[CTRL] Agents allege corruption among senior FBI officials

-Caveat Lector- USA: Agents allege corruption among senior FBI officials (The Miami Herald, 19/07/01, http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/national/digdocs/099940.htm) http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list.

[CTRL] House panel steamed at CIA's lack of cooperation

-Caveat Lector- House panel steamed at CIA's lack of cooperation By Tanya N. Ballard The director of the Central Intelligence Agency declined to testify before a joint committee hearing Wednesday that explored the agency's lack of responsiveness to congressional inquiries from outside the House

[CTRL] Star Wars, Inc.

-Caveat Lector- Masters of War: Corporate Ties of Top Defense Appointees and Key Star Wars Lobbyists Exposed! Here in living color is a complete rundown of the Bush regime's defense department and the key lobbyists for the Star Wars scheme. It reads like a who's who of defense pork corporations.

[CTRL] U.S. Citizens Found in Serbia Grave

-Caveat Lector- U.S. Citizens Found in Serbia Grave http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010713/aponline092000_000.htm By Dragan Ilic Associated Press Writer Friday, July 13, 2001; 9:20 a.m. EDT NIS, Yugoslavia -- Documents on the bodies of three males found in a mass grave in easte

[CTRL] COPA Dallas Regional Meeting Nov 22-25

-Caveat Lector- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 From: copa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: COPA Dallas Regional Meeting Nov 22-25 COPA ANNUAL REGIONAL MEETING, 2001 DALLAS, TX, NOVEMBER 22-25 Hotel Lawrence (formerly Paramount) 302 South Houston St. (off Dealey Plaza at Commerce) COPA discount rate $59 sin

[CTRL] Exporting Bloodshed

-Caveat Lector- St. Louis Post-Dispatch July 16, 2001 Exporting Bloodshed THE face of war has changed. No longer is it a weathered man in a helmet, piloting a jet fighter or driving a tank in an organized regiment. Now it is just as likely the face of a child, toting an assault rifle through a

[CTRL] COLOMBIA: Outsourcing War

-Caveat Lector- http://www.public-i.org/story_03a_071201.htm NOTE: This is just one part of a larger report recently released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. To go their webpage and look at the full report go to www.icij.org Special Report COLOMBIA Outsourcing War

[CTRL] The Florida Election Was 'Fundamentally Corrupt'

-Caveat Lector- Fundamentally corrupt? Evidence mounts that GOP used every trick in the book By Eric Alterman MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR July 15 -- Following an exhaustive, six-month investigation featuring 24 reporters interviewing more than 300 voters in 43

[CTRL] Study Says 2000 Election Missed Millions of Votes

-Caveat Lector- July 17, 2001 Study Says 2000 Election Missed Millions of Votes By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE New York Times A look at the controversial overseas absentee vote, and its possible impact on the 2000 Election. A new study of the 2000 presidential election has found that 4 million to 6 m

[CTRL] National Security Agency names new CIO

-Caveat Lector- National Security Agency names new CIO By George Cahlink The National Security Agency Tuesday tapped Richard Turner, former chief information officer for the Federal Trade Commission, to oversee the intelligence agency's information systems. Turner, who has held key IT position

[CTRL] Morgue set up for G8 summit

-Caveat Lector- Morgue set up for G8 summit Unprecedented violence anticipated by Julian Coman and Robert Fox from The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 15 July 2001 ROME -- Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has ordered securit

[CTRL] 'Crazy Medicine' From Burma Worries Thai Officials

-Caveat Lector- 'Crazy Medicine' From Burma Worries Thai Officials DOI KIU HUNG, Thailand - In the Golden Triangle, Southeast Asia's poppy-growing heartland, drug warlords have begun producing large quantities of a methamphetamine known as "crazy medicine" that is rivaling the tr

[CTRL] LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACHTUNG!

