He said the agreement is "benign" and simply sets the stage for military-to-
Scanlon said the actual agreement hasn't been released to the public as that requires approval from both nations. That decision has not yet been taken, he added.
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Deregulation of airlines, trucking, and railroads were done by a Democratic president, Jimmy Carter. see:
Lately, Barack Obama has been saying that major action is needed to avert what he keeps calling a "crisis" in Social Security — most recently in an interview with The National Journal. Progressives who fought hard and successfully against the Bush administration'
s attempt to panic America into privatizing the New Deal's crown jewel are outraged, and rightly so. Source: http://blog.
case.edu/ singham/2008/ 02/22/is_ there_any_ hope_for_ obama A top IBM official, Jacques Maisonrouge said, "Pandemic inflation, skyrocketing oil prices, scarcities of raw materials, disequilibrium in international payments, poor harvests, rising unemployment, high interest rates, growing fear of a global depression-these are only some of the problems bedeviling the human race," he said.
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Bill Clinton and Drug trafficking in Mena, AR
Among the places the drug trade has flourished has been Arkansas, unimpeded by curiously incurious politicians like Governor Bill Clinton who repeatedly ducked demands that he investigate what was going on at Mena and elsewhere.
Almost immediately, it became apparent that Mena enjoyed a special status. Every attempt to investigate met with interference. Investigator Russel Welch of the Arkansas Police was ordered to stay away from drug activity at the Mena Airport. Despite a public statement by then-Governor Bill Clinton that he was doing all he could to investigate allegations of CIA drug running at Mena, citizen's groups charged that funding was cut for any investigations that pointed at Mena, and petitioned the Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor to investigate drug running at Mena. He never did.
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Russell Welch.
I was a criminal investigator in the Arkansas State
Police until January 16, 1996
By 1990, I was being ordered to stay away
from apparent drug activity at the (MENA, AR) airport. Before
I was ordered away from drug activity, high ranking
officers in the Arkansas State Police were allowing
suspects to look at my files. The suspects didn't
even have to ask for access to my files. The information
was furnished to them without solicitation. One
such person is now the assistant director of the Arkansas
State Police. To say that there is corruption in the Arkansas
State Police would be an understatement. While I
was working on the Barry Seal case, uniformed state
police officers came to the Mena Airport and met
with known smugglers. I was never told why
these meetings took place.
I've had to fight a localmayor, politicians and certain businessmen who were very content to entertain narcotics traffickers at the
local airport.
The FBI notified me that they had picked up information from a wire tap in New Orleans that Seal was coming into Mena with either money
or dope.
You stated that the cases
were weak. That's not true. I'll show you in a later
response that I developed a very good conspiracy
case and Seal even told Hampton and Evans to plead
guilty to the currency transactions violations. I'll
show you part of a deposition from a deputy foreman
of the grand jury who complained that the grand
jury wanted to indict but the United States Attorney
wouldn't let them.
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Even a Congressman, US Representative Bill Alexander, whoseappeal to Bill Clinton for investigative funding was ignored, charged that he had found interference in the Mena affair from the IRS!
Angered by what appeared to be a cover up, Alexander threatened budget cuts on non-cooperative agencies, then directly challenged Richard Thornburgh,the Attorney General Of The United States, to look into Mena. Thornburgh promised he would investigate. He never did.
When special prosecutor Donald Smaltz attempted to expand his Agricultural Department probe to areas that might have revealed details of Arkansas' drug trade and some of the major people involved, Attorney General Reno turned him down.
LARRY NICHOLS: Don Tyson put in six, seven hundred thousand dollars all told in all of Bill Clinton's campaign. Guess what he got out of it? He got ten million dollars. Guess from where? The Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA). And he never paid a dime for it.
DOC DELAUGHTER: Now, I had heard rumors of Don Tyson and his alleged cocaine use and distribution. I went through the intelligence files and came up with enough that I thought was a sufficient amount of evidence to launch an investigation on Mr. Tyson simply out of the Arkansas State Police intelligence files that had been accumulating for years.
SCOTT WHEELER: (Journalist)
One particular undercover narc agent told me that another criminal investigator in that department, named Doug Fogley, was furnishing Don Tyson with photographs of the undercover narcotics agents that were working on his case.
JOHN BROWN: Donald Smaltz was actually hired to look into the allegations that Tyson had given bribes to different people, specifically to the Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy.
Now what came out of that investigation was very remarkable: drug abuse, drug distribution, money laundering, even murder for hire. Now, Smatlz collected all this stuff, he compiled it, he put it in proper order. And he approached Janet Reno and he said, "Look, I need to broaden my investigations; I'm finding more here than just simple payoffs."
