ring of power

[ericg]

by amenstop productions

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=1969
www.preferrednetwork.com

check it out.

[Bob]

why exactly

[Schmeltz]

Because pseudoscientists and quasihistorians also merit consideration as valid sources of factual information. They deserve to be heard!

Oh no wait, they don't and never will.

[ericg]

www.secretspacedvd.com

[Schmeltz]

A ha ha ha David Icke and his shape-shifting alien lizard men! (y)

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4yKEK9o8gA

[ericg]

This was sent in a bulletin via myspace.

These days it seems like everyone's always trying to be famous, so it's interesting how hard the most powerful people in the world have worked to keep their power a secret. Of course they have a damn good reason: if everyone knew who they were and what they were doing, they would be torn down immediately. Fortunately for them, they have mastered social control by dominating our media and educational systems, so keeping people in the dark has hardly been challenging. Based on my research, they have infiltrated every section of society: economic, social, political, and criminal.

Economic:
The fed reserve is their own private bank, allowing them to run our economy by controlling currency and interest rates. Also, by illegally creating the federal income tax, the IRS, they have been stealing our money for almost 100 years.

Social:
through ownership as well as the sheer power of money, they control the media and dept. of education, allowing them to dicate public opinion and manipulate the fuck out of us (eg, war on terror= total hoax to go steal oil and curtail individual rights)

Political:
They essentially choose who will be the lead contenders, cabinet appointeees, etc... Anyone who's payed any attention whatsoever to our "democracy" knows that it's no longer representative of the people. This is why.

Criminal:
The bankers have long worked closely with the mafia and other criminal elements of society. All that heroin and weed and coke pouring into our country is no accident- the powers that be are making a huge profit off of it while at the same time keeping us in a confused daze.

Why isn't the CFR in the History Books?

Hardly one person in 1000 ever heard of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

The Council on Foreign Relations was formally established in Paris in 1919 along with its British Counterpart the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The Council on Foreign Relations and Royal Institute of International Affairs can trace their roots back to a secret organization founded and funded by Cecil Rhodes, who became fabulously wealthy by exploiting the people of South Africa. Rhodes is the father of Apartheid.

The Council on Foreign Relations was founded by a group of American and British imperialists and racists intent on ruling the world. Many of the American members were American intelligence officers that belonged to the first American Intelligence Agency -- THE INQUIRY. Many of the British members were British Intelligence Agents. THE INQUIRY and its members, who included such notable Americans as Col. Edward Mandel House, Walter Lippmann, Isaiah Bowman, and James Shotwell, wrote most of Woodrow Wilson's 14 points.

The CFR/RIIA method of operation is simple -- they control public opinion. They keep the identity of their group secret. They learn the likes and dislikes of influential people. They surround and manipulate them into acting in the best interest of the CFR/RIIA.

The Council on Foreign Relations, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs are adept at using the media to create massive psycho-political operations used to manipulate public opinion. The psycho-political operations are often designed to create tensions between different groups of people. The object is to keep the world in a state of perpetual tension and warfare to maximize profits from CFR/RIIA munition, medicine, media, energy, and food businesses.

The CFR has only 3000 members yet they control over three-quarters of the nations wealth. The CFR runs the State Department and the CIA. The CFR has placed 100 CFR members in every Presidential Administration since Woodrow Wilson. They work together to misinform and disinform the President to act in the best interest of the CFR not the best interest of the American People. At least five Presidents (Eisenhower, Ford, Carter, Bush, and Clinton) have been members of the CFR. The CFR has packed every Supreme court with CFR insiders. Three CFR members (Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Sandra Day O'Connor) sit on the supreme court. The CFR's British Counterpart is the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The members of these groups profit by creating tension and hate. Their targets include British and American citizens.

The 100 CFR members that surround the president are "the Secret Team." The "Secret Team" help carry out psycho-political operations scripted by CFR members in the state department and the Intelligence Organizations. The psycho-political operations are coordinated by a group of Council on Foreign Relations members called the Special Group. The Special Group evolved from the Psychological Strategy Board.

President Truman issued an executive order establishing the Psychological Strategy Board. The Board was run by CFR members Gordon Gray and Henry Kissinger. The PSB has close ties to the State Department and Intelligence Organizations. The purpose of the PSB was to co-ordinate psycho-political operations. Many of those operations were focused at Americans. The people became wary of the Psychological Strategy Board. Eisenhower issued an executive order changing its name to the Operations Coordination Board. The OCB was a bigger more powerful PSB. Gray and Kissinger ran the OCB too. President Kennedy abolished the OCB. It became an ad hoc committee called the "Special Group," which exists today. The PSB/OCB/Special Group always has CFR members running and sitting on it. Since the Special Group was not formed by Executive Order it cannot be abolished.


If you want to learn about the CFR, I recommend these two books:

1. How the world REALLY works, by Alan Jones
2. Shadows of Power, by James Perloff

tell your friends,
:P

ps. A while back I posted that extremely long list of people that have mysteriously died after various connections to the Bush family. Well here now is the Clinton's list. Hell, if you control the media and have a vast supply of criminals at your disposal, why not kill off all challengers?

Just a quick refresher course lest we forget what
has happened to many "friends" of the Clintons


1-James McDougal - Clinton 's convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation.



2 -Mary Mahoney - A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown . The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House.



3- Vince Foster - Former White House counselor and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock 's Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide.



4- Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the air Traffic controller committed suicide.



5- C. Victor Raiser II- Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992



6-Paul Tulley - Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock , September 1992. Described by Clinton as a "Dear friend and trusted advisor".



7-Ed Willey - Clinton fund raiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.



8-Jerry Parks -Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock . Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock . Park's son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton . He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.



9-James Bunch - Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a "Black Book" of people which contained names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas



10-James Wilson - Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater.



11-Kathy Ferguson- Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.



12-Bill Shelton - Arkansas State Trooper and fiance of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiance, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiance.



13-Gandy Baugh - Attorney for Clinton 's friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug distributor.



14-Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. He died of three gunshot wounds.



15- Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.



16-Paula Grober - Clinton 's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident.



17-Danny Casolaro - Investigative reporter. Investigating Mena Airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of his investigation.



18- Paul Wilcher - Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993 in his Washington DC apartment. Had delivered a report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.



19-Jon Parnell Walker - Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington , Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993. He was investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal.



20-Barbara Wise - Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.



21-Charles Meissner -Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash.



22-Dr. Stanley Heard - Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton 's advisory council personally treated Clinton 's mother, stepfather and brother.



23-Barry Seal -Drug running pilot out of Mena Arkansas , death was no accident.



24-Johnny Lawhorn Jr. - Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found dead after his car had hit a utility pole.
25-Stanley Huggins - Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a purported suicide and his report was never released.



26- Hershell Friday - Attorney and Clinton fund raiser died March 1, 1994 when his plane exploded.



27-Kevin Ives & Don Henry - Known as "The boys on the track" case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport drug operation. A controversial case, the initial report of death said, due to falling asleep on railroad tracks. Later reports claim the 2 boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.



THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:



28-Keith Coney - Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck, 7/88.



29-Keith McMaskle - Died stabbed 113 times, Nov, 1988



30-Gregory Collins - Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.



31-Jeff Rhodes - He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989.



33-James Milan - Found decapitated. However, the Coroner ruled his death was due to "natural causes".



34-Jordan Kettleson - Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.



35-Richard Winters - A suspect in the Ives / Henry deaths. He was killed in a set-up robbery July 1989.



THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD:



36 -Major William S. Barkley Jr.



37-Captain Scott J . Reynolds



38-Sgt. Brian Hanley



39-Sgt. Tim Sabel



40-Major General William Robertson



41-Col. William Densberger



42-Col. Robert Kelly



43-Spec. Gary Rhodes



44-Steve Willis



45-Robert Williams



46-Conway LeBleu



47-Todd McKeehan

[Bob]

ok, so far we've had

1: "click these two links, i don't think i need to explain them at all"

2: *link*

3: *link*

4: a bunch of shit that's not immediately clear how it's relevant and i'm definitely not going to read

why don't you just tell us what this post is about eric? in like a sentence or two

[ericg]

www.freedomtofascism.com - rip aaron russo.

[ericg]

It is getting quite difficult to imagine a world without mobile communications. Wireless internet access is set to blanket the planet, just like cell phone networks already do. There has been an explosive development - practically all during the last three decades - that brought mobile to the farthest corners of the earth. But the technology is not without danger. The microwaves that carry bits and packets of data also carry a germ of destruction. Some people - as many as 120,000 Californians - and by implication 1 million Americans - are actually unable to work as they suffer from the incapacitating influence that this cacophony in the ether has on them.

We might say they are the unlucky ones who have to suffer for progress to continue - but have you ever heard of canaries in the mines? They were the first ones to die when a potentially deadly but otherwise undetectable accumulation of "mine gas" threatened the lives of the miners working underground. What if those 120.000 Californians and the one million Americans and by extension tens of millions of people world wide are in a very real sense our equivalent of deep-mine canaries? Are we not ignoring their plight at our own very imminent peril?

Arthur Firstenberg, himself a sufferer of what the Russians call "microwave sickness" has put together the salient facts about the largest biological experiment ever, in a very readable article published in the Eldorado Sun.

We cannot call ourselves informed in the wireless debate unless we start looking at its dark side as well as all the positive aspects. Firstenberg's article is as good as any to get us going in this direction ...


The Largest Biological Experiment Ever
by Arthur Firstenberg
(original in Eldorado Sun)

In 2002, Gro Harlem Brundtland, then head of the World Health Organization, told a Norwegian journalist that cell phones were banned from her office in Geneva because she personally becomes ill if a cell phone is brought within about four meters (13 feet) of her. Mrs. Brundtland is a medical doctor and former Prime Minister of Norway. This sensational news, published March 9, 2002 in Dagbladet, was ignored by every other newspaper in the world. The following week Michael Repacholi, her subordinate in charge of the International EMF (electromagnetic field) Project, responded with a public statement belittling his boss’s concerns. Five months later, for reasons that many suspect were related to these circumstances, Mrs. Brundtland announced she would step down from her leadership post at the WHO after just one term.


Nothing could better illustrate our collective schizophrenia when it comes to thinking about electromagnetic radiation. We respond to those who are worried about its dangers — hence the International EMF Project — but we ignore and marginalize those, like Mrs. Brundtland, who have already succumbed to its effects.

As a consultant on the health effects of wireless technology, I receive calls that can be broadly divided into two main groups: those from people who are merely worried, whom I will call A, and those from people who are already sick, whom I will call B. I sometimes wish I could arrange a large conference call and have the two groups talk to each other — there needs to be more mutual understanding so that we are all trying to solve the same problems. Caller A, worried, commonly asks what kind of shield to buy for his cell phone or what kind of headset to wear with it. Sometimes he wants to know what is a safe distance to live from a cell tower. Caller B, sick, wants to know what kind of shielding to put on her house, what kind of medical treatment to get, or, increasingly often, what part of the country she could move to to escape the radiation to save her life.

The following is designed as a sort of a primer: first, to help everybody get more or less on the same page, and second, to clear up some of the confusions so that we can make rational decisions toward a healthier world.

Fundamentals

The most basic fact about cell phones and cell towers is that they emit microwave radiation; so do Wi-Fi (wireless Internet) antennas, wireless computers, cordless (portable) phones and their base units, and all other wireless devices. If it’s a communication device and it’s not attached to the wall by a wire, it’s emitting radiation. Most Wi-Fi systems and some cordless phones operate at the exact same frequency as a microwave oven, while other devices use a different frequency. Wi-Fi is always on and always radiating. The base units of most cordless phones are always radiating, even when no one is using the phone. A cell phone that is on but not in use is also radiating. And, needless to say, cell towers are always radiating.

Why is this a problem, you might ask? Scientists usually divide the electromagnetic spectrum into “ionizing” and “non-ionizing.” Ionizing radiation, which includes x-rays and atomic radiation, causes cancer. Non-ionizing radiation, which includes microwave radiation, is supposed to be safe. This distinction always reminded me of the propaganda in George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “Four legs good, two legs bad.” “Non-ionizing good, ionizing bad” is as little to be trusted.

An astronomer once quipped that if Neil Armstrong had taken a cell phone to the Moon in 1969, it would have appeared to be the third most powerful source of microwave radiation in the universe, next only to the Sun and the Milky Way. He was right. Life evolved with negligible levels of microwave radiation. An increasing number of scientists speculate that our own cells, in fact, use the microwave spectrum to communicate with one another, like children whispering in the dark, and that cell phones, like jackhammers, interfere with their signaling. In any case, it is a fact that we are all being bombarded, day in and day out, whether we use a cell phone or not, by an amount of microwave radiation that is some ten million times as strong as the average natural background. And it is also a fact that most of this radiation is due to technology that has been developed since the 1970s.

As far as cell phones themselves are concerned, if you put one up to your head you are damaging your brain in a number of different ways. First, think of a microwave oven. A cell phone, like a microwave oven and unlike a hot shower, heats you from the inside out, not from the outside in. And there are no sensory nerve endings in the brain to warn you of a rise in temperature because we did not evolve with microwave radiation, and this never happens in nature. Worse, the structure of the head and brain is so complex and non-uniform that “hot spots” are produced, where heating can be tens or hundreds of times what it is nearby. Hot spots can occur both close to the surface of the skull and deep within the brain, and also on a molecular level.

Cell phones are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission, and you can find, in the packaging of most new phones, a number called the Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR, which is supposed to indicate the rate at which energy is absorbed by the brain from that particular model. One problem, however, is the arbitrary assumption, upon which the FCC’s regulations are based, that the brain can safely dissipate added heat at a rate of up to 1 degree C per hour. Compounding this is the scandalous procedure used to demonstrate compliance with these limits and give each cell phone its SAR rating. The standard way to measure SAR is on a “phantom” consisting, incredibly, of a homogenous fluid encased in Plexiglas in the shape of a head. Presto, no hot spots! But in reality, people who use cell phones for hours per day are chronically heating places in their brain. The FCC’s safety standard, by the way, was developed by electrical engineers, not doctors.


The Blood-Brain Barrier

The second effect that I want to focus on, which has been proven in the laboratory, should by itself have been enough to shut down this industry and should be enough to scare away anyone from ever using a cell phone again. I call it the “smoking gun” of cell phone experiments. Like most biological effects of microwave radiation, this has nothing to do with heating.

The brain is protected by tight junctions between adjacent cells of capillary walls, the so-called blood-brain barrier, which, like a border patrol, lets nutrients pass through from the blood to the brain, but keeps toxic substances out. Since 1988, researchers in the laboratory of a Swedish neurosurgeon, Leif Salford, have been running variations on this simple experiment: they expose young laboratory rats to either a cell phone or other source of microwave radiation, and later they sacrifice the animals and look for albumin in their brain tissue. Albumin is a protein that is a normal component of blood but that does not normally cross the blood-brain barrier. The presence of albumin in brain tissue is always a sign that blood vessels have been damaged and that the brain has lost some of its protection.

Here is what these researchers have found, consistently for 18 years: Microwave radiation, at doses equal to a cell phone’s emissions, causes albumin to be found in brain tissue. A one-time exposure to an ordinary cell phone for just two minutes causes albumin to leak into the brain. In one set of experiments, reducing the exposure level by a factor of 1,000 actually increased the damage to the blood-brain barrier, showing that this is not a dose-response effect and that reducing the power will not make wireless technology safer. And finally, in research published in June 2003, a single two-hour exposure to a cell phone, just once during its lifetime, permanently damaged the blood-brain barrier and, on autopsy 50 days later, was found to have damaged or destroyed up to 2 percent of an animal’s brain cells, including cells in areas of the brain concerned with learning, memory and movement.1 Reducing the exposure level by a factor of 10 or 100, thereby duplicating the effect of wearing a headset, moving a cell phone further from your body, or standing next to somebody else’s phone, did not appreciably change the results! Even at the lowest exposure, half the animals had a moderate to high number of damaged neurons.

The implications for us? Two minutes on a cell phone disrupts the blood-brain barrier, two hours on a cell phone causes permanent brain damage, and secondhand radiation may be almost as bad. The blood-brain barrier is the same in a rat and a human being.

These results caused enough of a commotion in Europe that in November 2003 a conference was held, sponsored by the European Union, titled “The Blood-Brain Barrier — Can It Be Influenced by RF [radio frequency]-Field Interactions?” as if to reassure the public: “See, we are doing something about this.” But, predictably, nothing was done about it, as nothing has been done about it for 30 years.

America’s Allan Frey, during the 1970s, was the first of many to demonstrate that low-level microwave radiation damages the blood-brain barrier.2 Similar mechanisms protect the eye (the blood-vitreous barrier) and the fetus (the placental barrier), and the work of Frey and others indicates that microwave radiation damages those barriers also.3 The implication:
No pregnant woman should ever be using a cell phone.

Dr. Salford is quite outspoken about his work. He has called the use of handheld
cell phones “the largest human biological experiment ever.” And he has publicly warned that a whole generation of cell-phone-using teenagers may suffer from mental deficits or Alzheimer’s disease by the time they reach middle age.


Radio-Wave Sickness

Unfortunately, cell phone users are not the only ones being injured, nor should we be worried only about the brain. The following brief summary is distilled from a vast scientific literature on the effects of radio waves (a larger spectrum which includes microwaves), together with the experiences of scientists and doctors all over the world with whom I am in contact.

Organs that have been shown to be especially susceptible to radio waves include the lungs, nervous system, heart, eyes, testes and thyroid gland. Diseases that have increased remarkably in the last couple of decades, and that there is good reason to connect with the massive increase in radiation in our environment, include asthma, sleep disorders, anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorder, autism, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, cataracts, hypothyroidism, diabetes, malignant melanoma, testicular cancer, and heart attacks and strokes in young people. Radiation from microwave towers has also been associated with forest die-off, reproductive failure and population decline in many species of birds, and ill health and birth deformities in farm animals. The literature showing biological effects of microwave radiation is truly enormous, running to tens of thousands of documents, and I am amazed that industry spokespersons are getting away with saying that wireless technology has been proved safe or — just as ridiculous — that there is no evidence of harm.

I have omitted one disease from the above list: the illness that Caller B has, and that I have. A short history is in order here. In the 1950s and 1960s workers who built, tested and repaired radar equipment came down with this disease in large numbers. So did operators of industrial microwave heaters and sealers. The Soviets named it, appropriately, radio wave sickness, and studied it extensively. In the West its existence was denied totally, but workers came down with it anyway. Witness congressional hearings held in 1981, chaired by then Representative Al Gore, on the health effects of radio-frequency heaters and sealers, another episode in “See, we are doing something about this,” while nothing is done.

Today, with the mass proliferation of radio towers and personal transmitters, the disease has spread like a plague into the general population. Estimates of its prevalence range up to one-third of the population, but it is rarely recognized for what it is until it has so disabled a person that he or she can no longer participate in society. You may recognize some of its common symptoms: insomnia, dizziness, nausea, headaches, fatigue, memory loss, inability to concentrate, depression, chest discomfort, ringing in the ears. Patients may also develop medical problems such as chronic respiratory infections, heart arrhythmias, sudden fluctuations in blood pressure, uncontrolled blood sugar, dehydration, and even seizures and internal bleeding.

What makes this disease so difficult to accept, and even more difficult to cope with, is that no treatment is likely to succeed unless one can also avoid exposure to its cause — and its cause is now everywhere. A 1998 survey by the California Department of Health Services indicated that at that time 120,000 Californians — and by implication 1 million Americans — were unable to work due to electromagnetic pollution.4 The ranks of these so-called electrically sensitive are swelling in almost every country in the world, marginalized, stigmatized and ignored. With the level of radiation everywhere today, they almost never recover and sometimes take their own lives.

“They are acting as a warning for all of us,” says Dr. Olle Johansson of people with this illness. “It could be a major mistake to subject the entire world’s population to whole-body irradiation, 24 hours a day.” A neuroscientist at the famous Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Dr. Johansson heads a research team that is documenting a significant and permanent worsening of the public health that began precisely when the second-generation, 1800 MHz cell phones were introduced into Sweden in late l997.5,6 After a decade-long decline, the number of Swedish workers on sick leave began to rise in late 1997 and more than doubled during the next five years. During the same period of time, sales of antidepressant drugs also doubled. The number of traffic accidents, after declining for years, began to climb again in 1997. The number of deaths from Alzheimer’s disease, after declining for several years, rose sharply in 1999 and had nearly doubled by 2001. This two-year delay is understandable when one considers that Alzheimer’s disease requires some time to develop.


Uncontrolled Proliferation

If cell phones and cell towers are really deadly, have the radio and TV towers that we have been living with for a century been safe? In 2002 Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson coauthored a paper titled “Cancer Trends During the 20th Century,” which examined one aspect of that question.7 They found, in the United States, Sweden and dozens of other countries, that mortality rates for skin melanoma and for bladder, prostate, colon, breast and lung cancers closely paralleled the degree of public exposure to radio waves during the past hundred years. When radio broadcasting increased in a given location, so did those forms of cancer; when it decreased, so did those forms of cancer. And, a sensational finding: country by country — and county by county in Sweden — they found, statistically, that exposure to radio waves appears to be as big a factor in causing lung cancer as cigarette smoking!

Which brings me to address a widespread misconception. The biggest difference between the cell towers of today and the radio towers of the past is not their safety, but their numbers. The number of ordinary radio stations in the United States today is still less than 14,000. But cell towers and Wi-Fi towers number in the hundreds of thousands, and cell phones, wireless computers, cordless telephones and two-way radios number in the hundreds of millions. Radar facilities and emergency communication networks are also proliferating out of control. Since 1978, when the Environmental Protection Agency last surveyed the radio frequency environment in the United States, the average urban dweller’s exposure to radio waves has increased 1,000-fold, most of this increase occurring in just the last nine years.8 In the same period of time, radio pollution has spread from the cities to rest like a ubiquitous fog over the entire planet.

The vast human consequences of all this are being ignored. Since the late 1990s a whole new class of environmental refugees has been created right here in the United States. We have more and more people, sick, dying, seeking relief from our suffering, leaving our homes and our livelihoods, living in cars, trailers and tents in remote places. Unlike victims of hurricanes and earthquakes, we are not the subject of any relief efforts. No one is donating money to help us, to buy us a protected refuge; no one is volunteering to forego their cell phones, their wireless computers and their cordless phones so that we can once more be their neighbors and live among them.

The worried and the sick have not yet opened their hearts to each other, but they are asking questions. To answer caller A: No shield or headset will protect you from your cell or portable phone. There is no safe distance from a cell tower. If your cell phone or your wireless computer works where you live, you are being irradiated 24 hours a day.

To caller B: To effectively shield a house is difficult and rarely successful. There are only a few doctors in the United States attempting to treat radio wave sickness, and their success rate is poor — because there are few places left on Earth where one can go to escape this radiation and recover.

Yes, radiation comes down from satellites, too; they are part of the problem, not the solution. There is simply no way to make wireless technology safe.

Our society has become both socially and economically dependent, in just one short decade, upon a technology that is doing tremendous damage to the fabric of our world. The more entrenched we let ourselves become in it, the more difficult it will become to change our course. The time to extricate ourselves, both individually and collectively — difficult though it is already is — is now.


NOTES

1. Leif G. Salford et al., “Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain After Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones,” Environmental Health Perspectives 111, no. 7 (2003): 881–883.

2. Allan H. Frey, Sondra R. Feld and Barbara Frey, “Neural Function and Behavior,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 247 (1975): 433–439.

3. Allan H. Frey, “Evolution and Results
of Biological Research with Low-Intensity Nonionizing Radiation,” in Modern Bioelectricity, ed. Andrew A. Marino (New York: Dekker, 1988), 785–837, at 809–810.

4. California EMF Program, The Risk Evaluation: An Evaluation of the Possible Risks From Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMFs) From Power Lines, Internal Wiring, Electrical Occupations and Appliances (2002), app. 3.

5. Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, “1997 — A Curious Year in Sweden,” European Journal of Cancer Prevention 13, no. 6 (2004): 535–538.

6. Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, “Does GSM 1800 MHz Affect the Public Health in Sweden?” in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop “Biological Effects of EMFs,” Kos, Greece, October 4-8, 2004, 361–364.

7. Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, “Cancer Trends During the 20th Century,”
Journal of Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine 21, no. 1 (2002): 3–8.

8. David E. Janes Jr., “Radiofrequency Environments in the United States,” in 15th IEEE Conference on Communication, Boston, MA, June 10–14, 1979, vol. 2, 31.4.1–31.4.5.


knew more than a decade ago...

In the spring of 1993 at the height of public concern over cell phone-brain tumor risks, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) biologists concluded that the
available data "strongly suggest" that microwaves can "accelerate the development of cancer." This assessment is in an internal agency memo recently obtained by Microwave News under the Freedom of Information Act.

"Of approximately eight chronic animal experiments known to us, five resulted in increased numbers of malignancies, accelerated progression of tumors, or
both," wrote Drs. Mays Swicord and Larry Cress of FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) in Rockville, MD. They also pointed to other evidence from laboratory (in vitro) studies that supported a cancer risk.

Yet, in its public statements at that time, the agency played down these findings. For instance, in a Talk Paper issued in early February, the FDA stated that there was "limited evidence that suggests that lower levels [of microwaves] might cause adverse health effects."

"A few studies suggest that [microwave] levels [from cellular phones] can accelerate the development of cancer in laboratory animals," the FDA added, "but there is much uncertainty among scientists about whether these results apply to the use of cellular
phones."

.... the story continues:


But in a letter submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives four years later during May 1997, the FDA stated "Little is known about the possible health effects of repeated or long-term exposure to low levels of radiofrequency radiation (RFR) of the types emitted by wireless communications devices."

And again in February, 2000, the FDA issued a Nomination reiterating their position, stating "There is currently insufficient scientific basis for concluding either that wireless communication technologies are safe or that they pose a risk to millions of users. A significant research effort, involving large well-planned animal experiments is needed to provide the basis to assess the risk to human health of wireless communications devices."

Dr. Swicord joined Motorola after leaving the FDA and is also the Chief Editor on the editorial staff of BEMS (BioElectro-Magnetics Society).

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See related:

Swimming In A Deadly Sea: Awash In Radiation
Part One

Although most of us are unaware of it, we are literally swimming in sea of radiation. Some of it is natural, like the cosmic rays that bombard our planet from space, trace amounts from elements that occur naturally in the ground, and even microwave radiation from sunspots and solar flares. But increasingly, the radiation we are subjected to comes from man-made sources, ranging from medical X-rays to leakage from appliances to cell phones. While much has been written about man-made radiation, most of us have little understanding of what it is and how it might affect us.


Swimming In A Deadly Sea: Awash In Radiation
Part Two


Over 1 in 10 Complain About Cell Sickness
By Kim Tae-gyu
The Korea Times

Mobile operators and governments have claimed cell phones don’t emit enough microwaves harm people, but sensitive Koreans are feeling their negative effects. According to a survey by Rep. Suh Hae-suk at the governing Uri Party, 10.9 percent of 1,034 respondents said that they felt physical disorders due to cell phone usage.

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Here are some links from the latest weekly newsletter of Buergerwelle Germany' Citizens Initiative Omega, compiled by Klaus Rudolph. This newsletter deals exclusively with issues of microwave and other emf-wave damage and is a good source for continuous updates.

To subscribe, you can send a blank email to:

emf-omega-news-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Cardiovascular risk in operators under radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation

Immunotropic influence of 900 MHz microwave GSM signal on human blood immune cells activated in vitro

Effects of intensive and moderate cellular phone use on hearing function

Subjective symptoms, sleeping problems, and cognitive performance in subjects living near mobile phone base stations

Other links:

Do you have Microwave Sickness?
Dr. George Carlo, who used to run a multi-million dollar research program for the cell phone industry and went public regarding the dangers posed by cell phones, uses the analogy of putting a frog in water. If you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump out. However, if you put a frog in cold water and gradually heat the water, you can cook the frog because the frog's body will adjust to the slight changes in temperature and it will not notice it is being cooked. Well, the same thing might be happening to an unsuspecting public - a public that has not been informed about the real dangers of microwave radiation from cell phones, WiFi and other high-frequency-radiation emitting devices and antennas. The truth of the matter, your cell phone and your WiFi might very well indeed be making you and those around you sick!

Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves
The increasing popularity of wi-fi comes on the heels of the explosive growth in wireless mobile telephones, and amid heightened concerns over the health hazards of saturating levels of electromagnetic radiation. Microwaves at current exposure levels are linked to brain damage, DNA damage, brain tumours, cancers, microwave sickness, impairment of cognitive functions, impairment of reproduction and fertility, affecting humans, rodents, birds, and bees.

http://www.microwavenews.com/

http://www.radiationresearch.org/

http://www.safewireless.org/

http://www.sppionline.org/



Cell phones Invisible hazards of the wireless age
Few people would be surprised to hear that cell phones are unhealthy. But how many of us actually know the degree of damage they cause, the extent of the cover-up by the industry, or that there is a viable solution? Dr. George Carlo, a mobile phone industry whistleblower, recently presented a talk in Vancouver about how electropollution from wireless technology can cause brain damage, cancer and an array of mental illnesses. I checked his facts against recent, peer-reviewed scientific papers and the results were startling. Dr. Carlo explained why the industry’s user manuals don’t warn of these health hazards: currently, there are pending class action lawsuits against them, which threaten to expose the entire industry, similar to the cases brought against “Big Tobacco”, and the asbestos and silicone breast implant industries...

Australian Research Shows Mobile Phones Affect Brain Function

The Health Implications Of Playing With Big Brother's Most Cool Tool - Pt 2
By Amy Worthington
The Idaho Observer 6-9-6

Mobile phone emissions and human brain excitability
Italian study on brain excitability by GSM mobile phone radiation. The double blind study shows that the brains of volunteers were definitely affected by exposure to the cell phone radiation.

Cell Phones - More Damning Evidence
The effects of the radiation can produce a wide range of physical symptoms. Some symptoms may take years to show up. Some of the effects can be short-term while other effects can be long-term or permanent. Opening the blood-brain barrier allows toxins into the brain that cause a wide range of ailments - many of which are currently unknown or poorly understood.

Do Microwave Technologies Cause Chronic Fatigue?

Scientists develop new terahertz material
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a device for manipulating terahertz (THz) radiation. The device could be the basis for novel electronics and photonics applications ranging from new imaging methods to advanced communication technologies. The THz range of the electromagnetic spectrum lies between the infrared and microwave wavelengths.

New wireless technology to be developed
"The project's goal is basically to create a small, low-power handheld device that combines a spectrum analyzer and a truly powerful communication device," said Ayazi, a Georgia Tech associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. "We are basically looking for orders-of-magnitude improvement in performance, size and cost. The ultimate goal," he added, "is to integrate Analog Spectral Processors with high-speed electronics on a single chip and bring unprecedented capabilities to the wireless world."

Health concerns over mobile phone masts prompt review
Originally promised three years ago, and then shelved, the review follows articles in The Independent on Sunday about possible effects of the radiation on children and bees. The Government will take account of new scientific and medical evidence, and consult experts and campaigners, as part of a wider review of planning guidelines which ministers send to local authorities. More than 47,000 "base stations", like masts, have already been erected in Britain to service its 50 million mobile phones, often in defiance of intense local public opposition. Successive governments have made extraordinary concessions to the companies to ensure that coverage was rolled out across the country as quickly as possible.

World's safest mobile phone on way
The Wi-Guard technology works by randomising the field so it becomes more similar to naturally occurring electromagnetic fields that the body can deal with. Lawler said the amount of radiation emitted by man-made electromagnetic fields was one billion times higher than in 1950, due predominantly to the massive rise in the number of mobile phones and wireless laptops being used over the past decade.

This is an interesting technology, as randomizing the extra low frequency pattern could indeed make the radiation from cell phones and wireless devices less harmful for biological organisms. Of course it would be more efficient to implement this concept not as a remediation effort but as a basic feature of wireless standards...

Wireless broadband Internet access is all the rage.
The noise is drowning out concerns for this technology's risks.
In 2004, the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) decided that they would not permit cell phone antennas on firehouses. The decision was made by resolution at the IAFF's annual delegate assembly. The resolution directed the IAFF to review the potential health risks from cell antennas. If the science demonstrated a risk, then the union would oppose the use of fire stations as sites for cell antennas until further science demonstrated that cell antennas are safe. The resolution was passed in August 2004. In April 2005, the union's Health and Safety Department completed the review of the science. They found more than ample evidence to conclude that the union should oppose cell antennas on fire stations. The position paper included 49 references and a bibliography of 40 citations.

New doubts raised over mobile phone safety
Prof Seger said: "The real significance of our findings is that cells are not inert to non-thermal mobile phone radiation. "We used radiation power levels that were around 1/10th of those produced by a normal mobile. The changes we observed were clearly not caused by heating."

EU watchdog calls for urgent action on Wi-Fi, mobile phone radiation
Europe's top environmental watchdog is calling for immediate action to reduce exposure to radiation from Wi-Fi, mobile phones and their masts. It suggests that delay could lead to a health crisis similar to those caused by asbestos, smoking and lead in petrol. The warning, from the EU's European Environment Agency (EEA) follows an international scientific review which concluded that safety limits set for the radiation are "thousands of times too lenient", and an official British report last week which concluded that it could not rule out the development of cancers from using mobile phones.

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Children, cell phones and psychiatry
Now what does a psychiatrist have to do with cell phones, you may ask. Psychiatrists are the "experts" in mental health - our mental health. So they recognize when you're delusional if you should start to complain about symptoms from radiation overdosing, for example from your cell phone. Here is an exchange of messages forwarded by Jennie Gorman, about this matter. It illustrates the connection and leads us right back... (read more)
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According to a study published in the June issue of "Environmental Health Perspectives", researchers have documented damage to nerve cells in the brains of rats they exposed to the type of radiation cell phone users get when calling their friends or family. The damaging mechanism seems to be a weakening of the blood-brain barrier, a kind of filter which protects the brain from toxic or otherwise unwanted chemicals circulated with... (read more)
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There are now 1.9 billion cell phone users worldwide. Scientists fear we may be on the verge of a health crisis. Here are ten steps you can take to minimize dangers from cell phone radiation exposure...


10 Cell Phone Radiation Protection Tips

"The voluntary exposure of the brain to microwaves from hand-held mobile phones... [is] the largest human biological experiment ever."


~ Professor Leif Salford, Head of Research at Lund University, Sweden



There are now estimated to be 208 million cell phone users in the U.S. alone, 1.9 billion worldwide. Scientists fear we may be on the verge of a health crisis of epidemic proportions. Dr. George Carlo, former chief scientist of the cell phone industry's $28 million safety research project, predicts 500,000 new cases of brain and eye cancer each year by 2010 attributable to cell phone use (there are currently 30-50,000 cases each year).



Studies have linked cell phone radiation to health problems such as headaches, high blood pressure, brain tumors, cancer, Alzheimer's, and more. There is a latency period for most diseases and it may take years and more studies before the required weight of evidence is established. But the effects are cumulative and precautions should be taken now before it is too late.



Here are some steps you can take to minimize the effects of cell phone radiation exposure:



1. Limit use to essential calls and keep calls short. Even a two-minute call has been found to alter the natural electrical activity of the brain for up to an hour afterwards.



2. Children should be allowed to use the cell phone in cases of emergency only. Because of their developing skulls, the radiation can penetrate much more deeply.




3. Wear an airtube headset (not regular wired headset). The regular wired headset has been found to intensify radiation into the ear canal. The wire transmits not only the radiation from the cell phone but also serves as an antenna attracting EMFs (electromagnetic fields) from the surroundings



4. Don't put the cell phone in your pocket or belt while in use or while it is on. The body tissue in the lower body area has good conductivity and absorbs radiation more quickly than the head. One study shows that men who wear cell phones near their groin could have their sperm count dropped by as much as 30 percent.



5. If using the phone without a headset, wait for the call to connect before placing the phone next to the ear.



6. Do not use the cell phone in enclosed metal spaces such as vehicles or elevators, where devices may use more power to establish connection. The metal enclosure also acts as a Faraday cage that traps the radiation and reflects it back onto the occupants.




7. Do not make a call when the signal strength is one bar or less, which means the phone must work harder to establish a connection.



8. Purchase a phone with a low SAR (Specific Absorption Rate). Most phones have a SAR level listed in its instruction manual. The SAR level is a way of measuring the quantity of radiofrequency (RF) energy that is absorbed by the body. The lower the number the better. (Be aware, however, that studies with RF hundreds of times lower than current SAR limits still show biological effects.)



9. Use a scientifically validated EMF protection device. There are advanced technologies available nowadays that strengthen your bioenergy field and immune system against the effects of EMF. The EMF radiation causes a problem only when the cumulative effects due to repeated exposure weaken the body's ability to repair itself. Even when you don't use the cell phone, 'second-hand' radiation and EMFs from other devices can also cause biological stress, so these types of devices are increasingly becoming essential.



10. Take nutritional supplements, particularly anti-oxidants SOD, catalase, glutathione, and Coq10. Microwave radiation has been shown to decrease levels of these anti-oxidants in the body. These are substances the body produces to protect itself, and their levels are sensitive indicators in stress, aging, infections and various other disease states. Other supplements you may need are:


- Melatonin: a powerful anti-oxidant noted to prevent DNA breaks in brain cells. Also effective in preventing kidney damage from cell phones;

- Zinc: protects the eye from oxidative damage and helps preserve the levels of anti-oxidants in the blood;

- Gingko Biloba: an herb considered a powerful anti-oxidant which prevents oxidative damage in the brain, eye and kidney. Also helps support the production of SOD, catalase and glutathione;

- Bilberry extract: preserves vision and reduces oxidative damage to the eyes.



This list is not exhaustive but represents different layers of intervention you can do right away to protect yourself and your family. Cell phone radiation (and wireless radiation in general) poses an extreme public health risk that may take years to become fully realized. Some experts go on to say that if estimates are correct, then we are on the verge of a health crisis that could cripple our current health infrastructure. Let's not wait and find out if this proves true.

(Note: This article is provided for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. If you believe that you have a health problem, see your doctor or health professional immediately.)

(c) copyright Taraka Serrano

[ericg]

ok. back... make of it what you will.

take a $20 (911) from the privately owned federal reserve and fold it in half length-wise with the green side out. fold both ends in the center like making an airplane. you should see the twin towers and smoke billowing from exactly where they were hit. if not do it to the other side. [there's much evidence showing 911 was conceived over a long period of time].

[ericg]

www.shockdoctrine.com

(self explanatory)

[ericg]

ok, so far we've had

1: "click these two links, i don't think i need to explain them at all"

2: *link*

3: *link*

4: a bunch of shit that's not immediately clear how it's relevant and i'm definitely not going to read

why don't you just tell us what this post is about eric? in like a sentence or two

this post is about a static suckerhead who wants to bite everything because he couldn't figure it out for the life of him.

"word to your momma"

[ericg]

Because pseudoscientists and quasihistorians also merit consideration as valid sources of factual information. They deserve to be heard!

Oh no wait, they don't and never will.

"hey fuck you"

[Bob]

and now we've had

5: *link with no introduction*

6 *huge post that no sane person who's been following the thread so far is going to bother reading*

7 "fuck you for asking me to explain my genius to you"

8 "fuck you too"

buddy no offense but i'm not going to take you seriously and if this bothers you i think you need to step outside yourself and examine the way you communicate with people

[Bob]

basically what i'm saying is, you have the burden of making people give a shit about anything you have to say and you're doing a terrible job of sustaining it

i can't believe you aren't a gimmick or lyndon larouche

[Bob]

i mean you've posted 8 things in this thread and i still don't know what point you're trying to get across with it

8 posts and god knows how many thousands of words and nobody knows what you're talking about

how do you get by

[Schmeltz]

There's only one thing to be made from all that drivel, ericg, which is that you are totally incapable of distinguishing reality from nuttery.

LOL@ Lyndon Larouche (y)

[Knuckles]

ok. back... make of it what you will.

take a $20 (911) from the privately owned federal reserve and fold it in half length-wise with the green side out. fold both ends in the center like making an airplane. you should see the twin towers and smoke billowing from exactly where they were hit. if not do it to the other side. [there's much evidence showing 911 was conceived over a long period of time].

Do you think it's possible Andrew Jackson planned 9/11? I mean, he is on the 20 dollar bill. He also was President of the United States.


And Bob, before you even make some smartass comment like "They didn't have planes when he was alive" or "Knuckles have you been up all night sniffing glue again?" or "Almond butter is much better than peanut" or "Andrew Jackson was too busy having sex with Echewta's mom to plan such things" I want you to do a little research here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy).

[Bob]

my god...i...i think you might be....

and wait, something's coming...yes, it's an idea...take a dollar bill, fold it like this, and you see that george washington's head turns into a mushroom! THE MUSHROOM MEN ARE IN CONTROL OF AMERICA!

no, wait bob, that's stupid, calm down, think rationally...i can figure this out...

mushroom...mushroom cloud...atomic bomb...atomic age...age of aquarius...signs of the zodiac...taurus! BIN LADEN IS A TAURUS!

...we're through the looking glass here, people

[cosmo105]

ok. back... make of it what you will.

take a $20 (911) from the privately owned federal reserve and fold it in half length-wise with the green side out. fold both ends in the center like making an airplane. you should see the twin towers and smoke billowing from exactly where they were hit. if not do it to the other side. [there's much evidence showing 911 was conceived over a long period of time].

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ohh man something that people passed around when i was 16 = EVIDENCE! oh, and this

This was sent in a bulletin via myspace.

= instant credibility.

[Bob]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ohh man something that people passed around when i was 16 = EVIDENCE! oh, and this



that just proves how long they've been planning it you static suckerhead!

[ericg]

i simply posted information on this thread. i can see it's a bit much for you ... however, you can still bet your life's savings on the water-marked content. it doesn't take a 'scientist' or 'historian' to figure out (though there's many) - not to mention that you shouldn't speak ill of people that you obviously haven't a clue of whom you're speaking. they're certainly more accredited than you think - and one of the best entities you and this world have going right now. the answers can be given, but you always have to do your own homework.

i met the larouche kids in seattle and was open minded at first for a lot of good reasons, but then found them to be a bit more 'fanatical'.. and 'without direction' ... anyway, it's good to listen and appreciate what you can in any case. i don't know much about david icke, but what i do know is on the money. lizard people - i don't know. sounds silly, unless you've witnessed a 'lizard person', or have a clue as to what they're really talking about ... but that's like everything. i wouldn't be so quick to dismiss or underrate ... whether you've seen/ experienced it or not, it's never wise to play the devil's advocate ... as if you've never had an integral prop in your life.

[Bob]

i don't know much about david icke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_icke (for starters)

In 1999, he published The Biggest Secret, in which he wrote that the Illuminati are a race of reptilian humanoids known as the Babylonian Brotherhood, and that many prominent figures are reptilian, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, Kris Kristofferson, and Boxcar Willie. [3][5]...In 1999, Icke wrote and published The Biggest Secret: The Book that Will Change the World, in which he identified the extraterrestrial Prison Warders as reptilians from the constellation Draco. [24]They walk erect and appear to be human, living not only on the planets they come from, but also in caverns and tunnels under the earth. They have cross-bred with humans, which has created "hybrids" who are "possessed" by the full-blooded reptilians. [25] The reptiles' hybrid reptilian-human DNA allows them to change from reptilian to human form if they consume human blood. Icke has drawn parallels with the 1980s science-fiction series V, in which the earth is taken over by reptiloid aliens disguised as humans.

According to Icke, the reptilian group includes many prominent people and practically every world leader from Britain's late Queen Mother to George H.W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Harold Wilson, and Tony Blair. These people are either themselves reptilian, or work for the reptiles as what Icke calls slave-like victims of multiple personality disorder: "The Rothschilds, Rockefellers, the British royal family, and the ruling political and economic families of the U.S. and the rest of the world come from these SAME bloodlines. It is not because of snobbery, it is to hold as best they can a genetic structure — the reptilian-mammalian DNA combination which allows them to 'shape-shift'." [4]

Icke has since published additional books on the same theme. His latest work sees George W. Bush, also a reptilian, playing a key role in what Icke alleges is a 9/11 conspiracy. In Tales From The Time Loop and other works, Icke states that most organized religions, especially Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are Illuminati creations designed to divide and conquer the human race through endless conflicts. In a similar vein, Icke believes racial and ethnic divisions are an illusion promoted by the reptilians, and that racism fuels the Illuminati agenda.

do your own homework.


please do

[ericg]

so you like to disassemble and try to diffuse like the run of the mill media. no doubt you think you're a track star.
it must be tough living such a closed minded life of angles and negativity.

yes, david icke - one and the same. lizard men seems out there, but i'll tell ya - carries more weight in any context than 99% of what's going around. by the way, david icke appears for about 10 mins on secret space and speaks very intelligently on fundamental stuff. wanting to discredit his math because you don't believe in aliens is pointless ... you seem idle and hopeless - doomed to flipping channels on the degeneration network.

instead of doing that, your time would better spent getting a telescope and looking up. better yet, watch the videos and check things out. no doubt you would be interested and more informed.

[Bob]

i suppose i'd have to, there's certainly nothing on any of them

[milleson]

Bob's avatar is the best part of this thread.

[Knuckles]

Bob, Kris Kristofferson might be a lizard man.

And if Kris is a lizard man then is Babs a lizard lady (http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/71/039_19723~Barbra-Streisand-Kris-Kristofferson-in-A-Star-is-Born-Posters.jpg)?

[cosmo105]

she's always struck me as a little reptilian.

[Documad]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ohh man something that people passed around when i was 16 = EVIDENCE!

Did you ever do this one (http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/fortune_teller.htm)? It actually predicts the future. I did it at slumber parties when I was in grade school. :)

[Bob]

Did you ever do this one (http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/fortune_teller.htm)? It actually predicts the future. I did it at slumber parties when I was in grade school. :)

i did those too; i once got one that said "In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"

then i did it again and i got "u like it up da butt" which is a lie btw

[Schmeltz]

eric it is ridiculous to lambaste people for not sacrificing their time and energy to an examination of such patently ridiculous material. The reason everybody else in this thread cannot take your information seriously is because it does not conform in any way to the standards of rational inquiry; in fact your attitude shows that you have precious little appreciation of those standards and are seemingly willing to put stock in whatever fantastic flight of fancy is forwarded in your direction. It is ludicrous enough that you take this material at face value, but to expect others to do the same, blindly, willy-nilly, on the basis that accepting any and all material presented to you is a demonstration of open-mindedness, simply goes to show that you have no idea what actual open-mindedness is.

Come back when you have some understanding of critical thinking and a little more discernment. Right now you are not blowing anyone's mind or revealing any truths or relevant ideas.

[Bob]

eric it is ridiculous to lambaste people for not sacrificing their time and energy to an examination of such patently ridiculous material. The reason everybody else in this thread cannot take your information seriously is because it does not conform in any way to the standards of rational inquiry; in fact your attitude shows that you have precious little appreciation of those standards and are seemingly willing to put stock in whatever fantastic flight of fancy is forwarded in your direction. It is ludicrous enough that you take this material at face value, but to expect others to do the same, blindly, willy-nilly, on the basis that accepting any and all material presented to you is a demonstration of open-mindedness, simply goes to show that you have no idea what actual open-mindedness is.

Come back when you have some understanding of critical thinking and a little more discernment. Right now you are not blowing anyone's mind or revealing any truths or relevant ideas.

i think this might have been a little hard to understand schmeltz, let me see if i can try to put it in some better terms

MOSCOW, Oct. 13 -- With the Kremlin backsliding on democracy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has responded with expressions of dismay over a crackdown on independent institutions, while steering clear of any direct criticism of President Vladimir Putin's possible plan to extend his hold on power by becoming prime minister next year.

On the second day of her trip here, Rice assured human rights activists and other members of Russian civil society that she supports their efforts to protect "universal values" such as freedom of expression, worship and assembly.


Opinions vary as to how much Secretary of State Rice is at fault for troubled U.S.-Russian relations.
Opinions vary as to how much Secretary of State Rice is at fault for troubled U.S.-Russian relations. (By Ivan Sekretarev -- Associated Press)
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A few hours later, however, Rice told reporters that she had not raised the issue of Putin's political future when she met with him Friday, saying the topic was not appropriate for a meeting devoted to security issues.

"There's a lot of speculation about who's going to be president, whether President Putin is going to take any number of jobs or no job at all," Rice said in an interview with reporters traveling with her. "I just think speculating on that is not going to help the situation." But she added, "I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin."

Administration officials once thought that Putin's decision on his future would be a defining moment for Russia, when it would become clear whether the rule of law or the rule of one man would win out. Their careful language following Putin's recent announcement that he might become prime minister shows how cautiously Rice and other officials are now balancing concern about the Kremlin's autocratic moves with the need to enlist its cooperation on confronting Iran, missile defense and other volatile issues. It may also reflect a recognition that the United States has limited influence on Russia's decisions.

Rice is one of two old Soviet hands at the top of the Bush administration -- the other is Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, a former CIA director. Both were deeply enmeshed in Soviet affairs during the administration of George H.W. Bush, when Rice was a young National Security Council staffer. On a visit to an ice rink Saturday, Rice chatted briefly in Russian with a young figure skater, although in official meetings she spoke English, which was translated.

Given her background, the troubles in U.S.-Russian relations are all the more frustrating for U.S. and Russian experts, who diverge on how much Rice should be faulted. In Moscow, some leading commentators said Rice is viewed somewhat sympathetically, as someone officials can deal with in an administration regarded as hostile. The view appears to be less favorable in Washington, where specialists across the political spectrum see Rice as having misunderstood Putin and mishandled relations with Russia.

Sergey Rogov, head of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said Rice was not responsible for what he called the "very poor" state of Russian-American ties, with disputes over economic relations, arms control, missile defense and regional issues.

"All of this is much broader than the portfolio of the secretary of state," he said. "In general, she is respected in Russia. It would be a mistake to blame her. Because this is the attitude of an American administration where the secretary of state is not the number one player. There are other players, first of all Dick Cheney, who is rightly considered to take a hostile position on Russia."

After meeting with Rice on Saturday morning at the U.S. ambassador's residence, Tatyana Lokshina, head of the Demos Center, a Russian human rights group, described the secTHIS IS A HUGE LINK AND I REFUSE TO INTRODUCE IT AT ALLretary of state as an "impressive and an interesting interlocutor" but said Rice and other officials had lost leverage over democracy in Russia because of Iraq and other issues.

"Whatever criticism the Russian authorities get is wasted to a large extent since the Russians say the U.S. does not have the right to criticize us because of their own record. American criticism alone, the American voice alone, cannot be effective today," she said in an interview afterward.

Lokshina said that when she challenged Rice over the U.S. detention facility for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Rice responded, "We never lost the high ground."

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WASHINGTON — Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who led U.S. forces in Iraq for a year after the March 2003 invasion, accused the Bush administration Friday of going to war with a "catastrophically flawed" plan and said the United States is "living a nightmare with no end in sight."

Sanchez described the current troop increase in Iraq as "a desperate attempt by the administration that has not accepted the political and economic realities of this war."

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"The administration, Congress and the entire interagency, especially the State Department, must shoulder the responsibility for this catastrophic failure, and the American people must hold them accountable," Sanchez told military reporters and editors. "There has been a glaring unfortunate display of incompetent strategic leadership within our national leaders."

Sanchez lashed out specifically at the National Security Council, calling officials there negligent and incompetent, without offering details. He also blasted war policies over the last four years, which he said had stripped senior military officers of responsibility and thrust the armed services into an "intractable position" in Iraq.

"The best we can do with this flawed approach is stave off defeat," Sanchez said in a speech to the Military Reporters and Editors' annual conference in Arlington, Va. "Without bipartisan cooperation, we are destined to fail. There is nothing going on in Washington that would give us hope."

He faulted the administration for failing to "communicate effectively that reality to the American people."

Sanchez offered little advice about fixing military problems in Iraq. Efforts generally need more resources and skill, he said. "From a catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan to the administration's latest surge strategy, this administration has failed to employ and synchronize its political, economic and military power," Sanchez said.

Sanchez led Combined Joint Task Force 7 in Iraq beginning on June 15, 2003. Under his command, an insurgency erupted in Iraq, and he and other top officers were slow to respond to it, in part because of the reluctance of then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials to recognize its existence.

Some officials thought the anti-U.S. attacks would fade away after Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003, but the insurgency intensified, with pitched battles the next IN FACT THIS IS A SERIES OF HUGE LINKS AND I REFUSE TO EXPLAIN HOW THEY ARE RELATED OR WHY I AM POSTING THEM spring in Najaf and Fallouja. Some analysts have argued that Sanchez had little feel for strategy and permitted commanders to use tactics that helped intensify opposition to the U.S. presence in the country.

Sanchez might be remembered most as the top general in Iraq during the period when the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses occurred and were later revealed. Photographs of Iraqi detainees being humiliated shocked many, and provoked a reevaluation of the U.S. presence in Iraq. Some enlisted troops and Army Reserve officers were charged in the scandal, but in legal proceedings and official reviews no top commanders were deemed responsible.

Sanchez retired after officials decided not to give him a fourth star; they feared a public confirmation hearing would go badly in light of Abu Ghraib. He is now a senior mentor at the military's Joint Warfighting Center.

______________________

RICHMOND, VA. -- Virginia Republicans will hold a convention instead of a primary to choose their candidate to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. John W. Warner, upsetting critics who say it makes the party appear closed off.

The state party's central committee voted 47 to 37 on Saturday in favor of a convention. No date or location was decided.

Former Gov. Jim Gilmore and U.S. Rep. Thomas M. Davis III have expressed interest in seeking the GOP nomination. Supporters of Gilmore wanted a convention, and Davis backers had argued for a primary.

Warner, 80, said in August that he would not seek a sixth consecutive Senate term next year. Two weeks later, Democrat Mark R. Warner, a former governor, who is not related to the senator, announced his candidacy for the seat.

Supporters of a convention argued that it's more economical and that the party would avoid a divisive public squabble between GOP rivals in a primary.

"Mark Warner's already got a 60% approval rating. We have to go up against that. We cannot have that and air our dirty laundry, so we have to keep it in-house," Bruce Meyer, chairman for the GOP's 2nd Congressional District, told the committee.

Other convention supporters argued that with a primary, Democrats would be free to meddle in the GOP nominatiREAD BETWEEN THE LINES BROon process because Virginia did not require party registration and opened primaries to all voters.



Advocates of a primary argued that a convention makes the party look insular when it most needs to involve hundreds of thousands of voters, not just the few thousand who can fit into a meeting hall.

A primary builds precinct-by-precinct organizations faster and prepares activists and candidates for the door-to-door campaigning required in the fall, said David Avella, GOP chairman of the 8th Congressional District.

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http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/mrpc_toc.html

http://newbie-fitness.blogspot.com/2007/01/stripped-5x5.html

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[cosmo105]

i did those too; i once got one that said "In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"

then i did it again and i got "u like it up da butt" which is a lie btw

i usually got "you will marry michael jackson" which was a COMPLETE falsehood, ewww anyways

[Schmeltz]

Ah, thanks for the clarification, Bob. I get a bit carried away sometimes but at least you're around to ground things in relevant terms.

[ericg]

you're taking things all wrong here.
the bush erruhh exists for people like you.
"so let us not talk falsely now"

real people/ fans don't participate here with all the static.
it's a very bad sign when this particular board is over-run with spammers who's idea of 'turning things around' is confounded/ contrived/ mixed up - confused/ degenerated.

there's so much you could be learning and getting involved in productively.

www.hempfarm.com
www.911scholars.org
www.911pressfortruth.com
www.earthship.org
www.usalone.com
www.disclosureproject.com
etc etc etc

[Schmeltz]

Getting involved with fringe theories about the paranormal is not productive or educational. Posting links to conspiracy theory websites is not illuminating or insightful. And you are the one spamming, man - you have offered absolutely no commentary or original contribution, just a bunch of worthless copy-and-pasted crap that we're all expected to take the time to read on your say-so, even though it does not - and I will repeat myself here - does not in any way represent a rational or critical perspective of reality.

Are we just going to repeat ourselves over and over, or are you going to offer some kind of justification for your demand that we consider this bullshit worth our while?

[ericg]

look. i don't know how to tell you this, but, you've been outmoded.
have you tried watching the videos - reading the posts - connecting the links yet? have you really anything to say here? or do you only wish to suck.. on my tip. you must see how contradictary and ridiculous your attempts to redefine, repackage and label things for your own 'misgivings' has been so far. it's only gone to be utterly obtuse and obstinate.

i know you've been here for too long thinking you can talk your shit under the auspices of the beastie boys, but you should start thinking.. about moving on. it's all self explanatory. what more do you need? i can't walk you through your crawl space. you have to figure it out yourself. simply watch and read - and respond in kind. what's the problem? and why try to make it mine? i can't be responsible for you. the only justification you will get is from yourself. i've no wish to get into a mud slinging contest because you can't find solid ground. you can't usurp the point so stop trying to get around it. a word to the wise should be sufficient. i've all the circumspection and commentary in the world, but your responses have not warranted any further conversation in much of any respect.

i won't have any more time for you if you come back without doing the required homework on this thread.

i'll keep it easy and give you some talking points:
history of the resource, hemp
history of the federal reserve
history of the council on foreign relations

peace

[Schmeltz]

guys ive been outmoded by the transgalactic lizard man conspiracy and i must therefore leave the forum

[Schmeltz]

Seriously though - what you don't seem to understand is that nobody is obligated to take what you have to say seriously, and you are doing a very poor job convincing anybody why they should. You come around telling people about "required homework" when you have Bob doing yours for you? It's laughable.


what's the problem?


As has been continually pointed out to you, the problem is that your material is not worthy of serious consideration. It is nothing but the far side of the lunatic fringe and it is totally devoid of rationality or even level-headedness. Do you seriously believe that folding up a bill a certain way constitutes a prophetic indicator of a grand conspiracy behind an historic event? Are you actually on board with this notion that a military base is being built on the moon to communicate better with shape-shifting lizard men from another solar system? That's lunacy, eric, and just because you found it on the internet and think it blows the lid off your own poorly formed conception of the world doesn't mean it's worth anyone's time.

Nobody's buying what your selling, man. It's all crap. Maybe you're the one who should think about moving on - at least to an explanation, in your own words (and Beastie Boys lyrics don't count either) of why anybody should bother with this garbage.

[ericg]

"is it worth it, let me work it"

a few insufferable fools with cabal aspirations do not constitute anything with an endless smear campaign.

don't look now, but you're the only person who's mentioned, 'lizard men'. yet you continue to exploit it incredibly and hap hazardly. david icke is not the name of this thread. again, he appears for 10 mins in "secret space", which should be self evident that i put here, not so much as absolute fact, as objective and certain evidence professionals in the field, extremely more accredited than you, have reason to believe. i've responded too much now. why you're in the habit of downgrading everything to 'suit yourself' ... you have too much shit coming out the wrong end - why keep fuckin' yourself.

try again.

[Schmeltz]

You're right when you say you've responded too much, but you're wrong to think you've responded with anything substantial.

I'll say again: nothing you've put up here has prompted anyone to investigate your "information" and all of the respondents to this thread are doing nothing but taking the piss at your expense. Keep it up though, I'm sick and I need a good laugh to get the endorphins flowing. (y)

[ericg]

what'cha want?
a prompt?

Hate filled people wanna keep us in check
Tearin' down each other is what they expect
If you want love well hey that's a bet
We've got to give before we can get
Waiting like a batter who is on deck
When it's time to wreck shop then shop I'll wreck
So let's calibrate and check our specs
...
Why not open your mind for a sec?

Now talk about your face now don't get pissed
But I suggest you see a dermatologist
I keep that hot sauce hot not mild and weak
It's gonna burn your mouth until you wet your beak
I've got billions and billions of rhymes to flex


...


I didn't touch your hand man you know its all ball
www.whatthebleep.com

[Bob]

hang on, i get it now

what a fool i've been

a real suckerhead. a dynamic one, even

[Bob]

this strategy works really well in court, too. basically you just go up to the evidence table and dump a bunch of stuff on it and say to the jury "i'm not gonna connect the dots for you, you have to do your own homework, i rest my case"

those guys win a lot of cases

[Schmeltz]

what'cha want?
a prompt?


No, eric, as I said before I want a reasoned explanation of what makes your perspective valid and your information worthwhile, one that takes into account the fact that nobody else is prepared to accept your whack internet bullshit at face value. Copy-and-pasting Beastie Boys lyrics does not constitute any such thing.

You might as well leave your posts blank for all the impact they're making, mang.

[ericg]

http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/10/outcompete-bad-guys.html



Sunday, October 14, 2007
Outcompete the Bad Guys
The bottom line about disinformation is simple: Those fighting for truth have to outcompete those fighting to supress it. It is a good old-fashioned competition.

Understanding the tactics and styles of people spreading disinformation is helpful to minimize the effectiveness of those trying to disrupt the truth movement. But even more important is our ability to simply spread more information, more persuasively, than those spreading lies. If we spend more time discussing disinfo than putting out important info ourselves, we've lost.

The good news is that those who use brute force to obtain imperial control are not very creative. They are using the same false flag terror playbook they've been using for thousands of years. They're trotting out the same old "great leader will protect us from the bad guys" script they've been recycling again and again ever since the days of Caesar.

WE'VE got truth, creativity, passion, brains and justice on our side. Plus, we are defending our own own country, our homes and our families from people who have no loyalty to America or the Constitution.

WE CAN outsmart them and out-create them.

The Web and the Street

We all know the power of the Internet to spread truth. We thought that we would have years to harness the Net for good purposes, and hopefully we will. But the powers-that-be are trying to shut it down pronto or -- at the least -- tame it into a whimpering poodle, a sitcom-level boob-tube like media toy to spoon-feed comforting mush to the sheeple.

The net is now under massive attack by the government and corporate America. For example, the BBC revealed that the U.S. military views the internet as an enemy which should be fought (see also this article for further detail). And the big telecom companies are trying to erect virtual "toll booths" on the net which would limit access to the well-to-do, and make it much more difficult for people to access content which has not been pre-approved by the media conglomerates. See this article.

So download and save all information which you absolutely must have to continue to do your truthtelling and justice-seeking work. This article explains how to do it. Save the information to your computer or CDs. That way, even if they take down the Net, you will still have the most important information for yourself and to share with others.

More importantly, redouble your efforts to take information on the Net and convert it to something physical you can use out in the world to reach people who are not as web-savvy as you. Make flyers, posters, bumper stickers, pamphlets, CDs, DVDs, etc. Put the info on your car, on the street. Paint 9/11 messages in chalk on the sidewalk, and affixed to helium balloons released indoors. Make freeway blogs. Think of new ways to spread truth.

As a well-known 9/11 activist said a year ago "We've already won on the Web ... now we have to go out and conquer the street" with truth.

Can We Win?

Its carpe diem time, folks. There really is is an "info war" being waged against people's hearts and minds. And the stakes are high. The bad guys want to suppress the truth, spread myths, and take away people's freedom, power and options.

Alot of us are very creative, smart or passionate people. Engage that passion, intelligence and creativity to implement RIGHT NOW the highest possible leverage to spread the truth. Let's all work harder and work smarter.

If we outcompete the bad guys, we will win. It won't be easy, but no one ever said it would be. This is what we were born to do. This is why we're here. This is our calling and our destiny. And when we put everything we have into winning the competition for truth, our victory will be a shining legacy we leave for future generations.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear."
- Ted Turner

"We need a program of psychosurgery and political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.... Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain."
- Dr. Jose Delgado (U.S. government mind-control experimenter associated with the "MKULTRA" program who demonstrated a radio controlled bull on CNN in 1985)

"In March 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press ...They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."
- U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
- John Swinton, the former chief of staff of the New York Times, called by his peers, "The Dean of his profession," in a speech at the New York Press Club.

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
– Richard Salant, former President of CBS News

"The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over."
- Adolph Hitler

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth"
- Adolph Hitler

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
- Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
- Goebbels

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
- Goebbels

"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool"
- Plato

"The real mass media are basically trying to divert people." ... "Let everybody be crazed about professional sports or sex scandals"
– Noam Chomsky

"As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege"
– Noam Chomsky

"Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining."
– Benjamin Barber

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
– J. K. Galbraith

"The world's press is losing its ability to keep power in check"
– Frank Vogl

"The New York Times is for us what Pravda was for the Soviets"
– Gore Vidal

"The mass media is itself part of the same power structure that plunders the planet and inflicts human rights abuses on a massive scale"
– David Cromwell

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic."
- Dresden James

"The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favorable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it."
-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)"

"They bought the politicians and the news
They've got all the weapons (which they like to use)

But they are few and we're billions strong
We are the giant ... been sleeping for too long
Time to wake up and sing our victory song"
- The Voice

[yeahwho]

this strategy works really well in court, too. basically you just go up to the evidence table and dump a bunch of stuff on it and say to the jury "i'm not gonna connect the dots for you, you have to do your own homework, i rest my case"

those guys win a lot of cases

names Johnnie Cochran beatch

[Waus]

My eyes have been opened.






:rolleyes:

[Schmeltz]

Hey guys here's a bunch of crap I found on the internet now you all have to read it


(y)

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8KeeDqE5Xc

[EN[i]GMA]

I saw a documentary on this "Ring of Power" one time, but at the end it was thrown into a volcano and destroyed, so I don't see what we have to worry about anymore...

:confused:

[ericg]

www.americanfreepress.net

[ericg]

www.sac911truth.com/stf.htm

[Schmeltz]

www.itsbullshit.com

[Bob]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[EN[i]GMA]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Wait... you mean to tell me HE was responsible for 9/11?

[EN[i]GMA]

Why is it that whenever these conspiracy "theories" always remind me of that scene in A Beautiful Mind when Nash is in his shed with all those magazine scraps, trying to convince people that he's really onto something?

Oh, it's because the situations are exactly parallel.

[Bob]

GMA;1523019']Wait... you mean to tell me HE was responsible for 9/11?

well come on man, do your homework

"never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna turn around and desert you" he's clearly referring to the reptilian conspiracy and how he's never going to give up drinking blood (i earnestly believe rick astley is a reptile masquerading as a human btw, though the whole blood drinking thing is up in the air)

[ericg]

alert:

the anatomy of the board is infested with parasitical fools that front on being schooled in dialectic - and free mason (devil's) advocates... that can't, won't and don't stop!!!

.. suckerheads long imbedded in the board desperately trying to get a blood transfusion but couldn't find their way to the vein. when 'found', they get greedy and clot things up - mocking everything with a mocked-up, smear campaign...

the brain has been further notified and the heart is sending reinforcements.

- unclotting agent d double o.

[Bob]

alert:

the anatomy of the board is infested with parasitical fools that front on being schooled in dialectic - and free mason (devil's) advocates... that can't, won't and don't stop!!!

.. suckerheads long imbedded in the board desperately trying to get a blood transfusion but couldn't find their way to the vein. when 'found', they get greedy and clot things up - mocking everything with a mocked-up, smear campaign...

the brain has been further notified and the heart is sending reinforcements.

- unclotting agent d double o.

what the fuck are you talking about

[ericg]

etymology of physiognomy

refer to post #13.

[ericg]

NIST Admits Total Collapse Of Twin Towers Unexplainable

The National Institute for Standards and Technology has been forced to admit that the total free-fall collapse of the twin towers cannot be explained after an exhaustive scientific study, implicitly acknowledging that controlled demolition is the only means by which the buildings could have come down.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/161007_nist_admits.htm

[Knuckles]

ericg is like fucktopgirl on acid (y)

[Documad]

alert:

the anatomy of the board is infested with parasitical fools that front on being schooled in dialectic - and free mason (devil's) advocates... that can't, won't and don't stop!!!
Oh no. I've been found out. I only come here to front for the freemasons. But before you judge me, please consider that I entered their cult when I was just 11 years old.

[Yetra Flam]

is this ring of power like "one ring to rule them all" type shit?

[ericg]

THIRD WORLD ELECTION FRAUD - RIGHT HERE AT HOME
By Mary Starrett
Go To Original

"Impress upon your children the truth that (voting) is a… duty of as solemn a nature as man can… perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself." --Daniel Webster, 1840

While the United States purports to be the guardian of free and fair elections the world over, here at home our elections system is utterly corrupted. From casting to counting to reporting of election results, the fix is in and we’ve allowed it to happen.

Why is the third largest political party, the Constitution Party (www.constitutionparty.com) the only party encouraging support for the National Clean Elections Lawsuit (N-CEL)? The suit, filed against ten states, New Hampshire, Iowa, Ohio, Florida, California, New York, Illinois, Oregon, South Carolina, and Texas is calling attention to US voting procedures that are so secretive and potentially corruptible you’d expect these types of systems in third world countries.

Since 1988, all but a handful of the 3,142 counties in the US have delegated the "counting" process, done in secret, to several mega companies, Diebold, ES&S, Hart and Sequioa while all 50 secretaries of state have approved these systems.

The Clean Elections lawsuit, in the process of expanding to all 50 states, charges that the use of any computer (direct-recording-electronic- or DRE) systems which obscure ballots from the people for any period of time before a count is completed and the results are announced are unconstitutional. Citizens for a Fair Vote Count (www.votefraud.org) and its plaintiffs in the Clean Elections Lawsuit are calling attention to the potential for vote fraud through electronic voting systems. According to the suit, the use of computer and machine election systems violates each citizen's right to vote, as defined at least twice by the Supreme Court of the United States. (In 1915 and 1964 the US Supreme Court ruled that a citizen's right to vote consists of two parts: 1) the right to cast a ballot; 2) the right to know that his ballot has been counted accurately.)

[To fully understand how elections are rigged with electronic voting machines, see DVD "Hacking Democracy"]

Paper ballots that remain in plain sight are the only way we can make sure our votes are cast and counted honestly.

When credentialed computer scientists from prestigious institutions such as Princeton and Stanford universities have proven time and again electronic voting systems can’t be trusted, it’s imperative we move to stop computer vote fraud immediately.

“Since ballots leave the sight of the people in the precinct before the votes are counted, breaking the chain of custody of the ballots, the illegality and unconstitutionality of electronic voting is clear,” wrote Citizens for a Fair Vote Count’s Jim Condit Jr.

To make matters worse, the private companies controlling the ballots then give the “results” of electronic voting, gathered through touch screens with no paper trail, directly to the Big TV Networks -ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, & FOX. Centralized counting and reporting has no place in a free country. While the United States government sends monitors to make sure third world countries conduct fair elections, the fox is guarding the ballot box hen house here at home.

Other political parties and all voters should support the National Clean Elections Lawsuit and demand accountability from state, county and federal elections officials. The two “big box” parties have nothing to gain and everything to lose if we clean up our elections process. Stalin was right when he said: “He who casts the vote decides nothing; he who counts the vote decides everything.” Globalists in both parties want to make sure no one muscles in on their territory and easily corrupted electronic voting is one way to hang onto the power they’ve spent decades amassing.

[Bob]

she's crafty, she gets around
she's crafty yeah she's always down

[ericg]

insightfull, intelligent, remarkable.
"i don't understand a word that's coming out of your mouth"


Ed Brown Gassed, Tortured In Deprivation Tank
Tax protester speaks for first time since arrest in prison phone call

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

In a disturbing audio clip, Ed Brown speaks for the first time since his arrest and relates how he was gassed by noxious fumes for three days in a detention center as well as being put in a deprivation tank for 15 hours.

Shaun of MaketheStand.com was able to call the Ohio prison that Brown has been incarcerated in and talk with him on the phone for 10 minutes.

Sensory deprivation is a form of torture and extended deprivation can result in extreme anxiety, hallucinations, bizarre thoughts, depression, and antisocial behavior.

Brown also said he had been prevented from making any phone calls or receiving mail.

For the first time, Brown reveals what happened when he was tricked and arrested by U.S. Marshals, including how he was tasered multiple times.

Brown said that he had a chance to fight back during the arrest but that he did not want to hurt anyone.

Brown said his captors were treating him with "professional cruelty" and mentioned that they had also done harrowing things to his wife following her arrest, but refused to go into detail.

"I guess Ed and Elaine Brown, the elderly couple, really rattled their cages, we must be a real terror to the federal government, the corporate structure," said Brown.

Following our article about Ed Brown supporters fearing Brown was being mistreated or tortured, U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier dismissed it, saying, "That's absolutely ludicrous."

From what Ed Brown relates in the audio clip, it's abundantly clear that he is being cruelly mistreated.

Click here to listen to the MP3.

In a related development, Elaine Brown's son David told WMUR News that he has also been prevented from speaking to his mother.

http://questforfairtrialinconcordnh.blogspot.com/

[ericg]

Watson endorses H. Res. 333


Email your member of Congress and ask them to uphold their sworn duty to protect the Constitution by co-sponsoring H. Res. 333.

On October 13, 2007, in response to a request made by Peter Thottam, Executive Director of the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC) during a Town Hall Q&A session, PDA Advisory Board member Rep. Diane E. Watson (33rd District, CA) agreed to immediately endorse the impeachment of both President Bush and Vice President Cheney and stated that she will sign on as an official co-sponsor for H. Res. 333. Victor Oquendo, Lyn Jensen and numerous other LANIC impeachment activists and volunteers living in Watson's district gathered more than 10,200 handwritten signatures--demonstrating overwhelming support for H. Res.333. The endorsement was repeated three times, recorded and verified by Watson's Chief District Representative, Charles Stewart, following the meeting.

With this announcement, Congresswoman Watson becomes the 22nd member of Congress to endorse H. Res. 333. The endorsement is effective immediately and will be formalized this coming week by her staff. H. Res. 333, if passed, would impeach Vice President Dick Cheney on three charges. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was introduced on April 24, 2007.

(Representative Edolphus Towns became the 21st co-signer of H. Res. 333 on September 27, 2007.)
Join PDA's Impeachment Action Group; contact Matthew@COTAM.org.

[Schmeltz]

ericg's gonna cut-and-paste these alien lizard men right the fuck outta our solar system. (y)

[ericg]

There is a worldwide conspiracy being orchestrated by an extremely powerful and influential group of genetically-related individuals (at least at the highest echelons) which include many of the world's wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite, as well as members of the so-called Black Nobility of Europe (dominated by the British Crown) whose goal is to create a One World (fascist) Government, stripped of nationalistic and regional boundaries, that is obedient to their agenda. Their intention is to effect complete and total control over every human being on the planet and to dramatically reduce the world's population by 5.5 Billion people. While the name New World Order is a term frequently used today when referring to this group, it's more useful to identify the principal organizations, institutions, and individuals who make up this vast interlocking spiderweb of elite conspirators.

The Illuminati is the oldest term commonly used to refer to the 13 bloodline families (and their offshoots) that make up a major portion of this controlling elite. Most members of the Illuminati are also members in the highest ranks of numerous secretive and occult societies which in many cases extend straight back into the ancient world. The upper levels of the tightly compartmentalized (need-to-know-basis) Illuminati structural pyramid include planning committees and organizations that the public has little or no knowledge of. The upper levels of the Illuminati pyramid include secretive committees with names such as: the Council of 3, the Council of 5, the Council of 7, the Council of 9, the Council of 13, the Council of 33, the Grand Druid Council, the Committee of 300 (also called the "Olympians") and the Committee of 500 among others.

In 1992, Dr John Coleman published Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300. With laudable scholarship and meticulous research, Dr Coleman identifies the players and carefully details the Illuminati agenda of worldwide domination and control. On page 161 of the Conspirators Hierarchy, Dr Coleman accurately summarizes the intent and purpose of the Committee of 300 as follows:

"A One World Government and one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population.

There will be no middle class, only rulers and the servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist. The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simple be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited."

The sheer magnitude and complex web of deceit surrounding the individuals and organizations involved in this conspiracy is mind boggling, even for the most astute among us. Most people react with disbelief and skepticism towards the topic, unaware that they have been conditioned (brainwashed) to react with skepticism by institutional and media influences that were created by the Mother of All mind control organizations: The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London. Author and de-programmer Fritz Springmeier (The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines ) says that most people have built in "slides" that short circuit the mind's critical examination process when it comes to certain sensitive topics. "Slides", Springmeier reports, is a CIA term for a conditioned type of response which dead ends a person's thinking and terminates debate or examination of the topic at hand. For example, the mention of the word "conspiracy" often solicits a slide response with many people. (Springmeier has co-authored three books on trauma-based programming which detail how the Illuminati employs highly tuned and extrememly sophisticated Mind Control (MC) training programs that begin the programming process while the intended victim is still within the womb. Mind Control is a much greater problem than most people realize. According to Cisco Wheeler, a former Illuminati mind control programmer, there are 10 million people who have been programmed as mind controlled slaves using trauma-based MC programs with names like Monarch and MK Ultra. The newer, non-trauma, electronic means of MC programming that grew out of the Montauk Project, may include millions more. Al Bielek, who played a principle role in the development of the Montauk Project, said that there likely 10 million victims of Montauk style mind control programming worldwide, the majority located in the USA. He also said that there are covert Montauk Programming 'Centers' in every major city in the U.S. )

What most Americans believe to be "Public Opinion" is in reality carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired behavioral response from the public. Public opinion polls are really taken with the intent of gauging the public's acceptance of the Illuminati's planned programs. A strong showing in the polls tells the Illuminati that the programing is "taking", while a poor showing tells the NWO manipulators that they have to recast or "tweak" the programming until the desired response is achieved. While the thrust and content of the propaganda is decided at Tavistock, implementation of the propaganda is executed in the United States by well over 200 'think tanks' such as the Rand Corporation and the Brookings Institute which are overseen and directed by the top NWO mind control organization in the United States, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California.

The NWO global conspirators manifest their agenda through the skillful manipulation of human emotions, especially fear. In the past centuries, they have repeatedly utilized a contrivance that NWO researcher and author David Icke has characterized in his latest book, The Biggest Secret, as Problem, Reaction, and Solution.

The technique is as follows: Illuminati strategists create the Problem- by funding , assembling, and training an "opposition" group to stimulate turmoil in an established political power (sovereign country, region, continent, etc.) that they wish to impinge upon and thus create opposing factions in a conflict that the Illuminati themselves maneuvered into existence. In recent decades, so called "opposition" groups are usually identified in the media as 'freedom fighters' or 'liberators' (recently the KLA-Kosovo Liberation Army).

At the same time, the leader of the established political power where the conflict is being orchestrated is demonized and, on cue, referred to as 'another Hitler' (take your pick: Saddam Hussein, Milosevic, Kadaffi, etc.). The 'freedom fighters' are not infrequently assembled from a local criminal element (i.e. KLA, drug traffickers). In the spirit of true Machiavellian deceit, the same NWO strategists are equally involved in covertly arming and advising the leader of the established power as well (the Illuminati always profits from any armed conflict by loaning money, arming, and supplying all parties involved in a war).

The conflict is drawn to the world stage by the controlled media outlets with a barrage of photos and video tape reports of horrific and bloody atrocities suffered by innocent civilians. The cry goes up "Something has to be done!" And That is the desired Reaction (note: the same technique is presently being used to bring about gun control in the United States).

The NWO puppeteers then provide the Solution by sending in UN 'Peace Keepers' (Bosnia) or a UN 'Coalition Force' (Gulf War) or NATO Bombers and then ground troops (Kosovo). Once installed, the 'peace keepers' never leave (Bosnia, Kosovo). The idea is to have NWO controlled ground troops in all major countries or strategic areas where significant resistance to the New World Order takeover is likely to be encountered.

East Timor, Indosnesia. (9/14/99) Virtually , the same strategy used to occupy Kosovo with UN/NATO troops was applied by the NWO manipulators to take military control of East Timor. Once again, the same morality play is trotted out for public consumption: the local evil and demonic Indonesian Army trained militias responsible for the slaughter of innocent civilians following the August 30 vote for Independence (from Indonesian control), must be stopped at all costs. This time, Australia (to keep up the appearance of an 'international' humantarian effort) will lead the charge with 'peacekeeping' troops. Of course, it didn't take long for Madeline Albright to announce that US 'support assets' will be part of the "UN Peacekeeping Team". In a front page story in the LA Times (9/13/99), Mike Jendrzejczyk of Human Rights Watch (an Illuminati front group) in Washington DC said that it's "crucial" that "peacekeepers have the authority to disarm militia forces and any Indonesian soldiers actively working with them". ]

The local, sovereign military force is either defeated (i.e. Yugoslavia) or, as in the case of the United States itself, replaced by foreign UN "Partnership For Peace" (PFP) troops who take over the jobs of US soldiers who have been sent overseas on 'peacekeeping' missions. In addition to being killed in ground conflicts on foreign soil, US military forces will likely be reduced in the next few years through disease induced attrition (i.e. from mandatory Anthrax Vaccinations required of all US military personnel). These vaccinations will, in all probability, eventually produce the symptoms of the so-called Gulf War Illness, which was acquired by a certain percentage of Gulf War soldiers who were given a "special" anthrax vaccine (intended by the Illuminati/CIA as a test run to ascertain how quickly (and fatally) the disease would progress with a substantial population of healthy young men and women).

The corporate portion of the NWO pyramid seems to be dominated by international bankers and the big pharmaceutical cartels, as well as other major multinational corporations. The Royal Family of England, namely Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor, (who are, in fact, descendants of the German arm of European Royalty -the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family-changed the name to Windsor in 1914 ), are high level players, along with the British oligarchy which controls the upper strata of the Illuminati. The decision making Illuminati nerve centers of this effort are in the London (especially the City of London), Basel Switzerland, and Brussels (NATO headquarters).

The United Nations, along with all the agencies working under the UN umbrella, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), are full time players in this scheme. Similarly, NATO is a military tool of the NWO.

The leaders of all major industrial countries like the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, etc. (E.g. members of the "G7/G8" ) are active and fully cooperative participants in this conspiracy. In this century, the degree of control exerted by the Illuminati has advanced to the point that only certain hand-picked individuals, who are groomed and selected by the Illuminati are even eligible to become the prime minister or president of countries like England, Germany, or The United States. It didn't matter whether Bill Clinton or Bob Dole won the Presidency in 1996, the results would have been the same (except maybe for Zipper Gate ). Both men are playing on the same team for the same ball club. Anyone who isn't a team player is taken out: i.e.President Kennedy, Ali Bhutto (Pakistan) and Aldo Moro (Italy). More recently, Admiral Borda and William Colby were also killed because they were either unwilling to go along with the conspiracy to destroy America, weren't cooperating in some capacity, or were attempting to expose/ thwart the Takeover agenda.

Most of the major wars, political upheavals, and economic depression/recessions of the past 100 years (and earlier) were carefully planned and instigated by the machinations of these elites. They include The Spanish-American War (1898), World War I and World War II; TheGreat Depression; the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917; the Rise of Nazi Germany; the Korean War; the Vietnam War; the 1989-91"fall" of Soviet Communism, the 1991 Gulf War; and the recent War in Kosovo. Even the French Revolution was an orchestrated into existence by the Barvaian Illuminati and the House of Rothchild.

FEMA
In America, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) was created in 1979 under Presidential Memorandum 32 authored for President Carter by Prof. Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor and former FEMA Advisory Board chairman. Huntington wrote the Seminal Peace for the Trilateral Commission in the mid 70's, in which he criticized democracy and economic development as outdated ideas. As co-author of the book, Crisis in Democracy, Huntington wrote:

"We have come to recognize that there are potential desirable limits to economic growth. There are also potentially desirable limits to the indefinite extension of political democracy. A government which lacks authority will have little ability short of cataclysmic crisis to impose on its people the sacrifices which may be necessary."

Huntington's ideas were rewritten into National Security Decision Directive 47 (NSDD47), which was enacted in July 1982 by President Reagan. Treated as a passing footnote by the media, this law identified legitimate areas to be upgraded to maintain national defense, but it also laid the groundwork for Emergency Mobilization Preparedness, a plan under which existing socio/economic regulations or other legal constraints would be waived in the event of a national emergency. This plan was further strengthened in Public Law 101-647, signed by President Bush in November 1990.What it boils down to is this: in the event that the President declares a national emergency, for any reason (from major earthquakes to increased international tensions or economic /financial crisis of any stripe), FEMA can then, at their discretion, implement Executive Orders 10995 through 11005. These Executive Orders permit a takeover by FEMA of local, state, and national governments and the suspension of constitutional guarantees. FEMA will have the authority to exert any sort of control that it deems necessary upon the American public. A trained National Police Force, formally referred to by the name of Multi Jurisdictional Task Force (MJTF), wearing black uniforms and composed of:

1. specially selected US military personnel
2. foreign military units carrying United Nations ID cards, and
3. specially trained existing police groups from larger metropolitan American cities.

These members of the MJTF will implement and enforce martial law under the direction and controlof FEMA. The President and Congress are out of the loop.

FEMA is the Trojan Horse by which the New World Order will implement overt, police-state control over the American populace.

War on Drugs
The "War on Drugs" is a cruel joke. The US government, specifically the CIA, is the biggest 'drug lord' on the planet. Drug money is used to pay for innumerable 'black projects', including the construction of huge underground cities housing both humans and aliens working with the secret US government.

The instigation of a trumped-up war as a cover for amassing fortunes can be dated back to at least the 12th Century when only a core group of nine members of an Illuminati group called the Knights Templar, the military arm of an Illuminati secret society known as the Priory of Sion, kicked off the The Crusades that lasted for over a century and a half. A rift later developed between the Templars and the Priory of Sion when Jerusalem was lost to Saracen Turks in 1187. In 1307, the king of France, Philippe the Fair (a Merovingian Illuminati), coveted the wealth and was jealous of the Templars' power. The French king, being a puppet of the Priory of Sion, set out to arrest all the Templars in France on October 13. While many Templars were seized and tortured, including their Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, many other Templars (who had been tipped off) escaped. They eventually resurfaced in Portugal, in Malta (as the Knights of Malta) and later in Scotland as The Scottish Rites of Free Masonry.

The acquisition and consolidation of ever greater wealth, natural resources, total political power, and control over others are the motivating forces which drives the decisions of the Illuminati. The toll in human suffering and the loss of innocent lives are non issues for these individuals, who are aligned with very dark and malevolent 4th dimensional aliens. The dominant group of 4th dimentional malevolent aliens controlling and manipulating the human Iluminati are known as Draconians or Drakos Reptilians. Not all alien reptilians are of a negative spiritual orientation.

Mind Control
Recent revelations from deprogrammed Illuminati (government) mind controlled individuals such as Arizona Wilder (The Biggest Secret), Cisco Wheeler ( The Illuminati Formula to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Control Slave), Cathy O'Brien (Trance Formation of America), and Brice Taylor (Thanks for the Memories) leave NO DOUBT that the upper levels of the Illuminati engage in Satanic rituals which usually include the killing of young children, the drinking of human blood and the consuming of flesh and human organs.

The details of the Illuminati conspiracy are brilliantly laid out in the books of David Icke (Tales from the Time Loop, Children of the Matrix, Alice in Wonderland and the World Trace Center Disaster, The Biggest Secret, The Truth Shall Set You Free, and I am Me, I am Free; and in three books by Dr. John Coleman (Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of The Committee of 300; One World Order: Socialist Dictatorship; and Diplomacy by Deception

Anyone Not Believe There's a NWO/Illuminati Conspiracy?

This post are quotes that should prove to any skeptic that the NWO/Illuminati are real.

"It was not my intention to doubt that the doctrines of the Illuminati had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more fully satisfied of this fact than I am."
-George Washington, 1782

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
-Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
-Woodrow Wilson, 1913

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
-Woodrow Wilson, 1916

"From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bela Kun, Rosa Luxembourg, and Emma Goldman, this world wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played a definitely recognizable role in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century, and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads, and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."
-Winston Churchill, 1920

"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses. This little coterie run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen, seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."
-N.Y. Mayor, John Hylan, 1922

"Today the path to total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people… outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded and is sure that it is the winning side. All the strange developments in the foreign policy agreements may be traced to this group who are going to make us over to suit their pleasure. This political action group has its own local political support organizations, its own pressure groups, its own vested interests, its foothold within our government, and its own propaganda apparatus."
-Senator William Jenner, 1954

"The invisible Money Power is working to control and enslave mankind. It financed Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Zionism, Socialism. All of these are directed to making the United States a member of a World Government."
-American Mercury Magazine, 1957

"The most powerful clique in these (CFR) groups have one objective in common: they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S. They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people. The CFR was founded for "the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government."
-Harpers, July l958

"The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nationstates involved. As managers and creators of the system ,they will rule the future."
-U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, l964

"The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups."
-Professor Carroll Quigley, 1966

"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."
-Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets

"George Bush has been surrounding himself with people who believe in one-world government. They believe that the Soviet system and the American system are converging. The vehicle to bring this about, is the United Nations, the majority of whose 166 member states are socialist, atheist, and anti-American."
-U.S. Ambassador David Funderburk, 1991

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
-David Rockefeller, 1991

"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance."
-George Bush, 1992

"[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions."
-Henry Kissinger, 1994

"Some even believe we (Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure---one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
-David Rockefeller, in 2002 autobiography

Does anyone doubt there is an Illuminati/NWO conspiracy out there?

[ericg]

ericg's gonna cut-and-paste these alien lizard men right the fuck outta our solar system. (y)

???

"ya can't fit it, so just forget it 'cause i know you ain't with it" - on the floor at the boutique - cut & paste - fbs

[Schmeltz]

Don't worry about it. Just keep copy-and-pasting whatever silly bullshit you happen to come across - we're all having a great time with it. (y)

[Bob]

???

"ya can't fit it, so just forget it 'cause i know you ain't with it" - on the floor at the boutique - cut & paste - fbs

been had a little horsie called paul revere
just me and my horsie and a quart of beer

[ericg]

democrats - the "good" natzi's

Nancy Pelosi, Public Enemy Number One
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Go To Original

Her machinations since Democrats took over the U.S. House in January 2007 show that Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't scared of the Republicans - "her eagerness to cooperate with the Bush regime is matched only by her incompetence in leading Congress." Pelosi and her leadership clique have never had the slightest intention of seriously opposing George Bush, since they are quite content with a status quo of endless war, half of New Orleans abandoned, true universal health care on perpetual hold, and a growing police state. Every constituency of the Democratic Party has been betrayed, with the complicity of Pelosi and her crowd. And there must be pay-back for back-stabbing.


"If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering, but because they have 'Impeach Bush' across their chest, it's the First Amendment." - Nancy Pelosi

The Democratic Speaker of the House would like to arrest activists for loitering. Her Quisling like behavior has led protesters to her front door in San Francisco, but she has only herself to blame for the inconveniences she and her rich neighbors now suffer. The great unwashed masses have a right to assemble at her home, her office, or anywhere else they choose in order to exercise what is left of their right to speak freely. Her own words show her level of contempt for the democratic process.

It is clear that Nancy Pelosi's reign as Speaker has been an absolute disaster for the Democratic party and for the entire nation. Her eagerness to cooperate with the Bush regime is matched only by her incompetence in leading Congress. Under her watch, Congress gave Alberto Gonzales, on his way to riding out of town on a rail, a significant victory by expanding FISA regulations to allow warrantless surveillance of American citizens.

"Her eagerness to cooperate with the Bush regime is matched only by her incompetence in leading Congress."

The story of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act debacle has been blamed on Bush. It is true that he once again lied about a terror threat, but it is not true that Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats were innocently stampeded. The Democrats had every intention of caving from the very beginning. Pelosi and the rest of the leadership promised the ACLU and other civil liberties groups that they wouldn't pass a bill without first investigating the extent of White House law breaking and without consulting them first. They did no such thing. As an ACLU lobbyist put it, "They turned around and screwed us over - and the Constitution - all at once."

Disappointment in the Democrats, pleas to "grow a spine" miss the point entirely. Pelosi and her clique have no interest in Democracy. They go through the flimsiest pretense of opposing Bush when they have no interest in doing so. Her goal is to preserve the status quo, not to overturn it.

Nancy Pelosi now has stated publicly what she thinks of us, the citizens of this country. We are an irritant to be tolerated, not people with rights that must be respected. Pelosi is an omen, a warning that acceptance of Democrat party actions is the first step on the road to political hell. It is a lesson that must be learned now, before President Hillary Clinton takes office.

"They go through the flimsiest pretense of opposing Bush when they have no interest in doing so."

The fix is definitely in for Clinton to win the Democratic party nomination. The Democratic candidates' fundraising prowess versus Republicans is a sign that the big money political donors of both parties are all betting on the Democratic horse.

Clinton's ascension to the throne now reserved for family dynasties should not be accepted as an absolute victory. The "middle of the road" after Bush is still right wing. Triangulation this time around means more war, New Orleans destroyed and deserted, and more dirty dealings in Congress.

Pelosi, Harry Reid and the rest of what passes for Congressional leadership have perfected their criminal enterprise. Every act of treachery is followed by lame excuses for inaction. The truly spineless ones, progressives wallowing in denial, foolishly whine, asking each other what is wrong when the answer stares them in the face. The Democratic party is complicit in killing democracy.

"Civil liberties groups and antiwar groups must finally realize that they can only play a role in movement politics."

Activists must keep protesting at her house and working for her defeat in the 2008 congressional elections. They must also cease cooperating with her. The farce must end before it is too late. Pelosi, like Bush, has no loyalty to her constitutionally based responsibilities. She must no longer be treated as though she is a friend when she has proven herself to be an enemy.

Civil liberties groups and antiwar groups must stop meeting with Pelosi or her staff. They must finally realize that they can only play a role in movement politics. It is said that insanity is defined as repeating the same action over and over yet expecting a different result. Progressives have waged many righteous battles in the last seven years, but they are about to go down in history as insane actors in a badly written play.

Activists must begin making demands. They must demand impeachment, they must demand that New Orleans be rebuilt, they must demand no further funding for occupation in Iraq or for a new war in Iran. Pelosi and her co-conspirators must be called out as the back stabbers that they are. Only then will democracy have any chance of being restored.

Margaret Kimberley's Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR. Ms. Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgandaReport.Com. Ms. Kimberley' maintains an edifying and frequently updated blog at freedomrider.blogspot.com. More of her work is also available at her Black Agenda Report archive page.

[ericg]

www.voxfux.com/features/bush_world_class_criminal.html

[ericg]

Don't worry about it. Just keep copy-and-pasting whatever silly bullshit you happen to come across - we're all having a great time with it. (y)

True story: I went to trim my beard this morning, and forgot to put the guard on my trimmer. So now I have to go down to at least a goatee in order to even it out.

But why stop there?

Should I go down to just the stache? Dare I make such a bold leap into the unknown and potentially terrifying?

[ericg]

been had a little horsie called paul revere
just me and my horsie and a quart of beer

"you's better off" - outkast

[GreenEarthAl]

*pours out a little bottle water for Blighty*

Oh for the days when the frothy ranting used to come with analysis and discourse.

*hides plastic bottle under the sofa cushion so that it will no longer exist*

[Schmeltz]

I never did go down to the stache, you know. My beard grows too quickly for it to be worth it.

[Bob]

*pours out a little bottle water for Blighty*

Oh for the days when the frothy ranting used to come with analysis and discourse.

*hides plastic bottle under the sofa cushion so that it will no longer exist*

you know, i was thinking the same thing. i remember him making a post or two about david icke and the reptilian conspiracy back in the day and i'll be damned if he didn't do it halfway convincingly. and i don't mean that as a burn, either, i liked that guy

[Bob]

"you's better off" - outkast

workin' on a sex farm

[ericg]

www.freedom-fight.net

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here's a more direct link to the entire movie, 'ring of power'.
initially i wanted to link a site where you could buy it so as to give props to the makers - in order to bring it to the light a little better, as opposed to left 'underground'.
http://loveforlife.com.au/node/1909

here is the same for 'secret space'.
http://nichegeek.com/10_google_documentaries_you_have_to_watch

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why doesn't iran just go with alternative/ benign energy?!!!
nuclear's cheap... is not a good reason. they want to have nukes like other countries to 'protect' themselves..??

the same global wargame agenda where the world's enslaved in the middle without any real clues as to why it is all the way it is.



Who Restarted the Cold War?
By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Putin's Hostile Course," the lead editorial in The Washington Times of Oct. 18, began thus:

"Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Moscow is just the latest sign that, more than 16 years after the collapse of Soviet communism, Moscow is gravitating toward Cold War behavior. The old Soviet obsession – fighting American imperialism – remains undiluted. ...

"(A)t virtually every turn, Mr. Putin and the Russian leadership appear to be doing their best in ways large and small to marginalize and embarrass the United States and undercut U.S. foreign policy interests."

The Times pointed to Putin's snub of Robert Gates and Condi Rice by having them cool their heels for 40 minutes before a meeting. Then came a press briefing where Putin implied Russia may renounce the Reagan-Gorbachev INF treaty, which removed all U.S. and Soviet medium-range missiles from Europe, and threatened to pull out of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, whereby Russia moved its tanks and troops far from the borders of Eastern Europe.

On and on the Times indictment went. Russia was blocking new sanctions on Iran. Russia was selling anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. Russia was selling weapons to Syria that found their way to Hezbollah and Hamas. Russia and Iran were talking up an OPEC-style natural gas cartel. All this, said the Times, calls to mind "Soviet-era behavior."

Missing from the prosecution's case, however, was the motive. Why has Putin's Russia turned hostile? Why is Putin mending fences with China, Iran and Syria? Why is Putin sending Bear bombers to the edge of American airspace? Why has Russia turned against America? For Putin's approval rating is three times that of George Bush. Who restarted the Cold War?

To answer that question, let us go back those 16 years.

What happened in 1991 and 1992?

Well, Russia let the Berlin Wall be torn down and its satellite states be voted or thrown out of power across Eastern Europe. Russia agreed to pull the Red Army all the way back inside its border. Russia agreed to let the Soviet Union dissolve into 15 nations. The Communist Party agreed to share power and let itself be voted out. Russia embraced freedom and American-style capitalism, and invited Americans in to show them how it was done.

Russia did not use its veto in the Security Council to block the U.S. war to drive Saddam Hussein, an ally, out of Kuwait. When 9-11 struck, Putin gave his blessing to U.S. troops using former republics as bases for the U.S. invasion.

What was Moscow's reward for its pro-America policy?

The United States began moving NATO into Eastern Europe and then into former Soviet republics. Six ex-Warsaw Pact nations are now NATO allies, as are three ex-republics of the Soviet Union. NATO expansionists have not given up on bringing Ukraine, united to Russia for centuries, or Georgia, Stalin's birthplace, into NATO.

In 1999, the United States bombed Serbia, which has long looked to Mother Russia for protection, for 78 days, though the Serbs' sole crime was to fight to hold their cradle province of Kosovo, as President Lincoln fought to hold onto the American South. Now America is supporting the severing of Kosovo from Serbia and creation of a new Islamic state in the Balkans, over Moscow's protest.

While Moscow removed its military bases from Cuba and all over the Third World, we have sought permanent military bases in Russia's backyard of Central Asia.

We dissolved the Nixon-Brezhnev ABM treaty and announced we would put a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Under presidents Clinton and Bush, the United States financed a pipeline for Caspian Sea oil to transit Azerbaijan and Georgia to the Black Sea and Turkey, cutting Russia out of the action.

With the end of the Cold War, the KGB was abolished and the Comintern disappeared. But the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House and other Cold War agencies, funded with tens of millions in tax-exempt and tax dollars, engineered the ouster of pro-Russian regimes in Serbia, Ukraine and Georgia, and sought the ouster of the regime in Minsk.

At the Cold War's end, the United States was given one of the great opportunities of history: to embrace Russia, largest nation on earth, as partner, friend, ally. Our mutual interests meshed almost perfectly. There was no ideological, territorial, historic or economic quarrel between us, once communist ideology was interred.

We blew it.

We moved NATO onto Russia's front porch, ignored her valid interests and concerns, and, with our "indispensable-nation" arrogance, treated her as a defeated power, as France treated Weimar Germany after Versailles.

Who restarted the Cold War? Bush and the braying hegemonists he brought with him to power. Great empires and tiny minds go ill together.

Patrick J. Buchanan is co-founder and editor of The American Conservative. He is also the author of seven books, including Where the Right Went Wrong, and A Republic Not An Empire.


From: The Weather Underground
Date: Oct 20, 2007 4:00 PM


----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Brandon
Date: 20 Oct 2007, 09:39


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071020/wl_mideast_afp/iranmilitarypoliticsus_071020112808

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
Thanks: hecktor dangus, esq.
Date: Oct 20, 2007 11:33 AM

Iran warned on Saturday it would fire off 11,000 rockets at enemy bases within the space of a minute if the United States launched military action against the Islamic republic.

"In the first minute of an invasion by the enemy, 11,000 rockets and cannons would be fired at enemy bases," said a brigadier general in the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mahmoud Chaharbaghi.

"This volume and speed of firing would continue," added Chaharbaghi, who is commander of artillery and missiles of the Guards' ground forces, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

The United States has never ruled out attacking Iran to end its defiance over the controversial Iranian nuclear programme, which the US alleges is aimed at making nuclear weapons but Iran insists is entirely peaceful.

Iran has for its part vowed never to initiate an attack but has also warned of a crushing response to any act of aggression against its soil.

"If a war breaks out in the future, it will not last long because we will rub their noses in the dirt," said Chaharbaghi.

"Now the enemy should ask themselves how many of their people they are ready to have sacrificed for their stupidity in attacking Iran," he said.

Iranian officials have repeatedly warned the military would target the bases of US forces operating in neighbouring Iraq and Afghanistan in the event of any attack and already has these sites under close surveillance.

Chaharbaghi said that the Guards would soon receive "rockets with a range of 250 kilometres (155 miles)" whereas the current range of its rockets is 150 kilometres (91 miles).

"We have identified our targets and with a close surveillance of targets, we can respond to the enemy's stupidity immediately," Chaharbaghi added.

He said that the Guards' weapons were spread out throughout the country and so would not be affected by any isolated US strikes against military facilities.

The Guards are Iran's elite ideological army and responsible for its most significant weapons such as the longer range Shahab-3 missile which has Israel and US bases in the Middle East within its range.

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Zetetic - Seeker of Truth
Date: Oct 20, 2007 4:24 PM


I seriously cannot believe this. As most of you may know the U.S. dollar is slipping very quickly and there are talks of starting war with Iran. Yesterday there was a stock market scare and the price of oil hit an all time high. Many are saying the dollar will completely crash very soon. I find it very interesting this article was written almost 3 years ago because it is practically predicting what is going on right now as we speak. Please read this!


The Real Reasons Why Iran is the Next Target: The Emerging Euro-denominated International Oil Marker
by William Clark

The Iranians are about to commit an "offense" far greater than Saddam Hussein's conversion to the euro of Iraq’s oil exports in the fall of 2000. Numerous articles have revealed Pentagon planning for operations against Iran as early as 2005. While the publicly stated reasons will be over Iran's nuclear ambitions, there are unspoken macroeconomic drivers explaining the Real Reasons regarding the 2nd stage of petrodollar warfare - Iran's upcoming euro-based oil Bourse.


In 2005-2006, The Tehran government has a developed a plan to begin competing with New York's NYMEX and London's IPE with respect to international oil trades - using a euro-denominated international oil-trading mechanism. This means that without some form of US intervention, the euro is going to establish a firm foothold in the international oil trade. Given U.S. debt levels and the stated neoconservative project for U.S. global domination, Tehran's objective constitutes an obvious encroachment on U.S. dollar supremacy in the international oil market.

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Oil prices punch through $90 per barrel

LONDON: Oil prices soared to another record high above $90 per barrel on Friday amid global supply jitters and tensions between Turkey and crude producer Iraq, dealers said. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, touched $90.07 per barrel in early afternoon deals. That beat the previous high of $90.02 set late on Thursday.

London's Brent North Sea crude for December delivery was flat at $84.60 after hitting a record $84.88 on Thursday.

"Persistent geopolitical fears provide good support to oil prices," said analyst Andrey Kryuchenkov at the Sucden brokerage in London.

This week, red hot crude prices have blazed a record-breaking trail as Turkey has moved closer toward a military incursion into northern Iraq - home to many of the troubled country's largest oil fields.

Iraq's Kurds vowed on Friday to fight off any attack on their region as pressure mounted in Baghdad and Washington for action against Kurdish rebels to stave off a potential Turkish incursion.

The market was also fretting over the falling US dollar. A weak greenback makes commodities priced in the US unit cheaper for buyers using stronger currencies and therefore boosts crude demand, analysts say.

In Friday morning trade, the European single currency hit a fresh record high at $1.4319.


Prices were "still underpinned by a weakening dollar and tight fuel supplies ahead of the winter heating season," added Kryuchenkov.

Demand for heating fuel hits a peak during the northern hemisphere winter and supplies are widely expected to tighten.

Turkey has said it will pursue diplomacy to defuse the crisis over Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq while Baghdad has tried to dissuade its northern neighbor from possible military action.

The Turkish Parliament Wednesday approved a motion authorizing military strikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party, accused of using bases in northern Iraq for attacks on targets across the border in Turkey.

Tetsu Emori, a fund manager at Astmax in Tokyo, said a portion of Iraqi crude from its northern oilfields is exported to Turkey because it is easier to do so.

"This is why traders are looking closely at the situation along the border," Emori said.

"There are some Iraqi exports waiting to be transported but that could not [be] because of the tension. That's the main factor."

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OpEdNews

Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jayne_ly_071020_the_protect_who_act_3f.htm

October 20, 2007

The Protect Who Act?
By Jayne Lyn Stahl

<span class="q">Congress appears to be on the verge of reaching agreement on some aspects of the so-called Protect America Act, or the "spying bill," which grants immunity to telecommunication companies accused of turning over private customer records to the National Security Agency. (WaPo)

</span>The legislation which aims to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act such that warrants are now optional with the vehicle will make an appearance before the Senate next week where it is expected to pass. And, this bill is as much about protecting America as the Iraq war is about bringing democracy to the Middle East. The only ones being protected here are those who continue to break the law under the guise of national security. From the presidential veto, it's obvious that this administration isn't interested in granting immunity from prosecution to parents who are unable to pay their children's medical bills. . <span class="q">

What's more, when was the last time you've heard of a White House giving an order to any company, let alone a communications company, which has tens of millions of customers, not to testify in court under a state secrets law that has yet to be written. But, what the hell, if one can grant retroactive immunity, why not enforce a law that isn't on the books? Oh, and why not cook the books, too, while we're at it as the Downing Street Memo clearly proves.

If nothing else, the past six years proves that not only does crime pay, but it pays handsomely--for the upper one percentile of the population of this country, that is. There are more carcinogens trying to pose as laws, coming out of Congress, these days, than on any freeway in America.

Let your Senators, whose salaries you and I pay, hear now whether you're willing to have your personal phone calls, and e-mails, intercepted as those of tens of millions of Americans already have, and whether it's okay with you for those telecommunication behemoths like A T & T, and Verizon, to be granted immunity from prosecution for breaking the law that protects your privacy.

Look at it this way, would you grant immunity unless you thought that a crime was committed? The Constitution isn't the only casualty of the "war on terror;" common sense is, too.</span>



Authors Website: http://ladyjaynestahl.blogspot.com

Authors Bio: Widely published, poet, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter; member of PEN American Center, and PEN USA.

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What Do you Do about it?
Body: Sit back and Kick it with a voice of reason.....

What if you live in the most destructive culture ever to exist? What if that culture refuses to change? What do you do about it?

Derrick Jensen: Endgame Part One

www.endgamethebook.org

www.derrickjensen.org

Derrick Jensen named
Press Action Person of the Year for 2006

From the Press Action
website www.pressaction.com

"The recipient of this award was never in doubt. Derrick Jensen's Endgame, released in late spring, was the best work of nonfiction in 2006. Given the significance of its subject matter and the urgency of Jensen's message, Endgame is the most important book of the decade and could stand as the must-read book of our lifetimes. But be careful. The book is likely to send you into periods of despondency over the bleak future of the planet. But Jensen explains that if enough of us stand up and work together to fight the fascists, the crash won't be as devastating. And the long struggle will eventually result in an explosive renewal of all forms of life on the planet."

Derrick Jensen: Endgame Part One
57:00 minutes

..


"Having long laid waste our own sanity, and having long forgotten what it feels like to be free, most of us too have no idea what it's like to live in the real world. Seeing four salmon spawn causes me to burst into tears. I have never seen a river full of fish. I have never seen a sky darkened for days by a single flock of birds. (I have, however, seen skies perpetually darkened by smog.) As with freedom, so too the extraordinary beauty and fecundity of the world itself: It's hard to love something you've never known. It's hard to convince yourself to fight for something you may not believe has ever existed." --from Endgame, Volume I

"Hailed as the philosopher poet of the ecological movement, best-selling author Derrick Jensen returns with a passionate forecast of how industrial civilization, and the persistent and widespread violence it requires, is unsustainable. Jensen's intricate weaving together of history, philosophy, environmentalism, economics, literature and psychology has produced a powerful argument that demands attention in the tradition of such important books as Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization and Brigid Brophy's Black Ship to Hell."

Derrick Jensen: Endgame Part Two
58:00 minutes

google...

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This was sent in a bulletin via myspace.

These days it seems like everyone's always trying to be famous, so it's interesting how hard the most powerful people in the world have worked to keep their power a secret. Of course they have a damn good reason: if everyone knew who they were and what they were doing, they would be torn down immediately. Fortunately for them, they have mastered social control by dominating our media and educational systems, so keeping people in the dark has hardly been challenging. Based on my research, they have infiltrated every section of society: economic, social, political, and criminal.

Economic:
The fed reserve is their own private bank, allowing them to run our economy by controlling currency and interest rates. Also, by illegally creating the federal income tax, the IRS, they have been stealing our money for almost 100 years.

Social:
through ownership as well as the sheer power of money, they control the media and dept. of education, allowing them to dicate public opinion and manipulate the fuck out of us (eg, war on terror= total hoax to go steal oil and curtail individual rights)

Political:
They essentially choose who will be the lead contenders, cabinet appointeees, etc... Anyone who's payed any attention whatsoever to our "democracy" knows that it's no longer representative of the people. This is why.

Criminal:
The bankers have long worked closely with the mafia and other criminal elements of society. All that heroin and weed and coke pouring into our country is no accident- the powers that be are making a huge profit off of it while at the same time keeping us in a confused daze.

Why isn't the CFR in the History Books?

Hardly one person in 1000 ever heard of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

The Council on Foreign Relations was formally established in Paris in 1919 along with its British Counterpart the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The Council on Foreign Relations and Royal Institute of International Affairs can trace their roots back to a secret organization founded and funded by Cecil Rhodes, who became fabulously wealthy by exploiting the people of South Africa. Rhodes is the father of Apartheid.

The Council on Foreign Relations was founded by a group of American and British imperialists and racists intent on ruling the world. Many of the American members were American intelligence officers that belonged to the first American Intelligence Agency -- THE INQUIRY. Many of the British members were British Intelligence Agents. THE INQUIRY and its members, who included such notable Americans as Col. Edward Mandel House, Walter Lippmann, Isaiah Bowman, and James Shotwell, wrote most of Woodrow Wilson's 14 points.

The CFR/RIIA method of operation is simple -- they control public opinion. They keep the identity of their group secret. They learn the likes and dislikes of influential people. They surround and manipulate them into acting in the best interest of the CFR/RIIA.

The Council on Foreign Relations, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs are adept at using the media to create massive psycho-political operations used to manipulate public opinion. The psycho-political operations are often designed to create tensions between different groups of people. The object is to keep the world in a state of perpetual tension and warfare to maximize profits from CFR/RIIA munition, medicine, media, energy, and food businesses.

The CFR has only 3000 members yet they control over three-quarters of the nations wealth. The CFR runs the State Department and the CIA. The CFR has placed 100 CFR members in every Presidential Administration since Woodrow Wilson. They work together to misinform and disinform the President to act in the best interest of the CFR not the best interest of the American People. At least five Presidents (Eisenhower, Ford, Carter, Bush, and Clinton) have been members of the CFR. The CFR has packed every Supreme court with CFR insiders. Three CFR members (Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Sandra Day O'Connor) sit on the supreme court. The CFR's British Counterpart is the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The members of these groups profit by creating tension and hate. Their targets include British and American citizens.

The 100 CFR members that surround the president are "the Secret Team." The "Secret Team" help carry out psycho-political operations scripted by CFR members in the state department and the Intelligence Organizations. The psycho-political operations are coordinated by a group of Council on Foreign Relations members called the Special Group. The Special Group evolved from the Psychological Strategy Board.

President Truman issued an executive order establishing the Psychological Strategy Board. The Board was run by CFR members Gordon Gray and Henry Kissinger. The PSB has close ties to the State Department and Intelligence Organizations. The purpose of the PSB was to co-ordinate psycho-political operations. Many of those operations were focused at Americans. The people became wary of the Psychological Strategy Board. Eisenhower issued an executive order changing its name to the Operations Coordination Board. The OCB was a bigger more powerful PSB. Gray and Kissinger ran the OCB too. President Kennedy abolished the OCB. It became an ad hoc committee called the "Special Group," which exists today. The PSB/OCB/Special Group always has CFR members running and sitting on it. Since the Special Group was not formed by Executive Order it cannot be abolished.


If you want to learn about the CFR, I recommend these two books:

1. How the world REALLY works, by Alan Jones
2. Shadows of Power, by James Perloff

ps. most of the presidential cover candidates are members/ puppets of/ for the cfr, of which cheney, rockefeller etc 'direct'.

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www.outtheretv.com
www.wearechange.org
www.educate-yourself.org
www.flexyourrights.org
www.stopblackwater.net
www.legitgov.org
www.democracyrising.us
www.whatreallyhappened.com
www.brainradar.com
www.waterforfuel.com
www.steorn.com
www.energyfromthevacuum.com
www.wtprn.com
www.makethestand.com
www.oilempire.us
www.showthelaw.com

[Schmeltz]

You're in a room full of people, eric, but you're only talking to yourself.

[Yetra Flam]

does this ring of power need to be cast into a fiery chasm from whence it came?

[Bob]

does this ring of power need to be cast into a fiery chasm from whence it came?

you know, that sounds like a metaphor for vaginas

[Yetra Flam]

it IS man. so much hidden innuendo in the LotR.
the "guy love" thing between sam and frodo.
fucking gollum - what a fucking meth addict. i see women like that on the bus all the time.

so so much more than meets the eye

[Bob]

yeah but fiery chasms from whence things come is totally talking about vaginas

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You're in a room full of people, eric, but you're only talking to yourself.

i'm in a room of foolish people..?
but hundreds of others pass through.

you don't read the signs too well.
fools get worked here. it helps to show others a better way.

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yeah but fiery chasms from whence things come is totally talking about vaginas

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

the age of confounded 'over-population'.
666 = 18, the age of accountability ...

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The U.S. government routinely conducts experiments on weather modification
By Chris Handy
Go To Original

The U.S. government routinely conducts experiments on weather modification, and has been doing so for at least half a century. Previously classified under such names as "Project Cirrus" (1947) and "Project Popeye" (1966), weather modification is no longer a secret practice. In fact, a bill (S517) was sponsored in 2005 by Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, a Republican, "to establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes." This bill did not become law. Yet, there is reason to believe that various government institutions are carrying out numerous legal and illegal weather experiments without informing the public.

This isn't just a suspicion of the United States. The Chinese government announced in April the creation of the first-ever artificial snowfall over the city of Nagqu in Tibet. The event was only one in a series of Chinese weather modification experiments that have been going on for years. China, in fact, now conducts more cloud seeding projects than any other nation.

Cloud seeding through the use of silver iodide was discovered as a viable way to make rain clouds in 1946. In 1947, the U.S. military attempted to use this method to seed a hurricane, which later hit the Georgia coast near Savannah. In the mid-1960s, similar techniques were used in hopes of muddying the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam. The idea was to slow enemy troop movements through the introduction of inclement weather, and conversely to prevent foul weather over allies.

But cloud seeding with silver iodide is an archaic technique compared with newer advances in nanotechnology and other methods for weather monitoring and control. Microelectric Mechanical Sensors (MEMS) and the newer Global Environmental MEMS Sensors (GEMS), are extremely tiny machines used to monitor weather patterns.

No larger than dust particles, the sensors are designed to be sent up inside hurricanes and other weather systems in large numbers, reporting back data as they literally become a part of those systems. This data can later be used to improve weather forecasting and potentially control the weather through a better understanding of the complex mathematics involved in such systems. One goal is to "steer" these systems, sending them to specific targets and increasing or decreasing their size.

Another extremely controversial participant in the weather modification game is the infamous HAARP antenna grid in Gakona, Alaska. HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, is an enormous array of antennas inspired by the free energy experiments of 19th-century electrical playboy Nikola Tesla. Commencing sometime around 1990, HAARP was only recently declassified, and much of the current research there is said to take place in secret.

HAARP fires massive amounts of energy into the ionosphere, heating and distorting a section up to 30 miles in diameter. There are various strange and frightening claims made about the project. It may be capable of shifting the position of the jetstream, which could impact global weather in ways that we still do not understand well. Other claims about HAARP, such as that it is part of a massive government mind-control operation or that it forms the main component of a giant death ray, are difficult to verify. But these theories are not as implausible as one might think.

Even in the face of mountains of evidence, many people still believe that weather modification of any kind is only a fantasy. People must be aware that these technologies have been around for a long time, are indeed being used and have great potential for dangerous and unethical uses. Our planet's weather is part of a single interconnected system and any change to it, whether natural or not, affects every other element of that system. The organizations most interested in modifying this system appear to be applying their theories in incredibly irresponsible ways.

[Bob]

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

the age of confounded 'over-population'.
666 = 18, the age of accountability ...

see here's a little glimpse into how ridiculous you look: i can't tell if you're actually trying to make a serious point with this post or not. if it were anybody else i'd say "ha ha that's a funny joke" but with you i'm not so sure you're joking

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When I think of fluoridation, two words come to mind: medical experiment. And the guinea pig is Y-O-U. That's right: Without any solid proof that ingesting fluoride was beneficial for your teeth-and with no safety tests conducted to determine its potential effects on the rest of your body - the government moved forward with the mass medication of the country's water supply.

Think about it: With the exception of fluoride, every other chemical added to tap water is for the purpose of improving the water's safety. Fluoride is the only chemical added for the purpose of medication. And just like all drugs doled out by Big Pharma, this one comes with a litany of potential side effects. The difference? There's no black box warning on your faucet like there is on a bottle of pills.

But there should be.

Did you know that for years fluoride was classified as a toxic waste in this country? In fact, not too long ago its only approved uses were as an insecticide and a RAT POISON! And that's just how your body treats it - as a poison.

Plenty of studies have been done over the years - and the results are frightening. Fluoridation has been linked to immune system alteration, musculoskeletal harm, genetic damage, thyroid dysfunction, and even cancer.

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7319752042352089988

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video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9203126838329335210

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=uljOLFyCjjc

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video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2020789241047516411

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Clinton bucks the trend and rakes in cash from the US weapons industry

By Leonard Doyle in Washington

10/19/07 "The Independent" -- -- The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street's favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three months and, in the process, dumped their earlier favourite, Barack Obama.

Mrs Clinton's wooing of the defence industry is all the more remarkable given the frosty relations between Bill Clinton and the military during his presidency. An analysis of campaign contributions shows senior defence industry employees are pouring money into her war chest in the belief that their generosity will be repaid many times over with future defence contracts.

