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Cell Whitman Donating Member (872 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 12:38 PM
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Moon follower's World Tribune supplies spin on WMD report
From what I have read, the mainstream press in its reporting on the last gasp of the WMD hunt, seem to be quite up front and honest.

Like this: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=633667

Mr. Duelfer, in an addendum to the final report which runs to thousands of pages, concluded that there was no evidence that WMD had been moved to Syria by Saddam Hussein. The report contradicted assertions by Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of Defence, who claimed after the war that the lack of WMD in Iraq might be explained this way.
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However, as we know, responsible news outlets do not feed the cult controlling our government. Remember the Moon follower's "World Tribune"? Here they provide the latest spin to keep the cult of conservatism minds under wraps. I imagine Rush, O'Reily and the other mind molders will be blabbing this today...

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453486.965277778.html

U.S. intel 'unable to rule out' WMD transfers to Syria
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for perspective on the World Tribune - check this out from the New Yorker Sept '03:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?030908ta_talk_mcgrath

Aficionados of the Drudge Report may have noticed several striking headlines recently linking to stories from the World Tribune, an enterprise with a title as grand and ambitious as it is unfamiliar. One such story last week began, “U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.” The apparent scoop—of stop-the-presses significance—was unsigned, and billed as a “special to World Tribune.com.” The Times, the Journal, and the Washington Post, meanwhile, not only got beat but failed even to acknowledge the news in the days that followed. What gives?
Not everyone ignored it: Rush Limbaugh, for instance. “There’s a piece in the World Tribune today—one of the papers in the United Kingdom—exactly as theorized on this program early on,” he said on his radio show. “It’s unconfirmed, but it’s a story that many of the weapons of mass destruction are at present buried in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.” Fox News, catering to a similar demographic, enlisted a military analyst that evening to discuss potential ramifications—military intervention in Lebanon?—on “The O’Reilly Factor.” According to the story, the weapons were probably delivered to the Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold, in a caravan of tractor-trailers that was spotted leaving Iraq in January, two months before the war began, as part of a multimillion- dollar storage deal between Saddam Hussein and the Syrian government.

In fact, the World Tribune is not published in the United Kingdom, nor is it, to be precise, a newspaper. It is a Web site produced, more or less as a hobby, in Falls Church, Virginia, and is dedicated to the notion, as its mission statement explains, that “there is a market for news of the world and not just news of the weird.” (Nonetheless, the site includes a prominent feature, Cosmic Tribune, with an extraterrestrial focus, and it links to a Mafia journal called Gang Land News.) Its editor and publisher, Robert Morton, is an assistant managing editor at the Washington Times and a former “corporate editor” for News World Communications, the Times’ owner and the publishing arm of the Unification Church, led by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. (Morton and his wife, Choon Boon, are themselves followers of the Reverend Moon.) Among the World Tribune’s other recent half-ignored scoops are that Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for last month’s blackout and that a North Korean defector stressed, during a meeting in July with White House officials, the need for a preëmptive military strike against Kim Jong Il.

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Photo: George and Bar meet and greet Mrs. Messiah backstage at the Tokyodome after one of Bush's speeches to help the Moon organization's efforts at manipulating the planet.

Learn more here - read about the Japanese Bush helped Moon gig in sections #45-9 here: http://cellwhitman.blogspot.com/

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Panda1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-05 01:04 PM
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1. This is a great post.
I have to bump it so it doesn't get totally overlooked.
What's in the big jar, Bar? Dough?
Pics of the Bushies involved in Moonie functions are carefully scrubbed.
I wish more people realized how much power Moon has.
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-05 02:21 AM
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2. Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung Moon? - Moon tracking blog
http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/

It is not being updated just now but the archives have lots of info!
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