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THURSDAY
JANUARY 4
2001
The year's 10 most underreported stories
WND's 'Operation Spike' pinpoints major events media ignored
By David Kupelian
� 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
Here, with our readers' help, are WorldNetDaily editors' picks for
the 10 most underreported stories of the past year.
VOTER FRAUD
Hands down, the biggest � and most underreported � story of 2000
was voter fraud.
As WorldNetDaily Editor Joseph Farah wrote in "Voter fraud
epidemic," "Voter fraud is epidemic throughout the country. From
Miami to L.A., elections have been won and lost because of illegal
voter registration and phony ballot counts. No wonder fewer and
fewer people are bothering to vote. What's the point? Elections are
being rigged. The fix is in. The sanctity of the American electoral
system is not under attack, it is under siege."
An exclusive WND investigation revealed that President Bill Clinton
and the California Democratic Party conspired to mail non-citizens
and non-eligible voters bogus "Voter Identification Cards" to make it
easier for them to cast ballots.
In Florida, Haitian voters were intimidated and coerced by Gore
supporters to vote for the Democratic candidate.
In Wisconsin, the votes of homeless people were purchased for
packs of cigarettes.
In some predominantly Democratic precincts in Texas, 125 percent
of registered voters cast ballots.
But perhaps the most deeply disturbing of all voter fraud stories to
emerge during the election season centered on the military.
Reports surfaced that entire units of U.S. servicemen overseas
were denied absentee ballots, preventing them from voting for their
next commander-in-chief. WorldNetDaily's Jon Dougherty was the
preeminent reporter nationally on this issue, and was first to sound
the alarm, even before the election ("Military missing absentee
ballots"), that a significant number of America's military service
personnel were not going to be able to vote in the closest � and by
many accounts the most important � election in memory.
CLINTON, GORE COMPLICITY IN OIL PRICE-HIKES
One of the giant stories of the year, by any news organization's
yardstick, was the unprecedented run-up in oil prices. All but
unreported, however, were some of the hidden, but very real,
reasons for the huge increases.
WorldNetDaily was virtually alone among the news media in
reporting how the Clinton administration clearly contributed to the
dramatic increase in oil prices. "Contradictory and self-serving
policies," reported Ken Timmerman in November, "led the Clinton-
Gore administration to cause the current skyrocketing oil prices,
say Middle East and petroleum industry analysts."
The former Time magazine correspondent showed how, "by
interfering in the oil markets in 1998 when prices were perceived by
some to be too low, the administration put into motion the huge
current run-up of prices, according to Matthew Simmons, who has
tracked oil prices for 30 years as the head of a Houston-based
investment bank, Simmons & Co. International.�
Another WorldNetDaily report spotlighting Clinton's and Gore's
complicity in raising oil prices proved to be a blockbuster � featured
and discussed for several consecutive days on the Rush Limbaugh
show. In that story, Clinton approves oil-price hikes, WND
disclosed: "Oil ministers from OPEC nations have quietly told
national security advisers on Capitol Hill that the oil production
cutbacks -- and resulting price increases -- are being implemented
at the request of the Clinton administration on behalf of Russia,
Indonesia, Mexico and Iran.
"Russia, Mexico and Indonesia are reported to be directing their
increased oil profits toward paying back overdue Western loans,"
the article revealed. "According to one government defense adviser,
the windfall profits are part of a larger scheme to use the American
public to pay off failed and corrupt investment schemes in the three
countries."
THE REAL IMPACT OF CLINTON LAND GRABS
Roads across public lands in national forests are being quietly
closed to vehicles, horses, and even hikers. "Human exclusion
zones" is the official term. People are losing their homes and
livelihoods with scarcely a notice by the mass media. Entire
industries -- cattle grazing, timber cutting, mining -- are being shut
down in the name of protecting the environment from any use by
human beings, including recreation.
In 1996, President Clinton used the 1906 Antiquities Act to create
the designation of Utah's 1.7 million-acre Grand Staircase-
Escalante National Monument. Although no more of these
controversial monument designations were made for the next
several years, beginning last January -- toward the very end of his
second term as president -- Clinton began designating more
monuments in rapid succession: 10 new monuments in all in 2000.
Although all the monuments are already public land, inside each
monument there are "inholdings" � private property, state parks,
game reserves or other non-federally owned parcels � that will all
be bought eventually by the federal government.
But as reported by WND's Sarah Foster, the really untold story in
all of this is the cost to the American public in loss of access to
"their" lands. Restrictions are already kicking in at Escalante,
since its designation is now four years old: Roads are being closed
to the public, and the government wants to close the land off to all
off-road use. With no roads and no off-road use, essentially access
will be closed to humans. Property-rights advocates see this as a
clear harbinger of what will happen to other monuments in the
future.
