The Swiss Miss...the VP... & UBS Enron? The fishy smell in Texas

[Hubert Flottz]

Here is something nobody is looking at much...yet: The connection between the US Ambassador to Switzerland and the Swiss firm that now owns ENRON(UBS Warburg)and the GOP mob from Texas who are in power.

There may be a lot more to Cheney's Swiss Miss than what first meets the eye of the beholder.

UBS = United Bank of Switzerland

What is the background of this "Swiss Miss?"
What dealings has she had with Cheney/Bush in the past?
What connections may she have had to ENRON or Kenny Boy?
What Connections have the UBS Warburgs had with the Bush Mafia?

We DUers, may need to do some snooping into this Swiss Miss/BushCo Connection I think...

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UBS Beats Out Citigroup For Enron Trading Unit

NEW YORK - Enron as a corporate entity is in deep trouble, but its energy trading operation may yet survive. The bankrupt Houston energy firm has been conducting a drawn-out auction for its main trading business, and today the Swiss bank UBS AG was declared the winner.

http://www.forbes.com/2002/01/11/0111enron.html

UBS Warburg Stock and Securities Fraud

UBS Warburg stock fraud accusations in recent months stem largely from its connection to sister company, Paine Webber, Inc. UBS Warburg stock fraud allegations claim that the relationship between the two firms aided the commission of UBS Warburg stock fraud, since UBS Warburg supplied investment research and analysis to Paine Webber. At the center of UBS Warburg stock fraud charges is the collapse of Enron, whose stock UBS Warburg rated a “strong buy.”

http://www.stockfraudnewswire.com/ubswarburg/index.html

UBS Warburg and Enron

In early 2002 the House Committee on Government Reform began to investigate a filing by a UBS Warburg stockbroker who claimed that he was laid off because he advised his clients against keeping Enron shares. The broker, Chung Wu, was dismissed on August 21, 2001, within hours of sending the following email to his clients: “Financial situation is deteriorating in Enron and price drops another $7.00…I would advise you to take some money off the table even at this point.” At the time the email was sent, Enron shares were already trading at less than half of their 2000 value. UBS Warburg’s branch manager, Patrick Mendenhall, addressed Wu’s clients afterward, stating, “Mr. Wu’s statements are contrary to UBS PaineWebber’s current recommendation concerning Enron stock.” UBS Warburg responded to Wu’s August 31, 2001 complaint (filed with the NASD) by arguing that Wu had been removed because he overstepped the company’s policy against contacting more than ten clients without gaining supervisor approval first. Wu claimed that UBS Warburg removed him in response to pressure from Enron.

Another UBS Warburg broker disclosed to the congressional committee that UBS Warburg advisors were instructed not to guide clients toward diversifying their stocks if they held Enron shares. The employee held that it was likely that the investment advice of UBS Warburg analysts had been compromised by the influence of Enron.

UBS Warburg purchased Enron’s energy trading unit in January of 2002, after the company filed for bankruptcy. The operations were renamed UBS Warburg Energy. In addition to obtaining the business, UBS Warburg acquired two Enron skyscrapers and took aboard 650 former Enron employees, including executives John Lavorato and Louise Kitchen, who had taken the company’s largest bonuses after the bankruptcy ($5 million and $2 million), and Greg Whalley, Enron’s former president.

http://www.securitiesfraudfyi.com/ubs_warburg.html

Revolving Door Continues: Sen. Gramm Accepts Post-Retirement Job at Banking Firm that Acquired Enron’s Trading Operation

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Public Citizen today criticized U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, former head of the Senate Banking Committee, for accepting a potentially lucrative job with UBS Warburg, a Swiss-based investment banking firm that earlier this year acquired the energy trading operations of Texas-based Enron Corp.

"Senator Gramm is the darling of the banks, the oil industry and Enron," said Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook. "In the Senate, he did the bidding of the banking industry and took its money. He did the bidding of the oil industry and took its money. He did the bidding of energy traders and took their money. Now, he’s going to get paid directly from the company that took over Enron’s fraudulent energy trading operation, a business Gramm helped create through a law that deregulated such trading."

UBS Warburg in January acquired Enron Corp’s disgraced energy trading operation, which generated about 90 percent of Enron’s $101 billion in revenue in 2000. UBS Warburg has said it paid nothing up front for the unit but will pay Enron one-third of the pre-tax profits from its operation. UBS will assume control of EnronOnline and use Enron’s energy trading software, trading floors and office equipment.

