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From: Steve Wingate
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 04 (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 01:19:59 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Tue, 30 May 95 02:36:37 CDT
From: Brian Redman
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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 04
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 04
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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*PROJECT CENSORED*
Top 25 Censored Stories
(From *The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook* by Carl Jensen &
Project Censored. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. ISSN
1074-5998)
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#12 -- How Unocal Covered Up a Record-Breaking California Oil Spill
In the early 1950s, Unocal started using a light oil to dilute
heavy oil at their production facilities. The blend of the two
oils sped across a network of pipelines criss-crossing Unocal's
facilities. Over the years, these pipes began to leak, and the
lost oil entered the water table, with some of it seeping into
the ocean. For years, Unocal succeeded in warding off any
discovery that millions of gallons of their oil was leaking from
their pipes and into the water table. In fact, Unocal actively
worked to hide the spills.
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#11 -- The Treasury Department Ignores S&L Crimes
The Treasury Department operates FinCEN, the Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network, a database established in 1990 to help wage
the "war against drugs" by tracking the flow of narcotics money.
One might reasonably expect that this huge database would also be
used to track down the financial criminals who looted the S&Ls
and laundered the proceeds. However, the Treasury Department
apparently has decided not to use FinCEN's extraordinary
capabilities to track down the money laundered by the well-heeled
S&L crooks.
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#10 -- News Media Masks Spousal Violence in the "Language of Love"
Ann Jones, a journalism professor and author, charges that the
media are masking violence against women with the language of
love. For example, a New York City cop shot his ex-girlfriend
four times, then killed himself, and a headline read, "Tragedy of
a Lovesick Cop".
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#9 -- The Pentagon's Mysterious HAARP Project
The HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project)
project, now under construction in Alaska, is an attempt to
create an "ionospheric heater". Scientists envision a powerful
2.8-10 MHz beam to burn "holes" in the ionosphere and "create an
artificial lens" in the sky that could focus large bursts of
electromagnetic energy "to higher altitudes than is presently
possible." For a project whose backers hail it as a major
scientific feat, HAARP has remained extremely low-profile.
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#8 -- The Return of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), thought to be a disease of the past, has
surged back with a vengeance and now kills more people than any
other infectious or communicable disease in the world -- despite
the fact that it is curable. Today, TB threatens more people than
AIDS, cholera, dengue fever, and other infectious diseases
*combined*. A person who has active TB can spread the infection
simply by coughing, sneezing, etc., while another person has only
to inhale the bacilli to become infected.
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#7 -- 60 Billion Pounds of Fish Wasted Annually
As large-scale fishing technologies have taken over the
world's oceans, they have become less and less selective in their
catch. Fish too small to be taken and species not legally fished
are caught, and then thrown overboard to die. Ironically, the
federal government's efforts to manage the catch has instead led
to incredible waste, unsafe fishing practices, and economic chaos
for the industry.
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#6 -- 1947 AEC Memo Reveals Why Human Radiation Experiments Were Censored
Unethical, immoral, and illegal Cold War radiation experiments
on unsuspecting humans by the Department of Defense are now
coming to light. An April 17, 1947 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
memo reads, in part,
SUBJECT: Medical Experiments on Humans
1. It is desired that no document be released which refers
to experiments with humans and might have adverse
effect on public opinion or result in legal suits.
Documents covering such work field should be classified
"secret".
The memorandum identifies the true enemy -- "public opinion." And
the means used to defeat the enemy -- "classification".
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#5 -- Clinton Administration Retreats on Ozone Crisis
The Clinton administration has been moving backward on
protecting the stratospheric ozone layer. Du Pont, the giant
chemical firm, had planned to halt chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)
production at the end of 1994. Yet, in late 1993, EPA
[Environmental Protection Agency] *asked* *Du* *Pont* *to* *keep*
*making* *CFCs* *until* *1996*.
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#4 -- Poisoning Ourselves with Toxic Incinerators
(1) Incineration produces dioxin as a byproduct. (2) Dioxin is
one of the most potent, toxic, and carcinogenic chemicals known
to science. (3) Dioxin accumulates through the food chain.
Despite this, incineration has rapidly proliferated throughout
the country as the "profitable answer" for disposal of the
nation's stockpile of toxic waste and garbage.
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#3 -- The Secret Pentagon Plan to Subsidize Defense Contractor Mergers
The Pentagon is secretly funneling taxpayer dollars to giant
military contractors to help them grow even larger. This
extraordinary Pentagon ploy to pay defense contractors billions
of dollars to underwrite expenses connected with acquisitions and
mergers was approved without any announcement in 1993; it was not
discovered until July 1994.
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#2 -- Powerful Group of Ultra-Conservatives Has Secret Plans
Beware of the Council for National Policy (CNP), an elite
group of administration officials, congressmen, industrialists,
and conservative Christians. After the public inauguration of the
group, the CNP went underground. Russ Bellant, author of *The
Coors Connection*, said the meetings of this little-known
organization are often a spring-board for radical-right campaigns
and long-term planning. The group meets quarterly behind closed
doors and is so secretive that the group's Washington office will
neither confirm nor deny where, or even if, the group meets.
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#1 -- The Deadly Secrets of the Occupational Safety Agency
240,450 American workers exposed to hazardous materials at 258
worksites... many affected workers unaware of exposure... by
1994, fewer than 30 percent of these affected workers had been
notified, leaving 169,270 still in the dark about health risks
from on-the-job exposure. It has been estimated that notification
of each individual worker would cost from $150 to $300.
Nonetheless, more than 169,000 workers across the U.S. still have
not been informed about their deadly exposure to cancer-causing
agents.
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