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Thread ID: 4007 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2002-12-14
2002-12-14 00:53 | User Profile
Kissinger Quits As Chairman of 9/11 Panel [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51619-2002Dec13.html]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2002Dec13.html[/url]
By Ron Fournier AP White House Correspondent Friday, December 13, 2002; 5:30 PM
WASHINGTON ââ¬âââ¬â Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stepped down Friday as chairman of a panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, citing controversy over potential conflicts of interest with his private-sector clients.
"It is clear that, although specific potential conflicts can be resolved in this manner, the controversy would quickly move to the consulting firm I have built and own," Kissinger wrote in a letter to President Bush, who appointed him. "I have, therefore, concluded that I cannot accept the responsibility you proposed."
é 2002 The Associated Press
2002-12-14 01:23 | User Profile
This is a great illustration of the awesome power of the internet. Within minutes of the chairmanship announcement, people were digging up all manner of skeletons in the closet of this colorful, yet unsavory character. Kissinger couldn't count on simple Jewish controlled tv and newspapers to squelch unsettling questions about his background.
2002-12-15 01:56 | User Profile
Unless it's not really a demonstration of 'populism'; but of the Perle/Wolfowitz/Podhoretz contingent's mastery of the squeeze play:
[url=http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120202.html]http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120202.html[/url]
It's been a long long time since any #@$%&! politician responded to genuine populism; and even then it's out of gibbering fear, not idealism.
So long as public discourse in America is built around the First Commandment: "Thou shalt not name - or even notice - the Jew", populism - like icebox, daguerrotype & states' rights - is an antique noun, describing something that hasn't been seen in American life for decades.
2002-12-15 02:13 | User Profile
Intriguing, Spider. How many of the nouveaux-con Horowitzim who marched with Abby & Jerry in '68 could shmooze over the green felt with Uncle Hank?
These schnorers may have swapped their tie-dyes for wing-tips, but more than generational tension is at play here...Hank played footsie with genuine fascists, after all...and from the Lott fiasco we can plumb the lines of the "respectable" right. <_<
2002-12-15 19:22 | User Profile
For what it's worth, my mom knows a professor of German philology (whose a native of Germany) who told her years ago that Kissinger's accent is not real.
2002-12-15 19:27 | User Profile
IR,
What's a daguerrotype? Animal, vegetable, or mineral? Where have you heard this term used? Why did it fall into disuse?
Quick Google search suggests it has something to do with photography.
Hell, I'm learning lots of terms today. I was trying to figure out why HCJ was calling you a Spider. Then I realized ragno = spider. God, I'm slow...but I'm catching up. Then again I have an excuse, I have an Italian last name due to my father, but I know nothing of the language, etc.
2002-12-15 19:53 | User Profile
**The daguerreotype is a unique image made directly on a sheet of copper, plated with silver, and then polished and exposed to iodine vapor, so that it is sensitive to light. The sensitized plate is placed in a camera obscura, exposed, and then developed with mercury vapor, which creates a chemical reaction with the iodine and silver. Mercury deposits form on the plate, the most remaining where the plate received the most light, and the least (or none at all) in the shadows. Then the plate is washed with a solution that removes the rest of the light-sensitive material, so that only the image remains. Finally, it is cleaned with water, dried, and mounted under glass. The process was developed by French artist Louis-Jacques-Mandéââ¬Å¡ Daguerre and scientist Nicéphore Niepce, and was announced to the public in Paris in January 1839. **
The above taken from the glossary of early-photography terms at the Matthew Brady website at:
[url=http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/bradcont.html]http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/bradcont.html[/url]
which is fascinating/informative/recommended.
The daguerrotype process, incidentally, was highly dangerous & often lethal - mercury vapors are not something you want in close proximity to your lungs. But the road to modern photography was littered, early on, with many many odd detours: ferrotypes, stereographs, salt prints, etc.
2002-12-16 02:03 | User Profile
Originally posted by PaleoconAvatar@Dec 15 2002, 19:27 IR, ... Hell, I'm learning lots of terms today. I was trying to figure out why HCJ was calling you a Spider. Then I realized ragno = spider...
While on holiday in Italy earlier this year I saw a large billboard over a railway line. Beneath the spider motif, in huge letters, were the words 'IL RAGNO!'. Just wish I had a camera with me.
2002-12-16 14:50 | User Profile
Savoir Faire...ees avry-where!