-Caveat Lector- LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACHTUNG! by Brian Onley, antiMatter columnist July 15, 2001 "Take our cameras away and only twits will have cameras..." --National Covert Surveillance Association For a long time now, surveillance ima

[CTRL] The state is more powerful than ever

-Caveat Lector- http://pilger.carlton.com/print/67484 The state is more powerful than ever; the view that big business alone shapes the new world order is wrong. by John Pilger :09 Jul 2001 There is a view fashionable in the media that the world is being taken over by huge multinational corp

[CTRL] The Media Is the Mess

-Caveat Lector- The Media Is the Mess By Robert Parry July 17, 2001 The belated discovery that George W. Bush's campaign applied two disparate standards for counting overseas ballots in Florida liberal for Bush strongholds and stringent for co

[CTRL] The Wired Left Awakens

-Caveat Lector- [See website for embedded links.] July 12, 2001 The Wired Left Awakens AlterNet leads a resurgence of progressive news sites By J.D. Lasica, OJR Senior Columnist Will a handful of big corporations control virtually all the n

[CTRL] GUN CRIME 'ROSE AFTER HANDGUN BAN'

-Caveat Lector- GUN CRIME 'ROSE AFTER HANDGUN BAN' A pro-gun lobby group has attacked the government over laws that made handgun ownership illegal, after a study it commissioned found that the criminal use of handguns went up by 40% in the two years after the weapons were banned. A study commiss

[CTRL] The Shocking Menace of Satellite Surveillance

-Caveat Lector- >From Pravda, http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/07/14/10131.html 2001-07-14 by JOHN FLEMING THE SHOCKING MENACE OF SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE Unknown to most of the world, satellites can perform astonishing and often menacing feats. This should come as no surprise when one refle

[CTRL] Italian police raid Revolutionary United Front chief arms supplier

-Caveat Lector- Sierra Leone: Italian police raid Revolutionary United Front chief arms supplier AFP2001071152 Freetown Concord Times (Internet Version-WWW) in English 9 Jul 01 [Unattributed article: "Italian Police Nab RUF's Chief Arms Supplier"] Italian police have raided the modest

[CTRL] U.S. Presses Belgrade to Explain Execution of 3 Americans

-Caveat Lector- U.S. Presses Belgrade to Explain Execution of 3 Americans PRISTINA, Kosovo - The Bytyqi brothers are the first Americans to turn up in a Serbian mass grave. "Believe me, this is going to be a very important case for us," the U.S. chief of mission in Yugoslavia, Wi

[CTRL] Genoa defends forbidden city from global protest

-Caveat Lector- http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,522008,00.html Genoa defends forbidden city from global protest Jails have been emptied and hospitals are on alert. Rory Carroll watches Italy prepare to welcome the G8 leaders and their enemies Sunday July 15, 2001 The Obser

[CTRL] Summit city sealed off to foil terrorists

-Caveat Lector- Summit city sealed off to foil terrorists Sunday, July 15, 2001 By Ahmed Rashid in Washington http://www.smh.com.au/news/0107/15/world/world1.html European and American intelligence agencies are carrying out a manhunt for Algerian terrorists funded by Osama bin Laden amid fears

[CTRL] (OC Weekly) Crack Cop

-Caveat Lector- _ CRACK COP FBI documents link an ex-Laguna cop and drug runner to an Irvine executive with ties to the CIA _ O.C. WEEKLY Orange County

[CTRL] Police 'spotters' to target EU summit demonstrators

-Caveat Lector- Police 'spotters' to target EU summit demonstrators Fri, 13 Jul 2001 : British police hooligan "spotters" are to be used at future EU summits to help single out known troublemakers at "peaceful" protests. The tactic, already routine at soccer matches around the world, is being

[CTRL] Drug War on Trial Going to Trial Next Week

-Caveat Lector- Drug War on Trial Going to Trial Next Week http://www.drcnet.org/wol/194.html#drugwarontrial In one of the most important first amendment cases hitting the courts in recent years, Al Giordano of the Narco News bulletin (http://www.narconews.com) and Mexican newspaper Por Esto