Since 1989, Gramm has been Congress’ second-largest recipient of campaign money from Enron, taking $101,350. In addition, Gramm is married to Dr. Wendy Gramm, who served on Enron’s board of directors from 1993 to June 6, 2002. In that capacity, Dr. Gramm earned between $915,000 and $1.8 million in salary, director’s fees and Enron stock.

http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1234

Some Bush family connections to Warburgs who own UBS:

Timeline of Treason: The Bush Family Connections to the Nazis

Snip>

Hitler assumes power.

Max Warburg selected by Prescott Bush to be the American Ship & Commerce Line official representative on the board of the Hamburg- Amerika Line. Warburg was a long time advisor of Hjalmar Schacht, the Nazi’s Economic Minister and an executive in the Reichsbank. Warburg was also a close friend with Montagu Collet Norman.

An agreement to coordinate all trade between Germany & America was reached in Berlin after negotiations between Hitler’s Economics Minister, Hjalmar Schacht & John Foster Dulles.As a result Oliver Harriman, Averell’s cousin formed a syndicate of 150 firms to conduct all business between Germany and the United States.

North German Lloyd Co. merged with Hamburg-Amerika Line in Hamburg. Christian Beck a long time Harriman executive was placed as manager of ‘freight & operations’ in North America for this newly merged company. Emil Helfferich, an ardent Nazi was appointed chairman of this new company called Hapag-Lloyd. Nazi security guards were now on all ships of the company.

William S. Farish was appointed chairman of Standard Oil by John D. Rockefeller. Farish was close friends with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of I.G. Farben. Farish hired Ivy Lee, to write pro-I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda and get it into the U.S. press. He hired Nazi German crews for Standard Oil tankers. In addition, he hired "Emil Helfferich," chairman of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, as chairman also of the Standard Oil Company subsidiary in Germany. Karl Lindemann, board member of Hamburg-Amerika, also became a top Farish-Standard executive in Germany. The interlock placed Farish and Prescott Bush in a small group of Hitler supporters. Both Emil Helfferich and Karl Lindemann were authorized to write checks to Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Nazi SS, on a special Standard Oil account. This account was managed by the German-British-American banker, Kurt von Schroeder. According to U.S. intelligence documents reviewed by author Anthony Sutton, Helfferich continued his payments to the SS into 1944, when the SS was supervising the mass murder at the Standard-I.G. Farben.....................................MORE

http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/timeline.html


Bush, the Saudi billionaire and the Islamists: the story a British firm is afraid to publish

Publication of book cancelled as libel laws blamed for stifling free speech

David Leigh
Wednesday March 31, 2004
The Guardian


A book investigating links between rich Saudis and US politicians has been suppressed by the giant publishing firm Random House because, it says, of growing "libel tourism" by wealthy foreigners, and exorbitant legal "success fees".

Libel lawyers are stifling free speech, the deputy chairman of Random House, Simon Master, said yesterday.

The UK publication of House of Bush, House of Saud, by the American writer Craig Unger, has been cancelled because Secker and Warburg, a Random House subsidiary, says it can no longer afford such risks....Article continues...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1182578,00.html

[bobthedrummer]

1. It's not a fish smell, it's the stench of fascists imo.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. I think you're right Bob.

It's the smell from Hell!

[druidity33]

15. yes...

a little sulphur, dash of corpse flower and maybe some old used diapers strewn about. Stinks so strongly i wonder how anyone could've gotten used to it...

[Hubert Flottz]

17. I know the smell I think it's brimstone...

"What's in a name? That which we call a ?urd(W)By any other word would smell about as sweet."

[Scout1071]

3. Katherine Armstrong was actively lobbying for a major swiss company

and she once worked for Paine Webber.

It seems we may be on to something here.......Let's hope the media grabs hold and starts digging and exposing.

Some great info in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=436710&mesg_id=436964

[Blue Belle]

9. Katherine Armstrong has ties to many in the Bush Administration...

Sidney Blumenthal wrote a great Article in Salon.com about her family ties today...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/02/15/cheney/

<SNIP> Both the vice president and the deputy chief of staff, as it happens, owed their previous, lucrative jobs in the private sector to their relationships with the Armstrong family. Anne Armstrong, Katharine's mother, was on the board of Halliburton that made Dick Cheney its chief executive officer. Tobin Armstrong, Katharine's father, had financed Karl Rove & Co., Rove's political consulting firm. Katharine herself is a lobbyist for Houston law firm Baker Botts, a major Texas power broker since it was founded in the 19th century by the family of James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state and close associate of George H.W. Bush's.

