers just before the attacks. That might seem unimportant, except for the fact that they claimed to be pious and, in part, justified their attacks by accusing the West of being a hotbed of sexual licentiousness. This behaviour reveals the ambivalent sexual undercurrent that is part of Islamic extremism with its view of woman as sin-evoking temptress, best appreciated either totally veiled, or totally unveiled. In the early 20th century, an Islamic movement called salafiyya swept through much of Islam, influencing the official Wahabi ideology of the Saudi state and the radical Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The movement aimed to revive medieval Islamic practices. By the 1930s, it portrayed Western culture as equivalent to jahiliyya, an Arabic term for the barbarousness that preceded Islam. Osama bin Laden, originally a playboy and drinker, was influenced by this line of thought through Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb. In his book Signposts on the Road, Qutb wrote that the West was the most dangerous jahiliyya which has ever menaced our faith. In one of his books about his 1948-50 trip to America, Qutb described a church dance in Greely, Colo.: Every young man took the hand of a young woman. And these were the young men and women who had just been singing their hymns! Red and blue lights, with only a few white lamps, illuminated the dance floor. The room became a confusion of feet and legs: arms around hips; lips met lips; chests pressed together. Pretty tame stuff compared to the paid sex his murderous followers would indulge in. The story of the terrorists' foray into American sexual hospitality came out when a Boston prostitute freaked out after seeing pictures of the Sept. 11 hijackers. She recognized one from her tryst with him Sept. 9 at the Park Inn, in Newton, Mass. Two of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the World Trade Center, Waleed M. Alshehri and Wail M. Alshehri, spent the night in that hotel. These were not isolated events. As reported by UPI on Oct. 10, the prostitute's driver took her to the Days Hotel in Boston's Brighton district, where she spent time with another hijacker. The same driver also routinely took prostitutes to a male relative of bin Laden. Terrorist ringleader Mohammed Atta and other hijackers reportedly spent US$200 to US$300 on lap dances in the Pink Pony Strip Club in Florida. Marwan Al-Shehhi, who, it is believed, piloted the plane that slammed into the south tower, frequently got lap dances in the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret in Las Vegas, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The Boston Globe reported that four other alleged terrorists, Satam M.A. Al Suqami, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Fayez Rahsid Ahmed Hasan Al Qadi Banihammad and Mohand Alshehri, who were staying at the Milner Hotel in Boston, called escort services on Sept. 10. The last three are believed to have helped hijack United Airlines Flight 175, while Satam M.A. Al Suqami joined those who hijacked American Airlines Flight 11. Some have wondered whether the hijackers were nervous, knowing they were about to lose their lives, and dealing with their anxiety through a sexual release. Others have speculated that perhaps they wanted a good look at the enemy to see how degraded America was, to motivate them. But fanatics throughout history have had a markedly hypocritical attitude toward sex. Most fanatical sects have an obsession with sexual purity, alongside extraordinary lapses of restraint. Most divide the world into the pure and the impure, the sacred and the profane, clean and unclean, pure ascetic man and female temptress. Mohammed Atta wrote that at his funeral, he who washes my body around my genitals should wear gloves so that I am not touched there. He didn't want women at his funeral either. Fanatical leaders frequently demand their members subordinate all desires to the cause. The Russian nihilist and anarchist terrorist Sergey Nechaev wrote in his Catechism of the Revolutionist, The revolutionary ... has no interest of his own, no affairs, no feelings, no attachments, no belongings, not even a name. Everything in him is absorbed by a single exclusive interest, a single thought, a single passion -- the revolution. Of course, the body has its own rhythms and demands, not so easily obliterated, even by ideology. Islamic extremism doesn't master sexuality -- it exploits it by linking it to politics. In order to train Islamic suicide bombers, teenage boys are isolated
[CTRL] Test
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Its the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It
-Caveat Lector- radtimes wrote: It's the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It It's a hoax. See http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/radio.htm Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] More On Canadian Border Fascism
-Caveat Lector- Well, Americans seem to hate everybody else, so it was only a matter of time before they started hating us too. Hate is a good reason to steal somebody's water. And so it starts. Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] More On Canadian Border Fascism
-Caveat Lector- Americans couldn't 'steal' our water if there weren't Canadian politicians and businessmen eager to let them. But then the thought of money-grubbing corrupt Canucks probably doesn't fit into your warm and fuzzy image of Canada. Hahahee! Hey! Maybe I do have warm and fuzzy feelings about Canada. I do get fucked here, after all. Course not, Canadians are too nice and therefore could have only had their friendly nature cunningly exploited by the greedy archfiends of America. Every day I thank God I was born Canadian and that we have the Americans as our neighbours. Certainly wouldn't want to be living in Afganistan right about now. Make life miserable enough and killing yourself and taking out anybody you can with you when you believe that 72 virgins await in paradise - well, must have been a master of manipulation who figured that beauty out. Sorry, rambling after too much wine with dinner. I guess some Americans have never experienced being held for three hours and strip searched. By men. This happened to me as a young woman and the only reason I have ever been able to figure out was for their sexual gratification. So some jerk off journalist complaining that he was questioned for bringing a 13-year-old girl into Canada has no sympathy from me. Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] When Canada Customs meets an NRA sticker
-Caveat Lector- Times Argus, Saturday, August 18th The Times Argus Online - When Canada Customs meets an NRA sticker When Canada Customs meets an NRA sticker What a ridiculous article. Canada has strict gun laws. Some Americans don't know that and try to bring their hand and other guns across the border. Often they get quite angry because they think it is their 'right' to bring their guns into our country. Too bad, keep your guns in America. As for being stopped by Customs - believe me it happens the other way around too. American customs seems most concerned with keeping illegal drugs out of their country - you know, their 'War on Drugs' and routinely tear part cars of people with long hair. And it certainly helps to be white, middle-aged and preferably rich when crossing the border into the states. Those hunters and fishers should have stuck to writing about what they know. Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] NYP: CONDIT FINDS CRUCIAL DAY FORGETTABLE (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- If nothing else, consider this a result of the media coverage. Yes. If the man never pays the price for whatever he may have had to do with Ms. Levy's disappearance, at least he will be disgraced forever. Maybe he had nothing to do with Levy's disapperance. But the media has made sure he will be disgraced forever. Whatever happened to that old standby: innocent until proven guilty? Might as well flush it down the toilet with every other right. Hardly a fair trade-off for a human life but it's better than nothing. If you know he killed her, then give your evidence. Rehashing newstories is hardly proof of murder. Thank goodness. Oh, and too bad your feet get pissed on so often. Better by yellow shoes. Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Taming the multiverse
-Caveat Lector- From The New Scientist, http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/quantum/quantum.jsp?id=22994400 - Taming the multiverse Parallel universes are no longer a figment of our imagination. They're so real that we can reach out and touch them, and even use them to change our world, says Marcus Chown FLICKING through New Scientist, you stop at this page, think that's interesting and read these words. Another you thinks what nonsense, and moves on. Yet another lets out a cry, keels over and dies. Is this an insane vision? Not according to David Deutsch of the University of Oxford. Deutsch believes that our Universe is part of the multiverse, a domain of parallel universes that comprises ultimate reality. Until now, the multiverse was a hazy, ill-defined concept-little more than a philosophical trick. But in a paper yet to be published, Deutsch has worked out the structure of the multiverse. With it, he claims, he has answered the last criticism of the sceptics. For 70 years physicists have been hiding from it, but they can hide no longer. If he's right, the multiverse is no trick. It is real. So real that we can mould the fate of the universes and exploit them. Why believe in something so extraordinary? Because it can explain one of the greatest mysteries of modern science: why the world of atoms behaves so very differently from the everyday world of trees and tables. The theory that describes atoms and their constituents is quantum mechanics. It is hugely successful. It has led to computers, lasers and nuclear reactors, and it tells us why the Sun shines and why the ground beneath our feet is solid. But quantum theory also tells us something very disturbing about atoms and their like: they can be in many places at once. This isn't just a crazy theory-it has observable consequences (see Interfering with the multiverse). But how is it that atoms can be in many places at once whereas big things made out of atoms-tables, trees and pencils-apparently cannot? Reconciling the difference between the microscopic and the macroscopic is the central problem in quantum theory. The many worlds interpretation is one way to do it. This idea was proposed by Princeton graduate student Hugh Everett III in 1957. According to many worlds, quantum theory doesn't just apply to atoms, says Deutsch. The world of tables is exactly the same as the world of atoms. But surely this means tables can be in many places at once. Right. But nobody has ever seen such a schizophrenic table. So what gives? The idea is that if you observe a table that is in two places at once, there are also two versions of you-one that sees the table in one place and one that sees it in another place. The consequences are remarkable. A universe must exist for every physical possibility. There are Earths where the Nazis prevailed in the Second World War, where Marilyn Monroe married Einstein, and where the dinosaurs survived and evolved into intelligent beings who read New Scientist. However, many worlds is not the only interpretation of quantum theory. Physicists can choose between half a dozen interpretations, all of which predict identical outcomes for all conceivable experiments. Deutsch dismisses them all. Some are gibberish, like the Copenhagen interpretation, he says-and the rest are just variations on the many worlds theme. For example, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, the act of observing is crucial. Observation forces an atom to make up its mind, and plump for being in only one place out of all the possible places it could be. But the Copenhagen interpretation is itself open to interpretation. What constitutes an observation? For some people, this only requires a large-scale object such as a particle detector. For others it means an interaction with some kind of conscious being. Worse still, says Deutsch, is that in this type of interpretation you have to abandon the idea of reality. Before observation, the atom doesn't have a real position. To Deutsch, the whole thing is mysticism-throwing up our hands and saying there are some things we are not allowed to ask. Some interpretations do try to give the microscopic world reality, but they are all disguised versions of the many worlds idea, says Deutsch. Their proponents have fallen over backwards to talk about the many worlds in a way that makes it appear as if they are not. In this category, Deutsch includes David Bohm's pilot-wave interpretation. Bohm's idea is that a quantum wave guides particles along their trajectories. Then the strange shape of the pilot wave can be used to explain all the odd quantum behaviours, such as interference patterns. In effect, says Deutsch, Bohm's single universe occupies one groove in an immensely complicated multi-dimensional wave function. The question that pilot-wave theorists must address is: what are the unoccupied grooves? says Deutsch. It is no good saying they are merely theoretical and do not exist physically, for they
[CTRL] The God of Small Things
-Caveat Lector- http://www.saturdaynight.ca/articles/topstory3.asp Saturday Night July 21, 2001 p. 35 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS William Blake saw a world in a grain of sand, Doug Perovic peers even closer -- at cells and atoms -- to solve crimes, figure out how planes crash, and perhaps one day build a smart machines that can engineer, and even repair, themselves By Allen Abel One afternoon a few years ago, Doug Perovic returned from lunch to his office at the University of Toronto, and standing at his door was a woman who claimed to have been ravished by creatures from another world. They took me from my bedroom and had sex with me, she said. Then the woman, who was in her fifties and neatly dressed and quite well-spoken, reached into her purse and pulled out a crumpled rag in which she had wrapped a small metallic object. She said that the ETs had entombed the article deep in her nasal cavity. Great! the scientist recalls thinking. I had just had lunch, and here comes something out of someone's nose. I can't sleep at night, the woman continued. I need your help. It wasn't the first time that Dr. Dragan (Doug) Perovic, a forensics expert and the chair of the University of Toronto's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, had received a strange request for assistance. He agreed out of curiosity to submit the artifact to a quick analysis in his department's $1-million Hitachi S-4500 Scanning Electron Microscope. It was a fairly dense little trinket, rusted and corroded. The test established that the item was composed of a brass alloy, amazingly similar to those manufactured right here on Planet Earth. Then it hit me what it was, Professor Perovic tells me, over a Malaysian meal not far from campus. I said, 'I think it's the valve cap from a bicycle tire.' Her face drops. She's so upset. She opens her purse and pulls out these Popsicle sticks and tongue depressors held together with elastics. She starts waving them at me and chanting like I'm some sort of devil. I booted her out. That was my experience of dealing with a client. Normally, I don't deal with the public. William Blake saw a world in a grain of sand. Doug Perovic peers even closer, and spies our human future in the assembly of atoms. A former competitive hurdler and race-car driver, a distinguished Cambridge scholar, and the father of two young sons, Perovic is Canada's nabob of nanotechnology -- the science of the very, very, very, very small. At thirty-eight, Doug Perovic, the first in his family ever to get a university degree, is the youngest department head at the U of T. This fall, under his direction, Toronto will offer the world's first undergraduate program leading to a degree in nanoengineering. His passion is infectious, his erudition profound, and his mantra echoes Mork from Ork: Nano, nano. Nano, the professor says, simply tries to understand the structure and properties of materials on a tiny scale -- one-billionth of a metre, to be exact. It's about the organization of atoms and molecules and how they behave. The world has always been full of nanometre-sized things, he points out. But nanoengineering could change the way materials behave, producing new -- and very beneficial -- effects. I am in the microscope lab with Perovic, looking at crystals of uranium oxide that organize themselves into a perfect atomic staircase, each step an atom high. This sort of exquisite structure, Perovic predicts, will someday be the essence of our laptops and our laboratories. Imagine a computer with a memory built of living cells! he says. I can't, I shrug. You are one, he says. Since the beginning of the electronic epoch, Perovic explains, scientists have been chiselling away at chunks of material to make smaller and smaller transistors and silicon chips. But this must soon end; there are no swords sharp enough, no tweezers so fine, as to slice an atom in two. In the future, he predicts, technicians will teach individual molecules and atoms to assemble themselves into wires and sheets of impeccable purity and thinness. At this level, there will be no biology, no chemistry, no physics -- only the knitting of atoms, the architecture of the invisible. The material future, he predicts, will derive from nanoengineering, producing smart materials that will enable an aircraft's wing to cry, I'm cracking! or a bridge to proclaim, Close me! I can't handle so many cars! There is more. Imagine a shape-memory vehicle -- smash its bumper, and the bumper remembers its original condition, and springs itself back into form. Or instruments made of compounds that are self-assembled, atom by perfect atom -- materials so pure that they could never snap apart or break under normal conditions. Nano, nano. I think of us as artists, Doug Perovic says. But artists with well-developed laws, and tools at our disposal. In the Hitachi Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) now is a fragment of surgical steel. This is not another alien implant,
Re: [CTRL] Boy Scout Bloodlust Bemoaned (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Bill Howard wrote: BTW why do women complain about men leaving the seat up? I've never heard a man complain about women leaving it down. Excellent Observation. Stupid observation. Having grown up with six brothers (plus all their friends constantly at the house) I can tell you that men are not all that great at consistently hitting the toilet and that there is nothing worse than running to the bathroom and falling a few extra inches onto a urine soaked rim. I am all for urinals that are housed seperately from my bathroom. So boys! Please put the seat down. It is only curtious. Thank you. Kelly Oh, and the house I grew up in had six bathrooms, and I don't seem to recall the boys ever cleaning one of them. Or any of the other 15 rooms for that matter. But they did make great breakfasts after we'd partied all night, so they were forgiven everything. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Why females should beware e-males
-Caveat Lector- The Times MONDAY JUNE 25 2001 Why females should beware e-males BY ELIZABETH JUDGE THE style of an e-mail gives away the writers gender, according to a new study. Just as men and women differ in the way that they communicate face to face, they also communicate differently on the Internet, researchers in New Zealand say. E-mails from women workers are more likely to contain questions and apologies than those written by men, the researchers say. Women tend to be complimentary to colleagues in their e-mails and modest about their own abilities. Men are much more assertive. They tend to convey opinions rather than to seek them and to insult people in a way that they might not dare if face to face. The study is supported by previous research on how men and women take part in chatrooms online discussions on the Internet. They found that the style of writing and the things they talked about were different. Men are more likely to swap harsh personal insults on the Net, a practice known as flaming. Tamar Murachver, co-author of the study, said that although e-mails are written, they are sent and received so quickly that they mirror the interactivity of conversation. The researchers, from the University of Otago, conducted experiments in which male and female undergraduates were asked to send e-mails to each other in which they did not disclose their gender. The researchers found they could distinguish the e-mails of the men and women simply by the features that they used. Women used phrases such as your poem was good and sorry I havent written. The men conveyed opinions and tended to write much more than the women. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] South Pole Update- Weapons Inspectors To Antarctica
-Caveat Lector- Nessie wrote: That pic looks EXACTLY like Nicole Kidman...I think it IS Nicole Kidman! Could it be that this is part of a disinfo campaign aimed at covering up what's really happening at Lake Vostok? From another list: At 12:35 pm +0100 25/4/2001, Colin wrote: ...In recent weeks, a series of disturbing and mysterious reports have been coming out of Antarctica, centered around a strange anomaly recently detected on that perpetually frozen Continent. The stories, covered extensively by internet news sources (like Kent Steadman's Cyberspace Orbit site), draw eerie parallels to material as diverse as a French novel, the X-Files movie, and as we shall see, even Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 - A Space Odyssey http://www.enterprisemission.com/antarctica.htm http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/antmag.html The original post above is from Shez's fort list. The forward below came through on the Konformist Newswire on Friday - but when you check the site itself you find this disclaimer at the bottom of the pages: Copyright 2001 @lantis Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. @lantis.TV is the world¹s exclusive link to the secret U.S. dig in Antarctica and ³Earth¹s Coolest Entertainment.² @lantis, @lantis.TV, Raising Atlantis and Atlantis Mapping Project are trademarks of @lantis Interactive, Inc., a Los Angeles-based entertainment corporation. ALL DEPICTIONS OF NEWS EVENTS ARE FICTIONAL AND INTENDED FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY, despite claims to the contrary by subscribers, government agencies, archeologists and other interested parties. Uh-huh Rachel Antartica Wed, 2 May 2001 Robert Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are the best links to the ongoing Antartica story. http://lantis.tv/bios/zawas_bio.html http://lantis.tv/monthly/treaty.html http://lantis.tv/monthly/charges.html http://lantis.tv/monthly/photo.html http://lantis.tv/monthly/anomaly.html http://lantis.tv/monthly/40101.html http://lantis.tv/monthly/seismic_map.html U.N. Sends Weapons Inspectors to Antarctica UNITED NATIONS (AMP) Hours after an ailing American doctor was snatched from the South Pole before the onslaught of winter, the U.N. Security Council recommended on Monday that an international weapons inspection team be dispatched immediately to the bottom of the world to investigate charges of secret U.S. military maneuvers. The General Assembly must now approve the Council's endorsement before the United Nations Antarctica Commission (UNACOM) and its high-risk mission becomes official. Sources say approval is a formality now that Col. Ali Zawas, a 44-year-old Egyptian air force officer, has been nominated to head UNACOM. Zawas is the scion of a highly regarded family of diplomats and the grandson of a top American aide to U.S. Gen. Mark Clark during World War II. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. During the Persian Gulf War, Zawas flew under Allied command and shot down two Iraqi warplanes. The U.N. is trying to determine whether the U.S. carried out a nuclear test in violation of the international Antarctic Treaty. The treaty, which entered into force in 1961, establishes Antarctica as a zone of peace and bans all military activities, including the testing of weapons. The U.S. has steadfastly denied the existence of a secret military base or weapons testing on the peace continent, although it now admits that its National Science Foundation (NSF) is using American military personnel to construct a new base deep inside the Antarctic interior at Lake Vostok. Earlier this month, however, a classified spy satellite image of Antarctica revealed a physical anomaly two miles beneath the ice that could be a man-made structure - and not just the magnetic phenomenon the NSF claims to be studying at Lake Vostok. Furthermore, the anomaly appears to be located 300 miles away from Lake Vostok, near the epicenter of a recent quake in East Antarctica (see seismic map). That quake, its origins still under investigation, may have caused a huge chunk of ice twice the size of Delaware to break away from the Ross Ice Shelf. The United States, the only council member to issue any objection to UNACOM's formation, abstained from the vote. But sources insist the abstention was on humanitarian grounds. The Twin Otter plane that rescued Dr. Shemenski from the South Pole a few days ago braved whiteout conditions and temperatures of 65 degrees below zero, noted an American diplomat in New York who wished to remain anonymous. It was a dangerous 10-hour evacuation flight across Antarctica and the crew barely got out of there alive . But that was Romper Room compared to the insanity Colonel Zawas and his U.N. weapons inspection team will face when they go in. It's a suicidal mission that ultimately will come up with nothing but lost lives. UNACOM will work in conjunction with the Russians, Australians and
Re: [CTRL] Sick, Psychotic F**ks
-Caveat Lector- June wrote: I find it interesting when debunkers routinely dismiss reports of UFOs, even when the reports come from sources that are not only highly credible, but ostensibly trained to be objectively observant... UFOs truly are a mystery. I have no idea what they are or even if they exist but it is obviously a phenomena of some sort. As with any field of study there are definety lunatics but on the other hand, as you point out, there are also very credible people who have experienced something outstanding. It pays to keep an open mind about things, especially on a conspiracy list. And Kris - I know I mentioned it last night, but I love your list and have been on it for many years, as you know. But look at the title of this message. First, I find Aleshia/Saba a compelling person to read - I think we all do as so much of the list seems to centre around her lately. I don't know what I am trying to say - it is like a huge, babyish vicious fight and it is really beginning to upset me. I know I don't contribute much to your list - I'm not an expert in conspiracy theory - but I try to contribute articles when they seem appropriate. It's just that - can people at least try to be nice and friendly? I'm sure everyone here has good qualities. I suppose what I am trying to say is that I am getting totally sick of gay bashing. You know what it reminds me of Kris? Remember when the Christan milita fundamentals invaded your list and almost destroyed it? Alex came on the list then and helped. I don't mean to sound holier-than-thou, and I don't want to be judgemental, but I have noticed an alarming deterioration in the quality of posts. Aleshia, you should start your own list. I'm serious. Go to yahoo and you can create one in five minutes. I am sure there are people here who would sign up for it. I'm not saying that to be ignorant or mean - it is just that you do have a voice and a following. Oh feck - what do I know? Okay! Let's go back to sodomy. Kelly I'm thinking particularly of pilots, both civilian and military; seems to me the debunkers should be questioning why these witnesses are supposedly always mistaking satellites, missiles, the moon, Venus, or swamp gas for UFOs. What does that say about the abilities of those flying civilian and military aircraft? I found it interesting how the reports out of the US base in England in the 1980s (I think the base is called Rendlesham or Randlesham?) were debunked...this was a base where jets armed with nuclear warheads were kept, yet the debunkers insisted that all of the military personnel who experience UFO phenonenom over several nights (and there were quite a few) all either hallucinated or mistook a light on a lighthouse some miles away for a UFO... If true, then we should all be much more worried about who's taking care of our nuclear arsenal than if outerspace aliens are invading... June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector
Re: [CTRL] Sick, Psychotic F**ks
-Caveat Lector- Aleisha Saba wrote: Well Kelly let us say I do not know how from time to time I become such a shining light - but I am no moth easily drawn to the flame. I know Saba and I am sorry for picking on you. I'm no great bright light myself. You do have a very unique perspective on life and I do read most everything you write. Other people on the list make fun of you or try to because you have met so many people - but so have I. Not Americans - I'm Canadian. But you do weave a story and I think you have lots to say about many things. I think there has just been a lot of meaness on the list lately and I just wish people were nicer. So I believe in Spooks and UFO's.I have seen both. Unidentified Flying Objects have been around since biblical times. Yep! Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Removed!