[CTRL] Bank Pres Drags Journalist into NY Court Over Drug Expose

-Caveat Lector- Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory For Immediate Release: July 12, 2001 Contact: Cindy Cohn, EFF Legal Director, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +1 415 436-9333 x108 Will Doherty, EFF Media Relations, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +1 415 436-9333 x111 Bank Pres Drags Journalist in

[CTRL] Ashcroft Terrified by Terrorism

-Caveat Lector- Ashcroft Terrified by Terrorism By Declan McCullagh Wired.com July 12, 2001 WASHINGTON -- It's been just one month since Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing, and U.S. officials are trying to prevent similar disasters. At a government summit on Wednesday,

[CTRL] Italian arsenal on hand for G-8 meeting

-Caveat Lector- http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=994948619415&call_page=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World&col=968350060724> Jul. 12, Italian arsenal on hand for G-8 meeting Thousands of troops, ships an

[CTRL] Outing Torturers

-Caveat Lector- Outing Torturers http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/torture.html Activists in Argentina and Chile are making sure former dictators and their collaborators don't enjoy an anonymous retirement. by Casey Woods and Jonathan Franklin June 27, 2001 BUENOS AIRES -

[CTRL] Missiles to protect summit leaders

-Caveat Lector- Missiles to protect summit leaders http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,519925,00.html Rory Carroll in Rome Wednesday July 11, 2001 The Guardian Italy has installed a missile defence system at Genoa's airport to deter airborne attacks during next week's G8 summi

[CTRL] Secret Genetic Testing Done On Workers?

-Caveat Lector- >From WEWS via Yahoo!, http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wews/20010710/lo/852857_1.html Tuesday July 10 Secret Genetic Testing Done On Workers? CLEVELAND, July 9, 2001 -- What does your boss really know about you? It may be more much more than you think. In Monday's Special Assign

[CTRL] Boycott everything

-Caveat Lector- 07-09-01 Boycott everything By William Rivers Pitt www.onlinejournal.com "The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, cons

[CTRL] The Declining Terrorist Threat

-Caveat Lector- July 10, 2001 The Declining Terrorist Threat http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/10/opinion/10JOHN.html By LARRY C. JOHNSON WASHINGTON -- Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They s

[CTRL] Looking Back at Election 2000

-Caveat Lector- Looking Back at Election 2000 Two Attorneys/Authors Review Supreme Court's Role in Presidential Election 2000 NEW YORK, July 9 — The Supreme Court's decision in Bush vs. Gore confounded some critics in the field of law. Two of them, Alan Dershowitz, author of Supreme Injustice a

[CTRL] New York's "Subway Gunman" runs for mayor

-Caveat Lector- July 9, 2001, 1:44PM New York's "Subway Gunman" runs for mayor By ELLEN WULFHORST Reuters NEW YORK -- He's got name recognition any politician would envy, his views need little publicity, and plenty of New Yorkers do a double take when they see him in the street. All that coul

[CTRL] FBI won't OK book that criticizes bureau

-Caveat Lector- FBI won't OK book that criticizes bureau -- The FBI has been holding-up publication of a former veteran agent's manuscript critical of the bureau's handling of fundraising scandals and national security-related cases. Bureau employees are supposed to submit

[CTRL] Future Soldiers May Eat Different Kind of Chips

-Caveat Lector- >From AppleLink, http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2001/07/20010705231004.shtml - Comments: Future Soldiers May Eat Different Kind of Chips Thursday, July 5, 2001 By Senior Editor John H. Farr An Associated Press article at SiliconValley.com discusses futuristic projects some

[CTRL] International Bookburning in Progress

-Caveat Lector- ((___)) cDc communications [ x x ] & HACKTIVISMO \ / "A Special Message of Hope" (' ') July 4th, 2001 (U) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INTERNATIONAL BOOKBURNING IN PROGRESS [July 4, 2001 - LUBBOCK, TX.] Free speech is under siege at the margins of the Internet. Quite a few countries ar