Katharine Armstrong took up lobbying after her recent divorce. Her contracts include Parsons, a construction firm that has done work in Iraq, among others. Her business partner, Karen Johnson, a close friend of Rove's, does extensive business with the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development and defense contractors. But Armstrong's protestations to news media that she does not lobby Cheney should probably be taken at face value given her background.

The Armstrong Ranch developed far-flung holdings in Australia and South America. Meanwhile, President Ford appointed Anne, a major Republican activist, U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, and President Reagan appointed her a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is reportedly Anne's best friend, and Anne was instrumental in launching her political career. Tobin, for his part, worked as an advisor to Texas Republican Gov. William Clements, where he first encountered the young Karl Rove and decided to give him a helping hand when Rove struck out in the political business on his own.

<SNIP>The Armstrong family's Republican connections have continued and strengthened down to the latest generation of Bushes. Gov. George W. Bush appointed Anne a regent of Texas A&M University and Katharine a commission member of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the agency that filed the report on the Cheney shooting. At Tobin's funeral last year, Cheney delivered the eulogy.

While the incident continues to unfold, the Bush administration is pressing a new budget in which oil companies would receive what is called "royalty relief," allowing them to pump about $65 billion of oil and natural gas from federal land over the next five years without paying any royalties to the government, costing the U.S. Treasury about $7 billion. For Texas royalty like the Armstrongs, it would amount to a windfall profit.

The saga of cronyism and corruption continues...

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Some good information and the good information is why I keep

coming back to DU every chance I get.

I think the bloggers and the chat boards have done more to rein in the runaway GOP mob, than congress and the federal courts put together.

I'm very sad this evening, because I found out that a good friend of mine died this afternoon after a long hard battle with lung cancer. His doctors expected him to die 18 months ago and he hung in there and fought the tumor that long. I fished and hunted with him for years and he loved the woods and water. I'll think of him and miss him every time I go fishing from now on. He was very upset at the sad state of affairs the country is in and we talked about it often. Maybe he is better off now...

[marions ghost]

18. we are doing an essential job

--the bloggers and chat boards are the only real voice of the people (other than a few LTTEs here and there). With TV we are only consumers-- always manipulated, told what to think and buy, programmed. It is a passive medium. There has been very little opportunity before the internet for intelligent Americans to air opinions, discuss, and respond to events of political and social importance. I believe we are making a difference. We are processing the news as it has never been done before. It's a much more dynamic and participatory world.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. We just might make a difference!

I look for the politicians to try and stop the flow of information. Education of the masses, is their worst nightmare!

The truth to a politician is like pouring salt on a slug.

[Marnieworld]

27. "Education of the masses, is their worst nightmare!"

And that's why they are gutting the public educational system. That's why we actually have to defend evolution again. They want dumb citizens. It's an effort.

On edit: Sorry about your friend too. :hug:

[Blue Belle]

22. I'm sorry to hear about your friend.

And yes, this country is in a sad state, but hopefully as things are starting to unravel in this administration, we can fianlly start to shed some light on the criminal acts and neglegence of this administration. It's frustrating when they seem to be protected in a layer of teflon, but you have to think that Karma is going to pay them bach at some point. Like your friend, we have to hold out and fight... I think the GOP is expecting us to lay down and let them have our Country.

My thoughts are with you Hubert in your time of loss.

:hug:

[Hubert Flottz]

24. Thank you for the kind thoughts.

And thanks for the hugs...

[Karenina]

14. And much, MUCH MORE HERE!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x417384

The REAL SSCANDAL!!!

The NYT's coverage of the fallout from Dick Cheney's shooting accident was subtly snarky, especially when it comes to the business connections among those in the "shooting party."

The owner of the ranch is identified in news reports merely as Ann Armstrong, a "prominent Republican supporter and whose family ranch is a familiar destination for Republican politicans." Katharine Armstrong, the hostess of the party, and the distraught lady who was tasked with providing information to the local press, is identified merely as a lobbyist, "with a limited list of lobbying clients in Texas and in Washington" and who said, "I don't believe I've ever lobbied the vice president." Just for good measure, the NYT quotes Katharine, the daughter, as saying none of her clients "that I know of" are involved in Iraq.