-Caveat Lector- Aleisha Saba wrote: Well now will someone please remove this above subject matter caption? Done! Nobody is perfect, but this seems a little for lack of words, extreme? Yes - I mean I thought so. I don't think there is anything wrong with simple politeness. So Kelly this summer I am going UFO hunting in my own back yard - for there is something unusual now going on and I saw someing in broad daylight day or two agothink some kind of missile or satellite but it was silver with the smoke coming from the back - left no what they call contrail - this was a smoke trail that followed the object like a short comet track. Interesting. I guess people can only speculate about UFOs. Did you feel that you were looking at a man-made object? I had a totally bizarre sighting when I lived in Ottawa. But it was either truly alien or a natural phenomena. I know it wasn't a human invention. On August 15 in the fifty period as I recall, it is said somewhere that Washington had a peview of UFO's in the skies; also noted during Viet Nam war increase in UFO's in particular when my firend used to fly back to Viet Nam (lost 4 planes on base as Viet Kong waiting for them outside base) loaded with munitions from Alabama and Georgiasuddenly UFO's like Stars, over Alabama. Nice spy stuff? I really don't know. All the UFO theories are so interesting and I think it has a place in conspiracy theory. I wonder if Nessie has written anything about UFOs. I should look on his sight but I have trouble keeping track of URLs. Well as whoever said it - Hitch your wagon to a star and not the Halle Bopp Comet (guess I said that). That's hilarious! What was their names? Bo and Peep? Too bad they took so many down with them. Saba Thank you for letter Kelly. Thank you for being so gracious Saba! Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Sweet Donna aka Revcoal
-Caveat Lector- Kris Millegan wrote: Yes, it does have its humour, . . . though not always enjoyable. And does present one with some fairly typical reponses and views that helps to remind one of the picture and forces at work. But then its personal inaneity jades one into non-communication, yea perchance avoidance. Hey babe, don't let the bastards get you down! Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Sick, Psychotic F**ks
-Caveat Lector- Aleisha Saba wrote: Yes I agree with June and Steve here - these UFO'ologists they call themselves? I can't believe this list sometimes - like this is a conspiracy list, right? So why is it okay to listen to Saba ramble on about long-dead who-gives-a-shite people and yet ignore what is happening right now? It is nice to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about the deep past and the shallow past (who cares about Jean Dixon - I mean really) and why totally exclude UFOs. Just wondering why the jewish mafia is acceptable and UFOs are not. Kelly We used to just call them nuts - for anyone with any smarts at all know we did not get to the moon on a one shot deal? Now in my family we did not call them UFO's.we called them satellities, missiles, and most came out of Vandenberg.and yes my brother wore a Joint Chief of Staff badge and loved dogs and cats. He was a hero in WWII..he and a lot of other heros got us to the moon before Russia while those that would have preferred Russia got there first, now say we did not go. Only UFO I have seen lately was our local dog catcher, all 200 pounds of her, running from scene when a guy's Rotweiler ran the other way after getting a good load of that porky. Saba That Porky did not wear hot pants. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Sweet Donna aka Revcoal
-Caveat Lector- Well! I don't think anything will leave Kris's list in shambles. It's a mighty good list and somewhat entertaining (to me) trying to figure out why Mr. Socialist loathes Ms. Royalty who loathes Ms. Slut whom cannot abide Mr. Anarchist who is above the fray and just study! study! study! Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Memory and eyewitness testimony
-Caveat Lector- National Post April 25, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/ Good news about your bad memory Try this simple test and it'll all be explained Norman Doidge National Post On May 16, John Doe #1 -- as Timothy McVeigh, the most notorious homegrown American terrorist was officially called before his capture -- is scheduled to be executed. But what about John Doe #2? He is all but forgotten. You may remember --vaguely -- that during the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, two composite pictures of likely suspects were posted. An FBI composite resembling the tall, fair-haired McVeigh was called John Doe #1. John Doe #2 was short, square-faced, dark-haired, with a tattoo beneath his left sleeve. The story of John Doe #2 is only one of the many fascinating tales in Daniel Schacter's just-released The Seven Sins of Memory. Schacter is chairman of the psychology department of Harvard University, but got his training and was on faculty at the University of Toronto in the '70s and '80s. It turned out there never was a John Doe #2. So how did he come about? The FBI tracked a van used in the bombing to Elliott's truck rental in Junction City, Kan. There, mechanic Tom Kessinger recalled that two men had rented the van. One fit the description of McVeigh, and the other, square-faced mug became John Doe #2. The FBI tracked down McVeigh, but never found John Doe #2. What actually happened was that a man fitting the description Kessinger gave of John Doe # 2 came into the shop a day after McVeigh rented his van. On that day, U.S. Army Sergeant Michael Hertig --who was tall and fair like McVeigh -- came to rent a van with his friend, Private Todd Bunting -- who was short, square-faced, dark-haired. Kessinger watched. Since Kessinger had correctly identified McVeigh, the FBI presumed at first he was right about John Doe #2. In essence, Kessinger's mind had associated the short, dark-haired man with a tall, fair-haired fellow. This kind of misattribution -- in which we confuse the source of a memory -- is not uncommon because our memory works by association. The implications are staggering for our legal system. Recent analyses of 40 cases in which DNA evidence established the innocence of wrongfully imprisoned people showed that 90% of those convictions had been based on mistaken eyewitness identification. Using a technique called the Desse/Roedinger-McDermott phenomenon, Schacter has experimentally created situations in which we think we have experienced things that haven't happened. (If you want to try it, don't read the next paragraph, but instead ask someone sitting next to you to read the following two lists of words at the rate of about one word per second. You try to remember them. Immediately after, your friend will ask you if you heard just some of the words.) The words in list one are thread, pin, eye, sewing, sharp, point, prick, thimble, haystack, thorn, hurt, injection, syringe, cloth, knotting. The words in list two are bed, rest, awake, tired, dream, wake, snooze, blanket, doze, slumber, snore, nap, peace, yeast, drowsy. Now, for some skill-testing questions. After each of the following words, vote yes if you are sure it was on the list, no if it wasn't or not sure: Sewing, door, needle, sleep, candy, awake. When these tests are conducted in large groups, most people remember that sewing and awake were on the lists and that door and candy were not. But what is most interesting is that people frequently claim with certainty that they heard needle and sleep. Clearly, many of the words on the first list activate associations to the abstract concept of sharpness and along with that an association to the word needle. The same for list two, only the associative network activated is to the concept of sleep. In misattribution, we mix up the source of a memory (as when we know a joke but forget who told it to us, then tell it back to that person). In the above experiment, the source is likely a mental association that was triggered by the list. Arguably, this is the kind of mistake Kessinger made in identifying John Doe #2 as the the accomplice of a tall, fair-haired man. Schacter shows how many of the sins of memory are arguably not simply defects (though these can occur) but actually make memory more efficient. So, while the list-of-words experiment shows a mistake is generated, it is a mistake that involves us getting the gist of the list. That, Schacter argues, is adaptive, from an evolutionary standpoint. We don't want our minds cluttered with details. Russian psychologist Alexandr Luria wrote a book on a savant named Shereshevsky who remembered virtually everything but could never function in life because that required the ability to abstract and separate the important from the trivial. Sometimes less is more. At times, remembering certain things makes it harder to remember others. This is seen in memory blocking. Imagine what life would be like if every time you had to remember a
[CTRL] Philip K. Dick
-Caveat Lector- http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0105/cover.html Linguafranca Volume 11, No. 4May/June 2001 Marxist Literary Critics Are Following Me! How Philip K. Dick betrayed his academic admirers to the FBI. by Jeet Heer WHEN THE NOVELIST PHILIP K. DICK DIED IN 1982, THE INFLUENTIAL literary theorist Fredric Jameson eulogized him as the Shakespeare of science fiction. At the time of this encomium, Dick was hardly famous. The author of more than fifty books, he had an enthusiastic following among science fiction fans. But he was rarely read by anyone else. These days, Dick is far better known. Vintage publishes his fiction in a uniform paperback edition. Hollywood filmmakers transform his stories of imaginary worlds and conspiratorial cartels into movies like Screamers and Total Recall. Meanwhile, academic critics laud him as a postmodernist visionary, a canny prophet of virtual reality, corporate espionage, and the schizoid nature of identity in a digitized world. Indeed, beginning in the last years of his life and continuing to the present, these critics have played a key role in the canonization of Philip K. Dick. But did Dick return the favor? Not exactly. To their considerable anguish, Dick's academic champions have had to contend with the revelation that their hero wrote letters to the Federal Bureau of Investigation denouncing them. In these letters, Dick claimed that Jameson and other literary theorists were agents of a KGB conspiracy to take over American science fiction. When he sent these messages, Dick was not in the best state of mind: He frequently heard voices and saw visions, often bathed in a mysterious pink light. Even so, the news of his surreptitious campaign against his academic admirers has left some of them deeply disturbed. In his fiction, Dick had a genius for turning reality upside down and inside out, writing novels in which time runs backward or the Nazis win World War II. Yet the celebrated reality breakdowns of Dick's novels seem normality itself compared with the bizarre, unsettling missives he sent to the authorities in Washington, D.C. The laureate of radical postmodernism was, it turns out, a stool pigeon. DICK STARTED SELLING SF stories as early as 1951, when he was twenty-two, but he never wanted to be a genre writer. Gifted with a quicksilver imagination and lightning-fast typing fingers, he planned to earn a living churning out pulp stories until he could find a publisher for his realistic mainstream novels. To his dismay, Dick discovered that though he could easily sell SF stories and novels, he could not secure a buyer for his earnest and grim tales of working-class life. Dick received a paltry fifteen hundred dollars a shot for his SF novels, which he produced at a rate of four or five a year; typically they were published as cheap paperbacks, with titles such as Dr. Bloodmoney (1965) and Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964). Considering the conditions under which the novels were written and published, it is amazing that Dick managed to find any sort of intelligent audience. Yet the best of these booksnotably, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) and Ubik (1969)presented intellectually ingenious and emotionally lacerating dislocations of reality. In Ubik, the hapless protagonist, Joe Chip, travels to Des Moines across a landscape of rapidly decaying objects that are moving backward in time: Coins and elevators, cars and airplanes become old-fashioned versions of themselves. Drawing on SF conventions to dramatize life in the postmodern age, Dick regularly explored the world of mind-altering drugs and shifting realities. Not surprisingly, John Lennon was a fan. Dick's fiction of the 1960s resonated not only with the counterculture but also with the New Left. Dick, who came of age in Bohemian Berkeley, infused his novels with a satiric radicalism. As he noted in his diary, I may not have been/am CP [Communist Party], but the basic Marxist sociological view of capitalismnegativeis there. Good. Dick's political imagination is evident in his recurring focus on the world of work. Unlike most science fiction heroes, his protagonists are ordinary working folks who struggle against corporate cartels. (The novelist John Sladek once wrote a parody of Dick's work titled Solar Shoe Salesman.) Given Dick's countercultural themes and politics, his work naturally attracted leftists such as Jameson, Peter Fitting of the University of Toronto, and Richard Pinhas, a French critic who went on to form a punk band. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., a professor of English at DePauw University, notes that many readers in the late 1960s and 1970s thought Dick was expressing...sly critiques of capitalism and the American bourgeois world picture. The SF novelist Thomas M. Disch praised Dick for writing self-consistent social allegories of a more-or-less Marxist bent. In 1975, the journal Science Fiction Studies devoted a special issue to Dick's work. The critics were
[CTRL] Transhumanists plan to save the human race
-Caveat Lector- From: Now http://www.now.com/feature.now?cid=1023695fid=1503483 Keeping Up With The Robots 20 Apr 2001 09:00:00 GMT Transhumanists believe we must embrace all forms of technology in order to save the human race. Cyborg: Is this the future? You never leave the house without your mp3 or minidisk player. Your mobile phone is close to becoming part of your ear. You check your email at least 50 times a day. It's time to face the facts, you are addicted to technology. While most of us tech addicts would sell our beds before giving up our DVD players or laptops, are we ready to push forward to the next level of technology-driven human evolution? Are we ready to transcend nature's version of humanity? In the words of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA): Transhumanism advocates the use of technology to overcome our biological limitations and transform the human condition. The group believes in order to avoid extinction, the human race must embrace technologies, such as genetic engineering, wearable computers, life-enhancing drugs and artificial intelligence. WTA insists we must evolve at the rate of technology before it consumes and destroys us. A transhumanist is really anyone who is trying to improve their lives or society in general through practical means, technological means, as opposed to holding their hands and hoping for the best, said transhumanist Garret Smyth. Believers in transhumanism embrace anything which enhances intelligence, prolongs life or eliminates disease. While several transhuman technologies, such as cloning and virtual reality, have been hogging column inches across the globe, others are not quite as well known. Nanotechnology, for example, is a form of molecular manufacturing which will allow the building of tiny computers. Investment is taking off in this field and the plan is to build cheap robotics which will be able to replicate themselves. But is humanity in danger of becoming ruled by machines? Kevin Warwick, robotics professor at the University of Reading and the world's first cyborg, put transhumanist theory into practice when he implanted a computer chip into his arm to help him interact with his environment. Warwick believes his work is vital to protect humanity from increasingly intelligent technology. In 20 or 30 years, we are going to have machines which are far more intelligent than humans and that is a dangerous thing, said Warwick. Our research is looking at a middle ground. Can we upgrade humans? Can we get hold of some of that machine intelligence? Can we sense the world in other ways? But transhumanist Garret Smyth thinks Warwick understates the danger of computer domination. We are going to have to adapt ourselves or the machines will take over, he said. Transhumanists believe superintelligence, an intellect superior to a human's in every way, will be created in the first half of the next century. Rather than have these superhumans overtake us, transhumanists want to become superintelligent themselves, through the use of smart drugs, wearable computers, virtual reality and bionic brain implants. Writing was one of the first forms of technology, used as a memory aid. Computers are an extension of that, said Smyth. One step beyond would be to have a mental link which detects your thought waves from outside your brain or a chip implanted which could read your thoughts. But the question is how dangerous are transhuman technologies to the human race? In our pursuit of catching the monster we have created, are we at risk of evolving into a sub or non-human species? The World Transhumanist Association acknowledges there are serious ethical and philosophical issues which need to be addressed, discussed and debated. However, the fundamental pursuit is for individual self-preservation. Transhumanists advocate individual freedom, especially the moral right to use technology to extend their mental and physical capacities, and to improve their control over their own lives, said Smyth. Technology has offered humanity an uncompromising paradox. By excelling in the creation of superintelligent machinery, it is entirely possible humans could become their own worst enemy. - Kerry Swanson A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] If the Exodus did not occur, there is no Judaism
-Caveat Lector- http://jewishworldreview.com/0401/prager.exodus.html World Review /April 23, 2001 / 30 Nissan, 5761 If the Exodus did not occur, there is no Judaism By Dennis Prager http://www.jewishworldreview.com DURING Passover and on Good Friday the Los Angeles Times published a front-page article titled Doubting the Story of Exodus. The timing was typical of the insensitivity often shown in mainstream media to religious Jews and Christians. It is unimaginable, for example, that any mainstream newspaper would ever print a front-page article on Martin Luther King's extramarital affairs on Martin Luther King Day. According to the article, most archaeologists and even some Jewish clergy do not believe the biblical Exodus occurred. That most archaeologists conclude from the alleged lack of archaeological evidence that Jews were never slaves in Egypt and the exodus to Canaan never took place tells us something about these individuals, but nothing about the Bible or the Exodus. What does it tell us? That most of these archaeologists have the same bias against traditional religious beliefs that most of their academic colleagues have. Ten years ago, Dr. Robert Jastrow, an agnostic and one of America's leading astrophysicists - founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and now director of the Mount Wilson Observatory - wrote about this in his book G-d and the Astronomers. Jastrow described a disturbing reaction among his colleagues to the big-bang theory - irritation and anger. Why, he asked, would scientists, who are supposed to pursue truth and not have an emotional investment in any evidence, be angered by the big-bang theory? The answer, he concluded, is very disturbing: many scientists do not want to acknowledge anything that may even suggest the existence of G-d. The big-bang theory, by positing a beginning to the universe, suggests a creator and therefore annoys many astronomers. This anti-religious bias is hardly confined to astronomers. It pervades academia, home to nearly all archaeologists. Take one of the archaeologists' major conclusions: Because they have found no evidence of Israelites in the Sinai desert, no Israelites made the trip from Egypt to Canaan. That conclusion strikes many of us as so unwarranted even arrogant as to demand explanation. According to the book of Exodus, the Israelites spent only 40 years in the desert over 3,000 years ago. What could possibly remain from a mere 40 years in a desert 3,000 years later? And since when does the alleged lack of physical proof mean something never happened or doesn't exist? I have no doubt that many of the archaeologists who are so certain that the Jews never wandered out of Egypt are quite sure that there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe. But on what basis? Despite decades of highly sophisticated probing, we do not have a shred of evidence to support the belief that intelligent life exists anywhere else. They choose to believe it because logic suggests to them that intelligent life exists out there. Well, logic suggests to many of us that Jews were slaves in Egypt and that there was an exodus. For thousands of years Jews have been retelling this story. It is possible that it is all a 3,000-year-old fairy tale, but do logic and common sense suggest this? Why would a people make up such an ignoble history? Why would a people fabricate a myth of its origins in which it is depicted so negatively? There is no parallel in human history to the Hebrew Bible's negative depiction of the Jews' national origins. The Torah's depiction of the Jews' exodus from Egypt to Canaan portrays the Jews as ingrates, rebels and chronic complainers, undeserving of the freedom G-d and Moses brought them. Moreover, aside from Moses, the heroes of the story are nearly all non-Jews. It is the daughter of Pharaoh who saves and rears Moses (later Jewish tradition actually holds her to be his mother); it is a Midianite priest, Jethro, who tells Moses how to govern the Jewish people; and the two midwives who refuse the pharaoh's order to kill all male Jewish babies are almost certainly Egyptians. As for Moses himself, he is depicted as being raised an Egyptian. That is one of the three reasons I am certain of the Jews' slavery and exodus. Any people that makes up a history for itself makes sure to depict itself as heroic and other peoples as villains. That the Torah's story does the very opposite is for me an unassailable argument on behalf of its honesty. Second, I do not believe that a nation tells a story for 3,000 years that has no experiential basis. Moreover, the text has allusions to Egypt that only contemporaries could know. Even the name Moses is Egyptian (compare the pharaohs' names Thutmose, Ahmose and Ahmosis). Third, I choose to believe the story despite the archaeologists' (subjective) claim of no evidence just as, despite the powerful arguments of history and of archaeologists of the past generation, some
[CTRL] In search of God
-Caveat Lector- From New Scientist magazine, 21 April 2001. In search of God Are religious feelings just a product of how the brain works? Bob Holmes meets the researchers who are trying to explain our most sacred thoughts EINSTEIN FELT IT. It's what draws people to church, prayer, meditation, sacred dance and other rituals. Chances are you've felt something like it too--in the mountains, by the sea, or perhaps while listening to a piece of music that's especially close to your heart. In fact, more than half of people report having had some sort of mystical or religious experience. For some, the experience is so intense it changes their life forever. But what is "it"? The presence of God? A glimpse of a higher plane of being? Or just the mystical equivalent of dj vu, a trick the brain sometimes plays on your conscious self? At some level, of course, all our thoughts and sensations--however unusual--must involve the brain. Indeed, experiments on the brain have led neuroscientists to suggest that the capacity for religion may somehow be hardwired into us. If so, why do people's religious experiences differ so profoundly, moving some so deeply while leaving others cold? Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, has been fascinated by the neurobiology of religion for more than a decade. He admits it's an awkward role for a scientist. "I always get concerned that people will say I'm a religious person who's trying to prove that God exists, or I'm a cynic who's trying to prove that God doesn't exist," he says. "But we try to approach it without bias." Earlier this month he published a book, which lays out the most complete theory to date of how mystical or religious experiences can be generated in the brain. Together with the now deceased Eugene d'Aquili, a colleague from Penn, Newberg was keen to study the sensations that are unique to religious experiences but shared by people of all faiths. One of these is the sense of "oneness with the Universe" that enthralled Einstein. The other is the feeling of awe that accompanies such revelations and makes them stand out as more important, more highly charged, and in a way more real than our everyday lives. But Newberg realised that rare, fleeting revelations would be almost impossible to study in the lab. It meant he had to ignore the one-off experiences that strike out of the blue and focus instead on meditation and prayer--sedate, but at least reproducible. Through a colleague who practised Tibetan Buddhism, Newberg and d'Aquili managed to find eight skilled meditators who were willing to undergo brain imaging. The volunteers came to the lab one at a time, and a technician inserted an intravenous tube into one arm. Then the volunteer began to meditate as normal, focusing intently on a single image, usually a religious symbol. The goal was to feel their everyday sense of self begin to dissolve, so that they became one with the image. "It feels like a loss of boundary," says Michael Baime, one of the meditators and also a researcher in the study. "It's as if the film of your life broke and you were seeing the light that allowed the film to be projected." Hidden in the next room, Newberg and d'Aquili waited. When the meditator felt the sense of oneness developing--usually after about an hour--they would tug on a string. This signalled the researchers to inject a radioactive tracer through the intravenous line. Within minutes the tracer bound fast to the brain in greater amounts where the blood flow, and hence brain activity, had been higher. Later a scanner would measure the distribution of the tracer to yield a snapshot of brain activity at the time of binding. The technique, called Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, or SPECT, allowed the subjects to meditate in the relative peace of the lab rather than the claustrophobic whirr of a scanner. Once the tests were completed, Newberg and d'Aquili compared the activity of the subjects' brains during meditation with scans taken when they were simply at rest. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the researchers found intense activity in the parts of the brain that regulate attention--a sign of the meditators' deep concentration. But they saw something else, too. During meditation, part of the parietal lobe, towards the top and rear of the brain, was much less active than when the volunteers were merely sitting still. With a thrill, Newberg and d'Aquili realised that this was the exact region of the brain where the distinction between self and other originates. Broadly speaking, the left-hemisphere side of this region deals with the individual's sense of their own body image, while its right-hemisphere equivalent handles its context--the space and time inhabited by the self. Maybe, the researchers thought, as the meditators developed the feeling of oneness, they gradually cut these areas off from the usual touch and position signals that help create the body image. "When
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Sorry Kris
-Caveat Lector- Saba wrote: Subject: Sorry Kris Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:44:27 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aleisha Saba) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am out of my 7 crisis letters and could not respond openly to list and apologize. I do not have a computer with a modem and all that; though familiar with computers and have one, it does not have a modem - use for personal stuff. Sent to list to first ask and warn - believe this virus came from someone on list. At first I thought it was pornographic or something similar - then thought maybe it could be virus - should have tought twice I am trying to find out who sent it; and believe me from response think I know. So have never forwarded this stuff before; NEVER have I gotten anything like this on this list - this Snow White Stuff comes in on old name I know longer use except for personal notes to people and shopping, etc. So sorry Kris - this think came bit after I sent out the stuff re Gideon Bible and McVeigh.and someone on list sent it to me, of this I am sure - just wonder for sure who - can only guess. Note who got this virus and who did not? Well, I received the virus from *you* via CTRL. I put out call to see who got it. Why should anyone respond to the person who sent the virus to the list? What you did was inexcusable and appalling. I sincerely hope it was from lack of knowledge and not malicious and I sincerely hope you didn't infect anyone's computer. However, since I don't know what your motives were - I can only take your word that you didn't know how reckless your behaviour was - take this piece of advice. Never open a file that you don't know where it came from and who the sender is. Just delete it. And Kris, I'm surprised that listserv.AOL allows such attachments as exe. files. Have you ever considered using Yahoogroups? As list owner, you could set the list to screen out any attachments. This can be a little frustrating as you must copy and paste anything you want to forward to the list. On the other hand, there doesn't appear to be a length restriction to articles. In addition, there is a shared files area where people can post pictures, music, movies, audio etc. and then individual list members can decide whether they want to look at those files or not. That way, the whole list doesn't get spammed with a virus the way Saba did here. Again sorry. What you did Saba was like wondering if you had a sexually transmitted disease and then going out and sleeping with 300 people to see if anyone got sick. It's your responsibility to educate yourself on computer viruses to protect yourself and others. However, we are all human and do make mistakes so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt this time. Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Robotic insect takes to the air
