The Bush Mafia

[Octafish]

Like a fixed trifecta, didja ever notice how no matter how bad things get for the United States of America, things get better for one crime family?



Source: www.blatanttruth.org

Remember back in 2001, after "terrorists" destroyed the World Trade Center and knocked out part of the Pentagon, at a Christmas fundraiser Duhbya looked back and said: "All in all, it was a pretty good year."

So it's no surprise nowadays, after Hurricane Katrina came and destroyed a couple of the nation's major cities, Barbara Bush looks at it as a way for the newly homeless "to be better off."

Not to throw a wet Red Cross blanket on things, but here's where it starts for this conservative crime family, IMFO, "Big Time": "Please keep this confidential, Mr. Hoover."

From November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, we learn George Herbert Walker Bush remembered hearing someone wanted to kill JFK. Too bad he didn't bring it up to the FBI's attention sooner, eh?

Source:

http://www.internetpirate.com/bush.htm

Well, even if Poppy brought it up to the Hoov and the Secret Service, both of those agencies may've sat on the information. Orders from above, it seems.

So, then, of course, came Vietnam. That was real bad for America -- and really, really bad for the people of Southeast Asia -- but it was good for the Bushes and their business cronies.

Then came Watergate, which was bad for Nixon, but good for the Bushes and their business cronies.

Then came the Iranian hostage crisis, which was bad for America, but good for the Bushes and their business cronies.

The list goes on to the present day.



Please feel free to add and discuss. More the merrier -- and from the more perspectives, the better. When it comes to the Truth, I'm game. Better still, we may yet see these turds held accountable. And that's how we'll get our country back from these stooges of the military-industrial complex.

[susu369]

1. Hurricane Katrina opens huge purse for Halliburton clean-up contracts

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

whee

[Octafish]

4. Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root = Big Money

From Vietnam to the present day.

Here's a nice reminder:

The Iraq gold rush

Asia Times

HOUSTON - They may be shot by a sniper. They may be caught by a roadside bomb. They may be kidnapped. They may be held in captivity in a room in the desert under 55 degrees Celsius in the shade and with no water. They may be beheaded. But they don't care. They keep coming back - up to 500 a week - for more. They want their Iraqi golden job, and they want it now.

As Sunnis in Fallujah and Shi'ites in Najaf keep reminding anyone who bothers to listen, there are no jobs for Iraqis - unemployment is running at 70 percent. But despite the body count - 34 killed, 74 wounded, two missing and counting - there are plenty of jobs for Americans, especially Texans, on the KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown and Root) bandwagon in Iraq. The Halliburton subsidiary, based in downtown Houston like its parent company, is now employing 24,000 people - mostly Americans, but also from 38 other countries - in Iraq and Kuwait.

As many people, and not just the scandal junkies, are aware, KBR was awarded by the administration of President George W Bush a contract worth at least US$5 billion for 10 years in Iraq, for engineering and construction services and the rebuilding of civil infrastructure. If war may be a blessing from heaven for aspiring truck drivers in the heart of Texas, war is certainly a very good business for KBR. A few days ago Halliburton executives confirmed that the oil giant was collecting no less than $1 billion a month for their work in Iraq. This includes US taxpayers being overcharged $61 million for fuel and $24.7 million for meals, apart from a confirmed $6.3 million in bribes. Accusations are still flying: Halliburton has not rebuilt key nodes of Iraq's oil infrastructure and has skimmed Iraqi jobs for away from Iraqis.

The Balkan connection

KBR's - and Halliburton's - success is a key node of the so-called Iron Triangle, the US crossroads connecting business, politics and the military. KBR is the key benefactor of military outsourcing, which means that now the US Army is dependent on KBR in Iraq. KBR started building ships for the US Navy during World War II. It built air strips and prison cells in Vietnam. But the big break came in December 1995. Dick Cheney had been the chief executive officer of parent company Halliburton for only two months. KBR was sent to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo to build two army camps in the middle of two deserted wheat fields. Instead it built two cities, one in Bosnia and one in Kosovo - complete with mail delivery and 24-hour food and laundry. In other words: without KBR, there would be no operating US Army in Bosnia and Kosovo. And the money was great: from 1995-2000, the KBR bill to the US government was more than $2 billion.

KBR's strategic masterpiece is Camp Bondsteel - the largest and most expensive US Army base since Vietnam, still in use today, complete with roads, its own power generators, houses, satellite dishes, a helicopter airfield and of course a Vietnam-style prison. By a fabulous coincidence, Camp Bondsteel is right on the path of the Albanian-Macedonian-Bulgarian Oil (AMBO) Trans-Balkan Pipeline. This key piece of Pipelineistan is supposed to connect the oil-and-gas-rich Caspian Sea with Europe. The feasibility project for AMBO was conducted by none other than KBR.

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE14Ak03.html

Don't you just love real journalism, susu369?



Evil is as evil does.

[Stinky Bushes]

42. is it just me

or did anyone else notice how happy and smiley Bush was just after the hurricane hit? Probably this is why...

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Check out this out

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bushco/bush_crime_family.htm

[Octafish]

6. Very nice.

I really like Old American Century.com. That Bush Crime Family Tree really pegs these war turds for what they are -- money grubbers from Pearl Harbor to the present PNAC day.

Here's a bit from of information from the Institute for Southern Studies you may enjoy, orpupilofnature57 and DU readers...

Winter 2003/2004
 
Occupation, Inc.

War profiteers in Iraq pursue quick fixes and high profits by overcharging for shoddy work, while Iraqis protest that they could do the work better and cheaper.
 
By Pratap Chatterjee and Herbert Docena

The giant steam turbine at the Najibiya power plant is quiet. If the Russian engineers who built the original equipment over 30 years ago stopped by to take a look, they might have a hard time recognizing the machinery: over the years Iraqi engineers have replaced many of the original blue parts with a patchwork of white and grey makeshift materials.

Across the street the lights go out. Yaruub Jasim, the general director of electricity for the southern region, a kindly-looking man in his sixties dressed neatly in a grey suit, is apologetic. “Normally we have power 23 hours a day but today there is a problem. We should have done maintenance on these turbines in October, but we had no spare parts and no money.”

 Jasim tells us the needed parts were supposed to be supplied by Bechtel, a California-based company in charge of repairing the power system under a contract to restore Iraq’s infrastructure. (A Bechtel spokesperson says that the company was only responsible for “specifying the material design parameters for spare parts,” while it was up to occupation authorities to purchase and deliver the parts.)
 
Bechtel won the contract last April, before President Bush declared an end to major conflict. The company is to repair and refurbish sewage, water, and school systems to the tune of over a billion dollars and growing, making Bechtel’s business in Iraq second only to Texas-based Halliburton.
 
Just days before our visit in mid-December, the United States government announced its decision to exclude the countries who opposed the war from winning reconstruction contracts in Iraq. The political ramifications of this ban, and whether it would cover parts suppliers and sub-contractors or not—weighs heavily on Jasim’s mind.

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http://southernstudies.org/reports/OccupationInc.htm

Some crime family, that. Calls the shots, so to speak.

[orpupilofnature57]

18. COOOOL, thanks Octafish

[goclark]

82. Right! It is by design that

only the Bushco companies get the contracs.

People are always telling me that Haliburton is the only company capable of doing the work!

Bullshit!

They are capable exclusively because the Thugs MIHOP!!

No one has yet to answer my question --- how many minorities are working for these "Thug Companies" and what positions do they hold?

[Just Me]

3. They've arranged coups and assassinations of democratically elected,...

,...leaders who failed to "deal" with U.S. multi-national corps that engaged in fraud and economic exploitation (they would create bogus numbers to gain outrageously expensive infrastructure contracts). Read, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman".

Now, I guess they've decided to impose the same type of exploitatin against their own country and their own people. That's how they imagine usurping global power: defraud, exploit, bankrupt, steal national resources.

[seemslikeadream]

5. Looks like Haiti to me

:shrug:

[Just Me]

8. Aristide is the most recent example. He was removed because,...

,...he was attempting to help raise his people out of poverty and equalize or at least provide some balance against the elitist predators who were determined to keep poor folks in a slave labor situation (because, profits are everything, doncha' know).

[seemslikeadream]

10. How many Louis Vuitton Bags do you see in that photo?

from oasis
Original message
Fox'sTony Snow Says Evacuees Buying Louis Vuitton Bags W/Debit Cards
The Fox slimy conservative news anchor, Tony Snow was cracking jokes with the Fox reporter at the Houston Astrodome. The reporter was telling him how everything is just rosey at the "Dome". People are getting all different kinds of meals, kids have an extensive play area, massages are available etc.. It's some kinda paradise the way he's decribing it.

Then the reporter on the scene mentions the $2,000 debit cards and says they were discontinued. Snow chuckles and says "Yeah, they thought is wasn't such a good idea after all when they noticed people were buying Louis Vuitton luggage with them."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4725753&mesg_id=4725753

[Just Me]

14. I no longer bother attending to Fox: the right-wing, fascist machine.

I've noticed their numbers are declining. People are getting a clue that Fox is full of shit.

[buzzsaw_23]

79. Are you sure that's not New Orleans?

:shrug:

[seemslikeadream]

84. Bush does not believe in international treaties

HAITI MIHOP


While I sit here trying to think of things to say...



http://www.progressiveindependent.com/shalom/Pina_Haiti.htm

[Octafish]

7. Henry Kissinger said some decision were too important to be left up to...

... democracies. Gee. If they don't think the will of the people is good enough overseas, what makes so many Americans think they feel similar things -- like a fair election -- in the Homeland are any different?



"The issues are too important for the Chilean people to decide for themselves."

The Henry Kissinger Page

Third World Traveler

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/HKissinger.html

Old stuff to those in the know, it's critical information for those interested in preserving the Constitution of the United States of America.

[Just Me]

9. They are ANTI-democracy ----> they are corporacratic tyrants.

Mussolini, the father of fascism, pointed out that, all fascism really is,...is corporatism,...where corporate interests take priority in policy development, essentially putting corporations in charge of the country.

Corporatism = fascism, which is the opposite of democracy or a democratic republic. Presently, we have little left of either a democracy or a democratic republic,...neither the interests or the will of the people are being served. Rather the people's interests and will are being manipulated and exploited on behalf of large military/industrial/energy/financial corporations.

These are dark times for America and her people.

[Octafish]

12. Bush Mafia are FASCISTS

Thanks for spelling it out, Just Me.

For those who don't get it, a handy guide:

George W Bush and the 14 Points of Fascism

1.) Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

2.) Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

3.) Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

4.) Supremacy of the Military

5.) Rampant Sexism

6.) Controlled Mass Media

7.) Obsession with National Security

8.) Religion and Government are Intertwined

9.) Corporate Power is Protected

10.) Labor Power is Suppressed

11.) Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

12.) Obsession with Crime and Punishment

13.) Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

14.) Fraudulent Elections

SOURCE with all the details:

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

Gee. 14 out of 14. How lucky can a guy get?

[Just Me]

37. They've made America, Americans and human lives across the globe,...

,...suffer, time and time and time, again. Humanity can longer take or tolerate such horrific abuse by the most greedy, unfeeling, uncaring circle of corporacratic monsters on earth!!!

[LibertyorDeath]

46. Kissinger also said

"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy" Henry Kissinger

(from Chapter 5 in the "Final Days" by Woodward and Bernstein)."

Kissinger in a candid moment discussing those who lay down their
lives for their country & the Oligarchs.

A despicable vile creature

[orpupilofnature57]

75. One of Shrubs Heroes, along with his boss.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

78. Why does this picture jump to mind?

[DemonFighterLives]

11. Things are coming up Roses for dubco

Ole GFY Cheney is all proud in TX of how nice things are going.
Kicked and nominated. :dem:
Cheney may be able to afford a new heart after this haul.

[Just Me]

13. Thanks for reminding me to nominate.

Everyone should have a handle on the basics of the Bush Mafia and their practice of global fascism. They have oppressed and exploited too many for too long. It's time for real change, the kind of change that advances progress for ALL the people.

[DemonFighterLives]

28. Right on!

I've come to the realization that anything Octafish gets rolling needs to be nominated.

The B*sh crime family has done much over the years for them to deserve the worst that can be dished to them.

Why did you do it dubya? I would just like to see that answered by the naked emperor.

[Octafish]

21. Ruppert: "Bush-Cheney Drug Empire."

Thanks, DemonFighterLives! Remember Cop v. CIA pegs this important component of today's modern transnational criminal enterprise, the Drug Thing:

Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major components of

THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE

by Michael C. Ruppert
 

FTW  October 24, 2000 - The success of Bush Vice Presidential running mate Richard Cheney at leading Halliburton, Inc. to a five year $3.8 billion "pig-out" on federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans is only a partial indicator of what may happen if the Bush ticket wins in two weeks. A closer look at available research, including an August 2, 2000 report by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) at www.public-i.org, suggests that drug money has played a role in the successes achieved by Halliburton under Cheney's tenure as CEO from 1995 to 2000. This is especially true for Halliburton's most famous subsidiary, heavy construction and oil giant, Brown and Root. A deeper look into history reveals that Brown and Root's past as well as the past of Dick Cheney himself, connect to the international drug trade on more than one occasion and in more than one way.

This June the lead Washington, D.C. attorney for a major Russian oil company connected in law enforcement reports to heroin smuggling and also a beneficiary of US backed loans to pay for Brown and Root contracts in Russia, held a $2.2 million fund raiser to fill the already bulging coffers of presidential candidate George W. Bush. This is not the first time that Brown and Root has been connected to drugs and the fact is that this "poster child" of American industry may also be a key player in Wall Street's efforts to maintain domination of the half trillion dollar a year global drug trade and its profits. And Dick Cheney, who has also come closer to drugs than most suspect, and who is also Halliburton's largest individual shareholder ($45.5 million), has a vested interest in seeing to it that Brown and Root's successes continue.

Of all American companies dealing directly with the U.S. military and providing cover for CIA operations few firms can match the global presence of this giant construction powerhouse which employs 20,000 people in more than 100 countries. Through its sister companies or joint ventures, Brown and Root can build offshore oil rigs, drill wells, construct and operate everything from harbors to pipelines to highways to nuclear reactors. It can train and arm security forces and it can now also feed, supply and house armies. One key beacon of Brown and Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that, from its own corporate web page, it  proudly announces that it has received the contract to dismantle aging Russian nuclear tipped ICBMs in their silos.

Furthermore, the relationships between key institutions, players and the Bushes themselves suggest that under a George "W" administration the Bush family and its allies may well be able, using Brown and Root as the operational interface, to control the drug trade all the way from Medellin to Moscow.

Originally formed as a heavy construction company to build dams, Brown and Root grew its operations via shrewd political contributions to Senate candidate Lyndon Johnson in 1948. Expanding into the building of oil platforms, military bases, ports, nuclear facilities, harbors and tunnels, Brown and Root virtually underwrote LBJ's political career. It prospered as a result, making billions on U.S. Government contracts during the Vietnam War. The "Austin Chronicle" in an August 28 Op-ed piece entitled "The Candidate From Brown and Root" labels Republican Cheney as the political dispenser of Brown and Root's largesse.  According to political campaign records, during Cheney's five year tenure at Halliburton the company's political contributions more than doubled to $1.2 million. Not surprisingly, most of that money went to Republican candidates.

Independent news service "newsmakingnews.com," also describes how in 1998, with Cheney as Chairman, Halliburton spent $8.1 billion to purchase oil industry equipment and drilling supplier Dresser Industries. This made Halliburton a corporation that will have a presence in almost any future oil drilling operation anywhere in the world. And it also brought back into the family fold the company that had once sent a plane - also in 1948 - to fetch the new Yale Graduate George H.W. Bush, to begin his career in the Texas oil business.  Bush the elder's father, Prescott, served as a Managing Director for the firm that once owned Dresser, Brown Bothers Harriman.

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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/bush-cheney-drugs.html

Laura's wrong. They really aren't like the Corleones. The Corleones never dealt dope.

[DemonFighterLives]

30. It never ceases to amaze me

that the deeper one digs into these rejects the dirtier it gets.
Halliburton or Brown and Root should be shut down if that were possible. At the very least the ties of Cheney to all the no bid contracts should be questioned by one and all. It would almost seem like some monopoly or anti-trust laws would cover it, but I'm no lawyer and I'm sure the B/C crime family know very well how to cover their butts even when found out. No company or crime family can be allowed to get that powerful.

:scared:

[Octafish]

44. CIA means "Cocaine Importation Agency"

DEA Agents Agree: CIA means Cocaine Importation Agency

There’s enough evidence to bust George Herbert Walker Bush and the rest of his right-wing stooges under the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act).
http://www.ricoact.com /

Still. Don’t take my word for it. Let’s hear what the brave agents of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) have to say.
Celerino “Cele” Castillo III

Celerino "Cele" Castillo, 3rd

Ex-DEA Agent

May 17, 2005

For over a century, our government has made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that we have done to other people in third world countries, especially in Latin America. With the creation of the School of the Americas, a breeding ground for assassins, and the death squads, we have become the greatest human rights violators in the world.

We have become the most hated country in the world, not because we practice democracy or value our freedom. We are hated because our government denies these basic principles to these people. The hate has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism, and as they say, once again, "the chickens have come home to roost" with our own homegrown American made terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles.

When I was posted in Central America as a DEA agent I saw Luis Posada and Felix Rodriguez, another American terrorist, at Illopango airport base in El Salvador. Joining them was a CIA asset Venezuelan advisor Victor Rivera. They had become part of what was known as a CIA apparatus that did not have to answer to anyone. They were involved in everything from drug trafficking to kidnapping to the training of the death squads. It was at the height of the Iran-Contra investigation that I had documented these atrocities to my government. I could not understand how our government had assisted in having Posada escape from a Venezuelan prison, and then placed him at Illopango airport as a CIA asset under the new name of Ramon Medina. He was now working hand in hand with then U. S. Lt. Col. Oliver North.

When I asked about Posada's presence at Illopango, I was once again told that it was a covert operation being run by the White House. I started to learn real fast that just about every time I questioned illegal action, I would be told that it was "a covert operation being run by the White House." And as we found out later, my allegations were facts; that became especially clear when, in 1990, President Bush Sr. pardoned another American-made terrorist, Posada's partner in crime: Orlando Bosch. To the degree that the "war on terror" is a response to actual terrorism, that terrorism is retaliation: the U.S. has exported death and violence to the four corners of the Earth with individuals like Posada and Bosch.

Posada admitted to a New York Times reporter that he organized a wave of bombings in Cuba in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist and injured others. However, he is best known as the prime suspect in the bombing of a Cuban Airlines flight in Barbados in October 1976. All 73 crewmembers and passengers including teenaged members of Cuba's national fencing team were killed.

