"No Blood for Oil"- bribery & corruption worldwide

various FR links | 01-31-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068854/posts

FRENCH FOR BRIBERY
New York Post ^ | 1/31/04

I wonder if the liberal news network will be reporting this gem of an article. Looks like the jig is up for our some of our fellow liberal 'Americans'.

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068867/posts

TREASURY PROBES SADDAM'S OIL PALS
New York Post ^ | 1/31/04 | NILES LATHEM

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068596/posts

IRAQ OIL: Mother OF All Scandals: List of all Business Deals
Healing Iraq ^ | 1/29/2004 07:47:23 PM | zeyad

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068518/posts

Did ABC tamper with Iraqi bribe list? Protect Kerry?
abcnews.com ^

 

Saddam bribed Chirac.. ( 1 2 )

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067968/posts

Document: Saddam Supporters Received Lucrative Oil Contracts
ABCNEWS ^ | 01/29/04 | Brian Ross

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067836/posts

The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270
MEMRI ^ | January 29, 2004 | Al-Mada
This is the biggest scandal in years, world wide.

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067727/posts

Iraqi Paper Lists Companies And Organizations Hussein Allegedly Bribed With Oil
Radio Free Europe ^ | January 28, 2004 | Roman Kupchinsky

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067157/posts

The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270
The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers ^

 

FR posted articles on UN Food for Oil program MASTER list
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/861683/posts

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA16004

 

Click here. for an article dealing with Galloway and the accusations.

 

Here's a link with some words of wisdom from Mr. Arthur Millholland.

http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2003/5/1/121213

 

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/605fgcob.asp?pg=2

 

Scott Ritter in Pro-Iraq Movie Deal

 

8 Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac ~ Washington Times - UPI | 1/28/04
8 Saddam Stole Billions From U.N. ~ ABC News | 5/20/03 | Brian Ross and Ronda Schwartz
8 Kofi 'Annandersen' - Enron-style accounting at the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
8 Saddam's Cash  ~ The Weekly Standard  |  5/5/03 | Stephen F. Hayes
8 Press scandal: Kowtowing in Iraq ~ John Burns ~ New York Daily News  | 9/17/03 | Zev Chafets

The full article at this link may clarify this a little. MEMRI describes them as voucher-allocations awarded outside the UN Food for Oil Program.

 

GOOGLE Search Term: "GEORGE GALLOWAY"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22GEORGE+GALLOWAY%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0

 

GOOGLE Search Term: "Congressman Jim McDermotthttp://www.google.com/search?q=%22Congressman+Jim+McDermott%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0

 

GOOGLE Search Term: "Al-Khafaji"

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Al-Khafaji%22+%0D%0A&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0

 

MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE - Inquiry and Analysis Series - No.160: "THE BENEFICIARIES OF SADDAM'S OIL VOUCHERS: THE LIST OF 270" (January 29, 2004)

 

Saddam's regime helped friends beat UN oil embargo: former officials
This whole ugly disaster had better not be swept under the rug. For it's disclosure, prosecution,(especially tax fraud), and use in illustrating that the moral "No War" crowd were really just putting the rest of the world at risk in order to enrich themselves in cash and influence.

 - here's the link:

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA16004

Great Britain: George Galloway received 1 million barrels. Fawwaz Zreiqat received 1 million barrels. Zreiqat also appears in the Jordanian section as having received 6 million barrels. The Mujahideen Khalq(3) in Britain received 1 million barrels.

-MP George Galloway- voice cries "peace," hand in Saddam's till...--

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066798/posts

Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac
Washington Times - UPI ^ | Jan. 28, 2004

-more-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066436/posts

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066436/posts

Anti-War Nations 'Took Bribes' Before War Began
Independent (UK) ^ | 1-28-2004 | Anne Penketh

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066494/posts

Saddam's Web of Bribery 'Went Round the World'
The Telegraph ^ | Philip Delves Broughton and Jack Fairweather

 

 

For future reference, here's a link from June of 2000 to an organization called MiddleEastUK.com. It has an article that mentions Galloway, Scott Ritter, and another guy we may hear more about in the future: a left-wing MP named Tam Dalyell.