-Caveat Lector- From BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_127/1270306.stm - Wednesday, 11 April, 2001, 10:56 GMT 11:56 UK Robotic insect takes to the air Prototype: 'At the same stage as the Wright brothers' By BBC Science's Dr Chris Riley Engineers have test flown a prototype of the world's first robotic insect. It is hoped that future generations of this curious craft could carry tiny spy cameras into buildings. The designers, at a California-based company called AeroVironment, have been building micro-spy planes for years. Their fixed wing "Black Widow", a tiny black pocket plane just 15 cm (6 in) in diameter, is already being used by the military for surveillance behind enemy lines. "From a hundred metres above the ground it is hardly detectable to the eye and ear and can beam back crystal clear pictures of the ground below," says project manager Matt Keennon. But the team's ultimate dream is to build something they can fly inside a building without bumping into walls. Insect inspiration The Black Widow flies too fast to navigate carefully around a room. And what these pioneers of micro-flight wanted to do was create a craft which could fly slowly, change direction with ease and hover in the corner of a room. Their inspiration came from the world of insects. Insect wings often beat with a complex figure of eight motion, which gives excellent mid-air manoeuvrability, but is very hard for engineers to mimic. 'More like a bat' AeroVironment's latest attempt is dubbed "Microbat", because the 20 cm (8 in) long robot flaps its wings more like a bat than an insect. Such flapping wing aircraft - called ornithopters - have been around for years, says AeroVironment ornithopter engineer Joel Grasmeyer. "Our challenge has been to create a small, ultra-light wing to give us enough lift to carry an electric motor and battery into the air." In a smoky wind tunnel at the University of California at Los Angeles, doctoral students Nick Pornsin-Sirirak and Steven Ho have come up with a wing which gives as much lift as the insect wings they have been studying. Wright brothers They admit that when it comes to micro-flapping flight, they are at about the same stage that the Wright brothers were in 1903. But the ultra-light wings they have designed and built out of a thin polythene film and a simple carbon-fibre skeleton seem to give enough lift. And fitted to Microbat, they can keep the little robot aloft for as long as its tiny battery lasts. We might be far from machines which can master the air as well as insects and carry tiny cameras, but the spy's dream to become a fly on the wall might one day come true. Watch Microbat being put through its paces on Tomorrow's World on Wednesday at 1900 BST on BBC 1 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Theroux on Ronson
-Caveat Lector- Stranger than fiction Are 12ft lizards running the world? Louis Theroux investigates Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson Saturday April 7, 2001 The Guardian Them: Adventures with Extremists Jon Ronson 352pp, Picador, 16.99 There is a version of history that holds that the world is secretly run by a shadowy cabal of predominantly Jewish international financiers and politicians who meet several times a year to decide which wars to start, which countries to bankrupt, which gun-owners to oppress, and so on. This view, which has been around at least since the late 19th century, when it was popularised in a hugely influential piece of anti-semitic propaganda, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , exists in various versions - with "Jews" occasionally being replaced by "Bilderbergers", "New World Order", "Illuminati" or "12ft lizard creatures". Though undoubtedly nutty, its paranoid and exciting "top secret" flavour has meant it continues to appeal to a motley crew of self-styled "researchers" and evangelists on the fringes of society, including Ku Klux Klansmen, militias, certain fundamentalist Muslims and an ex-Coventry goalkeeper called David Icke. For Them: Adventures with Extremists, reporter and documentary film-maker Jon Ronson spent several years in the company of a few of these fringe-dwellers, in an attempt to understand their mindset and to see to what - if any - extent their fears were founded in fact. The resulting book is a funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world, with Ronson playing Sancho Panza to a cast of obsessives. Ronson has a deft, ironic touch and a brilliant way with scene-setting and direct speech - much of the action is so neat and pacy it reads almost like a novel - and it is one of the book's great merits that it never takes itself too seriously. Conspiracy investigators tend to be incompetent and petty in direct proportion to the delusional grandeur of their ambitions, something Ronson is not slow to pick up on. "I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO!" one investigator screams at his colleague. "Make a big show of shouting down the phone! Steal the limelight! And then Jon will write about you !" In one of the book's funniest chapters, Ronson accompanies an ultra-right-wing conspiracy investigator named Big Jim Tucker as he attempts to infiltrate a meeting of the Bilderberg Group (a semi-secret council of international industrialists and statesmen, and a favourite bugbear of the paranoid fringe). They end up being chased by scary-looking security personnel in dark glasses and Ronson panics, trying to get the British Embassy to rescue him. "I am essentially a humorous journalist," he pleads down the phone. "I am a humorous journalist out of my depth." But Ronson also has a point to make about the way beliefs in general tend to demonise "them", where "them" might be diabolical Jews, 12ft lizards, or indeed the weirdos who believe in diabolical Jews and 12ft lizards. Exhibit A in the fringe-dwellers' case for the existence of a shadowy all-powerful cabal is the true-life story of the Weavers, a family with admittedly far-out religious views who, yes, consorted with neo-Nazis and who moved to the remotest corner of northern Idaho to be as far as possible from the "Zionist Occupational Government". Vicki Weaver and her son Sammy were shot in cold blood by federal marshals in a paramilitary-style raid. Conspiracy theorists have ever since argued that this is proof that the world is indeed run by a secret oligarchy; Ronson's compelling case is that what happened was made possible because the Weavers were repeatedly described in the media as "white supremacists" and therefore in some way worthy of extermination. Another chapter examines the strange history of David Icke, the footballer turned BBC commentator turned Green Party spokesman turned self-proclaimed son of God. Ronson finds Icke on a lecture tour of Canada, pursuing his new calling as an investigator of the secret elite of lizard shape-shifters (the Queen and Ted Heath are among those under suspicion) who run the world. Icke's "theory" is basically The Protocols of the Elders of Zion with a new cast and a few script changes. Not surprisingly, Icke has come under suspicion of anti-semitism; as his tour progresses he finds his readings heavily picketed and his radio interviews cancelled. Icke vehemently repudiates the accusations, and reading Ronson's account it is difficult not to conclude that, while we are right to be on our guard against paranoid anti-semitism, we should also be on our guard against the paranoid excesses of anti-anti-semitism. Not only might it be unfair to Icke, but by implying that he is so dangerous that he has to be censored, the watchdogs are giving a patina of seriousness to ideas that are - let's face it - very, very silly. As the book progresses, what emerges is the degree to which the real-life Bilderberg Group and the researchers who
Re: [CTRL] Aquifers Are Nearly DRY (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Hey! Lot's of water in Canada so I don't think the US will get its panties in a knot over wetness shortly. And then, of course, when the Americans are dying of thirst they will just take what they need with the cooperation of our sweet Canadian government. As a matter of fact, they are already discussing it. How to divert Canadian water to the US. So don't worry! Some US corporation - maybe WATER inc. will make sure you have fresh water if you can steal it and pay for it. The interesting joke over the past couple of centuries has been that Canada is a independent country. Ha ha! When the US wants and needs something, they'll take it. Not that I would want to see anybody in the world die of thirst. Surely there must be scientists working on taking the salt out of seawater? How can desalination be such an impossible venture? Kelly Yardbird wrote: -Caveat Lector- Aquifers Are Nearly DRY http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html Subj: A Lesson in Physics Major US Groundwater Reserves And Aquifers Are Nearly DRY MANY, many of this planet's LARGEST aquifers and (naturally occurring) groundwater reservoirs are said to be at unprecedented, critically depleted levels and literally right on the verge of disappearing completely! INCLUDED in this category are certain aquifers which supply water to some of this planet's MAJOR population centers. How EVER, the other PRIME cause of the rapid DISAPPEARANCE of drinkable water throughout Florida is DROUGHT, plain and simple. No RAIN. Sound familiar? It sounds to us a lot like what's been going on in the Pacific Northwest for THREE years now; in which what overwhelming evidence shows is an ARTIFICIAL, intentionally induced droughtbrought about by such technologies as HAARP, ELF/ULF transmitters and chem trails has been wreaking devastating consequences on a huge section of North America. Weather Modification http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenewsdesk.html The long lasting California drought in the 80s was caused by a massive ridge of high pressure 800 miles off the California coast which hovered for extended periods of time, blocking the usual flow of moist air coming in from the Pacific and pushing storms around to the north. Meteorologists who have analyzed this phenomena consider it to be one of the most unusual national patterns ever recorded, unique in the annals of weather recording. Such long lasting centers of high pressure were unheard of until 1977. Evidence suggests that this was possibly caused by Woodpecker generated giant standing ELF waves which are transmitted by the Soviets intentionally to block the flow of normal weather patterns From: "Bill Mauldin" - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Secret Rulers Control America's Weather http://www.apfn.org/apfn/weather.htm === Fluoride - The Lunatic Drug http://www.apfn.org/apfn/water.htm Mountain Valley has a lot of good things bottled up for you http://www.mvwater.com/mvwater.htm Mountain Valley Spring Company Staff Directory http://www.mountainvalleyspring.com/staff.htm War and the Emergency Powers http://www.apfn.org/apfn/1933.htm === My whole point is, DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU ARE TOLD UNTIL YOU VERIFY IT!! DO NOT FALL FOR ANY CREATED PROBLEMS!! A Sovereign Knows, a slave believes! thiMk! Billy-Joe..Mauldin Sui Juris, Belligerent Claimant === "WE ARE APT TO SHUT OUR EYES AGAINST A PAINFUL TRUTH... FOR MY PART, I AM WILLING TO KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH; TO KNOW THE WORST; AND TO PROVIDE FOR IT." Patrick Henry http://www.apfn.org/apfn/apfncont.htm A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAI
[CTRL] Frankenstein fears after head transplant
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1263000/1263758.stm A controversial operation to transplant the whole head of a monkey onto a different body has proved a partial success. The scientist behind it wants to do the same thing to humans, but other members of the scientific community have condemned the experiments as "grotesque". Professor Robert White, from Cleveland Ohio, transplanted a whole monkey's head onto another monkey's body, and the animal survived for some time after the operation. The professor told the BBC's Today programme how he believes the operation is the next step in the transplant world. And he raised the possibility that it could be used to treat people paralysed and unable to use their limbs, and whose bodies, rather than their brains, were diseased. "People are dying today who, if they had body transplants, in the spinal injury community would remain alive." He said that in the experiment, his team had been able to: "transplant the brain as a separate organ into an intact animal and maintain it in a viable, or living situation for many days." He added: "We've been able to retain the brain in the skull, and in the head." That, he said meant the monkey was conscious, and that it could see, hear, taste and smell because the nerves were left intact in the head. He admitted that it could appear "grotesque", but said there had been ethical considerations throughout the history of organ transplants. "At each stage - kidney, heart, liver and so forth - ethical considerations have been considered, especially with the heart, which was a major, major problem for many people and scientists. "And the brain, because of its uniqueness poses a major, major ethical issue as far as the public and even the profession is concerned." 'Scientifically misleading' The arguments against head and brain transplants were outlined by Dr Stephen Rose, director of brain and behavioural research at the Open University. He said: "This is medical technology run completely mad and out of all proportion to what's needed. "It's entirely misleading to suggest that a head transplant or a brain transplant is actually really still connected in anything except in terms of blood stream to the body to which it has been transplanted. "It's not controlling or relating to that body in any other sort of way." He added: "It's scientifically misleading, technically irrelevant and scientifically irrelevant, and apart from anything else a grotesque breach of any ethical consideration." "It's a mystification to call it either a head transplant or a brain transplant. "All you're doing is keeping a severed head alive in terms of the circulation from another animal. It's not connected in any nervous sense." The issue of who someone who had received a head transplant would "be" is extremely complicated, said Professor Rose. "Your person is largely embodied but not entirely in your brain". He added: "I cannot see any medical grounds for doing this. I cannot see that scientifically you would actually be able to regenerate the nerves which could produce that sort of control. "And I think that the experiments are the sort that are wholly unethical and inappropriate for any possible reason." He added that the way to help the quadriplegic community was to work on research to help spinal nerves regenerate. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout
[CTRL] Alert: Majestic Art of Electronic Disinformation
-Caveat Lector- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:46:37 z (MDT) From: Stephen MILES Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Alert: Majestic Art of Electronic Disinformation Majestic Art of Electronic Disinformation "A character in the game might ask me the name of my wife. A few months later I might get a call saying, "'Neil, if you don't stop snooping, you might find Laurie in a pool of blood'." - Neil Young, Game Designer at Anim-X Back in February I learned of a new "game" which threatens to further blur the lines between fact and fiction within the ufo community and its relevant parapolitical/conspiracy sub- communities. It's called Majestic and it is being billed as "The game that plays you." This new online interactive experience uses the player's own mind as the gaming environment with the world wide web and telecommunications networks as its intravenous feed straight into that player's paranoia prone imagination. The international software developer, Electronic Arts, is banking on the popularity of paranoia as a sort of mental thrill ride. Depending upon what level of interactivity a player desires, players can be contacted by the game via web sites, email, online instant messaging, phone, fax, and even cellular phone messaging systems. With "reality" television shows like Mtv's Fear and the Fox Family Channel's World's Most Haunted Places already pushing the envelope of ethical entertainment, the inherant dangers of such a paranoic "game" are quite apparent. Among the many ethical ambiguities implied by the very premise of the game is its use of real and fake web sites to promote real and hoax news stories. The game designers have gone so far as to create front companies for several of these web sites. They are actively urging fans of the game to create web sites to act as fronts for the game. The disinformation is already spreading... I'm already receiving emails from experiencers and researchers who are forwarding links to web pages which turn out to be among the growing list of hoax sites. One experiencer sent me a link to an online image of a supposed reptoid alien. The link was to one of the top two Majestic related fan sites, www.abovetopsecret.com. One of the likely hoax sites is www.chemtrail.com. If you do a whois lookup on this site you get the name of a company called Octopus Interactive - these web developers really know their conspiracy theory... Anyone familiar with the majority of conspiracy theory from the 1980s and 1990s should recognize the Octopus conspiracy as one of the (allegedly) farthest reaching and most convoluted. Most important is the Octopus theory's linking of continuing news reports about software known variously as the Inslaw and Promis programs that were designed with "back doors" for in-the-know agencies. But perhaps one of the most direct potential dangers to this game's contamination of the UFO scene can be found within one of our communities most prolific contributors: Filers Files. Since June of last year, each issue of Filers Files has contained the important message "Sponsored by Electronic Arts" within its header. To date, Mr. Filer has not responded to my repeated sincere requests for more information on the nature of this sponsorship. Meanwhile, high quality parapolitical sites such as www.disinfo.com have officially announced their open participation in this new gaming experience. Of course, many will see this game as a part of the conspiracy itself; ie- the Majestic game is simply a pretext for the very type of data gathering / backdoor access to your privacy engendered in the original claims of Octopus conspiracy researchers and NSA Echelon devotees. For more links to online resources and articles about Majestic please check here: http://www.elfis.net/mkc/mkcx/majesticarts.htm A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
[CTRL] Foriegn policy map
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nyx.net/~keking/america.gif A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The floating 3D hologram
-Caveat Lector- From The Independent (Bangladesh,) http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/mar/21/21032001ft.htm#2 The floating 3D hologram Scientists have developed a Star Trek style hologram device that creates three dimensional images which float in the air. Normally, the three dimensional (3D) image is seen 'inside' a hologram display or viewed with special glasses. But in the world of science fiction, holograms are often depicted appearing out of thin air.The idea was used in the films Star Wars and Back To The Future, and on TV for the starship Enterprise's "holodeck" in Star Trek - The Next Generation. Scientists at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (Dera), in England, have discovered how to produce real life floating holograms projected from a computer screen. The breakthrough, reported in New Scientist magazine recently, could enable surgeons, designers and architects to manipulate 3D moving images in mid air. Car designers will be able to extend a vehicle's bodywork just by waving a stylus. Surgeons will be able to examine 3D brain images.Working with the Ford Motor Company, Dera plans to have its first products based on advanced computer-generated holography (CGH) on the market in 2003. Chris Slinger, head of holography at Dera, said: "We can create a real image floating in 3D space. Unlike other techniques, such as stereography or virtual reality, CGH doesn't require people to wear cumbersome headgear to see the image, and prolonged use doesn't lead to any ill effects. Users manipulate images using tools that exist partly as real objects and partly as virtual tools. It is like nothing else we have seen before."A hologram is essentially an interference pattern generated from the object being depicted. When light strikes the hologram it is diffracted, forming a series of wavelets.Interference between these wavelets produces wavefronts that simulate the light that would have come from the original object. With the new system, the computer produces interference patterns that simulate the light waves from an object hanging in empty space. As a result, the image can be projected in front of the screen. In the prototype device, a mirror focuses the image so that it can be seen from a range of angles. As well as displaying images of real objects, the system can also project the shapes of imaginary objects. - LPS A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Our Universe Not Alone, Say Scientists
-Caveat Lector- ENN - Environmental News Network http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03252001/upi_universe_42706.asp Our Universe Not Alone, Say Scientists Sunday, March 25, 2001 By United Press International Spanish and American astrophysicists claim the universe we inhabit contains an infinite number of other universes like our own, called O-regions, that we will someday be able to contact. Jaume Garriga, of the University of Barcelona, and Alexander Vilenkin, of Tufts University, call the concept "many worlds in one." As they explained to United Press International, these universes are likely similar to our own - share similar life forms, for instance - because they share a key feature with our world: a finite number of distinct histories. A history is the way something has evolved in time and will continue to evolve. Until now, physicists have never been able to make such an assertion. The team will publish their hypothesis this fall in the journal Gravitation and Quantum Cosmology. Are these ideas far-fetched? Alan Guth says no. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist told UPI, "Do I think that the ideas are viable? Definitely yes. In fact, I very much admire the precision with which the ideas are expressed. I consider the work of Alex Vilenkin and his collaborators to be the leading work in this field." He explained, "What is new in their article is the realization that the total number of possible histories for each universe is finite." An infinite number of universes like our own is a concept Guth - one of the foremost authorities on a concept called the inflationary universe - finds startling. "That's a pretty mind-boggling conclusion," Guth told UPI from his Cambridge, Mass. office. The idea that an infinite number of universes exist gives rise to some interesting, and troubling, implications. "Whenever a thought crosses your mind that a terrible calamity might have happened," Vilenkin told UPI, "you can be assured that it has happened in some of the other O-regions." Furthermore, since some O-regions have histories identical or nearly identical to our own, "if you nearly escaped an accident here, then you were not so lucky in some of the O-regions with the same prior history," he said The worlds Garriga and Vilenkin imagine are not entirely calamitous, and may even be amusing. "Distant copies of ourselves play all sorts of different roles" in these other worlds, Vilenkin said. In fact, "there are infinitely many O-regions where Al Gore is president and - yes - Elvis Presley is still alive!" According to Vilenkin, Guth's work gave rise to the idea of many worlds in the first place. Guth formulated the now well-accepted idea that the universe is expanding - or inflating - and published the best-selling book "The Inflationary Universe" in 1997. As the visible universe expands, or inflates, it gives birth to new universes. Since inflation is eternal, new universe creation is also eternal. "In an eternally inflating universe, anything that can happen will happen; in fact, it will happen an infinite number of times," Guth told UPI. Guth also believes the many-worlds hypothesis has profound philosophical implications. "We already know that our planet is merely a tiny speck in a vast cosmos, but now we are being told that we do not even hold a unique copyright on our own identities," Guth told UPI. "Instead, each of us is actually only a single copy of an infinite number of beings that are completely identical to ourselves." Copyright 2001, United Press International All Rights Reserved A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Shag Harbour gets UFO stamp
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalpost.com/ Wednesday March 28, 2001, p. A1 N.S. town's new postmark pays homage to UFO visit Les Perreaux National Post Residents of Shag Harbour, N.S., will be mailing an image of a flying saucer with every letter and package after Canada Post approved a new postmark commemorating a visit 34 years ago by an unidentified flying object. The crash has become the subject of popular lore, including a book, and has also made the town a tourist draw. The locally designed ink stamp, used to mark and date outgoing mail, depicts a flying saucer hovering over water with a lighthouse and boat beneath it. The scene refers to an incident in 1967 in which an apparent UFO plunged into the bay near the town and sent the RCMP, Coast Guard and townspeople on a fruitless search-and-rescue mission. "There are so many people coming in who are interested in having their picture taken here or having their mail stamped, I though we needed something with a UFO design," said postmaster Cindy Nickerson, who came up with the idea for the stamp two years ago. The design is also being used on T-shirts, hats and commemorative wooden nickels. At about 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 4, 1967, Laurie Wickens and three friends were driving home when they saw an orange light heading toward the water, and called police. "At first the cops didn't want to believe us, but then we found out another cop had seen it too," Mr. Wickens recalled yesterday. He and several witnesses, including RCMP officers, watched the light floating on the water until it sank. An all-night search found nothing except a 600-metre strip of floating, yellow scum. No official explanation has been offered for the lights, but theories at the time had a Cold War influence and involved a Russian spacecraft or submarine. Mr. Wickens believes it was a U.S. military plane. Canada Post has created many postmarks for communities, including a teddy bear hugging a heart for Love, Sask., and Anne of Green Gables for Cavendish, P.E.I. "It's a concept that goes over very well with collectors," said Tim McGurrin, spokesman for Canada Post. The ink stamp will be officially unveiled in May. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Black Stains Sow Fear, Fuel Theories
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010328/od/stain_dc_1.html Oddly Enough - Reuters | 28 March 2001 Black Stains Sow Fear, Fuel Theories CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan police are investigating mysterious black stains fouling the streets of the capital, which have spawned conspiracy theories and have some drivers fearing for their lives. A subversive plot to sow traffic chaos, or sabotage to provide extra business for street-cleaning contractors? The oily black stains spreading across hundreds of miles of urban asphalt have police investigators scratching their heads. Police suspect the sticky grime, up to an inch (2.5 cm) thick in places, is a mixture of used engine oil and highly corrosive brake fluid, dispensed from plastic bags by hired muck-spreaders in the dead of night. Curb to curb in places, the greasy stains cover many main avenues in Caracas, are particularly bad in tunnels and stretch up to 20 miles (30 km) on highways from the city center. ``It's dangerous because someone could get killed,'' said cyclist Milner Paredes. The Central University says the stains, which first appeared in 1994 but returned with a vengeance this year, could be linked to poor maintenance of the city streets, but the government sees a conspiracy: ``It is the work of subversives,'' said Caracas Mayor Freddy Bernal. The saboteurs have even resorted to hiring the homeless to spread the greasy black liquids, authorities say. ``When it rains, you can't touch the brakes without the car skidding and I've seen quite a few motorcycle couriers take a tumble,'' said Caracas cabbie Gerardo Gutierrez. Attempts to rid the city of the scourge have been frustrated by repeated dousings, police say. The stains have become a favorite talking point for city dwellers and pushed gory tales of violent crime onto the inside pages of the local tabloids. ``We have cleaned Baralt Avenue three times and the stain keeps coming back,'' Jose Antonio Calo, an engineer at the Caracas town hall, told the top-selling Ultimas Noticias. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Internet conspiracy game invades players real life
-Caveat Lector- INTERNET CONSPIRACY GAME INVADES PLAYERS REAL LIFE http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/27-3-19101-0-22-6.html Internet conspiracy game fears CAMERON SIMPSON IT is a chilling scenario. The silence is shattered by a ringing telephone and a hysterical woman screaming that someone is trying to break into her house. The call is abruptly terminated, to be replaced by a mobile phone text message which warns you to "Back off - if you know what's good for you". It is straight out of a Hollywood thriller and like the Michael Douglas film, The Game. However the line between fiction and reality could soon be blurred in Scotland by a controversial computer game which cannot be turned off and pursues players into their real lives. Players of Majestic are immersed in the world of a suspense thriller involving conspiracies, menacing fugitives and secret political organisations from which they cannot escape. According to its American producers, players become ''pawns'' in the complex game before being bombarded with threatening phone calls, faxes and e-mails convincing them they are involved in a deep-seated conspiracy. The game, which begins on the internet, has just been launched in America and producers are now looking to transport it across the Atlantic. As yet it is not set up to deal with international calls. Despite its mandatory adults-only rating, critics claim the way in which Majestic pursues players is harassment. Psychologists warned yesterday that it could lead to breakdowns in vulnerable people and damage development if accessed by children. Dr Geoff Scobie, a psychologist at Glasgow University, said: "Many people already have problems distinguishing between fantasy and reality, and my concern is that something like this could blur that line even further. "One of the key parts of a child's psychological development is learning to distinguish between the two, and this game could be damaging if they became involved. "Trying to disconnect people from reality is a well-known brainwashing technique and this could trigger breakdowns if the player is unable to end the game." The producers of Majestic, distributed by the industry giant, Electronic Arts, boast of how it is the world's first game to reach out and connect with people's real lives. The point of the game is to solve the conspiracy, making use of hidden clues, but it is impossible for players to step out of the game or know whether the other characters in the game are human players or programmed. The American game producer, Neil Young, has described how his disturbing game drew people in and turned players into "pawns''. He said: "Players are just pawns in the game. Once you are in it you are bombarded with phone calls to your home, faxes and e-mail messages to your office and text messages to your mobile phone. It is up to you to make sense of it." A spokeswoman for the British subsidiary of Electronic Arts was reluctant last night to be drawn on the row or when the game would arrive in the UK. She said: "The game has been extremely well received in the US, and we are looking at ways of bringing it here. "We cannot say for sure if or when that will be. It should be noted that there are very tight controls on who can go on the website which go far beyond other on-line games, so there is no danger of children getting access." -March 27th A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Omega Man