Employees of the top five US arms manufacturers – Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon – gave Democratic presidential candidates $103,900, with only $86,800 going to the Republicans. "The contributions clearly suggest the arms industry has reached the conclusion that Democratic prospects for 2008 are very good indeed," said Thomas Edsall, an academic at Columbia University in New York.

Republican administrations are by tradition much stronger supporters of US armaments programmes and Pentagon spending plans than Democratic governments. Relations between the arms industry and Bill Clinton soured when he slimmed down the military after the end of the Cold War. His wife, however, has been careful not to make the same mistake.

After her election to the Senate, she became the first New York senator on the armed services committee, where she revealed her hawkish tendencies by supporting the invasion of Iraq. Although she now favours a withdrawal of US troops, her position on Iran is among the most warlike of all the candidates – Democrat or Republican.

This week, she said that, if elected president, she would not rule out military strikes to destroy Tehran's nuclear weapons facilities. While on the armed services committee, Mrs Clinton has befriended key generals and has won the endorsement of General Wesley Clarke, who ran Nato's war in Kosovo. A former presidential candidate himself, he is spoken of as a potential vice-presidential running mate.

Mrs Clinton has been a regular visitor to Iraq and Afghanistan and is careful to focus her criticisms of the Iraq war on President Bush, rather than the military. The arms industry has duly taken note.

So far, Mrs Clinton has received $52,600 in contributions from individual arms industry employees. That is more than half the sum given to all Democrats and 60 per cent of the total going to Republican candidates. Election fundraising laws ban individuals from donating more than $4,600 but contributions are often "bundled" to obtain influence over a candidate.

The arms industry has even deserted the biggest supporter of the Iraq war, Senator John McCain, who is also a member of the armed services committee and a decorated Vietnam War veteran. He has been only $19,200. Weapons-makers are equally unimpressed by the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Despite a campaign built largely around the need for an aggressive US military and a determination to stay the course in Iraq, he is behind Mrs Clinton in the affections of arms executives. Mr Giuliani may be suffering because of his strong association with the failed policies of President Bush and the fact he is he is known as a social liberal.

Mrs Clinton's closest competitor in raising cash from the arms industry is the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who raised just $32,000.

"Arms industry profits are so heavily dependent on government contracts that companies in this field want to be sure they do not have hostile relations with the White House," added Mr Edsall.

The industry's strong support for Mrs Clinton indicates that she is their firm favourite to win the Democratic nomination in the spring and the presidential election in November 2008. In the last presidential race, George Bush raised more than $800,000 – twice the sum collected by his Democratic rival John Kerry.

Mr Edsall's analysis of the figures reveals that, over the past 10 years, the defence industry has favoured Republicans over Democrats by a 3-2 margin, making Mrs Clinton's position even more remarkable.


"Don't forget that William Jefferson Clinton is in Skull and Bones too.....And Hillary Is in the CFR, just like the Bushes. Only non-CFR presidential candidates are Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel. CFR are the idiots who brought us NAFTA and will bring us the North American Union. Anyone miss the American Jobs Bill Clinton sent packing off to other countries?" - MS


Rothschild Banking Family Backs Hillary Clinton

"If you havent noticed already the mass media machine is pushing Hillary on us at an alarming pace they already have her in the white house all the polls are bullshit they want us to believe that Hillary is unbeatable. Rothschilds have financially supported nearly every war since the French Revolution, the State of Israel, and coups around the world. Millions of people have died as a direct result of this families financial gains." - MS

When 67-year-old British banking scion Sir Evelyn Rothschild first set eyes on 44-year-old Lynn Forester at the 1998 Bilderberg conference—the matchmaker was none other than Henry Kissinger—she was already a woman of major means.

A corporate lawyer and telecommunications entrepreneur, the sparkly blond ex-wife of former New York politician Andrew Stein had made more than $100 million from the sale of cleverly acquired wireless broadband licenses. She was also sexy, charming, and dazzlingly well connected. Two years later, after the smitten Sir Evelyn divorced his second wife, Victoria Schott, the mother of his three children, Forester became the third Lady Rothschild. After marrying in November 2000 at a London synagogue, they honeymooned at the White House, guests of Lynn's good friends Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Today the New Jersey-born Lady de Rothschild—the flashiest hostess in London—is mates with Tony and Cherie Blair, among other topflight Britons. She's also mistress of the former John Singer Sargent home in Chelsea and of Ascott House, the 3,200-acre Rothschild family estate in Buckinghamshire, and the chief executive of E.L. Rothschild, the holding company that she owns with her third husband to manage investments in the Economist and various enterprises in India. Those include FieldFresh, a startup that will grow and export Indian fruits and vegetables for markets in Europe and Asia, and a soon-to-be-announced retail venture aimed at the exploding Indian middle class.

In July, Sir Evelyn completed the sale of his stake in the centuries-old English branch of the Rothschild banking empire (for a reported $600 million)—which frees up a lot of capital for them to be major players in the Indian business world.

This week, Lady de Rothschild talked exclusively with Portfolio.com about her devotion to the idea of President Hillary...


"Doesn't it give you a warm, fuzzy feeling to know that this criminal has been selected as the next president to continue the Bush-Clinton dynasty? That what was intended as a democratic republic (NEVER as a democracy; please expunge that notion) has become a banana republic? Take a few minutes to watch, listen, understand what's on this video - and recognize, even with the truth staring us in the face, the odds are exceedingly high that ABSOLUTELY NOTHING will come of this. Except, if you pass it on, that perhaps a few more people will wake up." - Richie (MS)

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7007109937779036019

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fema was absorbed by the dhs in 2003.
internment: containment during wartime
camps only accessed by a railroad (shackles found in cars) company with strong ties to the bush family..
directive 51...

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This morning on Fox News, hosts of the show Fox and Friends blamed the wildfires in California on a new culprit: al Qaeda. They pointed to a 2003 FBI memo, which raised the possibility that al Qaeda may try to set wildfires around the western United States. They also noted that men in a “hovering helicopter” saw “a guy starting one of these fires.”

Later in the segment, host Steve Doocy acknowledged that in memo, al Qaeda didn’t even mention California. “They mention Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming,” he added.

Transcript:

DOOCY: You’re looking live at pictures from San Diego — Santiago, CA, where the wildfires continue. We were talking earlier in today’s telecast with Adam Housley and apparently police officers in a hovering helicopter saw a guy starting one of these fires. And Allison Allison Camerota, an FBI memo from late in June of this year is popping up this morning and it is ominous.

CAMEROTA: This actually has happened for many years in the past as well. An FBI sent out to local law-enforcement said that an al Qaeda detainee had given them some information that the next wave of terrorism could be in the form of setting wild fires. Adam Housley said lots of people on his block were asking him about it. Obviously this is something the FBI has looked into. They will continue to investigate it.

CARLSON: If they have this person in custody it probably won’t take long to be able to develop a link if there is one.

KILMEADE: A June 25 memo from the FBI’s Denver offices reported three days ago, excuse me, five days ago, by the Arizona Republic, that is a newspaper, they have been carrying the story and they continue to expand upon it.

DOOCY: Brian, the plot they say, according to this detainee, and they don’t know if the detainee is telling the truth. The plot was to set three or four wildfires. But they don’t mention California. They mention Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. We do know for a fact that a number of the fires in southern California are of a suspicious nature and they are investigating arson.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/fox-news-al-qaeda-is-causing-the-ca-wildires

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The Man Common
Date: Oct 25, 2007 8:56 AM



WHY IS THE 911 "FRINGE" MOVEMENT SO MAINSTREAM?
By: Devvy
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“It just didn't make any sense to me... When one starts using his own mind, and not what one was told, there is very little to believe in the official story.” September 5, 2007 - U.S. Navy ‘Top Gun’ pilot, Commander Ralph Kolstad

On October 19, 2007, some individuals in the audience of a taping of the Bill Maher show disrupted the airing; Maher joined security in removing these folks from the building. I know little about Maher and have never subscribed to any of the so-called premium channels like HBO on moral grounds. The individuals removed wanted Maher and his guests to talk about 911. The aftermath was a fresh barrage of verbal missiles aimed at anyone with questions about 911. Useful idiot, John Gibson, of the FAUX (FOX) Network, refers to people with reasonable questions about 911 as "ragtag conspiratorialists."

Bill O'Reilly and his stable of regular commentators always refer to those seeking the truth about 911 as conspiracy wackos; the "fringe element" that no one takes seriously. He is particularly nasty and often hysterical in his tirades. They all pull out Rosie O'Donnell as the poster child to bolster their rants. Following along with the rest of these mindless robots comes Glen Beck. Uh, who? Beck does a show on CNN's News Network. I'm not sure who would waste their time watching him after having scanned his show a couple of times for a total of five minutes, but apparently he has some sort of audience or he'd be off the air. Beck is a documented 911 truth basher. His latest statement on his web site reads: "Bill Maher's nasty spat with some 9/11 conspiracy nut jobs was a nuisance on live TV, but are these conspiracy theorists a menace to society? You bet they are."

Beck also has a poll up on his site with the question: "Conspiracy Craziness: Anyone who believes our government could have successfully planned 9/11 is not only giving them too much credit, but they're also insane. Do you agree or disagree?" Oops, Mr. Glen. The results as I work this column: I agree: 2,279. I disagree: 7,045. It would appear Beck's own audience doesn't even agree with him. Wait, it gets better. On his show October 22, 2007, he said:

"Anybody who thinks that 9/11 was carried out by the government isn't a truther. They're idiots....These truthers are exactly the kind of people who want to rock this nation's foundation, tear us apart and plant the seeds of dissatisfaction in all of us....Oh, no, don't get me wrong, I think they do believe it, which is why I believe these guys are dangerous. I believe these guys are anarchists that are looking to tear us apart. I mean, this is -- this is the kind of group that a Timothy McVeigh would come from."

According to all these high paid "experts" on "mainstream" and cable network television, anyone who has reasonable questions about what really happened on 911 is not only outside the "mainstream" of society, but would have been an advocate of Timothy McVeigh. Here's just a few of these "fringe" wackos so maligned by the aforementioned:

Bob McIlvaine, father of Robert McIlvaine, Assistant Vice President, Merrill Lynch, WTC North Tower, 106th floor. Interview by Evan Solomon, CBC News 8/30/06: Bob McIlvaine: "I believe 100% that the U.S. orchestrated 9/11 with the help of other agencies around the world. But my blame goes to the United States because it happened in the U.S. There's people within the U.S. that knew it happened, that planned this to happen."

Bill Doyle – father of Joseph Doyle, Cantor Fitzgerald, WTC North Tower. Article 8/6/05: "I honestly don't believe the government story. During another interview, Doyle said: The 9/11 Commission is probably the worst representation of the 9/11 Families or for that matter all the American public because it's a sham. It really is.... We had tons of different questions that we asked them to ask. They wouldn't do it. And the continuing cover-up is just beyond belief... There's just such a continuing coverup. And why don't we just let the information about 9/11 be known? And then maybe this conspiracy type of thing would go away, but it's never going to go away or I don't think it can go away because they were complicit..."

Michelle Little, sister of Firefighter David M. Weiss, FDNY, Rescue Company 1, Midtown Manhattan, lost his life trying to rescue others from the World Trade Center the day of the attacks. Press Conference, National Press Club 9/12/06: "I am here today to call for the facts of September 11, 2001 to be released to the American public. ... The time is now to call upon all the Americans to lobby local media to cover this story and to pressure members of Congress to support legislation by reopening this investigation. We must hold those involved accountable for this atrocious tragedy. My brother, David, and ten brothers from his unit were murdered on 9/11. For them and for all of our mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles that died that day, it is imperative for their lives to know the truth."

Lt. Col. Shelton F. Lankford, U.S. Marine Corps. Retired U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot with over 300 combat missions flown. 20-year Marine Corps career. "This isn't about party, it isn't about Bush Bashing. It's about our country, our constitution, and our future. ... Your countrymen have been murdered and the more you delve into it the more it looks as though they were murdered by our government, who used it as an excuse to murder other people thousands of miles away. If you ridicule others who have sincere doubts and who know factual information that directly contradicts the official report and who want explanations from those who hold the keys to our government, and have motive, means, and opportunity to pull off a 9/11, but you are too lazy or fearful to check into the facts yourself, what does that make you?"

Barry Zelman, brother of Kenneth Zelman, Oracle Corp., on assignment at Marsh & McLennan, WTC North Tower, 99th floor. Speech given at The Citizens' Commission on 9-11, 9/9/04: "I just embrace people that understand that four airplanes an hour and half between the first impact and the second impact with zero military response in the United States. It didn't happen that way. It couldn't have happened that way. You're talking about the most intelligent agencies that we have on the face of the earth. State of the art agencies ... And there was zero military response? ...It's very transparent that our own president did not want to investigate this tragedy. And I'm standing before you today for one reason. The only thing that I can give my brother is the truth. That's it."

Donna Marsh O'Connor, mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, Regus Business Center, WTC South Tower. Press Conference, National Press Club 9/12/06: "This government has made me a victim of conspiracy theories because they haven't answered fully, or allowed anyone to ask the true questions of September 11th. And that's what I'm asking from you [members of the media] today; for exposure. We are not crazy. We have questions. We demand answers ...We're asking for a new investigation into the events of September 11th and this time a truly bipartisan, global--with families invested from the beginning, middle and though out the end."

Those Americans are just a tiny number of not only family members, but fire fighters, first responders, professionals such as engineers, pilots, former military, aviation experts and demolitions experts from every walk of life, every race, religions and different political parties. Are they all part of a fringe element out of their minds by asking questions? How about seven veteran CIA personnel who call the official version of 911 a joke, monstrous lies and a cover up? You can read the statements of 190 Americans who ARE mainstream folks and this includes the spontaneous statements of fire fighters who heard bombs go off in the underground (basement) of the World Trade Towers by clicking here.

Are we to believe that thousands of Americans who have read the 911 (Omission) Commission Report and family members who have been intimately involved in the farce called an "official investigation" are all Bush haters? That they are all nuts, wackos, the "fringe of society" and advocates of Timothy McVeigh? According to Dan Abrams, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes, Glen Beck, John Gibson and others, they are. Without a doubt a whole cottage industry has blossomed over 911 and a great deal of it is simply trash, misleading, disinformation and some of it sickening, i.e., on Flight 93: "Find da plane, da plane!" like it's some sort of game. How insulting to the loved ones who lost someone on Flight 93.

As someone who has spent a substantial amount of time, including a cross country trip to Pennsylvania to look into Flight 93, it's been difficult to separate credible research from those profiting from 911. On my web site is an index of all my 911 columns; see link section below. I have never stated that Bush knew in advance or planned 911. However, I do believe that Dick Cheney and Rudy Julie Annie must be hauled in front of a real grand jury. If you read, Crossing the Rubicon, by Mike Ruppert, you will understand why I take this position. You don't have to agree with Ruppert's assessment on peak oil because there are strong advocates for both sides of that argument and so much conflicting information and statistics. But, his research about that day, backed up by footnotes for his sources - especially the military exercises - is critically important.

A new slide show is now available for viewing for free on the Internet. As you'll see on slide one, Richard Gage leads the way. Gage is a member of the American Institute of Architects. There are 318 slides in this presentation. This slide presentation is endorsed by dozens of others in his profession (list on slides 3 & 4) demanding a real investigation. Are they ALL Bush haters? The fringe element of society? This slide show contains a few film clips from what I believe is far and away the best presentation on the twin towers and aspects of what really happened that day: 911 Mysteries Demolitions. You can watch the parts here and I strongly recommend every American with a computer take the time to watch this unbiased presentation. I know time is an issue for everyone, but the weekend is coming. Please book mark this column and take the time to watch 911 Mysteries Demolitions and Richard Gage's 9/11: Re-examining the 3 WTC High-rise Building "Collapses" slide show.

See this picture of the Murrah Building in OKC? That building was blown from the inside out. Anyone with two eyes can see this building was NOT blown up by a "truck bomb" parked 50' away from the front doors. The guilty are still walking around free, protected by the U.S. Government (U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and elected public officials). When you view Gage's slide show, remember OKC because it's the same scenario: The Murrah building was not blown from the outside and the twin towers did not fall from fire weakening steel. For those who believe the bilge published by Popular Mechanics on 911, I submit to you than once you view 911 Mysteries and Gage's slide presentation, you will see for yourself that a "mainstream" publication put their name and repuation on biased trash.

Besides the family members, do people really think individuals like Gage have nothing better to do with their time than put together a professional slide show on a complicated issue like this? Because they're all Bush haters? Because they have no life and "need" to believe some conspiracy theory? Let YOUR eyes be the judge of what is real and what is a lie. Every piece of draconian legislation nullifying the Bill of Rights and the unconstitutional invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are a result of 911. Thousands of these family members and professionals have signed petitions for a real, unbiased investigation. Despite the old smear tactics from the "mainstream" media anchors mentioned above, millions of Americans do not believe the fairy tale told by the U.S. government and its minions who work for paychecks instead of the truth.

High paid mouthpieces like Bill O'Reilly continue to chant that to question 911 is hurtful to the families and that family members who lost loved ones that day are insulted by anyone asking reasonable questions. I will leave you with these words from two people Glen Beck considers a menace to society:

Rosemary Cain, mother of Firefighter George C. Cain, Ladder Company 7, Manhattan, FDNY. "It is our right to know, as the families of those who paid the highest price. We demand to stop the lies so they can rest in peace. The truth must be known. They did not die in vain!"

Daniel Wallace (1984 - 2007), son of Lt. Robert Wallace, Engine 205, Ladder 118, FDNY. Speech 12/3/06: "Ever since that day, I believed the official story for all about 2 minutes. I always had my questions. My family had their questions. The government sent us the 9/11 Commission or I should say omissions, really. They sent us that. I read the whole thing. As I'm reading the whole thing; it was just incredible; the lies in this book... It hurt me to read this book....

"The truth: to actually be out there knowing that I'm fighting for something that's right and something that's American. That's the American way. ... My father was a true patriot and I will follow in his footsteps. I'm gonna try so hard. I'm gonna try to the death of me to get him justice. Not only him, but the three thousand others that died, too. ... My father was a patriot. I'm a patriot and everybody in this room that believes in truth and wants to find justice is a patriot. Because this is America. It is of the people; for the people; and by the people. And that's the America I know and that's the America that I'm gonna defend, no matter what."

Important links:

Petition for new investigation

1 - Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report
2 - Statement of family members, fire fighters and professionals
3 - Complete 911 Timeline
4 - Pilots for Truth
5 - Resolution of Flight 93 lawsuit
6 - 911 Archives
7 - Crossing the Rubicon
8 - Dr. Steven Jones - Use of thermite
9 - The New Pearl Harbor Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory (2007)
10 - Gutless Attorney General Eliot Spitzer refuses to investigate murder in his back yard

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Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide
Torture as Policy under George Bush
By Stephen Lendman
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On October 5, George Bush confronted a public uproar and defended his administration claiming "This government does not torture people." Again he lied. Once secret US Department of Justice (DOJ) legal opinions confirm the Bush administration condones torture by endorsing "the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency." It also condones paramilitary thuggery, oppressive occupation, and genocide. This unholy combination is the ugly face of an imperial nation run by war criminals. That's the state of things today. First, the practice of torture.

Torture as Policy under George Bush

In a hollow posturing gesture, DOJ publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a December, 2004 legal opinion. That secretly changed after Alberto Gonzales became Attorney General in February, 2005 and authorized physical and psychological brutality as official administration policy. This continues unabated in violation of international and US laws that include fifth and eighth amendment prohibitions against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in all forms for any reason. These practices been long-standing US official policy, nonetheless, but the mask came off post-9/11 when former CIA Counterterrorism Center chief Cofer Black (now Blackwater USA's vice-chairman) told a joint House-Senate intelligence committee hearing September 26, 2002: "There was a before-9/11 and an after-9/11(on the use of torture). After 9/11, the gloves came off" and "old" standards no longer apply. They never did, and Congress knows and condones it.

Further, George Bush signed a secret September 17, 2001 "finding" authorizing CIA to kill, capture and detain "Al Qaeda" members anywhere in the world and rendition them to secret black site torture prisons for interrogation presumed to include torture.

As White House Counsel, Alberto Gonzales then wrote a sweeping memorandum to George Bush January 25, 2002 calling the Geneva Conventions "quaint" and "obsolete" and claimed the administration could ignore Geneva international law in interrogating prisoners henceforth. He also outlined plans to try prisoners in military "commissions" and deny them all protections under international law including due process and habeas rights. DOD Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was on board as well. In December, 2002, he approved a menu of banned interrogation practices that allowed most anything short of what would cause organ failure.

A new book called "Administration of Torture," by two ACLU attorneys, contains evidence (from FOIA requests) from over 100,000 newly released government documents. It reveals how US military interrogators carried out abuse and torture orders from their superiors on scores of prisoners. The book quotes Major General Michael Dunlavey who had DOD responsibility for interrogations of "suspected terrorists." He and Guantanamo commander General Geoffrey Miller both told the FBI they got their "marching orders" from Donald Rumsfeld to use harsh methods at Guantanamo that presumably were meant for all other US-run torture prisons as well. It was also revealed that Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in overseeing the torture-interrogation of Mohammed al Qahtani. He was falsely accused of being the 20th 9/11 hijacker, confessed under torture, and then retracted his testimony later as completely untrue.

Torture violates international law. The (non-binding) Universal Declaration of Human Rights outlawed it in 1948. The four 1949 Geneva Conventions then banned any form of "physical or mental coercion" and affirmed detainees must at all times be treated humanely. Its first two conventions protect sick and wounded forces in battle. The third one defines who is a prisoner of war and establishes "minimum standards" for POW treatment. The fourth convention applies to civilians and affords them protections during war that require they be treated humanely. All four conventions have a common thread called Common Article Three. It requires non-combatants be treated humanely at all times. There are no exceptions for any reasons and violations are grave breaches under Geneva and other international law that constitute crimes of war and against humanity.

The European Convention followed Geneva in 1950. Then in 1984, the UN Convention Against Torture became the first binding international instrument dealing exclusively with the issue of banning torture in any form for any reason. These are sacred international laws all signatories, that include the US, are bound by. No longer under George Bush's unconstitutional "unitary executive" authority power grab Chalmers Johnson calls a "bald-faced assertion of presidential supremacy....dressed up in legalistic mumbo jumbo." Condoning torture as official policy under it is Exhibit A.

In her important new book, "Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Defied the law," law professor and current National Lawyers Guild president Marjorie Cohn calls torture abhorrent and violates at least two US laws - the 1996 War Crimes Act and 1994 Torture Statute. The US is also party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) that guarantees the right to life and prohibits cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

The 1996 War Crimes Act provides up to life imprisonment or the death penalty for persons convicted of committing war crimes within or outside the US. Administration memos from Gonzales, John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and David Addington supported dictatorial powers for the president and advised Al Qaeda and Taliban interrogators were exempt from torture laws under George Bush's "commander-in-chief powers." Cohn, in her book, explained "the Torture Convention permits no such exemption, even during wartime."

Yoo and Bybee also distorted what constitutes torture by claiming psychological harm must last "months or even years." Otherwise, it's just harsh "enhanced interrogation" of the secret kinds George Bush authorized in a July, 2006 executive order. They reportedly include sleep deprivation, simulated drowning, stress positions, prolonged isolation, sensory deprivation and/or overload, beatings, induced hypothermia, and more that can cause irreversible physical and psychological harm including psychoses.

The October, 2006 Military Commissions Act followed, appropriately called the "torture authorization act." It gives the administration extraordinary unconstitutional powers to detain, interrogate and prosecute alleged terror suspects and anyone thought to be their supporters. The law lets the president designate anyone in the world an "unlawful enemy combatant," without corroborating evidence, and order they be arrested and incarcerated indefinitely in military prisons outside the criminal justice system without habeas and due process rights. US citizens aren't exempt. We're all "enemy combatants" under this law. Anyone charged under it loses all constitutionally protected rights and can be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment including torture.

Ironically, on the one year anniversary of the Military Commissions Act enactment, Fr. Louie Vitale and Fr. Steve Kelly were both sentenced to five months in federal prison for opposing torture. They also oppose teaching it at Fort Huachuca, Arizona and tried to deliver a letter with their views to the base commander, Major General Barbara Fast, former head of military intelligence in Iraq. Both priests were arrested for trespassing while kneeling in prayer on the base driveway in November, 2006. In an appalling miscarriage of justice, the presiding judge refused to allow any evidence of torture to be introduced. He also ruled out discussion of the illegality of the Iraq war and all references to international law.

Relief from these type abuses are nowhere in sight as leading Democrats condone them and now assure extremist Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey's nomination won't be challenged. He promises business as usual that's bad news for supporters of the law. He earned his bona fides as a US District Court Southern District of New York judge by ruling Jose Padilla, a US citizen, could be imprisoned without trial and held indefinitely by the military.

Padilla spent three and a half years uncharged in a 9 by 7-foot isolated South Carolina Navy brig cell where he underwent alternating sensory deprivation and overload and was denied the right to counsel for two years. Months of beatings, mind-altering drugs, and denial of medical treatment destroyed his mind, turned him to mush, and him easy pickings to convict on all charges without evidence he broke any law. Under Bush administration justice, we're all potential Jose Padillas in a nation where the rule of law affords no protection, and torture is the preferred means of social control.

Administration Outsourced Paramilitarism

The Bush administration believes anything government can do private business does better, so let it. And that applies to the military as well with Blackwater USA's powerful emergence Exhibit A. Author Jeremy Scahill portrays the company as "the world's most powerful mercenary army" in his frightening new book about it. It describes a "shadowy mercenary company (employing) some of the most feared professional killers in the world....accustomed to operating without worry of legal consequences....largely off the congressional radar." It has "remarkable power and protection within the US war apparatus" with unaccountable license to practice street violence with impunity that includes cold-blooded murder.

A congressional report indicates Blackwater received more than $1 billion in mostly State Department no-bid contracts since 2001. It's to provide security services for US diplomats, officials and others once assigned to the military at around six times the cost and can be up to $1200 per man-day. With Bush administration backing, it operates outside the law and Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and is immune from civil lawsuits like the military. Scahill calls the company the "Bush administration's Praetorian Guard" with "immunity and impunity" to do as it pleases.

Today, around 200,000 private contractors operate in Iraq. Up to 100,000 of them are paramilitary mercenaries from companies like Blackwater, DynCorp, ArmorGroup, Erinys, Triple Canopy and others like the Australian-owned Unity Resources that murdered two Iraqi women October 9. Blackwater is the largest, is close to the Bush administration, and is cashing in big as a war profiteer from huge continuing no-bid contracts.

The company was founded in 1996 by former Navy SEAL Eric Prince who's also closely allied to the extremist Christian Right. Blackwater came into its own post-9/11 and is now the world's best connected, largest paramilitary army. It employs 2300 personnel in nine countries with 20,000 or more others on call as needed. The company also has its own 20 aircraft fleet that includes helicopter gunships as well as a private intelligence division and a 7000 acre Moyock, North Carolina headquarters Scahill calls "the world's largest private military base."

Controversary surrounding Blackwater made headlines after its mercenaries killed as many as 28 Iraqis in al-Nisour September 16 by some accounts and wounded dozens more. It was only the latest incident involving the company that has a disturbing history of instigating unprovoked violence and then falsely claim it acted in self-defense as Eric Prince told Congress saying his men act "appropriately at all times."

A new congressional account from State Department and company documents reveals otherwise. It shows the company has been involved in at least 195 "escalation of force" incidents since early 2005 that include previously unreported Iraqi civilian killings. In at least one of them, evidence proved Blackwater personnel tried covering up what happened with a falsified report, and the State Department made no effort to hold them accountable or order the company to pay compensation to the families of the victims.

Agence France-Presse reported on September 16 Blackwater personnel shot recklessly "at everything that moved with a machine gun and even with a grenade launcher (as well as from two hovering helicopters). There was panic. Everyone tried to flee. Vehicles tried to make U-turns to escape. There were dead bodies and wounded people everywhere. The road was full of blood. A bus was also hit and several of its occupants were wounded." Among the dead were women and children. A daughter witnessing her mother shot in the head and killed said: "They are killers. I swear to God, not one bullet was shot at them. Why did they shoot us?"

Following the incident, investigations were launched that are little more than damage control cover-up. The FBI is involved as well as a joint American-Iraqi inquiry. Iraqi prime minister al-Maliki has gone back and forth on this one. At first, he demanded Blackwater personnel leave Iraq. He then backed down under pressure. He'll likely await the inquiry's findings that are out in part from Iraqi investigators, but again said he wants Washington to sever all Blackwater ties, remove the company from Iraq in six months, and have it pay each family $8 million in compensation.

It won't ever happen, even though early findings conclude Blackwater's actions were unprovoked, the al-Nisour massacre was a deliberate crime, those involved in it should be charged, put on trial, and the families of victims fairly compensated. The findings are similar to an initial US military report that one Pentagon official confirmed saying Blackwater's actions were "obviously excessive, it was obviously wrong. The civilians....didn't have any weapons (and) none of the IP (Iraqi police) or any local security forces fired (on Blackwater)."

Investigations are still continuing, the State Department is in damage control mode, and an October 4 House-passed bill (not retroactive) just made US contractors accountable for felony crimes under the 2000 Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA). In addition, new operating procedures have been instituted to paper over the whole affair. Nothing, in fact, will change, however. Blackwater personnel will stay in place, none of them will face criminal charges, and things are again business as usual with the company's paramilitaries back on Iraqi streets after being banned from operating there by an impotent prime minister.

A sign of things to come came a day ahead of the October House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Blackwater hearing. It was revealed the company's Presidential Airways subsidiary got a new government contract to supply aircraft, crew and equipment for flight operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Blackwater personnel may likely show up anywhere and currently patrol New Orleans streets for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) post-hurricane Katrina. Their presence is menacing everywhere, and they may show up soon in a neighborhood near you as the "war on terrorism" touches down at home.

Imperial Conquest and Occupation

Current rhetoric aside, even Alan Greenspan's new book admitted what's "politically inconvenient to acknowledge (but) everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil" and it was "essential" Saddam be removed to control it. Unmentioned was Iraq's importance that explains why Washington plans permanent occupation of the country. The Middle East has two-thirds of the world's proved oil reserves; Iraq has the most untapped amounts of it; and it's the easiest gotten, cheap to refine light sweet kind Big Oil covets. The country is also strategically located between Saudi Arabia and Iran at the top of the Persian Gulf. That makes it a perfect site for military bases sitting atop an ocean of oil worth trillions of dollars and surrounded by lots more of it.

The strategy to seize it was simply conceived but hopelessly flawed - replace the "cradle of civilization" with a newly created free market paradise with all that oil as grand prize pickings. It's still up for grabs, but a huge supportive infrastructure is in place and still being built for permanent occupation.

By May, 2005, US forces were operating out of 106 bases around the country from an original 120 number of sites. They range in size from the huge Main Operating Base (MOB) Camp Victory complex near Baghdad airport with thousands of US troops to others for fewer numbers called Forward Operation Sites (FOS) that are still major installations. There are also many smaller Cooperative Security Locations (CSL) as well as prisons and detention facilities throughout the country plus others for Iraqi military and police units.

A sign of permanency are four to six or more super-bases built and planned, the largest of which is the huge Balad one. It's the major Air Force facility in the country with its state of the art "Kingpin" air traffic control center (called the Common Grid Reference System) that divides the country's airspace into "kill boxes." The Army's largest logistical support center and secret Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force (CJSOTF) are also there as well as well as thousands of civilian contractors in neighborhoods charmingly called "KBR-land."

Balad and other major bases are enormous in size and on the order of small towns. They encompass 15 - 20 square miles with double runways as long as 12,000 feet, and Balad's air traffic operates round the clock and is comparable in number of takeoffs and landings to Chicago's O'Hare that along with Atlanta's Hartsfield are the world's two busiest airports.

In addition, they have their own neighborhoods and kinds of amenities found back home. They include department store-sized post exchanges, fast food outlets, movie theaters with the latest films, swimming pools, miniature golf courses, elaborate gymnasium and sports facilities, satellite internet access, cable TV, air-conditioning, international phone service and more. All the comforts of home including takeout pizza and Monday night football in the middle of a war zone.

Other major facilities are at al-Talil near Nasiriya in the South; the largest Marine base at al-Asad in Western Anbar province; al-Qayyara, 50 miles southeast of Mosul in the North; the US military command HQ at Camp Victory/Camp Liberty near Baghdad International Airport; Camp Marez near Mosul Airport; Camp Cook north of Baghdad; and a new base near Irbil in the North. In addition, another new Forward Operating base is being built near Zurbatiya near the Iranian border to be completed in November. It's location is provocative as the centerpiece of a new border control surveillance, monitoring and logistical support strategy called "Combat Outpost Shocker."

Then, there's what critics call "Fortress Baghdad" or the "ultimate gated community" inside the city's four square mile fortress-like Green Zone. It's surrounded by thick blast-proof concrete walls, and to enter visitors must pass through up to eight checkpoints. Inside, security is intense and includes full body searches, electronic scanners, explosive-sniffing dogs and every other human and high-tech measure imaginable for security.

The US embassy compound is there as well that when finished will be the largest in the world. It's Vatican-sized in dimensions and hugely fortified atop 104 acres, or six times larger than the UN complex in New York. Reports vary on whether 21 or 27 buildings are planned but their cost plus all facilities and perimeter security will top $1 billion. Construction is continuing, far behind schedule, it's reported to be shoddy, and it's already way over budget as predicted so the final cost remains uncertain but will be plenty.

The compound has everything - its own water, electricity, sewers, apartment buildings, swimming pool, shops, Marine barracks and will house more than 1000 civilian staff plus a large private and military security contingent. For the Iraqi people, it's a hated symbol of imperial occupation Washington intends to be permanent, but it may in the end go the way of the Saigon embassy in 1975. That's where the last US Vietnam remnants were frenetically rooftop-helicoptered out of the country in humiliating drawdown defeat. It ended visions of permanence then the way history may one day repeat in Iraq.

Imperial Genocide in Iraq

By any estimate, the human toll in Iraq is horrific from all that happened after Saddam's August 2, 1990 Kuwait invasion. Four days later, Operation Desert Shield was launched. It began with US-led UN-imposed economic sanctions, large US and other troop deployments to the region, and a sweeping Kuwait-funded PR campaign to win public support for Operation Desert Storm that began January 17, 1991.

Before it ended six weeks later on February 28, US forces committed grievous war crime violations of the Hague and Geneva Conventions and UN and Nuremberg Charters. They included gratuitous mass killings as well as bombing and destroying essential to life facilities that included:

-- power generating stations;

-- dams;

-- water purification capabilities;

-- sewage treatment and disposal systems;

-- telephone and other communications;

-- hospitals;

-- mosques;

-- residential areas affecting 10-20,000 homes, apartments and other dwellings;

-- irrigation sites;

-- food processing, storage and distribution facilities;

-- hotels and retail establishments;

-- transportation infrastructure;

-- oil wells, pipelines, refineries and storage tanks;

-- chemical plants;

-- civilian shelters like Al Ameriyya that was attacked February 13, 1991 by two laser-guided "smart bombs" killing around 400 civilians including 142 children;

-- factories and other commercial operations;

-- government offices;

-- historical sites; and more in a willful malicious effort to return the country to a pre-industrial age and punish its people horrifically.

Lost was power, clean water, sanitation, fuel, transportation, medical facilities and medications, adequate food, schools, private dwellings and places of employment. Early post-war estimates placed the number of civilians killed at 113,000 (mostly children) according to the Red Crescent Society of Jordan. In addition, US CENTCOM commander, General Schwarzkopf and others, estimated 100,000 or more Iraqi military deaths plus thousands more killed gratuitously as they were retreating in disarray.

What then followed was 12 years of the most comprehensive genocidal sanctions ever imposed on a country as an act of vengeance and US-imposed imperial arrogance. They were first adopted in UN Resolution 661 four days after Iraq invaded Kuwait. They included a full trade embargo that crippled the country economically but initially allowed in food, medical and other essential humanitarian needs. UN Resolution 670 followed in September, 1990 that imposed an air blockade and measures to enforce it.

After the war in April, 1991, UN Resolution 687 was adopted. It required Saddam accept cease fire terms and comply with Geneva protocols banning biological and chemical weapons. It also affirmed Kuwait's sovereignty, but it wasn't good enough for US officials who wanted sanctions to remain in force until Saddam was removed.

Later on, the oil for food and medicine program was adopted under UN Resolution 986 in 1995 but was hopelessly inadequate by design. An internal UN report in 1999 revealed it delivered only $74 of food per annum per person (about 21 cents a day) and $15 worth of medicines (about 4 cents a day) with vitally needed items banned or in short supply like syringes, anesthetics, vaccines, antibiotics and other drugs. Everything with potential "dual use" was blocked - chlorine to purify water, vital medical equipment, chemotherapy and pain-killing drugs, ambulances, and anything Washington wished to deny the country punitively with horrific consequences.

Further complicating things, all Iraqi funds were frozen and administered through a US-controlled Development Fund for Iraq. In addition, UN Resolution 661 stipulated all goods entering the country had to be approved by a 15 member committee that included the five permanent Security Council members. Approval had to be unanimous with every member having veto power. The US representative abused his authority by blocking items or causing long delays in importing others. The practice became so extreme, on one occasion baby food was denied on the grounds adults might consume it. At other times, items on the World Health Organization (WHO) humanitarian priority list were blocked such as rice, school books, paper, agricultural pesticides, medical journals and catheters for babies.

The results were predictable and devastating. Normal life was impossible and became a daily struggle to survive. It became apparent by the mid-1990s many didn't or wouldn't:

-- the UN World Food Program (WFP) reported 2.4 million Iraqi children were severely at nutritional risk in September, 1995;

-- in December, 1995, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said 12% of Baghdad children were "wasted, 28% stunted and 29% under weight;"

-- by year end 1995, FAO reported 567,000 Iraqi children sanction-related deaths;

-- by March, 1996, WHO noted a six-fold mortality rate increase among children under five;

-- in October, 1996 UNICEF reported 4500 monthly Iraqi children deaths from sanction-caused starvation and disease;

-- by 1999, the under five child mortality rate rose three-fold from 1989, malnutrition doubled, and the entire young child population was affected;

-- UN Secretary-General Boutras-Boutras-Ghali noted how health conditions deteriorated dramatically by the mid-1990s, and by 1997 the WHO Director General said Iraq's health care system was systemically broken; in addition, malaria, typhoid, cholera and other life-threatening and communicable diseases were rampant.


US administrations under GHW Bush, Bill Clinton and GW Bush are criminally liable under "the genocide convention" and other relevant international law. Up to the March, 2003 attack and invasion, more than 1.5 million Iraqis, including over one million children, likely died from the combination of war and economic sanctions. Two UN heads of Iraqi humanitarian relief resigned under them in anger and frustration with Dennis Halliday saying in 1998 he did so because he "had been instructed to implement a policy that satisfies the definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that has effectively killed well over one million individuals, children and adults" including 5000 Iraqi children monthly in his judgment.

To date, most members of Congress are mute on the Iraq genocide and continue funding it with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars. Yet on October 10, the House Foreign Relations Committee hypocritically passed a non-binding resolution calling the 1915 - 1923 Armenian holocaust (taking 1.0 to 1.5 million lives) genocide with a full House vote on the measure still scheduled for November in spite of waning support for it and uncertainty where it will go in the Senate.

Speaker Pelosi still backs the measure and in 2006 as Minority Leader pledged to support legislation "that would properly acknowledge the Armenian Genocide. It is imperative that the United States recognize this atrocity and move to renew our commitment to eliminate genocide whenever and wherever it exists." Today, Speaker Pelosi is mute on Iraq, Afghanistan and fully supports AIPAC's agenda and its top priority of war with Iran. She's not bothered by her own government's genocide that far exceeds the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Turkish Armenian slaughter during and after WW I. The data below estimates as many as four million Iraqis have perished from 1990 - 2007, but speaker Pelosi's condemnation of it is nowhere in sight.

Dr. Gideon Polya is a well-published biological scientist who's book, "Body Count: Global avoidable mortality since 1950," came out this year. It "documents....non-reported (worldwide) avoidable death(s) of 1.3 billion people since 1950" including in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also published his data on millions of violent and non-violent deaths under the three most recent US administrations in articles like his October 7 one on Countercurrents.org. In it, he cites data on Iraq from the Lancet, UN and British polling firm ORB. His "Asian Wars" totals in Iraq, Afghanistan, Occupied Palestine and Lebanon are horrific, and, if correct, exceed any others published to date. A summary of his data follows.

-- Eight million total violent and non-violent deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Lebanon breaking down as follows:

-- 70,000 "US-backed" Israeli-caused deaths in Lebanon from 1978 - 2006, 10,000 of which were violent killings "by Israelis" or their "surrogates;"

-- 300,000 1967-2007 Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) deaths plus another 10,000 violent deaths;

-- 200,000 violent 1990-91 Gulf war deaths;

-- 1.7 million 1990-2003 Iraqi sanctions-caused deaths including 1.2 million children under age five;

-- 3.2 million 2001-2007 US Afghanistan war deaths including UN Population Division data totaling 2.5 million plus 700,000 children under age five;

-- 2.0 million 2003-07 US Iraq war deaths including 1.2 million UK polling firm ORB violence-related estimates plus 800,000 children under age five from UNICEF data; and

-- 500,000 2001-07 opiate drug-related deaths resulting from the resurgent Afghan opium industry under US-UK occupation; the UN Office on Drugs and Crime estimates its output at 93% of world production.

Polya cites the failure of occupying powers to supply essential "life-sustaining requisites" as a major cause of preventable deaths. He also notes his eight million estimate exceeds the Nazi-inflicted Jewish holocaust total of about six million. And he rightly observes that major media misreporting, denying or "ignoring of this horrendous, ongoing mass" slaughter is the equivalent of Jewish holocaust denial and doing it endangers security for "both....victims and....perpetrators."

There's no denying the toll on victims, but consider the cost at home post-9/11:

-- a nation with no outside enemies permanently at war and claims the right to wage preventive wars under the doctrine of "anticipatory self-defense" using first strike nuclear weapons even against non-nuclear states;

-- world stability and peace further threatened by the administration's abandoning NPT, ending Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty protection, rescinding and subverting the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, deploying so-called "missile defense" for offense, and plans to weaponize space toward the goal of "full-spectrum (unchallengeable) dominance" of all land, surface and sub-surface sea, air, space, electromagnetic spectrum and information systems plus as much of the world's energy resources as possible;

-- a military budget hugely exceeding the rest of the world combined; The Independent Institute analyst Robert Higgs estimates the true FY 2007 budget exceeds $1 trillion with all defense-related items included;

-- a rogue government operating outside constitutional and international laws and norms with the Congress and courts criminally complicit;

-- an unprecedented wealth disparity in an omnipotent corporatist state;

-- growing social decay and poverty in the richest country in the world;

-- a secretive, intrusive, repressive administration under a president who disdains the public interest and is a serial liar and war criminal;

-- condoning and operating secret torture-prisons around the world as a weapon of cruelty, vengeance and social control; and

-- a cesspool of corruption stemming from incestuous business-govenment ties that defile democracy and mock any notion of government of, for and by the people.

The toll in Israel is evident as well. Angela Godfrey-Goldstein is an Israeli Jew, based in Jerusalem, and the Action Advocacy Officer with the Israeli Committee Against (Palestinian) House Demolitions (ICAHD). On August 30, 2007, she delivered an address at the UN Conference at the EU Parliament in Brussels commemorating the fortieth anniversary of Occupied Palestine. In it, she noted part of the toll on Israeli society caused by 40 years of Palestinian repression:

-- around one million Israeli Jews "voted with their feet and left the country;"

-- an estimate by some that up to 50% of Israeli youths refuse mandatory Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) service plus a "grey" Air Force refusal rate of around 30%;

-- a significant recent observation from John Pilger that "something (around the world) is changing. (There's a) swell of a boycott....growing inexorably....an important marker (may have) been passed, reminiscent of the boycotts (preceding) sanctions against apartheid South Africa" that led to the fall of its white-supremicist government; and

-- her experience working with "diplomats, politicians and aid workers in Israel and Palestine (shows) that, on an individual basis, there's enormous personal support and empathy for the Palestinian cause" because decades of abuse against them are intolerable and must end.

Push eventually will come to shove. We better hope it arrives soon. The world can't wait much longer.

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) He is based in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at www.sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Steve Lendman News and Information Hour on TheMicroEffect.com Mondays at noon US central time.

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House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill

Lee Rogers
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The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian population of the United States and uses vague language to define homegrown terrorism. Amazingly, 404 of our elected representatives from both the Democrat and Republican parties voted in favor of this bill. There is little doubt that this bill is specifically targeting the growing patriot community that is demanding the restoration of the Constitution.
First let’s take a look at the definitions of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as defined in Section 899A of the bill.

The definition of violent radicalization uses vague language to define this term of promoting any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda. Since the bill doesn’t specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it is entirely up to the interpretation of the government. Considering how much the government has done to destroy the Constitution they could even define Ron Paul supporters as promoting an extremist belief system. Literally, the government according to this definition can define whatever they want as an extremist belief system. Essentially they have defined violent radicalization as thought crime. The definition as defined in the bill is shown below.

..(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term ..violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.

The definition of homegrown terrorism uses equally vague language to further define thought crime. The bill includes the planned use of force or violence as homegrown terrorism which could be interpreted as thinking about using force or violence. Not only that but the definition is so vaguely defined, that petty crimes could even fall into the category of homegrown terrorism. The definition as defined in the bill is shown below.

..(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM- The term ..homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

Section 899B of the bill goes over the findings of Congress as it pertains to homegrown terrorism. Particularly alarming is that the bill mentions the Internet as a main source for terrorist propaganda. The bill even mentions streams in obvious reference to many of the patriot and pro-constitution Internet radio networks that have been formed. It also mentions that homegrown terrorists span all ages and races indicating that the Congress is stating that everyone is a potential terrorist. Even worse is that Congress states in their findings that they should look at draconian police states like Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom as models to defeat homegrown terrorists. Literally, these findings of Congress fall right in line with the growing patriot community.

The biggest joke of all is that this section also says that any measure to prevent violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism should not violate the constitutional rights of citizens. However, the definition of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as they are defined in section 899A are themselves unconstitutional. The Constitution does not allow the government to arrest people for thought crimes, so any promises not to violate the constitutional rights of citizens are already broken by their own definitions.

..SEC. 899B. FINDINGS.

..The Congress finds the following:

..(1) The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism.

..(2) The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.

..(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.

..(4) While the United States must continue its vigilant efforts to combat international terrorism, it must also strengthen efforts to combat the threat posed by homegrown terrorists based and operating within the United States.

..(5) Understanding the motivational factors that lead to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence is a vital step toward eradicating these threats in the United States.

..(6) The potential rise of self radicalized, unaffiliated terrorists domestically cannot be easily prevented through traditional Federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts, and requires the incorporation of State and local solutions.

..(7) Individuals prone to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence span all races, ethnicities, and religious beliefs, and individuals should not be targeted based solely on race, ethnicity, or religion.

..(8) Any measure taken to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism in the United States should not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.

..(9) Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit from lessons learned by those nations.

Section 899C calls for a commission on the prevention of violent radicalization and ideologically based violence. The commission will consist of ten members appointed by various individuals that hold different positions in government. Essentially, this is a commission that will examine and report on how they are going to deal with violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. So basically, the commission is being formed specifically on how to deal with thought criminals in the United States. The bill requires that the commission submit their final report 18 months following the commission’s first meeting as well as submit interim reports every 6 months leading up to the final report. Below is the bill’s defined purpose of the commission. Amazingly they even define one of the purposes of the commission to determine the causes of lone wolf violent radicalization.

(b) Purpose- The purposes of the Commission are the following:

..(1) Examine and report upon the facts and causes of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States, including United States connections to non-United States persons and networks, violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in prison, individual or ..lone wolf' violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence, and other faces of the phenomena of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence that the Commission considers important.

..(2) Build upon and bring together the work of other entities and avoid unnecessary duplication, by reviewing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of--

..(A) the Center of Excellence established or designated under section 899D, and other academic work, as appropriate;

..(B) Federal, State, local, or tribal studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence; and

..(C) foreign government studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence.

Section 899D of the bill establishes a Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States. Essentially, this will be a Department of Homeland Security affiliated institution that will study and determine how to defeat thought criminals.

Section 899E of the bill discusses how the government is going to defeat violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism through international cooperation. As stated in the findings section earlier in the legislation, they will unquestionably seek the advice of countries with draconian police states like the United Kingdom to determine how to deal with this growing threat of thought crime.

Possibly the most ridiculous section of the bill is Section 899F which states how they plan on protecting civil rights and civil liberties while preventing ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism. Here is what the section says.

..SEC. 899F. PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WHILE PREVENTING IDEOLOGICALLY-BASED VIOLENCE AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM.

..(a) In General- The Department of Homeland Security's efforts to prevent ideologically-based violence and homegrown terrorism as described herein shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights, and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.

..(b) Commitment to Racial Neutrality- The Secretary shall ensure that the activities and operations of the entities created by this subtitle are in compliance with the Department of Homeland Security's commitment to racial neutrality.

..(c) Auditing Mechanism- The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Officer of the Department of Homeland Security will develop and implement an auditing mechanism to ensure that compliance with this subtitle does not result in a disproportionate impact, without a rational basis, on any particular race, ethnicity, or religion and include the results of its audit in its annual report to Congress required under section 705.'.

(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting at the end of the items relating to title VIII the following:

It states in the first subsection that in general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United States citizens and lawful permanent residents. How does this protect constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to prevent so called homegrown terrorism.

This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately. The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.

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When it comes to producing billionaires, America is doing great.

Until 2005, multimillionaires could still make the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans. In 2006, the Forbes 400 went billionaires only.

This year, you'd need a Forbes 482 to fit all the billionaires.

A billion dollars is a lot of dough. Queen Elizabeth II, British monarch for five decades, would have to add $400 million to her $600 million fortune to reach $1 billion. And she'd need another $300 million to reach the Forbes 400 minimum of $1.3 billion. The average Forbes 400 member has $3.8 billion.

When the Forbes 400 began in 1982, it was dominated by oil and manufacturing fortunes. Today, says Forbes, "Wall Street is king."

Nearly half the 45 new members, says Forbes, "made their fortunes in hedge funds and private equity. Money manager John Paulson joins the list after pocketing more than $1 billion short-selling subprime credit this summer."

The 25th anniversary of the Forbes 400 isn't party time for America.

We have a record 482 billionaires - and record foreclosures.

We have a record 482 billionaires - and a record 47 million people without any health insurance.

Since 2000, we have added 184 billionaires - and 5 million more people living below the poverty line.

The official poverty threshold for one person was a ridiculously low $10,294 in 2006. That won't get you two pounds of caviar ($9,800) and 25 cigars ($730) on the Forbes Cost of Living Extremely Well Index. The $20,614 family-of-four poverty threshold is lower than the cost of three months of home flower arrangements ($24,525).

Wealth is being redistributed from poorer to richer.

Between 1983 and 2004, the average wealth of the top 1 percent of households grew by 78 percent, reports Edward Wolff, professor of economics at New York University. The bottom 40 percent lost 59 percent.

In 2004, one out of six households had zero or negative net worth. Nearly one out of three households had less than $10,000 in net worth, including home equity. That's before the mortgage crisis hit.

In 1982, when the Forbes 400 had just 13 billionaires, the highest paid CEO made $108 million and the average full-time worker made $34,199, adjusted for inflation in $2006. Last year, the highest paid hedge fund manager hauled in $1.7 billion, the highest paid CEO made $647 million, and the average worker made $34,861, with vanishing health and pension coverage.

The Forbes 400 is even more of a rich men's club than when it began. The number of women has dropped from 75 in 1982 to 39 today.

The 400 richest Americans have a conservatively estimated $1.54 trillion in combined wealth. That amount is more than 11 percent of our $13.8 trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - the total annual value of goods and services produced by our nation of 303 million people. In 1982, Forbes 400 wealth measured less than 3 percent of U.S. GDP.

And the rich, notes Fortune magazine, "give away a smaller share of their income than the rest of us."

Thanks to mega-tax cuts, the rich can afford more mega-yachts, accessorized with helicopters and mini-submarines. Meanwhile, the infrastructure of bridges, levees, mass transit, parks and other public assets inherited from earlier generations of taxpayers crumbles from neglect, and the holes in the safety net are growing.

The top 1 percent of households - average income $1.5 million - will save a collective $79.5 billion on their 2008 taxes, reports Citizens for Tax Justice. That's more than the combined budgets of the Transportation Department, Small Business Administration, Environmental Protection Agency and Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Tax cuts will save the top 1 percent a projected $715 billion between 2001 and 2010. And cost us $715 billion in mounting national debt plus interest.

The children and grandchildren of today's underpaid workers will pay for the partying of today's plutocrats and their retinue of lobbyists.

It's time for Congress to roll back tax cuts for the wealthy and close the loophole letting billionaire hedge fund speculators pay taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries.

Inequality has roared back to 1920s levels. It was bad for our nation then. It's bad for our nation now.

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Former Bush General Touts Privatization of National Disaster Response
by: Eartha Jane Melzer

Blackwater Pal Says "Country Club Fees" Would Guarantee Protection


(Photo: President George W. Bush and Brigadier General Richard Mills, Deputy Commander of U.S. Special Forces, view a tactical demonstration from the roof of a building at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Friday, March 15, 2002. White House photo by Eric Draper.)

A retired general now working for a controversial private security company told an audience last night about the services the company plans to provide.

The government does not have the tax base to provide services to everyone in the event of a major catastrophe, retired Brigadier General Richard W. Mills told an audience in Pellston last night.

Mills served as Deputy Director of the Counterterrorism Center (CTC) of the Central Intelligence Agency before retirement this year. At a public meeting at the Pellston High School he presented himself as the executive vice president for strategic development for Sovereign Deed, an 18 month old company that offers private disaster response services.

Sovereign Deed was started by a founder of Triple Canopy -- one the largest private security companies doing business in Iraq. In August the company announced that it would build a "national response center" at the Pellston airport in Emmet County. The announcement came after State Senator Jason Allen (R-Traverse City) successfully sponsored a bill to allow private security firms to qualify for tax abatements as industrial facilities.
Mills, and Emmet County officials, were on hand last night to speak about Sovereign Deed and address what they called a wave of "rumors" about the company's plans.

Mills said that Sovereign Deed is focused ..ing people in urban areas plan to survive a major disaster.

Mills said that Sovereign Deed would offer planning and rescue services to subscribers who pay a "country club type membership fee." Basic service, he said, would involve a one time $50,000 fee and $15,000 per year.

"The reality of FEMA is that is has no infrastructure, and a lot of our National Guard is elsewhere fighting the war," Mills said. "You never know what could happen. A hurricane, a terrorist attack, a nuclear power plant going bad -- it doesn't matter, you make concentric circles, you get a plan."

He said northern Michigan was well suited for a national response center because it has low air traffic congestion and few risks outside the occasional snow storm.

Though some said they would welcome any business development that might bring jobs to local people, many objected to what they called the vague nature of Sovereign Deed's plans.

Mills did not offer details about what supplies would be stored at it's Emmet county warehouses. He did not offer details on how much air traffic the business might generate, how many people it would train and what sort of training people would receive. He did say that the company would bring military cargo planes to the Pellston airport.

Mills emphasized that Sovereign Deed is not a government agency. But he did not rule out working for governments and he said that FEMA is looking to privatize some functions.

Members of the group "Do We Need Sovereign Deed" are questioning the use of tax incentives to attract Sovereign Deed. During the forum several people expressed concerns about a "parallel universe" security system being set up to benefit only those with financial resources.

The Sovereign Deed plan, "Flies in the face of democracy," Carolyn Belknap said.

Belknap said she feels the company's plans are covert and that she is suspicious of Sovereign Deed connections to other similar organizations such as Triple Canopy and Blackwater.

Belknap said she is particularly disturbed by Sovereign Deed claims that they will have access to advance intelligence on security threats. She said she is concerned with the privatization of security intelligence.

Belknap pointed to the close relationships between Eric Prince, founder of Blackwater, and conservative political causes and candidates.

"I think that when we dig deeper we are going to find that they are all connected. We've got to follow the money."

As part of the campaign to do this, Belknap said, concerned citizens in Northern Michigan are forming ties with a group in California that is mobilizing to oppose a Blackwater training camp there.

East of San Diego, in rural Potrero, California (now in the midst of a forest fire) a recall campaign seeks to unseat planning commissioners who approved a plan for a 860 acre Blackwater training facility.

Activists there say that the Blackwater facility near the southern border is positioned to take advantage of government border security contracts.

Some people wary of the Sovereign Deed project have expressed concern that a closed state prison camp in Pellston may be part of the company's future plans.

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The destroyed Potrero community near San Diego is the location where Blackwater plans to put a massive mercenary training facility. Now all the homes are destroyed. The Town was totally against Blackwater coming in and now they all got burned out.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/10/...ckwater_border/

Blackwater is planning to build an 824-acre military-style training complex in Potrero, Calif., a rural hamlet 45 miles east of San Diego. The company's proposal, which was approved last December by the Potrero Community Planning Group and has drawn protest from within the Potrero community, will turn a former chicken ranch into "Blackwater West," the company's second-largest facility in the country. It will include a multitude of weapons firing ranges, a tactical driving track, a helipad, a 33,000-square-foot urban simulation training area, an armory for storing guns and ammunition, and dorms and classrooms. And it will be located in the heart one of the most active regions in the United States for illegal border crossings.



Beyond the damage and destruction to life and property, the timing of this wildfire could not be much worse. This fire exploded just as the people of Potrero were preparing for a recall election on December 11 to kick out the planning group members who approved Blackwater's base. With ballots scheduled to be mailed in early November to less than 600 registered voters in this historic vote-by-mail recall, Potrero residents were preparing for an intense campaign over the next six weeks.

But the actual landscape -- and the political landscape -- of Potrero have been transformed over the last 48 hours.
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/Potrero

Here's a trailer to an upcoming documentary showing the small town's fight to keep Blackwater out:
"Blackwater in Petrero"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvIeWQQh8MA


Consider that a terror alert was issued to firehouses as strange men were seen surveying and photographing firehouses up and down California recently
http://calfire.blogspot.com/2007/09/terror...e-stations.html

And isnt this great...

the lock down, fortress like(were talking huge congrete barrier rings inside barriers with no way out) Quallcom stadium full of tens of thousands of refugees into makeshift FEMA camp

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Please sign this Petition and repost everywhere!
http://www.petitiononline.com/brownirs/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptbB1rZ-6I

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Independent sources report that a bear has very likely shit in the woods in northern Seattle. A bulletin sent to users via MySpace, meanwhile, confirms the involvement of the Illuminati, Rothschilds, Jews, Blackwater USA, and shape-shifting alien reptile people from Atlantis in said incident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2U4L6L0S1H4I2T0

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stay on it and figure that shit out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVM62idO9MA

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4511473723593448051

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7828479818173821931

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Donald Rumsfeld charged with torture during trip to France
http://wor.ldne.ws/node/8288
Fri, 10/26/2007 - 09:23


Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got an unpleasant surprise during his visit to France today when human rights groups filed a complaint with the Paris Prosecutor before the “Court of First Instance” (Tribunal de Grande Instance) charging the chief architect of President George W. Bush's "war on terror" with ordering and authorizing torture.

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) along with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and the French League for Human Rights (LDH) filed the complaint while Rumsfeld was in Paris for a talk sponsored by Foreign Policy magazine, and under French law, an investigation must be opened if an alleged torturer is inside France.

“France is under the obligation to investigate and prosecute Rumsfeld’s accountability for crimes of torture in Guantanamo and Iraq," said FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen. "France has no choice but to open an investigation if an alleged torturer is on its territory. I hope that the fight against impunity will not be sacrificed in the name of politics. We call on France to refuse to be a safe haven for criminals.”

“The filing of this French case against Rumsfeld demonstrates that we will not rest until those U.S. officials involved in the torture program are brought to justice," said CCR President Michael Ratner. "Rumsfeld must understand that he has no place to hide. A torturer is an enemy of all humankind.”

The criminal complaint states that because of the failure of authorities in the United States and Iraq to launch any independent investigation into the responsibility of Rumsfeld and other high-level U.S. officials for torture despite a documented paper trail and government memos implicating them in direct as well as command responsibility for torture – and because the U.S. has refused to join the International Criminal Court – it is the legal obligation of states such as France to take up the case.

Rumsfeld’s presence on French territory gives French courts jurisdiction to prosecute him for having ordered and authorized torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere.

“We want to combat impunity and therefore demand a judicial investigation and a criminal prosecution wherever there is jurisdiction over the torture incidents,” said ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck.

"That a criminal State representative should benefit from impunity is always unacceptable. Because the USA is the super power of the beginning of this century and, above all, because it is a democracy, the impunity of Donald Rumsfeld is even more insufferable than that of a Hissène Habré or a Radovan Karadzic", underlined Jean-Pierre Dubois, LDH President.

In this case, charges are brought under the 1984 Convention against Torture, ratified by both the United States and France, which has been used in France in previous torture cases.

French courts therefore have an obligation under the Convention against Torture to prosecute individuals responsible for acts of torture if they are present on French territory. This will be the only case filed while he is in the country, which makes the obligations to investigate and prosecute under international law extremely strong.

In addition, having resigned from his position of U.S. Secretary of Defense a year ago, Rumsfeld can no longer try to claim immunity as a head of state or government official. Nor can he claim immunity as former state official, as international law does not recognize such immunity in the case of international crimes including the crime of torture.

Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, former commander of Abu Ghraib and other U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, submitted written testimony to the Paris Prosecutor for the plaintiffs’ case on Rumsfeld’s responsibility for the abuse of detainees.

This is the fifth time Rumsfeld has been charged with direct involvement in torture stemming from his role in the Bush administration’s program of torture post-9/11.

Two previous criminal complaints were filed in Germany under its universal jurisdiction statute, which allows Germany to prosecute serious international crimes regardless of where they occurred or the nationality of the perpetrators or victims. One case was filed in fall 2004 by CCR, FIDH, and Berlin attorney Wolfgang Kaleck; that case was dismissed in February 2005 in response to official pressure from the U.S., in particular from the Pentagon.

The second case was filed in fall 2006 by the same groups as well as dozens of national and international human rights groups, Nobel Peace Prize winners and the United Nations former Special Rapporteur on Torture. The 2006 complaint was presented on behalf of 12 Iraqi citizens who had been held and abused in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and one Saudi citizen still held at Guantánamo. This case was dismissed in April 2007, and an appeal will be filed against this decision next week.

Two other cases were filed against Rumsfeld in Argentina in 2005 and in Sweden in 2007.

The complaint and the documents attached are available on FIDH Website in French language.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/26/4832/

Spilling the Beans on Soy
by Heidi Sopinka
What could be a more eco-righteous symbol of the hippie vegetarian movement than a block of tofu? As it turns out, the gentle bean has become somewhat of a blood crop in South America. A recent article in The Daily Telegraph uncovered that land-rights activists are risking death, while vast swaths of rainforest are being felled to provide land for the booming soy industry in Brazil (now surpassing the United States as the top soy exporter in the world). With the added issues of widespread genetically modified and pesticide-laden crops, along with the documented dangers of eating too much unfermented soy, just how green is the soy bean?

27,200

Amount in square kilometres (an area about the size of Belgium) of Amazon rainforest cleared for monoculture soybean farming between August, 2003, and August, 2004. Three-quarters of this destruction was illegal.

75 to 89

Percentage of soybeans grown in North America that are genetically modified. Even if you are actively avoiding GM foods, GM soy is present in approximately 60 per cent of processed foods - usually as filler or oil. Neither Canada nor the United States requires any safety testing on GM food products, despite findings of toxicity and cancer-promoting properties.

115

Celsius temperature to which soy beans are heated in the production of commercial soy milk in an attempt to remove trypsin inhibitors (they interfere with protein digestion and have been linked to pancreatic disorders), but the phytate content remains largely intact. (Phytates block the absorption of essential minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iron and especially zinc in the intestinal tract.)

5

The equivalent number of birth-control pills a day that babies fed exclusively on soy formula would be consuming, according to a British toxicologist’s calculations. (Components of soy called isoflavones produce estrogen-like effects in the body, and as a result are sometimes called phytoestrogens.) Thirty to 40 per cent of babies in the United States are fed soy formula.

Bottom Line

From fast food to pet food, soy is wall-to-wall in our edible products. And while organic fermented soy can be good in moderation, eating a tofu burger and washing it down with a glass of soy milk on a daily basis could prove hazardous to your health. Although the lauded Asian diet has incorporated soy for centuries, it has never included the large amounts of unfermented and heavily processed soy products consumed in North America that have toxicologists worried. When seeking out soy, look for products that are labelled “organic soy,” which means they are genetically unaltered and pesticide-free. Fermented soy products, including miso, tempeh and tamari sauce, are healthy choices (the fermentation process removes the phytates, trypsin inhibitors and hemagglutinins, which can cause clots). If only the hippies had known that soy was going to wind up a Frankenfood blood crop - chances are they would’ve just stuck to the wheatgrass.

Sources: Health Canada, U.K. Medical Research Council, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Worldwatch Institute, World Wildlife Fund

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The Secretive Fight Against Bioterror
The government is building a highly classified facility to research biological weapons, but its closed-door approach has raised concerns.

By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 30, 2006

On the grounds of a military base an hour's drive from the capital, the Bush administration is building a massive biodefense laboratory unlike any seen since biological weapons were banned 34 years ago.

The heart of the lab is a cluster of sealed chambers built to contain the world's deadliest bacteria and viruses. There, scientists will spend their days simulating the unthinkable: bioterrorism attacks in the form of lethal anthrax spores rendered as wispy powders that can drift for miles on a summer breeze, or common viruses turned into deadly superbugs that ordinary drugs and vaccines cannot stop.

The work at this new lab, at Fort Detrick, Md., could someday save thousands of lives -- or, some fear, create new risks and place the United States in violation of international treaties. In either case, much of what transpires at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) may never be publicly known, because the Bush administration intends to operate the facility largely in secret.

In an unusual arrangement, the building itself will be classified as highly restricted space, from the reception desk to the lab benches to the cages where animals are kept. Few federal facilities, including nuclear labs, operate with such stealth. It is this opacity that some arms-control experts say has become a defining characteristic of U.S. biodefense policy as carried out by the Department of Homeland Security, NBACC's creator.

Since the department's founding in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, its officials have dramatically expanded the government's ability to conduct realistic tests of the pathogens and tactics that might be used in a bioterrorism attack. Some of the research falls within what many arms-control experts say is a legal gray zone, skirting the edges of an international treaty outlawing the production of even small amounts of biological weapons.

The administration dismisses these concerns, however, insisting that the work of NBACC is purely defensive and thus fully legal. It has rejected calls for oversight by independent observers outside the department's network of government scientists and contractors. And it defends the secrecy as necessary to protect Americans.

"Where the research exposes vulnerability, I've got to protect that, for the public's interest," said Bernard Courtney, NBACC's scientific director. "We don't need to be showing perpetrators the holes in our defense."

Tara O'Toole, founder of the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and an adviser to the Defense Department on bioterrorism, said the secrecy fits a larger pattern and could have consequences. "The philosophy and practice behind NBACC looks like much of the rest of the administration's philosophy and practice: 'Our intent is good, so we can do whatever we want,' " O'Toole said. "This approach will only lead to trouble."

Although they acknowledge the need to shield the results of some sensitive projects from public view, critics of NBACC fear that excessive secrecy could actually increase the risk of bioterrorism. That would happen, they say, if the lab fosters ill-designed experiments conducted without proper scrutiny or if its work fuels suspicions that could lead other countries to pursue secret biological research.

The few public documents that describe NBACC's research mission have done little to quiet those fears. A computer slide show prepared by the center's directors in 2004 offers a to-do list that suggests the lab will be making and testing small amounts of weaponized microbes and, perhaps, genetically engineered viruses and bacteria. It also calls for "red team" exercises that simulate attacks by hostile groups.

NBACC's close ties to the U.S. intelligence community have also caused concern among the agency's critics. The CIA has assigned advisers to the lab, including at least one member of the "Z-Division," an elite group jointly operated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that specializes in analyzing and duplicating weapons systems of potential adversaries, officials familiar with the program confirm.

Bioweapons experts say the nature of the research envisioned for NBACC demands an unusually high degree of transparency to reassure Americans and the rest of the world of the U.S. government's intentions.

"If we saw others doing this kind of research, we would view it as an infringement of the bioweapons treaty," said Milton Leitenberg, a senior research scholar and weapons expert at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. "You can't go around the world yelling about Iranian and North Korean programs -- about which we know very little -- when we've got all this going on."
Creating the Weapons of Terrorism

Created without public fanfare a few months after the 2001 anthrax attacks, NBACC is intended to be the chief U.S. biological research institution engaged in something called "science-based threat assessment." It seeks to quantitatively answer one of the most difficult questions in biodefense: What's the worst that can happen?

To truly answer that question, there is little choice, current and former NBACC officials say: Researchers have to make real biological weapons.

"De facto, we are going to make biowarfare pathogens at NBACC in order to study them," said Penrose "Parney" Albright, former Homeland Security assistant secretary for science and technology.

Other government agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, study disease threats such as smallpox to discover cures. By contrast, NBACC (pronounced EN-back) attempts to get inside the head of a bioterrorist. It considers the wide array of potential weapons available. It looks for the holes in society's defenses where an attacker might achieve the maximum harm. It explores the risks posed by emerging technologies, such as new DNA synthesizing techniques that allow the creation of genetically altered or man-made viruses. And it tries in some cases to test the weapon or delivery device that terrorists might use.

Research at NBACC is already underway, in lab space that has been outsourced or borrowed from the Army's sprawling biodefense campus at Fort Detrick in Frederick. It was at this compound that the U.S. government researched and produced offensive biological weapons from the 1940s until President Richard M. Nixon halted research in 1969. The Army continues to conduct research on pathogens there.

In June, construction began on a $128 million, 160,000-square-foot facility inside the same heavily guarded compound. Space inside the eight-story, glass-and-brick structure will be divided between NBACC's two major divisions: a forensic testing center tasked with using modern sleuthing techniques to identify the possible culprits in future biological attacks; and the Biothreat Characterization Center, or BTCC, which seeks to predict what such attacks will look like.

It is the BTCC's wing that will host the airtight, ultra-secure containment labs where the most controversial research will be done. Homeland Security officials won't talk about specific projects planned or underway. But the 2004 computer slide show -- posted briefly on a Homeland Security Web site before its discovery by agency critics prompted an abrupt removal -- offers insight into NBACC's priorities.

The presentation by NBACC's then-deputy director, Lt. Col. George Korch, listed 16 research priorities for the new lab. Among them:

"Characterize classical, emerging and genetically engineered pathogens for their BTA [biological threat agent] potential.

"Assess the nature of nontraditional, novel and nonendemic induction of disease from potential BTA.

"Expand aerosol-challenge testing capacity for non-human primates.

"Apply Red Team operational scenarios and capabilities."

Courtney, the NBACC science director, acknowledged that his work would include simulating real biological threats -- but not just any threats.

"If I hear a noise on the back porch, will I turn on the light to decide whether there's something there, or go on my merry way?" Courtney asked. "But I'm only going to do [research] if I have credible information that shows it truly is a threat. It's not going to be dreamed up out of the mind of a novelist."

Administration officials note that there is a tradition for this kind of biological risk assessment, one that extends at least to the Clinton administration. In the late 1990s, for example, a clandestine project run by the Defense Department re-created a genetically modified, drug-resistant strain of the anthrax bacteria believed to have been made by Soviet bioweaponeers. Such research helped the government anticipate and prepare for emerging threats, according to officials familiar with the anthrax study.

Some arms-control experts see the comparison as troubling. They argued, then and now, that the work was a possible breach of a U.S.-negotiated international law.
Legal and Other Pitfalls

The Bush administration argues that its biodefense research complies with the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, the 1972 treaty outlawing the manufacture of biological weapons, because U.S. motives are pure.

"All the programs we do are defensive in nature," said Maureen McCarthy, Homeland Security's director of research and development, who oversees NBACC. "Our job is to ensure that the civilian population of the country is protected, and that we know what the threats are."

Current and former administration officials say that compliance with the treaty hinges on intent, and that making small amounts of biowarfare pathogens for study is permitted under a broad interpretation of the treaty. Some also argue that the need for a strong biodefense in an age of genetic engineering trumps concerns over what they see as legal hair-splitting.

"How can I go to the people of this country and say, 'I can't do this important research because some arms-control advocate told me I can't'?" asked Albright, the former Homeland Security assistant secretary.

But some experts in international law believe that certain experiments envisioned for the lab could violate the treaty's ban on developing, stockpiling, acquiring or retaining microbes "of types and in quantities that have no justification" for peaceful purposes.

"The main problem with the 'defensive intent' test is that it does not reflect what the treaty actually says," said David Fidler, an Indiana University School of Law professor and expert on the bioweapons convention. The treaty, largely a U.S. creation, does not make a distinction between defensive and offensive activities, Fidler said.

More practically, arms experts say, future U.S. governments may find it harder to object if other countries test genetically engineered pathogens and novel delivery systems, invoking the same need for biodefense.

Already, they say, there is evidence abroad of what some are calling a "global biodefense boom." In the past five years, numerous governments, including some in the developing world -- India, China and Cuba among them -- have begun building high-security labs for studying the most lethal bacteria and viruses.

"These labs have become a status symbol, a prestige item," said Alan Pearson, a biologist at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. "A big question is: Will these labs have transparency?"
Secrecy May Have a Price

When it opens in two years, the NBACC lab will house an impressive collection of deadly germs and teams of scientists in full-body "spacesuits" to work with them. It will also have large aerosol-test chambers where animals will be exposed to deadly microbes. But the lab's most controversial feature may be its secrecy.

Homeland Security officials disclosed plans to contractors and other government agencies to classify the entire lab as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF.

In common practice, a SCIF (pronounced "skiff") is a secure room where highly sensitive information is stored and discussed. Access to SCIFs is severely limited, and all of the activity and conversation inside is presumed to be restricted from public disclosure. There are SCIFs in the U.S. Capitol, where members of Congress are briefed on military secrets. In U.S. nuclear labs, computers that store weapons data are housed inside SCIFs.

Homeland Security officials plan to operate all 160,000 square feet of NBACC as a SCIF. Because of the building's physical security features -- intended to prevent the accidental release of dangerous pathogens -- it was logical to operate it as a SCIF, McCarthy said.

"We need to protect information at a level that is appropriate," McCarthy added, saying she expects much of the lab's less-sensitive work to be made public eventually.

But some biodefense experts, including some from past administrations, viewed the decision as a mistake.

"To overlay NBACC with a default level of high secrecy seems like overkill," said Gerald L. Epstein, a former science adviser to the White House's National Security Council and now a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. While accepting that some secrecy is needed, he said the NBACC plan "sends a message that is not at all helpful."

NBACC officials also have resisted calls for the kind of broad, independent oversight that many experts say is necessary to assure other countries and the American public about their research.

Homeland Security spokesmen insist that NBACC's work will be carefully monitored, but on the department's terms.

"We have our own processes to scrutinize our research, and it includes compliance to the bioweapons convention guidelines as well as scientific oversight," said Courtney, the NBACC scientific director.

In addition to the department's internal review boards, the agency will bring in small groups of "three or four scientists" on an ad-hoc basis to review certain kinds of potentially controversial experiments, Courtney said. The review panels will be "independent," Courtney said, but he noted that only scientists with government security clearances will be allowed to participate.

Some experts have called for unusual forms of oversight, including panels of well-respected, internationally known scientists and observers from overseas. While allowing that the results of some experiments should be kept confidential, O'Toole, of the Center for Biosecurity, argues that virtually everything else at NBACC should be publicly accountable if the United States is to be a credible leader in preventing the proliferation of bioweapons.

"We're going to have to lean over backward," O'Toole said. "We have no leverage among other nation-states if we say, 'We can do whatever we want, but you can't. We want to see your biodefense program, but you can't see ours.' "

In recent weeks, NBACC's first officially completed project has drawn criticism, not because of its methods or procedures, but because heavy classification has limited its usefulness.

The project was an ambitious attempt to assess and rank the threats posed by dozens of different pathogens and delivery systems, drawing on hundreds of studies and extensive computer modeling. When delivered to the White House in January, it was the most extensive survey of its kind, and one that could guide the federal government in making decisions about biodefense spending.

Six months later, no one outside a small group of officials and advisers with top security clearances has seen the results.

"Something this important shouldn't be secret," said Thomas V. Inglesby, an expert at the Center for Biosecurity who serves on a government advisory board that was briefed on the results. "How can we make policy decisions about matters of this scale if we're operating in the dark?"


Mahalo: Tane
Date: Oct 25, 2007 8:23 PM


E kalamai ia'u! I was so upset and thus the expletives. Last year Campbell estate sold some of its land near Whitmore to the military for a project the military was planning. We were upset then as the land could be put to other better uses. This miitarism has escalated in Hawaii triple-fold. They led us to believe it was a benign project but necessary for the defense of the country. Meanwhile we had a serious housing shortage for low-income families and later DelMonte's Pomoho Camp was closing and Monsanto was interested in the property that would displace a whole community. The people were evicted. The influx of US, Mexican, and Asian settlers increased as well as the Marshall Islanders who were displaced because their island was unfit for humans due to the radiation of the testing of nuclear bombs. Many were sick from the radiation of those tests and were to receive medical attention from the US who reneged on their medical needs. Hawaii has the burden now to care for them. Other US states send their homeless to us and we can't send them back fromwhere they come from because there's no family or anyone to accept them back. The tourist industry is expanding, wanting developers to build more resorts. I guess now that we have the world's deadliest bacteria and viruses brought to O'ahu for experimentation, it may deter visitors from Honolulu. Hell, I wouldn't go to a place that has that on the island and not knowing when an accident will occur. It's simple; the USA must deoccupy Hawaii!

Senate approves $160 million in Hawaii projects -- including $25 million for construction of a regional biodefense laboratory

Thursday, October 25, 2007
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071025/NEWS21/710250345/1171/NEWS21

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What Happened in Nahr Al Bared?

Systematic burning and destruction ravage a Palestinian camp in Lebanon, but the media is banned and the world is silent

By Michael Birmingham

10/25/07 "Common Dreams" -- -- Nahr Al Bared is a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of Lebanon which has been home to about 40,000 Palestinian people, most of whom are the children and grandchildren of those who left Palestine in 1948. Some, like Abu Mohammad, were born in Palestine. He was ten years old, and next year it will be sixty years since the formation of the State of Israel was achieved through the ethnic cleansing of Abu Mohammad and so many others from their home in Palestine. He told me this as the two of us sat alone in the pitch dark while rats ran around beside our chairs at his house. As I left he went in to sleep alone amongst ashes and rodents, with no neighbours around him, trying to believe that he still has something left to protect.

Between May and September of this year, a ferocious battle took place between the Lebanese Army and a small armed group known as Fatah Al Islam. From the first the day, the Lebanese Army surrounded the camp and fired in artillery, maintaining this course for months. Most of the residents of the camp were forced to leave with the clothes on their backs within the first three days. As the number of young Lebanese soldiers killed and horribly maimed rose through the battle, Lebanon became awash with patriotism and grief, any questioning of the army taboo.

Something terrible has been done to the residents of Nahr al Bared, and the Lebanese people are being spared the details. Over the past two weeks, since the camp was partly reopened to a few of its residents, many of us who have been there have been stunned by a powerful reality. Beyond the massive destruction of the homes from three months of bombing, room after room, house after house have been burned. Burned from the inside. Amongst the ashes on the ground, are the insides of what appear to have been car tyres. The walls have soot dripping down from what seems clearly to have been something flammable sprayed on them. Rooms, houses, shops, garages - all blackened ruins, yet having had no damage from bombing or battle. They were burned deliberately by people entering and torching them.

How many we do not know; it is too large for a few people to comprehensively assess. But finding an un-bombed house or a business that has not been torched is very hard indeed.

Why did this happen? Why have the people whose entire life’s work is to be found in ashes on the floor of these burned out homes, not been given any information about this - not a word? Each day new people return to find that this is what has happened to their homes.

It is not just the burning of houses. Cars that residents were ordered to leave behind in the first days of the battle have been smashed up. Mopeds and TVs and all that ordinary people value, also broken up. Fridge after fridge with bullets through them. All of this clearly done from inside the houses, not from any outside battle.

People returning to their homes sit outside alone on the ground. Stunned. When you ask them to bring you into their houses, they tell you, person after person, of how their valuables were stolen. Even where the valuables were well hidden, everything was ransacked and valuables found. Explosives were used to get through locked doors or to open safes. Items that people have had stolen include everything from clothes to cars. That which has not been burned, which was not smashed, which was of value seems to have vanished. Where?

This camp was strictly out of bounds to the Palestinian people. They could not have done this. Who did this and why must surely be investigated before more vital evidence has disappeared. A small amount of this may be attributable to Fatal al-Islam fighters. But there is clear evidence that some elements of the army acted improperly.

On the inside walls of many, many houses, are written slogans. Everything from proud soldiers noting army units, to profoundly racist, offensive slogans against Palestinian people. Many families have found some of their belongings in nearby houses. Faeces are on some mattresses and floors.

Every day that goes by more families return to the camp. Within hours, they have swept up and cleared away ashes and debris, so that they can try to imagine where to begin again. Mattresses with faeces are being burned. Journalists are still prohibited from the camp. Cameras are illegal there. Human rights groups have not entered. Every day that goes by, more evidence is lost.

For those of us who lived in nearby Baddawi refugee camp during the battle, this follows from months of people from Nahr al Bared telling stories of torture and abuse at checkpoints, and in the Lebanese Ministry of Defence at Yarsi. It also follows on peaceful demonstrators from Nahr al Bared who bravely tried to tell the world what was happening being shot dead near Baddawi. The world ignored completely even their deaths.

Amnesty International, the largest human rights organisation in the world, was concluding a report on the situation of Palestinians in Lebanon during the past week. Its delegation left Lebanon without seeing Nahr Al Bared - before it left holding a Beirut press conference which was abruptly ended at the first mention of Nahr Al Bared.

The United States Government played a key role in this battle, strongly supporting politically and with munitions the Lebanese government’s decision to seek a military solution. The Lebanese offered to Fatah Al Islam simply to surrender or die. The European Union and many Arab countries also clearly supported this approach. The moral and legal imperative to distinguish between combatants and civilians, and not to target civilian communities was not a concern. The Palestinians of Lebanon, the subject of so many crocodile tears from around the world during infamous massacres in the past, once again are without support at the moment when it might actually matter.

What happened in Nahr al Bared? Why does the world not seem to care?

Michael Birmingham is an Irish peace activist who has been mostly based in Lebanon since July 2006. He has formerly worked on human rights and social justice in Ireland and Iraq.



Much Like Auschwitz

Israel's regard for Palestinians can be summed up in how it imprisons and terrorises them, writes Khaled Amayreh in the occupied West Bank

By Khaled Amayreh

10/25/07 "Al-Ahram" --- - A few weeks ahead of the upcoming "peace conference" in Annapolis, Maryland, Israel has been displaying its "goodwill" towards the Palestinians. At the notorious Kitziot Prison, a real concentration camp minus gas chambers, crack Israeli soldiers have been ganging up ..less and fettered Palestinian prisoners, shooting, beating and humiliating them under largely concocted pretexts.

On Monday 22 October, in the quiet hours before dawn, hundreds of soldiers from two notoriously brutal army units, code-named Nachshon and Massada, stormed the prisoner camp for what was described as a "routine inspection". During these routine inspections, inmates are forced to take off their clothes and are subject to every imaginable form of humiliation. Whoever protests is normally placed in open-ended solitary confinement.

Rudely awoken, Kitziot's estimated 1,200 inmates, already fed-up with draconian punitive measures, decided to resist their tormentors. According to one prisoner leader, this resistance had not been planned, coming as an instinctive defensive reflex to "obvious provocation".

Some prisoner leaders pleaded with the detention camp's administration to wait until morning to carry out the impromptu inspection. The administration's response came in the form of bullets, sonic grenades (which the Israelis call stun grenades), tear-gas and smoke bombs.

"I don't know what a Nazi concentration camp looked like, but I imagine that Kitziot looked very much like a concentration camp yesterday," said Abu Ahmed, a detainee from Hebron, who has been languishing at the facility for nine months without charge or trial.

Abu Ahmed, who was speaking via a smuggled mobile phone, described the assault on the prisoners as "planned and premeditated", calling Israeli claims that the soldiers were only defending themselves against rioters "obscene lies meant to cover up a criminal act".

The pogrom-like attack on the helpless Kitziot prisoners lasted for more than two hours as a huge cloud of smoke hovered over the area. When the dust settled, there were hundreds of prisoners who suffered significant to serious wounds, mostly in the head and upper body. At least nine inmates were severely injured, including Mohamed Sati Al-Ashkar, who was hit with a live round in the head, causing massive brain haemorrhage.

On 23 October, Al-Ashkar was pronounced clinically dead.

As is usual in such circumstances, the Israeli media and government spokespersons switched to damage-control mode, disseminating disinformation about what happened while barring reporters access to the notorious facility.

Even serious newspapers like Haaretz played a role parroting army propaganda that "violent clashes" took place between the prisoners and guards and that only "non-lethal methods" were used to disperse the protesting inmates.

The Israeli army has so far refused to reveal what it was that killed Al-Ashkar, whether a sonic bomb that hit him on the head, whether he was beaten with a club, or whether he was hit by plastic-coated bullets. Usually the Israeli army waits several days before issuing statements on such cases, seemingly to allow any protest sentiment to die down.

The murder at Kitziot is only a small leitmotif of the ferocious onslaught of repression being visited on Palestinians in the occupied territories, where Israeli death squads continue to roam and strike. This happens despite -- or partly as a result of -- close security coordination between President Mahmoud Abbas's "forces" and the Israeli occupation army.

The low-key reaction by the Abbas regime is already raising eyebrows in the West Bank, with many seeing the Kitziot assault and general terror under occupation as a means of "softening up" the Palestinians ahead of Annapolis for a peace deal that fails to meet minimum Palestinian expectations.

Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, Israel continues its slow-motion genocide of the occupied territory's estimated 1.5 million persecuted inhabitants. "Gaza is being sacrificed, is being decapitated but slowly, while the Arabs are watching 'Babel Hara' and the world is preoccupied with Iran and a peace conference in America," said one unemployed worker who used to work in construction in Israel, alluding to a popular Syrian TV series screened during the Holy month of Ramadan.

Another man, a plasterer, also unemployed because Israel won't allow raw materials, such as cement, into the Strip, insists on more daring language. "I don't know why the world doesn't call things by their real name. Here the Jews are starving us to death. Gaza is a large concentration camp. It is very much like Auschwitz. Yes, there are no gas chambers and crematoria. But people are dying for lack of food and lack of medicine.

"And I am 100 per cent sure that hadn't it been for the world media and international public opinion, or whatever is left of it, Israel would have disposed of us a long, long time ago," the worker added.

Earlier this week, Gazan hospitals faced an acute and critical crisis when they ran out of nitrous oxide, vital for operations. Eventually, an SOS by Gazan doctors embarrassed Israeli leaders, who decided to allow, for the time being, passage of a small amount of the gas, which Gazan doctors say will last only a few weeks.

When talking to foreign media, Israeli leaders and spokespersons claim the hermetic blockade of Gaza is a reaction to Hamas's takeover of Gaza in mid-June, following sporadic clashes with Fatah. A few weeks ago, Israel declared Gaza a "hostile entity", as if the occupied coastal strip of land where poverty, despair and occupation violence define daily life had been treated as a friendly entity before.

Finally, Israel doesn't want to take sole responsibility for exterminating the people of Gaza. The Israeli government has been inciting the powerful Jewish lobby, which deeply influences American policies and politics, to pressure Egypt to seal its border with Gaza so that the concentration camp can be perfected.



Livni behind closed doors: Iranian nuclear arms pose little threat to Israel

By Gidi Weitz and Na'ama Lanski

10/25/07 "h a a r e t z" -- -- Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said a few months ago in a series of closed discussions that in her opinion that Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel, Haaretz magazine reveals in an article on Livni to be published tomorrow.

Livni also criticized the exaggerated use that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears. Last week, former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy said similar things about Iran.

The article also reveals for the first time a document Livni prepared and sent to Olmert a few months after the Second Lebanon War proposing a new division of labor between the two. "Enclosed is a proposal for work procedures between us, with the aim of providing an answer to Israel's strategic needs and facilitating early planning and the formulation of coordinated Israeli positions ... within the framework of cooperative relations, full transparency and continuous mutual updates," wrote Livni.

She described in the document a number of required arrangements: "The prime minister and the foreign minister will hold regular work meetings at least once a week." In an allusion to her absence from critical discussions during the war in Lebanon, she wrote: "The foreign minister will be invited to meetings with the prime minister on security matters and other meetings with serious implications."

The most important part of the document relates to the talks with the Palestinians. Livni wrote: "The foreign minister shall represent the prime minister and the government of Israel, and will act on their behalf as the director of the dialogue with the relevant Palestinian representatives, and in accordance with the policy and methods to be coordinated in advance with the prime minster, while keeping him informed."

It is reasonable to assume that Olmert's decision to appoint Livni as head of the negotiating team with the Palestinians at the Annapolis summit is connected to the document·

The Haaretz article also reveals for the first time a draft of a document prepared for Livni by her advisor, Dr. Tal Becker of the Foreign Ministry, who is slated to serve as a senior member of the negotiating team with the Palestinians. The draft, named the Diplomatic Horizon, is pessimistic about the chances of reaching a permanent solution in the near future.



Pete, Nancy, George and WWIII

By Cindy Sheehan

<td>“You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”
-Pete Stark (D-Ca)

“While Members of Congress are passionate about their views what Congressman Stark said during the debate was inappropriate.”
-Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, (D-Ca)

“But this — we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I’ve told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have (sic) the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”
-George Bush, War Criminal
10/25/07 "ICH" -- -- I cheered inside my head when I heard Rep. Stark unbelievably utter his words condemning the murderous acts of BushCo on the House floor, and I was impressed with his candor, compassion and what I consider an appropriate amount of rage and honesty. How many of us were not thinking the same thing about the S-CHIP votes? I knew, however, that it would not be long until Pete Stark had to apologize. It happened today.

I believe that Speaker Pelosi’s comments about Rep. Stark were utterly inappropriate and out of line. I believe that when she said that impeachment was “off the table,” her remarks were not only inappropriate but also antithetical to our Constitution and directly in opposition to why the people of this country put Democrats back in power.

We may remind the Speaker of some of the things George has said: He told us that Saddam was able to reach the Eastern part of the US with drones that contained either chemical or biological weapons; that the smoking gun might come in the form of a “mushroom cloud” and that Saddam was also seeking significant amounts of “yellow cake uranium.” George and his co-criminals also told us over and over again that 9-11 was the justification for an attack on Iraq because Saddam had something to do with 9-11.

It is imperative that Ms. Pelosi be a true leader and lead the charge to impeach the liars, or at least get the hell out of the way so they can be impeached. I buried my son for no logical, moral or truthful reason for God’s sake, and she has neither the integrity or fortitude to finally say that BushCo has to be stopped before George is the instigator for Armageddon.

Ms. Pelosi is not the only one who condemned Rep. Stark; she joined hands (again) with Republicans to do so. However, for the Republicans to say that Congressman Stark’s comment demeaned “the troops” is so patently ridiculous, it is stunningly pathetic. Our troops and their much higher paid cousins, the mercenary killers, are killing innocent Iraqis. IT IS A WAR! What do these morally bankrupt Chickenhawks think occurs in war? It would be better for everyone if “the troops” went over to play pinochle with the Iraqis, but occupied peoples have an inherent hatred of their occupiers and want them to leave their country: dead or alive. Congress wants to hide behind “the troops” by giving BushCo billions more dollars to wage the occupation so their lobbyist buddies and campaign contributors can become richer off of the flesh and blood of those same troops that they claim to support.

BushCo has over 14 more months to sew their demented seeds of destruction all over the planet. We must all join Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh) in his call to remove them from office not only for their past, but for their future, illegal wars of aggression, possibly even doing the unthinkable: using a nuclear weapon. The terrorists that wear Brooks Brothers and Armani and live and work in the big white house on Pennsylvania Avenue are more dangerous to our way of life and safety than any others.

I wish Congressman Stark had not caved to the establishment elitists. George is the one that needs to apologize to each and every one of us for killing just about everything that we hold dear: our treasury, our Constitution, our standing in the international community, our ecology, our children, and for murdering our hopes and dreams for the future.

When I replace Nancy Pelosi as the Representative from California’s 8th district, I will fight for the lives, security and prosperity of not only my constituents, but for all the human beings in the world. If BushCo is still in office, God forbid, when I am sworn in, I will do everything in my power to hold them accountable for their crimes against humanity and I will never, ever apologize for telling the truth.



Kucinich: Bush Wants More War

This Time With Iran

10/25/07 "ICH" -- -- WASHINGTON, DC - October 25 - Today, the Bush Administration announced additional sanctions on Iran and labeled the Revolutionary Guard Corps as proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and a unit of the Corps – the Quds Force – as a "specially designed global terrorist." Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) charged the Administration with drumming up support for a war with Iran.

"The Administration has been dramatically increasing its efforts in the last several weeks to go to war with Iran," Kucinich said. "This latest stunt is nothing more than an attempt to deceive Americans into yet another war—this time with Iran."

Last week, President Bush stated in a news conference: "So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them (Iran) from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

In a speech Sunday to the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, Vice President Dick Cheney said that if Iran continues on its current course, the United States and other nations are "prepared to impose serious consequences. Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions."

In announcing the sanctions today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: "Unfortunately the Iranian government continues to spurn our offer of open negotiations, instead threatening peace and security by pursuing nuclear technologies that can lead to a nuclear weapon, building dangerous ballistic missiles, supporting Shia militants in Iraq and terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and denying the existence of a fellow member of the United Nations, threatening to wipe Israel off the map."

"After the lies and deception used to lead us to war in Iraq, the belligerent Bush Administration cannot be given leeway with statements that suggest a preemptive attack on Iran is necessary," Kucinich said. "We are systematically destroying every available route to restoring peace and security in the Middle East.

"Congress must take back its exclusive authority to declare war from the Bush Administration."



U.S. bunker-buster request prompts Iran attack fears

By Susan Cornwell

10/24/07 - - - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Democratic lawmakers questioned on Wednesday whether a new Bush administration request for $88 million to fit "bunker-busting" bombs to B-2 stealth bombers was part of preparations for an attack on Iran.

The proposal was included as part of a nearly $200 billion request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Bush administration sent to Capitol Hill on Monday.

The request included $87.8 million for further development of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, a conventional bomb designed to destroy hardened or deeply buried targets.

Many of Iran's nuclear development facilities are believed to be underground. The United States accuses Iran of trying to develop a nuclear bomb while Tehran insists its nuclear program is only for power generation.

A Bush administration summary said the request was needed for "development of a Massive Ordnance Penetrator for the B-2 aircraft in response to an urgent operational need from theater commanders," but gave no details.

"My assumption is that it is Iran, because you wouldn't use them in Iraq, and I don't know where you would use them in Afghanistan, it doesn't have any weapons facilities underground that we know of," said Rep. Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat who is on the House defense spending committee and intends to argue against the request.

"I suppose you could try to bomb out a cave (in Afghanistan), but that seems like taking a sledgehammer to a tack. A little excessive," Moran said in a phone interview.

Another Democrat, Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington, said the bunker-buster request worried him because of the rising tide of criticism of Iran coming from the Bush administration. Last week, Bush warned that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to World War Three.

"The drumbeats of war are beating again, this time against Iran and we have to step in while there is still time," McDermott said through a spokesman.

'BURIED TARGETS'

One congressional aide said, however, that the proposed program to fit the bombs to the B-2s might not be finished until 2009 or 2010 -- after the Bush administration has left office.

Asked what the bunker-buster had to do with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior defense official briefing reporters on the war funding request earlier this week said: "Look in terms of better capabilities of bringing better, quicker precision ordnance on the target."

"You have buried targets, for example particularly in Afghanistan, that you're concerned about and so, to me, I think there is in fact a direct link in terms of the kinds of possibilities that might be there in this sort of capability."

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice repeated the administration's position on Wednesday that Bush prefers diplomacy to resolve problems with Iran, although she said all options are on the table.

The Democratic majority in Congress, which opposes prolonging the Iraq conflict, is in no hurry to give Bush more war money. House appropriators said earlier this month they would not even consider the new war funding request until early 2008, and they want to link it to a plan to bring troops home.



White House Leak: Cheney's Plan for Iran Attack Starts With Israeli Missile Strike
By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Cordula Meyer, Der Spiegel
Posted on October 26, 2007, Printed on October 26, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/66157/
US Vice President Dick Cheney -- the power behind the throne, the eminence grise, the man with the (very) occasional grandfatherly smile -- is notorious for his propensity for secretiveness and behind-the-scenes manipulation. He's capable of anything, say friends as well as enemies. Given this reputation, it's no big surprise that Cheney has already asked for a backroom analysis of how a war with Iran might begin.

In the scenario concocted by Cheney's strategists, Washington's first step would be to convince Israel to fire missiles at Iran's uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Tehran would retaliate with its own strike, providing the US with an excuse to attack military targets and nuclear facilities in Iran.

This information was leaked by an official close to the vice president. Cheney himself hasn't denied engaging in such war games. For years, in fact, he's been open about his opinion that an attack on Iran, a member of US President George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil," is inevitable.

Given these not-too-secret designs, Democrats and Republicans alike have wondered what to make of the still mysterious Israeli bombing run in Syria on Sept. 6. Was it part of an existing war plan? A test run, perhaps? For days after the attack, one question dominated conversation at Washington receptions: How great is the risk of war, really?

Grandiose Plans, East and West

In the September strike, Israeli bombers were likely targeting a nuclear reactor under construction, parts of which are alleged to have come from North Korea. It is possible that key secretaries in the Bush cabinet even tried to stop Israel. To this day, the administration has neither confirmed nor commented on the attack.

Nevertheless, in Washington, Israel's strike against Syria has revived the specter of war with Iran. For the neoconservatives it could represent a glimmer of hope that the grandiose dream of a democratic Middle East has not yet been buried in the ashes of Iraq. But for realists in the corridors of the State Department and the Pentagon, military action against Iran is a nightmare they have sought to avert by asking a simple question: "What then?"

The Israeli strike, or something like it, could easily mark the beginning of the "World War III," which President Bush warned against last week. With his usual apocalyptic rhetoric, he said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could lead the region to a new world war if his nation builds a nuclear bomb.

Conditions do look ripe for disaster. Iran continues to acquire and develop the fundamental prerequisites for a nuclear weapon. The mullah regime receives support -- at least moral support, if not technology -- from a newly strengthened Russia, which these days reaches for every chance to provoke the United States. President Vladimir Putin's own (self-described) "grandiose plan" to restore Russia's armed forces includes a nuclear buildup. The war in Iraq continues to drag on without an end in sight or even an opportunity for US troops to withdraw in a way that doesn't smack of retreat. In Afghanistan, NATO troops are struggling to prevent a return of the Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists. The Palestinian conflict could still reignite on any front.

In Washington, Bush has 15 months left in office. He may have few successes to show for himself, but he's already thinking of his legacy. Bush says he wants diplomacy to settle the nuclear dispute with Tehran, and hopes international pressure will finally convince Ahmadinejad to come to his senses. Nevertheless, the way pressure has been building in Washington, preparations for war could be underway.

In late September, the US Senate voted to declare the 125,000-man Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. High-ranking US generals have accused Iran of waging a "proxy war" against the United States through its support of Shiite militias in Iraq. And strategists at the Pentagon, apparently at Cheney's request, have developed detailed plans for an attack against Tehran.

Instead of the previous scenario of a large-scale bombardment of the country's many nuclear facilities, the current emphasis is, once again, on so-called surgical strikes, primarily against the quarters of the Revolutionary Guards. This sort of attack would be less massive than a major strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.

Conservative think tanks and pundits who sense this could be their last chance to implement their agenda in the Middle East have supported and disseminated such plans in the press. Despite America's many failures in Iraq, these hawks have urged the weakened president to act now, accusing him of having lost sight of his principal agenda and no longer daring to apply his own doctrine of pre-emptive strikes.

Sheer Lunacy?

The notion of war with Iran has spilled over into other circles, too. Last Monday Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the US House of Representatives, made it clear that the president would first need Congressional approval to launch an attack. Meanwhile, Republican candidates for the White House have debated whether they would even allow such details to get in their way. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said he would consult his attorneys to determine whether the US Constitution does, in fact, require a president to ask for Congressional approval before going to war. Vietnam veteran John McCain said war with Iran was "maybe closer to reality than we are discussing tonight."

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has also adopted a hawkish stance, voting in favor of the Senate measure to classify the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Her rivals criticized Clinton for giving the administration a blank check to go to war.

The US military is building a base in Iraq less than 10 kilometers (about six miles) from Iran's border. The facility, known as Combat Outpost Shocker, is meant for American soldiers preventing Iranian weapons from being smuggled into Iraq. But it's also rumored that Bush authorized US intelligence agencies in April to run sabotage missions against the mullah regime on Iranian soil.

Gary Sick is an expert on Iran who served as a military adviser under three presidents. He believes that such preparations mark a significant shift in the government's strategy. "Since August," says Sick, "the emphasis is no longer on the Iranian nuclear threat," but on Iran's support for terrorism in Iraq. "This is a complete change and is potentially dangerous."

It would be relatively easy for Bush to prove that Tehran, by supporting insurgents in Iraq, is responsible for the deaths of American soldiers. It might be harder to prove that Iran's nuclear plans pose an immediate threat to the world. Besides, the nuclear argument is reminiscent of an embarrassing precedent, when the Bush administration used the claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction -- which he didn't -- as a reason to invade Iraq. Even if the evidence against Tehran proves to be more damning, the American public will find it difficult to swallow this argument again.

The forces urging a diplomatic resolution also look stronger than they were before Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wants the next step to be a third round of even tighter sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council. Rice has powerful allies at the Pentagon: Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral William Fallon, head of US Central Command, which is responsible for American forces throughout the region.

Rice and her cohorts all favor diplomacy, partly because they know the military is under strain. After four years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US lacks manpower for another major war, especially one against a relatively well-prepared adversary. "For many senior people at the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department, a war would be sheer lunacy," says security expert Sick.

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and now a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution, agrees. A war against Tehran would be "a disaster for the entire world," says Riedel, who worries about a "battlefield extending from the Mediterranean to the Indian subcontinent." Nevertheless, he believes there is a "realistic risk of a military conflict," because both sides look willing to carry things to the brink.

On the one hand, says Riedel, Iran is playing with fire, challenging the West by sending weapons to Shiite insurgents in Iraq. On the other hand, hotheads in Washington are by no means powerless. Although many neoconservative hawks have left the Bush administration, Cheney remains their reliable partner. "The vice president is the closest adviser to the president, and a dominant figure," says Riedel. "One shouldn't underestimate how much power he still wields."

'Is it 1938 Again?'

Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran last week also played into the hands of hardliners in Washington, who read it as proof that Putin isn't serious about joining the West's effort to convince Tehran to abandon its drive for a nuclear weapon. Moreover, the countries bordering the Caspian Sea, including Central Asian nations Washington has courted energetically in recent years, have said they would not allow a war against Tehran to be launched from their territory.

Cheney derives much of his support from hawks outside the administration who fear their days are as numbered as the President's. "The neocons see Iran as their last chance to prove something," says analyst Riedel. This aim is reflected in their tone. Conservative columnist Norman Podhoretz, for example -- a father figure to all neocons -- wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he "hopes and prays" that Bush will finally bomb Iran. Podhoretz sees the United States engaged in a global war against "Islamofascism," a conflict he defines as World War IV, and he likens Iran to Nazi Germany. "Is it 1938 again?" he asks in a speech he repeats regularly at conferences.

Podhoretz is by no means an eccentric outsider. He now serves as a senior foreign-policy adviser to Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani. President Bush has also met with Podhoretz at the White House to hear his opinions.

Nevertheless, most experts in Washington warn against attacking Tehran. They assume the Iranians would retaliate. "It would be foolish to believe surgical strikes will be enough," says Riedel, who believes that precision attacks would quickly escalate to war.

Former presidential adviser Sick thinks Iran would strike back with terrorist attacks. "The generals of the Revolutionary Guard have had several years to think about asymmetrical warfare," says Sick. "They probably have a few rather interesting ideas."

According to Sick, detonating well-placed bombs at oil terminals in the Persian Gulf would be enough to wreak havoc. "Insurance costs would skyrocket, causing oil prices to triple and triggering a global recession," Sick warns. "The economic consequences would be enormous, far greater than anything we have experienced with Iraq so far."

Because the catastrophic consequences of an attack on Iran are obvious, many in Washington have a fairly benign take on the current round of saber rattling. They believe the sheer dread of war is being used to bolster diplomatic efforts to solve the crisis and encourage hesitant members of the United Nations Security Council to take more decisive action. The Security Council, this argument goes, will be more likely to approve tighter sanctions if it believes that war is the only alternative.

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How Bad Will the Next Recession Be?
By Scott Thill, AlterNet
Posted on October 26, 2007, Printed on October 26, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/65037/
"My rant was the rant heard around the world," CNBC personality and ex-hedge funder James Cramer told viewers of his cable show Mad Money, a talk-radio spectacle involving its host's over-the-top antics like hitting sound-effects buttons and giving stock advice at breakneck speed. The setting was 2006's fiscal third quarter, a highly volatile period in which the market nosedived on the heels of a subprime housing and credit meltdown.

In the rant, broadcast on the show Stop Trading! before becoming an online hit, Cramer aggressively screamed for a rate cut from the Fed for his "people [who] have been in this business for 25 years!" -- by which he meant, of course, the hedge funders whose deceptive bundling of mortgage-backed securities built on subprime loans and no oversight from the SEC whatsoever are finally getting their comeuppance.

Cramer, who ignored repeated requests for participation in this story and its predecessor, viewable on AlterNet here, made it pretty clear that his friends in the hedge fund industry manipulate the credit and housing markets for fat-ass paydays. But there he was a few days later, backtracking hard. He was even lucky enough to get on The Colbert Report to do some much-needed damage control, asserting that he was really defending the millions of suckered Americans about to lose their homes, thanks to highly leveraged loans manipulated by investment banks and private equity groups like Blackstone, KKR and Bear Stearns (now the target of a criminal investigation) into Kafkaesque packages called CDOs (collateralized debt obligations). Those labyrinthine Ponzi schemes allowed hedge fund managers and private equity groups to not only buy out big names like Sallie Mae, Hilton, Chrysler and more, but also skim huge percentages off the top for themselves, their wives, mistresses and mansions.

And here we are, after the subprime collapse and Cramer's rant hear 'round the world, teetering on a fourth quarter that is screwed without some help from the Federal Reserve Bank. In fact, we could be headed to the type of economic recession that the Los Angeles Times recently reported may swallow us all -- at least until 2009, if we're lucky. Others aren't so optimistic: Paul Krugman, a noted economist and caller of bullshit on fantasies financial and military, like the occupation of Iraq, wrote in an aptly titled New York Times op-ed called "Very Scary Things" that "what's been happening in financial markets over the past few days is something that truly scares monetary economists: liquidity has dried up ... This could turn out to be nothing more than a brief scare. At worst, however, it could cause a chain reaction of debt defaults ... Let's hope, then, that this crisis blows over as quickly as that of 1998. But I wouldn't count on it."

That was Krugman's take on Aug. 10. The 1998 crisis he's referring to? That would be total implosion of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund made up of bond traders and Nobel Prize-winning economists that tanked billions and needed to be bailed out in order to avert an American recession under President Clinton. Hedge funds have the Midas touch, it seems, for making gold only for their shareholders, and few else, before needing a federal lifeboat.

Sure enough, in the days since Krugman's very scary thoughts, the situation has worsened. "Signs of progress have appeared," said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a German conference on Sept. 11, "but ... most countries have only just begun to undertake the policy changes that will ultimately be needed ... in part because of the greater recent volatility in financial markets and investors' demands for increased compensation for risk-taking." Henry Paulson, current secretary of the treasury and former CEO and chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs, a major beneficiary of the CDO bonanza and one bank that helped bail out Long-Term Capital Management, added that our current economic crisis will take longer to fix than the other major depressions of the last two decades, including the Russian default of the '90s and the Latin American debt nightmare of the '80s.

"The reason it is going to take longer today is that we are more globalized," Paulson said. In today's internetworked global economy, mortgage loans built out of the imaginations of American businessmen were being, as Paulson explained, "sliced and diced" into international bundles and turning up as far away as state-run regional banks in Germany, fragmentation -- or diversification, as some bean counters call it -- so complex that Paulson claims to have met daily with bankers who still couldn't decode its labyrinthine mechanisms. Throw in the fact that 97 percent of stock transactions are electronically conducted at the speed of light, more and more of them by companies that employ math and computer science Ph.D.s using quantitative strategies executed by proprietary computer programs, and you have a new definition of complexity. The more complex the mechanisms, the more money rolls in. As Cramer once argued of such inscrutable designs, "The SEC doesn't understand" them. And you can't police what you can't understand.

Ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who at last report was declining to raise taxes on hedge funds and private equity groups, who are drowning in money, for fear of "unintended consequences" to an American economy already reeling from the crisis. But he's a fool to wait: American home foreclosures and delinquencies are at record highs, and the dollar is at record lows. Meanwhile, oil is at a record high, even amidst drastic drops in inventory and a doomed occupation of Iraq that even ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admits was motivated by the aptly named crude. The houses that were hastily erected and packaged in the post 9/11 boom? They're festering on the market or being auctioned off for next to nothing in impacted cities like Detroit and scores more.

In other words, Reid has got it backwards. The consequences of giving hedge funds and private equity groups free rein, low taxes and zero oversight are already here. And they're severe.

Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin all but promised the United Kingdom's Financial Times that the hedge funds' manipulation of mortgage-backed securities will smack down the American economy: "Consumer and business spending also could be damped as a consequence of the recent financial turmoil ... economic activity could be affected more severely in other sectors should heightened uncertainty lead to a broader pullback in household and business spending." His colleague and San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen was less delicate, arguing that falling home sales and rising unemployment would put a last nail in the coffin of American economic growth going forward.

And last but not least, there is Paul Saffo, fellow for the World Economic Forum and Institute for the Future, professor at Stanford University, and consultant to companies like Samsung as well as Silicon Valley venture capitalists. He's predicting an end to the American economic model altogether. But he takes his thesis a frightening step beyond economic dissolution into the total dissolution of the country itself: "My forecast is that there's less than a 50 percent chance that the United States will exist as a nation by the middle of the century. And that is actually good news."

Saffo's idea is simple: The United States has become too large to function as an overlord to its city-states like Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, and in fact, has no real power to compel them to do anything, whether that's sending troops to the borders or demanding regional agencies adhere to national mandates on climate change. But the implications are much deeper: If Saffo is correct, what matters is not what we will become. What matters is what we will have lost, and that is an identity based on nationhood altogether.

In our days of hyperpatriotism, it is hyperreal to entertain the idea that you're not an American at all. Or that your vote doesn't count towards an American election -- or an Iraqi one, for that matter. Or that your country can't cite you as a reason it went to occupy Iraq in the first place. Because, the logic goes, if you're not an American, then what are you?

The answer? Globalized.

Long before 9/11, resource wars and the industries that support them -- private equity pools, hedge funds, investment banks, the mainstream media -- existed outside of geography. With offices across the world, trading across currencies and deals across borders, business has always been globalized to an extent. But after 9/11, the thought of Dubai handling security for American ports somehow skewed strange. Perhaps it had something to do with those planes flying not into the White House or Washington Monument but into global economic nerve centers like the World Trade Center.

In other words, America has only awakened to a process already underway: From a depressed currency and outsourced industries to the loss of its manufacturing base and educational standards, America is no longer the smartest or wealthiest superpower on the block. And as the means of production promised by globalization spread to nations like India, China and many more, the concept of nationhood is demolished further each day. But the United States, adrift in narcissistic simulations like American Idol and Survivor and distracted by reductive militarism, hasn't much longer to sleep, according to economists, think-tankers and other credentialed professionals that people with money pay attention to. The real nightmare is that it may have laid the foundation for the end of its economic system, the one U.S. comptroller general David Walker called "a broken business model," back in 2005 when "subprime collapse" was a punk band no one had heard yet.

"The mortgage problem is a manifestation of very serious imbalances and distortions," argues James Kunstler, entertaining doom prophet for the Clusterfuck Nation blog as well as the author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency, "not just in our economy, but in our current social values. To put it somewhat simplistically, it represents the dangerous idea that it's possible to get something for nothing. When that idea becomes established as normal in a society, as it has in the United States, you're in big trouble. An ethos so inconsistent with reality must inevitably lead to a painful workout as reality reasserts itself."

That workout is going to hurt. From Bernanke and Paulson's mild worries to Krugman and Kunstler's more severe predictions, no one is going into 2008 thinking everything is going to come up yachts and roses. It's now only a question of how bad it is going to get. Some say it's going to be worse than you think.

"The credit bubble has burst and the entire U.S. economy will deflate with it," promises Peter Schiff, founder of Euro Pacific Capital fund and sometimes guest on Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox News. "Asset prices will fall sharply, as will consumer spending, as the world will no longer finance it. After the initial shock, the world will breathe a collective sigh of relief, as it will no longer bear the burden of supporting the U.S. economy." If you ask Reagan economist and Hoover fellow Paul Craig Roberts, one of those countries breathing a massive sigh of relief could be China, especially if we keep fucking with them. The more that happens, the more the Chinese, who are currently shouldering America's deficit trillions, might decide to dump dollars for euros, a move that would send our already tanking greenbacks into the currency basement. For his part, Roberts thinks they aren't out to destroy the dollar, just draw the line on America's influence. "China has no desire to destabilize the current financial system," Roberts reassured me via email. "But they are tired of the United States trying to dictate their economic policy. They hold powerful cards. [But] they would not dump the dollar unless seriously provoked."

Even if they don't, the dollar is sucking wind, and so is American nationhood. And regardless of Jim Cramer's rants or China's warnings, there isn't much that the Federal Reserve Bank, whose every word can determine the dramatic rise and fall of stocks and bonds, can do about it.

"They can only make it worse," Schiff continues. "Rate cuts will only bring about higher long-term interest rates, higher consumer prices, more unemployment, lower real estate prices, more defaults and bankruptcy. The Fed has reached the end of its rope. Greenspan made this bed and now Bernanke and the American people will be sleeping in it for years."

The timing couldn't be worse, so what happens to you when this worsens? What happens when the Ponzi scheme is complicated by a possible attack on Iran? And what do you think the American government will do when climate change -- whose ravages according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies will be "on the level of a nuclear war" -- stops by your town and tries to wipe it out?

Let's put it this way. If our government really is a corporation and Bush is really its CEO, we're all likely to be self-employed contractors out of a job. Throw in the skyrocketing cost of our fuel, food and freedom, and the future is looking more expensive by the day.

Whatever comes, we would best prepare for it by doing away with some fictions forever, including the one envisioning America as a gated community on an unreachable hill, populated by Hummers and patriots who just want to party without participating in the environment that sustains them. Because economic recessions and military occupations are heavy for sure, but there is no terror like terra scorned. American or Iranian, Christian or Muslim, Democrat or Republican, we are all bound by one truth: We're tied to a singular rock spinning through space by a tether called gravity. And if we don't treat that rock like our best friend in the coming century, it will easily turn into the worst enemy we've ever faced.

We'll be praying to be screwed by subprime mortgages and Iranian mullahs by then. That might be the best vacation from reality we could ask for.

Scott Thill runs the online mag Morphizm.com. His writing has appeared on Salon, XLR8R, All Music Guide, Wired and others.



Why Democrats are afraid to raise taxes on the rich
Could it have something to do with the recent affection of hedge-fund managers for the Democratic Party?
By Robert Reich

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Oct. 25, 2007 | New data from the Internal Revenue Service show that income inequality continues to widen. The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans earn more than 21 percent of all income. That's a postwar record. The bottom 50 percent of all Americans, when all their wages are combined, earn just 12.8 percent of the nation's income.

Considering the magnitude of challenges ahead for America, it seems only reasonable that taxes should rise on the wealthy. Taxing the super-rich is not about class envy, as conservatives charge. It's about the nation having enough money to pay for national defense and homeland security, good schools and a crumbling infrastructure, the upcoming costs of boomers' Social Security (the current surplus has masked the true extent of the current budget deficit, but it won't for much longer) and, hopefully, affordable national health insurance. Not to mention the trillion dollars or so it will take to fix the Alternative Minimum Tax, which is now starting to hit the middle class.

To some extent, the major Democratic candidates for president appear to agree. They are unanimous in their pledge to roll back the Bush tax cuts. That means that the wealthiest Americans, who are now taxed at a marginal rate of 35 percent, would go back to paying the 38 percent marginal rate they paid under Bill Clinton. So far, however, no Democrat has suggested that the nation should raise the marginal tax rate on the richest Americans above that 38 percent, as will probably be necessary if America is to avoid an economic meltdown in the years ahead.

The biggest emerging pay gap is actually within the top 1 percent of all earners. It's mainly a gap between corporate CEOs, on the one hand, and Wall Street financiers -- hedge-fund managers, private-equity managers (think Mitt Romney) and investment bankers -- on the other. According to a study by University of Chicago professors Steven Kaplan and Joshua Rauh, more than twice as many Wall Street financiers are in the top half of 1 percent of earners as are CEOs. The 25 highest-paid hedge-fund managers are earning more than the CEOs of the largest 500 companies in the Standard and Poor's 500 combined. While CEO pay is outrageous, hedge-fund and private-equity pay is way beyond outrageous. Several of these fund managers are taking home more than a billion dollars a year.

At the very least, you might think that Democrats would do something about the anomaly in the tax code that treats the earnings of private-equity and hedge-fund managers as capital gains rather than ordinary income, and thereby taxes them at 15 percent -- lower than the tax rate faced by many middle-class Americans. But Senate Democrats recently backed off a proposal to do just that. Why? It turns out that Democrats are getting more campaign contributions these days from hedge-fund and private-equity partners than Republicans are getting. In the run-up to the 2006 election, donations from hedge-fund employees were running better than 2-to-1 Democratic. The party doesn't want to bite the hands that feed.

If the rich and super-rich don't pay their fair share, the middle class will get socked with the bill. But the middle class can't possibly pay it. America's middle class is under intense financial pressure. Median wages and benefits, adjusted for inflation, have been going nowhere for 30 years; health costs are soaring (employers are quickly shifting co-payments, deductibles and premiums to their employees), fuel costs are out of sight, the prices of the houses occupied by the middle class are in the doldrums.