All heart or a pain in the neck
Guardian, UK - Apr 22, 2003
... The veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell, who was with Galloway on the trip to Iraq, insisted the Glasgow Kelvin MP was not in thrall to Saddam.

Lies and the Left
Guardian, UK - Apr 26, 2003
... What, for example, should we make of this question from Tam Dalyell, asked in Parliament
in 1998: 'Is an alternative to Saddam Hussein,' queried the man who ...
US subservience to Israel - By Fauzia Qureshi .
Hi Pakistan, Pakistan - Apr 27, 2003
... Tam Dalyell, a Labour MP and Father of the House of Commons recently remarked, that
'the Prime Minister is a war criminal and should be sent to The Hague.' If ...

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/903433/posts
Where’s the Media on Saddam’s Payoffs? (Media Refuses To Report On Bribery of British MP)
Media Research Center ^ | April 30, 2003 | Tim Graham

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/902524/posts

The Iraqi files (National Post vs UN, Galloway, France, Russia and Germany)
National Post ^ | April 29 2003

McDermott received $5,000 after leaving Baghdad.

From the same guy who financed Galloway.

So, is the European press covering these findings?

Not that it should come as a surprise to anyone, but it turns out some of the staunchest international opponents of invading Iraq -- on principle, you understand -- were up to their eyeballs in secret deals with the now deposed regime of Saddam Hussein.

 

MASTER LIST Useless Nation's Oil for Food scam + galloway

 

Saddam's Cash

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898397/posts

Nice bung-Gallow!
The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 04/23/03 | NEIL SYSON and TREVOR KAVANAGH
Wait till the Food For Oil Program information surfaces. Did you hear Rush today? Anon, Blix, et al, all had their paws in the till dipping the cream off the top. This could be fun!

[thesummerwind]

Great thread!

But, see how much of this voluminous information gets on and stays on the mainstream media. That is the rub, and why the Dems. may win the election.

It is all so clear what was going on with Iraq, but what percentage of the American voting public are going to learn of it?

Thank the evil mainstream media liars for keeping Americans in the dark and voting Democrat. The Mainstream Media is the actual, most destructive 'axis of evil'.

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking... what I have on the Media--

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/918370/posts

Creator of 'Mr. Sterling' Admits: We TV Writers Are '99% Leftist'
NewsMax.com ^ | 5/27/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Professor's Study Shows Liberal Bias in News Media

CyberAlert -- 05/07/1996 -- NQ CyberAlert
... recent Freedom Forum survey of Washington reporters and bureau chiefs revealed 89
percent voted for Clinton versus 7 percent for Bush in 1992. Do you think the ...

Great Debate#9
... opinions skew their professional writing. Nuzzo pointed out that a 1995 Freedom
Forum survey showed 89 percent of the media voted for Bill Clinton while the ...

Break up Microsoft?...Then how about the media "Big Six"? [ ...
... Why? They're usually wrong. 92% voted for Clinton. Libertarians, by contrast,
much enjoy being Right. You may (continue to?) derive your understanding of ...

-Poll confirms Ivy League liberal tilt--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/896865/posts

The Politics of Hollywood
Uncommon Knowledge ^ | July 20, 2001 | Peter Robinson

A poll by the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change in 1992, eighty-three percent of film and television writers, directors and producers voted for Bill Clinton. Eighty-three percent. The vote that Clinton received in the country at large, forty-three percent.

No Bias in Media, ha ha, tee hee

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... with a nod to Tom Sowell, I call the Media the Jackal Pack Press... or sometimes I like to point out that the Press and Entertainment divisions of the media are "Two Wings of the same Vulture..."

Nine out of ten of their members share the same leftist ideology, and swap talking points like two horny teenagers swapping spit.
( Pardon the bluntness, but that's the unwelcome image that springs to mind. )

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

But, see how much of this voluminous information gets on and stays on the mainstream media. That is the rub, and why the Dems. may win the election.

