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Bill Clinton Wins a Grammy
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| Feb. 8, 2004
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Posted on 02/08/2004 9:17:49 PM PST by FairOpinion
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) won a Grammy Award on Sunday, but not for his famed saxophone playing.
Clinton was honored in the spoken word album for children category for a project he worked on with fellow winners, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Italian screen siren Sophia Loren (news).
None of them was at the ceremony to pick up the award for "Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks."
Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton (news - web sites), was nominated in the spoken word album category for the audiobook version of her bestselling memoirs "Living History," but she lost to satirist Al Franken's "Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right."
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Clinton narrates wolf-friendly Peter and the Wolf Thursday, September 04, 2003
LOS ANGELES Sergei Prokofiev's musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf is popular with children but not with wolf lovers, and two former world leaders Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev aim to put that right in a new recording.
They have teamed up in a new recording that couples the tale with a contemporary version featuring the same two protagonists but a very different ending.
Prokofiev's version ends with Peter capturing the wolf and leading a triumphant procession to the zoo, paining music-loving environmentalists with romantic visions of wolves in the wild.
In the new version, narrated by former U.S. president Clinton and called Wolf Tracks, Peter again captures the wolf but this time repents of his act and releases the animal, who howls a grateful goodbye.
"Forgetting his triumph, Peter thought instead of fallen trees, parched meadows, choked streams, and of each and every wolf struggling for survival," Clinton narrates. "The time has come to leave wolves in peace."
French composer Jean-Pascal Beintus wrote the score for the new wolf-friendly version, while former Soviet leader Gorbachev provides an introduction and epilogue.
"In Prokofiev's classic, man dominates, but Wolf Tracks expresses quite different values of balance and tolerance. All of us hope for a future where these values are lived every day," Gorbachev said.
Italian actress Sophia Loren narrates Prokofiev's traditional tale, which features the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano. It is to be released on the PentaTone Classics label on Sept. 23.
Part of the proceeds will go to the New Yorkbased Wolf Conservation Center, which supports the reintroduction of wolves into the wild.
The accompanying booklet includes an article supposedly written by a wolf.
"On behalf of all wolves, I would like to thank Kent Nagano and the Russian National Orchestra, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Sophia Loren for coming together to make this recording," the wolf writes.
To: FairOpinion
This man has no honor and doesn't deserve to be honored for anything.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:23:44 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: FairOpinion
None of them was at the ceremony ((is it were or was???))
Tim Robbins-Traitor Penn-Bubba-Al Frankin-Jimmy Carter.I see a pattern here. Hate America win awards.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:26:11 PM PST
by
Brimack34
To: FairOpinion
The Grammys were on ?
Well, I am not upset I missed them, that is for sure.
I have a suggestion on where Bill can put his award though.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:27:43 PM PST
by
Bud Krieger
( Who is Bud Krieger?)
To: A CA Guy
Bloody Bill Clinton - American Caligula
President Clinton may be in his final year of office but he leaves in his wake a trail of allegations that, if true, would rank him alongside some of historys most notorious criminals. He has been implicated in cocaine use by none other than his younger brother Roger Clinton, himself a convicted drug trafficker. In an Arkansas State Police surveillance audio tape, obtained by freelance journalist Scott Wheeler, Roger Clinton can be heard describing how he smuggled large amounts of cocaine through airports. Most significant were his comments about the then Arkansas State Governor, Got to get some for my brother; hes got a nose like a vacuum cleaner.
This is not just groundless speculation. In 1990 Sharlene Wilson, an informant for the Seventh Judicial drug task force in Arkansas, testified under oath that she had supplied Governor Bill Clinton with cocaine. Shortly thereafter the drug task force was closed down and Wilson herself was charged with drug violations. In 1992 she was sentenced to 31 years for selling half an ounce of marijuana and $100 worth of methamphetamine. Clintons misdemeanors amount to more than drug use though, much more. One of the first things Clinton did on assuming the presidency was to appoint Patsy Thomasson - a top lieutenant of convicted drug dealer Dan Lasater - as White House chief of personnel. Clinton then installed his friend Webster Hubbel as shadow Attorney General, until Hubbel was jailed for fraud. Prior to his becoming assistant Attorney General he had been over billing clients at the Rose Law firm, in Little Rock Arkansas, where he had been a partner with Hilary Clinton.
Then we have the suicide of Vincent Foster. As reported in The SPOTLIGHT, featured in the previous edition of The Seeker, Forster had been deeply disturbed by events at Waco and had been in the process of preparing a potentially damming report. So Clinton had good reason to want him out of the way and as many suspect his death was not a suicide; eyewitness accounts by police and ambulance crew members who recovered Fosters body and official autopsy findings are distinctly at odds. One of the reasons that Clinton has been able to get away with so much is the compliance of the mainstream media. As one of the few journalists who has covered Clintons time in office with any honesty and insight, Ambrose Pritchard-Evans noted:
The Washington press corps has chosen not to report this sort of thing, of course, because it always gives more weight to the utterings of an official source, with a title, than it does to the testimony of a common citizen.