What's fair? I'd say a 50 percent marginal tax rate on the very rich, meaning those earning over $500,000 per year. I'd also suggest an annual wealth tax of one-half of 1 percent on the net worth of people holding more than $5 million in total assets. Can't be done, you say? Well, the highest marginal tax rate under Republican Dwight Eisenhower was 91 percent. It dropped under John Kennedy to the 70 percent range. You say the rich will leave the country rather than face a marginal tax of 50 percent? Let them, and take away their citizenship.

If the Democrats stand for anything, it's a fair allocation of the responsibility for paying the costs of maintaining this nation. So far, neither the Democratic candidates for president nor the Senate Democrats have shown much eagerness to advocate this fundamental principle. It seems the rich have bought them out.



Goodbye dollar, hello inflation
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The dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency. This is the statement you heard twice in one day if you were checking out the news on Bloomberg over the past 24 hours.

First, we heard it from economist Clifford Bennett of Sonray Capital, who said the Euro was the world's new reserve currency and that this idea was now universally recognized.

Next we heard it from investor Jim Rogers, who has been bearish on the dollar and the state of the US economy/fiscal outlook for quite some time.

What's notable about Rogers' latest call on the dollar is that he's once again backed his convictions with his actions; yesterday, Rogers announced that he is shifting his personal assets out of the dollar and into the Chinese renminbi.

Here's an excerpt from, "Jim Rogers Shifts Assets Out of Dollars to Buy Yuan".

"Jim Rogers, chairman of Beeland Interests Inc., said he is shifting all his assets out of the dollar and buying Chinese yuan because the Federal Reserve has eroded the value of the U.S. currency.

....I'm in the process of -- I hope in the next few months -- getting all of my assets out of U.S. dollars,'' said Rogers, 65, who correctly predicted the commodities rally in 1999. ....I'm that pessimistic about what's happening in the U.S.''

Rogers, delivering a presentation late yesterday at an investors' meeting organized by ABN Amro Markets in Amsterdam, said he expects the Chinese currency to quadruple in the next decade and that he is holding on to commodities such as platinum, gold, silver and palladium."

If you'd like to listen to an excerpt from Rogers' presentation to investors in Amsterdam, it is reproduced here courtesy of Bloomberg.

What's the rationale behind these calls for the dollar's eventual demise?

As Marc Faber recently noted in a lengthy interview with Bloomberg (and in seperate interviews with CNBC), the recent widespread bearishness might represent a contrarian buy signal for the dollar in the short-term, but this does not exactly cancel out the US currency's long-term problems.

In summary, expect continued deterioration in the dollar's purchasing power and increases in inflation over the longer term. Inflation will not be confined to the US; it has appeared and will continue to appear in countries across the globe.

Every government will try their damnedest to paper over their monetary inflation with ridiculous explanations and reconfigured price indexes which purport to show "low inflation". Still, worldwide inflation is here and it is only a question of which fiat currency will depreciate at the fastest rate against relatively hard currencies and gold.

For more on inflation and government statistics, see FSN Broadcast of October 13, 2007 with guest John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics.



Oil Rises Above $90 to a Record on Supply Drop, Iran Sanctions
By Mark Shenk

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Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose above $90 a barrel to a record in New York the day after a government report showed an unexpected drop in U.S. stockpiles.

....It's not a question of when we'll hit $100 but how quickly,'' said Nauman Barakat, senior vice president of global energy futures at Macquarie Futures USA Inc. in New York. ....There are no bearish factors in the market right now.''

Supplies fell 5.29 million barrels to 316.6 million, the lowest since January, according to yesterday's Energy Department report. New U.S. sanctions against Iran, warnings of a Turkish assault on Kurdish militants in Iraq and a falling dollar also pushed prices higher today.

Crude oil for December delivery rose $3.36, or 3.9 percent, to settle at a record $90.46 a barrel at 2:45 p.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was the biggest one-day gain since April 23. Futures climbed to $90.60, the highest intraday price since trading began in 1983. The previous record, $90.07, was touched on Oct. 19.

Brent crude oil for December settlement rose $3.11, or 3.7 percent, to close at a record $87.48 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. Brent reached $87.59, the highest since trading began in 1988.

....The U.S. has had sanctions against Iran since 1979 and it's not like we are just hearing for the first time about Turkey's intention to rout the Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq,'' said Tim Evans, an analyst with Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in New York. ....What the headlines do is keep these issues front and center for anyone trading in this market.''

New Sanctions

The Bush administration announced new sanctions against Iran today that designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and its Quds force as a supporter of terrorism.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who joined Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in announcing the measures, said today's steps were designed ....to increase the costs to Iran of its irresponsible behavior.''

The U.S. is trying to get Iran to halt uranium enrichment that it suspects is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Iran, which holds the world's second-largest oil and natural gas reserves, says it wants to enrich uranium to produce electricity. The dispute has bolstered oil prices since January 2006 because of concern that oil shipments from the country might be cut.

Turkey won't stand by after Iraq allowed members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, to use bases on Iraqi territory for attacks that left 42 Turks dead this month, President Abdullah Gul said in Ankara. Shelling by Turkish artillery of the Iraqi side of the border continued today, CNN Turk reported.

Small Risk

....We are seeing a continuation of the spike that began yesterday,'' said Eric Wittenauer, an energy analyst at A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. in St. Louis. ....The threats to output aren't likely to limit production. Even if the Turks head into Iraq to attack the PKK, the risk to actual oil production seems small.''

Iraq's oil-rich northern region is controlled by a semi- autonomous Kurdish administration. Kirkuk, the center of the region, is about 100 miles (161 kilometers) from the Turkish border.

....The near-term worries about falling inventories and a weak dollar are outweighing the longer-term effects of a weak economy and conservation in people's minds,'' said Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research in Winchester, Massachusetts.

The dollar approached a record low against the euro after reports showed U.S. orders for durable goods unexpectedly dropped and initial jobless claims were higher than forecast, signaling economic growth may weaken. Slower growth supports the argument for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates next week.

Lower Interest Rates

....The durable goods number today wasn't good, which makes it pretty clear that the Fed will cut interest rates on Oct. 31,'' Barakat said. ....The only question is whether it will be 25 or 50 basis points. Lower interest rates are going to send the dollar lower, which will send oil higher.''

Oil jumped after the U.S. central bank cut its benchmark rate by a half percentage point to 4.75 percent on Sept. 18 to bolster the economy. The Fed next meets on Oct. 30-31 and investors anticipate policy makers will lower the main rate a quarter point to 4.5 percent.

Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have said a falling dollar justifies higher prices because oil- producing countries sell oil in dollars and often buy goods in euros. The group agreed in September to produce an extra 500,000 barrels a day starting Nov. 1 to lower prices and meet fourth- quarter demand.

Prices for gasoline and heating oil also rose because yesterday's report showed that petroleum-product stockpiles fell last week.

Heating oil for November delivery increased 6.64 cents, or 2.8 percent, to close at a record $2.4084 a gallon in New York. Futures touched $2.4109, the highest since trading began in 1978. Gasoline for November delivery climbed 8.83 cents, or 4.1 percent, to settle at $2.2358 a gallon, the highest since July 12. It was the biggest one-day gain since Aug. 29.



BP to Pay $373 Million in Federal Probe
By Lara Jakes Jordan


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Washington - Global energy giant BP PLC agreed Thursday to pay $373 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it overcharged U.S. propane consumers by millions of dollars and ignored environmental warnings that resulted in an Alaska oil spill and a deadly explosion in Texas.

Additionally, a federal grand jury in Chicago indicted four former BP traders who were caught on tape discussing an alleged scheme to pump up profits by cornering the propane markets.

The federal investigation of Europe's second-largest energy company, and its executives, will continue during a three-year probation period, Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler said Thursday.

"Obviously, the actions that we're responding to today reflect that there were some very serious problems within the company," Keisler said, announcing the cases in Washington.

BP America Chairman and President Bob Malone apologized in a statement.

"These agreements are an admission that, in these instances, our operations failed to meet our own standards and the requirements of the law. For that, we apologize," Malone said.

The charges against London-based BP and its U.S.-based subsidiaries come in at least three separate cases that federal investigators have been pursuing for several years. They include:



• A February 2004 scheme by BP America Inc. to inflate the price of propane by buying massive quantities of the gas, to be delivered over a Texas pipeline, and then withholding supplies. That forced other buyers in the wholesale market to pay an unnaturally high premium, costing consumers an estimated $53 million and driving spot prices as high as 94 cents a gallon in places like New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois.

Ironically, BP did not profit because the financial benefits of the scheme were outweighed by the unexpectedly huge costs associated with carrying it out. But under an agreement with the Justice Department to avoid criminal prosecution, BP will pay a $100 million penalty on top of fines amounting to $25 million to the U.S. Postal Service; $125 million to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and $53 million in restitution.

Additionally, the Justice Department charged four former traders accused of carrying out the scheme with 20 counts of mail and wire fraud and commodities violations. At least some of the four traders - Mark David Radley, James Warren Summers, Cody Dean Claborn and Carrie Kienenberger - allegedly were caught on tape gleefully discussing how BP could "control the market at will."

Describing the tape, Commodity Futures Trading Commission acting chairman Walt Lukken described "outrage that these people were taking advantage of innocent consumers."

• A March 23, 2005, explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, that killed 15 contract employees and injured more than 170. Granta Nakayama, assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, said BP failed to install environmental and safety standards as required by the Clean Air Act to prevent chemical vapors from being accidentally released.

BP will pay $50 million as part of a felony guilty plea in Texas - what officials called the largest criminal fine ever given in a Clean Air Act case.

• BP's March 2006 spill of 201,000 gallons of crude oil at Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, the nation's largest oil field. BP America will pay $20 million and plead guilty to a misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act for the largest crude spill on Alaska's oil-rich North Slope.

Under the agreement, BP will pay a $12 million fine and $4 million in restitution to the state of Alaska. Another $4 million goes to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for Arctic environmental research.

Nakayama said the spill "should not have happened" because BP ignored what he called many warnings about the risks to the ecosystem.

"BP committed serious environmental crimes in our two largest states," Nakayama said. "Every entity that is subject to environmental laws has an obligation to comply. But global companies like BP, with their experience, technical capabilities and financial resources have no excuse for committing environmental crimes."

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2,000-Year-Old California Redwoods' Fate in Mediator's Hands
By Erwin Seba


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Corpus Christi, Texas - A U.S. bankruptcy judge in Texas said on Tuesday he would appoint a mediator to try to hammer out a deal on the fate of 29,000 acres of giant, 2,000-year-old California redwood trees, which environmentalists and loggers battled over in the 1990s.

U.S. Judge Richard Schmidt expressed frustration at the slow pace Maxxam Inc. subsidiary Pacific Lumber Co. was moving since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January.

Schmidt issued his decision on Tuesday night in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Southern District of Texas at Corpus Christi after a daylong hearing.

"I'm going to put this on short-fuse mediation," Schmidt said.

Charles Hurwitz, chairman and chief executive of Houston-based Maxxam, became the target of protestors who lived in California redwoods to prevent Pacific Lumber from cutting them down in the 1990s.

Pacific Lumber signed a 1998 agreement with the state of California and the U.S. government to protect nearly 8,000 acres of timberland including old-growth redwoods as habitat for an endangered Pacific Coast bird the Marbled Murrelet.

Pacific Lumber filed for bankruptcy protection because of its inability to pay on $714 million in bonds. The company has taken on more debt to continue operating while working out of the bankruptcy.

Under a bankruptcy plan Pacific Lumber has put forward, 6,000 acres of timberland including old-growth redwoods would sell for $300 million to a conservation agency or group. Other nearby timberland, also including redwoods, would be sold or developed to raise another $1.1 billion.

Schmidt told the lawyers for Pacific Lumber and its creditors they could try to agree on a mediator, hoping it would be the first agreement reached in the case.

The mediator will have 30 days to try and hammer out an agreement between the parties involved.

"I want everyone to participate," Schmidt said. "Whether that means Mr. Hurwitz needs to attend or to send somebody."

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We're One Step Closer to Creating Genetically Enhanced Humans
By Marcy Darnovsky, AlterNet
Posted on October 19, 2007, Printed on October 26, 2007
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It's Nobel Prize season, and the Nobel scientists are very much in the news. James Watson, awarded the laureate in 1962 for helping to deduce the now-iconic double-helix structure of DNA, is currently embroiled in controversy after making a series of blatantly racist remarks in the UK Sunday Times this month.

But related views espoused by one of this year's laureates have gone unnoticed. In early October, the Nobel Prize for biology went to three scientists whose talent and persistence gave us "knockout mice," the genetically engineered lab animals widely used by researchers to model and study human diseases. In the words of a Nobel committee member, these designer mice have "led to penetrating new insights" in several biological fields.

The story of one of the biology winners, Mario Capecchi, was the lead in most of the news reports about the award. Capecchi's rags-to-riches life gave an extra mythic dimension to the fairytale-like quality that always accompanies the Nobel announcements, with their large sums of money and middle-of-the-night phone calls to astonished scientists.

Capecchi spent his early childhood in World War II Italy, living on the streets and in orphanages after his mother was sent to Dachau for anti-Fascist activities. She survived and found her son on his ninth birthday. Together they set sail for the United States, where Capecchi got a high-quality education and eventually reached Watson's Harvard lab.

But there's another aspect of Capecchi's life that may sound more like science fiction than fairy tale. The new Nobel laureate, like his former mentor Watson, has spoken enthusiastically of using the genetic science he's helped advance to engineer biologically enhanced children.

The prospect of a renewed, high-tech eugenics is extraordinarily controversial, but it is not just a fantasy. It is coming ever closer to technical plausibility, and for a disturbing number of influential scientists and eccentric futurists, it is an agenda. At an infamous UCLA conference in 1998, Watson, Capecchi, and other prominent scientists gathered to strategize about how to make it "acceptable" to the public. The event was titled Engineering the Human Germline -- a reference to what is now more commonly called "inheritable genetic modification" -- and covered on the front pages of the New York Times and Washington Post.

The conferees were quite explicit. Watson -- hardly known for his shyness or tact -- proclaimed to the audience of nearly a thousand, "If we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we do it?" (As for the "better human beings" he has in mind, he told a British film maker in 2003 that he considers ten percent of children "stupid," and would like to see them genetically modified. "If you really are stupid, I would call that a disease," Watson said. He went on to argue for using genetic techniques to prevent the births of "ugly girls." "People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty," he explained. "I think it would be great.")

Another conference attendee, Princeton mouse biologist turned futurist Lee Silver, has elaborated on this frankly eugenic vision. In Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World (William Morrow: 1997), Silver eagerly imagines a future in which the appearance, personality, cognitive abilities, and sensory capacities of children become products of genetic modification. Silver acknowledges that the costs of such procedures would limit their widespread adoption, and predicts that over time society would segregate into castes that he dubs the "GenRich" and the "Naturals."

In the promotion of a new eugenics, Capecchi has been less the salesman or provocateur, and more the architect -- or, perhaps, the engineer. His talk at the 1998 conference, called "The Genetic Engineer's Tool Box," examined techniques "for safe, reliable germline engineering in humans." Capecchi acknowledged concerns about the wisdom of making permanent changes in the human genome. If inheritable genetic modification were to begin in twenty years, he mused, "the procedures that we'll be working out at that point will appear very primitive fifty years from now. And those procedures, in turn, will appear very primitive a hundred years from now." This presents a serious problem: "[T]here's no way we should create a system where it is a permanent record."

But for a man of Capecchi's scientific imagination, this problem is surmountable. In fact, he had already devised a clever work-around. His proposal: Create those genetic changes in the embryos that will become genetically enhanced children, but put "on" and "off" switches into their genes. Newsweek described the scheme as "an end run around the worry that it is wrong to monkey with human evolution."

Unlike Watson and others, Capecchi seems not to have pursued advocacy of using genetic tools in the service of a eugenic future. Perhaps he has had second thoughts. Perhaps he has recognized the disastrous new forms of discrimination and inequality that eugenic engineering could so easily produce. Perhaps there's a chance he'll use the platform afforded by his Nobel Prize to reject such dangerous applications of the science he's helped to develop. Or is that too much of a fairy tale ending?

endgame...

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What We Can Do to End the War
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Posted on October 26, 2007, Printed on October 26, 2007
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The majority of Americans and Iraqis oppose the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. Polls indicate that 70 percent of Americans are against the war and over 80 percent of Iraqis want coalition troops out of their country. In the four and a half years since the invasion, nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed and nearly 30,000 seriously wounded. There have also been an estimated 1 million Iraqi civilians killed and over 4 million have fled for their lives.

The war has racked up a bill of over $600 billion of our taxpayer money and yet left Iraq a country in economic shambles and political unrest, and with a population living in fear of daily violence. (Check out the video to the right.)

For the duration of this war, people in the United States have raised their voice in opposition. They have marched, signed petitions, held vigils and written to their elected officials. But it hasn't been enough. Yet.

This Saturday, Oct. 27, United for Peace and Justice, the largest anti-war coalition in the United States, has organized 11 massive anti-war rallies to take place around the nation. Participating organizations include veterans and military family groups, as well as hundreds of national and local peace groups.

Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice said, "Never before have we seen anything like this. In regional centers throughout the nation people will gather in an expression of the widespread opposition to the war. This war, with its senseless death and destruction in Iraq, is draining our communities as resources we need here at home are squandered every day. It is time to bring our troops home."

Tens of thousands are expected to participate in the coordinated day of opposition to the Bush administration's war in Iraq. The protest will take place in 11 regional centers including New York, Boston, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Jonesborough (TN), Seattle, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Orlando. Several other cities are conducting smaller gatherings for those who are unable to travel.

Nancy Lessin, co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, stated, "In the coming weeks, Congress will decide whether or not to continue funding the war in Iraq for another year. Military families and Iraq veterans will participate in the regional demonstrations on Oct. 27 to join people from around the country to remind Congress that funding this war is killing our troops."

The actions are designed to send a message both to the Bush administration and to Congress, said Cagan. They hope to give people a platform to express their opposition to the war in Iraq and to the importance of channeling that money to local communities where health care and education have been cut across the country. It will also be a place to raise awareness to prevent another ill-conceived war, this time with Iran.

"The timing is important," said Cagan. "It has been almost a year since voters said loud and clear that we want this war to end. Everyone saw the midterm elections last year as a mandate to end the war. And it is almost exactly a year until the next election. As we gear up for 2008, we want to be clear that the anti-war movement is not going away and we need to keep putting ourselves out there."

This is no longer Bush's war, said Cagan, but Congress' also since it has had a year to take action.

Organizers of the event hope to not just remind people of the enduring horrors in Iraq but to generate hope and energize people to go back into their communities and keep working at the local level.

Cagan says she understands the frustrations that have come from people who've been marching and opposing this war for years with little positive response from our government. "Some people are fed up with protests but are even more fed up with the war," said Cagan. "We have few vehicles to express our opposition, and we need to use every one we have. We'll never know the lives we may have saved or the destruction we may have prevented that resulted from our previous anti-war protests. But I do know that the minute we stop, things will get worse."

Even if you've marched before -- even if you've marched 20 times since March 2003, it is still important to get out there on Oct. 27 and let our elected officials and the entire world know that our country wants our troops out of Iraq.

"Being a visible, public, bold movement does have an impact on policymakers," said Cagan. "And it will ripple across the country and get more people engaged in a whole range of activities."

For more information about the Oct. 27 actions, visit Oct.27.org or United for Peace, and check out the video to the right.

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Much of US Could See a Water Shortage
By Brian Skoloff


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West Palm Beach, Florida - An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year.

Across America, the picture is critically clear - the nation's freshwater supplies can no longer quench its thirst.

The government projects that at least 36 states will face water shortages within five years because of a combination of rising temperatures, drought, population growth, urban sprawl, waste and excess.

"Is it a crisis? If we don't do some decent water planning, it could be," said Jack Hoffbuhr, executive director of the Denver-based American Water Works Association.

Water managers will need to take bold steps to keep taps flowing, including conservation, recycling, desalination and stricter controls on development.

"We've hit a remarkable moment," said Barry Nelson, a senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The last century was the century of water engineering. The next century is going to have to be the century of water efficiency."

The price tag for ensuring a reliable water supply could be staggering. Experts estimate that just upgrading pipes to handle new supplies could cost the nation $300 billion over 30 years.

"Unfortunately, there's just not going to be any more cheap water," said Randy Brown, Pompano Beach's utilities director.

It's not just America's problem - it's global.

Australia is in the midst of a 30-year dry spell, and population growth in urban centers of sub-Saharan Africa is straining resources. Asia has 60 percent of the world's population, but only about 30 percent of its freshwater.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists, said this year that by 2050 up to 2 billion people worldwide could be facing major water shortages.

The U.S. used more than 148 trillion gallons of water in 2000, the latest figures available from the U.S. Geological Survey. That includes residential, commercial, agriculture, manufacturing and every other use - almost 500,000 gallons per person.

Coastal states like Florida and California face a water crisis not only from increased demand, but also from rising temperatures that are causing glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise. Higher temperatures mean more water lost to evaporation. And rising seas could push saltwater into underground sources of freshwater.

Florida represents perhaps the nation's greatest water irony. A hundred years ago, the state's biggest problem was it had too much water. But decades of dikes, dams and water diversions have turned swamps into cities.

Little land is left to store water during wet seasons, and so much of the landscape has been paved over that water can no longer penetrate the ground in some places to recharge aquifers. As a result, the state is forced to flush millions of gallons of excess into the ocean to prevent flooding.

Also, the state dumps hundreds of billions of gallons a year of treated wastewater into the Atlantic through pipes - water that could otherwise be used for irrigation.

Florida's environmental chief, Michael Sole, is seeking legislative action to get municipalities to reuse the wastewater.

"As these communities grow, instead of developing new water with new treatment systems, why not better manage the commodity they already have and produce an environmental benefit at the same time?" Sole said.

Florida leads the nation in water reuse by reclaiming some 240 billion gallons annually, but it is not nearly enough, Sole said.

Floridians use about 2.4 trillion gallons of water a year. The state projects that by 2025, the population will have increased 34 percent from about 18 million to more than 24 million people, pushing annual demand for water to nearly 3.3 trillion gallons.

More than half of the state's expected population boom is projected in a three-county area that includes Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, where water use is already about 1.5 trillion gallons a year.

"We just passed a crossroads. The chief water sources are basically gone," said John Mulliken, director of water supply for the South Florida Water Management District. "We really are at a critical moment in Florida history."

In addition to recycling and conservation, technology holds promise.

There are more than 1,000 desalination plants in the U.S., many in the Sunbelt, where baby boomers are retiring at a dizzying rate.

The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant is producing about 25 million gallons a day of fresh drinking water, about 10 percent of that area's demand. The $158 million facility is North America's largest plant of its kind. Miami-Dade County is working with the city of Hialeah to build a reverse osmosis plant to remove salt from water in deep brackish wells. Smaller such plants are in operation across the state.

Californians use nearly 23 trillion gallons of water a year, much of it coming from Sierra Nevada snowmelt. But climate change is producing less snowpack and causing it to melt prematurely, jeopardizing future supplies.

Experts also say the Colorado River, which provides freshwater to seven Western states, will probably provide less water in coming years as global warming shrinks its flow.

California, like many other states, is pushing conservation as the cheapest alternative, looking to increase its supply of treated wastewater for irrigation and studying desalination, which the state hopes could eventually provide 20 percent of its freshwater.

"The need to reduce water waste and inefficiency is greater now than ever before," said Benjamin Grumbles, assistant administrator for water at the Environmental Protection Agency. "Water efficiency is the wave of the future."

[yeahwho]

ring of throwing crap up against the wall and seeing what sticks.

yawn.

[cosmo105]

El Guapo only kills men.



He does not kill crying women.



So go...



you big movie stars.



Thank you.



Faster!



People of Santa Poco.



You were very foolish to bring men
to try to stop El Guapo.



You have hurt me.



You see, Jefe?



A rose can bloom in the desert.



Jefe!



Santa Poco is no longer
under my protection!



The town is yours, muchachos!



Afternoon.



- We'll just get our things and go.
- There is nothing of yours here.



El Guapo has taken everything.



Sorry.



Did you see a pair of cuff links?
They were mother-of-pearl...



Where's Carmen?



El Guapo has taken her too.



- Let's go back to Hollywood.
- The sooner, the better.



- It's too hot down here.
- That and my hay fever.



- We don't belong down here anyway.
- Where's Ned?



What are you doing?



What do we have to go back to?



You've no jobs, no money...



no place to live.



No friends.



No women.



No self-respect.



Oh, hold on. Wait.



Ned, we could get killed.



Back there the Three Amigos
are already dead.



Here we could be
the Three Amigos for real.



I'm drawing a line.



Men or mice?



What'll it be?



Let's ride!



- Great job catching the food, Ned.
- Oh, thanks, Lucky.



How do you like your bat, Dusty?



- Medium rare.
- This should do it.



Thanks.



How far did we ride before we
had to go back and get directions?



Just three or four miles.



Read those instructions again.



All righty.



All right.



We go east...



through the desert
until we come to the singing bush.



The singing bush?



When we find the singing bush...



we say the magic chant,
each fire one shot in the air...



and that will summon
the invisible swordsman...



and he will then show us
the way to El Guapo's.



- Want your wings?
- No, fine.



Here you go.



Oh, great, thanks.



Well, good night.



Look at the little fella.
He's tuckered out already.



What was that?



It's just a coyote.



I've never slept outside before.



Take it easy.



Arizona moon keep shinin'



From the desert sky above



You know, pretty soon



That big yellow moon



Will light the way



Back



To the one you love



Blue



Shadows



On the trail



Little cowboy



Close your eyes



And dream



All of the doggies



Are in the corral



All of your work is done



Just close your eyes



And dream, little pal



Dream of



Someone



Blue



Shadows



On the trail



Soft wind blowin'



Through the trees



Above



All the other little cowboys



Back in the bunkhouse now, so



Close your



Eyes and



Dream



Good night, Lucky.
Good night, Dusty.



Good night, Ned.



Good night, Ned.



Good night, Ned.



Good night, Lucky.



Good night, Dusty.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mriyJd3h3nY

[Documad]

El Guapo only kills men.



He does not kill crying women.



So go...



you big movie stars.



Thank you.



Faster!



People of Santa Poco.



You were very foolish to bring men
to try to stop El Guapo.



You have hurt me.



You see, Jefe?



A rose can bloom in the desert.



Jefe!



Santa Poco is no longer
under my protection!



The town is yours, muchachos!



Afternoon.



- We'll just get our things and go.
- There is nothing of yours here.



El Guapo has taken everything.



Sorry.



Did you see a pair of cuff links?
They were mother-of-pearl...



Where's Carmen?



El Guapo has taken her too.



- Let's go back to Hollywood.
- The sooner, the better.



- It's too hot down here.
- That and my hay fever.



- We don't belong down here anyway.
- Where's Ned?



What are you doing?



What do we have to go back to?



You've no jobs, no money...



no place to live.



No friends.



No women.



No self-respect.



Oh, hold on. Wait.



Ned, we could get killed.



Back there the Three Amigos
are already dead.



Here we could be
the Three Amigos for real.



I'm drawing a line.



Men or mice?



What'll it be?



Let's ride!



- Great job catching the food, Ned.
- Oh, thanks, Lucky.



How do you like your bat, Dusty?



- Medium rare.
- This should do it.



Thanks.



How far did we ride before we
had to go back and get directions?



Just three or four miles.



Read those instructions again.



All righty.



All right.



We go east...



through the desert
until we come to the singing bush.



The singing bush?



When we find the singing bush...



we say the magic chant,
each fire one shot in the air...



and that will summon
the invisible swordsman...



and he will then show us
the way to El Guapo's.



- Want your wings?
- No, fine.



Here you go.



Oh, great, thanks.



Well, good night.



Look at the little fella.
He's tuckered out already.



What was that?



It's just a coyote.



I've never slept outside before.



Take it easy.



Arizona moon keep shinin'



From the desert sky above



You know, pretty soon



That big yellow moon



Will light the way



Back



To the one you love



Blue



Shadows



On the trail



Little cowboy



Close your eyes



And dream



All of the doggies



Are in the corral



All of your work is done



Just close your eyes



And dream, little pal



Dream of



Someone



Blue



Shadows



On the trail



Soft wind blowin'



Through the trees



Above



All the other little cowboys



Back in the bunkhouse now, so



Close your



Eyes and



Dream



Good night, Lucky.
Good night, Dusty.



Good night, Ned.



Good night, Ned.



Good night, Ned.



Good night, Lucky.



Good night, Dusty.

(y)

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WHY HR 1955 WAS RAMMED THROUGH UNDER COVER OF FIRE

By: Devvy
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"Paper is poverty, .... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1788

Last week while the horrific fires were burning up Southern California and every major news network, including cable were providing non-stop coverage, a very dangerous bill to liberty and freedom was passed by 404 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Called the 'Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007', this bill is perfectly summed up here:

"First let's take a look at the definitions of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as defined in Section 899A of the bill. The definition of violent radicalization uses vague language to define this term of promoting any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda. Since the bill doesn't specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it is entirely up to the interpretation of the government. Considering how much the government has done to destroy the Constitution they could even define Ron Paul supporters as promoting an extremist belief system. Literally, the government according to this definition can define whatever they want as an extremist belief system. Essentially they have defined violent radicalization as thought crime."

Why was this bill passed now? Besides yours truly, thousands of economists and constitutional activists have been warning for decades what will happen if treaties like NAFTA were shoved down our throats destroying our most important, productive job sectors along with the continued fleecing of the people's purse. Let's look at some current data to bring things into perspective and it's not pretty:

Foreclosures, default notices soar locally and across the state. October 26, 2007: "Home loan defaults and foreclosures spiked again sharply in July, August and September throughout California and the capital region, setting records and adding more stress to an already-slumping housing market." Billions in housing wealth at risk as foreclosures soar. October 26, 2007: "More than $23.6 billion in California housing wealth will evaporate if real estate prices continue to decline and foreclosures on subprime home loans soar, according to a new congressional report that indicates the fallout from the national mortgage crisis is worsening." Cash-strapped Americans raiding their 401(k)s. October 14, 2007: "Despite potential tax and investment problems, more investors have been borrowing from their 401(k) plans or taking hardship withdrawals in recent months, some retirement plan providers say. Many in the field expect more borrowing in 2008, as consumers struggle with tighter credit and potentially higher mortgage payments."

2 Million Americans Face Losing Their Home. October 26, 2007: "An influential congressional committee warned yesterday that 2 million US families face losing their homes in a "tidal wave" of repossessions with an estimated cost of $71bn." US loan default problems widen. October 21 2007: " Poor quarterly results from banks across the US over the past two weeks suggest credit problems once confined to high-risk mortgage borrowers are spreading across the consumer landscape, posing new risks to the economy and weighing heavily on the markets. US banks have raised reserves for loan losses by at least $6bn over the second quarter and by even larger amounts from last year, indicating financial executives believe consumers will be increasingly unable to make payments on a variety of loans. " Goodbye dollar, hello inflation. October 24, 2007: "In summary, expect continued deterioration in the dollar's purchasing power and increases in inflation over the longer term. Inflation will not be confined to the US; it has appeared and will continue to appear in countries across the globe. Every government will try their damnedest to paper over their monetary inflation with ridiculous explanations and reconfigured price indexes which purport to show "low inflation". Still, worldwide inflation is here and it is only a question of which fiat currency will depreciate at the fastest rate against relatively hard currencies and gold."

When people have no money to spend except for food and shelter, it kills the local economy. Retailers are already anticipating a dismal Christmas season. Dr. Edwin Vieira has warned for decades this banking crisis was coming. He pointed out in a column, March 17, 2005, that a monetary and banking crisis was on its way. In his March 21, 2005, column, Edwin said: "Pointing out these stories to a New Hampshire State Legislator, I explained the logical connection among them: first, that this country is on the verge of an inevitable financial melt-down; second, that politicians are intent on making things even worse; and third, that when the Ponzi pyramid collapses, the same politicians whose irresponsibility caused the situation will impose draconian restrictions on common Americans by means of police forces amply provided with weapons and heavy equipment suitable for house-to-house fighting in Stalingrad."

Many times I have reminded Americans that back in 1984, Lt. Col. Oliver North, directly helped draft a plan in 1984 at the direction of Ronald Reagan to impose martial law in the United States in the event of an emergency. This secret plan would suspend the U.S. Constitution and turn over control of the government to the little known agency at that time: FEMA. This plan would appoint military commanders to run state and local governments - remember Katrina? Implementation of this plan would have been triggered by violent and wide spread internal dissent, disagreement with government policy or national opposition to any U.S. military invasion abroad. Essentially, it amounted to a complete and total suspension of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Many times I have reminded Americans about a 1997 essay in the Sacramento Bee titled: Our Civilian-Military Face off, which also carried a sub headline: Bill of Rights No Obstacle for the [Marine] Corps. This piece exposed the mindset way back then that at some point due to: "...the rising potential for civil disobedience within the inner cities it is 'inevitable' the U.S. military will be employed more often within American borders." In my March 10, 2005 column, I said that at some point, it was a given that posse comitatus is likely to be thrown out the window. WACO was the test case in violation of posse comitatus which resulted in our military burning and gassing to death 74 Americans, 17 of them children. For the most part, America was silent and sickeningly, large numbers felt the outcome was "necessary." Well, it came to pass and NWVs columnist, Greg Evensen, former Kansas State Trooper, summed it up quit succinctly:

"In addition to this “group think” concerning the police “mission” of enforcing the law—regardless of whether or not the law is righteous or constitutional---is the recent historic change in federal law. I am referring to Public Law 109-364, or the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007” (HR5122) (2), was signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006...It allows the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America. Further, Section 1076 of this Act, entitled “Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies and Section 333 Major Public Emergencies--interference with State and Federal Law, says that the President may use these forces when HE determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that a State is incapable of (read that “refuse or fail” in) maintaining public order, “in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination thereof or conspiracy to commit these acts against the United States. This “repeal” of the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) is a deadly blow on this historic prevention of US army units intervening in local disputes. The 1878 Act, protected local jurisdictions and even states from the willful intervention of corrupted or dictatorial executive branch orders being forced upon the locals by Army units in a law enforcement capacity."

Back in 1999, the International Association of Undercover Officers held a conference and put out a manual titled 'Homegrown Extremists.' This manual will shock you, i.e,. the Fully Informed Jury Association which teaches people about their serious responsibilities as a juror is blasted as an extremist organization. This is the kind of propaganda that was being jammed down the throats of law enforcement almost a decade ago. Most certainly there are dangerous groups in this country, but through toxic organizations like the Southern "Poverty" Law Center, this type of propaganda is now standard fare for law enforcement. Constitutionalists are deliberately lumped in with the KKK and wacky cults. Pg 52 begins "Know your enemy" and they are white, educated Christians. The full manual is scanned here.

The timing of the passage of H.R. 1955 was no accident; see roll call of votes here. The fact that 404 members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted for it tells me this collective body of dangerous individuals that have taken this country, with the blessing of every past president since Roosevelt, to the brink of financial ruin are now very afraid of what's going to happen when the peasants (that's us) find themselves left with nothing. Additionally, the push for a new, unbiased investigation into 911 is turning into an unmanageable situation for the shadow government.

Tens of millions of Americans do NOT want Bush to unconstitutionally invade and bomb Iran, a non threatening country and should the peasants, commonly referred to as the "working man", refuse to support this insanity, a new draconian law will be in place to crush we the people. Many now realize it's too late to stop exactly what Lou Dobbs so courageously railed about on his show, October 26, 2007:

"And the leadership, of course, emanating from Washington is brilliant dealing with the issue of $92-a-barrel crude oil, a Middle East policy that is a joke, an energy policy for this country that is nonexistent. This administration and the previous absolutely derelict...And I love, I love these jackasses in this administration, particularly in their -- the treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, the commerce secretary, this president, all of them talk coming together to create a super-fund for the money center banks, investment banks in this country to put together maybe about $100 billion fund, so that they won't have to suffer losses as a result of their bad credit market investments and risk taken in their portfolios, particularly in subprime mortgage. But we have got millions of people facing foreclosures, the resets that you're talking about on those mortgages, ARMs that were designed for the convenience of the industry. And this administration and this Congress is not moving to deal with a way to relieve that debt and that incredible pressure that it's going to put on middle- class families."

Empty bellies make for angry mobs. How much do you have in your savings account to keep emptying the ocean with a teaspoon? Are you one of the above borrowing from your 401(k)? What will be left at "retirement" time to see to your needs in your golden years? Crude closed at $92/per barrel last Friday; when Bush took office it was $18/barrel. This winter, our fellow Americans in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and the New England States will have to face staying warm vs eating and/or dropping their health care premiums because there's no money left in the till to pay another increase in heating fuel oil. While Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi eat off gold plated china, Bush will continue to blow $10 BILLION dollars a month on his insane wars and since there's no money in the treasury, that $10 BILLION will have to be borrowed and squeezed from we the people who have nothing left to give. And, these buzzards in Congress just keep writing hot checks:

Here piggie, piggie! Billions in fed trough. "Millions earmarked for La Raza radicals: $3.74 million for research into the Formosan Subterranean Termite, requested by Reps. Rodney Alexander and Richard Baker of Louisiana; $1.7 million for the Centers for Disease Control to fund a Hollywood liaison to advise doctor dramas." While you're trying to figure out how to provide health care insurance for your family, get them needed dental work, buy shoes and little dresses, this is what these damnable crooks in Congress are blowing money on when the treasury is empty. [Order and read Judge Andrew Napolitano's newest book "A Nation Of Sheep"]

The worst is now staring all of us in the face and I respectfully recommend every American do several things as soon as you can:

(1) Diversify a good portion of your assets into gold. I'm not a gold dealer, but my friends at El Dorado Gold know this issue inside and out and they will tell you that right now that stock market is on the same path as 1929. October 18, 2007: Dow drops over 366 on anniversary of Black Friday. This was a warning people had better take seriously. Call Eric in the Florida office at 623.643.8785 or, if you prefer closer to the West Coast, call Harvey at 602.228.8203. Congress is staring at double-digit TRILLIONS needed next year when that first wave of baby boomers retire. There's no money in the treasury and all the BS pouring out of Barack Hussein Obama or Hillary's mouth, or pie in the sky promises from Rudy Julie Annie, Huckabee or Romney isn't going to stop what is already underway.

(2) Get your affairs in order which means paperwork like wills, trusts, etc. DON'T put off this important task for a baseball game, round of golf or tv program.

(3) Disaster can happen at any time, so everyone should make sure they have at least a few weeks of food supplies, along with vitamins and medical necessities stored. If there's any disruption with our road warriors (truckers) being able to get to your area, your family will starve and there won't be any running down to China (Wal) Mart for a prescription refill that could mean life or death.

Please get on the phone to your House member this week and tell them: Bush simply cannot invade or bomb Iran like some banana republic dictator. A formal declaration of war is REQUIRED under the U.S. Constitution by Congress and we the people do NOT want any military aggression against a non threatening country like Iran. Stop this lunacy or find another job next November. Demand they vote yes NOW on the bills below because they are critical in beginning the rebuilding process:

H.R. 2755: Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act. To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes.

H. Con. Res. 40: The United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada.

H.R. 3835: The American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 which will restore habeas corpus by repealing the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

H. Con. Res. 22: The President should provide notice of withdrawal of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

H.R.4855: Get rid of the unnecessary withholding taxing scheme. This bill was introduced by Congressman Ron Paul, July 27, 2000 and we the people demand a new bill get introduced and passed as well as abolish the IRS.

Important links:

1 - Reconstituting the militia under the states
2 - No income tax necessary to fund federal government
3 - The right argument on taxes
4 - Is the U.S. Government Sneaking Gold Out of Fort Knox?
5 - US Food Riots Much Closer Than You Think
6 - Iran: The Road to Armageddon?
7 - We must bomb Iran, says Republican guru

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On Track for U.S. Collapse
Michael S. Rozeff
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Bush and Cheney are steering the U.S. into a collapse. Only strong public voices by influential people can prevent the coming disaster. We desperately need for men and women who are known to the public and have credibility to speak up in the critical period ahead to avoid catastrophe.

A few weeks ago, Israel bombed a alleged nuclear facility in Syria. This is a warm-up for an attack on Iran.
In the last few days, the U.S. unilaterally tightened sanctions on Iran. Russia and China do not support this move.
A week ago Bush warned Iran that its attainment of nuclear arms would lead to World War III.
Russia, which has been assisting Iran in its nuclear construction program for decades, regards Western military action against Iran as unacceptable.
China has been arming Iran with missiles. Its relations with Iran have been improving for years.
We know that Bush and Cheney are capable of pre-emptive attack. We know that Bush will act if he believes he is right no matter what the costs are. In his distorted worldview, Iran with nuclear weapons is a scenario worth any cost to avoid.

We know that Bush, Cheney, and Rice have repeatedly warned Iran of meaningful consequences if Iran arms itself with nuclear weapons. We know that their terms in office end in 15 months. These are the critical months.

But it is by no means clear that the front-running candidates for office who may replace them hold substantially different views. Hillary Clinton has publicly called for sanctions against Iran and has called Iran a threat to Israel.

Why may an unprovoked attack on Iran lead to WWIII and why may it lead to the collapse of the U.S.?

Imagine this scenario. The U.S. encourages Israel to bomb the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran. Russia attempts to restrain an Iranian response but fails. Iran responds in any of many ways, such as launching missiles on Israel, firing on shipping in the Straits of Hormuz, mining the Straits of Hormuz, sending troops into Iraq, or allying its military with Hezbollah and attacking Israel from Lebanon.

The U.S., citing Iran’s aggressions (that will be the story), launches a full-scale attack on Iran designed to devastate the country. This attack has actually been planned by the U.S. for years. Syria is unable to maintain neutrality and quickly becomes a battleground between Iran and Israel.

The price of oil by this point has already soared to $200 a barrel. The U.S. begins to use its strategic reserve and to divert Iraqi production. Russia responds by taking steps to prevent its oil production from reaching the U.S. China responds by cutting off its support of the U.S. Treasury market. Venezuela halts oil shipments to the U.S. The first stages of WWIII are economic warfare designed to cripple the U.S. and halt its war-making capacity.

The U.S., unable to finance its deficits and fund its sovereign debt, is forced into raising interest rates drastically in order to borrow. The Fed is forced to print money. An inflationary spiral occurs. Meanwhile the high interest rates and high oil prices, not to mention the shock of a spreading conflict, drive the U.S. economy into severe decline. The U.S. attempts to raise taxes in order to fund itself, further crippling the economy. Gold soars to $1,500–$2,000 an ounce.

The U.S. attempts to bolster its military forces. The draft is reinstated. The severity of the emergency allows Bush and Cheney to assume emergency powers and begin a dictatorship. Elections are postponed.

The U.S. collapses.

Unfortunately, even if this scenario does not occur, the position of the U.S. is so precarious that any number of other scenarios equally disastrous lie in wait. This house needs urgently to be put in order or it will fall, and especially if it does not terminate its imperial adventures. The very fact that Bush and Cheney (or any major U.S. political officials) gain by starting WWIII is a terrible indictment of our entire political system.

Who can stop this? Who can prevent this? It will only take a few well-placed people to prevent this catastrophe. My guess is 5–20 people could sway public opinion against war or provide enough cover for Congressional dissenters to screw up their courage. Maybe even as few as 3 or 4 influential people could derail the Bush-Cheney train to disaster. They need to speak out at the right times and they must be heard. Previously mute or muted voices simply must speak out. They know who they are. They know that their silence will mean silent approval of a U.S. collapse.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fws4RxWtnOg

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIiwSeew0KI

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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=11730013

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgfzqulvhlQ

[yeahwho]

This guy with the milk hate thing, l bet if it's super hot and he's kind of getting a hankering for something sweet, I could talk him into ice cream 'real easy.

[Carlos]

lol...

classic thread...

Eric sure you mean well, and from some of the stuff you have put up u are clearly well informed.

HOWEVER your presentation and reasoning style is easy cannon fodder for the Gatekeepers on this board. And even those who are interested in the subject will not spend the time to read your large posts (which do not appear to be much or your own thought, rather a ctr+c, ctrl+v exercise).

The main problem which has happened time and time again here: is that few people seem to think this board kinda belongs to them, and that if you post something up, then you have to justify it was worth posting up to these people, cos they live here. Fair enough if you want to engage with these people then you should be prepared to elaborate on you point.

But, it is not a priori pre-requesite that you must make the case for the information being presented, as this is a forum, and as such people often just posts a link to something without giving a framework for the info. I beleive the orriginal purpose of this thread was to 'share' a video: and that as this is an intellectual forum people have the ablilty to watch it and judge for themself if it has any merit.

Instead the gatekeepers have to ridicule it (most certainly without even watchin 15 mins of it) - in other words trying to put other people off watching it and being their own judge - exactly the same thing as Faux News. Gatekeeping information on an a prori basis, rather than on it's actual content.

I haven't seen the video, so i wouldn't dream commenting on it - like any truly objective person.. problem here is intellect can obscure objectivity on occasions.

[Knuckles]

lol...



I haven't seen the video, so i wouldn't dream commenting on it - like any truly objective person.. problem here is intellect can obscure objectivity on occasions.

Do you really need to see this (http://www.secretspacedvd.com/) video before mocking it?

[Carlos]

1 word..

yes

until i see something/read it/ etc i will not lay down a judgement on it's content.. call me old fashioned :p

(by the way i have not checked ur link - and i am in no way condoning or condeming it)

[Knuckles]

1 word..

yes

until i see something/read it/ etc i will not lay down a judgement on it's content.. call me old fashioned :p

(by the way i have not checked ur link - and i am in no way condoning or condeming it)

That's not my link. It's an ericg special.


It must be hard living life without a bullshit sensor.

[Bob]

Eric sure you mean well, and from some of the stuff you have put up u are clearly well informed.


haha, for example?

[Carlos]

here a little example of being well informed:



President Truman issued an executive order establishing the Psychological Strategy Board. The Board was run by CFR members Gordon Gray and Henry Kissinger. The PSB has close ties to the State Department and Intelligence Organizations. The purpose of the PSB was to co-ordinate psycho-political operations. Many of those operations were focused at Americans. The people became wary of the Psychological Strategy Board. Eisenhower issued an executive order changing its name to the Operations Coordination Board. The OCB was a bigger more powerful PSB. Gray and Kissinger ran the OCB too. President Kennedy abolished the OCB. It became an ad hoc committee called the "Special Group," which exists today. The PSB/OCB/Special Group always has CFR members running and sitting on it. Since the Special Group was not formed by Executive Order it cannot be abolished.

If you want to learn about the CFR, I recommend these two books:

1. How the world REALLY works, by Alan Jones
2. Shadows of Power, by James Perloff

er - are you really trying to say that this shit isn't real? Do you really not understand the power these organisation possess and weild? Proabably not, because of an a priori assumption that "this shit is bullshit..." lol without once puting any real investigation into it.

[Bob]

here a little example of being well informed:



er - are you really trying to say that this shit isn't real? Do you really not understand the power these organisation possess and weild? Proabably not, because of an a priori assumption that "this shit is bullshit..." lol without once puting any real investigation into it.

that's like, if someone fired a machine gun at a can on full auto, and shot the whole clip, and eventually hit the can, and you said "hey, you're a pretty good shot"

basically what i'm saying is spouting a bunch of crazy bullshit and eventually copying and pasting something that makes sense doesn't make someone well-informed

[Carlos]

well you obvious haven't followed the thread:

Eric's first few posts were links, his first 'piece' was this (http://beastieboys.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=1522092&postcount=7)
which is what i quoted from, cos i didn't wanna quote the whole lot.. lol. Please tell me what in this post is "...a bunch of crazy bullshit" - as you seem to agree with it in your last post??!!

and the list of names is startling to say the least, and shows quite clearly that Eric is well informed on certain subjects: you can't shoot a gun if you don't know what it is! Doesn't mean you will shoot it well though ;)

now maybe you were talking bout his first few links - which is clear you are judging without even lookin at, just on the subject: and therefore in no way being objective.. which is fine if your that way inclined. But it is like sayin, I don't like you - it means fuck all! It is based on your personal feeling, not on objectivity and reason.

The most annoying thing is that not one person has replied to the actual content in any of the videos Eric has provided - only your apriori assumption of what they entail.
Fair enough if you can't be bothered, cos you have decided it doesn't merit investigation (move on to the next thread) - but what gives you the right to be so fuckin arrogant to try and tell other people not to... stunning self importance.


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this is a bit of a tangent, but will prove a point: here's a little vid from NASA (http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6824781342026209092&q=nasa+tether&total=165&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1) (this was streamed and recorded on VHS direect from NASA's sattelites)
the info on right gives a good background to what is goin on..

now I have no idea what the fuck they are, but it clearly chows there are things in this universe that we are not even close to understanding, and the arrogance of our race is so great that people will be ridiculed if they question the staus quo. The above video is clear evidence that we are not alone (in some form) - some of the objects are clearly over 2miles in diameter: simple physics, as the tether{white stick} is 12 miles long, and we can see the objects passing behind the tether.
Oh and before you lap up the NASA explanation (just cos it suits you, and not due to any scientific reasoning) that it was ice particles, inanimate objects don't swarm, and change direction from each other (if there was a force exerted on them by the shuttle, then they would all move in the same direction)... so to answer Knucles, no i wouldn't right off that link, although the typical Alien branding is a MAJOR turn off.. and my hunch is that it'll be mostly hype and speculation.. but until i watch it then i will hold judgement. Again call me old fashioned but i like to actually judge something for myself, without hysterically jumping on a bandwagon of arrogant psuedo-intellectualism.

[Bob]

well you obvious haven't followed the thread:

Eric's first few posts were links, his first 'piece' was this (http://beastieboys.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=1522092&postcount=7)
which is what i quoted from, cos i didn't wanna quote the whole lot.. lol. Please tell me what in this post is "...a bunch of crazy bullshit" - as you seem to agree with it in your last post??!!

and the list of names is startling to say the least, and shows quite clearly that Eric is well informed on certain subjects: you can't shoot a gun if you don't know what it is! Doesn't mean you will shoot it well though ;)

now maybe you were talking bout his first few links - which is clear you are judging without even lookin at, just on the subject: and therefore in no way being objective.. which is fine if your that way inclined. But it is like sayin, I don't like you - it means fuck all! It is based on your personal feeling, not on objectivity and reason.

The most annoying thing is that not one person has replied to the actual content in any of the videos Eric has provided - only your apriori assumption of what they entail.
Fair enough if you can't be bothered, cos you have decided it doesn't merit investigation (move on to the next thread) - but what gives you the right to be so fuckin arrogant to try and tell other people not to... stunning self importance.


by "bunch of crazy bullshit" i meant this thread as a whole, not that particular post. i don't care what's in that post, maybe it makes sense, maybe it doesn't, i've dismissed everything ericg has to say on principle already. he's not well-informed, he's a nut, and just because he may occasionally say something that may or may not have some basis on reality (i honestly don't care so i'm not going to bother trying to get into it) doesn't make him well informed.

it's like if there's some nutjob in a sandwich board standing on a street corner, and 99% of what he says is gibberish, and then he occasionally blurts out a truth or two, this is not a well-informed individual, this is a schmuck who believes everything he wants to hear, some of which may or may not incidentally have some credibility or at least may be worth debating. are you going to stand there and hear him out and consider the merits of everything he has to say? you have fun living your life that way, it must be very satisfying

did i tell other people not to investigate what he's saying? if i ever said that i take it back, feel free to spend the required hours to read this post and figure out what the fuck it's about, i won't stop you. i'm just taking offense to the fact that you called ericg a well-informed individual, that's an affront to information. this is the guy who cited david icke without being aware of the lizardman theory. david icke IS the lizard man theory, sure he probably has things to say beyond that, but no well-informed person doesn't know that.

ericg is not a man worth talking to. even you've called him out on his "presentation style", that's what i and everyone else have been trying to do since the thread's beginning. his response? either "fuck you sheeple, i'm not going to connect the dots for you" or beastie boys lyrics. no. ericg is not well informed.

[yeahwho]

That's not my link. It's an ericg special.


It must be hard living life without a bullshit sensor.

Very astute observation.

Which leads me into this link, "The Real Ring of Power (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6823272731861659685&q=ring+of+power&total=1384&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7)" as told from Father to Son.

[Knuckles]

jumping on a bandwagon of arrogant psuedo-intellectualism.

That made me lol.

[Bob]

Do you really need to see this (http://www.secretspacedvd.com/) video before mocking it?

hahaha i didn't notice that before

well carlos, for just $35 you can watch SECRET SPACE SPACE VOLUME II: ALIEN INVADERS and evaluate its credibility and get back to us about it, i'm dying to know

and if you could also check out SECRET SPACE VOLUME I: THE ILLUMINATI CONQUEST OF SPACE and THE ILLUMINATI and THE ILLUMINATI VOL. 2: THE ANTICHRIST CONSPIRACY i would really be interested in what noble truths our well-informed friend has uncovered, i just don't have the money right now you see

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8rZxmCejD0

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ulGiPp0LQ

Hillary Clinton Votes for War Again
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Yesterday, by a vote of 76-22, the Senate passed the Kyl-Lieberman amendment in support of military actions against Iran. This is the second such endorsement of the president by a senate majority in just three months. In July, the Lieberman amendment to "confront Iran" passed with the far stronger majority of 97-0.

The original draft of Kyl-Lieberman had asked U.S. forces to "combat, contain, and roll back" the Iranian menace within Iraq. But the words "roll back" were all too plainly a coded endorsement of hot pursuit into Iran; and the senators did not want to go quite so far. To assure a larger majority the language was accordingly trimmed and blurred to say "that it should be the policy of the United States to stop inside Iraq the violent activities and destabilizing influence of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies."

The inclusion of Hezbollah deserves some notice. It is part of a larger attempt, already apparent in the Lebanon war of 2006, to manufacture an "amalgam" of all the enemies of Israel and the United States throughout the region, and to treat them all as one enemy. Those who believe in the amalgam will come to agree that many more wars by the United States and Israel are needed to crush this enemy.

More provocative is a secondary detail of the amendment, which received less notice from the mainstream media. Kyl-Lieberman approves the listing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Iran as a "foreign terrorist organization. " Now, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard is the largest branch of the Iranian military. By granting Vice President Cheney's wish (a distant dream in 2005) to put the Iranian guard on the U.S. terrorist list, the Senate has classified the army of Iran as an army of terrorists. The president, therefore, as he follows out the Cheney plan has all the support he requires for asserting in his next speech to an army or veterans group that Iran is a nation of terrorists.

It was said during the Vietnam War that "a dead Vietnamese is a Viet Cong." It will assuage the conscience for U.S. bombers of Iran to know that a dead Iranian is a terrorist. The Senate, by this classification, has absolved the bombers in advance.

Hillary Clinton voted in favor of the Kyl-Lieberman amendment to press the army toward war with Iran. This was an important step, for her, and a vote as closely considered as her vote to authorize the bombing and occupation of Iraq.

Here are the senators who voted against Kyl-Lieberman:

Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Dodd (D-CT) Feingold (D-WI) Hagel (R-NE) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Leahy (D-VT) Lincoln (D-AR) Lugar (R-IN) McCaskill (D-MO) Sanders (I-VT) Tester (D-MT) Webb (D-VA) Wyden (D-OR)

John McCain and Barack Obama did not vote.

It is a remarkable fact that the war meditated against Iran, like the war on Iraq, is sought most keenly by a vice president and president who went further than most of their generation to avoid serving their country in Vietnam. The fact becomes the more remarkable in view of the contempt shown by both men for those who did not cheer and avoid, but opposed the Vietnam war by conscientious dissent. The same is true across the range of non-combatant neoconservative war architects and propagandists. Psychological compensation of an astonishing kind (to say no more) is at work in this display of rashness disguised as courage in the later careers of our war leaders behind the lines. For several years now, the mainstream press and media have said as little as possible about it.

Two votes against Kyl-Lieberman were issued from veterans with considerable experience and firsthand knowledge of war, Chuck Hagel and Jim Webb. If these two men were now to sharpen their dissidence, if they could make their reasons articulate and see the present as a time that calls them to the sustained work of opposition-- we might have the beginnings of a potent resistance which will never come from Harry Reid.

What of the absence of Barack Obama? In a speech in Iowa on September 12, he addressed by anticipation the matter before the Senate in Kyl-Lieberman: "We hear eerie echoes of the run-up to the war in Iraq in the way that the President and Vice President talk about Iran. They conflate Iran and al Qaeda. They issue veiled threats. They suggest that the time for diplomacy and pressure is running out when we haven't even tried direct diplomacy. Well George Bush and Dick Cheney must hear--loud and clear--from the American people and the Congress: you don't have our support, and you don't have our authorization for another war."

It is baffling that a man who spoke those words two weeks ago could not find the time or the resolve to cast his vote in a conspicuous test for authorizing war on Iran. This seems to be one more demonstration of Obama's tendency never to take a step forward without a step to the side. As for his own message about Iran, it has not been "loud and clear," but muffled, wavering, experimental.

With Hillary Clinton, we know where we stand. Yesterday she voted to bring the country a serious step closer to war against Iran. And she did so for the same reason that she voted to authorize the war on Iraq. She thinks the next war is going to happen. She hopes the worst of its short-term effects on America will have died down before the election. She suspects the media and voters will show more trust for a candidate who supported than for one who opposed the war. She wants a ponderous establishment of American troops and super-bases to remain in the Middle East for years to come. If she wins the presidency, she will inherit the command of that army and those bases, and she believes she can manage their affairs more prudently than George W. Bush.

Hillary Clinton is consistent. Every move is calculated, her actual intentions are masked, but the total drift is easy to comprehend. It is not so with Obama. How can he expect anyone to back a man who will not back himself?


U.S. Undermines Non-nuclear Treaty
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/171065_nuclear29.html

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8rZxmCejD0

[ericg]

One in Ten Schools Are "Dropout Factories"
The Associated Press

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Washington - It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across America.

"If you're born in a neighborhood or town where the only high school is one where graduation is not the norm, how is this living in the land of equal opportunity?" asks Bob Balfanz, the researcher at Johns Hopkins University who defines such a school as a "dropout factory."

There are about 1,700 regular or vocational high schools nationwide that fit that description, according to an analysis of Education Department data conducted by Johns Hopkins for The Associated Press. That's 12 percent of all such schools, no more than a decade ago but no less, either.

While some of the missing students transferred, most dropped out, Balfanz says. The data tracked senior classes for three years in a row - 2004, 2005 and 2006 - to make sure local events like plant closures weren't to blame for the low retention rates.

The highest concentration of dropout factories is in large cities or high-poverty rural areas in the South and Southwest. Most have high proportions of minority students. These schools are tougher to turn around, because their students face challenges well beyond the academic ones - the need to work as well as go to school, for example, or a need for social services.

Utah, which has low poverty rates and fewer minorities than most states, is the only state without a dropout factory. Florida and South Carolina have the highest percentages. About half of high schools in those states classify as dropout factories.

"Part of the problem we've had here is we live in a state that culturally and traditionally has not valued a high school education," said Jim Foster, a spokesman for South Carolina's Department of Education. He noted that South Carolina residents once could get good jobs in textile mills without a high school degree, but that those jobs are now much harder to come by.

Federal lawmakers haven't focused much attention on the problem. The No Child Left Behind education law, for example, pays much more attention to educating younger students. But that appears to be changing.

House and Senate proposals to renew the five-year-old No Child law would give high schools more federal money and put more pressure on them to improve, and the Bush administration supports the idea.

The current law imposes serious consequences on schools that report low scores on math and reading tests, such as having to replace teachers or principals, but it lacks the same kind of teeth when it comes to graduation rates.

Nationally, about 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma. For Hispanic and black students, the proportion drops to about half.

The legislative proposals would:

- Make sure schools report their graduation rates by racial, ethnic and other subgroups and are judged on those. That's to ensure schools aren't just graduating white students in high numbers, but also are working to ensure minority students get diplomas.

- Get states to build data systems to keep track of students throughout their school years and more accurately measure graduation and dropout rates.

- Ensure states count graduation rates in a uniform way. States have used a variety of formulas, including counting the percentage of entering seniors who get a diploma. That measurement ignores the fact that kids who drop out typically do so before their senior year.

- Create strong progress goals for graduation rates and impose sanctions on schools that miss them. Most states currently lack meaningful goals, according to The Education Trust, a nonprofit that advocates for poor and minority children.

The current law requires testing in reading and math once in high school, and those tests take on added importance because of serious consequences for a school that fails. Critics say that creates a perverse incentive for schools to encourage kids to drop out before they bring down a school's scores.

"The vast majority of educators do not want to push out kids, but the pressures to raise test scores above all else are intense," said Bethany Little, vice president for policy at the Alliance for Excellent Education, an advocacy group focused on high schools. "To know if a high school is doing its job, we need to consider test scores and graduation rates equally."

Little said some students pushed out of high schools are encouraged to enroll in programs that prepare them to take the GED exam. People who pass that test get certificates indicating they have high-school level academic skills. But the research shows getting a GED doesn't lead to the kind of job or college success associated with a regular diploma.

Loretta Singletary, 17, enrolled in a GED program after dropping out of a Washington, D.C., high school that she describes as huge, chaotic and violent. "Girls got jumped, boys got jumped, teachers (were) fighting and hitting students," she said.

She said teachers had low expectations for students, which led to dull classes. "They were teaching me stuff I already knew ... basic nouns, simple adjectives."

Singletary said she loved science but wasn't offered it and her complaints to administrators went unanswered. "I was interested in experiments," she said. "I didn't have science in 9th or 10th grade."

A GED classmate of Singletary's is 23-year-old Dontike Miller, who attended and left two D.C. high schools on the dropout factory list. Miller was brought up by a single mother who used drugs, and he said teachers and counselors seemed oblivious to what was going on in his life.

He would have liked for someone to sit him down and say: "You really need to go to class. We're going to work with you. We're going to help you," Miller said. Instead, "I had nobody."

Teachers and administrators at Baltimore Talent Development High School, where 90 percent of kids are on track toward graduating on time, are working hard to make sure students don't have an experience like Miller's.

The school, which sits in the middle of a high-crime, impoverished neighborhood two miles west of downtown Baltimore, was founded by Balfanz and others four years ago as a laboratory for getting kids out on time with a diploma and ready for college.

Teachers, students and administrators at the school know each other well.

"I know teachers that have knocked on people's doors. They want us to succeed," 12th-grader Jasmine Coleman said during a lunchtime chat in the cafeteria.

Fellow senior Victoria Haynes says she likes the way the school organizes teachers in teams of four, each assigned to a group of 75 students. The teachers work across subject areas; English and math teachers, for example, collaborate on lessons and discuss individual students' needs.

"They all concentrate on what's best for us together," Haynes said. "It's very family-oriented. We feel really close to them."

Teachers, too, say it works.

"I know the students a lot better, because I know the teachers who teach them," said 10th-grade English teacher Jenni Williams. "Everyone's on the same page, so it's not like you're alone in your mission."

That mission can be daunting. The majority of students who enter Baltimore Talent Development in 9th grade are reading at a 5th or 6th grade level.

To get caught up, students have 80-minute lessons in reading and math, instead of the typical 45 minutes. They also get additional time with specialists if needed.

The fact that youths are entering high schools with such poor literacy skills raises questions about how much catch-up work high schools can be expected to do, say some high-school principals.

"We're at the end of the process," says Mel Riddile, principal of T.C. Williams High School, a large public school in Alexandria, Va., which is not on the dropout factory list. "People don't walk into 9th grade and suddenly have a reading problem."

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnkdfFAqsHA

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PpMdTmVMpo

[ericg]

http://www.worldhealth.net/p/the-radiation-poisoning-of-america.html

[ericg]

Bill HR 1955 has already passed the house.
Now It's in the senate. S. 1959

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2007-993
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1959

Let them know - NOOOOO.

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBm9ZyIg3I0

[ericg]

How to Help Sherry Peel Jackson RIGHT NOW!!! - former irs agent from "America freedom to fascism"
Body: For those that don't know, SPJ is a former IRS agent who realized there was truly no legal requirement for citizens to pay taxes, and has recently gone to trial for not filing tax returns. Just yesterday the Jury, apparently uneducated and ignorant to the whole situation, found SPJ guilty of four counts of Willful Failure To File!!! What a horrible thing as she has been such a great fighter for Truth and Freedom for all of us. She sent an email blitz out today to the effect that an outpouring of positive support letters to the judge may help to sway the decision in sentencing, or even cause the judge to throw the case out! It's a longshot but a possibility, so if you reading this right now could take just a few moments and a stamp to send out either an original plea letter or one listed below, it could really make a difference!!!

Remember, keep it only positive and supporting, as any negativity or harsh words will surely screw her over.

Thank You.


From Sherry Jackson Peel

I was found guilty.

I am still in shock but we must move on. I was told by a friend that has a sister that works in the courts that people can flood the judge with letters about me and how they feel about me in order to try and get a reduced sentence. I don’t know if it is true or not, but if you want to write the judge please just talk about how you feel about me and my beliefs. Please don’t put any arguments or negative comments in the letter. This will surely hurt me if you do that. The judge is The Honorable Orinda Evans, United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 75 Spring Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303.

SAMPLE

Your Name

Your Address


October 31, 2007


Honorable Orinda Evans

United States District Courthouse

75 Spring Street

Room 1988

Atlanta, GA 30303



RE: The United States v. Sherry Peel Jackson

CASE NO: 1:07-CR-108



Dear Judge Evans,

I am writing on behalf of the above-referenced the case.

(here is my suggestion--but change the words a bit so they aren't getting carbon copies.)

I am shocked to hear of Sherry Jackson even being charged with a crime. She has been an upstanding citizen in every way possible and is of the highest character possible. She did extensive research and learned the truth about our tax system and has shared that truth with everyone. I don't think telling the truth is a crime. If she were dishonest, she would have let it stay covered up and hidden when she found out. But she isn't.

This is a travesty of justice for her to be punished for wanting to know the truth and share it with others. I thought this was America, not Communist China or Russia.

The IRS was able to stop her, and that is a crime in itself, to cover up the truth about what they are doing. But it doesn't have to go further with laying punishment on someone who deserves a medal. In the name of all that's good and right, I pray that you will make her sentence the least possible available.

I thank you for your consideration of her good character and that she was only trying to correct a wrong that she discovered. Republican Senator Ron Paul from Texas also knows the truth about the IRS and that is why, as a Presidential candidate, he is trying to eliminate this illegal and immoral institution that acts outside and above the law, as part of his campaign.

Sincerely,


"Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular - but one must take it simply because it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other." Harriet Tubman

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4675077383139148549
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4430543376785758889

[ericg]

http://www.sprword.com/mustwatch.html

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OpEdNews
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_dave_lin_071031_the_air_force_cover_.htm

October 31, 2007
The Air Force Cover-Up of that Minot-Barksdale Nuclear Missile Flight
By Dave Lindorff

“It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.”
---Pentagon official

There is something deeply disturbing about the Air Force’s official report on the Aug-29-30 “bent spear” incident that saw six nuclear warheads get mounted on six Advanced Cruise Missiles and improperly removed from a nuclear weapons storage bunker at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, then get improperly loaded on a B-52, and then get improperly flown to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana—a report that attributed the whole thing to a “mistake.”

According to the Air Force report, some Air Force personnel mounted the warheads on the missiles (which are obsolete and slated for destruction), and another ground crew, allegedly not aware that the missiles were armed with nukes, moved them out and mounted them on a launch pylon on the B-52’s wing for a flight to Barksdale and eventual dismantling. Only on the ground at Barksdale did ground crew personnel spot the nukes according to the report. (Six other missiles with dummy warheads were mounted on a pylon on the other wing of the plane.)

The problem with this explanation for the first reported case of nukes being removed from a weapons bunker without authorization in 50 years of nuclear weapons, is that those warheads, and all nuclear warheads in the US stockpile, are supposedly protected against unauthorized transport or removal from bunkers by electronic antitheft systems—automated alarms similar to those used by department stores to prevent theft, and even anti-motion sensors that go off if a weapon is touched or approached without authorization.

While the Air Force report doesn’t mention any of this, what it means is that if weapons in a storage bunker are protected against unauthorized removal, someone—and actually at least two people, since it’s long been a basic part of nuclear security that every action involving a nuclear weapon has to be done by two people working in tandem—had to deliberately and consciously disable those alarms.

Since the Air Force report does not explain how this hurdle to unauthorized removal of the six nukes could have been surmounted by “mistake,” the report has to be considered a whitewash, at best, or a cover-up.

That leaves us speculating about what actually happened, and about who might have authorized the removal of those nukes from storage, and why the Defense Department would be covering up the true story. We know that the loading of nuclear-armed missiles or bombs onto an American bomber has been barred since 1991, even for practice and training purposes. We know also that the carrying of nuclear weapons by bombers flying over US airspace has been banned for 40 years. So if the evidence suggests strongly that the removal of the nukes from the bunker was done intentionally and with some kind of authorization from higher authorities, then the loading of nukes onto the plane, and the flight of those nukes to Barksdale have to also be assumed to have been authorized.

This possibility has been dismissed out of hand by the Air Force and Defense Department. The very idea is, in fact, not even discussed in the Air force report released in mid-October.

Yet we are left with the unresolved question of how the weapons could have been moved out of the bunker accidentally.

The Air Force has not been forthcoming about the automated alarm protections on American nuclear weapons, refusing to confirm or deny that they even exist. But we can know that they are in place for several reasons. One is that since writing about this incident in ghd current edition of American Conservative Magazine ("The Mystery of Minot," Oct. 24, 2007 ed.) and in several online venues, I have been contacted by several active-duty and retired military people who have assured me that such electronic protections are in place. A second is that an article in the Oct. 31 issue of the New York Times, reporting on the early completion of a project by the National Nuclear Security Administration, to secure Russian nuclear weapons, said that the measures implemented at 25 classified sites on 12 Russian nuclear bases included “measures that have long been part of American efforts” to secure nuclear weapons, and that these included “alarm and motion detection systems,” as well as “modern gates, guard houses and fighting positions, “ and also “detectors for explosives, radiation and metal.”

Ask yourselves, would American nuclear weapons be equipped with lesser security systems than those that the NNSA is providing for Russian weapons?

Of course not!

And yet we’re asked to believe that some low-ranking ground crew personnel at Minot AFB simply walked out of a nuclear weapons bunker with six nuclear armed Advanced Cruise Missiles, not knowing what they were carrying, and labored for eight hours to mount those missiles and their launch pylon on the wing of a B-52 strategic bomber without ever noticing that they were armed with nuclear weapons. We’re asked to believe that none of those electronic alarms and motion sensors built into the system went off during that whole process.

When I mentioned the automated alarm and motion sensors to Lt. Col. Jennifer Cassidy, a public affairs person at the Department of the Air Force, and asked her how the movement of the six nukes could have occurred without those alarms being disabled, she said, “It’s an intriguing question, and it makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.”

As it should.

So why isn’t it making the hair stand up on the back of the necks of members of Congress?

Incredibly, to date, there has been no demand for public hearings into this frightening incident.

Congress appears ready and willing to accept the Air Force whitewash at face value: It was an accident. It won’t happen again.

That is not good enough!

We need honest answers to some hard questions. Among them:

* Who disabled the alarm systems on those weapons and on the bunker itself?

* Who mounted six nuclear weapons on the noses of six cruise missiles and put those missiles onto a B-52 launch platform?

* Who authorized them to perform this operation?

* Who moved the armed weapons out of the Bunker at Minot AFB and mounted them on the wing of a B-52 bound for Barksdale AFB? (Barksdale, it should be noted, bills itself as the main staging base for B-52s being flown to the Middle East Theater.)

* Were the six missiles flyable? Were they fueled up and ready to fire, or were they not fueled at the time of the Minot-Barksdale flight?

* Was there targeting information in the missile’s guidance computers and if so, what were those targets?

* What happened to the three military whistleblowers who blew the whistle on this incident and reported it to a journalist at the newspaper Military Times?

* Why hasn’t the Air Force or the FBI investigated the 6-8 untimely deaths including three alleged suicides, one of a Minot weapons guard, one of an assistant defense secretary, and one of a captain in the super-secret Air Force Special Commando Group, as well as alleged fatal vehicle “accidents” involving four ground crew and B-52 pilots and crewmembers at Minot and Barksdale? Could any of this strange cluster of deaths have been related to the incident? The Air Force “investigation” didn’t even mention these incidents, and my investigation, reported in the Oct. 24 issue of the magazine American Conservative ("The Mystery of Minot", Oct. 24, 2007 issue), found that none of the police investigators or medical examiners in those incidents had even been contacted by Air Force or other federal investigators.

The Secretary of Defense appears to have been upset about this incident. Secretary Robert Gates ordered an unprecedented stand-down of all air bases in mid-September to check out and account for the entire nuclear inventory, and a general was dispatched immediately to Minot after the discovery of the wayward nukes on August 30 to investigate what had happened. Following a subsequent Air Force investigation, 70 people at Minot and Barksdale AFBs were removed from their posts and decertified from handling nuclear weapons, including five officers, one of them the Minot base commander.

* But a base commander does not have the authority to order nuclear weapons to be loaded on a plane and flown. So who issued that order and why has no one at a senior level in Washington been sacked?

There is speculation that the order may have come via an alternate chain of command.

Vice President Dick Cheney is known to be pressing within the administration for a war with Iran, to be launched before the end President Bush’s second term of office. According to some reports, Cheney has even, on his own authority (or lack thereof), urged Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, in hopes that Iran might retaliate, thus drawing the US into a war.


Could the nation’s war-mongering VP have used his neo-con contacts in the Defense Department or some of the Armageddon-believers in the Air Force to bypass the official chain of command and spring those nukes from their bunker?

Was there a plan to use one or more of those nukes—W80-1 warheads that can be calibrated to detonate with an explosive power ranging anywhere from 150 kilotons down to just 5 kilotons—against Iran? The Advanced Cruise Missile, a stealth weapon almost impossible to spot on radar, is designed to be launched from a remote location by a B-52, and then to fly close to the ground to its target, using terrain maps and GPS guidance. It is also designed to penetrate hardened sites, such as Iran’s nuclear processing and research facilities.

Or was there a plan for a so-called “false-flag incident, “where a small nuke—made to resemble a primitive weapon of the type a fledgling nuclear power might construct—might be detonated at a US target abroad, or even within the US?

These are terrible and terrifying questions to have to ask, but when you have six nuclear weapons go missing, when the military investigation into the incident is so clearly a whitewash or cover-up, and when you have a vice president who is openly pressing for an illegal war of aggression against a nation that poses no threat to the US, and who, in fact, appears to be conducting his own treacherous foreign policy behind the back of the president and the State Department, they are questions that must be asked, and that demand answers.

In a couple of weeks, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, is planning on calling for a Privilege of the House vote in Congress on moving his Cheney impeachment bill (H Res. 333) to a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, where it has been stalled by House Democratic leaders since being filed last April 24. Such a hearing should demand answers from the vice president and his staff about his treasonous efforts to push the country into yet another war in the Middle East. It should also grill Air Force personnel about the true nature of the Minot nuclear incident.

Every member of the House of Representatives should have to take a stand on this issue.

The Democratic House leadership, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, can be expected to try to table Kucinich’s privilege motion, which would prevent such a vote.

Americans should demand that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders let Kucinich’s privilege motion go forward, and should insist that every member of Congress put their position on the line. Every American should demand that their representative to Congress support the start of impeachment hearings on Vice President Cheney.

We need to know if the Vice President’s office was behind the flight of those six warheads.

We need to know in what other treasonous, conspiratorial actions the Vice President has been engaged in his unremitting effort to expand the war from Iraq and Afghanistan into Iran.
_________________
DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based investigative reporter and political columnist. His latest book, co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net

Authors Website: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

Authors Bio: Dave Lindorff, a columnist for Counterpunch, is author of several recent books ("This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy" and "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal"). His latest book, coauthored with Barbara Olshanshky, is "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, May 2006). His writing is available at http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2500924140588760933

[Carlos]

lol.. eric don't take offence bud... but you come accross like one of those crazy guys with a sandwich baord on a street corner.. even I who I'm sure would find some of you links interesting have no desire to check them - it's a real turn off to just spam links and large text.

trust me, you need to do a lot bette than that if you are trying to convince anyone of anything.

However I think I have found a video that kinda sums up this thread: goes over a wide area, whilst keeping to a tight train of thought. From how christianity has been used as a tool for manipulation, to current mechanisms used by the banks. Whilst also having a very tight section on 911. Was shown last month at a major US film festival.
Seriously, a must for any free thinking person (at least watch it, watching something does not mean you automatically endorse it) Bob it should help you understand at least what eric i trying to get at (at least from what i can make out :D )

Zeitgeist the Movie (http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331&q=zeitgeist&total=1769&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0)

[Lyman Zerga]

by "bunch of crazy bullshit" i meant this thread as a whole, not that particular post. i don't care what's in that post, maybe it makes sense, maybe it doesn't, i've dismissed everything ericg has to say on principle already. he's not well-informed, he's a nut, and just because he may occasionally say something that may or may not have some basis on reality (i honestly don't care so i'm not going to bother trying to get into it) doesn't make him well informed.

it's like if there's some nutjob in a sandwich board standing on a street corner, and 99% of what he says is gibberish, and then he occasionally blurts out a truth or two, this is not a well-informed individual, this is a schmuck who believes everything he wants to hear, some of which may or may not incidentally have some credibility or at least may be worth debating. are you going to stand there and hear him out and consider the merits of everything he has to say? you have fun living your life that way, it must be very satisfying

did i tell other people not to investigate what he's saying? if i ever said that i take it back, feel free to spend the required hours to read this post and figure out what the fuck it's about, i won't stop you. i'm just taking offense to the fact that you called ericg a well-informed individual, that's an affront to information. this is the guy who cited david icke without being aware of the lizardman theory. david icke IS the lizard man theory, sure he probably has things to say beyond that, but no well-informed person doesn't know that.

ericg is not a man worth talking to. even you've called him out on his "presentation style", that's what i and everyone else have been trying to do since the thread's beginning. his response? either "fuck you sheeple, i'm not going to connect the dots for you" or beastie boys lyrics. no. ericg is not well informed.


bob, you turn me on

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".. or are ya thirsty for more?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpkSeVgvA0o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QcTOjLaKc
http://www.youtube.com/?v=-ol-0c5M3aE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_vOfkQ7zAI

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzNTRwxlRKg

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Behind the Facade of Incompetence

By Charles Sullivan

11/02/07 "ICH" -- -- It is clear that the US media moguls would have us believe that the catastrophic invasion and occupation of Iraq was a sincere effort to promote freedom and democracy in the Middle East, gone awry. But we must remember that everything associated with capitalism is about marketing: making the people believe that things and events are the opposite of what they really are, and creating artificial wants that neither benefit the individual nor society, while simultaneously embellishing corporate profits.

This understanding would have been equally evident in the mainstream media's buildup to the war had we a less propagandized, better read, and more informed citizenry. Even the politically naïve should have known that Saddam Hussein's threat to the US, so vividly hyped in the media, was pure marketing propaganda.

But the majority of the people bought it, and now we have no choice but to live with our purchase. Short of a major social upheaval, we are going to be in Iraq for a very long time, and the death toll will continue to rise, especially for the Iraqis—the unwilling recipients of our corporate benevolence delivered through carpet bombs, terror, and torture. For these are the undeniable legacy of our foreign policies, and the illegal, amoral, acquisition of property by blunt force trauma.

If we are to survive as a republic, we must appreciate that capitalism and its cousin, global corporatism—not Saddam Hussein, not Communism or Socialism, nor Islamic terrorists, are the greatest threats to democracy. Zionism and Christian fundamentalism, which attempt to provide the flimsy moral basis for our Middle East policy, also pose significant obstacles to world peace by denying justice to others and promoting ethnic cleansing.

It is beguiling that we have yet to learn this fundamental lesson, that we know so little about our own history, and the role that mass ignorance plays in determining the future.

The narcotic of state sponsored propaganda has a powerful and hypnotic effect on our collective senses, and it is rending asunder the fabric of what is supposed to be a free and civil society. We believe what we are told and accept what we are given, without demanding truth, justice or accountability.

It is imperative for the purveyors of war to maintain a cloak of secrecy and a façade of public support where, if the truth were known, none would exist. It is necessary to keep the truth concealed in order to throw the public off the scent of the corruption that is the guiding principle of corporate governance and plutocracy, fomented by morally bankrupt men and women; a system that causes irreparable harm and suffering to its innocent victims and then profits from the misery and suffering it inflicts.

These days it is popular to describe the events occurring in Iraq as the result of incompetence, mismanagement, miscalculation, and benevolent bungling; to characterize them as a well intentioned mistake on the road to freedom and democracy, rather than the moral abomination they are. What we have in Iraq is not the result of any of these phenomena. It is the intended consequence of cold calculation to bomb Iraq into submission, to thoroughly disorient its people, and to apply economic shock therapy before they can recognize what is being done to them.

The intent is to invade sovereign nations either militarily, economically, or both; and to force unbridled capitalism on them. This means, of course, that we must first overthrow the existing governments—many of them democracies, and replace them with ruthless dictatorships willing to betray their own people, and amenable to opening up their countries to corporate exploitation and privatization.

So called free market capitalism requires corrupt leadership on the receiving end that is willing to accept bribes while becoming a puppet to the US. This is how some of the must brutal regimes in the world came into power. Corporate America is always beating the drums of war in search of profits and ever increasing shares of the world's markets. Enough is never enough—they want it all.

Aside from overthrowing popularly elected governments, the unspoken objective of mature capitalism, guided by the doctrine of economic shock therapy, is to turn once sovereign nations into totally deregulated corporate states, answerable to no one.

This objective will be accomplished by privatizing the nationalized infrastructure, inviting in foreign investors, removing tariffs that protect local business and cooperatives from predatory multinational corporations, and downsizing the workforce; by eliminating social spending, and removing all forms of corporate controls. In short, by conducting a fire sale of each nation's stolen assets and auctioning them off at bargain basement prices to wealthy multinational investors.

The intent is to create an unfettered corporate state in which the market, driven solely by profit, is the final arbiter of all things; an Orwellian world in which human rights, labor laws, environmental protections, and social justice do not even exist, much less enter into market equations.

Aided by the World Bank and the IMF, we are rapidly arriving at a state of global corporate fascism—the free market reform of manic capitalism, greed on steroids; a horrible economic monster unleashed upon unsuspecting people the world over, masquerading as democracy and free trade. And it is occurring in blatant contradiction to everything that is free, decent, and fair; a monstrosity utterly devoid of humanity and empathy for those struggling to survive.

But behind the marketing façade of a beneficent capitalism that is more oxymoronic than real, the skeleton of Reaganism, free marketry, and trickle down economics is exposed for all to see. We are witnessing naked greed unleashed upon the world like a swarm of locusts the size of North America. The fabulously wealthy are realizing obscene profits, while the majority of the world's people are forced into economic servitude, many of them living in abject poverty, scratching out a bleak existence on sweatshop wages under horrendous conditions.

Economic slavery and burdensome debt, not freedom and democracy, is what we are imposing upon Iraq, aided by the most powerful military in history and, all too often, with the blessings of an oblivious and propagandized citizenry. Aside from the fierce resistance to the occupation, the US is achieving all of its major objectives in Iraq.

Like flies circling piles of stinking excrement, the lords of unfettered capitalism are buzzing around the bloated corpse of what is left of the world. And they have no intentions of stopping at Iraq. Iran and Syria are waiting in the wings: war that will not end in our lifetime.

If the world were as enamored with capitalism as its adherents proclaim, there would be no need to masquerade it as anything other than what it is—economic self interest for the privileged, driven by insatiable greed, funded by the public treasure. There would be no need to impose it on the world through high tech militarism and occupation, preceded by elaborate propagandistic media blitzes and tricks. All people would seek it out, as they seek water to slake their thirst and nourishment for their bodies.

So we must ask ourselves: When has it ever been in the pubic interest to over feed the rich and starve the poor? When has it ever been in the public interest to destroy the earth for the sake of profits? When has it ever been in the public interest to promote war and injustice over peace and shared prosperity?

Just people everywhere must resist evil or run the risk of being complicit in it. Neutrality, indifference and apathy, are untenable responses to what is being done in our name. Somehow, we must awaken from this media induced cultural stupor. We must do so under the prying eyes of government and private security contractors who are protecting corporate investors from democracy, and from people like us. Each of us is being diminished just as the Declaration of Independence states: "harass our people and eat out their substance."

Every citizen is faced with a simple choice: organize or perish. The storm clouds of World War Three are looming on the horizon. These are extraordinary times that demand something from every one of us.

Charles Sullivan is a nature photographer, free-lance writer, and community activist residing in the Ridge and Valley Province of geopolitical West Virginia. He welcomes your comments at csullivan@phreego.com .

[ericg]

http://www.newstarget.com/022158.html

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It’s All Us Now, Kucinich Puts Ball in Impeach Movement Court
PLS PRINT THIS, FORWARD WIDELY

GO STRAIGHT TO “KUCINICH CALLING FOR TOWN MEETINGS ON IMPEACHMENT”

Kucinich’s promise during the Oct. 23d conference call to impeachment activists across the nation, that he will force a vote on H.R. 333 on TUESDAY, NOV. 6, puts the ball squarely in our court.

This is Congress “putting a finger to the wind.” This resolution will most likely fail, but its purpose is to test the strength of public sentiment for impeachment to assist in the planning of any further impeachment actions. Slamming congress’s phone lines, fax lines, emails, and regular mail boxes will lead them to recalculate where their best political interests lie.

The best link I have found for getting phone numbers, fax numbers, emails and regular mail to Congress is http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

It is also on the Northeast Coalition for Impeachment main page http://neimpeach.org

In addition to direct phone lines to congressmen that the above link gives you, here are toll-free numbers to the Capitol switchboard:
866.340.9281
866.338.1015
877.851.6437
800.828.0498
800.459.1887
800.614.2803

Put them in your cellphone contacts and dial them during your break. Ask for your congressman’s office and if you’re shy, just say one word to the person or answering machine: “Impeach. Support the Kucinich resolution; vote to not “table” (kill) the resolution before debate.”

If you want to say a little more, say: “Obey your oath to the Constitution and impeach, support the Kucinich Resolution. Otherwise you are a traitor to the Constitution, and you too will be held to account.”

In order of effectiveness, personal visits with congressmen come first, followed by visits with staff, preferably recorded with a camcorder so it can be put on Youtube. Even if they know they will be re-elected no matter what, congressmen are still people, and hate to be made to look stupid with their ridiculous answers to why they won’t impeach. Even meetings with staff are important. Remember, a staff aide officially speaks for the congressman, and his or her answers can be reported as that congressman’s official position.

Phone calls and faxes are next most effective because it ties up lines and prevents them from getting on with “business as usual.” A citizen recently reported that her congressman’s answer to impeachment was that if they go down that path they “won’t get anything else done.” Our answer must be that until they do their duty to impeach, they are violating their oath to “uphold, protect and defend” our Constitution, and WE will make sure they don’t get anything else done until they do.

Emails are great because they are easy and the above link is easy to pass along to your family and friends, and it brings up your congressman by zip code. You can absolutely plaster their inboxes in a short amount of time. Make no mistake, folks: this is what the far-right does when they nominate a judge who is right-wing, but not right-wing ENOUGH. That’s how we got Judge Roberts.

KUCINICH CALLING FOR TOWN HALL MEETINGS

In support of his effort to get Congress to debate impeachment, Rep. Dennis Kucinich has issued a call to citizens to hold town-hall-style meetings on impeachment during a span of days to be announced imminently. Here is a tool-kit and primer on how to crank up a town hall meeting with a minimum of time and effort, including a press release template and step-by-step instructions.

How Dennis’ motion to bring H.R. 333 to the floor will work: Dennis will rise and ask that the bill on the impeachment of Cheney be brought to the floor on a point of “privilege,” which is every congressman’s right on important matters. Someone will rise and motion for a vote that the bill be “tabled” (killed.) THIS IS THE VOTE. If enough congressmen vote against the motion to “table” it, Dennis will speak and it must go forward for debate. NOW is the time to tell your congressman you want him to vote against “tabling” the bill, so it can go forward. Easy-link to email and call your Congressman: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

toll free numbers to Congress:
(800) 862-5530 or
(800) 833-6354

WATCH DENNIS EXPLAIN THIS ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSbGUOOQCpU

ACT NOW

Tell your friends to find their voices now or forever hold their peace. After the next attack they’ll be sending people who speak out of line to Gitmo. They have every quasi-legal tool they need. Bush has made sure of it.

It’s not always the long, point-by-point argument from people who sound like lawyers that sways them (but those are good too!) It’s the number of short calls from ordinary people who sound like they’ve never called a congressman before, sounding good and pissed-off about what has happened to our republic. “Impeach the bastards” is fine.

A couple of talking points:

-In answer to “we won’t get anything else done,” Say: “Impeachment trumps everything. It’s the only way to get out of Iraq, and as long as we’re spending that kind of money in Iraq there is no money for anything else, healthcare, education, nothing. Besides, the Founders made your duty clear, the Constitution comes first.”" Also: “What does it matter what laws get passed? Bush can just ignore them with signing statements. We’re talking about the rule of law itself on the line.”

-In answer to “It will cost us the 2008 presidential election,” Say: “Besides some parts of your job being above short-term politics, did impeaching Nixon cost Democrats the next presidency? No, we got Carter. Did impeaching Clinton cost the Republicans? No, Bush won. So you’ve got it backwards.”

Whatever you say will be better than the suggestions I’m making here, which are just for back-up.

Print out this diatribe so you’ll always have your talking points handy. The following is reprinted from the Northeast Impeachment Coalition site. You can cut-and-paste parts of the following into your emails to your congressmen.
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Impeachment: The Public Record Evidence, Why Investigations Are Unnecessary

The clear-cut, open-and-shut case, which would take a minimum of time and investigation to prove, consists of the following:

–Violation of the oath of office to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution, specifically the Sixth Amendment right of American citizens, in criminal matters, to be told of the charges against them, to counsel, and a to speedy and public trial by a jury of their peers. The rights of foreign nationals may be debated, but the rights of Americans are not open to debate. Declaring an American an “enemy combatant” overturns the Bill of Rights. The enemy combatant designation was meant to apply to wars of limited duration. They have never before been attempted in a war which, by definition, has no end. Jose Padilla was presumed guilty until proven innocent. He was tortured, given LSD, and after 4 years released to be given a civilian trial upon Bush’s whim. Padilla was found guilty even though his lawyers say he was too damaged to assist in his own defense.

–Seeking to overturn the Bill of Rights of the Constitution by the transparent device of claiming wartime powers which would last forever.

–Violation of the oath of office to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution, specifically the Fourth Amendment right to freedom from search without a warrant, in the NSA warrantless surveillance scandal. The media helps the administration by twisting the issue to be whether the government can spy, when in fact the government has always been able to spy on anyone as long as it is within the law. Referring to the NSA scandal, John Dean says Bush is the only president in history who has openly admitted an “impeachable offense.”

–Lying to Congress and the American people to draw the country into the invasion and occupation of Iraq. “High-level contacts” between Saddam and Bin Laden? They hated each other!

–Treason in the War on Terror: Revealing secrets to the enemy in wartime by ordering the public identification of American intelligence agent Valerie Plame. Plame was engaged in tracing weapons of mass destruction before they reached American shores. Also the public identification of Al Qaeda double agent Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, who in the words of one expert “might have led to bin Laden himself.” Khan was trotted out to bolster the 2004 NYC Financial District terror alerts just before the election. Also the leak of the Bin Laden video in October 2007, which according to the group which obtained the video, means “a rare window into the world of Al Qaeda has now been sealed shut.”

Evidence:

WMD:
–”Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.” Vice President Cheney at VFW 103rd National Convention, August 26, 2002

–”Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.” George Bush, March 17, 2003

–”Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda” National Journal

–”[Iraq] had no . . . strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions ended.” CIA Duelfer Report Sept. 2004

Iraq and 9/11:

–”His regime has had high-level contacts with Al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to Al Qaeda terrorists.” Speech of Vice President Cheney at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference, December 2, 2002

–”I have also determined that the use of armed force against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organiza-tions, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.” -George Bush, certification to Congress to authorize the use of force in Iraq

–”No, we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th,” -George Bush, Sept. 18, 2003, Meet the Press

–”Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. Sir Richard Dearlove, Head of British Secret Intelligence Service, the “Downing Street Memo”, July 23, 2002

–“We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaida cooperated on attacks against the United States.” 9/11 Commission

ETC ETC ETC

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November 2, 2007

Et Tu, ACLU? Et Tu?

By Cheryl Biren-Wright

Citizens! I have a pamphlet from the ACLU's national legislative director in hand and it reads as follows: "We seek to provide you a means by which to effect the peaceful overthrow of a tyranny. There should be no mistake about it, a usurper has acquired power in America. He seeks to make it absolute. He and his aides lie to us on television and berate us for our disbelief. He speaks to us flanked by a photograph of family and our flag which he wears on his lapel. He confesses to crimes against the Constitution and believes he speaks of exoneration. He invites all of you to participate in his crimes. He accepts responsibility, but not blame. He relies on Executive Privilege and the institution of the Presidency. He uses lawyers to subvert the law and patriotism to subvert the Constitution. Mr. Nixon asks us to rationalize his way to our own corruption." Oh, what? Who did you think I was talking about? This insightful and poignant statement by Charles J. Morgan, Jr. accompanied an October 24, 1973 letter and pamphlet by the ACLU to the citizens of the U.S. urging the impeachment of Richard M. Nixon. In 2003, Nixon's former chief counsel, John Dean himself declared the deeds of the Bush administration to be 'worse than Watergate,' so where is the ACLU today? We are told by David Swanson, cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org, a national impeachment coalition that on Friday, November 2, he expects Nicole Sandler of Supertalk940.com in Miami to ask ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero and ACLU Florida Executive Director Howard Simon on air why in the world the ACLU is not backing impeachment the way it did in 1973.

Until then, let us look at recent comments made by ACLU President, Nadine Strossen. Strossen argues that because the Democrats in Congress are, in part, responsible for allowing the President to go unchecked and in some cases actively approved his illegal actions, she is opposed to impeachment. In a recent interview by David Shankbone for Wikinews, Strossen declared that, "it would be a terrible idea to impeach him." She went on to say that any attempt at impeachment would "deflect the responsibility from the Democrats. It makes it too much of a partisan issue. There is a bipartisan responsibility here. For that reason I strongly oppose it." What Ms. Strossen fails to understand about the impeachment movement is that the people are not looking to impeach a President who is a Republican, but a President who has, in her words, "Lied to Congress, the American People, to the media . . . He's had a view that as Commander-in-Chief he can do whatever he wants, that he's above the law, that he doesn't have to abide by the laws that are duly passed by Congress." I don't recall in the six times that impeachment is mentioned in the Constitution, a disclaimer that despite strong grounds for impeachment if it even has the appearance of partisanship then it's a no-go. In fact, I don't recall 'party' being mentioned. In fact, I recall it reading that "Congress shall impeach."

Perhaps Strossen's concerns about it being a 'partisan' issue stem from a perceived image that the group has fought to stave off for years. The ACLUs decision in 1973 to take out full page ads demanding Nixon's impeachment resulted in an outpouring of financial support and temporarily increased their membership rolls by tens of thousands. But, they were, according to a publication by the New England School of Law, often accused of "privileging leftist politics over civil liberties." The article goes on to say that, "In early 1998, the ACLU launched the first sustained advertising campaign in its history, taking out monthly newspaper ads on various civil liberties issues in an effort finally to put to rest the public perception that it was a partisan, ‘liberal left’ organization." Surely a principled organization like the ACLU would not put public relations ahead of justice - would it?
Mr. Shankbone remarks, "You just don't think it [impeachment] would be productive." Strossen responded, "I don't think it would advance civil liberties." Yet the assault on civil liberties is the reason the ACLU has been so critical of the administration. It is why they are working overtime to end torture and extraordinary rendition, why they are fighting to shut down Guantanamo and restore Habeas Corpus and repair the wiretapping mess. The Bush administration initiated all of these infractions on civil liberties and because some spineless Democrats went along for the ride, the American People and the country must suffer for it? Could it not be argued that if the Congress begins to see more unity and strength among established organizations calling for the impeachment of President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, that they may begin to rethink some of their votes? Repeatedly, this administration has scoffed at the idle threats and subpoenas. All the lobbying in the world will not bring us to the point where President Bush will willingly relinquish his power grab. It just ain't gonna happen. Even if our Congress were filled with courageous men and women who understood that justice trumps the 2008 elections, this President would continue to issue signing statements designed to place himself above the law as he did when he claimed the power to define torture or declare any one of us enemy combatants. As Ms. Strossen, herself, claimed regarding new laws, "In one breath he is signing them, and in another breath he is saying he doesn't have to follow them." How she, in turn, can come to the conclusion that impeachment would "not advance civil liberties" is beyond comprehension.

Strossen explains that, "I'm not speaking for the ACLU, I know some people in the ACLU would like to see it." Are these "people" the ones responsible for a powerful New York Times ad. The ad shows an image of a solemn and defeated Nixon followed by the words "He lied to the American people and broke the law." Below it, a smug George Bush accompanied by the simple words "So did he." The word, impeachment, is not necessary as it is read implicitly into the statement that follows, "What should we do when the U.S. President lies to us and breaks the law? The creators of this ad understood what Ms. Strossen and many critics of impeachment fail to discern. They close the ad with these lines, "Because it’s not about promoting a political agenda. It’s about preserving American democracy." Interestingly, this ad premiered on December 29, 2005, only 11 days after Rep. John Conyers introduced H. Res 635 - a resolution that would create a select committee to investigate and make recommendations regarding grounds for impeachment. Apparently, the Dems weren't the only one who were all talk in 2005. Impeachment was broached again by the ACLU in 2006, when an ACLU panel urged impeachment over the spying program. In a February 21, 2006, article by Monisha Bansal (9 months before the 2006 elections), Laurence H. Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard University remarked that "If the political alignment in the country were otherwise, impeachment would be a no-brainer." John Dean, White House counsel during the Nixon administration, added "There is no question in my mind that this president has already committed one or more impeachable offenses. This is pretty serious stuff. It's worse than Watergate." Regarding the wiretapping, Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU submitted that, "It violates the basic rules of the road of how you operate. No judge, at any level has signed a warrant for this."
Like House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, the ACLU and other influential groups like MoveOn.org despite their meek and faint whisperings, have thus far helped to keep impeachment "off the table." The Dems claim impeachment will "take all the oxygen out of the room," that there is "not enough time," and they fret about the 2008 elections. MoveOn.org declared months ago that if subpoenas weren't responded to they would call for impeachment. Not another word on impeachment from MoveOn, yet the subpoenas go unanswered. Idle threats. MoveOn routinely polls its members, sometimes specific to impeachment, yet fails to disclose the results of those polls. One might conclude they fear backlash as the genesis of the organization was insisting that the nation "move on" from the impeachment circus that enveloped the Clinton presidency. ACLU President, Nadine Strossen suggests that because the Democrats are complicit that the President and Vice President can be let off the hook . And, make no mistake about it that is exactly what is happening. There can be no accountability short of impeachment with a President that has already demonstrated time and time again that he is above the law.

It should be noted that the ACLU of 1973 was equally critical of the Democrats and the House of Representatives as a whole. In his open letter to his fellow citizens, Morgan, writes, "He [Nixon] degrades our institutions by his appointments and causes essentially decent men and women to rationalize and engage in personal cover-ups. In this manner, he seeks to corrupt an entire people whom he invites to participate, with our House of Representatives, in a politicians cover-up." Morgan does honor those who have "defended our freedoms with a fervor and impartiality rarely found in the membership of our House of Representatives: Men like Senator Robert Byrd, who asked the questions which brought the facts of the Watergate Affair to your attention. Sam J. Ervin, a 76-year-old Senator who sought facts for the people while others covered up. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post reporters who led the established media which had been bludgeoned into bland fairness by Mr. Nixon's government, and a 61-year-old law professor, steeped in conservatism. Archibald Cox, the Special Prosecutor who seeks evidence from Mr. Nixon and is ordered to cover-up, says no and is dismissed by Mr. Nixon." Mr. Morgan continues, "In contrast, the members of the House of Representatives procrastinate and rationalize. They refuse to act, agreeing only to inquire into the existence of facts publicly known and obvious to almost all Americans. Once again they lack the courage and the sense of personal responsibility which citizens have a right to expect from their leaders. The people have that courage and they search for leaders." Sound familiar?

The ACLU of 2007, need not overstep it's bounds. They do not need to, nor should they, demand a conviction. What they should demand, though, is the truth and the full truth will only be discovered within the impeachment process. The ACLU of 1973, understood that as well, "Neither I nor the American Civil Liberties Union ask for Mr. Nixon's conviction. We merely ask that he be impeached and brought to trial before the Senate, so that the nature of his offenses, if any, and his innocence or his guilt may be determined. We seek his trial so that another American President will not be able to say 'They all do it,' for with no trial we can predict a later President will do it and the next time there may be no watchman in the night to provide us another chance. We must thrust upon the members of the House of Representatives - our employees - the depth of our feeling and the rightness of our position. The public evidence is so clear that the least educated of their constituents know it, yet our Representatives dawdle in inquiry." Mr. Morgan concludes his letter with this: "Only you can answer our Declaration which cries out to free men everywhere: In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People. It is testing time in America and it is your very soul which is on trial."

ACLU, take heed. Fellow citizens, contact your local ACLU affiliate and ask to meet with them to discuss your concerns. Contact the leaders of the ACLU . Visit AfterDowningStreet.org and help maintain the pressure.

As the 1973 ACLU stated, "Only you can make your Representative understand the importance of the issue and the extent to which he or she will be held responsible for the 1974 elections for his or her actions. It cannot be stressed strongly enough or often enough that Representatives who do not move to impeach, and who thereby fail to bring President Nixon to trial, are accomplices in a cover-up. They are either in favor of bringing 100% of the truth to the People or they are helping to cover it up." The same goes, I say, for the ACLU of today.

For the complete text of the ACLU pamphlet detailed above, visit Strike08.com . Many thanks to Mr. Morgan and the ACLU of 1973 for having the foresight and generosity to declare within their material the statement that, "None of the material herein is copyrighted. It is for the free use of a free people. Mr. Morgan's letter herein expresses his personal views. That letter and all other documents herein may be extracted from, reprinted or otherwise freely used and plagiarized. The interest of the authors and the American Civil Liberties Union in this cause is neither parochial nor organizational. Decent people, whatever their beliefs, are equally concerned with the safety of their country. We join them in their struggle."





Authors Website: http://www.strike08.com/

Authors Bio:
Cheryl Biren-Wright is an advocate for clean government and human rights. A firm believer that impeaching Vice President Cheney and President Bush is necessary to begin to restore and protect our damaged nation, she serves on the Progressive Democrats of America S. Jersey Chapter as Chair of the Impeachment Issue Organizing Team and is a Co-Leader of the NJ Impeach Groups. She is also active in lobbying her representatives to end the war in Iraq and prevent one with Iran.

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The Easy Way to Stop the Looming US Attack on Iran
By DAVE LINDORFF

Even as one faction of the American government, the military and the corporatocracy grow collectively more alarmed about the possibility of a US attack on Iran, the Bush/Cheney administration and its allies seem increasingly moving towards just such a new war.

Okay, so Sen. James Webb (D-VA) and 29 other US Senators who oppose such a mad plan have done what? They've written a letter to the president telling him that he cannot attack Iran without express approval in advance from the Congress.

A letter! Boy, that'll stop him.

What's the matter with these people?

A few months back, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution authored by war cheerleader Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to be a "global terrorist organization." In President Bush's pathologically twisted view of his power, that resolution gave him all the go-ahead he needed, because Bush and his legal apologists claim that back on Sept. 18, 2001, Congress, in passing an Authorization for Use of Military Force against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, were actually declaring a War on Terror--a conflict without end and without borders. Under this crazy logic, any attack on a terrorist or terrorist organization is simply another battle in that "war."

If Sen. Webb and his colleagues really want to stop the president from further murderous madness, they need only revoke that 2001 AUMF. A simple resolution declaring it ended, and stating that the war on terror is not a war would do the trick.

Why hasn't the Congress done this?

Are they afraid the president will call them "soft on terror"?

No doubt he would, but I think most Americans have grown weary of Bush's name calling. People are pretty aware now that the raised and lowered colored alert flags, the periodic dire warnings of impending doom, all conveniently timed to coincide with moments when the president or his allies are facing legal or political difficulties, are just cheap scare politics.

Any member of Congress with a scintilla of courage could easily make that case to constituents.

People know this president is a whack job and that the vice president is a liar.

So why doesn't someone propose revoking the 2001 AUMF?

The aircraft carriers, loaded with Tomahawk missiles and the largest bomber fleet ever assembled, are in place. Stealth bombers are being retrofitted to carry a new 15-ton bomb. The army has built a base right near the Iranian border in Iraq. There was the bizarre case of the six missing nuclear missiles. The verbal threats against Iran are increasing. US special forces are reportedly already operating in Iran, encouraging and perhaps participating in acts of terror against the regime and its military forces there.

Oil prices are starting to rise to unseen levels as commodities traders bet on the impact of a closing of the Persian Gulf to oil traffic.

Time grows short to stop a catastrophe.

If Congress doesn't act soon to pull the legal rug out from under the president, we could well see a catastrophe. If the US does attack Iran, the global economy will go into a tailspin as oil soars past $200/barrel. The war in the Middle East would become a vast regional conflagration. US troops in Iraq, already thinly stretched, would come under attack from all sides. A draft would certainly be required.

And if the Iranians respond to a US attack with asymetrical warfare by attacking targets in the US, we could see military rule at home.

This is no time for members of Congress to write letters to the president. It's time for them to revoke the 2001 AUMF and to tell the president that an attack on Iran would be an impeachable offense.

In fact, why wait? It's time for them to impeach him now! This is just his latest crime in the making. And even threatening a war of aggression against a nation that doesn't pose an immediate threat is a violation of the UN Charter, a treaty that the US signed years ago and is bound by.

Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His book of CounterPunch columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common Courage Press. Lindorff's newest book is "The Case for Impeachment",
co-authored by Barbara Olshansky

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Bush: No Attorney General if Not Mukasey
By Laurie Kellman

President Bush sought to save Michael Mukasey's troubled nomination for attorney general Thursday, defending the retired judge's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding torture and warning of a leaderless Justice Department if Democrats do not confirm him.

"If the Senate Judiciary Committee were to block Judge Mukasey on these grounds, they would set a new standard for confirmation that could not be met by any responsible nominee for attorney general," Bush said in a speech at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

"That would guarantee that America would have no attorney general during this time of war," the president said.

The comment raised questions about whether Bush would nominate anyone else to succeed Alberto Gonzales as the nation's top law enforcer. Bush could bypass Congress by filling the job with someone serving in an acting capacity over the last 14 months of his administration.

Asked whether Bush was saying he would not nominate anyone if Mukasey were to be rejected, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, "We don't believe it would come to that. No nominee could meet the test they've presented."

Despite that prospect, more Senate Democrats announced their opposition to Mukasey. Most cited his refusal to say whether waterboarding, an interrogation technique that uses the threat of drowning to elicit answers, amounts to torture and thus is illegal under constitutional, domestic and international law.

The Senate Judiciary Committee plans a test vote Tuesday on the nomination. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., became the fourth of 10 Democrats on the 19-member committee to say he will vote against advancing the nomination to the full Senate.

Kennedy said Mukasey's unwillingness to give a definitive answer on the torture question increased the chances that the technique could be used against U.S. troops.

"I therefore intend to oppose this nomination," Kennedy said in the full Senate. "Judge Mukasey appears to be a careful, conscientious and intelligent lawyer and he has served our country honorably for many years. But those qualities are not enough for this critical position at this critical time."

Democratic Sens. Joe Biden of Delaware, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Dick Durbin of Illinois said this week they will vote "no" in committee. Assuming that all nine of the Republicans on the committee vote for Mukasey, only one Democrat would have to side with the president for the nomination to move to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation.

So far, the other Democrats on the committee have declined to announce their positions. That includes Mukasey's chief Democratic sponsor, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Failure in committee most likely would kill the nomination. In a potentially ominous sign for the Bush administration, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters he could not guarantee a floor Senate vote if the nomination fails in committee.

"I really believe in the committee process," said Reid, who has not said how he would vote. "If I'm asked by members of the committee to stay out of the fray, I am willing to do that."

The news was not all bad for the White House.

Two Republicans who were troubled by Mukasey's initial answers announced they would vote for him if the nomination were to reach the full Senate.

But in a letter to Mukasey, GOP Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina urged the nominee never to let waterboarding be used if he were to become attorney general.

Still, signs abounded that Mukasey's nomination was in trouble. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who is not on the Judiciary Committee, declared his opposition.

The president, signaling his concern, took the unusual step of summoning reporters to the Oval Office to complain about the holdup.

Bush said it was unfair to ask Mukasey about interrogation techniques about which he has not been briefed. "He doesn't know whether we use that technique or not," the president said during the session.

Further, Bush said, "It doesn't make any sense to tell an enemy what we're doing."

Bush urged swift approval of Mukasey, saying the U.S. needs an attorney general on the job to help with the fight against terrorism.

Without saying whether interrogators use waterboarding, Bush said, "The American people must know that whatever techniques we use are within the law."

Asked whether he considers waterboarding legal, Bush replied, "I'm not going to talk about techniques. There's an enemy out there."

For the fourth day in a row, no comment on a Mukasey vote was forthcoming from Schumer, the media-savvy lawmaker who led the probe that pressured Gonzales to quit and who suggested Mukasey as his replacement.

"I do not think Democrats are mistreating him at all," Schumer told reporters.

In the Oval Office, Bush said he was concerned that some people "have lost sight of the fact that we are at war with extremists and radicals who want to attack us again." He said it was important that Congress approve the laws, financing and personnel necessary to fight U.S. enemies.

He said the Senate's failure to confirm Mukasey promptly was "not good for the country."

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Soldiers in silent revolt in Iraq

British troops say ‘get us out of here’ and US soldiers’ ‘fake patrols’

British and US troops are turning away from confronting the Iraqi resistance – despite the rhetoric from Gordon Brown

and George Bush that they are “winning” the war.

Revelations from both British and US troops show that morale has plummeted and that soldiers are avoiding all encounters with anti-occupation forces.

A senior British commander told the Sunday Telegraph that since they withdrew from Basra this summer they have not once returned to the city. They patrol around their base at the airport, with the occasional forays to the Iranian border.

He admitted that the military and the resistance have struck a deal not to attack each other. The oil rich southern Iraqi city is now in the hands of rival resistance organisations.

One senior British officer said, “We are tired of firing at people. We would prefer to find a political accommodation.”

Other soldiers said they saw little point in fighting on. One captain admitted, “If we went into the city every night, we would still be doing it in ten years’ time.

“There is nothing the military can do any more without the backing of politicians, and no politician wants to touch Iraq with a barge pole. Having the military out here without political backing is pointless.”

If the British military is “officially” pulling back from the war, US troops are doing so unofficially.

In an echo of the Vietnam War, US troops told independent journalist Dahr Jamail that they run fake patrols and send false reports as part of a strategy of “search and avoid”.

One soldier, who had recently returned from Iraq, admitted, “Morale was incredibly low. Most men in my platoon in Iraq were just in from combat tours in Afghanistan.

“We were hit by so many roadside bombs we became incredibly demoralised, so we decided the only way we wouldn’t be blown up was to avoid driving around all the time.

“So we would go find an open field and park. Then we would call our base every hour to tell them we were searching for weapons caches in the fields and doing weapons patrols and everything was going fine.

“All our enlisted people became very *disenchanted with our chain of command.”

Another soldier said, “We’d go to the end of our patrol route and set up on top of a bridge and use it as an over-watch position. We would just sit with our binoculars and observe rather than sweep. We’d call in radio checks every hour and say we were doing sweeps.”

“It was a common tactic, a lot of people did that. We’d just hang out, listen to music, smoke cigarettes and pretend.”

A third soldier told Jamail, “One of my buddies is in Baghdad right now and we email all the time. He just told me that nearly each day they pull into a parking lot, drink soda, and shoot at the cans.

“They pay Iraqi kids to bring them things and spread the word that they are not doing anything and to please just leave them alone.”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2upl977dsY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsllfcWKWzw

fact: further evidence is not needed to know that it was most definitely an inside job.

i wasn't there. and don't know anyone who actually saw a plane.. i don't know how many incidental home video's there are of the towers in the few seconds the plane hit either. the powers that be could've certainly got to them as they 'surfaced' like they did in many other cases ie the gas station next to the pentagon etc etc etc.

one documentary supposes that it was a military aircraft painted like a public airliner due to a bulk under the fusalage that depicts a certain military aircraft.

where are all the engineers and why hasn't this shit hit the fan?
you won't find them on mainstream tv. you have to find them yourself...

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Your Thoughts Can
Change your DNA
by CJ Martes


We’ve come to understand that thoughts are energy. Actions are energy. Your entire life is filled with energy frequencies. Pay careful attention to what you project into the world. Thoughts are can be very powerful attractors. A recent study shows just how powerful we really are at the basic level of our mere thoughts. There is now scientific evidence proving just how important our thoughts can be to health and personal wellbeing.

Recent studies show that DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes. Our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but it also serves as data storage and communication. This is an important key to changing our DNA structures.

We only use 10% of our DNA for building proteins in the body. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered "junk DNA”. But is it really “junk” or useless DNA?

The Russian linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless 90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they compared the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences, the study of meaning in language forms and the basic rules of grammar.

They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. This discovery proves a point that human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.

Scientists have managed, for example, to modulate certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA frequency and thus changed the genetic information itself.

Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) are of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language!

This, too, was experimentally proven! Living DNA substance will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies are being used. This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies.

We now know that it is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language. While western researcher cut single genes from the DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects.

Imagine how easily it would make it to repair genetic defects such as Downs Syndrome. While a western researcher cut single genes from the DNA strands and inserted them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects.

Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained. Of course the frequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and maturity in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA.

However, Russian researchers are working on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency. If done, many of the world’s illnesses could be cured with frequency alone. An amazing and startling discovery!

The more developed an individual's consciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device! One can achieve these results by oneself, and science will finally stop laughing at such ideas and will confirm and explain the results.

Scientists also found out that our DNA can also cause disturbing patterns in the quantum vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes! These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time.

Your DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This process of hypercommunication is most effective in a state of relaxation. Stress and worries block effective or successful hypercommunication It distorts the information making it useless to us.

As we initiate greater individual consciousness, we can create a new form of group consciousness, namely one, in which we attain access to all the group’s information via our DNA. We now know that just as on the internet our DNA can feed its proper data into the network, can call up data from the network and can establish contact with other participants in the network.

Remote healing, telepathy or "remote sensing" about the state of relatives etc. can thus be explained. Some animals know also from afar when their owners plan to return home. That can be freshly interpreted and explained via the concepts of group consciousness and hypercommunication.

Any collective consciousness cannot be sensibly used over any period of time without a distinctive individuality. Otherwise we would revert to a primitive herd instinct that is easily manipulated.

Hypercommunication in the new millennium means something quite different: Researchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND humanity is collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind.

These discoveries will change the face of our understanding our physiology and how we perceive the capabilities of us as individuals. Spiritual growth seems to be the key component. Since this is a primarily focus of many individual’s today, you can see just how important this really is.

So start working with and perceive your thoughts as a tool you’re your transformation. Your thoughts can become a powerful force for change in your spiritual awareness and growth. While doing so, remind yourself that you have the power to change the world - simply one thought at a time.

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In the field of high-energy physics, a rapidly rising theory called "Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics" (Lattice QCD) proposes that an invisible, all-pervasive structure exists beneath atomic structure. As a long overdue replacement for the vacuous space-time continuum, we are now poised for a return to the ancient worldview of a musical universe described by Pythagorean harmonic science.

Originating in the quantum theory of Max Planck, Lattice QCD is a formalization of the more popular theories of a holographic universe, zero-point lattice, crystallized space and the “divine matrix.” Planck was convinced of an underlying force like this in nature, once declaring:

“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”

Planck’s quantum matrix idea was the actual inspiration behind The Matrix movies, but the science is anything but fiction.

Recent advances in this field are yielding solid evidence of an “auxiliary fifth dimension” that acts as a kind of “quantum aether” underneath classical physics. Some of the latest research papers in this area can be found (not surprisingly) on the Los Alamos National Laboratory web site. This library includes such titles as:

• QCD phase diagram: an overview
• Understanding nucleon structure using lattice simulations
• Advances and applications of lattice supersymmetry
• Deconfining Phase Transition on Lattices with Boundaries at Low Temperature
And my favorite:

• 2+1 flavor domain wall QCD on a (2 fm)^3 lattice: light meson spectroscopy with Ls = 16.
While these papers all sound pretty daunting, they share the simple idea that atomic structure is more like a sphere locked inside a cube than a freestanding sphere. Other papers on the subject (not on this list) concur, going so far as to describe atoms as “breathing” between tetrahedral and cubic configurations to form a cuboctahedron in between. The idea of the cubic structure of atomic spin came from the realization early on in quantum theory that atoms with an even number of electrons are more stable than those with odd numbers. This was found to be especially true for atoms having 8 electrons in the “L shell” because they orbit symmetrically to form the corners of a cube. When you consider that a cube is the best shape to fill space perfectly, it makes total sense.

The Lattice QCD is generally described as follows. Each cube has side length of about 1.26 fermions (fm) and cubic volume of 2 fm. This is then cubed to produce the space of four connected cubes, totaling a volume of 8 fm, which is then doubled to produce eight connected cubes with a combined volume of 16 fm (thus the “Ls = 16” in the title). This is easily visualized as a spatial lattice having 27 equally spaced and interconnected points (or vertices).

To understand how it contains energy, just imagine a large number of these cubes joined together to create a cage that you could hold onto and shake. As you rattle the cage, energy flows into it and bounces around inside, sometimes aligning in resonance with the lattice and other times creating a canceling pattern of interference. If we made this cage many times bigger, the rattling would turn into ripples, splashes and tides of energy flowing through the lattice like currents in an ocean.

At each intersection point of the lattice a tiny, spiraling black hole is thought to exist. This is based on the idea that the lattice continues to resonate from the Big Bang, causing miniscule, swirling vortices to form at each point of the space lattice. It is further hypothesized that these vortices follow a golden spiral, or Spira Mirabilis, something like a chambered nautilus or spiral galaxy. Since the Fibonacci and Lucas growth series in nature approximate a golden spiral, acting as a damping force against uncontrolled harmonic resonance, it could very well be that all space is uniformly perforated by such vortices. Few realize that their body and brain might actually be continuously connected through these infinite holes.