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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/hall/contra1.html

Additional resources:

http://www.albionmonitor.com/9612a/ciacontra.html

http://www.drugwar.com/castillonorthmay1104.shtm

www.powderburns.org

Well. Here’s to “Conspiracies In Action.”

Here’s what Michael Levine, DEA had to say about the organization started by Allen Dulles has brought tons of cocaine into the United States of America. Don’t worry, Mr. Conservative. It was at a profit.

Speaking of Capitalism’s Invisible Army:

Michael Levine Interview

by Paul DeRienzo

from THE SH@DOW - box 20298 - NY, NY 10009
Michael Levine is a veteran of 26 years of undercover work for four federal agencies. He is the recipient of many Justice and Treasury Department awards for hi s work undercover, including the International Narcotics Enforcement Officer Association's Octavio Gonzales Award. He is also the subject of Donald Goddard's book Undercover: The Secret Lives of a Federal Agent (Dell, 1990).

Joining the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) after discovering his brother's heroin addiction which eventually killed his brother, Levine was the most successful agent in DEA history. By 1977, he had made 3,000 drug arrests going undercover to set up buy and bust operations against New York City heroin and cocaine dealers. This led to his assignment as DEA station chief in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

By 1989, after having several of his operations stopped by higher ups who allowed his targets to get away, Levine quit the DEA in disgust. Levine then wrote the book Deep Cover (1990, Delacorte Press), describing his experiences that led to his leaving the DEA, exposing the government's phony "War on Drugs".

Levine tells a chilling story of treachery by members of his own agency, and the CIA, men Levine calls the ":suits" who he says use the War on Drugs as a cynical cover for covert foreign policy adventures. Levine says that since he began speaking out against the War on Drugs he has been threatened by high level DEA agents and has been the target of campaigns meant to discredit him.

CONTINUED…

http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/deajive.html

Additional resources:

http://www.serendipity.li/wod/levine.html

http://www.physicaldream.com/Eyeonsam/Is%20Anyone%20Apologizing%20to%20Gary%20Webb%20by%20Mike%20Levine.htm

So. There we have it. No evidence of conspiracy, as importing cocaine is a matter of national policy.

Well. Hector Berrellez would arrest these drug-running turds if the government would let him catch them. He’s another good guy.

Gary Webb

(1955-2005)

EXCERPT…

I had been thinking about looking into the claim that during the civil war in Nicaragua in the eighties, the CIA helped move dope to the United States to buy guns for the contras, who were mounting an insurrection against the leftist Sandinistas. So I called up Hector Berrellez, a guy who worked under Mike Holm in Los Angeles, a guy known within the DEA as its Eliot Ness, and he said, "Look, the CIA is the best in the world. You're not going to beat them; you're never going to get a smoking gun. The best you're going to get is a little story from me."

SNIP…

After a while, the San Jose Mercury News series disappeared except on a few byways of the Internet, Gary Webb was ruined, and things went back to normal. Things like Oliver North's diary entry linking dope and guns for the contras, like Carlos Lehder, a big Colombian drug dealer, testifying as a prosecution witness in federal court during the Noriega trial about the Medellín cartel's $10 million donation to the contras, like the entire history of unseemly connections between the international drug world and the CIA--all this went away, as it has time and time again in the past. A kind of orthodoxy settled over the American press that assumed Webb's work had been thoroughly refuted. He became the Discredited Gary Webb.

SNIP…

HECTOR BERRELLEZ STUMBLED ONTO GARY WEBB'S STORY YEARS before Gary Webb knew a thing about it. ….
In September 1986, Sergeant Tom Gordon of the Los Angeles sheriff's narcotics strike force pieced together intelligence about a big-time drug ring in town run by Danilo Blandón. A month later, on October 23, Gordon went before a judge with a twenty-page detailed statement documenting that "monies gained from the sales of cocaine are transported m Florida and laundered.,.. The monies are filtered to the contra rebels to buy arms in the war in Nicaragua." He got a search warrant for the organization's stash houses. On Friday, October 24, there was a briefing of more than a hundred law-enforcement guys from the sheriff's office, the DEA, the FBI. That was the same day that President Ronald Reagan, after months of hassle, signed a $100 million aid bill that reactivated a licit cash flow to the beleaguered contras. And on Monday, October 27, at daybreak, the strike force simultaneously hit fourteen L. A. area stash houses connected with Blandón.

That's where just another day in the life of Hector Berrellez got weird. Generally, at that early hour, good dopers are out cold; the work tends toward long nights and sleeping in. As Berrellez remembers, "We were expecting to end up with a lot of coke." Instead, they got coffee and sometimes doughnuts. The house he hit had the lights on, and everyone, two men and a woman, was up. The guy who answered the door said, "Good morning; we've been expecting you. Come on in." The house was tidy, the beds were already made, and the damn coffee was on. The three residents were polite, even congenial. "It was obvious," says Berrellez, "that they were told." The place was clean; all fourteen houses were clean. The only thing Berrellez and the other guys found in the house was a professional scale.

But there was a safe, and Berrellez got one of the residents to open it reluctantly. Inside, he found records of kilos matched with amounts of money, an obvious dope ledger, a photograph of a guy in flight dress in front of what looked to be a military jet, and photographs of some guys in combat. Hector asked the guy who the hell the people in the photographs were, and the guy said, "Oh, they are freedom fighters."

CONTINUED…

http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2004/041217_mfe_webb_1.html

Additional resources:

http://www.ckln.fm/~asadismi/whiteout.html

http://www.csun.edu/CommunicationStudies/ben/news/cia /

And these guys knew Gary Webb, DUers may remember the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter who was lauded for his groundbreaking series detailing how Contra-connected dealers got the inside track on the dope that eventually created the crack cocaine epidemic. Too bad what the government chose to “crack” down on was honest journalism, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Then it was only a matter of time before the rest of the Establishment press corpse piled on. Interesting expression: Kill a few birds with one stone.
Is that something? Three DEA agents who never knew of one another’s existence while they worked together in the federal government. There were united by something else, though. Each, after reporting drug dealing by Contras and other “protected organizations,” were left out to hang.

That’s un-American. Drug dealing to fund illegal wars? Gee.

That’s Treason.

What are the names of those involved? We know a few: George Herbert Walker Bush, John Poindexter, Oliver North, Elliott Abrams, John Negroponte, Ted Shackley, to name a few. What's needed is a Grand Jury to investigate the actions of these drug-dealing, warmongering conspirators, for starters.

[Just Me]

54. Only those whose allegiance/loyalty are to corporacratic profiteers.

I know for a fact that the majority of members in the CIA and FBI are loyal to their country. They do not deserve to be blamed for the corruption of the corporateers at the top.

Keep focus on the few corrupt, greedy, criminal assholes manipulating such agencies rather than smearing all those who DO SERVE in accordance with their pledge.

Please. Maintain focus on those who EXPLOIT every person, every resource, every tragedy.

[me b zola]

15. Thanks for posting this, Octafish

I have been missing your voice since the entire post-Katrina disaster hit.

How many more need to die before before people wake-up and examine the elected officials that they have blindly supported? Keep putting the truth out there. For every new person who comes to this sight to lurk and have been changed by allowing themselves to see the truth, they will spread that truth to others and so the ripple effect goes on.

[Octafish]

25. Thanks, me b zola! The Bushes care not for humanity one bit.

They only care about property. Real property.

Overheard this last weekend:

There are two kinds of people in the world:
Those who love people and use things,
Those who love things and use people.

Those who support the Bushes -- after knowing the Truth -- fall in the latter.

The ripple idea reminds me of what Robert F. Kennedy said in Cape Town, South Africa, two years before his death:

Day of Affirmation Address

I came here because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once imported slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America.

SNIP...

We must recognize the full human equality of all of our people before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this, not because it is economically advantageous, although it is; not because of the laws of God command it, although they do; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.

SNIP...

 "Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Thousands of Peace Corps volunteers are making a difference in isolated villages and city slums in dozens of countries. Thousands of unknown men and women in Europe resisted the occupation of the Nazis and many died, but all added to the ultimate strength and freedom of their countries. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

"If Athens shall appear great to you," said Pericles, "consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty." That is the source of all greatness in all societies, and it is the key to progress in our time.

CONTINUED (with audio version, as well)...

http://www.jfklibrary.org/r060666.htm

Thanks for the kind words, me b zola! Thanks also for giving a damn.

[Just Me]

16. BushCo profiteering off Katrina.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050910/pl...


Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals Sat Sep 10,11:03 AM ET


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.


At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W. Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.

One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.

Bechtel National Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., has also been selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation....

[nashville_brook]

23. the story is gone from yahoo.

[Just Me]

26. Try this link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050910/pl_nm/contracts_dc

It's still up.

[malaise]

27. NYT has a good story today

with the FEMA men and their links to the lobbyists.

[Octafish]

39. Big Oil likes Katrina, too.

Of course, Big Oil loves BushCo.

Mondo Washington

Pumping Us Dry

Katrina tragedy is an absolutely perfect storm for oil companies

by James Ridgeway
September 2nd, 2005 9:06 PM

The very first thing George W. Bush did in response to Hurricane Katrina was to offer a helping hand—not to the people stranded on rooftops in New Orleans, but to his friends in the oil industry. These were the same people who gave him $52 million in his last campaign. The president released millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve so the oil companies would have enough fuel to make gas and keep the country going. But the companies don't need this oil. They're already swimming in it.

SNIP...

“Despite growing inventories, U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by nearly 5 million barrels over the past 3 weeks,” wrote the federal Energy Information Administration. Continuing in the clipped industry jargon, the agency added, “While this may not appear to be a substantial build, it comes at a time when crude oil inventories typically decline, as refiners use more crude to make gasoline needed for current demand and heating oil as they stock up for the winter.”

Thus, any crude oil inventory increase during the month of August, much less one of five million barrels over a three-week period, might lead one to expect prices to drop. Yet the price for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil has risen by $5 per barrel! If prices don't fall under these conditions, what will make them fall?

SNIP...

Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Ed Wallace wrote last week that “there's actually weakening demand in Asia over the past two months, so oil is being diverted to the U.S., where it'll bring higher profits.” He quoted Reuters as noting that “Chinese oil trader Unipec resold at least 3 million barrels of August-arriving crude due to reduced refinery demand and was offering more, traders said last week.” Mary Rose Brown, a spokeswoman for Valero in San Antonio, was quoted by The Wall Street Journal as saying, “There is no reason for crude oil to be at $65 a barrel other than hype in the market.”

SNIP...

Meanwhile, the high gas prices are adding to the profits of the big companies. Says the watchdog group Public Citizen: “Since George Bush became president in 2001, the top five oil companies in the United States have recorded profits of $254 billion: ExxonMobil: $89 billion, Shell: $60.7 billion, BP: $53 billion, ChevronTexaco: $31 billion, ConocoPhillips: $20 billion.” The group adds: “As Americans shell out more dollars at the pump, the profit margin by U.S. oil refiners has shot up 79% from 1999 (the year Exxon and Mobil merged) to 2004.”

CONTINUED...

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0536,ridgewaycolu,67514,2.html

PS: Thanks for the heads-up on the connections, Just Me. Allbaugh, Shaw Group and our friends at Halliburton are real "class" Americans all, jawohl.

[VOX]

17. Why would 2 sons of a Maine family become governors of FL and TX?

Really, that's about all you have to know about the * family's dark ambition -- installing their sons as governors of the two most electoral-vote rich Southern states. States upon which elections could turn -- and sadly, eventually did.

***WHY*** would the two * sons of a Maine family both become governors in populous Southern states? To make something of themselves? Shrub alone disproves this theory -- he's downright allergic to work. But they are as ambitious as the fictional Corleone family, and they're all about grabbing power for the right wing, by any means necessary.

And just for good measure, Jeb is a PNAC signatory.

[orpupilofnature57]

19. Because the devil moves to and fro! even if it's just a concept for you!

Ambiguity is the one thing they are Genetically Superior at , probably a Spinal disorder.

[Octafish]

40. Operation PAPERCLIP: It's the natural Order of Things.

My thesis is these folk are kindred spirits with certain of history's elites. Specifically, these include the NAZIs, the Klan, the old-line money-grubbers, English royaly, eugenicists, the slave-owning class, sociopaths, psychopaths and the neocons. While hidden from the general public by the corporate class, how the Bushes and their masters got so powerful is a matter of record:

Operation Paperclip
 
by Agent Orange
 
After WWII ended in 1945, victorious Russian and American intelligence teams began a treasure hunt throughout occupied Germany for military and scientific booty. They were looking for things like new rocket and aircraft designs, medicines, and electronics. But they were also hunting down the most precious "spoils" of all: the scientists whose work had nearly won the war for Germany. The engineers and intelligence officers of the Nazi War Machine.

 The U.S. Military rounded up Nazi scientists and brought them to America. It had originally intended merely to debrief them and send them back to Germany. But when it realized the extent of the scientists knowledge and expertise, the War Department decided it would be a waste to send the scientists home. Following the discovery of flying discs (foo fighters), particle/laser beam weaponry in German military bases, the War Department decided that NASA and the CIA must control this technology, and the Nazi engineers that had worked on this technology.
 
There was only one problem: it was illegal. U.S. law explicitly prohibited Nazi officials from immigrating to America--and as many as three-quarters of the scientists in question had been committed Nazis.
 
SNIP...
 
When the JIOA formed to investigate the backgrounds and form dossiers on the Nazis, the Nazi Intelligence leader Reinhard Gehlen met with the CIA director Allen Dulles. Dulles and Gehlen hit it off immediatly. Gehlen was a master spy for the Nazis and had infilitrated Russia with his vast Nazi Intelligence network. Dulles promised Gehlen that his Intelligence unit was safe in the CIA.
 
Apparently, Wev decided to sidestep the problem. Dulles had the scientists dossier's re-written to eliminate incriminating evidence. As promised, Allen Dulles delivered the Nazi Intelligence unit to the CIA, which later opened many umbrella projects stemming from Nazi mad research.
(MK-ULTRA / ARTICHOKE, OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAX)

CONTINUED...

http://www.unitedstatesgovernment.net/operationpaperclip.htm

With people like the Dulles brothers, Harriman and his ilk, more than three generations of Bushes and Gehlen's NAZI Org running free, it's no wonder why the country hasn't been the same since 22 november 1963 -- and why the United States has come to act just like Germany in 1939.

PS: Thanks for giving a damn, Krazy Kat. You know what's at stake.

[Project_Willow]

52. Sometimes I cry

when I see these posts. These are bits of the hidden truth escaping about the American holocaust. One day all will know about the programs, the torture, the murder, the suffering of tens of thousands of experimentees, including thousands of children!

Some day the world will know!

www.aches-mc.org

http://www.lynnsart.net/pdfs/pamphlet3.pdf

[Cleita]

20. ...

:kick:

[Octafish]

45. Thanks, Cleita! Didja see the other Bush-FBI Memo?

This one indicates "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" was briefed on how the pro- and anti-Castro Cuban community took the news of the assassination. Funny. That may explain how the Poppy Bush we know and loathe today has sooooo many friends from the anti-Castro Cuban community, including Luis Posada Carriles and Felix Rodriguez.

Source: http://www.internetpirate.com/bush.htm

[Nothing Without Hope]

22. They want to use the deliberately worsened devastation plus any

"civil disturbances" in protest around the country - incited, hyped, fabricated, and endlessly propagandized - to terrify the American public into surrendering the rest of their civil rights for "protection" by Pentagon-run military domestic troops.

No, this is not tinfoilhattery. It has years of careful leadup, the laws and organization that would allow it/manage it (e.g., NorthCom) are in place, and they were only waiting for a trigger event to make their move. They are clearly using this one. (I think if they had to wait much longer, we would have seen another conveniently staged 9/11-type attack, maybe nuclear to scare more people.)

There is MASSIVE documentation of their plans, and the deliberate blocks and delays of aid in the hurrican aftermath - and much more - show what they are up to now. Yes, Halliburton has the contracts and there is already much more evidence of corruption with the hurricane aid money. But it's more than that. They want a dictatorship.

Please don't dismiss this. John Dean called it "constitutional dictatorship" and said it was possible, given another "hit." He wrote in 2002 and envisaged another "terrorist" attack, but the hurricane can be manipulated much better and gives more avenues for profit too.

We ignore this at our peril. We must unite locally and nationally, INCLUSIVELY, in an unstoppable nonviolent coalition to stop this murderous treason NOW.

Some of the story and links to some of the info (which link to other links) are in this post, but this is the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1765780&mesg_id=1766896
There is much, much more documentation and connections.

[orpupilofnature57]

24. Dog him with Impeachment, that will cut down on Poppies pull power

Which is partially the reason we're in this boat to begin with.Thats what happens when the public wants ( or Doesn't ) one thing , like voting poppy one term, and politicians gaining information on people, to always be in the loop.

[Joe Chi Minh]

29. Well with the free option of

"disappearing" Americans into gulags across the world - hopefully, not terminally, though we can't know, one way or the other - it's difficult see in what way absolute dictatorial power is lacking.

Congress seems to have been little more than an all-purpose rubber stamp for Junior's policies, particularly, on the major issues, such as the arrogation of quasi-absolute power to himself, not least in terms of exemption from accountability and/or blame.

[Octafish]

65. JFK wanted ALL Americans to get ahead.

That's why as President, John F. Kennedy did all he could for public education, the arts and scientific advancement. JFK even got America to unite behind his goal of getting a man to the moon and safely back to earth before the end of the decade. Until we figured out how to do that, Kennedy's goal had only been an impossible dream. And that dream would become a reality. and in the process, we as a nation had something better to to do with our time, treasure and talents than building useless H-bombs. We invested in the New Frontier and the industries of the future and in Mankind ourselves. Imagine how many other "impossible" dreams -- things on earth -- we would've tackled? Ignorance. Poverty. Disease. Intolerance. Racism...

Contrast that with Bush and the BFEE. They only want CERTAIN Americans and Foreign Nationals to get ahead. Poppy's inaugural adress made clear that we, as a nation, "have more will than wallet." Well, taht about says it all -- about national priorities and the "Vision Thing."

[orpupilofnature57]

73. The last great visionary of our country, besides R.F.K. and we've paid..

an awful price for it, political leaches as opposed to devoted civil servants.

[seemslikeadream]

31. Members of the Bush Crime Family

List to follow

[seemslikeadream]

32. Bernie Kerik

Since they've got Kerik out on all the talk shows this week, lets start with him




Bernie Kerik
Not to belabor the point, this guy is little more than a shill for the Rudy the Wife-swapping Turd Giuliani and the Bush Organized Crime Family, Saudi Division. Campaigning for the drunken coke-whore AWOL psychotic moron, Kerrick had the cheek to say if Kerry were elected, Osama would strike again.