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22811 From New Scientist magazine, 10 March 2001. The Omega Man He shattered mathematics with a single number. And that was just for starters, says Marcus Chown TWO plus two equals four: nobody would argue with that. Mathematicians can rigorously prove sums like this, and many other things besides. The language of maths allows them to provide neatly ordered ways to describe everything that happens in the world around us. Or so they once thought. Gregory Chaitin, a mathematics researcher at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has shown that mathematicians can't actually prove very much at all. Doing maths, he says, is just a process of discovery like every other branch of science: it's an experimental field where mathematicians stumble upon facts in the same way that zoologists might come across a new species of primate. Mathematics has always been considered free of uncertainty and able to provide a pure foundation for other, messier fields of science. But maths is just as messy, Chaitin says: mathematicians are simply acting on intuition and experimenting with ideas, just like everyone else. Zoologists think there might be something new swinging from branch to branch in the unexplored forests of Madagascar, and mathematicians have hunches about which part of the mathematical landscape to explore. The subject is no more profound than that. The reason for Chaitin's provocative statements is that he has found that the core of mathematics is riddled with holes. Chaitin has shown that there are an infinite number of mathematical facts but, for the most part, they are unrelated to each other and impossible to tie together with unifying theorems. If mathematicians find any connections between these facts, they do so by luck. "Most of mathematics is true for no particular reason," Chaitin says. "Maths is true by accident." This is particularly bad news for physicists on a quest for a complete and concise description of the Universe. Maths is the language of physics, so Chaitin's discovery implies there can never be a reliable "theory of everything", neatly summarising all the basic features of reality in one set of equations. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but even Steven Weinberg, a Nobel prizewinning physicist and author of Dreams of a Final Theory, has swallowed it. "We will never be sure that our final theory is mathematically consistent," he admits. Chaitin's mathematical curse is not an abstract theorem or an impenetrable equation: it is simply a number. This number, which Chaitin calls Omega, is real, just as pi is real. But Omega is infinitely long and utterly incalculable. Chaitin has found that Omega infects the whole of mathematics, placing fundamental limits on what we can know. And Omega is just the beginning. There are even more disturbing numbers--Chaitin calls them Super-Omegas--that would defy calculation even if we ever managed to work Omega out. The Omega strain of incalculable numbers reveals that mathematics is not simply moth-eaten, it is mostly made of gaping holes. Anarchy, not order, is at the heart of the Universe. Chaitin discovered Omega and its astonishing properties while wrestling with two of the most influential mathematical discoveries of the 20th century. In 1931, the Austrian mathematician Kurt Gdel blew a gaping hole in mathematics: his Incompleteness Theorem showed there are some mathematical theorems that you just can't prove. Then, five years later, British mathematician Alan Turing built on Gdel's work. Using a hypothetical computer that could mimic the operation of any machine, Turing showed that there is something that can never be computed. There are no instructions you can give a computer that will enable it to decide in advance whether a given program will ever finish its task and halt. To find out whether a program will eventually halt--after a day, a week or a trillion years--you just have to run it and wait. He called this the halting problem. Decades later, in the 1960s, Chaitin took up where Turing left off. Fascinated by Turing's work, he began to investigate the halting problem. He considered all the possible programs that Turing's hypothetical computer could run, and then looked for the probability that a program, chosen at random from among all the possible programs, will halt. The work took him nearly 20 years, but he eventually showed that this "halting probability" turns Turing's question of whether a program halts into a real number, somewhere between 0 and 1. Chaitin named this number Omega. And he showed that, just as there are no computable instructions for determining in advance whether a computer will halt, there are also no instructions for determining the digits of Omega. Omega is uncomputable. Some numbers, like pi, can be generated by a relatively short program which calculates its infinite number of digits one by one--how far you
[CTRL] Remains Identified as O'Hair's
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/15/190211.shtml Remains Identified as O'Hair's NewsMax.com Wires Friday, March 16, 2001 AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) A forensic expert said Thursday the remains of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son and granddaughter were found last January buried on a Texas ranch, officially ending a six-year mystery about their disappearance. Dr. David M. Glassman, chairman of the anthropology department at Southwest Texas State University, said forensic tests identified the bones of O'Hair; her son, Jon Garth Murray; and her granddaughter, Robin Murray O'Hair, the victims of a 1995 abduction and extortion plot. Glassman said it was impossible from the surviving bones to determine the cause of death for Madalyn O'Hair and her granddaughter, but it appears Jon Murray was tortured. "When we removed the dirt that was covering his skull, his head had been covered in a plastic bag, his arms had been bound with a plastic ligature, and there was some trauma in the form of defect fractures to the side of his head and the back," he told a news conference. Glassman said the fractures were sufficient to have caused Murray's death. The examination supported the theory of federal agents who said the O'Hairs were killed and their bodies dismembered, possibly with a power saw. "All three of the O'Hair skeletons had been dismembered to the point that their legs were all cut, between the hip and the knee," he said. Glassman said the bone pieces were found scattered around the gravesite and one of his challenges was to put them together and determine which bones matched which skeletons. Also found in the grave were the skull and hand bones of a man in his early 40s. They are believed to belong to Danny Fry, a third conspirator whose headless and handless body was found on the banks of the Trinity River near Dallas in October 1985 after the O'Hairs vanished. Fry's body remained unidentified for three years, and it was when officials identified it that the plot began to unravel. Former O'Hair office manager David Waters, the mastermind in the extortion plot, led FBI agents and forensic experts to the bodies on Jan. 27 at a 5,000-acre ranch 100 miles west of San Antonio in the rugged Texas Hill Country. Waters, 53, guided FBI agents and Texas Rangers to the bodies as part of a plea bargain deal with federal prosecutors. He had pleaded guilty to one extortion charge in a closed federal court hearing Jan. 24 to order to get four other kidnapping and extortion charges dropped. A sentencing hearing is scheduled March 20. The maximum sentence is 20 years. Waters is already serving a 60-year state prison sentence for stealing $54,000 from O'Hair in 1994. During the January dig on the Cooksey Ranch, the law officers found human remains, including a metal hip replacement joint, which led them to believe they had found O'Hair. The 77-year-old woman had undergone a hip replacement a few years before her disappearance. Waters and the other two men allegedly abducted and held O'Hair, her son and granddaughter at a San Antonio motel in a plot to steal the $500,000 in gold coins. The three were then killed, their bodies chopped up and buried on the ranch, the FBI said. Waters's third accomplice, Gary Karr, was convicted on extortion and robbery charges last June. No murder charges were filed against Waters or Karr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who once said she was the most hated woman in the United States, was best known because of the Baltimore lawsuit she filed that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court banning school prayer in 1963. Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] New book traces occult influence on famous men and 'dark brotherhood'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.spiritdaily.com/brotherhood.htm New book traces occult influence on famous men and 'dark brotherhood' An orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Stanley Monteith, claims in a new book that secret societies have been engineering a "new world order" with the goal of establishing a single occult system. According to the book, Brotherhood of Darkness, there are a number of organizations working towards what seems more like a spiritual than human conspiracy. Among the organizations are corporations, banks, media, the United Nations, spiritualists, psychic organizations, Masons, New Agers, educators, and government or quasi-governmental organizations. If what Dr. Moneith claims is true it is not a conspiracy orchestrated by a single group but an encompassing inclination directed by Satan. And a part of it can be traced to a darkly occult group that practices "theosophy." Theosophy was started in the 1800s by a Ukrainian trance medium named Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. It incorporates occult phenomena with Eastern religions and philosophy -- and according to Dr. Monteith influenced men like Hitler, Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood), and even Thomas Edison. One of the organizations derived from Blavatsky's teachings, Lucis Trust, has worked closely with the United Nations. This is disconcerting because a magazine Blavatsky once published was called Lucifer (for "light-bearer"). Blavatsky later joined forces with Masons, a group that is also part of a wide movement toward a new world order, according to Monteith, and that claimed as members men like President Truman, a force behind the very creation of the U.N. As Dr. Monteith points out, between 1941 and 1971 Masons controlled the Supreme Court -- a thirty-year period that saw the justices remove God, prayer, and the Bible from our schools and set the stage for abortion. Although Masonry has been on the wane in America and many of its members are unaware of its occult roots, the hierarchy is said to be dedicated to the service of an arcanum arcanorum (a secret or mystery). Monteith says another part of the movement was influenced by Cecil Rhodes, a South African leader who using money from gold and diamond mines designed a plan to unite the world in the second half of the 19th century and established his own secret society. Rhodes began the Rhodes trust and the Rhodes Scholarship, which has influenced former President Bill Clinton and dozens of prominent men who work in government, international banks, corporate boards, the Supreme Court, the media, universities, the United Nations Association, and the Council on Foreign Relations. According to Monteith others have been influenced by spiritualism or astrology, including J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie. He cites the "secretive" Bank for International Settlements as one that coordinates huge financial influence and meets in a small Swiss city. Yet another entity, says Monteith, is the Trilateral Commission, which he claims has a logo consisting of "three interwined sixes." And then there are Rosicrucians. Is this all a jumble of names or an actual cabal? "Some people believe the Rosicrucians are the primary force behind world events," argues Monteith. "The Order of the Knights of the Rose-Croix is an ancient secret society. It originated with Christian Rosenkreutz, a German knight who traveled to the Near East to study oriental magic. When he died in 1484, he transmitted his arcane knowledge to eight disciples who swore they would never reveal his secrets outside their order." This is not to say that everyone involved or influenced by such organizations is evil or conspires intentionally. Many believe what they are doing is for the good. It is a large and deceptive mosaic that touches many systems and groups and is not so much human as supernatural. But it has the potential for devastating effects and Monteith says that another aspect was the "Illuminati," founded by Adam Weishaupt, a former Jesuit, in 1776. Its membership is thought to have been less than 2,000. "Although the Illuminati was officially disbanded in 1785, it continued to exist within Freemasonry and was the force behind the Jacobins and the French Revolution," says Monteith -- citing the concern George Washington had for their influence. Let us hasten to add that many of those affiliated with such organizations are Christians and unaware of the occult origins. "One example is the Bush family," writes Monteith. "Prescott Bush joined Skull and Bones in 1917; his son, President George H. Bush, was selected a generation later; his grandson, Governor George W. Bush, was inducted two generations later." Some believe this group, a college club, began as an extension of the Illuminati, says Monteith, but this has never been proven. Monteith claims that former President
[CTRL] Cosmic smack encourages life to go forth and multiply
-Caveat Lector- http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/impact_rebound_010309.html Cosmic Smack Encourages Life To Go Forth and Multiply By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 02:00 pm ET 08 March 2001 A discovery that earthly flora and fauna rebound and advance rapidly after catastrophic collisions by space rocks highlights the resourcefulness of life and bolsters a growing suspicion that evolution does its best work in extreme crises. When a comet or asteroid smacked Earth 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs bid farewell. They could not adapt to a world remade by the extreme ecological violence. They were not alone. Roughly two-thirds of all life on Earth vanished. But new species sprang forth from the catastrophe, evolving quickly to fill new niches of climate, water and soil conditions. A new study examined extraterrestrial dust to pin down just how quickly. In a mere 10,000 years -- the blink of an eye on a geologic time scale -- the planet was repopulated by newly evolved versions of tiny critters that had been mostly wiped out by the impact, according to a study published in the March 9, 2001 issue of the journal Science. "We simply don't get significant evolutionary change without an extraterrestrial cause." -- Luann Becker, University of Washington Around the globe, layers of sediment deposited by ancient seas hold a record of what has lived and died on Earth going back billions of years. And when scientists dig, they usually find a layer less than an inch (2 centimeters) thick that contains virtually no fossils and is thought to correspond to the time of the mass extinction. Careful analysis recently yielded a surprisingly short estimate for the period of time represented by those fossil-free layers, and the new thinking is that new species arise and evolve much more quickly than scientists had imagined. The mass extinction came, the thinking goes, after a cosmic impact in what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula shook the planet and sent up a choking mix of dust and chemicals that darkened the global skies for possibly decades. Most plankton and many tropical marine invertebrates, especially reef-dwellers, perished in the event, along with many species of land animals and plants. Until now, some researchers have supposed it took hundreds of thousands of years for many species to die out as the impact combined with other killing mechanisms, such as long-term volcanic activity or changing sea levels. Clues in space dust The new research measured space dust laid down in the ancient sediment. Packed inside the dust, and revealing its extraterrestrial origin, was helium 3, an isotope of helium that is rarely found on Earth except when it originated from space. The dust, deposited at a steady rate over millions of years, revealed how much time passed -- just 10,000 years -- between the demise of vast numbers of marine organisms and the rebirth of new ones. "These types of severe mass extinctions seem to pave the way for life to more or less reinvent itself and come back even stronger and more capable of adapting to extreme environmental change," said the University of Washington's Luann Becker, who was not involved in the study. "We simply don't get significant evolutionary change without an extraterrestrial cause." Becker, who in February provided evidence that an earlier mass extinction was caused by a space rock, said the new study is consistent with what paleontologists have been suggesting in recent years: The worst extinctions seem to be rapid events. And she said the ability of organisms to re-emerge quickly might shed light on how life evolved on Earth in the beginning, billions of years ago, when the planet was regularly pummeled by comets and asteroids. Ruling out other causes of extinction The evidence for the short recovery is recorded in exposed layers of Earth that formed at the bottom of ancient seas about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of what is now Rome. Prior to the impact, marine organisms lived and died in droves, and their corpses helped create a global coffin of limestone that built up over the eons. Abruptly, the limestone layers stop, covered over by thin layer of clay that formed in the virtual absence of marine life. Above that clay the limestone sharply resumes, which means marine organisms had repopulated the Earth, and had done so in a rather sudden manner. Researchers have long known the thickness of this relatively fossil-free layer of clay, but they have argued over how much time passed during its creation. The clay layer marks the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary Eras of geologic time. "And now we know how far apart they are in time," said Kenneth Farley, a Caltech geochemist and coauthor of the Science paper discussing the research. The finding implies that the impact itself, along with the severe climatic and geologic effects it generated, was the primary reason the dinosaurs and other species perished.
[CTRL] Bigfoot, big ... well, maybe not
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalpost.com/ National Post Saturday, March 3, 2001 Bigfoot, big ... well, maybe not A plaster cast of a buttock imprint left by a Sasquatch. Apparently Mark Hume National Post EDMONDS, Wash. - The place where the Sasquatch sat down, where its hairy, hominid primate buttocks left two oblong impressions in the mud is obvious enough to Richard Noll. Standing in his mother-in-law's garage, where the latest breakthrough in Bigfoot research is stored, Mr. Noll's eyes gleam as he traces the outline in a 136-kilogram plaster cast. "There's where the cheeks are," he says. "And that's a heel mark and the Achilles tendon. We figure this is where its arm rested, as it turned on its side." Mr. Noll points out the fine ridges left by matted hair in the thigh -- and then points delicately to a double print between the cheeks, where the, uh, impressions were left that show this Sasquatch was male. They are small. Judging by this cast, which is being heralded as the biggest find since 1967 when Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed what appeared to be a man in a gorilla suit, big feet do not equate to big testicles. No matter. Mr. Noll, who machine tools aircraft parts for a living, says it's the little details that make what has become known as the Skookum Cast such a remarkable piece of evidence. "I mean," he says standing back to look at it, "have you ever seen anything like that in your life?" The truth is, nobody ever has, if it indeed is what Mr. Noll says it is. But there are critics, as there always are in the Sasquatch game, who dismiss it simply as a mishmash of prints left in the mud by a much more common animal. "It's an elk!" hoots Cliff Crook, founder of Bigfoot Central, who has been tracking Sasquatches since 1956. Mr. Crook, however, who lives not far away in Bothell, Washington, has not bothered to see the cast for himself. "He's just jealous," says Mr. Noll, "because he's never found anything like this himself." Still, there would certainly be reason to believe Mr. Crook's dismissal is well grounded. There are several elk tracks embedded in the cast, for example, and no Bigfoot tracks. And then there was all the hair the research team picked up. A few strands are in a lab in Vancouver awaiting DNA analysis. Several others already tested have been identified -- as elk hair. Mr. Noll shrugs off these small inconsistencies as he paces around the Skookum Cast, explaining how the Sasquatch positioned itself in the mud, showing where its heels dug in, pointing out what appear to be dermal ridges from the skin on the feet. I am trying to bring it all into focus, but I just can't see it. Neither could the research team at first. Mr. Noll and nine others with the Bigfoot Field Reporting Organization headed out on an expedition last fall into the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, a wilderness area near Mt. St. Helens, a slumbering volcano in northern Washington State. Along with them was the film crew from a television series known as Animal X. The team went equipped with all kinds of stuff that had never been tried before in Sasquatch research, including infrared cameras, night vision goggles and ... a sexual attractant. Mr. Noll said Dr. Greg Bambenek, a psychiatrist from Minnesota and expert on animal pheromones whose nickname is Dr. Juice, had concocted a special mix for the occasion. "There is no Sasquatch pheromone," he explained. "So he mixed human and gorilla to create one. We thought we'd give it a try." The Sasquatch pheromone chips were hung in trees around the base camp, hoping to attract a roving Bigfoot. "The pheromones are for close in. They might work up to a mile," said Mr. Noll. To hold the interest of Sasquatch, the research team also set out fruit drops, small piles of oranges, apples and melons. The fruit drops were made mostly in areas where there was soft earth or mud nearby, so any approaching animal would leave tracks. A few years ago Mr. Noll and 40 researchers spent nearly a week trying to find evidence of Sasquatch in 100 square miles of rugged wilderness. They got nothing for their efforts. Not even a toe print. From that experience, and several much longer expeditions where he spent up to three months in the bush, Mr. Noll concluded that a new approach was needed. Instead of trying to track down the fleet-footed Sasquatch, he reasoned, they'd have to bring the animals to them. So when they went to work under the shadow of the volcano they were armed with a new weapon: the call blaster. As they sat around their camp surrounded by the seemingly endless wilderness, the Sasquatch team broadcast a recording of a Sasquatch that was made last year in California. Owl and wolf researchers do the same thing to get population estimates, sending out recorded calls, then counting howls and hoots they get in reply. Mr. Noll's team took a huge sound system to reach out as far as they could across the gullies and ridges of Mt. St. Helens.
[CTRL] The shallow behaviour of a deep thinker
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalpost.com/ National Post March 3, 2001 The shallow behaviour of a deep thinker Troy Jollimore National Post BERTRAND RUSSELL: THE GHOST OF MADNESS 1921-1970 By Ray Monk Random House UK xv+574 pp., $75 --- Bertrand Russell was one of the best known and most influential philosophers of the 20th century. At various times he was also a massively popular public speaker, an anti-nuclear and anti-war activist, an educational administrator and a frequently slapdash journalist. He was an aristocrat -- an earl, whose godfather was John Stuart Mill -- yet he always seemed to identify more with radical younger generations than his own relatively staid one, and ultimately became a vocal supporter of Che Guevara. A philanderer and outspoken opponent of monogamy and other conventional values, he was tormented with jealousy over his wives' extramarital affairs. He experienced four marriages, three divorces, two jail terms for civil disobedience (1918 and 1961) and, in 1950, won the Nobel prize for literature -- shortly after which he published two collections of short stories notable, if at all, only for their complete lack of literary merit. Such a life is a biographer's feast of ironies, reversals, and outright contradictions. Russell himself often strikes us as a great appreciator of the ironies. At the age of 50 he said of himself, "My brain is not what it was. I'm past my best -- therefore, of course, I am now celebrated." He was right: in 1921, the year in which Volume 2 of Ray Monk's biography opens, Russell's best philosophical work was behind him. And yet, although he could not have known this, his life was barely half over and his most significant fame and most visible public roles were yet to come. How, precisely, a Cambridge logician and co-author of one of the most imposingly technical works of the century (the famous Principia Mathematica (1910), which was so massive that Russell and Alfred North Whitehead had to deliver the manuscript to the publisher in a wheelbarrow, and which Russell often maintained had been read in its entirety by no more than half a dozen people) became a modern celebrity and hero to the young is a mystery on which Monk's biography sheds little light. Partly this is due to Monk's tendency to neglect Russell's professional and public lives in favor of the complicated and ultimately tragic story of his subject's family life. Russell, Monk makes it clear, did not tend to treat his wives, lovers, and children as well as his idealistic statements about humanity and education might have led one to hope. What is equally clear, though not equally stressed, is that Russell's family and acquaintances tended not to treat him very well either. His children, perhaps, can hardly be blamed -- Russell's so-called scientific educational strategies (a main element being to ignore and neglect children to prevent them becoming spoiled egoists) scarred his children irrevocably, and several of them also suffered from a hereditary tendency toward schizophrenia, fear of which plagued and taunted Russell himself throughout his life. Even if the behavior of the children is somewhat understandable, most of them (with the possible exception of Kate, his second child) are far from sympathetic characters. (And really, if it's sympathetic characters you are looking for, you would be advised to choose another family and another book.) Monk's negative attitude and apparent dislike of Russell was noted by many reviewers of the first volume, some of whom have accused him of being unfair toward his subject. This charge is not entirely unfounded: Monk is frequently hostile toward Russell, is consistently uncharitable in his interpretations of many of his letters and actions and never misses an opportunity to point out when his subject might be taking himself, his writings or his public role somewhat too seriously. On the other hand, Monk is right that Russell's politics, while consistently humane, often fluctuated between naive wishful thinking and destructive pessimism. And he is quite correct, too, to complain of the shoddy and sometimes shockingly poor quality, not to mention the sheer triviality, of many of Russell's writings in later life, both philosophical (his flippant and shallow History of Western Philosophy comes to mind) and otherwise. Russell was often writing for money, of course, and a certain lowering of standards is to be expected. But it is difficult to take entirely seriously anyone who, 30 years after Principia Mathematica, writes an article for Vogue on the subject, "What Makes a Woman a Fascinator?" (His answers included a kind of beauty "that comes and goes, like a gleam of sun on a stormy day," and "a certain fundamental indifference to men, combined with a superficial interest in them.") Nonetheless, Monk's relentlessly critical view of Russell seems skewed or at least overdone. If nothing else, it leaves certain questions unaddressed. Why did so
[CTRL] Cloning around - Raelians
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Saturday Night
March 3, 2001
CLONING AROUND
With their UFO fixation and free-love philosophy, the Ralians have long
been considered one of Quebec's wackier sects. Now they say they're
about to create the world's first human clone. And they're not joking by
Daniel Sanger, photographs by Jonathan Worth
Christmas day in Hollywood Beach, south Florida -- no snow, of course,
but no sun either. Instead, near-gale-force winds are keeping the
beaches clear, pretty much ensuring that this will be a Christmas not to
remember for the assorted sybarites who have come here from northern
climes.
One group of visitors, however, tucked away in a generic conference
hall, doesn't seem overly disappointed, even if they are notorious for
their pleasure-seeking ways and were lured here by promises of sea, sex,
and sun. ("Bring your suntan cream and your bathing suit!" said their
Web site. "Oh! There is also a nude beach close by . . . good for the
eyes.")
The group, members of a small, Quebec-based sect called the Ralians,
had their own little party last night, celebrating, in advance, the
December 25 conception -- conception, not birth -- of their leader, a
man known as Claude Vorilhon in his previous careers as a chansonnier,
race-car driver, and journalist, but who changed his name to Ral when
he decided to start his own religion. The party was a relaxed affair and
one in which everyone took time out, in the words of one of Ral's PR
women, for "remembering Jesus, who was a prophet too." Today, it's
down to business with a "personal-growth seminar" entitled "Developing
Ourselves."
But it isn't the subject of the seminar that's generating buzz as the
forty or so assembled wander into the meeting room. Rather, it's the
imminent undertaking of something Ral has been working towards and
preaching about -- in his New Agey, non-preachy way -- for a
quarter-century. (From the time, in fact, that he says he was whisked
away on a UFO from his home in central France and taken to a planet
where he sat down at a table with Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Moses,
Buddha, and thirty-five other prophets from across history, all of them
very much alive and fluent in French.) It's a feat not entirely unlike a
virgin birth. The Ralians say they are about to clone a human being.
It's a staggering claim, coming as it does from the leader of a
decidedly marginal, arguably wacky religious sect. Indeed, when Ral
first announced, in March, 1997 -- a month after news of the birth of
Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, startled
the world -- that he had set up a company called Clonaid which would
help people clone lost loved ones, including pets, it was dismissed
as a joke.
Things have changed since then. A half dozen other species have been
cloned and the expertise is now widely shared (and, in the scientific
scheme of things, not all that complicated). The only serious
impediment is the ethical aversion to creating, in a lab, a human being
who is a genetic replica of another -- and, of course, the laws that
some countries, like Canada, have adopted codifying that aversion. In
the face of scientific ambition, however, that probably won't be enough.
In January, two prominent doctors in the field of assisted reproduction
announced that they, too, have begun a human cloning project. Others are
thought to be doing so in private. Some experts suspect that someone,
somewhere, has already been cloned, in secret.
None of these are as public in their cloning campaign as the Ralians.
Last summer, they say, a wealthy American couple approached Clonaid,
desperate to have their ten-month-old son cloned. (He had died during a
routine operation to repair a small defect in his heart.) Backed by the
couple's cash, Clonaid reportedly set up a secret lab somewhere in the
U.S. and hired a team of scientists and doctors to begin work. Suddenly,
Ralian cloning was no longer a droll news item to lighten up a grey
paper. Instead, it was given a more apocalyptic spin: weirdo religious
cult about to do the unspeakable.