Within the quantum lattice, when ripples of energy align in the center of the cubes, stable matter called fermions are said to form. These particles include protons, electrons, quarks and leptons - all spinning in a locked cubic structure. But when ripples align with the damping points of the lattice itself, energy particles called bosons continue to travel outward in waves spinning off the vortices that propel them through the lattice. This includes photons of light, radio waves, x-rays, gamma waves, cosmic waves and gravity – all potentially traveling between particles of matter. Throughout the entire lattice, a constant reverberation of zero-point boson energy is believed to be the force that keeps electrons spinning in their orbits and nuclear particles bound together. Without it, everything would simply fall apart.

It is in this idea of a continuously vibrating space lattice that the ancient idea of a musical universe – Robert Fludd’s mythical celestial monochord – is reborn, maintaining a balance between harmonic resonance and damping. Philolaus, a “most ancient” follower of Pythagoras, referred to this in the opening of his book Peri physeos, or On Nature:

“Nature in the cosmos is composed of a harmonia between the unlimited and the limited and so too is the whole cosmos and everything in it.”

Philolaus goes on to describe Pythagoras’ attempt to get to the bottom of this universal “harmonia” by trying to split a whole-tone interval as if it were a musical atom. Expecting to prove the universal principle of simple harmonic proportions, Pythagoras was surprised (embarrassed, really) to find that a whole-tone ratio of 9:8 could only be reasonably factored into an awkward 27 parts – exactly the number of damping points in the Lattice QCD model described above!

Interestingly, when we take this proportion of 9:8 / 27 = 0.04166667, which Pythagoras called a "comma," and divide it into the lattice volume of 16, the result is an even 384 “musical sub-cubes.” Each of the eight lattice cubes then contains 48 such musical sub-cubes, each having a volume of exactly 9:8 / 27 = 0.04166667 fermions. Is this identical scaling proportion a random coincidence, or evidence of harmonic resonance bubbling up like some kind of fractal music inside the Lattice QCD?

We can find many more such correlations between Lattice QCD and music. For instance, a musical tone produces higher frequency harmonics at whole number multiples (2X, 3X, 4X, 5X, etc.) while the spacing of electron shells also follows these proportions around an atomic nucleus. Electrons really do act like harmonics of their atomic nucleus.

Furthermore, the even harmonics of a musical tone (2X, 4X, 6X, etc.) resonate in perfect alignment with a fundamental frequency to form octaves in the same way as evenly aligned fermions resonate to form cubic octets in the space lattice. Juxtaposed against this perfect symmetry, the odd harmonics of a tone (3X, 5X, 7X, etc.) create an interference pattern that shapes sound into timbre just as odd bosons provide the binding force in the space lattice to create material shapes. Harmonic principles of geometry are found in both music and the quantum space lattice.

In his book Harmonograph: A Visual Guide To The Mathematics of Music, Anthony Ashton shows us how musical ratios interact to create geometric figures. Using a 19th century device called a harmonograph, Ashton set the frequencies, rotational direction and amplitudes of two vibratory arms connected to a pendulum ink pen to draw an assortment of shapes on paper. When the vibrating arms were concurrent (vibrating in the same direction), the pen drew a variety of nested circles and cardioid or heart shapes. But when the vibrations were countercurrent (moving in opposite directions), the pen drew triangles (octave), squares (double octave), pentagons (perfect fifth), septagons (perfect fourth) and so on. When an open phase was used, spirals (unison), shells and eggs (near unison) were drawn. Caused by vibration, these shapes occur everywhere in nature.

In 1787, physicist Ernst Chladni found these figures appear when powder was vibrated on circular and square metal plates. In the 1960’s, Swiss scientist Hans Jenny pursued this further to confirm that particles suspended and vibrated in liquid and gas did the same thing. Calling these vibratory geometries Cymatics (see video examples on YouTube), Jenny and others have found that the iconographic symbols of Sanskrit, Hebrew and Egyptian hieroglyphs actually match many of these patterns. It is very likely that Cymatic patterns appearing on dusty drumheads – “magically conjured” by a shamanic chant - were the very catalyst that led to written language and even the ancient Hebrew practice of Cabbalism. The Biblical phrase, “In the beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God,” probably had its genesis in Cymatic sound patterns.

In recent years, these same simple geometric patterns have been found at the bottom of spinning buckets of water and in the eyes of powerful weather patterns.

It’s easy to see how all of these natural phenomena could grow recursively into larger and larger harmonic forms inside the space lattice. As energy splashes around in the lattice, it slowly begins to resonate into regular and predictable shapes. Inanimate matter follows the countercurrent shapes of squares, pentagons and hexagons, while life follows the concurrent polar forms of circles, ellipses, eggs, shells and especially cardiods. All of these shapes can be found to emerge from the very same harmonic behavior of a vibrating string. Things are not just relative – they’re harmonically proportional.

When we listen to music, we can hear the polyhedrons of mineral crystals and the cardioids of life in the interference patterns of harmonics. Since our brains also grew inside this resonating lattice, we instantly recognize complex harmonic proportions in melodies and chords. And as music moves through this lattice, we instinctively follow and anticipate the directional flow of energy in each combination of tones with absolutely no effort at all. From simple auditory shapes to vast landscapes and structures, music projects our dreams through the neural lattice of our brain while quantum energy projects our reality through the Lattice QCD. How could it be otherwise?

In the final analysis, Lattice QCD theory is really just the long awaited sequel to the Pythagorean Music of the Spheres that describes everything – atoms, plants, animals and planetary orbits – as a musical harmony. This has always been (and always will be) the easiest way to grasp the form, function and beauty of the quantum space lattice. With the advent of Lattice QCD, it is only a matter of time before science and society will once again agree to see nature as a kind of crystallized music. When it does, the world will become a very different place.

[Knuckles]

one documentary supposes that it was a military aircraft painted like a public airliner due to a bulk under the fusalage that depicts a certain military aircraft.


Is that one you filmed in your parents basement eric?

[cosmo105]

fact: further evidence is not needed to know that it was most definitely an inside job.

you're the expert *nods*

[Schmeltz]

I never thought that being able to delete spam could be counted as a privilege, but here we are.

[Bob]

one documentary supposes that it was a military aircraft painted like a public airliner due to a bulk under the fusalage that depicts a certain military aircraft.


i suppose that you're a crackpot

or do i have to film a documentary and put it on youtube before you believe it

[Schmeltz]

I suppose Bob says more in 100 words than ericg says in a million.

[Knuckles]

I suppose Bob says more in 100 words than ericg says in a million.

ericg doesn't really say anything but he cuts and pastes like a motherfucker(y)

[ericg]

wei wu wei.

how fools think to grace the board.. as if you haven't really heard/ related to one bb lyric in your entire life...

you're premature clingers.. your "hidee ho" to my "hootie hoo".

if you're still not sure what it's about here by now - you're par for course.. at camp david and martha's vineyard.

"i didn't know it'd all be such a pitiful sight"

i'm going out on a limb, but you'd think people here would be just a little more mark twained and up to date - as opposed to suckers for antitheses that still haven't figured out the ill communication era, that's all.

there's a time to play, and a time to be real ... you have to tend to the latter before you can really appreciate the former.

now. have we all checked the facts, or are at least somewhat familiar with them? is there anything imparticular that you find interesting or want to discuss on this thread?

this position's maintained because it's long been proven to mean, stand and count for everything. i've been through, and consummated more gestalt reality than what you're going to find on any board, in any book, or in any movie - unless i write or cast it. you may not recognize or like it, but that's a burden i've had to live with - in poor conditions, for too long.

"i'm not trying to be perfect - but just get one damn thing done" - 311

ps. this time try to muster every noble molecule, if you have one in your entire body, and respond professionally to the facts on this thread. if you can't talk the talk... crawl the hell out. don't hang yourself lookin' for a loophole.

[Bob]

wei wu wei.


the tao te ching is 81 verses long and purposely cryptic

in 114 posts, you've made even less sense, and i doubt you're trying to be confusing on purpose

basically what i mean is, if you could be a little more wu and a little less wei, that'd be super

[Schmeltz]

Aww damn I'm stuck in the Check Your Head era! Shit.

[ericg]

"honestly"
you're dumber than the day is long.

at least you were able to count how many posts...
and yet you're still confused..

how do i pity the fool..? "when you thirst for knowledge as you thirst for air"


i feel for these kids -

bush's 911 class
nwo cabal and their vassals stick their all but sensible or tenable.. contrived esoteric innuendo's to the matrix - as they're not 'noble' enough to think on a concerted freq in order to figure life out in concert - and therefore compensate with more 'static' that seeks to negate the forces of which truth relies upon..

whatever you do, don't get sucked into it thinking it's bush's unlearned country way or wayward child's play as he loves the country to think. it's, by choice after the facts, insidious as hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INg07O4rMkQ

[ericg]

Aww damn I'm stuck in the Check Your Head era! Shit.

err. you almost got it. "i've got news for you crews you'll be suckin' like a leech"

[Bob]

"we can try to understand the new york times effect on man" the bee gees

[Schmeltz]

"sneakin out the hospital"

yo you just cant feel where the real truth originates droppin science all over propaganda illuminati jesus llike the way they run the tv shows

"with the echo man i'm tellin you"

Fourteen of the current Commonwealth realms, and all of the former realms, are former British colonies that have evolved into independent countries. The exceptions are the United Kingdom itself and Papua New Guinea, which was formed in 1975 as a union of the former German New Guinea, which had been administered by Australia as an international trusteeship before independence, and the former British New Guinea, which had legally been a British possession, though administered on the United Kingdom's behalf by Australia (as "Papua") since 1905.

The possibility that a British colony might become a new kingdom was first mooted in the 1860s, when it was proposed that the Canadian Confederation might become known as the Kingdom of Canada. In the face of opposition from the Colonial Office and the United States, however, the self-governing confederation created in 1867 became officially known as the Dominion of Canada.

During the latter part of the 19th century, various other colonies became self-governing. At the Imperial Conference of 1907, the Canadian Prime Minister, Wilfrid Laurier, insisted on the need for a formula to differentiate between the crown colonies and the self-governing colonies. The term Dominion, which till this time had applied uniquely to Canada, was extended to cover all self-governing colonies, which at that time included Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, the Cape Colony, Natal and Transvaal. Shortly afterwards, in 1910, the three South African colonies merged with the Orange River Colony to form the Union of South Africa. In 1921, they were joined by the Irish Free State which had unwillingly accepted Dominion status as a condition of concluding peace with the United Kingdom.

Although the Dominions were self-governing, their ability to legislate remained theoretically subject to the British Parliament, and the Monarch of the United Kingdom nominally reigned over them as a single imperial domain, with a governor-general representing the British government in each Dominion. The United Kingdom retained responsibility for their foreign policy and defence. In practice, this unitary model continued to erode. The international role of the Dominions increased as a result of their participation and sacrifices in the First World War, which prompted Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, and Jan Smuts, the South African minister of defence, to demand that the Dominions be given full recognition at the Versailles conference as "autonomous nations of an Imperial commonwealth". As a result, the Dominions were separate signatories to the Treaty of Versailles, and obtained seats in the League of Nations, together with India. In 1920, Canada exchanged envoys with the United States, and in 1923 it concluded a treaty in its own right - the Halibut Fisheries Treaty. In 1925, the Dominions refused to be bound by the British signature to the Treaty of Locarno.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, embodying agreements reached at the 1926 Imperial Conference formally recognised that in practice the Dominions had in recent years evolved into full sovereignty, by declaring that they were autonomous and equal in status to the UK. As a result, each of the governments of the Dominions established a separate and direct relationship with the Monarchy, with the governor-general now acting as a personal representative of the Sovereign. The first result of the new convention was the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, which implicitly recognised the Irish Free State as separate from the United Kingdom, and the King as king of each Dominion rather than the British king in each Dominion.[verification needed]

The Balfour declaration was implemented in 1931 by the Statute of Westminster, which granted formal legislative independence to the Dominions, with some minor reservations that were in practice never enforced. Canada, the Union of South Africa, and the Irish Free State all immediately obtained legislative independence from the United Kingdom through the statute. In some Dominions, adoption of the Statute was subject to ratification by the Dominion parliament. Australia and New Zealand achieved the same status after their parliaments ratified the Statute, in 1942 and 1947, respectively (Australia's ratification being back-dated to 1939). The statute also covered Newfoundland, but it was never ratified there, and the dominion reverted to colonial status in 1934, eventually joining Canada in 1949.

The Statute of Westminster retained some residual constitutional functions for the Westminster Parliament, such as the right to legislate for a Dominion by request, and reserving the right to alter certain aspects of the constitutions of some Dominions. The Irish Free State gradually eroded these rights after 1936, and they finally lapsed there when it formally became a republic in 1949. South Africa became a republic in 1961, which also severed its remaining constitutional links to the United Kingdom. Canada completed this process in 1982 in cooperation with the United Kingdom, and Australia did the same in 1986.

Although the Dominions were now effectively independent kingdoms under a common monarch, and acted increasingly independently of the United Kingdom, their citizens retained a common citizenship, which was defined in terms of allegiance to the Sovereign, without regard to the Dominion of residence. Although Canada (in 1921) and the Irish Free State (in 1935) had passed their own nationality legislation, this concept did not come into question until the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1946. This resulted in an agreement in 1947 that each Commonwealth member was free to pass their own citizenship legislation, so that their citizens only owed allegiance to the Crown in right of his or her own country.

The next stage in the creation of the Commonwealth realms took place with the dissolution of the Indian Empire. The possibility that a colony might be granted independence without even remaining in the Commonwealth was recognised for the first time in the Cripps Declaration of 1942, and the decision by Burma to become an independent republic outside the Commonwealth in 1948 met with no opposition. India and Pakistan became independent as Dominions in order to accelerate the process while keeping them in the Commonwealth, so that they could complete their constitutions as independent nations. Ceylon, which, as a crown colony, was originally promised "fully responsible status within the British Commonwealth of Nations", was formally granted independence as a Dominion to assure it of equal status with India and Pakistan. Ceylon became the last newly independent colony to be entitled a Dominion. Finally, the London Declaration of 1949 established the formula by which republics could remain within the Commonwealth if they so chose. This process finally established the principle that former colonies, once granted independence, whether as republics or under the Crown, were fully equal in status to each other and to the United Kingdom.

[Bob]

Isabelle Dinoire, born 1967, was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her labrador dog mauled her in May 2005. Prior to the operation, she could barely eat or speak but after the operation, she can do both.

Isabelle Dinoire lives in Valenciennes, northern France. She is divorced and has two teenage daughters.

According to The Australian, she has signed a contract with British documentary maker Michael Hughes that could make her more than £100,000 from the sale of photographs and a film of the operation.

Some reports claimed that her daughter has said the black labrador cross called Tania was trying to wake Dinoire after she took sleeping pills in a suicide attempt. The hospital has denied this. In a statement made on February 6, 2006, she admitted that "after a very upsetting week, with many personal problems, I took some pills to forget ... I fainted and fell on the ground, hitting a piece of furniture."[1]

The family are sure the dog, since destroyed, mutilated Isabelle by accident. They believe that the damage was caused when the dog finding she wouldnt wake up, got more and more frantic, and began scratching and clawing her. [2]

[edit] Partial face transplant

The world's first partial face transplant on a living human was carried out on Dinoire on November 27, 2005 by a team of surgeons led by Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard (the surgeon who performed the first successful hand transplant in 1998) and Professor Bernard Devauchelle in Amiens, France. A triangle of face tissue including the nose and mouth was taken from a brain-dead female donor and grafted onto the patient. [3] [4] "Scientists elsewhere have performed scalp and ear transplants. However, the claim is the first for a mouth and nose transplant. Experts say the mouth and nose are the most difficult parts of the face to transplant."[5]

A debate over the ethics of the operation emerged, however, after it was alleged that Dinoire's face had been ravaged by her labrador while she was asleep after attempting suicide by excessive consumption of sleeping pills; and that her donor, Maryline St. Aubert, 46, had herself committed suicide by hanging. Concern was raised over Dinoire's ability to consent to the transplant, considering her mental state. Dubernard strenuously denied that Dinoire had attempted suicide, while Devauchelle insisted he would not have conducted the transplant if he had known that St. Aubert had hanged herself, as he feared the blood vessels in her face would be damaged.[6]

Whether the challenging surgery will be proven successful in the long run is yet to be seen. It was reported on January 18, 2006 that Dinoire has used her new lips to continue smoking, which doctors fear will cause the face tissue in her transplant to be rejected.[7]

There has been a change in her appearance. Her original face had a wide, tilted nose, a prominent chin and thin lips. The donated face has given her a straight and narrow nose, a neater chin and a fuller mouth. Dinoire appeared in a press conference on February 6, 2006, which showed that she had partial control over the transplanted muscles, although she appeared unable to close her mouth fully.

Exactly one year following the partial face transplant, Dinoire stated she has the ability to smile again. On November 28, 2006, Dinoire's surgeon, Bernard Devauchelle, said that over the past year Dinoire’s scars have become far less prominent.[8]

Associated Press released a picture of Isabelle Dinoire on November 28, 2006, one year after the operation. The French newspaper "Le Monde" website explained on December 2, 2006 that Associated Press had eliminated the picture, because "The hair of Isabelle Dinoire and the background of this image were manipulated by the source."

Sheikh Ahmed Zarruq (1442 – 1493) was a Shadhili Sufi Sheikh and founder of the Zarruqiyye branch of the Shadhili Sufi order (Tariqa). He was born on the 7th June 1442 (846 of the Islamic 'Hijra' calendar) in according to Sheikh Abd Allah Gannun in a village in the region of Tiliwan, a mountain area of Morocco. He was a contemporary of Muhammad al-Jazuli. His full name was Shihab ud-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmed b Ahmed b Muhammad b Isa al-Barnusi al-Fasi. He was a Berber of the tribe of the Banusi who lived in an area between Fez and Taza.

He took the name Zarruq due to his blue eyes [citation needed] a common feature amongst the Berber tribe to which he belonged. He studied the traditional Islamic sciences such as jurisprudence, Arabic, traditions of the Prophet and wrote extensively on a number of subjects. His most famous works are first of al his Qawa’id al-Tasawwuf (The Principles of Sufism), his commentaries on Maliki jurisprudence and his commentary upon the Hikam of ibn 'Ata Allah.

He travelled East to the Hijaz and to Egypt before taking up residence in Misurata in Libya where he passed away in 899 (1493).

The Aplysia gill and siphon withdrawal reflex (GSWR) is an involuntary, defensive reflex of the sea slug Aplysia that causes its delicate siphon and gill to be retracted when the animal is disturbed. The reflex is mediated by a siphon LE mechanosensory neuron and a gill or siphon motor neuron (L7 or LFS).

It is valuable in neuroscience since it can undergo a variety of learning regimens, including habituation, sensitization, and conditioning, despite the simplicity of the underlying neural circuitry.

Eric Kandel, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for his work with Aplysia, was involved in pioneering research into this reflex in the 1960s and 1970s.

USS Brill (SS-330), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the brill, a European flat-fish.

Brill (SS-330) was launched 25 June 1944 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs. Francis S. Low, wife of Rear Admiral Low, and commissioned 26 October 1944, Commander H. B. Dodge in command.

Brill departed New London 7 December 1944 and arrived at Pearl Harbor 8 January 1945. Her war operations extended from 28 January to 9 August 1945 during which time she completed three war patrols in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Siam. Brill made few contacts worthy of torpedo fire during her three patrols and consequently had to settle with the damaging of an unidentified ship of approximately 1000 tons as her only score.

On 31 August 1945 Brill departed Fremantle, Australia for Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, arriving 9 September 1945. She continued on to San Diego, via Pearl Harbor, arriving 12 February 1946. On 23 April 1946 she departed for Pearl Harbor where she commenced repairs on 1 May. Departing Pearl Harbor 12 September, she made a cruise to Midway; Adak and Kodiak, Alaska; and Indian Island, Puget Sound, Wash. She returned to Pearl Harbor 9 November 1946.

Brill continued training exercises around Hawaii with Submarine Squadron 5 until 4 September 1947 when she departed for San Diego. She commenced overhaul at San Francisco Naval Shipyard 29 September and departed 24 February 1948 for New London, Conn., where she arrived 16 March 1948. Brill was decommissioned 23 May 1948 and turned over to Turkey the same day.

[ericg]

before you have a clue...

[Bob]

you must first begin with polly wog stew.

fuck me, i laughed

[Schmeltz]

Guys I've never heard polly wog stew b4

[ericg]

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-10746448892778329
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etYwtFb2Zyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LEljS3ib84
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9115952934772741227&q=tsarion+duration%3Along&total=33&start=20&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6

[ericg]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1480968373448748763

The Wizard of Oz was produced as a motion picture in 1939 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (Book by L. Frank Baum; Adaption by Noel Langley; Screenplay by Florence Ryerson, Noel Langley, and Edgar Allan Woolf; Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg; Produced by Mervyn LeRoy; Directed by Victor Fleming.)

Many people believe that The Wizard of Oz was (and is) an allegory for the radically new state of affairs that existed in America in the 1930s, following the stock market crash and the bankruptcy of the United States Government which occurred immediately thereafter. For all extents and purposes, it can still be viewed as the current state of affairs, inasmuch as the allegorical nature, the clues strewn throughout the story, are still relevant today. The authors of Redemption in Law, Theory and Practice [BBC of America, 2000] have, for example, provided an interesting interpretation of the story of The Wizard of Oz, one which bears a considerable amount of attention being paid. Much of what follows, comes from pages 180 to 185 of their book.

The initial setting of the story is, of course, Kansas, the geographical center of the USA, and the symbol for the heartland of America. The tornado (twister) that arrives is all about the whirling confusion that existed after the stock market crash, the theft of the country's gold, the US Bankruptcy, and the Great Depression. The twister takes Dorothy and her dog, Toto, into a new, artificial dimension, above the solid ground of Kansas. Upon their arrival, Dorothy notes: "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

Right on, Dorothy. After the bankruptcy, Kansas was no longer "Kansas", but now "KS", an artificial corporate venue of the bankrupt US, a newly established "federal territory", and part of the "Federal Zone". Dorothy and Toto were "in this state", which according to Redemption in Law, implies they were for tax jurisdiction purposes in the "District of Columbia" (aka "United States") -- whereas Kansas is not included in "this state", "KS" is.

One of the first entities Dorothy met was the Scarecrow, who represented the legal Straw Man which had been created as an artificial aspect of the former American sovereigns. The legal term, Straw Man, describes a fictitious or artificial person created by law at one's birth via the inscription in all-capital letters on the birth document/certificate -- the latter being document of title and a negotiable instrument. It is allegedly by way of the Straw Man that the creditors of the US Bankruptcy can so effectively (and legally?) take for their own use the benefits of individuals' labor, creativity, talents, and productivity.

In the movie the Scarecrow, describes his straw-man persona by noting: "Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking. Of course, I'm not bright about doing things."

The Scarecrow then succinctly describes himself in the classic song, "If I Only Had a Brain." The lyrics include: "I'd unravel every riddle, For every 'individdle,' In trouble or in pain."

The translation is that for every individual, who discovers the existence of his or her legal Straw Man, all political and legal mysteries, complexities, and confusions begin to be resolved. And once that same individual takes legal title to his or her Straw Man, he or she can protect themselves from legal trouble or legal damage.

The Tin Man arrives next on the scene. I.e. the "T-I-N" (Taxpayer Identification Number) Man is a hollow man of metal, a "vessel" or "vehicle", the newly created commercial code words for the Straw Man. Just as the Scarecrow/Straw Man has no brain, the Tin Man has no heart. Both are "artificial persons". Natural person are created by nature or God, while artificial persons are created by human laws, for the purposes of society/government ("bodies politic" or "corporations").

One of the definitions in Webster's Dictionary is "counterfeit". Thus the Tin Man might also represent the mechanical and heartless aspect of commerce and commercial law. As they are reputed to say in the Mafia: "Nothing personal, it's just business."

The Tin Man also carries an ax. Did you ever wonder about that? The ax is a traditional symbol for that which is above a King. In this case, commercial law, i.e. Corporate Rule is above the sovereign! It's not a nice connotation -- any more than the "Axis Powers" of World War II included Nazi Germany, Italy (a fascist state) and Japan; or the more recent "Axis of Evil", coined by President George Bush in 2002, but curiously not yet applied to Cheney, Ashcroft and himself -- the ABC's of such.

The Tin Man, expressing relief after Dorothy had oiled his arm, said: "I've held that ax up for ages." And perhaps he is still having to do so. For the symbol for fascism is the "fasces", a bundle of rods with an ax bound up in the middle, but with its blade projecting. This fasces may be found on the American Mercury-head Dime (the Roman deity Mercury was the God of Commerce), and on the wall behind, and on each side of, the speaker's podium in the US Senate (each gold fasces being approximately six feet in height). At the base of the podium of the seal of the US Senate are two crossed fasces. Hmmmm...

Dorothy, the Scarecrow and Tin Man are soon joined by the Cowardly Lion. Known as the "king of the beasts", it's surprising to find one so cowardly. It appears to represent the once-fearless American people who had lost their courage, the courage to denounce the US Bankruptcy, and inform its creditors that they were not the chattel that could be used as collateral for the moneys allegedly owed. Of course, dealing with the IRS tends to leave most of us in the cowardly state; but that is due in large part to the heartless, brainless actions of an organization operating strictly under the laws of Commerce.

In order for Dorothy and the gang to find the Wizard (the supposed answer to their prayers), they had to "follow the yellow brick road." In other words, follow the money -- the trail of the gold taken from America -- and find who had absconded with it.

It's important to recall from the beginning of the movie, that the Wizard was represented by a traveling mystic, a "Professor Marvel," whom Dorothy had first encountered when she ran away with Toto. The Professor's shingle claimed that he was "Acclaimed by the Crowned Heads of Europe, Past, Present, and Future."

That's quite a claim -- to include the future -- but seems well justified in that the Wizard is still acclaimed by the "crowned heads of Europe." Before the Banksters looted America, they had already disempowered the monarchies of Europe and looted their kingdoms. And with a human skull atop the perch above the door to his wagon, the Wizard began to lecture Dorothy about the priests of Isis and Osiris and the days of Egypt's pharaohs.

Between 1916 and 1933, most of America's gold was rounded up -- aided by President Franklin Roosevelt (whose physical problems may well have symbolized America's "crippled state"). The gold went to The Federal Reserve private Bank, and was shipped off by the Fed owners to England and Germany. This was accomplished because of the fact Federal Reserve Notes could be redeemed in gold, and their use carried an interest penalty that could also only be paid in gold. The US traded its gold for paper, while its previous currency, United States Notes, carried no such interest requirement. When the US Bankruptcy was declared in 1993, there was the added caveat that all Americans were required to turn in all gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates by May 1 --

Our heroine was Dorothy Gale. Did you know her last name? Or that a gale, with the impact of water as well as wind, is considered potentially more powerful than a tornado? In any case, when she and her friends emerged from the forest, they were elated to see the Emerald City only a short distance away. The Wicked Witch of the West, desperate for the ruby slippers that Dorothy was wearing, knew she had to make her move before Dorothy and the others were inside the walls of Emerald City. But what was so special about Dorothy's slippers? Was the Wicked Witch an earlier version of Emelda Marcus? Or something else?

Obviously, Dorothy's red-colored, ruby slippers were the same color as blood, as in flesh and blood, thus symbolizing a living, breathing man or woman -- i.e. a non-corporation, a natural person. As such her slippers also symbolized "private" as opposed to "public". (Even a Social InSecurity card uses a red serial number, signifying the private-side account and its attachment to the public-side.) It is likely the ruby slippers symbolized the blood in the veins of the American people -- as opposed to "citizens of the United States", where the blue and black ink on a birth certificate is the "corporate blood". The Wicked Witch wanted the life blood of the living human beings -- not just their Straw Men.

Her tactic was to cover the countryside with poppy flowers -- i.e. the source of heroin, opium, and morphine -- symbolically drugging Dorothy, et al into unconsciousness, and then just step in and snatch the slippers. I.e. dull the senses of the American people and then slip in and swipe the gold.

The drugging worked on Dorothy, the Lion and Toto, the flesh and blood friends, but did not effect the artificial persons of the Scarecrow and Tin Man. The latter two cried out for help, and the Good Witch of the North came to the rescue with a blanket of snow to nullify the narcotic effect of the poppies on Dorothy, the Lion and Toto. [So, who's the "Good Witch of the North"? Perhaps, that remains to be seen.]

The identity of the Wicked Witch of the West is pretty clear. Recall that her counterpart in the first part of the film was "Almira Gulch", who supposedly "owned half the county" (or perhaps half the country). Miss Gulch had arrived at Dorothy's farm with an "Order from the Sheriff" (an Executive Order from President Roosevelt?) demanding that Toto be handed over, because allegedly he had bitten Miss Gulch.

Despite Aunt Em's assertion about Toto ("He's really gentle, with gentle people, that is.") Miss Gulch pressed her case saying that to withhold Toto would be to "go against the law". When Dorothy refused to surrender toto, Miss Gulch lashed out with, "If you don't hand over that dog I'll bring a damned suit that'll take your whole farm!"

70% of the attorneys in the world reside in the West -- America. 95% of all lawsuits in the world are filed under US jurisdiction. The Wicked Witch of the West (Miss Gulch) was dressed in black, the choice of color for judges' robes. Thus she represents judges and attorneys, essentially the American legal system (including the attorney-run US Congress). These are the executioners and primary henchmen for transferring the wealth of America from the people to the banksters.

The "Bar" has a curious history. It represents the body of attorneys, counselors, judges and the members of the legal profession. It has been alleged that Black's Law Dictionary, for example, is copyrighted British law and that the so-called American Bar Association is a branch or subset of the Bar Council (the sole bar association in England and Wales). As the copyrighted property of a British company, all state Codes in the US are commercial, private British-owned law. Attorneys may be even worse, if possible, than we thought!

Apparently, the Wicked Witch of the West is nothing more than an operative of the "crowned heads of Europe" (who are owned by the Banksters), and desperately wanted not only the precious metals of America, but the life blood of America's labor. Her counterpart, of course, wanted to take Toto. The word, Toto, comes from the phrase, "in toto", which according to Black's Law Dictionary (the British "rule book") is: "in the whole, completely." In other words, she wanted everything!

Once Dorothy and the gang had encountered the mighty Wizard of Oz, they initially fell for the illusion. But with Toto's aid in pulling back the curtain, they quickly realized the Wizard was nothing more than a con man. Even when he supposedly helped Scarecrow about getting a "brain", he cited "the land of 'E Pluribus Unum,'", which is Latin for "one out of many." This phrase appears of the American One Dollar Bill, but might be thought of as "converting the many into one", i.e. establishing a "New World Order".

The Wizard was also supposedly amenable to taking Dorothy back in his balloon, but ended up leaving her behind. Fortunately, the Good Witch of the North (Santa Claus?), stepped in to tell Dorothy, "You don't need to be helped. You've always had the power to go back to Kansas." All she had to do was to use her slippers!

The contention is that everyone has the right and power to reclaim their Sovereignty, but just forgot. The actual act of reclamation -- the Remedy and Recourse, is telling the Banksters that you are no longer collateral, i.e. filing with a Secretary of State. Because the IRS (Infernal Revenue Service) is an accountancy firm and collection agency for the private Federal Reserve Bank, having been constituted under the UCC at its inception in 1954 (and operating strictly in that realm ever since), filing or not filing income tax returns becomes an interesting study in itself. Just be sure to do your own research!

The title of the movie also carries a message. A "wizard", of course, is "a very clever or skillful person." "Oz" on the other hand is an abbreviation for "ounces", which is always the unit of measurement for gold, silver, and other precious metals. Even for large quantities of gold, etceteras, the amount is expressed in million ounces of gold, and not tons or pounds.

In the end, Dorothy (i.e. the American people) and Toto made it home. There is, in fact, Remedy and Recourse in law. It's there, disguised, camouflaged, encoded. (Why do you think States call their statutory laws, "codes" and not laws?) It's a matter of learning the law. All of it. It's the necessary condition for becoming sovereign once again.

Unless, of course, you'd prefer to continue to be conned by the Banksters.

The Wizard of Oz is really a delightful movie. The fact that it symbolizes one of the worst episodes in the world's history of the denial of freedom or justice, should not be construed to imply that the movie and story are not entertaining. In fact, once the symbolic nature is seen and understood, it is a simple step to smile, take the next step to go beyond it, and go forth as if you knew where you were going. It's all just part of The Fool's Journey, and the strange path we have each chosen to fulfill our diverse and unique destinies.

We always have that choice! It's called Free Will.

Meanwhile, it is worth while recalling the sage advice of Lao Tzu (c. 600 B.C.E.) and more recently and succinctly in our Oz analogy, Frank Zappa (May 1977):

"The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be."

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see a brick wall at the back of the theater."

[Knuckles]

The book was published in 1900.

[ericg]

It is important for you to understand the significant difference between the two words, "believe" and "know," for what most people do not appreciate, is that these two words are opposites!

Definitions - Merriam-Webster Dictionary
(www.m-w.com)

"BELIE" -
[1a] to give a false impression of [1b] to present an appearance not in agreement with [2a] to show (something) to be false or wrong [2b] to run counter to

"BELIEVE" -
[1a(1)] to have a firm religious faith, to consider to be true or honest [1b] to accept as true, genuine, or real, [1a(2)] to have a firm conviction as to the goodness, efficacy, or ability of something [1a(3)] to hold an opinion

"KNOW" -
[1a(1)] to perceive directly: have direct cognition of [1a(2)] to have understanding of [1a(3)] to recognize the nature of [1b(1)] to recognize as being the same as something previously known [1b(2)] to be acquainted or familiar with [1b(3)] to have experience of [2a] to be aware of the truth or factuality of, [2b] to have a practical understanding of

It is imperative that you understand that "BELIEVE"
and "KNOW" are opposite in meaning.

For if you "BELIEVE" that something is true,
it is because you do not as yet "KNOW" it to be true.

Conversely, if you "KNOW" something to be true,
you are no longer in a state of wondering
as to whether "BELIEVE" it or not.

Now look at the construction of the word "BE-LIE-VE,"
in conjunction with the meaning of the word "BE-LIE" above.

Keep this thought in mind, and look at the first definition of "BELIEVE," where it says "to have a firm religious faith," and then ask yourself the question - "why are all religions referred to as religious be-lie-fs?" Have you, ever been asked, "what is your religious be-lie-f?"

Yes, that's right, we've all been tricked once again by the Dark Agenda, into be-lie-fs that we are anything other than who, and what we are truly capable.

We are all Co-Creators of unconditional love, capable of creating any experience into existence, simply by way of our POWER of THOUGHT! None of what we tell you in this section will work, if you be-lie-ve that your "creative thought" will work. Your power of "creative thought," ONLY works, when you KNOW that it works!

To BELIEVE is to accept another's truth
To KNOW is your own CREATION

Remember, the Bible says words to the effect:

"as you go forth and create, imagine that what you desire is already in place, and it will be granted unto you before your very thought process is complete!" and "Cast the mountains into the sea, and watch them go forth!"

KNOW, and don't just BE-LIE-VE
that you can do anything,
and it will work for you forever!

[ericg]

Blackwater and its connection to the Knights of Malta!

Right Wing Christian Dynasty
creates its own private army

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQiZvtuLl-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAibI5ahMGs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOrh3bvbXEI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d5t6u4KKhY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgM5Q3c6XWk

Background on Blackwater
Who owns Blackwater?

A right wing "good Christian" pro-corporate family that controls over $1 billion in assets amd has been very generous to the Bush family.

Blackwater is just one of their projects.

Where does Blackwater get its personnel? Ex-US military, of course. They also go to places like Chile and Colombia to hire US-trained right wing gun thugs.

Could Blackwater ever be used against American citizens?

It already has.

Armed Blackwater operatives making $900 per day were the first into New Orleans before FEMA, the Red Cross and the National Guard.

Currently, Blackwater is suing the families of four of its employees who were killed in Iraq for $10 million each.

Their offense?

They wanted to know how their family members were killed, the company refused to tell them, so they sued for the information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRlVTn5fmrI
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4219410387467725964

Blackwater: Knights of Malta in Iraq

Blackwater is more than just a “private army”, much more than just another capitalist war-profiteering business operation. It is an army operating outside all laws, outside and above the US Constitution and yet is controlled by people within and outside our government whose allegiance is primarily to the foreign Vatican state. In other words, Blackwater is a religious army serving the Pope in Rome through the Order of Malta, which is itself considered under international law, as a sovereign entity with special diplomatic powers and privileges. Like Blackwater, the Order of Malta is “untouchable” because it is at the heart of the elite aristocracy.

The Knights of Malta is not merely a “charitable organization”. That’s just an elaborate front, as should become clear to you later. As the name Sovereign Military Order of Malta confirms, it is a military order based on the crusader Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem and is interwoven with Freemasonry. Most people have never even heard of SMOM, much less that it is a part of Freemasonry. But that is the way the aristocratic elite like it.

knights_hospitallerOne of the symbols of the military orders of the Vatican, the double-headed eagle emblazoned with the Maltese cross, signifies omnipotent royal dominion over both East and West. The orb signifies temporal dominion over the globe of Earth, and the scepter signifies control over the spiritual and religious impulses of humanity. This eagle symbol is used in the masonic rite of Memphis and Misraim, under which it reads, “Order Out of Chaos”, the Hegelian method of crisis creation. It is found on the seals of many European and Eurasian nation states including that of Russia, indicating direct Vatican control over those countries. It symbolizes the desire of a predatory elite with virtually unlimited resources, to totally dominate the entire world under a New World Order global government system using secrecy, manipulation, coercion and terror with the ends justifying the means.The two-headed eagle emblem of the Byzantine Empire (Roman Empire) on a Red Shield was adopted in 1743 by the infamous goldsmith Amschel Moses Bauer. He opened a coin shop in Frankfurt, Germany and hung above his door this Roman eagle on a red shield. The shop became known as the “Red Shield firm”. The German word for ‘red shield’ is Rothschild. After this point, the Rothschilds became the bankers to kings and pontiffs alike, among the richest families in the world. Ever since, they have financed both sides of every major war and revolution using the Hegelian Dialectic to engineer society toward their New World Order.

The Rothschilds and their agents, such as the Rockefellers, have been engineering America and its foreign policy almost since its inception. They and their Skull and Bones Wall Street partners staged and funded both sides in WWII, and out of that hellish nightmare was born their infant global government, the United Nations, and their tool of tyranny, the CIA. The father of the CIA, “Wild Bill” Donovan, was a Knight of Malta. In order to be a director of the CIA you must be a crusading Knight of Malta and it doesn’t hurt if you are a member of Skull and Bones either. In order to reach the highest levels in the Pentagon establishment, you must be an illuminated Freemason and/or a Knight of one order or another. Notable US military members of SMOM include top crusading generals such as Alexander Haig, William Westmoreland, and Charles A. Willoughby, an admitted Fascist.

Other notable members include:

* Reinhard Gehlen (Nazi war criminal)
* Heinrich Himmler (Nazi war criminal)
* Kurt Waldheim (Nazi war criminal)
* Franz von Papen (Hitler enabler)
* Fritz Thyssen (Hitler’s financier)
* Rupert Murdoch
* Tony Blair
* Pat Buchanan
* William F. Buckley, Jr.
* Precott Bush, Jr.
* Edward Egan (Archbishop NY)
* Licio Gelli
* Ted Kennedy
* David Rockefeller
* Phyllis Schlafly (Dame)
* J. Edgar Hoover
* Joseph Kennedy
* Henry Luce
* Thomas ‘Tip’ O’Neill
* Ronald E. Reagan
* Giscard d’Estaing
* Allen Dulles
* Avery Dulles
* Frank C Carlucci
* Nelson Mandela
* Rick Santorum
* Phyllis Schaffly
* Juan Carlos (King of Spain and Jerusalem)
* Oliver North
* George H.W Bush
* Augusto Pinochet
* William Randolph Hearst
* Francis L. Kellogg

Such a list should make you sit up and pay attention, but it is only the tip of the iceberg unfortunately. Then we come to another SMOM member, important to what is transpiring in Iraq. Educated at the Jesuit Georgetown University, former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Edward Schmitz, Blackwater’s operations chief, is a member of both SMOM and Opus Dei. All the top Nazis in our government are connected in some way to the Vatican, Jesuits and Knights of Malta and have been for decades, as were the Italian Fascists and German Nazis of WWII. After all, what was their favorite symbol after the swastika? The Maltese Cross of course!

These SMOM knights are behind most of the trouble in the world and they must be exposed as the criminals that they are. They are not nice people helping the poor, though they use good people in the lower ranks as useful idiots. They are behind drug-trafficking, assassinations, most wars, communism, fascism, feudalism, theocracy, Nazism, Zionism, globalization, crime-syndicates, major terrorist events, a new torture inquisition, total information surveillance, economic collapses, social demoralization and seek to completely enslave the human species in a global Big Brother totalitarian regime as they kill off the majority of us in the process. In fact, all of it has either come to pass or is in the process of being implemented. We are on the brink of WWIII which has been entirely staged by these profoundly evil men. Therefore, we have no time left for pussyfooting around.

But don’t take my word for it, do you your own research, find out and expose them yourself before these dirty Blackwater mercenary thugs are allowed to patrol American streets and confiscate guns during the next staged disaster. We can’t let this happen in America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqM4tKPDlR8

The Knights of Malta in Iraq?

Malta Star | Sep 29, 2007

An American investigative journalist compared the US firm Blackwater, the biggest security services provider in post war Iraq, to the Knights of Malta.

The company is currently in the midst of a controversy after some of its 20,000 personnel stationed in Iraq killed a number of civilians.

In his book, ‘Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army’, Jeremy Scahill links the modern security firm to the Knights of Malta.

The writer argues that “Blackwater’s employees… share the same religious zeal of ancient crusaders”, the Egyptian weekly newspaper Al-Ahram reported.

http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/blackwater-knights-of-malta-in-iraq/

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCVYh75KCc

www.milksucks.com
www.notmilk.com

10 REASONS WHY MILK IS UNHEALTHY.
The biggest lie promoted by the dairy industry in North America is that dairy products are good for us. Due to pressures from a variety of groups, the dairy industry has had to increase their volume of advertising to an unbelievable level, hiring some of the most popular faces in show business to promote their products.

1. FAT AND CHOLESTEROL

Dairy products are high in saturated fat and cholesterol . The dairy industry has cleverly expressed fat content as a % of weight. Using this system, 2%-milk sounds like a low fat product. However, expressed as a % of total calories, 2%-milk is in fact 31% fat! Whole milk is 49% fat, cheese is 60-70% fat and butter is 100% fat. Eating such foods contributes to the development of heart disease, cancer and stroke.

2. IRON DEFICIENCY

Iron deficiency is more likely on a dairy-rich diet. Cow's milk is very low in iron . In addition, clinical studies have shown that infants consuming cow's milk lose some blood from their digestive tracts. For this reason pediatricians recommend that infants below one year of age not be given cow's milk.

3. DIABETES

Insulin dependent diabetes (Type I) is linked to dairy products. A specific dairy protein sparks an auto immune reaction which destroys the insulin producing cells of the pancreas.

4. OVARIAN CANCER

Ovarian cancer is linked to dairy products. The milk sugar lactose is broken down in the body into another sugar, galactose. In turn, galactose is broken down further by enzymes. According to studies done at Harward, when dairy product consumption exceeds the enzymes' capacity to break down galactose, there is a build-up of galactose in the blood, which may affect a woman's ovaries. Some women have low levels of these enzymes, and when they consume dairy products on a regular basis, their risk of ovarian cancer can be triple that of other women. The problem is the milk sugar, not the milk fat, so low fat dairy products cannot solve this problem. In fact, yogurt and cottage cheese seem to be of most concern because the bacteria used in their manufacture increase the production of galactose from lactose.

5. CATARACTS

Cataracts are also linked to dairy products. The galactose that is a breakdown product of lactose also appears to be capable of damaging the lens of the eye, leading to cataracts.

6. LACTOSE INTOLERANCE

Many people are unable to digest the milk sugar, lactose. Diarrhea and gas can result. On the other hand, they may consider themselves lucky. Those who can tolerate lactose, cannot rapidly breakdown the galactose which circulates in their blood, contributing to cataracts and ovarian cancer, as noted above. Lactose intolerance may be nature's early warning system.

7. FOOD ALLERGIES

Milk is one of the most common causes of food allergies. Respiratory problems, canker sores, skin conditions, and other allergies can be caused by dairy products. The sad thing is that many people never know that their problems are caused by dairy sensitivity. A break from dairy products often leads to surprising improvements. Asthmatics, in particular, should give themselves a long vacation from dairy products to see whether their condition improves.

8. TOXINS

Like any other animal product, mammary secretions contain frequent contaminant, from pesticides to drugs. About a third of all milk products are contaminated with antibiotic traces. The dairy industry slogan "something for every body" takes on a different meaning, doesn't it?

9. OSTEOPOROSIS

Dairy products, despite common myths, do not stop osteoporosis. Evidence shows that the rate of bone loss is largely unaffected by dairy products . Numerous studies have shown that the countries with the highest intake of dairy products also have the highest incidence of osteoporosis. High protein foods, such as meat, eggs and dairy products leach calcium from the body by causing excessive calcium loss through the kidneys, making the kidneys work harder and causing loss of minerals such as calcium.

10. COLIC

One out of every five babies suffers from colic. Pediatricians learned long ago that cows' milk was often the reason. Moreover, breast feeding mothers can have colicky babies if the mothers are consuming cow's milk. The cows' antibodies can pass through the mother's blood stream into her breast milk and to the baby .

Even though the USDA dietary standards are nothing resembling what one should Really put into there body if you want to be healthy

The average American eats nothing resembling the USDA recommended dietary guidelines. According to the USDA itself, in 1994 the average American ate the following:

586 pounds of milk and dairy products

394 pounds of vegetables

199 pounds of meat, and

193 pounds of products containing flour and cereal

121 pounds of fresh fruit.

The average American, rather than following health guidelines of having little or no milk and dairy products -- has milk and dairy as the BASE of their diet. Milk and dairy are the chief ingredient in the Standard American Diet. It is little wonder, then, that heart disease and cancer run rampant in the U.S.

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) is a genetically engineered growth hormone many dairy farmers inject into cows to increase milk production. There is evidence that rBGH promotes tumor growth in laboratory animals. Of even greater concern, rBGH significantly stimulates a cow's production of another hormone that's secreted in milk, insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1); when we consume dairy products that contain IGF-1, we're overdosing ourselves with a hormone that prompts cells in our bodies to multiply -- including cancer cells.

It is impossible to know whether the milk, ice cream, cheese, butter or other dairy products you may consume contains rBGH. This is because Monsanto, the maker of rBGH, successfully lobbied the government to outlaw labeling which would draw attention to milk which is rBGH-free.

"The casein content of cow's milk is 300% more than is contained in mother's milk. Casein is a milk by-product used as one of the most tenacious glues for gluing wood together. "Dr. N.W. Walker

"I would call milk perhaps the most unhealthful vehicle for calcium that one could possibly imagine, which is the only thing people really drink it for, but whenever you challenge existing dogma... people are resistant."Neal Barnard, M.D.

[ericg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvLBMXC_D0Q

[ericg]

The book was published in 1900.

you missed the point.

[ericg]

http://www.thisnovember5th.com/

[Knuckles]

you missed the point.

No ericg, I got the point (http://www.scrubclubrecords.com/question/weird.jpg)of your posts loooooong ago.

[Bob]

you missed the point.

but he heard your style

[ericg]

Dr.Berrenda Fox, who has a Doctorate in Physiology and
Naturopathy has been studying genetic mutation and explains
her findings in a report that came out in March 2002:
Everyone has one double helix of DNA. What we are finding is
that there are other helixes that are being formed. In the
double helix there are two strands of DNA coiled into a
spiral. It is my understanding that we will be developing
twelve helixes. During this time, which seems to have
started maybe 5 to 20 years ago, we have been mutating. This
is the scientific explanation. It is a mutation of our
species into something for which the end result is not yet
known. The changes are not known publicly, because the
scientific community feels it would frighten the population.
However, people are changing at the cellular level. I am
working with three children right now who have three DNA
helixes. Most people know and feel this. Many religions have
talked about the change and know it will come about in
different ways. We know it is a positive mutation even
though physically, mentally, and emotionally it can be
misunderstood and frightening.

As Dr.Fox mentioned, she is working with the children and
has found that many of their amazing gifts lie in the fact
that extra DNA helps create these abilities. “These are
children who can move objects across the room just by
concentrating on them, or they can fill glasses of water
just by looking at them. They're telepathic. You would
almost think by knowing these children that they are half
angelic or superhuman, but they're not. I think they are
what we are growing into during the next few decades”.

So we now have evidence that DNA mutation alone can give
these children these ‘Extra Human Functions’, but what
symptoms can we expect as this mutation takes place in
ourselves?
With a cellular change you are sometimes going to feel as
though you are not here. You may feel exhaustion, because we
are literally changing cells and becoming new beings. Like a
new baby, you may need lots of rest. Mental confusion and
not being able to concentrate on routine tasks may happen as
we are being programmed for something larger. Aches and
pains throughout the body for which there is no specific
cause are common. Many people feel as though they are going
crazy. If they go into an orthodox medical office, most
likely they will be put on Prozac, because they can't define
what it is. It is difficult for the medical profession
because they are not used to dealing with the energy body.
Because the chakras are related to our endocrine system,
women will go through hormonal changes. There may be crying
without knowing why because crying releases hormones. Many
women are going through menopause earlier because we are
accelerating. Men may be very frustrated with the exhaustion
when they are used to being very active. They may feel their
feminine side coming out because this is the intuitive side.
The emotional therapy that has been coming out in the last
20 to 30 years has been speeded up with new techniques for
these changes. We are actually doing a tremendous amount of
emotional work in a very short time, which would have taken
thousands of years.

It seems like most people who were born before 1940 have not
been able to make the shift, but have initiated something
into the next generation that gives them the capacity to
form another helix within our lifetime. Our immune and
endocrine systems are the most evident of these changes.
That is one of the reasons I work with research in
immunological testing and therapy. Some adults that I have
tested actually do have another DNA helix forming. Some are
even getting their third. These people are going through a
lot of major shifts in their consciousness and physical
bodies, because it is all one. In my opinion, the Earth and
everyone here is raising its vibration. Many of the children
born recently have bodies that are magnetically lighter.
Those of us that are older and choose to change have to go
through many physical changes.
Here is a list compiled of the symptoms by researcher
Susanna Thorpe-Clark for you to chew over during your own
personal mutating process:

• * Flu-like symptoms - high temperatures, sweating,
aching bones and joints, etc.
• * Migraine headaches - severe pain that is not relieved
with painkillers.
• * Occasional diarrhoea.
• * Occasional runny nose - with sneezing, which lasts 24
hours and is not cold or hay fever.
• * Dizziness
• * Ringing in the ears
• * Heart palpitations
• * Feeling the whole body vibrate - especially at night
when one is in a relaxed state.
• * Intense muscle spasms - plus pain in the body, often
the back.
• * Tingling - in arms, hands, legs or feet.
• * Loss of muscular power - in hands, caused by changes
in circulation system.
• * Occasional breathing difficulties - and/or noticing
stronger or louder breathing when in a relaxed state.
• * Immune system changes
• * Lymphatic system changes
• * Feeling tired - or exhausted from minor exertion.
• * Wanting to sleep - longer and more often than normal.
• * Toenails and hair growing quicker than normal.
• * Bouts of depression for no real reason.
• * Delving into the past - and looking at relationships,
gaining clarity on personal issues.
• * Feeling of a huge purge
• * Tension, anxiety and high stress levels - because one
feels that something is going on but doesn't know what it
is.

For all these symptoms are just temporary and simply
indicate that these physiological changes are occurring.
Some of the recommended relief remedies for the above are:

• * Go with the flow, don’t fight it. If you feel tired
and exhausted, rest and get plenty of sleep.
• * Drink lots of water, for you are detoxifying and
dehydrating quicker than usual.
• * To relieve emotional tension and stress levels try
relaxing herbs like valerian.
• * Fenugreek relieves stress on the lymphatic system and
helps the detoxification.
* To relieve muscle spasm try mud baths or a hot soak in a
bath to which you add a cup of Epsom salts. Do this daily.

Recognize that even if you are having heart palpitations or
breathing difficulties, it is the heart chakra or the throat
chakra that is unblocking and that the symptoms are
temporary. You aren’t dying, just changing! However,
don’t just take my word for it. Seek medical guidance if
you are unsure. According to Clark, all children under the
age of seven have also now completed the change, which
synchronises with the emergence of the crystal children. She
believes that all babies born in the past 2 years have all
been born with the full set of DNA, but this is open to
argument.

Dr.Fox believes the easiest way to mutate our DNA is through
a virus. Consequently viruses are not necessarily bad.
Viruses live only on living tissue. She explains:

DNA viruses like Epstein Barr and the Herpes #6 change
cellular structure. The retrovirus HIV is not a DNA virus.
Instead of mutating the body, it actually eats it up. Most
people who go through this process and come out the other
side have a new profession, a new way of thinking, or at
least a starting of a new way of life. Even though they may
feel really sick, tired, or hopeless at times, it is a gift.
They are being given a chance to change their DNA structure
and their body into a lighter, healthier body that can see
them into the next generation.

[Schmeltz]

eric is there anything that is too ridiculous for you to post? Have you ever come across a single thing that you thought was just too outlandish or bizarre to merit any consideration?

I mean holy fuck, man. The shit - shit - you are putting up here is snake oil and flim-flam. I want to put on some banjo music and grab a pitchfork so we can just run you out of here on a rail.

[Documad]

Conspiracy Theory (defined by wiki):

A conspiracy theory usually attributes the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually political, social, pop cultural or historical events), or the concealment of such causes from public knowledge, to a secret, and often deceptive plot by a covert alliance of powerful or influential people or organizations. Many conspiracy theories imply that major events in history have been dominated by conspirators who manipulate political happenings from behind the scenes.

The term "conspiracy theory" may be a neutral descriptor for any conspiracy claim. To conspire means "to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end." However, conspiracy theory is also used to indicate a narrative genre that includes a broad selection of (not necessarily related) arguments for the existence of grand conspiracies, any of which might have far-reaching social and political implications if true.

The first recorded use of the phrase "conspiracy theory" dates to the year 1909. Originally it was a neutral term; during the political upheaval of the 1960s the term acquired its current derogatory sense. It entered the supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary as late as 1997.
In an early essay by Daniel Pipes "adapted from a study prepared for the CIA", Pipes attempts to pin down what beliefs distinguish 'the conspiracy mentality' from 'more conventional patterns of thought': appearances deceive; conspiracies drive history; nothing is haphazard; the enemy always gains; power, fame, money, and sex account for all.

The term "conspiracy theory" is used by mainstream scholars and in popular culture to identify a type of folklore similar to an urban legend, especially an explanatory narrative which is constructed with particular methodological flaws. The term is also used pejoratively to dismiss claims that are alleged by critics to be misconceived, paranoid, unfounded, outlandish, irrational, or otherwise unworthy of serious consideration. For example "Conspiracy nut" and "conspiracy theorist" are used as pejorative terms. Some whose theories or speculations are labeled a "conspiracy theory" reject the term as prejudicial.

Whether or not a particular conspiracy allegation may be impartially or neutrally labeled a conspiracy theory is subject to some controversy. Conspiracy theory has become a highly charged political term, and the broad critique of 'conspiracy theorists' by academics, politicians, psychologists, and the media cuts across traditional left-right political lines. The US academic Noam Chomsky contrasts conspiracy theory as more or less the opposite of institutional analysis, which focuses mostly on the public, long-term behaviour of publicly known institutions, as recorded in, e.g. scholarly documents or mainstream media reports, rather than secretive coalitions of individuals.

Examples of common conspiracy theories:
9/11 conspiracy theories, usually relating the September 11, 2001 attacks to US government officials and plans to promote militarism and a police state.
The New World Order, a conspiracy theory in which a powerful and secretive group plans to or does in fact rule the world through a one-world government.
World domination by Jews, one of the oldest extant conspiracy theories.
The Apollo Moon-Landing Hoax Theory suggests that some or all elements of the Apollo missions were faked by NASA.
The theory of satanic ritual abuse, a widespread belief that a conspiracy of child molesters and satanists, are engaging in child sexual abuse.
The Paul is Dead theory, stating that Paul McCartney of The Beatles died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike while clues were hidden in songs and album cover art.

Conspiracism

Conspiracy theories are often not taken seriously, because so many conspiracy theories - almost by definition - lack readily verifiable evidence. This raises the question of what mechanisms might exist in popular culture that lead to the invention and subsequent dissemination of unsubstantiated theories. In pursuit of answers to that question, conspiracy theory has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.

A world view that centrally places conspiracy theories in the unfolding of history is sometimes termed conspiracism. The historian Richard Hofstadter addressed the role of paranoia and conspiracism throughout American history in his essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics, published in 1964. Bernard Bailyn's classic The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967) notes that a similar phenomena could be found in America during the time preceding the American Revolution.

Throughout human history, political and economic leaders genuinely have been the cause of enormous amounts of death and misery, and they sometimes have engaged in conspiracies while at the same time promoting conspiracy theories about their targets. Hitler and Stalin would be merely the most prominent examples; there have been numerous others. In some cases there have been claims dismissed as conspiracy theories that later proved to have some basis in facts.

Many people tend to respond to events or situations which have had an emotional impact upon them by trying to make sense of those events, typically in spiritual, moral, political, or scientific terms. Events which seem to resist such interpretation—for example, because they are, in fact, unexplainable—may provoke the inquirer to look harder for a meaning, until one is reached that is capable of offering the inquirer the required emotional satisfaction. At other times, the unfolding of complex sequences of events such as political phenomena are explainable, but not in simple terms. Conspiracy theories are often preferred by individuals as a way to understand what is happening around them without having to grasp the complexities of history and political interaction.

Those events that are most important are hardest to understand, because they attract the greatest attention from myth makers and charlatans.
This normal process could be diverted by a number of influences. At the level of the individual, pressing psychological needs may influence the process, and certain of our universal mental tools may impose epistemic 'blind spots'. At the group or sociological level, historic factors may make the process of assigning satisfactory meanings more or less problematic.

Psychological origins
According to some psychologists, a person who believes in one conspiracy theory tends to believe in others; a person who does not believe in one conspiracy theory tends not to believe another. This may be caused by differences in the information upon which parties rely in formulating their conclusions. A person who believes in a conspiracy theory may do so because of awareness of information, such as that a certain political leader was a member of an enigmatic secret society, of which some who disbelieve the conspiracy theory may not be aware. Awareness of such information may be correlated with awareness of other information which increases the likelihood that one will believe in other conspiracy theories. The lack of awareness of such information may be correlated with the lack of awareness of other information which decreases the likelihood that one will believe in other conspiracy theories.

Psychologists believe that the search for meaningfulness is common in conspiracism and the development of conspiracy theories, and may be powerful enough alone to lead to the first formulating of the idea. Once cognized, confirmation bias and avoidance of cognitive dissonance may reinforce the belief. In a context where a conspiracy theory has become popular within a social group, communal reinforcement may equally play a part.

Evolutionary psychology may also play a significant role. Paranoid tendencies are associated with an animal's ability to recognize danger. Higher animals attempt to construct mental models of the thought processes of both rivals and predators in order to read their hidden intentions and to predict their future behavior. Such an ability is extremely valuable in sensing and avoiding danger in an animal community. If this danger-sensing ability should begin making false predictions, or be triggered by benign evidence, or otherwise become pathological, the result is paranoid delusions.

Projection
Some historians have pointed out the element of psychological projection in conspiracism; that is, the attribution to the supposed "conspirators" of undesirable characteristics of the self.

Hofstadter also noted that "sexual freedom" is a vice frequently attributed to the conspiracist's target group, noting that "very often the fantasies of true believers reveal strong sadomasochistic outlets, vividly expressed, for example, in the delight of anti-Masons with the cruelty of Masonic punishments."

Clinical psychology
For relatively rare individuals, an obsessive compulsion to believe, prove or re-tell a conspiracy theory may indicate one or more of several well-understood psychological conditions, and other hypothetical ones: paranoia, denial, schizophrenia, mean world syndrome.

Socio-political origins
Christopher Hitchens represents conspiracy theories as the 'exhaust fumes of democracy', the unavoidable result of a large amount of information circulating among a large number of people. Other social commentators and sociologists argue that conspiracy theories are produced according to variables that may change within a democratic (or other type of) society.
Conspiratorial accounts can be emotionally satisfying when they place events in a readily-understandable, moral context. The subscriber to the theory is able to assign moral responsibility for an emotionally troubling event or situation to a clearly-conceived group of individuals. Crucially, that group does not include the believer. The believer may then feel excused of any moral or political responsibility for remedying whatever institutional or societal flaw might be the actual source of the dissonance.

Where responsible behavior is prevented by social conditions, or is simply beyond the ability of an individual, the conspiracy theory facilitates the emotional discharge or closure that such emotional challenges (after Erving Goffman) require. Like moral panics, conspiracy theories thus occur more frequently within communities that are experiencing social isolation or political dis-empowerment.

Throughout history, antisemitism is prominent in conspiracy theories. According to Kenneth S. Stern, "Historically, Jews have not fared well around conspiracy theories. Such ideas fuel anti-Semitism. The myths that Jews killed Christ, or poisoned wells, or killed Christian children to bake matzo, or "made up" the Holocaust, or plot to control the world, do not succeed each other; rather, the list of anti-Semitic canards gets longer. The militia movement today believes in the conspiracy theory of the Protocols, even if some call it something else and never mention Jews. From the perspective of history, we know that this is the type of climate in which anti-Semitism can grow."

Disillusionment
In the late 20th century, falling election participation and declines in other key metrics of social engagement were noted by several observers. For a prominent example, see Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone thesis. Those who were most influenced by this period, the so-called "Generation X," are characterized by their cynicism towards traditional institutions and authorities, offering a case example of the context of political dis-empowerment detailed above. In that context, a typical individual will tend to be more isolated from the kinds of peer networks that grant access to broad sources of information, and may instinctively distrust any statement or claim made by certain people, media, and other authority-bearing institutions. For some individuals, the consequence may be a tendency to attribute anything bad that happens to the distrusted authority. For example, some people attribute the September 11, 2001 attacks to a conspiracy involving the U.S. government (or disfavored politicians) instead of or along with Islamic terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda (see 9/11 conspiracy theories.) Such charges may also be colored with political motivation. Similar charges (in some circles) were made that the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration was in some way culpable for the Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Usage
The term "conspiracy theory" is considered by different observers to be a neutral description for a conspiracy claim, a pejorative term used to dismiss such a claim without examination, and a term that can be positively embraced by proponents of such a claim. The term may be used by some for arguments they might not wholly believe but consider radical and exciting. The most widely accepted sense of the term is that which popular culture and academic usage share, certainly having negative implications for a narrative's probable truth value.

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To: The Dishonorable & Hypocritical Schmuck
In Fear of Reality
1 White Wash Ave (Formerly Smear Rd)
Paganville (Bum Fuck Egypt County), State (Static) of Corruption 60606
Bush Country, Usurped States of America a.k.a. United Static of America

Dear Schmuck,

Know your enemy.

Re-Spect-Fully,

Your Model of Excellence,
EricG


PS. Troubleshooting:

1. Make sure brain is turned ON.
2. Switch mode to Manual.
3. Learn brain functions and how to use brain.
4. Run Diagnostic in Identification-Recognition sector of brain - follow prompts.
5. Run Diagnostic in Communication files - follow prompts.
6. If this doesn't help engage Shakabuku mechanism.

If trouble still persists repeat 6 steps 2 more times, and brace for Armageddon.

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=ADBF,ADBF:2007-44,ADBF:en&defl=en&q=define:conspiracy&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

Definitions of conspiracy on the Web:

a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

con·spir·a·cy (kən-spîr'ə-sē)
n., pl. -cies.
An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
A group of conspirators.
Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich has literally just left the floor of the
House of Representatives where he introduced HR 333 -- the bill
calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney on charges
of lying to the American public regarding the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Now that his bill has been entered into the Congressional Record, the
House has two days to decide what to do with it. Will it be tabled?
Will impeachment proceedings begin? These next 48 hours will grant
YOU the power to let your voice impact the course of history, and the
future direction of our country.

Take a moment to call the Capitol switchboard right now at (202)
224-3121 or go to http://www.house.gov and enter your ZIP Code to
find your local member of Congress, and then tell them the following:

"I urge the Representative to VOTE TO START IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS as outlined in HR 333."

Apparently the speaker now has to schedule it for a vote, and even decide if it's allowed under privilege...I just called Nancy Pelosi's office in support at 1-800-828-0498. You can call her and Sullivan at that number, or any one of the other spineless assholes.

We need to jam the phone lines!


Kucinich:

Twenty-one reps have signed on as cosponsors of the resolution, H Res 333. Others in the Congress have claimed they have more important priorities, but have told their constituents they will keep their views in mind if the matter ever comes up for a vote.

Well, the issue is coming up for a vote this week on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the “distraction” will require members to balance their priorities between Constitutionally prescribed justice and recourse and the alternative: Constitutional abuse and
dictatorial power.

Only by taking up impeachment can we reinstitute a balance of powers and slow down the rush to launch a new war of aggression against Iran.


CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN - TELL THEM TO SUPPORT HR333 - IMPEACHMENT OF DICK CHENEY



PS. why has ron paul not signed on to this resolution? does he think that it is a poor move that will ultimately only go finalize/ table it.. and would like to see them go straight to jail instead of back to their mansions?

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Cheney Pursuing Nuclear Ambitions of His Own

By Jason Leopold
Go To Original

While Dick Cheney has been talking tough over the years about Iran's alleged nuclear activities, the vice president has been quietly pursuing nuclear ambitions of his own.

For more than two years, Cheney and a relatively unknown administration official, Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell, have been regularly visiting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure agency officials rewrite regulatory policies and bypass public hearings in order to streamline the licensing process for energy companies that have filed applications to build new nuclear power reactors, as well as applications for new nuclear facilities that are expected to be filed by other companies in the months ahead, longtime NRC officials said.

Before being sworn in as deputy energy secretary in March 2005, Sell, a lawyer whose roots extend to Bush's home state of Texas, was a White House lobbyist working on energy issues. He had also participated in secret meetings with Cheney's Energy Task Force.

In April, Sell and Cheney had both met with NRC officials to sign off on the final regulatory policies related to new nuclear reactors. Following the meeting, Sell had alerted a group of energy companies they could begin to take advantage of the faster application process, NRC officials said.

NRC officials said that Cheney has expressed a desire to see applications for nuclear reactor projects approved by the NRC when he and Bush leave the White House in January 2009.

The energy corporations Cheney and Sell have been personally lobbying the NRC on behalf of this year have advised the vice president and his staff on energy policy in a way that would boost their companies' profit margins. These corporations have also donated millions of dollars to President Bush's and Cheney's past presidential campaigns.

One of the cornerstones of President Bush's National Energy Policy, released in May 2001, but never wholly adopted, was "the expansion of nuclear energy in the United States as a major component of our national energy policy." Cheney said that reviving the nuclear power industry would be long-term solution to the country's increasing thirst for electricity.

At a time when public awareness surrounding renewable energy resources, the devastating effects of global warming and the importance of conservation is at an all-time high, the Bush administration has steered tens of billions in taxpayer dollars toward revamping the dormant nuclear power industry, touting it as the only proven technology to combat climate change.

Behind the scenes, Cheney and Sell have worked in tandem with the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), a powerful industry organization whose members include some of the country's largest energy corporations, to get the NRC to rewrite long-standing environmental review policies and limit oversight of new nuclear projects, thereby simplifying the application process, and significantly cutting down the time it takes to get new nuclear projects off the ground, an NRC official said.

The Nuclear Energy Institute spent $680,000 during the first half of 2007 lobbying the White House, Congress, the Department of Energy, and other federal agencies, according to a disclosure form posted online August 13 by the Senate's public records office. Cheney's longtime friend, Tom Loeffler, a former lobbyist and Republican congressman, represented the NEI. Loeffler's former aide, Nancy Dorn, worked as a Congressional liaison for Cheney, and later became a lobbyist for General Electric.

Cheney and Sell's behind-the-scenes efforts have been a boon for the nuclear energy industry - and to Westinghouse Electric, a nuclear reactor designer whose AP1000 reactor unit was certified by the Department of Energy. The company stands to earn tens of billions of dollars in profit through the sale of just a few of its nuclear reactor units. Cheney has said publicly he wants to see dozens scattered across the US.

In September, Princeton-based NRG Energy Inc., having emerged from bankruptcy proceedings, became the first company in 30 years to submit an application to build two new General Electric-designed nuclear reactors at its Bay City, Texas, nuclear power plant facility, a move that came as a direct result of several private meetings NRG lobbyists and executives held with Cheney and Sell, according to company officials. NRG's former president, David Peterson, traveled to Washington on two occasions in 2001 to help Cheney's Energy Task Force shape the country's energy policy, according to government records.

Prior to NRG's application, there had not been a filing for a new nuclear power plant in the United States since before the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown three decades ago.

NRG Chief Executive David Crane told investors recently that massive federal tax incentives and federal loan guarantees included in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was the deciding factor in steering the company toward the $6 billion nuclear project.

"The whole reason we started down this path was the benefits written into the [Energy Policy Act] of 2005," Crane said.

That legislation calls for upwards of $125 million in annual tax credits for a nuclear plant, in addition to loan guarantees that would cover about 80 percent of construction costs. Furthermore, the federal government provided $2 billion in risk insurance for application costs, thereby protecting energy companies in the event they would not be able to finance a nuclear project due to regulatory obstacles.

The federal loan program automatically requires taxpayers to cover any defaults on the loans. In a February report to Congress, the Government Accountability Office said failure to properly account for default risks in the loan program was one factor that "could result in substantial financial costs to the taxpayer."

A 2003 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report said the risk of utilities defaulting on loans for new nuclear plants is "very high - well above 50 percent."

In October, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power provider, also filed an application with the NRC for a license to construct and operate two new nuclear power reactors in northern Alabama using General Electric's Westinghouse AP1000 reactor units. The application was filed under the banner of NuStart Energy, LLC, a consortium of electric utilities that joined together in 2004 to test the NRC's streamlined nuclear reactor licensing program. The licensing costs were paid for by the federal government under an Energy Department program called Nuclear Power 2010 (NP2010), to promote construction of new nuclear power plants.

According to the Department of Energy's web site, NP2010 was launched in 2002, and "is a joint government/industry cost-shared effort that can help provide solutions to meet future base load energy demand and address climate change. Specifically, NP2010 seeks to: demonstrate new, untested processes for licensing reactors in the United States; identify sites for new nuclear power plants, complete first-of-a-kind engineering of new reactor designs; develop and bring to market advanced nuclear plant technologies, and evaluate the business case for building new nuclear power plants."

Sell said TVA's application was a "a monumental step toward the rebirth of nuclear power in the United States."

He also touted General Electric and Westinghouse's AP1000 reactor units as cutting edge, which subsequently helped boost the stocks of both companies. Sell said TVA's application lays the groundwork for dozens of Westinghouse AP1000 reactors to be built in the United States. General Electric had been one of the company's that advised Cheney on the National Energy Policy.

Members of the NuStart consortium include: Constellation Energy, Duke Energy, EDF International North America, the US subsidiary of the French electric utility, Entergy Nuclear, Exelon Generation, Florida Power & Light Company, Progress Energy, South Carolina Electric & Gas, Southern Company and Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee.

With the exception of Progress Energy, South Carolina Electric Gas & Light and EDF International, all of these companies participated in meetings with Cheney's Energy Task Force and advised the vice president on energy policy. Additionally, these corporations have said publicly they intend to file applications for nuclear reactor licenses before the end of 2008, the deadline to receive billions of dollars in federal subsidies and tax credits. The NRC says it expects to receive as many as 21 applications to build 32 new reactors before the end of 2008, with most, if not all, expected to go online in 2015.

Since 2005, Sell has met with the corporate executives of the consortium at least half-a-dozen times. He has relayed to top NRC officials the group's concerns over the agency's decade-old regulatory policy related to the lengthy review process of licensing nuclear power plants, and, with Cheney's backing, urged the NRC to draft new rules that calls for granting a combined construction and operating license, which will essentially result in a decrease in oversight and public scrutiny, according to three senior officials at the Energy Department.

In an October 30 news release, the DOE said it "selected NuStart to demonstrate the NRC's untested process for licensing new reactors in the United States, and for obtaining regulatory approval of new reactor designs."

Meanwhile, the Energy Department has undertaken a massive public relations effort, expected to continue until the end of 2008, to promote nuclear energy as the new "green" energy.

In early October, Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, in a speech at a nuclear power conference held at the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, described nuclear energy as "safe, clean and reliable. And, for the foreseeable future, it is the only mature, emissions-free technology that can supply the power America will need to meet the projected increase in demand for electricity over the next 25 years. This is one of the reasons we have put so much emphasis on bringing about a nuclear renaissance here in the United States."

In 2003, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a study, "The Future of Nuclear Power," that said even with volatile natural gas prices and a wildly fluctuating market, the cost of producing electricity from nuclear power plants is still 20 percent more expensive than electricity produced from gas-fired power plants, and 60 percent more expensive than electricity produced from a coal-fired power plant.

Earlier this year, Bodman, while promoting nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels, said the Bush administration would continue to oppose mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases in the form of CO2 caps, following a report released in January by the world's leading climate scientists that said the emissions of greenhouse gases were to blame for severe heat waves, floods and an increase in more intense hurricanes and tropical storms. Bodman said mandatory caps could financially ruin some of the energy companies responsible for polluting the air.

"There is a concern within this administration, which I support, that the imposition of a carbon cap in this country would - may - lead to the transfer of jobs and industry abroad (to nations) that do not have such a carbon cap," Bodman said in February. "You would then have the US economy damaged, on the one hand, and the same emissions ... potentially even worse emissions."

Before being tapped as Energy Secretary, Bodman ran a chemical company, Cabot Corporation that spent years on the top five lists of the country's worst polluters. In 1997 alone, Cabot was responsible for the 54,000 tons of toxic emissions his company's refineries released into the atmosphere. Cabot was identified as the fourth-largest source of toxic emissions in Texas. Cabot is the world's largest producer of industrial carbon black, a byproduct of the oil refinery process. Bodman is the wealthiest official in the Bush administration. His net worth is estimated to be between $42 million and $164 million, the bulk of it in Cabot stock, deferred compensation, and other benefits.

Perhaps the thorniest issue neither Cheney, Sell, Bodman nor the nuclear energy industry has yet to address is how it plans to dispose of nuclear waste. The Department of Energy, the agency largely responsible for monitoring nuclear waste, plans ..ting an application to the NRC next year to build a repository at Yucca Mountain, the site of a former nuclear testing ground in Nevada, where the agency has proposed burying the waste deep underground. The review process is expected to take at least three years.

But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Democrat from Nevada, is opposed to the DOE's plan, and has vowed to continue to cut funding for the Yucca Mountain project.

"In over 50 years of operating experience, the nuclear industry still has not managed to solve the problems of safety, security, and disposal of highly dangerous radioactive waste," said Jon Block, nuclear energy and climate change project manager for the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). "Until that happens, we're much better off investing in safer, cleaner energy sources such as renewable wind, geothermal, tidal, and solar projects."



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Jason Leopold is senior editor and reporter for Truthout. He received a Project Censored award in 2007 for his story on Halliburton's work in Iran.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISW9sXP_Sik

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http://www.documentary.bz/videos.php?id=75
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=39520879762623193

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CspKosxgXbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocqxlAurZCg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6T54cpMt1E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7LTag4R77Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LhvpC2lsCs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNeshiY4ixI

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http://www.youtube.com/user/MarkoRodin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-XBxK8iKZw

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2576280827351339152
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-441768200946303094&hl=en

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Jack Herer
Date: Nov 6, 2007 2:07 AM


Andy Coghlan

New Scientist has received an unprecedented amount of interest in this story from readers. If you would like up-to-date information on any plans for clinical trials of DCA in patients with cancer, or would like to donate towards a fund for such trials, please visit the site set up by the University of Alberta and the Alberta Cancer Board. We will also follow events closely and will report any progress as it happens.

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.

DCA attacks a unique feature of cancer cells: the fact that they make their energy throughout the main body of the cell, rather than in distinct organelles called mitochondria. This process, called glycolysis, is inefficient and uses up vast amounts of sugar.

Until now it had been assumed that cancer cells used glycolysis because their mitochondria were irreparably damaged. However, Michelakis’s experiments prove this is not the case, because DCA reawakened the mitochondria in cancer cells. The cells then withered and died (Cancer Cell, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.10.020).

Michelakis suggests that the switch to glycolysis as an energy source occurs when cells in the middle of an abnormal but benign lump don’t get enough oxygen for their mitochondria to work properly (see diagram). In order to survive, they switch off their mitochondria and start producing energy through glycolysis.

Crucially, though, mitochondria do another job in cells: they activate apoptosis, the process by which abnormal cells self-destruct. When cells switch mitochondria off, they become “immortal”, outliving other cells in the tumour and so becoming dominant. Once reawakened by DCA, mitochondria reactivate apoptosis and order the abnormal cells to die.

“The results are intriguing because they point to a critical role that mitochondria play:

they impart a unique trait to cancer cells that can be exploited for cancer therapy,” says Dario Altieri, director of the University of Massachusetts Cancer Center in Worcester.

The phenomenon might also explain how secondary cancers form. Glycolysis generates lactic acid, which can break down the collagen matrix holding cells together. This means abnormal cells can be released and float to other parts of the body, where they seed new tumours.

DCA can cause pain, numbness and gait disturbances in some patients, but this may be a price worth paying if it turns out to

be effective against all cancers. The next step is to run clinical trials of DCA in people with cancer. These may have to be funded by charities, universities and governments: pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to pay because they can’t make money on unpatented medicines. The pay-off is that if DCA does work, it will be easy to manufacture and dirt cheap.

Paul Clarke, a cancer cell biologist at the University of Dundee in the UK, says the findings challenge the current assumption that mutations, not metabolism, spark off cancers. “The question is: which comes first?” he says.

newscientist.com

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Shreveport attorney, Tom Cryer, won a unanimous NOT GUILTY verdict in federal district court defeating the IRS's claim that Tom "willfully" failed to file federal income tax returns. Tom refused to file tax returns because the IRS could not show him any law making him liable for 'filing' a tax return. NOW, nothing in this Internet Video Press Release is intended to recommend that you cease to file tax returns or meet other demands of the IRS lawful or otherwise. PLEASE... PLEASE... PLEASE do nothing that will give the IRS any excuse to cut you from the herd and drag you off to its slaughterhouse! However, we do urge you to visit TruthAttack . org and fight this grand theft by deception under the protection of your FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Of8M1MZJQ

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December 23 - A grand conjunction in which the solar system would align with the galactic center.

A very remarkable planetary/galactic configuration occurs on December 23rd and 24th 2007. The configuration on December 23 — Mars, Earth, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Galactic Centre — is shown in the graphic simulation linked below; it becomes even more remarkable in that it will be accompanied by the Full Moon (conjunct Mars) at about 2 a.m. on December 24 when a simultaneous Venus square Neptune occurs. It is even more remarkable in that the Pluto/Sun conjunction appears exactly on the Winter Solstice, just past conjunction with the Galactic Centre.

Link below is the view from Mars toward the Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Mercury, Pluto alignment toward the Galactic Centre on 23 December 2007 which occurs just after the Pluto/Jupiter (Heliocentric) conjunction on 23 November 2007. NASA Solar System Simulator for 23rd Dec 2007

Solar System on Dec 22, 2007. What is not shown is Pluto (which would be to Jupiter's right) Saturn, which follows down from Venus, and Uranus and Neptune. Saturn and Neptune form the cross's t-member. It is a 23/12 configuration. There will be a full moon on Dec. 23, 2007—right under Venus.

When I visited the link below, all the pics had been removed but the text was still available. Go to it and read!

http://www.incapabledesetaire.com/edito/secretwash.htm

" ... Pyramid Roundel on Reverse of $1 bill. Notice detached capstone, eye, 1776 on base in Roman Numerals. Truncated base is 13 levels, with capstone being 14. Annuit Coeptus is from Virgil's work the Annead. It was used as a poem to Jupiter. Novus Ordo Seclorum means New Order of the Ages. This roundel is announcing the birth of a new age symbolically depicting an event to occur to bring in the new age. It will be a SOLAR event.

" ... The Mayans believed that every 13 Baktuns, we on earth received a new SUN ..."

" ... In other words, Washington DC is a SOLAR CALENDAR ... Unfortunately, the measurements in Washington D.C. DO NOT POINT to 2012, but an earlier date... "

" ... So, just like the Egyptians, the Mayans and other ancient peoples, modern man had built his cities for astrological reasons! But Washington DC contains something the other structures may not: the Pyramid/diamond of D.C. contains where we are in the solar cycle and when the solar cycle ends... "

" ... The fountain is the eye of the pyramid, surrounded by the Omega, meaning the end. In other words, the end of this solar cycle is knocking on our door. The fountain is 2007. And there is a particular timeframe in mind... "

" ... Let's put it another way. The messiah is about to return, but not as a man in a brown robe... The writing of the gospels about Jesus was a personified story about the SUN... "

Covenant Man 231 ... 1.776 to Center of Fountain is 2.31 kilometers, representing 231 years. 1776+231 is 2007... "

" ... December on the Winter Solstice (in 2007) there will be a Grand Conjunction.

This conjunction forms a cross, with the base at the Galactic center. It is my belief that this is when the sun dies (and will be reborn) It is what the Mayans, Egyptians and our Founding Fathers were trying to tell us. It is why over the past few years our weather has been going downhill and the people in government have been screaming about global warming. Global Warming is nothing more than a cover-up for climate change, due to Solar changes.

Fig 18b—Solar System on Dec 22, 2007. What is not shown is Pluto (which would be to Jupiter's right) Saturn, which follows down from Venus, and Uranus and Neptune. Saturn and Neptune form the cross's t-member. It is a 23/12 configuration. There will be a full moon on Dec. 23rd, 2007—right under Venus (literally, a woman with 12 stars around her head and the moon at her feet)

In Genesis 1, the Bible talks about the stars being for "signs" and seasons. Revelations 12, Especially makes the signs and times clear. In Rev 12, it talks about a woman being clothed in the sun, and hiding for 3.5 years and bringing forth a "Man-child" On June 6, 2004, ..Venus transited the SUN. 3.5 years later, in December of 2007 is when THE cross in our solar system is formed. Other parts of the Apocalypse relate to signs and the times we live in too, but for brevity, only this one has been included. Try reading the Bible carefully and see what else you can find.

(Note: Agent Psyte did not write this article, but did collect various sources into this presentation.)

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(2007 = 2012)

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From: Jack Herer


by David Malmo-Levine (15 Mar, 2004) backissues -> CC47 ->

Does the partnership of GW Pharmaceuticals and Bayer mean bad things for the med-pot movement?

"The drug companies want control, rather than just a ban, for they know the medicinal benefits of marijuana. They have attempted to substitute synthetic derivatives for the raw herb, because the raw herb cannot be patented."
- Ed Rosenthal and Steve Kubby, Why Marijuana Should be Legal.

On May 21, 2003, GW Pharmaceuticals announced their marketing partnership with Bayer AG. GW Pharmaceuticals and Bayer AG have entered into an exclusive marketing agreement for GW's cannabis-based medicinal extract product, to be marketed under the brand name Sativex.

Bayer has obtained exclusive rights to market Sativex in the UK. In addition, Bayer has the option for a limited period of time to negotiate the marketing rights in other countries in the European Union and selected other countries around the world, excluding the US.

Bayer and GW are teaming up to provide a "medically acceptable cannabis-derived product" for the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis and severe neuropathic pain. The product is a whole plant medicinal cannabis extract containing THC, which GW has given the brand name "Tetranabinex" and CBD, which GW calls "Nabidiolex," as its principal components. The medicine is administered by means of a spray into the mouth.

Dr Geoffrey Guy, Executive Chairman of GW, told the media: "We are delighted to have entered into this partnership with Bayer. It is GW's first commercial collaboration and marks the start of a new phase in the company's history. As a leading global pharmaceutical company, Bayer is well placed to maximize the market opportunity for GW's product."

Bayer is indeed "well placed." It is currently ranked sixth in global chemical sales, first or second in "agricultural chemical" sales, sells about $11 billion US worth of "health care" products per year and does about $30 billion in total sales per annum.1

According to Reuters, Bayer will pay GW up to 25 million pounds ($41 million US) for exclusive rights to market Sativex in Britain. Dr Guy told Reuters he was comfortable with analyst forecasts of peak annual sales of 250 million pounds in initial markets of Europe and Canada. Shares in GW shot up on news of the deal.

Cannabis: "new" and "distinct"

There are indications that this partnership could allow GW to attempt a medical cannabis monopoly. Even if GW does not move in this direction, some other company will likely do so.

In an interview with Pot-TV, law professor Ikechi Mgbeoji of the University of British Columbia agreed that it was possible that big drug companies could try to patent currently illegal medicinal plants, such as poppies, coca and cannabis. These plants, or extracts thereof, could be reintroduced with the claim that they've been gone from the market long enough to qualify as "new" and "distinct" species under the 1961 Plant Patent Act, and thus be subject to patent law.

Professor Mgbeoji explained: "There is in fact the possibility that, if the use of cannabis is decriminalized, and some of the varieties that had been known to farmers who farmed in secret are now available to those with the means, it is possible that they could lay claims to have discovered these strains... they can in fact apply and obtain plant variety protection."

Attempts have already been made by others to patent the ayahuasca vine (a tool for hallucination and visions), the neem tree (a powerful antibiotic) and tumeric (an anti-inflammation tool and the main ingredient in curry). These attempts to patent natural plants have had varying degrees of success, depending on the amount of opposition.2

Canada's patent law – unlike that in the US – does not allow as much latitude to patent medicinal plants outright. Canada requires some "purification" process here first. Hence, in Canada we will see the THC patented as "Tetranabinex" and CBD patented as "Nabidiolex." The outright strain patent on, say, "Panama Red" would be reserved for the US.

Mgbeoji warned that Bayer could attempt to "'polish up' the cruder aspects of the whole thing [marijuana] and repackage it as a new invention and put a patent on it. The same thing was done with Aspirin."

Monopoly games

The Plant Patent Act was written the same year as the first global drug law – the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs – and may very well be designed to create a medicinal plant monopoly. 1961 was also the year of the Thalidomide scandal – where a synthetic sedative for pregnant mothers (arguably a cannabis substitute) was linked to birth defects in the western world.

This was the origin of the expensive "safety and efficacy tests" that determine if pills (and now herbs) are allowed on the legal market. 1961 may mark the start of the shift away from a medicine monopoly through synthetics, and the start of a medicine monopoly through patents. Who wants to keep all their monopoly money wrapped up in pills when it looks like everyone will soon see that herbs do it cheaper, more effectively and without birth defects?

Incidentally, 1962 was the year Bayer, Hoechst, and BASF established the Codex Alimentarius Commission – an attempt at a monopoly on all the herbs and vitamins.3

Bad, bad Bayer

Bayer has been named as one of the 10 worst corporations in the world.

Multinational Monitor, a Washington DC based monthly magazine founded by Ralph Nader, named Bayer among the 10 worst corporations of 2001. Bayer won their title by overcharging the US government and public for the anti-anthrax drug Cipro, as well as dangerous peddling of antibiotics for poultry (contributing to antibiotic resistance among humans) and its harassment of the Coalition Against Bayer-Dangers, which had set up a website with materials on Bayer. The Coalition has renamed its website BayerWatch.

In my opinion and that of many others, Bayer's history marks it as one of the worst corporations on Earth. They are generally known as the inventors and propagators of aspirin, heroin, mustard gas, forced labor, the Nazi party, Zyklon B, death labor, Tabun and Sarin nerve gas, Parathion, Codex Alimentarus, Cipro, Baycol, Baygon, Fenthion, Baysiston, TDI Olaqunidox, PPA's, PCB's and other such wonders.

Bayer has the worst ethical track record of any company this author knows of. They even hired Nazi doctor Josef Mengele to test their drugs on some of their slave laborers at IG Auschwitz – their very own death camp! From aspirin onwards, Bayer's record shows a pattern of unethical behavior. So cannabis activists should be concerned that this company is now the largest distributor of a major marijuana-based medicine.

• Bayer Watch: www.cbgnetwork.org
• Other sources on Bayer: www.bayerhazard.com, corporatewatch.org.uk/profiles/bayer/bayer5.htm
• Bayer AG: www.bayer.com

Beware pharmaceuticalization

In his essay On the Pharmaceuticalization of Marijuana, Dr Lester Grinspoon points out that those who are developing these synthetic cannabinoids and trackable delivery methods are relying on cannabis prohibition to keep them free of competition from cheap, natural cannabis.

"The commercial success of new cannabinoid products will depend to a considerable extent on how vigorously the prohibition against marijuana is enforced," writes Grinspoon, pointing out that pharmaceutical companies would likely be less motivated to develop their cannabinoid products "if they had to compete with natural marijuana on a level playing field; that is, if marijuana were legally available as a medicine."

These drug companies are trying to convince us that, instead of picking from the best-bred pot grown in the world's various growing regions, instead of trying different-tasting and smelling Sativas and Indicas for their various effects, we should study and use only brand-name cannabinoids, such as Synhexal (the first synthetic cannabis medicine), or Marinol, Dronabinol, Nabalone, Cecemet, and now Tetranabinex and Nabidiolex.

Because of the financial realities of their situation, these companies cannot truly support an end to cannabis prohibition, as legal marijuana would affect their profits. Many people would not want to use an expensive synthetic pill or computerized delivery device when a cheap, easy and effective plant-based medicine is readily available.

Every activist and cannabis-lover must be extremely careful when dealing with companies such as Bayer and GW. There very well may be some benefit to isolating cannabis compounds or utilizing spray mechanisms. However, these benefits could be more than offset by the drawbacks of having our med-pot access limited to brand name extracts and synthetic cannabinoids.

We must not let these companies, or anyone else, patent and own the cannabis plant's genetics. And we must not rest until natural, raw cannabis is grown openly and freely available to all in need.

• Pot-TV interview with Professor Mgbeoji: www.pot-tv.net/shows/1994.html
• For a longer version of this article with complete references: cannabisculture.com/news/gwbayer

Footnotes

1) Chemical Week Magazine Oct. 30th, 2002, p. 14; Chemical Market Reporter Jan. 28 2002; and the International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 41, 2000
2) Patents and Traditional Knowledge of the Use of Plants: Is a Communal Patent Regime Part of the Solution to the Scourge of Bio Piracy? Ikechi Mgbeoji, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Fall 2001, Volume 9, Issue 1, p.171
3) www.dr-rath-foundation.org/deutsch/vitaminbattle/documentation_content/chapter21.html

cannabisculture.com

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Millions Trapped in Their Own Country
Inter Press Service
By Ahmed Ali

Go To Original

BAQUBA, Nov 5 (IPS) - At least five million Iraqis have fled their homes due to the violence under the U.S.-led occupation, but half of them are unable to leave the country, according to well-informed estimates.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than 4.4 million displaced Iraqis, an estimate that many workers among refugees find conservative.

The UNHCR announced last week that at present 2,000 Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. Most of them have received direct threats from death squads or militias.

The provinces that have suffered the greatest displacement are the largely Sunni Baghdad, Diyala, al-Anbar and Salahadeen in central Iraq.

Members of many families who have not fled told IPS they have stayed on because they had no choice.

"We could not leave our city despite the security situation because we don't have the money to travel and live outside Iraq," Ali Muhsin, an official with the directorate general of education and a father of five told IPS in Baquba, 40 km northeast of Baghdad.

"For more than a year, we used to receive the salary only every 50 or 60 days because the militants had taken over the entire city. They even controlled the banks, which prevented our offices from receiving the money."

Muhsin said most workers in the education system in Diyala province (north of Baghdad where Baquba is located) are not fully employed, and are therefore not paid salaries. And the rampant violence has prevented people going to work.

"People can hardly afford to live in Iraq, so how could they afford the expense of travelling and living abroad," Najmeldeen Alwan, a local grocer near Baquba told IPS. His wife Suhir, standing by his side, said, "We just wait for our destiny."

Local Iraqis say most people who fled had the means, or the ability to acquire the means.

"Seventy percent of those who fled are rich, and the rest had various resources," Abaid Nasir, an unemployed trader in Baquba told IPS. "Some sold their properties, others used up their savings to save the lives of their family."

But it is not money alone that decides whether a family stays or goes.

"My family live in a small village which has managed to defend itself from criminals and gangs," Ta'ama Aed told IPS. "Our people protect it against the militants. The only thing the militants can do is bomb it with mortars."

Aed lives in a small village on the outskirts of Baquba. But the need for safety meant that "inhabitants do not leave the village," he said.

Other families have made deals with militias and resistance groups for their protection.

"A large number of people have sided with the militants for their safety," local resident Mohammed Jabur told IPS. "In such cases, one of the militants guarantees the family that nobody will hurt them, and they usually keep their word."

There are no formal, government sponsored refugee camps in Iraq. Makeshift camps are common throughout the country, but they are fluid, and security in them is poor.

One reason keeping many Iraqis back now is the lack of security on highways. Most people IPS interviewed said they avoided travelling more than two or three kilometres from their villages, towns, or cities.

"I wanted to leave Iraq, but I could not because the militants control the highways and all the roads from the city," Ahmed Salih from Baquba city told IPS. "All the way to the borders, militias and fighters control the roads."

On Oct. 1 Syria decided to close its borders to Iraqis, except for traders and academics. The move has left thousands of family members separated from one another.

Roughly 10 percent of Syria's population is now Iraqis, and the government has said it cannot absorb more refugees.

The U.S. itself is least affected by the refugee crisis. Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the U.S. administration has issued less than 2,000 visas to Iraqis.

"Since October 2006 the U.S. government has gone from denying that large numbers of vulnerable Iraqi refugees even existed, to speaking openly of an Iraqi refugee crisis," the group Refugees International said in a statement. "But its actual financial commitments are commensurate neither with the need nor with the U.S. role in creating the displacement crisis in the first place. The President and his war cabinet have yet to recognise the human toll the violence has been taking on Iraqi civilians and neighbouring countries."

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Geoengineers Prepare to Pollute Philippine Seas: Pissing for Profit in the Pacific
Pissing for Profit in the Pacific
Geoengineers prepare to pollute Philippine Seas as International Ocean Dumping Body Meets
ETC Group, November 5, 2007
Straight to the Source


A joint news release prepared by: ETC Group, Third World Network, SEARICE, Corporate Watch and Greenpeace South East Asia


As governments meet in London today to discuss whether the high seas should be used for large-scale iron dumping by companies promising a quick-fix for climate change, one private company is rushing ahead with a new ocean dumping scheme in Southeast Asia - this time with urea. Civil society groups have learned that Ocean Nourishment Corporation (ONC) of Sydney, Australia has been given a "go signal" by the Philippines government to experimentally dump hundreds of tonnes of industrially-produced urea, most likely into the Sulu Sea between Philippines and Borneo.

A coalition of international civil society groups today called on the governments of the London Convention - the UN body established to prevent marine dumping - to stop ONC from undertaking experimental ocean dumping of urea. The coalition is also calling for a moratorium on large scale and commercial geoengineering projects until there is public debate, intergovernmental oversight and thorough assessment of social, economic and environmental impacts.

"The global South is once again a dumping ground for risky technologies - this time our oceans are being threatened by high-risk geoengineering schemes that are rushing forward without public consultation or intergovernmental oversight," said Neth Dano of Malaysia-based Third World Network. "A few months ago we learned that Planktos, Inc. wants to dump iron particles in the ocean near the Galapagos - now Southeast Asian coastal waters are the target for experimental urea dumping. It's disgraceful that carbon-trading profiteers are marketing these experiments as humanitarian projects to feed hungry people and arrest climate change," said Dano.

"This technology is dangerous and unacceptable because it could imperil our marine environment - the main source of survival and livelihood for poor fisherfolk in the Philippines," said Ruperto Aleroza, chair of Kilusang Mangingisda - a fisherfolk movement in the Philippines. "Under Philippine law, experiments like this must undergo environmental impact assessment and the communities that would be affected must give informed consent. Proponents of this technology must comply with these laws and the Philippine government must enforce them," said Aleroza.

Wilhelmina Pelegrina of SEARICE in the Philippines agrees, "Large-scale urea dumping is treating our oceans like a communal toilet. Our already endangered marine ecosystems are the lifeblood of our communities - and ONC must not be permitted to foul them for their own profit."

In June the London Convention's scientific advisory body warned that large-scale plans to fertilise the ocean near the Galapagos using iron particles was environmentally risky and there is no scientific evidence it will be effective. That statement of concern is due to be discussed this week by the full meeting of governments who are parties to the London Convention. One private ocean fertilization company, Climos, will propose a voluntary code of conduct at the meeting.

Ocean Nourishment Corp. (ONC) is proposing a new technology that is similar to the one criticized by the London Convention. The company claims that by pumping kilo-tonne quantities of dissolved urea (a form of nitrogen) into the ocean their patented technology will provoke large plankton blooms and draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. They argue that urea dumping could tackle climate change and push up fish stocks. However, international scientific bodies, including the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have warned that toxic tides and lifeless oceans might instead result from such geo-engineering activities. Geoengineering refers to intentional large-scale manipulation of land, sea or stratosphere by humans to bring about environmental change.

"No one knows how many companies are lining up to promote geoengineering schemes that could introduce extreme hazards to people and the environment," notes Jim Thomas of ETC Group. "The recent cases of Planktos and now ONC illustrate the vacuum in oversight and accountability. There are no regulations in place to govern geoengineering and no intergovernmental body has the mandate to decide when or if large-scale manipulations of the earth, sea and atmosphere are acceptable or wise as a response to climate change," said Thomas.

Concerned civil society groups are urgently requesting that the London Convention consider ONC's urea dumping plans. Dr. David Santillo of Greenpeace International's Science Unit who is attending the London Convention meeting said, "The scientific advisory body to the London Convention have unanimously shown their grave concern for the ecological risks of ocean fertilisation. We are calling on parties to act to prevent reckless carbon profiteers such as ONC from carrying on regardless."

For further information, contact:

Jim Thomas, ETC Group (Canada) - jim@etcgroup.org +1 514 6674932 (office) or +1 514 5165759 (cell)
Hope Shand, ETC Group (USA) - hope@etcgroup.org +1 919 960-5767 (office)
Neth Dano, Third World Network (Philippines) - nethdano@pacific.net.ph +63 917 532-9369 (cell)
Ditdit Pelegrina, SEARICE (Philippines) - ditdit_pelegrina@searice.org.ph +63 2 433 7182 (office) or +63 917 793 8618 (cell)
Olaf Bayer, Corporate Watch (UK) - olaf@corporatewatch.org +44 (0)1865 791 391 (office)
David Santillo, Greenpeace International (UK - attending London Convention) D.Santillo@exeter.ac.uk +44 (0)781 387 4489 (cell)

Note to editors: A 3-page backgrounder on this issue, prepared for the London Convention, is available here: http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?

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Breaking: House tied in knots over resolution to impeach Cheney 06 Nov 2007 Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, is trying to impeach Vice President [sic] Cheney for what he describes as "high crimes and misdemeanors" before the invasion of Iraq. Right after the proposal was read on the House floor this afternoon, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer stepped forwarded and tried to convince lawmakers to table the bill. [Update 4:02 p.m. ET: Hoyer's motion failed 251-162. The House is now voting on whether to vote on whether the resolution should be sent to the Judiciary Committee.]

US House Democratic Leader to Block Cheney Impeachment Effort 06 Nov 2007 U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Traitor-Md., said Tuesday he will block an effort to impeach Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney. Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio has announced he will try to force a vote on Cheney's impeachment. Hoyer said he will use parliamentary tactics to table that effort.

Breaking: National Lawyers Guild Votes For Impeachment of President [sic] Bush and Vice President [sic] Cheney 06 Nov 2007 The National Lawyers Guild voted unanimously and enthusiastically for the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney at its national convention in Washington, DC. The resolution lists more than a dozen high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush and Cheney administration and "calls upon the U.S. House of Representatives to immediately initiate impeachment proceedings, to investigate the charges, and if the investigation supports the charges, to vote to impeach George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney as provided in the Constitution of the United States of America."

who would replace him? pelosi??
it has to be all or nothing ... bush, cheney, rice, etc etc the entire administration, and many in the legislative branch...
charges for impeachment are the same as charges for indictments/ arrest.
another speaker of the house should be elected!!!

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http://www.petitiononline.com/r0npau1/petition.html

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In the Horn of Africa, U.S.-backed Ethiopian troops are bogged down in a disastrous occupation of the Somalian capital, harried by a growing Islamist insurgency. Despite endless shuttle diplomacy by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the administration's Middle East peace conference, to be held at Annapolis, is already being dismissed as a failure before the first official invitations are issued. Meanwhile, the Turks are driving the administration to distraction by threatening to invade and destabilize the only moderately successful part of the new Iraq, its Kurdish region (while the Iraqi government in Baghdad calls on Iran for help in the crisis).

Russian President Vladimir Putin recently landed in Tehran and brazenly indicated that any U.S. attack on Iran would be considered an attack on Russia. He then convened a local "mini-summit" and formed a regional Caspian Sea-based alliance with Iran and three energy-rich former SSRs of the departed Soviet Union implicitly directed against the United States and its local allies. On the day Secretary of State Rice announced new, tough sanctions against the Iranians, Putin commented pointedly: "Why worsen the situation by threatening sanctions and bring it to a dead end? It's not the best way to resolve the situation by running around like a madman with a razor blade in his hand."

Meanwhile, one country to the east, the resurgent Taliban has, against all predictions, just captured a third district in Western Afghanistan near the Iranian border -- and, as the most recent devastating suicide bomb indicates, attacks are spreading north. And then, of course, there's the President's greatest ally in the Muslim world, Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf.

Pakistan, whose security forces are busily jailing hundreds of lawyers, while the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and extremist Islamists, well armed and backed by their own radio stations broadcasting calls for jihad, are moving out of safe havens in the tribal areas along the Afghan border and into Pakistan proper to fight. And there's essentially nothing the administration can do, except mouth platitudes and look the other way. As Paul Woodward of the War in Context website has pointed out: When it comes to nuclear Iran and nuclear Pakistan, we have been living in "a Through-the-Looking-Glass world where nuclear weapons that do exist are less dangerous than those that can be imagined." Now, not much imagination is needed at all.

Strangely, from Ethiopia to Pakistan, despite all the signs, all the predictions, the Bush administration, as far as we can tell, expected none of the above. How often can it be caught off guard by the consequences of its own decisions and actions? Eternally, it seems.

With the price of crude oil threatening to hit $100 a barrel and prices at the pump surging over $3 a gallon domestically -- while, on the nightly news, experts mutter about oil at $150 a barrel and gas at $4 a gallon by next summer -- a meltdown might be in the works. Invaded and occupied Iraq, like some festering sore, remains at the heart of this spreading disaster, the end of which is nowhere in sight. The U.S. military, the sole instrument with which Bush's top officials and his neocon followers imagined they could launch their "expeditionary" sorties around the globe, as if they were so many nineteenth-century British imperialists, has proved incapable of responding to such an essentially political situation.

...

William J. Astore: Author of 'The Enemy Within...'

The 'Dolchstoßlegende' has already begun.
Who can account...?

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"Kucinich savored the victory, saying that Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers had reassured him and backers of the resolution 'that he would in fact launch an impeachment inquiry.' But Conyers told FOX News that he would announce his decision on Wednesday after speaking with House Democratic leaders.


"It is one thing for Congressman Kucinich to use this political ploy in his presidential campaign. It is another thing to do so on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Democrat-led Congress still has not sent the president a single appropriations bill. It's time to do so, our troops are waiting," Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said.

"This Congress has not sent a single appropriations bill to the presidents desk this year ... yet, they find time to spend an entire work period on futile votes to impeach the vice president or to pass contempt citations against the president's chief of staff and former counsel," said White House press secretary Dana Perino, referring to House efforts to issue citations to former White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers for failing to respond to subpoenas.

"It is this behavior that leaves the American people shaking their head in wonder at this Congress," Perino said.


http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll1037.xml
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll1039.xml

EMAIL JOHN CONYERS AT: http://judiciary.house.gov/Contact.aspx
TELEPHONE JOHN CONYERS AT: 202-225-3951
JOHN CONYERS GOV'T WEBPAGE: http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMember.aspx?id=8

impeachment alone doesn't justify anything, not to mention that the charges aren't even a percentage of what he's guilty of.
what do you really think impeachment will do anyway - rumsfeld, gonzales, rove... it only effectually puts them out of sight out of mind. nothing really changes unless everything is done, and is done properly.

conyers and the judiciary committee has, for all intents and purposes, been this administration's laundery mat where shit never really gets clean and never will.

though it's been a vicious circle of dilution and factioned off confusion, americans have to find their role and do their part in order for anything to get done. hell i bet only 50% even knows about the resolution.

and has ron paul made any comment re why he voted to table it?
could it be, again, that he sees it as a poorly orchestrated and half baked political move that will ultimately only lose for winning - where cheney 'gets off' with no real punishment?

wft?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

and again - not even a mention as to pelosi being vp...? the board is set to where we'd lose much more than we gained by simply impeaching him. on the other hand, if people do consummate some remote measure of a role they've been completely remissive in, perhaps bush's impeachment would be brought as well? that's a slim jim many obviously haven't had the 'balls' to snap into in any comprehensive/ consummative, concerted or functional fashion/ application.

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Amazing Grace

By Charles Sullivan


11/06/07 "ICH " -- -- It seems inexplicable that so many of the American people can be so dazed and confused, while moral degenerates ransack our nation, piss and defecate upon the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and brazenly loot the public domain, making a mockery of the rule of law and societal norms; whatever they may be.

Incredible lies are routinely passed as truth and the world as we know it is unraveling, as we prepare to invade and occupy yet another country, perhaps igniting World War Three. We go on with the insipid routine of our dull lives: we go shopping, and bombard our senses with mind numbing entertainment, telling ourselves that it—fascism—can't happen here, even as its poisoned blossoms unfold before our astonished eyes and fill our lungs with their noxious fumes.

We refuse to believe what we are seeing and we dismiss it as too preposterous to be real. We no longer wholly trust our own senses or follow our most innate instincts, failing to recognize that they are all that is true; all that allow us to survive the wretched madness that pursues us like rabid dogs, and relentlessly nips at our fleeing heels.

Increasing numbers of us move through this world with a sense of impending doom but we do not fully comprehend its origins or the breadth of the disaster it portends. We sense not only that something is wrong—something is terribly, irreconcilably, sickeningly, wrong. We do our utmost to repress those feelings, telling ourselves that our worst fears, our darkest nightmares, are irrational, unfounded phantoms of the imagination; so many ghosts lurking under our beds.

We have been programmed to believe that we are the greatest nation to ever emerge from the mists of history, that everything about us as a people is exceptional and exemplary. Despite a history of endless provocation and war and countless other forms of self mutilation, we claim that we are a peace loving people—god's own children, animated by divine stirrings.

But perhaps our state of confusion, our disorientation, and our shock at what the government is doing in our name—all of which seems to be occurring at the blinding speed of light—and our refusal to believe that which is so blatantly obvious to all but those who wear mental blindfolds, or the criminally insane, is a form of psychological shock and awe that has been deliberately imposed upon us not only by depraved politicians vying for wealth and power, but by our every societal institution.

We have arrived at our place as a result of an educational system that does not teach us how to think, but to follow rules and obey authority; to bow to self policing peer pressure and group think: a system that prepares us to pass math tests but not those of citizen and neighbor. We dutifully recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag but we hold no allegiance to the world's people, or its stunning biological and cultural diversity, or to truth. We were led to the precipice by religious institutions that operate by the same principles as "for profit" corporations, encouraged by Zionist and Christian fundamentalists with visions of Armageddon dancing in their crazed, bigoted heads. We are here because we pay attention to a media monoculture that does not inform, but lies and deceives for money.

We are here because we are morally lazy, uninterested, distracted, overworked, over burdened with debt, and apathetic to a fault. We confused the symbols of democracy with democracy itself; and we foolishly thought that democracy could somehow magically move of its own accord, without our participation as citizens. Too many of us believed that all that was required of us was to vote in elections in which the outcomes were preordained by the candidate's access to wealth. We told ourselves this is democracy, but we were tragically mistaken. And now it is too late.

The rush to Armageddon will occur quickly; it must happen, like the passage of the Patriot Act, before the people have time to digest what is being done to them, before they can concoct an intelligent and rational response to shock and awe; before the people can organize against the premeditated murder and mayhem that awaits them.

We Americans are the product of free market ideologues, religious zealots, and vulgar experiments in social engineering. We are being led to slaughter, and to be slaughtered, by dark and foreboding forces bent on the destruction of all that is decent, just, and beautiful.

Yet many will continue to believe that the president and his henchmen are sane and just people. Some will even ordain them devout Christians and extol their dark virtues as enlightenment and courage. Others will continue to believe that the sycophants in Congress will awaken at the eleventh hour to save us from our own delusions and excesses, not recognizing that we are alone and have only one another. It has always been so; but rather than uniting against our tormentors—we fight amongst ourselves.

Events may already be in motion that have acquired an unstoppable momentum, like a hulking meteor streaking in deadly silence toward the earth in precise accordance with the laws of motion. But like all tempests, they too will eventually blow themselves out and, better people than us will someday attempt to rebuild the world anew. I wish them luck and amazing grace, the kind of grace that is so conspicuously absent in us. In the words of labor organizer, Joe Hill, murdered by the state before a Utah firing squad: "Good luck to all of you."

No more can we enjoy the sight of soft summer sunsets in tranquil settings, accompanied by the singing of the wood thrush, and choirs of chanting insects embracing the darkling twilight; but forever more the rocket's perpetual red glare and silent, distant death. We are nearing road's end. The time is fast approaching to mount the nearest hillside, to hold our loved ones close; to sip some vintage wine, and watch the fireworks that are even now hurtling their way toward Armageddon. The time is nigh to watch the world as we knew it wink out of existence, and to say goodbye. It's been good to know you.

Charles Sullivan is a nature photographer, free-lance writer, and community activist residing in the Ridge and Valley Province of geopolitical West Virginia. He welcomes your comments at csullivan@phreego.com .

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America’s Road to Tyranny

By Vincent L. Guarisco
'John Adams wrote, 'Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.' We stand at a defining moment for America. If we do not act now, we risk the freedoms that sweat, blood, sacrifice, and loyalty to inalienable rights have earned us over the past two-hundred thirty-one years.' ~Naomi Wolf Author of ‘The end of America: letter of warning to a young patriot.’ (A citizen’s call to action)

11/06/07 "ICH-- -- -It's weird how old quotes like the one penned above still hold true even today. Indeed, yes it is, and that's why this article is written with you in mind. I guess we're not all born into this world to be the brightest 'candle' at the alter of democracy, now are we? Nope, because not even hardly a 'flicker'of tenacity for truth seems to remain these days. In fact, most of the 'free' world rightfully sees America as an old melted heap-of-wax whose bright light burned out long ago when we morphed into a military state dictatorship.

Pardon me for the metaphors, but our dark days are quite painful to most others living in distant foreign lands. They have felt the burning, scorching heat from our foreign policy for a very long time. As a result, It has left hundreds of thousands of dead, decaying bodies lying rampant across many landscapes with countless others left displaced and homeless. On a religious note -- maybe Bush's casualties of war are kinda like God decorating the earth with daisies and nuts...except His handiwork looks, smells and tastes much better.

So, Patriot, what are we to do? Are the 'born-again' Christians among us supposed to support what our government does -- in our name -- regardless of the death and destruction? At this late point in time it's a little redundant for me to comprehensively attempt to explain how it is we came to be in this disheartening place. Surreal as it may be, my only concern now is that a small flicker of hope can be rekindled in order to fix this bloody mess, and the younger generation is our best bet.

The truth is, those we entrusted to lead us have miserably failed us at every turn. Very few members of the House have their hearts in the right place in Washington today. I'm sure Paul Wellstone is rolling in his grave after watching our Democratic congress bathe in campaign squalor as they sold us down the Potomac river.

After Wellstone's death, his staff released a transcript of his last 2002 midterm election campaign commercial, which had been slated for airing just before the November election: 'I don't represent the big oil companies,' Wellstone said. 'I don't represent the big pharmaceutical companies, I don't represent the Enrons of this world. But you know what, they already have great representation in Washington. It's the rest of the people that need it. I represent the people of Minnesota.' Five years ago we lost the man dubbed 'the soul of the Senate. A sad day indeed. May a new beacon for truth emerge...

In the spirit of truthfulness, not every old fool sat on his rump doing little or nothing while believing every lie uttered from political hacks and pundit pie-holes! When I was a young boy, my father used to tell me, 'son, the truth is the hardest thing you'll ever find.' Indeed, father was right, he truly was a wise man. Navy Veteran Anthony Guarisco paid his dues long ago and learned his lesson well when he served during WWII and Korea. With the ashes of Hiroshima caked on the bottom of his combat boots and the smell of genocidal nuclear death still lingering in his nose, he was surreptitiously used as a guinea pig in 'Operation Crossroads,' the largest atmospheric test ever conducted by the U.S. in the Marshall Islands, in 1946.

After knowingly being exposed to radiation by the uncaring lunatics of his day, he went on and founded and directed The Alliance of Atomic Veterans (AAV), a national non-profit organization providing valuable resources and needy health guidance to sick veterans and their families, filing service-connected disability claims for medial treatment and financial compensation. My father devoted most of his life to this endeavor. He also fought hard for nuclear disarmament and worked tirelessly to end all atomic testing. In addition, he was a strong proponent for the peace movement and gave much effort on other important social issues. Most people (myself included) can only dream of doing all the things my father accomplished in his life experience (a very long bio indeed). I may attempt to write about news-worthy topics, but brave patriots like my father 'made the news.'

And there are many other brave souls doing their part too. I also would like to take a moment to honor another true American patriot, her name is 'Sibel Edmonds.' She is the famed FBI whistleblower who went public after the attacks of September 11, 2001. And to date, she is the most gagged individual in the history of United States. After 9/11 Edmonds was gagged by the rarely-invoked 'States Secret Privilege,' compliments of the Bush administration and other higher-ups performing 'damage control.'

Since 2002, her testimony has been banned from any and all investigations to date. She is forbidden to say anything about the criminal penetration of the FBI where she worked as a FBI translator. Silenced at the Departments of State and Defense; Edmonds cannot discuss everything she heard concerning the corruption and illegal activities of several well-known members of Congress; everything she's aware of concerning information omitted and/or covered up in relation to 9/11. All of the information gleaned from her time listening to and translating wire-taps made prior to 9/11 at the FBI are not allowed to escape her lips.

But yet, this brave girl is prepared to risk everything, including her freedom or even her life to inform the public about everything she knows. Sibel exclaimed
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5163 'Here's my promise to the American Public: If anyone of the major networks --- ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX -- promise to air the entire segment, without editing, I promise to tell them everything that I know.'

Edmonds recently said, 'I can tell the American public exactly what it is, and what it is that they are covering up. I'm not compromising ongoing investigations,' Edmonds explained, because 'they've all been shut down since.' The Supreme Court refused to hear her whistleblower lawsuit, even in light of the Department of Justice forcing the removal of both her and her own attorneys from the courtroom when they made their arguments concerning why it was that she still had to remain gagged under the 'States Secrets Privilege.' What a sham job!

In fact, an interview 60 Minutes aired on CBS with her in 2004, was later retroactively classified by the Department of Justice under the same 'privilege.' But enough is enough. Edmonds is now ready to tell the public everything she knows. She's willing to speak to any broadcast network that would have her. 'I have exhausted every channel.' she said. 'If they want to, they can bring criminal charges against someone who divulges criminal activity, and see how far they're going to get.'

But will any of the corporate mainstream networks take her up on the offer? It would certainly be an explosive exclusive. 'I don't think any of the mainstream media are going to have the guts to do it,' she dared them. 'You put me on air live, or unedited. If I'm given the time, I will give the American people the exact reason of what I've been gagged from saying because of the States Secrets Privilege, and why it is that I'm the most gagged person in the history of the United States.'

So whaddaya say 60 Minutes? Will you be smart enough to take this on? If Sibel Edmonds is lucky enough to find a major network to air her story on national TV, you can bet the farm my family and I will be there watching it!

Bottom line -- America wants to feel proud once again, we want to be able to sing the National Anthem and truly feel the warmth of patriotism. We long for this. However, right now our hearts are filled with betrayal and rage. We're dismayed at how under-educated and totally disconnected from reality a large portion of the public truly remains. We're blown away at how quickly our fellow citizens roll over and believe the many lies that are told to us. And many of us feel cheapened by this same segment of people who have a very short memory span for the many important events that have transpired ...But most of all, we despise the talking heads who covertly sell and peddle the political propaganda and official control tactics that keeps everyone at bay -- docile and compliant for the ruling elite. Those who do this are the most ruthless enemy within our grasp, because they sold-us-out for far LESS than those individuals who make bank while manipulating the puppet strings at a safe distance.

So, Patriot -- let's tell our children to save us from our miserable mistakes. America's road to tyranny is no future worth living. Let the words of Paul Wellstone echo in the youth of tomorrow: 'If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.'

Vincent L Guarisco is a freelance writer from Bullhead City AZ., a contributing writer for many web sites, and a lifetime member of the Alliance of Atomic Veterans. Reprint permission is given as long as article content is not altered or changed and credit is given to the author. Replies welcomed at: vincespainting1@hotmail.com

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History Of Government Sponsored Terrorism

Rome

It is said that In 64AD on the 10th August, Nero Emperor of Rome set the city ablaze. He had a problem and that problem was that the christians were getting too popular. After he torched Rome, people were happy to kill them in the Arena. I must stress that there is no evidence to back up this claim, this is just what the people thought at the time.

Spanish-American War

On February 15th, 1898 Treason was commited by William Mckenlys navy when they blew up their own ship at Havana Harbour to create a pretext for war with the spanish government.

Nazi Germany

Adolf Hitler had already been appointed as Germany’s new Chancellor by Field Marshall Paul Von Hindenberg on Jan 30, 1933 but he wanted to abolish the chancellory and make himself Fuhrer. To do that he had to create enough of a crisis to create massive levels of fear in the population so that they would willingly lay down their republic and give in to the hands of this monster.

On the night of february 27th, 1933, Adolf Hitlers stormtroopers, burned the Reichstag Government building to the ground. A wave of arrests then took place across the reich, as the fuhrer told the people he would protect them. He told them that they would have an utopia world and everything would be given to them by the state aslong as they offer total support for their fuhrer. The people bought the eutopia and were totally enslaved.

Pearl Harbor

It may have been a surprise attack to the American people but not to the U.S. Government and the military. Months before the attack they knew the Japanese were preparing for an all out assault in the Pacific. And now even the history channel admits, as well as any other historical record, that Roosevelt, 12 days before knew the actual date of the attack. They had Admiral Isoruku Yamamotos communique saying on the morning of December 7th that they were going to attack the pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor and deal a death blow.