How interesting. Does he know something we don't know? How many dots did Smirko miss? Well, the Bushes and the bin Ladens have been business partners for years. Hey, Kerrick! Buy a clue, uh? -- before it's too late for Metropolis.

The following article from Newsday, which should know a bum when they see one, says this turd was in over his bald head as a narc and police commissioner of Gotham. It also spells out areas of interest where he and the BFEE can make money in the future -- Carlyle, Trireme Partnerships and whatever else the Big Money War Boys have going. So, as head of Homeland Security, we can be certain he won't mind doing whatever he's ordered to do by satan's monkey.


Kerik nomination is a ticking time bomb

Ellis Henican
December 3, 2004

Campaign bodyguard to Rudy Giuliani.

Errand boy for the Saudi royal family.

Energetic exploiter of Sept. 11th tragedy.

Tough-talking publicity-hound vowing to bring law and order to Iraq - then hightailing it out of there after a disastrous 14 weeks, leaving the place far less safe than he found it.

Oh, the bullet points on Bernie Kerik's real-life resume just go on and on. But is this really the guy we want standing between us and the terrorists?

CONTINUED...

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nyhen03406394...


AFTER THE WAR

Baghdad City Cop

We beat crime in New York. We can do it in Baghdad.

BY BERNARD B. KERIK
Sunday, September 28, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT

"Welcome to a free Iraq" is what Jerry Bremer, administrator for the Coalition Provisional Authority, said to me as he reached out to shake my hand when I arrived in Baghdad four months ago. I'm still moved by those words as I say them myself, "Welcome to a free Iraq," just as I was moved last week by President Bush--under pressure at home and abroad--standing firmly by our nation-building project in his U.N. speech.

As I toured Baghdad for the first time, I saw a city ravaged by war, looting and lawlessness. Or so I thought. What I didn't know then, and didn't learn until later, was that most of the damage to the infrastructure was caused by three decades of rule by a tyrant, who used his country's natural wealth not to enhance its power plants and sewage and water systems, but to aggrandize himself. These systems will now have to be built or rebuilt over the next several years and can't be fixed with a Band-Aid.

In my four months in Iraq, spent living with, working with, and learning from Iraqi police, I've seen things that would sicken the worst of minds. In our hunt for the Fedayeen Saddam, Saddam Hussein's trained assassins, I watched video after video of interrogations of Iraqis whose lives ended with the detonation of a grenade that was tied to the neck or stuffed in the shirt pocket of the victim. I watched the living bodies disintegrate at the pull of the pin. And if that's not enough, there's a tape of Saddam sitting and watching one of his military generals being eaten alive by Dobermans because the general's loyalty was in question.

But Iraq is now a different country. The rebuilding of the infrastructure has begun and the streets are full of life, with bustling markets and shops. But reconstruction isn't just about bricks and mortar: Iraq's civic structures were in tatters, too, especially its Baathist police force, an organization that had, in any case, no credibility with the Iraqi people. My job was to assist in setting up this force again, with proper training, new values, a respect for human rights. The latter phrase--"human rights"--has been absent from Iraq's vocabulary for decades. Certainly, no one has heard it uttered, until now, within the four walls of a police station. The magnitude of our task can be measured from the fact that we had to teach cops that when you pull a man suspected of a crime into the station, you can't just hang him upside-down and beat him with an iron bar.

SNIP...

History has taught us that there's always a cost for freedom. On 9/11 we learned that we'll pay now or we'll pay later. As one who stood beneath the twin towers and watched people jump from the burning buildings, and also witnessed first-hand the fall of Saddam, I more than most have an understanding of the threat of radical Islam. Let's not forget that this is a war. So for now, the war should continue; and as Jerry Bremer would so proudly say, "Welcome to a free Iraq."

CONTINUED...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004077

Starting His Career

Fresh out of the Army, 21 year old Bernard provided security for the construction of a large military base Saudi Arabia. There he honed his know-how in international police work, investigations and terrorism and also worked for the Royal Saudi family. "I think I left Saudi Arabia with a different sense of internal pride, with a sense of honor and integrity that I didn't know and understand before I got there."


Becoming the Youngest Warden

In 1984, he returned to the U.S. to work as a corrections officer at the Passaic County Jail in New Jersey. One year later, he was appointed warden, the youngest ever to hold that post. "There I learned a lot about management, but most importantly I learned how to lead men, how to lead people, how to be a good manager. To lead by example."

CONTINUED...
http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/tows_past_20011114_d.jhtml

Protected the Saudi Royal Family
Hey, that's the Bush's job, protecting the Roils...

...Commissioner Kerik began his professional career as a member of the U.S. Army's Military Police, serving in Korea and in the 18th Airborne Corps where he trained Special Forces personnel. Following his military service, Commissioner Kerik traveled to Saudi Arabia where he assumed various security assignments, including protection for members of the Saudi Royal Family. ...

SOURCE:

http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/h...

Here's how the BFEE comes in...

The Bush-Saudi Connection

By Michelle Mairesse

EXCERPT...

"The White House official line is that the Bin Ladens are above suspicion --apart from Osama, the black sheep, who they say hijacked the family name. That's fortunate for the Bush family and the Saudi royal household, whose links with the Bin Ladens could otherwise prove embarrassing. But Newsnight has obtained evidence that the FBI was on the trail of other members of the Bin Laden family for links to terrorist organisations before and after September 11th." (11)

In the Boston Globe, March 11, 20004, Carl Unger, author of House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties, states that the 9/11 commission should ask who authorized the evacuation of 140 Saudi nationals on at least 8 aircraft making stops in 12 cities immediately following the attacks. “Many of the passengers were high-ranking members of the royal House of Saud. About 24 of them were members of the bin Laden family, which owned the Saudi Binladin Group, a multibillion-dollar construction conglomerate.” Unger obtained passenger lists for 4 of the flights, which are posted on his website:

www.houseofbush.com and includes the name of Prince Ahmed bin Salman.

“As reported last year by Gerald Posner in 'Why America Slept,' Prince Ahmed not only had alleged ties to Al Qaeda, but may also have known in advance that there would be attacks on 9/11. According to Posner, Abu Zubaydah, an Al Qaeda operative who was part of Osama bin Laden's inner circle and was captured in 2002, made these assertions when he was interrogated by the CIA. The commission should ask Mueller about Zubaydah's interrogation. They should also ask whether the FBI interrogated Prince Ahmed before his departure.

"But Prince Ahmed will never be able to answer any questions because not long after the CIA interrogation, he died of a heart attack at the age of 43. Yet we do know that he was on one of the flights.”

Unger believes that this episode “raises particularly sensitive questions for the administration. Never before in history has a president of the United States had such a close relationship with another foreign power as President Bush and his father have had with the Saudi royal family, the House of Saud. I have traced more than $1.4 billion in investments and contracts that went from the House of Saud over the past 20 years to companies in which the Bushes and their allies have had prominent positions -- Harken Energy, Halliburton, and the Carlyle Group among them. Is it possible that President Bush himself played a role in authorizing the evacuation of the Saudis after 9/11? What did he know and when did he know it?”

CONTINUED...

http://www.new-enlightenment.com/index.html

Kerik Is Not Fit To Serve As Homeland Security Chief

DemWatch | Dec 04 2004

A few reasons why Bernard Kerik is not fit to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security...

1. Kerik has furthered the lie that Iraq was involved with 9/11:

New York Newsday, 10/20/03 (reposted here)

"Saddam didn't do 9/11. But did Saddam fund, and train al-Qaida? The answer is yes. Then ask yourself, who hit the towers?"

SNIP...

4. Kerik has extensive ties to the terrorist-funding Saudi royal family:

BBC, 5/16/03

"Mr Kerik says he speaks a smattering or Arabic - from four years spent in Saudi Arabia training security staff."

Update: As Michael pointed out in the comments, this is kind of weak as criticism goes. To a certain extent, he's right. However, considering both the Saudi royal family's history of funding terrorists and their history of brutal repression of their own people, the fact that Kerik worked for them in security is pretty unattractive. Were Kerik looking at a job heading up security for a major international corporation, I'd shrug it off. But we're talking about the future Secretary of Homeland Security here. The Saudi ties are not something to be taken lightly.

CONTINUED...

http://www.infowars.net/Pages/Dec_04/041204_kerick.html

US looking to train local Iraqi policemen to replace troops
Edited on Sat Dec-04-04 10:40 PM by seemslikeadream

The Future of Iraq

US looking to train local Iraqi policemen to replace troops
PM - Monday, 25 August , 2003
Reporter: Rafael Epstein
MARK COLVIN: With its army under daily attack in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States wants to rush through funding to train tens of thousands of local policemen. The US has secured permission from Hungary to train 28,000 Iraqis at a former Soviet base there. The US is also preparing to double its reconstruction aid to the new Afghan Government, with a major aim to have 20,000 new policemen ready to patrol by next March.

Rafael Epstein reports.

RAFAEL EPSTEIN: Former New York City Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik, is just about to finish a five-month tour in Iraq as adviser to the nascent Interior Ministry. He says the 40,000 Iraqi police now back on the streets are already taking over the work of western troops.

BERNARD KERIK: They're working extremely hard. They're very aggressive, the ones we have out there now, and that's what's going to begin the transition in disengagement of the military. And that has to continue to take the people out that are fighting against freedom in Iraq.

RAFAEL EPSTEIN: Iraqis who work with Americans are targets for attacks. A bombing in early July, near the graduation ceremony for the first class of police recruits killed seven of them.

But another 30,000 police are needed. Most will be trained at an old Soviet base in Hungary, near the city of Tazsar. It was used before the war to train expatiate Iraqis who worked alongside the US army.

Mr Kerik says existing police academies in Iraq are not big enough and training in Hungary – if the US congress approves – is the only way to quickly handover to locals, who may be seen as more acceptable peacekeepers.

BERNARD KERIK: We have to hire another 25,000 to 30,000 over the next 18 months to 2 years. We have to get them trained – that's an enormous project. In the NYPD, on average I trained between 3,000 and 5,000 a year. We've got to do 30,000 to 35,000 over the next 18 months to 2 years. And it's going to be a difficult and tasking project but it can be done.

RAFAEL EPSTEIN: Mr Kerik told American television 3,000 Iraqi officers have been knocked back because of their role in the old regime. Many of the officers who used to be policemen, have now been through an American-devised training course. But in some towns many of them have to share weapons, with one gun between every two officers, in a country where automatic rifles are readily available.

BERNARD KERIK: Well, I think, honestly, I think, they're doing a lot better than I anticipated. We have weeded out an enormous amount of the Baath Party members. We also have to teach them methods and principles of policing in a democratic society. We have to teach them that torture is not a part of an interrogation or an interview.

So, all of that is going on. It's going to take time to get there. It can work, it can happen and I have to say, they're taking out the Baath members out of the police department and off the streets.
more
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s931813.htm

Interview with Bernard Kerick

Aired June 25, 2003 - 20:41 ET

ZAHN: Let's talk about the recent escalation of violence against U.S. soldiers, British Soldiers.

What do you think is the root cause of it?

KERIK: The root cause is the loss of power to these people. Power is money. They've taken a heavy loss. As freedom grows throughout Iraq you're going to see continued resistance for a while, until we weed these people out. There's been an enormous amount of actionable intelligence where we're going in to take out members of the Ba'ath party, members -- Saddam loyalist. That's going to continue. But as freedom continues to agree -- grow, the people that have taken the heaviest losses, all of these loyalists to Saddam they are going to continue to fight until the end.

ZAHN: And how do you view their opposition?

As organized, as guerrilla warfare, how would you characterize it?

KERIK: Maybe guerrilla warfare. It's not as organized as people might think. Where there is organization, we've been sort of knocking it out. You know, are they talking perhaps, Yes. But, you know, this isn't going to go away overnight. They're not giving up as easily as people would think. They have taken a tremendous loss, and it's going to continue for a while.
more
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/25/se.10...

Black Coffee Briefing
Start: Tuesday, December 2, 2003 9:30 AM
End: Tuesday, December 2, 2003 11:45 AM

Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Directions to AEI

AEI’s next Black Coffee Briefing will take place on Tuesday, December 2. Bernard Kerik-former interim interior minister of Iraq and senior policy adviser to L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. presidential envoy and administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq-will deliver a keynote address. Mr. Kerik will speak about his experiences leading the reconstitution and development of the Iraqi police, border control, and emergency management services.

http://www.aei.org/events/filter.,eventID.680/event_det...

United States Embassy
Tokyo, Japan
Bush Discusses Progress on Iraqi Police Force with Kerik
White House Report, October 3: Iraq, nominations
President Bush met in the Oval Office October 3 with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who spent more than four months in Iraq helping to build an Iraqi police force, to discuss progress on improving the security situation in Iraq.

In remarks on the South Lawn afterwards, the president praised Commissioner Kerik for his efforts, saying that "because of his leadership, his knowledge and his experience" the police force in Baghdad was created very quickly.
more
http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-20031006a1.html


August 30, 2004
Bernard Kerik

It is an honor to stand before you this evening, not only because of this Convention but because of the history that Madison Square Garden holds for me.
In 1986, I stood in this very arena, raised my right hand and was sworn in as a New York City Police Officer.
Fourteen years later, Mayor Giuliani appointed me as Police Commissioner of this great city and it was a great day in a great time. Crime was down; the city was prospering like never before, and then the unthinkable: America was under attack.
In the attacks of September 11th, we witnessed the worst and the best in humanity.
Through the devastation created by 19 evil men, we witnessed heroics by our first responders that were unparalleled.
We witnessed strong and decisive leadership on that day and those that followed in Mayor Giuliani, Governor Pataki and most importantly, our Commander in Chief, President Bush.
We didn't ask for this war, but faced with an evil whose only mission is to destroy our country we had to respond.
We had to fight this war abroad. And we had to fight the war here at home.
The President responded by creating the Department of Homeland Security, he enacted the PATRIOT Act and he has tripled our homeland security funding since 2001.
And today in Afghanistan, the Taliban has been unseated from power and the Al Queda leadership is on the run.
In Iraq, Saddam Hussein will finally be held accountable.
Today, we live in a much safer world as a result of this President's strong leadership.
As I think about his leadership, I think of the courage it took for our Commander in Chief to land on an airstrip in the dark of night, a world away, to be with our troops on Thanksgiving.
He was there for them as he was for us right here in New York City, inspiring a nation as he stood on hallowed ground, supporting the first responders.
This fight against terrorism takes decisiveness, not contradiction.
It takes continued support for our troops and first responders, not votes against our military, our intelligence and law enforcement spending.
Most importantly, it takes courage and inspirational leadership in the White House.
There are two candidates in this race, but only one fills those needs.
George W. Bush has my vote and for the future and safety of this country, I pray to God he has yours as well.

God bless you and God bless America
http://www.gopconvention.com/cgi-data/speeches/files/a6...


Mr. Kerik spent nearly four years in various security assignments in Saudi Arabia training Saudi and other nationls in physical security and police patrol operations. Prior to that, he served as an MP for three years in the US Army, assigned to Korea and the 18th Airborne orps where he trained Special Forces personnel at the John F. Kennedy Unconvetional Warfare Center, Fort Bragg. He was also a member of an all-Army martial arts team.

SOURCE:

http://www.ineoa.org/kerik.htm


Kerik dashes about Baghdad with the South African bodyguards
2.21.2004


In his N.Y. Times article dated February 22, “By Selling Very Public Image, the Private Giuliani Prospers”, Eric Lipton presents what looks like a thorough examination of Giuliani Partners, the firm started by Rudy Giuliani after leaving office as the mayor of New York. I was surprised that he neglected to mention Bernard Kerik’s role as the "Baghdad Terminator" the Bush administration's top security adviser in Iraq. The piece mentions Kerik only in relation to his work for Perdue Pharma:

"Purdue Pharma has hired some of the most experienced experts on drug enforcement and drug monitoring in the country," Mr. Giuliani said, referring to his own law enforcement experience, as well as that of his partner Bernard B. Kerik, the former police commissioner who once specialized in drug enforcement cases at the Police Department.

Mr. Kerik was dispatched with other former Police Department aides to evaluate security practices at Purdue's OxyContin manufacturing plant in Totowa, N.J., where two Purdue employees were arrested in 2001 for trying to steal thousands of pills.
Needlenose noted Kerik’s sudden departure from Iraq back in September of last year and linked to a CBS news report containing a sentence that caught my eye.
Kerik dashes about Baghdad with the South African bodyguards he inherited from retired Gen. Jay Garner, the first chief of Iraq's interim administration.
Billmon looks at South African participation in Iraq in more detail.

In its effort to relieve overstretched U.S. troops in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired a private security company staffed with former henchmen of South Africa's apartheid regime.

The reliance on apartheid enforcers was highlighted by an attack in Iraq last month that killed one South African security officer and wounded another who worked for the subsidiary of a firm called Erinys International. Both men once served in South African paramilitary units dedicated to the violent repression of apartheid opponents.

http://enduringfriedman.blogspot.com/2004_02_15_enduringfriedman_archive.html


New US Homeland Chief Fathered Daughter in Korea
By Reuben Staines
Staff Reporter
Bernard Kerik, the man tasked with protecting the United States from the threat of terrorist attacks, fathered a daughter with a South Korean woman while serving on the peninsula in the mid-1970s, U.S. media reported over the weekend.

Kerik, who was selected to replace Tom Ridge as secretary of the Homeland Security Department on Thursday, had the baby with a woman identified as Sun-ja after arriving in South Korea as a 19-year-old military policeman in December 1974, according to several reports.

The baby, named Lisa, was born in 1975. But Kerik deserted her and her mother when he left the country in February 1976.

In his 2001 autobiography, titled ``The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice,¡¯¡¯ Kerik called the decision ``a mistake I will always regret, and I pray to God that one day I can make it right.¡¯¡¯

He said Sun-ja, who later married another U.S. soldier, had not allowed him to meet his daughter until seeing him on The Oprah Winfrey Show following his Sept. 11 heroics.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200412/kt2004120521494711990.htm


HOMELAND SECURITY

Who Is Bernard Kerik?

