errorArianna Huffington serves on the Board of Directors of the "Points of
Light Foundation," alongside ex-President George Bush, Neil Bush (Chair,
Interlink), Andrew Card (VP, General Motors), and others.

Sponsors of the foundation are a Who's Who of American
political/economic giants and the "military-industrialist complex,"
including Texas Governor and Republican Presidential candidate George W.
Bush, major military contractors, big oil companies,
auto manufacturers, and major banks and insurance companies

None of her bios ever mention her ex-husband Michael Huffington, their
Texas oil-money fortune, or her ranking by Forbes as one of the world's
richest women.

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http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/boardofdir.html
Arianna Huffington serves on the Board of Directors of the "Points of
Light Foundation," alongside ex-President George Bush (Honorary Chair),
Neil Bush (Chair, Interlink), Andrew Card (VP, General Motors), Phillip
J. Carroll (Chair/CEO, Fluor Corp), J. Richard Munro (Chair, Genentech),
Edward Gardner (Pres, Industrial Solvents
Corp), Joseph Diamond (Merrill Lynch), Shirlene Anderson (BellSouth
Corp), Mitt Romney (Pres/CEO, Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the
Olympic Winter Games of 2002), and others.

http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/sponsors.html
Sponsors of the foundation are a Who's Who of American
political/economic giants and the "military-industrialist complex,"
including:
George H. W. Bush (the Governor of Texas and Republican Presidential
Candidate);
Military Contractors - Fluor Daniel, Honeywell, Northrop Grumman,
Rockwell;
Big Oil Companies - ARCO, Conoco, Mobil, Shell;
Auto Manufacturers - Chrysler, Ford, Hitachi;
Banking & Credit Giants - American Express, Chase Manhattan, Fannie Mae,
NationsBank, Pitney Bowes;
Insurance Companies - Allstate, Farmers Insurance Group,
Utilities Conglomerates - AT&T, Bell Atlantic, GE, MCI;
Electronics Giants - Compaq, EDS, Samsung;
Food & Textile Giants - Anheuser-Busch, JCPenney, Kellogg, Levi Strauss,
Pillsbury, Procter & Gamble, McDonald's, Sears, Target;
and others, including - the American Cancer Society, Disneyland, Knights
of Columbus, UPS, the Walt Disney Company.

http://ariannaonline.com/biography.html
None of Arianna Huffington's bios ever mention her ex-husband Michael
Huffington, his inheritance of hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas
oil money, the more than $35 million that s/he spent to run for Congress
in 1992 and Senate in 1994, her divorce settlement of more than $10
million in lieu of alimony, the $10,000 per month she currently receives
in child support and will continue to receive for another ten years, nor
her ranking by Forbes as one of the world's richest women.

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The www trail:

Start at the Shadow Conventions homepage:
http://www.shadowconvention.com/

http://www.shadowconventions.com/conveners.htm

SHADOW
Arianna Huffington is the author of eight books and a
nationally-recognized syndicated columnist who has been published widely
on all three of the shadow convention issues.
http://www.ariannaonline.com/
Bio: Arianna Huffington


http://ariannaonline.com/biography.html

Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of
eight books. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was
sixteen and graduated from Cambridge University with a M.A. in
Economics. At twenty-one she became President of the famed debating
society, the Cambridge Union.

Her first book, The Female Woman, on the changing roles of women, was
published in 1974 by Random House and translated into eleven languages.
In 1978 she published After Reason, a book on political leadership and
the intersection of politics and culture.

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Her seventh book, Greetings From the Lincoln Bedroom, a book of
political satire, was published in 1998 by Crown.

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(NOTE: None of Arianna Huffington's bios ever mention her ex-husband
Michael Huffington, his inheritance of hundreds of millions of dollars
in Texas oil money, the more than $35 million that s/he spent to run for
Congress in 1992 and Senate in 1994, her divorce settlement of more than
$10 million in lieu of alimony, the $10,000 per month she currently
receives in child support and will continue to receive for another ten
years, nor her ranking by Forbes as one of the world's richest women.)

During Campaign '96, Arianna teamed up with Al Franken to provide
political coverage for Comedy Central during the Republican and
Democratic conventions, as well as on election night. She and Franken
also appeared in a point-counterpoint segment, Strange Bedfellows, for
Politically Incorrect.

She has made guest appearances on numerous other shows, including Larry
King, Oprah, Nightline, Inside Politics, Charlie Rose, Crossfire, Rivera
Live, Hardball, Firing Line, Good Morning America, the Today Show, 48
Hours and Roseanne.

