Believe It. Not!

[Octafish]

Cover art, Lies Of Our Times, April 1992, by Gary Trudeau.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I'm Shocked, I tell you. Just shocked...

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2. The Bush Family: A Continuing Criminal Enterprise?

Absolutely shocked, too, BrklynLiberal.

A bit of background from a thoughtful academic:

The Bush Family: A Continuing Criminal Enterprise?

Gary W. Potter, PhD.
Professor, Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University

EXCERPT...

Neil Bush: Taking Down Silverado

In 1990 federal bank regulators filed a $200 million lawsuit against the officers of Silverado Banking, including Neil Bush, brother of the current President. The lawsuit accused them of gross negligence which resulted in a loss of $1 billion by Silverado and the bank’s ultimate collapse (Los Angeles Times, 1990). According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: “Our conclusion is that Silverado was the victim of sophisticated schemes and abuses by insiders and of gross negligence by its directors and outside professionals” (Johnston, 1990). Neil Bush was reprimanded by the Office of Thrift Supervision for pervasive conflicts of interest while serving as a paid director of the bank Of particular concern was his role in a serious of loans totaling $132 million from the bank to two businessmen, Bill Walters and Kenneth Good (Los Angeles Times, 1990: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Walters and Good, after securing the loans from Silverado, lent Neil Bush $100,000 and later forgave the loan entirely. In addition, Walters and Good owned a company which paid $550,000 in salaries to Neil Bush (Los Angeles Times, 1990: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). In the end Walters and Good lost a total of $330 million loaned to them by Silverado. They also received instructions from a member of Silrverado’s board of directors on the establishment of family trusts to prevent the government from seizing the money they owed the bank (Kwitny, 1992: 32). The shutdown of Silverado was postponed from October to December 1988 so that it would happen after President Bush, Sr.’s election campaign had ended. Neil Bush had to pay only $50,000 to settle the federal lawsuit against him and he was able to avoid any legal costs because a senior banking industry lobbyist formed a legal defense fund to pay the legal costs (Fritz, 1992).

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Jeb Bush: Influence Peddling for a “Bust-Out” Scam

But, Neil Bush was not the only Bush brother involved in the Savings and Loan collapses. Jeb Bush’s, the current Governor of Florida, curious relationship with Miguel Recarey is another illustration. Recarey was a long-time business associate of Tampa organized crime figure Santos Trafficante. Recarey also fled the U.S. facing three separate indictments for labor racketeering, illegal wiretapping and Medicare fraud (Freedburg, 1988: A1). Recarey’s business, International Medical Centers, was the largest health maintenance organization for the elderly in the U.S. and had been supported from $1 billion in payments from the Medicare program. International Medical Centers went bankrupt in 1988 (Freedburg, 1988: A1; Royce and Shaw, 1988: 4). When International Medical Centers went under it left $222 million in unpaid bills and was under investigation for $100 million in Medicare fraud (Freedbrug, 1988: A1; Frisby, 1992: G1). The U.S. Office of Labor Racketeering in Miami referred to Recarey and his company as “the classic case of embezzlement of government funds ... “a bust-out operation” (Freedburg, 1988: A1)

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George Bush, Jr.: Insider Information, Oil, and Baseball

The present President Bush has also reaped significant benefits from some highly questionable business practices:

Bush sold $828,560 worth of Harken stock just one week before the company stock posted unusually poor quarterly earnings and Harken stock plunged sharply. Shares lost more than 60% of their value over 6 months. When Bush sold his shares, he was a member of a company committee studying the effect of Harken’s restructuring, a move to appease anxious creditors. According to documents on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, his position on the Harken committee gave Bush detailed knowledge of the company’s deteriorating financial condition. The SEC received word of Bush’s trade eight months late. Bush has said he filed the notice but that is was lost (Hedges, 1992: 57-59).