Over the last several years, former NYC police commissioner Bernard B. Kerik, President Bush's nominee to be the next Secretary of Homeland Security, has become "a multimillionaire as a result of a lucrative partnership with former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani." Indeed, the New York Daily News suggests, Kerik's selection was less based on merit than it was on Giuliani's "pull within the White House" and "Kerik's work on the campaign trail" for Bush. Kerik's record, however, raises serious question about his motives, ethics and ability to defend America. Kerik abruptly quit a critical job in Iraq, mismanaged rescue efforts in the aftermath of 9/11, used his official posts for personal enrichment and has been plagued by serious scandals. Here is a detailed look behind the mustache:

KERIK ABANDONS CRITICAL POST IN IRAQ TO TAKE A VACATION: The Washington Post reports that Kerik's track record on issues of national security is "spotty." Appointed by President Bush to train a new Iraqi police force in 2003, "Kerik came under criticism for inadequate screening of recruits as U.S. authorities rushed to deploy the force. It has been plagued by desertions and by allegations that insurgents have infiltrated the ranks." Worse, Kerik "quit four months into his six-month tenure in Iraq, telling New York reporters later that he needed a vacation."

KERIK CRITICIZED BY CONSERVATIVES FOR POST-9/11 OPERATIONS: A prominent Republican member of the Sept. 11 commission, former Navy secretary John F. Lehman, sharply criticized Kerik "for failures of leadership during the terrorist attacks" of 9/11. Lehman said that Kerik allowed turf battles with the Fire Department to "hamper rescue efforts" and called Kerik's leadership at the time "not worthy of the Boy Scouts."

KERIK SENT COPS OUT OF NYC TO RESEARCH HIS PERSONAL MEMOIRS: As police commissioner of NYC, Kerik used city police officers – who could have been protecting the people of New York – to help him write a book he would sell for personal profit. The Washington Post reports that the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board fined Kerik $2,500 for "sending two police officers to Ohio to help research his best-selling 2001 memoir, 'The Lost Son.'"

KERIK'S STUNNING CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Kerik has made $6.2 million dollars in profits from his relationship "with Taser International, a Scottsdale, Ariz., manufacturer of stun guns." Kerik was appointed as a director of the company immediately after he had the NYPD purchase the guns as police chief. Since 2002, Kerik has hawked Taser's products to police departments around the country. Recently the company has made an "aggressive push to enter markets either regulated or controlled by the federal government, most notably the Department of Homeland Security." Thomas Smith, the company president, said the company would "continue to go after that business" at the Department of Homeland Security should Kerik be confirmed.

KERIK'S DIRTY DOOR DEAL: Failing to follow proper bidding procedures, Kerik spent $50,000 on four security doors for the NYC police headquarters. The doors were all too heavy for the floors of the police headquarters and three are now in storage. Shortly after leaving his post as commissioner, "Kerik became an adviser to a company distributing the doors." He later renounced the post after "the door-maker's president was indicted for defrauding the city."

KERIK SHILLS FOR THE DRUG INDUSTRY: In April, the Washington Post reported that Kerik opened a high-priced consulting firm to sell his New York City police credentials to wealthy corporate bidders. The firm was promptly hired by the pharmaceutical industry's chief lobbying group to build opposition to letting American seniors purchase lower-priced, FDA-approved medicines from Canada. Without any evidence, Kerik claimed reimportation could "invite terrorists to launch a biological attack under the guise of a legal purchase."

KERIK ACCUSED OF FORCING GUARDS TO DO POLITICAL WORK: Newsweek reports that in 1999, Kerik "was named in a civil lawsuit as the architect of a system to force prison guards to work for Republicans in their off-hours." The suit, brought by a warden, claimed that Kerik would "hunt down" anyone deemed "disloyal." The suit was settled, with the warden winning $300,000 and a promotion, while Kerik's protégé was indicted in connection the scandal.

SOURCE (with a bunch o' links)

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=100480

Kerik's conduct in Saudi Arabia questioned

By John Mintz and Lucy Shackelford
The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The autobiography of Bernard Kerik, President Bush's nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, recounts a difficult time 20 years ago when he was expelled from Saudi Arabia amid a power struggle involving the head of a hospital complex where Kerik helped command a security staff.

In the book, Kerik described his discomfort at having to investigate employees' private lives but said it was necessary because of the Saudis' laws prohibiting drinking and mingling of the sexes in public. "It was challenging, negotiating such a closed, rigid system and trying to find justice in laws that, to an American, were unjust," he wrote. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1984, the book said, after an altercation with a Saudi secret-police official who was interrogating him.

Since he was nominated last week to be homeland security secretary, however, nine former employees of the hospital have said that Kerik and his colleagues were carrying out the private agenda of the hospital's administrator, Nizar Feteih, and that the surveillance was intended to control people's private affairs.

Feteih became embroiled in a scandal that centered in part on his use of the institution's security staff to track the private lives of several women with whom he was romantically involved, and men who came in contact with them, the former employees said.

Kerik, who as chief of investigations was considered third in command of the security staff, surveilled some employees and at times confronted them with the results, several former employees said. He also was a lead investigator in the controversial arrest, for drinking, of a physician who was detained and deported from Saudi Arabia for the crime.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/20021...

Homeland Security nominee made millions on Taser options
Kerik has played a key security consultant's role for a number of Kerik and Giuliani clients. Among them:

-Purdue Pharma, the company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin. Kerik helped the company improve security at two manufacturing plants after it experienced employee theft and found that additional security measurers were needed for the highly regulated drug. Kerik worked to improve the capacity of safes to secure the product, upgrade camera surveillance and install other security measures.

-The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry association that opposes importation of medicine from Canada and elsewhere. Kerik visited ports, reviewed prescription drug Internet sites and helped prepare a report for the industry on dangers of importation. He told a government task force in April that allowing imports could invite terrorists to purchase drugs legally and use them in a biological attack

-Entergy Nuclear Northeast, operator of five nuclear power plants. Kerik and others helped ensure the plants were operated with state-of-the-art security

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1209Kerik-Stock-ON.html

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58. Harriman, Walker, Bush, Dulles the captains of industry and trade

Contrary to ahistorical claims, there were hundreds of US businesses and banks that profited with the Third Reich

National Archives Research Room-Holocaust Era/Trade with the Third Reich documents
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/holocaust_era_ass...

President Clinton's administration prosecuted Nazis.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/hr071498/holtzman.html

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/hr071498/maloney.html

The Bush family wealth and the Holocaust-Fritz Thyssen
http://www.john-loftus.com/Thyssen.asp#fortune

Gold Fillings, Auschwitz and George Bush
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/bushies.htm

How the Bush Family Wealth is Linked to the Jewish Holocaust
by Toby Rogers
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ROG309A.html

Then there is the mother of all "intelligence failures" the inclusion of Nazis into the foundation of our national security community in 1947.
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/ratlines.htm

These Nazis found a political home in the RW of the Republican Party.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/political-science/fascism/bellant/bellant.pt1

[WiseButAngrySara]

63. Thanks SLAD! I was waiting. (I wish it WAS a dream!) ...... n/t

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88. Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush is friends with terrorists, drug-dealers and election stealers.

Want to know more? Here’s a little dope:


The Bush Family's Bloody Pals
Florida a Sanctuary for Terrorists

by Jack McCarthy

Florida is not only a sanctuary for retirees and tourists. It is also a haven for terrorists, some retired some still active.

Now Florida doesn't harbor the kinds of terrorists who would interest our bumbling "Homeland Security" inspector Tom Ridge mind you.

These are the kinds of terrorists who would be welcomed at a backyard BBQ thrown those WASP Sopranos, the Bush family.

CONTINUED…

http://www.counterpunch.org/mccarthy0709.html


The Bush Dynasty and the Cuban Criminals
New book reveals links of two presidents and the governor of Florida with exiled hardliners

by Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles

The brother of President George Bush, the Florida governor, Jeb Bush, has been instrumental in securing the release from prison of militant Cuban exiles convicted of terrorist offences, according to a new book. The Bush family has also accommodated the demands of Cuban exile hardliners in exchange for electoral and financial support, the book suggests.

Last year, after September 11, while the justice department announced a sweep of terrorist suspects, Cubans convicted of terrorist offences were being released from US jails with the consent of the Bush administration, according to the book, Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, by Ann Louise Bardach, the award-winning investigative journalist who has covered Cuban and Miami politics for the New York Times and Vanity Fair.

The Bush family connections go back to 1984 when Jeb Bush began a close association with Camilo Padreda, a former intelligence officer with the Batista dictatorship overthrown by Fidel Castro.

Jeb Bush was then the chairman of the Dade county Republican party and Padreda its finance chairman. Padreda had earlier been indicted on a $500,000 (£320,000) embezzlement charge along with a fellow exile, Hernandez Cartaya, but the charges were dropped, reportedly after the CIA stated that Cartaya had worked for them.

CONTINUED…

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1202-05.htm


The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: Part III
A Black-List Burning for Bush: The Unreported Story of How They Fixed the Vote in Florida

EXCERPT…

Especially with a President named “Bush.” ChoicePoint’s board, executive suite and consultant rosters are packed with Republican stars, including former New York Police Commissioner Howard Safir and former ultra-Right congressman Vin Weber, ChoicePoint’s Washington lobbyist.

Thursday, 2 a.m., December 7, 2000. On the other end of the line, heavy breathing, then a torrent of words too fast for me to catch it all. “Vile . . . lying . . . inaccurate . . . pack of nonsense . . . riddled with errors . . .” click! This was not a ChoicePoint whistleblower telling me about the company’s notorious list. It was Choice- Point’s own media communications representative, Marty Fagan, communicating with me about my “sleazy disgusting journalism” in reporting on it.

Truth is, Fagan was returning my calls. I was curious about this company that chose the president for America’s voters.

They had quite a pedigree for this solemn task. The company’s Florida subsidiary, Database Technologies (now DBT Online), was founded by one Hank Asher. When U.S. law enforcement agencies alleged that he might have been associated with Bahamian drug dealers -- although no charges were brought -- the company lost its data management contract with the FBI. Hank and his friends left and so, in Florida’s eyes, the past is forgiven.

SNIP…

“They” is Florida State, not ChoicePoint. Let’s not get confused about where the blame lies. Harris’s crew lit this database fuse, then acted surprised when it blew up. Swedlund says ChoicePoint had a professional responsibility to tell the state to test the list; ChoicePoint says the state should not have used its “raw” data.

CONTINUED…

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=15363

FDLE hires former drug smuggler

The computer expert with strong ties to law enforcement will help the state track terrorists.

By LUCY MORGAN
St. Petersburg Times
published August 2, 2003

TALLAHASSEE - In an attempt to identify potential terrorists, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is using the services of a former drug smuggler turned millionaire.

Hank Asher, 48, a computer technology expert who lives in a $3-million Boca Raton house, has founded several companies that retrieve huge amounts of electronic information about individuals.

He also has become a close friend to former FDLE director James T. "Tim" Moore.

"Hank Asher has done more to facilitate intelligence and information sharing for police in the country than anyone I've ever known. He's a patriot, a true friend," Moore told recently told the crowd at his FDLE retirement party.

CONTINUED…
http://www.sptimes.com/Channel10/2003/08/02/State/FDLE_hires_former_dru.htm


Please put in a kick to the pants of the Bush Organized Crime Family with your own articles and examples of Jebthro's criminality. Remember, only YOU can prevent more wars of the BFEE!

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94. Why the long face, Jebthro?

Kevin Phillips, Author of "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush"

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

"Now what I get a sense of from all of this -- and then topped obviously by spending all the money in 2000 to basically buy the election -- is that this is not a family that has a particularly strong commitment to American democracy. Its sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution." -- Kevin Phillips

SNIP...

BuzzFlash: The title of your new book is "American Dynasty." You make the argument that the return of George W. Bush to the presidency restores, in essence, a Bush dynasty. What is wrong with that?

Kevin Phillips: Well, dynasties are something that the United States came into being fighting against. We have George III in 1775 and 1776. I don't see any reason why, in the last 25 years, we should have George I and George II, and think about Jeb I and so forth. It's pernicious, almost, by definition of what America's all about. It's doubly pernicious when you start thinking about the legacy of economic politics and bias, the legacy of association with the national security state intelligence agencies, the legacy of involvement in the Middle East in a way that may send some horrible chickens coming home to roost. I just don't think there's anything good about a dynasty in this country at all.

BuzzFlash: You frequently reference European dynasties in the book -- and as you mentioned, we rebelled against one of those. You mentioned the Hapsburgs, the Stuarts, the Bourbons, and so forth. Every dynasty had its characteristics of rule. You spend a good part of the book detailing what are some of the hallmarks or characteristics of the Bush dynasty, going back four generations to the founder of the Bush dynasty -- who, you mentioned at one point, I think, was a Democrat? Is that right?

Kevin Phillips: Well, it's hard to say. You're talking about George Herbert Walker in Missouri and Sam Bush in Ohio. And because they were the two great-grandfathers of the current President, attention is merited to them. And one was clearly a Democrat -- that was Sam Bush in Ohio. It's not so clear what George H. Walker was. By the time he got to New York in the 1920s, he seemed to be supporting more Republicans, but his origins in Missouri -- St. Louis -- had him a Democrat there. It's probably not terribly meaningful what he was. He was a financier in that era, and, I think, a real piece of work.

CONTINUED...

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/01/int04001.html

Terrorist Connections Resurface In Florida

by Jane Franklin; June 29, 2002

Governor Jeb Bush is about to choose a Florida State Supreme Court judge. There are five finalists and his deadline is August 12. Since there is no Hispanic on the Court, most people expect Jeb Bush will want to name a Hispanic. There is only one Hispanic among the finalists. That one Hispanic is of course a Cuban- American. He is Raoul Cantero III, a corporate lawyer for a Miami firm, Adorno & Yoss--the only one of the five who is not a judge.

Governor Jeb Bush might consider it more important for a Supreme Court judge to have Cantero's experience working for Hank Adorno, who had a long association with the family businesses of Jorge Mas Canosa and his son Jorge Mas Santos, late chair and current chair, respectively, of the Cuban American National Foundation, the wealthiest and most influential right-wing Cuban-American organization.

Is Raoul Cantero ready to enforce the law even against Cuban- American terrorists? This is a matter of major importance because terrorism against Cuba is one of the issues that confronts the Florida court system with astonishing regularity. The U.S. Neutrality Act forbids launching military expeditions from U.S. territory against any nation with which the United States is at peace. Nevertheless, in Florida, the prevailing jurisprudence is that it's o.k. to commit terrorist acts against Cuba. In Florida courts, those who carry out armed attacks against Cuba are treated as freedom fighters. Contrariwise, anyone tried for attempting to find out about those plans and warn Cuba about them is quite likely to end up in prison, as have five Cubans recently sentenced to long prison terms, including life behind bars.

Now that White House Resident George Bush is supposedly waging a War on Terror, one might think that brother Jeb would not want to select anyone with a record that suggests approval of terrorism.

This one Hispanic on the final list for Florida's Supreme Court just happens to be the grandson of former Cuban dictator, General Fulgencio Batista. And his father served under Batista as an intelligence officer in the Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities or BRAC, notorious for torture and assassination. Of course it would not be fair to assume that Raoul Cantero shares the politics of his father and his grandfather Batista. But his own record indicates that he is continuing the family tradition of favoring terrorism against the Cuban people.

CONTINUED...
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2049

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108. He looks good in glasses, too.

The Jeb Bush Connection

This is a murky story with connections to the Nicaraguan Contras, the Mafia, Cuban-American terrorists, Iran-Contra, bribery and corruption, coverups and the CIA. Essentially, IMC was contracted to give medical assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras but the story is in fact, a lot more complex and gives you some idea of just how inter-connected events really are, especially when you’re dealing the Bush clan. Perhaps this review of a book by Duncan Campbell The Bush Dynasty and the Cuban Criminal, will give you some idea:

"The Bush family connections go back to 1984 when Jeb Bush began a close association with Camilo Padreda, a former intelligence officer with the Batista dictatorship overthrown by Fidel Castro.

Jeb Bush was then the chairman of the Dade county Republican party and Padreda its finance chairman. Padreda had earlier been indicted on a $500,000 (£320,000) embezzlement charge along with a fellow exile, Hernandez Cartaya, but the charges were dropped, reportedly after the CIA stated that Cartaya had worked for them.

SNIP...

The president's younger brother was also on the payroll in the 80s of the prominent Cuban exile Miguel Recarey, who had earlier assisted the CIA in attempts to assassinate President Castro.


SNIP...

Most controversially, at the request of Jeb, Mr Bush Sr intervened to release the convicted Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison and then granted him US residency.

SNIP...

In July this year, Jeb Bush nominated Raoul Cantero, the grandson of Batista, as a Florida supreme court judge despite his lack of experience. Mr Cantero had previously represented Bosch and acted as his spokesman, once describing Bosch on Miami radio as a "great Cuban patriot"".

Source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1202-05.htm

No fine print needed. Jebthro's a crook.

[Octafish]

100. Pat Robertson, BFEE-TV Turd used Pass The Loot to Buy a Diamond Mine

Pat "Pass The Loot" Robertson is more than just your average TV preacher. Like the enterprising fellow in the parable of the king and the 10 coins, this guy's put his collection basket to good use. Check out how in this old story that never made it to TBN Nutwork:

Pat Robertson and His Business Buddies

By Colbert I. King
Saturday, November 10, 2001; Page A27

Joseph Mathews is Pat Robertson's point man in a Liberian mining venture called Freedom Gold Limited. Mathews doesn't much care for what has appeared in this column about his boss's business dealings in Liberia, so he's trying to put a little distance between the televangelist and that West African nation's strongman, Charles Taylor.

SNIP...

This much is known, however, based primarily on information obtained from Freedom Gold Limited. Pat Robertson did learn about the gold mining investment opportunity from a visiting Liberian delegation. Robertson did subsequently create the for-profit Freedom Gold Limited in the Cayman Islands in December 1998 in which he was listed as the president and the company's sole director. He did conclude a mining agreement signed personally by him, Charles Taylor and key members of Taylor's cabinet on May 18, 1999. And the deal does give the Taylor regime a cut of the action.

Now why is a freedom-loving, God-fearing man such as Pat Robertson signing on the dotted line with Taylor, a U.S. prison escapee, Libyan terrorist training camp graduate, human rights violator, and pillager of his own country and his neighbor, Sierra Leone?

What's there to like about Charles Taylor?

He was once an ally of the equally repulsive Samuel Doe, the semi-literate master sergeant who led a bloody coup in April 1980 against Liberian President William Tolbert. The late Tolbert ended up dead and disemboweled in the executive mansion -- a fate shared 10 years later by election-rigger par excellence Doe who, while wearing the mantle of president, was tortured, mutilated and done in by rebels.

CONTINUED...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A5339-2001Nov9

[Octafish]

101. Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Among his "assets," the holy nutjob owns the Washington Times, UPI and Poppy.