[CTRL] SOMALIA: Amid war, famine, selling guns 'guarantees my family will be fed'

-Caveat Lector- http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/today/news_b394a405f34431dc005c.html Page 1/A Section July 9, 2001 SOMALIA: Amid war, famine, selling guns 'guarantees my family will be fed' SPECIAL REPORT: SMALL ARMS, MASS DESTRUCTION Margaret Coker - Staff Monday, Ju

[CTRL] The 10 worst countries in the world

-Caveat Lector- The 10 worst countries in the world NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL July 9 issue * Benighted nations that plumb the depths of state oppression, poverty and all-round misery. 1. NORTH KOREA A vast gulag where citizens are forced to worship their 'Great Leader,' who lets

[CTRL] Colombia War Highlights Arms Trade

-Caveat Lector- ASSOCIATED PRESS Sunday, 8 July 2001 Colombia War Highlights Arms Trade -- By Nick Rosen BOGOTA -- The smuggling operation showed how fueling a war in Colombia can be nearly as easy as stepping into a Miami gun shop. Colo

[CTRL] Conspiracist Jim Marrs Revealed

Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 From: Eileen Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Conspiracist Jim Marrs Revealed : ...WBAI producer Bill Weinberg offers this excellent analysis of right-wing conspiracist, Jim Marrs, whose book was recently offered by Marjorie Moore as a premium in WBAI's last fund drive. 

[CTRL] Religious Groups Attacking Corporate Avenger Lyrics

-Caveat Lector- 07-02-2001 Religious Groups Attacking Corporate Avenger Lyrics New York, NY- July 2, 2001: Corporate Avenger was dealt another blow this week when lyrics on their upcoming album ignited a rampage within a few national Christian groups

[CTRL] Research creates army of the future

-Caveat Lector- from the Seattle Post-intelligencer Research creates army of the future Biotechnology used for super foods and 'smart' uniforms Friday, July 6, 2001 By REX W. HUPPKE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Trudging through a thick, muggy jungle, the soldier remains cool,

[CTRL] Cops want to know more about Condit's ties to Hells Angels

-Caveat Lector- Cops want to know more about Condit's ties to Hells Angels Saturday, July 07, 2001 By Timothy J. Burger and Helen Kennedy New York Daily News http://chblue.com/Article.asp?ID=1935 Investigators searching for missing intern Chandra Levy are probing Rep. Gary Condit's ties to the

[CTRL] Friends Don't Care

-Caveat Lector- https://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=2181 July 4, 2001 Friends Don't Care by Michael Z. Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can be your best friend. Not because I care, but because I don't. I don't care what church, if any, you go to. I don't care if you

[CTRL] Military Units On Hand Or On Call For The 2000 Gop Convention

-Caveat Lector- Ready For Anything? Military Units On Hand Or On Call For The 2000 Gop Convention On Location: -Eighty bomb disposal teams and 35 explosive detection dogs assigned to the Secret Service. -Seven Army biological advisory and assessmen

[CTRL] Military role grows on home front

-Caveat Lector- Military role grows on home front 'Mission creep' becomes a domestic issue By Robert Windrem PHILADELPHIA As Republicans gathered here last August to nominate George W. Bush for president, a drama played out in secret locations ac

[CTRL] Stench Warfare And Stink Bombs-U.S. Secret Weapon?

