- WMR first reported World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz's
girlfriend issues last September. Wolfowitz is now under pressure to resign
for favoritism he has shown in landing his girlfriend a job in violation
of World Bank rules. Wolfowitz's flame landed a job at the State Department
at an annual salary of $193.000.
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- Last September we reported, "Shaha Aliriza, who
has managed to antagonize every office in Washington, DC in which she has
been specially assigned by her boyfriend and boss [Wolfowitz], is now serving
as a World Bank liaison in South America, according to World Bank sources.
Aliriza is divorced from Bulent Aliriza, a Turkish Cypriot who she met
at the London School of Economics. Wolfowitz is legally separated from
his wife, Clare Selgin. After taking over at the World Bank, Wolfowitz
met Aliriza, then the acting manager for the Bank's External Relations
and Outreach for the Middle East and North Africa Region. After complaints
by employees about Wolfowitz's conflict of interest with an employee, Aliriza
was transferred to a joint World Bank/US Agency for International Development
(USAID) multinational investment project. After similar complaints, Wolfowitz
transferred his friend to South America duties. World Bank sources report
that although the Tunis-born Aliriza grew up in Saudi Arabia and is a British
citizen, she has Tunisian Jewish roots. Aliriza honed her neo-conservative
credentials as a veteran of Ronald Reagan's National Endowment for Democracy
and she has been pressuring Wolfowitz to use his position to help 'democratize'
the Middle East."
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- Our sources have reported that Wolfowitz was dining this
past week at Phillips Seafood Restaurant in Washington, DC. There was no
word whether he was with his girlfriend. However, there was a gaggle of
neocons at Phillips when Wolfowitz was there. Also dining at the restaurant
were Oliver North, Newt Gingrich, and, surprisingly, Phil Donohue, former
TV talk show host. Donohue reportedly picked up the tab. It is not the
first time the threesome of Gingrich, North, and Donohue have been together.
They reportedly go fishing at Gaston's fishing resort in the Arkansas Ozarks,
where some of the world's largest brown trout are found in the White River.
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- MS-NBC talk show host Tucker Carlson (where Donohue once
had a TV show) has just been named by CBS to host a game show next season.
The show is called "Who Do You Trust?" The answer to that is
not Tucker's dad's friends at the neocon contrivance which has largely
replaced the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). That would be
the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, co-chaired by Tucker's father,
former Voice of America and Corporation for Public Broadcasting chief Richard
Carlson. FDD has Gingrich, James Woolsey, Joe Lieberman, and Louis Freeh
as its "Distinguished Advisers." It is ironic that a day after
CBS canned Don Imus it picks up the annoying neocon "Jimmy Olson look-alike"
Tucker Carlson to host a game show. Yes, America, the media is controlled
by a tightly-knit cabal of corporate gnomes.
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