Porkers

EXCERPT…

Well, if the Heritage foundation says it, we better jump up and down like the trained dogs we are. Did you know The Heritage Foundation has taken funding from The Korean CIA. They welcome Moon's influence. Just like the ENTIRE conservative movement, which has been taken over by religious freaks and fascists.

The party formerly known as "Republican" exists NO MORE.

Moon has one belief, that he is the Messiah. He has one goal, to wrench control of the world.

Put "Bush + Moonies' in your google and read about how the conservatives sold their souls for power to Moon. What a bunch of anti-Jesus frauds. In 1989 US News reported that virtually EVERY conservative group in DC had ties to Moon's organization. Moon literally brags about using The Washington Times to get the chumps to follow him to theo fascist hell, which is where Bush is taking us. Bush IS doing "True Father's" bidding, wittingly or not. No Moon NO Bush. Kinda spooky when you consider Moon said presidents would have to come to him for power. This is true in the republican party, today.

See Jerry Falwell hugging the conservative "savior" Moon here. The conservative leadership sold their souls to Moon and their pod followers have no idea.

Look at this. Can you say HYPOCRITE. That is what conservatives are.

http://www.freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/presskit/articles/parry1.htm

http://www.worldmagblog.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=194

Nice reading here...

Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church

http://www.perkel.com/politics/moonies /

And ...

Dark Side of Rev. Moon

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon.html


Gee. Rev. Crook is using all his money to buy gold and land and what sounds like an enormous jungle redoubt, the kind Ian Fleming’s supervillain likes…

And why would someone want to build a jungle redoubt in the virgin Paraguayan Amazon?

How to Surive Chimpageddon...

WHY HAVEN'T THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION UTOPIAN LUNATICS SCREECHING ABOUT "ISLAMIC TERRORISTS" OPERATING ON THE BRAZILIAN SIDE OF THE TRI-BORDER AREA, SAID DIDDLY ABOUT MOON'S OPERATIONS?

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 23 (EIRNS) — Rev. Moon's cult has been the subject of a multi-agency, federal and state, national security investigation in Brazil, since at least July 2001.
The investigations were undertaken at the initiative of the Army, because the Moon cult was accumulating enormous, contiguous tracts of land on both sides of the Paraguayan and Brazilian border--in an area very near the Triple Border region (where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet), notorious for drug, arms and other contraband.

It was estimated back in 2001, that the Moonies had made a $2 billion dollar investment in building their supposed "Garden of Eden" in the Brazil-Paraguay area. The Brazilian magazine {Isto E} described it in this way in its Feb. 19, 2002 story, "Paradise Under Suspicion":

"A kind of independent territory is being created in silence, in an area between the border of Brazil and Paraguay. It is the tropical paradise of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, formed through a succession of nature preserves, where the rivers Nabilequie, Miranda, Paraguai, Prata, and Salobra cross. In total, the properties add up to 833,000 hectares, which is the equivalent of more than three Luxembourgs, the European Grand-Duchy. In it, would fit the whole Federal District, plus the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. If the lands were used for agrarian reform, they would be enough to provide for 41,650 families. Although they are not yet continguous, the lands being acquired are so close to one another that it is impossible to imagine that this is not being done to unify them."

CONTINUED...

http://www.worldmagblog.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=194

OK. Let’s Play Political Celebrity Blackmail:

Wead in the Rose Garden

Doug Wead, a Bush family advisor and counselor to Dubya, has a history of crass opportunism and the release of the Bush tapes was only the most recent example

Most of Doug Wead's political career has been spent out of the public eye. Except for a failed run for an Arizona congressional seat in the early nineties, he's generally worked behind the scenes, first serving President George H.W. Bush and later, advising George W. He's generally avoided the headlines in the mainstream press. Last month, however, Wead came charging into the hot glare of the media spotlight. When you scratch beneath the surface you find an Assemblies of God minister who divorced his wife, a man involved with pyramid schemes, televangelizing faith-healers and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

CONTINUED…

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=18789

Shh. This sort of things leaves you open to blackmail.

[TexomaDem]

33. Don't forget the Bush-Hinckley connections...

http://www.tarpley.net/bush17.htm

<snip>

"A summary of this material was made generally available through the Associated Press, which published the following short note on March 31:

The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign....Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr. who allegedly shot at Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the Vice President's sons....The Houston Post said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment. Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. In 1978, Neil Bush served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush, the Vice President's eldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. Neil lived in Lubbock, Texas, throughout much of 1978, where John Hinckley lived from 1974 through 1980."

[WiseButAngrySara]

62. Another coincidence, right? This story is really quite amazing. I can't

remember whether I read about it first at DU, but I think so. I became fascinated with the story and then 'got into' The Catcher in the Rye coincidences...Hinckley, Lennon's assassin, Kissinger and J.D. Salinger's supposed connection with the CIA, and even wondering if The Catcher in the Rye was a code of some sort for the CIA...I googled Catcher ITR and GHW Bush, and found a link to an interview with GHWB...His 'favorite' book? You guessed it! The Catcher in the Rye.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=catcher+in+the+rye+and+George+hw+Bush&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bus0int-1
One of the interviewers questions to GHWB and his response.

Was there a book that inspired you?

One of the historians here in Williamsburg talked about War and Peace. I had to read that in school. It was an inspiring, lengthy treatise. I read it twice. It taught me a lot about life. There was a marvelous book by Salinger called Catcher in the Rye. There was a book about discrimination called Gentleman's Agreement. These books I think helped shape my life. But to be honest with you, not one book stands out as the defining book for me.

[Octafish]

66. Many a Patsy fell so Poppy could become President 41.

It's more than ironic how, just when a Bush needs one, a family friend will come through.

Bush Crime Family S.O.P. — Use a Patsy

Strange how history repeats itself when it comes to the Bush Organized Crime Family. This can be seen in their typical modus operandi. Whenever they need something REALLY important to happen — like a big promotion at work, say — something REALLY coincidental and violent seems to happen to just the right person (or country) at the right time. What’s ironic, the right person often seems to be a former business partner or their close relative.

First case in point, John Hinckley, A/K/A “Jody,” short for “JF: Wherever You Are Staring at Me.” A confused young man decides to win the heart of Hollywood star Jody Foster by assassinating Old Pruneface himself, Ronald Reagan just a few months after taking the oath of office in 1981. Turns out that the lone gunman du jour also was the son of a longtime family friend of the Bushes. In fact, Neil Bush had been invited to dinner at the home of Scott Hinckley, brother John Hinckley. The dinner engagement was scheduled to take place the day after John Hinckley attempted to take out Geritol Monkeyskull. Synchronistic isn’t the word when describing how the Bushes seem to do business and then turn on people who once were their friends. Describing their anguish, the Hinckley brothers’ parents later told CNN's Larry King they were casual business partners, longtime social acquaintances, and political supporters of the guy who came within an inch of going straight into the Oval Office — Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush.

Second case in point, Saddam Hussein, A/K/A “The Butcher of Union Bank of Switzerland.” For years, Iraq sided with the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. And since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Iraq was considered a terrorist state. Then, in the early 1980s, the country’s leader, longtime CIA stooge, Saddam Hussein, launched an invasion on neighboring Iran. All was happy in the Reagan-BUSH White House as the war between two of America’s enemies claimed more than a million lives. But, again, there was money to be made, so the White House arranged for the American taxpayers to guarantee $5 billion in loan guarantees to Saddam, using agricultural credits greased out of the country through an obscure Atlanta bank branch of an Italian national bank, the Banco Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL). The loans ostensibly were for food, but in reality were used to trade for arms, like the war chemicals Rumsfeld helped deliver. Of course, at the same time, Ollie North and the US were sending spare F-4 and Hawk missile parts to Iran in trade for hostages. Besides the millions of dead and wounded, the war ended in stalemate, but the US arms manufacturers and their salesmen in the Middle-East did all right. A few years later, a business opportunity presented itself when Kuwait started ripping off Iraqi oil by slant-drilling and Saddam went through the palace roof. Not to be calmed down, Saddam (whose name means “He Who Pushes to Oppose” in Arabic) was encouraged in 1991 by US Ambassador April Glaspie (“The US takes no position on Arab-Arab border disputes.”) to go over the line and into Kuwait. This was followed by Gulf War One to liberate the fascist Kuwaiti Oiligarchy and the rest is history leading to the mess of today. Ambassador Glaspie later testified she was ordered to say so by the State Department, which of course, operated under the direction of President George Herbert Walker Bush.

Third case in point, Manuel Noriega, A/K/A “Pineapple Face.” For years, as second banana, Manny collected payola from the CIA to watch over his boss, Trujillo. The US was worried they would steal the Panama Canal, publicly, but wanted to know where all the drug money was going, secretly. So, like any good capitalist, Manny took advantage of his situation and put some sand in Trujillo’s aviation fuel and became the new supreme leader. Of course, he also played all sides against the others and got very rich in the process, using the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) to handle the proceeds from the CIA and the drug runners. Interesting bank of great importance to the Bush Organized Crime Family and all its connections the late Danny Casolaro called “The Octopus.” BCCI was the bank that tied Middle East oil money investors, the Bush Organized Crime Family Trifecta of Trifectas, international drug running and money laundering, international terrorism from Abu Nidhal to Ollie North, the KGB and the CIA, and of course Manuel Noriega. All was well and good until Manny opened his yap and said that he’d never be indicted by the US, because he had the goods on his good friend and business partner, US Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush.

Fourth case in point, Osama bin Laden, A/K/A “The Black Sheep.” For years, the Bush Family was close business partners with the House of bin Laden. It was a natural fit — all that oil money to burn, all those American weapons to buy. Klayman of Judicial Watch claims the Bushes stay over at the bin Ladens’ house when in the Kingdom. As they own the largest construction company in the whole Middle East, it’s a good bet the place has good central A/C. All was well until the Soviets decided to liberate Afghanistan. So throughout the 1980s, son Osama bin Laden, recruited by the CIA, took the lead of a faction fighting the Soviet occupation. Of course, no one knew what to do when they won and suddenly there were all these trained well-armed and fanatically angry religious militants after peace broke out, but hey, someone will figure out something. First, there was money to be made in West Texas and George W Bush needed some seed money and nose candy allowance. James R Bath, Bush TANG buddy became the official business rep for the bin Laden family in the entire US. He invested bin Laden cash in Arbusto Oil and HARKEN Energy and wherever else W needed some grease. Things went well, all in all. And then came 9-11 and Osama became Public Enemy Number One, at the behest of now (p)Resident George Walker Bush.

Now, is the pattern clear? For the denser DU trolls, allow me: The Bush Organized Crime Family — the very axis of American history embodying NAZIs, the Mafia, the CIA, anti-Castro Cubans, pro-Shah Iranians, anti-Communists the world over — makes friends with someone of use and then uses them for their nefarious purposes. After they’re done using up whatever talents, skills, or cash their chums once presented, they dispose of, er, liquidate their former friends and business partners and that’s that. I hope this makes DUers wonder about what the future holds for them under the leadership of current Bush front-man, the Little Turd from Crawford. Remember, to the Bushes, dead men tell no tales.

BTW: This little essay doesn’t even consider all the other scandals, rip-offs, strange and convenient deaths and political intrigues that the brave call Treason. Those will be the subjects of another post.

Oh yeah. There’s another important historical precedent to consider when it comes to Funny Things Bush. Somebody went to great lengths at great expense to make Lee Harvey Oswald out as the patsy on November 22, 1963. Covering it up for years wasn’t cheap or easy, either. The former Marine was family, too. CIA and FBI. His name and contact info were in the late George de Mohrenschildt’s address book, along with that of George Herbert Walker Bush “Poppy.”



Supreme Leader at Play.

SOURCES:


John Hinckley, Taxi Driver

http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/HINCKLEY.html

http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/6-19-03/discussion.cgi.66.html

http://www.nathanielblumberg.com/neil.htm


Saddam Hussein Love Story

http://www.fair.org/extra/9505/iraqgate.html

http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=527

http://www.cjr.org/year/93/2/iraqgate.asp

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1992/h920519l.htm

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/kissingeriraq.htm

http://www.paranormalnews.com/textfiles/conspiracies/BNL_IraqGate_Scandal.txt


Manuel Noriega Had a Coke Smile

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/poli/soa/panama.htm

http://law.about.com/library/911/blnational.htm

http://www.conspire.com/drugscia2.html

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/dictators/manuel-noriega/


Osama bin Laden Been Missing

http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/carlyle-bush-osb.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg27013.html

http://www.hermes-press.com/BushSaud.htm

Hey! A most hearty welcome to DU, Texoma Dem!

[Just Me]

34. As usual, Octafish thread evolves into a class on important,....

,...political facts and American history, the history hidden from the American people.

[Octafish]

67. Thanks, Just Me! What Santayana said about forgetting history...

Robert Parry has loads of reading material, for those interested in real history and the Truth.

www.ConsortiumNews.com

A nice sample concerns our beloved Corporate McPravda:

Bush Family Tradition: Ducking Scandal

By Robert Parry
July 15, 2005

If there is one trait that has followed the Bush family through generations of privilege, it is the ability to escape scandal – a skill that will be put to the test again over the leaking of the identity of an undercover CIA officer, apparently to get back at her husband for criticizing George W. Bush’s case for invading Iraq.

The criminal investigation into who revealed Valerie Plame’s identity – and endangered clandestine operatives working with her – has been building for two years. But it is finally reaching critical mass with the disclosure that Bush’s political guru Karl Rove discussed Plame’s CIA work with Time correspondent Matthew Cooper in July 2003.

Rove appears to have been part of a P.R. campaign to punish Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for writing an article on July 6, 2003, that the administration had reason to doubt claims about Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium when Bush cited that dramatic allegation in his State of the Union address in January 2003.

A United Nations agency debunked the yellowcake claim in March 2003 – finding that it was based on forged documents – but Rove and other Bush allies still went on the offensive against Wilson in July 2003. Their primary line of attack was to assert that his CIA wife had authorized his trip to Niger in 2002 to check out the allegations.

It was never clear why this trip-authorization argument was relevant. Presumably it was meant to discredit Wilson by suggesting that the guy was untrustworthy or needed his wife’s help to get a job. (Incidentally, Wilson and Plame denied that Plame authorized the trip, which was ordered by her CIA superiors.)

Yet, even today, Republicans and the powerful conservative news media are continuing this denigration of Joe Wilson. Since the disclosures about Rove tipping Time magazine about Mrs. Wilson’s CIA work, Bush’s defenders have resumed the debate about who authorized Wilson’s Niger trip.

CONTINUED...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/071405.html

The Parry's run a no-nonsense web site. Just news that can be proven with ... Fact.

[H2O Man]

35. The Next Chapter:

Those watching "Ambassador" John Bolton's activities at the United Nations are being treated to the next crisis: the Bush administration's attempt to bully other nations into pressuring Iran. This isn't going away, folks.

[Just Me]

36. In addition to funneling poverty monies to corporateers.

They want to destroy the programs addressing human poverty. :cry:

They are heartless, greedy, amoral monsters.

The neoCONs' determination to incite a world war is not only serious, it is a direct threat to American existence. Their policies threaten our national security. They have become domestic enemies of the USA,...and they know it. They are NOT Americans, they are corporacratic emperialists who are perfectly prepared to destroy the USA in order to create their own global fascism.

[H2O Man]

55. Very true.

Right now they are attempting to bully others in the UN. Of course, this comes as no surprise, because the specimen that bush/Cheney sent to the UN is only able to speak in a threatening tongue.

The chances of the US initiating a broad conflict in Iran has been reduced. However, as one might gather from a close reading of the highly informative threads provided to us by Octafish, there are those within the bowels of "government" who take advantage of circumstance to press their adenda.

This is especially true in international affairs, when those who lurk in the darkness are allied with their shadowy counterparts in distant lands. There are small groups of people entering Iranian territory, trying to find specific sites that are hidden from satellites above.

[Me.]

59. The Un May Yet Find Its Strength

and stand up to the US. It has done so before. And especially now, with the world so disgusted and appalled by the administration's response to Katrina. Did you ever think you'd see foreign troops, here for the very best of reasons, on US soil?

<<<snip>>>
“The upcoming summit was supposed to focus on strengthening and reforming the U.N. and address issues of aid and development, with a particular emphasis on implementing the U.N.'s five-year-old Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Most assumed this would be a forum for dialogue and debate, involving civil society activists from around the world challenging governments from the impoverished South and the wealthy North and the United Nations to create a viable global campaign against poverty and for internationalism.

But now, there’s a different and even greater challenge. This is a declaration of U.S. unilateralism, uncompromising and ascendant. The United States has issued an open threat to the 190 other U.N. member states, the social movements and peoples of the entire world, and the United Nations itself. And it will take a quick and unofficially collaborative effort between all three of those elements to challenge the Bush administration juggernaut.” Cont…

“The U.S. proposal package is designed to force the world to accept as its own the U.S. strategy of abandoning impoverished nations and peoples, rejecting international law, privileging ruthless market forces over any attempted regulation, sidelining the role of international institutions except for the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, and weakening, perhaps fatally, the United Nations itself.”cont…

“But the United Nations could choose a third option. It should not be forgotten that the U.N. itself has some practice in dealing with U.S. threats. President George W. Bush gave the U.N. these same two choices once before—in September 2002, when he threatened the global body with "irrelevance" if the U.N. did not embrace his call for war in Iraq. On that occasion, the United Nations made the third choice—the choice to grow a backbone, to reclaim its charter, and to join with people and governments around the world who were mobilized to say no to war. It was the beginning of eight months of triumph, in which governments and peoples and the U.N. stood together to defy the U.S. drive toward war and empire, and in doing so created what The New York Times called "the second super-power." Cont…

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050831/a_declaration_of_war.php

[Octafish]

68. "Real men want to go to Tehran."

The neocon saying was:

"Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran."

Gee. "Real men" as in "Those who don't want -- or have to -- do the fighting and the dying."

The opening paragraph of a Newsweek story from the Aug. 19, 2002 issue reads:

While still wrangling over how to overthrow Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration is already looking for other targets. President Bush has called for the ouster of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. Now some in the administration—and allies at D.C. think tanks—are eyeing Iran and even Saudi Arabia. As one senior British official put it: “Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran.”

"Real men?" Read more for the even longer list of possible countries to be attacked...

Syria and even Egypt are now under discussion in neoconservative circles, along with North Korea and Burma.
Pretty soon the only jobs that will be available will be those that offer "rugged adventures in exotic locations -- all expenses paid."

SOURCE :

http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=67

Back to the subject: Bolton's a piece of shit, all right, a mighty turd of the BFEE. Besides group sex, the only thing he truly loves is war.

