Compilation 1

List of Articles:

* We don't need a 'Mirabel' in Pickering -- So much for government's "long range planning"
* Multilateralism? No, Merci -- Ivory Coast
* Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President Clinton's Library
* Cesspool on the Hudson -- UN: 150 Sex Abuse Charges in Congo Peacekeeping
* Organized Crime: The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba
* Kinsey and the Sexual Revolution: Are We Better Off?

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We don't need a 'Mirabel' in Pickering -- So much for government's "long range planning"

We don't need a 'Mirabel' in Pickering Connie Woodcock, Nov. 20, 04, Toronto Sun

If you hang around long enough, almost any bad idea from the past will make a comeback. Think of all the things you disliked about the 1970s that have turned up like bad pennies in a different millennium: sideburns, windowpane plaids, the Jackson family, polyester anything.

And now there's another one: the Pickering Airport. Talk about a blast from the past.

Back in 1975, the Pickering airport project was dead and buried. Although 7,300 hectares had been expropriated and more than 1,000 families displaced, Ottawa shelved it after strong public opposition. Even the provincial government was against it at the end.

Multilateralism? No, Merci -- Ivory Coast

Multilateralism? No, Merci Lorne Gunter, National Post, Nov.22, 2004

No blood for chocolate! No blood for chocolate! No blood for chocolate!

Where are the mass protests in the streets of the world's capitals against France's military intervention in the Ivory Coast?

This month, French peacekeepers in the former French colony launched a pre-emptive assault against the Ivorian air force. They also interferred with the internal politics of the troubled nation and sought regime change -- or at least they have been accused of both by President Laurent Gbagbo.

They acted without authorization by the United Nations Security Council.

They violated both the UN Charter and the terms of the peacekeeping resolution that established their specific mission in the West African nation. [. . . . ]

What's galling is the way the French have done it all without any deference to the multilateral consensus-building they so smugly demanded of the Americans and British last year when the boots were on the other feet.

Doubly galling is the silence -- even complicity -- of the UN and the international community, which last year so sanctimoniously and vocally obstructed the invasion of Iraq. [. . . . ]

Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President Clinton's Library

Fund-raising for the Clinton Library began in 1999, while Mr. Clinton was still in office. However, the fund-raising team reportedly refrained from soliciting gifts from foreigners or foreign governments until Mr. Clinton left the White House in January 2001.

One minute they're working for the government; then, they retire and they are compensated with high paying jobs or gifts. My take on this is that Hillary is probably making a bid for the Presidency in 2008 and "gifts" entail influence. The ordinary citizen who does not contribute does not get into the inner circle of "friends" and "acquaintances", nor is he/she invited to . . . . . Frankly, the whole thing smells.

By the way, who provided the money for Pierre Trudeau's swimming pool at 24 Sussex? Or should one not ask?

Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President Clinton's Library Josh Gerstein, NYSun, Nov. 22, 04

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. - President Clinton's new $165 million library here was funded in part by gifts of $1 million or more each from the Saudi royal family and three Saudi businessmen.

The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar and the deputy prime minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1 million or more for the archive and museum that opened last week.

[. . . . ] Mr. Unger said he suspects that the Saudi support may have something to do with a possible presidential bid by Senator Clinton in 2008.

[. . . . ] The Saudi royal family and the governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar donated at this "Trustee" level [The highest tier--in the million dollars range], as did the governments of Brunei and Taiwan. Also listed as trustees are three Saudi businessmen - Abdullah Al-Dabbagh, Nasser Al-Rashid, and Walid Juffali.

Other notables at the "Trustee" level include the deputy prime minister of Lebanon, Issam Fares; Hollywood director Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, and an heir to the Wal-Mart fortune, Alice Walton.

[. . . . ] Denise Rich. Ms. Rich gave the foundation $450,000 while her fugitive ex-husband, Marc Rich, was seeking a pardon on tax-evasion and racketeering charges. Mr. Clinton granted the pardon hours before he left office, triggering a federal criminal investigation, as well as congressional inquiries.

[. . . . ] The Chinese communist government may also have chipped in for Mr. Clinton's library. The Chinese Overseas Real Estate Development company gave at the $100,000 or higher level. So did the National Opera of Paris.

Fund-raising for the Clinton Library began in 1999, while Mr. Clinton was still in office. However, the fund-raising team reportedly refrained from soliciting gifts from foreigners or foreign governments until Mr. Clinton left the White House in January 2001. [. . . . ]

Organized Crime: The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba

The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba Tom Blickman - TNI Researcher, Transnational Organized Crime Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1997, via The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba Posted by Felice on April 15, 2004

This is lengthy, detailed, documented and well worth reading.