-Caveat Lector- Stench Warfare And Stink Bombs-U.S. Secret Weapon? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010705/od/arms_usa_stench_dc_1.html Thursday July 5 2:32 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is developing a stink bomb to drive away enemy troops or hostile crowds, the magazine New Scientist

[CTRL] Growing surveillance sparks concerns about freedom

-Caveat Lector- Growing surveillance sparks concerns about freedom -- Across the U.S., authorities are increasingly photographing and tracking people in public places, ostensibly in order to deter crime and monitor conduct. Advocates of privacy and liberty are worried, wit

[CTRL] UN investigates to see if gun enthusiasts' protest is security threat

-Caveat Lector- Associated Press - July 5, 2001 U.N. investigates to see if gun enthusiasts' protest is security threat The United Nations is investigating whether e-mails and letters it has received from irate American gun enthusiasts protesting an upcoming conference on the illicit trade in s

[CTRL] Stamping Out the Bad Guys

-Caveat Lector- "Stamping Out the Bad Guys" eWEEK (06/18/01) Vol. 18, No. 24, P. 53; Moad, Jeff The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) implemented the first phase of its Compliance Monitoring and Anti-Money Laundering System in June 2000, which has cost the organization about $5 million and three years

[CTRL] Cyber terror in the Air

-Caveat Lector- http://www.securityfocus.com Cyber terror in the Air Ancestral voices are prophesizing infowar again, and netizens may be falling for it. By Kevin Poulsen June 30, 2001 11:00 PM PT According to a study released last week, seventy-five percent of Internet users around the world

[CTRL] Govs Use Your Net Service to Spy on You

-Caveat Lector- Govs Use Your Net Service to Spy on You http://cryptome.org/DIRT-bags.htm Cryptome 4-Jul-01 THE DIRT ON BIG BROTHER HE CAN USE YOUR NET SERVICE TO SPY ON YOU http://cryptome.org/DIRT-bags.htm Spies can bust into your computer without leaving their office. By Alex Roslin NOW

[CTRL] England turning into a surveillance state

-Caveat Lector- England turning into a surveillance state http://www0.mercurycenter.com/business/top/031893.htm BY DAN GILLMOR Mercury News Technology Columnist LONDON -- It's always a bit weird to celebrate Independence Day in the nation from which my country rebelled. The British who note it

[CTRL] "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

-Caveat Lector- "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglass, 5 July 1852 "Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political f

[CTRL] Straw condemns riot at Cyprus base

-Caveat Lector- RIOT AT BRITISH ARMY BASE ON CYPRUS An attack on a British military base in Cyprus was today condemned as "completely unacceptable" by the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw. British soldiers and military police clashed with angry protesters who had stormed the Akrotiri base la

[CTRL] Spy base invaded again

-Caveat Lector- MENWITH HILL PROTESTS CONTINUE FOR SECOND DAY Protests against the US's proposed stars war system continued for the second day today, as six further Greenpeace activists infiltrated the high-security Menwith Hill spy base. Around 20 broke in this morning but most were captured and

[CTRL] Pentagon Role in Africa May End

-Caveat Lector- Pentagon Role in Africa May End Training Program Put Under Review By Douglas Farah Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, July 3, 2001; Page A16 BUNDASE TRAINING CAMP, Ghana -- U.S. Special Forces trainers strode up and down the firing line here one recent morning

[CTRL] Hitachi weaves chip into paper money

-Caveat Lector- >From ZDNet, http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,s2090580,00.html Hitachi weaves chip into paper money 3rd July 2001 by Matthew Broersma A tiny identity chip could have massive implications for security - and also for your privacy Hitachi has developed a chip that could be woven

[CTRL] Timothy McVeigh's Teachers

-Caveat Lector- TIMOTHY MCVEIGH'S TEACHERS Oklahoma City Bomber Took a Lesson from U.S. 'Foreign Policy' by Howard Zinn; historian and author of A People's History of the United States. Now that Timothy McVeigh has been put to death, and

[CTRL] A New Declaration of Independence

-Caveat Lector- A New Declaration of Independence by Emma Goldman [Published in Mother Earth, Vol. IV, no. 5, July 1909.] When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the peopl