Roosevelt had campaigned on keeping America out of the war but his backers had been funding the Japanese war machine for years, as well as funding and encouraging Hitlers blitzkrieg. They needed a Global Crisis to bring in a Global Government and the birth of the United Nations. Thats why 6-months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt had the naval command move the code breaking machines from Pearl Harbour as well as dismantle the radar.

They had to have the crisis to create this Global System of Tyranny. The Global Elite had attempted to create the League of Nations at the end of World War 1. World War 2 had to be bigger and on a larger scale so the people would welcome the United Nations to protect them from the horrible wars.

Operation Northwoods

In the early 1960s, the American Government needed a pretext to invade Cuba. Seldom do we see examples as sterling as the Northwoods Document where the American Government actually put the plan to paper and was actually carried in published media reports and ABC news and ofcourse the Baltimore sun. The American Government proposed blowing up airlines full of Americans saying that casualty lists in newspapers would cause a Helpful wave of indignation.

The architect of this plan was General L.L. Lemintzer, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff. He got approval for his plan all the way up to Secretary of Defense. President Kennedy was not amused. In the plan they elaborated on how they could bomb Washington D.C. and blame it on Cuba. Attack marines at Guantanamo bay using U.S. Army soldiers dressed up as Cubans or they said just like the sinking of the maine to get into the Spanish-American war, they could blow up a ship. Again, here they are admitting the Problem, Reaction, Solution system and how effective it is to motivate the American people to get them behind a war. A nuclear war with Cuba & the Soviet Union. And you didnt believe the U.S. Government was capable of hijacking its own aircraft and killing its own citizens?

President Kennedy was always a servant of the Elite but he was so shocked by the Northwoods Document that he signed executive order 11110 shortly before his death announcing that he would abolish the Federal Reserve system. He also began to pull the U.S. out of Vietnam and sign an order to abolish the C.I.A. It was at that point that he was assassinated. He had decided to be a leader of the people rather than the elite and defend their interests and the New World Order couldnt allow that to happen.

World Trade Center 93

On October 28th 1993 and october 31st 1993, New York Times as well as the December 15th Chicago Tribune The US Government was actually caught on tape by their Federal informants ordering them to let the bombing go forward, to cook the bomb, to give the terrorists the detonators, to create yet another crisis. This time to usher in a police state and a war upon the american people. Unlike the Northwoods plan, the F.B.I actually carried out the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. They hired a retired 43 year old former Egyptian Army Officer Emad Salem and paid him one million dollars and gave him real explosives, a detonator and told him to build a bomb and to give it to the foolish people that he was controlling to allow them to attack the World Trade Center complex.

There was only one problem with their plan. Mr. Salem was not as ruthless as the F.B.I. and their globalist controllers. He began to get very concerned right before and after the attack saying Why are you giving me real explosives if this is just a sting operation? When they told him to go ahead and let the attack go forward, he secretly recorded the head of the F.B.I. in New York ordering him to let the bombing take place. The media wrote a couple of news stories about it and there were a couple of nightly news casts but then it was never heard of again. Unlike Pearl Harbour where the Government allowed the Japanese to attack as a pretext for war, the U.S. Government financed the attack on the World Trade Center to create a system of Anti-Terrorism to stick a Homeland Security system on the American people.

Again, there was only one problem and that was that the drivers of the truck didnt park it up against the main support column as they had been ordered to do by Mr. Salem and the F.B.I. They parked it about a dozen feet away and so it didnt bring down the building like they had hoped. In consequence, they didnt get the massive death toll they needed to create the Martial Law system that they were hell bent in implimenting against the Constitutional republic and the American people. To the American peoples horror, the feds finished the job on September 11th, 2001.

Oklahoma City Bombing

On April 19th, 1995 in downtown Oklahoma City, multiple bombs ripped through the Alfred P. Murrah Building and as usual, Federal fingerprints were all over this tragic event. President Bill Clinton needed a crisis to get his gun control agenda through as well as his plans for a socialised America. Bill Clinton knew that a crisis of this magnitude & endless images of mangled bodies would pull on the heartstrings of the American people and they would beg for the Anti-Terrorism effective death penalty act that he had failed to pass a year before. The official story was that a truck bomb caused the face of the building to be blown off but two-unexploded bombs were found inside the building and through these bombs they could have tracked down where the bombs had come from and who had set them BUT unfortunately, the B.A.T.F., according to police & firefighter testimony, were inside removing them and taking them away because they had to keep their stories straight that there was only one bomb, a truck bomb.

Out of hundreds of people interviewed, not a single one could be found that said they heard a single explosion. Its a historical fact, part of the public record that there were multiple devices inside the Oklahoma City building and that there were atleast 2-explosions. The Emerency Radio Transmission Transcripts show clearly that the police & firefighters were on the record witnessing the B.A.T.F removing un-exploded devices. The University Of Oklahoma seismograph and the U.S. Geological Survey reports, two different scientific institutions show multiple explosions but Mcveigh would have had to have accomplices and that didnt fit in with the Federal story, especially if the reality showed that it had to be somebody who had access to a Federal building for long, extended periods of time.

General Benton K. Partin is the former head of Air Force weapons development and had over 30+ years running the Air Force weapons development program & he has multiple enginerring degrees. General Partin was amazed by press reports claiming the building has been blown in and that a truck bomb could cause that damage when even basic understanding of explosive signatures shows that the building was not blown from the outside in, but from the inside out. Within days of the blast, General Benton K. Partin was on the scene but was barred access but from video as well as photographs of the columns, it was obvious to any trained eye that columns had been blown off by shaped charges. In a detailed report, the former head of air Force weapons development laid out the physics & the mathmatics. It was a physical impossibility for a truck bomb, even made of military grade explosives, couldnt even begin to approach the damage that was brought against the Oklahoma City federal building.

The seismographs first registered one distinct explosion and then a group of explosions so close to eachother that they couldnt be seperated. The FEDS had to have a diversionary blast, they had to be able to tell the world that it was Mcveigh alone out front. They needed Mcveighs truck bomb outside so they could cover the fact that there were actually explosives inside the structure and if you look at the crater the truck bomb caused, it was so small that it could hardly be measured but later in media reports the size of the crater got bigger and bigger. Another key piece of evidence that General Partin raises is that a single bomb explosion cannot account for the failure of column B3 which was further from the truck bomb than column B4 & B5 which did not fail. He concludes that the asymmetrical nature of the damage to the Murrah building is one indication of demolition charges being used in the bombing. In modern history there are literally thousands of structures of every type and design that have been destroyed commercially to make way for new structures but that didnt matter to the BATF, the federal government and the media.

They turned structural enginerring on its head, telling the world that a single truck bomb actually did this damage and with a signature that clearly showed that the building had been blown out, not in. Not only were the scientific & engineering world in shock disbelief, the general public wasnt buying the story because they had actually witnessed what had happened! ATF agents that worked in the building were tipped off via their pagers telling them not to go to work that morning. If they got the tip, why didnt the others in the building? Because if the building was emptied, there wouldnt have been images of mangled bodies all over the media to pull on the heartstrings of the American people.

The government had multiple surveillance camera tapes. In fact, when it finally came out in court when the federal government declared in 2001 that they wouldnt release the video tapes because of national security implications, that there were actually 12 surveillance tapes that had different islamic individuals with Mcveigh and others, aswell as the BATF hiding out right down the street before the bombs went off, preparing to pounce on the operation. The FEDS never tried to use the tapes in court. If the tapes did show that it was Mcveigh pulling up alone and it was just a truck bomb, why not use the actual surveillance tapes? You have to ask yourself why and what was on those tapes?

Danny Coulson, the FBIs top counter-terrorism agent checked into the Embassy suites hotel. The receipt from the hotel was dated april 19th, 1995 with a check in time of 12:20AM, almost 9 hours before the blast. Chief Agent Coulson lied to the American people by telling a time magazine reporter in 1999 of the heroin tale of how he sped at over 100MPH from his home in Dallas trying to get there after the bombing to save people & conduct an invesigation.

Hoppy Heidelberg was an upstanding member of the community with no criminal record. He had been a Grand Juror for years but when he started asking questions about the middle-eastern connection, FBI prior knowledge and BATF involvement, the FBI actually came to his house brandishing firearms and told him to shut his mouth if he knew what was good for him. When he refused to be part of the cover-up and demanded that he be able to call witnesses as his right as a grand juror, the judge kicked him off the case. Just one more piece of this massive cover-up.

Governer Frank Keatings brother, Martin Keating wrote The Final Jihad. In the book a Tom Mcveigh masterminds the bombing of an Oklahoma City building. He dedicated the book to The Knights Of The Secret Circle which is a known Illuminati group, and he wrote the book two-years before the bombing. After the bombing, there was a $24-billion increase in anti-terrorism funds. The building was completely demolished so there couldnt be any evidence of government involvement and as if that wasnt enough, the remains of the building was buried under guard at a private landfill with guards protecting it.

Russian Apartment Bombings

Back in 1999 there was a rising young star in Russia. He had just stepped down as the head of the KGB, the new FSB. Vladamir Putin. He was Boris Yeltsins top deputy but how was he going to get into office when the polls showed the people didnt want him? The Russian Federal Security Bureau was caught blowing up apartment buildings in Moscow, Buinaksk & Volgodonsk. Members of the FSB were caught with explosives & Moscow police arrested them.

Other members of the FSB have since gone public with the information, as well as explosive experts and Vladamir Putins best buddy, Boris Berezovsky. They seized his media empire when he reported the facts. The Russian authorities immediately accused Chechen rebels of responsibility for the attacks and this galvanized public opinion in support of a second war in Chechnya. The war, in turn, made Putin, the former head of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), an overnight hero and the leading candidate for the Russian presidency.

9/11

Timeline

On December 1st, 1984 A remote controlled Beoing 720 takes off from Edwards Airforce Base and is crash landed by NASA for fuel research. Before Its destruction, the plane flew a total of 16 hours and 22 minutes, including 10 take offs, 69 approaches & 13 landings.

In September, 2000 The Project For A New American Century, a Neo-Conservative think tank whose members include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush & Paul Wolfowitz releases their report entitled Rebuilding Americas Defenses. In the report, they declare that The Process Of Transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event Like a New Pearl Harbor.

On October 24th, 2000 The Pentagon conducts the first of two training exercises called MASCAL which simulate a boeing 757 crashing into the building. Charles Burlingame, an ex-Navy F4 pilot who worked in the Pentagon participates in this exercise before retiring to take a job at American Airlines where less than a year later, his boeing 757 alledgedly crashes into the building.

On July 4th, 2001 Osama Bin Laden, wanted by the United Sates since 1998 receives medical attention at the American hospital in Dubai where he is visited by a local chief of the C.I.A.

On July 24th, 2001 Larry A. Silverstein who already owned World Trade Center 7, signed a 3.2 Billion dollar 99 year lease on the entire World Trade Center Complex 6-weeks before 9/11. Included in the lease was a 3.5 Billion dollar insurance policy specifically covering acts of terrorism.

On September 6th, 2001 3,150 put option are places on United Airlines stock. A put option is a bet that a stock will fall. That day, put options were more than 4-times its daily average. Also, bomb sniffing dogs are pulled from the World Trade Center and security guards end 2-weeks of 12-hour shifts.

On September 7th, 2001 27,294 put options are placed on Boeing stock, more than 50times the daily average.

On September 10th, 2001 4,516 put option are placed on American Airlines, almost 11-times the daily average. Newsweek reports that a number of top Pentagon officials cancel their flight plans for the next morning. Sanfrancisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a phone call warning him not to fly the next morning. Pacifica Radio later reveals that this phonecall came directly from National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice.

Osama Bin Laden

For decades, going back to Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the National Security Advisor, they had been breeding these terrorist organisations, funding them and training them to attack America. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Co-Founder of the Trilateral Commision with David Rockefeller and other luminaries of the global system, actually bragged in his 1998 book The Grand Chessboard of how America would be attacked by Afghan Terrorists and how a war for global government would then take place In central Asia. How it could be used to roll out national ID Cards and a global police state in the United States. All of this being planned in the 70s, 80s & 90s.

The relationship between the CIA and the Afghan Freedom Fighters, the mujahideen even predates Ronald Reagan. The bonds that were forged there with the CIA led to the creation of their super-asset Osama Bin Laden, the rich Saudi Arabian sheik whose family, to this day, builds all US military bases in the middle east, north africa and in central asia. Its on the record that Bin Ladens a CIA asset and everytime an American President needs a distraction overseas, a ship or an embassy gets blown up.

On October 12th, 1998 the USS Cole, while docked at the port of aden in Yemen was attacked. 17-americans were killed, 39 wounded. Sacrificed yet again on the altar of globalism. Just like clockwork, everytime Bill Clinton was in trouble, an embassy, a ship, a barracks was blown up. Just like Oklahoma city. The CIA asset Bin Laden was delivering time and time again and Bill Clinton was there protecting him, refusing to allow foreign countries like Sudan, even Iraq and Afhanistan to give them the files of where Al-Qaeda was in the world and where they were active even in the continental united states. Sudan even offered to arrest Bin Laden 3-separate times. Bill Clinton answered by bombing, with state of the art cruise missiles, their only pharmacutical plant, denying Africa desperately needed medicines.

In reality its a lot bigger then just Republican or Democrat. The reality is that the CIA, controlled by wall street has been grooming this creature and his family over the last 50-years to carry out dangerous projects in the middle east, central asia and north africa.

Back in 1996 the CIA worked in Tandem with Pakistan to create the Taliban. Then in 1998 when the Afghans offered to arrest Bin Laden, the CIA responded, publically telling them to do no such thing. They needed this boogeyman for one more big action and his family the entire time was being rewarded with giant sattelite company deals, oil company mergers and some of the biggest construction projects in the world.

Shortly after September 11th, witnesses came forward documenting that Bin Laden had actually met and planned the September 11th attacks with the CIA for ten days in dubai at an American army hospital. French Intelligence were so upset by what they had learned, they actually got media reports published before September 11th specifically warning that Bin Laden was planning to hijack aircraft and fly them into tall buildings in downtown manhatten, aswell as the Pentagon.

Ofcourse, the Pentagon & the defense department didnt need to be warned.

The Bush & Bin Laden Connection

The first media report that came out said that 5-hijackers had been trained at the Pensacola navel airstation. Later, media reports the Pensacola news journal confirmed that 3 of the hijackers had been trained at the Pensacola navel airstation 2-years before September 11th. The SanFrancisco Cronical also reported that one of the top Leuitenants of Al Qaeda was actually an FBI asset, not to mention a member of the US Army.

President George W. Bush signed presidential decision directive W199I telling FBI Agents, aswell as defense intelligence officers that if they tried to stop Al Qaeda, they would be arrested under National Security implications. Its been in every publication from the Wall Street journal to the Washington Times. Lawsuits were filed by FBI agents who were outraged by the fact they were not allowed to stop Al-Qaeda. The global syndicate that George W. Bush and his family fronts for had everything to gain from the September 11th attacks. A national ID Card, a national control grid, a cashless society. Its part of the public record that George Bush signed the documents threatening defense intelligence and FBI agents with arrest if they stopped Al-Qaeda. This is the most treasonous thing he could possibly do. George Bush is a mass murder.

Before the Bush Administration shut them down, CNNs American Morning with Paula Zahn actually reported that FBI Deputy Director John ONeil resigned because he felt the US Administration was obstructing the FBI and their attempt to stop Al-Qaeda. John ONeil is now dead. His new job was working for the head of security for the World Trade Centre complex and he died in the collapse, his first day on the job. They went on to report that Bush signed W199I, restricting the investigation. Again, this is high treason, absolute fact that George Bush signed this public document· BBC has a copy of it and George Bush is an intimate partner with Bin Laden. He is a traitor to America.

Months before september 11th, 2001, Indian as well as Pakistani diplomats had gone public with the fact that US special forces were massing in Kazakhstan preparing for a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan. So the US Government was massing troops outside Afghanistan, publically getting ready for an invasion right before September 11th.

The Bush & Bin Laden family connection goes back over half a century and by the 1970s, George Bush Junior, aswell as Osama Bin Laden and his big brother were already vacationing together, owning airports as well as oil companies together. Even before September 11th, the wall street journal had called for the Bush family to end the relationship with the Bin Ladens.

Then ofcourse, theres the Carlyle Group, the biggest defense contractor on the planet and guess who the majority owners are The Bush family & the Bin Ladens. They could profit off the hundreds of billions in this war.

London Bombings

So what have we got? Prior knowledge is an absolute certainty because former Isrealian Prime Minister, Bejamin Netanyahu, was warned.
The so-called suicide bombers bought return tickets before boarding the trains. Why would they even think about getting return tickets if they knew they weren't coming back?

Like 9/11, there were drills taking place at the same exact time the bombings occured. Not only were they at the same time but at the same exact stations. Click HERE for your proof of this. The only thing with the video is that Peter Power says that the only difference between the drills and the real thing is that with the drills the bombs went off simultaneously. A few days later the London Metropolitan Police released a report to the press telling them that the bombs did actually go off simultaneously so the bombings and the drill were exactly the same! There are 240+ train stations in London.
What are the chances of that?

There are four and a half million CCTV camera's in London, eight-thousand of which are in the area's where the bombings occured yet we haven't seen any CCTV footage on the news or anything of the bombings taking place. Also, the London busses have several camera's on board for the protection of the driver but the camera's on the bus that was blown up just didn't happen to be working that day. Think about that.

Now this is the biggest smoking gun of them all when it comes to the London Bombings so pay attention!
The official story was that Haroon Rashid Aswat was the Mastermind of the London Bombings. This guy belongs to the so-called Al-Muhajiroun group which is based in London. On the 29th July, former Justice Dept. prosecutor and Terror expert John Loftus revealed on FOX News that the Mastermind is actually being protected by British MI6 because he works for them. Click HERE and see for yourself.


New World Order


There is a worldwide conspiracy being orchestrated by an extremely powerful and influential group of genetically-related individuals (at least at the highest echelons) which include many of the world's wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite, as well as members of the so-called Black Nobility of Europe (dominated by the British Crown) whose goal is to create a One World (fascist) Government, stripped of nationalistic and regional boundaries, that is obedient to their agenda. Their intention is to effect complete and total control over every human being on the planet and to dramatically reduce the world's population by 5.5 Billion people. While the name New World Order is a term frequently used today when referring to this group, it's more useful to identify the principal organizations, institutions, and individuals who make up this vast interlocking spiderweb of elite conspirators.

The Illuminati is the oldest term commonly used to refer to the 13 bloodline families (and their offshoots) that make up a major portion of this controlling elite. Most members of the Illuminati are also members in the highest ranks of numerous secretive and occult societies which in many cases extend straight back into the ancient world. The upper levels of the tightly compartmentalized (need-to-know-basis) Illuminati structural pyramid include planning committees and organizations that the public has little or no knowledge of. The upper levels of the Illuminati pyramid include secretive committees with names such as: the Council of 3, the Council of 5, the Council of 7, the Council of 9, the Council of 13, the Council of 33, the Grand Druid Council, the Committee of 300 (also called the "Olympians") and the Committee of 500 among others.

In 1992, Dr John Coleman published Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300. With laudable scholarship and meticulous research, Dr Coleman identifies the players and carefully details the Illuminati agenda of worldwide domination and control. On page 161 of the Conspirators Hierarchy, Dr Coleman accurately summarizes the intent and purpose of the Committee of 300 as follows:

"A One World Government and one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population.

There will be no middle class, only rulers and the servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist. The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simple be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited."

The sheer magnitude and complex web of deceit surrounding the individuals and organizations involved in this conspiracy is mind boggling, even for the most astute among us. Most people react with disbelief and skepticism towards the topic, unaware that they have been conditioned (brainwashed) to react with skepticism by institutional and media influences that were created by the Mother of All mind control organizations: The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London. Author and de-programmer Fritz Springmeier (The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines ) says that most people have built in "slides" that short circuit the mind's critical examination process when it comes to certain sensitive topics. "Slides", Springmeier reports, is a CIA term for a conditioned type of response which dead ends a person's thinking and terminates debate or examination of the topic at hand. For example, the mention of the word "conspiracy" often solicits a slide response with many people. (Springmeier has co-authored three books on trauma-based programming which detail how the Illuminati employs highly tuned and extrememly sophisticated Mind Control (MC) training programs that begin the programming process while the intended victim is still within the womb. Mind Control is a much greater problem than most people realize. According to Cisco Wheeler, a former Illuminati mind control programmer, there are 10 million people who have been programmed as mind controlled slaves using trauma-based MC programs with names like Monarch and MK Ultra. The newer, non-trauma, electronic means of MC programming that grew out of the Montauk Project, may include millions more. Al Bielek, who played a principle role in the development of the Montauk Project, said that there likely 10 million victims of Montauk style mind control programming worldwide, the majority located in the USA. He also said that there are covert Montauk Programming 'Centers' in every major city in the U.S. )

What most people believe to be "Public Opinion" is in reality carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired behavioral response from the public. Public opinion polls are really taken with the intent of gauging the public's acceptance of the Illuminati's planned programs. A strong showing in the polls tells the Illuminati that the programing is "taking", while a poor showing tells the NWO manipulators that they have to recast or "tweak" the programming until the desired response is achieved. While the thrust and content of the propaganda is decided at Tavistock, implementation of the propaganda is executed in the United States by well over 200 'think tanks' such as the Rand Corporation and the Brookings Institute which are overseen and directed by the top NWO mind control organization in the United States, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California.

The NWO global conspirators manifest their agenda through the skillful manipulation of human emotions, especially fear. In the past centuries, they have repeatedly utilized a contrivance that NWO researcher and author David Icke has characterized in his latest book, The Biggest Secret, as Problem, Reaction, and Solution.

The technique is as follows: Illuminati strategists create the Problem- by funding , assembling, and training an "opposition" group to stimulate turmoil in an established political power (sovereign country, region, continent, etc.) that they wish to impinge upon and thus create opposing factions in a conflict that the Illuminati themselves maneuvered into existence. In recent decades, so called "opposition" groups are usually identified in the media as 'freedom fighters' or 'liberators' (recently the KLA-Kosovo Liberation Army).

At the same time, the leader of the established political power where the conflict is being orchestrated is demonized and, on cue, referred to as 'another Hitler' (take your pick: Saddam Hussein, Milosevic, Kadaffi, etc.). The 'freedom fighters' are not infrequently assembled from a local criminal element (i.e. KLA, drug traffickers). In the spirit of true Machiavellian deceit, the same NWO strategists are equally involved in covertly arming and advising the leader of the established power as well (the Illuminati always profits from any armed conflict by loaning money, arming, and supplying all parties involved in a war).

The conflict is drawn to the world stage by the controlled media outlets with a barrage of photos and video tape reports of horrific and bloody atrocities suffered by innocent civilians. The cry goes up "Something has to be done!" And That is the desired Reaction (note: the same technique is presently being used to bring about gun control in the United States).

The NWO puppeteers then provide the Solution by sending in UN 'Peace Keepers' (Bosnia) or a UN 'Coalition Force' (Gulf War) or NATO Bombers and then ground troops (Kosovo). Once installed, the 'peace keepers' never leave (Bosnia, Kosovo). The idea is to have NWO controlled ground troops in all major countries or strategic areas where significant resistance to the New World Order takeover is likely to be encountered.

East Timor, Indosnesia. (9/14/99) Virtually , the same strategy used to occupy Kosovo with UN/NATO troops was applied by the NWO manipulators to take military control of East Timor. Once again, the same morality play is trotted out for public consumption: the local evil and demonic Indonesian Army trained militias responsible for the slaughter of innocent civilians following the August 30 vote for Independence (from Indonesian control), must be stopped at all costs. This time, Australia (to keep up the appearance of an 'international' humantarian effort) will lead the charge with 'peacekeeping' troops. Of course, it didn't take long for Madeline Albright to announce that US 'support assets' will be part of the "UN Peacekeeping Team". In a front page story in the LA Times (9/13/99), Mike Jendrzejczyk of Human Rights Watch (an Illuminati front group) in Washington DC said that it's "crucial" that "peacekeepers have the authority to disarm militia forces and any Indonesian soldiers actively working with them". ]

The local, sovereign military force is either defeated (i.e. Yugoslavia) or, as in the case of the United States itself, replaced by foreign UN "Partnership For Peace" (PFP) troops who take over the jobs of US soldiers who have been sent overseas on 'peacekeeping' missions. In addition to being killed in ground conflicts on foreign soil, US military forces will likely be reduced in the next few years through disease induced attrition (i.e. from mandatory Anthrax Vaccinations required of all US military personnel). These vaccinations will, in all probability, eventually produce the symptoms of the so-called Gulf War Illness, which was acquired by a certain percentage of Gulf War soldiers who were given a "special" anthrax vaccine (intended by the Illuminati/CIA as a test run to ascertain how quickly (and fatally) the disease would progress with a substantial population of healthy young men and women).

The corporate portion of the NWO pyramid seems to be dominated by international bankers and the big pharmaceutical cartels, as well as other major multinational corporations. The Royal Family of England, namely Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor, (who are, in fact, descendants of the German arm of European Royalty -the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family-changed the name to Windsor in 1914 ), are high level players in the oligarchy which controls the upper strata of the Illuminati. The decision making Illuminati nerve centers of this effort are in the London (especially the City of London), Basel Switzerland, and Brussels (NATO headquarters).

The United Nations, along with all the agencies working under the UN umbrella, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), are full time players in this scheme. Similarly, NATO is a military tool of the NWO.

The leaders of all major industrial countries like the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, etc. (E.g. members of the "G7/G8" ) are active and fully cooperative participants in this conspiracy. In this century, the degree of control exerted by the Illuminati has advanced to the point that only certain hand-picked individuals, who are groomed and selected by the Illuminati are even eligible to become the prime minister or president of countries like England, Germany, or The United States. It didn't matter whether Bill Clinton or Bob Dole won the Presidency in 1996, the results would have been the same (except maybe for Zipper Gate ). Both men are playing on the same team for the same ball club. Anyone who isn't a team player is taken out: i.e.President Kennedy, Ali Bhutto (Pakistan) and Aldo Moro (Italy). More recently, Admiral Borda and William Colby were also killed because they were either unwilling to go along with the conspiracy to destroy America, weren't cooperating in some capacity, or were attempting to expose/ thwart the Takeover agenda.

Most of the major wars, political upheavals, and economic depression/recessions of the past 100 years (and earlier) were carefully planned and instigated by the machinations of these elites. They include The Spanish-American War (1898), World War I and World War II; TheGreat Depression; the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917; the Rise of Nazi Germany; the Korean War; the Vietnam War; the 1989-91"fall" of Soviet Communism, the 1991 Gulf War; and the recent War in Kosovo. Even the French Revolution was an orchestrated into existence by the Bavarian Illuminati and the House of Rothchild.

Courtesy of "The Resistance"...

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/knaebel/knaebel11.html

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George Bush: World Class Monster

“George Bush is a satanic, sadistic, brutal monster.
Compared to George Bush, Adolf Hitler was a true gentleman.”

- Michael Boren Williams, former Campaign Manager for Senator Gary Hart and Bush murder attempt victim


“For the record, if I had my choice as to which one of the two (Clinton or Bush) represented the greater evil, I would say George Bush - in the blink of an eye....”

- Michael Ruppert, former LAPD Narcotics detective


True evil does not develop in a vacuum.
Evil is arrogant. It has no conscience. It is utterly self-serving. It hides from the light and will attack, even destroy others to preserve its own demented delusions. It is an unrestrained sociopath, wallowing in the murky darkness of its own psychosis while endlessly rationalizing its terrible deeds. It infiltrates the weak-minded and subverts the weak of character.

Evil... creates a world of shadows - shadow play - shadow government. It lives by the lie.

“The Big Lie,” once thought to be the exclusive purview of the Nazis, has become canonized in our form of government. And it is growing more perverse—more insidious. Like the Nazis before the fall of the Third Reich, we are a nation wallowing in the murky darkness of our own psychosis.

I can think of no contemporary American family more twisted and evil than the Bush dynasty.

The Bush family’s rapacious greed and depravity can trace its lineage to New England’s Pierce family. Both George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife Barbara Pierce (of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith), as was President Franklin Pierce, are descended from this same family. Originally the powerful Percy family, they changed their name to Pierce and quickly emigrated to America when Thomas Percy’s involvement in the Gun Powder Plot to assassinate King James I was revealed.



Bush’s membership in the shadowy Yale secret society of Skull and Bones (S&B) has likewise not been widely reported. S&B is made up of members recruited exclusively from the ranks of the wealthy Eastern Establishment. As Hoover Institute professor Antony Sutton writes in America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones:

“Those on the inside know it as The Order. Others have known it for more than 150 years as Chapter 322 of a German secret society. More formally for legal purposes, The Order was incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856. It was also known as the Brotherhood of Death....”[1]



Many historians claim that S&B sprung up as a direct extension of America’s oldest Greek-letter college secret society, Phi Beta Kappa. As Sutton writes:

“The Order is not just another campus Greek letter fraternal society with passwords and handgrips, common to most campuses.... Chapter 322 is a secret society whose members are sworn to silence. It only exists on the Yale campus. It has rules. It has ceremonial rites. It is not at all happy with prying probing citizens.... Above all the Order is powerful, unbelievably powerful....”[2]



S&B members occupy key positions in commerce, media, diplomacy, education, espionage, finance, law and politics—having a profound impact on world events. As Sutton adds:

“Among academic associations, the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Chemical Society and the American Psychological Association were all started by members of the Order or persons close to the Order.... These are key associations for the conditioning of society.... The phenomenon of The Order as the first on the scene is found especially among foundations.”[3]


Regarding the Order’s influence on historical events as portrayed by the media, Sutton notes that...

“...During the past one hundred years any theory of history or historical evidence that falls outside a pattern established by the American Historical Association and the major foundations with their grant making power has been attacked or rejected—not on the basis of any evidence presented, but on the basis of the acceptability of the argument of the so-called Eastern Liberal Establishment and its official historical line. There is an Establishment history, an official history, which dominates history textbooks, trade publishing, the media and library shelves. The official line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions, scandals, assassinations are more or less random unconnected events. By definition events can never be the result of a conspiracy. They can never result from premeditated planned group action. An excellent example is the Kennedy assassination when, within 9 hours of the Dallas tragedy, TV networks announced the shooting was not a conspiracy regardless of the fact that a negative proposition can never be proven and that the investigation had barely begun.”[4]



The American chapter of the German Order was founded in 1833 at Yale University, established by General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft—father of President and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Taft. It was during the Taft presidency that the bills which forever altered the Constitution were passed into law. These included the 17th Amendment, calling for the direct election of senators, guaranteeing that elections could be purchased by big money interests; and the Income Tax and Federal Reserve Act (16th Amendment). The Act was quietly pushed through Congress by Senator Nelson Aldridge—maternal grandfather of Trilateral Commission founder David Rockefeller—in the days immediately before Christmas, assuring that most lawmakers, who were home for the holidays, would not be available to vote.



During a break-in by a rival Yale society in 1876 into the S&B “Tomb,” they found a small room, with an “always-burning lamp” and “a dilapidated human skull.” Upstairs they found a lodge room with its walls covered in black velvet, a table with skull and crossbones, and the “sanctum sanctorum”—room number 322—“furnished in red velvet” and on the wall a star with a finger pointing to it.



They also found “an old engraving representing an open burial vault, in which on a stone slab, rest four human skulls, grouped around a fool’s-cap and bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a beggar’s scrip, and a royal crown. On the arched wall above the vault are the explanatory words, in Roman letters, ‘We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, We Bettler Oder Kaiser?’ and below the vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; ‘Ob Arm, Ob Beich, im Tode gleich.’’ “Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all’s the same in death.” This closely resembles the initiation into the Degree of Regent for the Bavarian Illuminati. Some researchers assert that Phi Beta Kappa is simply the “Bavarian Illuminati... spread to America.”[5]



S&B was also the recruiting grounds for the Russell Trust Company, which managed S&B’s treasury. Founded in 1824, Russell Trust became the dominant opium trafficking syndicate in the U.S. Russell Trust merged with the number one US trader, J&T.H. Perkins in 1829. By the mid-1830s the opium trade had become “the largest commerce of its time in any single commodity, anywhere in the world.”[6]



Russell partner Warren Delano, Jr.—Chief of Russell Trust operations in Canton, China—was grandfather to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Bush cousin. Other Russell partners include John Cleve Green, whose opium fortunes financed Princeton University, Abiel Abbott Low, whose opium money financed the construction of Columbia University, Joseph Coolidge, whose son organized the United Fruit Company (later under the ownership of the Rockefellers, and which provide the impetus for the CIA’s replacement of the democratically elected government of Guatamela with a brutal military dictatorship), and his grandson, Archibald Cary Coolidge, who was a founding executive officer of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR).



The black flag with the white skull and crossbones, which was the corporate flag gracing all Russell Trust ships, became the emblem of S&B—an emblem that even to this day it symbolizes piracy.



Antony Sutton’s scholarly works on this secret society, The Order and How The Order Creates War and Revolution, reveal that half of the board of directors of J.P. Morgan and Company—who profited handsomely from the bloody carnage of World War I—were S&B graduates. As Sutton notes:



“College textbooks present war and revolution as more or less accidental results of conflicting forces.... The decay of political negotiation into physical conflict comes about, according to these books, after valiant efforts to avoid war. Unfortunately, this is nonsense. War is always a deliberate creative act by individuals....”[7]





Bush and the Nazis



“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen.... At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922



Eventually, Brown Brothers Harriman—the largest private investment bank in America at the time—came to be dominated by S&B members. George Bush’s grandfather, George Herbert Walker, served as the bank’s President. His father, Prescott, served as the bank’s Vice President.[8*]



Brown Brothers Harriman was helped to ascension by the powerful Warburg “Jewish” banking monopoly—one of the principle controlling interests behind the German conglomerate I.G. Farben, which, ironically, provided not only the gas, but much of the funds used to effect Hitler’s “final solution.” Brown Brothers had funded American slave plantations during the Civil War, and former Brown Brothers partner, Bank of England Governor Montagu Collet Norman, was known as the most avid supporter of Hitler within British ruling circles. Brown Brothers-Harriman would become the largest and most politically influential private banking house in the United States.[9]



The elder Bush was also director of the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation—both Nazi front companies. Like father like son, George Herbert Walker Bush would later go on to form similar business alliances with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taking in personal oil kickbacks, and arming that country with conventional, biological and chemical weapons, both in violation of his own Arms Control and Armaments Amendments Act, and as a prelude to a war which he would instigate and precipitate.



The Warburgs and the Sulzbergers, owners of the New York Times, used various committees and religious organizations to protect the Harriman-Bush deals with Mussolini and Hitler. Although the government would later seize several of the Bush/Harriman/Nazi assets—most importantly the Thyssen family-owned Union Bank, which played one of the largest roles in financing Hitler—American entrepreneurs such as Bush would be left unscathed.



Bush was Union’s Director.



As Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin note in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography:



“The 1942 U.S. government investigative report said that Bush’s Nazi-front bank was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works Corporation or “German Steel Trust”) led by Fritz Thyssen and his two brothers.... Germany’s largest industrial corporation, [it] was organized in 1926 by Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon. Dillon was the old comrade of Prescott Bush’s father Sam Bush from the “Merchants of Death” bureau in World War I.”



The authors write that George Bush’s maternal grandfather, George Herbert Walker, founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company. “Walker was one of Hitler’s most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler’s infant Nazi party.[10]



The link between Harriman and Thyssen came through Walker’s Union Banking Corporation, located in Averill Harriman’s offices at 39 Broadway in New York.



“According to our sources,” write Tarpley and Chaitkin, “Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine....”



Walker’s American Shipping & Commerce became the holding company for the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben’s Nazi espionage unit.



“In an elaborate corporate paper trail, Harriman’s stock in American Shipping & Commerce was controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of Walker’s office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush....”[11]



Another example of the perverse interlocking nature of the Bush/Harriman-Brown interests was the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation of Poland, two thirds of the stock of which was owned by Friedrich Flick, a leading German industrialist, and Bush/Harriman-Brown. Given the fact that most of the company’s output was being directed to Germany’s war machine at the time, the Polish government decided that the Nazi and American stockholders should pay their fair share of taxes. The stockholders didn’t agree, and responded with a lockout. Fortunately the crises was solved when Nazi tanks invaded Poland in September of 1939, rescuing their investment, which would now be aided with the introduction of slave labor.[12]



Baron Kurt von Schroder, of the Schroder banking family, was co-director of the Thyssen-Huette foundry along with Johann Groeninger, Prescott Bush’s New York bank partner. Schroder, who also had the personal blessings of the Rockefellers, was Hitler’s banker.



John Foster Dulles (brother of future CIA director Allen Dulles), of the law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, was Bush’s lawyer. According to Tarpley and Chaitkin:



“Throughout the 1930s, John Foster Dulles arranged debt restructuring for German firms under a series of decrees issued by Adolf Hitler. In these deals, Dulles struck a balance between the interest owed to selected, larger investors, and the needs of the growing Nazi war-making apparatus for producing tanks, poison gas, etc.”[13]



John Foster Dulles, later appointed Secretary of State, was also the attorney for I.G. Farben. By 1933, I.G. Farben and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil were effectively a single firm, merged in hundreds of cartel arrangements. Dulles, who was related to Avery Rockefeller, was the attorney for a new investment firm, set up by him in 1936, called the Schroder-Rockefeller Company. [14]



Another lawyer in the employ of I.G. Farben, John J. McCloy, would later become president of Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of the CFR, and serve on the Warren Commission, which effectively covered up the Kennedy assassination, which George Bush would allegedly play a minor role in (See Chapter XX). After the war, McCloy would pardon hundreds of Nazis accused of war crimes, while establishing the “Ratlines” which brought Nazi doctors and scientists (and spies) into the U.S. to conduct scientific and medical experiments on Americans that had formerly been conducted on concentration camp victims.[15]



In 1940, I.G. Farben began construction of their huge plant at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Utilizing slave labor, I.G. Farben and their SS guards worked the approximately 25,000 prisoners literally to their deaths. Standard Oil/Germany president Emil Helfferich later testified that Rockefeller’s Standard Oil funds helped pay for the SS guards at Auschwitz.



As Russel S. Bowen, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General who served in the OSS and reported directly to William Casey, writes about George Bush in his book, Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed, the “inheritor of the Auschwitz death camp fortune,” Texan William Stamps Farish III, is George Bush’s “closest friend and confidant.”



“As President and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Farish was the controller of the global cartel between Standard Oil and the German I.G. Farben concern.”[16]



Farish, one of the richest men in Texas, managed George Bush’s personal wealth.



One example of Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank’s assistance to the Nazi war machine was their underwriting of Standard Oil’s agreement, in cooperation with General Motors, to supply ethyl lead to the Nazis. The Bush bank also arranged collateral security for a shipment of tetraethyl lead for the German Luftwaffe in 1938, shortly before the outbreak of the war. The Ethyl came from the Ethyl Export Corporation of New York, administered by the Reich Air Ministry along with I.G. Farben.[17]



On October 24th, 1942, the U.S. Government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized, as were those of the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. Harriman’s Fifteen Holding Company, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and the Silesian-American Corporation quickly followed.[18]



Possibly in an attempt to save the family’s honor, George H. W. Bush abandoned his plans to enter Yale and enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve. While serving on the aircraft carrier San Jacinto, Bush’s Avenger torpedo-bomber, piloted by young George, was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Eventhough the plane was built to withstand ocean crash-landings, Bush-the-war-hero bailed out, leaving his two crewmates behind. While Bush was rescued by the U.S. submarine Finback, Jack Delaney and Ted White, his companions, died in the plane.



Bush was given a medal for heroism.[19]



Like father, like son, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives testified under oath that he was contacted by Houston businessman “Sid Adger and asked to recommend George W. Bush, Jr. for a pilot position with the Air National Guard,” and that he called General James Rose and “did so.”[20]



Yet Bush, Jr. our current Commander-in-Chief, reportedly never even bothered showing up for drills. General William Turnipseed and his aide Kenneth Lott both flatly deny that Bush ever appeared for duty—a violation of the Texas Code of Military Justice (a State Statute and a version of the U.S. Code of Military Justice)—a court martial offense.[21]



Neither did our chief flag-waver appear for his training at the 187th Tactical Recon Group at Dannelly ANG Base in Alabama.[22]



Bill Burkett, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Guard, said, “As the State Plans Officer for the Texas National Guard, I was on full-time duty at Camp Mabry when [Bush aide] Dan Bartlett was cleansing the George W. Bush file prior to G.W.’s presidential announcement.... The archives were closely scrutinized to make sure that the Bush autobiography plans and the record did not directly contradict each other.”[23]



Government documents do note, however, that Jr.’s flying privlidges were suspended for failure to take his annual medical exam, even though he stated that he was perfectly healthy. Michael Dannenhauer, former Chief of Staff to the elder Bush, states that Jr.’s cocaine and alcohol habit was “out of control” and that he experienced “lost weekends in Mexico” during that time.[24] This is not surprising, considering that Jr. would offer free beer to college students to garner their votes during his 1987 congressional race.[25]



When it was time to leave the National Guard, the prodigal son and future President received an honorable discharge.



Daddy Bush would have another opportunity to display both his love of freedom and democracy and his “family values” when it was revealed in September of 1988 that seven members of his presidential campaign were fascist, pro-Nazi, anti-Semites. The seven, who later resigned or were fired, were part of the Republican Party’s Heritage Groups Council—a funding clique made up of extreme right-wing Eastern European émigrés. In 1976, Heritage Groups Council Director Colonel Jay Neimczyk wrote a memo to the RNC’s Co-Chairman Robert Carter praising Bush’s leadership of the ethnic recruitment effort, reportedly including a number of war criminals.[26] One of Bush’s allies, Yaroslav Stetsko, had collaborated with the Nazis as their puppet prime minister of Galicia in the western Ukraine. Captured Nazi records revealed that over 100,000 Jews were murdered within two years of Yaroslav’s reign.



As John Loftus and Mark Aarons write in: The Secret War Against The Jews:



“It was Bush who fulfilled [President Richard] Nixon’s promise to make the “ethnic” emigres a permanent part of Republican politics. Bush’s tenure as head of the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor’s 1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party’s official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush’s campaign allies were the émigré Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United States....

Nearly twenty years later, and after exposé’s in several respectable newspapers, Bush continued to recruit most of the same ethnic Fascists, including Pasztor, for his own 1988 ethnic outreach program when he first ran for President.”



Fugitive Nazi war criminal Otto von Bolschwing, U.S. head of the notorious Nazi Gehlan Org spy apparatus, was himself a Republican Party activist and reportedly a friend of Richard Nixon’s.



Another group of suspected Nazi war criminals, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, participated in a 1983 White House meeting with George Bush and Ronald Reagan. One photo of the meeting was signed: “To the Honorable Yaroslav Stetsko, With Best Wishes, George Bush.” [27]



Reagan himself, formerly part of Allen Dulles’s Office of Policy Coordination, had been the front man back in the 1950s for the Crusade for Freedom, a money-laundering organization which was part of Dulles’s fascist “freedom fighters” program.[28]



President Reagan—perhaps demonstrating his own alignment with Nazis—visited the Bittburg Waffen SS cemetery to pay his respects during a controversial but well-publicized trip to Germany.



One of CIA Director Allen Dulles’s covert agents inside the Roosevelt and Truman administrations was Edwin Pauley, who would become the U.S. representative to the Allied Reparations Committee and the industrial advisor to the Potsdam Conference. Pauley later became George Bush’s partner in the Mexican government’s oil monopoly Pemex. The CIA used Pemex as a cover and as a money laundering operation for Pauley’s campaign contributions. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Pauley, say several of our sources, was the man who invented an intelligence money-laundering system in Mexico, which was later refined in the 1970s as part of Nixon’s Watergate scandal.”



As for Watergate, burglar Frank Sturgis told the San Francisco Chronicle that “the reason we burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news leaking relating to the photos of our role in the assassination of President John Kennedy.”[29]



Former CIA operative Trenton Parker, who was part of a special unit named “Pegasus,” states that Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George Bush all knew of the intended assassination plot.[30]



Bush reportedly coordinated Frank Sturgis, as well as Watergate team members Rafael “Chi Chi” Quintero, E. Howard Hunt, and Bernard Barker for the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion—using Pemex and Bush’s Zapata Oil as a staging point (the operation was codenamed OPERATION ZAPATA). Nixon, as Vice President, had supervised Allen Dulles’s planning of the invasion.



Quintero worked under CIA coordinator William F. Buckley, Jr. in an assassination unit Buckley supervised under the cover of Pemex. Bush had a keen financial interest in turning Cuba back into a playground for ultra-capitalist interests, as Bush’s Zapata Oil was one of the key suppliers to Cuba under Batista.



As Richard Nixon told John Ehrilchman shortly after his election: “Eliminate everyone except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause.” Nixon and Bush had openly discussed killing Kennedy for his failure to provide air cover at the Bay of Pigs.[31*]



Nixon’s relationship to the Bush family goes back to 1946, when Nixon answered an ad placed by the Orange County Republican Party in a Los Angeles newspaper. Key funding for the ad was provided by Prescott Bush, who was looking for a puppet to run for Congress. Nixon got the job, landing a seat in the Senate and then progressing to the Vice-Presidency. In 1960 George Bush became a protégé of Nixon’s, who was then running for President.



Bush described Nixon as his mentor.



However Bush denies his connections with the CIA. Yet a November 29, 1963 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the State Department’s Director of Intelligence and Research uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act describes a briefing given to “George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.” The memo was written after Lee Harvey Oswald was interrogated about his connections to the Cuban exile community and the CIA.[32]

For his part, Bush claims he never worked for the Agency until he was appointed Director in 1975, and CIA spokesman Bill Devine would “neither confirm nor deny” Bush’s role to reporter Joseph McBride of The Nation. Yet when the memo was published, the CIA did an about-face when Agency spokeswoman Sharon Basso told Associated Press that the memo actually referred to a George William Bush, who was a CIA night watchman at the time (hardly a man who would be given such a briefing!). When located and contacted by McBride and Nation editor Victor Navasky, William Bush confirmed that he was definitely not the Bush referred to in the memo. He had simply worked for the CIA for about six months as a coast and landing beach analyst—not a night watchmen—at the time, with a rank of GS-5. In response to questions about the Hoover memo, he replied, “Is that the other George Bush?”[33]



Yet Bush had maintained a personal relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald’s alleged handler, CIA “asset” George DeMohrenschildt, who carried Bush’s name and telephone in his address book until his supposed suicide. DeMohrenschildt gave only the vaguest explanations for his frequent trips to Bush’s home town of Houston in his testimony before the Warren Comission.[34*]



Now deceased Army Colonel, CIA operative and NYPD detective “Big Al” Carone stated that “George Bush was CIA prior to the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963.” Carone told his subordinate William Tyree that he “had taken money to a female named Ruth Paine in late 1956 on orders from William Casey (OSS/CIA operative who was CIA Director from 1981 to 1987).”



According to a lawsuit filed by Tyree, “Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background...



“Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Mohrenschildt, who in turn contacted his CIA supervisor, identified as George Bush. Carone said that George Bush was the same George Bush that was CIA Director. Carone said the individual located by Ruth Paine was identified as a Mr Lee Harvey Oswald.



“FBI records/reports within 14 days after the assassination of President Kennedy will reflect that Mr George Bush met with J. Edgar Hoover, as Bush was trying to ascertain what the FBI might have stumbled onto by mistake in regards to the Ruth Paine - Oswald connection.”[35*]



When appointed CIA Director in 1975 by President Gerald Ford (a former member of the Warren Commission), Bush conveniently headed off inquiries by Senator Frank Church into the CIA’s various assassination plots which DCI William Colby had been cooperating with. Colby would later wind up dead under suspicious circumstances. (See Chapter XX)



In fact, Bush had been a top agent of the CIA since at least 1960, when he recruited Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion. Given the Bush family’s oil interests in the region, this is hardly surprising. As Anthony Kimery writes in Covert Action Quarterly:



“Veteran CIA operatives in the war against Castro say Bush not only let the CIA use Zapata as a front for running some of its operations (including the use of several off-shore drilling platforms), but assert that Bush personally served as a conduit through which the Agency disbursed money for contracted services.”[36]



It was at that time that Bush met Felix Rodriguez, part of a CIA shooter team coordinated out of a training base in Mexico supervised by the FBI’s Division Five (domestic counter-intelligence). Rodriguez would later become Bush’s main liaison to Oliver North’s Contra drugs-for-guns pipeline when Bush served as Vice President.





Pedophilia



“For seven and-a-half years I’ve worked alongside Reagan, and I’m proud to be his partner. We’ve had triumphs, we’ve made mistakes, we’ve had sex... uh, I mean setbacks....” - Vice President George Bush, May 6, 1987



As researcher Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens’ Committee to Clean Up the Courts states: “Not only George “Poppy” Bush but also Chief Smirker (and current President) G.W. Bush, Jr., as well as brothers Jeb AND Neil, are all tightly implicated in the staggering array of absolutely filthy, vicious, gutter-level activities carried on by this family and their closely connected allies in organized crime and intelligence agencies....”[37]



President George Herbert Walker Bush continuously lauded himself before the public as the “family values” president. Bush should know about family values. One of his favorite pastimes, allegedly, is having sex with children—including girls and boys. According to child pedophile victims in Nebraska and former self-described mind-control sex slave Cathy O’Brien, he is also a kidnapper and a drug fiend. As O’Brien writes:



“It was late evening when [George] Bush and [Dick] Cheney finished programming me with numerous messages pertaining to the immediate opening of the Juarez, Mexican border to free [the drug and slave] trade. They then took me downstairs to the living quarters of the western cedar and redwood structure where Kelly soon joined us. George Bush, Jr. deposited my obviously traumatized and withdrawn child at the door....



“Centered between two facing black leather sofas was a coffee table littered with drugs and paraphernalia.... Heroin, Bush’s drug of choice, was in abundance and Cheney joined him in using it. The smorgasbord of drugs laid out supposedly included opium, cocaine, and Wonderland Wafers (MDMHA-XTC, AKA: Ecstasy), which indicated to me they intended to celebrate their vacation with abandon. I had seen Cheney stumbling drunk before, but this was the only time I saw him use heroin and give it to me. Kelly, too, was subjected to the drugs.



“Bush attempted to sell Cheney on the idea of pedophilia through graphic descriptions of having sex with Kelly. Both were already sexually aroused from drugs and anticipation. Cheney demonstrated to Bush why he did not have sex with kids by exposing himself to Kelly and saying, “Come here.” Upon seeing Cheney’s unusually large penis, Kelly reeled back in horror and cried, “No!” which made them both laugh. Bush asked Cheney for his liquid cocaine atomizer as he got up to take Kelly to the bedroom. When Cheney remarked how benevolent it was of Bush to numb her with it before sex, Bush replied, “The hell it is. It’s for me.” He described his excited state in typical vulgar terms and explained that he wanted it to spray cocaine on his penis to last longer. Cheney said, “I thought it was for the kid.” Bush explained, “Half the fun is having them squirm.” He took Kelly’s hand and led her off to the bedroom.



“Cheney... burned my inner thigh with the fireplace poker, and threatened to throw Kelly in the fire. He hypnotically enhanced his description of her burning to traumatize me deeply. As he sexually brutalized me, I heard Kelly’s whimpers coming from the bedroom. As her cries grew louder, Cheney turned on classical music to drown out her cries for help.



“At 4:00 am, as ordered, Bush Jr. (and his helicopter pilot) came to retrieve Kelly and me. We were flown (by helicopter) back to the Lake Shasta area where Houston and the motor home awaited us. Bush’s assault of Kelly proved to be a mind shattering experience for me, and physically devastating to Kelly. She was in dire need of medical attention and was unable even to move. Houston threatened to stop the motor home in the Yosemite area and throw me from a steep cliff if I didn’t settle down. His threats and commands could not control my hysteria, as much of his control programming had inadvertently shattered. Fearful he would lose both his ‘money-makers,’ Houston permitted me to telephone Kelly’s doctor and begin administering medicines. As for me, he arranged for assistance in picking up the pieces in order that I complete my primary purpose in traveling to California, i.e., meet with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid and finalize plans to open the Juarez border.”



According to a trusted source of this author’s who got drunk with O’Brien, her story never wavered, but became more intimate in detail. He told me he felt that she was telling the truth.



While many of O’Brien’s allegations remain controversial, similar allegations have been documented by the author via other, independent sources.



Michael Boren Williams, who was Senator Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign manager, tried to expose “George Bush’s rampant criminal activity” when Bush “sought revenge” against him. He believes Bush personally ordered the FBI to terrorize him and his family. As Williams states: “I met a young lady named Jennifer Dingle who was working as a bartender in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany at the Hotel Victoria’s very elegant bar. As it turns out, she was raised next-door to the Cohens, and William Cohen’s son was her close friend.... Yes, William Cohen is most definitely a pedophile.... Now, what is going to surprise you is that Bush and Cohen are, indeed, friends.”[38]



Other sources backing up the pedophile allegations are Kay Pollard Griggs, wife of high-ranking “insider” Marine Colonel George Griggs—tied to Oliver North, Ted Shackley and Colonel Michael Aquino, an Army PSYOPS specialist and self-avowed Satanist investigated by the SFPD for child molestation, and the Nebraska State Senate Franklin investigative committee.[39]



The Franklin allegations centered around one Larry E. King, Jr. a prominent black Nebraska Republican fund-raiser, CEO of the Franklin Credit Union and friend of former DCIs William Casey and George Bush.



When the FBI raided King’s offices in November of 1988 to probe $40 million dollars in embezzlements, they discovered a large quantity of child pornography.



Witnesses, including social workers and numerous children, told the Franklin Committee and the FBI that King was running a child prostitution ring that served prominent officials, including members of the Republican and Democratic parties.



King sang the national anthem at both the 1984 and 1988 Republican conventions, where President Reagan was the guest of honor. As Senator John DeCamp, who investigated the allegations as part of the Franklin Committee and who attended one party thrown by King in Dallas, writes in his book, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska: “I saw Maureen Reagan draped over King all evening like a big blanket.”[40]



A June 29, 1989 Washington Times article entitled, “Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan,” states:



“A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to Washington’s political elite.’”[41]



One of King’s associates in Washington, D.C. was political lobbyist Craig Spence, who maintained a call-boy ring for Washington’s elite, specializing in children. A Republican powerbroker, Spence was known for his lavish “power cocktail’’ parties. As authors Tarpley and Chaitkin write in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography:



“Spence was well connected. He celebrated Independence Day 1988 by conducting a midnight tour of the White House in the company of two teenage male prostitutes among others in his party. Rumors circulated that a list existed of some 200 Washington prominents who had used the call boy service. The Number Two in charge of personnel affairs at the White House, who was responsible for filling all the top civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, and Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole’s chief of staff, were two individuals publicly identified as patrons of the call boy ring. Two of the ring’s call boys were allegedly KGB operatives, according to a retired general from the Defense Intelligence Agency interviewed by the press. But the evidence seemed to point to a CIA sexual blackmail operation instead. Spence’s entire mansion was covered with hidden microphones, two-way mirrors and video cameras, ever ready to capture the indiscretions of Washington’s high, mighty and perverse.... Months after the scandal had died down, and a few weeks before he allegedly committed suicide, Spence was asked who had given him the “key’’ to the White House.”



The Washington Times reports that “Mr. Spence hinted the tours were arranged by ‘top level’ persons, including Donald Gregg, National Security Advisor to Vice President Bush’s #1 and later U.S. Ambassador to South Korea.” ... Gregg indignantly denied any connection to Spence, yet it is public record that Spence had sponsored a dinner in Gregg’s honor in the spring of 1989 at Washington’s posh Four Seasons Hotel.



On Spence’s guest list were such names as Reagan’s CIA director William Casey and Attorney General John Mitchell, who once co-hosted a party with Spence, Ted Koppel and Eric Severeid.



Spence’s mansion was found to be full with hidden surveillance equipment, including hidden cameras and two-way mirrors. It was alleged that the ring was part of a CIA sexual blackmail operation (see “The Finders” case, below), gathering compromising evidence on Washington politicos and foreign dignitaries. Following his arrest on weapon and drug charges, Spence gave an interview to the Washington Times in which he claimed to work with both the CIA and high-ranking members of the Reagan/Bush administrations.



The paper trail would be quickly covered-up - some 20,000 documents sealed by court order. Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel room five months later. The UK’s Independent reported that: “Boston police said he was found lying on his bed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, dressed in evening clothes, with no obvious signs of injury. The police refused to comment on the cause of death.” The Post had earlier reported that Spence had told a friend: “I may be disappearing soon. It will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it won’t be.”[42]



In Nebraska, at least several victim-witnesses fingered Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman, FBI agents Mickey Mott, Gerry Wahl and Alan Baer, Harold Andersen, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald and several other political associates of King’s.



King and Wadman, along with FBI agents Mott and Baer, were accused of pedophilia and drug usage (and drug dealing) with boys as young as 12 years old. The allegations were made by numerous children interviewed by private investigator and former law-enforcement officer Gary Caradori who was working for the Franklin Committee. Caradori would later wind up dead, along with his 8 year-old son, in a highly suspicious plane crash. The crash occurred several days after he told Senator Loren Schmit that he had just discovered information that “would blow this case wide open.”[43*]



The Franklin Committee documented how King and his associates were involved in drug-running, child kidnapping, prostitution, satanism, and murder—involving numerous prominent state and federal officials, including, according to several child victim-witnesses, George Herbert Walker Bush.[44*]



As DeCamp writes: “... George Bush and Larry King were linked in multiple ways, including eyewitness reports placing Bush at King’s sex parties.[45]



Youth care worker Julie Walters substantiates these allegations. As she writes in her report regarding her interview with a girl named Nelly Patterson-Web:



“Nelly accompanied Mr. and Mrs. King and their son Prince on trips to Chicago, N.Y. and Washington, D.C., beginning when she was 15 years old.... Nelly was taken along on the pretense of being Prince’s babysitter. Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him again at one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C. trip. At some of the parties there are just men (as was the case at the party George Bush attended)—older men and younger men in their early twenties. Nelly said she has seen sodomy committed at those parties At other parties during Larry’s trips, Larry had local prostitutes. (in their 20’s & 30’s) there to entertain his male guests....”[46]



As Tarpley and Chaitkin add about the “Pro-Life,’’ “Anti-Drug,’’ “Family Values” President:



... “Paul Bonacci directly accused President Bush of being implicated’’ in the affair when he testified before the Franklin Committee. Bonacci, who had been one of the child prostitutes, is identified by leading child-abuse experts as a well-informed, credible witness. Lawrence King was no stranger to President Bush. And Lawrence King was no stranger to Craig Spence. Several of the Omaha child prostitutes testified that they had traveled to Washington, D.C. with King in private planes to attend political events which were followed by sex parties.



“King and Spence had much in common. Not only were they both Republican Party activists but they had gone into business together procuring prostitutes for Washington’s elite. Bush’s name had repeatedly surfaced in the Nebraska scandal. But his name was first put into print in July 1989, a little less than a month after the Washington call boy affair had first made headlines. Omaha’s leading daily newspaper reported, “One child, who has been under psychiatric care, is said to believe she saw George Bush at one of King’s parties.” [47]



Journalist Steve Bowman writes: “We do have some credible witnesses who say that ‘Yes, George Bush does have a problem,’” Bowman told Gentleman’s Quarterly. One of Bowman’s sources is a retired CIA psychiatrist. He added that drug trafficking and political corruption were intertwined with pedophilia.[48]



As far back as 1985, victim-witness Eulice (Lisa) Washington told Andrea Carener of the Nebraska Department of Social Services how she was regularly taken to Washington by plane, with other children, to attend parties hosted by King involving many prominent people, including businessmen and politicians. Lisa specifically named George Bush as being in attendance on at least two separate occasions.[49]



Walters told Tarpley and Chaitkin that in 1986 she interviewed Lisa and her sister, who were temporarily living at the home of Kathleen Sorenson, who, like Caradori, would subsequently die in a suspicious car crash. Walters explained that Lisa, who came from an underprivileged background with no knowledge of political affairs, gave minute details of her attendance at political meetings. As Walters’ report states:



“3/25/86. Met with Kathleen and Lisa for about 2 hours in Blair [Nebraska] questioning Lisa for more details about sexual abuse.... Lisa admitted to being used as a prostitute by Larry King when she was on trips with his family.... Lisa said she first met V.P. George Bush at the Republican Convention and saw him again at a Washington, D.C. party that Larry hosted.... Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him again at one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C. trip....”[50]



A Franklin Committee report further states:



“Apparently she [Lisa] was contacted on December 19 [1988] and voluntarily came to the FBI offices on December 30, 1988. She was interviewed by Brady, Tucker and Phillips. She indicates that in September or October 1984, when [Lisa] Washington was fourteen or fifteen years of age, she went on a trip to Chicago with Larry King and fifteen to twenty boys from Omaha. She flew to Chicago on a private plane.... She indicates that she was coerced to going on the trip by Barbara Webb. She indicates that she attended a party in Chicago with King and the male youths. She indicated George Bush was present. She indicates that she set [sic] at a table at the party while wearing nothing but a negligee. She stated that George Bush saw her on the table. She stated she saw George Bush pay King money, and that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent. Lisa said the party George Bush attended was in Chicago in September or October 1984. According to the Chicago Tribune of October 31, 1984, Bush was in Illinois campaigning for congressional candidates at the end of October. Lisa added more details on the Chicago trip, and told why she was sure it was George Bush she had seen. According to a May 8, 1989 report by investigator Jerry Lowe, “Eulice [Lisa] indicated that she recognized George Bush as coming to the party and that Bush had two large white males with him. Eulice indicated Bush came to the party approximately 45 minutes after it started and that he was greeted by Larry King. Eulice indicated that she knew George Bush due to the fact that he had been in political campaigns and also she had observed a picture of Bush with Larry King at Larry King’s house in Omaha.”



In keeping with the pattern of cover-up, a Washington County, Nebraska judge in December 1990 dismissed all charges against two of the girls’ abusers, Jarrett and Barbara Webb. The judge ignored testimony of the 1986 report by Julie Walters which states:



“Lisa was given four polygraph tests administered by a state trooper at the State Patrol office on Center Street in Omaha. The state trooper, after Lisa’s testing was completed, told [another foster parent] he tried to ‘break Lisa down,’ but he was convinced she was telling the truth.”[51]



As Kathleen Sorenson writes in a report dated May 1, 1989, “This was long before he [Bush] was President. It seems like there were more exciting people to ‘lie’ about if that’s what they were doing.’’





Ritual Abuse



Victims of King and his associates also charged him with participating in at least one satanic ritual murder of a child.



As DeCamp reports, victim-witness Paul Bonacci was at one point taken to a retreat for political elites such as George Bush and Henry Kissinger in Northern California called Bohemian Grove, where they were forced to participate in sex and to consume parts of a child whom they had watched being murdered by the cultists. As DeCamp writes:



“A ‘snuff” pornography film was made of these events; it was directed by a man the party had picked up in Las Vegas whom Paul identified as “Hunter Thompson”—the same name as a well known sleaze-culture figure.



“Paul has told investigators that the ring which plunged him into Satanism was centered at Offutt U.S. Air Force Base near Omaha; that he was taken to Offutt to be sexually victimized by a babysitter’s boyfriend when he was about three years old, around 1970. Offutt is the headquarters for the Strategic Air Command, and has had a cadre of thousands of intelligence personnel.



“At Offutt, and later at other military installations, Paul says this ring “trained” him by tortures, heavy drugging, and sexual degradation, while instructing him in military arts including assassination. In fact, his personal knowledge in these realms can scarcely be accounted for other than by crediting the indictments he has made.”



While these allegations may strike the uninitiated as bizarre, a similar case of CIA involvement in child kidnapping, satanism, pedophilia and mind-control—the “Finders” case—was revealed in a 1987 U.S. Customs report obtained by the author. When D.C. police and Customs agents raided a Washington, D.C. warehouse being used by the group, they found “a set of instructions which appeared to be a broadcast via a computer network which advised participants to move ‘the children’ and keep them moving through different jurisdictions, and instructions on how to avoid police attention.” (The children were headed for Mexico, tending to confirm Cathy O’Brien’s allegations.) As Customs Agent Ramon Martinez writes in his report:



“Cursory examination of the documents revealed detailed instructions for obtaining children for unspecified purposes. The instructions included the impregnation of female members of the community known as Finders, purchasing children, trading, and kidnapping. ... One of the officers presented me with a photo album for my review. The album contained a series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets participation in a ‘blood ritual.’ “The ritual centered around the execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution, disembowelment, skinning and dismemberment of the goats at the hands of the children. This included the removal of the testes of a male goat, the discovery of a female goat’s ‘womb’ and the ‘baby goats’ inside the womb, and the presentation of a goats head to one of the children.”



The CIA-connected Finders were never prosecuted. The report adds that...



“... the activity of the FINDERS had become a CIA internal matter. The MPD report has been classified SECRET and was not available for review. I was advised that the FBI had withdrawn from the investigation several weeks prior and that the FBI Foreign Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD not to advise the FBI Washington Field Office of anything that had transpired.”[52*]



The head of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Division at the time was Oliver “Buck” Revell—a crony of Oliver North and George Bush who would allegedly play a role in the cover-up of numerous crimes, including Iran-Contra, drug-running at the CIA/NSA/DoD proprietary E-Systems, and the bombing of Pan Am 103.[53*] (See Appendix)



A member of Nebraska’s Concerned Parents group reported hearing from two North Omaha witnesses that “King used to send limousines down to Offutt Air Base to pick up CIA agents for parties.”



King, FBI agents Gerry Wahl and Alan Baer, Omaha World-Herald publisher Harold Andersen, and former Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman were all reported as collaborators in this satanic military-based ring. King reportedly told Paul’s captors at Offutt, “He’s young—but you trained him good.” Some say King provided the CIA with information garnered from his pimping activities for America’s perverted elite.



Victim-witness Paul Bonacci also described one of his “commanders” at Offut Air Force Base—Bill Plemmons and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino.



Until recently, Aquino was a Colonel in the U.S. Army and a national commander of the Eagle Scouts Honor Society. Ironically, Aquino is a publicly avowed Satanist. In 1975, while still in the Army, Aquino founded the Temple of Set—an offshoot of the Church of Satan, started in 1966 by Anton LaVey. Set is the Egyptian God of the underworld and the dead.[54]



Aquino made a pilgrimage to Heinrich Himmler’s “Hall of the Dead” at Wewelsburg Castle in 1984, where the SS practiced their black magic rituals, so he could allegedly “cleanse” the Temple of Set of its corrupt vibes.



Although Aquino’s membership has dwindled in recent years, members of The Temple of Set have included high-ranking military and police officers.

Although no cases of ritual murder or abuse have been directly linked to either group, in numerous cases of ritual murder, Church of Satan and Temple of Set material such as LaVey’s The Satanic Bible, have been found among suspects’ paraphernalia.



In 1987, San Francisco was shaken by a scandal at the Amy’s Presidio day care center, in which Aquino and a day care worker were accused by [the parents] of a three year old girl, (and subsequently several other parents) of being subjected to bizarre satanic rituals at Aquino’s home. Although there proceeded a lengthy investigation by the San Francisco Police Department, the FBI and the Army CID, no charges were ever brought against Aquino. As recently as 1995, the SFPD detective in charge, who I interviewed, was still too frightened to reveal details of the case.[55]



As for Larry King, he reported his own adoring relationship to the late CIA Director William Casey in a September 7, 1988, interview in the Omaha publication Metropolitan.[56]





The Cover-Up



As they would do with Iran-Contra, the FBI and the majority of the mainstream press covered up the scandal. Harold Andersen’s Omaha World-Herald, along with the local FBI office under the leadership of Nick O’Hara, played a major role in covering up these activities. Andersen was seen at numerous parties by several children who gave statements to Franklin investigators.



Roy Stephens, a private investigator and head the Missing Youth Foundation who worked on the case “says there is reason to believe that the CIA is directly implicated,’’ and that the “FBI refuses to help in the investigation and has sabotaged any efforts’’ to get to the bottom of the story.[57]



As tearful victim-witness Troy Boner told Sandie Caradori, wife of investigator Gary Caradori on the evening of his death, “Sandie, I tried, I tried. I went to [FBI Agent] Mickey Mott and.... They laughed at me....”[58]



When DeCamp and Senator Loren Schmit confronted Senior Agent in Charge of the Omaha office Nick O’Hara, O’Hara, a friend of Police Chief Robert Wadman’s, blurted out, “You fuck with Bob Wadman, you fuck with the FBI!” DeCamp and Schmit left O’Hara’s office in a state of shock.[59]



So began the cover-up.



Indeed. The FBI threatened and intimidated numerous witnesses, approximately 15 of whom wound up dead under highly suspicious circumstances. Victim-witness Alisha Owen, then still a teenager, was threatened by FBI agents Mott and Baer to change her story. When she refused, she was sentenced to 20 years in jail.



Senator Bernice Labedz recounted her conversation with former Franklin employee Noel Seltzer:



“One of the most important things that I thought he told me was the fact that when they first went into the investigation of Larry King, he was talked to by the FBI and he told them mostly everything that he told me about the sexual abuse and so forth. And then he said he was told by the FBI, ‘we’re going to advise you it’s best for you that you keep your mouth shut.’ And I said, ‘say that again,’ and he repeated it so I could write it down.”[60]



Victim-witness Terry Muller told Gary Caradori “that the FBI and a member of the State Patrol were harassing her brother and trying to get him to talk about things that he just didn’t know about.”[61]



Department of Social Services worker Joanie Gregory, who discovered evidence of wrongdoing in the homes of foster parents Jarrett and Barbara Webb, themselves involved in the abuse ring, was told by the FBI “that it would probably be in her best interest if she ‘forgot this information.’”[62]



As Caradori himself told the Franklin Committee: “I think they (the grand jury) are being misled by the influence of the State Patrol investigator and various people in the FBI.”[63]



DeCamp writes that “the legislative investigator found that the FBI interfered with material even before he got to it.”



As Troy Boner states in a sworn affidavit: “... I was carefully rehearsed by the FBI as to what I would say and what questions would be asked and then after rehearsing everything with the FBI I was taken over to Mr. Moran the prosecutor to go through the rehearsal again.”



Boner claims the FBI threatened him, and had in fact killed his brother Shawn as a warning.[64]



The Murders



Kathleen Sorenson, the social worker who assumed foster care for Nelly and Kimberly Webb after they fled the home of Larry King’s relatives Barbara and Jarrett Webb, died in a suspicious head-on car crash. Retired FBI Senior Agent Ted Gunderson, who investigated the crash, believes Sorenson was killed as a satanic contract suicide. The belief in such a murder/suicide is that the murderer will reincarnate with more power granted by Satan.



Sorenson, a vocal anti-Satanist, whose itinerary was known to at least several people, was traveling on a long, narrow stretch of road between Fremont and Blair, Nebraska. Both the women who rammed into her head-on and her husband had prior arrest records for cruelty to animals—a common sign of satanic activity.



“Not long after Sorenson’s death, a teenager in a youth care facility told a worker, “You better watch out or we will get you like we got that lady from Blair.” The youth went on to describe a ceremony of drawing lots for the privilege.”[65]



On July 11, 1990, during the course of his investigations, Franklin Senate Committee investigator Gary Caradori, 41, died in the crash of his small plane, together with his 8-year-old son Andrew, after a mid-air explosion. Caradori told friends repeatedly in the weeks before his death that he feared his plane would be sabotaged. As previously mentioned, just days before he died, he called Senator Schmit and announced that he had obtained information that would “blow this case wide open.”



Shawn Boner, brother of victim-witness Troy Boner, would die from a gunshot wound allegedly resulting from “Russian Roulette.”



Aaron Owen, brother of victim-witness Alisha Owen, was found hanged in his cell in Lincoln, Nebraska hours before his sister was to testify.



Bill Baker, a restaurant owner and pornography partner of King’s, was found shot in the back of the head.



Newt Copple, a confidential informant for Caradori, died in his sleep.



Clare Howard, former secretary of Alan Baer who arranged many of Baer’s pedophile trysts, died in her sleep the same year.



Mike Lewis, a former caregiver for victim-witness Loretta Smith, died of a “severe diabetic reaction.”



Joe Malek, an associate of King’s and owner of Peony Park, where homosexual galas were held, died from a gunshot that was ruled a “suicide.”

Charlie Rogers, a homosexual partner of King’s who stated he feared for his life, found his head blown off with a shotgun.



Dan Ryan, another associate of King’s, was found suffocated in his car.



Bill Skoleski, an Omaha police officer believed to have been keeping a file on King, died of a heart-attack.



Curtis Tucker, an associate of King’s, was found on the sidewalk beneath the window of his room at the Holiday Inn in Omaha.



Harmon Tucker, a Nebraska and Iowa school superintendent and a known homosexual, was found dead near the plantation which Omaha World-Herald publisher and Nebraska-Iowa FBI chief Nicholas O-Hara used for hunting. His murder had signs of a satanic ritual killing.[66]



Darlene Novinger, an FBI operative, discovered during an FBI investigation that George Herbert Walker Bush and two of his sons were using drugs and prostitutes in a Florida hotel while Bush was Vice President. She was warned not to report her findings to FBI officials. Four hours after she appeared on Tom Valentine’s July, 1993 Radio Free America show, her father was found dead. A white canary was placed on his grave as a warning. Her husband was also beaten to death. Novinger has since gone into hiding.[67]

Donald Gregg’s friend, Craig Spence, was found dead in a Boston hotel room shortly after his sordid affairs were published in the Washington Times.



As one lady stated during a town hall meeting in Omaha in December of 1990: “I think George Bush is involved in this child abuse case, and that is why all these people have been dying.”[68*]





Drugs



“Since the end of World War II, the United States has spent a thousand billion dollars—one trillion dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these men and their hunger for power. Could the CIA kill a president to keep such an operation going? Kings have been beheaded for infinitely less.”

- Judge Jim Garrison, A Heritage of Stone (1970)



As for Bush’s friend Larry King, it was reported that he was a top contributor to a Contra support committee—the Citizens for America. Contra organizer Oliver North was seen by at least one witness at one of King’s parties.



King’s public relations firm was also used by the drug-running Contras. Sources told John DeCamp that Omaha Police Chief Bob Wadman “was protecting the expansion of the Cryps and the Bloods into Omaha—far from their home turf of Los Angeles. As DeCamp writes:



“One of Caradori’s informants stated that Wadman was instrumental in bringing the drug-trafficking gangs, the Los Angeles Bloods and Cryps, into Omaha. According to a June 19 1989 report by Caradori’s predecessor at the Franklin committee, Jerry Lowe, members of the Bloods and Cryps were identified by local police as driving Larry King’s car....”



San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb has meticulously documented how the LA street gangs were intimately tied in with Contra liaisons in the U.S. George Bush, Oliver North’s boss, was essentially running the Contra show, or at least the drug angle. As DeCamp writes:



“So, was Larry King’s buddy George Bush the country’s ‘drug kingpin’ in the 1980s? I don’t know. But what I do know, is that if Bush were running the Contra affair, and drugs were a big part of it, that would certainly jibe 100% with everything known or rumored about Bush, Larry King, and the Franklin Credit Union....”[69]



As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz, the most highly decorated Special Forces officer of the Vietnam War and later head of Special Forces in Central America, adds in his book, Called To Serve:



“George Bush was head of the CIA in 1975-76, appointed by President Gerald Ford; as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, he was our top drug cop for eight years; one of his chief aides, Donald Gregg, was a direct contact in the Contra line of communication to the White House. Ollie North’s personal diary has more than 550 entries citing drug money being used to support contra operations. If George Bush didn’t know about the drug smuggling, he wasn’t doing his job. If he did know about it, then he is clearly culpable. Either way, it doesn’t stand as a credit for a man who would represent the best interests of the United States.”[70]



Like Richard Nixon, Bush publicly claimed to be a strong anti-drug president, escalating the so-called “war on drugs” begun by his mentor Richard Nixon. Nixon had first brought Bush into his “war on drugs” in 1971-77 when Nixon appointed him to the White House Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control.



In his first formally scheduled prime time television address to the nation as President in September of 1989, Bush again reiterated his plan to rid the nation of its devastating drug scourge. Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine for the camera and announced with mock incredulity that it had been purchased right across the street from the White House, in Lafayette Park. In fact, the drug bust of the dealer had been a set-up.



During his 1988 election campaign, Bush had hawked himself as President Reagan’s number one drug fighter. In his acceptance speech before the 1988 Republican National Convention, Bush stated: “I want a drug-free America. Tonight, I challenge the young people of our country to shut down the drug dealers around the world.... My Administration will be telling the dealers, “Whatever we have to do, we’ll do, but your day is over. You’re history.’”



Bush was telling the truth, in a sense. At least small drug dealers would be out of business—replaced by the Medellin Cartel which Bush, along with Ted Shackley, allegedly helped organize. The CIA reportedly arranged at least two meetings with Colombian drug smugglers—first in Buenaventura, Colombia in September of 1981, then in December of that same year, with approximately 200 dealers in attendance. The meeting, according to former FAA investigator Rodney Stich’s (Defrauding America and The Drugging of America ) CIA sources, was held at the Hotel International in Medellin. The CIA set up a “crisis” situation to compel the dealers to consolidate under the protection of the CIA by kidnapping drug kingpins Carlos Lehder and Jorge Ochoa’s sister. The CIA reportedly paid a group known as M-19 three million dollars to carry out the kidnapping. As CIA operative Trenton Parker told Stich, “...Bush knew the whole goddamn thing.”[71]



According to Russell S. Bowen, a highly decorated World War II P-38 ace and former OSS agent imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the U.S. from Colombia (and other sources), Noriega and the Israeli Mossad worked hand-in-hand with the CIA in the drug traffic from Central and South America.[72]



Bowen was a friend of Shackley’s, having worked with him from the early 1950s until 1984. In 1959, Shackley was a passenger onboard a C-46 piloted by Bowen when the plane crashed in the Bolivian Andes. As Bowen told Stich: “It was loaded with drugs!”



“[Bowen] stated that this trip occurred several years before Shackley was made CIA station chief in Miami, and that Shackley was instrumental in setting up the CIA drug trafficking into the United States from South America....



“Bowen described the conflict between different CIA factions. “At that time, “ Bowen said, “Shackley was the leader of the CIA faction bringing the drugs in. The CIA team I worked for did not want the drugs in.”



“I asked who set up that initial drug operation. Bowen, referring to Shackley, said, “He was the mastermind of the drug operation. he had full authority to set it up.”[73]



Another pilot maintained in voluminous correspondence from prison with Senator John Kerry’s Iran-Contra Committee (and since his release in 1990) that “Bob Haynes” was the alias used by Shackley during their close interaction between 1979 and 1984. As Harry Martin reports in the Napa Sentinel:



“[The pilot] also has a number of documents in safekeeping which prove the presence of Shackley in Medellin, not only directing the cocaine cartel, but orchestrating many of the activities in Panama and Costa Rica related to the contra war in Nicaragua, and the large-scale smuggling of cocaine into the United States. Included among them are a handwritten note from Haynes/Shackley directing him to deliver a DC-6A aircraft from the Dominican Republic to Floyd Carlton in Panama “for Col. Robert.”



“The pilot has claimed that he functioned as one of an elite group of military intelligence agents with service dating back to World War II, who reported, until his imprisonment in 1984, directly to [former OSS agent and CIA DCI] William Casey, and maintains that he was directly involved with Theodore Shackley in the establishment of the arms network to the contras through Panama in the early 1980s. Among the letters received from Haynes/Shackley was one directing him to acquire a number of planes in the Dominican Republic and Aruba for the network. The list has been verified by the special U.S. Customs team in Miami investigating Munitions Control Board violations as planes they are familiar with having been used in such activities.”[74]



“Haynes” also furnished the pilot with his business card for INTERKREDIT, with offices in Medellin, Ft. Lauderdale and Amsterdam. INTERKREDIT was the corporate cover under which Shackley conducted business with General Noriega during 1983.[75]



In addition to the pilot, witnesses allege Shackley maintained a home in Medellin, Colombia at one point, where he lived with his Colombian wife, Leona Ochoa, sister of cartel kingpin Jorge Ochoa.[76]



It was a convenient spot to manage the CIA’s drug business. As previously mentioned, the CIA, through DCI George Bush and Deputy Director for Operations Ted Shackley, virtually set up the Medellin Cartel. The meetings were held at the Hotel International in Medellin. Two CIA operatives: Trenton Parker and Gunther Russbacher, confirmed the meetings to Stich.[77]

Ramon Milian Rodriguez, an accountant and money launderer who had laundered $1.5 billion for the Medellin cartel, testified before a Senate committee that he had given Bush-Shackley CIA associate Felix Rodriguez $10 million from the cocaine profits to fund the Contras.



Rodriguez told journalist Martha Honey that Rodriguez had offered that “in exchange for money for the Contra cause he would use his influence in high places to get the cartel U.S. ‘good will.’”[78]



The CIA would eventually eradicate top leaders of the Medellin Cartel, killing Medellin founders Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa. Medellin co-founder Carlos Lehder and his associate Manuel Noriega would be sentenced to life terms. During Operation “Just Cause” in Panama, Bush replaced many Medellin allied bankers with political and financial leadership more closely allied with the rival Cali Cartel.



Trenton Parker said he secretly gave evidence of CIA criminality from 1976 to 1982 to Congressman Larry McDonald of the Joint Armed Services Committee. The files revealed corrupt activities of several presidents, numerous federal officials and the CIA. Immediately after McDonald let it be known that he was going to reveal the information, including information on the CIA’s drug smuggling activities, his plane was shot down.



Bush’s Zapata Petroleum Co. (later Zapata Offshore), with upwards of 600 branches worldwide, is reportedly used for the CIA’s intelligence gathering. (Bush had begun his career working for International Derrick and Equipment Company, a subsidiary of the Houston-based Dresser Industries—a long-time CIA cover. Dresser’s Chairman, Henry Neil Mallon, who offered Bush the job, was a friend of Prescott’s and a fellow Skull and Bonseman.) Some sources, including covert operatives interviewed by Stich, contend that Zapata’s offshore drilling rigs, located beyond the U.S. jurisdictional limit, are centers for transferring large quantities of illicit drugs and other contraband. CIA cable analyst Michael Maholy told Stich that he personally witnessed numerous drug flights while working on Zapata rigs, and was told to forget what he had seen. The operation was run through Rowan International. “Rowan International was a cover for a branch of Zapata Oil,” says Maholy. Three of the propietaries involved were the CIA-connected Evergreen (owned by Raytheon; see Chapter XX), Southern Air Transport, and Pacific Seafood.



Maholy says he worked directly under George Bush and Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. These people and their accomplices and agents, made hundreds of millions of dollars bringing drugs into the U.S. over the years.



Implicated in the Venezuelan operation were naval officer Lizardo Marquez Perez, Mossad agent Michael Harari, CIA officer Dewy Duane Clarridge, Army lieutenant General Paul Gorman, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Washington DEA Chief Ron Caffrey, Oliver North, Pacific Seafood’s Russell Hebert and others.



Maholy says Bill Clinton was also in the loop. “...not only was I arrested four blocks from the then-Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton’s mansion,” says Maholy, “but I was also involved in the ‘Mena, Arkansas’ incident. Our drugs were going to many of the high-ranking state and government officials in Arkansas. Roger Clinton (Clinton’s brother) was one of our better customers.”[79*]



Former CIA operatives Russell Bowen, Tosh Plumlee, Gunther Russbacher, Chip Tatum and others confirmed much of Maholy’s story.[80]



Some of the money, according to former CIA operative Richard Brenneke, was banked at the infamous Nazi-connected Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank. Brenneke testified under oath that he opened an account there for Bush’s operation in 1980. The money was funneled through the John Gotti organized crime family.[81]



Another bank used for hiding Bush’s secret accounts was the Hawaii-based Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong—a CIA propietary that in part took over the failed CIA Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. Agency operative Ronald Rewald told Stich that he personally set up accounts for Bush under the aliases “Irwin M. Peach” and “Mr. Bramble.”[82]



According to former LAPD Narcotics detective Michael Ruppert, two key men in the drug pipeline were Ted Shackley and George Bush. Shackley, a CIA Deputy Director, had reportedly played the key role in smuggling heroin out of South-East Asia when he was Saigon Station Chief, as popularized by the movie “Air America.”



In 1976, Bush would appoint his friend Shackley as Associate Deputy Director of Operations—the third most powerful position in the CIA. Shackley had been in charge of the Miami CIA station that had been running the Agency’s anti-Castro activities, and was a key architect of the CIA’s “low intensity conflict” operations in Central America (death squads modeled after the Agency’s murderous Phoenix Operation in Viet Nam). Fired by the Agency in 1979, Shackley would re-emerge in the early 1980s as an integral player in Iran-Contra, meeting frequently with Bush at his Arlington, VA home.[83]



As Ruppert states: “Both men are central to the drug trafficking by CIA and NSC which became epidemic in the Iran-Contra era.”



A report by the Costa Rican government states that Oliver North, John Hull, and a number of other Americans were deeply involved in the drug trafficking in the area.[84]



When DEA agent Celerino “Cele” Castillo naively tried to inform Bush of the high-level drug running at a cocktail party in Guatemala City in 1986, he said, “Bush just smiled, shook my hand and walked away.”[85]



As former CIA operative Phillip Agee told the Associated Press in January of 1990: “Bush is up to his neck in illegal drug running on behalf of the Contras.”[86*]

These allegations would be repeated by numerous others. One man who decided to blow the whistle was former CIA operative Richard Brenneke. As Brenneke stated in a sworn deposition before Congressman William Alexander, Jr., and Chad Farris, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Arkansas:



A. ...As far back as 1968 and early ‘69, we had begun to launder money from organized crime families in New York. At that time, Mr. Gotti was an up-and-coming member of the families. I got to know them at that time. We used to wash their money out overseas and put it in Switzerland in nice, safe places for them.



Q. So you worked for Mr. Gotti as well as for the CIA?



A. Actually the CIA told me to do that on his behalf.



Q. So the CIA was in, would you say, partnership or association with Mr. Gotti?



A. Yes, sir. I would say a partnership.



Q. And can you describe the nature of that partnership?



A. Sure. The organized crime members had a need for two things: they needed drugs brought into the country on a reliable, safe basis; they needed people taken out of the country or people brought into the country without alerting customs or INS to the fact that they were being brought into the country; they also needed their money taken offshore so that it would not be subject to United States tax where they might have to declare its source. And so we performed these kinds of functions for them.



Q. Mr. Brenneke, are you saying that the CIA was in the business of bringing drugs into the United States?



A. Yes, sir. That’s exactly what I’m saying.



(snip)



Q. Can you recall any conversations you had with any of the CIA agents about the money, and tell us the nature of that conversation, the scope of it?



A. Sure. When I found that we were bringing drugs into the United States, and that we were receiving money which was being put into accounts which I knew to belong to the United States Government, as I’d set them up specifically for that purpose, I called Mr. Don Gregg, who was a CIA officer with whom I was acquainted, and complained about the nature of what we were doing.



Q. Now, who is Mr. Don Gregg?



A. At that time, he was... Vice President George Bush’s National Security Advisor....



Q. And can you tell us what you remember about that conversation?



A. I surely can. I was told that it was not my business, what I was flying in and out of the country. That I was hired to do specific things, and if I would do those things and not pay any attention to anything else, we would all be very happy. I didn’t like that.



Q. Well, what else did he say?



A. Shut up and do your job.[87]



Bob Martinez, after his defeat as Florida’s governor, was picked as Bush’s drug czar. Sources in Tampa told Russell Bowen that Martinez was under investigation for smuggling activities. But Attorney General Richard Thornburgh removed the Assistant U.S. Attorney before the indictments could be handed down.[88]



Two Assistant U.S. Attorneys in charge of drug prosecutions in Miami—R. Jerome Stanford and Richard Gregorie—resigned in disgust because of CIA stonewalling and cover-ups. Gregorie told a Senate subcommittee that the CIA’s lack of cooperation resulted in a “constitutional crisis.”[89]



As Stich’s CIA sources told him, the Agency was shipping arms to both sides in the Contra war to keep the war going, while publicly stating that the Sandinistas were the ones trafficking in drugs. As in Miami, the CIA set up another fake drug sting using their main drug pilot, Barry Seal. Seal’s plane was rigged with a hidden video camera which ostensibly recorded Sandinistas loading drugs onto the plane. In reality, they were Contras. The “evidence” was subsequently shown to Congress to justify the continued war.



To maintain his position as anti-drug czar, Bush along with CIA, DEA and Customs, set up a fake drug sting at Miami International Airport in March of 1980 using 4,000 pounds of bad cocaine donated by Jorge Ochoa. DEA and Customs agents were on-hand at the airport to make the drug “bust” to insure George Bush’s public heroism.[90]



On January 28, 1982, Bush created the South Florida Task Force to coordinate the efforts of various federal agencies to stem the tide of illegal narcotics. According to local and federal law-enforcement sources, radar balloons and other systems used along the southern U.S. border were not even operational much of the time.



As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“On February 16, 1982, in a speech on his own turf in Miami, Florida, Bush promised to use sophisticated military aircraft to track the airplanes used by smugglers. Several days later, Bush ordered the U.S. Navy to send in its E2C surveillance aircraft for this purpose. If these were not available in sufficient numbers, said Bush, he was determined to bring in the larger and more sophisticated AWACS early warning aircraft to do the job....



“By May, two of the four E2C aircraft that originally had been in Florida were transferred out of the state. By June, airborne surveillance time was running a mere 40 hours per month, not the 360 hours promised by Bush, prompting Rep. Glenn English to call hearings on this topic. By October, 1982 the General Accounting Office issued an opinion in which it found “it is doubtful whether the [south Florida] task force can have any substantial long-term impact on drug availability.”



“But the headlines were grabbed by Bush, who stated in 1984 that the efforts of his task force had eliminated the marijuana trade in south Florida. That was an absurd claim, but it sounded very good. When Francis Mullen. Jr., the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) criticized Bush for making this wildly inaccurate statement, he was soon ousted from his post at the DEA.”



This data supports information provided to this author by law-enforcement officers [who wish to remain anonymous]. According to numerous sources, the drug flow actually increased during Bush’s tenure as drug czar. As former CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee told Rodney Stich: “From the time that the money was appropriated to start [the drug war] we saw a 400 percent increase in the illegal drugs that were coming into this country.”[91]



On March 23, 1983, Bush would be cleverly placed in charge of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, which was supposed to stem the tide of drugs into the U.S.



Plumlee, who witnessed decades worth of drug smuggling by the CIA, the NSC, and the military, said that his government handlers tried to cover up for their smuggling activities by claiming that the shipments were to be used in law-enforcement “sting” operations. As he states: “We were documenting the loads and the routes and waiting for the big busts. But the busts never seemed to add up to the amount of cocaine we were bringing in.”[92]





The Consolidation of Power



How did George Bush assume such enormous powers over the law enforcement and covert operations of this country (not to mention the Presidency)? This was done through a series of Executives Orders and National Security Decision Directives (NSDDs) engineered by former CIA Director Bush signed by President Reagan.



On December 14, 1981, Reagan signed NSDD-2 on “Crisis Management,” which designated Vice President Bush Chairman of the Special Situation Group (SSG), responsible for crisis management.



On January 12, 1982, Reagan signed NSDD-3, which reaffirmed the existence of various interagency groups to deal with intelligence and covert operations. Under the interpretation of this document promoted by Bush, the SSG superseded and pre-empted the powers of the NSC in areas of “crisis management,” which encompassed covert operations and counter-terrorism.



On January 28, 1982, Bush was put in charge of the South Florida Task Force on drugs.



On May 14, 1982, a standing Crisis Pre-Planning Group (CPPG 1 and 2) was established under the SSG. Thus Bush was given responsibility for any area in which a “potential crisis” could emerge, and was charged with developing “preemptive policy options” for dealing with such a crisis.



On April 10, 1982, NSDD-30, on “Managing Terrorist Incidents,” was issued, giving Bush control over the convening of the SSG, and creating the “Terrorist Incident Working Group” (TIWG).



On March 23, 1983, Bush took charge of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System.



In July 1985, the Vice President’s Terrorism Task Force was created, headed by Bush.



In February 1986, the Terrorism Task Force created the Operations Sub-Group, officially a sub-group of the TIWG, and also created a permanent counter-terrorism office located in the NSC staff, headed by Oliver North, but ultimately controlled by Bush.



In August 1986, Bush became the chief of “Operation Alliance,” an “anti-narcotics” effort to be conducted in cooperation with Mexico.



Thus from December 1981 to August 1986, Bush had consolidated his control over virtually aspect of U.S. covert operations, as well as every agency dealing with drug interdiction. Never before in peacetime in our country’s history had one man assumed as much power as Bush exercised while Vice President.[93]



George Jr would follow on the heals of his father’s silent coup de etat through his blatent manipulation of the U.S. Supreme Court in stealing the 2,000 Presidency via fraudulent vote tallies.



One year later, on January 4, 1984, Bush would travel to Miami to deliver one of his well-rehearsed “war on drugs” speeches at the Omni International Hotel. Later in the day Bush rendezvoused with boat builder and former racer Don Arnow at Islamorada in the Florida Keys. Bush’s high-priced “Cigarette” speedboat Fidelity was purchased from Arnow, his friend and fishing partner. As one local resident said, “everyone in Miami knew that if you needed a favor from Bush, you spoke to Arnow.”[94]



Arnow was reportedly a drug smuggler and suspected money launderer linked to the Genovese Purple Gang of New York through Frankie Viserto, one of the largest heroin smuggling kingpins, and the Meyer Lansky organized crime syndicate. Lansky had close ties to Israel and the Mossad, who played their own role in smuggling drugs out of Central and South America. Arnow’s role in marijuana smuggling was reportedly confirmed by Bill Norris, head of the Major Narcotics Unit at the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office.[95]



USA Racing, the company operated by Arnow was owned by Jack J. Kramer, President of Super Chief South Corporation. Kramer had married Lansky’s niece. On March 28, 1990 Jack and Ben Kramer were found guilty of 23 and 28 counts respectively of federal money laundering charges. Ben had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment for having imported half-a-million pounds of marijuana.



Nevertheless, a result of his favoritism with Bush, Arnow received a contract to build his “Blue Thunder” catamarans at $150,000 apiece for the U.S. Customs Service. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Bush had thus given a prime contract in waging the war on drugs to one of the leading drug-smuggling and money-laundering crime families in the US.... This was the same George Bush who in March, 1988 had stated: “I will never bargain with drug dealers on US or foreign soil.”



As Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell add in Blue Thunder:



“Ultimately by awarding Arnow the Blue Thunder contract, Bush allowed not one, but two, drug smuggling arms of the mob to penetrate the government’s anti-drug program.”



Probably by design, the Blue Thunder catamarans were unseaworthy and practically unusable for chasing down high-speed craft, including Arnow’s Cigarette boats. Blue Thunder was capable of a top speed of only 56 miles per hour, and most of the boats spent more time undergoing repairs than chasing drug runners.



Ex-convict Tommy Teagle told author Thomas Burdick that he possessed information that implicated Bush’s son Jeb in cocaine smuggling. Teagle stated that Arnow and Jeb Bush had been partners in cocaine trafficking and were $2.5 million in debt to their Colombian suppliers.



According to former CIA operative Terry Reed, current President George Bush, Jr. and his brother Jeb were videotaped at Tamiami airport outside of Miami. They had arrived on the Bush family King Air from Texas, presumably piloted by George W., to pick up two kilos of cocaine which was delivered by Barry Seal from the Intermountain Regional airport in Mena Arkansas. Reed was the unwitting co-pilot. At the time he made his public statements, Reed indicated that he had both the tail number of the Bush Aircraft and the DEA (NADDIS) file number of the investigation.[96*]



Dr. Robert Magoon, a friend of Arnow, is quoted as having heard a similar report. Teagle said he feared that George Bush would have him killed, and rapidly changed his story.



But Arnow wouldn’t be around to testify. Ultimately, an imprisoned convict was indicted for Arnow’s murder—a murder that remains highly suspect.



According to an article by Joe Cuomo in Penthouse entitled “Family Ties,” one of Jeb’s business partners was Colombian “coffee” magnate Alberto Duque Rodriguez.



Federal prosecutors in Miami have a photo of Jeb and Leonel Martinez, a Miami-based Cuban-American drug trafficker, shaking hands, but won’t release the photo. Martinez and his wife made a $2,000 contribution to the Dade County Republican Party four months after Jeb became chair of the local GOP. Martinez also wrote $5,000 checks to then Vice President Bush’s Fund for America’s Future, and made a $2,000 contribution to the Bush for President campaign. This was during the time that Bush was serving as head of the South Florida Drug Task Force, then later as chair of the National Narcotics Interdiction System. While Bush was drug czar, the volume of cocaine smuggled into the U.S. tripled.[97]



Former CIA helicopter pilot Chip Tatum backs up allegations of Bush’s involvement in drug smuggling. On March 30, 1985, Tatum says he flew his helicopter to La Cieba, Honduras, where he picked up Bush Contra liason Felix Rodriguez, Honduran General Alvarez and Mossad agent Amirm Nir.



“We flew into several villages on the Nicaragua/Honduras border to recon for a later mission. I recorded actual village locations for cargo drops by CH-47’s scheduled later in April. Three of the villages were Rus Rus, Waspam and Santa Anna. Mr. [Oliver] North was pleased with the operations. He stated that Vice President Bush appreciated the extra effort I was giving. General Alvarez told Mr. North of my ability to sneak into his airfield under their radar. He asked North if I could instruct some of his security team and pilots for future use. North declined stating that I was a national secret, laughing. We landed at Santa Anna and met with Enrique Bermudez and other Contra leaders. We were then taken to a processing area of some sort. As we approached, there was a strong smell of jet fuel and acetone. There were several tactical bladders, used for carrying fuels, sitting around the area. Six large fuel pods were on the ground but had the tops torched off. Inside there was fuel and ground-up coca leaves. Mr. North stated the following to the other passengers, “One more year of this and we’ll all retire.” He then made a remark concerning Barry Seal and Governor Clinton. “If we can keep those Arkansas hicks in line, that is,” referring to the loss of monies as determined the week prior during their meeting in Costa Rica. I stood silently by the vat of leaves, listening to the conversation. General Alverez had gone with the Contra leader to discuss logistics. The other three—North, Rodriguez, and Ami Nir—continued through the wooden building, inspecting the cocaine. North continued, “...but he (Vice President Bush) is very concerned about those missing monies. I think he’s going to have Jeb (Bush) arrange something out of Colombia,” he told his comrades, not thinking twice of my presence. What Mr. North was referring to ended up being the assassination of Barry Seal by members of the Medellin Cartel in early 1986. “How about ‘Pineapple’?” Rodriguez asked. (Speaking of General Noriega.) “Naw,” North answered, “something’s up there.” Bush later insured Noriega was indicted and imprisoned for drug trafficking. I recalled the mysterious army officers remarks in Ojo de Agua, “Tell no one. There’s no one big enough in your chain of command.” I just heard North tell Rodriguez that the Vice President, the Governor of Arkansas and the three of them are manufacturing cocaine.”[98]



As a liason to the Contra/Anti-Castro Cuban community in Florida, Jeb Bush was responsible for freeing Cuban-American terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison. Bosch was responsible for a wave of bombings against Cuba, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Bosch received his financing from a Florida company called the World Finance Corporation—the subject of one of the largest drug-smuggling investigations in the 1970s. The investigation was eventually dropped due to CIA interference. Bush was CIA Director during much of the company’s anti-Castro activities.



Westword, a Denver newspaper, reported Bush’s son Neil—who played a role in the bilking of Denver’s Silverado Savings & Loan, for which he walked away unscathed—being referred to as the “godfather” of a drug dealer who kept Neil’s photograph on his wall. According to the article, Neil let him know when “something was coming down.”[99*]



Silverado’s third largest borrower (Neil was on the Board), E. Trine Starnes, Jr., defaulted on $77.5 million in loans from the S&L, some of which went to the Contra arms and funding conduit the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, directed by Carl “Spitz” Channell, a close crony of Oliver North. Silverado was shut down soon after Bush became President, and the American taxpayers picked up the $1 billion tab.[100]



By October of 1990, the S&L industry was losing money at the rate of $3 million a minute. The total cost was estimated at $325-500 billion. As President Bush commented, “The economy is headed in the right direction.”

Neil Bush would soon be back in the swindler’s circle through his west Florida Gulf Stream Realty land fraud company - a prelude to Bill Clinton’s Arkansas Whitewater land fraud scheme.



As Sherman Skolnick reports, Giorgio Pelossi, a prominent Swiss accountant and reputed cocaine bank money launderer for George Bush and two of his sons, was arrested in Chicago on January 20, 2000 after INS officials found he was wanted on an arrest warrant in Italy. Journalists in Spain wrote about Bush and two of his sons, George W. and Jeb, being reportedly implicated in billions of dollars of dope money laundered through banks in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and the U.S. The cocaine banking cartel, for which Pelossi reportedly was the brains, was centered in Milan and Barcelona. The Pelossi-Marcinkus-D’Onofrio ring reportedly, through the Vatican Bank and other financial institutions, trafficked in smuggled gold, osmium nuclear bomb triggers, high quality counterfeit foreign currencies, and other illicit goods and services. With the connivance of top officials of the IRS Chicago Regional office, Pelossi reportedly arranged the laundering of billions of dollars through concealed and dummy accounts, at the Harris Bank of Chicago, and their Foreign Exchange section, called ForEx, a unit of Bank of Montreal, and Republic National Bank of New York, for the Bushs.[101]



On May 15, 1984 Bush visited Pakistani President Gen. Zia ul-Haq in Islamabad. Bush praised the alleged successes of Zia’s anti-drug program which, Bush stated, was a matter of great “personal interest” to him. Among those present at the banquet where Bush made these statements were, reportedly, several of the officials most responsible for Pakistan’s narcotics trafficking. Pakistan had been responsible for approximately 70 percent of the world’s heroin supply at the time. Most of the dope was managed by an elite military unit that protected the truck convoys of CIA arms to Afghanistan.[102]

In August, 1986 Bush, working with Mexican officials, formally christened “Operation Alliance”, a new border enforcement initiative that followed on the heels of the South Florida Task Force. Bush was appointed chief of Operation Alliance, which involved 20 federal agencies, 500 federal officers, and a budget of $266 million. Bush even sought to obtain a cameo role for a brief appearance on the television series Miami Vice. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Bush had no intention of seriously pursuing such goals. For him, the war on drugs was a cruel hoax, a cynical exercise in demagogic self-promotion, designed in large part to camouflage activities by himself and his networks that promoted drug trafficking.”



In 1988, Congressman Glenn English stated that Bush’s war on drugs was “little more than lip service and press releases.”



CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee, who flew many drug flights, said he was provided with codes that allowed him to avoid drug interdiction planes. As Plumlee said: “I have seen interdiction planes turn away after we squawked our transponders, and let us into the country, [un]molested, and not have Customs waiting for us when we land.”[103]



Bush’s final act as “anti-drug” czar would come in 1990 with the invasion of Panama known as “Operation Just Cause.” The ostensible excuse was to shut down President Manuel Noriega’s drug trafficking (an operation run with Bush and CIA complicity). The real reason was to remove Noriega, who had gotten “out of control,” threatening to nationalize Bush’s extensive family investments in that country, and replace him with officials more loyal to Bush and the Agency.



On this pretext, the U.S. invaded the small sovereign country, killing thousands of people, mostly civilians. Twenty-six U.S. servicemen also lost their lives to protect Bush’s drug trafficking operation and the $350,000,000 worth of Bush financial investments, laundered through the Bush-connected Japanese Aoki Corporation with the help of brother Prescott. The puppets installed by Bush included President Gullermo Endura, head of a Panamanian bank used extensively by the Medellin Cartel, Vice President Gullermo Ford, part owner of Dadeland Bank of Florida, reportedly involved in drug money laundering, and Attorney General Rogello Cruz, allegedly a Cali drug Cartel boss.



As ex-CIA field officer John Stockwell noted: “[Bush] used to work with Noriega the drug-dealer. He has worked with a lot of other drug-dealers, in fact, but this one was screaming publicly.... In 1988, Noriega told Newsweek or a Newsweek interviewer that, quote: ‘I have George Bush by the balls!’ because he had the information on George Bush’s connections and ties and knowledge of drug smuggling. So Bush had to get rid of him!”[104*]



Frederick Kempe, a former Wall Street Journal diplomatic correspondent, wrote Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega in 1990. This documents the Israeli connections with the CIA in the contra-cocaine program in Central America:



“Noriega, the new Comandante, made clear he was willing to be more cooperative than his predecessors. He was also feeling more heat for Panama’s role in laundering money for international drug traffickers, and he interpreted a George Bush visit in December 1983 as an appeal for more help for the Contras.... In Noriega’s mind, he thought Bush was saying that if Panama helped the Contras it could defuse criticism about money laundering. He passed this interpretation to a trusted adviser.”



Coincidentally, perhaps, in December 1983 the Israelis reportedly started using a CIA front company in Panama to start funneling support to the Contras. That company was IFMA Management Company, which had originally been created in 1969 in Panama as a conduit for CIA ‘black’ funds.[105]


While Noriega now languishes in a U.S. prison, the amount of drug money laundered through Panamanian banks is two-thirds higher than it was prior to the invasion (which, at the time, was approximately 70 percent of the CIA’s drug take). For those Panamanians who survived Operation “Just Cause,” 60 percent now live in poverty, with 17 percent in extreme poverty, and 24 percent of the population suffers from malnutrition. According to Olga Mejia of the Panama Human Rights Commission: “Now you can find 1,000 children begging in central Panama City.”[106]



The CIA/NSC/DoJ complicit smugglers and pilots who testified against Noriega, including pilot Floyd Carlton, Roberto Striedinger, and Ricardo Bilonick, were released or had their sentences greatly reduced. Carlton was paid several hundred thousand dollars by the “Justice” Department and given permanent U.S. residency. Striedinger had his seized bank accounts returned, along with his 40-foot yacht, an airplane, his AK-47, Uzi and MAC-10 submachine guns and his Mercedes-Benz. Carlos Lehder was released from prison in 1996.



Noriega wasn’t the only person to be silenced in the wake of the Iran-Contra revelations. Floyd Carlton testified that he offered information to the DEA in Panama in July of 1987, which refused to take the information. Carlton had frequent contacts with the Medellin and Cali cartels, as well as taped phone conversations, documents and information about money laundering, drugs, weapons and assassinations. Instead of accepting the evidence, the “Justice” Department, as they would do with hundreds of other whistleblowers over the years, had Carlton arrested.



When the FBI raided the home of Senator Gary Hart’s presidential campaign manager Michael Boren Williams, “the first item that was seized was a file pertaining to my investigation of Bush’s ordering CIA Costa Rica Station Chief Joe Hernandes to blow up a commercial civilian airliner he thought to be carrying Senators [Gary] Hart and [William] Cohen to Managua, Nicaragua on an Iran-Contra fact-finding mission. (Oh, just for good measure, the Managua Airport was blown up, too).”[107]



As Williams told this author: “[Cohen] was the co-author of a spy novel, along with Gary Hart. George Bush (the big daddy fascist, not the creep who the New World Order’s ordained as their next 4-year dictator) ordered the assassination of Hart and Cohen.... Fortunately for them, they took an earlier flight....”[108*]



As Tosh Plumlee told Rodney Stich: “We’ve lost a lot of people that’s been killed or assassinated or discredited because for whatever reasons, they were going to blow the whistle on current operations they were involved with. Elements within the agencies that are involved would definitely put hitmen out, if it was going to jeopardize their ongoing operation.”[109]



As Chip Tatum, one of the alleged hitmen, says: “During the next few years, I would be tasked by Mr. Bush with the neutralization of a Mossad agent in 1988, an army Chief of Staff in 1989, the President of a third-world country in 1989, and the leader of a revolutionary force in Central America in 1991. [Mossad Agent] Ami Nir was killed in 1988. General Gustavo Alverez was killed in 1989. Enrique Bermudez, Contra leader and overseer of the cocaine kitchens, was killed in 1991.”[110]





Operation Desert Massacre



“We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.”

- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Foreign Affairs (July/August 1995)



“The world can therefore seize the opportunity (Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.”

- President George Herbert Walker Bush



In January of 1990, the U.S. Government under George Bush would again have the opportunity to demonstrate the “universal aspirations of mankind” when it attacked Iraqi forces in the Persian Gulf, driving them out of the oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait. President Bush immediately rallied to the cause of “freedom and democracy” for the tiny Arab sheikdom, where Iraqi forces were actively engaged in violating “the rights of the free world” by pillaging the populace and “pulling babies out of incubators.” Or so the White House and the State Department would have us believe.



Thus, under the guise of creating a “New World Order,” the U.S., with George Bush as the helm, once again heeded the call to “defend the free world.”



In reality, Kuwait was little more than a feudal kingdom ruled by a few immensely wealthy royal families, where such “freedoms” included being stoned to death for adultery (for women that is), having your hand cut off for thievery, and being arrested for practicing any religion except Islam. It is a place that Amnesty International reported torture is routine, and where 111 people were executed in one year alone by beheading, 16 of whom were political prisoners.[111]



So much for freedom and democracy.



What tiny Kuwait did have going for it was its vast oil reserves, whose ownership was in dispute with Iraq. Iraq’s Rumaila field, which dips into its disputed border with Kuwait, was being pumped for all its worth by the Kuwaitis—while Iraq, with the encouragement of both Kuwait and the U.S.—was fighting a bloody and costly war with Iran. The U.S. assisted Iraq in this endeavor by supplying them with detailed intelligence enabling their forces to bomb Iran’s oil terminals and power plants. As Jeffrey T. Richelson writes in The U.S. Intelligence Community:



“In 1984, when some feared that Iran might overrun Iraq, the United States began supplying Iraq with intelligence that reportedly enabled Iraq to calibrate mustard gas attacks on Iranian ground troops.”[112]



At the same time as Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, by exceeding their production quotas, were driving down the price of oil. Iraq, saddled with a $70 billion debt from its war with Iran, was losing billions of dollars in revenues.



Iraq’s demands were simple. They wanted payment for the oil taken from the Rumaila field (whose ownership had been in dispute ever since Britain had withdrawn from Kuwait), forgiveness of Kuwaiti loans during their war with Iran, and access to the Gulf ports for export of their oil. After negotiators failed to reach agreement over the thefts, the loans, and the access, Iraq invaded.[113]



As in Vietnam, President Bush attacked this “naked aggression,” rallying to the cause of freedom: “America stands where it always has,” declared Bush (whose family made its fortune backing Adolf Hitler), “against aggression, against those who would use force to replace the rule of law.”



So spoke King George, who, only months earlier, had imposed illegal sanctions against Nicaragua to prevent free elections there—a continuation of his and Reagan’s covert bloody war against that sovereign nation. As a result, Bush became the only head of state publicly condemned by the World Court for the “unlawful use of force.”[114]



Such a condemnation is hardly surprising, since barely two years earlier, Bush had invaded Panama to silence Manuel Noriega and install “democracy” in the U.S.-controlled banana republic.[115]



Not to tarnish Bush’s reputation as a champion of human rights. Bush was CIA Director when Argentine secret police launched their “Dirty War” in 1976, resulting in the “elimination” of tens-of-thousands of political dissidents.



On September 21, 1976, a bomb ripped apart the car carrying former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and two American co-workers on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.. Letelier and a woman, Ronni Moffitt, died in the blast.



Letelier was a staunch critic of Chile’s murderous military dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet, a CIA puppet. Represtnative James Abourezk, a personal friend of Letelier’s, asked DCI Bush to commit the CIA to the search “to find the bastards who killed” Letelier. Bush appeared concerned and responded, “I’ll see what I can do. We are not without assets in Chile.”



As Robert Parry writes:



“The problem with Bush’s promise, however, was that some of the CIA’s top “assets” in Chile were implicated in the murder. According to U.S. intelligence sources, one of those CIA assets was Gen. Manuel Contreras, the head of the intelligence agency, DINA, and the architect of the Letelier assassination. The other trouble with Bush’s pledge was that the assassination had been carried out almost literally under the CIA’s nose—and Bush had little interest in exposing his own failings.... There was also the darker possibility that Bush’s CIA had granted DINA license to hunt down and neutralize a Chilean dissident on American soil.”[116]



Bush was also CIA director when Indonesian General Suharto, with support from President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, invaded the small island nation of East Timor. Suharto had come to power in 1965, during a U.S.-backed genocidal coup that resulted in over a million deaths.[117] By comparison, Suharto’s invasion of East Timor merely resulted in a quarter-of-a-million deaths. According to the Australia East Timor Association:



“The atrocities of the Indonesian Military Junta are absolutely barbaric, torturing and killing thousands. Even women have been killed very slowly by stabbings.... Hundreds have been burnt to death.... Indonesian soldiers took hold of the legs of little children and threw them around in the air a number of times and smashed their tiny heads and bodies against a rock. A women asked that one of the children be given to her after it’s mother had been stripped naked and killed, but the soldier grabbed the child and killed it [instead]...”[118]



The Timorese massacres would continue with George Bush in the White House, as the Timor Gap Treaty was signed, giving Indonesian and Australian mining companies authority to begin joint oil exploration with major oil companies—resulting in a new wave of genocidal terror—all the while revealing the real reason behind U.S.-backed policies.[119*]



Ramos Horta, special representative of the National Council of Maubere Resistance, described how President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited Suharto shortly before the invasion and gave him the green light to invade, while assuring the benevolent tyrant that his supply of American weapons wouldn’t be affected. Kissinger told reporters at the time that “the United States understands Indonesia’s position.” *



Fifteen years later, George Bush would give his own green light to Saddam Hussein. On July 25, 1990, with Iraqi troops massed along the border, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie met with Hussein and informed him that the U.S. had “no opinion” on Iraq-Kuwait border disputes. When Glaspie asked Hussein what his intentions were, he replied that Kuwait’s actions amounted to “an economic war” and “military action against us.” Hussein said he hoped for a peaceful solution, but if not, he said, “it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death...”



As former CIA officer Phillip Agee notes, “A clearer statement of his intentions would be hard to imagine.”



“Glaspie gave no warning from Bush or Secretary of State [James] Baker that the U.S. would oppose an Iraqi takeover of Kuwait. On the contrary she said, “I have direct instructions from the President to seek better relations with Iraq.” On the same day Assistant Secretary of State Kelly killed a planned Voice of America broadcast that would have warned Iraq that the U.S. was “strongly committed” to the defense of its friends in the Gulf, which included, of course, Kuwait. During the week between the Ambassador’s meeting with Hussein and the invasion, the Bush administration forbade any warning to Hussein against invasion... Assistant Secretary Kelly, two days before the invasion, again testified publicly before Congress to the effect that the U.S. had no commitment to defend Kuwait.”[120]



While Bush was publicly condemning Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait on the one hand, he was secretly pursuing a policy of encouraging it on the other. “Big countries cannot invade small neighbors and get away with it,” Bush sanctimoniously announced to the world. Il Sabato, a Catholic weekly in Rome, noting Bush’s shameful hypocrisy, wrote that Bush is the “surly master of the world,” who deserves “the Nobel War Prize” for ignoring opportunities for peace in the Gulf. Bush “had the very concrete possibility of a just peace and he chose war.”[121]



While conspicuously avoiding all opportunities for a peaceful settlement, Bush arrogantly insisted that Iraq’s capacity for aggression be eliminated—a curious position considering that the U.S. had shared intelligence with Iraq right up to the start of the war, and Bush had encouraged Iraq’s bloody ten-year war with Iran as a bulwark against what he perceived as that state’s (and Israel’s) aggressive tendencies (Bush’s “Level Playing Field Doctrine”).



What was not mentioned however was the CIA’s role just a decade earlier in fomenting Kurdish rebellion inside Iraq, with arms supplied by the CIA’s good friend the Shah of Iran. That rebellion led to Iraq’s loss of the Shat al Arab, Iraq’s only access to Basra, its upriver port, and ultimately led to Iraq’s invasion of Iran which cost nearly a million lives.



All the while, the U.S. was building up huge military installations in Saudi Arabia in anticipation of a Gulf War scenario, one that had been gamed-out in Pentagon war rooms. It was easy to anticipate such a scenario, since Bush, like his father before him, had illegally armed Iraq with both conventional and biological weapons, paid for by U.S. taxpayers.[122]



According to a 1995 deposition by Reagan national security aide Howard Teicher, CIA Deputy Director Robert Gates was part of a secret operation in the 1980s to funnel sophisticated military equipment to Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein via Carlos Cardoen, a Chilean arms dealer with close ties to the murderous General Pinochet. “Under CIA director Casey and Deputy Director Gates, the CIA authorized, approved and assisted Cardoen in the manufacture and sale of cluster bombs and other munitions to Iraq,” Teicher wrote in the affidavit submitted as part of an arms-smuggling case in federal court.[123]



Some of those weapons passed through Customs disguised as agricultural loans funded by the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL, which was connected to the CIA’s BCCI: “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International”), and approved by the Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation.[124*]



Of course, not all these technological transfers were so open. Iraqi arms dealer Ishan Barbouti, who, with the help of Richard Secord (of Iran-Contra fame) and Wackenhut Security (an FBI/CIA/DoD proprietary), was secretly siphoning off huge quantities of cyanide from Product Ingredient Technologies, a food flavoring plant in Florida, which was subsequently shipped to Iraq to be used in Hussein’s chemical weapons production (Cyanide is a necessary ingredient in the development of nerve gas). Barbouti was also friends with Hussein’s brother-in-law—Hussein Kamil, who directed the flow of over $2 billion in BNL commercial loans to various high-profile Iraqi weapons projects.” Many of the biologicals sold to Iraq had the blessing of both President Bush and Secretary of State James Baker—both oil men. It is rumored that both men made a substantial amount of money from these deals, as did much of the U.S. military-industrial establishment.



But “smart bombs” and bullets weren’t the only killers of this Mid-East holocaust. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the inhabitants of the Persian Gulf are now afflicted with Gulf War Syndrome (GWI), a deadly disease that has claimed 250,000 lives in Iraq alone, with another million sick, including those of other Gulf states. According to Dr. Nancy Nicholson of the Rhodon Foundation for Biomedical Research and her husband, Dr. Garth Nicholson, one of the most highly regarded scientists in biomedical research, more babies are being born deformed in Iraq than are being born normal.



This debilitating man-made disease has also claimed approximately 15,000 American lives (as of 1997), with another 100,000 to 200,000 veterans severely ill. This doesn’t include family members, friends and associates who are sick, disabled, or dead as a result of being infected with this highly communicable disease. (Unlike AIDS, GWI can reportedly be spread not only through sex, but by casual contact, through perspiration, or by being close to someone who coughs.) It is estimated that over 50,000 National Guardsmen who served in the Gulf have reported illnesses.



