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"No Blood for Oil"- bribery & corruption worldwide
various FR links | 01-31-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 01/31/2004 3:41:52 AM PST by backhoe

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1 posted on 01/31/2004 3:41:52 AM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
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'.

2 posted on 01/31/2004 3:58:44 AM PST by thesummerwind (Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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To: thesummerwind
Thanks for looking... what I have on the Media--


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
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... Why? They're usually wrong. 92% voted for Clinton. Libertarians, by contrast,
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-Poll confirms Ivy League liberal tilt--

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


... 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. )

3 posted on 01/31/2004 4:05:40 AM PST by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)... the 00's? The Decade of Lunatics...)
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To: thesummerwind
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.


4 posted on 01/31/2004 4:09:26 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Belief in your own objectivity is the essence of subjectivity.)
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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
5 posted on 01/31/2004 4:11:05 AM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
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.

6 posted on 01/31/2004 4:21:04 AM PST by thesummerwind (Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
"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.

7 posted on 01/31/2004 4:26:18 AM PST by thesummerwind (Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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To: backhoe
Wow! One stop shopping! Thanks for all the work! :)
8 posted on 01/31/2004 4:32:55 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: mewzilla
Thanks for the kind words, and for stopping by.
9 posted on 01/31/2004 5:10:19 AM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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To: backhoe
Great post! Thanks for the hard work!

Bookmarked.
10 posted on 01/31/2004 8:50:06 AM PST by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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To: backhoe
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.


11 posted on 01/31/2004 9:39:58 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Belief in your own objectivity is the essence of subjectivity.)
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To: backhoe; mhking; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Ragtime Cowgirl; Calpernia; Alamo-Girl; windchime; ...
Great bumps ahoy !
12 posted on 01/31/2004 10:27:00 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (I may never have the Courage to say some words but i will always have it to say what i believe !!!)
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To: mewzilla; backhoe
Thanks for all the work! :)>>>> Well, how are you going to change, or try to change this improper reporting?
13 posted on 01/31/2004 10:38:42 AM PST by thesummerwind (Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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To: backhoe
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.
14 posted on 01/31/2004 11:11:24 AM PST by Humidston (Two Words: TERM LIMITS)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Thanks for the ping!
15 posted on 01/31/2004 11:47:47 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Thanks for adding that link- the discussions that follow an article are often more informative than the article itself.
16 posted on 01/31/2004 1:31:16 PM PST by backhoe
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To: FBD
Appreciate your looking- thanks!
17 posted on 01/31/2004 1:40:14 PM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Thanks for the pings, Atomic_Punk.
18 posted on 01/31/2004 1:43:15 PM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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To: backhoe; ganeshpuri89
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?





19 posted on 01/31/2004 2:00:37 PM PST by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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To: Humidston; thesummerwind
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.
20 posted on 01/31/2004 2:00:53 PM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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