[CTRL] The health impact of crowd-control agents

-Caveat Lector- Public Health: The health impact of crowd-control agents Canadian Medical Association Journal, date unknown http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-164/issue-13/1889.asp Some observers say that the civil disobedience demonstrated in Quebec City this April and in Seattle 2 years ago represent

[CTRL] Non-Lethal Weapons: Calmatives and Malodorants

-Caveat Lector- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 From: The Sunshine Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Sunshine: Non-Lethal Weapons: Calmatives and Malodorants The Sunshine Project Publication Announcement 2 July 2001 http://www.sunshine-project.org - Non-Lethal Weap

[CTRL] Palast: Why the Lights Went Out All Over California

-Caveat Lector- Published on Sunday, July 1, 2001 in the Observer of London Why the Lights Went Out All Over California by Gregory Palast Napoleon called England a nation of shopkeepers, but the Little Corporal never tried to purchase dietary staple

[CTRL] Smart beds, shirts and cars spark privacy concerns

-Caveat Lector- From: GILC Alert Volume 5, Issue 4 June 26, 2001 Global Internet Liberty Campaign Newsletter. Smart beds, shirts and cars spark privacy concerns Various new products may allow you to be monitored wherever you go-whether yo

[CTRL] Tampa Installs High-Tech Security Cameras

-Caveat Lector- Tampa Installs High-Tech Security Cameras to Scan Crowds for People Wanted for Arrest http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAXR31BNOC.html The Associated Press Published: Jul 1, 2001 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Tampa is using high-tech security cameras to scan the city's streets for people wan

[CTRL] Anti-Globalization Protesters Rally

-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsday.com/ap/international/ap592.htm Anti-Globalization Protesters Rally by MARSHA HILL Associated Press Writer SALZBURG, Austria (AP) -- With helicopters circling overhead, riot police clad in black, full-body armor faced off against masked protesters Sunday as Euro

[CTRL] ICI Pulls Out of Cocaine War

-Caveat Lector- ICI Pulls Out of Cocaine War : THE OBSERVER International News Sunday, 1 July 2001 http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,515255,00.html Antony Barnett and Solomon Hughes ICI has pulled out of the controversial US project to spray vast areas of Colombia with herbic

[CTRL] New police unit will spy on would-be killers

-Caveat Lector- July 1 2001 BRITAIN New police unit will spy on would-be killers http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/07/01/stinwenws01028.html? David Leppard AN elite team of detectives and psychiatrists is being set up by police to target would-be killers and stop them before the

[CTRL] The Measure of Power

-Caveat Lector- The Measure of Power By Alan Leo June 28, 2001 Non-intrusive load monitoring gives detailed views of where power is going, with payoffs for utilities, customers and maybe Big Brother. California's winter of rolling blackouts left its citizens outraged, its utilities in crisis

[CTRL] Top Censored Stories of 2000

-Caveat Lector- TOP 25 CENSORED STORIES OF 2000: http://projectcensored.org/cyearbook.htm INTRODUCTION: PROJECT CENSORED 25TH ANNIVERSARY By Noam Chomsky http://projectcensored.org/c2001stories/intro.html 1: World Bank and Multinational Corporations Seek to Privatize Water http://projectcen

[CTRL] Group says it will move human cloning work offshore

-Caveat Lector- Group says it will move human cloning work offshore June 29, 2001 By Miriam Falco CNN Medical Producer (CNN) -- A group trying to clone a human being said Friday it will move part of its cloning operations outside the United States after it was told by the federal government to

[CTRL] EU Ratifies Internet Surveillance

-Caveat Lector- http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44890,00.html EU Ratifies Long Data Retention By Steve Kettmann 11:20 a.m. June 28, 2001 PDT BERLIN -- Privacy advocates are decrying a move this week by the Council of the European Union to give European police broader access to informatio

[CTRL] Pentagon investing in lasers, gizmos

-Caveat Lector- Pentagon investing in lasers, gizmos http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1044142,00.html> by Jim Wolf Washington - The American defense department said on Tuesday it was pouring billions of research dollars into high-energy lasers, microwav