He was turned down. Just exactly what we expected to happen happened. I mean, Tyson already hired lobbyists, attorneys, who all approached Congress, trying to get everybody to stop Smaltz
LARRY NICHOLS: Don Tyson was in the middle of the cocaine just like Bill Clinton, just like Dan Lasater, just like Roger Clinton and all the others. So, you see, all of this incest and all of this drug running, all of the trafficking of drugs, sending them all over the nation, came out of little Mena, Arkansas, right under the nose of little Governor Billy Clinton.
...Larry Nichols: There was a hundred million a month in cocaine coming in and out of Mena, Arkansas. They had a problem. They were doing so much money in cocaine, a hundred million, that you create a problem in a little state like Arkansas. How do you clean one hundred million dollars a month.
ADFA until 1989 never banked in Arkansas. What they would do is they would ship the money down to Florida, a bank in Florida which later would be connected to BCCI. They would ship money to a bank in Atlanta, Georgia, which by the way was later connected to BCCI. They'd ship to Citicorp in NewYork, which would send the money overseas. And there was an interesting one, a bank in Chicago. And that bank, by the way, is partially owned by Dan Rostenkowski.
Dan Lasater would get the bonds. He would become the broker for the bonds. He would transfer money back to ADFA. He never sold a bond. The money then would leave ADFA, go into one of the various banks for the specific bond loan, and they would zero it out. When they zeroed it out they were giving it back to Lasater less their handling fees."
[THE CLINTON CHRONICLES - Partial Transcript]
"Lasater was a player in the cocaine trafficking network of the Dixie Mafia........In February 1984 Lasater, accompanied by Patsy Thomasson, flew to Belize in his private jet to negotiate the purchase of a 24,000 acre ranch. The deal fell through because of a dispute with "the governor of Belize who was hard to deal with." One member of the Lasater party boorishly proposed "that the governor should be wasted."....
THE SECRET LIFE OF BILL CLINTON - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard]
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PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 1997 - The White House vendetta against the media is far more than just one of words, as ably summarized recently by Micah Morrison in the Wall Street Journal. Here's what's happened to some of those who have tried to pursue the story:
o Doug Frantz quit the LA Times over its handling of his story about what Arkansas state trooper bodyguards had to say about Clinton's activities.
o ABC's Jim Wooten took himself off Whitewater after the network killed one of his Troopergate pieces.
o Time's Richard Behar left the publication after getting involved in a dispute with Tyson Foods over a report "linking the company to cash payments alleged destined for then-Gov. Clinton." Behar went to work for Fortune but says that Time stood behind him.
o Whitewater investigative reporter Christopher Ruddy was fired by the New York Post.
o White House aides -- led by George Stephanopoulos -- have complained to WH reporters' bosses and lobbied to kill stories. In one case WH counsel David Kendall flew to New York to lobby against ABC running a piece on Clinton using state troopers to procure women. According to Morrison, "White House officials suggested that ABC correspondents look into reports that the main source for the story, Arkansas State Trooper LD Brown, had murdered his mother. The ugly allegation was false, but the ABC story never ran.
o Last year both CNN's 'Larry King Live' and NBC's 'Dateline' canceled plans to air interviews with WH FBI agent Gary Aldrich, after pressure from the Clintonistas.
o NY Daily News reporter David Eisenstadt was fired in November after filing a story about Clinton's Asian fundraising. The Village Voice reported that the Clinton campaign had complained to Mort Zuckerman, News co-publisher and frequent WH guest.
o Another Daily News reporter, Yinh Chan, has been charged with criminal libel in Taiwan after co-authoring a piece charging that a top Taiwanese official offered $15 million to the Clinton campaign.
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Israel's unjust justice system
February 22, 2008
...for example, the continued harsh
incarceration of hundreds of Palestinian lawmakers,
mayors and other elected officials now languishing in
Israeli dungeons and detention camps.
These people committed no violations, threw no stones,
and engaged in no violence. Their only "crime" is that
they had decided to contend legislative and municipal
elections that Israel itself and her guardian-ally,
the United States, approved.
Professor Aziz Dweik, the Speaker of
the Palestinian Legislative Council.
This man has an extensive educational background. He
holds three Master's degrees (in Education, City
planning and Regional Planning), in addition to his
Ph.D. in Regional and Architecture Planning which he
obtained from the University of Pennsylvania.
Upon his return from the United States in the late
1970s, he founded the Geography Department at Najah
University in Nablus where he served as the
department's head. He was the head of the Higher
Education Committee and a member of the Scientific
Research Committee at Najah University.
Dweik was abducted from his home in Ramallah nearly 17
months ago and has ever since been detained, mostly in
solitary confinement, without charge or trial.
Mr. Dweik has been imprisoned several times by Israel.
In 1992, he was one of 416 Islamic activists deported
to Lebanon.
On Wednesday, 20 February, Dweik's incarceration was
extended on instructions from Israel's main domestic
security agency, the Shin Beth, which argued that
Dweik constituted a threat to the survival and
security of Israel.
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