But the connections between the Armstrongs, the Bushes, Cheney and Texas royalty are twisted and deep. Maybe the best way of making this intricate web of relationships clearest is by dilineating each family connection.

<snip>

Katharine, the distraught hostess, is a former investment banker turned lobbyist. She is also the heir apparent of both the Armstrong and King ranches, making her potentially one of the biggest landowners in the country when Mom, Dad and uncle Fausto finally kick the bucket.

Katharine is co-listed with her parents as Pioneers, and this was just around the time that she had been appointed to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission by Gov. George W. Bush in 1999. She turned lobbyist in 2004 claiming a need to make a living to support her children after a divorce. Among Katharine Armstrong' clients are Parson, an engineering company with contracts in Iraq. She also represents Lockheed Martin the military aircraft behemoth, and Baker Botts, the law firm of super lawyer and Bush family consigliere James Baker, who oversaw the Bush family 2000 Florida election "strategy."

<snip>

Now here's the big question. Just what do you think that Katharine Armstrong, representing both aircraft military contractors and Iraq engineering contractors, might have been discussing with Dick Cheney -- despite her claims that she had never formally lobbied Cheney.

Perhaps this is just the way business is done in Texas. After all, long before the shooting, in 2000, father Tobin had acknowledged of his hunting trips with Cheney, “We go out when the dew is still on the grass, and then hunt until we shoot our limit,” ... “Then we pick a fine spot and have a wild game picnic lunch.” If you represent James Baker as a lobbyist, do you really need to "lobby" George W. Bush or Dick Cheney?

Do you really need to "lobby" Dick Cheney when your mother hired him as CEO of Halliburton, which made him a multimilionare? I'm sure that his gratitude is worth millions. It's not lobbying -- just pleasant conversation among long time family friends about current events, developments and opportunities while shooting quail.

Could the cover-up of the shooting have as much to do with the embarrassment of poor marksmanship as the embarrassment of disclosure of how business is done among the Bushes, Cheneys, Armstrongs and other well-connected western royalty?

See DU thread above for many more links.

[Hubert Flottz]

16. Thanks for the link Karenina

I try to read everything here, but I miss so many good things. Not enough hours in the day...

Those old stories about TV's JR and the rich ranchers in Texas, were not far from what really goes on there. So many hands in the cookie jar it's hard to keep track. Guys like:

The invisible ambassador

On the eve of war, I called the US embassy to ask for an interview with the American ambassador. The embassy's press attaché cautioned that "he gets a lot of requests" and was unlikely to talk to me "at this immediate time", but he would see what he could do and call me back. I didn't really expect another call - and so far none has come - because the current US ambassador is one of the most reticent in the 250-year history of the post. It's probably easier to get an interview with Saddam Hussein than with William Farish.

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This ambassador is not a household name - not even perhaps in the large household in Regent's Park that comes with the job. "William who?" asked a London-based US press man when I asked him whether he had met Farish. "I don't know the name - and I'm someone who, if you put a map in front of me, could name 75% of the countries in the world." (This may have been a self-deprecating joke.)
William Stamps Farish III belies his grand moniker: he is a gentle, detached, patrician figure, a millionaire friend of the Bushes and the Queen who is more interested in horses than international diplomacy. He came for what he called a "working sabbatical" and now finds himself caught up in the rolling war on terror and an unpopular invasion of Iraq

Snip>

Farish, who is 64, has known George W Bush all his life. Like Bush, he is a scion of a Texan oil family - his grandfather, William Stamps Farish, founded Humble Oil in 1900 and four-year-old Bill inherited an estimated $200m. When Bush announced his decision to run for president, Farish gave $100,000 to his fighting fund. The ambassadorship was the reward. More...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,926883,00.html



William S. Farish
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

snip>

Farish owns a trust company in Houston, Texas called W.S. Farish & Co.