Journalism's definition is reports of novelty which interest readers/listeners. Failing to interest an audience is commercial failure, thus irrelevance.

The rules such as "if it bleeds, it leads" follow from that. The rules of journalism filter out what will be important to our posterity, and put trivia under a microscope.

But it's not true that journalists have no interest in old things; every five years we are treated to a retrospective on Watergate.

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068890/posts
The Saddam Oil Bribes: the complete al-Mada list
fbis translated text of the al-Mada Jan. 25, 2004 report | 25 Jan 04 p 4 | unattributed

[thesummerwind]

Yes.

I know there is a fine line here with what I am going to propose, but somehow we have to get back to having "The Press" do what it was intended to do by The Founding Fathers. Now if that means getting the profit motive out of it, that's what has to be tried. I don't know how this is to be done.

We, of course, can't really have a government run "Department of News". But, somehow, there has to be an effort made in this country to gert real true news to the people.

I have to go now, but would like to talk about this. It is of great importance.

Once The Media is so influential in molding political opinion, then the media RULES, and those few who own and operate the majority of the media RULE. And that's the way it is presently.

[thesummerwind]

"Journalism", "The Press", "News", "Reporting", "The News Media" .............. no matter what it is called today. "The Press", at the Founding of this nation, was to be a watchdog.

Without that "watchdog", there is no country, no real freedom.

And as old Walter used to say, "and that's the way it is" (today). There is no watchdog.

[mewzilla]

Wow! One stop shopping! Thanks for all the work! :)

[backhoe]

Thanks for the kind words, and for stopping by.

[FBD]

Great post! Thanks for the hard work!

Bookmarked.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

CyberAlert -- 05/07/1996 -- NQ CyberAlert

I tried the link, and it seems to be broken.

. . . I looked at the others. May I humbly suggest this FR thread on the subject? Not only for the article, but for some of the responses and the embedded links.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Great bumps ahoy !

[thesummerwind]

Thanks for all the work! :)>>>> Well, how are you going to change, or try to change this improper reporting?

[Humidston]

The only hope of rooting out world wide corruption will be the net. I doubt major media would touch this - They're probably in this up to their eyeballs as well.

Now I see how/why candidates spend so much on elections (on ALL levels of government)! We pawns just pick up the tab.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[backhoe]

Thanks for adding that link- the discussions that follow an article are often more informative than the article itself.

[backhoe]

Appreciate your looking- thanks!

[backhoe]

Thanks for the pings, Atomic_Punk.

[FBD]

Need info on the Chalibi newspaper.

On the other thread, (The Saddam Oil Bribes: the complete al-Mada list)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068890/posts
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^Destro is questioing the authenticity of the list. :
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Posted by Destro to ganeshpuri89; backhoe; KantianBurke; monocle; dawn53; PGalt; Rebelbase; InvisibleChurch; ...
On News/Activism ^ 01/31/2004 1:09:16 PM PST #53 of 62 ^

"This has the fingerprints of Chalabi all over it. Why are we falling for this again form that unreliable source? This is not a CIA list but a list put out by the Ministry of Oil released to a Chalabi controlled Baghdad paper. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me moment here. I am sure there is some truth to this list but bullsh*t info is always easier to sell if mixed in with some truth.
Why isn't anyone googling the name of this newspaper? Because the news is what we want to hear? That is bad intel analysis.

PS: In no place on that list is bribe mentioned-just contracts and the Chalabi newspaper is calling them (spinning them as) bribes. Which allows follow up news reporting to source this paper when they start using the word bribe. Classic disinformation campaign 101.

Why? For what reason?

Burr5 is on the right track-something does not smell right about this."

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Backhoe, do you know anything about this, and how accurate is the info?

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[backhoe]

Thanks for looking... regarding the media, a few letters to editors wouldn't hurt- or emails to the online editions with a link back to this or other posts.