Insider Report: Don't Taint Bush with Nobel Prize!

Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. How Saudis Control the U.S. Economy
2. The French-Iraqi-Cuban Connection
3. L.A. Pols Enjoy Junket to Castroland
4. About Bush's Fight to Cut Dividend Tax
5. Why Taint Bush With a Nobel 'Peace' Prize?
6. Hollywood Furious with Deck of Weasels
 

1. How Saudis Control the U.S. Economy

One of America's biggest and most overlooked challenges in rebuilding Iraq is the jealousy of Saudi Arabia, abettor of terrorists, alleged U.S. ally and emperor of the world's oil supply. "Don't mess with the Saudis," Fortune magazine warns, because this kingdom "not only still runs the show, it is the show."

How so? It has a fourth of Earth's proven petroleum reserves. Iraq is a distant second place with 11 percent. The U.S. has only 3 percent, and Democrat politicians pitch a hissy fit whenever anyone wants to tap any of that.

"With some in the Bush administration (particularly in the Defense Department) pushing for a divorce from Saudi Arabia in the wake of Sept. 11, the idea that a Western-leaning Iraq could rival the House of Saud as a producer is critical to those who want to stick it to the Saudis," Fortune writes. "Big Iraqi production increases would, in theory, enable the U.S. to move military bases in the Middle East to Iraq, buy Baghdad's oil, and kiss the extremist-funding Wahhabi government in Riyadh goodbye."

Yes, theories are interesting, but here's the reality. The Saudis have such power because they can easily boost or cut production. They can, and do, regulate oil prices, the magazine notes.

If the Bush administration angers the kingdom, it could rev up output and thus damage Iraq's recovery, increase the United States' tab for Operation Iraqi Freedom and destabilize oil-exporting Russia, which is also on the U.S. taxpayers' dole.

2. The French-Iraqi-Cuban Connection

Augustin Blazquez tells NewsMax of stranger-than-usual happenings in Cuba. A friend of his, Carlos Wotzkow, reports:

"Every day, for one week, hundreds of Iraqis, disguised in the white clothing of Kuwait, have been arriving at Cuba, and they do not come alone, but accompanied; women and children packed as if they were sardines. My sources are not airport visitors, they work there, and they assure to me that all arrive by Air France.

"Is that the true reason for the visit from [French Foreign Minister Dominique de] Villepin to Syria? Will he be consolidating another "route of the rats" from Damascus to Paris and from there to Havana? How it is possible that the Americans do not notice it?"

3. L.A. Pols Enjoy Junket to Castroland

Did you hear about those La-La Land politicians who escaped their mountain of troubles at home by jetting off to Cuba? Here are more of the juicy details.

Even the oh-so-liberal Los Angeles Times snickered that "as Los Angeles County has made plans for layoffs, hospital closures and budget cutbacks, four of five county supervisors have taken the opportunity to get a firsthand look at some of the vexing problems - facing Cuba."

The lone, courageous supervisor who stayed in America, Republican Mike Antonovich, noted that it was wrong for his colleagues to abet a totalitarian regime.

"Castro," Antonovich said, "has kept his country in bondage. And the oppression of his regime continues today."

4. About Bush's Fight to Cut Dividend Tax

With Democrats shrieking louder than usual their cries of class warfare, why is President Bush making the politically risky push to end the double taxation of dividends? Because Glenn Hubbard wants to.

And who, you ask, is Glenn Hubbard? A professor at Columbia University (also home of the infamous "Million Mogadishus" Prof. Nicholas De Genova) whose goal in life is the most controversial part of the president's tax relief plan.

Fortune magazine reveals that Hubbard maneuvered to win Bush's support while the White House's other economic advisers feuded. The wily professor even "contrived" to pack last July's economic forum in Waco, Texas, with advocates of the dividend exclusion, including bigwig broker Charles Schwab.

The now-departed Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, the administration's biggest foe of tax relief, grew so upset at Hubbard's ability to turn the president's ear and destroy competing proposals that he referred to Hubbard as a "baby strangler," Fortune reveals.

Now Bush is crossing the country urging citizens to support this plan. Soon-to-depart White House budget director Mitch Daniels says, "The president really must believe in the value of the dividend exclusion, because it's nothing but a loser politically."

5. Why Taint Bush With a Nobel 'Peace' Prize?

It was a lawmaker from peacenik Norway, of all places, who nominated President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace Prize this past week.

"Sometimes it's necessary to use a small and effective war to prevent a much more dangerous war in the future," parliamentarian Jan Simonsen said Thursday. "If nobody acted then Saddam Hussein could have produced weapons of mass destruction and, in five or 10 years, could have used them against Israel."

Reuters, a British news agency that refuses to identify terrorists as terrorists, describes Simonsen as "a right-wing independent." That means he's not a socialist.

Geir Lundestad, director of Nobel Institute, said the proposal would have to wait for next year because the deadline for nominations for 2003 passed on Feb. 1. Among those nominated this year is filthy-rich Irish pop star Bono, who so generously lobbies for the entire world to be on the American taxpayers' dole.

Don't expect the leftist Nobel committee ever to honor the leaders of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After all, the panel's chairman admitted handing the appeasement - oops, peace - prize last year to the disastrous anti-American weakling Jimmy Carter as a slap at Bush.

Oh, so what. How can it be an honor to receive something that usually goes to modern-day Neville Chamberlains and quislings?

6. Hollywood Furious with Deck of Weasels

NewsMax is already hearing that several Hollywood stars are just furious with our latest "Deck of Weasels" – our playing and information cards that expose the anti-Americanism of the political world and Hollywood.

One mega star's producer told us late last week that "Everyone is talking about it, and a lot of people are worried."

Worried about what?

Well, the crazed liberals that make up Tinseltown's elite thought the "Bush war" against Iraq was truly going to be a disaster – and that they would be vindicated.

Sorry, Charlie, it didn't work out that way, did it?

Now the Hollywood libs were hoping that their anti-American fervor would evaporate into recent memory. That was until the Deck of Weasels hit late last week.

The 55 playing cards not only depict the angry Hollywood establishment – with the likes of Ed Asner, George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and others – but reveals their most outrageous quotes.

Some are thinking that certain big box office stars may soon be going the way of the Dixie Chicks.

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