An avid horse-breeder, Farish owns the 1800 acre Lane's End Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, which hosted Queen Elizabeth, a family friend, during her visits to Lexington. He also owns the 400 acre Lane's End Texas near Hempstead. He has bred and/or raced over 225 horses that became stakes winners, both individually and with partners,...More...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish_IV


Race Hygiene: Three Bush Family Alliances

Bush-Draper-Farish-Gray involvement in the eugenics movement


Farish and the New Order

In 1933, as what Hitler called his "New Order" appeared, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. appointed William S. Farish the chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (in 1937 he was made president and chief executive). Farish moved his offices to Rockefeller Center, New York, where he spent a good deal of time with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of I.G. Farben; his company paid a publicity man, Ivy Lee, to write pro-I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda and get it into the U.S. press.

Now that he was outside of Texas, Farish found himself in the shipping business -- like the Bush family. He hired Nazi German crews for Standard Oil tankers. And he hired Emil Helfferich, chairman of the Walker/Bush/Harriman Hamburg-Amerika Line, as chairman also of the Standard Oil Company subsidiary in Germany. Karl Lindemann, board member of Hamburg-Amerika, also became a top Farish-Standard executive in Germany. <14>

This interlock between their Nazi German operations put Farish together with Prescott Bush in a small, select group of men operating from abroad through Hitler's "revolution," and calculating that they would never be punished.

In 1939, Farish's daughter Martha married Averell Harriman's nephew, Edward Harriman Gerry, and Farish in-laws became Prescott Bush's partners at 59 Broadway. MORE...

http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=BushCh03&Entity=EugenicSoc#NewOrder

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Kind of got away from talking about Cheney's "Swiss Miss," but it seems that every rock you look under in Bushdom, there is some kind of evil, vile, bastard, hiding and sucking ALL the life blood out of the average American's future. The high dollar horse farms in Ky. brings us to another couple who mean SOOOOOOOOOOOO much to King George the II:

Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell, Jr.

usually known as Mitch McConnell (born February 20, 1942) is the senior U.S. Senator from Kentucky. A Republican, he is the Majority Whip of that body, making him the second-ranking Republican behind Majority Leader Bill Frist.

He is married to the Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao.

snip>

McConnell has a solidly conservative voting record in the Senate, and is widely considered a "kingmaker" in Kentucky Republican politics. Many Democrats consider him the embodiment of a politician who relies on large donations from special interests.

With Frist retiring after the 2006 elections, it is widely speculated that McConnell will try to succeed him for majority leader. He is rumored to have the support of 40 of the Senate's 55 Republicans. MORE...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell

Just one big, super wealthy, "entitled," happy, MOB!

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

WHO said it best!

Young Man Blues

Oh well a young man ain't got nothin' in the world these days
I said a young man ain't got nothin' in the world these days

You know in the old days
When a young man was a strong man
All the people they'd step back
When a young man walked by

But you know nowadays
It's the old man,
He's got all the money
And a young man ain't got nothin' in the world these days
I said nothing

Everybody knows that a young man ain't got nothin'.
Everybody!
Everybody knows that a young man ain't got nothin'
He got nothin'
Nothin'

Take it easy on the young man
They ain't got nothin' in the world these days
I said they ain't got nothin'!
They got sweet fuck-all!

From one of my all time favorite albums...The Who...'Live at Leeds'

[AntiFascist]

26. There's also this article by John Loftus...

that documents Nazi money laundering and Bush connections:

http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/new_world_order/bush_nazis.html

To protect their corporate holdings, all the brothers had to do was move the corporate paperwork from one bank to the other. This they did with some regularity. When Fritz Thyssen "sold" the Holland-American Trading Company for a tax loss, the Union Banking Corporation in New York bought the stock. Similarly, the Bush family invested the disguised Nazi profits in American steel and manufacturing corporations that became part of the secret Thyssen empire.

<snip>

The bottom line is harsh: It is bad enough that the Bush family helped raise the money for Thyssen to give Hitler his start in the 1920's, but giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war is treason. The Bush's bank helped the Thyssens make the Nazi steel that killed allied soldiers. As bad as financing the Nazi war machine may seem, aiding and abetting the Holocaust was worse. Thyssen's coal mines used Jewish slaves as if they were disposable chemicals. There are six million skeletons in the Thyssen family closet, and a myriad of criminal and historical questions to be answered about the Bush family's complicity.