According to the British Gulf War Veterans Association, over 1,233 British veterans have died so far and thousands more are sick—17 percent of those committing suicide due to lack of treatment and intolerable pain levels. Thousands of babies have been born to vets with horrible deformities—missing limbs, eyes, and ears, and incomplete or missing organs.[125]



While the origins of GWI stem mainly from Iraqi biologicals launched from SCUDs and fall-out from destroyed Iraqi chemical depots, the effects—which include fatigue, vomiting, weight loss, joint pains, headaches, sleeplessness, memory loss, paralysis, tumors, and not least of all, death—were exacerbated by dangerous and experimental drugs administered to U.S. troops by the DoD. A Senate committee that surveyed 150 veterans discovered they were ordered, under threat of Article 15 or court martial, not to discuss their vaccinations with anyone, not even with doctors who were attempting to treat their adverse reactions.[126*]



Court records uncovered by Sherman Skolnick also reveal that Bush and Hussein engaged in private oil deals involving the splitting of $250 billion worth of oil profit kickbacks. As Skolnick reports:



“The records demonstrate private transactions involving $250 billion in oil money kickbacks from the entire Gulf region paid to Saddam Hussein. The Federal Reserve Board wanted Congressman [Henry] Gonzales (D-TX) to agree to never use these records in any of his congressional reports. He was only allowed to look at the records. But the Congressman refused to sign the secrecy oath that the Fed demanded.



“Following the May 19 hearing I told the attorneys that I had heard what the records were about. I spelled out these huge private transactions between Bush and Saddam.... One of the lawyers said, “Well, that’s true. I want you to know that what is involved here are non-bank records that the ‘Justice’ Department [doesn’t want released].”...



“Saddam got kickbacks to the tune of $250 billion arranged by George Bush and oil companies such as Penzoil which are connected to Bush [one of the heads of Penzoil]....”



According to Skolnick, the “Justice” Department used an investigation of a Court of Appeals Judge in order to blackmail the judge not to release the information. Representative Gonzales’ investigation was sabotaged by people on his own committee. After BCCI’s records were seized by the Reagan/Bush “Justice” Department, Gonzales tried, via congressional subpoena, to acquire them. Judge Brian Duff, who has connections with the Federal Reserve, impounded the records and chased Gonazles’ attorney out of court. As Skolnick writes:



“On the Senate side the investigation is also being hampered. On June 13 the Wall Street Journal pointed out that Senator John Kerry (D-MS) who is investigating BCCI became chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee which received large contributions from BCCI.”



In fact, Bush had a long-standing policy of supporting the Iraqi dictator. In 1987, Bush pressured the federal Export Import bank to give hundreds of millions in loans to Iraq. In a manner similar to what President Bill Clinton (and Bush) would do with Communist China, Bush had met with Iraqi ambassador Nizar Hamdoon to assure him that Hussein could import more dual-use technology.



At least $1 billion in military aid, disguised as Agriculture commodity loans, were funneled to Iraq through BNL. Under Bush’s Presidential Security Directive NSD 26, he overrode other government agency concerns about lending money to Saddam Hussein. In October of 1989, Secretary of State James Baker III intervened with Agriculture Department Secretary Clayton Yeutter to drop Agriculture’s opposition to the $1 billion in food credits for Hussein. This was a man who bragged in the spring of 1990 that he possessed enough chemical weapons to “burn half of Israel,” and attacked his own Kurdish population with poison gas, murdering thousands of men, women and children.



As late as July of 1990, the NSC pushed for the second installment of the $1 billion package despite evidence that Iraq was using the money for its ballistic missile program and other weapons.[127] As Congressman Gonzalez stated in a July 27 speech: “The Bush administration sent U.S. technology to the Iraqi military and to many Iraqi military factories, despite overwhelming evidence showing that Iraq intended to use the technology in its clandestine nuclear, chemical, biological, and long-range missile programs.”[128]



Yet by June of 1990, George Bush, Jr. sold his stock in Harken Energy, which had exclusive oil drilling rights with the island of Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia. (Bush had been rescued by Harken in 1986 when Bush’s Specturm 7 Energy Corporation was in financial trouble. Harken made “Jr.” a director, and he and his partners were given more than $2 million in stock, while George received another $600,000 in stock as a “consultant,” not including his lucrative salary.) The Bahrain deal was brokered by David Edwards, a close pal of Bill Clinton’s and a former employee of the shady Arkansas-based bond brokerage house Stephens Inc.[129]



Industry analysts were amazed that such a small, unknown company won such a lucrative contract. Research by the Observer reveals, unsurprisingly, that Harken has links to institutions that are involved in drug smuggling, foreign currency manipulation and the CIA. (In 1987, Jackson Stephens of Stephens, Inc. would arrange a $25 million cash infusion to George Jr’s Harken through Switzerland’s Union Bank—both tied to the notorious scandal-ridden BCCI. Stephens was a large doner to both the Reagan/Bush ticket and to Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. Stephens’ wife Mary Anne managed George Herbert Walker Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign in Arkansas.) As his pals at Enron would later do, George Jr. successfully dumped his Harken stock for $848,560—a nice 200 percent profit—just in time for Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, conveniently forgetting to notify the Securities and Exchange Commission as required by law.[130*]



Illegal-insider-trader-Jr. avoided prosecution, thanks to some well-connected lawyers and Daddy-Bush-the-President who pulled the appropriate SEC strings. This, as Enron employees lost their pensions (or were “suicided”) as a result of illegal insider stock sales—another company directly connected to the Bushes.



As Iran-Contra insider Al Martin told journalist Uri Dowbenko, “Harken was one of those deals that was a combination fraud as well as a manipulation. There’s different types of fraud when you get into securities. When George Jr. was put in charge of Harken Energy by his father, he essentially took it down the tubes. You have to realize that every business that George Jr. has ever had has failed. That’s the man’s business record.



“George Bush, Sr. and James Baker and Senator Tower would heavily short Harken stock. I have a list of everybody because I was one of them but to a much smaller extent. Harken stock was trading at 7-3/4 or 8, when George Jr, was put in charge of it. A year later, the stock was trading at 1-1/8 bid, 3/8 offer. They pumped the stock back up through a lot of bogus press releases and by using essentially worthless leases in Bahrain and essentially worthless South American oil leases and through sympathetic geologists making them appear to be really worth something and making it appear that Harken’s about to make a strike when in fact it’s all made up. It’s all fictitious. And through carefully crafted broker releases and broker statements and press releases, you can pump the stock back up. This has happened sixteen times to my knowledge. Harken would get pumped back up from the dead, from say a buck, buck and a half, back to seven, seven and a half, then it would get dumped again. Originally George Jr. had control of the company. He stayed on the board.



“You have to look at the entire Bush Family in this context—as if the entire family ran a corporation called ‘Frauds-R-Us.’ Each member of the family, George Sr., George Jr., Neil, Jeb, Prescott, Wally, etc., have their own specialty of fraud.



“George Jr.’s specialty was insurance and security fraud. Jeb’s specialty was oil and gas fraud. Neil’s specialty was real estate fraud. Prescott’s specialty was banking fraud. Wally’s specialty was securities fraud. And George Bush Sr’s specialty? All of the above.”[131]



According to the National Journal, 43 percent of President George Bush Jr.’s top 300 appointees had worked for Bush Sr.



But Iraq wasn’t the only “enemy” doing business with the Bush family. George Bush’s brother Prescott was a consultant to Asset Management International Financing & Settlement, a New York firm with a contract to provide communications for 2,000 professional and university offices in China. After the Tienaman Square massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in June of 1989, Bush publicly expressed his outrage, while quietly sending National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to China to make sure the Bush family assets were secure. Asset Management likewise enlisted Prescott’s help after his father imposed economic sanctions against China (which he would later lift for Hughes Aircraft). For this Prescott received a handsome $250,000 consulting fee from Asset Management.[132]



Prescott would go on to broker a deal between Asset Management and West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based investment firm linked to the Japansese mob—the Yakuza, for which he received a $250,000 finder’s fee and a $250,000 yearly “consultant” retainer. Unfortunately West Tsusho filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against Prescott claiming that he reneged on his promise to protect the firm’s $5 million investment.[133]



Like his brother George, Prescott would play his own role in illegal covert activities, as a spy for the Reagan/Bush presidential campaign against President Jimmy Carter. A September 3, 1980 letter from Prescott to James Baker (soon to become Secretary of State) offers his help in monitoring the activities of the Carter White House in their efforts to obtain the release of the American hostages being held in Iran. As the letter states:



“Herb Cohen—the guy that offered help on the Iranian hostage situation—called me yesterday afternoon. Herb has a couple of reliable sources on the National Security Council, about whom the [Carter] administration does not know, who can keep him posted on developments....”[134]



The Reagan/Bush plan to delay the release of the hostages until after the defeat of Jimmy Carter came to be known as “October Surprise.” (See Chapter XX) With George Bush’s tenure in the White House now secure, Prescott would help his brother funnel illegal aid to the Contras through his position on Americares’ board, the U.S.-based “relief” organization with ties to prominent right-wing Republicans and the CIA.



The late J. Peter Grace, chair of AmeriCares from 1982 to 1995, was a key participant in Project Paperclip, a covert operation which recruited Nazi scientists to work in the U.S. after World War II. Many of those Nazis had been found guilty of experimentation on humans. Grace also played a prominent role in organizing the fascist coup that overthrew the popular democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Comfortingly, AmeriCares presents itself as the “humanitarian arm of Corporate America.”[135]



Americares also provided an undisclosed $680,000 to the Nicaraguan Miskito Indian guerrillas, and $91,383 in food and medicine (and $5,750 cash) to Mario Calero, the New Orleans-based quartermaster for the Contras.[136]



Bush, Sr’s wife, Barbara, is AmeriCares Ambassador-at-Large. Former Carter National Security Advisor and CFR member Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski is its Honorary Chairman.[137]



The Miami link to the Contras would come through George Bush’s son Jeb, who acted as one key liason between the Contras and then-Vice President Bush—helping to set up an arms pipeline through friendly contacts in Guatemala. That contact, a right-wing politician named Dr. Mario Castejon, would have his CIA funding proposals hand-delivered to Ted Shackley himself.



The military-industrial complex was apprehensive as the 1990s dawned with the break-up of the Soviet Union and a consequential peace dividend. With their continuing shady arms deals in Central America, and with Bush’s Gulf War, the establishment no longer had to worry. “The war itself has done the most to stir interest in the acquisition of high-tech weapons,” stated the New York Times.



Ironically, 28 American soldiers killed by Iraqi SCUD missiles during the Gulf War came from Pennsylvania, where Greenburg-Latrobe had manufactured parts for those very weapons. SCUD launchers were manufactured in Connecticut, with other manufacturers being scattered throughout the country. As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Mantius wrote in Shell Game, following the war, “President Bush [used] the vast power of his office... to stall [Congressional] probes long enough for the American companies that supplied Iraq to blend quietly into the crowd.”[138] Some of companies were tied to Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank, managed by Bush’s father, the late Senator Prescott Bush, who, as discussed earlier, had not only financed Adolph Hitler, but had armed the Nazis during the war in violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act.



Ironically, Bush would later compare Saddam Hussein, his own former business partner, to Hitler, while condemning the Iraqi dictator for invading Kuwait and attacking the Kurds. At the same time, Bush’s friend, Turkish president Turgut Ozal (who was former director of the International Monetary Fund) was murdering his own Kurdish population by the thousands. Turkish-occupied Kurdistan resembled El Salvador during the 1980s, with imprisonment, torture, and mass-murder commonplace. At least 22,000 have died since the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) struggle against Turkey which began in 1984. But the government-controlled press wasn’t allowed to focus on that slaughter because Turkey was a client state of the U.S.[139]



In speaking about the so-called atrocities committed by Hussein, Bush stated: “No one can see the pictures or hear the accounts of this human suffering, men, women, and most painfully of all, innocent children, and not be deeply moved.... we must do everything in our power to save innocent life, and this is the American tradition and we will continue to live up to that tradition.”[140]



This “American tradition” employed by Bush and his murdering minions like General Collin Powell (later to become Secretary of State) and “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf, amounted to the unleashing of more bombs on both the military and the civilian population of Iraq than was dropped by the Allies during WWII; by burying thousands of Iraqi soldiers alive in their trenches with tanks equipped with plows; by openly machine-gunning thousands of unarmed surrendering troops; and by imposing severe economic sanctions on a civilian population, at least a million of whom—mostly children—have died as a result of malnutrition and disease. The Wall Street Journal quoted UN sources as saying that at least 560,000 Iraqi children have died since the war ended in 1991. That was in 1995.



“The foreign editor of Brazil’s major daily wrote that “What is being practiced in the Gulf is pure barbarism—ironically, committed in the name of civilization....”[141]



Conclusion





“George Bush, he’s bad on drugs, he’s sick mentally and physically,

if he was a dog he’d be shot. He’s a scumbag. That’s why he won’t be re-elected. He’s not morally, physically or mentally fit to be President.”



- Christopher Hitchens, columnist for The Nation,

Washington Editor for Harpers



These activities are just a sampling of the Bush family endeavors. What can one say about a man who makes brutal war on a soverign country, killing thousands, just to protect his own drug trade? Or murders a million innocent children in another country through war (read slaughter), starvation and disease to protect his and his cronies’ oil interests? Or participate in perverted sexual activities with prostituted children? Or illegally smuggle tons of narcotics into the United States while publicly declaring to be “anti-drug”—releasing major drug traffickers while ordinary people possessing a little marijuana are sentenced to long jail terms? Such a man could only be considered the most evil of creatures—on a scale rivaling that of a Hitler.



While George Bush slaughtered hapless millions in Iraq through war, starvation and disease (not to mention the devastation he caused in Panama, Central America and at home), President Clinton would be all too happy to take up the slack—bombing Baghdad with cruise missiles (killing 8 innocent civilians) to punish Saddam Hussein for an alleged assassination plot against Bush.



It is only too bad the plotters didn’t succeed.


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Approximately 19 U.S. presidents descended from royal bloodlines. As researcher Brian Downing Quig writes: “John Galt (a pen name of a researcher fearing to be identified), in an unpublished manuscript (now in my possession), The Genealogy of the New World Order, has traced the royal ancestry of George Bush, which traces from Charlemagne and Alfred the Great, all the way down through George Bush’s 32 presidential cousins!”

There have been three S&B Presidents; at least ten Senators; two Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and many U.S. representatives and state governors. “Bonesmen” have held a myriad of lesser appointed posts and positions, with a particular affinity for Secretary of War/Defense; diplomatic posts to Europe, Russia, China and the Philippines; and in the national security state/intelligence apparatus. Some examples of Bonesmen: Time-Life publisher Henry Luce, New York Times General Manager Amory H. Bradford, CIA officers William F. Buckley, William P. Bundy, McGeorge Bundy, and Richard Bissel, Senator and David Bowen, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee. Other members include: Lord (1635, Cambridge, Mass), Phelps (1630, Dorchester, Mass), Whitney (1635, Watertown, Mass), Perkins (1631, Boston, Mass), Stimson (1635, Watertown, Mass), Wadsworth (1632, Newtown, Mass), Gilman (1638, Hingham, Mass), Payne (Standard Oil), Davison (JP Morgan), Pillsbury (Flour Milling), Sloane (Retail), Weyerhaeuser (Lumber), Harriman (Railroads) and Rockefeller (Standard Oil).

[1]. Antony C. Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones (Billings, MT: Liberty House Press), quoted in “‘The Skulls’ - Insider Secrets Of The New World Orderlies,” review by Uri Dowbenko, 4/5/00.

[2]. Ibid.

[3]. Ibid.

[4]. Ibid.

Of course the Federal Reserve is not federal, but merely a consortium of private central banks. With profits exceeding 150 billion per year, no corporation in the world comes anywhere close. Interestingly, if the profits of the Federal Reserve were compounded from its inception, a sum roughly equivalent to the national debt results. Wall Street interests originally “fought” this bill while all along they were its authors.

[5]. “The Boodle Boys,” RA Kris Millegan, 1999, courtesy of Newshawk, 3/16/99. Millegan’s father entered was an OSS agent and G-2. During the early 19502 he was the CIA’s Branch Chief, Head of East Asia Intelligence Analyst Office.

The shipping manifests from those days have survived intact to make this claim solid.

[6]. Ibid.

[7]. Antony C. Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones (Billings, MT: Liberty House Press), quoted in “‘The Skulls’ - Insider Secrets Of The New World Orderlies,” Review By Uri Dowbenko, 4/5/00.

[8]. Max Warburg, who had been the Kaiser’s banker, was not exiled with him to Holland after the 1918 Armistice, but instead became the advisor to the latter government under the Nazis. Paul Warburg of the Wall Street investment house Kuhn, Loeb Company had also participated in the drafting of the Federal Reserve Act at Jekyll Island, and headed the U.S. banking system during the war. Warburg was Rockefeller’s partner in banking at the same time his brother Max was financing the Nazi war machine. Another principal Rockefeller partner, Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb, had been born in the Rothschild house in Frankfurt and was now the principal Rothschild representative in the U.S.

Contrary to popular opinion, Jews like the Rothschilds aren’t really Jewish, having forsaken their birthright and converted in order to move freely within the gentile business world. In Yiddish such Jews are known as “Hofjudn.”

[9]. Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. (Washington, DC, Executive Intelligence Review, 1992); Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 10.

“During the war, that Trust produced a massive 50.8% of Nazi Germany’s pig iron, 45.5% of their pipes and tubes, 22.1% of their wire, and 35% of their battlefield explosives. At the time, this information stunned the American public, and revealed the Bush family’s central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his domination of Europe. But since then, the media has virtually buried all such reports.” (Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. (Washington, DC, Executive Intelligence Review, 1992.)

[10]. John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.), quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 357-361 2. Ibid., pp. 362-364.

[11]. A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker’s Hamburg-Amerika Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda efforts both in Germany and the United States.

[12]. Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op Cit.

[13]. Ibid.

[14]. Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, Rape of The Constitution; Death of Freedom.

As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz writes in his book, Called to Serve, the man who wrote the Warren Commission report “was Dr. Rudolph August “Otto” Winnaker, who was described in “Who’s Who in the CIA” as an analyst for the wartime OSS, historian in the U.S. War Department from 1945-49, and then Chief of the Historical Division of the Pentagon. What is not listed is that Dr. Winnaker was once of 26 official historians for Hitler’s Third Reich!” Quite fitting.

[15]. Christopher Simpson, Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazi’s and Its Effect on the Cold War (New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.)

[16]. Russell S. Bowen, The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed (Carson City, NV: America West Publishers, 1991), p. 2.

[17]. Ibid., p. 12.

[18]. John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.), quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 357-361 2. Ibid., pp. 362-364.

[19]. George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (New York, NY: Doubleday, 1987), pp. 36-39, quoted in Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 15-16.

[20]. Dallas Morning News, 9/28/99; Dallas Morning News, 10/30/99.

[21]. The Boston Globe, 5/23/00.

[22]. Martin Heldt, “Isikoff manages to make gone with 9 of the 12 months G.W. Bush was missing from Air Guard duty,” On-Line Journal, 7/13/00.

[23]. Linda L. Starr and Bev Conove, “Former National Guard officer says Bush aide scrubbed military records,” On-Line Journal, 11/4/00. “This effort was further involved by General Daniel James and Chief of Staff William W. Goodwin at Camp Mabry,” said Burkett.

[24]. “Texas National Air Guard grounded George W. for failure to take medical exam,” On-Line Journal, 2/7/00.

[25]. According to Patricia Kilday Hart’s article on Dubya, he came under attack in the University Daily, a Texas Tech newspaper, for promising free beer at a campaign rally. Linda Starr, “Despite Yale diploma, George W. was rejected by U of Texas Law School,” 10/12/99, cited in On-Line Journal.

[26]. The Heritage Groups Council was also tied to Richard Nixon.

[27]. Ibid.

[28]. Loftus and Aarons, Op. Cit., pp. 365-371.

[29]. San Francisco Chronicle, 5/7/77, quoted in Bowen, pp. 30-31.

[30]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 28. Parker was a Marine Colonel assigned to Naval Intelligence.

[31]. Ibid.

According to Bush’s account, Nixon told him that “the place I really need you is over at the National Committee running things.” In 1972, Nixon appointed Bush as head of the Republican National Committee. He later appointed Bush Ambassador to China.

[32]. Ibid., p. 32.

[33]. Ibid., pp.35-36; The memo addressed the possible reaction of Cubans in Miami who might have believed Fidel Castro was responsible for the plot.” (Harry V. Martin, “French Connection, The Smoking Gun If Bush went to Paris, the French and U.S. have documents to prove it,” Napa Sentinel, 1991 Sixth in a Series.)

[34]. Anthony L. Kimery, “George Bush and the CIA: In the Company of Friends,” Covert Action Quaterly, Summer, 1992.

When he was found riddled with bullet holes fired by Colombian drug cartel hitmen, drug-smuggler Barry Seal would have George Bush’s telephone number in his pocket.

[35]. Uri Dowbenko, “Up Against the Beast,” Nexus magazine, April-May, 2000.

This author met with Carone’s daughter, Dee Ferdinand, and was presented with her revealing depositions, plus a number of her fathers affidavits. In fact, a national radio interview I did with Dee Ferdinand caused Ted Shackley to go ballistic.

[36]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

Bush would play another role in domestic counter-intelligence. In 1962, Bush’s father Prescott, along with William Casey, founded the National Strategy Information Center, a right-wing think-tank which used CIA funds to publish anti-left tracts.

[37]. “Reputed Cocaine Bank Money Laundry Wizard for George Bush Family Arrested,” Skolnick Report, 1/28/00. Sherman Skolnick founded the Chicago-based Citizens’ Committee to Clean Up the Courts in 1961. He is an expert in tracking money flows.

[38]. Cathy O’Brien & Mark Phillips, Trance Formation of America, pp. 196-197.

[39]. Confidential interview with author. The Colonel told his wife about having sex with Bush and wrote about it in his diary. He was one of Oliver North’s bosses.

Casey had also been a friend of Bush’s father, Prescott.

King is now serving a 15-year federal prison sentence for fraud.

[40]. John DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska: AWT, Inc., 1992), p. 164.

[41]. “Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan: Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House.,” Washington Times , 6/29/89, quoted in: Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin write in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (Washington, DC: EIR,

[42]. John Lichfield, “White House ‘Great Gatsby’ Lands in a New York Jail Cell,” The Independent (UK), 8/10/89; John Lichfield, “White House Midnight Rambler Found Dead,” The Independent, 11/13/89; John Mintz, Martha Sherill and Elsa Walsh “The Shadow World of Craig Spence,” Washington Post, 7/18/89.

FBI Agent Donald Rochon, in a lawsuit against the Bureau filed in 1989, states that he had observed Special Agent Dillon “French kissing” SA Agent Terry Bohle and had “personally witnessed” Dillon “exposing himself in the Omaha office during a regular work day to numerous employees, both male and female.” Rochon also heard reports, substantiated by another agent, that Dillon had allowed Bohle to urinate in his mouth and to “urinate into a beer bottle [from] which he subsequently drank.” For his part, Dillon said that the urinating in his mouth was an “accident.” (John DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Chile Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska [Lincoln, NE: AWT, 1996], pp. 198-199.)

[43]. Ibid., p. 250.

Witnesses saw explosions in the air. Naturally, the NTSB covered it up, as they would do in numerous other cases.

[44]. King was appointed to the Reagan/Bush re-election committee by National Republican Council Chairperson LeFree Daniels.

Some of the allegations involving the CIA’s mind-control “Monarch Project,” involving children, were confirmed by DeCamp’s long-time friend William Colby, former Director of the CIA, who wound up dead shortly after the publication of DeCamp’s book.

[45]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 322.

[46]. Ibid., p. 12.

[47]. Omaha World-Herald, 7/23/89.

[48]. Gentleman’s Quarterly, December 1991.

[49]. Peter Sawyer, “The Original Allegations: Bush First Named in 1985,’’ Inside News, November, 1991, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin. “The newsletter reproduces several documents on Lisa’s case, including a Nebraska State Police report, a State of Nebraska Foster Care Review Board letter to the Attorney General, an investigative report prepared for the Franklin Committee of the Nebraska Senate, and a portion of the handwritten debriefing by Mrs. Julie Walters.”

[50]. Report, by Julie Walters, 3/25/86; authenticated by her in an interview in 1990 with authors Tarpley and Chaitkin.

[51]. Report, early 1989, compiled by Jerry Lowe, the first investigator for the Franklin Committee of the Nebraska State Senate, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin. “The March 1986 report on Bush was incorporated into the Foster Care Review Board’s official report presented to the Senate Franklin Committee and to law enforcement.”

[52]. “Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service, Report of Investigation, Subject: ‘Finders,” 2/12/87, copy in author’s possession.

Italics mine.

[53]. “Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service, Report of Investigation, Subject: ‘Finders,” 2/12/87, copy in author’s possession. Italics mine.

Revell would later sue this author, my publisher, Feral House, and several other parties for libel in federal court for what I wrote about him regarding his involvement in Pan Am 103 in my book, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror. A federal judge ruled in our favor. Revell also sued the Columbia Journalsm Review over the same matter.

[54]. According to Aquino, Set visited him in 1975 and anointed him “Magus V of the Age of Set,” thereby terminating LaVey’s “Age of Satan.” To spruce himself up for the role, Aquino plucked his eyebrows, had the number “666” tattooed on his scalp, and cut his hair into a severe widow’s peak. He christened his wife Lilith as “Magistra” in the new Temple of Set.

[55]. David Hoffman, “Do What Thou Wilt, Satanism and The Temple of Set,” Haight Ashbury Free Press, September-October, 1995. Why do people join satanic groups? Sociologist Gini Graham Scott, who studied the group in the early 1980s and published her findings in a book titled The Magicians, described the average member as people frustrated with everyday problems who are led to want power. Scott ended by concluding that the Setians contributed, via their philosophy, to a “growing climate of fear and hatred in America,” a position which Acquino virulently denies, terming Satan[ism] “a champion of anti-hypocrisy - a crusader against the corruption and moral bankruptcy of society.” Such philosophies have sometimes led to brutal and bizarre deaths at the hands of disturbed teenagers eager to experiment with the occult. Said LaVey, the Heavy Metal kids who talk about Satan are usually not affiliated with either organization. “They make the sign of the horns at concerts,” “and they don’t know why they are doing it. But it’s good that they’re doing it.” (Raising Hell, Michael Newton, Avon Books, 1993) According to spokespersons, neither The Church of Satan nor The Temple of Set have ever practiced human or animal sacrifice. Anton LaVey once said, “I will have no mercy on people who are cruel to animals.” The use of magick, however, to harm ones enemies, is acceptable in these organizations. When Jane Mansfield died in a car accident, LaVey said it was because she had asked him to put a curse on her boyfriend. He did, it worked, and Jane unfortunately just happened to be in the car. When busybody neighbors made authorities evict LaVey’s pet lion, Tagore, LaVey put a curse on them. Before long, most of the culprits had died, disappeared or moved away.

[56]. Ibid., pp. 326-327.

[57]. Giovanni Caporaso and Massimilino Cocozza Lubisco, Pronto (Barcelona, Spain), 8/3/91 and 8/10/91.

[58]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 188.

[59]. Ibid., p. 182.

[60]. Ibid., p. 195.

[61]. Ibid.

[62]. Ibid., p. 196.

[63]. Ibid.

This is a pattern that would be repeated by the FBI and the “Justice” Department at the Oklahoma City bombing trials. A tearful Daina Bradley—a bombing witness and victim—would be coerced into changing her story about her sighting of John Doe Two, a federal government agent, at the scene of the crime.

[64]. Ibid., p. 195.

[65]. Ibid., pp. 210-211.

[66]. Ibid., pp. 250-251.

[67]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 442; Former NYPD Detective Jim Rothstein, interview with author.

[68]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 175.

Emphasis mine.

[69]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 240, pp. 322-323.

[70]. Bo Gritz, Called to Serve (Sandy Valley, NV: Lazarus Publishing, 1991), p. 403.

[71]. Stich, Op. Cit., pp. 23-28. Stich’s sources are all former CIA operatives: Trenton Parker, Gunther Russbacher, and Russell Bowen.

[72]. See Russell S. Bowen, Immaculate Deception (Carson City, NV: America West Publishers, 1991). The pilot has visited and worked in Colombia and much of the rest of South America for over three decades, establishing several national airlines in the process in conjunction with the State Department. Shackley has also been placed in meetings concerning the sale of TOW missiles to Iran with Iran-contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar in Hamburg, Germany in 1984. (Harry V. Martin, Lars C. Hansson, “Noriega,” Napa Sentinel series, 1995.)

When Bowen became disenchanted with the operations, he contacted U.S. Customs in Miami. Nothing happened. Then during a 1982 flight in which Shackley and CIA operative Henry Meierhoffer ferried 800 pounds of cocaine from Medellin to Miami, Bowen blew the whistle by landing the plane at a different airport—an airport heavily monitored by the authorities. The plan backfired and Bowen was arrested and denied his rights to defend himself at trial.

[73]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 34.

[74]. Harry V. Martin, Lars C. Hansson, “Noriega,” Napa Sentinel series, 1995.

[75]. His letters arrived in envelopes with stamps and postmark clearly indicating they had been mailed from Medellin, Colombia. In was also conveyed to Snepp that the pilot claimed the company was tied directly to Interarms, the world's largest supplier of small-arm/automatic weapons, run by longtime CIA asset Samuel Cummings, brother-in-law of the late Senator John Tower of Texas.(Ibid.)

[76]. Martin and Hansson, Op Cit.

[77]. Stich, Op. Cit., pp. 23-28. Stich’s sources are all former CIA operatives: Trenton Parker, Gunther Russbacher, and Russell Bowen.

[78]. Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op. Cit.

“They also had government contracts with large U.S. steel companies, such as the steel foundry in Granite City, Illinois, located across from St. Louis, Mo,” says Maholy. “They were licensed by the U.S. government, to melt down and destroy confiscated weapons that various government, state and local law agencies acquired, during their raids on people in the drug and or other illegal businesses.” Maholy says the better weapons were not melted down, but traded for drugs. “A common tactic for the transfer of these weapons,” says Maholy, “would be to take the highly desired automatic weapons down to some South or Central American country, where there is little or no money, but large amounts of drugs. They would tell the militia groups that they can possess state-of-the-art weapons and ammunition, for whatever drugs they can produce. Since they have little, if any, money, the militia would cultivate large quantities of the drugs. They are easily swayed and convinced into doing business with agents of the CIA who are trained specially for this huge money making scam that benefits those few wealthy defrauders on Capitol Hill.”

[79]. Michael Maholy, e-mail to author.

Maholy was ultimately set up to take the fall. “People like Russell Bowen, and Basil Abbott, and the infamous and now deceased Barry Seal, whose brother is a co-defendant of mine, were taken out of the game also, along with me.”

[80]. Ibid., pp. 41.44.

[81]. Ibid., p. 60.

[82]. Ibid., p. 100. Other accounts were set up for William Casey and Richard Armitage.

The code names for the smuggling operations were: Short Flight, Burma Road, Morning Gold and Triangle. General Khun Sa, the source of approximately 40 percent of the heroin to the U.S., offered to replace his poppy production with other crops in exchange for financial aid. The State Department refused. Shackley’s chief aide was Thomas Clines.

[83]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

[84]. “Special Select Commission Appointed to Investigate Drug Traffic Crimes,” 7/20/89, quoted in Stich, Op. Cit., p. 7.

[85]. Texas Observer, 6/17/94.

[86]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 3.

Some of the code names for the Central and South American operations were Snow Cone, Black Eagle, Toilet Seat and Watchtower.

[87]. “Joint Investigation by the Arkansas State Attorney General’s Office and the United States Congress,” 6/21/91, printed in the Portland Free Press, January/February, 1997.

[88]. Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 97.

[89]. Ibid., p. 102.

Seal was killed on February 19, 1986. The FBI seized his personal belongings, successfully hiding evidence of his involvement with CIA/NSC drug running, including a card with George Bush’s phone number.

[90]. The allegations were reported by Mike Ruppert and Terry Reed.

[91]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 93.

[92]. Ibid., p. 88.

[93]. “Kingpin Indictment of George Bush,” excerpted from a draft indictment of George Bush prepared by former DEA agent Celerino Castillo and the editors of Executive Intelligence Review. All the evidence contained in this draft indictment has been thoroughly documented. Most of it has been taken either from the Kerry Report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, or the Final Report on Iran-Contra.

[94]. Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell, Blue Thunder (New York, NY: 1990), p. 34, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin.

According to CIA operative Richard Brenneke, Bush’s National Security Advisor, Donald Gregg, became Bush’s aide specifically to coordinate Israel’s Contra account. Brenneke claims he phoned Gregg’s office often in early 1983 for instructions to be given to his Israeli suppliers. It was known as Operation Tipped Kettle. As Gregg would later state regarding himself and George Bush: “We never discussed the contras. We had no responsibility for it. We had no expertise in it.” Bush mimed his oft-repeated mantra that he was “out of the loop.”

[95]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 229.

[96]. Michael Ruppert, From the Wilderness, 7/28/99; “Bush Sting Witness Speaks Out Evidence that Could Burn Bush Campaign,” Nitro News, no date provided.

As Governor of Texas, Bush aggressively incarcerated ordinary citizens for relatively minor amounts of drug possession—invoking some of the country’s harshest sentences—at the same time he was reportedly involved with major drug smugglers! J.H. Hatfield, author of Fortunate Son, published by St Martins Press, quotes unnamed sources as saying that George W. Bush, Jr. was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. The book said a Republican state judge had the record expunged in exchange for community service as a favor to Bush’s father, who had helped him get elected. Bush sanctimoniously said that he views himself as a “lowly sinner” but his religious faith brings him solace and reconciliation. “It’s where I find my strength and my solace and my comfort as a person.” (“Bush Finds Solace in Religious Faith,” Reuters, 1/28/00.)

[97]. Joe Conason and John Kelly, “Bush as Drug Czar, Village Voice, 10/11/88, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit.

[98]. D.G. “Chip” Tatum and Nancy J. Tatum, “PEGASUS An American Spy Story Book Two,” 1996.

[99]. Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 194.

Some contend Silverado, at the hands of Neil Bush, was a money laundry for illicit funds including reportedly narcotics trafficking.

[100]. Jack Colhoun, “Contra Backer Dipped Into S&L’s Deep Pockets,” Guardian (New York), 10/31/90, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit.

[101]. Skolnick, Op. Cit.

[102]. Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 108-109; “Bush, Drugs, and Pakistan,” The Nation, 11/14/88, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op. Cit.

[103]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 90.

As CIA Director Stansfield Turner said: “I will affirm Bush had him (Noriega) on the CIA payroll.” (Bo Gritz, Called to Serve, p. 404)

[104]. John Stockwell, interview on the Pacifica Radio Network, quoted in John DiNardo, “Part 10, Lure To War: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait,” The Peoples’ Spell Breaker, 6/28/97. According to USA Today of 5/22/90, Noriega “will suspend potentially embarrassing subpoenas for CIA and other records the defense says show at least $11 million of the assets came from the U.S. government.”

Noriega had at least once been a house guest of Vernon Walters, DCI Bush’s Deputy Director.

[105]. Frederick Kempe, Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega (1990), p. 162.

[106]. “Mejia made that assessment three days before the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Panama. Mejia spoke at a Dec. 17 meeting at the International Action Center in New York.” -Workers World Service, 12/27/93. “[The announcement came] less than six hours before H. Hour, making it impossible for reporters to make it to Panama in time for the start of JUST CAUSE.” - The Commanders - Bob Woodward p.178.

Carlton testified that he offered information to the DEA in Panama in July of 1987, who refused to take the information. Carlton had frequent contacts with the Medellin and Cali cartels, as well as taped phone conversations, documents and information about money laundering, drugs, weapons and assassinations. Instead of accepting the evidence, the “Justice” Department, as they would do with hundreds of other whistleblowers over the years, had Carlton arrested to silence him.

[107]. Michael Williams, e-mails to author.

[108]. Ibid.

As Congressman Larry McDonald’s stated before his plane was shot down: “The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies (Bush, et. al.) is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”

[109]. Ibid., p. 90

[110]. Tatum, Op. Cit.

This testimony was given by the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, and was later proven to be a lie. In fact, no babies were pulled out of incubators. This is, however, similar to what George Creels’ American Alliance for Labor and Democracy did to stir up public emotions just prior to America’s involvement in WWI. As Professor Noam Chomsky writes: “...there was a good deal of fabrication of atrocities by the Huns, Belgian babies with their arms torn off, all sorts of awful things that you still read in history books. They were all invented by the British propaganda ministry, whose own commitment at the time, as they put it in their secret deliberations, was ‘to control the thought of the world.’” (Alternative Press Review, Fall 1993.)

[111]. Agee, Op Cit.

[112]. Jeffrey T. Richelson, The U.S. Intelligence Community, p.356.

[113]. Time, in fact, went so far as to say that Iraq’s claims to Kuwait were “without any historical basis.” - Agee

[114]. Agee, Op Cit. (author’s note: George Bush is actually the 13th cousin (twice removed) of Queen Elizabeth.)

[115]. For references to Noriega’s role in drug trafficking and laundering proceeds for the CIA through Panamanian banks, see the affidavit of Colonel Edward P. Cutolo, commander of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, 3/11/80.

[116]. Robert Parry, “Clouds Over George Bush,” The Consortium, 12/29/98.

[117]. Amnesty International figures.

[118]. Australia East Timor Association, “Tortures by Suharto’s Ratbags,” posted on website.

[119]. Noam Chomsky, “End The Atrocity In East Timor,” 3/22/95, posted on Internet. Australia also trains Indonesia's elite Kopassus troops, the very troops occupying East Timor.

General Suharto would make another concession on behalf of George Bush in 1996 when he allowed Bush’s favorite mining company, Barrick Goldstrike of Canada, owned by Peter Munk, to take over mining rights from geologist Mike de Guzman. De Guzman had announced the discovery of what was believed to be the world’s richest gold field. He was later told he would have to turn over 68 per cent of his claim to Barrick. Fortunately, De Guzman’s problems were solved when he fell out of a helicopter courtesy of Freeport-McMoRan Mining Company (owned by Louisianan Jim-Bob Moffett), who had his own stake in the deal. As for Munk, he was capitalized by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi—a key supplier in Bush’s Iran-Contra pipeline. In 1996 Bush had a quiet chat with Mobutu Seko, then dictator of Zaire. Mobutu subsequently granted Barrick exclusive diamond mining rights. In a manner that would make General Suharto proud, Barrick’s operation in neighboring Tanzania was accused by Amnesty International of carrying out “extra-judicial killings.” Amnesty reports that 50 independent miners who refused to move off Barrick’s concessions were buried alive in the pits by company bulldozers. In 1992, in the final hours of the Bush Presidency, Barrick took control of U.S. government-owned property containing an estimated $10 billion in gold. For the works, Barrick paid the U.S. Treasury only $10,000. Barrick would subsequently reward Bush by donating $148,000 to the Republican Party while Bush was campaigning for President. (Gregory Palast, “Best democracy money can buy,” The Guardian [UK], 11/26/00.)

[**] The U.S. Oil companies which participated include Phillips Petroleum, Chevron, Oryx Energy, and USX/Marathon. In the next few years the American military doubled their supplies to Indonesian armed forces. “In December 1989 after he was exposed as having secretly violated his own announced sanctions against China over the Tiananmen massacre, Bush emphasized that ‘I think we were positioned in the forefront of human rights.’” - Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame, Marching in Place, p.182.

In March of 1991, Glaspie testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, insisting the Iraqis had lied about her conversation with Hussein. In July, however, the Committee obtained copies of the secret cables she had sent from Iraq summarizing the meeting. They showed that the Iraqis had not lied. In September of 1991, a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee revealed that State Department official Margaret Tutwiler and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and Far Eastern Affairs John H. Kelly had both repeated the identical “no commitment to defend Kuwait” stance when questioned by House members.

[120]. Agee, Op Cit.; Elaine Sciolino, “Envoy’s Testimony on Iraq is Assailed, Senators Say Glaspie Misled Them on Hussein Talks,” New York Times, 7/13/91; Elaine Sciolino with Michael R. Gordon, “U.S. Gave Iraq Little Reason Not to Mount Kuwait Assault,” New York Times, 9/ 23/91, quoted in John McManus, The Insiders (Appleton, WI: Western Islands, 1992).

[121]. Chomsky, Op Cit.

[122]. Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, Chronicles of Dissent, p. 305; Both the Bush and Clinton administrations Justice Departments agreed not to prosecute these big name American corporations for trading with the enemy. Such trading with the enemy is tantamount to treason.

[123]. Ibid.

[124]. Jack Colhoun, “Bush Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate Investigation,” Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown. “The administration’s pro-Baghdad policy, spelled out in National Security Directive-26, adopted on October 2, 1989, was based on promoting U.S. trade with Iraq. The Commerce Department routinely approved applications from U.S. companies for the export to Iraq of “dual-use” technology, which has civilian and military applications.”

BCCI financed both Republicans and Democrats. The bank was formed with money from the Bank of America, the largest shareholders of which are the Rothschilds of Chicago, Paris, London and Switzerland. On Columbus Day weekend of 1988, BCCI’s U.S. offices were seized by the Reagan/Bush administration. One of the reasons was to stop BCCI’s funding of the Dukakis campaign.

Following the war, Bush wrote to the Oil Minister of Kuwait on behalf of Chevron Oil Corporation. Bush says he “had no stake in the Chevron operation.” “Following this selfless use of his influence, the oil company put $657,000 into Republican Party coffers.... Not all of the elder Bush’s work is voluntary. His single talk to the board of Global Crossing, the telecoms start-up, earned him $13m in stock. The company also kicked in another million for [Dubya’s Presidential] run. (Palast, Op. Cit. )

[125]. Donald S. McAlvany, “Germ Warfare Against America. Part I. Overseas Infections,” McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, August 1996, quoted in S.A.F.A.N. Internet Newsletter, No. 88, October 4, 1996. “In a New York Times article (5/22/91) entitled, ‘Health Crisis Said to Grip Iraq In Wake of War’s Destruction,’ It was reported that child mortality soared in the first four months of 1991, up 55,000 over the same period in 1990.”

[126]. As Captain Joyce Riley, a nurse and GWI activist testified: “They were given medications—they didn't know what they were.... Everybody was incredibly sick afterwards.... We don’t know what pills the troops took. We don’t know what we were subjected to. ”

Like the thousands of U.S. soldiers who were intentionally exposed to nuclear radiation during the 1950s—many of whom died of cancer, or the thousands exposed to Agent Orange during Vietnam, these veterans were just another casualty in the Federal Government’s long list of crimes against its own people—the same crimes it prosecuted Nazi doctors for at Nuremberg. The code that resulted from those trials was a 10-point declaration stating that voluntary and informed consent is essential from all human subjects who participate in research, whether during war or peace.

The Iraqi dictator received 25 percent of the proceeds of oil shipped to the West. When oil was 20 dollars per barrel, Hussein split the 5 dollar per barrel kick-back with Bush. A trillion dollars of oil was shipped from the Gulf during the decade 1980 to 1990. The corrupt rake-off amounted to 25 billion dollars per year, making Saddam Hussein and Bush the richest men on the planet. (Sherman H. Skolnick, “What is Whitewater Really All About?” Skolnick Report, no date provided.)

According to the Chicago Tribune, “In the 1950s [the Liedtke brothers] teamed up with then-oilman George Bush and John Overby to form Zapata Oil Co. Then they went on to form Penzoil.” BCCI also has records showing joint business ventures between Bush and Manuel Noriega.

Kerry would go on to play a role in covering up CIA/NSC’s drug running, including the frame-up of William Tyree, a Special Forces soldier who participated in drug-running operations under orders from his superiors (See Chapter XX). Other people, such as Clark Gifford, would be framed to take the fall for Bush.

[127]. Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 152-154.

[128]. Jack Colhoun, “Bush Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate Investigation,” Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown. “The administration’s pro-Baghdad policy, spelled out in National Security Directive-26, adopted on October 2, 1989, was based on promoting U.S. trade with Iraq. The Commerce Department routinely approved applications from U.S. companies for the export to Iraq of “dual-use” technology, which has civilian and military applications.”

[129]. Rick Wiles, “Bush Family’s Dirty Little Secret,” American Freedom News, September, 2001.

[130]. Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Peter Truell, and Jill Abramson, “How Oil Firm Linked to a Son of Bush Won Bahrain Drilling Pact,” Wall Street Journal, 12/6/91; Johathan Beaty and S. G. Gwynne, “A Mysterious Mover of Money and Planes, Time, 10/8/91, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit. According to the company’s 1989 proxy statement, Bush held 345,426 shares of Harken’s common stock, or less than 1.1 percent of the total. Bush, Jr.’s involvement with Harken was first revealed by Houston Post investigative reporter Pete Brewton.

The future President completed his key insider trade eight days before Harken announced a $23 million second quarter loss and about six weeks before the invasion. The chairman of the SEC at the time of the “investigation” was Richard Breedon, former lawyer with the Houston firm of Baker and Botts, who served as Deputy Counsel to Bush Sr. in the Reagan (read Bush) administration. The SEC investigation of George Jr. was led by General Counsel James R. Doty who, according to a UPI report, mysteriously neglected to interview any of the Harken directors, including Jr. himself. Doty had previously served as Jr.’s personal lawyer during his purchase of the Texas Rangers. (Tom Flocco and Michael C. Ruppert, “All Roads Lead to Deustchebank And Harken Energy, W’s Own 1991 Insider Trading Scam – The Mother of All Enrons, From the Wilderness, 2002.)

[131]. Uri Dowbenko, “The Man Who Knows Too Much: An Interview with Al Martin, author of “The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider” (PART 1).

[132]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

[133]. Jack Colhoun, “Prescott Bush and the Gangsters,” Lies of Our Times, April, 1992; and Robert J. McCartney, “Japanese Company Sues Bush Brother,” Washington Post, 6/16/92, quoted in Ibid.

[134]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

[135]. “Censored 1999: The News That Didn’t Make The News,” Seven Stories Press, 1999, reported in, Carla Binion, “Anti-Semitism, racism and a Bush Family organization,” On-Line Journal, no date provided.

[136]. John Spicer Nichols, “La Prensa: The CIA Connection,” Columbia Journalism Review, July-August, 1988, quoted in Ibid.

[137]. AmeriCares website.

[138]. Quoted in the New American, 9/16/96.

[139]. Husayn Al-Kurdi, “What Really Happened in the ‘Safe Haven?’” Portland Free Press, November/December, 1996.

[140]. Bush’s April 16 Press Conference.

[141]. Chomsky, Op Cit.

Cathy O’Brien—claiming to have personally witnessed this, paranormal researcher and author David Icke and others—say that Bush and some other top leaders are actually reptilian aliens masquerading as human-beings.

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George Bush: World Class Monster

“George Bush is a satanic, sadistic, brutal monster.
Compared to George Bush, Adolf Hitler was a true gentleman.”

- Michael Boren Williams, former Campaign Manager for Senator Gary Hart and Bush murder attempt victim


“For the record, if I had my choice as to which one of the two (Clinton or Bush) represented the greater evil, I would say George Bush - in the blink of an eye....”

- Michael Ruppert, former LAPD Narcotics detective


True evil does not develop in a vacuum.
Evil is arrogant. It has no conscience. It is utterly self-serving. It hides from the light and will attack, even destroy others to preserve its own demented delusions. It is an unrestrained sociopath, wallowing in the murky darkness of its own psychosis while endlessly rationalizing its terrible deeds. It infiltrates the weak-minded and subverts the weak of character.

Evil... creates a world of shadows - shadow play - shadow government. It lives by the lie.

“The Big Lie,” once thought to be the exclusive purview of the Nazis, has become canonized in our form of government. And it is growing more perverse—more insidious. Like the Nazis before the fall of the Third Reich, we are a nation wallowing in the murky darkness of our own psychosis.

I can think of no contemporary American family more twisted and evil than the Bush dynasty.

The Bush family’s rapacious greed and depravity can trace its lineage to New England’s Pierce family. Both George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife Barbara Pierce (of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith), as was President Franklin Pierce, are descended from this same family. Originally the powerful Percy family, they changed their name to Pierce and quickly emigrated to America when Thomas Percy’s involvement in the Gun Powder Plot to assassinate King James I was revealed.



Bush’s membership in the shadowy Yale secret society of Skull and Bones (S&B) has likewise not been widely reported. S&B is made up of members recruited exclusively from the ranks of the wealthy Eastern Establishment. As Hoover Institute professor Antony Sutton writes in America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones:

“Those on the inside know it as The Order. Others have known it for more than 150 years as Chapter 322 of a German secret society. More formally for legal purposes, The Order was incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856. It was also known as the Brotherhood of Death....”[1]



Many historians claim that S&B sprung up as a direct extension of America’s oldest Greek-letter college secret society, Phi Beta Kappa. As Sutton writes:

“The Order is not just another campus Greek letter fraternal society with passwords and handgrips, common to most campuses.... Chapter 322 is a secret society whose members are sworn to silence. It only exists on the Yale campus. It has rules. It has ceremonial rites. It is not at all happy with prying probing citizens.... Above all the Order is powerful, unbelievably powerful....”[2]



S&B members occupy key positions in commerce, media, diplomacy, education, espionage, finance, law and politics—having a profound impact on world events. As Sutton adds:

“Among academic associations, the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Chemical Society and the American Psychological Association were all started by members of the Order or persons close to the Order.... These are key associations for the conditioning of society.... The phenomenon of The Order as the first on the scene is found especially among foundations.”[3]


Regarding the Order’s influence on historical events as portrayed by the media, Sutton notes that...

“...During the past one hundred years any theory of history or historical evidence that falls outside a pattern established by the American Historical Association and the major foundations with their grant making power has been attacked or rejected—not on the basis of any evidence presented, but on the basis of the acceptability of the argument of the so-called Eastern Liberal Establishment and its official historical line. There is an Establishment history, an official history, which dominates history textbooks, trade publishing, the media and library shelves. The official line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions, scandals, assassinations are more or less random unconnected events. By definition events can never be the result of a conspiracy. They can never result from premeditated planned group action. An excellent example is the Kennedy assassination when, within 9 hours of the Dallas tragedy, TV networks announced the shooting was not a conspiracy regardless of the fact that a negative proposition can never be proven and that the investigation had barely begun.”[4]



The American chapter of the German Order was founded in 1833 at Yale University, established by General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft—father of President and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Taft. It was during the Taft presidency that the bills which forever altered the Constitution were passed into law. These included the 17th Amendment, calling for the direct election of senators, guaranteeing that elections could be purchased by big money interests; and the Income Tax and Federal Reserve Act (16th Amendment). The Act was quietly pushed through Congress by Senator Nelson Aldridge—maternal grandfather of Trilateral Commission founder David Rockefeller—in the days immediately before Christmas, assuring that most lawmakers, who were home for the holidays, would not be available to vote.



During a break-in by a rival Yale society in 1876 into the S&B “Tomb,” they found a small room, with an “always-burning lamp” and “a dilapidated human skull.” Upstairs they found a lodge room with its walls covered in black velvet, a table with skull and crossbones, and the “sanctum sanctorum”—room number 322—“furnished in red velvet” and on the wall a star with a finger pointing to it.



They also found “an old engraving representing an open burial vault, in which on a stone slab, rest four human skulls, grouped around a fool’s-cap and bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a beggar’s scrip, and a royal crown. On the arched wall above the vault are the explanatory words, in Roman letters, ‘We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, We Bettler Oder Kaiser?’ and below the vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; ‘Ob Arm, Ob Beich, im Tode gleich.’’ “Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all’s the same in death.” This closely resembles the initiation into the Degree of Regent for the Bavarian Illuminati. Some researchers assert that Phi Beta Kappa is simply the “Bavarian Illuminati... spread to America.”[5]



S&B was also the recruiting grounds for the Russell Trust Company, which managed S&B’s treasury. Founded in 1824, Russell Trust became the dominant opium trafficking syndicate in the U.S. Russell Trust merged with the number one US trader, J&T.H. Perkins in 1829. By the mid-1830s the opium trade had become “the largest commerce of its time in any single commodity, anywhere in the world.”[6]



Russell partner Warren Delano, Jr.—Chief of Russell Trust operations in Canton, China—was grandfather to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Bush cousin. Other Russell partners include John Cleve Green, whose opium fortunes financed Princeton University, Abiel Abbott Low, whose opium money financed the construction of Columbia University, Joseph Coolidge, whose son organized the United Fruit Company (later under the ownership of the Rockefellers, and which provide the impetus for the CIA’s replacement of the democratically elected government of Guatamela with a brutal military dictatorship), and his grandson, Archibald Cary Coolidge, who was a founding executive officer of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR).



The black flag with the white skull and crossbones, which was the corporate flag gracing all Russell Trust ships, became the emblem of S&B—an emblem that even to this day it symbolizes piracy.



Antony Sutton’s scholarly works on this secret society, The Order and How The Order Creates War and Revolution, reveal that half of the board of directors of J.P. Morgan and Company—who profited handsomely from the bloody carnage of World War I—were S&B graduates. As Sutton notes:



“College textbooks present war and revolution as more or less accidental results of conflicting forces.... The decay of political negotiation into physical conflict comes about, according to these books, after valiant efforts to avoid war. Unfortunately, this is nonsense. War is always a deliberate creative act by individuals....”[7]





Bush and the Nazis



“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen.... At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922



Eventually, Brown Brothers Harriman—the largest private investment bank in America at the time—came to be dominated by S&B members. George Bush’s grandfather, George Herbert Walker, served as the bank’s President. His father, Prescott, served as the bank’s Vice President.[8*]



Brown Brothers Harriman was helped to ascension by the powerful Warburg “Jewish” banking monopoly—one of the principle controlling interests behind the German conglomerate I.G. Farben, which, ironically, provided not only the gas, but much of the funds used to effect Hitler’s “final solution.” Brown Brothers had funded American slave plantations during the Civil War, and former Brown Brothers partner, Bank of England Governor Montagu Collet Norman, was known as the most avid supporter of Hitler within British ruling circles. Brown Brothers-Harriman would become the largest and most politically influential private banking house in the United States.[9]



The elder Bush was also director of the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation—both Nazi front companies. Like father like son, George Herbert Walker Bush would later go on to form similar business alliances with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taking in personal oil kickbacks, and arming that country with conventional, biological and chemical weapons, both in violation of his own Arms Control and Armaments Amendments Act, and as a prelude to a war which he would instigate and precipitate.



The Warburgs and the Sulzbergers, owners of the New York Times, used various committees and religious organizations to protect the Harriman-Bush deals with Mussolini and Hitler. Although the government would later seize several of the Bush/Harriman/Nazi assets—most importantly the Thyssen family-owned Union Bank, which played one of the largest roles in financing Hitler—American entrepreneurs such as Bush would be left unscathed.



Bush was Union’s Director.



As Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin note in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography:



“The 1942 U.S. government investigative report said that Bush’s Nazi-front bank was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works Corporation or “German Steel Trust”) led by Fritz Thyssen and his two brothers.... Germany’s largest industrial corporation, [it] was organized in 1926 by Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon. Dillon was the old comrade of Prescott Bush’s father Sam Bush from the “Merchants of Death” bureau in World War I.”



The authors write that George Bush’s maternal grandfather, George Herbert Walker, founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company. “Walker was one of Hitler’s most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler’s infant Nazi party.[10]



The link between Harriman and Thyssen came through Walker’s Union Banking Corporation, located in Averill Harriman’s offices at 39 Broadway in New York.



“According to our sources,” write Tarpley and Chaitkin, “Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine....”



Walker’s American Shipping & Commerce became the holding company for the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben’s Nazi espionage unit.



“In an elaborate corporate paper trail, Harriman’s stock in American Shipping & Commerce was controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of Walker’s office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush....”[11]



Another example of the perverse interlocking nature of the Bush/Harriman-Brown interests was the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation of Poland, two thirds of the stock of which was owned by Friedrich Flick, a leading German industrialist, and Bush/Harriman-Brown. Given the fact that most of the company’s output was being directed to Germany’s war machine at the time, the Polish government decided that the Nazi and American stockholders should pay their fair share of taxes. The stockholders didn’t agree, and responded with a lockout. Fortunately the crises was solved when Nazi tanks invaded Poland in September of 1939, rescuing their investment, which would now be aided with the introduction of slave labor.[12]



Baron Kurt von Schroder, of the Schroder banking family, was co-director of the Thyssen-Huette foundry along with Johann Groeninger, Prescott Bush’s New York bank partner. Schroder, who also had the personal blessings of the Rockefellers, was Hitler’s banker.



John Foster Dulles (brother of future CIA director Allen Dulles), of the law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, was Bush’s lawyer. According to Tarpley and Chaitkin:



“Throughout the 1930s, John Foster Dulles arranged debt restructuring for German firms under a series of decrees issued by Adolf Hitler. In these deals, Dulles struck a balance between the interest owed to selected, larger investors, and the needs of the growing Nazi war-making apparatus for producing tanks, poison gas, etc.”[13]



John Foster Dulles, later appointed Secretary of State, was also the attorney for I.G. Farben. By 1933, I.G. Farben and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil were effectively a single firm, merged in hundreds of cartel arrangements. Dulles, who was related to Avery Rockefeller, was the attorney for a new investment firm, set up by him in 1936, called the Schroder-Rockefeller Company. [14]



Another lawyer in the employ of I.G. Farben, John J. McCloy, would later become president of Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of the CFR, and serve on the Warren Commission, which effectively covered up the Kennedy assassination, which George Bush would allegedly play a minor role in (See Chapter XX). After the war, McCloy would pardon hundreds of Nazis accused of war crimes, while establishing the “Ratlines” which brought Nazi doctors and scientists (and spies) into the U.S. to conduct scientific and medical experiments on Americans that had formerly been conducted on concentration camp victims.[15]



In 1940, I.G. Farben began construction of their huge plant at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Utilizing slave labor, I.G. Farben and their SS guards worked the approximately 25,000 prisoners literally to their deaths. Standard Oil/Germany president Emil Helfferich later testified that Rockefeller’s Standard Oil funds helped pay for the SS guards at Auschwitz.



As Russel S. Bowen, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General who served in the OSS and reported directly to William Casey, writes about George Bush in his book, Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed, the “inheritor of the Auschwitz death camp fortune,” Texan William Stamps Farish III, is George Bush’s “closest friend and confidant.”



“As President and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Farish was the controller of the global cartel between Standard Oil and the German I.G. Farben concern.”[16]



Farish, one of the richest men in Texas, managed George Bush’s personal wealth.



One example of Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank’s assistance to the Nazi war machine was their underwriting of Standard Oil’s agreement, in cooperation with General Motors, to supply ethyl lead to the Nazis. The Bush bank also arranged collateral security for a shipment of tetraethyl lead for the German Luftwaffe in 1938, shortly before the outbreak of the war. The Ethyl came from the Ethyl Export Corporation of New York, administered by the Reich Air Ministry along with I.G. Farben.[17]



On October 24th, 1942, the U.S. Government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized, as were those of the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. Harriman’s Fifteen Holding Company, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and the Silesian-American Corporation quickly followed.[18]



Possibly in an attempt to save the family’s honor, George H. W. Bush abandoned his plans to enter Yale and enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve. While serving on the aircraft carrier San Jacinto, Bush’s Avenger torpedo-bomber, piloted by young George, was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Eventhough the plane was built to withstand ocean crash-landings, Bush-the-war-hero bailed out, leaving his two crewmates behind. While Bush was rescued by the U.S. submarine Finback, Jack Delaney and Ted White, his companions, died in the plane.



Bush was given a medal for heroism.[19]



Like father, like son, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives testified under oath that he was contacted by Houston businessman “Sid Adger and asked to recommend George W. Bush, Jr. for a pilot position with the Air National Guard,” and that he called General James Rose and “did so.”[20]



Yet Bush, Jr. our current Commander-in-Chief, reportedly never even bothered showing up for drills. General William Turnipseed and his aide Kenneth Lott both flatly deny that Bush ever appeared for duty—a violation of the Texas Code of Military Justice (a State Statute and a version of the U.S. Code of Military Justice)—a court martial offense.[21]



Neither did our chief flag-waver appear for his training at the 187th Tactical Recon Group at Dannelly ANG Base in Alabama.[22]



Bill Burkett, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Guard, said, “As the State Plans Officer for the Texas National Guard, I was on full-time duty at Camp Mabry when [Bush aide] Dan Bartlett was cleansing the George W. Bush file prior to G.W.’s presidential announcement.... The archives were closely scrutinized to make sure that the Bush autobiography plans and the record did not directly contradict each other.”[23]



Government documents do note, however, that Jr.’s flying privlidges were suspended for failure to take his annual medical exam, even though he stated that he was perfectly healthy. Michael Dannenhauer, former Chief of Staff to the elder Bush, states that Jr.’s cocaine and alcohol habit was “out of control” and that he experienced “lost weekends in Mexico” during that time.[24] This is not surprising, considering that Jr. would offer free beer to college students to garner their votes during his 1987 congressional race.[25]



When it was time to leave the National Guard, the prodigal son and future President received an honorable discharge.



Daddy Bush would have another opportunity to display both his love of freedom and democracy and his “family values” when it was revealed in September of 1988 that seven members of his presidential campaign were fascist, pro-Nazi, anti-Semites. The seven, who later resigned or were fired, were part of the Republican Party’s Heritage Groups Council—a funding clique made up of extreme right-wing Eastern European émigrés. In 1976, Heritage Groups Council Director Colonel Jay Neimczyk wrote a memo to the RNC’s Co-Chairman Robert Carter praising Bush’s leadership of the ethnic recruitment effort, reportedly including a number of war criminals.[26] One of Bush’s allies, Yaroslav Stetsko, had collaborated with the Nazis as their puppet prime minister of Galicia in the western Ukraine. Captured Nazi records revealed that over 100,000 Jews were murdered within two years of Yaroslav’s reign.



As John Loftus and Mark Aarons write in: The Secret War Against The Jews:



“It was Bush who fulfilled [President Richard] Nixon’s promise to make the “ethnic” emigres a permanent part of Republican politics. Bush’s tenure as head of the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor’s 1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party’s official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush’s campaign allies were the émigré Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United States....

Nearly twenty years later, and after exposé’s in several respectable newspapers, Bush continued to recruit most of the same ethnic Fascists, including Pasztor, for his own 1988 ethnic outreach program when he first ran for President.”



Fugitive Nazi war criminal Otto von Bolschwing, U.S. head of the notorious Nazi Gehlan Org spy apparatus, was himself a Republican Party activist and reportedly a friend of Richard Nixon’s.



Another group of suspected Nazi war criminals, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, participated in a 1983 White House meeting with George Bush and Ronald Reagan. One photo of the meeting was signed: “To the Honorable Yaroslav Stetsko, With Best Wishes, George Bush.” [27]



Reagan himself, formerly part of Allen Dulles’s Office of Policy Coordination, had been the front man back in the 1950s for the Crusade for Freedom, a money-laundering organization which was part of Dulles’s fascist “freedom fighters” program.[28]



President Reagan—perhaps demonstrating his own alignment with Nazis—visited the Bittburg Waffen SS cemetery to pay his respects during a controversial but well-publicized trip to Germany.



One of CIA Director Allen Dulles’s covert agents inside the Roosevelt and Truman administrations was Edwin Pauley, who would become the U.S. representative to the Allied Reparations Committee and the industrial advisor to the Potsdam Conference. Pauley later became George Bush’s partner in the Mexican government’s oil monopoly Pemex. The CIA used Pemex as a cover and as a money laundering operation for Pauley’s campaign contributions. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Pauley, say several of our sources, was the man who invented an intelligence money-laundering system in Mexico, which was later refined in the 1970s as part of Nixon’s Watergate scandal.”



As for Watergate, burglar Frank Sturgis told the San Francisco Chronicle that “the reason we burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news leaking relating to the photos of our role in the assassination of President John Kennedy.”[29]



Former CIA operative Trenton Parker, who was part of a special unit named “Pegasus,” states that Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George Bush all knew of the intended assassination plot.[30]



Bush reportedly coordinated Frank Sturgis, as well as Watergate team members Rafael “Chi Chi” Quintero, E. Howard Hunt, and Bernard Barker for the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion—using Pemex and Bush’s Zapata Oil as a staging point (the operation was codenamed OPERATION ZAPATA). Nixon, as Vice President, had supervised Allen Dulles’s planning of the invasion.



Quintero worked under CIA coordinator William F. Buckley, Jr. in an assassination unit Buckley supervised under the cover of Pemex. Bush had a keen financial interest in turning Cuba back into a playground for ultra-capitalist interests, as Bush’s Zapata Oil was one of the key suppliers to Cuba under Batista.



As Richard Nixon told John Ehrilchman shortly after his election: “Eliminate everyone except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause.” Nixon and Bush had openly discussed killing Kennedy for his failure to provide air cover at the Bay of Pigs.[31*]



Nixon’s relationship to the Bush family goes back to 1946, when Nixon answered an ad placed by the Orange County Republican Party in a Los Angeles newspaper. Key funding for the ad was provided by Prescott Bush, who was looking for a puppet to run for Congress. Nixon got the job, landing a seat in the Senate and then progressing to the Vice-Presidency. In 1960 George Bush became a protégé of Nixon’s, who was then running for President.



Bush described Nixon as his mentor.



However Bush denies his connections with the CIA. Yet a November 29, 1963 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the State Department’s Director of Intelligence and Research uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act describes a briefing given to “George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.” The memo was written after Lee Harvey Oswald was interrogated about his connections to the Cuban exile community and the CIA.[32]

For his part, Bush claims he never worked for the Agency until he was appointed Director in 1975, and CIA spokesman Bill Devine would “neither confirm nor deny” Bush’s role to reporter Joseph McBride of The Nation. Yet when the memo was published, the CIA did an about-face when Agency spokeswoman Sharon Basso told Associated Press that the memo actually referred to a George William Bush, who was a CIA night watchman at the time (hardly a man who would be given such a briefing!). When located and contacted by McBride and Nation editor Victor Navasky, William Bush confirmed that he was definitely not the Bush referred to in the memo. He had simply worked for the CIA for about six months as a coast and landing beach analyst—not a night watchmen—at the time, with a rank of GS-5. In response to questions about the Hoover memo, he replied, “Is that the other George Bush?”[33]



Yet Bush had maintained a personal relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald’s alleged handler, CIA “asset” George DeMohrenschildt, who carried Bush’s name and telephone in his address book until his supposed suicide. DeMohrenschildt gave only the vaguest explanations for his frequent trips to Bush’s home town of Houston in his testimony before the Warren Comission.[34*]



Now deceased Army Colonel, CIA operative and NYPD detective “Big Al” Carone stated that “George Bush was CIA prior to the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963.” Carone told his subordinate William Tyree that he “had taken money to a female named Ruth Paine in late 1956 on orders from William Casey (OSS/CIA operative who was CIA Director from 1981 to 1987).”



According to a lawsuit filed by Tyree, “Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background...



“Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Mohrenschildt, who in turn contacted his CIA supervisor, identified as George Bush. Carone said that George Bush was the same George Bush that was CIA Director. Carone said the individual located by Ruth Paine was identified as a Mr Lee Harvey Oswald.



“FBI records/reports within 14 days after the assassination of President Kennedy will reflect that Mr George Bush met with J. Edgar Hoover, as Bush was trying to ascertain what the FBI might have stumbled onto by mistake in regards to the Ruth Paine - Oswald connection.”[35*]



When appointed CIA Director in 1975 by President Gerald Ford (a former member of the Warren Commission), Bush conveniently headed off inquiries by Senator Frank Church into the CIA’s various assassination plots which DCI William Colby had been cooperating with. Colby would later wind up dead under suspicious circumstances. (See Chapter XX)



In fact, Bush had been a top agent of the CIA since at least 1960, when he recruited Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion. Given the Bush family’s oil interests in the region, this is hardly surprising. As Anthony Kimery writes in Covert Action Quarterly:



“Veteran CIA operatives in the war against Castro say Bush not only let the CIA use Zapata as a front for running some of its operations (including the use of several off-shore drilling platforms), but assert that Bush personally served as a conduit through which the Agency disbursed money for contracted services.”[36]



It was at that time that Bush met Felix Rodriguez, part of a CIA shooter team coordinated out of a training base in Mexico supervised by the FBI’s Division Five (domestic counter-intelligence). Rodriguez would later become Bush’s main liaison to Oliver North’s Contra drugs-for-guns pipeline when Bush served as Vice President.





Pedophilia



“For seven and-a-half years I’ve worked alongside Reagan, and I’m proud to be his partner. We’ve had triumphs, we’ve made mistakes, we’ve had sex... uh, I mean setbacks....” - Vice President George Bush, May 6, 1987



As researcher Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens’ Committee to Clean Up the Courts states: “Not only George “Poppy” Bush but also Chief Smirker (and current President) G.W. Bush, Jr., as well as brothers Jeb AND Neil, are all tightly implicated in the staggering array of absolutely filthy, vicious, gutter-level activities carried on by this family and their closely connected allies in organized crime and intelligence agencies....”[37]



President George Herbert Walker Bush continuously lauded himself before the public as the “family values” president. Bush should know about family values. One of his favorite pastimes, allegedly, is having sex with children—including girls and boys. According to child pedophile victims in Nebraska and former self-described mind-control sex slave Cathy O’Brien, he is also a kidnapper and a drug fiend. As O’Brien writes:



“It was late evening when [George] Bush and [Dick] Cheney finished programming me with numerous messages pertaining to the immediate opening of the Juarez, Mexican border to free [the drug and slave] trade. They then took me downstairs to the living quarters of the western cedar and redwood structure where Kelly soon joined us. George Bush, Jr. deposited my obviously traumatized and withdrawn child at the door....



“Centered between two facing black leather sofas was a coffee table littered with drugs and paraphernalia.... Heroin, Bush’s drug of choice, was in abundance and Cheney joined him in using it. The smorgasbord of drugs laid out supposedly included opium, cocaine, and Wonderland Wafers (MDMHA-XTC, AKA: Ecstasy), which indicated to me they intended to celebrate their vacation with abandon. I had seen Cheney stumbling drunk before, but this was the only time I saw him use heroin and give it to me. Kelly, too, was subjected to the drugs.



“Bush attempted to sell Cheney on the idea of pedophilia through graphic descriptions of having sex with Kelly. Both were already sexually aroused from drugs and anticipation. Cheney demonstrated to Bush why he did not have sex with kids by exposing himself to Kelly and saying, “Come here.” Upon seeing Cheney’s unusually large penis, Kelly reeled back in horror and cried, “No!” which made them both laugh. Bush asked Cheney for his liquid cocaine atomizer as he got up to take Kelly to the bedroom. When Cheney remarked how benevolent it was of Bush to numb her with it before sex, Bush replied, “The hell it is. It’s for me.” He described his excited state in typical vulgar terms and explained that he wanted it to spray cocaine on his penis to last longer. Cheney said, “I thought it was for the kid.” Bush explained, “Half the fun is having them squirm.” He took Kelly’s hand and led her off to the bedroom.



“Cheney... burned my inner thigh with the fireplace poker, and threatened to throw Kelly in the fire. He hypnotically enhanced his description of her burning to traumatize me deeply. As he sexually brutalized me, I heard Kelly’s whimpers coming from the bedroom. As her cries grew louder, Cheney turned on classical music to drown out her cries for help.



“At 4:00 am, as ordered, Bush Jr. (and his helicopter pilot) came to retrieve Kelly and me. We were flown (by helicopter) back to the Lake Shasta area where Houston and the motor home awaited us. Bush’s assault of Kelly proved to be a mind shattering experience for me, and physically devastating to Kelly. She was in dire need of medical attention and was unable even to move. Houston threatened to stop the motor home in the Yosemite area and throw me from a steep cliff if I didn’t settle down. His threats and commands could not control my hysteria, as much of his control programming had inadvertently shattered. Fearful he would lose both his ‘money-makers,’ Houston permitted me to telephone Kelly’s doctor and begin administering medicines. As for me, he arranged for assistance in picking up the pieces in order that I complete my primary purpose in traveling to California, i.e., meet with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid and finalize plans to open the Juarez border.”



According to a trusted source of this author’s who got drunk with O’Brien, her story never wavered, but became more intimate in detail. He told me he felt that she was telling the truth.



While many of O’Brien’s allegations remain controversial, similar allegations have been documented by the author via other, independent sources.



Michael Boren Williams, who was Senator Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign manager, tried to expose “George Bush’s rampant criminal activity” when Bush “sought revenge” against him. He believes Bush personally ordered the FBI to terrorize him and his family. As Williams states: “I met a young lady named Jennifer Dingle who was working as a bartender in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany at the Hotel Victoria’s very elegant bar. As it turns out, she was raised next-door to the Cohens, and William Cohen’s son was her close friend.... Yes, William Cohen is most definitely a pedophile.... Now, what is going to surprise you is that Bush and Cohen are, indeed, friends.”[38]



Other sources backing up the pedophile allegations are Kay Pollard Griggs, wife of high-ranking “insider” Marine Colonel George Griggs—tied to Oliver North, Ted Shackley and Colonel Michael Aquino, an Army PSYOPS specialist and self-avowed Satanist investigated by the SFPD for child molestation, and the Nebraska State Senate Franklin investigative committee.[39]



The Franklin allegations centered around one Larry E. King, Jr. a prominent black Nebraska Republican fund-raiser, CEO of the Franklin Credit Union and friend of former DCIs William Casey and George Bush.



When the FBI raided King’s offices in November of 1988 to probe $40 million dollars in embezzlements, they discovered a large quantity of child pornography.



Witnesses, including social workers and numerous children, told the Franklin Committee and the FBI that King was running a child prostitution ring that served prominent officials, including members of the Republican and Democratic parties.



King sang the national anthem at both the 1984 and 1988 Republican conventions, where President Reagan was the guest of honor. As Senator John DeCamp, who investigated the allegations as part of the Franklin Committee and who attended one party thrown by King in Dallas, writes in his book, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska: “I saw Maureen Reagan draped over King all evening like a big blanket.”[40]



A June 29, 1989 Washington Times article entitled, “Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan,” states:



“A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to Washington’s political elite.’”[41]



One of King’s associates in Washington, D.C. was political lobbyist Craig Spence, who maintained a call-boy ring for Washington’s elite, specializing in children. A Republican powerbroker, Spence was known for his lavish “power cocktail’’ parties. As authors Tarpley and Chaitkin write in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography:



“Spence was well connected. He celebrated Independence Day 1988 by conducting a midnight tour of the White House in the company of two teenage male prostitutes among others in his party. Rumors circulated that a list existed of some 200 Washington prominents who had used the call boy service. The Number Two in charge of personnel affairs at the White House, who was responsible for filling all the top civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, and Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole’s chief of staff, were two individuals publicly identified as patrons of the call boy ring. Two of the ring’s call boys were allegedly KGB operatives, according to a retired general from the Defense Intelligence Agency interviewed by the press. But the evidence seemed to point to a CIA sexual blackmail operation instead. Spence’s entire mansion was covered with hidden microphones, two-way mirrors and video cameras, ever ready to capture the indiscretions of Washington’s high, mighty and perverse.... Months after the scandal had died down, and a few weeks before he allegedly committed suicide, Spence was asked who had given him the “key’’ to the White House.”



The Washington Times reports that “Mr. Spence hinted the tours were arranged by ‘top level’ persons, including Donald Gregg, National Security Advisor to Vice President Bush’s #1 and later U.S. Ambassador to South Korea.” ... Gregg indignantly denied any connection to Spence, yet it is public record that Spence had sponsored a dinner in Gregg’s honor in the spring of 1989 at Washington’s posh Four Seasons Hotel.



On Spence’s guest list were such names as Reagan’s CIA director William Casey and Attorney General John Mitchell, who once co-hosted a party with Spence, Ted Koppel and Eric Severeid.



Spence’s mansion was found to be full with hidden surveillance equipment, including hidden cameras and two-way mirrors. It was alleged that the ring was part of a CIA sexual blackmail operation (see “The Finders” case, below), gathering compromising evidence on Washington politicos and foreign dignitaries. Following his arrest on weapon and drug charges, Spence gave an interview to the Washington Times in which he claimed to work with both the CIA and high-ranking members of the Reagan/Bush administrations.



The paper trail would be quickly covered-up - some 20,000 documents sealed by court order. Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel room five months later. The UK’s Independent reported that: “Boston police said he was found lying on his bed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, dressed in evening clothes, with no obvious signs of injury. The police refused to comment on the cause of death.” The Post had earlier reported that Spence had told a friend: “I may be disappearing soon. It will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it won’t be.”[42]



In Nebraska, at least several victim-witnesses fingered Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman, FBI agents Mickey Mott, Gerry Wahl and Alan Baer, Harold Andersen, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald and several other political associates of King’s.



King and Wadman, along with FBI agents Mott and Baer, were accused of pedophilia and drug usage (and drug dealing) with boys as young as 12 years old. The allegations were made by numerous children interviewed by private investigator and former law-enforcement officer Gary Caradori who was working for the Franklin Committee. Caradori would later wind up dead, along with his 8 year-old son, in a highly suspicious plane crash. The crash occurred several days after he told Senator Loren Schmit that he had just discovered information that “would blow this case wide open.”[43*]



The Franklin Committee documented how King and his associates were involved in drug-running, child kidnapping, prostitution, satanism, and murder—involving numerous prominent state and federal officials, including, according to several child victim-witnesses, George Herbert Walker Bush.[44*]



As DeCamp writes: “... George Bush and Larry King were linked in multiple ways, including eyewitness reports placing Bush at King’s sex parties.[45]



Youth care worker Julie Walters substantiates these allegations. As she writes in her report regarding her interview with a girl named Nelly Patterson-Web:



“Nelly accompanied Mr. and Mrs. King and their son Prince on trips to Chicago, N.Y. and Washington, D.C., beginning when she was 15 years old.... Nelly was taken along on the pretense of being Prince’s babysitter. Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him again at one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C. trip. At some of the parties there are just men (as was the case at the party George Bush attended)—older men and younger men in their early twenties. Nelly said she has seen sodomy committed at those parties At other parties during Larry’s trips, Larry had local prostitutes. (in their 20’s & 30’s) there to entertain his male guests....”[46]



As Tarpley and Chaitkin add about the “Pro-Life,’’ “Anti-Drug,’’ “Family Values” President:



... “Paul Bonacci directly accused President Bush of being implicated’’ in the affair when he testified before the Franklin Committee. Bonacci, who had been one of the child prostitutes, is identified by leading child-abuse experts as a well-informed, credible witness. Lawrence King was no stranger to President Bush. And Lawrence King was no stranger to Craig Spence. Several of the Omaha child prostitutes testified that they had traveled to Washington, D.C. with King in private planes to attend political events which were followed by sex parties.



“King and Spence had much in common. Not only were they both Republican Party activists but they had gone into business together procuring prostitutes for Washington’s elite. Bush’s name had repeatedly surfaced in the Nebraska scandal. But his name was first put into print in July 1989, a little less than a month after the Washington call boy affair had first made headlines. Omaha’s leading daily newspaper reported, “One child, who has been under psychiatric care, is said to believe she saw George Bush at one of King’s parties.” [47]



Journalist Steve Bowman writes: “We do have some credible witnesses who say that ‘Yes, George Bush does have a problem,’” Bowman told Gentleman’s Quarterly. One of Bowman’s sources is a retired CIA psychiatrist. He added that drug trafficking and political corruption were intertwined with pedophilia.[48]



As far back as 1985, victim-witness Eulice (Lisa) Washington told Andrea Carener of the Nebraska Department of Social Services how she was regularly taken to Washington by plane, with other children, to attend parties hosted by King involving many prominent people, including businessmen and politicians. Lisa specifically named George Bush as being in attendance on at least two separate occasions.[49]



Walters told Tarpley and Chaitkin that in 1986 she interviewed Lisa and her sister, who were temporarily living at the home of Kathleen Sorenson, who, like Caradori, would subsequently die in a suspicious car crash. Walters explained that Lisa, who came from an underprivileged background with no knowledge of political affairs, gave minute details of her attendance at political meetings. As Walters’ report states:



“3/25/86. Met with Kathleen and Lisa for about 2 hours in Blair [Nebraska] questioning Lisa for more details about sexual abuse.... Lisa admitted to being used as a prostitute by Larry King when she was on trips with his family.... Lisa said she first met V.P. George Bush at the Republican Convention and saw him again at a Washington, D.C. party that Larry hosted.... Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him again at one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C. trip....”[50]



A Franklin Committee report further states:



“Apparently she [Lisa] was contacted on December 19 [1988] and voluntarily came to the FBI offices on December 30, 1988. She was interviewed by Brady, Tucker and Phillips. She indicates that in September or October 1984, when [Lisa] Washington was fourteen or fifteen years of age, she went on a trip to Chicago with Larry King and fifteen to twenty boys from Omaha. She flew to Chicago on a private plane.... She indicates that she was coerced to going on the trip by Barbara Webb. She indicates that she attended a party in Chicago with King and the male youths. She indicated George Bush was present. She indicates that she set [sic] at a table at the party while wearing nothing but a negligee. She stated that George Bush saw her on the table. She stated she saw George Bush pay King money, and that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent. Lisa said the party George Bush attended was in Chicago in September or October 1984. According to the Chicago Tribune of October 31, 1984, Bush was in Illinois campaigning for congressional candidates at the end of October. Lisa added more details on the Chicago trip, and told why she was sure it was George Bush she had seen. According to a May 8, 1989 report by investigator Jerry Lowe, “Eulice [Lisa] indicated that she recognized George Bush as coming to the party and that Bush had two large white males with him. Eulice indicated Bush came to the party approximately 45 minutes after it started and that he was greeted by Larry King. Eulice indicated that she knew George Bush due to the fact that he had been in political campaigns and also she had observed a picture of Bush with Larry King at Larry King’s house in Omaha.”



In keeping with the pattern of cover-up, a Washington County, Nebraska judge in December 1990 dismissed all charges against two of the girls’ abusers, Jarrett and Barbara Webb. The judge ignored testimony of the 1986 report by Julie Walters which states:



“Lisa was given four polygraph tests administered by a state trooper at the State Patrol office on Center Street in Omaha. The state trooper, after Lisa’s testing was completed, told [another foster parent] he tried to ‘break Lisa down,’ but he was convinced she was telling the truth.”[51]



As Kathleen Sorenson writes in a report dated May 1, 1989, “This was long before he [Bush] was President. It seems like there were more exciting people to ‘lie’ about if that’s what they were doing.’’





Ritual Abuse



Victims of King and his associates also charged him with participating in at least one satanic ritual murder of a child.



As DeCamp reports, victim-witness Paul Bonacci was at one point taken to a retreat for political elites such as George Bush and Henry Kissinger in Northern California called Bohemian Grove, where they were forced to participate in sex and to consume parts of a child whom they had watched being murdered by the cultists. As DeCamp writes:



“A ‘snuff” pornography film was made of these events; it was directed by a man the party had picked up in Las Vegas whom Paul identified as “Hunter Thompson”—the same name as a well known sleaze-culture figure.



“Paul has told investigators that the ring which plunged him into Satanism was centered at Offutt U.S. Air Force Base near Omaha; that he was taken to Offutt to be sexually victimized by a babysitter’s boyfriend when he was about three years old, around 1970. Offutt is the headquarters for the Strategic Air Command, and has had a cadre of thousands of intelligence personnel.



“At Offutt, and later at other military installations, Paul says this ring “trained” him by tortures, heavy drugging, and sexual degradation, while instructing him in military arts including assassination. In fact, his personal knowledge in these realms can scarcely be accounted for other than by crediting the indictments he has made.”



While these allegations may strike the uninitiated as bizarre, a similar case of CIA involvement in child kidnapping, satanism, pedophilia and mind-control—the “Finders” case—was revealed in a 1987 U.S. Customs report obtained by the author. When D.C. police and Customs agents raided a Washington, D.C. warehouse being used by the group, they found “a set of instructions which appeared to be a broadcast via a computer network which advised participants to move ‘the children’ and keep them moving through different jurisdictions, and instructions on how to avoid police attention.” (The children were headed for Mexico, tending to confirm Cathy O’Brien’s allegations.) As Customs Agent Ramon Martinez writes in his report:



“Cursory examination of the documents revealed detailed instructions for obtaining children for unspecified purposes. The instructions included the impregnation of female members of the community known as Finders, purchasing children, trading, and kidnapping. ... One of the officers presented me with a photo album for my review. The album contained a series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets participation in a ‘blood ritual.’ “The ritual centered around the execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution, disembowelment, skinning and dismemberment of the goats at the hands of the children. This included the removal of the testes of a male goat, the discovery of a female goat’s ‘womb’ and the ‘baby goats’ inside the womb, and the presentation of a goats head to one of the children.”



The CIA-connected Finders were never prosecuted. The report adds that...



“... the activity of the FINDERS had become a CIA internal matter. The MPD report has been classified SECRET and was not available for review. I was advised that the FBI had withdrawn from the investigation several weeks prior and that the FBI Foreign Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD not to advise the FBI Washington Field Office of anything that had transpired.”[52*]



The head of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Division at the time was Oliver “Buck” Revell—a crony of Oliver North and George Bush who would allegedly play a role in the cover-up of numerous crimes, including Iran-Contra, drug-running at the CIA/NSA/DoD proprietary E-Systems, and the bombing of Pan Am 103.[53*] (See Appendix)



A member of Nebraska’s Concerned Parents group reported hearing from two North Omaha witnesses that “King used to send limousines down to Offutt Air Base to pick up CIA agents for parties.”



King, FBI agents Gerry Wahl and Alan Baer, Omaha World-Herald publisher Harold Andersen, and former Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman were all reported as collaborators in this satanic military-based ring. King reportedly told Paul’s captors at Offutt, “He’s young—but you trained him good.” Some say King provided the CIA with information garnered from his pimping activities for America’s perverted elite.



Victim-witness Paul Bonacci also described one of his “commanders” at Offut Air Force Base—Bill Plemmons and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino.



Until recently, Aquino was a Colonel in the U.S. Army and a national commander of the Eagle Scouts Honor Society. Ironically, Aquino is a publicly avowed Satanist. In 1975, while still in the Army, Aquino founded the Temple of Set—an offshoot of the Church of Satan, started in 1966 by Anton LaVey. Set is the Egyptian God of the underworld and the dead.[54]



Aquino made a pilgrimage to Heinrich Himmler’s “Hall of the Dead” at Wewelsburg Castle in 1984, where the SS practiced their black magic rituals, so he could allegedly “cleanse” the Temple of Set of its corrupt vibes.



Although Aquino’s membership has dwindled in recent years, members of The Temple of Set have included high-ranking military and police officers.

Although no cases of ritual murder or abuse have been directly linked to either group, in numerous cases of ritual murder, Church of Satan and Temple of Set material such as LaVey’s The Satanic Bible, have been found among suspects’ paraphernalia.



In 1987, San Francisco was shaken by a scandal at the Amy’s Presidio day care center, in which Aquino and a day care worker were accused by [the parents] of a three year old girl, (and subsequently several other parents) of being subjected to bizarre satanic rituals at Aquino’s home. Although there proceeded a lengthy investigation by the San Francisco Police Department, the FBI and the Army CID, no charges were ever brought against Aquino. As recently as 1995, the SFPD detective in charge, who I interviewed, was still too frightened to reveal details of the case.[55]



As for Larry King, he reported his own adoring relationship to the late CIA Director William Casey in a September 7, 1988, interview in the Omaha publication Metropolitan.[56]





The Cover-Up



As they would do with Iran-Contra, the FBI and the majority of the mainstream press covered up the scandal. Harold Andersen’s Omaha World-Herald, along with the local FBI office under the leadership of Nick O’Hara, played a major role in covering up these activities. Andersen was seen at numerous parties by several children who gave statements to Franklin investigators.



Roy Stephens, a private investigator and head the Missing Youth Foundation who worked on the case “says there is reason to believe that the CIA is directly implicated,’’ and that the “FBI refuses to help in the investigation and has sabotaged any efforts’’ to get to the bottom of the story.[57]



As tearful victim-witness Troy Boner told Sandie Caradori, wife of investigator Gary Caradori on the evening of his death, “Sandie, I tried, I tried. I went to [FBI Agent] Mickey Mott and.... They laughed at me....”[58]



When DeCamp and Senator Loren Schmit confronted Senior Agent in Charge of the Omaha office Nick O’Hara, O’Hara, a friend of Police Chief Robert Wadman’s, blurted out, “You fuck with Bob Wadman, you fuck with the FBI!” DeCamp and Schmit left O’Hara’s office in a state of shock.[59]



So began the cover-up.



Indeed. The FBI threatened and intimidated numerous witnesses, approximately 15 of whom wound up dead under highly suspicious circumstances. Victim-witness Alisha Owen, then still a teenager, was threatened by FBI agents Mott and Baer to change her story. When she refused, she was sentenced to 20 years in jail.



Senator Bernice Labedz recounted her conversation with former Franklin employee Noel Seltzer:



“One of the most important things that I thought he told me was the fact that when they first went into the investigation of Larry King, he was talked to by the FBI and he told them mostly everything that he told me about the sexual abuse and so forth. And then he said he was told by the FBI, ‘we’re going to advise you it’s best for you that you keep your mouth shut.’ And I said, ‘say that again,’ and he repeated it so I could write it down.”[60]



Victim-witness Terry Muller told Gary Caradori “that the FBI and a member of the State Patrol were harassing her brother and trying to get him to talk about things that he just didn’t know about.”[61]



Department of Social Services worker Joanie Gregory, who discovered evidence of wrongdoing in the homes of foster parents Jarrett and Barbara Webb, themselves involved in the abuse ring, was told by the FBI “that it would probably be in her best interest if she ‘forgot this information.’”[62]



As Caradori himself told the Franklin Committee: “I think they (the grand jury) are being misled by the influence of the State Patrol investigator and various people in the FBI.”[63]



DeCamp writes that “the legislative investigator found that the FBI interfered with material even before he got to it.”



As Troy Boner states in a sworn affidavit: “... I was carefully rehearsed by the FBI as to what I would say and what questions would be asked and then after rehearsing everything with the FBI I was taken over to Mr. Moran the prosecutor to go through the rehearsal again.”



Boner claims the FBI threatened him, and had in fact killed his brother Shawn as a warning.[64]



The Murders



Kathleen Sorenson, the social worker who assumed foster care for Nelly and Kimberly Webb after they fled the home of Larry King’s relatives Barbara and Jarrett Webb, died in a suspicious head-on car crash. Retired FBI Senior Agent Ted Gunderson, who investigated the crash, believes Sorenson was killed as a satanic contract suicide. The belief in such a murder/suicide is that the murderer will reincarnate with more power granted by Satan.



Sorenson, a vocal anti-Satanist, whose itinerary was known to at least several people, was traveling on a long, narrow stretch of road between Fremont and Blair, Nebraska. Both the women who rammed into her head-on and her husband had prior arrest records for cruelty to animals—a common sign of satanic activity.



“Not long after Sorenson’s death, a teenager in a youth care facility told a worker, “You better watch out or we will get you like we got that lady from Blair.” The youth went on to describe a ceremony of drawing lots for the privilege.”[65]



On July 11, 1990, during the course of his investigations, Franklin Senate Committee investigator Gary Caradori, 41, died in the crash of his small plane, together with his 8-year-old son Andrew, after a mid-air explosion. Caradori told friends repeatedly in the weeks before his death that he feared his plane would be sabotaged. As previously mentioned, just days before he died, he called Senator Schmit and announced that he had obtained information that would “blow this case wide open.”



Shawn Boner, brother of victim-witness Troy Boner, would die from a gunshot wound allegedly resulting from “Russian Roulette.”



Aaron Owen, brother of victim-witness Alisha Owen, was found hanged in his cell in Lincoln, Nebraska hours before his sister was to testify.



Bill Baker, a restaurant owner and pornography partner of King’s, was found shot in the back of the head.



Newt Copple, a confidential informant for Caradori, died in his sleep.



Clare Howard, former secretary of Alan Baer who arranged many of Baer’s pedophile trysts, died in her sleep the same year.



Mike Lewis, a former caregiver for victim-witness Loretta Smith, died of a “severe diabetic reaction.”



Joe Malek, an associate of King’s and owner of Peony Park, where homosexual galas were held, died from a gunshot that was ruled a “suicide.”

Charlie Rogers, a homosexual partner of King’s who stated he feared for his life, found his head blown off with a shotgun.



Dan Ryan, another associate of King’s, was found suffocated in his car.



Bill Skoleski, an Omaha police officer believed to have been keeping a file on King, died of a heart-attack.



Curtis Tucker, an associate of King’s, was found on the sidewalk beneath the window of his room at the Holiday Inn in Omaha.



Harmon Tucker, a Nebraska and Iowa school superintendent and a known homosexual, was found dead near the plantation which Omaha World-Herald publisher and Nebraska-Iowa FBI chief Nicholas O-Hara used for hunting. His murder had signs of a satanic ritual killing.[66]



Darlene Novinger, an FBI operative, discovered during an FBI investigation that George Herbert Walker Bush and two of his sons were using drugs and prostitutes in a Florida hotel while Bush was Vice President. She was warned not to report her findings to FBI officials. Four hours after she appeared on Tom Valentine’s July, 1993 Radio Free America show, her father was found dead. A white canary was placed on his grave as a warning. Her husband was also beaten to death. Novinger has since gone into hiding.[67]

Donald Gregg’s friend, Craig Spence, was found dead in a Boston hotel room shortly after his sordid affairs were published in the Washington Times.



As one lady stated during a town hall meeting in Omaha in December of 1990: “I think George Bush is involved in this child abuse case, and that is why all these people have been dying.”[68*]





Drugs



“Since the end of World War II, the United States has spent a thousand billion dollars—one trillion dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these men and their hunger for power. Could the CIA kill a president to keep such an operation going? Kings have been beheaded for infinitely less.”

- Judge Jim Garrison, A Heritage of Stone (1970)



As for Bush’s friend Larry King, it was reported that he was a top contributor to a Contra support committee—the Citizens for America. Contra organizer Oliver North was seen by at least one witness at one of King’s parties.



King’s public relations firm was also used by the drug-running Contras. Sources told John DeCamp that Omaha Police Chief Bob Wadman “was protecting the expansion of the Cryps and the Bloods into Omaha—far from their home turf of Los Angeles. As DeCamp writes:



“One of Caradori’s informants stated that Wadman was instrumental in bringing the drug-trafficking gangs, the Los Angeles Bloods and Cryps, into Omaha. According to a June 19 1989 report by Caradori’s predecessor at the Franklin committee, Jerry Lowe, members of the Bloods and Cryps were identified by local police as driving Larry King’s car....”



San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb has meticulously documented how the LA street gangs were intimately tied in with Contra liaisons in the U.S. George Bush, Oliver North’s boss, was essentially running the Contra show, or at least the drug angle. As DeCamp writes:



“So, was Larry King’s buddy George Bush the country’s ‘drug kingpin’ in the 1980s? I don’t know. But what I do know, is that if Bush were running the Contra affair, and drugs were a big part of it, that would certainly jibe 100% with everything known or rumored about Bush, Larry King, and the Franklin Credit Union....”[69]



As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz, the most highly decorated Special Forces officer of the Vietnam War and later head of Special Forces in Central America, adds in his book, Called To Serve:



“George Bush was head of the CIA in 1975-76, appointed by President Gerald Ford; as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, he was our top drug cop for eight years; one of his chief aides, Donald Gregg, was a direct contact in the Contra line of communication to the White House. Ollie North’s personal diary has more than 550 entries citing drug money being used to support contra operations. If George Bush didn’t know about the drug smuggling, he wasn’t doing his job. If he did know about it, then he is clearly culpable. Either way, it doesn’t stand as a credit for a man who would represent the best interests of the United States.”[70]



Like Richard Nixon, Bush publicly claimed to be a strong anti-drug president, escalating the so-called “war on drugs” begun by his mentor Richard Nixon. Nixon had first brought Bush into his “war on drugs” in 1971-77 when Nixon appointed him to the White House Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control.



In his first formally scheduled prime time television address to the nation as President in September of 1989, Bush again reiterated his plan to rid the nation of its devastating drug scourge. Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine for the camera and announced with mock incredulity that it had been purchased right across the street from the White House, in Lafayette Park. In fact, the drug bust of the dealer had been a set-up.



During his 1988 election campaign, Bush had hawked himself as President Reagan’s number one drug fighter. In his acceptance speech before the 1988 Republican National Convention, Bush stated: “I want a drug-free America. Tonight, I challenge the young people of our country to shut down the drug dealers around the world.... My Administration will be telling the dealers, “Whatever we have to do, we’ll do, but your day is over. You’re history.’”



Bush was telling the truth, in a sense. At least small drug dealers would be out of business—replaced by the Medellin Cartel which Bush, along with Ted Shackley, allegedly helped organize. The CIA reportedly arranged at least two meetings with Colombian drug smugglers—first in Buenaventura, Colombia in September of 1981, then in December of that same year, with approximately 200 dealers in attendance. The meeting, according to former FAA investigator Rodney Stich’s (Defrauding America and The Drugging of America ) CIA sources, was held at the Hotel International in Medellin. The CIA set up a “crisis” situation to compel the dealers to consolidate under the protection of the CIA by kidnapping drug kingpins Carlos Lehder and Jorge Ochoa’s sister. The CIA reportedly paid a group known as M-19 three million dollars to carry out the kidnapping. As CIA operative Trenton Parker told Stich, “...Bush knew the whole goddamn thing.”[71]



According to Russell S. Bowen, a highly decorated World War II P-38 ace and former OSS agent imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the U.S. from Colombia (and other sources), Noriega and the Israeli Mossad worked hand-in-hand with the CIA in the drug traffic from Central and South America.[72]



Bowen was a friend of Shackley’s, having worked with him from the early 1950s until 1984. In 1959, Shackley was a passenger onboard a C-46 piloted by Bowen when the plane crashed in the Bolivian Andes. As Bowen told Stich: “It was loaded with drugs!”



“[Bowen] stated that this trip occurred several years before Shackley was made CIA station chief in Miami, and that Shackley was instrumental in setting up the CIA drug trafficking into the United States from South America....



“Bowen described the conflict between different CIA factions. “At that time, “ Bowen said, “Shackley was the leader of the CIA faction bringing the drugs in. The CIA team I worked for did not want the drugs in.”



“I asked who set up that initial drug operation. Bowen, referring to Shackley, said, “He was the mastermind of the drug operation. he had full authority to set it up.”[73]



Another pilot maintained in voluminous correspondence from prison with Senator John Kerry’s Iran-Contra Committee (and since his release in 1990) that “Bob Haynes” was the alias used by Shackley during their close interaction between 1979 and 1984. As Harry Martin reports in the Napa Sentinel:



“[The pilot] also has a number of documents in safekeeping which prove the presence of Shackley in Medellin, not only directing the cocaine cartel, but orchestrating many of the activities in Panama and Costa Rica related to the contra war in Nicaragua, and the large-scale smuggling of cocaine into the United States. Included among them are a handwritten note from Haynes/Shackley directing him to deliver a DC-6A aircraft from the Dominican Republic to Floyd Carlton in Panama “for Col. Robert.”



“The pilot has claimed that he functioned as one of an elite group of military intelligence agents with service dating back to World War II, who reported, until his imprisonment in 1984, directly to [former OSS agent and CIA DCI] William Casey, and maintains that he was directly involved with Theodore Shackley in the establishment of the arms network to the contras through Panama in the early 1980s. Among the letters received from Haynes/Shackley was one directing him to acquire a number of planes in the Dominican Republic and Aruba for the network. The list has been verified by the special U.S. Customs team in Miami investigating Munitions Control Board violations as planes they are familiar with having been used in such activities.”[74]



“Haynes” also furnished the pilot with his business card for INTERKREDIT, with offices in Medellin, Ft. Lauderdale and Amsterdam. INTERKREDIT was the corporate cover under which Shackley conducted business with General Noriega during 1983.[75]



In addition to the pilot, witnesses allege Shackley maintained a home in Medellin, Colombia at one point, where he lived with his Colombian wife, Leona Ochoa, sister of cartel kingpin Jorge Ochoa.[76]



It was a convenient spot to manage the CIA’s drug business. As previously mentioned, the CIA, through DCI George Bush and Deputy Director for Operations Ted Shackley, virtually set up the Medellin Cartel. The meetings were held at the Hotel International in Medellin. Two CIA operatives: Trenton Parker and Gunther Russbacher, confirmed the meetings to Stich.[77]

Ramon Milian Rodriguez, an accountant and money launderer who had laundered $1.5 billion for the Medellin cartel, testified before a Senate committee that he had given Bush-Shackley CIA associate Felix Rodriguez $10 million from the cocaine profits to fund the Contras.



Rodriguez told journalist Martha Honey that Rodriguez had offered that “in exchange for money for the Contra cause he would use his influence in high places to get the cartel U.S. ‘good will.’”[78]



The CIA would eventually eradicate top leaders of the Medellin Cartel, killing Medellin founders Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa. Medellin co-founder Carlos Lehder and his associate Manuel Noriega would be sentenced to life terms. During Operation “Just Cause” in Panama, Bush replaced many Medellin allied bankers with political and financial leadership more closely allied with the rival Cali Cartel.



Trenton Parker said he secretly gave evidence of CIA criminality from 1976 to 1982 to Congressman Larry McDonald of the Joint Armed Services Committee. The files revealed corrupt activities of several presidents, numerous federal officials and the CIA. Immediately after McDonald let it be known that he was going to reveal the information, including information on the CIA’s drug smuggling activities, his plane was shot down.



Bush’s Zapata Petroleum Co. (later Zapata Offshore), with upwards of 600 branches worldwide, is reportedly used for the CIA’s intelligence gathering. (Bush had begun his career working for International Derrick and Equipment Company, a subsidiary of the Houston-based Dresser Industries—a long-time CIA cover. Dresser’s Chairman, Henry Neil Mallon, who offered Bush the job, was a friend of Prescott’s and a fellow Skull and Bonseman.) Some sources, including covert operatives interviewed by Stich, contend that Zapata’s offshore drilling rigs, located beyond the U.S. jurisdictional limit, are centers for transferring large quantities of illicit drugs and other contraband. CIA cable analyst Michael Maholy told Stich that he personally witnessed numerous drug flights while working on Zapata rigs, and was told to forget what he had seen. The operation was run through Rowan International. “Rowan International was a cover for a branch of Zapata Oil,” says Maholy. Three of the propietaries involved were the CIA-connected Evergreen (owned by Raytheon; see Chapter XX), Southern Air Transport, and Pacific Seafood.



Maholy says he worked directly under George Bush and Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. These people and their accomplices and agents, made hundreds of millions of dollars bringing drugs into the U.S. over the years.



Implicated in the Venezuelan operation were naval officer Lizardo Marquez Perez, Mossad agent Michael Harari, CIA officer Dewy Duane Clarridge, Army lieutenant General Paul Gorman, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Washington DEA Chief Ron Caffrey, Oliver North, Pacific Seafood’s Russell Hebert and others.



Maholy says Bill Clinton was also in the loop. “...not only was I arrested four blocks from the then-Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton’s mansion,” says Maholy, “but I was also involved in the ‘Mena, Arkansas’ incident. Our drugs were going to many of the high-ranking state and government officials in Arkansas. Roger Clinton (Clinton’s brother) was one of our better customers.”[79*]



Former CIA operatives Russell Bowen, Tosh Plumlee, Gunther Russbacher, Chip Tatum and others confirmed much of Maholy’s story.[80]



Some of the money, according to former CIA operative Richard Brenneke, was banked at the infamous Nazi-connected Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank. Brenneke testified under oath that he opened an account there for Bush’s operation in 1980. The money was funneled through the John Gotti organized crime family.[81]



Another bank used for hiding Bush’s secret accounts was the Hawaii-based Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong—a CIA propietary that in part took over the failed CIA Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. Agency operative Ronald Rewald told Stich that he personally set up accounts for Bush under the aliases “Irwin M. Peach” and “Mr. Bramble.”[82]



According to former LAPD Narcotics detective Michael Ruppert, two key men in the drug pipeline were Ted Shackley and George Bush. Shackley, a CIA Deputy Director, had reportedly played the key role in smuggling heroin out of South-East Asia when he was Saigon Station Chief, as popularized by the movie “Air America.”



In 1976, Bush would appoint his friend Shackley as Associate Deputy Director of Operations—the third most powerful position in the CIA. Shackley had been in charge of the Miami CIA station that had been running the Agency’s anti-Castro activities, and was a key architect of the CIA’s “low intensity conflict” operations in Central America (death squads modeled after the Agency’s murderous Phoenix Operation in Viet Nam). Fired by the Agency in 1979, Shackley would re-emerge in the early 1980s as an integral player in Iran-Contra, meeting frequently with Bush at his Arlington, VA home.[83]



As Ruppert states: “Both men are central to the drug trafficking by CIA and NSC which became epidemic in the Iran-Contra era.”



A report by the Costa Rican government states that Oliver North, John Hull, and a number of other Americans were deeply involved in the drug trafficking in the area.[84]



When DEA agent Celerino “Cele” Castillo naively tried to inform Bush of the high-level drug running at a cocktail party in Guatemala City in 1986, he said, “Bush just smiled, shook my hand and walked away.”[85]



As former CIA operative Phillip Agee told the Associated Press in January of 1990: “Bush is up to his neck in illegal drug running on behalf of the Contras.”[86*]

These allegations would be repeated by numerous others. One man who decided to blow the whistle was former CIA operative Richard Brenneke. As Brenneke stated in a sworn deposition before Congressman William Alexander, Jr., and Chad Farris, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Arkansas:



A. ...As far back as 1968 and early ‘69, we had begun to launder money from organized crime families in New York. At that time, Mr. Gotti was an up-and-coming member of the families. I got to know them at that time. We used to wash their money out overseas and put it in Switzerland in nice, safe places for them.



Q. So you worked for Mr. Gotti as well as for the CIA?



A. Actually the CIA told me to do that on his behalf.



Q. So the CIA was in, would you say, partnership or association with Mr. Gotti?



A. Yes, sir. I would say a partnership.



Q. And can you describe the nature of that partnership?



A. Sure. The organized crime members had a need for two things: they needed drugs brought into the country on a reliable, safe basis; they needed people taken out of the country or people brought into the country without alerting customs or INS to the fact that they were being brought into the country; they also needed their money taken offshore so that it would not be subject to United States tax where they might have to declare its source. And so we performed these kinds of functions for them.



Q. Mr. Brenneke, are you saying that the CIA was in the business of bringing drugs into the United States?



A. Yes, sir. That’s exactly what I’m saying.



(snip)



Q. Can you recall any conversations you had with any of the CIA agents about the money, and tell us the nature of that conversation, the scope of it?



A. Sure. When I found that we were bringing drugs into the United States, and that we were receiving money which was being put into accounts which I knew to belong to the United States Government, as I’d set them up specifically for that purpose, I called Mr. Don Gregg, who was a CIA officer with whom I was acquainted, and complained about the nature of what we were doing.



Q. Now, who is Mr. Don Gregg?



A. At that time, he was... Vice President George Bush’s National Security Advisor....



Q. And can you tell us what you remember about that conversation?



A. I surely can. I was told that it was not my business, what I was flying in and out of the country. That I was hired to do specific things, and if I would do those things and not pay any attention to anything else, we would all be very happy. I didn’t like that.



Q. Well, what else did he say?



A. Shut up and do your job.[87]



Bob Martinez, after his defeat as Florida’s governor, was picked as Bush’s drug czar. Sources in Tampa told Russell Bowen that Martinez was under investigation for smuggling activities. But Attorney General Richard Thornburgh removed the Assistant U.S. Attorney before the indictments could be handed down.[88]



Two Assistant U.S. Attorneys in charge of drug prosecutions in Miami—R. Jerome Stanford and Richard Gregorie—resigned in disgust because of CIA stonewalling and cover-ups. Gregorie told a Senate subcommittee that the CIA’s lack of cooperation resulted in a “constitutional crisis.”[89]



As Stich’s CIA sources told him, the Agency was shipping arms to both sides in the Contra war to keep the war going, while publicly stating that the Sandinistas were the ones trafficking in drugs. As in Miami, the CIA set up another fake drug sting using their main drug pilot, Barry Seal. Seal’s plane was rigged with a hidden video camera which ostensibly recorded Sandinistas loading drugs onto the plane. In reality, they were Contras. The “evidence” was subsequently shown to Congress to justify the continued war.



To maintain his position as anti-drug czar, Bush along with CIA, DEA and Customs, set up a fake drug sting at Miami International Airport in March of 1980 using 4,000 pounds of bad cocaine donated by Jorge Ochoa. DEA and Customs agents were on-hand at the airport to make the drug “bust” to insure George Bush’s public heroism.[90]



On January 28, 1982, Bush created the South Florida Task Force to coordinate the efforts of various federal agencies to stem the tide of illegal narcotics. According to local and federal law-enforcement sources, radar balloons and other systems used along the southern U.S. border were not even operational much of the time.



As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“On February 16, 1982, in a speech on his own turf in Miami, Florida, Bush promised to use sophisticated military aircraft to track the airplanes used by smugglers. Several days later, Bush ordered the U.S. Navy to send in its E2C surveillance aircraft for this purpose. If these were not available in sufficient numbers, said Bush, he was determined to bring in the larger and more sophisticated AWACS early warning aircraft to do the job....



“By May, two of the four E2C aircraft that originally had been in Florida were transferred out of the state. By June, airborne surveillance time was running a mere 40 hours per month, not the 360 hours promised by Bush, prompting Rep. Glenn English to call hearings on this topic. By October, 1982 the General Accounting Office issued an opinion in which it found “it is doubtful whether the [south Florida] task force can have any substantial long-term impact on drug availability.”



“But the headlines were grabbed by Bush, who stated in 1984 that the efforts of his task force had eliminated the marijuana trade in south Florida. That was an absurd claim, but it sounded very good. When Francis Mullen. Jr., the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) criticized Bush for making this wildly inaccurate statement, he was soon ousted from his post at the DEA.”



This data supports information provided to this author by law-enforcement officers [who wish to remain anonymous]. According to numerous sources, the drug flow actually increased during Bush’s tenure as drug czar. As former CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee told Rodney Stich: “From the time that the money was appropriated to start [the drug war] we saw a 400 percent increase in the illegal drugs that were coming into this country.”[91]



On March 23, 1983, Bush would be cleverly placed in charge of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, which was supposed to stem the tide of drugs into the U.S.



Plumlee, who witnessed decades worth of drug smuggling by the CIA, the NSC, and the military, said that his government handlers tried to cover up for their smuggling activities by claiming that the shipments were to be used in law-enforcement “sting” operations. As he states: “We were documenting the loads and the routes and waiting for the big busts. But the busts never seemed to add up to the amount of cocaine we were bringing in.”[92]





The Consolidation of Power



How did George Bush assume such enormous powers over the law enforcement and covert operations of this country (not to mention the Presidency)? This was done through a series of Executives Orders and National Security Decision Directives (NSDDs) engineered by former CIA Director Bush signed by President Reagan.



On December 14, 1981, Reagan signed NSDD-2 on “Crisis Management,” which designated Vice President Bush Chairman of the Special Situation Group (SSG), responsible for crisis management.



On January 12, 1982, Reagan signed NSDD-3, which reaffirmed the existence of various interagency groups to deal with intelligence and covert operations. Under the interpretation of this document promoted by Bush, the SSG superseded and pre-empted the powers of the NSC in areas of “crisis management,” which encompassed covert operations and counter-terrorism.



On January 28, 1982, Bush was put in charge of the South Florida Task Force on drugs.



On May 14, 1982, a standing Crisis Pre-Planning Group (CPPG 1 and 2) was established under the SSG. Thus Bush was given responsibility for any area in which a “potential crisis” could emerge, and was charged with developing “preemptive policy options” for dealing with such a crisis.



On April 10, 1982, NSDD-30, on “Managing Terrorist Incidents,” was issued, giving Bush control over the convening of the SSG, and creating the “Terrorist Incident Working Group” (TIWG).



On March 23, 1983, Bush took charge of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System.



In July 1985, the Vice President’s Terrorism Task Force was created, headed by Bush.



In February 1986, the Terrorism Task Force created the Operations Sub-Group, officially a sub-group of the TIWG, and also created a permanent counter-terrorism office located in the NSC staff, headed by Oliver North, but ultimately controlled by Bush.



In August 1986, Bush became the chief of “Operation Alliance,” an “anti-narcotics” effort to be conducted in cooperation with Mexico.



Thus from December 1981 to August 1986, Bush had consolidated his control over virtually aspect of U.S. covert operations, as well as every agency dealing with drug interdiction. Never before in peacetime in our country’s history had one man assumed as much power as Bush exercised while Vice President.[93]



George Jr would follow on the heals of his father’s silent coup de etat through his blatent manipulation of the U.S. Supreme Court in stealing the 2,000 Presidency via fraudulent vote tallies.



One year later, on January 4, 1984, Bush would travel to Miami to deliver one of his well-rehearsed “war on drugs” speeches at the Omni International Hotel. Later in the day Bush rendezvoused with boat builder and former racer Don Arnow at Islamorada in the Florida Keys. Bush’s high-priced “Cigarette” speedboat Fidelity was purchased from Arnow, his friend and fishing partner. As one local resident said, “everyone in Miami knew that if you needed a favor from Bush, you spoke to Arnow.”[94]



Arnow was reportedly a drug smuggler and suspected money launderer linked to the Genovese Purple Gang of New York through Frankie Viserto, one of the largest heroin smuggling kingpins, and the Meyer Lansky organized crime syndicate. Lansky had close ties to Israel and the Mossad, who played their own role in smuggling drugs out of Central and South America. Arnow’s role in marijuana smuggling was reportedly confirmed by Bill Norris, head of the Major Narcotics Unit at the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office.[95]



USA Racing, the company operated by Arnow was owned by Jack J. Kramer, President of Super Chief South Corporation. Kramer had married Lansky’s niece. On March 28, 1990 Jack and Ben Kramer were found guilty of 23 and 28 counts respectively of federal money laundering charges. Ben had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment for having imported half-a-million pounds of marijuana.



Nevertheless, a result of his favoritism with Bush, Arnow received a contract to build his “Blue Thunder” catamarans at $150,000 apiece for the U.S. Customs Service. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Bush had thus given a prime contract in waging the war on drugs to one of the leading drug-smuggling and money-laundering crime families in the US.... This was the same George Bush who in March, 1988 had stated: “I will never bargain with drug dealers on US or foreign soil.”



As Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell add in Blue Thunder:



“Ultimately by awarding Arnow the Blue Thunder contract, Bush allowed not one, but two, drug smuggling arms of the mob to penetrate the government’s anti-drug program.”



Probably by design, the Blue Thunder catamarans were unseaworthy and practically unusable for chasing down high-speed craft, including Arnow’s Cigarette boats. Blue Thunder was capable of a top speed of only 56 miles per hour, and most of the boats spent more time undergoing repairs than chasing drug runners.



Ex-convict Tommy Teagle told author Thomas Burdick that he possessed information that implicated Bush’s son Jeb in cocaine smuggling. Teagle stated that Arnow and Jeb Bush had been partners in cocaine trafficking and were $2.5 million in debt to their Colombian suppliers.



According to former CIA operative Terry Reed, current President George Bush, Jr. and his brother Jeb were videotaped at Tamiami airport outside of Miami. They had arrived on the Bush family King Air from Texas, presumably piloted by George W., to pick up two kilos of cocaine which was delivered by Barry Seal from the Intermountain Regional airport in Mena Arkansas. Reed was the unwitting co-pilot. At the time he made his public statements, Reed indicated that he had both the tail number of the Bush Aircraft and the DEA (NADDIS) file number of the investigation.[96*]



Dr. Robert Magoon, a friend of Arnow, is quoted as having heard a similar report. Teagle said he feared that George Bush would have him killed, and rapidly changed his story.



But Arnow wouldn’t be around to testify. Ultimately, an imprisoned convict was indicted for Arnow’s murder—a murder that remains highly suspect.



According to an article by Joe Cuomo in Penthouse entitled “Family Ties,” one of Jeb’s business partners was Colombian “coffee” magnate Alberto Duque Rodriguez.



Federal prosecutors in Miami have a photo of Jeb and Leonel Martinez, a Miami-based Cuban-American drug trafficker, shaking hands, but won’t release the photo. Martinez and his wife made a $2,000 contribution to the Dade County Republican Party four months after Jeb became chair of the local GOP. Martinez also wrote $5,000 checks to then Vice President Bush’s Fund for America’s Future, and made a $2,000 contribution to the Bush for President campaign. This was during the time that Bush was serving as head of the South Florida Drug Task Force, then later as chair of the National Narcotics Interdiction System. While Bush was drug czar, the volume of cocaine smuggled into the U.S. tripled.[97]



Former CIA helicopter pilot Chip Tatum backs up allegations of Bush’s involvement in drug smuggling. On March 30, 1985, Tatum says he flew his helicopter to La Cieba, Honduras, where he picked up Bush Contra liason Felix Rodriguez, Honduran General Alvarez and Mossad agent Amirm Nir.



“We flew into several villages on the Nicaragua/Honduras border to recon for a later mission. I recorded actual village locations for cargo drops by CH-47’s scheduled later in April. Three of the villages were Rus Rus, Waspam and Santa Anna. Mr. [Oliver] North was pleased with the operations. He stated that Vice President Bush appreciated the extra effort I was giving. General Alvarez told Mr. North of my ability to sneak into his airfield under their radar. He asked North if I could instruct some of his security team and pilots for future use. North declined stating that I was a national secret, laughing. We landed at Santa Anna and met with Enrique Bermudez and other Contra leaders. We were then taken to a processing area of some sort. As we approached, there was a strong smell of jet fuel and acetone. There were several tactical bladders, used for carrying fuels, sitting around the area. Six large fuel pods were on the ground but had the tops torched off. Inside there was fuel and ground-up coca leaves. Mr. North stated the following to the other passengers, “One more year of this and we’ll all retire.” He then made a remark concerning Barry Seal and Governor Clinton. “If we can keep those Arkansas hicks in line, that is,” referring to the loss of monies as determined the week prior during their meeting in Costa Rica. I stood silently by the vat of leaves, listening to the conversation. General Alverez had gone with the Contra leader to discuss logistics. The other three—North, Rodriguez, and Ami Nir—continued through the wooden building, inspecting the cocaine. North continued, “...but he (Vice President Bush) is very concerned about those missing monies. I think he’s going to have Jeb (Bush) arrange something out of Colombia,” he told his comrades, not thinking twice of my presence. What Mr. North was referring to ended up being the assassination of Barry Seal by members of the Medellin Cartel in early 1986. “How about ‘Pineapple’?” Rodriguez asked. (Speaking of General Noriega.) “Naw,” North answered, “something’s up there.” Bush later insured Noriega was indicted and imprisoned for drug trafficking. I recalled the mysterious army officers remarks in Ojo de Agua, “Tell no one. There’s no one big enough in your chain of command.” I just heard North tell Rodriguez that the Vice President, the Governor of Arkansas and the three of them are manufacturing cocaine.”[98]



As a liason to the Contra/Anti-Castro Cuban community in Florida, Jeb Bush was responsible for freeing Cuban-American terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison. Bosch was responsible for a wave of bombings against Cuba, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Bosch received his financing from a Florida company called the World Finance Corporation—the subject of one of the largest drug-smuggling investigations in the 1970s. The investigation was eventually dropped due to CIA interference. Bush was CIA Director during much of the company’s anti-Castro activities.