No journalists have been taken to the lab or even been told where it is.
The parents of the dead child remain anonymous. Only one member of the
scientific team -- its director, Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, a chemist with
a specialty in metals and gases, not living cells, who also happens to
be a bishop in the Ralian church -- has identified herself as part of
the project. So there is widespread skepticism about it.
Yet there are also reasons to believe the Ralians may be able to pull
it off. For one thing they seem determined, perhaps because for them
cloning is part of a higher calling. The first humans, Ral says, were
manufactured in labs by the scientifically sophisticated aliens who sat
him down at that remarkable table, which makes cloning central to the
sect's creation myth. It is also, Ral says, integral to our survival
both as a species and as individuals -- it's through cloning that
humanity
[CTRL] 'Biblical Mysteries' specials
-Caveat Lector- To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?21905 Friday, March 2, 2001 NBC to air 'Biblical Mysteries' specials Modern-day 'Indiana Jones' attempts to solve ancient puzzles By Julie Foster 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Beginning with a quest to find the Ark of the Covenant -- the biblical chest containing the Ten Commandments -- a two-episode series that attempts to answer ancient religious mysteries begins Sunday on NBC. The first of the series, called "Biblical Mysteries: Ark of the Covenant," is described by NBC as an "action-packed, one-hour documentary" in which biblical scholar and "modern-day 'Indiana Jones'" Mike Sanders journeys to one of the Middle East's most dangerous territories to find the elusive ancient ark that once held the stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. Eventually led to a Palestinian-controlled village reputed to be a training ground for terrorists, Sanders gets set to uncover what would be one of the greatest archaeological finds of the age. The disappearance of the ark -- which was constructed under strict instructions at the direction of God, as recorded in the book of Exodus -- has confounded scholars for centuries, but Sanders believes he has found the sacred object buried at the site of a former Egyptian temple in Israel's volatile West Bank. Also set in the war-torn region is "Biblical Mysteries: Sodom Gomorrah," which features Sanders' quest to find the ruins of the ancient biblical cities, ultimately taking the explorer to the bottom of the Dead Sea. Employing the same Delta mini-submarine used to explore the wreck of the Lusitania, Sanders searches for solid evidence of the destruction of the cities. Believed by many to be merely figurative places used in a metaphor about the consequences of sin, Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned in the Bible as having been destroyed by God. Yet Sanders' belief that the cities actually existed is fueled by NASA satellite photographs showing anomalies in the Dead Sea. Located between Israel and Jordan, the Dead Sea dive was preceded by years of negotiations to obtain clearance from the Israeli army, the Jordanians and the Palestinians. At the last minute, according to NBC, the Jordanian government withdrew permission for diving in its territory. But the expedition continued, sparking what NBC publicists called "an international incident." The two missions are significant as Sanders and his colleagues attempt to prove that the Old Testament of the Bible is not mythical, as many scholars believe, but a literal, historical account of the ancient world and the works of God. Sanders, who was born in Leeds, England, now resides in Irvine, Calif. He has published numerous academic works on Egyptology and biblical archaeology, in which he explains how simple errors previously made in Egyptian chronology have led to what he believes are inaccurate theories about certain archaeological findings. Sanders' extensive research has fueled fascinating new theories in the field of biblical archaeology. Both specials are produced by Union Pictures for Channel Four in the United Kingdom and Alexandria Productions, Inc. for NBC. They air on consecutive Sundays, March 4 and 11, at 7 p.m. Eastern. More information about the work of Michael Sanders can be found on his "Mysteries of the Bible" website. Julie Foster is a staff reporter for WorldNetDaily. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Slaughter of the innocuous
-Caveat Lector- The Times THURSDAY MARCH 01 2001 Slaughter of the innocuous BY ABIGAIL WOOD Foot-and-mouth is as serious to animals as a bad cold is to human beings. So why the concern? Foot-and-mouth has gained a grip on this nation and fear of the disease seems as powerful as the disease itself. We recognise foot-and-mouth not by its symptoms, but by what we do to control it: the restrictions on movement, the slaughter of animals, the burning of carcasses. From the panic and the headlines you would imagine that this is a most dreadful disease. Yet foot-and-mouth very rarely kills the animals that catch it. They almost always recover, and in a couple of weeks at that. It almost never gets passed on to humans and when it does it is a mild infection only. The meat from animals that have had it is fit to eat. In clinical terms, foot-and-mouth is about as serious, to animals or to people, as a bad cold. Why, then, the concern? And why the policy of wholesale slaughter? The concern, of course, is economic. This is a financial issue, not an animal welfare issue, nor a human health one. No one abroad will take our meat if it might be infected with foot-and-mouth. And that worldwide exclusion zone stems from British policies of the past. It was we who, in the late 19th century, decided that foot-and-mouth should not be lived with, but should be eliminated, shut out through the cordon sanitaire; it was we, in the 1950s, who encouraged first the Continent, then the rest of the world, into following suit. Now it is we who must live with the results of that policy. Foot-and-mouth disease does reduce the productivity of an animal: its milk yield, its rate of putting on of flesh. There are no figures for how much it reduces these things; part of the reason for that is that no one since the 1920s in Britain has seen the disease take its full course. Any animal infected with it has been immediately slaughtered That reduction in productivity, that fear of small economic loss, is what lies behind the elimination policy and the huge economic costs that are now being incurred. It need not have been like that. The animal control policy was the result of economics rather than biology. Under conditions of world trade now it is a decision almost impossible to reverse. Foot-and-mouth first appeared in Britain in 1839 from the import of live infected animals and later from ships, from dockyards, from Argentinian meat and skins, even from foreign hay. For much of the 19th century it was endemic in the UK and it did not destroy farming. Farmers lived with it, as they live with bad weather, poor harvests and other afflictions of their livelihood. It was owners of pedigree herds, rather than common-or-garden milk or meat producers, who from 1869 prompted efforts to eradicate it. It was achieved by isolation, by movement restrictions, by temporary closures of markets and by prohibition of live imports but not by slaughtering. By 1900, Britain was disease-free but was subject to waves of re-introductions of foot-and-mouth from the Continent and from South American meat. Outbreaks, and now slaughters as well as isolations, were frequent; but familiarity made them more of an irritant than the terror we have today. A policy of living with foot-and-mouth almost became an option again in the 1920s. A bad outbreak in Cheshire was on the verge of running out of control.Ministry teams were so far behind in their slaughtering that on many farms the cows had recovered from the disease before the slaughterers arrived. And farmers looked at their now-normal cows in bewilderment and asked: Was that it? Was that rather trivial illness what all the fuss was about? Not surprisingly, they began to question the need for slaughter. Even the Ministry of Agriculture, now wedded to the policy of slaughter, was pressured into taking heed of farmers views, and even asked them which policy they would prefer, elimination or toleration. It even went to a vote. But by that time burnings had got on top of the disease, and the vote, though close, was to continue measures of eradication. This was the last time that people saw the full course of the illness. Memories of what a slight disease it was began to fade. The biggest outbreak in our history, in 1967-68, is the one that lingers in present memories, and memory of those days fuels the grim processes we now see. A policy of living with foot-and-mouth might have worked in the 1920s, and had we adopted it we would not be witness to the present scenes. But in those days productivity was not the be-all and end-all that it is now. So many diseases were around that a farmer was happy if his animals survived to give milk and meat at all. The rate at which they gave milk and meat was much less important. Today, agri-business is a term that everyone knows, and productivity is everything. A slower growth-rate, a
[CTRL] Ames Research Center History Available On-Line
-Caveat Lector- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:55:29 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Roger Launius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ames Research Center History Available On-Line Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings: We are pleased to note that the recent illustrated history of the Ame Research Center, Atmosphere of Freedom: Sixty Years at NASA Ames Research Center (NASA SP-2000-4314). is now available on-line. It is available in a .PDF format for downloading at http://history.arc.nasa.gov:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on the World Wide Web. Written by Glenn E. Bugos, This detailed and fully-illustrated history of the NASA Ames Research Center describes its organizational structure, research culture, institutional leadership, major facilities and research programs from its founding in 1939 through 1999. The first chapter discusses Ames' origins as the NACA's second laboratory, and wind tunnel construction and the development of aerodynamic theory from subsonic to supersonic to hypersonic flight. Chapter two discusses Ames' transition into NASA, its contributions to the Apollo program, exobiology, simulators construction, and the Pioneer series of planetary explorers. The third chapter describes Ames' positioning in NASA's Shuttle era, roughly 1970 to 1990. Specifically, it covers the growth of research expertise in gravitational biology and planetary sciences, Earth observation and infrared astronomy, tilt rotor aircraft and helicopter design, air safety and flight research, thermal protection systems and planetary probes, computational fluid dynamics and intelligent systems. The fourth chapter describes Ames' renassance since 1990 in the era of "faster, better, cheaper," and specifically its work in information technology and astrobiology and its relationships with larger communities. An appendix summarizes the life and work of Joseph Sweetman Ames, for whom the Center is named. Atmosphere of Freedom is also available for public purchase as a book book. It is for sale for $39.00 (domestic postpaid), $48.75 (non-U.S.) from the U.S. Superintendent of Documents. By Mail: Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. FAX: (202) 512-2250. Phone: (202) 512-1800 (7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Eastern time). You may also order this book on-line at http://bookstore.gpo.gov/index.html on the Web, stock number 033-000-01225-0. Sincerely, Roger D. Launius NASA Chief Historian ** Roger D. Launius, Ph.D NASA Chief Historian NASA History Office NASA Headquarters Code ZH Washington, DC, 20546 Voice 202-358-0383 Fax 202-358-2866 Cellular 202-329-5515 Pager 1-800-759- pin 123-5656 Home Page: http://history.nasa.gov A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Mars Magmas Once Contained A Lot Of Water
-Caveat Lector- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:26:14 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mars Magmas Once Contained A Lot Of Water, Researchers Report Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; News Office Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts CONTACT: Deborah Halber, MIT News Office (617) 258-9276, [EMAIL PROTECTED] JANUARY 24, 2001 Mars magmas once contained a lot of water, researchers from MIT and U. of Tennessee report Finding suggests that volcanos helped bring water to the planet's surface millions of years ago CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Evidence from a Martian volcanic rock indicates that Mars magmas contained significant amounts of water before eruption on the planet's surface, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Tennessee and other institutions report in the Jan. 25 issue of Nature. Scientists say that channels on Mars's surface may have been carved by flowing water and an ancient ocean may have existed there, but little is known about the source of the water. One possible source is volcanic degassing, in which water vapor is produced by magma spewing from volcanos, but the Martian rocks that have reached Earth as meteorites have notoriously low water content. This study shows that before the molten rock that crystallized to form Martian meteorites was erupted on the surface of the planet, it contained as much as 2 percent dissolved water. When magma reaches the planet's surface, the solubility of water in the molten liquid decreases and the water forms vapor bubbles and escapes as gas. The process is similar to the release of gas bubbles that occurs when you open a can of soda. Although this doesn't explain how water got into Mars in the first place, it does show that water on the red planet once cycled through the deep interior as well as existed on the surface, as similar processes have cycled water through the Earth's interior throughout geologic history. A VISITOR FROM MARS Timothy L. Grove, professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, and University of Tennessee geologist Harry Y. McSween Jr. analyzed the Mars meteorite Shergotty to provide an estimate of the water that was present in Mars magmas prior to their eruption on the surface. Shergotty, a meteorite weighing around 5 kilograms was discovered in India in 1865. It is one of a handful of proven Mars meteorites that landed on Earth. It is relatively young -- around 175 million years old -- and may have originated in the volcanic Tharsis region of the red planet. Its measured water content is only around 130-350 parts per million. But by exploring the amount of water that would be necessary for its pyroxenes -- its earliest crystallizing minerals -- to form, the researchers have determined that at one time, Shergotty magma contained around 2 percent water. They also have detected the presence of elements that indicate the growth of the pyroxenes at high water contents. This has important implications for the origin of the water that was present on the surface of the planet during the past. This new information points to erupting volcanos as a possible mechanism for getting water to Mars's surface. SQUEEZING HYDROGEN INTO ROCKS In the interior of Mars, hot magma is generated at great depth. It then ascends into the shallower, colder outer portions of the Martian interior, where it encounters cooler rock that contains hydrogen-bearing minerals. These minerals decompose when heated by the magma and the hydrogen is released and dissolves in the magma. The magma continues its ascent to the surface of the planet. When it reaches very shallow, near-surface conditions in the crust, the magma erupts and its water is released in the form of vapor. The magma holds the water-creating hydrogen as the rock circulates underneath the crust. It undergoes changes as it moves from areas of enormous heat and pressure to cooler areas nearer the surface. When it finally erupts through a volcano, the magma releases its water in the form of vapor. Grove recreates Mars and moon rocks in his laboratory for these studies. By subjecting synthetic rocks to conditions of high temperature and pressure, he can tell how much water was contained in magma at the time that its crystals were formed. "What my experiment can do is estimate how much water was involved in the process that led to the formation of Mars meteorites. The only way you can reproduce the unique chemical composition of these minerals is to have water present," he said. Other authors on the Nature paper include McSween's graduate student, Rachel C. F. Lentz; Lee R. Riciputi of the chemical and analytical sciences division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jeffrey G. Ryan, a geologist at the University of South Florida; and Jesse C. Dann and Astrid H. Holzheid of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. This work was partly supported by NASA. A
[CTRL] The Dish to Premiere in the U.S. on 14 March 2001
-Caveat Lector- http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=294 "The Dish" to Premiere in the U.S. on 14 March 2001 Keith Cowing Monday, February 26, 2001 "Pulling the wool over NASA's eyes took guts. Pulling it out of the sheep dip was an international triumph." A note from a reader down under: Hi Keith, Hope things are going well. I'm not sure if you are aware of a film that is about to be released in the United States known as The Dish. It is a movie that was made here in Australia, and is based upon how the pictures of Apollo 11's moonwalk was received by the radio telescope built in Parkes, New South Wales. The film is a comedy that sees how three local scientists, and a NASA engineer have to cope with problems in getting the first live pictures broadcast to the worldproblems such as power outages, loss of computer information and high winds that threaten to collaspe the enourmous Dish. When the film opened here in Australia, it broke all box office records, and became one of the most popular is our history of Motion Picture Arts. I am a huge fan of the film (I saw it 5 times), because of its accuracy, comedy and direction in giving the viewer a feel of the extraordinary event that took place in July 1969. It opens in the US on March 14th (Nationwide on April 25th), and I am eagerly awaiting to find out what the reaction will be from the US. There is a web site open for the film, which is distributed by Warner Bros, which is: http://thedishmovie.warnerbros.com I am hoping this will be of some interest to you and your readers. Best Wishes, Shane Cathcart A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Dish, radio astronomy, and Dr. Duncan Forbes
-Caveat Lector- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:24:17 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Larry Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Dish, radio astronomy, and Dr. Duncan Forbes Cc: Larry Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve Mencinsky sent me an article about the new Australian movie "The Dish" back last October 2000. It wasn't known at that time if it would play in the United States. Well it looks like it is. Here is some info on it and the Apollo 11 landing it helped make possible. It takes big ears to listen to signals from space. This little butterfly has small ones (well not all that small) and we listen too. May you all flap your wings and make things change. Special K. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SPACE.com Update for Tuesday, February 27, 2001 Comments: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today on SPACE.com -- Tuesday, February 27, 2001 -- http://www.space.com/ snip * Win tickets to "The Dish"! http://www.space.com/promo/thedish/index.php3?Enews=y Win tickets to a special preview screening of Warner Bros.' upcoming release "The Dish". Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 14:25:27 -0500 To: suppressed From: Larry Klaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Dish, radio astronomy, and Dr. Duncan Forbes Astrophysicist Duncan Forbes is carrying out important research into galaxy formation and evolution. He is also involved in one of the more innovative university astronomy programs around. Dr. Forbes tells Jennifer Laing about his work and research interests, and discusses how telescopes have recently hit the headlines thanks to a new movie linking an Australian radio telescope to the TV broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. http://www.universetoday.com/html/articles/2001-0116a.html From: "Mencinsky, Steve" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: suppressed Subject: Sequel to "Apollo 11" movie filmed in Australia - Steve's review Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:21:03 +1100 Do you remember exactly how and where you saw the first moon landing? How exciting it was? What if you had actually been involved in it? Introducing "The Dish", a movie about a handful of people working at the town of Parkes and in the giant radio telescope nearby, covering from July 16th 1969 to the 22nd. A drama-comedy: equal parts of "Crocodile Dundee" and "Apollo 13", if you will, with an added touch of romance that is full of charm. Since this is a film about the past, there are few surprises. The three Australian scientists in charge of the dish (and one NASA rep.) suddenly find themselves thrust into an essential role in the Apollo mission, while in the town the citizens from the mayor down host (somewhat anxiously, on occasion) a variety of celebrities there for the occasion. The episode of the 60 mph winds on the day of the big event is also a historical fact. No effort has been spared for realism. Apparently much of the equipment shown is the original comms. gear installed by NASA for the occasion. The actors are reasonably famous in Australia but I suspect unknown in the USA, except possibly for Sam Neill and Bud Tingwell. The beauty of the rural countryside in the area is very accurately depicted. Having been in Parkes many, many times; and recently, the whole movie was to me a very nostalgic experience. One thing about some Australian movies, especially comedies, has concerned me in the past, and that is that often the "Australianisms" are greatly exaggerated. Not every Australian speaks like "Crocodile Dundee", anymore than every American black speaks like say Eddy Murphy or Chris Tucker. Fortunately this movie maintains a good grip on reality in this regard. Some of you may have read my rave reviews of a cult Australian comedy "The Castle", which became the second highest TV rating movie ever in this country (beaten only by "Sound of Music"). "The Dish" is made by the same production company and is of a similar standard. In Australia, at least, so far it looks to be heading for similar success. Certainly a movie that I will see again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * NCR Australia ' # "Sub Crucem Australiem" For Steve Mencinsky, ran across this bit in the Apollo Lunar Surface Jounal corrections section. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/journal.corrections.html snip Derek Henderson notes that a detailed account http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/ of the role played by the Parkes Radio Observatory, Australia, in the reception of the Apollo 11 TV signal has been compiled by John Sarkissian. I recommend this site highly and, also, a new Australian film "The Dish" which deals with some of the same material. The film takes some liberties with events in Australia; and the characters are clearly
[CTRL] The Genius Babies and How They Grew
-Caveat Lector- http://slate.msn.com/seed/entries/01-02-07_100331.asp The "Genius Babies," and How They Grew Help Slate tell the story of the Nobel Prize sperm bank. By David Plotz Posted Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2001, at 4:00 p.m. PT Twenty years ago, on an outbuilding of his Southern California estate, tycoon Robert K. Graham began a most remarkable project: the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners. Part altruism, part social engineering, part science experiment, the repository was supposed to help reverse the genetic decay Graham saw all around him by preserving and multiplying the best genes of his generation. By the time Graham's repository closed in 1999, his genius sperm had been responsible for more than 200 children. What happened to them? This is the beginning of a journalistic experiment to find out, an experiment thatas I explain belowneeds your assistance. (Also click here to read Slate editor Michael Kinsley's introduction to the project.) Robert K. Graham was a eugenicist. He was a pessimist about humanity's future. And he was a can-do, self-made multimillionaire. Those qualities fused to inspire the Repository for Germinal Choice. Graham, who made his fortune by inventing shatterproof eyeglasses, feared mankind was in danger because natural selection had stopped working on human beings. He explained his views in a muscular 1971 book, The Future of Man. Over millenniums, nature's brutality had strengthened the human gene pool, allowing the strong and smart to reproduce, while killing the weak before they could. But once man mastered his natural environment, Graham argued, he jumped the evolutionary track. Better living conditions allowed "retrograde humans" to reproduce. In modern America, thanks to cradle-to-grave social welfare programs, these incompetents and imbeciles were swamping the intelligent. This dysgenic crisis would surely bring communism and the regression of mankind. All that could save us, Graham warned, was "intelligent selection": Our best specimens must have more children. Hence the Repository for Germinal Choice. Graham intended the repository to be a prototype for genius sperm banks all over the country, producing "creative, intelligent people who otherwise might not be born." The children would be future intellectuals, scientists, and leaders and, Graham predicted in a giddy moment, "may stimulate [humanity's] ascent to a new level of being." So, in the late 1970s, Graham persuaded several Nobel Prize winners in scienceeither three or five, depending on who's talkingto give him their sperm. Later he recruited dozens of younger scientists for his bank. Graham advertised for mothers in a Mensa magazine. Women had to be married to infertile men, well-educated, and financially comfortable. Soon he had a waiting list. He mailed out a catalog that advertised men such as "Mr. Fuschia," an Olympic gold medallist"Tall, dark, handsome, bright, a successful businessman and author"; and "Mr. Grey-White ruggedly handsome, outgoing, and positive, a university professor, expert marksman who enjoys the classics." (The repository revolutionized the sperm bank industry byoddly for such an avowedly elitist institutiondemocratizing it: It took donor choice away from doctors and gave it to mothers. Instead of settling for a doctor's paltry offerings, mothers could be demanding customers, requiring as much [or more] accomplishment from a vial of sperm as from her flesh-and-blood husband.) When the Los Angeles Times publicized the repository in 1980, a furor erupted. Eugenic ideas like Graham's had been mainstream in the United States for the first half of the 20th century. (Graham had even borrowed the idea of a Nobel sperm bank from a scheme proposed by respected Nobelist Hermann Muller in the '30s.) But by the time Graham opened the repository, eugenics had been utterly tarnished by Nazism. It was considered at best elitist, at worst racist and genocidal. Graham was pilloried and mocked, accused of trying to create a "master race." Critics dubbed it the "Superbaby" program and compared it to Nazi eugenics practices. Ethicists denounced it as a cold, utilitarian approach toward children and an alarming step toward "designer babies." Only one of Graham's Nobel donors, transistor inventor William Shockley, would admit to having contributed sperm. That did not help matters. Shockley's views on race, genes, and intelligence had made him a national pariah, and his association with the repository confirmed suspicion that it was a dastardly racist plot. Demonstrators picketed Graham's Escondido estate. He hired security guards to protect the sperm. The media's attention soon wandered, Graham stopped talking to the press, and the repository sank from sight. But the babies started arriving. The first birth was heralded in the National Enquirer in early 1982. Soon "genius babies" were being born at a rapid clip. By the time Graham died at age 90 in
[CTRL] Bush's 'Witch' Hunt
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=wmadb=nac_fearef=14912 Bush's 'Witch' Hunt Tucker Carlson, the pompous co-host of CNN's The Spin Room was riffing the other night on where Pagans and other non-mainstream religions fit into George W. Bush's initiative to allow the federal government to fund religious social service programs. A viewer e-mailed the question: "Please forward the location of the nearest Wiccan-sponsored hospital." Carlson responded: "You have to sacrifice a chicken to get in" to the appreciative chuckles of his co-host, Bill Press. But Druid Priestess Ellen Evert Hopman of the Order of the Whiteoak isn't laughing. Hopman and other pagans are deeply troubled by President George Bush's toils to increase the role of the federal government in faith-based social service programs through so-called "charitable choice" legislation. Believers in earth-based faiths follow the religious freedom debate with, well, religious fervor. As the philosophical progeny of men and women who were burned alive, drowned in Massachusetts bogs and ponds and tortured in various sick ways centuries ago simply for eschewing the dominant faith, Christianity, they've got a big stake in the debate over Bush's bold salvo against the constitutional separation of church and state. If Bush's plan gets congressional backing, it can't be long, as far as Hopman's concerned, before the bureaucrats administering "charitable choice" programs start determining which religions are "legitimate" and cleared for government funding and which need not apply. Pagans, Hopman said, are already at the top of that list. "If you follow the debate in the news what you hear is that within the religious groups there seems to be a hierarchy of who is 'deserving,'" Hopman said. "The Nation of Islam and Wiccans seem to be surfacing as the scapegoats." Bush's "charitable choice" initiative is tied to several bills that have been introduced in Congress in the last few years and are now pending. In the debates last year the architect of one leading bill stated clearly that pagans would not be welcome at the federal faith-based initiative trough. Last April, during debates on a U.S. Rep. Mark Souder's charitable choice bill, Rep. Chet Edwards, a Texas Democrat, asked Souder point-blank if Wiccans could apply for federal funds to provide social services, according to a transcript printed in the April 6, 2000 Congressional Record. Souder, a self-proclaimed champion of making faith-based organizations eligible to receive federal grants to help address "cultural problems," replied, "It is unlikely under President Bush that the witches would get funding." And President Bush has also spoken his heart on the matter of Pagans' religious worth, albeit in his characteristically confused manner. In response to the Pentagon's official position that Paganism should get the same treatment in the ranks as any other religion, Bush told ABC's Good Morning America in 1999 that he doesn't think "witchcraft" is a religion. "We aren't just a little splinter group," Hopman said. "We're very concerned about this and we're organizing." -- JoAnn DiLorenzo A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Patient power
