-"No Blood for Oil"- Kojo & Kofi: Unbelievable U.N. stories.

various FR links | 03-12-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[nopardons]

A well deserved one. :-)

You always have so much news/interesting things to read, that I bookmark just about eveything you have a hand in.

[backhoe]

Again, thanks... and a Tip O' the Hat to you--

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103298/posts
Turtle Bay’s Carnival of Corruption (Important)
NRO ^ | 3/21/04 | Claudia Rosett

[Spotsy]

People who say "no blood for oil" do not understand energy. Oil is the most precious commodity on the planet. Oil makes the world go round, and in order to keep our lifestyle in America, we better be willing to shed blood for oil.

I have an idea - let's use electricity for everything - it comes out of the outlets in my walls in endless supplies!!! /serious sarcasm

For those people who insist on believing that all US policy and action is geared toward OIL - ?! - I tell them to mentally replace oil with the world's food supply - would you fight to get your hands on some of that food? Oil is just as vital as food.

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104208/posts
U.N. STALLING IRAQ GOV'T PROBE OF $ECRET OIL ACCT.
New York Post ^ | 3/24/04 | NILES LATHEM

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104917/posts
U.N. LET SADDAM ROB US BLIND: KURDS
New York Post

[backhoe]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1105428/posts
PENTAGON AUDIT CONFIRMS $LICK SADDAM OIL GRAFT
New York Post ^ | 3/26/04 | NILES LATHEM

[backhoe]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1106432/posts
UN chiefs probed in giant Iraq oil scam
The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | 3/28/04 | Robert Winnett

[backhoe]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1107024/posts
Kofi Annan: Judge, Jury and Executioner?
NewsMax.com ^ | 3/28/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[backhoe]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1107024/posts
Kofi Annan: Judge, Jury and Executioner?
NewsMax.com ^ | 3/28/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107204/posts
Follow-Up to Kofigate (Oil for Food UN Scandal)
The New York Times ^ | March 29, 2004 | William Safire

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107299/posts
3,000 U.N STAFFERS PROBED--U.N.'s Spies, Terrorists, Thieves and Bums
NY Post via Newsmax ^ | 03.29.04 | NILES LATHEM

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

self ping

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109150/posts
How Saddam Bribed the UN
American Enterprise Institute via FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 4/01/04 | Newt Gingrich
This story is going to run and run-- the records are imaculate.

[mewzilla]

Wow, I missed that one. Thanks so much for all this work! And I'm glad that someone's looking at more than the money angle. As bad as that is, that's the least of it.

[backhoe]

Thanks- the UN does indeed have a lot more corruption than mere money & oil:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107496/posts

The U.N.- Menace to Freedom, Firearms, and Sovereignty?
various FR links | 03-29-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[kittymyrib]

It's not ANWAR that is the answer to our shortage. The answer is getting CA and FL to drill in their off-shore oil fields as TX and LA have done for 40 years. The selfish citizens of those two states are keeping their water clean so they don't get tarballs on their swimsuits, as we in the Gulf coast have learned to live with all these years so that you can drive to work and go on vacation. I wish gas would go to $20/gal for Californians and Floridians. In fact, the federal government leased most of FL off-shore leases soon after Bush took office. Why can't the government declare a national emergency and start drilling on their holdings there? No state is more equal than any other state, and I think the federal government controls all the waters three miles off-shore. Someone needs to start drilling, or we need to go full-bore to make all the automakers sell only hybrid cars that get 60mph by 2006, including SUVs. The Japanese have done all the research on this already, and surely it wouldn't take long to copy what's there. Saudi Arabia just declared economic war on the US and we'd better do something except complain about it.

[SauronOfMordor]

The carribou actually LIKE the pipeline. The oil needs to be heated to flow. The warm pipeline is a good place to snuggle when it's a cold,-50F, winter night. Carribou populations have been going UP due to fewer freezing in winter

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109945/posts
OIL FOR PALACES
New York Post ^ | 4/02/04 | ANDREW APOSTOLOU

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110009/posts
KOFI ANNAN'S CORRUPT ENTERPRISE
New York Post ^ | April 2, 2004 | Editorial
Ouch! This might hurt Clintigula's chance at being head of the U.N. Poor baby...