Westword, a Denver newspaper, reported Bush’s son Neil—who played a role in the bilking of Denver’s Silverado Savings & Loan, for which he walked away unscathed—being referred to as the “godfather” of a drug dealer who kept Neil’s photograph on his wall. According to the article, Neil let him know when “something was coming down.”[99*]



Silverado’s third largest borrower (Neil was on the Board), E. Trine Starnes, Jr., defaulted on $77.5 million in loans from the S&L, some of which went to the Contra arms and funding conduit the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, directed by Carl “Spitz” Channell, a close crony of Oliver North. Silverado was shut down soon after Bush became President, and the American taxpayers picked up the $1 billion tab.[100]



By October of 1990, the S&L industry was losing money at the rate of $3 million a minute. The total cost was estimated at $325-500 billion. As President Bush commented, “The economy is headed in the right direction.”

Neil Bush would soon be back in the swindler’s circle through his west Florida Gulf Stream Realty land fraud company - a prelude to Bill Clinton’s Arkansas Whitewater land fraud scheme.



As Sherman Skolnick reports, Giorgio Pelossi, a prominent Swiss accountant and reputed cocaine bank money launderer for George Bush and two of his sons, was arrested in Chicago on January 20, 2000 after INS officials found he was wanted on an arrest warrant in Italy. Journalists in Spain wrote about Bush and two of his sons, George W. and Jeb, being reportedly implicated in billions of dollars of dope money laundered through banks in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and the U.S. The cocaine banking cartel, for which Pelossi reportedly was the brains, was centered in Milan and Barcelona. The Pelossi-Marcinkus-D’Onofrio ring reportedly, through the Vatican Bank and other financial institutions, trafficked in smuggled gold, osmium nuclear bomb triggers, high quality counterfeit foreign currencies, and other illicit goods and services. With the connivance of top officials of the IRS Chicago Regional office, Pelossi reportedly arranged the laundering of billions of dollars through concealed and dummy accounts, at the Harris Bank of Chicago, and their Foreign Exchange section, called ForEx, a unit of Bank of Montreal, and Republic National Bank of New York, for the Bushs.[101]



On May 15, 1984 Bush visited Pakistani President Gen. Zia ul-Haq in Islamabad. Bush praised the alleged successes of Zia’s anti-drug program which, Bush stated, was a matter of great “personal interest” to him. Among those present at the banquet where Bush made these statements were, reportedly, several of the officials most responsible for Pakistan’s narcotics trafficking. Pakistan had been responsible for approximately 70 percent of the world’s heroin supply at the time. Most of the dope was managed by an elite military unit that protected the truck convoys of CIA arms to Afghanistan.[102]

In August, 1986 Bush, working with Mexican officials, formally christened “Operation Alliance”, a new border enforcement initiative that followed on the heels of the South Florida Task Force. Bush was appointed chief of Operation Alliance, which involved 20 federal agencies, 500 federal officers, and a budget of $266 million. Bush even sought to obtain a cameo role for a brief appearance on the television series Miami Vice. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Bush had no intention of seriously pursuing such goals. For him, the war on drugs was a cruel hoax, a cynical exercise in demagogic self-promotion, designed in large part to camouflage activities by himself and his networks that promoted drug trafficking.”



In 1988, Congressman Glenn English stated that Bush’s war on drugs was “little more than lip service and press releases.”



CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee, who flew many drug flights, said he was provided with codes that allowed him to avoid drug interdiction planes. As Plumlee said: “I have seen interdiction planes turn away after we squawked our transponders, and let us into the country, [un]molested, and not have Customs waiting for us when we land.”[103]



Bush’s final act as “anti-drug” czar would come in 1990 with the invasion of Panama known as “Operation Just Cause.” The ostensible excuse was to shut down President Manuel Noriega’s drug trafficking (an operation run with Bush and CIA complicity). The real reason was to remove Noriega, who had gotten “out of control,” threatening to nationalize Bush’s extensive family investments in that country, and replace him with officials more loyal to Bush and the Agency.



On this pretext, the U.S. invaded the small sovereign country, killing thousands of people, mostly civilians. Twenty-six U.S. servicemen also lost their lives to protect Bush’s drug trafficking operation and the $350,000,000 worth of Bush financial investments, laundered through the Bush-connected Japanese Aoki Corporation with the help of brother Prescott. The puppets installed by Bush included President Gullermo Endura, head of a Panamanian bank used extensively by the Medellin Cartel, Vice President Gullermo Ford, part owner of Dadeland Bank of Florida, reportedly involved in drug money laundering, and Attorney General Rogello Cruz, allegedly a Cali drug Cartel boss.



As ex-CIA field officer John Stockwell noted: “[Bush] used to work with Noriega the drug-dealer. He has worked with a lot of other drug-dealers, in fact, but this one was screaming publicly.... In 1988, Noriega told Newsweek or a Newsweek interviewer that, quote: ‘I have George Bush by the balls!’ because he had the information on George Bush’s connections and ties and knowledge of drug smuggling. So Bush had to get rid of him!”[104*]



Frederick Kempe, a former Wall Street Journal diplomatic correspondent, wrote Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega in 1990. This documents the Israeli connections with the CIA in the contra-cocaine program in Central America:



“Noriega, the new Comandante, made clear he was willing to be more cooperative than his predecessors. He was also feeling more heat for Panama’s role in laundering money for international drug traffickers, and he interpreted a George Bush visit in December 1983 as an appeal for more help for the Contras.... In Noriega’s mind, he thought Bush was saying that if Panama helped the Contras it could defuse criticism about money laundering. He passed this interpretation to a trusted adviser.”



Coincidentally, perhaps, in December 1983 the Israelis reportedly started using a CIA front company in Panama to start funneling support to the Contras. That company was IFMA Management Company, which had originally been created in 1969 in Panama as a conduit for CIA ‘black’ funds.[105]


While Noriega now languishes in a U.S. prison, the amount of drug money laundered through Panamanian banks is two-thirds higher than it was prior to the invasion (which, at the time, was approximately 70 percent of the CIA’s drug take). For those Panamanians who survived Operation “Just Cause,” 60 percent now live in poverty, with 17 percent in extreme poverty, and 24 percent of the population suffers from malnutrition. According to Olga Mejia of the Panama Human Rights Commission: “Now you can find 1,000 children begging in central Panama City.”[106]



The CIA/NSC/DoJ complicit smugglers and pilots who testified against Noriega, including pilot Floyd Carlton, Roberto Striedinger, and Ricardo Bilonick, were released or had their sentences greatly reduced. Carlton was paid several hundred thousand dollars by the “Justice” Department and given permanent U.S. residency. Striedinger had his seized bank accounts returned, along with his 40-foot yacht, an airplane, his AK-47, Uzi and MAC-10 submachine guns and his Mercedes-Benz. Carlos Lehder was released from prison in 1996.



Noriega wasn’t the only person to be silenced in the wake of the Iran-Contra revelations. Floyd Carlton testified that he offered information to the DEA in Panama in July of 1987, which refused to take the information. Carlton had frequent contacts with the Medellin and Cali cartels, as well as taped phone conversations, documents and information about money laundering, drugs, weapons and assassinations. Instead of accepting the evidence, the “Justice” Department, as they would do with hundreds of other whistleblowers over the years, had Carlton arrested.



When the FBI raided the home of Senator Gary Hart’s presidential campaign manager Michael Boren Williams, “the first item that was seized was a file pertaining to my investigation of Bush’s ordering CIA Costa Rica Station Chief Joe Hernandes to blow up a commercial civilian airliner he thought to be carrying Senators [Gary] Hart and [William] Cohen to Managua, Nicaragua on an Iran-Contra fact-finding mission. (Oh, just for good measure, the Managua Airport was blown up, too).”[107]



As Williams told this author: “[Cohen] was the co-author of a spy novel, along with Gary Hart. George Bush (the big daddy fascist, not the creep who the New World Order’s ordained as their next 4-year dictator) ordered the assassination of Hart and Cohen.... Fortunately for them, they took an earlier flight....”[108*]



As Tosh Plumlee told Rodney Stich: “We’ve lost a lot of people that’s been killed or assassinated or discredited because for whatever reasons, they were going to blow the whistle on current operations they were involved with. Elements within the agencies that are involved would definitely put hitmen out, if it was going to jeopardize their ongoing operation.”[109]



As Chip Tatum, one of the alleged hitmen, says: “During the next few years, I would be tasked by Mr. Bush with the neutralization of a Mossad agent in 1988, an army Chief of Staff in 1989, the President of a third-world country in 1989, and the leader of a revolutionary force in Central America in 1991. [Mossad Agent] Ami Nir was killed in 1988. General Gustavo Alverez was killed in 1989. Enrique Bermudez, Contra leader and overseer of the cocaine kitchens, was killed in 1991.”[110]





Operation Desert Massacre



“We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.”

- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Foreign Affairs (July/August 1995)



“The world can therefore seize the opportunity (Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.”

- President George Herbert Walker Bush



In January of 1990, the U.S. Government under George Bush would again have the opportunity to demonstrate the “universal aspirations of mankind” when it attacked Iraqi forces in the Persian Gulf, driving them out of the oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait. President Bush immediately rallied to the cause of “freedom and democracy” for the tiny Arab sheikdom, where Iraqi forces were actively engaged in violating “the rights of the free world” by pillaging the populace and “pulling babies out of incubators.” Or so the White House and the State Department would have us believe.



Thus, under the guise of creating a “New World Order,” the U.S., with George Bush as the helm, once again heeded the call to “defend the free world.”



In reality, Kuwait was little more than a feudal kingdom ruled by a few immensely wealthy royal families, where such “freedoms” included being stoned to death for adultery (for women that is), having your hand cut off for thievery, and being arrested for practicing any religion except Islam. It is a place that Amnesty International reported torture is routine, and where 111 people were executed in one year alone by beheading, 16 of whom were political prisoners.[111]



So much for freedom and democracy.



What tiny Kuwait did have going for it was its vast oil reserves, whose ownership was in dispute with Iraq. Iraq’s Rumaila field, which dips into its disputed border with Kuwait, was being pumped for all its worth by the Kuwaitis—while Iraq, with the encouragement of both Kuwait and the U.S.—was fighting a bloody and costly war with Iran. The U.S. assisted Iraq in this endeavor by supplying them with detailed intelligence enabling their forces to bomb Iran’s oil terminals and power plants. As Jeffrey T. Richelson writes in The U.S. Intelligence Community:



“In 1984, when some feared that Iran might overrun Iraq, the United States began supplying Iraq with intelligence that reportedly enabled Iraq to calibrate mustard gas attacks on Iranian ground troops.”[112]



At the same time as Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, by exceeding their production quotas, were driving down the price of oil. Iraq, saddled with a $70 billion debt from its war with Iran, was losing billions of dollars in revenues.



Iraq’s demands were simple. They wanted payment for the oil taken from the Rumaila field (whose ownership had been in dispute ever since Britain had withdrawn from Kuwait), forgiveness of Kuwaiti loans during their war with Iran, and access to the Gulf ports for export of their oil. After negotiators failed to reach agreement over the thefts, the loans, and the access, Iraq invaded.[113]



As in Vietnam, President Bush attacked this “naked aggression,” rallying to the cause of freedom: “America stands where it always has,” declared Bush (whose family made its fortune backing Adolf Hitler), “against aggression, against those who would use force to replace the rule of law.”



So spoke King George, who, only months earlier, had imposed illegal sanctions against Nicaragua to prevent free elections there—a continuation of his and Reagan’s covert bloody war against that sovereign nation. As a result, Bush became the only head of state publicly condemned by the World Court for the “unlawful use of force.”[114]



Such a condemnation is hardly surprising, since barely two years earlier, Bush had invaded Panama to silence Manuel Noriega and install “democracy” in the U.S.-controlled banana republic.[115]



Not to tarnish Bush’s reputation as a champion of human rights. Bush was CIA Director when Argentine secret police launched their “Dirty War” in 1976, resulting in the “elimination” of tens-of-thousands of political dissidents.



On September 21, 1976, a bomb ripped apart the car carrying former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and two American co-workers on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.. Letelier and a woman, Ronni Moffitt, died in the blast.



Letelier was a staunch critic of Chile’s murderous military dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet, a CIA puppet. Represtnative James Abourezk, a personal friend of Letelier’s, asked DCI Bush to commit the CIA to the search “to find the bastards who killed” Letelier. Bush appeared concerned and responded, “I’ll see what I can do. We are not without assets in Chile.”



As Robert Parry writes:



“The problem with Bush’s promise, however, was that some of the CIA’s top “assets” in Chile were implicated in the murder. According to U.S. intelligence sources, one of those CIA assets was Gen. Manuel Contreras, the head of the intelligence agency, DINA, and the architect of the Letelier assassination. The other trouble with Bush’s pledge was that the assassination had been carried out almost literally under the CIA’s nose—and Bush had little interest in exposing his own failings.... There was also the darker possibility that Bush’s CIA had granted DINA license to hunt down and neutralize a Chilean dissident on American soil.”[116]



Bush was also CIA director when Indonesian General Suharto, with support from President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, invaded the small island nation of East Timor. Suharto had come to power in 1965, during a U.S.-backed genocidal coup that resulted in over a million deaths.[117] By comparison, Suharto’s invasion of East Timor merely resulted in a quarter-of-a-million deaths. According to the Australia East Timor Association:



“The atrocities of the Indonesian Military Junta are absolutely barbaric, torturing and killing thousands. Even women have been killed very slowly by stabbings.... Hundreds have been burnt to death.... Indonesian soldiers took hold of the legs of little children and threw them around in the air a number of times and smashed their tiny heads and bodies against a rock. A women asked that one of the children be given to her after it’s mother had been stripped naked and killed, but the soldier grabbed the child and killed it [instead]...”[118]



The Timorese massacres would continue with George Bush in the White House, as the Timor Gap Treaty was signed, giving Indonesian and Australian mining companies authority to begin joint oil exploration with major oil companies—resulting in a new wave of genocidal terror—all the while revealing the real reason behind U.S.-backed policies.[119*]



Ramos Horta, special representative of the National Council of Maubere Resistance, described how President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited Suharto shortly before the invasion and gave him the green light to invade, while assuring the benevolent tyrant that his supply of American weapons wouldn’t be affected. Kissinger told reporters at the time that “the United States understands Indonesia’s position.” *



Fifteen years later, George Bush would give his own green light to Saddam Hussein. On July 25, 1990, with Iraqi troops massed along the border, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie met with Hussein and informed him that the U.S. had “no opinion” on Iraq-Kuwait border disputes. When Glaspie asked Hussein what his intentions were, he replied that Kuwait’s actions amounted to “an economic war” and “military action against us.” Hussein said he hoped for a peaceful solution, but if not, he said, “it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death...”



As former CIA officer Phillip Agee notes, “A clearer statement of his intentions would be hard to imagine.”



“Glaspie gave no warning from Bush or Secretary of State [James] Baker that the U.S. would oppose an Iraqi takeover of Kuwait. On the contrary she said, “I have direct instructions from the President to seek better relations with Iraq.” On the same day Assistant Secretary of State Kelly killed a planned Voice of America broadcast that would have warned Iraq that the U.S. was “strongly committed” to the defense of its friends in the Gulf, which included, of course, Kuwait. During the week between the Ambassador’s meeting with Hussein and the invasion, the Bush administration forbade any warning to Hussein against invasion... Assistant Secretary Kelly, two days before the invasion, again testified publicly before Congress to the effect that the U.S. had no commitment to defend Kuwait.”[120]



While Bush was publicly condemning Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait on the one hand, he was secretly pursuing a policy of encouraging it on the other. “Big countries cannot invade small neighbors and get away with it,” Bush sanctimoniously announced to the world. Il Sabato, a Catholic weekly in Rome, noting Bush’s shameful hypocrisy, wrote that Bush is the “surly master of the world,” who deserves “the Nobel War Prize” for ignoring opportunities for peace in the Gulf. Bush “had the very concrete possibility of a just peace and he chose war.”[121]



While conspicuously avoiding all opportunities for a peaceful settlement, Bush arrogantly insisted that Iraq’s capacity for aggression be eliminated—a curious position considering that the U.S. had shared intelligence with Iraq right up to the start of the war, and Bush had encouraged Iraq’s bloody ten-year war with Iran as a bulwark against what he perceived as that state’s (and Israel’s) aggressive tendencies (Bush’s “Level Playing Field Doctrine”).



What was not mentioned however was the CIA’s role just a decade earlier in fomenting Kurdish rebellion inside Iraq, with arms supplied by the CIA’s good friend the Shah of Iran. That rebellion led to Iraq’s loss of the Shat al Arab, Iraq’s only access to Basra, its upriver port, and ultimately led to Iraq’s invasion of Iran which cost nearly a million lives.



All the while, the U.S. was building up huge military installations in Saudi Arabia in anticipation of a Gulf War scenario, one that had been gamed-out in Pentagon war rooms. It was easy to anticipate such a scenario, since Bush, like his father before him, had illegally armed Iraq with both conventional and biological weapons, paid for by U.S. taxpayers.[122]



According to a 1995 deposition by Reagan national security aide Howard Teicher, CIA Deputy Director Robert Gates was part of a secret operation in the 1980s to funnel sophisticated military equipment to Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein via Carlos Cardoen, a Chilean arms dealer with close ties to the murderous General Pinochet. “Under CIA director Casey and Deputy Director Gates, the CIA authorized, approved and assisted Cardoen in the manufacture and sale of cluster bombs and other munitions to Iraq,” Teicher wrote in the affidavit submitted as part of an arms-smuggling case in federal court.[123]



Some of those weapons passed through Customs disguised as agricultural loans funded by the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL, which was connected to the CIA’s BCCI: “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International”), and approved by the Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation.[124*]



Of course, not all these technological transfers were so open. Iraqi arms dealer Ishan Barbouti, who, with the help of Richard Secord (of Iran-Contra fame) and Wackenhut Security (an FBI/CIA/DoD proprietary), was secretly siphoning off huge quantities of cyanide from Product Ingredient Technologies, a food flavoring plant in Florida, which was subsequently shipped to Iraq to be used in Hussein’s chemical weapons production (Cyanide is a necessary ingredient in the development of nerve gas). Barbouti was also friends with Hussein’s brother-in-law—Hussein Kamil, who directed the flow of over $2 billion in BNL commercial loans to various high-profile Iraqi weapons projects.” Many of the biologicals sold to Iraq had the blessing of both President Bush and Secretary of State James Baker—both oil men. It is rumored that both men made a substantial amount of money from these deals, as did much of the U.S. military-industrial establishment.



But “smart bombs” and bullets weren’t the only killers of this Mid-East holocaust. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the inhabitants of the Persian Gulf are now afflicted with Gulf War Syndrome (GWI), a deadly disease that has claimed 250,000 lives in Iraq alone, with another million sick, including those of other Gulf states. According to Dr. Nancy Nicholson of the Rhodon Foundation for Biomedical Research and her husband, Dr. Garth Nicholson, one of the most highly regarded scientists in biomedical research, more babies are being born deformed in Iraq than are being born normal.



This debilitating man-made disease has also claimed approximately 15,000 American lives (as of 1997), with another 100,000 to 200,000 veterans severely ill. This doesn’t include family members, friends and associates who are sick, disabled, or dead as a result of being infected with this highly communicable disease. (Unlike AIDS, GWI can reportedly be spread not only through sex, but by casual contact, through perspiration, or by being close to someone who coughs.) It is estimated that over 50,000 National Guardsmen who served in the Gulf have reported illnesses.



According to the British Gulf War Veterans Association, over 1,233 British veterans have died so far and thousands more are sick—17 percent of those committing suicide due to lack of treatment and intolerable pain levels. Thousands of babies have been born to vets with horrible deformities—missing limbs, eyes, and ears, and incomplete or missing organs.[125]



While the origins of GWI stem mainly from Iraqi biologicals launched from SCUDs and fall-out from destroyed Iraqi chemical depots, the effects—which include fatigue, vomiting, weight loss, joint pains, headaches, sleeplessness, memory loss, paralysis, tumors, and not least of all, death—were exacerbated by dangerous and experimental drugs administered to U.S. troops by the DoD. A Senate committee that surveyed 150 veterans discovered they were ordered, under threat of Article 15 or court martial, not to discuss their vaccinations with anyone, not even with doctors who were attempting to treat their adverse reactions.[126*]



Court records uncovered by Sherman Skolnick also reveal that Bush and Hussein engaged in private oil deals involving the splitting of $250 billion worth of oil profit kickbacks. As Skolnick reports:



“The records demonstrate private transactions involving $250 billion in oil money kickbacks from the entire Gulf region paid to Saddam Hussein. The Federal Reserve Board wanted Congressman [Henry] Gonzales (D-TX) to agree to never use these records in any of his congressional reports. He was only allowed to look at the records. But the Congressman refused to sign the secrecy oath that the Fed demanded.



“Following the May 19 hearing I told the attorneys that I had heard what the records were about. I spelled out these huge private transactions between Bush and Saddam.... One of the lawyers said, “Well, that’s true. I want you to know that what is involved here are non-bank records that the ‘Justice’ Department [doesn’t want released].”...



“Saddam got kickbacks to the tune of $250 billion arranged by George Bush and oil companies such as Penzoil which are connected to Bush [one of the heads of Penzoil]....”



According to Skolnick, the “Justice” Department used an investigation of a Court of Appeals Judge in order to blackmail the judge not to release the information. Representative Gonzales’ investigation was sabotaged by people on his own committee. After BCCI’s records were seized by the Reagan/Bush “Justice” Department, Gonzales tried, via congressional subpoena, to acquire them. Judge Brian Duff, who has connections with the Federal Reserve, impounded the records and chased Gonazles’ attorney out of court. As Skolnick writes:



“On the Senate side the investigation is also being hampered. On June 13 the Wall Street Journal pointed out that Senator John Kerry (D-MS) who is investigating BCCI became chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee which received large contributions from BCCI.”



In fact, Bush had a long-standing policy of supporting the Iraqi dictator. In 1987, Bush pressured the federal Export Import bank to give hundreds of millions in loans to Iraq. In a manner similar to what President Bill Clinton (and Bush) would do with Communist China, Bush had met with Iraqi ambassador Nizar Hamdoon to assure him that Hussein could import more dual-use technology.



At least $1 billion in military aid, disguised as Agriculture commodity loans, were funneled to Iraq through BNL. Under Bush’s Presidential Security Directive NSD 26, he overrode other government agency concerns about lending money to Saddam Hussein. In October of 1989, Secretary of State James Baker III intervened with Agriculture Department Secretary Clayton Yeutter to drop Agriculture’s opposition to the $1 billion in food credits for Hussein. This was a man who bragged in the spring of 1990 that he possessed enough chemical weapons to “burn half of Israel,” and attacked his own Kurdish population with poison gas, murdering thousands of men, women and children.



As late as July of 1990, the NSC pushed for the second installment of the $1 billion package despite evidence that Iraq was using the money for its ballistic missile program and other weapons.[127] As Congressman Gonzalez stated in a July 27 speech: “The Bush administration sent U.S. technology to the Iraqi military and to many Iraqi military factories, despite overwhelming evidence showing that Iraq intended to use the technology in its clandestine nuclear, chemical, biological, and long-range missile programs.”[128]



Yet by June of 1990, George Bush, Jr. sold his stock in Harken Energy, which had exclusive oil drilling rights with the island of Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia. (Bush had been rescued by Harken in 1986 when Bush’s Specturm 7 Energy Corporation was in financial trouble. Harken made “Jr.” a director, and he and his partners were given more than $2 million in stock, while George received another $600,000 in stock as a “consultant,” not including his lucrative salary.) The Bahrain deal was brokered by David Edwards, a close pal of Bill Clinton’s and a former employee of the shady Arkansas-based bond brokerage house Stephens Inc.[129]



Industry analysts were amazed that such a small, unknown company won such a lucrative contract. Research by the Observer reveals, unsurprisingly, that Harken has links to institutions that are involved in drug smuggling, foreign currency manipulation and the CIA. (In 1987, Jackson Stephens of Stephens, Inc. would arrange a $25 million cash infusion to George Jr’s Harken through Switzerland’s Union Bank—both tied to the notorious scandal-ridden BCCI. Stephens was a large doner to both the Reagan/Bush ticket and to Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. Stephens’ wife Mary Anne managed George Herbert Walker Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign in Arkansas.) As his pals at Enron would later do, George Jr. successfully dumped his Harken stock for $848,560—a nice 200 percent profit—just in time for Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, conveniently forgetting to notify the Securities and Exchange Commission as required by law.[130*]



Illegal-insider-trader-Jr. avoided prosecution, thanks to some well-connected lawyers and Daddy-Bush-the-President who pulled the appropriate SEC strings. This, as Enron employees lost their pensions (or were “suicided”) as a result of illegal insider stock sales—another company directly connected to the Bushes.



As Iran-Contra insider Al Martin told journalist Uri Dowbenko, “Harken was one of those deals that was a combination fraud as well as a manipulation. There’s different types of fraud when you get into securities. When George Jr. was put in charge of Harken Energy by his father, he essentially took it down the tubes. You have to realize that every business that George Jr. has ever had has failed. That’s the man’s business record.



“George Bush, Sr. and James Baker and Senator Tower would heavily short Harken stock. I have a list of everybody because I was one of them but to a much smaller extent. Harken stock was trading at 7-3/4 or 8, when George Jr, was put in charge of it. A year later, the stock was trading at 1-1/8 bid, 3/8 offer. They pumped the stock back up through a lot of bogus press releases and by using essentially worthless leases in Bahrain and essentially worthless South American oil leases and through sympathetic geologists making them appear to be really worth something and making it appear that Harken’s about to make a strike when in fact it’s all made up. It’s all fictitious. And through carefully crafted broker releases and broker statements and press releases, you can pump the stock back up. This has happened sixteen times to my knowledge. Harken would get pumped back up from the dead, from say a buck, buck and a half, back to seven, seven and a half, then it would get dumped again. Originally George Jr. had control of the company. He stayed on the board.



“You have to look at the entire Bush Family in this context—as if the entire family ran a corporation called ‘Frauds-R-Us.’ Each member of the family, George Sr., George Jr., Neil, Jeb, Prescott, Wally, etc., have their own specialty of fraud.



“George Jr.’s specialty was insurance and security fraud. Jeb’s specialty was oil and gas fraud. Neil’s specialty was real estate fraud. Prescott’s specialty was banking fraud. Wally’s specialty was securities fraud. And George Bush Sr’s specialty? All of the above.”[131]



According to the National Journal, 43 percent of President George Bush Jr.’s top 300 appointees had worked for Bush Sr.



But Iraq wasn’t the only “enemy” doing business with the Bush family. George Bush’s brother Prescott was a consultant to Asset Management International Financing & Settlement, a New York firm with a contract to provide communications for 2,000 professional and university offices in China. After the Tienaman Square massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in June of 1989, Bush publicly expressed his outrage, while quietly sending National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to China to make sure the Bush family assets were secure. Asset Management likewise enlisted Prescott’s help after his father imposed economic sanctions against China (which he would later lift for Hughes Aircraft). For this Prescott received a handsome $250,000 consulting fee from Asset Management.[132]



Prescott would go on to broker a deal between Asset Management and West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based investment firm linked to the Japansese mob—the Yakuza, for which he received a $250,000 finder’s fee and a $250,000 yearly “consultant” retainer. Unfortunately West Tsusho filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against Prescott claiming that he reneged on his promise to protect the firm’s $5 million investment.[133]



Like his brother George, Prescott would play his own role in illegal covert activities, as a spy for the Reagan/Bush presidential campaign against President Jimmy Carter. A September 3, 1980 letter from Prescott to James Baker (soon to become Secretary of State) offers his help in monitoring the activities of the Carter White House in their efforts to obtain the release of the American hostages being held in Iran. As the letter states:



“Herb Cohen—the guy that offered help on the Iranian hostage situation—called me yesterday afternoon. Herb has a couple of reliable sources on the National Security Council, about whom the [Carter] administration does not know, who can keep him posted on developments....”[134]



The Reagan/Bush plan to delay the release of the hostages until after the defeat of Jimmy Carter came to be known as “October Surprise.” (See Chapter XX) With George Bush’s tenure in the White House now secure, Prescott would help his brother funnel illegal aid to the Contras through his position on Americares’ board, the U.S.-based “relief” organization with ties to prominent right-wing Republicans and the CIA.



The late J. Peter Grace, chair of AmeriCares from 1982 to 1995, was a key participant in Project Paperclip, a covert operation which recruited Nazi scientists to work in the U.S. after World War II. Many of those Nazis had been found guilty of experimentation on humans. Grace also played a prominent role in organizing the fascist coup that overthrew the popular democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Comfortingly, AmeriCares presents itself as the “humanitarian arm of Corporate America.”[135]



Americares also provided an undisclosed $680,000 to the Nicaraguan Miskito Indian guerrillas, and $91,383 in food and medicine (and $5,750 cash) to Mario Calero, the New Orleans-based quartermaster for the Contras.[136]



Bush, Sr’s wife, Barbara, is AmeriCares Ambassador-at-Large. Former Carter National Security Advisor and CFR member Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski is its Honorary Chairman.[137]



The Miami link to the Contras would come through George Bush’s son Jeb, who acted as one key liason between the Contras and then-Vice President Bush—helping to set up an arms pipeline through friendly contacts in Guatemala. That contact, a right-wing politician named Dr. Mario Castejon, would have his CIA funding proposals hand-delivered to Ted Shackley himself.



The military-industrial complex was apprehensive as the 1990s dawned with the break-up of the Soviet Union and a consequential peace dividend. With their continuing shady arms deals in Central America, and with Bush’s Gulf War, the establishment no longer had to worry. “The war itself has done the most to stir interest in the acquisition of high-tech weapons,” stated the New York Times.



Ironically, 28 American soldiers killed by Iraqi SCUD missiles during the Gulf War came from Pennsylvania, where Greenburg-Latrobe had manufactured parts for those very weapons. SCUD launchers were manufactured in Connecticut, with other manufacturers being scattered throughout the country. As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Mantius wrote in Shell Game, following the war, “President Bush [used] the vast power of his office... to stall [Congressional] probes long enough for the American companies that supplied Iraq to blend quietly into the crowd.”[138] Some of companies were tied to Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank, managed by Bush’s father, the late Senator Prescott Bush, who, as discussed earlier, had not only financed Adolph Hitler, but had armed the Nazis during the war in violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act.



Ironically, Bush would later compare Saddam Hussein, his own former business partner, to Hitler, while condemning the Iraqi dictator for invading Kuwait and attacking the Kurds. At the same time, Bush’s friend, Turkish president Turgut Ozal (who was former director of the International Monetary Fund) was murdering his own Kurdish population by the thousands. Turkish-occupied Kurdistan resembled El Salvador during the 1980s, with imprisonment, torture, and mass-murder commonplace. At least 22,000 have died since the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) struggle against Turkey which began in 1984. But the government-controlled press wasn’t allowed to focus on that slaughter because Turkey was a client state of the U.S.[139]



In speaking about the so-called atrocities committed by Hussein, Bush stated: “No one can see the pictures or hear the accounts of this human suffering, men, women, and most painfully of all, innocent children, and not be deeply moved.... we must do everything in our power to save innocent life, and this is the American tradition and we will continue to live up to that tradition.”[140]



This “American tradition” employed by Bush and his murdering minions like General Collin Powell (later to become Secretary of State) and “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf, amounted to the unleashing of more bombs on both the military and the civilian population of Iraq than was dropped by the Allies during WWII; by burying thousands of Iraqi soldiers alive in their trenches with tanks equipped with plows; by openly machine-gunning thousands of unarmed surrendering troops; and by imposing severe economic sanctions on a civilian population, at least a million of whom—mostly children—have died as a result of malnutrition and disease. The Wall Street Journal quoted UN sources as saying that at least 560,000 Iraqi children have died since the war ended in 1991. That was in 1995.



“The foreign editor of Brazil’s major daily wrote that “What is being practiced in the Gulf is pure barbarism—ironically, committed in the name of civilization....”[141]



Conclusion





“George Bush, he’s bad on drugs, he’s sick mentally and physically,

if he was a dog he’d be shot. He’s a scumbag. That’s why he won’t be re-elected. He’s not morally, physically or mentally fit to be President.”



- Christopher Hitchens, columnist for The Nation,

Washington Editor for Harpers



These activities are just a sampling of the Bush family endeavors. What can one say about a man who makes brutal war on a soverign country, killing thousands, just to protect his own drug trade? Or murders a million innocent children in another country through war (read slaughter), starvation and disease to protect his and his cronies’ oil interests? Or participate in perverted sexual activities with prostituted children? Or illegally smuggle tons of narcotics into the United States while publicly declaring to be “anti-drug”—releasing major drug traffickers while ordinary people possessing a little marijuana are sentenced to long jail terms? Such a man could only be considered the most evil of creatures—on a scale rivaling that of a Hitler.



While George Bush slaughtered hapless millions in Iraq through war, starvation and disease (not to mention the devastation he caused in Panama, Central America and at home), President Clinton would be all too happy to take up the slack—bombing Baghdad with cruise missiles (killing 8 innocent civilians) to punish Saddam Hussein for an alleged assassination plot against Bush.



It is only too bad the plotters didn’t succeed.


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Approximately 19 U.S. presidents descended from royal bloodlines. As researcher Brian Downing Quig writes: “John Galt (a pen name of a researcher fearing to be identified), in an unpublished manuscript (now in my possession), The Genealogy of the New World Order, has traced the royal ancestry of George Bush, which traces from Charlemagne and Alfred the Great, all the way down through George Bush’s 32 presidential cousins!”

There have been three S&B Presidents; at least ten Senators; two Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and many U.S. representatives and state governors. “Bonesmen” have held a myriad of lesser appointed posts and positions, with a particular affinity for Secretary of War/Defense; diplomatic posts to Europe, Russia, China and the Philippines; and in the national security state/intelligence apparatus. Some examples of Bonesmen: Time-Life publisher Henry Luce, New York Times General Manager Amory H. Bradford, CIA officers William F. Buckley, William P. Bundy, McGeorge Bundy, and Richard Bissel, Senator and David Bowen, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee. Other members include: Lord (1635, Cambridge, Mass), Phelps (1630, Dorchester, Mass), Whitney (1635, Watertown, Mass), Perkins (1631, Boston, Mass), Stimson (1635, Watertown, Mass), Wadsworth (1632, Newtown, Mass), Gilman (1638, Hingham, Mass), Payne (Standard Oil), Davison (JP Morgan), Pillsbury (Flour Milling), Sloane (Retail), Weyerhaeuser (Lumber), Harriman (Railroads) and Rockefeller (Standard Oil).

[1]. Antony C. Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones (Billings, MT: Liberty House Press), quoted in “‘The Skulls’ - Insider Secrets Of The New World Orderlies,” review by Uri Dowbenko, 4/5/00.

[2]. Ibid.

[3]. Ibid.

[4]. Ibid.

Of course the Federal Reserve is not federal, but merely a consortium of private central banks. With profits exceeding 150 billion per year, no corporation in the world comes anywhere close. Interestingly, if the profits of the Federal Reserve were compounded from its inception, a sum roughly equivalent to the national debt results. Wall Street interests originally “fought” this bill while all along they were its authors.

[5]. “The Boodle Boys,” RA Kris Millegan, 1999, courtesy of Newshawk, 3/16/99. Millegan’s father entered was an OSS agent and G-2. During the early 19502 he was the CIA’s Branch Chief, Head of East Asia Intelligence Analyst Office.

The shipping manifests from those days have survived intact to make this claim solid.

[6]. Ibid.

[7]. Antony C. Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones (Billings, MT: Liberty House Press), quoted in “‘The Skulls’ - Insider Secrets Of The New World Orderlies,” Review By Uri Dowbenko, 4/5/00.

[8]. Max Warburg, who had been the Kaiser’s banker, was not exiled with him to Holland after the 1918 Armistice, but instead became the advisor to the latter government under the Nazis. Paul Warburg of the Wall Street investment house Kuhn, Loeb Company had also participated in the drafting of the Federal Reserve Act at Jekyll Island, and headed the U.S. banking system during the war. Warburg was Rockefeller’s partner in banking at the same time his brother Max was financing the Nazi war machine. Another principal Rockefeller partner, Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb, had been born in the Rothschild house in Frankfurt and was now the principal Rothschild representative in the U.S.

Contrary to popular opinion, Jews like the Rothschilds aren’t really Jewish, having forsaken their birthright and converted in order to move freely within the gentile business world. In Yiddish such Jews are known as “Hofjudn.”

[9]. Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. (Washington, DC, Executive Intelligence Review, 1992); Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 10.

“During the war, that Trust produced a massive 50.8% of Nazi Germany’s pig iron, 45.5% of their pipes and tubes, 22.1% of their wire, and 35% of their battlefield explosives. At the time, this information stunned the American public, and revealed the Bush family’s central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his domination of Europe. But since then, the media has virtually buried all such reports.” (Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. (Washington, DC, Executive Intelligence Review, 1992.)

[10]. John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.), quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 357-361 2. Ibid., pp. 362-364.

[11]. A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker’s Hamburg-Amerika Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda efforts both in Germany and the United States.

[12]. Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op Cit.

[13]. Ibid.

[14]. Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, Rape of The Constitution; Death of Freedom.

As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz writes in his book, Called to Serve, the man who wrote the Warren Commission report “was Dr. Rudolph August “Otto” Winnaker, who was described in “Who’s Who in the CIA” as an analyst for the wartime OSS, historian in the U.S. War Department from 1945-49, and then Chief of the Historical Division of the Pentagon. What is not listed is that Dr. Winnaker was once of 26 official historians for Hitler’s Third Reich!” Quite fitting.

[15]. Christopher Simpson, Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazi’s and Its Effect on the Cold War (New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.)

[16]. Russell S. Bowen, The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed (Carson City, NV: America West Publishers, 1991), p. 2.

[17]. Ibid., p. 12.

[18]. John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.), quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 357-361 2. Ibid., pp. 362-364.

[19]. George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (New York, NY: Doubleday, 1987), pp. 36-39, quoted in Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 15-16.

[20]. Dallas Morning News, 9/28/99; Dallas Morning News, 10/30/99.

[21]. The Boston Globe, 5/23/00.

[22]. Martin Heldt, “Isikoff manages to make gone with 9 of the 12 months G.W. Bush was missing from Air Guard duty,” On-Line Journal, 7/13/00.

[23]. Linda L. Starr and Bev Conove, “Former National Guard officer says Bush aide scrubbed military records,” On-Line Journal, 11/4/00. “This effort was further involved by General Daniel James and Chief of Staff William W. Goodwin at Camp Mabry,” said Burkett.

[24]. “Texas National Air Guard grounded George W. for failure to take medical exam,” On-Line Journal, 2/7/00.

[25]. According to Patricia Kilday Hart’s article on Dubya, he came under attack in the University Daily, a Texas Tech newspaper, for promising free beer at a campaign rally. Linda Starr, “Despite Yale diploma, George W. was rejected by U of Texas Law School,” 10/12/99, cited in On-Line Journal.

[26]. The Heritage Groups Council was also tied to Richard Nixon.

[27]. Ibid.

[28]. Loftus and Aarons, Op. Cit., pp. 365-371.

[29]. San Francisco Chronicle, 5/7/77, quoted in Bowen, pp. 30-31.

[30]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 28. Parker was a Marine Colonel assigned to Naval Intelligence.

[31]. Ibid.

According to Bush’s account, Nixon told him that “the place I really need you is over at the National Committee running things.” In 1972, Nixon appointed Bush as head of the Republican National Committee. He later appointed Bush Ambassador to China.

[32]. Ibid., p. 32.

[33]. Ibid., pp.35-36; The memo addressed the possible reaction of Cubans in Miami who might have believed Fidel Castro was responsible for the plot.” (Harry V. Martin, “French Connection, The Smoking Gun If Bush went to Paris, the French and U.S. have documents to prove it,” Napa Sentinel, 1991 Sixth in a Series.)

[34]. Anthony L. Kimery, “George Bush and the CIA: In the Company of Friends,” Covert Action Quaterly, Summer, 1992.

When he was found riddled with bullet holes fired by Colombian drug cartel hitmen, drug-smuggler Barry Seal would have George Bush’s telephone number in his pocket.

[35]. Uri Dowbenko, “Up Against the Beast,” Nexus magazine, April-May, 2000.

This author met with Carone’s daughter, Dee Ferdinand, and was presented with her revealing depositions, plus a number of her fathers affidavits. In fact, a national radio interview I did with Dee Ferdinand caused Ted Shackley to go ballistic.

[36]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

Bush would play another role in domestic counter-intelligence. In 1962, Bush’s father Prescott, along with William Casey, founded the National Strategy Information Center, a right-wing think-tank which used CIA funds to publish anti-left tracts.

[37]. “Reputed Cocaine Bank Money Laundry Wizard for George Bush Family Arrested,” Skolnick Report, 1/28/00. Sherman Skolnick founded the Chicago-based Citizens’ Committee to Clean Up the Courts in 1961. He is an expert in tracking money flows.

[38]. Cathy O’Brien & Mark Phillips, Trance Formation of America, pp. 196-197.

[39]. Confidential interview with author. The Colonel told his wife about having sex with Bush and wrote about it in his diary. He was one of Oliver North’s bosses.

Casey had also been a friend of Bush’s father, Prescott.

King is now serving a 15-year federal prison sentence for fraud.

[40]. John DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska: AWT, Inc., 1992), p. 164.

[41]. “Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan: Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House.,” Washington Times , 6/29/89, quoted in: Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin write in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (Washington, DC: EIR,

[42]. John Lichfield, “White House ‘Great Gatsby’ Lands in a New York Jail Cell,” The Independent (UK), 8/10/89; John Lichfield, “White House Midnight Rambler Found Dead,” The Independent, 11/13/89; John Mintz, Martha Sherill and Elsa Walsh “The Shadow World of Craig Spence,” Washington Post, 7/18/89.

FBI Agent Donald Rochon, in a lawsuit against the Bureau filed in 1989, states that he had observed Special Agent Dillon “French kissing” SA Agent Terry Bohle and had “personally witnessed” Dillon “exposing himself in the Omaha office during a regular work day to numerous employees, both male and female.” Rochon also heard reports, substantiated by another agent, that Dillon had allowed Bohle to urinate in his mouth and to “urinate into a beer bottle [from] which he subsequently drank.” For his part, Dillon said that the urinating in his mouth was an “accident.” (John DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Chile Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska [Lincoln, NE: AWT, 1996], pp. 198-199.)

[43]. Ibid., p. 250.

Witnesses saw explosions in the air. Naturally, the NTSB covered it up, as they would do in numerous other cases.

[44]. King was appointed to the Reagan/Bush re-election committee by National Republican Council Chairperson LeFree Daniels.

Some of the allegations involving the CIA’s mind-control “Monarch Project,” involving children, were confirmed by DeCamp’s long-time friend William Colby, former Director of the CIA, who wound up dead shortly after the publication of DeCamp’s book.

[45]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 322.

[46]. Ibid., p. 12.

[47]. Omaha World-Herald, 7/23/89.

[48]. Gentleman’s Quarterly, December 1991.

[49]. Peter Sawyer, “The Original Allegations: Bush First Named in 1985,’’ Inside News, November, 1991, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin. “The newsletter reproduces several documents on Lisa’s case, including a Nebraska State Police report, a State of Nebraska Foster Care Review Board letter to the Attorney General, an investigative report prepared for the Franklin Committee of the Nebraska Senate, and a portion of the handwritten debriefing by Mrs. Julie Walters.”

[50]. Report, by Julie Walters, 3/25/86; authenticated by her in an interview in 1990 with authors Tarpley and Chaitkin.

[51]. Report, early 1989, compiled by Jerry Lowe, the first investigator for the Franklin Committee of the Nebraska State Senate, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin. “The March 1986 report on Bush was incorporated into the Foster Care Review Board’s official report presented to the Senate Franklin Committee and to law enforcement.”

[52]. “Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service, Report of Investigation, Subject: ‘Finders,” 2/12/87, copy in author’s possession.

Italics mine.

[53]. “Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service, Report of Investigation, Subject: ‘Finders,” 2/12/87, copy in author’s possession. Italics mine.

Revell would later sue this author, my publisher, Feral House, and several other parties for libel in federal court for what I wrote about him regarding his involvement in Pan Am 103 in my book, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror. A federal judge ruled in our favor. Revell also sued the Columbia Journalsm Review over the same matter.

[54]. According to Aquino, Set visited him in 1975 and anointed him “Magus V of the Age of Set,” thereby terminating LaVey’s “Age of Satan.” To spruce himself up for the role, Aquino plucked his eyebrows, had the number “666” tattooed on his scalp, and cut his hair into a severe widow’s peak. He christened his wife Lilith as “Magistra” in the new Temple of Set.

[55]. David Hoffman, “Do What Thou Wilt, Satanism and The Temple of Set,” Haight Ashbury Free Press, September-October, 1995. Why do people join satanic groups? Sociologist Gini Graham Scott, who studied the group in the early 1980s and published her findings in a book titled The Magicians, described the average member as people frustrated with everyday problems who are led to want power. Scott ended by concluding that the Setians contributed, via their philosophy, to a “growing climate of fear and hatred in America,” a position which Acquino virulently denies, terming Satan[ism] “a champion of anti-hypocrisy - a crusader against the corruption and moral bankruptcy of society.” Such philosophies have sometimes led to brutal and bizarre deaths at the hands of disturbed teenagers eager to experiment with the occult. Said LaVey, the Heavy Metal kids who talk about Satan are usually not affiliated with either organization. “They make the sign of the horns at concerts,” “and they don’t know why they are doing it. But it’s good that they’re doing it.” (Raising Hell, Michael Newton, Avon Books, 1993) According to spokespersons, neither The Church of Satan nor The Temple of Set have ever practiced human or animal sacrifice. Anton LaVey once said, “I will have no mercy on people who are cruel to animals.” The use of magick, however, to harm ones enemies, is acceptable in these organizations. When Jane Mansfield died in a car accident, LaVey said it was because she had asked him to put a curse on her boyfriend. He did, it worked, and Jane unfortunately just happened to be in the car. When busybody neighbors made authorities evict LaVey’s pet lion, Tagore, LaVey put a curse on them. Before long, most of the culprits had died, disappeared or moved away.

[56]. Ibid., pp. 326-327.

[57]. Giovanni Caporaso and Massimilino Cocozza Lubisco, Pronto (Barcelona, Spain), 8/3/91 and 8/10/91.

[58]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 188.

[59]. Ibid., p. 182.

[60]. Ibid., p. 195.

[61]. Ibid.

[62]. Ibid., p. 196.

[63]. Ibid.

This is a pattern that would be repeated by the FBI and the “Justice” Department at the Oklahoma City bombing trials. A tearful Daina Bradley—a bombing witness and victim—would be coerced into changing her story about her sighting of John Doe Two, a federal government agent, at the scene of the crime.

[64]. Ibid., p. 195.

[65]. Ibid., pp. 210-211.

[66]. Ibid., pp. 250-251.

[67]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 442; Former NYPD Detective Jim Rothstein, interview with author.

[68]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 175.

Emphasis mine.

[69]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 240, pp. 322-323.

[70]. Bo Gritz, Called to Serve (Sandy Valley, NV: Lazarus Publishing, 1991), p. 403.

[71]. Stich, Op. Cit., pp. 23-28. Stich’s sources are all former CIA operatives: Trenton Parker, Gunther Russbacher, and Russell Bowen.

[72]. See Russell S. Bowen, Immaculate Deception (Carson City, NV: America West Publishers, 1991). The pilot has visited and worked in Colombia and much of the rest of South America for over three decades, establishing several national airlines in the process in conjunction with the State Department. Shackley has also been placed in meetings concerning the sale of TOW missiles to Iran with Iran-contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar in Hamburg, Germany in 1984. (Harry V. Martin, Lars C. Hansson, “Noriega,” Napa Sentinel series, 1995.)

When Bowen became disenchanted with the operations, he contacted U.S. Customs in Miami. Nothing happened. Then during a 1982 flight in which Shackley and CIA operative Henry Meierhoffer ferried 800 pounds of cocaine from Medellin to Miami, Bowen blew the whistle by landing the plane at a different airport—an airport heavily monitored by the authorities. The plan backfired and Bowen was arrested and denied his rights to defend himself at trial.

[73]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 34.

[74]. Harry V. Martin, Lars C. Hansson, “Noriega,” Napa Sentinel series, 1995.

[75]. His letters arrived in envelopes with stamps and postmark clearly indicating they had been mailed from Medellin, Colombia. In was also conveyed to Snepp that the pilot claimed the company was tied directly to Interarms, the world's largest supplier of small-arm/automatic weapons, run by longtime CIA asset Samuel Cummings, brother-in-law of the late Senator John Tower of Texas.(Ibid.)

[76]. Martin and Hansson, Op Cit.

[77]. Stich, Op. Cit., pp. 23-28. Stich’s sources are all former CIA operatives: Trenton Parker, Gunther Russbacher, and Russell Bowen.

[78]. Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op. Cit.

“They also had government contracts with large U.S. steel companies, such as the steel foundry in Granite City, Illinois, located across from St. Louis, Mo,” says Maholy. “They were licensed by the U.S. government, to melt down and destroy confiscated weapons that various government, state and local law agencies acquired, during their raids on people in the drug and or other illegal businesses.” Maholy says the better weapons were not melted down, but traded for drugs. “A common tactic for the transfer of these weapons,” says Maholy, “would be to take the highly desired automatic weapons down to some South or Central American country, where there is little or no money, but large amounts of drugs. They would tell the militia groups that they can possess state-of-the-art weapons and ammunition, for whatever drugs they can produce. Since they have little, if any, money, the militia would cultivate large quantities of the drugs. They are easily swayed and convinced into doing business with agents of the CIA who are trained specially for this huge money making scam that benefits those few wealthy defrauders on Capitol Hill.”

[79]. Michael Maholy, e-mail to author.

Maholy was ultimately set up to take the fall. “People like Russell Bowen, and Basil Abbott, and the infamous and now deceased Barry Seal, whose brother is a co-defendant of mine, were taken out of the game also, along with me.”

[80]. Ibid., pp. 41.44.

[81]. Ibid., p. 60.

[82]. Ibid., p. 100. Other accounts were set up for William Casey and Richard Armitage.

The code names for the smuggling operations were: Short Flight, Burma Road, Morning Gold and Triangle. General Khun Sa, the source of approximately 40 percent of the heroin to the U.S., offered to replace his poppy production with other crops in exchange for financial aid. The State Department refused. Shackley’s chief aide was Thomas Clines.

[83]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

[84]. “Special Select Commission Appointed to Investigate Drug Traffic Crimes,” 7/20/89, quoted in Stich, Op. Cit., p. 7.

[85]. Texas Observer, 6/17/94.

[86]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 3.

Some of the code names for the Central and South American operations were Snow Cone, Black Eagle, Toilet Seat and Watchtower.

[87]. “Joint Investigation by the Arkansas State Attorney General’s Office and the United States Congress,” 6/21/91, printed in the Portland Free Press, January/February, 1997.

[88]. Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 97.

[89]. Ibid., p. 102.

Seal was killed on February 19, 1986. The FBI seized his personal belongings, successfully hiding evidence of his involvement with CIA/NSC drug running, including a card with George Bush’s phone number.

[90]. The allegations were reported by Mike Ruppert and Terry Reed.

[91]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 93.

[92]. Ibid., p. 88.

[93]. “Kingpin Indictment of George Bush,” excerpted from a draft indictment of George Bush prepared by former DEA agent Celerino Castillo and the editors of Executive Intelligence Review. All the evidence contained in this draft indictment has been thoroughly documented. Most of it has been taken either from the Kerry Report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, or the Final Report on Iran-Contra.

[94]. Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell, Blue Thunder (New York, NY: 1990), p. 34, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin.

According to CIA operative Richard Brenneke, Bush’s National Security Advisor, Donald Gregg, became Bush’s aide specifically to coordinate Israel’s Contra account. Brenneke claims he phoned Gregg’s office often in early 1983 for instructions to be given to his Israeli suppliers. It was known as Operation Tipped Kettle. As Gregg would later state regarding himself and George Bush: “We never discussed the contras. We had no responsibility for it. We had no expertise in it.” Bush mimed his oft-repeated mantra that he was “out of the loop.”

[95]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 229.

[96]. Michael Ruppert, From the Wilderness, 7/28/99; “Bush Sting Witness Speaks Out Evidence that Could Burn Bush Campaign,” Nitro News, no date provided.

As Governor of Texas, Bush aggressively incarcerated ordinary citizens for relatively minor amounts of drug possession—invoking some of the country’s harshest sentences—at the same time he was reportedly involved with major drug smugglers! J.H. Hatfield, author of Fortunate Son, published by St Martins Press, quotes unnamed sources as saying that George W. Bush, Jr. was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. The book said a Republican state judge had the record expunged in exchange for community service as a favor to Bush’s father, who had helped him get elected. Bush sanctimoniously said that he views himself as a “lowly sinner” but his religious faith brings him solace and reconciliation. “It’s where I find my strength and my solace and my comfort as a person.” (“Bush Finds Solace in Religious Faith,” Reuters, 1/28/00.)

[97]. Joe Conason and John Kelly, “Bush as Drug Czar, Village Voice, 10/11/88, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit.

[98]. D.G. “Chip” Tatum and Nancy J. Tatum, “PEGASUS An American Spy Story Book Two,” 1996.

[99]. Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 194.

Some contend Silverado, at the hands of Neil Bush, was a money laundry for illicit funds including reportedly narcotics trafficking.

[100]. Jack Colhoun, “Contra Backer Dipped Into S&L’s Deep Pockets,” Guardian (New York), 10/31/90, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit.

[101]. Skolnick, Op. Cit.

[102]. Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 108-109; “Bush, Drugs, and Pakistan,” The Nation, 11/14/88, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op. Cit.

[103]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 90.

As CIA Director Stansfield Turner said: “I will affirm Bush had him (Noriega) on the CIA payroll.” (Bo Gritz, Called to Serve, p. 404)

[104]. John Stockwell, interview on the Pacifica Radio Network, quoted in John DiNardo, “Part 10, Lure To War: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait,” The Peoples’ Spell Breaker, 6/28/97. According to USA Today of 5/22/90, Noriega “will suspend potentially embarrassing subpoenas for CIA and other records the defense says show at least $11 million of the assets came from the U.S. government.”

Noriega had at least once been a house guest of Vernon Walters, DCI Bush’s Deputy Director.

[105]. Frederick Kempe, Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega (1990), p. 162.

[106]. “Mejia made that assessment three days before the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Panama. Mejia spoke at a Dec. 17 meeting at the International Action Center in New York.” -Workers World Service, 12/27/93. “[The announcement came] less than six hours before H. Hour, making it impossible for reporters to make it to Panama in time for the start of JUST CAUSE.” - The Commanders - Bob Woodward p.178.

Carlton testified that he offered information to the DEA in Panama in July of 1987, who refused to take the information. Carlton had frequent contacts with the Medellin and Cali cartels, as well as taped phone conversations, documents and information about money laundering, drugs, weapons and assassinations. Instead of accepting the evidence, the “Justice” Department, as they would do with hundreds of other whistleblowers over the years, had Carlton arrested to silence him.

[107]. Michael Williams, e-mails to author.

[108]. Ibid.

As Congressman Larry McDonald’s stated before his plane was shot down: “The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies (Bush, et. al.) is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”

[109]. Ibid., p. 90

[110]. Tatum, Op. Cit.

This testimony was given by the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, and was later proven to be a lie. In fact, no babies were pulled out of incubators. This is, however, similar to what George Creels’ American Alliance for Labor and Democracy did to stir up public emotions just prior to America’s involvement in WWI. As Professor Noam Chomsky writes: “...there was a good deal of fabrication of atrocities by the Huns, Belgian babies with their arms torn off, all sorts of awful things that you still read in history books. They were all invented by the British propaganda ministry, whose own commitment at the time, as they put it in their secret deliberations, was ‘to control the thought of the world.’” (Alternative Press Review, Fall 1993.)

[111]. Agee, Op Cit.

[112]. Jeffrey T. Richelson, The U.S. Intelligence Community, p.356.

[113]. Time, in fact, went so far as to say that Iraq’s claims to Kuwait were “without any historical basis.” - Agee

[114]. Agee, Op Cit. (author’s note: George Bush is actually the 13th cousin (twice removed) of Queen Elizabeth.)

[115]. For references to Noriega’s role in drug trafficking and laundering proceeds for the CIA through Panamanian banks, see the affidavit of Colonel Edward P. Cutolo, commander of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, 3/11/80.

[116]. Robert Parry, “Clouds Over George Bush,” The Consortium, 12/29/98.

[117]. Amnesty International figures.

[118]. Australia East Timor Association, “Tortures by Suharto’s Ratbags,” posted on website.

[119]. Noam Chomsky, “End The Atrocity In East Timor,” 3/22/95, posted on Internet. Australia also trains Indonesia's elite Kopassus troops, the very troops occupying East Timor.

General Suharto would make another concession on behalf of George Bush in 1996 when he allowed Bush’s favorite mining company, Barrick Goldstrike of Canada, owned by Peter Munk, to take over mining rights from geologist Mike de Guzman. De Guzman had announced the discovery of what was believed to be the world’s richest gold field. He was later told he would have to turn over 68 per cent of his claim to Barrick. Fortunately, De Guzman’s problems were solved when he fell out of a helicopter courtesy of Freeport-McMoRan Mining Company (owned by Louisianan Jim-Bob Moffett), who had his own stake in the deal. As for Munk, he was capitalized by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi—a key supplier in Bush’s Iran-Contra pipeline. In 1996 Bush had a quiet chat with Mobutu Seko, then dictator of Zaire. Mobutu subsequently granted Barrick exclusive diamond mining rights. In a manner that would make General Suharto proud, Barrick’s operation in neighboring Tanzania was accused by Amnesty International of carrying out “extra-judicial killings.” Amnesty reports that 50 independent miners who refused to move off Barrick’s concessions were buried alive in the pits by company bulldozers. In 1992, in the final hours of the Bush Presidency, Barrick took control of U.S. government-owned property containing an estimated $10 billion in gold. For the works, Barrick paid the U.S. Treasury only $10,000. Barrick would subsequently reward Bush by donating $148,000 to the Republican Party while Bush was campaigning for President. (Gregory Palast, “Best democracy money can buy,” The Guardian [UK], 11/26/00.)

[**] The U.S. Oil companies which participated include Phillips Petroleum, Chevron, Oryx Energy, and USX/Marathon. In the next few years the American military doubled their supplies to Indonesian armed forces. “In December 1989 after he was exposed as having secretly violated his own announced sanctions against China over the Tiananmen massacre, Bush emphasized that ‘I think we were positioned in the forefront of human rights.’” - Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame, Marching in Place, p.182.

In March of 1991, Glaspie testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, insisting the Iraqis had lied about her conversation with Hussein. In July, however, the Committee obtained copies of the secret cables she had sent from Iraq summarizing the meeting. They showed that the Iraqis had not lied. In September of 1991, a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee revealed that State Department official Margaret Tutwiler and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and Far Eastern Affairs John H. Kelly had both repeated the identical “no commitment to defend Kuwait” stance when questioned by House members.

[120]. Agee, Op Cit.; Elaine Sciolino, “Envoy’s Testimony on Iraq is Assailed, Senators Say Glaspie Misled Them on Hussein Talks,” New York Times, 7/13/91; Elaine Sciolino with Michael R. Gordon, “U.S. Gave Iraq Little Reason Not to Mount Kuwait Assault,” New York Times, 9/ 23/91, quoted in John McManus, The Insiders (Appleton, WI: Western Islands, 1992).

[121]. Chomsky, Op Cit.

[122]. Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, Chronicles of Dissent, p. 305; Both the Bush and Clinton administrations Justice Departments agreed not to prosecute these big name American corporations for trading with the enemy. Such trading with the enemy is tantamount to treason.

[123]. Ibid.

[124]. Jack Colhoun, “Bush Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate Investigation,” Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown. “The administration’s pro-Baghdad policy, spelled out in National Security Directive-26, adopted on October 2, 1989, was based on promoting U.S. trade with Iraq. The Commerce Department routinely approved applications from U.S. companies for the export to Iraq of “dual-use” technology, which has civilian and military applications.”

BCCI financed both Republicans and Democrats. The bank was formed with money from the Bank of America, the largest shareholders of which are the Rothschilds of Chicago, Paris, London and Switzerland. On Columbus Day weekend of 1988, BCCI’s U.S. offices were seized by the Reagan/Bush administration. One of the reasons was to stop BCCI’s funding of the Dukakis campaign.

Following the war, Bush wrote to the Oil Minister of Kuwait on behalf of Chevron Oil Corporation. Bush says he “had no stake in the Chevron operation.” “Following this selfless use of his influence, the oil company put $657,000 into Republican Party coffers.... Not all of the elder Bush’s work is voluntary. His single talk to the board of Global Crossing, the telecoms start-up, earned him $13m in stock. The company also kicked in another million for [Dubya’s Presidential] run. (Palast, Op. Cit. )

[125]. Donald S. McAlvany, “Germ Warfare Against America. Part I. Overseas Infections,” McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, August 1996, quoted in S.A.F.A.N. Internet Newsletter, No. 88, October 4, 1996. “In a New York Times article (5/22/91) entitled, ‘Health Crisis Said to Grip Iraq In Wake of War’s Destruction,’ It was reported that child mortality soared in the first four months of 1991, up 55,000 over the same period in 1990.”

[126]. As Captain Joyce Riley, a nurse and GWI activist testified: “They were given medications—they didn't know what they were.... Everybody was incredibly sick afterwards.... We don’t know what pills the troops took. We don’t know what we were subjected to. ”

Like the thousands of U.S. soldiers who were intentionally exposed to nuclear radiation during the 1950s—many of whom died of cancer, or the thousands exposed to Agent Orange during Vietnam, these veterans were just another casualty in the Federal Government’s long list of crimes against its own people—the same crimes it prosecuted Nazi doctors for at Nuremberg. The code that resulted from those trials was a 10-point declaration stating that voluntary and informed consent is essential from all human subjects who participate in research, whether during war or peace.

The Iraqi dictator received 25 percent of the proceeds of oil shipped to the West. When oil was 20 dollars per barrel, Hussein split the 5 dollar per barrel kick-back with Bush. A trillion dollars of oil was shipped from the Gulf during the decade 1980 to 1990. The corrupt rake-off amounted to 25 billion dollars per year, making Saddam Hussein and Bush the richest men on the planet. (Sherman H. Skolnick, “What is Whitewater Really All About?” Skolnick Report, no date provided.)

According to the Chicago Tribune, “In the 1950s [the Liedtke brothers] teamed up with then-oilman George Bush and John Overby to form Zapata Oil Co. Then they went on to form Penzoil.” BCCI also has records showing joint business ventures between Bush and Manuel Noriega.

Kerry would go on to play a role in covering up CIA/NSC’s drug running, including the frame-up of William Tyree, a Special Forces soldier who participated in drug-running operations under orders from his superiors (See Chapter XX). Other people, such as Clark Gifford, would be framed to take the fall for Bush.

[127]. Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 152-154.

[128]. Jack Colhoun, “Bush Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate Investigation,” Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown. “The administration’s pro-Baghdad policy, spelled out in National Security Directive-26, adopted on October 2, 1989, was based on promoting U.S. trade with Iraq. The Commerce Department routinely approved applications from U.S. companies for the export to Iraq of “dual-use” technology, which has civilian and military applications.”

[129]. Rick Wiles, “Bush Family’s Dirty Little Secret,” American Freedom News, September, 2001.

[130]. Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Peter Truell, and Jill Abramson, “How Oil Firm Linked to a Son of Bush Won Bahrain Drilling Pact,” Wall Street Journal, 12/6/91; Johathan Beaty and S. G. Gwynne, “A Mysterious Mover of Money and Planes, Time, 10/8/91, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit. According to the company’s 1989 proxy statement, Bush held 345,426 shares of Harken’s common stock, or less than 1.1 percent of the total. Bush, Jr.’s involvement with Harken was first revealed by Houston Post investigative reporter Pete Brewton.

The future President completed his key insider trade eight days before Harken announced a $23 million second quarter loss and about six weeks before the invasion. The chairman of the SEC at the time of the “investigation” was Richard Breedon, former lawyer with the Houston firm of Baker and Botts, who served as Deputy Counsel to Bush Sr. in the Reagan (read Bush) administration. The SEC investigation of George Jr. was led by General Counsel James R. Doty who, according to a UPI report, mysteriously neglected to interview any of the Harken directors, including Jr. himself. Doty had previously served as Jr.’s personal lawyer during his purchase of the Texas Rangers. (Tom Flocco and Michael C. Ruppert, “All Roads Lead to Deustchebank And Harken Energy, W’s Own 1991 Insider Trading Scam – The Mother of All Enrons, From the Wilderness, 2002.)

[131]. Uri Dowbenko, “The Man Who Knows Too Much: An Interview with Al Martin, author of “The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider” (PART 1).

[132]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

[133]. Jack Colhoun, “Prescott Bush and the Gangsters,” Lies of Our Times, April, 1992; and Robert J. McCartney, “Japanese Company Sues Bush Brother,” Washington Post, 6/16/92, quoted in Ibid.

[134]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

[135]. “Censored 1999: The News That Didn’t Make The News,” Seven Stories Press, 1999, reported in, Carla Binion, “Anti-Semitism, racism and a Bush Family organization,” On-Line Journal, no date provided.

[136]. John Spicer Nichols, “La Prensa: The CIA Connection,” Columbia Journalism Review, July-August, 1988, quoted in Ibid.

[137]. AmeriCares website.

[138]. Quoted in the New American, 9/16/96.

[139]. Husayn Al-Kurdi, “What Really Happened in the ‘Safe Haven?’” Portland Free Press, November/December, 1996.

[140]. Bush’s April 16 Press Conference.

[141]. Chomsky, Op Cit.

Cathy O’Brien—claiming to have personally witnessed this, paranormal researcher and author David Icke and others—say that Bush and some other top leaders are actually reptilian aliens masquerading as human-beings.

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George Bush: World Class Monster

“George Bush is a satanic, sadistic, brutal monster.
Compared to George Bush, Adolf Hitler was a true gentleman.”

- Michael Boren Williams, former Campaign Manager for Senator Gary Hart and Bush murder attempt victim


“For the record, if I had my choice as to which one of the two (Clinton or Bush) represented the greater evil, I would say George Bush - in the blink of an eye....”

- Michael Ruppert, former LAPD Narcotics detective


True evil does not develop in a vacuum.
Evil is arrogant. It has no conscience. It is utterly self-serving. It hides from the light and will attack, even destroy others to preserve its own demented delusions. It is an unrestrained sociopath, wallowing in the murky darkness of its own psychosis while endlessly rationalizing its terrible deeds. It infiltrates the weak-minded and subverts the weak of character.

Evil... creates a world of shadows - shadow play - shadow government. It lives by the lie.

“The Big Lie,” once thought to be the exclusive purview of the Nazis, has become canonized in our form of government. And it is growing more perverse—more insidious. Like the Nazis before the fall of the Third Reich, we are a nation wallowing in the murky darkness of our own psychosis.

I can think of no contemporary American family more twisted and evil than the Bush dynasty.

The Bush family’s rapacious greed and depravity can trace its lineage to New England’s Pierce family. Both George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife Barbara Pierce (of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith), as was President Franklin Pierce, are descended from this same family. Originally the powerful Percy family, they changed their name to Pierce and quickly emigrated to America when Thomas Percy’s involvement in the Gun Powder Plot to assassinate King James I was revealed.



Bush’s membership in the shadowy Yale secret society of Skull and Bones (S&B) has likewise not been widely reported. S&B is made up of members recruited exclusively from the ranks of the wealthy Eastern Establishment. As Hoover Institute professor Antony Sutton writes in America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones:

“Those on the inside know it as The Order. Others have known it for more than 150 years as Chapter 322 of a German secret society. More formally for legal purposes, The Order was incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856. It was also known as the Brotherhood of Death....”[1]



Many historians claim that S&B sprung up as a direct extension of America’s oldest Greek-letter college secret society, Phi Beta Kappa. As Sutton writes:

“The Order is not just another campus Greek letter fraternal society with passwords and handgrips, common to most campuses.... Chapter 322 is a secret society whose members are sworn to silence. It only exists on the Yale campus. It has rules. It has ceremonial rites. It is not at all happy with prying probing citizens.... Above all the Order is powerful, unbelievably powerful....”[2]



S&B members occupy key positions in commerce, media, diplomacy, education, espionage, finance, law and politics—having a profound impact on world events. As Sutton adds:

“Among academic associations, the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Chemical Society and the American Psychological Association were all started by members of the Order or persons close to the Order.... These are key associations for the conditioning of society.... The phenomenon of The Order as the first on the scene is found especially among foundations.”[3]


Regarding the Order’s influence on historical events as portrayed by the media, Sutton notes that...

“...During the past one hundred years any theory of history or historical evidence that falls outside a pattern established by the American Historical Association and the major foundations with their grant making power has been attacked or rejected—not on the basis of any evidence presented, but on the basis of the acceptability of the argument of the so-called Eastern Liberal Establishment and its official historical line. There is an Establishment history, an official history, which dominates history textbooks, trade publishing, the media and library shelves. The official line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions, scandals, assassinations are more or less random unconnected events. By definition events can never be the result of a conspiracy. They can never result from premeditated planned group action. An excellent example is the Kennedy assassination when, within 9 hours of the Dallas tragedy, TV networks announced the shooting was not a conspiracy regardless of the fact that a negative proposition can never be proven and that the investigation had barely begun.”[4]



The American chapter of the German Order was founded in 1833 at Yale University, established by General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft—father of President and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Taft. It was during the Taft presidency that the bills which forever altered the Constitution were passed into law. These included the 17th Amendment, calling for the direct election of senators, guaranteeing that elections could be purchased by big money interests; and the Income Tax and Federal Reserve Act (16th Amendment). The Act was quietly pushed through Congress by Senator Nelson Aldridge—maternal grandfather of Trilateral Commission founder David Rockefeller—in the days immediately before Christmas, assuring that most lawmakers, who were home for the holidays, would not be available to vote.



During a break-in by a rival Yale society in 1876 into the S&B “Tomb,” they found a small room, with an “always-burning lamp” and “a dilapidated human skull.” Upstairs they found a lodge room with its walls covered in black velvet, a table with skull and crossbones, and the “sanctum sanctorum”—room number 322—“furnished in red velvet” and on the wall a star with a finger pointing to it.



They also found “an old engraving representing an open burial vault, in which on a stone slab, rest four human skulls, grouped around a fool’s-cap and bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a beggar’s scrip, and a royal crown. On the arched wall above the vault are the explanatory words, in Roman letters, ‘We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, We Bettler Oder Kaiser?’ and below the vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; ‘Ob Arm, Ob Beich, im Tode gleich.’’ “Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all’s the same in death.” This closely resembles the initiation into the Degree of Regent for the Bavarian Illuminati. Some researchers assert that Phi Beta Kappa is simply the “Bavarian Illuminati... spread to America.”[5]



S&B was also the recruiting grounds for the Russell Trust Company, which managed S&B’s treasury. Founded in 1824, Russell Trust became the dominant opium trafficking syndicate in the U.S. Russell Trust merged with the number one US trader, J&T.H. Perkins in 1829. By the mid-1830s the opium trade had become “the largest commerce of its time in any single commodity, anywhere in the world.”[6]



Russell partner Warren Delano, Jr.—Chief of Russell Trust operations in Canton, China—was grandfather to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Bush cousin. Other Russell partners include John Cleve Green, whose opium fortunes financed Princeton University, Abiel Abbott Low, whose opium money financed the construction of Columbia University, Joseph Coolidge, whose son organized the United Fruit Company (later under the ownership of the Rockefellers, and which provide the impetus for the CIA’s replacement of the democratically elected government of Guatamela with a brutal military dictatorship), and his grandson, Archibald Cary Coolidge, who was a founding executive officer of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR).



The black flag with the white skull and crossbones, which was the corporate flag gracing all Russell Trust ships, became the emblem of S&B—an emblem that even to this day it symbolizes piracy.



Antony Sutton’s scholarly works on this secret society, The Order and How The Order Creates War and Revolution, reveal that half of the board of directors of J.P. Morgan and Company—who profited handsomely from the bloody carnage of World War I—were S&B graduates. As Sutton notes:



“College textbooks present war and revolution as more or less accidental results of conflicting forces.... The decay of political negotiation into physical conflict comes about, according to these books, after valiant efforts to avoid war. Unfortunately, this is nonsense. War is always a deliberate creative act by individuals....”[7]





Bush and the Nazis



“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen.... At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922



Eventually, Brown Brothers Harriman—the largest private investment bank in America at the time—came to be dominated by S&B members. George Bush’s grandfather, George Herbert Walker, served as the bank’s President. His father, Prescott, served as the bank’s Vice President.[8*]



Brown Brothers Harriman was helped to ascension by the powerful Warburg “Jewish” banking monopoly—one of the principle controlling interests behind the German conglomerate I.G. Farben, which, ironically, provided not only the gas, but much of the funds used to effect Hitler’s “final solution.” Brown Brothers had funded American slave plantations during the Civil War, and former Brown Brothers partner, Bank of England Governor Montagu Collet Norman, was known as the most avid supporter of Hitler within British ruling circles. Brown Brothers-Harriman would become the largest and most politically influential private banking house in the United States.[9]



The elder Bush was also director of the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation—both Nazi front companies. Like father like son, George Herbert Walker Bush would later go on to form similar business alliances with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taking in personal oil kickbacks, and arming that country with conventional, biological and chemical weapons, both in violation of his own Arms Control and Armaments Amendments Act, and as a prelude to a war which he would instigate and precipitate.



The Warburgs and the Sulzbergers, owners of the New York Times, used various committees and religious organizations to protect the Harriman-Bush deals with Mussolini and Hitler. Although the government would later seize several of the Bush/Harriman/Nazi assets—most importantly the Thyssen family-owned Union Bank, which played one of the largest roles in financing Hitler—American entrepreneurs such as Bush would be left unscathed.



Bush was Union’s Director.



As Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin note in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography:



“The 1942 U.S. government investigative report said that Bush’s Nazi-front bank was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works Corporation or “German Steel Trust”) led by Fritz Thyssen and his two brothers.... Germany’s largest industrial corporation, [it] was organized in 1926 by Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon. Dillon was the old comrade of Prescott Bush’s father Sam Bush from the “Merchants of Death” bureau in World War I.”



The authors write that George Bush’s maternal grandfather, George Herbert Walker, founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company. “Walker was one of Hitler’s most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler’s infant Nazi party.[10]



The link between Harriman and Thyssen came through Walker’s Union Banking Corporation, located in Averill Harriman’s offices at 39 Broadway in New York.



“According to our sources,” write Tarpley and Chaitkin, “Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine....”



Walker’s American Shipping & Commerce became the holding company for the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben’s Nazi espionage unit.



“In an elaborate corporate paper trail, Harriman’s stock in American Shipping & Commerce was controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of Walker’s office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush....”[11]



Another example of the perverse interlocking nature of the Bush/Harriman-Brown interests was the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation of Poland, two thirds of the stock of which was owned by Friedrich Flick, a leading German industrialist, and Bush/Harriman-Brown. Given the fact that most of the company’s output was being directed to Germany’s war machine at the time, the Polish government decided that the Nazi and American stockholders should pay their fair share of taxes. The stockholders didn’t agree, and responded with a lockout. Fortunately the crises was solved when Nazi tanks invaded Poland in September of 1939, rescuing their investment, which would now be aided with the introduction of slave labor.[12]



Baron Kurt von Schroder, of the Schroder banking family, was co-director of the Thyssen-Huette foundry along with Johann Groeninger, Prescott Bush’s New York bank partner. Schroder, who also had the personal blessings of the Rockefellers, was Hitler’s banker.



John Foster Dulles (brother of future CIA director Allen Dulles), of the law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, was Bush’s lawyer. According to Tarpley and Chaitkin:



“Throughout the 1930s, John Foster Dulles arranged debt restructuring for German firms under a series of decrees issued by Adolf Hitler. In these deals, Dulles struck a balance between the interest owed to selected, larger investors, and the needs of the growing Nazi war-making apparatus for producing tanks, poison gas, etc.”[13]



John Foster Dulles, later appointed Secretary of State, was also the attorney for I.G. Farben. By 1933, I.G. Farben and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil were effectively a single firm, merged in hundreds of cartel arrangements. Dulles, who was related to Avery Rockefeller, was the attorney for a new investment firm, set up by him in 1936, called the Schroder-Rockefeller Company. [14]



Another lawyer in the employ of I.G. Farben, John J. McCloy, would later become president of Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of the CFR, and serve on the Warren Commission, which effectively covered up the Kennedy assassination, which George Bush would allegedly play a minor role in (See Chapter XX). After the war, McCloy would pardon hundreds of Nazis accused of war crimes, while establishing the “Ratlines” which brought Nazi doctors and scientists (and spies) into the U.S. to conduct scientific and medical experiments on Americans that had formerly been conducted on concentration camp victims.[15]



In 1940, I.G. Farben began construction of their huge plant at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Utilizing slave labor, I.G. Farben and their SS guards worked the approximately 25,000 prisoners literally to their deaths. Standard Oil/Germany president Emil Helfferich later testified that Rockefeller’s Standard Oil funds helped pay for the SS guards at Auschwitz.



As Russel S. Bowen, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General who served in the OSS and reported directly to William Casey, writes about George Bush in his book, Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed, the “inheritor of the Auschwitz death camp fortune,” Texan William Stamps Farish III, is George Bush’s “closest friend and confidant.”



“As President and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Farish was the controller of the global cartel between Standard Oil and the German I.G. Farben concern.”[16]



Farish, one of the richest men in Texas, managed George Bush’s personal wealth.



One example of Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank’s assistance to the Nazi war machine was their underwriting of Standard Oil’s agreement, in cooperation with General Motors, to supply ethyl lead to the Nazis. The Bush bank also arranged collateral security for a shipment of tetraethyl lead for the German Luftwaffe in 1938, shortly before the outbreak of the war. The Ethyl came from the Ethyl Export Corporation of New York, administered by the Reich Air Ministry along with I.G. Farben.[17]



On October 24th, 1942, the U.S. Government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized, as were those of the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. Harriman’s Fifteen Holding Company, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and the Silesian-American Corporation quickly followed.[18]



Possibly in an attempt to save the family’s honor, George H. W. Bush abandoned his plans to enter Yale and enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve. While serving on the aircraft carrier San Jacinto, Bush’s Avenger torpedo-bomber, piloted by young George, was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Eventhough the plane was built to withstand ocean crash-landings, Bush-the-war-hero bailed out, leaving his two crewmates behind. While Bush was rescued by the U.S. submarine Finback, Jack Delaney and Ted White, his companions, died in the plane.



Bush was given a medal for heroism.[19]



Like father, like son, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives testified under oath that he was contacted by Houston businessman “Sid Adger and asked to recommend George W. Bush, Jr. for a pilot position with the Air National Guard,” and that he called General James Rose and “did so.”[20]



Yet Bush, Jr. our current Commander-in-Chief, reportedly never even bothered showing up for drills. General William Turnipseed and his aide Kenneth Lott both flatly deny that Bush ever appeared for duty—a violation of the Texas Code of Military Justice (a State Statute and a version of the U.S. Code of Military Justice)—a court martial offense.[21]



Neither did our chief flag-waver appear for his training at the 187th Tactical Recon Group at Dannelly ANG Base in Alabama.[22]



Bill Burkett, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Guard, said, “As the State Plans Officer for the Texas National Guard, I was on full-time duty at Camp Mabry when [Bush aide] Dan Bartlett was cleansing the George W. Bush file prior to G.W.’s presidential announcement.... The archives were closely scrutinized to make sure that the Bush autobiography plans and the record did not directly contradict each other.”[23]



Government documents do note, however, that Jr.’s flying privlidges were suspended for failure to take his annual medical exam, even though he stated that he was perfectly healthy. Michael Dannenhauer, former Chief of Staff to the elder Bush, states that Jr.’s cocaine and alcohol habit was “out of control” and that he experienced “lost weekends in Mexico” during that time.[24] This is not surprising, considering that Jr. would offer free beer to college students to garner their votes during his 1987 congressional race.[25]



When it was time to leave the National Guard, the prodigal son and future President received an honorable discharge.



Daddy Bush would have another opportunity to display both his love of freedom and democracy and his “family values” when it was revealed in September of 1988 that seven members of his presidential campaign were fascist, pro-Nazi, anti-Semites. The seven, who later resigned or were fired, were part of the Republican Party’s Heritage Groups Council—a funding clique made up of extreme right-wing Eastern European émigrés. In 1976, Heritage Groups Council Director Colonel Jay Neimczyk wrote a memo to the RNC’s Co-Chairman Robert Carter praising Bush’s leadership of the ethnic recruitment effort, reportedly including a number of war criminals.[26] One of Bush’s allies, Yaroslav Stetsko, had collaborated with the Nazis as their puppet prime minister of Galicia in the western Ukraine. Captured Nazi records revealed that over 100,000 Jews were murdered within two years of Yaroslav’s reign.



As John Loftus and Mark Aarons write in: The Secret War Against The Jews:



“It was Bush who fulfilled [President Richard] Nixon’s promise to make the “ethnic” emigres a permanent part of Republican politics. Bush’s tenure as head of the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor’s 1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party’s official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush’s campaign allies were the émigré Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United States....

Nearly twenty years later, and after exposé’s in several respectable newspapers, Bush continued to recruit most of the same ethnic Fascists, including Pasztor, for his own 1988 ethnic outreach program when he first ran for President.”



Fugitive Nazi war criminal Otto von Bolschwing, U.S. head of the notorious Nazi Gehlan Org spy apparatus, was himself a Republican Party activist and reportedly a friend of Richard Nixon’s.



Another group of suspected Nazi war criminals, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, participated in a 1983 White House meeting with George Bush and Ronald Reagan. One photo of the meeting was signed: “To the Honorable Yaroslav Stetsko, With Best Wishes, George Bush.” [27]



Reagan himself, formerly part of Allen Dulles’s Office of Policy Coordination, had been the front man back in the 1950s for the Crusade for Freedom, a money-laundering organization which was part of Dulles’s fascist “freedom fighters” program.[28]



President Reagan—perhaps demonstrating his own alignment with Nazis—visited the Bittburg Waffen SS cemetery to pay his respects during a controversial but well-publicized trip to Germany.



One of CIA Director Allen Dulles’s covert agents inside the Roosevelt and Truman administrations was Edwin Pauley, who would become the U.S. representative to the Allied Reparations Committee and the industrial advisor to the Potsdam Conference. Pauley later became George Bush’s partner in the Mexican government’s oil monopoly Pemex. The CIA used Pemex as a cover and as a money laundering operation for Pauley’s campaign contributions. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Pauley, say several of our sources, was the man who invented an intelligence money-laundering system in Mexico, which was later refined in the 1970s as part of Nixon’s Watergate scandal.”



As for Watergate, burglar Frank Sturgis told the San Francisco Chronicle that “the reason we burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news leaking relating to the photos of our role in the assassination of President John Kennedy.”[29]



Former CIA operative Trenton Parker, who was part of a special unit named “Pegasus,” states that Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George Bush all knew of the intended assassination plot.[30]



Bush reportedly coordinated Frank Sturgis, as well as Watergate team members Rafael “Chi Chi” Quintero, E. Howard Hunt, and Bernard Barker for the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion—using Pemex and Bush’s Zapata Oil as a staging point (the operation was codenamed OPERATION ZAPATA). Nixon, as Vice President, had supervised Allen Dulles’s planning of the invasion.



Quintero worked under CIA coordinator William F. Buckley, Jr. in an assassination unit Buckley supervised under the cover of Pemex. Bush had a keen financial interest in turning Cuba back into a playground for ultra-capitalist interests, as Bush’s Zapata Oil was one of the key suppliers to Cuba under Batista.



As Richard Nixon told John Ehrilchman shortly after his election: “Eliminate everyone except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause.” Nixon and Bush had openly discussed killing Kennedy for his failure to provide air cover at the Bay of Pigs.[31*]



Nixon’s relationship to the Bush family goes back to 1946, when Nixon answered an ad placed by the Orange County Republican Party in a Los Angeles newspaper. Key funding for the ad was provided by Prescott Bush, who was looking for a puppet to run for Congress. Nixon got the job, landing a seat in the Senate and then progressing to the Vice-Presidency. In 1960 George Bush became a protégé of Nixon’s, who was then running for President.



Bush described Nixon as his mentor.



However Bush denies his connections with the CIA. Yet a November 29, 1963 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the State Department’s Director of Intelligence and Research uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act describes a briefing given to “George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.” The memo was written after Lee Harvey Oswald was interrogated about his connections to the Cuban exile community and the CIA.[32]

For his part, Bush claims he never worked for the Agency until he was appointed Director in 1975, and CIA spokesman Bill Devine would “neither confirm nor deny” Bush’s role to reporter Joseph McBride of The Nation. Yet when the memo was published, the CIA did an about-face when Agency spokeswoman Sharon Basso told Associated Press that the memo actually referred to a George William Bush, who was a CIA night watchman at the time (hardly a man who would be given such a briefing!). When located and contacted by McBride and Nation editor Victor Navasky, William Bush confirmed that he was definitely not the Bush referred to in the memo. He had simply worked for the CIA for about six months as a coast and landing beach analyst—not a night watchmen—at the time, with a rank of GS-5. In response to questions about the Hoover memo, he replied, “Is that the other George Bush?”[33]



Yet Bush had maintained a personal relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald’s alleged handler, CIA “asset” George DeMohrenschildt, who carried Bush’s name and telephone in his address book until his supposed suicide. DeMohrenschildt gave only the vaguest explanations for his frequent trips to Bush’s home town of Houston in his testimony before the Warren Comission.[34*]



Now deceased Army Colonel, CIA operative and NYPD detective “Big Al” Carone stated that “George Bush was CIA prior to the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963.” Carone told his subordinate William Tyree that he “had taken money to a female named Ruth Paine in late 1956 on orders from William Casey (OSS/CIA operative who was CIA Director from 1981 to 1987).”



According to a lawsuit filed by Tyree, “Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background...



“Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Mohrenschildt, who in turn contacted his CIA supervisor, identified as George Bush. Carone said that George Bush was the same George Bush that was CIA Director. Carone said the individual located by Ruth Paine was identified as a Mr Lee Harvey Oswald.



“FBI records/reports within 14 days after the assassination of President Kennedy will reflect that Mr George Bush met with J. Edgar Hoover, as Bush was trying to ascertain what the FBI might have stumbled onto by mistake in regards to the Ruth Paine - Oswald connection.”[35*]



When appointed CIA Director in 1975 by President Gerald Ford (a former member of the Warren Commission), Bush conveniently headed off inquiries by Senator Frank Church into the CIA’s various assassination plots which DCI William Colby had been cooperating with. Colby would later wind up dead under suspicious circumstances. (See Chapter XX)



In fact, Bush had been a top agent of the CIA since at least 1960, when he recruited Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion. Given the Bush family’s oil interests in the region, this is hardly surprising. As Anthony Kimery writes in Covert Action Quarterly:



“Veteran CIA operatives in the war against Castro say Bush not only let the CIA use Zapata as a front for running some of its operations (including the use of several off-shore drilling platforms), but assert that Bush personally served as a conduit through which the Agency disbursed money for contracted services.”[36]



It was at that time that Bush met Felix Rodriguez, part of a CIA shooter team coordinated out of a training base in Mexico supervised by the FBI’s Division Five (domestic counter-intelligence). Rodriguez would later become Bush’s main liaison to Oliver North’s Contra drugs-for-guns pipeline when Bush served as Vice President.





Pedophilia



“For seven and-a-half years I’ve worked alongside Reagan, and I’m proud to be his partner. We’ve had triumphs, we’ve made mistakes, we’ve had sex... uh, I mean setbacks....” - Vice President George Bush, May 6, 1987



As researcher Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens’ Committee to Clean Up the Courts states: “Not only George “Poppy” Bush but also Chief Smirker (and current President) G.W. Bush, Jr., as well as brothers Jeb AND Neil, are all tightly implicated in the staggering array of absolutely filthy, vicious, gutter-level activities carried on by this family and their closely connected allies in organized crime and intelligence agencies....”[37]



President George Herbert Walker Bush continuously lauded himself before the public as the “family values” president. Bush should know about family values. One of his favorite pastimes, allegedly, is having sex with children—including girls and boys. According to child pedophile victims in Nebraska and former self-described mind-control sex slave Cathy O’Brien, he is also a kidnapper and a drug fiend. As O’Brien writes:



“It was late evening when [George] Bush and [Dick] Cheney finished programming me with numerous messages pertaining to the immediate opening of the Juarez, Mexican border to free [the drug and slave] trade. They then took me downstairs to the living quarters of the western cedar and redwood structure where Kelly soon joined us. George Bush, Jr. deposited my obviously traumatized and withdrawn child at the door....



“Centered between two facing black leather sofas was a coffee table littered with drugs and paraphernalia.... Heroin, Bush’s drug of choice, was in abundance and Cheney joined him in using it. The smorgasbord of drugs laid out supposedly included opium, cocaine, and Wonderland Wafers (MDMHA-XTC, AKA: Ecstasy), which indicated to me they intended to celebrate their vacation with abandon. I had seen Cheney stumbling drunk before, but this was the only time I saw him use heroin and give it to me. Kelly, too, was subjected to the drugs.



“Bush attempted to sell Cheney on the idea of pedophilia through graphic descriptions of having sex with Kelly. Both were already sexually aroused from drugs and anticipation. Cheney demonstrated to Bush why he did not have sex with kids by exposing himself to Kelly and saying, “Come here.” Upon seeing Cheney’s unusually large penis, Kelly reeled back in horror and cried, “No!” which made them both laugh. Bush asked Cheney for his liquid cocaine atomizer as he got up to take Kelly to the bedroom. When Cheney remarked how benevolent it was of Bush to numb her with it before sex, Bush replied, “The hell it is. It’s for me.” He described his excited state in typical vulgar terms and explained that he wanted it to spray cocaine on his penis to last longer. Cheney said, “I thought it was for the kid.” Bush explained, “Half the fun is having them squirm.” He took Kelly’s hand and led her off to the bedroom.



“Cheney... burned my inner thigh with the fireplace poker, and threatened to throw Kelly in the fire. He hypnotically enhanced his description of her burning to traumatize me deeply. As he sexually brutalized me, I heard Kelly’s whimpers coming from the bedroom. As her cries grew louder, Cheney turned on classical music to drown out her cries for help.



“At 4:00 am, as ordered, Bush Jr. (and his helicopter pilot) came to retrieve Kelly and me. We were flown (by helicopter) back to the Lake Shasta area where Houston and the motor home awaited us. Bush’s assault of Kelly proved to be a mind shattering experience for me, and physically devastating to Kelly. She was in dire need of medical attention and was unable even to move. Houston threatened to stop the motor home in the Yosemite area and throw me from a steep cliff if I didn’t settle down. His threats and commands could not control my hysteria, as much of his control programming had inadvertently shattered. Fearful he would lose both his ‘money-makers,’ Houston permitted me to telephone Kelly’s doctor and begin administering medicines. As for me, he arranged for assistance in picking up the pieces in order that I complete my primary purpose in traveling to California, i.e., meet with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid and finalize plans to open the Juarez border.”



According to a trusted source of this author’s who got drunk with O’Brien, her story never wavered, but became more intimate in detail. He told me he felt that she was telling the truth.



While many of O’Brien’s allegations remain controversial, similar allegations have been documented by the author via other, independent sources.



Michael Boren Williams, who was Senator Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign manager, tried to expose “George Bush’s rampant criminal activity” when Bush “sought revenge” against him. He believes Bush personally ordered the FBI to terrorize him and his family. As Williams states: “I met a young lady named Jennifer Dingle who was working as a bartender in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany at the Hotel Victoria’s very elegant bar. As it turns out, she was raised next-door to the Cohens, and William Cohen’s son was her close friend.... Yes, William Cohen is most definitely a pedophile.... Now, what is going to surprise you is that Bush and Cohen are, indeed, friends.”[38]



Other sources backing up the pedophile allegations are Kay Pollard Griggs, wife of high-ranking “insider” Marine Colonel George Griggs—tied to Oliver North, Ted Shackley and Colonel Michael Aquino, an Army PSYOPS specialist and self-avowed Satanist investigated by the SFPD for child molestation, and the Nebraska State Senate Franklin investigative committee.[39]



The Franklin allegations centered around one Larry E. King, Jr. a prominent black Nebraska Republican fund-raiser, CEO of the Franklin Credit Union and friend of former DCIs William Casey and George Bush.



When the FBI raided King’s offices in November of 1988 to probe $40 million dollars in embezzlements, they discovered a large quantity of child pornography.



Witnesses, including social workers and numerous children, told the Franklin Committee and the FBI that King was running a child prostitution ring that served prominent officials, including members of the Republican and Democratic parties.



King sang the national anthem at both the 1984 and 1988 Republican conventions, where President Reagan was the guest of honor. As Senator John DeCamp, who investigated the allegations as part of the Franklin Committee and who attended one party thrown by King in Dallas, writes in his book, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska: “I saw Maureen Reagan draped over King all evening like a big blanket.”[40]



A June 29, 1989 Washington Times article entitled, “Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan,” states:



“A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to Washington’s political elite.’”[41]



One of King’s associates in Washington, D.C. was political lobbyist Craig Spence, who maintained a call-boy ring for Washington’s elite, specializing in children. A Republican powerbroker, Spence was known for his lavish “power cocktail’’ parties. As authors Tarpley and Chaitkin write in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography:



“Spence was well connected. He celebrated Independence Day 1988 by conducting a midnight tour of the White House in the company of two teenage male prostitutes among others in his party. Rumors circulated that a list existed of some 200 Washington prominents who had used the call boy service. The Number Two in charge of personnel affairs at the White House, who was responsible for filling all the top civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, and Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole’s chief of staff, were two individuals publicly identified as patrons of the call boy ring. Two of the ring’s call boys were allegedly KGB operatives, according to a retired general from the Defense Intelligence Agency interviewed by the press. But the evidence seemed to point to a CIA sexual blackmail operation instead. Spence’s entire mansion was covered with hidden microphones, two-way mirrors and video cameras, ever ready to capture the indiscretions of Washington’s high, mighty and perverse.... Months after the scandal had died down, and a few weeks before he allegedly committed suicide, Spence was asked who had given him the “key’’ to the White House.”



The Washington Times reports that “Mr. Spence hinted the tours were arranged by ‘top level’ persons, including Donald Gregg, National Security Advisor to Vice President Bush’s #1 and later U.S. Ambassador to South Korea.” ... Gregg indignantly denied any connection to Spence, yet it is public record that Spence had sponsored a dinner in Gregg’s honor in the spring of 1989 at Washington’s posh Four Seasons Hotel.



On Spence’s guest list were such names as Reagan’s CIA director William Casey and Attorney General John Mitchell, who once co-hosted a party with Spence, Ted Koppel and Eric Severeid.



Spence’s mansion was found to be full with hidden surveillance equipment, including hidden cameras and two-way mirrors. It was alleged that the ring was part of a CIA sexual blackmail operation (see “The Finders” case, below), gathering compromising evidence on Washington politicos and foreign dignitaries. Following his arrest on weapon and drug charges, Spence gave an interview to the Washington Times in which he claimed to work with both the CIA and high-ranking members of the Reagan/Bush administrations.



The paper trail would be quickly covered-up - some 20,000 documents sealed by court order. Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel room five months later. The UK’s Independent reported that: “Boston police said he was found lying on his bed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, dressed in evening clothes, with no obvious signs of injury. The police refused to comment on the cause of death.” The Post had earlier reported that Spence had told a friend: “I may be disappearing soon. It will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it won’t be.”[42]



In Nebraska, at least several victim-witnesses fingered Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman, FBI agents Mickey Mott, Gerry Wahl and Alan Baer, Harold Andersen, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald and several other political associates of King’s.



King and Wadman, along with FBI agents Mott and Baer, were accused of pedophilia and drug usage (and drug dealing) with boys as young as 12 years old. The allegations were made by numerous children interviewed by private investigator and former law-enforcement officer Gary Caradori who was working for the Franklin Committee. Caradori would later wind up dead, along with his 8 year-old son, in a highly suspicious plane crash. The crash occurred several days after he told Senator Loren Schmit that he had just discovered information that “would blow this case wide open.”[43*]



The Franklin Committee documented how King and his associates were involved in drug-running, child kidnapping, prostitution, satanism, and murder—involving numerous prominent state and federal officials, including, according to several child victim-witnesses, George Herbert Walker Bush.[44*]



As DeCamp writes: “... George Bush and Larry King were linked in multiple ways, including eyewitness reports placing Bush at King’s sex parties.[45]



Youth care worker Julie Walters substantiates these allegations. As she writes in her report regarding her interview with a girl named Nelly Patterson-Web:



“Nelly accompanied Mr. and Mrs. King and their son Prince on trips to Chicago, N.Y. and Washington, D.C., beginning when she was 15 years old.... Nelly was taken along on the pretense of being Prince’s babysitter. Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him again at one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C. trip. At some of the parties there are just men (as was the case at the party George Bush attended)—older men and younger men in their early twenties. Nelly said she has seen sodomy committed at those parties At other parties during Larry’s trips, Larry had local prostitutes. (in their 20’s & 30’s) there to entertain his male guests....”[46]



As Tarpley and Chaitkin add about the “Pro-Life,’’ “Anti-Drug,’’ “Family Values” President:



... “Paul Bonacci directly accused President Bush of being implicated’’ in the affair when he testified before the Franklin Committee. Bonacci, who had been one of the child prostitutes, is identified by leading child-abuse experts as a well-informed, credible witness. Lawrence King was no stranger to President Bush. And Lawrence King was no stranger to Craig Spence. Several of the Omaha child prostitutes testified that they had traveled to Washington, D.C. with King in private planes to attend political events which were followed by sex parties.



“King and Spence had much in common. Not only were they both Republican Party activists but they had gone into business together procuring prostitutes for Washington’s elite. Bush’s name had repeatedly surfaced in the Nebraska scandal. But his name was first put into print in July 1989, a little less than a month after the Washington call boy affair had first made headlines. Omaha’s leading daily newspaper reported, “One child, who has been under psychiatric care, is said to believe she saw George Bush at one of King’s parties.” [47]



Journalist Steve Bowman writes: “We do have some credible witnesses who say that ‘Yes, George Bush does have a problem,’” Bowman told Gentleman’s Quarterly. One of Bowman’s sources is a retired CIA psychiatrist. He added that drug trafficking and political corruption were intertwined with pedophilia.[48]



As far back as 1985, victim-witness Eulice (Lisa) Washington told Andrea Carener of the Nebraska Department of Social Services how she was regularly taken to Washington by plane, with other children, to attend parties hosted by King involving many prominent people, including businessmen and politicians. Lisa specifically named George Bush as being in attendance on at least two separate occasions.[49]



Walters told Tarpley and Chaitkin that in 1986 she interviewed Lisa and her sister, who were temporarily living at the home of Kathleen Sorenson, who, like Caradori, would subsequently die in a suspicious car crash. Walters explained that Lisa, who came from an underprivileged background with no knowledge of political affairs, gave minute details of her attendance at political meetings. As Walters’ report states:



“3/25/86. Met with Kathleen and Lisa for about 2 hours in Blair [Nebraska] questioning Lisa for more details about sexual abuse.... Lisa admitted to being used as a prostitute by Larry King when she was on trips with his family.... Lisa said she first met V.P. George Bush at the Republican Convention and saw him again at a Washington, D.C. party that Larry hosted.... Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him again at one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C. trip....”[50]



A Franklin Committee report further states:



“Apparently she [Lisa] was contacted on December 19 [1988] and voluntarily came to the FBI offices on December 30, 1988. She was interviewed by Brady, Tucker and Phillips. She indicates that in September or October 1984, when [Lisa] Washington was fourteen or fifteen years of age, she went on a trip to Chicago with Larry King and fifteen to twenty boys from Omaha. She flew to Chicago on a private plane.... She indicates that she was coerced to going on the trip by Barbara Webb. She indicates that she attended a party in Chicago with King and the male youths. She indicated George Bush was present. She indicates that she set [sic] at a table at the party while wearing nothing but a negligee. She stated that George Bush saw her on the table. She stated she saw George Bush pay King money, and that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent. Lisa said the party George Bush attended was in Chicago in September or October 1984. According to the Chicago Tribune of October 31, 1984, Bush was in Illinois campaigning for congressional candidates at the end of October. Lisa added more details on the Chicago trip, and told why she was sure it was George Bush she had seen. According to a May 8, 1989 report by investigator Jerry Lowe, “Eulice [Lisa] indicated that she recognized George Bush as coming to the party and that Bush had two large white males with him. Eulice indicated Bush came to the party approximately 45 minutes after it started and that he was greeted by Larry King. Eulice indicated that she knew George Bush due to the fact that he had been in political campaigns and also she had observed a picture of Bush with Larry King at Larry King’s house in Omaha.”



In keeping with the pattern of cover-up, a Washington County, Nebraska judge in December 1990 dismissed all charges against two of the girls’ abusers, Jarrett and Barbara Webb. The judge ignored testimony of the 1986 report by Julie Walters which states:



“Lisa was given four polygraph tests administered by a state trooper at the State Patrol office on Center Street in Omaha. The state trooper, after Lisa’s testing was completed, told [another foster parent] he tried to ‘break Lisa down,’ but he was convinced she was telling the truth.”[51]



As Kathleen Sorenson writes in a report dated May 1, 1989, “This was long before he [Bush] was President. It seems like there were more exciting people to ‘lie’ about if that’s what they were doing.’’





Ritual Abuse



Victims of King and his associates also charged him with participating in at least one satanic ritual murder of a child.



As DeCamp reports, victim-witness Paul Bonacci was at one point taken to a retreat for political elites such as George Bush and Henry Kissinger in Northern California called Bohemian Grove, where they were forced to participate in sex and to consume parts of a child whom they had watched being murdered by the cultists. As DeCamp writes:



“A ‘snuff” pornography film was made of these events; it was directed by a man the party had picked up in Las Vegas whom Paul identified as “Hunter Thompson”—the same name as a well known sleaze-culture figure.



“Paul has told investigators that the ring which plunged him into Satanism was centered at Offutt U.S. Air Force Base near Omaha; that he was taken to Offutt to be sexually victimized by a babysitter’s boyfriend when he was about three years old, around 1970. Offutt is the headquarters for the Strategic Air Command, and has had a cadre of thousands of intelligence personnel.



“At Offutt, and later at other military installations, Paul says this ring “trained” him by tortures, heavy drugging, and sexual degradation, while instructing him in military arts including assassination. In fact, his personal knowledge in these realms can scarcely be accounted for other than by crediting the indictments he has made.”



While these allegations may strike the uninitiated as bizarre, a similar case of CIA involvement in child kidnapping, satanism, pedophilia and mind-control—the “Finders” case—was revealed in a 1987 U.S. Customs report obtained by the author. When D.C. police and Customs agents raided a Washington, D.C. warehouse being used by the group, they found “a set of instructions which appeared to be a broadcast via a computer network which advised participants to move ‘the children’ and keep them moving through different jurisdictions, and instructions on how to avoid police attention.” (The children were headed for Mexico, tending to confirm Cathy O’Brien’s allegations.) As Customs Agent Ramon Martinez writes in his report:



“Cursory examination of the documents revealed detailed instructions for obtaining children for unspecified purposes. The instructions included the impregnation of female members of the community known as Finders, purchasing children, trading, and kidnapping. ... One of the officers presented me with a photo album for my review. The album contained a series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets participation in a ‘blood ritual.’ “The ritual centered around the execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution, disembowelment, skinning and dismemberment of the goats at the hands of the children. This included the removal of the testes of a male goat, the discovery of a female goat’s ‘womb’ and the ‘baby goats’ inside the womb, and the presentation of a goats head to one of the children.”



The CIA-connected Finders were never prosecuted. The report adds that...



“... the activity of the FINDERS had become a CIA internal matter. The MPD report has been classified SECRET and was not available for review. I was advised that the FBI had withdrawn from the investigation several weeks prior and that the FBI Foreign Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD not to advise the FBI Washington Field Office of anything that had transpired.”[52*]



The head of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Division at the time was Oliver “Buck” Revell—a crony of Oliver North and George Bush who would allegedly play a role in the cover-up of numerous crimes, including Iran-Contra, drug-running at the CIA/NSA/DoD proprietary E-Systems, and the bombing of Pan Am 103.[53*] (See Appendix)



A member of Nebraska’s Concerned Parents group reported hearing from two North Omaha witnesses that “King used to send limousines down to Offutt Air Base to pick up CIA agents for parties.”



King, FBI agents Gerry Wahl and Alan Baer, Omaha World-Herald publisher Harold Andersen, and former Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman were all reported as collaborators in this satanic military-based ring. King reportedly told Paul’s captors at Offutt, “He’s young—but you trained him good.” Some say King provided the CIA with information garnered from his pimping activities for America’s perverted elite.



Victim-witness Paul Bonacci also described one of his “commanders” at Offut Air Force Base—Bill Plemmons and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino.



Until recently, Aquino was a Colonel in the U.S. Army and a national commander of the Eagle Scouts Honor Society. Ironically, Aquino is a publicly avowed Satanist. In 1975, while still in the Army, Aquino founded the Temple of Set—an offshoot of the Church of Satan, started in 1966 by Anton LaVey. Set is the Egyptian God of the underworld and the dead.[54]



Aquino made a pilgrimage to Heinrich Himmler’s “Hall of the Dead” at Wewelsburg Castle in 1984, where the SS practiced their black magic rituals, so he could allegedly “cleanse” the Temple of Set of its corrupt vibes.



Although Aquino’s membership has dwindled in recent years, members of The Temple of Set have included high-ranking military and police officers.

Although no cases of ritual murder or abuse have been directly linked to either group, in numerous cases of ritual murder, Church of Satan and Temple of Set material such as LaVey’s The Satanic Bible, have been found among suspects’ paraphernalia.



In 1987, San Francisco was shaken by a scandal at the Amy’s Presidio day care center, in which Aquino and a day care worker were accused by [the parents] of a three year old girl, (and subsequently several other parents) of being subjected to bizarre satanic rituals at Aquino’s home. Although there proceeded a lengthy investigation by the San Francisco Police Department, the FBI and the Army CID, no charges were ever brought against Aquino. As recently as 1995, the SFPD detective in charge, who I interviewed, was still too frightened to reveal details of the case.[55]



As for Larry King, he reported his own adoring relationship to the late CIA Director William Casey in a September 7, 1988, interview in the Omaha publication Metropolitan.[56]





The Cover-Up



As they would do with Iran-Contra, the FBI and the majority of the mainstream press covered up the scandal. Harold Andersen’s Omaha World-Herald, along with the local FBI office under the leadership of Nick O’Hara, played a major role in covering up these activities. Andersen was seen at numerous parties by several children who gave statements to Franklin investigators.



Roy Stephens, a private investigator and head the Missing Youth Foundation who worked on the case “says there is reason to believe that the CIA is directly implicated,’’ and that the “FBI refuses to help in the investigation and has sabotaged any efforts’’ to get to the bottom of the story.[57]



As tearful victim-witness Troy Boner told Sandie Caradori, wife of investigator Gary Caradori on the evening of his death, “Sandie, I tried, I tried. I went to [FBI Agent] Mickey Mott and.... They laughed at me....”[58]



When DeCamp and Senator Loren Schmit confronted Senior Agent in Charge of the Omaha office Nick O’Hara, O’Hara, a friend of Police Chief Robert Wadman’s, blurted out, “You fuck with Bob Wadman, you fuck with the FBI!” DeCamp and Schmit left O’Hara’s office in a state of shock.[59]



So began the cover-up.



Indeed. The FBI threatened and intimidated numerous witnesses, approximately 15 of whom wound up dead under highly suspicious circumstances. Victim-witness Alisha Owen, then still a teenager, was threatened by FBI agents Mott and Baer to change her story. When she refused, she was sentenced to 20 years in jail.



Senator Bernice Labedz recounted her conversation with former Franklin employee Noel Seltzer:



“One of the most important things that I thought he told me was the fact that when they first went into the investigation of Larry King, he was talked to by the FBI and he told them mostly everything that he told me about the sexual abuse and so forth. And then he said he was told by the FBI, ‘we’re going to advise you it’s best for you that you keep your mouth shut.’ And I said, ‘say that again,’ and he repeated it so I could write it down.”[60]



Victim-witness Terry Muller told Gary Caradori “that the FBI and a member of the State Patrol were harassing her brother and trying to get him to talk about things that he just didn’t know about.”[61]



Department of Social Services worker Joanie Gregory, who discovered evidence of wrongdoing in the homes of foster parents Jarrett and Barbara Webb, themselves involved in the abuse ring, was told by the FBI “that it would probably be in her best interest if she ‘forgot this information.’”[62]



As Caradori himself told the Franklin Committee: “I think they (the grand jury) are being misled by the influence of the State Patrol investigator and various people in the FBI.”[63]



DeCamp writes that “the legislative investigator found that the FBI interfered with material even before he got to it.”



As Troy Boner states in a sworn affidavit: “... I was carefully rehearsed by the FBI as to what I would say and what questions would be asked and then after rehearsing everything with the FBI I was taken over to Mr. Moran the prosecutor to go through the rehearsal again.”



Boner claims the FBI threatened him, and had in fact killed his brother Shawn as a warning.[64]



The Murders



Kathleen Sorenson, the social worker who assumed foster care for Nelly and Kimberly Webb after they fled the home of Larry King’s relatives Barbara and Jarrett Webb, died in a suspicious head-on car crash. Retired FBI Senior Agent Ted Gunderson, who investigated the crash, believes Sorenson was killed as a satanic contract suicide. The belief in such a murder/suicide is that the murderer will reincarnate with more power granted by Satan.



Sorenson, a vocal anti-Satanist, whose itinerary was known to at least several people, was traveling on a long, narrow stretch of road between Fremont and Blair, Nebraska. Both the women who rammed into her head-on and her husband had prior arrest records for cruelty to animals—a common sign of satanic activity.



“Not long after Sorenson’s death, a teenager in a youth care facility told a worker, “You better watch out or we will get you like we got that lady from Blair.” The youth went on to describe a ceremony of drawing lots for the privilege.”[65]



On July 11, 1990, during the course of his investigations, Franklin Senate Committee investigator Gary Caradori, 41, died in the crash of his small plane, together with his 8-year-old son Andrew, after a mid-air explosion. Caradori told friends repeatedly in the weeks before his death that he feared his plane would be sabotaged. As previously mentioned, just days before he died, he called Senator Schmit and announced that he had obtained information that would “blow this case wide open.”



Shawn Boner, brother of victim-witness Troy Boner, would die from a gunshot wound allegedly resulting from “Russian Roulette.”



Aaron Owen, brother of victim-witness Alisha Owen, was found hanged in his cell in Lincoln, Nebraska hours before his sister was to testify.



Bill Baker, a restaurant owner and pornography partner of King’s, was found shot in the back of the head.



Newt Copple, a confidential informant for Caradori, died in his sleep.



Clare Howard, former secretary of Alan Baer who arranged many of Baer’s pedophile trysts, died in her sleep the same year.



Mike Lewis, a former caregiver for victim-witness Loretta Smith, died of a “severe diabetic reaction.”



Joe Malek, an associate of King’s and owner of Peony Park, where homosexual galas were held, died from a gunshot that was ruled a “suicide.”

Charlie Rogers, a homosexual partner of King’s who stated he feared for his life, found his head blown off with a shotgun.



Dan Ryan, another associate of King’s, was found suffocated in his car.



Bill Skoleski, an Omaha police officer believed to have been keeping a file on King, died of a heart-attack.



Curtis Tucker, an associate of King’s, was found on the sidewalk beneath the window of his room at the Holiday Inn in Omaha.



Harmon Tucker, a Nebraska and Iowa school superintendent and a known homosexual, was found dead near the plantation which Omaha World-Herald publisher and Nebraska-Iowa FBI chief Nicholas O-Hara used for hunting. His murder had signs of a satanic ritual killing.[66]



Darlene Novinger, an FBI operative, discovered during an FBI investigation that George Herbert Walker Bush and two of his sons were using drugs and prostitutes in a Florida hotel while Bush was Vice President. She was warned not to report her findings to FBI officials. Four hours after she appeared on Tom Valentine’s July, 1993 Radio Free America show, her father was found dead. A white canary was placed on his grave as a warning. Her husband was also beaten to death. Novinger has since gone into hiding.[67]

Donald Gregg’s friend, Craig Spence, was found dead in a Boston hotel room shortly after his sordid affairs were published in the Washington Times.



As one lady stated during a town hall meeting in Omaha in December of 1990: “I think George Bush is involved in this child abuse case, and that is why all these people have been dying.”[68*]





Drugs



“Since the end of World War II, the United States has spent a thousand billion dollars—one trillion dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these men and their hunger for power. Could the CIA kill a president to keep such an operation going? Kings have been beheaded for infinitely less.”

- Judge Jim Garrison, A Heritage of Stone (1970)



As for Bush’s friend Larry King, it was reported that he was a top contributor to a Contra support committee—the Citizens for America. Contra organizer Oliver North was seen by at least one witness at one of King’s parties.



King’s public relations firm was also used by the drug-running Contras. Sources told John DeCamp that Omaha Police Chief Bob Wadman “was protecting the expansion of the Cryps and the Bloods into Omaha—far from their home turf of Los Angeles. As DeCamp writes:



“One of Caradori’s informants stated that Wadman was instrumental in bringing the drug-trafficking gangs, the Los Angeles Bloods and Cryps, into Omaha. According to a June 19 1989 report by Caradori’s predecessor at the Franklin committee, Jerry Lowe, members of the Bloods and Cryps were identified by local police as driving Larry King’s car....”



San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb has meticulously documented how the LA street gangs were intimately tied in with Contra liaisons in the U.S. George Bush, Oliver North’s boss, was essentially running the Contra show, or at least the drug angle. As DeCamp writes:



“So, was Larry King’s buddy George Bush the country’s ‘drug kingpin’ in the 1980s? I don’t know. But what I do know, is that if Bush were running the Contra affair, and drugs were a big part of it, that would certainly jibe 100% with everything known or rumored about Bush, Larry King, and the Franklin Credit Union....”[69]



As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz, the most highly decorated Special Forces officer of the Vietnam War and later head of Special Forces in Central America, adds in his book, Called To Serve:



“George Bush was head of the CIA in 1975-76, appointed by President Gerald Ford; as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, he was our top drug cop for eight years; one of his chief aides, Donald Gregg, was a direct contact in the Contra line of communication to the White House. Ollie North’s personal diary has more than 550 entries citing drug money being used to support contra operations. If George Bush didn’t know about the drug smuggling, he wasn’t doing his job. If he did know about it, then he is clearly culpable. Either way, it doesn’t stand as a credit for a man who would represent the best interests of the United States.”[70]



Like Richard Nixon, Bush publicly claimed to be a strong anti-drug president, escalating the so-called “war on drugs” begun by his mentor Richard Nixon. Nixon had first brought Bush into his “war on drugs” in 1971-77 when Nixon appointed him to the White House Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control.



In his first formally scheduled prime time television address to the nation as President in September of 1989, Bush again reiterated his plan to rid the nation of its devastating drug scourge. Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine for the camera and announced with mock incredulity that it had been purchased right across the street from the White House, in Lafayette Park. In fact, the drug bust of the dealer had been a set-up.



During his 1988 election campaign, Bush had hawked himself as President Reagan’s number one drug fighter. In his acceptance speech before the 1988 Republican National Convention, Bush stated: “I want a drug-free America. Tonight, I challenge the young people of our country to shut down the drug dealers around the world.... My Administration will be telling the dealers, “Whatever we have to do, we’ll do, but your day is over. You’re history.’”



Bush was telling the truth, in a sense. At least small drug dealers would be out of business—replaced by the Medellin Cartel which Bush, along with Ted Shackley, allegedly helped organize. The CIA reportedly arranged at least two meetings with Colombian drug smugglers—first in Buenaventura, Colombia in September of 1981, then in December of that same year, with approximately 200 dealers in attendance. The meeting, according to former FAA investigator Rodney Stich’s (Defrauding America and The Drugging of America ) CIA sources, was held at the Hotel International in Medellin. The CIA set up a “crisis” situation to compel the dealers to consolidate under the protection of the CIA by kidnapping drug kingpins Carlos Lehder and Jorge Ochoa’s sister. The CIA reportedly paid a group known as M-19 three million dollars to carry out the kidnapping. As CIA operative Trenton Parker told Stich, “...Bush knew the whole goddamn thing.”[71]



According to Russell S. Bowen, a highly decorated World War II P-38 ace and former OSS agent imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the U.S. from Colombia (and other sources), Noriega and the Israeli Mossad worked hand-in-hand with the CIA in the drug traffic from Central and South America.[72]



Bowen was a friend of Shackley’s, having worked with him from the early 1950s until 1984. In 1959, Shackley was a passenger onboard a C-46 piloted by Bowen when the plane crashed in the Bolivian Andes. As Bowen told Stich: “It was loaded with drugs!”



“[Bowen] stated that this trip occurred several years before Shackley was made CIA station chief in Miami, and that Shackley was instrumental in setting up the CIA drug trafficking into the United States from South America....



“Bowen described the conflict between different CIA factions. “At that time, “ Bowen said, “Shackley was the leader of the CIA faction bringing the drugs in. The CIA team I worked for did not want the drugs in.”



“I asked who set up that initial drug operation. Bowen, referring to Shackley, said, “He was the mastermind of the drug operation. he had full authority to set it up.”[73]



Another pilot maintained in voluminous correspondence from prison with Senator John Kerry’s Iran-Contra Committee (and since his release in 1990) that “Bob Haynes” was the alias used by Shackley during their close interaction between 1979 and 1984. As Harry Martin reports in the Napa Sentinel:



“[The pilot] also has a number of documents in safekeeping which prove the presence of Shackley in Medellin, not only directing the cocaine cartel, but orchestrating many of the activities in Panama and Costa Rica related to the contra war in Nicaragua, and the large-scale smuggling of cocaine into the United States. Included among them are a handwritten note from Haynes/Shackley directing him to deliver a DC-6A aircraft from the Dominican Republic to Floyd Carlton in Panama “for Col. Robert.”



