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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (671105)	2/4/2005 5:04:34 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This from Little Green Footballs. NBC Reporter Was on U.N. Lobby Payroll. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) Linda Fasulo, the U.N. correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, has written a pro-U.N. book, An Insider’s Guide to the U.N., which reads like the U.N. paid for it. Actually, the pro-U.N. lobby paid for it. In a monstrous conflict of interest for a supposed straight news reporter, Fasulo acknowledges Ted Turner’s U.N. Foundation and Better World Campaign for “their generous financial support” of her book project. She also thanks the Rockefeller Brothers Fund “for helping to fund the project.” The book is about “one of the finest and most important governing bodies,” she says. Of the U.N. chief, she writes like a school girl with a crush. “It is hard to find anyone who can mount a serious criticism of [Kofi] Annan’s performance as Secretary General,” she claims. His performance is so “impressive” that she wonders if a “cult of personality” has risen up around him. One U.S. official is reported to be “astonished by just how good a Secretary General Kofi Annan has been.” The book is also full of praise for the pro-U.N. lobby, including the groups that made the book possible. Alluding to Ted Turner’s financial gift to the U.N., she writes that “For those of us who haven’t made our first billion, an excellent way to participate (at least indirectly) is to join” the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA). Fasulo also praises the Business Council for the U.N. (BCUN), a division of UNA-USA, as a group that “reaches out to the private sector” with a pro-U.N. message. These connections figure prominently in the scandal enveloping Paul Volcker, appointed by Annan to head the “independent inquiry” into the U.N.’s oil-for-food scandal. His “interim findings” may be released on Thursday. As noted by Jonathan Hunt of Fox News and Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation, Volcker was a board member of the BCUN, a group partly funded by BNP Paribas, the French bank that handled all oil-for-food transactions. Gardiner notes that BNP donated more than $100,000 to UNA—USA and the BCUN in 2002 to 2003. Why would an NBC reporter (who also reports on the U.N. for National Public Radio) take money from the U.N. lobby? Perhaps because longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw put his stamp of approval on the UNA-USA and BCUN by acting as master of ceremonies at their 2001 Global Leadership Dinner. Not surprisingly, Brokaw is listed on the Fasulo book jacket as saying it is a “must-read.” Another endorsement of the book comes from Barbara Crossette, former New York Times bureau chief at the U.N. who now writes for U.N. Wire, a Ted Turner-funded online news service that covers the U.N.

To: sandintoes who wrote (671105)	2/4/2005 9:08:32 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"Those detainees are not US citizens!" You mean the ones at GITMO? Well I never said they were... nor was I even talking about them specifically. Was I was talking about is that the President claims for himself the 'right' to lock up anyone, anywhere, (without any legal recourse), based simply upon his assertion that someone needs to be locked up. Apparently, we are supposed to TRUST him, and... I guess... ALL FUTURE PRESIDENTS who may EVER assume the office with this power... that they will NOT EVER ABUSE THE POWER because they are all going to be 'good guys' or something. I maintain that NO President should have the rights of a Monarch, the right to lock up anyone for any length of time, simply on their say-so... and without judicial appeal. Our founding fathers would have ignited a revolution against any such government.