She serves on several boards that promote community solutions to social
problems, including the Points of Light Foundation, where she chairs the
Communications Committee and works on the Foundation's families
volunteering project; the board of the Do Something organization that
challenges young people to get involved in bringing about social change;
and the board of A Place Called Home that works with at-risk children in
South Central Los Angeles. She also serves on the advisory board of the
Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.

Arianna Huffington lives in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. with her two
daughters, Christina and Isabella.

ARIANNA ONLINE
1158 26th Street, P.O. Box 428
Santa Monica, CA 90403
email: arianna@ariannaonline.com

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http://ariannaonline.com/community/index.html

The Points Of Light Foundation
, The Points of Light Foundation's key initiative seeks
to engage families in year-round, community-oriented volunteer
projects. It is working to generate a national service movement by
creating linkages between families, neighborhoods, business and
not-for-profit organizations on the national and local levels. Family
Matters connects families of all sizes and definitions with their
communities, strengthening everyone.


http://www.pointsoflight.org/


http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/aboutus.html


http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/boardofdir.html

And there's the complete list of the Board of Directors!


http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/aboutus.html


http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/sponsors.html

Ms. Huffington is quite up front about being a "recovering Republican," and while I'm generally an "eat the rich" type, I think it is possible for people to develop a conscience somewhat late in life. I wonder if Dee Tox would re-tox just to be consistent with her/his former thoughts on that subject. People can and do occassionally evolve. Campaign finance reform, stopping the war on drug users and ending poverty in America are crucial issues in themselves, and it doesn't matter who brings these issues to the table, as long as someone does. Also, tarring anyone with the sins of their ex-husbands or any other "guilt by association" is a slippery proposition. Is she a phoney? Maybe. Could her association with those big-bucks fat cats be a catalyst for some of them to rethink their positions on these issues? Maybe. At least the Shadow Conventions are bringing these issues into the mainstream political dialogue. Coalition building is difficult, and sometimes we have to work with people we don't like very much in order to achieve common goals. Can we defer judgment on her true character for now and use her high profile to our own advantage at a time when issues, not personalities, must take priority?

The key to changing society is communication. This is the whole point of protest. Unfortunately protest is a slow and arduous path - my hometown paper, the LA Times is running plenty of letters to the editor that shows that the average people regard protesters as a nuisance at best - they still don't get what it's about. What Arianna (and her rich friends) are doing is communicating on another level - to those well placed people who are more likely to understand her focused and expensive Shadow Convention than they are the people in the street. All methods of communication need to be utilized to grow support for the changes we want to see. I may not like Arianna's pedigree, but this Shadow Convention thing is a great idea and a complement to what's going on in the streets.

I stand firmly behind the comment entitled "Big Buck Friends are not that bad to have." The connections Ariana Huffington has to big business and the Republican rats are clear. No one is doubting that. Regardless of her background lets consider the issues being brought to the table at the shadow conventions: Caimpaign finance reform, the prison systems, the failed drug policy. These are important issues the mainstream media and political (corporate owned) parties will not offer debate on or solutions to. Lets put aside our differences in order to open the dialogue. Lets end the "Im lefter than you" sentiment that is floating around L.A.

interesting dyscussion.

Soros' Open Society is funding Shadow Con, to give cover for Gush
to put dope on the NYSE (an official of the exchange has already been
to Columbia, with an *ambrazo* for the "finance minister" of the FARC, and
the IMF has already made policy to account for this). _The Open Society_
is a book by Sir Karl Popper, which is explicitly anti-nation-state and
pro "British Liberal Free Trade," AKA Adam Smith's 1776 propoganda
from the Haileyboro College (the predecessor to the London School
of Economics, runn by the East India Co.) -- *laissez-faire, laissez-passe*
is a the feudal doctrine of the French Physiocrats. (one of Smith's passages
is a justification of making Indians plant poppies (not food),
for importation to China (paying for all o'that High Tea without silver).)
Soros' Lindisfairne Center, and so on, never bother to speak
to the role of banking in handling the dope-trade. Soros is the founder
of the Quantum Fund, a haven in which know American citizen can invest,
located in the Netherlands Antilles (a "hot-money entrepo" -- a-hem);
he is the primary broker for QE2 (the richest man on earth,
is named, Betty !-)

--Undead President!
http://www.tarpley.net/bush7.htm