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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 51
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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NEWS ROUND-UP -- 03/24/96
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This Editor-in-Chief job ("I couldn't find a real job, so I made
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myself Editor-in-Chief!") has its own rhythms. Some days the news
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is flying in and I'm swamped with work, other days things are
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slow. For the moment, things are slow so I thought I'd do a "news
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round-up", a summary of various items. I wish I could guarantee
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this as a regular feature, but like I say, this job has its own
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rhythms.
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BOSNIA? WHAT'S THAT?
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There used to be a country called Yugoslavia, made up of
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smaller countries called "Republics". Not sure why, maybe the
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death of their BIG LEADER TITO, maybe the re-unification of
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Germany and subsequent German expansionist impulses into Croatia
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(one of the "Republics" of the former Yugoslavia), but now
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Yugoslavia is split up and the various peoples, Republics, and
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religions therein are having a bloody feud, like there used to be
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with the Hatfields and the McCoys here in the U.S.
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So about last November, Bill Clinton (maybe he was high on
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cocaine at the time) suddenly has a BIG push that we must send
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U.S. troops to the former Yugoslavia NOW! NOW! NOW! Hurry up! Do
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it right away! Like a whirlwind suitor, Clinton dragged the
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leaders of the various Yugoslav factions to Dayton, Ohio and "lit
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a fire under their pants" that made them hurry up and sign the
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damn agreement -- pronto. Clinton was in a big hurry all of a
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sudden to put our troops on the ground over there. It was like
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someone had "lit a fire" under *his* pants. He got the factions
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to sign an agreement, mobilized the troops, and then basically
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said "Congress can rubber stamp this or not, but I'm King Clinton
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and I'll do as I please!"
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In the first rush of events, before the press had been
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coached into how to cover the story, it was being reported that
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the 1-year limit on U.S. involvement in the region was "just for
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public consumption" -- in other words, it was a lie! The press,
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caught off-guard, actually let some truth slip out at first.
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Estimates (apparently *not* for "public consumption") were for a
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5-year U.S. involvement in the former Yugoslavia.
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Now, in an article in the London Telegraph (03/22/96,
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electronic version), we learn that, according to the Pentagon,
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"Bosnia is likely to revert to the chaos and bloodshed of civil
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war once the 55,000 soldiers of Ifor [mostly U.S. soldiers], the
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NATO-led peace-keeping force, are withdrawn at the end of the
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year."
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The article points to the "Muslim-Croat Federation",
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controllers now of part of Bosnia (one of the Republics), and
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says that "diplomats in Sarajevo already admit that the
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federation is a sham."
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Two of the pistol-packing antagonists are entities known as
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BOSNIAN CROATS and BOSNIAN SERBS. One wonders how it was that the
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late BIG LEADER TITO managed to keep them peaceable in the past
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-- maybe that's why they used to call him "Marshall" Tito.
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Says the London Telegraph: "The Pentagon assessment
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concludes, 'the prospects for the existence of a viable, unitary
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Bosnia beyond the life of Ifor are dim.'"
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And, according to the Telegraph, "This is tantamount to
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saying that the Dayton accords, which committed all parties to
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preserving the integrity of Bosnia as a multi-ethnic nation, are
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meaningless."
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STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) -- THE SEQUEL
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Remember how, after the break-up of the Soviet Union, some
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floated the concept of a "peace dividend"? The idea was that,
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since the Soviet Union was gone, we didn't have to worry so much
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about the Soviet threat of a missile attack. This meant that we
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ourselves wouldn't need to spend so much of our tax dollars on
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anti-missile defense systems meant to defend us against such an
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attack. So, because we wouldn't be spending so much on these
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anti-missile defenses, that would free up money that could be
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spent, say, for improvements in our own infrastructure. Or, the
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freed-up money could be used to decrease our national debt. Or it
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could be used to cut taxes.
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Remember how the "peace dividend" never materialized? The
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freed-up money must have went somewhere! But we, the people,
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never saw it! Maybe it went south, down sunny Mexico way, to help
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bail them out so they wouldn't default on their debt to Wall
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Street. Maybe it got stolen by corrupt politicians and now sits,
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hidden, in secret offshore bank accounts.