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Jonathan Bush: An Unregistered Broker

Jonathan Bush rounds out this discussion of brotherly financial chicanery. Jonathan was cited for carrying out stock transactions without registering in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. While he was settling the complaint against him he continued to violate Massachusetts securities laws. Neal Sullivan, who handles security trading issues for the Massachusetts Secretary of State expressed his concern: “That created great concern for us. We were dismayed ... Anyone who has been notified that he is violating state law and continues to do so certainly exemplifies a cavalier attitude toward the registration laws.” Jonathan Bush is a veteran stockbroker who, of course, knows about registration requirements. As Mr. Sullivan went on to comment: “Any time you have 880 transactions over several years, I wouldn’t characterize that as minor” (Phillips, 1991: 1).

Prescott Bush: The Yakuza’s Frontman

Finally, and perhaps most seriously, the Bush family pioneered the practice which has now become commonplace of collaboration between corporate and organized criminals. Prescott Bush, uncle of the current President and brother of the former President, played a key role in helping the Japanese Yakuza extend their financial and real estate holdings to the United States. In 1989, Prescott Bush made arrangements for a front company for Japanese organized crime groups to buy into two U.S. corporations and to make a sizeable real investment in the U.S. (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). West Tsusho, a Japanese corporation, was identified by Japanese police officials as a front company for one of that country’s largest organized crime syndicates. Prescott Bush was paid a fee of $500,000 for his help in negotiating West Tsusho’s purchase of controlling interest in Assets Management, a U.S. corporation (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Bush also assisted the Japanese mob in investing in Quantam Access, a U.S. software company, which was ultimately taken over by the Japanese (Helm, 1991b: 10; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Both companies ultimately went into bankruptcy (Isikoff, 1992: A1; Moses, 1992).

George Bush Sr.: Shutting Down the Organize Crime Strike Forces

Despite assessments from senior law enforcement officers and experts on organized crime that efforts to control organized crime would be crippled, in December 1989, the administration of George Bush, Sr. abolished all 14 regional organized crime strike forces (McAlister, 1989: A 21; Struck out, 1990). The organized crime strike had been created as independent entities so they would not be subject to political influences or bureaucratic wrangling within federal law enforcement. In the two decades of their operation the strike forces had secured convictions of major organized crime figures in several U.S. cities (Struck out, 1990). It is at the very least curious to note that the federal strike force in Miami had been responsible for indicting Miguel Recarey, the man for whom Jeb Bush had intervened with regulators. Organized crime strike forces had similarly indicted Mario Renda, the organized crime liaison to the S& L’s, as well as several other key figures in the Savings and Loan Fiasco (Pizzo, Fricker, and Mulolo, 1989: 112, 120-123, 303, 337).

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http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm

That's one brave professor, Brooksie. You, too. Thank you for caring, my Friend!

[BrklynLiberal]

3. i hope that somehow..someday..in the not too distant future, the truth about this evil dynasty

is revealed to the public and they are made to pay for they have done..

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7. no hope from obama. maybe in 2017. nt

[hootinholler]

4. Well, the Japaneese mob angle is new to me.

Not surprising really, just new.

-Hoot

[Octafish]

8. There’s at least a little Arbusto in the Yakuza

From what I've, eh, read, Prescott specializes in the BFEE’s offshore operations. In Japan, he’s buds with the Tokyo Mob. In China, his friends are the Communist dictators. On Wall Street, he prefers banks that let the clientele launder their money the old fashioned way.

The common bond? Besides cash, these folks are tyrannical. That’s the same government model they are working on bringing to America.

Yakuza in Business and Politics

EXCERPT…

There is another yakuza incident that hits closer to home. West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based real estate firm, bought two American companies with help from none other than Prescott Bush, Jr. – (then-)President Bush's elder brother....(W’s Unka Prescott)

West Tsusho is an arm of a company run by the Inagawa-kai's leader, Ishii Susumu. . . . Tsusho purchased Quantum Access, a Houston-based software firm, and Asset Management International Financing & Settlement, a New York City-based company. . . .

With the anti-yakuza countermeasure act in place, the future for the yakuza seems bleak, at least in Japan.

The North American expansion could do very well, as they channel nearly $10 billion into legitimate investments not only in the US, but in Europe as well.

SOURCE:

http://www.kycbs.net/YAKUZA.htm

Small world. And very, very bad.



Glad it's also filled with good people -
- very, very good people like you, hootinholler!