A magnificent washing-machine is sold here, its trademark is Aruba. The machine is an Aruban-Colombian product, its model called Cartel. The brand is well-known for its good performance in the United States and Europe. It is recommended by former ministers, members of Parliament, owners of casinos, supermarkets, cosmetics manufacturers and importers of cars and batteries. The washing-machine fits everybody who has become inexplicably rich from one day to another.

The MPs of the Staten van Aruba--the Aruban Parliament--must have been bewildered when one of their own ministers smeared the good name of their island. Former minister Elio Nicolaas grins when he is reminded of his speech in 1989. (1) Finally someone had thrown a rock in the silent and complacent waters of the Caribbean tax-haven Aruba. a semi-independent part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. "I had to react," he says. "My own colleague, the Minister of Finance, denied money was laundered on the island. Nicolaas knew better. Prior to his political career he had been a police officer and had actually set up the anti-narcotics squad.

His denunciation incited strong objections in Parliament. Opposition-leader--and former Prime Minister--Henny Eman demanded his resignation. Nicolaas retorted by suggesting that Eman's election campaign was financed with drug money. Nicolaas thinks today nothing has really changed: "The island is still infested with 'narco-complacientes', people who benefit from the drug trade". "Indeed, Eman is once more Prime Minister of Aruba. "Well, did you come to write stories about our pirates island?" he asks sarcastically when we walk to his office. (2) Eman has had enough of the 'mad stories' about the Caribbean island as a 'Mafia Nest'. They are not substantiated and damaging for Aruba's good name, foreign trade and the tourist-industry, he thinks.

""Aruba's geographical position is a blessing and a curse at the same time", says Eman, alluding to the pleasant climate which attracts thousands of tourists each year, and the unpleasant closeness of the Colombian and Venezuelan northern shores which makes it vulnerable for drug-traffickers. According to Eman, Aruba is burdened with the problem of other nations: "The drug trade is not Aruba's primary responsibility. The market is in Europe and the United States. It is not our fault they cannot control their borders, that Aruba is used as a transit point." [. . . . ]

Kinsey and the Sexual Revolution: Are We Better Off?

Kinsey and the Sexual Revolution: Are We Better Off? Special Release: November 18, 2004, John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute website -- via HH -- and thanks.

A half century ago, Alfred C. Kinsey turned conventional mores on their heads by shining a spotlight on male and female sexual behaviors, deviant and otherwise. Now Kinsey is back—this time in the movie Kinsey, where actor Liam Neeson affectionately portrays the sexologist.

[. . . . ] He used this data to suggest that inhibitions about premarital sex caused unhealthy sexual relations in marriage. Although the initial reception to the book was positive, however, many also criticized it. “It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America,” Billy Graham pronounced.

[. . . . ] The shock value in Kinsey’s work was to be found in the variety of sexual experiences he reported, as well as the explicit nature of the research itself. In compiling an inventory of garden-variety sexual code breakers, Kinsey eagerly sought out groups whose members operated in the shadowlands of America. Here he found homosexuals, sadomasochists, voyeurs, exhibitionists, pedophiles, transsexuals, transvestites and fetishists of various stripes. However, Kinsey’s later critics have often pointed out that his methodology and data were flawed and that the people he interviewed may have lied, exaggerated or remembered inaccurately.

[. . . . ] A nation addicted to polls and public opinion allowed Kinsey’s research to dictate its morals. Kinsey, however, was not alone in affecting the moral landscape. Numerous factors contributed to changing sexual mores in American society. Activists such as Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and cultural movements laid the groundwork for the change in sexual behavior. World War I also impacted sexual behavior. Even more dramatic cultural change occurred with World War II and its devastating effects on sexual mores. Added to these factors was Kinsey’s clinical approach, which would remove the mystery of sexual behavior and its connection to the institution of marriage.

Ideas have consequences in the way we live and act, both in our personal lives and in the culture as a whole. And half a century later, we see the consequences of the work of Kinsey and others. Besides the escalation in divorce and the unsettling residue of broken families, we continue to deal with the AIDS epidemic, a surge in sexual openness and a catastrophic confusion regarding sex and gender roles.

Bowling For 22 Minutes

Bowling For 22 Minutes Kate, Small Dead Animals

What does Carrolyn Parrish have in common with Michael Moore, aside from rabid, seething hatred for America?

Michael Donovan - The producer of This Hour Has 22 Minutes was also co-producer of the Canadian location rich Bowling For Columbine. Bowling was produced by the government subsidized and recently defunct Salter Street Films.

[. . . . ] In his cozy little government-funded Trudeaupian paradise, Donovan and his ilk have never understood that American bashing isn't "comedy", and never was. What he's experiencing is the backlash of Canadians who are fed up having their tax dollars used to support Canadian content arts/media welfare cases.