MUCH MORE

[Hubert Flottz]

28. The role of big business in the Holocaust

snip>

9. Bush’s messianic speeches on the global liberation mission of the United States do not differ much from those of Hitler about the Great Germany, which was intended to wipe Bolshevism out of the face of the Earth and to found a millenary empire.
And the Nazi “blitzkriegs” are also similar to the invasion of Panama, the Gulf War, the wars in Afghanistan and Yugoslavia and the invasion of Iraq. Five wars in fourteen years and a sixth one, against Iran, which has been already announced.

10. On this sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps, it is important to remember the closing sentence of The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertold Brecht:
“THEREFORE LEARN HOW TO SEE AND NOT TO GAPE, TO ACT INSTEAD OF TALKING ALL DAY LONG. THE WORLD WAS ALMOST WON BY SUCH AN APE! THE NATIONS PUT HIM WHERE HIS KIND BELONGED; BUT DON´T REJOICE TOO SOON AT YOUR ESCAPE… THE WORLD HE CRAWLED FROM STILL IS GOING STRONG!”


http://www.cetim.ch/en/interventions_details.php?iid=245

The Corpocracy Uncovered

Bush family supported Third Reich

The GW Bush Gang, IG Farben 2001 by Robert Lederman

"What my cabinet shows is that I am not afraid to surround myself with strong and competent people...a good executive is one that understands how to recruit people and how to delegate authority and responsibility." GW Bush 1/2/2001

As promised GW Bush has recruited competent and experienced advisors. Despite their seeming diversity however they have a common denominator. The America they reflect is the oil, pharmaceutical, armament, Wall Street and eugenics interests long associated with the Bush family.

Seventy years ago a similar configuration of oil, pharmaceutical, chemical, military supply and eugenics interests were organized by Wall Street into IG Farben/Standard Oil-Hitler's industrial powerhouse. To grasp the real significance of what GW Bush's cabinet has been brought together to accomplish it is essential to understand the history of IG Farben, its relationship with American corporations and how together they applied modern technology to the task of eugenics or scientific racism.

According to former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes prosecutor John Loftus -who is today the director of the Florida Holocaust Museum- "The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich,"
-Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000 more.....

http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bushgang.htm

A Nazi in the (pocket) is worth four in the Bush (family)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3255.htm

[upi402]

4. good questions

too bad tv news hairdos will never ask them.

therefore - it doesn't exist.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. That is why we need to ask the questions.

Because if not us, then who?

The MSM is lazy and spoiled.

[upi402]

8. yep, emphasis US too. The Nation, Extra!, Democracy Now!

It sneaks out in non-digital format, but not by the tv news traitors.

[napi21]

5. I can't post the words I've just uttered while reading this story!

If I did, I'd have the thread locked in a heartbeat!

Sooo many links between sooo many families, and they all have people in our gov't NOW!

[understandinglife]

7. Corporatists, fascists, neoconsters -- the stench is all the same.

It comes from the decay of the millions of folk who die every year because of their avarice.

Excellent post. Recommended.


Peace.

[AntiFascist]

11. I posted this yesterday...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=411602&mesg_id=421217

The information about the CIA re-establishing drug money-laundering conduits with Geneva banks came from Wayne Madsen, so I don't know how reliable is the original source of this information; however, I did dig up this 2002 article from a Swiss website that describes how, in the past, "the CIA had used <Cheney's> Brown and Root, which operated in both countries <Iran and Iraq> and maintained port facilities in the Persian Gulf and near Shat al-Arab to rearm the Kurds. The whole operation had been financed with heroin."

http://switzerland.indymedia.org/de/2002/05/211.shtml

From 1994 to 1999, during US military intervention in the Balkans where, according to "The Christian Science Monitor" and "Jane´s Intelligence Review," the Kosovo Liberation Army controls 70 per cent of the heroin entering Western Europe, Cheney´s Brown and Root made billions of dollars supplying U.S. troops from vast facilities in the region. Brown and Root support operations continue in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia to this day...

MORE

[NVMojo]

12. right on the money ...

[lovuian]

13. Great post!!!

[SpiralHawk]

19. Interrogate the Swiss Miss

Now.

Use BushCo's patented Skull & Bones TLC torture-inerrogation protocol, and get the facts.

[Hubert Flottz]

20. torture-inerrogation is for poor folks

so is the "Rule Of Law"

"Free and Equal" my ass!

[bobthedrummer]

23. kick

[dogday]

25. So they had The Government, The Money People, The

Raging Attorney, and one Swiss Miss.... Sounds like all you need.....