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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 85
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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[Following first appeared as "Conspiracy for the Day", 11/02/93]
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[From Pacifica Radio]
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ANNOUNCER: ...in the spirit of Halloween, political commentator
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Jim Hightower says what really scares him are the terrifying
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policies backed by the ghouls on Capitol Hill.
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HIGHTOWER: It's Halloween. [chilling laugh] The night the
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tormented souls roam the land. Demons ascend from the boiling
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depths of Hades. Grotesque goblins shriek in the darkness.
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Animals talk in human tongues and unspeakable monsters stalk our
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homes.
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Trick or treat? [maniacal laughter]
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The horrors of this Halloween are not in the little, costumed
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tricksters who will knock at your doors after sunset, but in the
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*real* scaries; the things that really *do* go bump in the night:
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Like the hundreds of vampire lobbyists for insurance companies,
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drug makers, and doctors who are *creepily crawling* over the
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health reform bill in Washington -- each one trying to sink fangs
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into the neck of the bill and draw out the lifeblood of reform.
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[ghastly moan]
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Or the ghosts of American corporations, like Nike, which takes
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billions out of our economy, yet has no factories here, no
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manufacturing jobs, and no presence except Michael Jordan flying
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through the air. But wait! Now he's gone too.
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Then there's that witches brew of toxics in our soil and water,
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homes and food. Double-double, toil and trouble, fire burn and
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cauldron bubble! Chemical stews of dioxins, lead, PCBs, benzine,
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chlordaine -- you name it. Yet of the 620 pesticides on the
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market, government regulators have thoroughly tested only 19.
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It's a frightening scene at our national door this Halloween.
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First come those ghoulish economists and other humbug-ologists
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chanting that America is enjoying an economic recovery. Yet each
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and every workday another 2300 people are handed pink slips,
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joining the line of millions of Americans trudging down the
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economic ladder from the middle-class to the "barely hanging on"-
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class.
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And look! Stealing through the shadows, stalking every home, and
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*still* demanding payment is that ancient, bone-chilling skeleton
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from one of Washington's darkest closets: the multi-billionist
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dollar savings and loan bailout. [piercing scream]
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And spooks? Right there on our porch are hundreds, nay thousands
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of spooks from the CIA! Despite the end of the Cold War, the
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fall of the Berlin Wall, and the general call for all spooks to
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come in from the cold, President Clinton's CIA budget is not
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going down but up. Up! The spook agency now wants to become a
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spying operation for U.S. corporations.
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[eerie sound]
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So go ahead. Answer your door and face the demons. Here comes
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Frank Lorenzo, the gruesome airline wrecker from Halloweens past,
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now trying to get his hands on yet another airline. And there's
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the junk bond finagler, Michael Milken, who's now teaching
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"creative finance" at UCLA. And who's this? Why it's the new
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Republican leadership team in Washington: Bob Dole and "the
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Knute" -- Newt Gingrich.
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This is Jim Hightower saying, "Now that's *really* scary."
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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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