[hootinholler]

10. My dream is to one day be in the position of being a Bush Hunter

Similar to those who scoured South America hunting Nazis, who like Lil Bunny Foo Foo and mice, scoops 'em up and bops 'em on da head.

-Hoot

[HughBeaumont]

5. And one of those Bewshes BECAME a President.

Yep. Slooooooooooooooooow learners, we are. Just say NYET to legacy Presidents. NEVER put another Bewsh in the White House.

Legacy of President Bush helps son in campaign 2000

By Nick Hillyard
CyberCaucus 2000 News Service
Drake University

DES MOINES, Iowa -- When asked "Why do you support George W. Bush?," many supporters of the Republican presidential candidate will say how much they liked his father, President George Bush.

" is a brand name, and this is the age for marketing and brand names," said Myron Marty, Ann G. and Sigurd E. Anderson professor of history at Drake University. "Brand names today make people feel comfortable, they're predictable."

Arthur Sanders, associate professor of politics and international relations at Drake University, said, "People think his father was a decent president, so he will be."

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In both the Adams and Harrison families, some historians believe political parties used their families' names to make a viable candidate. "There is a thurst among Republicans for someone who has a chance to win," Sanders said.

Sanders said former President Bush has given his son quite a few advantages. "It's clearly given him credibility that he might have otherwise lacked. It's given him a long list of financial contributors, so he's successfully raised money from the start," Sanders said.

"You take your advantages and use them, that's what you do in a campaign. He's done a good job of that," Sanders said. "George W. Bush wouldn't have been elected governor of Texas if he wasn't the son of President Bush, he also wouldn't have the kind of lead or the money he has now. Sometimes governors of large states make good candidates, though."

More . . .

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9. Disinformation and Mass Deception: Democracy as a Cover Story

The only business mentioned by name in the U.S. Constitution is the "Free Press."



So, the BFEE bought up as much as they could and destroyed that which opposed them in order to help keep We the People dumbed down to the point where enough will believe their line of "Brand Bush" horsefeathers. The NAZIs had a name for it: The Big Lie.

Disinformation and Mass Deception: Democracy as a Cover Story

By William Preston, Jr. and Ellen Ray
Covert Action Information Bulletin
No. 19, Spring-Summer 1983

EXCERPT...

The Intelligence Era: Information Goes Underground

During the controversy surrounding publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, Leslie Gelb, in charge of producing that voluminous and revealing report for the New York Times, commented on the continuing Cold War dedication to the philosophy of Bernays. “Most of our elected and appointed leaders in the national security establishment,” he confirmed, “felt they had the right-and beyond that the obligation-to manipulate the American public in the national interest as they defined it.” The same notion in abbreviated form slipped out in an exchange between Defense Secretary McNamara’s press spokesman and a group of reporters in 1962: “It’s inherent in the government’s right, if necessary, to lie to save itself,” the aide argued.

The right to manipulate and the right to lie have had other post-war companions: the right to plausibly deny; the right to a cover story; the right to conceal; and the need to know, a standard of classification that created another right, that of privileged access, with its step-child, the right to selectively leak.

In analyzing the period since the atom bombs leveled the Japanese will to resist, it is as if the intelligence agencies had not yet heard that the war was over, and are still hiding in caves on some Washington atoll. Yet the patterns which have unfolded are a logical outcome of the wartime experience, beginning with the failure to reorganize, control, or totally dismantle the secret coercive machinery which was created for that war. Quite the contrary. Stopping international communism provided the rationale for the even broader mandate for world-wide conquest-the neocolonialism and imperialism of the new empire. And to help in those operations, the U.S. intelligence agencies had no qualms about enlisting the support of their former enemies-the Gehlen intelligence network of Nazi Germany.

Documents of some of the early proposals to set up the central intelligence unit-the present CIA-give a flavor of the crisis atmosphere with which they viewed the future struggle against the Soviet Union: “the task of detecting ... any developments which threaten the security of the world;” “to create a system in which every U. S. citizen who travels abroad . . . is a source of political intelligence;” “maintaining a constant check on foreign intelligence and propaganda, including propagandized U.S. citizens;” and “keep ... informed on political trends inside the U.S.... because state legislatures are peculiarly vulnerable to outside influences and would be a logical objective of foreign intelligence services. . . .” It is small wonder that the CIA’s fears became self-fulfilling prophesies.

