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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 09
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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FEDS CRACK DOWN ON FREON DEALERS
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By The Spotlight staff
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(The Spotlight, Jan. 27, 1997)
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A powerful family with historic ties to
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the drug racket has lots of clout at the
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Justice Department. What's that have to
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do with your air conditioner?
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During the 1996 presidential campaign, the Bronfman family and
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their Seagrams liquor empire were the largest contributors to
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both the Republican and Democratic National Committees.
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Through their other major holdings -- such as the DuPont
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Corporation and the media giant, Time-Warner -- the Bronfmans
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exercise additional clout and throw around further political
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money.
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Undoubtedly, they've got lots of clout. Some cynics suspect that
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a recent Justice Department initiative just might have something
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to do with Bronfman family clout in official Washington. Here's
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the story -- and it affects your daily life:
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For generations, refrigerators and air conditioners used
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chlorofluorocarbon (CFC-12) gas -- popularly known as "Freon" --
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as the method of refrigeration. Freon was -- and is by far --
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the cheapest refrigerant on the market.
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Some years ago, however, the media began beating the drum against
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Freon, saying it was dangerous to the Earth's ozone layer. Then,
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lo and behold, the Bronfman family-controlled DuPont Chemical
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company announced the creation of a Freon substitute called SUVA
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that is supposedly non-hazardous to the environment. In 1995,
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the federal government then banned the production of and
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importation of Freon into the United States, although one state
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-- Arizona -- has defied the federal ban.
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As a consequence of all of this, refrigerators and air
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conditioners will have to stop using Freon and will have to
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switch to SUVA, which costs more than 40 times as much as Freon.
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This will bring immense profits to the Bronfman family and it
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will cost you money. According to researcher Donald Ruddy, "it
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absolutely will not work in your present Freon-charge machines."
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(Spotlight, March 18, 1996).
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In other words, somebody is also going to make a lot of money
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when you have to have your refrigerators and your air
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conditioners re-conditioned to accept SUVA. You're going to have
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to pay lots of additional money to have that done or else you're
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going to have to buy new refrigerators and air conditioners using
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SUVA after the Freon supply runs out.
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It's very simple -- and profitable.
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Now, the Clinton administration, flush with re-election thanks to
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a big boost from the Bronfman empire, is cracking down on Freon
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smugglers. In early January Attorney General Janet Reno proudly
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announced the arrest of a dozen chlorofluorocarbon smugglers
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(although Miss Reno's record in nailing drug smugglers in Miami,
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where she served as state's attorney, was less than stellar).
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Instead of cracking down on drug smugglers, federal agents are
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now targeting Freon smugglers. Some in Washington even expect
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the CIA to get involved.
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The irony of all this is immense. After all, the Bronfman family
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made their millions smuggling alcohol and drugs in league with
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Meyer Lansky, "chairman of the board" of the international crime
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syndicate.
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Lansky is dead and gone, but the Bronfman heirs have gone "legit"
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and plowed their family wealth into respectable corporations such
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as DuPont. So now the Bronfman clout is being used to crack down
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on DuPont's competition. As we said, it's very simple.
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