River_God Posted January 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Could Harper be partially financed with looted Hollinger money? Conrad Black (key Harper supporter and former owner of 3rd biggest media empire in the world, including the National Post and dozens of other Canadian newspapers) was working side by side with Richard Perle (architect of the Iraq Invasion, self proclaimed Darth Vader, and key pupeteer behind the Bush administration) Both of these guys are being indicted over conspiracies involving Hollinger International The amount of money stolen by Black and his cohort David Radler amounted to $400m, a staggering 95.2% of Hollinger’s net income for that period. Hollinger went from being an expanding business to becoming a company whose sole preoccupation was generating current cash for the controlling shareholders (This same treasury plundering happened in the USA when the neo-cons came to power (through massive military corporate welfare schemes including the pseudo-defence shield), and it will happen to Canada if Harper is elected), As a result of his involvement on Hollinger’s executive committee, uber-neoconservative Richard Perle, ‘The Prince of Darkness’, sometime Chairman of the Pentagon Defence Policy Board, may soon find himself out of pocket to the tune of 5 MILLION DOLLARS Hawkish author Tom Clancy (Patriot Games and The Hunt for Red October) "almost came to blows" with Richard Perle. "Perle was saying how Colin Powell was being a wuss because he was overly concerned with the lives of the troops," Clancy said. "And I said, 'Look ..., he's supposed to think that way!' And Perle didn't agree with me on that. People like that worry me." Richard Perle QUOTES If the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules. We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dog Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Shady: No, it's not anything like welfare. These companies (people and families when you get down to it) actually do work for their money. Big difference. Yeah: they produce hideously expensive, completely impractical products on the public dime. Nice "work" if you can get it, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River_God Posted January 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Shady:No, it's not anything like welfare. These companies (people and families when you get down to it) actually do work for their money. Big difference. Yeah: they produce hideously expensive, completely impractical products on the public dime. Nice "work" if you can get it, I suppose. Is Harper’s support for the defense shield his way of paying back American neo-cons for backing him in the election? Could Harper be partially financed with looted Hollinger money? Conrad Black (key Harper supporter and former owner of 3rd biggest media empire in the world, including the National Post and dozens of other Canadian newspapers) was working side by side with Richard Perle (architect of the Iraq Invasion, self proclaimed Darth Vader, and key puppeteer behind the Bush administration) Both of these guys are being indicted over conspiracies involving Hollinger International The amount of money stolen by Black and his cohort David Radler amounted to $400m, a staggering 95.2% of Hollinger’s net income for that period. Hollinger went from being an expanding business to becoming a company whose sole preoccupation was generating current cash for the controlling shareholders (This same treasury plundering happened in the USA when the neo-cons came to power (through massive military corporate welfare schemes including the pseudo-defence shield), and it will happen to Canada if Harper is elected), As a result of his involvement on Hollinger’s executive committee, uber-neoconservative Richard Perle, ‘The Prince of Darkness’, sometime Chairman of the Pentagon Defence Policy Board, may soon find himself out of pocket to the tune of 5 MILLION DOLLARS Hawkish author Tom Clancy (Patriot Games and The Hunt for Red October) "almost came to blows" with Richard Perle. "Perle was saying how Colin Powell was being a wuss because he was overly concerned with the lives of the troops," Clancy said. "And I said, 'Look ..., he's supposed to think that way!' And Perle didn't agree with me on that. People like that worry me." Richard Perle QUOTES If the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules. We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argus Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Could Harper be partially financed with looted Hollinger money? No. The source of funding of the political parties is always well known - well, except for the Liberals, who apparently get at least a portion of their funding in brown paper bags delivered across the tables in small Italian diners - and in free services, including legal services, from those who know they will later be rewarded by the eventual government. A recent assessment of donations shows: the Conservative Party has a base of individual donors that is much larger than the other four parties the Liberals have many more donors donating more than $1,000 than all the other parties combined Donations of under $200 made up 77.0% of Conservative money Donations of under $200 made up 11.2% of Liberal money Donations of under $200 made up 17% of Bloc Quebecois donations Donations of under $200 made up 76.2% of NDP donations Democracy Watch 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River_God Posted January 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 What the hell do you know Argus, Why won't Harper make a disclosure???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argus Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 What the hell do you know Argus,Why won't Harper make a disclosure???? Why I'm glad you asked. I know that the source of funding of the political parties is always well known - well, except for the Liberals, who apparently get at least a portion of their funding in brown paper bags delivered across the tables in small Italian diners - and in free services, including legal services, from those who know they will later be rewarded by the eventual government. A recent assessment of donations shows: the Conservative Party has a base of individual donors that is much larger than the other four parties the Liberals have many more donors donating more than $1,000 than all the other parties combined Donations of under $200 made up 77.0% of Conservative money Donations of under $200 made up 11.2% of Liberal money Donations of under $200 made up 17% of Bloc Quebecois donations Donations of under $200 made up 76.2% of NDP donations Democracy Watch 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shady Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Yeah: they produce hideously expensive, completely impractical products on the public dime.Nice "work" if you can get it, I suppose Well, airplanes, space shuttles, satellites, ships, medical and scientific research, etc, are expensive, I suppose. And yes, it definitely is nice work. Work is the key term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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