Early CIA post-war victories over communism-such as the Italian elections of 1948, bought and paid for unwittingly by the American people-brought about unholy alliances as distasteful as those the intelligence agencies had made with the war criminals, dealings with the Mafia and the attendant corruption which comes with sharing a dirty secret with thugs.

Later the Korean War produced an equally important impact on the spy operatives’ own psychological outlook. Korea revived the atmosphere of total war, and created an “anything goes” philosophy directed against the “enemy.” It meant, as General Maxwell Taylor argued in 1961 with reference to Fidel Castro, there would be a policy of “no long-term living with ... dangerously effective exponents of communism and anti-Americanism.” Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Vietnam (1954-1973), Brazil (1962), Indonesia (1965), and Chile (1973) were among the targets of covert operations encouraged by this philosophy.

But the strangest outcome of all in this web of deceit and disinformation was its coming home to roost. The intelligence establishment actually began to eat its own vomit. False propaganda fed into foreign outlets came to be reported back to the U. S. and the government began to make policy decisions based on its own lies.

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http://covertaction.org//content/view/172/75/

Thank you for the great article. I am sooooooooo glad you are with the good guys, HughBeaumont. It is an honor to be your Friend.

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6. Prescott's Nazi partners unwittingly used American POWs

To dig tunnels into a mountain outside of Auschwitz for a new IG Farben synthetic fuel plant, thinking that they were Jews.

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11. How the Bush family made its fortune from the Nazis

John Loftus, Paul Manning and William Gowen are great men and brave patriots.

How the Bush family made its fortune from the Nazis

by Robert Lederman

Note: This article's author, John Loftus, is a former U.S.Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor, the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum and the highly respected author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret and The SecSecret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.

by Attorney John Loftus
The Dutch Connection

How a famous American family made its fortune from the Nazis For the Bush family, it is a lingering nightmare. For their Nazi clients, the Dutch connection was the mother of all money laundering schemes. From 1945 until 1949, one of the lengthiest and, it now appears, most futile interrogations of a Nazi war crimes suspect began in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. Multibillionaire steel magnate Fritz Thyssen-the man whose steel combine was the cold heart of the Nazi war machine-talked and talked and talked to a joint US-UK interrogation team. For four long years, successive teams of inquisitors tried to break Thyssen's simple claim to possess neither foreign bank accounts nor interests in foreign corporations, no assets that might lead to the missing billions in assets of the Third Reich. The inquisitors failed utterly. Why? Because what the wily Thyssen deposed was, in a sense, true. What the Allied investigators never understood was that they were not asking Thyssen the right question. Thyssen did not need any foreign bank accounts because his family secretly owned an entire chain of banks. He did not have to transfer his Nazi assets at the end of World War II, all he had to do was transfer the ownership documents - stocks, bonds, deeds and trusts--from his bank in Berlin through his bank in Holland to his American friends in New York City: Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker. Thyssen's partners in crime were the father and father-in-law of a future President of the United States.

The allied investigators underestimated Thyssen's reach, his connections, his motives, and his means. The web of financial entities Thyssen helped create in the 1920's remained a mystery for the rest of the twentieth century, an almost perfectly hidden underground sewer pipeline for moving dirty money, money that bankrolled the post-war fortunes not only of the Thyssen industrial empire...but the Bush family as well. It was a secret Fritz Thyssen would take to his grave.

It was a secret that would lead former US intelligence agent William Gowen, now pushing 80, to the very doorstep of the Dutch royal family. The Gowens are no strangers to controversy or nobility. His father was one of President Roosevelt's diplomatic emissaries to Pope Pius XII, leading a futile attempt to persuade the Vatican to denounce Hitler's treatment of Jews. It was his son, William Gowen, who served in Rome after World War II as a Nazi hunter and investigator with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. It was Agent Gowen who first discovered the secret Vatican Ratline for smuggling Nazis in 1949. It was also the same William Gowen who began to uncover the secret Dutch pipeline for smuggling Nazi money in 1999. A half-century earlier, Fritz Thyssen was telling the allied investigators that he had no interest in foreign companies, that Hitler had turned on him and seized most of his property. His remaining assets were mostly in the Russian Occupied Zone of Germany (which he knew were a write-off anyway).