As a result Clinton has been allowed to get away with murder, almost literally. Yet he is guilty of far more. He has been implicated in rape, sexual assault, mass murder (Waco) and, as we detailed in a previous issue, War crimes in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia. Indeed it is no exaggeration to say that history may well place Bill Clinton alongside the likes of Nero and Caligula. Here then is a list of people who have been connected in some way with Bill Clinton and who have died in rather suspicious circumstances:
1) Susan Coleman: said to have had an affair with Clinton before he became President. Told friends she was expecting his child and was 7 months pregnant when she found dead with a gunshot wound to the head. Verdict, suicide.
2)Larry Guerrin: killed while investigating the INSLAW case. In brief this involved the US Justice Department using stolen software, modifying it for intelligence purposes and then selling it to foreign governments and making millions in the process.
3) Kevin Ives and Don Henry: two 16 year old boys who may have stumbled across drug running operations involving Clinton at Mena airfield in Arkansas in 1987.Initial reports, by State Medical Examiner Fahmy Malak, suggested that the boys had fallen asleep on the railway line and been crushed. However when the parents kicked up a fuss another forensic report showed Kevins skull had been crushed prior to being placed on the track whilst Don had been stabbed in the back.
4) Keith Coney said he had information on Ives and Henry deaths. Died in a high-speed motorcycle crash in 1989,said to have involved a car chase.
5) Keith McKaskle, said to have information on the Ives and Henry deaths. Stabbed to death in November 1988.
6) Gregory Collins, once again said to have information on the Ives and Henry deaths and once again killed, this time by a gunshot wound to the face.
7) Jeff Rhodes was also said to have information on the deaths of Ives and Henry.He was found on a waste heap in April 1989 with a gunshot wound to the head.
8) James Milam also had information on the Ives and Henry deaths but before he could talk too widely he was found decapitated. Once again the State Medical Examiner, Fahmy Malak, ruled the death due to natural causes.
9) Richard Winters, a suspect in the Ives and Henry case had offered to cooperate and give evidence. However he died in a robbery, which was subsequently proved to have been a set-up.
10) Jordan Kettleson was also said to have information on the Ives and Henry deaths. He was found shot dead in his pick-up in June 1990.
11) Danny Casalaro, a journalist investigating Mena airstrip, the Arkansas coke trade and INSLAW. Had warned his family that he had learnt too much and not to believe it was suicide if he turned up dead. Shortly thereafter he was found in a bathtub in the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Both his wrists had been slashed, one ten times, all his research material was missing and has never been recovered
12) Victor Raiser, the National Co-Chair for the Clinton for President campaign, died in an airplane crash in July, 1992.
13) R Montgomery Raiser also worked on the Clinton campaign and died in the same crash.
14) Ian Spiro, said to have supporting documentation for grand jury proceedings in the INSLAW case. His wife and three children were found murdered in their home in November 1992.All had gunshot wounds to the head. Ians body later was found in a car in the Borrego Desert. FBI reports concluded that he had shot his family and then committed suicide by taking cyanide.
15) Paula Grober, Clintons speech interpreter for the deaf. Killed in car smash with no other cars involved and no witnesses. She is said to have been very attractive and traveled extensively with Clinton prior to her death in December 1992. All the above died prior to Clintons inauguration in January 1993.In its aftermath the deaths not only continued but became even more numerous.
16) Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Todd McKeahan and Conway LeBleu were the only four BAFT men killed at Waco.In an autopsy performed by a private Doctor all four were found to have near identical execution style head wounds. All four had previously been bodyguards for Clinton prior to their deaths in April 1993.
17) Sgt. Brian Haney, Sgt.Tim Sabel, Maj. William Barkley and Capt. Scott Reynolds. Once again all four men had been bodyguards for Clinton prior to their deaths in a helicopter crash near Quantico, Va. Reporters were barred from the scene whilst firefighters responding to the crash had their video tapes seized and a fire cheif described a scene where, security was tight with lots of marines with guns.
18) Paul Wilcher was found dead shortly after presenting Attorney General Janet Reno with a report on Waco, death ruled to unknown causes. See extracts from the report in this issue.
19) White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster was said to have been preparing a potentially damming report on Waco at the time of his death. As reported in the previous issue he had been deeply disturbed by events at Waco and his death, in July 1993, was officially labeled a suicide..
20) Stanley Heard and Steven Dickson were members of Clintons Health Advisory Committee. Both died in an air crash in September 1993.
