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Titolo: chi paga Carter

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/04/27/2008-04-27_to_see_jimmy_carters_true_allegiances_ju.html?print=1&page=all
To see Jimmy Carter's true allegiances, just follow the money
By Lloyd Greif
Sunday, April 27th 2008, 4:00 AM
In embracing Hamas last week in direct defiance of the wishes of
Congress and the President, ex-President Jimmy Carter raised the
question of why he was granting precious prestige and credibility to
an organization the U.S. government has designated a "foreign
terrorist organization" since 1995.
If he was hoping to rekindle a flagging peace process, Carter's trip
was doomed to failure; Hamas remains committed to the destruction of
the state of Israel. So does this trip merely reflect a tremendous
lack of judgment on Carter's part?
Perhaps the answer is more complicated. You see, the Carter Center,
the ex-President's not-for-profit research and activist organization,
has prospered over the years as a direct result of Arab largesse. Many
of these "charitable" interests support Islamic fundamentalism and are
vehemently anti-Israel.
The full extent of these connections is unknown because the amount and
source of the Carter Center's funding is not public. But from various
news reports and press releases, one can begin to sketch a very
troubling picture.
For example, Saudi Arabia, the source of 15 of the 19 plane hijackers
on 9/11 and whose royal family has funded terrorism outside the
kingdom, has channeled tens of millions of dollars into the Carter
Center over the years. In 1993 alone, the late King Fahd gifted $7.6
million, while more recently, the king's nephew, Prince Alwaleed Bin
Talal, donated at least $5 million to the Carter Center. The Carter
Center has a $36 million annual budget; these amounts are hardly
insignificant to its ongoing operations.
Another million-dollar-plus backer is Sultan Qaboos sin Said, monarch
of Oman. Considerable financial support comes from the United Arab
Emirates as well.
There's more. In 2001, Carter received the $500,000 Zayed
International Prize for the Environment and, the following year,
praised the efforts of the Abu Dhabi-based Zayed Center for
Coordination and Follow Up.
The Zayed Center has repeatedly hosted anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers,
supported terrorism and asserted that there is an international
conspiracy of Jews and Zionists for world domination, and that a
Jewish-American conspiracy perpetrated the atrocities of 9/11.
It would seem that all of this money is not without its influence.
Contrast Carter's relentless criticism of Israel, the most modern and
democratic country in the Middle East, to his appreciation of such
authoritarian countries as the UAE, which he described as an "almost
completely open and free society."
Whether the United States can or should interrupt this stream of
funding to Carter's operations, it at the very least should not
supplement it.
Yet - believe it or not - the United States government itself has been
providing millions of dollars to the Carter Center over the years.
Representative Joe Knollenberg (R-Mich.) estimates that the center
received $19 million in federal funding since 2001 alone, and has
called for passage of a bill that would immediately cut off all
federal financing for the center.
Carter is free to travel around the world, stir up trouble, and cheer
on terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. But U.S. taxpayers should
not help him do this. And Carter should finally come clean and
disclose the amounts and sources of all foreign funding for his
center.
Just as the American public has a right to know whether a scientist
researching the root causes of global warming is being funded by major
oil companies, we should know who is supporting Carter's lobbying
efforts to bring "peace" to the Middle East.
It is indeed a sad day in American history when a former President
lowers himself to becoming a propaganda tool for terrorists bent on
harming our country and the democratic principles by which we live -
and we cannot even discover who is paying his bills.
Greif is president & CEO of Greif & Co., an investment bank, and a
director of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation.

