The Bush Family Fortunes- BBC/Palast

[Rose Siding]

The Bush Family Fortunes
The BBC and Greg Palast, Investigate the Bush family scandals

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4115.htm

I don't know how old this is but I'm about 10 minutes into it and I'm really enjoying it. LOVE the beeb *sigh*

[Brucey]

1. Love Palast,

what a mind! And courage. A hero.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Great quote from Palast's web site

"(our President, unlike experienced flyers, kept his parachute clips fastened under his crotch, making him look a little less like Tom Cruise and more like that first chimp in space.)

In 1968, to qualify for the single available pilot spot in the Air Guard, young George took a test. He scored, out of a possible 100, only 25. (Word is that the chimp scored 26.)"

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=240&row=2

This indicates the original braodcast was early July.

[Rose Siding]

3. That sounds right

I'm almost through it- There's footage of the Abe Lincoln photo op.

This is SO powerful- everything from the ANG to the theft of FL

OMG, is this what the free world gets to see while we get that smarmy TV movie propaganda? No WONDER the public is so confused!

[cap]

4. so there was fraud...

a quid pro quo... you get to keep the contract if you do someone a favor.

[lindashaw]

5. And I just have to add this latest incestuous affair, Poppy's oil bidness

The Moscow Times - Friday, Sep. 12, 1003

He may be retired from public life but George (Herbert Walker) Bush seems to cause a stir every time he comes to Russia.

snip...

...an $18 billion play by U.S. oil giant ChevronTexaco for a blocking stake in the new Yukos-Sibneft combo? The launch of a $500 million private tie-up between Alfa Group and Pentagon-connected Carlyle Group? Divvying up the hydrocarbon resources of postwar Iraq?

...news spread that Bush was also here to help finalize the creation of a $500 million private equity fund between Russian oil-to-telecoms giant Alfa and one of his present employers, the Carlyle Group, a defense industry insider that counts former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and former British Prime Minister John Major among its advisers.

snip...

Weafer said Yukos shareholders appeared to be trying to play two U.S. oil majors, Chevron and ExxonMobil, off of each other in a bid to push the deal along.

snip...

...set off a race between other global oil majors to be the next to clinch the next big deal in one of the fastest-growing oil patches in the world.

Executives from both Chevron and Exxon have been in Moscow for months conducting due diligence studies on Yukos and Sibneft.

Joseph Stanislaw, the president of the influential Washington-based think tank Cambridge Energy Research Associates, said by telephone that a race certainly seemed to have started for Russia's oil resources, especially because Iraq, which has the world's second-largest reserves, is still in chaos.

"For international oil majors to grow they have to find brand new reserves. The only opportunities are in Russia, Kazakhstan and parts of the Middle East," said Stanislaw, who is also visiting Moscow.

"Iraq is a potential opportunity, but nobody is sure when they are going to be able to go in. If you're not the first and second mover in Russia, you could lose an opportunity. In Iraq, there isn't even a queue yet."

But despite THE BUSH FAMILY'S WELL-KNOWN TIES WITH THE OIL INDUSTRY, (emphasis added) some analysts said they doubted he would try and talk up a deal with YukosSibneft.

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/09/12/002.html

[KoKo]

6. Trying as hard as I can.....I can't see Bush I as a power broker anywhere.

He was a lousy President.....and inarticulate and bumbling as his devil spawn.....and always calling in Jim Baker to help him out when he was in a pinch.....which was all the time. Baker was the one who they called when things were looking bad for them in Florida in 2000.

I will never see him as this behinds the scenes great negotiator for the Carlisle group. I see him as Bakers buddy and that Baker made him.......some weird symbiotic relationship which Baker always gets the most out of.

I hope some day someone does an expose of Bush I and II with perspective.....and inside scoop.....because something just doesn't add up about these two bumblers having attained the power they have. There had to be a big Power Behind the Throwns of those two.......