21) Jerry Luther Parks, Chief of Security at Clintons national campaign headquarters in Little Rock. He was shot through the rear window of his car, the killer then went to the drivers side of Parks car and pumped three more 9mm bullets into him. His family reported that shortly before his death their home had been broken into, despite a top line security system. Parks had been preparing a dossier on Clintons activities, the dossier was stolen.
22) Ed Willey, a Clinton fundraiser, was found shot dead in November 1993.Once again the death was ruled suicide. His wife Kathleen, who was working as a White House volunteer at the time, claimed that Clinton sexually assaulted her when she had approached him, distraught over the loss of her husband.
Indeed allegations of sexual assault and even rape go back a long way with Clinton.As far back as 1969 in fact when Clinton was still a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. A retired State Department employee said he believed a young English woman who claimed she had been raped by Clinton.
There was no doubt in my mind that this young woman had suffered severe emotional trauma, he said. But we were under tremendous pressure to aviod the embarrassment of having a Rhodes Scholar charged with rape. I filed a report with my superiors and that was the last I heard of it.
She is not the only woman who has accused Clinton of rape. Early in 1999 Juanita Broaddrick, an Arkansas woman who worked on Clintons campaign when he was attorney general in 1978, told NBC that he had raped her.Claiming pressure from the White House NBC shelved the report.
Then we have the case of Elizabeth Ward, a former Miss Arkansas who claimed that Clinton had forced himself on her shortly after she won the State crown. In 1999 she told an interviewer that she did have sex with him but that it was consensual; she later recanted saying that she had been threatened by Clinton supporters into claiming the sex was consensual. And still the killings go on...
23) Dr Roland Rogers a Dentist from Arkansas. Died on his way to the Sunday Telegraph in London to reveal sensitive information about Clinton in March 1994
24) Kathy Furguson, a 38-year-old hospital worker whose ex-husband was a co-defendant in the Paula Jones case. She died in May 1994, from a gunshot wound to the head, ruled suicide; curiously next to the body were several packed suitcases, as if she was getting ready to go somewhere.
25) Bill Shelton was Kathys boyfriend and an Arkansas police officer. He was found on her grave the following month with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Judged to be suicide.
26) Alan G Whither, oversaw Clintons Secret Service detail. He was transferred to a field office in Oklahoma City in October 1994.Whatever warning was given to the other BAFT agents in the building (none of whom came to work that day) failed to reach him, he died on April 19 1995 in the infamous Oklahoma City bomb blast. Incidentally the families of the victims of the blast are now preparing to sue the U.S. Government, saying it had prior knowledge of the bombing.
27) Ron Brown, Commerce Secretary died along with 35 other people on April 3,1996, in an air crash involving Airforce 2. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated and had spoken publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecuters. According to one report he allegedly told Clinton, he was not going down alone. However his death brought that possibility to an abrupt end. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the back of Browns head that resembled a gunshot wound. And we are not counting the other 35 people who died in the same crash.
28) Shelly Kelly, an Air Force stewardess was onboard the same flight, at the back of the plane, and suffered only minor cuts and bruises in the crash. Indeed she was able to board a rescue helicopter without assistance. She died later died in hospital, supposedly from a loss of blood. According to journalist Joe L Jordan, an autopsy revealed a three inch cut over her main femoral artery which was sustained over three hours after all her other cuts and bruises. Thereafter Clinton ordered the bodies of all the victims cremated.
29) Barbara Wise, a Commerce Department employee. She was found dead in her locked office, partially nude and covered in bruises, following a long weekend. Officially she is said to have died of natural causes.
30) Christine M Mirzayan, Clinton intern killed on August 1 1998.In the publicity prior to the Paula Jones law suit Newsweek revealed that a former White House staffer with the initial M was about to go public with a story about sexual harassment at the White House. Thereafter Christine was found beaten to death with a heavy object near Georgetown University, Washington.
31) Mary Mahoon was another former White House intern who was about to go public with a story of sexual harassment at the White House. Before she could though some unknown characters entered a Washington Starbucks, where she was working, and shot her dead. Her two assistants, Aaron Goodrich, 18 and Emory Evans were taken to a room along with Mary and pumped full of bullets. Mary was shot in the chest, face and back of the head, probably with silencers as nobody in the densely populated area heard anything. Even though the killers left $4000 in the cashbox untouched, the police categorized the killings as a robbery whilst acknowledging its execution style.
As reported in the previous issue of the Seeker four members of Delta Force have recently died in training accidents. They were Lt Col Anthony A. Boyles and Sgt Eric Ellingson, killed in river training accidents. Master Sgt Gaetano Cutino, killed while exiting from a helicopter. And Sgt Jamey Dimase killed while participating in marksmanship training. These were the men who had actually gone into the Branch Davidian compound at Waco and carried out the killings of 86 men, women and children. These men were hardened professional killers, yet even they had been disturbed by what they had been ordered to do and actually done. So much so that given immunity from prosecution they had been prepared to come forward and testify. Although Paul Wilcher does not name them in his report these were the very individuals whose testimony could have demolished Clintons Presidency.