GORE'S CORRUPT TENNESSEE ACTIVITIES
Throughout this year's tense, near-radioactive presidential
campaign season, most of the establishment news media gave
Gore a free pass when it came to his role as No. 2 man in the
most scandal-plagued administration in American history. His
illegal campaign fundraising, his lying to the FBI, his secret arms
deal with the Russians � all were given little attention and even less
weight.
To fill this deficit, between early September and Election Day, Nov.
7, 2000, WorldNetDaily published an exhaustive series of
investigative reports by native Tennessee reporters Charles
Thompson and Tony Hays on Gore and his Tennessee past --
including his vast connections to Soviet operative Armand Hammer,
alleged interference with various Tennessee criminal investigations
involving family and friends, and even documented reports of Gore,
the environmental champion, being a notorious polluter in his home
state.
As a result of these reports, claim radio, newspaper and law
enforcement representatives in Tennessee, Gore lost his home
state and its 11 electoral votes -- and thus lost the presidency.
MISSING WHITE HOUSE E-MAILS
What is possibly one of the more expansive scandals of the Clinton
administration -- involving hundreds of thousands of missing White
House e-mail documents under subpoena -- was all but ignored by
most of the media during 2000. WorldNetDaily's Washington
Bureau Chief Paul Sperry first reported that the stash of unrecorded
White House e-mails was as high as 1 million, and includes
messages from the Democratic National Committee during the
1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. In addition, Sperry broke the story of
how the supposedly independent contractor hired to "restore"
White House e-mail records employs two senior Clinton officials.
Sperry also first reported that the contractor that previously handled
White House e-mail operations hotly disputed claims that it caused
a computer "error" that led to a two-year hole in records of e-mail
sent to West Wing officials. (Firm won't take hit for 'Project X'
fiasco)
As with most of the rest of the Clinton-Gore administration
scandals, both the president and the vice president emerged
essentially untouched by the massive disappearance of vital
documentation under subpoena by both Congress and the special
prosecutor's office.
CHINA'S ANIMOSITY TOWARD THE UNITED STATES
Based on the Clinton administration's unprecedented coziness with
the communist Chinese � illegal donations; technology transfers,
sales and thefts; "permanent normal trade relations" status;
training China's military in the United States; Clinton's own
statement that "the Chinese will � run [the Panama Canal] in a
competent and able and fair manner" � China should be America's
best friend. And during 2000, most "mainstream" media coverage
of the world's most populous country has conveyed this impression.
In reality, China has threatened unambiguously and repeatedly to
bomb the United States if the U.S. interferes in the mainland's
relentless campaign to conquer Taiwan. In a January 1996
meeting, Lt. Gen. Xiong Guangkai, deputy chief of China's general
staff, told former Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles W.
Freeman, Jr., "In the 1950s, you three times threatened nuclear
strikes on China, and you could do that because we couldn't hit
back. Now we can. So you are not going to threaten us again
because, in the end, you care a lot more about Los Angeles than
Taipei."
"China is neither Iraq nor Yugoslavia, but a very special country,"
reiterated a recent editorial in the People's Liberation Army official
newspaper. It warned that U.S. intervention in a conflict between
China and Taiwan would result in "serious damage" to the United
States, reminding readers that the PRC "is a country that has
certain abilities of launching strategic counterattack and the
capacity of launching a long-distance strike" -- a scarcely-veiled
allusion to a nuclear attack.
According to long-time China expert Steven Mosher, in an October
interview with WND's Geoff Metcalf: Chinese President Jiang Zemin
said to his central military commission, the leading generals in the
People's Liberation Army, air force and navy, that they should "...
prepare for war with the United States by the year 2008."
SINO-RUSSO MILITARY ALLIANCE
A development closely related to communist China's current
relationship with the United States � it regards America as its No.
1 enemy � is China's newly developing military alliance with Russia.
China is modernizing its military, but not only with help from the
United States. It is also importing advanced weaponry from Russia.
In December 1999, Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin
signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing that called for
an additional $20 billion of Russian arms transfers to the People's
Republic of China by 2004. The agreement also doubled the
number of Russian military technicians and nuclear experts
working in China, from an estimated 4,000 today to nearly 9,000.
Ken Timmerman reports, "Russia's Cold War arsenal is being
transferred lock stock and barrel to China."
"There is not a single Russian weapon, not a single Russian
military technology, that is off-limits to China," says Russian
researcher Alexander Nemets.
Indeed, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991
through early 1999, China purchased at least $6.5 billion in
weapons from Moscow, according to official Russian statistics. But
according to Nemets, "the actual figure is probably two to three
times higher."