[H2O Man]

72. I was encouraged

to see an article "What We Must Learn From Iran" in the 9-11-05 edition of PARADE. It is by Bruce Feiler, author of the new book "Where God Was Born: A Journey to the Land of the Roots of Religion." Clearly, Feiler's "world-view" of religion is limited to a Jewish-Christian-Moslem "starting point," which appears to be unaware that these religions are relative new-comers to the block. And so I was concerned that his article, which reaches the mainstream, middle class American homes by way of their weekend papers, would carry a narrow view of Iran.

I was pleasantly surprised. "Despite headlines, religious moderation runs as deep in the Middle East as extremism," a bold headline reads. And under a map of Iran, the caption notes, "In Tehran, the author found both hostility and openness toward the U.S. In Qom, he found a center for interreligious dialogue. And at Persepolis, an ancient palace staircase depicted 800 visitors from 23 countries."

There is a photo of the tomb of Cyrus, and a caption noting that "Cyrus the Great, ruler of ancient Persia, respected the religions and cultures of others, including his enemies." Feiler does not attempt to make the radical right-wing leaders of Iran seem less of a threat to world stability than men like Pat Robertson or Dick Cheney. But he does detail a growing, more enlightened segment of society in Iran, that is socially progressive.

Our neocons would have us believe that we need military strikes within Iran to help these more progressive elements establish a democratic state within Halliburton, er, Iran. It is the last thing we should do. The progressive people in all countries, from Iran to Iraq to Israel to England to the USA, need to behave in a manner that strips the unwarrented power from the unstable, immoral people who lust for power and wealth.

[mitchum]

38. Let them eat...GUILLOTINES

[Octafish]

69. If there were justice in the USA, Mitchum would be Attorney General.

The BFEE crowd demands the best.

Origins of the G.W. Bush-Carlyle-Nazi Axis

By Alex Constantine

Even loyal conservatives must admit that George Bush, Jr. is a strange bird. Texans
have never truly accepted him as one of their own. "Like his father," the UK's
Observer jeered in 1994, "his home-grown credentials are questioned." In general, the
natives were somewhat uneasy about the occasional bizarre antic - like the first day
of a local dove shoot, highlighted by Bush bagging a protected songbird, not the
designated target (Ed Vulliamy, "White Hot Mama fights a Texan Bush War,"
Observer, October 2, 1994). "No real Texan would have done that!" barked then
Governor Ann Richards.

But then, in the mid-90s, the Texas political landscape shifted radically, the old order
crumbling and a home-grown right-wing mutation plowing through the crust.
Democrats had dominated the state since the Civil War, but with missionary zeal the
Christian Right rallied and seized control of the Republican Party, led by the state's
Christian Coalition and Eagle Forum, and went on to demonstrate that any political
machine is mutable, even in the deep South.

But Bush still didn't quite fit the ticket, some Texans felt. True, his business was
petroleum. But shortly after George, Jr. joined the board of Harken Oil, BCCI, the
international bank that parlayed middle eastern oil profits into political influence, not
to mention engaging in child prostitution and arming Iraq, dropped a number of
lucrative drilling contracts in his lap (Petzinger, Truell & Abramson, 'Family Ties,' Wall
Street Journal, December 5, 1991, p. 1). Texans were left to ponder the question:
Why in tarnation was Bush, Jr. in business with the scandal-ridden Shiek Khalifah
bin-Salmon al-Khalifah, the ruling emir of Bahrain? In 1990, the Shiek's name surfaced
on a list of primary shareholders in BCCI's parent company, BCCI Holdings in
Luxembourg. Bush had pulled strings to throw the contracts to Harken. In return,
Harken Oil helped BCCI investment bankers gain a foothold in the U.S.
When the Iraqgate scandal broke, W. attempted to separate himself from it, blaming
a former aide who had gone to work for BCCI and resigned when the press caught
a whiff of the deal.

At the same time, it was clear that Junior had his eye fixed on his father's old eyrie in
Washington. W. had been one of Bush, Sr.'s leading advisors, a "lead player," in "the
campaign to oust White House Chief of Staff John Sununu" (Pertzinger, Truell &
Abramson). He was an old hand at gamesmanship by the time he landed his
gubernatorial seat.
The W.S. Journal looked into Bush's business dealings and found a "complex pattern"
of provocative personal and financial ties, but Bush refused to respond to questions:
"George W. Bush, a managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, declined to
be interviewed," but "he did provide brief responses to written questions through an
intermediary." Where was the Texas moralist with an aversion to "even" the vaguest
appearance of wrong-doing? In hiding.

But still exploiting those personal and financial relationships, of course. In March, 1995,
the regents of the University of Texas, at the behest of Governor Bush, invested $10
million with the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in the District of Columbia. Carlyle was
chaired by Frank Carlucci, Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense and, since 1989, "a
darling of the corporate sector," per the L.A. Times. Carlucci sits on the board of
numerous mega-corporations, including Bell Atlantic, Ashland Oil and the Kaman
Corporation. Carlyle's sole outside partner is the Mellon Family. Richard Darmon,
economic advisor to Bush, Sr., was on the board. So was James Baker III, former
secretary of state. These investments raised a ruckus in the business press.

CONTINUED...

http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/carlyle-bush-osb.html

PS: What are your thoughts on hanging? Pros? Cons? Neocons?

[mitchum]

85. Now that's a frightening thought!

:)

However, My wife also says that I would have certainly been a hanging judge in the Old West

[oasis]

41. Colin"Joey the Bull" Powell's singing like a canary. "I was duped".

:nopity:

[amandabeech]

53. Yup, and if Tenet is pressured, he'll sing, too. n/t

[Octafish]

77. Slam Dunk: Tenet should be in the Witness Protection Program.

His sudden night-time resignation implies he doesn't want to be made into the chimpministration's fall guy.

From before Tenet's resignation...

A Disingenuous Tour de Force

Tenet and the King's New Clothes

By RAY McGOVERN
February 12, 2004

EXCERPT...

Tenet chose to defend the indefensible--the bogus National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) hurriedly conjured up in September 2002 to support spurious charges made by Vice President Dick Cheney on August 26, 2002 in beating the drum for war on Iraq. The conclusions of that estimate have now been proven --pure and simple--wrong.

Even so, that is not the most important point. What all should know is that the Bush administration's decision for war against Iraq came well before any intelligence estimate. There is ample evidence that that decision was made, at the latest, by spring 2002.

That there was no NIE before that speaks volumes. During my 27 years of service as a CIA analyst, never was a foreign policy decision of that magnitude made without FIRST commissioning a National Intelligence Estimate. Why did Tenet not take the initiative and see that one was done? Surely, if he did not know that decisions on war and peace were being made at the White House and Pentagon in early 2002, he was the only one in Washington so unaware.

There was no NIE because Tenet realized that an honest one would show how little the intelligence community knew about the threat from Iraq and would hardly support a case for war. And so, consummate bureaucrat that he is, he kept his head down for as long as he could.

It was only when the somnolent Senator from Florida, Bob Graham, then Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was nudged awake by committee colleague Dick Durbin that Graham nodded, yes it did seem odd that no NIE had been prepared. And especially odd at a time when Congress was being asked to cede to the president its constitutional prerogative to declare war.

So Graham called Tenet, and Tenet got the go-ahead from his masters in the White House--WITH THE PROVISO that the estimate's conclusions dovetail with the case for war just made by Cheney. Tenet saluted, and then picked his most malleable manager, Robert Walpole, to ensure that a politically correct NIE was produced.

CONTINUED...

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern02122004.html

IMFO: Friends of Cheney have probably already contacted Tenet's airport maintenance people. The Bush chimp

[Octafish]

74. Get him talking, and pretty soon it's badda-boom badda-bing...

Gitmo Time.

Gee. I wonder if Eliott Ness Fitzpatrick remembered to take good notes during his talk with Colin the Bull?

On Flying Monkey One, Colin was the guy who passed around the document naming Valerie Plame as a NOC. "The 'S' denotes 'Secret' blah blah blah Karl."

The Bahbwa Wawa thing my also have pointed out how fast Colin the Bull is willing to go to name names. He did name the CIA as being the source of his story before the UN.

Who was hanging out around the CIA, sort of bending the ear of Tenet and anyone unfortunate enough to be in the same padded room as he?



PS: Have you heard this Amy Goodwin interview with Ray McGovern and David MacMichael?

The Crazies are Back

EXCERPT...

RAY MCGOVERN: Well, you know it’s really interesting. When we saw these people coming back in town, all of us said who were around in those days said, oh my god, ‘the crazies’ are back – ‘the crazies’ – that’s how we referred to these people.

AMY GOODMAN: Did George Bush refer to them that way?

RAY MCGOVERN: That’s the way everyone referred to them.

AMY GOODMAN: Including George Bush?

RAY MCGOVERN: Well, when Wolfowitz prepared that defense posture statement in 1991, where he elucidated the strategic vision that has now been implemented, Jim Baker, Secretary of State, Brent Scowcroft, security advisor to George Bush, and George Bush said hey, that thing goes right into the circular file. Suppress that thing, get rid of it. Somebody had the presence of mind to leak it and so that was suppressed. But now to see that arise out of the ashes and be implemented. while we start a war against Iraq, I wonder what Bush the first is really thinking. Because these were the same guys that all of us referred to as ‘the crazies’.

CONTINUED...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4736.htm

Hope Mr. Fitzpatrick stays out of airplanes and personally pays for a team of good bodyguards. And after the trials, if he doesn't make his case, he's going to need to go into the Witness Protection Program.

[LibertyorDeath]

43. Cheers Octafish

[Disturbed]

47. The difference between the Bush Crime Family and the Mafia?

Mafia members sometimes get indicted, judged guilty and serve prison terms.

[LibertyorDeath]

50. Good point...Time will tell if they are truly above the law

[Just Me]

51. I'd say, the BFEE has become polished at psy-ops,...

,...and superior at "appearances". "Masters at Manipulation" and "Polished Perception Profiteers" are the most destruction forces on the face of the earth. They merely "evolved" fascists, no more no less.

[Octafish]

89. Here's to you, LibertyorDeath! Here's where Smirko gets his 'tude...

The Bush-NAZI Axis

http://sirdave.com/bushnazi.html

A sampler:

Paranoid shift

By Michael Hasty
Online Journal Contributing Writer

January 10, 2004—Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life. In the end, he had come to realize that they were never really interested in American ideals of "freedom" and "democracy." They really only wanted "absolute power."

Angleton told author Joseph Trento that the reason he had gotten the counterintelligence job in the first place was by agreeing not to submit "sixty of Allen Dulles' closest friends" to a polygraph test concerning their business deals with the Nazis. In his end-of-life despair, Angleton assumed that he would see all his old companions again "in hell."

The transformation of James Jesus Angleton from an enthusiastic, Ivy League cold warrior, to a bitter old man, is an extreme example of a phenomenon I call a "paranoid shift." I recognize the phenomenon, because something similar happened to me.

Although I don't remember ever meeting James Jesus Angleton, I worked at the CIA myself as a low-level clerk as a teenager in the '60s. This was at the same time I was beginning to question the government's actions in Vietnam. In fact, my personal "paranoid shift" probably began with the disillusionment I felt when I realized that the story of American foreign policy was, at the very least, more complicated and darker than I had hitherto been led to believe.

But for most of the next 30 years, even though I was a radical, I nevertheless held faith in the basic integrity of a system where power ultimately resided in the people, and whereby if enough people got together and voted, real and fundamental change could happen.

CONTINUED...

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/011004Hasty/011004hasty.html

BTW: Really like your graphic portrayal of Fear-filled Luddite. Most telling.

[LibertyorDeath]

98. Genesis of an American Gestapo

Thank you Octafish for so many truly informative posts.
:toast:




Tyranny has very few indispensable parts; a compliant media, that will regulate information to meet the goals of the state; a “rubber-stamp” Parliament that will endorse the policies of the supreme leader; a judiciary that will adjust the law to serve the requirements of the ruling body, a strong military to seize the wealth of weaker nations; and a security apparatus, that will eliminate any domestic threats to the system.

On June 29 President Bush took the great-leap forward in transforming the nation’s intelligence services by ordering a restructuring of the FBI and putting “a broad swath of the agency” under the direct control of the executive.

snip

The freshly minted National Security Service, which has been dubbed the New SS, will operate under the authority of former ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte, whose involvement in overseeing the terrorist activities of death squads in Nicaragua will provide him with the necessary experience for his new task. Negroponte, the new Intelligence czar, will report directly to the President,

snip

The National Security Service will have unlimited power to conduct the apocryphal war on terror anyway it sees fit. The agency will operate independent of congressional oversight and beyond the bothersome glare of America’s permanently embedded media. It will provide the requisite muscle for maintaining America’s one-party system; spying, harassing and intimidating those dissident elements who dare to challenge the status quo. We should expect to see an up tick in dirty tricks, coerced-censorship and “disappeared” persons in the wake of the new changes.

More
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=13721

[goforit]

48. tHE CONNECTIONS ARE OVERWHELMING!!!

Scary!! and earth shaking!!!

[Just Me]

49. If you focus, refuse to be distracted, they are clear and easy to spot.

However, "the people" have been the target of an illusion-generating power-mongering and exploitation machine for a long, long time. Many of the parts and pieces of that machine were not even aware of their role in advancing ANTI-HUMANITY and ANTI-DEMOCRACY activities. They were "indocrinated" and sincerely believed they were serving progessive roles.

The parts and pieces and lost among humanity is awakening from an illusion, a dream,...and finally confronting the facts, the truth, the reality in which we live. We will be stronger, more resilient, more powerful, more constructive towards both the health of human existence and the health of earth,...in this historical human struggle.

[Octafish]

90. Bush Crime Family Flow Chart

A work in progress...



Sources:

http://www.seizeliberty.com/Bush%20Crime%20Family%20Flow%20Chart.htm

http://www.whoseflorida.com/zstews-flowchart.htm

[Just Me]

91. WOW!!! Printing!!!

Thanks, Mister!!!! :hug:

[Beam Me Up]

56. Octafish, can we NAME them? I've been thinking about this a lot recently.

There are the obvious people that hold public office and get their measure of media attention but it seems to me that we need also to be looking at the ones who do NOT get media attention. I think it would be interesting to see a list of the top 100 or so corporations that have beneffited the most from *'s residency and then beneath each a list of their Borards of directors, CEOs, CFOs and other 'honored' VPs, etc. I wonder how many there are in total and what their collective wealth amounts to.

I'm also very curious about how the law works in relation to, oh, say, TREASON, and the wealth of anyone found guilty there-of. Are there any circumstances under which Congress can confiscate assets?

I'm a know nothing but I am curious.

[Octafish]

80. Several DUers have worked along similar lines.

From what's been posted on DU for various scandals (Corporate "Mal-fee-unce" and HARKEN Energy, for instance), they've documented the interlocking nature of the boards of Big Business, how lobbyists go straight from K Street to their sinecures in industry, and how the defense contractors get staffed from the Pentagon. And how these work together to benefit the few (including the BFEE and their masters) at the expense of the nation as a whole and the world in general.

Perhaps we could compile such a master list on Demopedia: "BFEE Connections." Or, the "Connected." Let's start by naming names and then we'll figure out how to disseminate the info.

It's like David Crosby's song on his solo album, "If I Could Only Remember My Name"...

What Are Their Names?

I wonder who they are
The men who really run this land
And I wonder why they run it
With such a thoughtless hand.
Tell me what are their names,
And on what street do they live?
I'd like to ride right over
This afternoon and give
Them a piece of my mind
About peace for mankind
Peace is not
An awful lot
To ask.

-- David Crosby

Yours are outstanding ideas, Beam Me Up. Thanks also for giving a damn and being curious.

If the drug war allows property to be confiscated before conviction, there should be no problem in getting to the property of those convicted of treason. Perhaps a really big fine would help.

An honest US Government may, one day, have to threaten Switzerland to get info on where the real money is. All those tax breaks to GE, ENRON, etc. disappeared offshore.

[Beam Me Up]

83. Could you point me in a direction? I'd be happy to spend some hours

researching this...but, frankly, I'm not sure where to begin. A book to read or a web site -- or some research technique that you know of would help. I read stuff on line all the time but I'm new at 'collecting' information in a way that can be useful. I've saved a lot of posts over the past years -- including many of yours! -- but it just all seems so daunting. Where to begin?

Advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Octafish]

112. Thanks, Beam Me Up!

Truly I am honored.

There are many DUers who are far better than I at finding out the "Who." I've emailed some of them and they'd like to help out. Once I get their OK, I'll forward you their names so you can get their approaches.

For me: GOOGLE is my Friend. I use it as an index, juxtaposing names, events and organizations. I also use Namebase for finding connections to authors and the "Circle of Fiends."

For instance, I used "Octopus" and "Casolaro" and got the following gem from the Catbird Seat...

An Octopus Named Wackenhut

EXCERPT...

One typewritten draft, entitled, "Behold, A Pale Horse," described an "international cabal whose freelance services covered parochial political intrigue, espionage, sophisticated weapon technologies that included biotoxins, drug trafficking, money laundering and murder-for-hire."

According to Danny, the cabal continues today, "its origins spawned thirty years ago in the shadow of the Cold War." . . .

Within six months of Casolaro's death, Riconosciutowas again attempting to trade information in exchange for entry into a Witness Protection Program. But this time, instead of using Casolaro or Bill Hamilton, he was using me to make the contacts.

At Riconosciuto's request, I contacted a man whom I will identify as N.B. at the BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms) in San Francisco. Michael had advised me to call this agent because the BATF was "Treasury Department" as was FinCen.

I set up the phone meeting and Riconosciuto called the San Francisco BATF collect, as scheduled. N.B. listened attentively to Michael, then ran a check on him through the departmental computer system. Shortly thereafter, I received an unnerving phone call.

N.B. advised me in strong terms to "get out of this" while I still could. He said I would end up getting subpoenaed as a witness if I didn't discontinue my investigation. He added that sometimes people got killed or committed suicide when they got involved with Michael Riconosciuto or Robert Booth Nichols. . . .

Through one of Michael's contacts, I was able to obtain the corporate documents on F.I.D.C.O. Corporation (First Intercontinental Development Corporation). This formidable organization lead me straight to the head of The Octopus.

The Board of Directors of FIDCO consisted of the following principles:

(1) Robert Maheu, , Sr, Vice President, Director former FBI agent, former CEO of Howard Hughes Operations, senior consultant to Leisure Industries.

(2) Michael A. McManus, , Director, Vice President and General Counsel to FIDCO former Assistant to the President of the United States at the White House in Washington D.C.