[CTRL] Noam Chomsky: Behind the Headlines on Colombia

-Caveat Lector- http://www.media-alliance.org/mediafile/20-3/chomsky.html Volume 20 # 3 May / June 2001 Noam Chomsky: Behind the Headlines on Colombia an interview by David Barsamian DB: Talk about evolving U.S. policy in Colombia. The Interhemispheric Resource Center in Albuquerque has i

[CTRL] HE'S BAAACK: Elliot Abrams

-Caveat Lector- HE'S BAAACK: Elliot Abrams, a key figure in the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal, was named yesterday to a senior position on the National Security Council. Abrams's notorious history will be familiar to many Nation readers. Not only did he plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of

[CTRL] How the NSA is monitoring you

-Caveat Lector- Thursday June 28 How the NSA is monitoring you http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010628/tc/how_the_nsa_is_monitoring_you_1.html> By Robert Vamosi, AnchorDesk Security expert Robert Vamosi says you may not be aware of it, but the government is monitoring your e-mail, looking for

[CTRL] Intelligence Needs for Homeland Defense

-Caveat Lector- DoD Secrets: Homeland Spying, Precision Targets Cryptome 17:05 27-Jun-01 http://cryptome.org/dsb062701.txt Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html [Federal Register: June 27, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 124)] [Notices] [Page 34177] From the Federal Register Onl

[CTRL] Pentagon trains tech for war

-Caveat Lector- Pentagon trains tech for war : http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2780115,00.html Reuters June 26, 2001 8:09 AM PT WASHINGTON--The Defense Department said on Tuesday it was pouring research dollars into high-energy lasers, microwave systems and a host of other advanc

[CTRL] National Security Agency: Enemy of the state?

-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23342 WorldNetDaily Exclusive SUNDAY JUNE 24 2001 SUNDAY Q&A National Security Agency: Enemy of the state? Geoff Metcalf interviews author James

[CTRL] U.S. hypocrisy on state terrorism

-Caveat Lector- U.S. hypocrisy on state terrorism 22 June 2001 Gregory D. Johnsen http://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-25/opin/us_hypocrisy_on.htm It took a little over one month for the United States to make a mockery of its own report on global terrorism. The State Department's 2000 Report on Gl

[CTRL] Chomsky's proof

-Caveat Lector- Online Journal - http://www.onlinejournal.com 06-25-01: Chomsky's proof By William Rivers Pitt "The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control-'indoctrination,' we might say-exercised through the mass media." -

[CTRL] U.S. supplies abusive regimes

-Caveat Lector- U.S. supplies abusive regimes http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.journal24jun23.column?coll=bal%2Dhome%2Dheadlines Merchant: The United States, which leads the world in arms sales, provides weapons used against civilians, a nonproliferation group says. By Jay Hancoc

[CTRL] San Angelo, Texas: Home of Spies

-Caveat Lector- San Angelo, Texas: Home of Spies : http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44578,00.html By Bill Lamb 2:00 a.m. June 25, 2001 PDT SAN ANGELO, Texas -- As president of the chamber of commerce, it is Michael Dalby's job to be this city's biggest civic booster, always available t

[CTRL] With out a pie, Kim disses Kissinger--to his face!

-Caveat Lector- Subject: Without a pie, Kim disses Kissinger--to his face! From: "Viviane Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 : > From: Kim Scipes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Folks-- I don't normally engage in individualistic-type actions, and generally don't promote them, by I'

[CTRL] Students criticize Nyack High safety rules

-Caveat Lector- > Students criticize Nyack High safety rules > > By RANDI WEINER THE JOURNAL NEWS > (Original publication: June 21, 2001) > > Students at Nyack High School could be barred from walking > to their cars to retrieve forgotten books during school > hours and would have to wear