His distant (and disliked) relatives in neutral nations like Holland were the actual owners of a substantial percentage of the remaining German industrial base. As innocent victims of the Third Reich, they were lobbying the allied occupation governments in Germany, demanding restitution of the property that had been seized from them by the Nazis. Under the rules of the Allied occupation of Germany, all property owned by citizens of a neutral nation which had been seized by the Nazis had to be returned to the neutral citizens upon proper presentation of documents showing proof of ownership. Suddenly, all sorts of neutral parties, particularly in Holland, were claiming ownership of various pieces of the Thyssen empire. In his cell, Fritz Thyssen just smiled and waited to be released from prison while members of the Dutch royal family and the Dutch intelligence service reassembled his pre-war holdings for him.

The British and American interrogators may have gravely underestimated Thyssen but they nonetheless knew they were being lied to. Their suspicions focused on one Dutch Bank in particular, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, in Rotterdam. This bank did a lot of business with the Thyssens over the years. In 1923, as a favor to him, the Rotterdam bank loaned the money to build the very first Nazi party headquarters in Munich. But somehow the allied investigations kept going nowhere, the intelligence leads all seemed to dry up.

If the investigators realized that the US intelligence chief in postwar Germany, Allen Dulles, was also the Rotterdam bank's lawyer, they might have asked some very interesting questions. They did not know that Thyssen was Dulles' client as well. Nor did they ever realize that it was Allen Dulles's other client, Baron Kurt Von Schroeder who was the Nazi trustee for the Thyssen companies which now claimed to be owned by the Dutch. The Rotterdam Bank was at the heart of Dulles' cloaking scheme, and he guarded its secrets jealously.

Several decades after the war, investigative reporter Paul Manning, Edward R. Murrow's colleague, stumbled across the Thyssen interrogations in the US National Archives. Manning intended to write a book about Nazi money laundering. Manning's manuscript was a dagger at Allen Dulles' throat: his book specifically mentioned the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart by name, albeit in passing. Dulles volunteered to help the unsuspecting Manning with his manuscript, and sent him on a wild goose chase, searching for Martin Bormann in South America. Without knowing that he had been deliberately sidetracked, Manning wrote a forward to his book personally thanking Allen Dulles for his "assurance that I was "on the right track, and should keep going.'"Dulles sent Manning and his manuscript off into the swamps of obscurity. The same "search for Martin Bormann"scam was also used to successfully discredit Ladislas Farago, another American journalist probing too far into the laundering of Nazi money. American investigators had to be sent anywhere but Holland. And so the Dutch connection remained unexplored until 1994 when I published the book "The Secret War Against the Jews." As a matter of historical curiosity, I mentioned that Fritz Thyssen (and indirectly, the Nazi Party) had obtained their early financing from Brown Brothers Harriman, and its affiliate, the Union Banking Corporation. Union Bank, in turn, was the Bush family's holding company for a number of other entities, including the "Holland American Trading Company."

It was a matter of public record that the Bush holdings were seized by the US government after the Nazis overran Holland. In 1951, the Bush's reclaimed Union Bank from the US Alien Property Custodian, along with their "neutral"> Dutch assets. I did not realize it, but I had stumbled across a very large piece of the missing Dutch connection. Bush's ownership of the Holland-American investment company was the missing link to Manning's earlier research in the Thyssen investigative files. In 1981, Manning had written: "Thyssen's first step in a long dance of tax and currency frauds began (in the late 1930's) when he disposed of his shares in the Dutch Hollandische-Amerikanische Investment Corporation to be credited to the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, N.V., Rotterdam, the bank founded in 1916 by August Thyssen Senior."