BORDER WARS ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BOUNDARY
Shortly after 10 p.m. local time on March 14, "two Mexican army
Humvees carrying about 16 armed soldiers drove across the
international boundary and into the United States near Santa
Teresa, New Mexico." There the vehicles pursued a well-marked
Border Patrol vehicle (complete with decals and emergency lights
flashing) over a mile into the United States.
The lead Mexican army vehicle, the Border Patrol council said,
contained nine soldiers "armed with seven automatic assault rifles,
one submachine gun, and two .45 caliber pistols," and was
eventually apprehended by other Border Patrol units. The second
Humvee, however, "pursued a Border Patrol agent on horseback
and fired a shot at him. The soldiers then disembarked their
vehicle, fired upon one more Border Patrol agent and chased
another agent before fleeing [back] to Mexico in their vehicle."
Though the incident was "the most serious to date," the council
said, "it is but one of hundreds of incursions that have been
reported over the past several years," and it has led union officials
to call on Congress and the Clinton administration to deal with it.
Although WorldNetDaily's Jon Dougherty filed 11 such news
reports on the escalating friction along the vast U.S.-Mexican
border, the seemingly important story attracted little other national
press coverage.
SECURITY MELTDOWN DURING THE CLINTON
ADMINISTRATION
During the Clinton-Gore administration, serious security breaches
have spread to every federal agency dealing with national security
secrets, from the Commerce Department to Energy's nuclear
weapons labs to the Pentagon to the State Department -- and even
to the CIA. But during 2000, the evidence of the administration-wide
problem hit its peak.
WND's Washington bureau chief Paul Sperry reported that career
officials in the U.S. intelligence community had admitted privately
that "the Clinton administration came in and ordered a wholesale
stand-down of national security safeguards in every agency that
counts."
The holes just keep getting bigger, reported Sperry, and the
espionage apparently bolder.
At Los Alamos, somehow two shirt-pocket-sized hard-drives loaded
with top-secret nuclear bomb data just "vanished" from locked
compartments inside a locked bag in a vault with motion and
infrared sensors in the supposedly super-secret X Division where
physicists with the highest security clearance design nuclear
weapons.
The bipartisan Cox Commission report documented how China's
People's Liberation Army stole from Los Alamos and other labs
secrets to every warhead deployed in the U.S. arsenal.
Taiwanese American scientist Wen Ho Lee, who downloaded Los
Alamos nuclear codes on 10 portable tapes, has traveled
extensively throughout China in recent years, giving lectures to
People's Liberation Army nuclear physicists.
In his book, "Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton
White House," Gary Aldrich charged, among other things, that
White House officials were hiring hard-drug users and other
security risks over agents' vetoes. Many of them gained access to
classified information. Although Aldrich's book was a bestseller,
the media managed to avoid dealing with the subject in any but the
most superficial way.
PALESTINIAN KIDS RAISED TO BE MARTYRS
In the now-explosive middle East crisis, most of the press has
concentrated on daily reporting of excessive Israeli force � real or
perceived � used against Palestinians attacking Israeli military and
civilian targets in the three-month-old "intifada" or uprising.
But what has barely been touched upon by most news
organizations, from the New York Times and CNN to National
Public Radio and the BBC, is the fact that many Palestinian
children are being raised for the very purpose of becoming
"martyrs" in the "jihad" (or holy war) against Israel.
WorldNetDaily Managing Editor David Kupelian filed several reports
documenting the widespread recruitment of "martyrs" among
Palestinian children, who are promised heavenly rewards (or divine
punishment if they don't cooperate) for sacrificing their lives in the
pursuit of their leaders' nationalist and religious goal of expelling
Jews from Israel, which they consider their historic homeland of
Palestine.
"Once again," said WorldNetDaily founder and Editor Joseph
Farah, "the establishment press has missed many of the most
important stories of the year � stories that are fundamental to really
understanding current world events. Although their reporting
resources are vastly greater than those of WorldNetDaily, we
somehow manage to be there first and best with these sorts of
crucial stories, year after year. I think the reason is just that
WorldNetDaily recognizes what its job really is. I'm speaking of the
traditional role of a free press, which is to be a watchdog on
government.
"WorldNetDaily still believes in approaching news reporting the old-
fashioned way -- by actually digging out the truth and reporting it
forthrightly," added Farah. "During 2001, readers once again can
rely on WorldNetDaily to investigate and tell the truly important
stories that too often are unreported, spun and spiked by the
establishment media."
--
The laws therefore of tyrants are not laws, but
wild acts of will, counseled by rage or folly, and
executed by dragoons. And as these laws are
evil, all sorts of evil must concur to support them.
--John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters
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