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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 64
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Eximbank) is funded
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by U.S. taxpayers. Eximbank subsidizes deals between U.S.
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corporations and foreign governments. Cost per year to taxpayers
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is $600 million. (The New American, 1/5/98)
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has something called the
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"Market Access Program" (MAP) which has spent over $1.5 billion
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in the past 10 years helping pay advertising costs for
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multinational corporations like McDonald's, Sunkist, and Gallo.
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(The New American, 1/5/98)
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To date, the committment of U.S. troops to Bosnia has cost $8
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billion. Yet nowhere do we hear, "We can't afford it." Like
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bailouts of foreign economies, sending our military to foreign
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lands as police for their internal problems is something
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axiomatically affordable. But food stamps for women with babies,
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here in the USA? =Then= we hear that "There is a national debt
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crisis."
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A past-life analysis shows 2 out of 3 corporate big shots were
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pirates in a past life. The sample consisted of 63 high-level
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executives, of which 42 had been pirates in a previous
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incarnation. (Weekly World News, 1/6/98)
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Garrison Keillor, of "Lake Wobegon Days," says that the National
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Public Radio program, "All Things Considered," has gone down the
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drain; that the "news" program has become overwhelmed by
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"precious commentators, people reminiscing about their childhoods
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and interviews with artists and writers who one sort of gathers
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are friends of the reporters." Instead of important stories,
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"All Things Considered" considers "maple syruping in Vermont" to
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be preeminent. Keillor also says that the "left" made a wrong
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turn long ago, steering away from labor issues and focusing
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instead on "symbolic cultural issues that we should have left
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alone." (The Nation, 1/5/98)
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"Chastity belts" are being sold to men sentenced to prison. They
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are designed to protect prisoners from being raped. But
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corrections officials will not allow the devices to be worn.
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(Weekly World News, 1/6/98)
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Pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome makes inhalers for
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asthmatics. But laws were planned to phase out inhalers that use
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ozone-harming propellants. Luckily for Glaxo Wellcome, a
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mysterious grassroots group, Committee to Protect MDIs, appeared
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from nowhere and fought the planned phase-out. But then, it
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turns out that the "grassroots group" is actually funded by Glaxo
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Wellcome! ("'Citizen' Groups Often Fronts for Powerful
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Interests," by Jim Drinkard, Associated Press)
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Who is behind purveyors of anti-Semitism and racism on Internet?
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We know that supposed "grassroots" organizations are sometimes
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secretly funded by wealthy corporations, as for example the Glaxo
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Wellcome situation. This phenomena of fake grassroots groups is
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called "astroturfing" and "astroturf groups." But what about
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infestation of newsgroups and mailing lists -- especially
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conspiracy-related forums -- by peddlars of hate? Do not
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automatically assume that groups like "National Socialist White
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People's Party" are just plain grassroots organizations. The
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hidden manipulators often use the dual tactic of first (secretly)
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creating the problem, then offering their "solution." And the
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purveyors of hate and racism also discredit serious researchers
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by association. Browsers arriving at alt.conspiracy get turned
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off by the spewers of hate and click-off to someplace else --
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thereby missing the wheat of impartial investigation, overwhelmed
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by the chaff of "grassroots" hate groups.
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A reporter on the staff of Weekly World News is missing, after he
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and a colleague had penetrated the top-secret Area 51 base in
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Nevada. Missing is George Sanford who, with co-worker Vince
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Sardi, wore special "night suits" to evade motion detectors and
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heat sensors when they snuck into the restricted area late at
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night. Sardi claims they made it to a giant building as big as
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two miles long. When Sanford went closer, Sardi says shots were
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fired and he panicked. Sardi escaped the situation, but Sanford
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did not. Sanford is still missing. (Weekly World News, 1/6/98)
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The USA has been sending electricity to Mexico for decades, but
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Mexico hasn't been paying the bill. The amount owed at this
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point is $182 billion. (Weekly World News, 1/6/98)
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For related stories, visit:
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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http://www.netcom.com/~feustel
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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