(3) Robert Booth Nichols, , Director, Sr. Vice President and Chairman of Investment Committee Chief Executive Officer of R.B.N. Companies, International, a holding company for manufacturing and development of high technology electronics, real estate development, construction and international finance.

(4) George K. Pender, , Director former Director of Pacific Ocean area of Burns & Roe, Inc., an international engineering & construction corporation with active projects on all seven continents of the world. Senior engineer consultant to Burns & Roe, Inc.

(5) Kenneth A. Roe, , Director Chairman and President of Burns & Roe, Inc., International engineers and Constructors, a family corporation owned by Kenneth Roe and family. Major current project of the company is the engineering design and construction of the U.S.A. Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant in conjunction with Westinghouse Electric Corporation which is responsible for the nuclear system supply of steam. Construction value of present business backlog of Burns & Roe, Inc. is in e Manager xcess of six billion U.S. dollar.

(6) Frances T. Fox, , Vice President and Director former General of L.A. International Airport, former Director of Aviation for Howard Hughes Nevada operations, now called Summa Corporation, City Manager of San Jose, California.

(7) Clint W. Murchison, , Jr. Director Owner of the Dallas Cowboys NFL football team.

(8) William M. Pender, , Director and Sr. Vice President licensed contractor, State of California.

(9) Glen R. Shockley, Director Consultant to Fortune 500 Companies in business management. Internationally known as financial consultant in funding.

The list of directors was accompanied by a letter dated January 11, 1983 on FIDCO letterhead originating out of Santa Monica, California addressed to Robert Booth Nichols in Marina Del Rey, California. The letter, signed by George K. Pender, briefly referenced a copy of a resolution resulting from a meeting of the Board of Directors of FIDCO.

On April 13, 1983, Robert Booth Nichols wrote a letter to Joseph F. Preloznik in Madison, Wisconsin, outlining proposed arms projects, one of which was to build a two story building of approximately 7500 square feet with concrete walls and floors to house the "R & D position."

(I later found the R & D facility referenced in a 1981 Wackenhut Interoffice memorandum as a companion facility to Wackenhut to be constructed on the Cabazon Indian reservation for the assembly of shell casings, propellants, war heads, fuses, combustible cartridge cases and other weapons systems). . . .

CONTINUED…

http://www.the-catbird-seat.net/Octopus.htm

Wackenhut, eh?

When all else fails, I go to a BFEE meisterlist:

http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/bushcrimefamily.htm

[Beam Me Up]

115. Excellent, Octafish! This gives me a place to begin. Someone once said:

"If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed."

Most people can't wrap their heads around "conspiracy theory" but they can wrap their heads around greed and criminality if the dots are placed and the lines are drawn. Perhaps more so now than ever as more and more people begin to see for themselves in just how great a danger we all are.

Thanks again!!

[jokerman93]

57. Thanks Octafish

Good to see you posting again. The public needs to be educated about this. I hope you can repost it from time to time. In my opinion, you're now a representative of the new legitimate press. Our press.

:toast:

Thx
J

[Octafish]

92. You're welcome, jokerman93. Hey! Remember when FBI told to "back off"?

... from investigating the Saudi-Osama money trail?

Why doesn't Corporate McPravda talk about that?

Well, here's a real journalist, operating mostly overseas, where the Truth still matters to people with barrels of ink...

Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11

by Greg Palast and David Pallister

FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11.

US intelligence agencies have come under criticism for their wholesale failure to predict the catastrophe at the World Trade Centre. But some are complaining that their hands were tied.
FBI documents shown on BBC Newsnight last night and obtained by the Guardian show that they had earlier sought to investigate two of Osama bin Laden's relatives in Washington and a Muslim organisation, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), with which they were linked.

The FBI file, marked Secret and coded 199, which means a case involving national security, records that Abdullah bin Laden, who lived in Washington, had originally had a file opened on him "because of his relationship with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth - a suspected terrorist organisation".

WAMY members deny they have been involved with terrorist activities, and WAMY has not been placed on the latest list of terrorist organisations whose assets are being frozen.

CONTINUED...

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=103&row=4

I'm sorry so few DUers seem to know the story.

People interested in the subject will find that Grover Norquist fits in, protecting terror money makers. No wonder he wants to drown the US Government in a bathtub.

PS: Thank you for the kind words, Jokerman. You made my day.

[WiseButAngrySara]

60. This is so excellent! Nominated for sure. "When it comes to the Truth,

I'm game" too...but gosh is truth painful with this evil cabal. I'd almost rather rather disbelieve. I think they rely on this human factor of innocence. How could such evil exist, and not be noticed and punished? Of course a major part is media control and manipulation, which I have become acutely aware of since Diebold election 2004. How on earth do you change the MSM? I've suspected before, but I'm becoming more convinced that this was not just major incompetence on B*'s, Brown's and FEMA's respective parts, but the incompetence was intentional. Look what profits they will have, after taking over a major U.S. port City, which has 25% of U.S. oil production. Is this just another 'coincidence' that is not really coincidental at all?

[Octafish]

99. Here's the part that's too scary for so many mindsets: Bush Knew.

Bush hides behind "incompetence" like a small child behind his mother's skirts at the sight of the playground bully. So, despite a FEMA report naming the New Orleans hurricane as #3 worst federal emergency, being briefed by NOAA days before Katrina and having himself declared a national emergency before the floodwaters, Bush still came up with "Nobody could've imagined the levee would break."

It's a familiar refrain for the little turd from Crawford. After he received all sorts of warnings that his childhood family chum, Osama bin Laden, was set to attack using passenger jetliners, his "wife" Condescenda stated "Nobody could've imagined a plane used as a weapon."

Gee. Like in the hurricane disaster, someone had pre-knowledge of 9-11 -- George Walker Bush:

Plot to assassinate Bush - reports

MOSCOW, Russia -- Osama bin Laden has threatened to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush at a G8 meeting in Italy, the head of Russia's Federal Bodyguard Service has said, according to reports.

The Associated Press said Yevgeny Murov was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying: "Bin Laden is threatening the American president, but we know what international terrorism is today and therefore all the bodyguard units concerned are preparing for this.

"We view the threats as totally serious, but hope that with joint efforts we can solve all the problems."

The Group of Eight summit is meeting between July 20-22 in Genoa, Italy. Leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States are expected to attend the summit.

Murov -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief bodyguard -- did not elaborate on the threats. He said agents from Russia's Federal Bodyguard Service have travelled to Genoa to coordinate with their counterparts from the other nations taking part in the summit to investigate the threats.

CONTINUED...

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/20/russia.binladen

Missiles to protect summit leaders

Special report: globalisation
Rory Carroll in Rome
Wednesday July 11, 2001
The Guardian

Italy has installed a missile defence system at Genoa's airport to deter airborne attacks during next week's G8 summit, fuelling hysteria about looming violence.
A land-based battery of rockets with a range of nine miles and an altitude of 5,000 feet has been positioned in the latest security measure against perceived threats from terrorists and protesters.

Unidentified planes, helicopters and balloons risk being shot down should they drift too close to the heads of state from the group of seven leading industrialised nations and Russia.

Colonel Alberto Battaglini, of the ministry of defence, said the precaution was not exces sive. "The measure, which was planned by the previous government, may seem open to criticism, but in reality it is merely to act as a deterrent against any aerial incursion during the summit.

"They are little missiles ... which only have a deterrent function to discourage any aerial-led attack and they do not present any danger to the residents of the city," he said.

The missile system, dubbed Spada, was erected along Italy's Adriatic coast during Nato's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia.

SNIP...

The millionaire terrorist, Osama bin Laden, has been linked to an alleged plot to assassinate the US president, George Bush.

CONTINUED...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,519925,00.html

Ashcroft Flying High

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2001

Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.

In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.

"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.

A senior official at the CIA said he was unaware of specific threats against any Cabinet member, and Ashcroft himself, in a speech in California, seemed unsure of the nature of the threat.

"I don't do threat assessments myself and I rely on those whose responsibility it is in the law enforcement community, particularly the FBI. And I try to stay within the guidelines that they've suggested I should stay within for those purposes," Ashcroft said.

CONTINUED...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

Bush Knew

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

SNIP...

According to court documents, Bath swore that in 1977 he represented four prominent and wealthy Saudi Arabians as a trustee and used his name on their investments in the United States. In return, he received a 5 percent interest in their deals. Time reporters Beaty and Gwynne suggest in their book that the $50,000 Bath invested in Dubya's Arbusto Energy drilling company may have belonged to Bath's Saudi clients since the Houston businessman "had no substantial money of his own at the time."

CONTINUED...

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html

[Freedomfried]

61. Bush hangs out with people that talk about "killing" Presidents"????????

Was he ever detained or interrogated during the investigation?

[orpupilofnature57]

64. Where was poppy Nov.22 1963? Ever see the photo in front of the.

Book Depository ?

[Octafish]

106. The slouch seems familiar.

Lots of agency types have it.

[Octafish]

102. No. Bush told the FBI he wanted to keep his report "Confidential."

Gee. Is it any wonder that George Herbert Walker Bush gives plausible deniability a bad name?

seemslikeadream reminds us that Poppy was friends with DeMohrenschildt, who was Oswald's "best friend."

Did you know George Herbert Walker Bush's friend George de Mohrenschildt is the only man known to have been friends with both Bush and Lee Harvey Oswald?

http://www.lizmichael.com/bushykno.htm

DUer rainbow4321 wrote on the subject:

Response to Reply #11

Bush family/Oswald's mutual friend George de Mohrenschildt

This may already be in this huge thread already but here are other links about it....hmmmmph.. Bush connections w/ this guy and then friends w/ Hinkley family.

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/33rd_Issue/misc.html

More recently, California-based assassination historian Bruce Campbell Adamson published a ten-volume biography of the late CIA-connected Dallas petro-geologist George de Mohrenschildt. Adamson argues strongly that a relationship existed between the senior Bush and the shady international playboy de Mohrenschildt, who was widely regarded as Lee Harvey Oswald's best friend in Dallas during 1962 and '63.

"Former President George Bush has admitted to me that he had known George de Mohrenschildt since 1942," Adamson said, and that relationship continued into the mid-1970s. In addition, "Dimitri Von Mohrenschildt has written to me that Bush had employed George de Mohrenschildt during the 1950s in the oil industry."

After penning an unfinished study of Oswald called Patsy, DeMohrenshildt committed suicide in the spring of 1977, shortly before he was slated to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKdemohrenschildt.htm


In 1939 he went to work for Humble Oil, a company founded by Prescott Bush. In October, 1962 De Mohrenschildt became friends with Lee Harvey Oswald in Fort Worth. He suggested that Oswald should move to Dallas. In February, 1963 he introduced Marina Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald to Ruth Paine. On 24th April, 1963, Marina and her daughter went to live with Paine. Oswald rented a room in Dallas but stored some of his possessions in Ruth Paine’s garage. Ruth also helped Oswald to get a job at the Texas Book Depository



In 1963 De Mohrenschildt moved to Haiti. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy De Mohrenschildt was recalled to America to testify before the Warren Commission. He was asked about the claim of Marina Oswald that he knew about Oswald's attempt to kill General Edwin Walker. After giving evidence he returned to Haiti.

De Mohrenschildt returned to the United States in 1977. He approached Edward Jay Epstein complaining that he was short of money. Epstein offered him $4,000 for an interview. During their talks De Mohrenschildt admitted that in 1962 he had been contacted by J. Walton Moore, who was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency in Dallas. De Mohrenschildt was asked by Moore to find out about Oswald's time in the Soviet Union. In return he was given help with an oil deal he was negotiating with Papa Doc Duvalier, the Haitian dictator. In March 1963, De Mohrenschildt got the contract from the Haitian government. He had assumed that this was because of the help he had given to the CIA.

On 29th March, 1977, Epstein and De Mohrenschildt, broke for lunch and decided to meet again at 3 p.m. George De Mohrenschildt returned to his room where he found a card from Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator working for the Select House Committee on Assassinations. George De Mohrenschildt's body was found later that day. He had apparently committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth.


SOURCE (big ass thread of olde):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3274455

[jokerman93]

70. kick

:kick:

[Octafish]

110. Detroit News: "People sense president's soulless sensibility"

Op-Ed, but still...If the Detroit News is getting it...

People sense president's soulless sensibility

By Marianne Williamson

Something very important is happening here -- something more than simply a hurricane, or the suffering of thousands who were neglected by their government during a time of great need. Most worldly occurrences reflect deeper truths. What is happening is a gigantic reckoning, as Americans are forced to come to terms with how very, very naked is the emperor who we thought had such incredible clothes.

We are raised in the United States of America to believe our government is the strongest in the world, that as Americans we are basically protected, and that our country is basically good. It is cognitive dissonance for us to be confronted with evidence to the contrary, and yet such evidence has been piling up fast and furiously during this odd and potentially catastrophic phase of American history.

There is nothing strong about rushing into a unilateral war based on faulty intelligence, squandering the resources necessary with which to take care of your own people; there is nothing protective about a government that apparently didn't monitor events on the ground in New Orleans any better -- in fact, less well -- than the average viewer of CNN; and there is nothing good about taking care of the rich at the expense of the poor.

If it took a Category 5 hurricane and the huge suffering of thousands to bring those facts to light, then at least it can be said there is value in this horror. If enough Americans are beginning to wake up and face the awful fact that our country's basic functioning has become infected by a soulless sensibility, then perhaps the suffering on the Gulf Coast will not have been in vain.

Regarding the abysmal response of our government to the hurricane's aftermath, there is a lot of talk right now about accountability. Some argue we should have the discussion today, while others argue that that discussion should wait for a more propitious time.

CONTINUED...

http://www.detnews.com/2005/editorial/0509/10/D08-309629.htm

PS: Thanks for the kick, jokerman93! Much obliged.

[TheUnspeakable]

71. Thanks Octafish-Morning kick!

[Karenina]

76. Back to One!

:kick:

[Octafish]

113. You're welcome, JennasLiver! Hey! Didya hear how Duhbya got Rich?

Some light on the subject:

How George W. Bush made his millions

By Joseph Kay
1 August 2002

Much has been written over the past month about President George W. Bush’s actions while at Harken Energy. This is, indeed, a significant history: in the early 1990s Bush made hundreds of thousands of dollars in a deal that reeks of the same insider trading and accounting fraud the president now claims to oppose. (See “On eve of Wall Street speech: Bush’s past business dealings come back to haunt him,” 9 July, 2002).

However, the media has paid far less attention to what Bush did with the $850,000 he made through the sale of Harken stock options and the manner in which he transformed that windfall into the $15 million that now constitutes the larger part of his personal fortune. If anything, this story is even more revealing.

If the Harken deal was a smaller scale version of the accounting scandals at WorldCom, Enron and other firms, Bush’s purchase and sale of the Texas Rangers baseball team reveals other characteristic features of the past several decades of American capitalism: the plundering of public assets for private gain, the confluence of political and economic power, the defrauding of the American people.

By the time he cashed out in 1998, Bush’s return on his original $600,000 investment in the Rangers was 2,400 percent. Where did all of this money come from and what did Bush do to get it? Much of the story was first reported nationally by Joe Conason in a February, 2000 article for Harpers Magazine. A report from the public interest group, Center for Public Integrity, and recent columns on July 16 in the New York Times by Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof have filled in some of the details.


A free stadium, and some choice land on the side

The same factors that propelled Bush virtually overnight from failed oil man to wealthy corporate executive—family connections and the desire of rich Texas businessmen to exploit the Bush name—opened the way for him to buy a stake in the professional baseball team. Bill DeWitt, part owner of Spectrum 7, which had bought Bush’s own company several years earlier and then later sold out to Harken, offered the son of the then-US president a chance to join in a bid for the Rangers. In 1989 a deal was reached in which Richard Rainwater, a wealthy Texas financier, joined Bush and several other investors in buying the team.

CONTINUED...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/aug2002/bush-a01.shtml

It's not odd how right the left can be.

[DemonFighterLives]

81. Time for one of these

:kick:

The heartlessness of the cabal cannot be fathomed by normal people. With ole Ma bush saying how these new homeless are in a better state - to knucklehead in chief stating "Heckuva job Brownie".
I really wonder what knuckster could perceive in his warped mind that Brownie did good. Unless maybe he answered the phone when dubby called for a scapegoat.
Poppy and newfound groupie Bill are going around to fleece a few more dollars from taxpayers who have already paid through the nose for the nasty war and FEMA and Homeland Waste of Money to begin with.
:argh:

[Octafish]

118. The only people 'secure' in Bush's America are stooges of the BFEE

Thanks for the kick and I agree with you 100 percent, Demon Fighter Lives.

It appears to me the Bush Mafia is pushing America and the world to Chimpageddon. While terrible for the planet's billions, it wouldn't necessarily be bad for BushCo. They'll be able to exit their secure underground kommandbunkers and crawl out from under the radioactive wastes (or, if they're with Rev. Moon, find refuge in the jungle redoubt) and repopulate the planet with their brother and sister vermin, the cockroaches.

For those who think this is all wild-eyed delusion, consider how surprised Daschle was after the Continuity Of Government plans forgot the Democrats?

The New York Times and Bush’s "shadow government"

How the media covers up the threat to democratic rights

By Patrick Martin
8 March 2002

By any standard, the front-page report in the Washington Post March 1 was a political bombshell. The leading newspaper in the US capital reported that the Bush administration had activated plans for a “shadow government,” drawn up under the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, to prepare for a possible nuclear terrorist attack on Washington DC.

Hundreds of US officials were spending time in fortified bunkers in mountainous areas of the East Coast, serving 90-day rotations while they held themselves ready to assume the full powers of the government in the event that Washington was destroyed.

The most significant aspect of this plan was that the secret government-in-waiting consisted entirely of executive branch officials. No officials of the legislative or judicial branches were included, and neither the elected party leaders in Congress nor those in the constitutional line of succession to the presidency were even aware of the program’s existence. Leading congressional Democrats complained of being kept in the dark, and the issue was raised prominently in the weekend television interview programs.

But one notable quarter in the media displayed little interest in the issue. The New York Times, the most influential daily newspaper in America, for decades the principal press representative of liberal public opinion, gave only the most perfunctory attention to the shadow government. Its first news article merely echoed the Post’s account. A small follow-up article dismissed the administration’s action as the activation of a longstanding Cold War contingency plan that had no particular significance.

Those were the sole articles written by the Times reporting staff about an issue that held center stage in Washington for nearly a week. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle addressed the subject on several Sunday interview programs, pointing to the extraordinary fact that, for the Bush administration, “continuity of government” did not include the legislature or judiciary. The Times buried his comments in an article devoted to the Democrats’ mild criticism of Bush’s conduct of the global “war on terrorism.”