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns448 Patient power People with inherited diseases are preparing a global challenge to pro-lifers over the future of medical research Exclusive from New Scientist magazine Patient power is getting a global voice through a new movement to represent people with a range of hereditary diseases. The grouping will support, and may ultimately control medical research into these illnesses. Its backers also aim to challenge anti-abortion, animal rights and other lobby groups that oppose some forms of biomedical research. The movement will have teeth to back its arguments. One group of supporters has applied for patents on a gene which causes the distressing disease pseudoxanthoma elasticum. "With the heavy stick of holding a patent on the gene, we can accelerate the research process, control royalty and licence fees, and eliminate turf wars between researchers," says Patrick Terry, chairman of the advocacy group PXE International, based in Sharon, Massachusetts. Empowering patients People with PXE accumulate calcium in their tissue, which gradually sags, cracks and loses its elasticity. Many sufferers go blind by the age of 30 or 40 because of damage to the retina. Terry, who has two children with the condition, worked with other sufferers to finance a patent application on ABCC6, the gene which causes PXE when faulty. It was identified last year by Charles Boyd of the University of Hawaii and other researchers backed by PXE International. "We're not interested in lining our pockets. We just want a cure," says Terry. He sees holding the patent as a way of empowering patients, the people who have most to gain from research into the condition. In the long term, PXE International may also be able to influence, and to some degree control, the direction of research into the disease. Political influence The idea of patients applying for patents is just one new strategy for what could become one of world's most powerful political lobbies. Earlier this month, at the BioVision meeting on biotechnology in Lyon, France, Terry combined with delegates from other groups representing patients with rare hereditary conditions to form a global alliance. Founders include the UK-based Genetic Interest Group (GIG), the Genetic Alliance in the US, plus patient groups from the Netherlands, Belgium and Iran. "We want a spot at the negotiating table," says Terry. "The voice of the patient has not been heard. It's a matter of empowering communities to speak clearly and more vocally," he says. Terry says the idea will be taken forward at a meeting in Vienna in May of the European Alliance of Patient and Parent Organisations for Genetic Services and Innovation in Medicine (EAGS). Moral high ground Terry doesn't rule out the idea of expanding the alliance to include charities focusing on more widespread illnesses such as cancer. "We need to give attention to multifactorial diseases," he says. "We hope to provide a new voice internationally to support the application of good science to alleviating problems of ill health," says Alastair Kent, director of GIG and president of the EAGS. The new alliance will attempt to win the moral high ground from anti-abortion and antivivisection groups, he says. It could, for example, challenge the absolute opposition by anti-abortionists to research on human eggs or early embryos. To opponents of embryo research who say it's wrong to destroy a potential human being, Kent says: "It's a very theoretical future person they're talking about, as opposed to a very real, living person who's having to cope with a serious disease." Animal testing Similar arguments might be deployed against opponents of animal testing. Without research on animals, "you're putting the protection of the animal ahead of the cure for a human being", Kent says. Patients are "real people living real lives", says Terry. The new alliance will be looking for consensus among its members when developing its global policies. That may be difficult to achieve in some cases, says Greg Vines, a spokesman for Britain's Parkinson's Disease Society. He says it could be difficult to reach a unified position on embryo research, for example, if patient advocacy groups are divided along religious lines. This hasn't stopped the Parkinson's society backing the new alliance. "Policy makers want to meet people with disease," Vines says. The society lobbied for patients last year when Britain was considering changing the law on stem cell research and therapeutic cloning. Correspondence about this story should be directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1900 GMT, 21 February 2001 Andy Coghlan A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths,
[CTRL] Port Arthur survivor criticises Hanson's conspiracy theory
-Caveat Lector- (from The Age (Melbourne) 21.2.01) Port Arthur survivor criticises Hanson's conspiracy theory Source: AAP|Published: Wednesday February 21, 11:55 AM A survivor of the Port Arthur massacre today attacked One Nation for suggesting the tragedy was a conspiracy aimed at promoting gun control. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said some Australians had doubts about the 1996 shootings by Martin Bryant, which left 35 people dead in the Tasmanian tourist town. "I don't know, I wasn't there," Ms Hanson said. "But a lot of Australians have asked this question and it's on a lot of people's minds." Ms Hanson's comments followed a One Nation newsletter which suggested the murder spree was a conspiracy designed to allow the government to crack down on gun ownership. Gay Fidler, who played dead in the Broad Arrow Cafe while Bryant was half a metre away, was angered by Ms Hanson's comments. "I just can't have anything to do with this conspiracy, I really can't," Ms Fidler told radio 3AW. "I suspect Pauline may have something in common with Martin Bryant and that is he has the IQ of an 11-year-old. I think she might be going down the same road somehow." She said anyone who saw the news on the day, the trial or the aftermath could not suggest such a conspiracy. "To even be able to ask that question ... I just can't understand anybody who could. It affected so many lives," Ms Fidler said. "Here it is five years later and it's still being brought up politically, sadly, and here we are listening to all this again. "Hopefully this will go against her and wake up a few people who want to follow her. Surely, they can't after this." Yesterday, Queensland Senator Ron Boswell cited One Nation's tacit support to the conspiracy theories as just one reason why he could not give the party preferences over Labor. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Charlotte's Goat
-Caveat Lector- From Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/global/2001/0219/061.html - Charlotte's Goat Christopher Helman, Forbes Global, 02.19.01 In a concrete bunker on a mothballed Air Force base in Plattsburgh, New York, two Nigerian dwarf goats named Mille and Muscade joyfully munch grass and slurp water. Oddly, they are protected from intruders by security guards and razor wire. Only 20 weeks old, these sister beasts warrant tight security because their milk is highly prized by the U.S. military. Their 70,000-gene chromosomes have been manipulated to include a gene from the orb weaver, a palm-size spider that spins the world's toughest natural material. Researchers are "growing" the spider's silk inside Mille and Muscade's mammary glands. These strands of silk, just 3 microns thick, are three times as tough as DuPont's bulletproof Kevlar. A woven cable as thick as your thumb can bear the weight of a jumbo jet. Once perfected, the silk will be used for featherweight ballistic vests, medical sutures and artificial ligaments. The goats represent a promising new avenue in the controversial field of transgenics, the science of splicing one species' genes onto the genome of another. Most efforts, including the recent news of a disease-detecting rhesus monkey (bred with a glowing jellyfish gene), focus on improving the characteristics of existing organisms. But Jeffrey Turner, the molecular geneticist behind the goat gambit and CEO of the publicly held Nexia Biotechnologies, has more pragmatic goals. He believes that his animals can mass-produce drugs and highly engineered materials more cheaply and efficiently than vats and machines. Rivals include the Pharming Group of the Netherlands, Genzyme Transgenics in Boston, Massachusetts, and PPL Therapeutics of Scotland. Nexia is tackling a materials-science conundrum that has stumped even DuPont for 20 years: how to synthesize spider silk. Milking the spiders themselves is out of the question-they're cannibals. "Put a bunch of them together and soon you end up with one big, fat, happy spider. It's like trying to farm tigers," says Turner. By injecting the orb weaver gene into the father of Mille and Muscade, Nexia bred she-goats whose mammary glands are able to produce the complex proteins that make up spider silk. Their milk looks and tastes like the real thing, but once its proteins are filtered and purified into a fine white powder, they can be spun into tough thread. Turner got the idea while teaching at McGill University in Montreal in 1992, after learning that scientists had isolated three spider genes that code for silk proteins. "It was a purely serendipitous find. The silk gland of spiders and the milk gland of goats are almost identical. Teats equal spinnerets." In 1993 he founded Nexia with $2 million in venture capital. He started with mouse embryos and graduated to goats, whose large mammary glands make better milk machines. The Nige-rian dwarf goat was the perfect candidate, as it begins breeding and lactating at just 13 weeks. In 1998Nexia flew 130 goats from New Zealand to its facilities on the Plattsburgh base, so that the herd could quickly expand. Commercial spider silk is two years away, but Nexia's recent public offering raised $27 million, enough to cushion losses that ran $3million last year on $320,000 in revenue. Turner's goats may run dry if the spider silk hits it big. His expansion plan? Spidercows. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Moon Conspiracy Theory on Fox
-Caveat Lector- http://www.fox.com/schedule/sched_pop_next.htm#384 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) In Stereo-CC MOON LANDING QUESTIONED ON THE ALL-NEW SPECIAL 'CONSPIRACY THEORY: DID WE LAND ON THE MOON' FEB. 15 ON FOX NASA put a man on the Moon for the first time in 1969 -- or did it? Could the entire Moon program have been an elaborate deception staged to fool the public? The conspiracy theories are investigated in the all-new one-hour special CONSPIRACY THEORY: DID WE LAND ON THE MOON Thursday, Feb. 15 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). (SP-0139) (TV-PG) A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Computers that hunt as a pack
-Caveat Lector- From UPI, http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=158061 Computers learn to talk and "hunt" as a pack Tuesday, 6 February 2001 22:00 (ET) Computers learn to talk and "hunt" as a pack By UPI Science News UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Feb 6 (UPI) -- Researchers at Penn State University say their computers learned to talk to one another in a self-developed language as they cooperated to "hunt" computerized prey. Experts say the innovation could have profound implications for the future of robotics and artificial intelligence. "I could see this having military applications or applications in the space program," said Dr. Lee Giles, a professor of information technology at Penn State. "I think you could see practical applications in hostile environments in the next three to five years, just because we will have so much computer power available to us by then." Giles and study co-author Kam-Chuen Jim essentially asked a group of computer programs to play hide and seek. These self-directed programs (called "autonomous agents" because of their ability to actively sense and respond to external conditions) were able to "talk" to one another via a message board. In the course of tracking a computerized "prey," the autonomous agents hunted as a group, developing a common language that enabled them to work together more effectively than has any similar group in the past. While autonomous agents have been linked together before, they typically have communicated through a pre-set language created by their programmers. In this case the computers generated their own communications protocol -- a unique language that was specific to the task at hand. That specificity could be the key to enhanced performance in the field, Giles said, "because such a language would be more representative of the environment they were in." With their own language, he suggested, robots driven by autonomous-agent programs could take the predator-prey scenario out of the lab and into the real world. Say for example a space probe went astray. "You want to find it, and you know it is somewhere, but you don't know exactly where," said Giles. Given sufficient time, it's possible that a team of autonomous agents could find it. In a military context, "you could see these predators being robots that are trying to capture another 'prey' robot," he said. "That is quite possible." Giles' team has not yet partnered with any government agency or corporation that might bring those dreams to fruition, and some experts in the field express skepticism about the possible applications of Giles' findings. "This work was done in the lab, in a controlled environment, and there is a real question as to whether that kind of thing can be scaled up" to handle the demands of a larger or more complex system, said Stan Franklin, a professor in the math sciences department at the University of Memphis and author of the book "Artificial Minds." Franklin nonetheless said the findings could bode well for the long-term future of robotics. "A major issue with multi-agent systems is who does what, and if they could talk to one another in their own [situation-specific] language, they could probably do that a little better," he said. "I can easily imagine that there may be good applications of this work, but there is still a ways to go." (Reported by Adam Katz-Stone in Annapolis, Md.) -- Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Anagrammy Award: America's Secret Police
-Caveat Lector- http://www.anagrammy.com/history2000.html Richard Grantham with: Original: America's Secret Police Harassment groups in the United States have obtained advanced surveillance equipment and non-lethal weapons. These groups do illegal surveillance of the person they target and then attack that person with non-lethal weapons. Men, women, and children with mental conditions are primary targets for these groups but a person's past history, current behavior, race, and sexual orientation could also qualify them as a target. Please read about these groups at the URL listed below. Nothing is for sale. If you have trouble accessing the web site please email me. Sorry if you receive this message more than once. URL: http://ourworld.cs.com/soundweapon/ Thank you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Anagrammy: U.S.A. PARANOIACS' CREED We believe that you are all out to get us. We believe God has granted us the right to possess quick-load automatic firearms and shoot proper cyanide-laden armour-piercing bullets as part of normal life. We believe in Roswell and the total documentary truth of The X-Files; that nasty communists are under the bed; Democrats are a tool of Satan; the U.N. controls the puppet U.S. Congress and that President Clinton's an alien with three million squashy penises; the Net's a CIA plot, as were Vietnam, Lee Harvey Oswald, the men on the Moon, women's rights, Waco, 'race hate', Princess Diana, AOL, nuns, photocopiers... We believe only God's help (or perhaps carrying a huge gun) can save us. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2001/0201/breaking9.htm Last updated: 08:32 Far from being a relatively harmless "soft" drug, cannabis can drive people temporarily insane as well as harming the heart, lungs and immune system, British scientists said today. Studies showed that the drug can have serious effects on both mental and physical health. Dr Andrew Johns, from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, said regular cannabis use led to acute psychological problems in a high proportion of people. One study found 15 per cent of cannabis users identified psychotic symptoms such as hearing voices or irrational feelings of persecution. A number of reports, reviewed by Dr Johns in the British Journal of Psychiatry, suggested the drug could induce psychosis in people with no history of severe mental illness. Heavy cannabis use could lead to a state resembling acute schizophrenia. In this case the drug was thought to trigger off an underlying illness. Cannabis was also associated with high rates of other forms of mental illness, such as adjustment disorder and major depression. It appeared to worsen the condition of people already suffering from schizophrenia, with users experiencing more and earlier psychotic relapses. Dr Johns wrote: "An appreciable proportion of cannabis users report short-lived adverse effects, including psychotic states following heavy consumption, and regular users are at risk of dependence. "People with major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are especially vulnerable in that cannabis generally provokes relapses and aggravates existing symptoms. "Health workers need to recognise, and respond to, the adverse effects of cannabis on mental health." In another review published by the journal, Prof Heather Ashton of the University of Newcastle said cannabis affected almost every bodily system. As well as producing severe anxiety, panic, paranoia and psychosis in high doses, it also impaired memory and concentration and had a number of physical effects. These included heart problems that might be serious for people with pre-existing cardiac disease and suppression of the immune system. In addition, smoking between three and four cannabis reefers a day produced the same risk of bronchitis and emphysema as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes. Tar from a cannabis cigarette contained higher levels of some cancer-triggering chemicals than tobacco smoke. Chronic cannabis use also appeared to cause a risk of complications in pregnancy and childbirth, said Prof Ashton. But cannabis and its derivatives had promising potential as a treatment for a large number of medical conditions, said Dr Philip Robson, also writing in the journal. Chemicals in the drug had been shown to have therapeutic effects in nausea caused by anti-cancer drugs, multiple sclerosis, loss of appetite, pain, glaucoma, insomnia, anxiety and depression, epilepsy, and asthma. There was also evidence from animal studies that cannabis derivatives can protect against cancer. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- [A few people have told me they didn't receive this message so am sending it again - sorry for the inconvenience - Kelly] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2001/0201/breaking9.htm Last updated: 08:32 Far from being a relatively harmless "soft" drug, cannabis can drive people temporarily insane as well as harming the heart, lungs and immune system, British scientists said today. Studies showed that the drug can have serious effects on both mental and physical health. Dr Andrew Johns, from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, said regular cannabis use led to acute psychological problems in a high proportion of people. One study found 15 per cent of cannabis users identified psychotic symptoms such as hearing voices or irrational feelings of persecution. A number of reports, reviewed by Dr Johns in the British Journal of Psychiatry, suggested the drug could induce psychosis in people with no history of severe mental illness. Heavy cannabis use could lead to a state resembling acute schizophrenia. In this case the drug was thought to trigger off an underlying illness. Cannabis was also associated with high rates of other forms of mental illness, such as adjustment disorder and major depression. It appeared to worsen the condition of people already suffering from schizophrenia, with users experiencing more and earlier psychotic relapses. Dr Johns wrote: "An appreciable proportion of cannabis users report short-lived adverse effects, including psychotic states following heavy consumption, and regular users are at risk of dependence. "People with major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are especially vulnerable in that cannabis generally provokes relapses and aggravates existing symptoms. "Health workers need to recognise, and respond to, the adverse effects of cannabis on mental health." In another review published by the journal, Prof Heather Ashton of the University of Newcastle said cannabis affected almost every bodily system. As well as producing severe anxiety, panic, paranoia and psychosis in high doses, it also impaired memory and concentration and had a number of physical effects. These included heart problems that might be serious for people with pre-existing cardiac disease and suppression of the immune system. In addition, smoking between three and four cannabis reefers a day produced the same risk of bronchitis and emphysema as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes. Tar from a cannabis cigarette contained higher levels of some cancer-triggering chemicals than tobacco smoke. Chronic cannabis use also appeared to cause a risk of complications in pregnancy and childbirth, said Prof Ashton. But cannabis and its derivatives had promising potential as a treatment for a large number of medical conditions, said Dr Philip Robson, also writing in the journal. Chemicals in the drug had been shown to have therapeutic effects in nausea caused by anti-cancer drugs, multiple sclerosis, loss of appetite, pain, glaucoma, insomnia, anxiety and depression, epilepsy, and asthma. There was also evidence from animal studies that cannabis derivatives can protect against cancer. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] What Neil Armstrong said as he signed off on the moon.....
-Caveat Lector- http://www.snopes2.com/ Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky! Claim: Immediately after Neil Armstrong uttered his famous "That's one small step for man . . ." quote during the historic first moon landing, he added the cryptic phrase, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!" Not until over twenty-five years later did Armstrong reveal that Mr. Gorsky was a former neighbor, whose wife had proclaimed that she would give him oral sex "when the kid next door walks on the moon." Status: False. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Why is the PLO tunneling under the Temple Mount
-Caveat Lector- Passed on from the Konformist: http://www.konformist.com Saturday, January 27, 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHY THE PLO IS TUNNELING UNDER THE TEMPLE MOUNT by Barry Chamish The following is a brief extract from very long article I completed for Fate Magazine. I wish I could send the full text but I have a hard copy career to preserve. Nonetheless, in light of the revelation that the PLO is tunneling under the Holy Mount, I'd like to give my faithful readers at least a clue as to why. Let us begin with a compelling history of the Knights Templar written by two Freemasons, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, called The Second Messiah. Summarized is their history of the organization: The Templars were a poor chivalric order which disdained materialism until their arrival in Jerusalem in the early twelfth century on a papal crusade. Eleven knights dug under the ruins of Solomon's Temple for nine years and hit paydirt. Under the Temple Mount the Templars discovered a network of tunnels where the Jewish priests hid their treasures from the marauding Romans in 70 AD. The knights not only uncovered some of the gold and silver described in the Copper Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls but the records of the first Jerusalem church of Christianity. This according to Knight and Lomas is precisely what they went digging for. The first Bishop of the Jerusalem Church was Jesus' brother James. He was aided by Jesus' other siblings, five brothers and two sisters. After the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and dispersed the Jews, James and his family fled to France, a fact confirmed by the bestselling book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. These descendants of the holy Davidic line had the wherewithal to gain wealth throughout Europe and buy vast properties. Over time they constituted a good chunk of European royalty. While professing whatever religion the state demanded, first worshiping the pantheon of Roman Gods and later papal Christianity, they secretly practised the Christianity of the early Jerusalem church. These descendants of the priestly line, now called themselves Rex Deus, and passed on their traditions throughout the royal courts of Europe where they ruled. The original Celt church was founded by the Rex Deus, and St. Patrick of Ireland was a Jew. Other Rex Deus included the Habsburgs, the Stuarts of Scotland and today's King Juan Carlos of Spain, who includes among his titles, Protector Of The Holy Places Of Jerusalem. The Templars returned from their Crusade with vast wealth uncovered under the Temple Mount and initiated a monumental building program in Europe, which ultimately resulted in the construction of over 250 castles and Gothic churches. They now challenged the papacy for political control of Europe, yet the usually jealous Vatican allowed their power to grow unabated. Knight and Lomas insist this is because the Templars had a huge advantage over Rome. According to their version of events, the Knights uncovered the original records of the Jerusalem Church and they proved that the Vatican was not practising Christianity as its founders intended. For example, a pope with exclusive rights of divine interpretation was not part of G-d's plan. If the scrolls were made public, they would jeopardize Rome's legitimacy. In the fourteenth century, the French king known as Philip the Fair coordinated a purge of the Templars in coordination with the Holy See. Their properties were seized and their leader, in fact the last Templar leader, Jacques de Molay was brutally tortured by crucifixion until he confessed to the alleged sins of his Order. He survived the first round of torture and a linen cloth was placed over him to absorb his blood and keep him warm. This cloth became known as the Shroud of Turin and the authors arguments for this claim are superbly grounded in fact. A group of Templars led by the St. Clair clan escaped the French siege by ship and landed in Scotland, a safe port since it was ruled by the Rex Deus member, Robert the Bruce. It must be noted that at his death, Robert the Bruce's heart was transported to Jerusalem for burial. Two versions of what happened to it exist. The first says the deliverers of the heart were captured in Spain, the second insists they made it and the heart lays buried in Jerusalem to this day. According to Knight and Lomas, the French Templars brought with them the damning scrolls from under the Jerusalem Temple Mount and built a chapel in Rosslyn, near Edinburgh to house them. The chapel, built by William Sinclair (1415- 1482), which exists today, was built according to the specifications of the Herodian Temple and an exact duplicate of the Western Wall was constructed alongside it. To hide their now-banned Templar roots, the Knights formed a new organization, Freemasonry, whose rites were precisely those set down in the scrolls recovered from beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Scottish rite Masonry spread throughout Europe and according to Knight and Lomas,
[CTRL] Morning-after pill flops in Canada
-Caveat Lector- [I seriously thought this was from the Onion at first! Kelly] http://www.nationalpost.com/ January 31, 2001 Sales to stop as morning-after pill proves a flop Minuscule demand Mary Vallis National Post A British pharmaceutical company is discontinuing sales of its so-called morning-after pill in Canada because not enough women are buying it. Shire Inc. has sold less than 10% of its Preven emergency contraceptive kits since the product first hit Canadian pharmacies in October, 1999, even though the company slashed its price from $22 to $5 last year. "This is a huge disappointment for me," Joseph Rus, chief executive officer of Shire Canada Inc., the company's Canadian subsidiary, said yesterday. "I'm totally puzzled ... I'm just not sure if there's anything at all that I could have done differently." [Perhaps he should advocate a Just say No to Condoms campaign!] Preven, the first morning-after pill to become available in Canada, became part of the debate over when human life begins. Anti-abortion groups say the drug is the equivalent of an early abortion because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the wall of the uterus. Preven's supporters argue it works as a contraceptive because it prevents pregnancies but does not affect fertilized eggs already lodged in the uterine wall. According to IMS Health, an independent organization that tracks drug sales, national sales of Preven peaked in retail pharmacies in July, 2000, when an estimated 684 kits were sold. Mr. Rus expects the company to lose $1.5-million on unsold kits, which will expire in storage without reaching pharmacy shelves. The reasons for the pill's failure are a mystery, Mr. Rus said. It had the support of Planned Parenthood and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Mr. Rus said many factors could have contributed to the product's poor sales. A lack of awareness among women, the unwillingness of doctors to prescribe it and the vocal resistance of anti-abortion groups are all potential factors, he said. "This is unfortunate news," Thirza Smith, president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, said from Saskatchewan. "There is no reason why emergency contraception should not be more readily available." John Hof, president of the B.C. branch of Campaign Life Coalition, said he worries Shire may not be telling the whole story. "All over the world, there's a push on to make the morning-after pill available in schools, in Planned Parenthood clinics, in every pharmacy -- Britain, the United States and France are all pushing the morning-after pill," he said. "And now Shire can't sell it? There's got to be a reason." The Preven kit includes a pregnancy test, sets of pills to be taken 12 hours apart and an instruction booklet. The first set of drugs can be taken up to 72 hours after unprotected sex. News of Preven's discontinuation reached Canadian pharmacists this week through a company posting in a national industry newsletter. It comes months after a Montreal company launched another morning-after pill called Plan B. Morning-after pills have been available to women in British Columbia without a doctor's prescription since last fall. There, pharmacists, using their own discretion, can give the drug to women. Some pharmacists, however, are torn over whether they should distribute the pills, claiming they do not want to enter the moral and ethical fray surrounding emergency contraception. "A lot of us do not feel it is our job to help a woman end a pregnancy," said Cristina Alarcon of B.C. Pharmacists for Conscience. Controversy over the product is raging worldwide. In the United States, Wal-Mart has refused to sell the kit. And this week, Britain's House of Lords rejected an attempt to ban over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pills. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Arch
[CTRL] Find a grave
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[CTRL] Atlas Shr
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http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0101/rand/
Atlas Shr - A glimpse into an alternate universe where Ayn Rand's
books are all 400 pages shorter
1. ALAN GREENSPAN finished reading Ayn Rand's complete works
seven years earlier. He advanced more quickly into Rand's inner
circle, began his career as an economist in the mid-1960s, and became
chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in 1971. Thanks to his earlier
leadership, there was no oil crisis or recession in the 70s. As a
result, widespread vilification of Arab culture by working class
Americans never came to pass, and the professional wrestling
scapegoat known as The Iron Sheik was never created. This allowed
wrestler Bob Backlund to retain the WWF championship belt in 1983.