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Now, according to the London Telegraph (03/22/96, electronic
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edition), Bob "I'm from Kansas" Dole wants to "require the
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Pentagon to develop a multi-billion-dollar missile defence system
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to counter the nuclear threat from rogue nations."
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So gone (apparently) is the big bad ENEMY, Soviet communism,
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and here is a new big bad ENEMY, "rogue nations." (We've also had
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an internal big bad ENEMY, the "drug menace", since at least
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1969.) The faces change, but the (expensive) danger from the big
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bad ENEMY remains the same.
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Says the Telegraph, "Mr. Dole and Newt Gingrich... yesterday
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jointly endorsed a Bill that would commit the government to
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building a system capable of defending all 50 American states
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from a limited missile attack by the year 2003." But what are we
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supposed to do between now and then? Should we go to Oz, just
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like another Kansan, named Dorothy?
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I WON'T TELL IF YOU WON'T
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Back before the Republican landslide in the November 1994
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elections, the then-Democratic Congress stonewalled attempts to
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dig into, for example, the strange death of Vincent Foster, Jr.,
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and the Mena dope and money-laundering corruption.
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Then, when the Republicans gained control of the Congress
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after the November 1994 elections, many of us were hoping that
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"Now, with a Republican majority, we'll get an honest
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investigation." In fact, that was probably part of why the
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Republicans did so well in November of '94: many of us naive
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folks thought an honest investigation would ensue.
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But we found out, thanks to sources such as Strategic
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Investment newsletter and Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens'
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Committee to Clean Up the Courts that -- surprise, surprise --
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the Republicans are also crooked. See, for example, CN 4.15 where
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we learned that
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Skolnick's sources had previously indicated to him that there
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was a stalemate in efforts to bring this story out; that the
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Democrats and Republicans, both being "dirty" in the Iran-
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Contra/Mena imbroglio, had come to an impasse where an "I
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won't tell if you won't tell" situation was in effect.
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We now find that the big deal Washington Times seems to have
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discovered this also -- but over a year later. In an article
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posted to Internet bearing the heading "The smoking guns"
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(Washington Times, March 18, 1996, by Paul Craig Roberts), the
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Washington Times wonders, "if the Republicans also have something
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to hide."
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The Times informs us that (shock, gasp), "What Whitewater
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seems to come home to is the laundering of drug money." True,
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notes the tame, "conservative" newspaper, the Senate Democrats
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have used the filibuster to block a continuation of the
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Whitewater hearings. "Yet, there is nothing to stop Republicans
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from going ahead with Whitewatergate hearings but their own
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wimpishness. The Banking Committee, the Judiciary Committee
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[Orrin Hatch], and a number of other committees and subcommittees
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could easily claim oversight and investigatory jurisdiction. One
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can't help but wonder why the Republicans don't just get down to
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work."
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So are you then thus saying, Washington Times, that the
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Republicans maybe themselves have "dirty laundry"?
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Here's a scoop for Washington Times: When Mr. Whipple tells
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his customers, "Don't squeeze the Charmin," if you'll look and
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notice very carefully -- *he* *himself* *is* *squeezing* *the*
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*Charmin*! Even whilst he is admonishing his customers not to
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squeeze the Charmin! (I just thought you might not have noticed
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that.)
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I-MAN INFERNO
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(Thanks to Matt Drudge)
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Don Imus, a popular radio personality, hosted the Radio and
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TV Correspondents Dinner recently. Our own beloved Prez Billy
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Jeff of Arkansas and his wife Hillary were in attendance.
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Imus, it is said, told "off-color" jokes that were
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embarrassing to the royal President and wife. "The White House,"
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notes the Drudge Report, "was so hurt and bruised by Imus that a
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call was placed by [White House press secretary Mike] McCurry to
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the C-SPAN cable-tv network." McCurry reportedly "requested" C-
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SPAN not re-broadcast the dinner. (Maybe with the Communications
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Decency Act, McCurry could have just said Imus was "indecent" and
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then *ordered* C-SPAN not to re-broadcast.)
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Anyway, I would love to know what jokes the Clintons didn't
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like to hear. If anybody knows some/all of them, and can send
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same to bigred@shout.net, my thanks.
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Maybe one of the jokes went something like this:
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Q: How many Branch Davidian children does it take to screw in
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a light bulb?
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A: It doesn't matter! Bill Clinton cut off their electricity!
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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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