CONTINUED...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/nyt-m08.shtml

BTW: I can't believe how many DUers think The New York Times is an honest broker of information. Haven't they read Judy Miller?

[newspeak]

86. remembering the '80's

I remember reading in the Sacramento Bee, Danny Casalero's articles. He wrote about the Iran-Contra deal and BCCI. I could hardly wait for the next article, then no other articles. After awhile there was an article from Ngy.?sp saying that Casalero was found dead in a motel room after meeting with an informant. The journalist was going to get to the bottom of Casalero's death and the connection with the BCCI. Apparently he was also killed down in Mexico? I knew then, this country was in trouble. Tin foil hat? I don't think so! And now, after 32 indictments, where are some of these men? IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!! My classmate was an investigative journalist who wrote about the Mena AR drop-drugs for guns. It's amazing that some people in this country have short term memories.

[Octafish]

103. Danny Casolaro fought the Octopus.

Daniel “Danny” Casolaro — Researched BCCI and the Inslaw/PROMIS Affair, found that George HW Bush had ties going around the world and back through Iran-Contra, Iraq-gate, the October Surprise, Watergate, Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs and Dallas. Casolaro also coined the term, "The Octopus." His death was ruled a “suicide.”

http://www.cjr.org/archives.asp?url=/91/6/octopus.asp


Prosecutor's Management System was INSLAW's program for tracking individual cases through the criminal justice system. The program was so effective Reagan's Justice Department stole it, modified it with special back-doors allowing surreptitious entry by the BFEE, and sold it around the world -- from Canada to Israel.

Greed being a conservative value, Justice didn't pay the inventors and the company felt ripped off. Even though they won every case in court, they lost on appeal to a judge appointed from the government's defense table -- I kid you not. Elliot Richardson (a good and honest Republican who didn't fire Nixon's special prosecutor Archibald Cox) represented the owners i the drawn-out legal battle and couldn't believe what happened.

Of course, the owners got off lucky. They only lost a fortune. Here are the names of many who lost their lives, including several innocent women and children.

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE: EXPOSING THE INSLAW SCANDAL AND RELATED CRIMES

by Karen Bixman
Media Bypass Magazine, June, 1995

EXCERPT...

Affiliated with the Cabazon Indian Reservation, Alfred Alvarez and two friends opposed the takeover of the reservation by Wakenhut Corporation. They were murdered in July 1981.

Paul Morasca was murdered in January 1982 in the San Francisco condominium he shared with Michael Riconsociuto...Private investigator Larry Guerrin, while seeking information for Riconosciuto relating to the Inslaw case, was found dead ...San Francisco attorney David Meyer, who was to appear the following day in District Court, to defend clients who were reportedly tied in which CIA drug trafficking activities, died from a gunshot wound on February 6, 1989. Meyer sought to expose links between the Justice Department, the CIA and Iran-Contra...On August 14, 1990, attorney Dexter Jacobson was found dead prior to a scheduled meeting with the FBI in regards to rampant Chapter 11 judicial corruption...Attorney Gary Ray Pinnell, was found dead on February 11, 1991, just before he, too, was to present Chapter 11 corruption to the FBI...The body of Alan D. Standorf was found on January 31, 1991, in the back seat of a car parked at the Washington National Airport. Casolaro had depended upon Standorf as a source and it is believed that Standorf, an electronic intelligence employee for the NSA, provided the reporter information that linked the Justice Department to the various scandals...In April 1991, attorney David Eisman was shot to death 24 hours before he was to meet with Riconosciuto. Involved with numerous CIA activities, Eisman had been scheduled to meet with a woman in Philadelphia who was to deliver important evidence of corruption by Justice Department officials...Alan May was found dead in his San Francisco home on June 19, 1991. May was reportedly involved with Riconosciuto in the Iranian hostage scandal and October Surprise. The local coroner's report stated death was due to a heart attack, but a subsequent autopsy revealed that May had poly-pharmaceuticals in his blood....In 1991, Tommy Burkett was found dead in the bedroom of his parent's Hendon, Virginia, home from a gunshot wound to the mouth...

SNIP...

On November 1, 1992, the bodies of Gail Spiro and her three children were found in their Rancho Santa Fe, California, home, dead from gunshot wounds to the head. Three days later the body of Gail's husband, Ian Spiro, was found dead in the front seat of his Ford Explorer in the remote California desert...On November 14, 1992, Jose Aguilar, a tree trimmer who occasionally worked at the Spiro home, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head....Peter Sandvugen, found dead on December 2, 1992, was assisting Riconosciuto in his defense against the Justice Department. Sandvugen was a part of a special CIA team during the eighties, and as the gun he always carried was found without the ammo clip, the circumstances of his death raised questions...

SNIP...

Vali Delahanty disappeared on August 18, 1992. At the time of her disappearance, she had been trying to warn Michael Riconosciuto that the DEA and Justice Department officials were about to frame him on drug charges. On April 13, 1994, the skeletal remains of her body were discovered at Lake Bay, Washington.

CONTINUED...

http://www.american-buddha.com/exposing.inslaw.htm

BTW: A most hearty welcome to DU, newspeak. Your presence here is double-plus good.

[newspeak]

104. thank you

do you remember the jounalist who was going to investigate the "suicide." He was Vietnamese or Cambodian. It was short and I believe was Ng or something like that.

[Octafish]

107. Thanks for remembering. Anson Ng.

The guy was a reporter for Financial Times.

From the TC Technical Consultant

EXCERPT...

"In July, Anson Ng, a reporter for the Financial Times of London was shot and KILLED in Guatemala. He had reportedly been trying to interview an American there named Jimmy Hughes, a one-time
director of security for the Cabazon Indian Reservation secret projects.

"In April, a Philadelphia attorney named Dennis Eisman was found DEAD, killed by a single bullet in his chest. According to a former federal official who worked with Eisman, the attorney was found dead in the parking lot where he had been due to meet with a woman who had crucial evidence to share substantiating Riconosciuto's claims.

"Both Eisman's and Ng's deaths were declared 'suicides' by authorities.

CONTINUED...


http://www.beyondweird.com/ufos/Bruce_Walton_The_Underground_Nazi_Invasion_37.html

A bit more...

From a conspiracy minded message board...

EXCERPT...

In 1982, Fred Alvarez, a Cabazon Indian leader and outspoken critic of the Cabazon/Wackenhut deal, and two of his companions were murdered "execution style" behind his home in Rancho Mirage, CA. Alvarez had spoken out against the poor treatment of tribe members by Wackenhut personnel, and the poor management of the tribes finances by John P. Nichols. Although never tied to the murders of Alvarez and his friends, John Nichols was later convicted of soliciting the murder of another tribe member and served four years in prison. His son inherited the position of tribal administrator, and after his release John P Nichols returned to Cabazon where he was employed as "mental health advisor to the tribe."

The investigation of the Alvarez murder was later taken up by the respected Canadian based Financial Times, whose reporter, Anson Ng, went to Guatemala to find Jimmy Hughes, a Wackenhut security guard who was named as a witness in the killing. Ng was found in Guatemala dead with a bullet in his chest. His death was ruled a suicide.

NOTE:

The above is just information regarding Wackenhut's involvement in what has come to be known as the Octopus Conspiracy, named after the book The Octopus, by Joseph Daniel. For more info read Defrauding America, by Rodney Stich.

And Behold A Pale Horse: A True Crime Narrative, by Daniel Casolaro, an excerpt from Casolaro's unfinished expose on the PROMIS/Cabazon affair. On 10 August, 1991 Casolaro was found dead in a Martinsburg, VA hotel room, with his wrists slashed a dozen times. A note was found beside his body that read, "Dear God, let me in." His death was ruled a suicide, although his briefcase, containing his notes and the rest of his manuscript, was never found.

SOURCE:

http://www.delta-green.com/comint/dgml/v01/v01.n349

Thanks for remembering, Mr. Ng. His work is our work.

[XanaDUer]

87. Kicked and nominated!

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[Just Me]

93. Important,...

,...facts & info.

[buzzsaw_23]

96. Neil and his foreign Buddies

Of course EET had to remind the world of the connection between Neil and his foreign buddies, and that he was paid $2 mill. "In the U.S., it has reportedly agreed to pay $2 million for consulting services from semiconductor neophyte Neil Bush, the younger brother of President George W. Bush. In China, one of Grace's founders is Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and in Taiwan, its other founder is Winston Wang, scion of a powerful petrochemical magnate.

This deal would have never been disclosed if not for Neil's divorce. But while everybody was paying attention to Neil, an even bigger Chinese company was making deals that would benefit that quiet little mouse Marvin, and almost nobody noticed.

Cheung Kong Holdings, is a gigantic real estate and investment company in Hong Kong. How big is it? Well, according to the company's own estimates, "combined market capitalization of the Cheung Kong Group amounts to HK$515 billion," or better yet picture this, "approximately 11.5 percent of the total market capitalization of the Hong Kong stock market." That is big with a capital B.

Cheung Kong's expanded its portfolio, which now includes a company known as Critical Path, Inc, a software and Internet-messaging service firm. And guess who the company's SEC filings list as a major shareholder in Critical Path? Mr Purnendu Chatterjee, acting for Winston Partners LP, owned by none other than Marvin Bush and Scott Andrews.

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10336&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported

[buzzsaw_23]

95. Don't Forget Marvin- A Sound Criminal Mind

9/11 Security
Courtesy of Marvin Bush

Marvin P. Bush, the president’s younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The company, Burns noted, was backed by KuwAm, a Kuwaiti-American investment firm on whose board Marvin Burns also served.

According to its present CEO, Barry McDaniel, the company had an ongoing contract to handle security at the World Trade Center "up to the day the buildings fell down."

The company lists as government clients "the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S Air force, and the Department of Justice," in projects that "often require state-of-the-art security solutions for classified or high-risk government sites."

Stratesec (Securacom) differs from other security companies which separate the function of consultant from that of service provider. The company defines itself as a "single-source" provider of "end-to-end" security services, including everything from diagnosis of existing systems to hiring subcontractors to installing video and electronic equipment. It also provides armored vehicles and security guards.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911security.html

RESEARCHER
Marvin Bush: mysterious death - connections to 9/11?
Thu Oct 16 04:30:04 2003
64.140.158.100

Marvin Bush Employee's mysterious death - connections to 9/11?
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/101003_bush_death.html

A bizarre story, which appeared only in Washington Post so far.
Wayne Madsen thinks, there might be more behind it.
Did Bertha Champagne know more about Stratasec?


October 10 , 2003, 1200 PDT, (FTW) --

By Wayne Madsen

WASHINGTON, At around 9 PM on September 29, Fairfax County, Virginia police responded to a 911 call describing an accident. However, they soon discovered they were not dealing with a routine emergency but the mysterious death of an employee of the 47-year old brother of President George W. Bush, venture capitalist Marvin Bush.

Sixty-two year old Bertha Champagne, described as a long time "baby sitter" for Marvin and Margaret Bush's two children, son Walker, 13, and daughter Marshall, 17, was found crushed to death by her own vehicle in a driveway in front of the Bush family home in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County. Champagne reportedly lived at the Bush family home.
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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/101003_bush_death.html



First, there's brother Marvin. He's the quietest member of the Bush clan. Marvin is co-founder and partner in Winston Partners, a private investment firm. In turn, Winston Partners is part of a larger firm called the Chatterjee Group.

Here's where it gets complicated. Marvin is obviously the family member with a sound criminal mind. He has managed to bury almost all the evidence of his profiteering profits inside a host of corporations and entities, with many being located offshore. Its not easy to track the money through such a tangled web. But it can be done.

SEC filings show that the Chatterjee Group consists of Winston Partners, LP; Chatterjee Fund Management, LP; Winston Partners II LDC, a Cayman Islands-based company; Winston Partners II LLC; Chatterjee Advisors LLC; Chatterjee Management Company; Mr. Chatterjee himself; and Furxedown Trading Limited, a company organized under the laws of the Isle of Man. The address for Winston Partners II LDC is in the Netherlands Antilles. The other subsidiaries were organized in Delaware

Marvin is not the only family member plugged into the group. Brother Jeb is also an investor in the Winston Capital Fund, which happens to be managed by Marvin's firm.


http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10336&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported

[buzzsaw_23]

97. From Skulls to Zyklon B

It's 1918 and, well you know students, they're always up to innocent pranks. It seems Grandpa Bush set his grandson some fine family precedents starting with digging up Geronimo's skull,

"In 1918, Prescott Bush and two companions crept into the cemetery near Fort Sill and pried open the grave of Geronimo.

The head was taken out, spiffed up and forwarded to New Haven, where it was given pride of place for goofy rituals that have been attended by generations of Bushes and a veritable army of powerful types."

<snip>

From skulls to Zyklon B (and back again)

But it seems that great-granpa George Walker was also in on the business of making money out of death (like great-granpa like great grand-son),

"George Walker, GW's great-grandfather, also set up the takeover of the Hamburg-America Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. In Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust. The Bush family was not unaware of the nature of their investment partners. They hired Allen Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest."


http://www.topplebush.com/article1_famhistory.shtml

[jokerman93]

105. Monday morning kick

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[Beam Me Up]

109. ........

[LibertyorDeath]

111. Chertoff and Torture

by DAVE LINDORFF



Back on Friday, June 12, 2002, the Defense Department had a big problem: Its new policy on torture of captives in the "war on terror" was about to be exposed. John Walker Lindh, the young Californian captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 and touted by John Ashcroft as an "American Taliban," was scheduled to take the stand the following Monday in an evidence suppression hearing regarding a confession he had signed. There he would tell, under oath, about how he signed the document only after being tortured for days by US soldiers. Federal District Judge T.S. Ellis had already said he was likely to allow Lindh, at trial, to put on the stand military officers and even Guantánamo detainees who were witnesses to or participants in his alleged abuse.

The Defense Department, which we now know had in late 2001 begun a secret, presidentially approved program of torture of Afghan and Al Qaeda captives at Bagram Air Base and other locations, had made it clear to the Justice Department that it wanted the suppression hearing blocked. American torture at that point was still just a troubling rumor, and the Bush Administration clearly wanted to keep it that way. Accordingly, Michael Chertoff, who as head of the Justice Department's criminal division was overseeing all the department's terrorism prosecutions, had his prosecution team offer a deal. All the serious charges against Lindh--terrorism, attempted murder, conspiracy to kill Americans, etc.--would be dropped and he could plead guilty just to the technical charges of "providing assistance" to an "enemy of the U.S." and of "carrying a weapon." Lindh, whose attorneys dreaded his facing trial in one of the most conservative court districts in the country on the first anniversary of 9/11, had to accept a stiff twenty-year sentence, but that was half what he faced if convicted on those two minor charges alone.

But Chertoff went further, according to one of Lindh's attorneys, George Harris. Chertoff (now an appeals court judge in New Jersey) demanded--reportedly at Defense Department insistence, according to what defense attorneys were told--that Lindh sign a statement swearing he had "not been intentionally mistreated" by his US captors and waiving any future right to claim mistreatment or torture. Further, Chertoff attached a "special administrative measure," essentially a gag order, barring Lindh from talking about his experience for the duration of his sentence.

At the time, few paid attention to this peculiar silencing of Lindh. In retrospect, though, it seems clear that the man coasting toward confirmation as Secretary of Homeland Security effectively prevented early exposure of the Bush/Rumsfeld/Gonzales policy of torture, which we now know began in Afghanistan and later "migrated" to Guantánamo and eventually to Iraq. So anxious was Chertoff to avoid exposure in court of Lindh's torture--which included keeping the seriously wounded and untreated Lindh, who was malnourished and dehydrated, blindfolded and duct-taped to a stretcher for days in an unheated and unlit shipping container, and repeatedly threatening him with death--that defense lawyers say he made the deal a limited-time offer. "It was good only if we accepted it before the suppression hearing," says Harris. "They said if the hearing occurred, all deals were off." He adds, "Chertoff himself was clearly the person at Justice to whom the line prosecutors were reporting. He was directing the whole plea agreement process, and there was at least one phone call involving him."

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050214&s=lindorff

[peace11_11]

114. 11-11-05 Global sit out!!

11-11-05 Global Sit Out...Stand up by Sitting Out!!
On 11/11/05, we the people, proclaim a day of awareness for what is wrong with our world and what we want to take back from those in the position of making decisions that we do not accept, and have not agreed to. The few in the position to make these decisions have misrepresented the whole of humanity in the most despicable of ways, in essence, for their own gain and with no regard for the common man and woman, the environment, the future of our world.

Those in the position to make decisions for all of us do not have our best interests in mind. We can no longer abide by these decisions being made without our best interests in mind. We the people, will not continue to accept those decisions as our own.

On this day, we want our voices heard. We do not agree with war for the sake of war. We do not agree with wasteful disregard for our planet. We do not agree with taxation without representation. We do not agree that wealth entitles the few to make these decisions, with no accountability for these decisions and wasteful actions. This is a day of reckoning.

On 11/11/05 make your voice heard. Let those who are making these decisions for you know that they are now put on notice. They can do the right thing and continue to represent the people in the manner they were elected to that position, or they will not continue in that capacity because we will not accept the status quo any longer.

Now is the time to take back what is ours. Please join us on this day and unite in the universal voice of reason and compassion. Let us put a stop to the mindless disregard for all who support the system that is being blatantly abused by the few elite of the world.

Pause for peace. Be one. Stop what you do to support the status quo. Rise up and be heard.

Stand up by sitting out...don't go to work...dont watch the news, don't make any purchases...Realize that we are the wheels that keep this machine going..
Stop the machine for one day...Let it come to a crashing hault and realize that we hold all the power in the world...

[Beam Me Up]

116. Great idea peace11_11. Difficult to implement sufficient numbers, however

to make it truly effective.

For one thing, you have to build interest in the idea -- and I'm not sure one month's time is sufficient. Perhaps but I'm skeptical. For it to really work, it has to be presented to a much wider base than can be found here at DU -- it would have to include and be supported by grass roots organizations of all sorts.

What can raise consciousness across the board sufficiently to make a general strike -- even a one day one -- a truly effective means not merely of protest, but of regaining control of the system.

I watched yesterday how the electricity went out in Los Angeles and environs and I thought -- that is really all they have to do to stop us. All they have to do is pull the plug and call it an 'accident' or a 'terrorist attack' or a 'blown circuit' or what have you. Given the state of our media, how would we ever know for sure the truth of the situation.

I don't say that to dissuade you or anyone -- only to point out the gravity of what we face. This needs to be built into our strategy for change.

[LibertyorDeath]

117. .

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