The Wilcher Report was buried along with Paul Wilcher and for a while things went on as before, in other words the killings went on and on. Then in 1999 the Wilcher Report resurfaced, when Attorney General Janet Reno was told she expressed total anger. According to unnamed eyewitnesses quoted in the Drudge Report: Her face was flushed, she was clearly shaken. In the following months the four Delta Force men all died in training accidents: to quote Paul Wilcher, to silence their testimony forever.
Gennifer Flowers was a bit smarter. She had a 12 year affair with Clinton, in its aftermath her apartment was broken into and ransacked and she and her mother received threatening phone calls. Realising that she was in danger she assumed a higher profile, launched legal proceedings against Clinton and embarked on a series of media appearances. Smart girl, it was probably this that saved her life, had she not done so she too would have been on this list. Finally it should be noted that this is only a partial list, for a more comprehensive picture we would refer you to some of the sources listed below.
Sources include:
www.genniferflowers.com
Daniel Harris and Teresa Hampton,Capitol Hill Blue
Ambrose Pritchard-Evans writing in The Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph.
The Drudge Report
www.Sudden Instant death Syndrome
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:28:05 PM PST
by
FireTrack
To: A CA Guy
What can we do to protest the politicization of U.S. popular entertainment? Boycott it. Support something different: Christian entertainment, Mexican/Spanish entertainment (generally has better values).
To: doug from upland; Mia T
ping!
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:31:00 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Tick off a terrorist - Vote for George W. Bush!)
To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
ping!
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent miscellaneous ping list.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:32:52 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Tick off a terrorist - Vote for George W. Bush!)
To: FairOpinion
Clinton narrates. "The time has come to leave wolves in peace." ...said the fox as he volunteered to guard the henhouse.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:33:07 PM PST
by
lowbridge
(I can think of a punishment worse than death for Saddam, but Hillary is already married.)
To: FireTrack
You ought to have a talk with Doug from Upland. He has information out the kazoo about Clinton.
You are right, but what is far worse than anything else you wrote is he allowed China to gain missile guidance technology to be able to launch rockets at us with percision...
Means they (thanks to Clinton / Gore) can nuke any target in the USA whereas before they could not.
So in effect, Clinton / Gore could have already killed millions of us, just hasn't happened yet.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:33:57 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: FairOpinion
I'll not rest until Clintoon wins an Oscar for any number of his performances--particularly his abhorrent act at Ron Brown's funeral.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:34:00 PM PST
by
NautiNurse
(Missing Iraqi botulinum toxin? Look at John Kerry's face)
To: nutmeg
BARF
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:36:09 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: FairOpinion
I own a recording of the ORIGINAL version,which I got as a tiny child. Even on scratchy, VERY old 78s, it's better, by far, than this new PC garbage!
To: Tax Government
Mexican/Spanish entertainment generally has better values?
I think the women are dress sexually much more so than on average in our broadcasts.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:38:12 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: FairOpinion
Oh please, I just ate...
*runs to the bathroom*...
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:38:22 PM PST
by
KangarooJacqui
(Deliver us from evil... vote Conservative.)
To: FairOpinion; Wait4Truth; Publius6961; jimbo123; deadhead; Toespi; texasbluebell; Moonmad27; ...
Ping
- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) won a Grammy Award on Sunday, but not for his famed saxophone playing.
- French composer Jean-Pascal Beintus wrote the score for the new wolf-friendly version, while former Soviet leader Gorbachev provides an introduction and epilogue.
- "On behalf of all wolves, I would like to thank Kent Nagano and the Russian National Orchestra, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Sophia Loren for coming together to make this recording," the wolf writes.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:38:33 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)
To: Tax Government
What can we do to protest the politicization of U.S. popular entertainment? Boycott it. Support something different: Christian entertainment, Mexican/Spanish entertainment (generally has better values).We've seen the success of Rush and other conservatives on radio. We've seen the success of Fox News (which is more balanced than conservative), it's time for a conservative studio to enter the entertainment field. There's gotta be big money in making movies that that aren't filled to the rim with liberal propaganda and decadent trash.
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posted on
02/08/2004 9:41:07 PM PST
by
#3Fan
To: FairOpinion
Clinton was honored in the spoken word album for children category for a project he worked on with fellow winners, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev ... Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton (news - web sites), was nominated in the spoken word album category for the audiobook version of her bestselling memoirs "Living History," but she lost
to satirist Al Franken's "Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right."
To: Tax Government
A perfect example of high-value Mexican entertainment:
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