[CTRL] Majority of web users are FBI agents posing as teenage girls

-Caveat Lector- HUMOR! SURVEY: MAJORITY OF WEB USERS ARE FBI AGENTS POSING AS TEENAGE GIRLS Washington, D.C. — The Internet reached a demographic milestone this week as a new study revealed that for the first time, the majority of U.S. Internet users are FBI agents posing as teenage girls. http:

[CTRL] [radtimes] # 205

-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 205 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- Send $$ to RadTimes!! --> (See ** at end.) -

[CTRL] The New Terrorist International

-Caveat Lector- radman pull quote: "So far the Anarchist groups that plague the regular multi-national Governmental meetings in Europe and the USA have remained nothing more than a major irritant, but in a sinister move, terrorists are now known to be trying to infiltrate these groups an

[CTRL] Biotechnology promises major advances for U.S. Army

-Caveat Lector- >From Eurekalert!, http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/pu-bpm062001.html Contact: Emil Venere [EMAIL PROTECTED] 765-494-4709 Purdue University Biotechnology promises major advances for U.S. Army WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A report being released today (Wednesday, 6/20) recommends t

[CTRL] Professor's warning on warfare

-Caveat Lector- >From This is Bradford, http://www.thisisbradford.co.uk/bradford__district/bradford/news/BRAD_NEWS6.html> Professor's warning on warfare by Kanchan Dutt A leading warfare expert will tomorrow tell a major conference that genetic research is opening up the door for a new range

[CTRL] Mercenaries; Messiahs of Terror

-Caveat Lector- Mercenaries; Messiahs of Terror Expo Times (Freetown) June 8, 2001 Posted to the web June 8, 2001 http://allafrica.com/stories/200106080012.html Issa A. Mansaray Vienna, Austria The 'Mercs' as they are known for short, prefer to be called 'military consultants,' or 'military ad

[CTRL] The Day That Anarchy Came To Lithia Springs

-Caveat Lector- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 From: "M.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Day That Anarchy Came To Lithia Springs by Rob Moody Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections whic

[CTRL] Cyber War Declared on World Bank

-Caveat Lector- Published on Wednesday, June 20, 2001 in the Guardian of London Cyber War Declared on World Bank by John Vidal and Charlotte Denny Protesters threatened last night to use "cyber sit-ins" to derail a high-profile development

[CTRL] Failing the Perception Test

-Caveat Lector- Failing the "Perception Test" PBS routinely ignores its own rules in allowing conservative/Republican propagandists surreptitious, unacknowledged access to its network This article reprinted with the permission of Current, where

[CTRL] Robots raise issue of what 'alive' is

-Caveat Lector- >From The News Observer, http://www.news-observer.com/monday/business/Story/508038p-505358c.html - Published: Monday, June 18, 2001 3:43 a.m. EDT Paul Gilster Robots raise issue of what 'alive' is If you're a science-fiction buff, you've heard of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of R

[CTRL] Surveillance company moving hub to Denver

-Caveat Lector- Surveillance company moving hub to Denver http://denver.bcentral.com/denver/stories/2001/06/18/story8.html Amy Bryer Business Journal Staff Reporter NICE Systems, a global recording and surveillance company based in Israel, is consolidating most of its North American offices in

[CTRL] EU Gov'ts Call For Strict Measures Against Anti-Global Protestors

-Caveat Lector- EU Gov'ts Call For Strict Measures Against Anti-Global Protestors By Patrick Goodenough CNSNews.com London Bureau Chief June 18, 2001 London (CNSNews.com) - European governments are considering urgent steps to ensure better security at forthcoming international summits, after a

[CTRL] Americans Blamed in Colombia Attack

-Caveat Lector- Published on Friday, June 15, 2001 in the San Francisco Chronicle Americans Blamed in Colombia Attack by Karl Penhaul, Chronicle Foreign Service San Francisco Chronicle BOGOTA -- Three American civilian airmen providing airborne security for a U.S. oil company coordinated an

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