 insignificant to its ongoing operations.
E vogliamo parlare dei rapporti della famiglia bin Laden con la famiglia 
Bush e con il regno saudita? Quando i "complottisti" li fanno notare, 
sono appunto "complottisti", ma se Lloyd Greif fa notare analoghi legami 
di Carter diventa magari un "giornalista investigativo". Cmq, la lista 
dei donors è pubblica. Ecco quelli che hanno dato (cumulativamente) più 
di un milione di dollari nel 2006-2007 
(
http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/annual_report_07.pdf
):
Anonymous (6)
AFLAC Japan
Ambassador and Mrs. Philip H.
Alston
His Royal Highness Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud Fund
The Annenberg Foundation
Lord and Lady Michael A.
Ashcroft
AT&T
BASF Corporation
The Arthur M. Blank
Family Foundation
Mr. Richard C. Blum and The
Honorable Dianne Feinstein
Mr. Warren E. Buffett
The Howard G. Buffett
Foundation
Mr. Ronald W. Burkle
Callaway Foundation
Canadian International
Development Agency
Carnegie Corporation of
New York
The Honorable Jimmy Carter
and Rosalynn Carter
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Coca-Cola Company
Cox Interests
Mrs. Dominique de Menil
Mr. Michael G. DeGroote
The Delta Air Lines Foundation
Delta Air Lines
Government of Denmark
E.I. du Pont de Nemours &
Company
The Charles Engelhard
Foundation
Mr. Frederick J. Eychaner
The Ford Foundation
Mr. Paul Francis and
Ms. Titia Hulst
The Franklin Mint and
Diana, Princess of Wales
Memorial Fund
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Fuqua
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Gambrell
David Gambrell Endowment
Fund
Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
Georgia Power Company
Georgia Power Foundation
The Federal Republic
of Germany
GlaxoSmithKline
Global Health Council/Gates
Award for Global Health
Mr. and Mrs. Claus B. Halle
Dr. Sidney Harman and
The Honorable Jane Harman
William Randolph Hearst
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B.
Hemmeter
The William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
The Home Depot
IBM Corporation
Inter-American
Development Bank
Government of Ireland
ITOCHU Corporation
Government of Japan
Johnson & Johnson
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kapelovitz
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
The Thomas M. Kirbo and
Irene B. Kirbo Charitable Trust
Mrs. Joan B. Kroc
Lions Clubs International
Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Henry K.
McConnon
Merck & Co., Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Moores Sr.
The Charles Stewart Mott
Foundation
Government of The Netherlands
Government of Nigeria
The Nippon Foundation
Nippon Keidanren
Government of Norway
The Sultanate of Oman
Open Society Institute
Pfizer Inc
Precision Fabrics Group
His Majesty Sultan Qaboos
bin Said Al Said
River Blindness Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The O. Wayne Rollins
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. David M.
Rubenstein
Dr. and Mrs. Louis K. Salkind
Mrs. Deen Day Sanders
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Bakr M. BinLadin for the
Saudi BinLadin Group
The Saudi Fund for
Development
Walter H. and Phyllis J.
Shorenstein Foundation
Skoll Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Brent L. Slay
Southern Company
Mr. and Mrs. James N. Stanard
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore R.
Stanley
The Starr Foundation
Stephens Inc.
Government of Sweden
Turner Foundation
Government of the United
Arab Emirates
Government of the United
Kingdom
United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF)
United States Agency for
International Development
United States Department
of State
The UPS Foundation
Mr. Holland M. Ware
Mr. Eric Wepsic
Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
The World Bank
Wyeth
YKK Corporation
Mr. Tadahiro Yoshida
Come vedi, vi figura USAID, la Germania e la Coca-Cola, il Giappone, 
l'UK, l'IBM, la Danimarca, l'ATT, la BASF, l'UNICEF, la WB, ed anche il 
gruppo bin Laden. Tutti nel complotto? :)
Dan

 Center over the years.
Sarebbe interessante se, per completezza di informazione, e per avere un
metro di paragone, il giornalista ci raccontasse anche dei rapporti di
Bush e Cheney con l'Arabia Saudita. Chissà perchè manca questo
dettaglio.
Ricordiamo che, a ceneri ancora fumanti a Manhattan, Bush autorizzò il
rientro dei sauditi in patria quando tutti i voli erano bloccati.
Incluso una dozzina di membri della famiglia bin laden.
 
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 . Chissà perchè manca questo dettaglio.
forse perché non riguarda Carter, oggetto dell'articolo?
(ehià, che reazione immediata, eh)

 wrote:
nahum, perchè non ci parli degli "amici" americani del cliente della
tua lavanderia?