In this one obscure paragraph, in a little known book, Manning had unwittingly documented two intriguing points: 1) The Bush's Union Bank had apparently bought the same corporate stock that the Thyssens were selling as part of their Nazi money laundering, and 2) the Rotterdam Bank, far from hindsight, Manning and I had uncovered different ends of the Dutch connection. After reading the excerpt in my book about the Bush's ownership of the Holland-American trading Company, retired US intelligence agent William Gowen began to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Mr. Gowen knew every c orner of Europe from his days as a diplomat's son, an American intelligence agent, and a newspaperman. William Gowen deserves sole credit for uncovering the mystery of how the Nazi industrialists hid their money from the Allies at the end of World War II.

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http://www.john-loftus.com/Thyssen.asp#fortune

One of my best Republican friends piloted B-24s during the war. On his last bombing mission, his plane was hit by flak and started to go down. He managed to keep the plane aloft long enough for every man to bail out -- including one wounded crewman, whom the crew put into a parachute and tossed out through the open bomb bay. My buddy was last off the ship. He spent the remaining year of the war posing as a Christian, because he is Jewish.

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12. All you had to do was look Jewish:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/books/review/01REICHL.html

--snip--

In August 1944, as German fuel-production plants were being destroyed by Allied bombs, the Nazis began a crash program to create bombproof facilities for the production of synthetic fuel. One of these was to be located in Berga, in eastern Germany. The plan was to tunnel into the solid rock of a hillside near the town and, once deep inside, create a vast chamber in which fuel could be produced.

To do this, the SS transferred inmates from the Buchenwald concentration camp to Berga. But many of them were too weak to perform the strenuous work required. So eventually the SS also decided to ship in able-bodied American P.O.W.'s captured in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge.

But not just any American P.O.W.'s. The SS was given a quota of 350, which it tried to fill first of all with Jews. After identifying all the Jewish G.I.'s it could -- about 80 -- it filled the rest of the quota with G.I.'s who looked Jewish, or had Jewish-sounding names or were simply troublemakers. Some of the Americans were no doubt included for utterly arbitrary reasons. In any case, a great majority of P.O.W.'s sent to Berga weren't Jews.

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[formercia]

13. Think of this next time Junior speaks about 'clean coal' technology.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5382/is_/ai_n21420885

Thyssen Shcachtbau GMBH fined in fatal Virginia coal mining accident

The U.S. Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has levied a $300K civil penalty against Thyssen Schachtbau GMBH for multiple violations of federal mine safety regulations that led to the death of a worker at a Virginia coal mine. A shuttle car operator was injured and later died after large portions of the mine roof collapsed. Thyssen Schachtbau GMBH, headquartered in Muelheim Nordrhein, Germany, and owner of the Mine #4 in Dewey, Va., was assessed the penalty - the highest levied by MSHA for a mining accident in more than two years - for seven violations of mine safety regulations.

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http://www.john-loftus.com/Thyssen.asp



On February 8, 1951, Fritz Thyssen died bitterly in Argentina at the age of 78. Thyssen was angry at the way he was treated by Europe after the war and how history would remember him as Hitler's most important and prominent financier. When Thyssen died, the Alien Property Custodian released the assets of the Union Banking Corporation to Brown Brothers Harriman. The remaining stockholders cashed in their stocks and quietly liquidated the rest of UBC's blood money.

Prescott Bush received $1.5 million for his share in UBC. That money enabled Bush to help his son, George Herbert Walker Bush, to set up his first royalty firm, Overby Development Company, that same year. It was also helpful when Prescott Bush left the business world to enter the public arena in 1952 with a successful senatorial campaign in Connecticut. On October 8th, 1972, Prescott Bush died of cancer and his will was enacted soon after. In 1980, when George H.W. Bush was elected vice president, he placed his father's family inherence in a blind trust. The trust was managed by his old friend and quail hunting partner, William "Stamps" Farish III. Bush's choice of Farish to manage the family wealth is quite revealing in that it demonstrates that the former president might know exactly where some of his inheritance originated. Farish's grandfather, William Farish Jr., on March 25th, 1942, pleaded "no contest" to conspiring with Nazi Germany while president of Standard Oil in New Jersey. He was described by Senator Harry Truman in public of approaching "treason" for profiting off the Nazi war machine. Standard Oil, invested millions in IG Farben, who opened a gasoline factory within Auschwitz in 1940.

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That synthetic fuel was made with Thyssen coal.

[Hotler]

14. Kicking!