2. COLLEGE FRESHMEN vowing to read longest book they could find
in the library, turned not to "Atlas Shrugged" but to the unabridged
"Notre-Dame de Paris." One of these students went on to a position of
power at Walt Disney Pictures, where he nipped in the bud an
ill-conceived plan for an animated version of "The Hunchback of Notre
Dame," thus leaving collaborators Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
free to work on other projects. Schwartz signed on for a "Pippin"
revival in Liverpool. Bernie Taupin, who had been competing with
Schwartz for the job, was so distraught over not getting it that he
began drinking again, and was in no condition to adapt the lyrics for
"Candle in the Wind" when Princess Diana passed away. Elton John's
own attempt at reworking the lyrics failed to take the world by storm
("Oh Princess Diana / we won't see you maana") and the international
land mine treaty was never ratified. While crossing the Iran-Iraq
boarder, The Iron Sheik stepped on a mine and was mortally wounded.
On his deathbed, he admitted that he cheated in the 1983 championship
match and insisted that the title be returned to Bob Backlund.
3. RAND'S MORE CONCISE and artistically potent edition of "The
Fountainhead" made for a much better screenplay when it was adapted
in 1949. Galvanized by the script, Gary Cooper turned in the greatest
performance of his career, inspiring many young film-goers to move to
Hollywood and become actors themselves, including the young Iron
Sheik, who settled into a comfortable if undistinguished television
career instead of becoming a pro wrestler. Bob Backlund easily
defeated Greg Valentine in 1983.
4. THE BOOK "ANTHEM," being only 235 pages, was never written,
and so the Canadian power trio Rush never recorded their
"Anthem"-inspired album "2112." Due to the artistic hole gnawing at
him, drummer/lyricist Neil Peart felt stunted, dropped out of the
band, became an alcoholic, and killed the Iron Sheik in a drunk
driving accident on the eve of the 1983 championship match, and Bob
Backlund retained the belt.
5. INFORMED BY SEVERAL PUBLISHERS that "We the Living" was about
400 pages too short, Ayn tried to pad her first manuscript with a new
preface discussing the European impact of the Bolshevik revolution.
During her research at the Gregorian University in Rome, she met a
handsome young student named Albino Luciani. Though she was a married
woman and he was ordained a priest, they were able to keep their
torrid affair a secret until Albino was elected Pope in 1978, taking
the name John Paul I. Almost immediately, an embittered Nathaniel
Branden released his memoir "My Year with Ayn Rand." The ensuing
scandal forced John Paul I to choose between his office and the woman
he loved, and he abdicated after only 33 days as pontiff. His
successor Kozrow Vaziri took the name "Pope the Iron Sheik," but died
on his first day. Kozrow's legacy was honored by his successor Karol
Wojtyla who became "Pope the Iron Sheik II", as prophesized in the
third and fifth secrets of Fatima. Last year, Bob Backlund ran for
U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
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[CTRL] Jewlee jewlee jewlee
-Caveat Lector- Received: from mail.mountaincable.net (mail.mountaincable.net [24.215.0.18]) by tor-smtp1.netcom.ca (8.8.7-s-4/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA25839 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:30:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from pavilion (pc-23-169.mountaincable.net [24.215.23.169]) by mail.mountaincable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id BD474C2DAB for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:30:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: 001601c087a4$93a62760$[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Jewlee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Get a job Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:30:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_NextPart_000_0013_01C0877A.A8F285C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: X-UIDL: 5AFC1FDB0496B29DA1BBBFFF94AA67BE Hello I was wondering what you do for a living? It just doesn't seem like you have anything better to do than to send me like 12 E-mails through the course of the day. I suggest that you find a job instead of sitting in front of your computer all day, not to mention your flooding my E-mail w/ messages that I don't even read. - Oh well! We can't all have fans! Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Open season on professors?
-Caveat Lector- [First there was the murder last week (still unsolved) of a professor at the University of Toronto - stabbed to death in his office - now this. Kelly] http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/01/29/dartmouth/index.html Professors' deaths jolt Dartmouth College By J.M. Hirsch Jan. 29, 2001 | HANOVER, N.H. (AP) -- The humanity that Susanne and Half Zantop brought to Dartmouth College has made it difficult for colleagues to accept how the couple's lives could have ended in a double homicide. The Zantops, both longtime professors at the Ivy League school, were found slain in their secluded house about three miles from campus. "They were wonderful people. They were special - intellectually, humanly, everything," said Dartmouth languages instructor Roxanne Verona. Verona told neighbors she stumbled upon the Zantops' bodies when she arrived at the house for dinner Saturday evening and found the door unlocked. Police have since cautioned Verona not to discuss the discovery, but some details about the slayings have seeped out. "She went in and called out. There was no answer," neighbor and friend Audrey McCollum said. "She turned and saw Susanne on the floor with blood around her." Verona rushed to McCollum's home to call police while McCollum's husband Robert, a doctor, went over to the Zantops' home. Robert McCollum said he saw enough to know for certain the couple had been dead for several hours. Attorney General Philip McLaughlin on Sunday refused to discuss a possible motive, suspects, the cause of the deaths or the condition of the house, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation. Susanne Zantop, 55, was chairwoman of the German Studies Department. Her 62-year-old husband taught Earth sciences. Both had taught at Dartmouth for at least 25 years and had two adult daughters. About 50 faculty members, administrators and students held a somber meeting on campus Sunday night and agreed to set up a support network with a campus hot line. Many embraced, some were tearful, and most, including Dean Jim Larimore, were trying to come to terms with the word "homicide." "Words like this don't come easily in a place like this," he said. "What we have to acknowledge is that this is a nightmare, but we won't wake up." A picturesque town of just under 10,000, Hanover is lively, but considered safe. The last murder was in 1991, when two female students from Ethiopia were killed with an ax. Police said it was the first murder in town in more than 40 years and the first murder of a Dartmouth student that anyone could remember. An Ethopian man allegedly spurned by one of the victims was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Kinohi Nishikawa, a senior living in an apartment complex for German studies students, said he learned about the professors' deaths from the student newspaper. "I was in total shock - I couldn't breathe," he said. "I've been following this on the Internet, and every little detail is tugging at my heart." Nishikawa, who does research for a German studies professor, said he was dreading seeing the teaching staff Monday. "It's almost too much for me to think about going back there and seeing them," he said. "I know this campus will be a very sad place in the next few days, whether they've ever met the Zantops or not." Associated Press A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] THIS fan thinks I oughta be a rabbi
-Caveat Lector- Hummm - a rabbi biker! I like it! There oughta be a movie in there somewhere! Kelly Nessie wrote: -Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Nurev Ind Research Sent: Mon 1/29/2001 1:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:Re: [CTRL] Disclaimers and Men who think they have a right to"hurt" Women -Caveat Lector- Nessie wrote: -Caveat Lector- Violence against anyone is bad. If he stalks you or breaks into your house - shot'em in the balls. Make up your mind. Self Defense is THE basic human right. Self defense against those who commit violence is a social good. Self defense against those who commit violence IS violence. Ergo, if the statement "Self defense against those who commit violence is a social good" is true, then the statement "Violence against anyone is bad" is false because "those who commit violence" is a subset of "anyone." Logic 101 Jesus H Christ Nessie! You sound like you're ready for Talmudic Academy. J2 A HREF=ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ===CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. == Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A == To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] School Vouchers
-Caveat Lector- "M.A. Johnson" wrote: -Caveat Lector- Nessie Before public education, literacy was limited to a handful, all rich or in the employ of the church. That was failure. Some of you may enjoy reading the following book: http://www.centuryone.com/1849-3.html HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION : The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role (Hinges of History Series Volume 1) Thomas Cahill (cover price $12.95) CenturyOne Price $10.36 Savings of $2.59 (20%) Item #1849-3 The untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved front the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchmail's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization. Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The backdoor to egroups
-Caveat Lector- If you want e-groups the way it used to be, Try this site: http://au.egroups.com/mygroups It's the same good old systems of eGroups. You won't be disappointed. You'll have the same e-groups id and password, and all your groups will be listed. International e-groups sites: Australia http://au.egroups.com/mygroups Canada http://www.egroups.ca/ UK http://www.egroups.co.uk/ China http://cn.egroups.com/ HK http://www.egroups.com.hk/ India http://in.egroups.com/ Japan: http://www.egroups.co.jp/ Korea http://kr.egroups.com/ Taiwan http://tw.egroups.com/ Francehttp://www.egroups.fr/ Germany http://www.egroups.de/ Italy http://it.egroups.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] THIS fan thinks I oughta be a rabbi
-Caveat Lector- Nessie wrote: But I think I sound much more like a Jesuit. Indeed, you do. Some people talk about being 'trained' by Jesuits rather than being 'educated' by them - I don't mean that in a negative way, but as you point out it is a very logical way of thinking. snip If you can't think, you can't talk. If you can't talk, you can't be understood, even by yourself. I can talk a blue streak. I understand myself perfectly. What I don't understand is why some people fail to also understand me. I'm clear. I'm logical. I tell only the truth. Yet some people hear me say one thing and other people hear me say something different. What's the problem? Are they stupid, or am I doing something wrong? No, I don't think you are doing anything wrong. I believe you have one more step to go - and that is to become an artist. To me, an artist is someone who excels in any field - they learn the 'trade' and the rules of the game, and then take them to new heights and create art. I believe a wood cabinet maker, an athlete, a chef, a mathematican - anyone can take their profession or love into the realm of art. You, nessie, like to work with words and ideas - that doesn't necessarily make you a writer let alone an artist but you certainly seem to be on that path. I dont want to sound like a rabbi or a Jesuit. Im trying to be as plain spoken as possible, so as to reach the broadest audience. Maybe I need to dumb it down more. What do yall think? I'm open to suggestions. I think you would be incapable of dumbing down what you write about, and I do think you have found your own voice. Sometimes it is grating, sometimes condescending, sometimes irritating - but when I have the time, I read what you have to say and think about your point of view. That might not be saying much to you, but there aren't a lot of people on the internet whom impress me with their communications abilities. Your personlity comes through loud and clear - and so do your ideas. So, keep it up! I think I see a budding artist. Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Report Tells of AIDS Devastation
-Caveat Lector- June wrote: From: "Aleisha Saba" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now as for that little 5 year old Liz Taylor running through the green green grass of home well, that movie she was at least 12 years old.and she still had this pig nose that was worked on by plastic surgeons, her eyes are NOT violet, Strange then that people who saw her in the hospital when she almost died of pneumonia commented on how beautiful she was, even without makeup and being ill...and everyone commented on how VIOLET her eyes were... Yes, methinks Saba is suffering from the green-eyed jealously monster syndrome. Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] High court upholds child porn ban
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalpost.com/ January 27, 2001 High court upholds child porn ban Justices overturn lower court's verdict, allow two exceptions Luiza Chwialkowska National Post OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upheld the nation's child pornography law yesterday, releasing a long-anticipated ruling that also set out two exceptions to the law. The ruling means that John Robin Sharpe, the retired B.C. town planner who launched the challenge of the law, will stand trial again on charges of possession of child pornography. The nine justices upheld the law that made it a crime to possess a broad range of child pornography, but they split 6-3 over exempting two categories of material: items such as diaries or drawings created privately and videos or photographs people take of themselves, provided they do not depict unlawful activity and are also for private use. "The limits [the law] imposes on free expression are justified by the protection the law affords children from exploitation and abuse," Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the 64-page ruling. "The prohibition captures in its sweep materials that arguably pose little or no risk to children, and that deeply implicate the freedoms guaranteed under [the Charter,]" the ruling read. Three of the judges disagreed with the majority and would have upheld the entire law. In an interview from his Vancouver-area rooming house, Mr. Sharpe said he was disappointed to learn that his legal battle will continue. The 67-year-old said children were meant to have sex, regardless of what the law says. "If God didn't mean children to have sex, then why does puberty happen so early?" he said yesterday. "Why [are] kids capable of sexual urges and sexual fantasies from at least the age of 11 in boys, probably earlier in girls? Did God goof?" The decision will allow dozens of other child pornography cases across the country to resume. As many as 100 prosecutions had been suspended until the Supreme Court ruled on an appeal of decisions by two B.C. courts which struck down the child pornography law. Law enforcement officials applauded the ruling. "The members on the front lines will be please and relieved with the decision," said Constable Grant Obst, president of the Canadian Police Association and member of the Saskatoon Police Services. "We will not have to alter or change our current prosecution of pornography." Tim Danson, who represented police and victims organizations intervening in the case, said the kind of material covered by the two exceptions have never been the sole basis of an investigation, charge or prosecution. Most child pornography is traded on the Internet, and pedophiles who only keep private diaries "don't exist," he said. "Police are not interested in diaries. They are far too busy with respect to serious child pornography." Prosecutors also welcomed the ruling, saying the exceptions imposed by the court will not effect the majority of their cases. Bryan Davies, assistant Crown attorney in Whitby, Ont., is prosecuting two cases involving possession of child pornography that have been on hold pending the ruling in the Sharpe case. He said yesterday that he expects them to return to court immediately. "We are very happy with what the Supreme Court of Canada has done. It would appear to remove any impediment as to why the cases shouldn't go ahead. The rules are very clear," Mr. Davies said. Detective Inspector Bob Matthews, head of the pornography unit of Ontario Provincial Police, said the case will allow police and prosecutors to "clear the backlog" of 41 cases left in limbo in Ontario courts waiting for the decision. It is not clear whether the exceptions will help Mr. Sharpe, who successfully challenged the law as a violation of free speech. Materials seized from his possession in 1995 and 1996 included both short stories and photographs of nude boys in sexual acts. Mr. Sharpe's lawyers had argued the language of the statute was "Orwellian" in its scope, however the court gave a much narrower interpretation to the wording of the statute. The ruling said fictional stories were not covered by the law's ban on "written materials that advocates or counsels sexual activity." "While Nabokov's Lolita, Boccaccio's Decameron, and Plato's Symposium portray or discuss sexual activities with children ... they cannot be said to advocate or counsel such conduct in the sense of actively inducing or encouraging it," the court declared. The decision left intact the law's existing exceptions for work of artistic merit, educational, scientific or medical purpose. However, Justice McLachlin said in upholding the law that children should be protected from becoming either the subjects or victims of child pornography. "Explicit sexual photographs and videotapes of children may promote cognitive distortions, fuel fantasies that incite offenders, enable grooming of victims, and may be produced using real children,"
[CTRL] Twisted furor over schoolboy essay
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalpost.com/ January 27, 2001 Twisted furor over schoolboy essay Many say jailing not a case of censorship Jonathan Kay National Post Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and other successful authors will meet in Ottawa tomorrow to trumpet their support for an Ontario schoolboy charged with uttering threats after he read a violent monologue in class. The fundraising event is called "Artists for Freedom of Speech." But students and administrators at the Tagwi Secondary School in Avonmore, Ont., say this case may have little to do with free expression. The Tagwi (pronounced "tug-wuh") story, as it has been told, goes like this: Following years of abuse from bullies, the boy (whose name cannot be revealed under Canada's Young Offenders Act) read his drama classmates a story, which he titled Twisted, about a boy blowing up a school. Though the monologue was fictional, fears of a Columbine-style attack whipped the school into hysteria. Tagwi suspended the student as punishment for what he had written. The police, who also became caught up in the hysteria, used the same justification to throw the child in jail where, owing to community fears, he was locked up for 34 days. But interviews with students and staff members suggest that every element in this narrative -- aside from the fact the defendant read aloud a story about a boy blowing up a school -- is false. Numerous sources, including four students in the boy's drama class who were present when Twisted was presented, report he was neither disciplined nor criticized by school officials for presenting his monologue. "Everyone is concentrating on his class composition," says John Beveridge, executive assistant to the director of education of the Upper Canada District School Board. "But when everything in the course of time is revealed, I'm quite confident it will be shown that the Board and those involved are getting a bad rap." Already, the school has disclosed the boy was not suspended and the police not consulted until allegations surfaced that he made direct face-to-face threats to Tagwi students in the days following the monologue. Three of the four criminal charges against the boy pertain to alleged death threats to specific classmates. It also turns out the Crown had nothing to do with the boy's 34 days in jail. His bail hearing was delayed at least three times -- always at the urging of defence counsel. And yet one newspaper article published on Jan. 8 led with the chilling words, "Writers beware -- your imagination could land you in jail," and quoted Frank Horn, the boy's lawyer, as saying: "Does this mean writers will have to worry whether they're breaking the law with every sentence they write? ... Can their imagination break the law?" This is the purportedly the first free speech case Mr. Horn has taken; his usual trade is defending small-time criminals on charges of assault and public drunkenness. Nevertheless, his comments have been reported widely, angering many at Tagwi, who feel their school has been unfairly maligned. "I think it's always easier to focus on the individual who [says he's] oppressed," says Art Buckland, the Upper Canada District School Board representative for the Avonmore area. "You can imagine a defence lawyer playing up the free speech angle. He loves it." Mary Mayer, Tagwi's principal, has denied Mr. Horn's suggestions all along. She believes because the school's account of events has gone largely unreported, the public is misinformed. The fact is the school's decision to discipline the boy and consult police was based on an alleged pattern of direct threats -- not the content of the monologue. The controversy might have been cut short following the boy's bail hearing, at which the Crown presented its charges. But the presiding justice of the peace, Basile Marchand, declared a publication ban, so the dozen reporters present could not publish details of
Re: [CTRL] My Untold Story by Ralph Nader
-Caveat Lector- Aleisha Saba wrote: Does anyone want to hear my life story? Dear Gawd! You've got more to say about your life? You must be up to Tome 23 by now! What's it entitled? The Never Ending Story of Saba? Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- Jeff Russo wrote: The education reform we need is something that will benefit ME: a total elimination of public primary and secondary education. Then people like me... childless people... would not be paying taxes to support schools that our nonexistent children are not attending. Well, childless people paid taxes to help build the schools you went to too. Society is not just for the here and now and some of the infrastructure you rely on was paid for by people a generation ago, and people in another generation will be relying on some of what we put in place now. And yes, I am childless but I believe I have a responsibility to help provide children with a good education, good health care, a clean environment - I might be childless but I am part of humanity, too. Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Am I going down?
-Caveat Lector- If you're worried about an upcoming flight, check out: http://www.amigoingdown.com which calculates your chances of death in transit A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Tremors topple Tokyo's tranquillity
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,427948,00.html Tremors topple Tokyo's tranquillity Japan's iconic Mount Fuji is rumoured to be close to blowing its top for the first time in almost 300 years, writes Jonathan Watts Thursday January 25, 2001 Just three weeks into the new millennium, Japan already seems to have entered into a darkly apocalyptic mood. The newspapers are full of political scandal, Tokyo stock prices have slumped on fears of recession and economists are warning that the country could face a financial crisis in March. And as if that was not enough to satisfy the doomsayers, the word is now going round that Mt Fuji, the symbol of Japanese serenity, may be about to blow its top. Rumours about an imminent eruption of the long dormant volcano have spread since signs of heightened magma activity under the mountain were reported late last year. On average, 10 low frequencies tremors are detected deep below Mt Fuji annually. But according to the national meteorological agency, this pattern changed dramatically in the autumn with 33 minor quakes detected in September, 133 in October and 222 in November. Scientists say this increase does not mean Mt Fuji will explode into life any time soon, but they acknowledge that the change merits close attention. Their caution is understandable after a year of intense subterranean movement that is unusual even for Japan, a land that is wrinkled by more earthquakes and pimpled with more volcanoes than almost any other nation on earth. In the past 12 months, the archipelago has experienced three major eruptions and several large earthquakes, including a trembler in Tottori, western Japan, that registered 7.3 on the Richter scale, making it bigger than the Kobe quake that killed more than 6,000 people in 1995. Seismology and vulcanology are notoriously imprecise sciences, but many experts in these fields say Japan could be entering a period of heightened seismic activity. Such vague warnings along with the stirrings nine miles below Mt Fuji have been enough to prompt the weekly tabloids to raise the prospect of a devastating eruption that could threaten the 12m inhabitants of Tokyo, which sits 60 miles from the mountain's slopes. It has also prompted the local authorities around the mountain to conduct their first disaster prevention drills and to draw up hazard maps of the areas that would be most vulnerable to pyroclastic flows of molten rock and gas. Such precautions represent a breakthrough. Until now, municipal officials have refused to recognise the possibility of an eruption for fear that it would damage the lucrative Mt Fuji tourist trade. Rising 3,776 metres (12,388ft) from sea level in a nearly perfect cone, Mt Fuji is not only Japan's tallest and most beautiful mountain, it is also a national symbol and an object of worship. During the two month climbing season each summer, about 150,000 pilgrims and sightseers make the four and a half hour trek up the mountain's ash-grey slopes to a peak that is home to numerous Shinto shrines as well as a vending machine for soft drinks. For most visitors, the main concern is the rubbish that has piled up on the mountain's slopes rather than the possibility of an eruption. Mt Fuji has not blown its top since 1707, when it devastated surrounding villages and rained ash on Tokyo for two weeks. But every few years - usually after an eruption elsewhere in Japan - there are warnings that Fuji will be the next to go. The most apocalyptic scenario was painted in the 1984 bestseller, "The Great Explosion of Mt Fuji", which predicted that an eruption would trigger a massive earthquake in Tokyo, similar to the one that killed 140,000 people in 1923. That book was blamed for a 10% fall in tourist numbers in the Fuji area the following year, which makes the move to stage a drill this summer seem all the braver. The decision appears to reflect an important change in attitude towards disaster preparation in Japan. Despite the fact that the earth is rarely still in this part of the world, the authorities have often been criticised in the past for taking an overly rosy view of the likelihood and potential impact of natural calamities. But that certainly was not the case last year, when the government acted quickly and effectively to prevent a single volcano or earthquake fatality. In this sense at least, it would seem that the growing tendency to assume the worst is proving to be one of the best things to have happened to Japan in years. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time
[CTRL] Time Storms by Jenny Randles - excerpt
-Caveat Lector- [no URL - Kelly] "TIME STORMS" by Jenny Randles From H. G. Wells to Dr Who, time travel has intrigued us for generations. In a provocative new book, Jenny Randles, one of Britain's leading experts on UFOs and the paranormal, claims that it may be happening on a regular basis as a result of a strange phenomenon she calls time storms. Her evidence, set out in this exclusive new series, is a mixture of compelling case histories and rigorous scientific argument. We leave it to you, the reader, to reach your own verdict... The small unit of army conscripts had been sent on a two-day exercise into the inhospitable terrain above the small town of Putre in Chile. The intention was to harden these inexperienced young troops for the rigours of military life. On the night of April 24, 1977, they were camped on a windswept plateau at Pampa Lluscuma, at a height of 12,000 feet. In charge of the raw recruits was Corporal Armando Valdes. At 3.50am the recruit on guard duty, Pedro Rosales, saw something very odd. He called out to Valdes, who came immediately. What appeared to be two fuzzy violet lights were descending from the mountains and heading their way. The ground below was filled with an eerie glow. Unsure if these were flares being used in a mock attack, Valdes sprang quickly into action. He ordered some of the men to screen the campfire with blankets to escape detection, and told the others to prepare their weapons. By now there was just one large fuzzy glow on the hill a few hundred yards away. It sat there immobile for some minutes. Ignoring protests from his frightened charges, Valdes ordered them to cover him with their weapons while he went to investigate. As they crouched behind a nearby wall, rifles poised, he muttered a plea for God to protect him and headed into the darkness towards the purple glow. Within seconds the inky night had swallowed him up. Moments later, the glow disappeared too. The conscripts fell into stunned silence. When their commander returned around 15 minutes later, something was clearly awry He approached the camp from behind - not from the direction in which he had just walked. He was also far from well. The startled soldiers saw him wandering as if in a trance, speaking in a voice that sounded like that of a sleepwalker. 'You do not know who we are or where we come from,' he said in a monotone, although later he never recalled uttering those words. He reached the campsite, looking barely able to stand, and collapsed on the ground apparently unconscious. Having cared for him as best they could, the men waited for dawn. It was then that they noticed several very strange things about their stricken leader. Although they had seen him shave only hours earlier, he was now sporting several days' growth of beard. His watch had stopped at about 4.30am, the approximate time of his return to the camp, but the date display - which had to be wound on manually through 24 hours at a time to alter it - read April 30. It was as if Valdes had lived through five days in under 15 minutes. Army commanders have confirmed the incident took place but say it is inexplicable. When Valdes regained consciousness, he appeared to be in a state of shock, with massive memory loss and no proper body co- ordination. Later, he described his lost minutes or days - as 'a void in my mind'. That is a feeling that 39-year-old corporate business adviser Mark Henshall understands only too well. 'I think I would describe myself as a very down-to-earth sort of chap,' he says. 'But there are some things that no one can prepare you for.' Mark was just 16 when an extraordinary experience befell him as he rode his motorcycle late at night on the rural B6278 road near Barnard Castle in County Durham. There was not much traffic on the isolated, winding road, but at 11.30pm Mark noticed two glowing lights behind him. Thinking they were the headlights of a vehicle, he kept glancing back to cheek on them. After about 30 seconds he noticed that a Jaguar car was about to overtake him, so he pulled over slightly to let it pass. The glowing lights had been forgotten for the moment. But just as the car overtook, a blinding, hazy glow swamped both vehicles. It was a vivid, fuzzy purple colour with a pinkish tinge - possibly suggestive of ultra-violet radiation. Simultaneously, Mark noticed the power drain away from his motorcycle. 'I could not understand what was happening at first. Then I moved the throttle and there was no response. I felt my back and legs becoming hot and as I looked at my leather jacket it was beginning to steam.' Despite losing all power, the bike continued to move. It was 'pulled' up the hill, as if by an unseen force, for more than 300 feet. The driver of the Jaguar later confirmed to investigators that he too lost power and yet moved forward against gravity. 'It was scary,' recalls Mark. 'Eventually I managed to pull in and got off the bike. I walked over
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- Jeff Russo wrote: As I went to private school for 13 years, no one's taxes went to my education. I find that hard to believe. How and where were your teachers educated? What text books did you use? What curriculum did you follow? What technology was used in your school? Where was that technology developed? What roads did you use to get to school? Did you have electricity? Plumbing? Pardon me if you were educated on a self-sustaining commune that produced its own paper and ink. My parents, who certainly did not qualify as even middle class, paid for my education twice ~$1500 a year for the private schools, and their taxes while the public schools were sucking up $8K+ per student per year. That was your parents choice. However, I find it hard to believe that your tuition was $1,500 per year for a private school. And, actually, without knowing what country you live in, there is no point talking the nuts and bolts of numbers. I'm from Canada where education is primarily a provincial matter. But I think that, in a sense, you are talking about deregulating education, much the same as electricity was deregulated in California? And, beside the benefit to childless people of not paying these insane taxes, eliminating the current public school situation would be the best way to achieve your goal of "providing children with a good education." The children here do receive a good education. I can see nothing to be gained whatsoever by 'eliminating' the school system - it might make an interesting science fiction story though. observes an intractable public school situation such as I observed for years in the school system where I grew up realizes that they are far beyond repair. The $1+ they now receive per child is essentially fraud and theft. Well, that's sad. I'm happy to report that my 15 nieces and nephews under the age of 10 are receiving excellent educations in our school system. It's a community thang, you know? Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Weather Wars
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To: *OBRL_News [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: James DeMeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OBRL - Environmental warfare, Chossudovsky
Please copy and distribute to other interested individuals and groups
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From: Peter Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The Americans and the Russians have developed capabilities to manipulate
the World's climate.
Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirms that "US military scientists are working on
weather systems as a potential weapon."
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000
From: Michel Chossudovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Climate Change: Washington's New World Order Weapons
IT'S NOT ONLY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS:
WASHINGTON'S NEW WORLD ORDER WEAPONS
HAVE THE ABILITY TO TRIGGER CLIMATE CHANGE
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, author of The
Globalization of Poverty, second edition, Common Courage Press, 2000.
The important debate on global warming under UN auspices provides but a
partial picture of climate change; in addition to the devastating
impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the ozone layer, the World's
climate can now be modified as part of a new generation of sophisticated
"non-lethal weapons." Both the Americans and the Russians have developed
capabilities to manipulate the World's climate.
In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency
Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the ("Star Wars")
Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests
that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially
triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military
standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it
constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively
destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions.
While there is no evidence that this deadly technology has been used,
surely the United Nations should be addressing the issue of
"environmental warfare" alongside the debate on the climatic impacts of
greenhouse gases.
* * * * * * * * * * *
Despite a vast body of scientific knowledge, the issue of deliberate
climatic manipulations for military use has never been explicitly part
of the UN agenda on climate change. Neither the official delegations nor
the environmental action groups participating in the Hague Conference on
Climate Change (CO6) (November 2000) have raised the broad issue of
"weather warfare" or "environmental modification techniques (ENMOD)" as
relevant to an understanding of climate change.
The clash between official negotiators, environmentalists and American
business lobbies has centered on Washington's outright refusal to abide
by commitments on carbon dioxide reduction targets under the 1997 Kyoto
protocol.1 The impacts of military technologies on the World's climate
are not an object of discussion or concern. Narrowly confined to
greenhouse gases, the ongoing debate on climate change serves
Washington's strategic and defense objectives.
"WEATHER WARFARE"
World renowned scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirms that "US military
scientists are working on weather systems as a potential weapon. The
methods include the enhancing of storms and the diverting of vapor
rivers in the Earth's atmosphere to produce targeted droughts or
floods."2 Already in the 1970s, former National Security advisor
Zbigniew Brzezinski had foreseen in his book "Between Two Ages" that:
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations,
techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum
of the security forces need be appraised... [T]echniques of weather
modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought
or storm."
Marc Filterman, a former French military officer, outlines several types
of "unconventional weapons" using radio frequencies. He refers to
"weather war," indicating that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had already
"mastered the know-how needed to unleash sudden climate changes
(hurricanes, drought) in the early 1980s."3 These technologies make it
"possible to trigger atmospheric disturbances by using Extremely Low
Frequency (ELF) radar [waves]." 4
A simulation study of future defense "scenarios" commissioned for the US
Air Force calls for:
"US aerospace forces to 'own the weather' by capitalizing on emerging
technologies and focusing development of those technologies to
war-fighting applications. From enhancing friendly operations or
disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural
weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and
counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a
wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary... In
the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of
national security policy with both domestic and international
applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its
interests, at
[CTRL] Get your own mob nickname!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.dvd.com/stories/play/sopranos/ Kelly The Merciless A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Ex-First Lady Hillary Keeps No-Eye-Contact Rule
-Caveat Lector- This sounds exactly like a story I read years ago about Diana Ross of the Supremes. Kelly kl wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archive/print.shtml?a=2001/1/22/111821 NewsMax.com Monday, Jan. 22, 2001 12:18 p.m. EST Ex-First Lady Hillary Keeps No-Eye-Contact Rule She may no longer be first lady. But even as a senator, Hillary Clinton is apparently determined to keep her royal distance from us commoners. A leading conservative columnist has now corroborated earlier reports of Mrs. Clinton's reluctance to make eye contact with her associates - and reveals that the behavior is ongoing. In October NewsMax.com cited a report from WABC Talk Radio's Steve Malzberg, who said a friend at another New York radio station claimed that when Hillary dropped by for an interview, strict orders were issued. "No one is to make eye contact with the first lady," the source said station employees were told. In his book "Unlimited Access," former White House FBI agent Gary Aldrich reported that a similar edict had been issued to White House staff. When one admiring aide who didn't get the word rushed up to meet her Hillaryness, he was immediately rebuffed with an ice-cold stare that let him know he was way out of line. A friend, says Aldrich, explained the new rule to the crestfallen staffer: "When 'Queen Hillary' walks down the hall, you're not supposed to look at her. You're actually supposed to go into an office if there is one nearby. She doesn't want staff 'seeing' her." Now, renowned conservative columnist Robert Novak reports that Queen Hillary's Senate colleagues are getting the same treatment. "At the first session of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee attended by Sen. Hillary Clinton, a senior Republican senator Wednesday tested the report that it is impossible to make eye contact with her." "He said the report turned out to be true," Novak wrote in his Sunday column. -- The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work. - G. K. Chesterton, NY Sun 11-3-18 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Interesting job
-Caveat Lector- look at this site: http://www.efashionshowjobs.com/ then read this job description: http://www.efashionshowjobs.com/careers/softwareengr/index.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Military scraps 'fetish' ad
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalpost.com/ January 23, 2001 Military scraps 'fetish' ad Jack Aubry Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence recently came close to running an advertisement claiming the vast majority of Canadians have a "uniform fetish." Only strong negative reaction from focus groups stopped the department from running the ad in major Canadian newspapers last fall as part of its aggressive recruitment drive. The proposed ad featured a large headline reading, "83% of Canadians have a uniform fetish," on a bright, red background. The text underneath did not directly mention the headline, instead referring to the military's direct entry officer program, which guarantees a lieutenant/captain position to selected applicants with a bachelor's degree. Defence officials are warning that the shortage of full-time Canadian Forces personnel will reach crisis levels in the next four years and are asking for a $15-million increase to their $5-million advertising budget to help lure recruits. Focus groups conducted by the firm March Createc reacted negatively not only to the headline, but also to text in the ad advising possible recruits not to "waste your time climbing the corporate ladder." The groups said it was an insult to anyone working for a corporation. Grgoire Gollin, who oversaw the focus groups for Createc, said the Department of National Defence was advised to scrap the print ad. Although it initially succeeds in attracting attention to the department, he said, the overall reaction was negative because the message was confusing and made people uncomfortable. "From the reaction we got for the ad, we concluded the ad was a failure that would be very risky to use," Mr. Gollin said. Createc's report to the department was based on four focus groups held in mid-October --two anglophone ones in Toronto and two francophone ones in Montreal -- involving a total of 37 participants. The report advised the Forces it would be wise to "completely redo" the attention-getting ad because it was considered risky in both cities. The ad was risky in Montreal because of the headline's sexual connotation. In Toronto, the ad would be somewhat risky because of the sexual connotation, "but mostly because of the perceived negative tone and content of the text." Captain Ian Grant, a military spokesman, said the ad agency had come up with the ad after it was asked by the military to "think outside the box and be creative." He said the ad may have struck some funny bones, but the focus groups clearly showed it did not meet the requirements for a successful campaign. "Some wondered where the 83% came from -- and if it was true," the report said. Capt. Grant said the percentage was made up in an attempt at humour. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Forget race -- Ashcroft's drug position is terrifying
-Caveat Lector- Hi Bill CTRL, Is it just me, or does anyone else have problems with Bill's posts? In this case, some of what Bill posted is too tiny for me to read, in other cases the font is so large that three words take up the whole width of the screen - I find that I have to delete a lot of what you send Bill. I simply can't read it. Kelly William Shannon wrote: http://www.sunspot.net/content/cover/story?section=news-maryland; pagename=storystoryid=1150540208371 Forget race -- Ashcroft's drug position is terrifying Gregory Kane Originally published Jan 21 2000 [Image] WE'RE ONLY 21 DAYS into the year 2001, and already Americans have gotten off to a robust start in our favorite game: the Knee-Jerk Follies. One John Ashcroft, opponent of abortion, affirmative action and gratuitous gun-banning, among other things, has been nominated by President George W. Bush to the influential post of U.S. attorney general. Liberals reacted in knee-jerk fashion, swearing that this anti-abortion, anti-affirmative action gun nut will be attorney general over their dead bodies. Liberal, black, civil rights leaders got in on the act. Ashcroft accepted an honorary degree from Bob Jones University, a college which at the time had a ban on interracial dating and which regularly lambasted Catholics. He also did an interview with a magazine called Southern Partisan, in which he called Confederate leaders "patriots." Liberal black leadership accused Ashcroft of lacking the fawning sensitivity on racial matters some of us colored folks have come to feel is our due. Conservatives were equally knee-jerkish. They didn't exactly compare Ashcroft's elevation to attorney general with the second coming of Christ, but the suspicion is that, deep down, they had a hankering to. They countered liberal objections by claiming that Ashcroft would enforce the law as is; that he's well-qualified; that the nominee's torpedoing of the confirmation of Missouri Judge Ron White, an African-American, to the federal bench was not racially motivated but highly principled, and that Ashcroft is not a racist. The Senate Judiciary Committee went over all these charges. But neither Republicans nor Democrats, the liberal media or the conservative media paid much attention to the press releases of an organization that is nonpartisan and has two board chairmen, one Democrat and one Republican. The group is called Common Sense for Drug Policy. Its Legislative Group issued several statements in the past week that paint a different picture of Ashcroft than the one presented by Democrats or Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. That no one brought these up proves that both Democrats and Republicans on the committee and in the Senate know the fix is in for Ashcroft to be confirmed and that both parties were engaged in a dog-and-pony show to hoodwink American conservatives and liberals alike. Here, according to the Common Sense for Drug Policy Legislative Group, are the facts on Ashcroft: 1) He favors cutting funds for drug treatment and prevention and putting them into yet more law enforcement efforts. In other words, Ashcroft favors the "lock 'em up" approach to the drug war - an approach whose adherents figure that if we simply jail enough inner-city, street-level, black drug dealers, we'll win the war on drugs. Democrats couldn't nail Ashcroft on this, of course, since their attorney general of the past eight years, Janet Reno, pursues precisely the same policy. Had they brought it up, Republicans might well have countered that Democrats couldn't honestly deny Ashcroft confirmation because the country now has an attorney general who is Ashcroft in a skirt. Kevin Zeese, executive director of Common Sense's Legislative Group, said it's important that legislators scrutinize Ashcroft more closely on drug policy. "The attorney general is really the most powerful person when it comes to drug policy. He generally prosecutes all the cases. The Drug Enforcement Administration is under him." 2) When he was U.S. senator from Missouri, Ashcroft sponsored Senate Bill 486, the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act. The Legislative Group claims Ashcroft's proposal "would have empowered federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to enter your house, your office, your computer or your car without a warrant and without any obligation to inform you that a search or seizure had been conducted." Had the law passed, Zeese said, "it would have been counter-revolutionary to what Jefferson and Madison meant for Fourth Amendment rights." Regrettable, but not surprising since the "war on drugs" is turning more into a war on privacy and civil liberties every day. Most conservatives are too rigid to admit that, but the four or five conservatives remaining in the country who
Re: [CTRL] Forbes: God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else
-Caveat Lector- Hi Amelia, Do you have a URL or source for this? Thanks! Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Serve your boyfriend this!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/dessert/cakes/kittylittercake.html [Fabulous pic and receipe on site! Kelly] Note from Cheri: This clever Halloween cake recipe, that frightfully resembles a well used kitty litter box, was given to us by Kellie Head, the fabulous editor of ParentingHumor.com, a must visit site for all parents. Despite the cake's appearance, it's really delicious. For the proper presentation, use a brand new (and definitely unused) plastic cat litter box and spoon it onto plates with a new (NEVER used) pooper scooper. As a side note, thanks to the producers of Cruel.com, who honored this recipe with the Cruel Site of the Day Award on December 18, 2000. Editor Rogers Cadenhead said he looked at dozens of Kitty Litter Cake recipes but ours had "the most stomach-turning picture of the finished product." If you like dark humor, a visit to Cruel.com is a must! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Serve your boyfriend this!
-Caveat Lector- Sorry CTRL folks! I didn't mean to send this here! Kelly A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Time Travel Training
-Caveat Lector- http://www.egroups.com/group/idtravel A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 'Bio-history' theories
-Caveat Lector- Wilson rattles historians with 'bio-history' theories By Gareth Cook, Globe Staff, 1/16/2001 http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/016/science/Wilson_rattles_historians_with_bio_history_theories+.shtml History is no longer just the study of war and peace, of politicians and economics. If the next generation of historians hopes to understand the driving forces of humanity, they need to know the principles of ecology, population genetics and even molecular biology. That was the message that Harvard University professor E.O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one of America's leading intellectuals, delivered to a somewhat skeptical audience of the nation's historians, gathered recently in one of the mirrored ballrooms of the Sheraton hotel in Boston. One cannot know history, Wilson said, without knowing how human nature was shaped by hundreds of thousands of years of ''deep history.'' Wilson predicted that, armed with the latest insights from the sciences, ''a whole new generation of scholars will surprise us'' with answers to puzzles that have long bothered historians. Already researchers are finding patterns in the frequency and magnitude of wars and the jittery leaps and falls of economies. And biologists are uncovering the evolutionary roots of warfare and the types of alliances and betrayals that drive politics and palace intrigue. This is the stuff of history. Indeed, that the American Historical Association, holding its 115th annual meeting in town this month, would sponsor a session on ''bio-history'' was another sign that scientific insights are playing an increasingly influential role in the humanities, scholars said. Even the study of English literature, seemingly far from the purview of the scientific method, has been shaken up by new statistical techniques that can identify the authors of poems and novels written anonymously. But as science has made inroads, it has also brought anger - Wilson once had a pitcher of ice water dumped on him at a conference - and charges that scientists, made arrogant and giddy by the stunning advances of the last three decades, have come to believe that, eventually, they will be able to explain everything. Understanding the biological roots of behavior ''may eventually get you a long way with individuals, for biographies,'' said Daniel J. Kevles, a historian of science who spoke from his office as a visiting professor at Yale University. But ''it will [still] be impossible to understand how large groups like nation states behave'' because the calculations involved would be hopelessly complicated. ''I don't think you need biology to understand the origins of World War II,'' Kevles added. But bringing biological insight to other fields, in sometimes surprising ways, has been Wilson's life work. Inspired by a childhood watching the intricate behavior of ants and other creatures, Wilson built a career in biology and, in 1975, he changed the field. With the book, ''Sociobiology,'' published to both acclaim and ridicule that year, he argued that human behavior could be understood by studying our animal brethren and explained, in part, by our genetic inheritence. With ''bio-history,'' Wilson and his sympathizers say that, far from trying to start a new academic war, they are trying to bring together disparate disciplines that aren't usually on speaking terms. For example, it wasn't long ago that historians were grappling with a seemingly simple question: Why did Europeans develop sophisticated technology and invade the Americas, instead of the other way around? Then, in his 1997 book, ''Guns, Germs, and Steel,'' UCLA School of Medicine professor Jared Diamond argued that one of the explanations was ecological. Europe was home to far more plants and animals (such as pigs and cereals) that were easy to domesticate, making agriculture - and thus the kind of civilization that brings rapid technological advance - move much faster. More controversial among historians, especially liberal historians, has been the suggestion that there is a human nature, with instincts and predilections honed in the Stone Age, that powerfully shapes the flow of history. Wilson cited several examples of cultural patterns, such as the way people describe color or the incest taboo, that seem the same across the planet. These same patterns can affect how people from kings to slaves to revolutionaries behave, and how, over time, societies reinvent themselves. In a book called ''Ubiquity'' to be published in the United States this year, physicist Mark Buchanan argues that many phenomena, from earthquakes to financial markets to wars, obey a mathematical law called a ''power law'' that precisely describes how likely events of a certain magnitude are. This law makes it possible to predict how, over time, a system will behave, but not when a particular event - be it a war or an earthquake - will happen. His work is an outgrowth of what is known as ''chaos
[CTRL] Science Stunned by Virgin of Guadalupe's Eyes
-Caveat Lector- http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/0101/ZE010114.htm#1820 (internal) Science Stunned by Virgin of Guadalupe's Eyes Engineer Sees a Reflection, Literally, From a Scene in 1531 ROME, JAN. 14, 2001 (ZENIT.org) .- Digital technology is giving new leads in understanding a phenomenon that continues to puzzle science: the mysterious eyes of the image of Virgin of Guadalupe. The image, imprinted on the tilma of a 16th-century peasant, led millions of indigenous Indians in Mexico to convert to the Catholic faith. Last week in Rome, results of research into the famed image were discussed by engineer Jos Aste Tonsmann of the Mexican Center of Guadalupan Studies during a conference at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum. For over 20 years, this graduate of environmental systems engineering of Cornell University has studied the image of the Virgin left on the rough maguey fiber fabric of Juan Diego's tilma. What intrigued Tonsmann the most were the eyes of the Virgin. Though the dimensions are microscopic, the iris and the pupils of the image's eyes have imprinted on them a highly detailed picture of at least 13 people, Tonsmann said. The same people are present in both when human eyes reflect the objects before them. Tonsmann say he believes the reflection transmitted by the eyes of the Virgin of Guadalupe is the scene on Dec. 9, 1531, during which Juan Diego showed his tilma, with the image, to Bishop Juan de Zumrraga and others present in the room. In his research, Tonsmann used a digital process used by satellites and space probes in transmitting visual information. He insists that the image "that has not been painted by human hand." As early as the 18th century, scientists showed that it was impossible to paint such an image in a fabric of that texture. The "ayate" fibers used by the Indians, in fact, deteriorated after 20 years. Yet, the image and the fabric it is imprinted on have lasted almost 470 years ago. Tonsmann pointed out that Richard Kuhn, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, has found that the image did not have natural, animal or mineral colorings. Given that there were no synthetic colorings in 1531, the image is inexplicable. In 1979, Americans Philip Callahan and Jody B. Smith studied the image with infrared rays and discovered to their surprise that there was no trace of paint and that the fabric had not been treated with any kind of technique. "[How] it is possible to explain this image and its consistency in time without colors, on a fabric that has not been treated?" Tonsmann asked. "[How] is it possible that, despite the fact there is no paint, the colors maintain their luminosity and brilliance?" Tonsmann, a Peruvian engineer, added, "Callahan and Smith showed how the image changes in color slightly according to the angle of viewing, a phenomenon that is known by the word iridescence, a technique that cannot be reproduced with human hands." The scientist began his study in 1979. He magnified the iris of the Virgin's eyes 2,500 times and, through mathematical and optical procedures, was able to identify all the people imprinted in the eyes. The eyes reflect the witnesses of the Guadalupan miracle, the moment Juan Diego unfurled his tilma before the bishop, according to Tonsmann. In other words, the Virgin's eyes have the reflection that would have been imprinted in the eyes of any person in her position. In the eyes, Tonsmann believes, it is possible to discern a seated Indian, who is looking up to the heavens; the profile of a balding, elderly man with a white beard, much like the portrait of Bishop Zumrraga, painted by Miguel Cabrera, to depict the miracle; and a younger man, in all probability interpreter Juan Gonzlez. Also present, Tonsmann believes, is an Indian, likely Juan Diego, of striking features, with a beard and mustache, who unfolds his own tilma before the bishop; a woman of dark complexion, possibly a Negro slave who was in the bishop's service; and a man with Spanish features who looks on pensively, stroking his beard with his hand. In a word, the Virgin's eyes bear a kind of instant picture of what occurred at the moment the image was unveiled in front of the bishop, Tonsmann says. Moreover, in the center of the pupils, on a much more reduced scale, another scene can be perceived, independent of the first, the scientist contends. It is that of an Indian family made up of a woman, a man and several children. In the right eye, other people who are standing appear behind the woman. Tonsmann ventured to express why he believes the Virgin's eyes have a "hidden" message for modern times, when technology is able to discover it. "This could be the case of the picture of the family in the center of the Virgin's eye," he says, "at
[CTRL] HUNDREDS SEE 'JESUS' ON MUSLIM'S HOUSE
-Caveat Lector- HUNDREDS SEE 'JESUS' ON MUSLIM'S HOUSE http://www.lineone.net/newswire/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi/new_wire/pa_world/story/2001/1/c--2001-1-16-1n28.html 13:46 Tuesday 16 January 2001 Hundreds of Christians in Indonesia have gathered around a house in the capital Jakarta to catch a glimpse of what they say is an apparition of Jesus Christ. Christians claim the stained white wall in front of a small house, which is owned by a Muslim, shows Jesus looking towards heaven with outstretched hands. However, not everyone in the crowd was convinced. Some people said they could not see anything on the wall, which is discoloured with light brown water marks. The house's Muslim owner, Ajum, said the image first appeared last night. He said: "I do not mind Christians believing it is an image of Jesus and crowding around the house but I would prefer if they did not hold midnight prayer vigils." The sightings coincide with a wave of attacks aimed at Indonesia's Christian minority. On Christmas Eve, bomb blasts which ripped through churches in nine cities killed at least 15 people and injured scores of others. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation. Christians make up less than 10% of the country's 203 million people. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