“The pilot has claimed that he functioned as one of an elite group of military intelligence agents with service dating back to World War II, who reported, until his imprisonment in 1984, directly to [former OSS agent and CIA DCI] William Casey, and maintains that he was directly involved with Theodore Shackley in the establishment of the arms network to the contras through Panama in the early 1980s. Among the letters received from Haynes/Shackley was one directing him to acquire a number of planes in the Dominican Republic and Aruba for the network. The list has been verified by the special U.S. Customs team in Miami investigating Munitions Control Board violations as planes they are familiar with having been used in such activities.”[74]



“Haynes” also furnished the pilot with his business card for INTERKREDIT, with offices in Medellin, Ft. Lauderdale and Amsterdam. INTERKREDIT was the corporate cover under which Shackley conducted business with General Noriega during 1983.[75]



In addition to the pilot, witnesses allege Shackley maintained a home in Medellin, Colombia at one point, where he lived with his Colombian wife, Leona Ochoa, sister of cartel kingpin Jorge Ochoa.[76]



It was a convenient spot to manage the CIA’s drug business. As previously mentioned, the CIA, through DCI George Bush and Deputy Director for Operations Ted Shackley, virtually set up the Medellin Cartel. The meetings were held at the Hotel International in Medellin. Two CIA operatives: Trenton Parker and Gunther Russbacher, confirmed the meetings to Stich.[77]

Ramon Milian Rodriguez, an accountant and money launderer who had laundered $1.5 billion for the Medellin cartel, testified before a Senate committee that he had given Bush-Shackley CIA associate Felix Rodriguez $10 million from the cocaine profits to fund the Contras.



Rodriguez told journalist Martha Honey that Rodriguez had offered that “in exchange for money for the Contra cause he would use his influence in high places to get the cartel U.S. ‘good will.’”[78]



The CIA would eventually eradicate top leaders of the Medellin Cartel, killing Medellin founders Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa. Medellin co-founder Carlos Lehder and his associate Manuel Noriega would be sentenced to life terms. During Operation “Just Cause” in Panama, Bush replaced many Medellin allied bankers with political and financial leadership more closely allied with the rival Cali Cartel.



Trenton Parker said he secretly gave evidence of CIA criminality from 1976 to 1982 to Congressman Larry McDonald of the Joint Armed Services Committee. The files revealed corrupt activities of several presidents, numerous federal officials and the CIA. Immediately after McDonald let it be known that he was going to reveal the information, including information on the CIA’s drug smuggling activities, his plane was shot down.



Bush’s Zapata Petroleum Co. (later Zapata Offshore), with upwards of 600 branches worldwide, is reportedly used for the CIA’s intelligence gathering. (Bush had begun his career working for International Derrick and Equipment Company, a subsidiary of the Houston-based Dresser Industries—a long-time CIA cover. Dresser’s Chairman, Henry Neil Mallon, who offered Bush the job, was a friend of Prescott’s and a fellow Skull and Bonseman.) Some sources, including covert operatives interviewed by Stich, contend that Zapata’s offshore drilling rigs, located beyond the U.S. jurisdictional limit, are centers for transferring large quantities of illicit drugs and other contraband. CIA cable analyst Michael Maholy told Stich that he personally witnessed numerous drug flights while working on Zapata rigs, and was told to forget what he had seen. The operation was run through Rowan International. “Rowan International was a cover for a branch of Zapata Oil,” says Maholy. Three of the propietaries involved were the CIA-connected Evergreen (owned by Raytheon; see Chapter XX), Southern Air Transport, and Pacific Seafood.



Maholy says he worked directly under George Bush and Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. These people and their accomplices and agents, made hundreds of millions of dollars bringing drugs into the U.S. over the years.



Implicated in the Venezuelan operation were naval officer Lizardo Marquez Perez, Mossad agent Michael Harari, CIA officer Dewy Duane Clarridge, Army lieutenant General Paul Gorman, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Washington DEA Chief Ron Caffrey, Oliver North, Pacific Seafood’s Russell Hebert and others.



Maholy says Bill Clinton was also in the loop. “...not only was I arrested four blocks from the then-Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton’s mansion,” says Maholy, “but I was also involved in the ‘Mena, Arkansas’ incident. Our drugs were going to many of the high-ranking state and government officials in Arkansas. Roger Clinton (Clinton’s brother) was one of our better customers.”[79*]



Former CIA operatives Russell Bowen, Tosh Plumlee, Gunther Russbacher, Chip Tatum and others confirmed much of Maholy’s story.[80]



Some of the money, according to former CIA operative Richard Brenneke, was banked at the infamous Nazi-connected Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank. Brenneke testified under oath that he opened an account there for Bush’s operation in 1980. The money was funneled through the John Gotti organized crime family.[81]



Another bank used for hiding Bush’s secret accounts was the Hawaii-based Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong—a CIA propietary that in part took over the failed CIA Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. Agency operative Ronald Rewald told Stich that he personally set up accounts for Bush under the aliases “Irwin M. Peach” and “Mr. Bramble.”[82]



According to former LAPD Narcotics detective Michael Ruppert, two key men in the drug pipeline were Ted Shackley and George Bush. Shackley, a CIA Deputy Director, had reportedly played the key role in smuggling heroin out of South-East Asia when he was Saigon Station Chief, as popularized by the movie “Air America.”



In 1976, Bush would appoint his friend Shackley as Associate Deputy Director of Operations—the third most powerful position in the CIA. Shackley had been in charge of the Miami CIA station that had been running the Agency’s anti-Castro activities, and was a key architect of the CIA’s “low intensity conflict” operations in Central America (death squads modeled after the Agency’s murderous Phoenix Operation in Viet Nam). Fired by the Agency in 1979, Shackley would re-emerge in the early 1980s as an integral player in Iran-Contra, meeting frequently with Bush at his Arlington, VA home.[83]



As Ruppert states: “Both men are central to the drug trafficking by CIA and NSC which became epidemic in the Iran-Contra era.”



A report by the Costa Rican government states that Oliver North, John Hull, and a number of other Americans were deeply involved in the drug trafficking in the area.[84]



When DEA agent Celerino “Cele” Castillo naively tried to inform Bush of the high-level drug running at a cocktail party in Guatemala City in 1986, he said, “Bush just smiled, shook my hand and walked away.”[85]



As former CIA operative Phillip Agee told the Associated Press in January of 1990: “Bush is up to his neck in illegal drug running on behalf of the Contras.”[86*]

These allegations would be repeated by numerous others. One man who decided to blow the whistle was former CIA operative Richard Brenneke. As Brenneke stated in a sworn deposition before Congressman William Alexander, Jr., and Chad Farris, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Arkansas:



A. ...As far back as 1968 and early ‘69, we had begun to launder money from organized crime families in New York. At that time, Mr. Gotti was an up-and-coming member of the families. I got to know them at that time. We used to wash their money out overseas and put it in Switzerland in nice, safe places for them.



Q. So you worked for Mr. Gotti as well as for the CIA?



A. Actually the CIA told me to do that on his behalf.



Q. So the CIA was in, would you say, partnership or association with Mr. Gotti?



A. Yes, sir. I would say a partnership.



Q. And can you describe the nature of that partnership?



A. Sure. The organized crime members had a need for two things: they needed drugs brought into the country on a reliable, safe basis; they needed people taken out of the country or people brought into the country without alerting customs or INS to the fact that they were being brought into the country; they also needed their money taken offshore so that it would not be subject to United States tax where they might have to declare its source. And so we performed these kinds of functions for them.



Q. Mr. Brenneke, are you saying that the CIA was in the business of bringing drugs into the United States?



A. Yes, sir. That’s exactly what I’m saying.



(snip)



Q. Can you recall any conversations you had with any of the CIA agents about the money, and tell us the nature of that conversation, the scope of it?



A. Sure. When I found that we were bringing drugs into the United States, and that we were receiving money which was being put into accounts which I knew to belong to the United States Government, as I’d set them up specifically for that purpose, I called Mr. Don Gregg, who was a CIA officer with whom I was acquainted, and complained about the nature of what we were doing.



Q. Now, who is Mr. Don Gregg?



A. At that time, he was... Vice President George Bush’s National Security Advisor....



Q. And can you tell us what you remember about that conversation?



A. I surely can. I was told that it was not my business, what I was flying in and out of the country. That I was hired to do specific things, and if I would do those things and not pay any attention to anything else, we would all be very happy. I didn’t like that.



Q. Well, what else did he say?



A. Shut up and do your job.[87]



Bob Martinez, after his defeat as Florida’s governor, was picked as Bush’s drug czar. Sources in Tampa told Russell Bowen that Martinez was under investigation for smuggling activities. But Attorney General Richard Thornburgh removed the Assistant U.S. Attorney before the indictments could be handed down.[88]



Two Assistant U.S. Attorneys in charge of drug prosecutions in Miami—R. Jerome Stanford and Richard Gregorie—resigned in disgust because of CIA stonewalling and cover-ups. Gregorie told a Senate subcommittee that the CIA’s lack of cooperation resulted in a “constitutional crisis.”[89]



As Stich’s CIA sources told him, the Agency was shipping arms to both sides in the Contra war to keep the war going, while publicly stating that the Sandinistas were the ones trafficking in drugs. As in Miami, the CIA set up another fake drug sting using their main drug pilot, Barry Seal. Seal’s plane was rigged with a hidden video camera which ostensibly recorded Sandinistas loading drugs onto the plane. In reality, they were Contras. The “evidence” was subsequently shown to Congress to justify the continued war.



To maintain his position as anti-drug czar, Bush along with CIA, DEA and Customs, set up a fake drug sting at Miami International Airport in March of 1980 using 4,000 pounds of bad cocaine donated by Jorge Ochoa. DEA and Customs agents were on-hand at the airport to make the drug “bust” to insure George Bush’s public heroism.[90]



On January 28, 1982, Bush created the South Florida Task Force to coordinate the efforts of various federal agencies to stem the tide of illegal narcotics. According to local and federal law-enforcement sources, radar balloons and other systems used along the southern U.S. border were not even operational much of the time.



As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“On February 16, 1982, in a speech on his own turf in Miami, Florida, Bush promised to use sophisticated military aircraft to track the airplanes used by smugglers. Several days later, Bush ordered the U.S. Navy to send in its E2C surveillance aircraft for this purpose. If these were not available in sufficient numbers, said Bush, he was determined to bring in the larger and more sophisticated AWACS early warning aircraft to do the job....



“By May, two of the four E2C aircraft that originally had been in Florida were transferred out of the state. By June, airborne surveillance time was running a mere 40 hours per month, not the 360 hours promised by Bush, prompting Rep. Glenn English to call hearings on this topic. By October, 1982 the General Accounting Office issued an opinion in which it found “it is doubtful whether the [south Florida] task force can have any substantial long-term impact on drug availability.”



“But the headlines were grabbed by Bush, who stated in 1984 that the efforts of his task force had eliminated the marijuana trade in south Florida. That was an absurd claim, but it sounded very good. When Francis Mullen. Jr., the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) criticized Bush for making this wildly inaccurate statement, he was soon ousted from his post at the DEA.”



This data supports information provided to this author by law-enforcement officers [who wish to remain anonymous]. According to numerous sources, the drug flow actually increased during Bush’s tenure as drug czar. As former CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee told Rodney Stich: “From the time that the money was appropriated to start [the drug war] we saw a 400 percent increase in the illegal drugs that were coming into this country.”[91]



On March 23, 1983, Bush would be cleverly placed in charge of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, which was supposed to stem the tide of drugs into the U.S.



Plumlee, who witnessed decades worth of drug smuggling by the CIA, the NSC, and the military, said that his government handlers tried to cover up for their smuggling activities by claiming that the shipments were to be used in law-enforcement “sting” operations. As he states: “We were documenting the loads and the routes and waiting for the big busts. But the busts never seemed to add up to the amount of cocaine we were bringing in.”[92]





The Consolidation of Power



How did George Bush assume such enormous powers over the law enforcement and covert operations of this country (not to mention the Presidency)? This was done through a series of Executives Orders and National Security Decision Directives (NSDDs) engineered by former CIA Director Bush signed by President Reagan.



On December 14, 1981, Reagan signed NSDD-2 on “Crisis Management,” which designated Vice President Bush Chairman of the Special Situation Group (SSG), responsible for crisis management.



On January 12, 1982, Reagan signed NSDD-3, which reaffirmed the existence of various interagency groups to deal with intelligence and covert operations. Under the interpretation of this document promoted by Bush, the SSG superseded and pre-empted the powers of the NSC in areas of “crisis management,” which encompassed covert operations and counter-terrorism.



On January 28, 1982, Bush was put in charge of the South Florida Task Force on drugs.



On May 14, 1982, a standing Crisis Pre-Planning Group (CPPG 1 and 2) was established under the SSG. Thus Bush was given responsibility for any area in which a “potential crisis” could emerge, and was charged with developing “preemptive policy options” for dealing with such a crisis.



On April 10, 1982, NSDD-30, on “Managing Terrorist Incidents,” was issued, giving Bush control over the convening of the SSG, and creating the “Terrorist Incident Working Group” (TIWG).



On March 23, 1983, Bush took charge of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System.



In July 1985, the Vice President’s Terrorism Task Force was created, headed by Bush.



In February 1986, the Terrorism Task Force created the Operations Sub-Group, officially a sub-group of the TIWG, and also created a permanent counter-terrorism office located in the NSC staff, headed by Oliver North, but ultimately controlled by Bush.



In August 1986, Bush became the chief of “Operation Alliance,” an “anti-narcotics” effort to be conducted in cooperation with Mexico.



Thus from December 1981 to August 1986, Bush had consolidated his control over virtually aspect of U.S. covert operations, as well as every agency dealing with drug interdiction. Never before in peacetime in our country’s history had one man assumed as much power as Bush exercised while Vice President.[93]



George Jr would follow on the heals of his father’s silent coup de etat through his blatent manipulation of the U.S. Supreme Court in stealing the 2,000 Presidency via fraudulent vote tallies.



One year later, on January 4, 1984, Bush would travel to Miami to deliver one of his well-rehearsed “war on drugs” speeches at the Omni International Hotel. Later in the day Bush rendezvoused with boat builder and former racer Don Arnow at Islamorada in the Florida Keys. Bush’s high-priced “Cigarette” speedboat Fidelity was purchased from Arnow, his friend and fishing partner. As one local resident said, “everyone in Miami knew that if you needed a favor from Bush, you spoke to Arnow.”[94]



Arnow was reportedly a drug smuggler and suspected money launderer linked to the Genovese Purple Gang of New York through Frankie Viserto, one of the largest heroin smuggling kingpins, and the Meyer Lansky organized crime syndicate. Lansky had close ties to Israel and the Mossad, who played their own role in smuggling drugs out of Central and South America. Arnow’s role in marijuana smuggling was reportedly confirmed by Bill Norris, head of the Major Narcotics Unit at the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office.[95]



USA Racing, the company operated by Arnow was owned by Jack J. Kramer, President of Super Chief South Corporation. Kramer had married Lansky’s niece. On March 28, 1990 Jack and Ben Kramer were found guilty of 23 and 28 counts respectively of federal money laundering charges. Ben had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment for having imported half-a-million pounds of marijuana.



Nevertheless, a result of his favoritism with Bush, Arnow received a contract to build his “Blue Thunder” catamarans at $150,000 apiece for the U.S. Customs Service. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Bush had thus given a prime contract in waging the war on drugs to one of the leading drug-smuggling and money-laundering crime families in the US.... This was the same George Bush who in March, 1988 had stated: “I will never bargain with drug dealers on US or foreign soil.”



As Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell add in Blue Thunder:



“Ultimately by awarding Arnow the Blue Thunder contract, Bush allowed not one, but two, drug smuggling arms of the mob to penetrate the government’s anti-drug program.”



Probably by design, the Blue Thunder catamarans were unseaworthy and practically unusable for chasing down high-speed craft, including Arnow’s Cigarette boats. Blue Thunder was capable of a top speed of only 56 miles per hour, and most of the boats spent more time undergoing repairs than chasing drug runners.



Ex-convict Tommy Teagle told author Thomas Burdick that he possessed information that implicated Bush’s son Jeb in cocaine smuggling. Teagle stated that Arnow and Jeb Bush had been partners in cocaine trafficking and were $2.5 million in debt to their Colombian suppliers.



According to former CIA operative Terry Reed, current President George Bush, Jr. and his brother Jeb were videotaped at Tamiami airport outside of Miami. They had arrived on the Bush family King Air from Texas, presumably piloted by George W., to pick up two kilos of cocaine which was delivered by Barry Seal from the Intermountain Regional airport in Mena Arkansas. Reed was the unwitting co-pilot. At the time he made his public statements, Reed indicated that he had both the tail number of the Bush Aircraft and the DEA (NADDIS) file number of the investigation.[96*]



Dr. Robert Magoon, a friend of Arnow, is quoted as having heard a similar report. Teagle said he feared that George Bush would have him killed, and rapidly changed his story.



But Arnow wouldn’t be around to testify. Ultimately, an imprisoned convict was indicted for Arnow’s murder—a murder that remains highly suspect.



According to an article by Joe Cuomo in Penthouse entitled “Family Ties,” one of Jeb’s business partners was Colombian “coffee” magnate Alberto Duque Rodriguez.



Federal prosecutors in Miami have a photo of Jeb and Leonel Martinez, a Miami-based Cuban-American drug trafficker, shaking hands, but won’t release the photo. Martinez and his wife made a $2,000 contribution to the Dade County Republican Party four months after Jeb became chair of the local GOP. Martinez also wrote $5,000 checks to then Vice President Bush’s Fund for America’s Future, and made a $2,000 contribution to the Bush for President campaign. This was during the time that Bush was serving as head of the South Florida Drug Task Force, then later as chair of the National Narcotics Interdiction System. While Bush was drug czar, the volume of cocaine smuggled into the U.S. tripled.[97]



Former CIA helicopter pilot Chip Tatum backs up allegations of Bush’s involvement in drug smuggling. On March 30, 1985, Tatum says he flew his helicopter to La Cieba, Honduras, where he picked up Bush Contra liason Felix Rodriguez, Honduran General Alvarez and Mossad agent Amirm Nir.



“We flew into several villages on the Nicaragua/Honduras border to recon for a later mission. I recorded actual village locations for cargo drops by CH-47’s scheduled later in April. Three of the villages were Rus Rus, Waspam and Santa Anna. Mr. [Oliver] North was pleased with the operations. He stated that Vice President Bush appreciated the extra effort I was giving. General Alvarez told Mr. North of my ability to sneak into his airfield under their radar. He asked North if I could instruct some of his security team and pilots for future use. North declined stating that I was a national secret, laughing. We landed at Santa Anna and met with Enrique Bermudez and other Contra leaders. We were then taken to a processing area of some sort. As we approached, there was a strong smell of jet fuel and acetone. There were several tactical bladders, used for carrying fuels, sitting around the area. Six large fuel pods were on the ground but had the tops torched off. Inside there was fuel and ground-up coca leaves. Mr. North stated the following to the other passengers, “One more year of this and we’ll all retire.” He then made a remark concerning Barry Seal and Governor Clinton. “If we can keep those Arkansas hicks in line, that is,” referring to the loss of monies as determined the week prior during their meeting in Costa Rica. I stood silently by the vat of leaves, listening to the conversation. General Alverez had gone with the Contra leader to discuss logistics. The other three—North, Rodriguez, and Ami Nir—continued through the wooden building, inspecting the cocaine. North continued, “...but he (Vice President Bush) is very concerned about those missing monies. I think he’s going to have Jeb (Bush) arrange something out of Colombia,” he told his comrades, not thinking twice of my presence. What Mr. North was referring to ended up being the assassination of Barry Seal by members of the Medellin Cartel in early 1986. “How about ‘Pineapple’?” Rodriguez asked. (Speaking of General Noriega.) “Naw,” North answered, “something’s up there.” Bush later insured Noriega was indicted and imprisoned for drug trafficking. I recalled the mysterious army officers remarks in Ojo de Agua, “Tell no one. There’s no one big enough in your chain of command.” I just heard North tell Rodriguez that the Vice President, the Governor of Arkansas and the three of them are manufacturing cocaine.”[98]



As a liason to the Contra/Anti-Castro Cuban community in Florida, Jeb Bush was responsible for freeing Cuban-American terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison. Bosch was responsible for a wave of bombings against Cuba, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Bosch received his financing from a Florida company called the World Finance Corporation—the subject of one of the largest drug-smuggling investigations in the 1970s. The investigation was eventually dropped due to CIA interference. Bush was CIA Director during much of the company’s anti-Castro activities.



Westword, a Denver newspaper, reported Bush’s son Neil—who played a role in the bilking of Denver’s Silverado Savings & Loan, for which he walked away unscathed—being referred to as the “godfather” of a drug dealer who kept Neil’s photograph on his wall. According to the article, Neil let him know when “something was coming down.”[99*]



Silverado’s third largest borrower (Neil was on the Board), E. Trine Starnes, Jr., defaulted on $77.5 million in loans from the S&L, some of which went to the Contra arms and funding conduit the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, directed by Carl “Spitz” Channell, a close crony of Oliver North. Silverado was shut down soon after Bush became President, and the American taxpayers picked up the $1 billion tab.[100]



By October of 1990, the S&L industry was losing money at the rate of $3 million a minute. The total cost was estimated at $325-500 billion. As President Bush commented, “The economy is headed in the right direction.”

Neil Bush would soon be back in the swindler’s circle through his west Florida Gulf Stream Realty land fraud company - a prelude to Bill Clinton’s Arkansas Whitewater land fraud scheme.



As Sherman Skolnick reports, Giorgio Pelossi, a prominent Swiss accountant and reputed cocaine bank money launderer for George Bush and two of his sons, was arrested in Chicago on January 20, 2000 after INS officials found he was wanted on an arrest warrant in Italy. Journalists in Spain wrote about Bush and two of his sons, George W. and Jeb, being reportedly implicated in billions of dollars of dope money laundered through banks in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and the U.S. The cocaine banking cartel, for which Pelossi reportedly was the brains, was centered in Milan and Barcelona. The Pelossi-Marcinkus-D’Onofrio ring reportedly, through the Vatican Bank and other financial institutions, trafficked in smuggled gold, osmium nuclear bomb triggers, high quality counterfeit foreign currencies, and other illicit goods and services. With the connivance of top officials of the IRS Chicago Regional office, Pelossi reportedly arranged the laundering of billions of dollars through concealed and dummy accounts, at the Harris Bank of Chicago, and their Foreign Exchange section, called ForEx, a unit of Bank of Montreal, and Republic National Bank of New York, for the Bushs.[101]



On May 15, 1984 Bush visited Pakistani President Gen. Zia ul-Haq in Islamabad. Bush praised the alleged successes of Zia’s anti-drug program which, Bush stated, was a matter of great “personal interest” to him. Among those present at the banquet where Bush made these statements were, reportedly, several of the officials most responsible for Pakistan’s narcotics trafficking. Pakistan had been responsible for approximately 70 percent of the world’s heroin supply at the time. Most of the dope was managed by an elite military unit that protected the truck convoys of CIA arms to Afghanistan.[102]

In August, 1986 Bush, working with Mexican officials, formally christened “Operation Alliance”, a new border enforcement initiative that followed on the heels of the South Florida Task Force. Bush was appointed chief of Operation Alliance, which involved 20 federal agencies, 500 federal officers, and a budget of $266 million. Bush even sought to obtain a cameo role for a brief appearance on the television series Miami Vice. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Bush had no intention of seriously pursuing such goals. For him, the war on drugs was a cruel hoax, a cynical exercise in demagogic self-promotion, designed in large part to camouflage activities by himself and his networks that promoted drug trafficking.”



In 1988, Congressman Glenn English stated that Bush’s war on drugs was “little more than lip service and press releases.”



CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee, who flew many drug flights, said he was provided with codes that allowed him to avoid drug interdiction planes. As Plumlee said: “I have seen interdiction planes turn away after we squawked our transponders, and let us into the country, [un]molested, and not have Customs waiting for us when we land.”[103]



Bush’s final act as “anti-drug” czar would come in 1990 with the invasion of Panama known as “Operation Just Cause.” The ostensible excuse was to shut down President Manuel Noriega’s drug trafficking (an operation run with Bush and CIA complicity). The real reason was to remove Noriega, who had gotten “out of control,” threatening to nationalize Bush’s extensive family investments in that country, and replace him with officials more loyal to Bush and the Agency.



On this pretext, the U.S. invaded the small sovereign country, killing thousands of people, mostly civilians. Twenty-six U.S. servicemen also lost their lives to protect Bush’s drug trafficking operation and the $350,000,000 worth of Bush financial investments, laundered through the Bush-connected Japanese Aoki Corporation with the help of brother Prescott. The puppets installed by Bush included President Gullermo Endura, head of a Panamanian bank used extensively by the Medellin Cartel, Vice President Gullermo Ford, part owner of Dadeland Bank of Florida, reportedly involved in drug money laundering, and Attorney General Rogello Cruz, allegedly a Cali drug Cartel boss.



As ex-CIA field officer John Stockwell noted: “[Bush] used to work with Noriega the drug-dealer. He has worked with a lot of other drug-dealers, in fact, but this one was screaming publicly.... In 1988, Noriega told Newsweek or a Newsweek interviewer that, quote: ‘I have George Bush by the balls!’ because he had the information on George Bush’s connections and ties and knowledge of drug smuggling. So Bush had to get rid of him!”[104*]



Frederick Kempe, a former Wall Street Journal diplomatic correspondent, wrote Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega in 1990. This documents the Israeli connections with the CIA in the contra-cocaine program in Central America:



“Noriega, the new Comandante, made clear he was willing to be more cooperative than his predecessors. He was also feeling more heat for Panama’s role in laundering money for international drug traffickers, and he interpreted a George Bush visit in December 1983 as an appeal for more help for the Contras.... In Noriega’s mind, he thought Bush was saying that if Panama helped the Contras it could defuse criticism about money laundering. He passed this interpretation to a trusted adviser.”



Coincidentally, perhaps, in December 1983 the Israelis reportedly started using a CIA front company in Panama to start funneling support to the Contras. That company was IFMA Management Company, which had originally been created in 1969 in Panama as a conduit for CIA ‘black’ funds.[105]


While Noriega now languishes in a U.S. prison, the amount of drug money laundered through Panamanian banks is two-thirds higher than it was prior to the invasion (which, at the time, was approximately 70 percent of the CIA’s drug take). For those Panamanians who survived Operation “Just Cause,” 60 percent now live in poverty, with 17 percent in extreme poverty, and 24 percent of the population suffers from malnutrition. According to Olga Mejia of the Panama Human Rights Commission: “Now you can find 1,000 children begging in central Panama City.”[106]



The CIA/NSC/DoJ complicit smugglers and pilots who testified against Noriega, including pilot Floyd Carlton, Roberto Striedinger, and Ricardo Bilonick, were released or had their sentences greatly reduced. Carlton was paid several hundred thousand dollars by the “Justice” Department and given permanent U.S. residency. Striedinger had his seized bank accounts returned, along with his 40-foot yacht, an airplane, his AK-47, Uzi and MAC-10 submachine guns and his Mercedes-Benz. Carlos Lehder was released from prison in 1996.



Noriega wasn’t the only person to be silenced in the wake of the Iran-Contra revelations. Floyd Carlton testified that he offered information to the DEA in Panama in July of 1987, which refused to take the information. Carlton had frequent contacts with the Medellin and Cali cartels, as well as taped phone conversations, documents and information about money laundering, drugs, weapons and assassinations. Instead of accepting the evidence, the “Justice” Department, as they would do with hundreds of other whistleblowers over the years, had Carlton arrested.



When the FBI raided the home of Senator Gary Hart’s presidential campaign manager Michael Boren Williams, “the first item that was seized was a file pertaining to my investigation of Bush’s ordering CIA Costa Rica Station Chief Joe Hernandes to blow up a commercial civilian airliner he thought to be carrying Senators [Gary] Hart and [William] Cohen to Managua, Nicaragua on an Iran-Contra fact-finding mission. (Oh, just for good measure, the Managua Airport was blown up, too).”[107]



As Williams told this author: “[Cohen] was the co-author of a spy novel, along with Gary Hart. George Bush (the big daddy fascist, not the creep who the New World Order’s ordained as their next 4-year dictator) ordered the assassination of Hart and Cohen.... Fortunately for them, they took an earlier flight....”[108*]



As Tosh Plumlee told Rodney Stich: “We’ve lost a lot of people that’s been killed or assassinated or discredited because for whatever reasons, they were going to blow the whistle on current operations they were involved with. Elements within the agencies that are involved would definitely put hitmen out, if it was going to jeopardize their ongoing operation.”[109]



As Chip Tatum, one of the alleged hitmen, says: “During the next few years, I would be tasked by Mr. Bush with the neutralization of a Mossad agent in 1988, an army Chief of Staff in 1989, the President of a third-world country in 1989, and the leader of a revolutionary force in Central America in 1991. [Mossad Agent] Ami Nir was killed in 1988. General Gustavo Alverez was killed in 1989. Enrique Bermudez, Contra leader and overseer of the cocaine kitchens, was killed in 1991.”[110]





Operation Desert Massacre



“We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.”

- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Foreign Affairs (July/August 1995)



“The world can therefore seize the opportunity (Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.”

- President George Herbert Walker Bush



In January of 1990, the U.S. Government under George Bush would again have the opportunity to demonstrate the “universal aspirations of mankind” when it attacked Iraqi forces in the Persian Gulf, driving them out of the oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait. President Bush immediately rallied to the cause of “freedom and democracy” for the tiny Arab sheikdom, where Iraqi forces were actively engaged in violating “the rights of the free world” by pillaging the populace and “pulling babies out of incubators.” Or so the White House and the State Department would have us believe.



Thus, under the guise of creating a “New World Order,” the U.S., with George Bush as the helm, once again heeded the call to “defend the free world.”



In reality, Kuwait was little more than a feudal kingdom ruled by a few immensely wealthy royal families, where such “freedoms” included being stoned to death for adultery (for women that is), having your hand cut off for thievery, and being arrested for practicing any religion except Islam. It is a place that Amnesty International reported torture is routine, and where 111 people were executed in one year alone by beheading, 16 of whom were political prisoners.[111]



So much for freedom and democracy.



What tiny Kuwait did have going for it was its vast oil reserves, whose ownership was in dispute with Iraq. Iraq’s Rumaila field, which dips into its disputed border with Kuwait, was being pumped for all its worth by the Kuwaitis—while Iraq, with the encouragement of both Kuwait and the U.S.—was fighting a bloody and costly war with Iran. The U.S. assisted Iraq in this endeavor by supplying them with detailed intelligence enabling their forces to bomb Iran’s oil terminals and power plants. As Jeffrey T. Richelson writes in The U.S. Intelligence Community:



“In 1984, when some feared that Iran might overrun Iraq, the United States began supplying Iraq with intelligence that reportedly enabled Iraq to calibrate mustard gas attacks on Iranian ground troops.”[112]



At the same time as Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, by exceeding their production quotas, were driving down the price of oil. Iraq, saddled with a $70 billion debt from its war with Iran, was losing billions of dollars in revenues.



Iraq’s demands were simple. They wanted payment for the oil taken from the Rumaila field (whose ownership had been in dispute ever since Britain had withdrawn from Kuwait), forgiveness of Kuwaiti loans during their war with Iran, and access to the Gulf ports for export of their oil. After negotiators failed to reach agreement over the thefts, the loans, and the access, Iraq invaded.[113]



As in Vietnam, President Bush attacked this “naked aggression,” rallying to the cause of freedom: “America stands where it always has,” declared Bush (whose family made its fortune backing Adolf Hitler), “against aggression, against those who would use force to replace the rule of law.”



So spoke King George, who, only months earlier, had imposed illegal sanctions against Nicaragua to prevent free elections there—a continuation of his and Reagan’s covert bloody war against that sovereign nation. As a result, Bush became the only head of state publicly condemned by the World Court for the “unlawful use of force.”[114]



Such a condemnation is hardly surprising, since barely two years earlier, Bush had invaded Panama to silence Manuel Noriega and install “democracy” in the U.S.-controlled banana republic.[115]



Not to tarnish Bush’s reputation as a champion of human rights. Bush was CIA Director when Argentine secret police launched their “Dirty War” in 1976, resulting in the “elimination” of tens-of-thousands of political dissidents.



On September 21, 1976, a bomb ripped apart the car carrying former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and two American co-workers on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.. Letelier and a woman, Ronni Moffitt, died in the blast.



Letelier was a staunch critic of Chile’s murderous military dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet, a CIA puppet. Represtnative James Abourezk, a personal friend of Letelier’s, asked DCI Bush to commit the CIA to the search “to find the bastards who killed” Letelier. Bush appeared concerned and responded, “I’ll see what I can do. We are not without assets in Chile.”



As Robert Parry writes:



“The problem with Bush’s promise, however, was that some of the CIA’s top “assets” in Chile were implicated in the murder. According to U.S. intelligence sources, one of those CIA assets was Gen. Manuel Contreras, the head of the intelligence agency, DINA, and the architect of the Letelier assassination. The other trouble with Bush’s pledge was that the assassination had been carried out almost literally under the CIA’s nose—and Bush had little interest in exposing his own failings.... There was also the darker possibility that Bush’s CIA had granted DINA license to hunt down and neutralize a Chilean dissident on American soil.”[116]



Bush was also CIA director when Indonesian General Suharto, with support from President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, invaded the small island nation of East Timor. Suharto had come to power in 1965, during a U.S.-backed genocidal coup that resulted in over a million deaths.[117] By comparison, Suharto’s invasion of East Timor merely resulted in a quarter-of-a-million deaths. According to the Australia East Timor Association:



“The atrocities of the Indonesian Military Junta are absolutely barbaric, torturing and killing thousands. Even women have been killed very slowly by stabbings.... Hundreds have been burnt to death.... Indonesian soldiers took hold of the legs of little children and threw them around in the air a number of times and smashed their tiny heads and bodies against a rock. A women asked that one of the children be given to her after it’s mother had been stripped naked and killed, but the soldier grabbed the child and killed it [instead]...”[118]



The Timorese massacres would continue with George Bush in the White House, as the Timor Gap Treaty was signed, giving Indonesian and Australian mining companies authority to begin joint oil exploration with major oil companies—resulting in a new wave of genocidal terror—all the while revealing the real reason behind U.S.-backed policies.[119*]



Ramos Horta, special representative of the National Council of Maubere Resistance, described how President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited Suharto shortly before the invasion and gave him the green light to invade, while assuring the benevolent tyrant that his supply of American weapons wouldn’t be affected. Kissinger told reporters at the time that “the United States understands Indonesia’s position.” *



Fifteen years later, George Bush would give his own green light to Saddam Hussein. On July 25, 1990, with Iraqi troops massed along the border, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie met with Hussein and informed him that the U.S. had “no opinion” on Iraq-Kuwait border disputes. When Glaspie asked Hussein what his intentions were, he replied that Kuwait’s actions amounted to “an economic war” and “military action against us.” Hussein said he hoped for a peaceful solution, but if not, he said, “it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death...”



As former CIA officer Phillip Agee notes, “A clearer statement of his intentions would be hard to imagine.”



“Glaspie gave no warning from Bush or Secretary of State [James] Baker that the U.S. would oppose an Iraqi takeover of Kuwait. On the contrary she said, “I have direct instructions from the President to seek better relations with Iraq.” On the same day Assistant Secretary of State Kelly killed a planned Voice of America broadcast that would have warned Iraq that the U.S. was “strongly committed” to the defense of its friends in the Gulf, which included, of course, Kuwait. During the week between the Ambassador’s meeting with Hussein and the invasion, the Bush administration forbade any warning to Hussein against invasion... Assistant Secretary Kelly, two days before the invasion, again testified publicly before Congress to the effect that the U.S. had no commitment to defend Kuwait.”[120]



While Bush was publicly condemning Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait on the one hand, he was secretly pursuing a policy of encouraging it on the other. “Big countries cannot invade small neighbors and get away with it,” Bush sanctimoniously announced to the world. Il Sabato, a Catholic weekly in Rome, noting Bush’s shameful hypocrisy, wrote that Bush is the “surly master of the world,” who deserves “the Nobel War Prize” for ignoring opportunities for peace in the Gulf. Bush “had the very concrete possibility of a just peace and he chose war.”[121]



While conspicuously avoiding all opportunities for a peaceful settlement, Bush arrogantly insisted that Iraq’s capacity for aggression be eliminated—a curious position considering that the U.S. had shared intelligence with Iraq right up to the start of the war, and Bush had encouraged Iraq’s bloody ten-year war with Iran as a bulwark against what he perceived as that state’s (and Israel’s) aggressive tendencies (Bush’s “Level Playing Field Doctrine”).



What was not mentioned however was the CIA’s role just a decade earlier in fomenting Kurdish rebellion inside Iraq, with arms supplied by the CIA’s good friend the Shah of Iran. That rebellion led to Iraq’s loss of the Shat al Arab, Iraq’s only access to Basra, its upriver port, and ultimately led to Iraq’s invasion of Iran which cost nearly a million lives.



All the while, the U.S. was building up huge military installations in Saudi Arabia in anticipation of a Gulf War scenario, one that had been gamed-out in Pentagon war rooms. It was easy to anticipate such a scenario, since Bush, like his father before him, had illegally armed Iraq with both conventional and biological weapons, paid for by U.S. taxpayers.[122]



According to a 1995 deposition by Reagan national security aide Howard Teicher, CIA Deputy Director Robert Gates was part of a secret operation in the 1980s to funnel sophisticated military equipment to Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein via Carlos Cardoen, a Chilean arms dealer with close ties to the murderous General Pinochet. “Under CIA director Casey and Deputy Director Gates, the CIA authorized, approved and assisted Cardoen in the manufacture and sale of cluster bombs and other munitions to Iraq,” Teicher wrote in the affidavit submitted as part of an arms-smuggling case in federal court.[123]



Some of those weapons passed through Customs disguised as agricultural loans funded by the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL, which was connected to the CIA’s BCCI: “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International”), and approved by the Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation.[124*]



Of course, not all these technological transfers were so open. Iraqi arms dealer Ishan Barbouti, who, with the help of Richard Secord (of Iran-Contra fame) and Wackenhut Security (an FBI/CIA/DoD proprietary), was secretly siphoning off huge quantities of cyanide from Product Ingredient Technologies, a food flavoring plant in Florida, which was subsequently shipped to Iraq to be used in Hussein’s chemical weapons production (Cyanide is a necessary ingredient in the development of nerve gas). Barbouti was also friends with Hussein’s brother-in-law—Hussein Kamil, who directed the flow of over $2 billion in BNL commercial loans to various high-profile Iraqi weapons projects.” Many of the biologicals sold to Iraq had the blessing of both President Bush and Secretary of State James Baker—both oil men. It is rumored that both men made a substantial amount of money from these deals, as did much of the U.S. military-industrial establishment.



But “smart bombs” and bullets weren’t the only killers of this Mid-East holocaust. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the inhabitants of the Persian Gulf are now afflicted with Gulf War Syndrome (GWI), a deadly disease that has claimed 250,000 lives in Iraq alone, with another million sick, including those of other Gulf states. According to Dr. Nancy Nicholson of the Rhodon Foundation for Biomedical Research and her husband, Dr. Garth Nicholson, one of the most highly regarded scientists in biomedical research, more babies are being born deformed in Iraq than are being born normal.



This debilitating man-made disease has also claimed approximately 15,000 American lives (as of 1997), with another 100,000 to 200,000 veterans severely ill. This doesn’t include family members, friends and associates who are sick, disabled, or dead as a result of being infected with this highly communicable disease. (Unlike AIDS, GWI can reportedly be spread not only through sex, but by casual contact, through perspiration, or by being close to someone who coughs.) It is estimated that over 50,000 National Guardsmen who served in the Gulf have reported illnesses.



According to the British Gulf War Veterans Association, over 1,233 British veterans have died so far and thousands more are sick—17 percent of those committing suicide due to lack of treatment and intolerable pain levels. Thousands of babies have been born to vets with horrible deformities—missing limbs, eyes, and ears, and incomplete or missing organs.[125]



While the origins of GWI stem mainly from Iraqi biologicals launched from SCUDs and fall-out from destroyed Iraqi chemical depots, the effects—which include fatigue, vomiting, weight loss, joint pains, headaches, sleeplessness, memory loss, paralysis, tumors, and not least of all, death—were exacerbated by dangerous and experimental drugs administered to U.S. troops by the DoD. A Senate committee that surveyed 150 veterans discovered they were ordered, under threat of Article 15 or court martial, not to discuss their vaccinations with anyone, not even with doctors who were attempting to treat their adverse reactions.[126*]



Court records uncovered by Sherman Skolnick also reveal that Bush and Hussein engaged in private oil deals involving the splitting of $250 billion worth of oil profit kickbacks. As Skolnick reports:



“The records demonstrate private transactions involving $250 billion in oil money kickbacks from the entire Gulf region paid to Saddam Hussein. The Federal Reserve Board wanted Congressman [Henry] Gonzales (D-TX) to agree to never use these records in any of his congressional reports. He was only allowed to look at the records. But the Congressman refused to sign the secrecy oath that the Fed demanded.



“Following the May 19 hearing I told the attorneys that I had heard what the records were about. I spelled out these huge private transactions between Bush and Saddam.... One of the lawyers said, “Well, that’s true. I want you to know that what is involved here are non-bank records that the ‘Justice’ Department [doesn’t want released].”...



“Saddam got kickbacks to the tune of $250 billion arranged by George Bush and oil companies such as Penzoil which are connected to Bush [one of the heads of Penzoil]....”



According to Skolnick, the “Justice” Department used an investigation of a Court of Appeals Judge in order to blackmail the judge not to release the information. Representative Gonzales’ investigation was sabotaged by people on his own committee. After BCCI’s records were seized by the Reagan/Bush “Justice” Department, Gonzales tried, via congressional subpoena, to acquire them. Judge Brian Duff, who has connections with the Federal Reserve, impounded the records and chased Gonazles’ attorney out of court. As Skolnick writes:



“On the Senate side the investigation is also being hampered. On June 13 the Wall Street Journal pointed out that Senator John Kerry (D-MS) who is investigating BCCI became chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee which received large contributions from BCCI.”



In fact, Bush had a long-standing policy of supporting the Iraqi dictator. In 1987, Bush pressured the federal Export Import bank to give hundreds of millions in loans to Iraq. In a manner similar to what President Bill Clinton (and Bush) would do with Communist China, Bush had met with Iraqi ambassador Nizar Hamdoon to assure him that Hussein could import more dual-use technology.



At least $1 billion in military aid, disguised as Agriculture commodity loans, were funneled to Iraq through BNL. Under Bush’s Presidential Security Directive NSD 26, he overrode other government agency concerns about lending money to Saddam Hussein. In October of 1989, Secretary of State James Baker III intervened with Agriculture Department Secretary Clayton Yeutter to drop Agriculture’s opposition to the $1 billion in food credits for Hussein. This was a man who bragged in the spring of 1990 that he possessed enough chemical weapons to “burn half of Israel,” and attacked his own Kurdish population with poison gas, murdering thousands of men, women and children.



As late as July of 1990, the NSC pushed for the second installment of the $1 billion package despite evidence that Iraq was using the money for its ballistic missile program and other weapons.[127] As Congressman Gonzalez stated in a July 27 speech: “The Bush administration sent U.S. technology to the Iraqi military and to many Iraqi military factories, despite overwhelming evidence showing that Iraq intended to use the technology in its clandestine nuclear, chemical, biological, and long-range missile programs.”[128]



Yet by June of 1990, George Bush, Jr. sold his stock in Harken Energy, which had exclusive oil drilling rights with the island of Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia. (Bush had been rescued by Harken in 1986 when Bush’s Specturm 7 Energy Corporation was in financial trouble. Harken made “Jr.” a director, and he and his partners were given more than $2 million in stock, while George received another $600,000 in stock as a “consultant,” not including his lucrative salary.) The Bahrain deal was brokered by David Edwards, a close pal of Bill Clinton’s and a former employee of the shady Arkansas-based bond brokerage house Stephens Inc.[129]



Industry analysts were amazed that such a small, unknown company won such a lucrative contract. Research by the Observer reveals, unsurprisingly, that Harken has links to institutions that are involved in drug smuggling, foreign currency manipulation and the CIA. (In 1987, Jackson Stephens of Stephens, Inc. would arrange a $25 million cash infusion to George Jr’s Harken through Switzerland’s Union Bank—both tied to the notorious scandal-ridden BCCI. Stephens was a large doner to both the Reagan/Bush ticket and to Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. Stephens’ wife Mary Anne managed George Herbert Walker Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign in Arkansas.) As his pals at Enron would later do, George Jr. successfully dumped his Harken stock for $848,560—a nice 200 percent profit—just in time for Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, conveniently forgetting to notify the Securities and Exchange Commission as required by law.[130*]



Illegal-insider-trader-Jr. avoided prosecution, thanks to some well-connected lawyers and Daddy-Bush-the-President who pulled the appropriate SEC strings. This, as Enron employees lost their pensions (or were “suicided”) as a result of illegal insider stock sales—another company directly connected to the Bushes.



As Iran-Contra insider Al Martin told journalist Uri Dowbenko, “Harken was one of those deals that was a combination fraud as well as a manipulation. There’s different types of fraud when you get into securities. When George Jr. was put in charge of Harken Energy by his father, he essentially took it down the tubes. You have to realize that every business that George Jr. has ever had has failed. That’s the man’s business record.



“George Bush, Sr. and James Baker and Senator Tower would heavily short Harken stock. I have a list of everybody because I was one of them but to a much smaller extent. Harken stock was trading at 7-3/4 or 8, when George Jr, was put in charge of it. A year later, the stock was trading at 1-1/8 bid, 3/8 offer. They pumped the stock back up through a lot of bogus press releases and by using essentially worthless leases in Bahrain and essentially worthless South American oil leases and through sympathetic geologists making them appear to be really worth something and making it appear that Harken’s about to make a strike when in fact it’s all made up. It’s all fictitious. And through carefully crafted broker releases and broker statements and press releases, you can pump the stock back up. This has happened sixteen times to my knowledge. Harken would get pumped back up from the dead, from say a buck, buck and a half, back to seven, seven and a half, then it would get dumped again. Originally George Jr. had control of the company. He stayed on the board.



“You have to look at the entire Bush Family in this context—as if the entire family ran a corporation called ‘Frauds-R-Us.’ Each member of the family, George Sr., George Jr., Neil, Jeb, Prescott, Wally, etc., have their own specialty of fraud.



“George Jr.’s specialty was insurance and security fraud. Jeb’s specialty was oil and gas fraud. Neil’s specialty was real estate fraud. Prescott’s specialty was banking fraud. Wally’s specialty was securities fraud. And George Bush Sr’s specialty? All of the above.”[131]



According to the National Journal, 43 percent of President George Bush Jr.’s top 300 appointees had worked for Bush Sr.



But Iraq wasn’t the only “enemy” doing business with the Bush family. George Bush’s brother Prescott was a consultant to Asset Management International Financing & Settlement, a New York firm with a contract to provide communications for 2,000 professional and university offices in China. After the Tienaman Square massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in June of 1989, Bush publicly expressed his outrage, while quietly sending National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to China to make sure the Bush family assets were secure. Asset Management likewise enlisted Prescott’s help after his father imposed economic sanctions against China (which he would later lift for Hughes Aircraft). For this Prescott received a handsome $250,000 consulting fee from Asset Management.[132]



Prescott would go on to broker a deal between Asset Management and West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based investment firm linked to the Japansese mob—the Yakuza, for which he received a $250,000 finder’s fee and a $250,000 yearly “consultant” retainer. Unfortunately West Tsusho filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against Prescott claiming that he reneged on his promise to protect the firm’s $5 million investment.[133]



Like his brother George, Prescott would play his own role in illegal covert activities, as a spy for the Reagan/Bush presidential campaign against President Jimmy Carter. A September 3, 1980 letter from Prescott to James Baker (soon to become Secretary of State) offers his help in monitoring the activities of the Carter White House in their efforts to obtain the release of the American hostages being held in Iran. As the letter states:



“Herb Cohen—the guy that offered help on the Iranian hostage situation—called me yesterday afternoon. Herb has a couple of reliable sources on the National Security Council, about whom the [Carter] administration does not know, who can keep him posted on developments....”[134]



The Reagan/Bush plan to delay the release of the hostages until after the defeat of Jimmy Carter came to be known as “October Surprise.” (See Chapter XX) With George Bush’s tenure in the White House now secure, Prescott would help his brother funnel illegal aid to the Contras through his position on Americares’ board, the U.S.-based “relief” organization with ties to prominent right-wing Republicans and the CIA.



The late J. Peter Grace, chair of AmeriCares from 1982 to 1995, was a key participant in Project Paperclip, a covert operation which recruited Nazi scientists to work in the U.S. after World War II. Many of those Nazis had been found guilty of experimentation on humans. Grace also played a prominent role in organizing the fascist coup that overthrew the popular democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Comfortingly, AmeriCares presents itself as the “humanitarian arm of Corporate America.”[135]



Americares also provided an undisclosed $680,000 to the Nicaraguan Miskito Indian guerrillas, and $91,383 in food and medicine (and $5,750 cash) to Mario Calero, the New Orleans-based quartermaster for the Contras.[136]



Bush, Sr’s wife, Barbara, is AmeriCares Ambassador-at-Large. Former Carter National Security Advisor and CFR member Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski is its Honorary Chairman.[137]



The Miami link to the Contras would come through George Bush’s son Jeb, who acted as one key liason between the Contras and then-Vice President Bush—helping to set up an arms pipeline through friendly contacts in Guatemala. That contact, a right-wing politician named Dr. Mario Castejon, would have his CIA funding proposals hand-delivered to Ted Shackley himself.



The military-industrial complex was apprehensive as the 1990s dawned with the break-up of the Soviet Union and a consequential peace dividend. With their continuing shady arms deals in Central America, and with Bush’s Gulf War, the establishment no longer had to worry. “The war itself has done the most to stir interest in the acquisition of high-tech weapons,” stated the New York Times.



Ironically, 28 American soldiers killed by Iraqi SCUD missiles during the Gulf War came from Pennsylvania, where Greenburg-Latrobe had manufactured parts for those very weapons. SCUD launchers were manufactured in Connecticut, with other manufacturers being scattered throughout the country. As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Mantius wrote in Shell Game, following the war, “President Bush [used] the vast power of his office... to stall [Congressional] probes long enough for the American companies that supplied Iraq to blend quietly into the crowd.”[138] Some of companies were tied to Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank, managed by Bush’s father, the late Senator Prescott Bush, who, as discussed earlier, had not only financed Adolph Hitler, but had armed the Nazis during the war in violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act.



Ironically, Bush would later compare Saddam Hussein, his own former business partner, to Hitler, while condemning the Iraqi dictator for invading Kuwait and attacking the Kurds. At the same time, Bush’s friend, Turkish president Turgut Ozal (who was former director of the International Monetary Fund) was murdering his own Kurdish population by the thousands. Turkish-occupied Kurdistan resembled El Salvador during the 1980s, with imprisonment, torture, and mass-murder commonplace. At least 22,000 have died since the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) struggle against Turkey which began in 1984. But the government-controlled press wasn’t allowed to focus on that slaughter because Turkey was a client state of the U.S.[139]



In speaking about the so-called atrocities committed by Hussein, Bush stated: “No one can see the pictures or hear the accounts of this human suffering, men, women, and most painfully of all, innocent children, and not be deeply moved.... we must do everything in our power to save innocent life, and this is the American tradition and we will continue to live up to that tradition.”[140]



This “American tradition” employed by Bush and his murdering minions like General Collin Powell (later to become Secretary of State) and “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf, amounted to the unleashing of more bombs on both the military and the civilian population of Iraq than was dropped by the Allies during WWII; by burying thousands of Iraqi soldiers alive in their trenches with tanks equipped with plows; by openly machine-gunning thousands of unarmed surrendering troops; and by imposing severe economic sanctions on a civilian population, at least a million of whom—mostly children—have died as a result of malnutrition and disease. The Wall Street Journal quoted UN sources as saying that at least 560,000 Iraqi children have died since the war ended in 1991. That was in 1995.



“The foreign editor of Brazil’s major daily wrote that “What is being practiced in the Gulf is pure barbarism—ironically, committed in the name of civilization....”[141]



Conclusion





“George Bush, he’s bad on drugs, he’s sick mentally and physically,

if he was a dog he’d be shot. He’s a scumbag. That’s why he won’t be re-elected. He’s not morally, physically or mentally fit to be President.”



- Christopher Hitchens, columnist for The Nation,

Washington Editor for Harpers



These activities are just a sampling of the Bush family endeavors. What can one say about a man who makes brutal war on a soverign country, killing thousands, just to protect his own drug trade? Or murders a million innocent children in another country through war (read slaughter), starvation and disease to protect his and his cronies’ oil interests? Or participate in perverted sexual activities with prostituted children? Or illegally smuggle tons of narcotics into the United States while publicly declaring to be “anti-drug”—releasing major drug traffickers while ordinary people possessing a little marijuana are sentenced to long jail terms? Such a man could only be considered the most evil of creatures—on a scale rivaling that of a Hitler.



While George Bush slaughtered hapless millions in Iraq through war, starvation and disease (not to mention the devastation he caused in Panama, Central America and at home), President Clinton would be all too happy to take up the slack—bombing Baghdad with cruise missiles (killing 8 innocent civilians) to punish Saddam Hussein for an alleged assassination plot against Bush.



It is only too bad the plotters didn’t succeed.


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Approximately 19 U.S. presidents descended from royal bloodlines. As researcher Brian Downing Quig writes: “John Galt (a pen name of a researcher fearing to be identified), in an unpublished manuscript (now in my possession), The Genealogy of the New World Order, has traced the royal ancestry of George Bush, which traces from Charlemagne and Alfred the Great, all the way down through George Bush’s 32 presidential cousins!”

There have been three S&B Presidents; at least ten Senators; two Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and many U.S. representatives and state governors. “Bonesmen” have held a myriad of lesser appointed posts and positions, with a particular affinity for Secretary of War/Defense; diplomatic posts to Europe, Russia, China and the Philippines; and in the national security state/intelligence apparatus. Some examples of Bonesmen: Time-Life publisher Henry Luce, New York Times General Manager Amory H. Bradford, CIA officers William F. Buckley, William P. Bundy, McGeorge Bundy, and Richard Bissel, Senator and David Bowen, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee. Other members include: Lord (1635, Cambridge, Mass), Phelps (1630, Dorchester, Mass), Whitney (1635, Watertown, Mass), Perkins (1631, Boston, Mass), Stimson (1635, Watertown, Mass), Wadsworth (1632, Newtown, Mass), Gilman (1638, Hingham, Mass), Payne (Standard Oil), Davison (JP Morgan), Pillsbury (Flour Milling), Sloane (Retail), Weyerhaeuser (Lumber), Harriman (Railroads) and Rockefeller (Standard Oil).

[1]. Antony C. Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones (Billings, MT: Liberty House Press), quoted in “‘The Skulls’ - Insider Secrets Of The New World Orderlies,” review by Uri Dowbenko, 4/5/00.

[2]. Ibid.

[3]. Ibid.

[4]. Ibid.

Of course the Federal Reserve is not federal, but merely a consortium of private central banks. With profits exceeding 150 billion per year, no corporation in the world comes anywhere close. Interestingly, if the profits of the Federal Reserve were compounded from its inception, a sum roughly equivalent to the national debt results. Wall Street interests originally “fought” this bill while all along they were its authors.

[5]. “The Boodle Boys,” RA Kris Millegan, 1999, courtesy of Newshawk, 3/16/99. Millegan’s father entered was an OSS agent and G-2. During the early 19502 he was the CIA’s Branch Chief, Head of East Asia Intelligence Analyst Office.

The shipping manifests from those days have survived intact to make this claim solid.

[6]. Ibid.

[7]. Antony C. Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones (Billings, MT: Liberty House Press), quoted in “‘The Skulls’ - Insider Secrets Of The New World Orderlies,” Review By Uri Dowbenko, 4/5/00.

[8]. Max Warburg, who had been the Kaiser’s banker, was not exiled with him to Holland after the 1918 Armistice, but instead became the advisor to the latter government under the Nazis. Paul Warburg of the Wall Street investment house Kuhn, Loeb Company had also participated in the drafting of the Federal Reserve Act at Jekyll Island, and headed the U.S. banking system during the war. Warburg was Rockefeller’s partner in banking at the same time his brother Max was financing the Nazi war machine. Another principal Rockefeller partner, Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb, had been born in the Rothschild house in Frankfurt and was now the principal Rothschild representative in the U.S.

Contrary to popular opinion, Jews like the Rothschilds aren’t really Jewish, having forsaken their birthright and converted in order to move freely within the gentile business world. In Yiddish such Jews are known as “Hofjudn.”

[9]. Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. (Washington, DC, Executive Intelligence Review, 1992); Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 10.

“During the war, that Trust produced a massive 50.8% of Nazi Germany’s pig iron, 45.5% of their pipes and tubes, 22.1% of their wire, and 35% of their battlefield explosives. At the time, this information stunned the American public, and revealed the Bush family’s central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his domination of Europe. But since then, the media has virtually buried all such reports.” (Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. (Washington, DC, Executive Intelligence Review, 1992.)

[10]. John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.), quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 357-361 2. Ibid., pp. 362-364.

[11]. A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker’s Hamburg-Amerika Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda efforts both in Germany and the United States.

[12]. Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op Cit.

[13]. Ibid.

[14]. Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, Rape of The Constitution; Death of Freedom.

As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz writes in his book, Called to Serve, the man who wrote the Warren Commission report “was Dr. Rudolph August “Otto” Winnaker, who was described in “Who’s Who in the CIA” as an analyst for the wartime OSS, historian in the U.S. War Department from 1945-49, and then Chief of the Historical Division of the Pentagon. What is not listed is that Dr. Winnaker was once of 26 official historians for Hitler’s Third Reich!” Quite fitting.

[15]. Christopher Simpson, Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazi’s and Its Effect on the Cold War (New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.)

[16]. Russell S. Bowen, The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed (Carson City, NV: America West Publishers, 1991), p. 2.

[17]. Ibid., p. 12.

[18]. John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.), quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 357-361 2. Ibid., pp. 362-364.

[19]. George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (New York, NY: Doubleday, 1987), pp. 36-39, quoted in Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 15-16.

[20]. Dallas Morning News, 9/28/99; Dallas Morning News, 10/30/99.

[21]. The Boston Globe, 5/23/00.

[22]. Martin Heldt, “Isikoff manages to make gone with 9 of the 12 months G.W. Bush was missing from Air Guard duty,” On-Line Journal, 7/13/00.

[23]. Linda L. Starr and Bev Conove, “Former National Guard officer says Bush aide scrubbed military records,” On-Line Journal, 11/4/00. “This effort was further involved by General Daniel James and Chief of Staff William W. Goodwin at Camp Mabry,” said Burkett.

[24]. “Texas National Air Guard grounded George W. for failure to take medical exam,” On-Line Journal, 2/7/00.

[25]. According to Patricia Kilday Hart’s article on Dubya, he came under attack in the University Daily, a Texas Tech newspaper, for promising free beer at a campaign rally. Linda Starr, “Despite Yale diploma, George W. was rejected by U of Texas Law School,” 10/12/99, cited in On-Line Journal.

[26]. The Heritage Groups Council was also tied to Richard Nixon.

[27]. Ibid.

[28]. Loftus and Aarons, Op. Cit., pp. 365-371.

[29]. San Francisco Chronicle, 5/7/77, quoted in Bowen, pp. 30-31.

[30]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 28. Parker was a Marine Colonel assigned to Naval Intelligence.

[31]. Ibid.

According to Bush’s account, Nixon told him that “the place I really need you is over at the National Committee running things.” In 1972, Nixon appointed Bush as head of the Republican National Committee. He later appointed Bush Ambassador to China.

[32]. Ibid., p. 32.

[33]. Ibid., pp.35-36; The memo addressed the possible reaction of Cubans in Miami who might have believed Fidel Castro was responsible for the plot.” (Harry V. Martin, “French Connection, The Smoking Gun If Bush went to Paris, the French and U.S. have documents to prove it,” Napa Sentinel, 1991 Sixth in a Series.)

[34]. Anthony L. Kimery, “George Bush and the CIA: In the Company of Friends,” Covert Action Quaterly, Summer, 1992.

When he was found riddled with bullet holes fired by Colombian drug cartel hitmen, drug-smuggler Barry Seal would have George Bush’s telephone number in his pocket.

[35]. Uri Dowbenko, “Up Against the Beast,” Nexus magazine, April-May, 2000.

This author met with Carone’s daughter, Dee Ferdinand, and was presented with her revealing depositions, plus a number of her fathers affidavits. In fact, a national radio interview I did with Dee Ferdinand caused Ted Shackley to go ballistic.

[36]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

Bush would play another role in domestic counter-intelligence. In 1962, Bush’s father Prescott, along with William Casey, founded the National Strategy Information Center, a right-wing think-tank which used CIA funds to publish anti-left tracts.

[37]. “Reputed Cocaine Bank Money Laundry Wizard for George Bush Family Arrested,” Skolnick Report, 1/28/00. Sherman Skolnick founded the Chicago-based Citizens’ Committee to Clean Up the Courts in 1961. He is an expert in tracking money flows.

[38]. Cathy O’Brien & Mark Phillips, Trance Formation of America, pp. 196-197.

[39]. Confidential interview with author. The Colonel told his wife about having sex with Bush and wrote about it in his diary. He was one of Oliver North’s bosses.

Casey had also been a friend of Bush’s father, Prescott.

King is now serving a 15-year federal prison sentence for fraud.

[40]. John DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska: AWT, Inc., 1992), p. 164.

[41]. “Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan: Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House.,” Washington Times , 6/29/89, quoted in: Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin write in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (Washington, DC: EIR,

[42]. John Lichfield, “White House ‘Great Gatsby’ Lands in a New York Jail Cell,” The Independent (UK), 8/10/89; John Lichfield, “White House Midnight Rambler Found Dead,” The Independent, 11/13/89; John Mintz, Martha Sherill and Elsa Walsh “The Shadow World of Craig Spence,” Washington Post, 7/18/89.

FBI Agent Donald Rochon, in a lawsuit against the Bureau filed in 1989, states that he had observed Special Agent Dillon “French kissing” SA Agent Terry Bohle and had “personally witnessed” Dillon “exposing himself in the Omaha office during a regular work day to numerous employees, both male and female.” Rochon also heard reports, substantiated by another agent, that Dillon had allowed Bohle to urinate in his mouth and to “urinate into a beer bottle [from] which he subsequently drank.” For his part, Dillon said that the urinating in his mouth was an “accident.” (John DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Chile Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska [Lincoln, NE: AWT, 1996], pp. 198-199.)

[43]. Ibid., p. 250.

Witnesses saw explosions in the air. Naturally, the NTSB covered it up, as they would do in numerous other cases.

[44]. King was appointed to the Reagan/Bush re-election committee by National Republican Council Chairperson LeFree Daniels.

Some of the allegations involving the CIA’s mind-control “Monarch Project,” involving children, were confirmed by DeCamp’s long-time friend William Colby, former Director of the CIA, who wound up dead shortly after the publication of DeCamp’s book.

[45]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 322.

[46]. Ibid., p. 12.

[47]. Omaha World-Herald, 7/23/89.

[48]. Gentleman’s Quarterly, December 1991.

[49]. Peter Sawyer, “The Original Allegations: Bush First Named in 1985,’’ Inside News, November, 1991, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin. “The newsletter reproduces several documents on Lisa’s case, including a Nebraska State Police report, a State of Nebraska Foster Care Review Board letter to the Attorney General, an investigative report prepared for the Franklin Committee of the Nebraska Senate, and a portion of the handwritten debriefing by Mrs. Julie Walters.”

[50]. Report, by Julie Walters, 3/25/86; authenticated by her in an interview in 1990 with authors Tarpley and Chaitkin.

[51]. Report, early 1989, compiled by Jerry Lowe, the first investigator for the Franklin Committee of the Nebraska State Senate, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin. “The March 1986 report on Bush was incorporated into the Foster Care Review Board’s official report presented to the Senate Franklin Committee and to law enforcement.”

[52]. “Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service, Report of Investigation, Subject: ‘Finders,” 2/12/87, copy in author’s possession.

Italics mine.

[53]. “Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service, Report of Investigation, Subject: ‘Finders,” 2/12/87, copy in author’s possession. Italics mine.

Revell would later sue this author, my publisher, Feral House, and several other parties for libel in federal court for what I wrote about him regarding his involvement in Pan Am 103 in my book, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror. A federal judge ruled in our favor. Revell also sued the Columbia Journalsm Review over the same matter.

[54]. According to Aquino, Set visited him in 1975 and anointed him “Magus V of the Age of Set,” thereby terminating LaVey’s “Age of Satan.” To spruce himself up for the role, Aquino plucked his eyebrows, had the number “666” tattooed on his scalp, and cut his hair into a severe widow’s peak. He christened his wife Lilith as “Magistra” in the new Temple of Set.

[55]. David Hoffman, “Do What Thou Wilt, Satanism and The Temple of Set,” Haight Ashbury Free Press, September-October, 1995. Why do people join satanic groups? Sociologist Gini Graham Scott, who studied the group in the early 1980s and published her findings in a book titled The Magicians, described the average member as people frustrated with everyday problems who are led to want power. Scott ended by concluding that the Setians contributed, via their philosophy, to a “growing climate of fear and hatred in America,” a position which Acquino virulently denies, terming Satan[ism] “a champion of anti-hypocrisy - a crusader against the corruption and moral bankruptcy of society.” Such philosophies have sometimes led to brutal and bizarre deaths at the hands of disturbed teenagers eager to experiment with the occult. Said LaVey, the Heavy Metal kids who talk about Satan are usually not affiliated with either organization. “They make the sign of the horns at concerts,” “and they don’t know why they are doing it. But it’s good that they’re doing it.” (Raising Hell, Michael Newton, Avon Books, 1993) According to spokespersons, neither The Church of Satan nor The Temple of Set have ever practiced human or animal sacrifice. Anton LaVey once said, “I will have no mercy on people who are cruel to animals.” The use of magick, however, to harm ones enemies, is acceptable in these organizations. When Jane Mansfield died in a car accident, LaVey said it was because she had asked him to put a curse on her boyfriend. He did, it worked, and Jane unfortunately just happened to be in the car. When busybody neighbors made authorities evict LaVey’s pet lion, Tagore, LaVey put a curse on them. Before long, most of the culprits had died, disappeared or moved away.

[56]. Ibid., pp. 326-327.

[57]. Giovanni Caporaso and Massimilino Cocozza Lubisco, Pronto (Barcelona, Spain), 8/3/91 and 8/10/91.

[58]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 188.

[59]. Ibid., p. 182.

[60]. Ibid., p. 195.

[61]. Ibid.

[62]. Ibid., p. 196.

[63]. Ibid.

This is a pattern that would be repeated by the FBI and the “Justice” Department at the Oklahoma City bombing trials. A tearful Daina Bradley—a bombing witness and victim—would be coerced into changing her story about her sighting of John Doe Two, a federal government agent, at the scene of the crime.

[64]. Ibid., p. 195.

[65]. Ibid., pp. 210-211.

[66]. Ibid., pp. 250-251.

[67]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 442; Former NYPD Detective Jim Rothstein, interview with author.

[68]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 175.

Emphasis mine.

[69]. DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 240, pp. 322-323.

[70]. Bo Gritz, Called to Serve (Sandy Valley, NV: Lazarus Publishing, 1991), p. 403.

[71]. Stich, Op. Cit., pp. 23-28. Stich’s sources are all former CIA operatives: Trenton Parker, Gunther Russbacher, and Russell Bowen.

[72]. See Russell S. Bowen, Immaculate Deception (Carson City, NV: America West Publishers, 1991). The pilot has visited and worked in Colombia and much of the rest of South America for over three decades, establishing several national airlines in the process in conjunction with the State Department. Shackley has also been placed in meetings concerning the sale of TOW missiles to Iran with Iran-contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar in Hamburg, Germany in 1984. (Harry V. Martin, Lars C. Hansson, “Noriega,” Napa Sentinel series, 1995.)

When Bowen became disenchanted with the operations, he contacted U.S. Customs in Miami. Nothing happened. Then during a 1982 flight in which Shackley and CIA operative Henry Meierhoffer ferried 800 pounds of cocaine from Medellin to Miami, Bowen blew the whistle by landing the plane at a different airport—an airport heavily monitored by the authorities. The plan backfired and Bowen was arrested and denied his rights to defend himself at trial.

[73]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 34.

[74]. Harry V. Martin, Lars C. Hansson, “Noriega,” Napa Sentinel series, 1995.

[75]. His letters arrived in envelopes with stamps and postmark clearly indicating they had been mailed from Medellin, Colombia. In was also conveyed to Snepp that the pilot claimed the company was tied directly to Interarms, the world's largest supplier of small-arm/automatic weapons, run by longtime CIA asset Samuel Cummings, brother-in-law of the late Senator John Tower of Texas.(Ibid.)

[76]. Martin and Hansson, Op Cit.

[77]. Stich, Op. Cit., pp. 23-28. Stich’s sources are all former CIA operatives: Trenton Parker, Gunther Russbacher, and Russell Bowen.

[78]. Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op. Cit.

“They also had government contracts with large U.S. steel companies, such as the steel foundry in Granite City, Illinois, located across from St. Louis, Mo,” says Maholy. “They were licensed by the U.S. government, to melt down and destroy confiscated weapons that various government, state and local law agencies acquired, during their raids on people in the drug and or other illegal businesses.” Maholy says the better weapons were not melted down, but traded for drugs. “A common tactic for the transfer of these weapons,” says Maholy, “would be to take the highly desired automatic weapons down to some South or Central American country, where there is little or no money, but large amounts of drugs. They would tell the militia groups that they can possess state-of-the-art weapons and ammunition, for whatever drugs they can produce. Since they have little, if any, money, the militia would cultivate large quantities of the drugs. They are easily swayed and convinced into doing business with agents of the CIA who are trained specially for this huge money making scam that benefits those few wealthy defrauders on Capitol Hill.”

[79]. Michael Maholy, e-mail to author.

Maholy was ultimately set up to take the fall. “People like Russell Bowen, and Basil Abbott, and the infamous and now deceased Barry Seal, whose brother is a co-defendant of mine, were taken out of the game also, along with me.”

[80]. Ibid., pp. 41.44.

[81]. Ibid., p. 60.

[82]. Ibid., p. 100. Other accounts were set up for William Casey and Richard Armitage.

The code names for the smuggling operations were: Short Flight, Burma Road, Morning Gold and Triangle. General Khun Sa, the source of approximately 40 percent of the heroin to the U.S., offered to replace his poppy production with other crops in exchange for financial aid. The State Department refused. Shackley’s chief aide was Thomas Clines.

[83]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

[84]. “Special Select Commission Appointed to Investigate Drug Traffic Crimes,” 7/20/89, quoted in Stich, Op. Cit., p. 7.

[85]. Texas Observer, 6/17/94.

[86]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 3.

Some of the code names for the Central and South American operations were Snow Cone, Black Eagle, Toilet Seat and Watchtower.

[87]. “Joint Investigation by the Arkansas State Attorney General’s Office and the United States Congress,” 6/21/91, printed in the Portland Free Press, January/February, 1997.

[88]. Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 97.

[89]. Ibid., p. 102.

Seal was killed on February 19, 1986. The FBI seized his personal belongings, successfully hiding evidence of his involvement with CIA/NSC drug running, including a card with George Bush’s phone number.

[90]. The allegations were reported by Mike Ruppert and Terry Reed.

[91]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 93.

[92]. Ibid., p. 88.

[93]. “Kingpin Indictment of George Bush,” excerpted from a draft indictment of George Bush prepared by former DEA agent Celerino Castillo and the editors of Executive Intelligence Review. All the evidence contained in this draft indictment has been thoroughly documented. Most of it has been taken either from the Kerry Report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, or the Final Report on Iran-Contra.

[94]. Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell, Blue Thunder (New York, NY: 1990), p. 34, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin.

According to CIA operative Richard Brenneke, Bush’s National Security Advisor, Donald Gregg, became Bush’s aide specifically to coordinate Israel’s Contra account. Brenneke claims he phoned Gregg’s office often in early 1983 for instructions to be given to his Israeli suppliers. It was known as Operation Tipped Kettle. As Gregg would later state regarding himself and George Bush: “We never discussed the contras. We had no responsibility for it. We had no expertise in it.” Bush mimed his oft-repeated mantra that he was “out of the loop.”

[95]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 229.

[96]. Michael Ruppert, From the Wilderness, 7/28/99; “Bush Sting Witness Speaks Out Evidence that Could Burn Bush Campaign,” Nitro News, no date provided.

As Governor of Texas, Bush aggressively incarcerated ordinary citizens for relatively minor amounts of drug possession—invoking some of the country’s harshest sentences—at the same time he was reportedly involved with major drug smugglers! J.H. Hatfield, author of Fortunate Son, published by St Martins Press, quotes unnamed sources as saying that George W. Bush, Jr. was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. The book said a Republican state judge had the record expunged in exchange for community service as a favor to Bush’s father, who had helped him get elected. Bush sanctimoniously said that he views himself as a “lowly sinner” but his religious faith brings him solace and reconciliation. “It’s where I find my strength and my solace and my comfort as a person.” (“Bush Finds Solace in Religious Faith,” Reuters, 1/28/00.)

[97]. Joe Conason and John Kelly, “Bush as Drug Czar, Village Voice, 10/11/88, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit.

[98]. D.G. “Chip” Tatum and Nancy J. Tatum, “PEGASUS An American Spy Story Book Two,” 1996.

[99]. Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 194.

Some contend Silverado, at the hands of Neil Bush, was a money laundry for illicit funds including reportedly narcotics trafficking.

[100]. Jack Colhoun, “Contra Backer Dipped Into S&L’s Deep Pockets,” Guardian (New York), 10/31/90, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit.

[101]. Skolnick, Op. Cit.

[102]. Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 108-109; “Bush, Drugs, and Pakistan,” The Nation, 11/14/88, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op. Cit.

[103]. Stich, Op. Cit., p. 90.

As CIA Director Stansfield Turner said: “I will affirm Bush had him (Noriega) on the CIA payroll.” (Bo Gritz, Called to Serve, p. 404)

[104]. John Stockwell, interview on the Pacifica Radio Network, quoted in John DiNardo, “Part 10, Lure To War: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait,” The Peoples’ Spell Breaker, 6/28/97. According to USA Today of 5/22/90, Noriega “will suspend potentially embarrassing subpoenas for CIA and other records the defense says show at least $11 million of the assets came from the U.S. government.”

Noriega had at least once been a house guest of Vernon Walters, DCI Bush’s Deputy Director.

[105]. Frederick Kempe, Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega (1990), p. 162.

[106]. “Mejia made that assessment three days before the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Panama. Mejia spoke at a Dec. 17 meeting at the International Action Center in New York.” -Workers World Service, 12/27/93. “[The announcement came] less than six hours before H. Hour, making it impossible for reporters to make it to Panama in time for the start of JUST CAUSE.” - The Commanders - Bob Woodward p.178.

Carlton testified that he offered information to the DEA in Panama in July of 1987, who refused to take the information. Carlton had frequent contacts with the Medellin and Cali cartels, as well as taped phone conversations, documents and information about money laundering, drugs, weapons and assassinations. Instead of accepting the evidence, the “Justice” Department, as they would do with hundreds of other whistleblowers over the years, had Carlton arrested to silence him.

[107]. Michael Williams, e-mails to author.

[108]. Ibid.

As Congressman Larry McDonald’s stated before his plane was shot down: “The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies (Bush, et. al.) is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”

[109]. Ibid., p. 90

[110]. Tatum, Op. Cit.

This testimony was given by the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, and was later proven to be a lie. In fact, no babies were pulled out of incubators. This is, however, similar to what George Creels’ American Alliance for Labor and Democracy did to stir up public emotions just prior to America’s involvement in WWI. As Professor Noam Chomsky writes: “...there was a good deal of fabrication of atrocities by the Huns, Belgian babies with their arms torn off, all sorts of awful things that you still read in history books. They were all invented by the British propaganda ministry, whose own commitment at the time, as they put it in their secret deliberations, was ‘to control the thought of the world.’” (Alternative Press Review, Fall 1993.)

[111]. Agee, Op Cit.

[112]. Jeffrey T. Richelson, The U.S. Intelligence Community, p.356.

[113]. Time, in fact, went so far as to say that Iraq’s claims to Kuwait were “without any historical basis.” - Agee

[114]. Agee, Op Cit. (author’s note: George Bush is actually the 13th cousin (twice removed) of Queen Elizabeth.)

[115]. For references to Noriega’s role in drug trafficking and laundering proceeds for the CIA through Panamanian banks, see the affidavit of Colonel Edward P. Cutolo, commander of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, 3/11/80.

[116]. Robert Parry, “Clouds Over George Bush,” The Consortium, 12/29/98.

[117]. Amnesty International figures.

[118]. Australia East Timor Association, “Tortures by Suharto’s Ratbags,” posted on website.

[119]. Noam Chomsky, “End The Atrocity In East Timor,” 3/22/95, posted on Internet. Australia also trains Indonesia's elite Kopassus troops, the very troops occupying East Timor.

General Suharto would make another concession on behalf of George Bush in 1996 when he allowed Bush’s favorite mining company, Barrick Goldstrike of Canada, owned by Peter Munk, to take over mining rights from geologist Mike de Guzman. De Guzman had announced the discovery of what was believed to be the world’s richest gold field. He was later told he would have to turn over 68 per cent of his claim to Barrick. Fortunately, De Guzman’s problems were solved when he fell out of a helicopter courtesy of Freeport-McMoRan Mining Company (owned by Louisianan Jim-Bob Moffett), who had his own stake in the deal. As for Munk, he was capitalized by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi—a key supplier in Bush’s Iran-Contra pipeline. In 1996 Bush had a quiet chat with Mobutu Seko, then dictator of Zaire. Mobutu subsequently granted Barrick exclusive diamond mining rights. In a manner that would make General Suharto proud, Barrick’s operation in neighboring Tanzania was accused by Amnesty International of carrying out “extra-judicial killings.” Amnesty reports that 50 independent miners who refused to move off Barrick’s concessions were buried alive in the pits by company bulldozers. In 1992, in the final hours of the Bush Presidency, Barrick took control of U.S. government-owned property containing an estimated $10 billion in gold. For the works, Barrick paid the U.S. Treasury only $10,000. Barrick would subsequently reward Bush by donating $148,000 to the Republican Party while Bush was campaigning for President. (Gregory Palast, “Best democracy money can buy,” The Guardian [UK], 11/26/00.)

[**] The U.S. Oil companies which participated include Phillips Petroleum, Chevron, Oryx Energy, and USX/Marathon. In the next few years the American military doubled their supplies to Indonesian armed forces. “In December 1989 after he was exposed as having secretly violated his own announced sanctions against China over the Tiananmen massacre, Bush emphasized that ‘I think we were positioned in the forefront of human rights.’” - Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame, Marching in Place, p.182.

In March of 1991, Glaspie testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, insisting the Iraqis had lied about her conversation with Hussein. In July, however, the Committee obtained copies of the secret cables she had sent from Iraq summarizing the meeting. They showed that the Iraqis had not lied. In September of 1991, a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee revealed that State Department official Margaret Tutwiler and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and Far Eastern Affairs John H. Kelly had both repeated the identical “no commitment to defend Kuwait” stance when questioned by House members.

[120]. Agee, Op Cit.; Elaine Sciolino, “Envoy’s Testimony on Iraq is Assailed, Senators Say Glaspie Misled Them on Hussein Talks,” New York Times, 7/13/91; Elaine Sciolino with Michael R. Gordon, “U.S. Gave Iraq Little Reason Not to Mount Kuwait Assault,” New York Times, 9/ 23/91, quoted in John McManus, The Insiders (Appleton, WI: Western Islands, 1992).

[121]. Chomsky, Op Cit.

[122]. Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, Chronicles of Dissent, p. 305; Both the Bush and Clinton administrations Justice Departments agreed not to prosecute these big name American corporations for trading with the enemy. Such trading with the enemy is tantamount to treason.

[123]. Ibid.

[124]. Jack Colhoun, “Bush Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate Investigation,” Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown. “The administration’s pro-Baghdad policy, spelled out in National Security Directive-26, adopted on October 2, 1989, was based on promoting U.S. trade with Iraq. The Commerce Department routinely approved applications from U.S. companies for the export to Iraq of “dual-use” technology, which has civilian and military applications.”

BCCI financed both Republicans and Democrats. The bank was formed with money from the Bank of America, the largest shareholders of which are the Rothschilds of Chicago, Paris, London and Switzerland. On Columbus Day weekend of 1988, BCCI’s U.S. offices were seized by the Reagan/Bush administration. One of the reasons was to stop BCCI’s funding of the Dukakis campaign.

Following the war, Bush wrote to the Oil Minister of Kuwait on behalf of Chevron Oil Corporation. Bush says he “had no stake in the Chevron operation.” “Following this selfless use of his influence, the oil company put $657,000 into Republican Party coffers.... Not all of the elder Bush’s work is voluntary. His single talk to the board of Global Crossing, the telecoms start-up, earned him $13m in stock. The company also kicked in another million for [Dubya’s Presidential] run. (Palast, Op. Cit. )

[125]. Donald S. McAlvany, “Germ Warfare Against America. Part I. Overseas Infections,” McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, August 1996, quoted in S.A.F.A.N. Internet Newsletter, No. 88, October 4, 1996. “In a New York Times article (5/22/91) entitled, ‘Health Crisis Said to Grip Iraq In Wake of War’s Destruction,’ It was reported that child mortality soared in the first four months of 1991, up 55,000 over the same period in 1990.”

[126]. As Captain Joyce Riley, a nurse and GWI activist testified: “They were given medications—they didn't know what they were.... Everybody was incredibly sick afterwards.... We don’t know what pills the troops took. We don’t know what we were subjected to. ”

Like the thousands of U.S. soldiers who were intentionally exposed to nuclear radiation during the 1950s—many of whom died of cancer, or the thousands exposed to Agent Orange during Vietnam, these veterans were just another casualty in the Federal Government’s long list of crimes against its own people—the same crimes it prosecuted Nazi doctors for at Nuremberg. The code that resulted from those trials was a 10-point declaration stating that voluntary and informed consent is essential from all human subjects who participate in research, whether during war or peace.

The Iraqi dictator received 25 percent of the proceeds of oil shipped to the West. When oil was 20 dollars per barrel, Hussein split the 5 dollar per barrel kick-back with Bush. A trillion dollars of oil was shipped from the Gulf during the decade 1980 to 1990. The corrupt rake-off amounted to 25 billion dollars per year, making Saddam Hussein and Bush the richest men on the planet. (Sherman H. Skolnick, “What is Whitewater Really All About?” Skolnick Report, no date provided.)

According to the Chicago Tribune, “In the 1950s [the Liedtke brothers] teamed up with then-oilman George Bush and John Overby to form Zapata Oil Co. Then they went on to form Penzoil.” BCCI also has records showing joint business ventures between Bush and Manuel Noriega.

Kerry would go on to play a role in covering up CIA/NSC’s drug running, including the frame-up of William Tyree, a Special Forces soldier who participated in drug-running operations under orders from his superiors (See Chapter XX). Other people, such as Clark Gifford, would be framed to take the fall for Bush.

[127]. Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 152-154.

[128]. Jack Colhoun, “Bush Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate Investigation,” Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown. “The administration’s pro-Baghdad policy, spelled out in National Security Directive-26, adopted on October 2, 1989, was based on promoting U.S. trade with Iraq. The Commerce Department routinely approved applications from U.S. companies for the export to Iraq of “dual-use” technology, which has civilian and military applications.”

[129]. Rick Wiles, “Bush Family’s Dirty Little Secret,” American Freedom News, September, 2001.

[130]. Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Peter Truell, and Jill Abramson, “How Oil Firm Linked to a Son of Bush Won Bahrain Drilling Pact,” Wall Street Journal, 12/6/91; Johathan Beaty and S. G. Gwynne, “A Mysterious Mover of Money and Planes, Time, 10/8/91, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit. According to the company’s 1989 proxy statement, Bush held 345,426 shares of Harken’s common stock, or less than 1.1 percent of the total. Bush, Jr.’s involvement with Harken was first revealed by Houston Post investigative reporter Pete Brewton.

The future President completed his key insider trade eight days before Harken announced a $23 million second quarter loss and about six weeks before the invasion. The chairman of the SEC at the time of the “investigation” was Richard Breedon, former lawyer with the Houston firm of Baker and Botts, who served as Deputy Counsel to Bush Sr. in the Reagan (read Bush) administration. The SEC investigation of George Jr. was led by General Counsel James R. Doty who, according to a UPI report, mysteriously neglected to interview any of the Harken directors, including Jr. himself. Doty had previously served as Jr.’s personal lawyer during his purchase of the Texas Rangers. (Tom Flocco and Michael C. Ruppert, “All Roads Lead to Deustchebank And Harken Energy, W’s Own 1991 Insider Trading Scam – The Mother of All Enrons, From the Wilderness, 2002.)

[131]. Uri Dowbenko, “The Man Who Knows Too Much: An Interview with Al Martin, author of “The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider” (PART 1).

[132]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

[133]. Jack Colhoun, “Prescott Bush and the Gangsters,” Lies of Our Times, April, 1992; and Robert J. McCartney, “Japanese Company Sues Bush Brother,” Washington Post, 6/16/92, quoted in Ibid.

[134]. Kimery, Op. Cit.

[135]. “Censored 1999: The News That Didn’t Make The News,” Seven Stories Press, 1999, reported in, Carla Binion, “Anti-Semitism, racism and a Bush Family organization,” On-Line Journal, no date provided.

[136]. John Spicer Nichols, “La Prensa: The CIA Connection,” Columbia Journalism Review, July-August, 1988, quoted in Ibid.

[137]. AmeriCares website.

[138]. Quoted in the New American, 9/16/96.

[139]. Husayn Al-Kurdi, “What Really Happened in the ‘Safe Haven?’” Portland Free Press, November/December, 1996.

[140]. Bush’s April 16 Press Conference.

[141]. Chomsky, Op Cit.

Cathy O’Brien—claiming to have personally witnessed this, paranormal researcher and author David Icke and others—say that Bush and some other top leaders are actually reptilian aliens masquerading as human-beings.

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George Bush: World Class Monster

“George Bush is a satanic, sadistic, brutal monster.
Compared to George Bush, Adolf Hitler was a true gentleman.”

- Michael Boren Williams, former Campaign Manager for Senator Gary Hart and Bush murder attempt victim


“For the record, if I had my choice as to which one of the two (Clinton or Bush) represented the greater evil, I would say George Bush - in the blink of an eye....”

- Michael Ruppert, former LAPD Narcotics detective


True evil does not develop in a vacuum.
Evil is arrogant. It has no conscience. It is utterly self-serving. It hides from the light and will attack, even destroy others to preserve its own demented delusions. It is an unrestrained sociopath, wallowing in the murky darkness of its own psychosis while endlessly rationalizing its terrible deeds. It infiltrates the weak-minded and subverts the weak of character.

Evil... creates a world of shadows - shadow play - shadow government. It lives by the lie.

“The Big Lie,” once thought to be the exclusive purview of the Nazis, has become canonized in our form of government. And it is growing more perverse—more insidious. Like the Nazis before the fall of the Third Reich, we are a nation wallowing in the murky darkness of our own psychosis.

I can think of no contemporary American family more twisted and evil than the Bush dynasty.

The Bush family’s rapacious greed and depravity can trace its lineage to New England’s Pierce family. Both George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife Barbara Pierce (of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith), as was President Franklin Pierce, are descended from this same family. Originally the powerful Percy family, they changed their name to Pierce and quickly emigrated to America when Thomas Percy’s involvement in the Gun Powder Plot to assassinate King James I was revealed.



Bush’s membership in the shadowy Yale secret society of Skull and Bones (S&B) has likewise not been widely reported. S&B is made up of members recruited exclusively from the ranks of the wealthy Eastern Establishment. As Hoover Institute professor Antony Sutton writes in America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones:

“Those on the inside know it as The Order. Others have known it for more than 150 years as Chapter 322 of a German secret society. More formally for legal purposes, The Order was incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856. It was also known as the Brotherhood of Death....”[1]



Many historians claim that S&B sprung up as a direct extension of America’s oldest Greek-letter college secret society, Phi Beta Kappa. As Sutton writes:

“The Order is not just another campus Greek letter fraternal society with passwords and handgrips, common to most campuses.... Chapter 322 is a secret society whose members are sworn to silence. It only exists on the Yale campus. It has rules. It has ceremonial rites. It is not at all happy with prying probing citizens.... Above all the Order is powerful, unbelievably powerful....”[2]



S&B members occupy key positions in commerce, media, diplomacy, education, espionage, finance, law and politics—having a profound impact on world events. As Sutton adds:

“Among academic associations, the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Chemical Society and the American Psychological Association were all started by members of the Order or persons close to the Order.... These are key associations for the conditioning of society.... The phenomenon of The Order as the first on the scene is found especially among foundations.”[3]


Regarding the Order’s influence on historical events as portrayed by the media, Sutton notes that...

“...During the past one hundred years any theory of history or historical evidence that falls outside a pattern established by the American Historical Association and the major foundations with their grant making power has been attacked or rejected—not on the basis of any evidence presented, but on the basis of the acceptability of the argument of the so-called Eastern Liberal Establishment and its official historical line. There is an Establishment history, an official history, which dominates history textbooks, trade publishing, the media and library shelves. The official line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions, scandals, assassinations are more or less random unconnected events. By definition events can never be the result of a conspiracy. They can never result from premeditated planned group action. An excellent example is the Kennedy assassination when, within 9 hours of the Dallas tragedy, TV networks announced the shooting was not a conspiracy regardless of the fact that a negative proposition can never be proven and that the investigation had barely begun.”[4]



The American chapter of the German Order was founded in 1833 at Yale University, established by General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft—father of President and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Taft. It was during the Taft presidency that the bills which forever altered the Constitution were passed into law. These included the 17th Amendment, calling for the direct election of senators, guaranteeing that elections could be purchased by big money interests; and the Income Tax and Federal Reserve Act (16th Amendment). The Act was quietly pushed through Congress by Senator Nelson Aldridge—maternal grandfather of Trilateral Commission founder David Rockefeller—in the days immediately before Christmas, assuring that most lawmakers, who were home for the holidays, would not be available to vote.



During a break-in by a rival Yale society in 1876 into the S&B “Tomb,” they found a small room, with an “always-burning lamp” and “a dilapidated human skull.” Upstairs they found a lodge room with its walls covered in black velvet, a table with skull and crossbones, and the “sanctum sanctorum”—room number 322—“furnished in red velvet” and on the wall a star with a finger pointing to it.



They also found “an old engraving representing an open burial vault, in which on a stone slab, rest four human skulls, grouped around a fool’s-cap and bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a beggar’s scrip, and a royal crown. On the arched wall above the vault are the explanatory words, in Roman letters, ‘We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, We Bettler Oder Kaiser?’ and below the vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; ‘Ob Arm, Ob Beich, im Tode gleich.’’ “Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all’s the same in death.” This closely resembles the initiation into the Degree of Regent for the Bavarian Illuminati. Some researchers assert that Phi Beta Kappa is simply the “Bavarian Illuminati... spread to America.”[5]



S&B was also the recruiting grounds for the Russell Trust Company, which managed S&B’s treasury. Founded in 1824, Russell Trust became the dominant opium trafficking syndicate in the U.S. Russell Trust merged with the number one US trader, J&T.H. Perkins in 1829. By the mid-1830s the opium trade had become “the largest commerce of its time in any single commodity, anywhere in the world.”[6]



Russell partner Warren Delano, Jr.—Chief of Russell Trust operations in Canton, China—was grandfather to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Bush cousin. Other Russell partners include John Cleve Green, whose opium fortunes financed Princeton University, Abiel Abbott Low, whose opium money financed the construction of Columbia University, Joseph Coolidge, whose son organized the United Fruit Company (later under the ownership of the Rockefellers, and which provide the impetus for the CIA’s replacement of the democratically elected government of Guatamela with a brutal military dictatorship), and his grandson, Archibald Cary Coolidge, who was a founding executive officer of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR).



The black flag with the white skull and crossbones, which was the corporate flag gracing all Russell Trust ships, became the emblem of S&B—an emblem that even to this day it symbolizes piracy.



Antony Sutton’s scholarly works on this secret society, The Order and How The Order Creates War and Revolution, reveal that half of the board of directors of J.P. Morgan and Company—who profited handsomely from the bloody carnage of World War I—were S&B graduates. As Sutton notes:



“College textbooks present war and revolution as more or less accidental results of conflicting forces.... The decay of political negotiation into physical conflict comes about, according to these books, after valiant efforts to avoid war. Unfortunately, this is nonsense. War is always a deliberate creative act by individuals....”[7]





Bush and the Nazis



“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen.... At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922



Eventually, Brown Brothers Harriman—the largest private investment bank in America at the time—came to be dominated by S&B members. George Bush’s grandfather, George Herbert Walker, served as the bank’s President. His father, Prescott, served as the bank’s Vice President.[8*]



Brown Brothers Harriman was helped to ascension by the powerful Warburg “Jewish” banking monopoly—one of the principle controlling interests behind the German conglomerate I.G. Farben, which, ironically, provided not only the gas, but much of the funds used to effect Hitler’s “final solution.” Brown Brothers had funded American slave plantations during the Civil War, and former Brown Brothers partner, Bank of England Governor Montagu Collet Norman, was known as the most avid supporter of Hitler within British ruling circles. Brown Brothers-Harriman would become the largest and most politically influential private banking house in the United States.[9]



The elder Bush was also director of the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation—both Nazi front companies. Like father like son, George Herbert Walker Bush would later go on to form similar business alliances with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taking in personal oil kickbacks, and arming that country with conventional, biological and chemical weapons, both in violation of his own Arms Control and Armaments Amendments Act, and as a prelude to a war which he would instigate and precipitate.



The Warburgs and the Sulzbergers, owners of the New York Times, used various committees and religious organizations to protect the Harriman-Bush deals with Mussolini and Hitler. Although the government would later seize several of the Bush/Harriman/Nazi assets—most importantly the Thyssen family-owned Union Bank, which played one of the largest roles in financing Hitler—American entrepreneurs such as Bush would be left unscathed.



Bush was Union’s Director.



As Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin note in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography:



“The 1942 U.S. government investigative report said that Bush’s Nazi-front bank was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works Corporation or “German Steel Trust”) led by Fritz Thyssen and his two brothers.... Germany’s largest industrial corporation, [it] was organized in 1926 by Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon. Dillon was the old comrade of Prescott Bush’s father Sam Bush from the “Merchants of Death” bureau in World War I.”



The authors write that George Bush’s maternal grandfather, George Herbert Walker, founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company. “Walker was one of Hitler’s most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler’s infant Nazi party.[10]



The link between Harriman and Thyssen came through Walker’s Union Banking Corporation, located in Averill Harriman’s offices at 39 Broadway in New York.



“According to our sources,” write Tarpley and Chaitkin, “Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine....”



Walker’s American Shipping & Commerce became the holding company for the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben’s Nazi espionage unit.



“In an elaborate corporate paper trail, Harriman’s stock in American Shipping & Commerce was controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of Walker’s office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush....”[11]



Another example of the perverse interlocking nature of the Bush/Harriman-Brown interests was the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation of Poland, two thirds of the stock of which was owned by Friedrich Flick, a leading German industrialist, and Bush/Harriman-Brown. Given the fact that most of the company’s output was being directed to Germany’s war machine at the time, the Polish government decided that the Nazi and American stockholders should pay their fair share of taxes. The stockholders didn’t agree, and responded with a lockout. Fortunately the crises was solved when Nazi tanks invaded Poland in September of 1939, rescuing their investment, which would now be aided with the introduction of slave labor.[12]



Baron Kurt von Schroder, of the Schroder banking family, was co-director of the Thyssen-Huette foundry along with Johann Groeninger, Prescott Bush’s New York bank partner. Schroder, who also had the personal blessings of the Rockefellers, was Hitler’s banker.



John Foster Dulles (brother of future CIA director Allen Dulles), of the law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, was Bush’s lawyer. According to Tarpley and Chaitkin:



“Throughout the 1930s, John Foster Dulles arranged debt restructuring for German firms under a series of decrees issued by Adolf Hitler. In these deals, Dulles struck a balance between the interest owed to selected, larger investors, and the needs of the growing Nazi war-making apparatus for producing tanks, poison gas, etc.”[13]



John Foster Dulles, later appointed Secretary of State, was also the attorney for I.G. Farben. By 1933, I.G. Farben and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil were effectively a single firm, merged in hundreds of cartel arrangements. Dulles, who was related to Avery Rockefeller, was the attorney for a new investment firm, set up by him in 1936, called the Schroder-Rockefeller Company. [14]



Another lawyer in the employ of I.G. Farben, John J. McCloy, would later become president of Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of the CFR, and serve on the Warren Commission, which effectively covered up the Kennedy assassination, which George Bush would allegedly play a minor role in (See Chapter XX). After the war, McCloy would pardon hundreds of Nazis accused of war crimes, while establishing the “Ratlines” which brought Nazi doctors and scientists (and spies) into the U.S. to conduct scientific and medical experiments on Americans that had formerly been conducted on concentration camp victims.[15]



In 1940, I.G. Farben began construction of their huge plant at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Utilizing slave labor, I.G. Farben and their SS guards worked the approximately 25,000 prisoners literally to their deaths. Standard Oil/Germany president Emil Helfferich later testified that Rockefeller’s Standard Oil funds helped pay for the SS guards at Auschwitz.



As Russel S. Bowen, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General who served in the OSS and reported directly to William Casey, writes about George Bush in his book, Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed, the “inheritor of the Auschwitz death camp fortune,” Texan William Stamps Farish III, is George Bush’s “closest friend and confidant.”



“As President and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Farish was the controller of the global cartel between Standard Oil and the German I.G. Farben concern.”[16]



Farish, one of the richest men in Texas, managed George Bush’s personal wealth.



One example of Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank’s assistance to the Nazi war machine was their underwriting of Standard Oil’s agreement, in cooperation with General Motors, to supply ethyl lead to the Nazis. The Bush bank also arranged collateral security for a shipment of tetraethyl lead for the German Luftwaffe in 1938, shortly before the outbreak of the war. The Ethyl came from the Ethyl Export Corporation of New York, administered by the Reich Air Ministry along with I.G. Farben.[17]



On October 24th, 1942, the U.S. Government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized, as were those of the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. Harriman’s Fifteen Holding Company, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and the Silesian-American Corporation quickly followed.[18]



Possibly in an attempt to save the family’s honor, George H. W. Bush abandoned his plans to enter Yale and enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve. While serving on the aircraft carrier San Jacinto, Bush’s Avenger torpedo-bomber, piloted by young George, was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Eventhough the plane was built to withstand ocean crash-landings, Bush-the-war-hero bailed out, leaving his two crewmates behind. While Bush was rescued by the U.S. submarine Finback, Jack Delaney and Ted White, his companions, died in the plane.



Bush was given a medal for heroism.[19]



Like father, like son, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives testified under oath that he was contacted by Houston businessman “Sid Adger and asked to recommend George W. Bush, Jr. for a pilot position with the Air National Guard,” and that he called General James Rose and “did so.”[20]



Yet Bush, Jr. our current Commander-in-Chief, reportedly never even bothered showing up for drills. General William Turnipseed and his aide Kenneth Lott both flatly deny that Bush ever appeared for duty—a violation of the Texas Code of Military Justice (a State Statute and a version of the U.S. Code of Military Justice)—a court martial offense.[21]



Neither did our chief flag-waver appear for his training at the 187th Tactical Recon Group at Dannelly ANG Base in Alabama.[22]



Bill Burkett, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Guard, said, “As the State Plans Officer for the Texas National Guard, I was on full-time duty at Camp Mabry when [Bush aide] Dan Bartlett was cleansing the George W. Bush file prior to G.W.’s presidential announcement.... The archives were closely scrutinized to make sure that the Bush autobiography plans and the record did not directly contradict each other.”[23]



Government documents do note, however, that Jr.’s flying privlidges were suspended for failure to take his annual medical exam, even though he stated that he was perfectly healthy. Michael Dannenhauer, former Chief of Staff to the elder Bush, states that Jr.’s cocaine and alcohol habit was “out of control” and that he experienced “lost weekends in Mexico” during that time.[24] This is not surprising, considering that Jr. would offer free beer to college students to garner their votes during his 1987 congressional race.[25]



When it was time to leave the National Guard, the prodigal son and future President received an honorable discharge.



Daddy Bush would have another opportunity to display both his love of freedom and democracy and his “family values” when it was revealed in September of 1988 that seven members of his presidential campaign were fascist, pro-Nazi, anti-Semites. The seven, who later resigned or were fired, were part of the Republican Party’s Heritage Groups Council—a funding clique made up of extreme right-wing Eastern European émigrés. In 1976, Heritage Groups Council Director Colonel Jay Neimczyk wrote a memo to the RNC’s Co-Chairman Robert Carter praising Bush’s leadership of the ethnic recruitment effort, reportedly including a number of war criminals.[26] One of Bush’s allies, Yaroslav Stetsko, had collaborated with the Nazis as their puppet prime minister of Galicia in the western Ukraine. Captured Nazi records revealed that over 100,000 Jews were murdered within two years of Yaroslav’s reign.



As John Loftus and Mark Aarons write in: The Secret War Against The Jews:



“It was Bush who fulfilled [President Richard] Nixon’s promise to make the “ethnic” emigres a permanent part of Republican politics. Bush’s tenure as head of the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor’s 1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party’s official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush’s campaign allies were the émigré Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United States....

Nearly twenty years later, and after exposé’s in several respectable newspapers, Bush continued to recruit most of the same ethnic Fascists, including Pasztor, for his own 1988 ethnic outreach program when he first ran for President.”



Fugitive Nazi war criminal Otto von Bolschwing, U.S. head of the notorious Nazi Gehlan Org spy apparatus, was himself a Republican Party activist and reportedly a friend of Richard Nixon’s.



Another group of suspected Nazi war criminals, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, participated in a 1983 White House meeting with George Bush and Ronald Reagan. One photo of the meeting was signed: “To the Honorable Yaroslav Stetsko, With Best Wishes, George Bush.” [27]



Reagan himself, formerly part of Allen Dulles’s Office of Policy Coordination, had been the front man back in the 1950s for the Crusade for Freedom, a money-laundering organization which was part of Dulles’s fascist “freedom fighters” program.[28]



President Reagan—perhaps demonstrating his own alignment with Nazis—visited the Bittburg Waffen SS cemetery to pay his respects during a controversial but well-publicized trip to Germany.



One of CIA Director Allen Dulles’s covert agents inside the Roosevelt and Truman administrations was Edwin Pauley, who would become the U.S. representative to the Allied Reparations Committee and the industrial advisor to the Potsdam Conference. Pauley later became George Bush’s partner in the Mexican government’s oil monopoly Pemex. The CIA used Pemex as a cover and as a money laundering operation for Pauley’s campaign contributions. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“Pauley, say several of our sources, was the man who invented an intelligence money-laundering system in Mexico, which was later refined in the 1970s as part of Nixon’s Watergate scandal.”



As for Watergate, burglar Frank Sturgis told the San Francisco Chronicle that “the reason we burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news leaking relating to the photos of our role in the assassination of President John Kennedy.”[29]



Former CIA operative Trenton Parker, who was part of a special unit named “Pegasus,” states that Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George Bush all knew of the intended assassination plot.[30]



Bush reportedly coordinated Frank Sturgis, as well as Watergate team members Rafael “Chi Chi” Quintero, E. Howard Hunt, and Bernard Barker for the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion—using Pemex and Bush’s Zapata Oil as a staging point (the operation was codenamed OPERATION ZAPATA). Nixon, as Vice President, had supervised Allen Dulles’s planning of the invasion.



Quintero worked under CIA coordinator William F. Buckley, Jr. in an assassination unit Buckley supervised under the cover of Pemex. Bush had a keen financial interest in turning Cuba back into a playground for ultra-capitalist interests, as Bush’s Zapata Oil was one of the key suppliers to Cuba under Batista.



As Richard Nixon told John Ehrilchman shortly after his election: “Eliminate everyone except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause.” Nixon and Bush had openly discussed killing Kennedy for his failure to provide air cover at the Bay of Pigs.[31*]



Nixon’s relationship to the Bush family goes back to 1946, when Nixon answered an ad placed by the Orange County Republican Party in a Los Angeles newspaper. Key funding for the ad was provided by Prescott Bush, who was looking for a puppet to run for Congress. Nixon got the job, landing a seat in the Senate and then progressing to the Vice-Presidency. In 1960 George Bush became a protégé of Nixon’s, who was then running for President.



Bush described Nixon as his mentor.



However Bush denies his connections with the CIA. Yet a November 29, 1963 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the State Department’s Director of Intelligence and Research uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act describes a briefing given to “George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.” The memo was written after Lee Harvey Oswald was interrogated about his connections to the Cuban exile community and the CIA.[32]

For his part, Bush claims he never worked for the Agency until he was appointed Director in 1975, and CIA spokesman Bill Devine would “neither confirm nor deny” Bush’s role to reporter Joseph McBride of The Nation. Yet when the memo was published, the CIA did an about-face when Agency spokeswoman Sharon Basso told Associated Press that the memo actually referred to a George William Bush, who was a CIA night watchman at the time (hardly a man who would be given such a briefing!). When located and contacted by McBride and Nation editor Victor Navasky, William Bush confirmed that he was definitely not the Bush referred to in the memo. He had simply worked for the CIA for about six months as a coast and landing beach analyst—not a night watchmen—at the time, with a rank of GS-5. In response to questions about the Hoover memo, he replied, “Is that the other George Bush?”[33]



Yet Bush had maintained a personal relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald’s alleged handler, CIA “asset” George DeMohrenschildt, who carried Bush’s name and telephone in his address book until his supposed suicide. DeMohrenschildt gave only the vaguest explanations for his frequent trips to Bush’s home town of Houston in his testimony before the Warren Comission.[34*]



Now deceased Army Colonel, CIA operative and NYPD detective “Big Al” Carone stated that “George Bush was CIA prior to the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963.” Carone told his subordinate William Tyree that he “had taken money to a female named Ruth Paine in late 1956 on orders from William Casey (OSS/CIA operative who was CIA Director from 1981 to 1987).”



According to a lawsuit filed by Tyree, “Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background...



“Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Mohrenschildt, who in turn contacted his CIA supervisor, identified as George Bush. Carone said that George Bush was the same George Bush that was CIA Director. Carone said the individual located by Ruth Paine was identified as a Mr Lee Harvey Oswald.



“FBI records/reports within 14 days after the assassination of President Kennedy will reflect that Mr George Bush met with J. Edgar Hoover, as Bush was trying to ascertain what the FBI might have stumbled onto by mistake in regards to the Ruth Paine - Oswald connection.”[35*]



When appointed CIA Director in 1975 by President Gerald Ford (a former member of the Warren Commission), Bush conveniently headed off inquiries by Senator Frank Church into the CIA’s various assassination plots which DCI William Colby had been cooperating with. Colby would later wind up dead under suspicious circumstances. (See Chapter XX)



In fact, Bush had been a top agent of the CIA since at least 1960, when he recruited Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion. Given the Bush family’s oil interests in the region, this is hardly surprising. As Anthony Kimery writes in Covert Action Quarterly:



“Veteran CIA operatives in the war against Castro say Bush not only let the CIA use Zapata as a front for running some of its operations (including the use of several off-shore drilling platforms), but assert that Bush personally served as a conduit through which the Agency disbursed money for contracted services.”[36]



It was at that time that Bush met Felix Rodriguez, part of a CIA shooter team coordinated out of a training base in Mexico supervised by the FBI’s Division Five (domestic counter-intelligence). Rodriguez would later become Bush’s main liaison to Oliver North’s Contra drugs-for-guns pipeline when Bush served as Vice President.





Pedophilia



“For seven and-a-half years I’ve worked alongside Reagan, and I’m proud to be his partner. We’ve had triumphs, we’ve made mistakes, we’ve had sex... uh, I mean setbacks....” - Vice President George Bush, May 6, 1987



As researcher Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens’ Committee to Clean Up the Courts states: “Not only George “Poppy” Bush but also Chief Smirker (and current President) G.W. Bush, Jr., as well as brothers Jeb AND Neil, are all tightly implicated in the staggering array of absolutely filthy, vicious, gutter-level activities carried on by this family and their closely connected allies in organized crime and intelligence agencies....”[37]



President George Herbert Walker Bush continuously lauded himself before the public as the “family values” president. Bush should know about family values. One of his favorite pastimes, allegedly, is having sex with children—including girls and boys. According to child pedophile victims in Nebraska and former self-described mind-control sex slave Cathy O’Brien, he is also a kidnapper and a drug fiend. As O’Brien writes:



“It was late evening when [George] Bush and [Dick] Cheney finished programming me with numerous messages pertaining to the immediate opening of the Juarez, Mexican border to free [the drug and slave] trade. They then took me downstairs to the living quarters of the western cedar and redwood structure where Kelly soon joined us. George Bush, Jr. deposited my obviously traumatized and withdrawn child at the door....



“Centered between two facing black leather sofas was a coffee table littered with drugs and paraphernalia.... Heroin, Bush’s drug of choice, was in abundance and Cheney joined him in using it. The smorgasbord of drugs laid out supposedly included opium, cocaine, and Wonderland Wafers (MDMHA-XTC, AKA: Ecstasy), which indicated to me they intended to celebrate their vacation with abandon. I had seen Cheney stumbling drunk before, but this was the only time I saw him use heroin and give it to me. Kelly, too, was subjected to the drugs.



“Bush attempted to sell Cheney on the idea of pedophilia through graphic descriptions of having sex with Kelly. Both were already sexually aroused from drugs and anticipation. Cheney demonstrated to Bush why he did not have sex with kids by exposing himself to Kelly and saying, “Come here.” Upon seeing Cheney’s unusually large penis, Kelly reeled back in horror and cried, “No!” which made them both laugh. Bush asked Cheney for his liquid cocaine atomizer as he got up to take Kelly to the bedroom. When Cheney remarked how benevolent it was of Bush to numb her with it before sex, Bush replied, “The hell it is. It’s for me.” He described his excited state in typical vulgar terms and explained that he wanted it to spray cocaine on his penis to last longer. Cheney said, “I thought it was for the kid.” Bush explained, “Half the fun is having them squirm.” He took Kelly’s hand and led her off to the bedroom.



“Cheney... burned my inner thigh with the fireplace poker, and threatened to throw Kelly in the fire. He hypnotically enhanced his description of her burning to traumatize me deeply. As he sexually brutalized me, I heard Kelly’s whimpers coming from the bedroom. As her cries grew louder, Cheney turned on classical music to drown out her cries for help.



“At 4:00 am, as ordered, Bush Jr. (and his helicopter pilot) came to retrieve Kelly and me. We were flown (by helicopter) back to the Lake Shasta area where Houston and the motor home awaited us. Bush’s assault of Kelly proved to be a mind shattering experience for me, and physically devastating to Kelly. She was in dire need of medical attention and was unable even to move. Houston threatened to stop the motor home in the Yosemite area and throw me from a steep cliff if I didn’t settle down. His threats and commands could not control my hysteria, as much of his control programming had inadvertently shattered. Fearful he would lose both his ‘money-makers,’ Houston permitted me to telephone Kelly’s doctor and begin administering medicines. As for me, he arranged for assistance in picking up the pieces in order that I complete my primary purpose in traveling to California, i.e., meet with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid and finalize plans to open the Juarez border.”



According to a trusted source of this author’s who got drunk with O’Brien, her story never wavered, but became more intimate in detail. He told me he felt that she was telling the truth.



While many of O’Brien’s allegations remain controversial, similar allegations have been documented by the author via other, independent sources.



Michael Boren Williams, who was Senator Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign manager, tried to expose “George Bush’s rampant criminal activity” when Bush “sought revenge” against him. He believes Bush personally ordered the FBI to terrorize him and his family. As Williams states: “I met a young lady named Jennifer Dingle who was working as a bartender in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany at the Hotel Victoria’s very elegant bar. As it turns out, she was raised next-door to the Cohens, and William Cohen’s son was her close friend.... Yes, William Cohen is most definitely a pedophile.... Now, what is going to surprise you is that Bush and Cohen are, indeed, friends.”[38]



Other sources backing up the pedophile allegations are Kay Pollard Griggs, wife of high-ranking “insider” Marine Colonel George Griggs—tied to Oliver North, Ted Shackley and Colonel Michael Aquino, an Army PSYOPS specialist and self-avowed Satanist investigated by the SFPD for child molestation, and the Nebraska State Senate Franklin investigative committee.[39]



The Franklin allegations centered around one Larry E. King, Jr. a prominent black Nebraska Republican fund-raiser, CEO of the Franklin Credit Union and friend of former DCIs William Casey and George Bush.



When the FBI raided King’s offices in November of 1988 to probe $40 million dollars in embezzlements, they discovered a large quantity of child pornography.



Witnesses, including social workers and numerous children, told the Franklin Committee and the FBI that King was running a child prostitution ring that served prominent officials, including members of the Republican and Democratic parties.



King sang the national anthem at both the 1984 and 1988 Republican conventions, where President Reagan was the guest of honor. As Senator John DeCamp, who investigated the allegations as part of the Franklin Committee and who attended one party thrown by King in Dallas, writes in his book, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska: “I saw Maureen Reagan draped over King all evening like a big blanket.”[40]



A June 29, 1989 Washington Times article entitled, “Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan,” states:



“A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to Washington’s political elite.’”[41]



One of King’s associates in Washington, D.C. was political lobbyist Craig Spence, who maintained a call-boy ring for Washington’s elite, specializing in children. A Republican powerbroker, Spence was known for his lavish “power cocktail’’ parties. As authors Tarpley and Chaitkin write in George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography:



“Spence was well connected. He celebrated Independence Day 1988 by conducting a midnight tour of the White House in the company of two teenage male prostitutes among others in his party. Rumors circulated that a list existed of some 200 Washington prominents who had used the call boy service. The Number Two in charge of personnel affairs at the White House, who was responsible for filling all the top civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, and Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole’s chief of staff, were two individuals publicly identified as patrons of the call boy ring. Two of the ring’s call boys were allegedly KGB operatives, according to a retired general from the Defense Intelligence Agency interviewed by the press. But the evidence seemed to point to a CIA sexual blackmail operation instead. Spence’s entire mansion was covered with hidden microphones, two-way mirrors and video cameras, ever ready to capture the indiscretions of Washington’s high, mighty and perverse.... Months after the scandal had died down, and a few weeks before he allegedly committed suicide, Spence was asked who had given him the “key’’ to the White House.”



The Washington Times reports that “Mr. Spence hinted the tours were arranged by ‘top level’ persons, including Donald Gregg, National Security Advisor to Vice President Bush’s #1 and later U.S. Ambassador to South Korea.” ... Gregg indignantly denied any connection to Spence, yet it is public record that Spence had sponsored a dinner in Gregg’s honor in the spring of 1989 at Washington’s posh Four Seasons Hotel.



On Spence’s guest list were such names as Reagan’s CIA director William Casey and Attorney General John Mitchell, who once co-hosted a party with Spence, Ted Koppel and Eric Severeid.



Spence’s mansion was found to be full with hidden surveillance equipment, including hidden cameras and two-way mirrors. It was alleged that the ring was part of a CIA sexual blackmail operation (see “The Finders” case, below), gathering compromising evidence on Washington politicos and foreign dignitaries. Following his arrest on weapon and drug charges, Spence gave an interview to the Washington Times in which he claimed to work with both the CIA and high-ranking members of the Reagan/Bush administrations.



The paper trail would be quickly covered-up - some 20,000 documents sealed by court order. Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel room five months later. The UK’s Independent reported that: “Boston police said he was found lying on his bed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, dressed in evening clothes, with no obvious signs of injury. The police refused to comment on the cause of death.” The Post had earlier reported that Spence had told a friend: “I may be disappearing soon. It will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it won’t be.”[42]



In Nebraska, at least several victim-witnesses fingered Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman, FBI agents Mickey Mott, Gerry Wahl and Alan Baer, Harold Andersen, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald and several other political associates of King’s.



King and Wadman, along with FBI agents Mott and Baer, were accused of pedophilia and drug usage (and drug dealing) with boys as young as 12 years old. The allegations were made by numerous children interviewed by private investigator and former law-enforcement officer Gary Caradori who was working for the Franklin Committee. Caradori would later wind up dead, along with his 8 year-old son, in a highly suspicious plane crash. The crash occurred several days after he told Senator Loren Schmit that he had just discovered information that “would blow this case wide open.”[43*]



The Franklin Committee documented how King and his associates were involved in drug-running, child kidnapping, prostitution, satanism, and murder—involving numerous prominent state and federal officials, including, according to several child victim-witnesses, George Herbert Walker Bush.[44*]



As DeCamp writes: “... George Bush and Larry King were linked in multiple ways, including eyewitness reports placing Bush at King’s sex parties.[45]



Youth care worker Julie Walters substantiates these allegations. As she writes in her report regarding her interview with a girl named Nelly Patterson-Web:



“Nelly accompanied Mr. and Mrs. King and their son Prince on trips to Chicago, N.Y. and Washington, D.C., beginning when she was 15 years old.... Nelly was taken along on the pretense of being Prince’s babysitter. Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him again at one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C. trip. At some of the parties there are just men (as was the case at the party George Bush attended)—older men and younger men in their early twenties. Nelly said she has seen sodomy committed at those parties At other parties during Larry’s trips, Larry had local prostitutes. (in their 20’s & 30’s) there to entertain his male guests....”[46]



As Tarpley and Chaitkin add about the “Pro-Life,’’ “Anti-Drug,’’ “Family Values” President:



... “Paul Bonacci directly accused President Bush of being implicated’’ in the affair when he testified before the Franklin Committee. Bonacci, who had been one of the child prostitutes, is identified by leading child-abuse experts as a well-informed, credible witness. Lawrence King was no stranger to President Bush. And Lawrence King was no stranger to Craig Spence. Several of the Omaha child prostitutes testified that they had traveled to Washington, D.C. with King in private planes to attend political events which were followed by sex parties.



“King and Spence had much in common. Not only were they both Republican Party activists but they had gone into business together procuring prostitutes for Washington’s elite. Bush’s name had repeatedly surfaced in the Nebraska scandal. But his name was first put into print in July 1989, a little less than a month after the Washington call boy affair had first made headlines. Omaha’s leading daily newspaper reported, “One child, who has been under psychiatric care, is said to believe she saw George Bush at one of King’s parties.” [47]



Journalist Steve Bowman writes: “We do have some credible witnesses who say that ‘Yes, George Bush does have a problem,’” Bowman told Gentleman’s Quarterly. One of Bowman’s sources is a retired CIA psychiatrist. He added that drug trafficking and political corruption were intertwined with pedophilia.[48]



As far back as 1985, victim-witness Eulice (Lisa) Washington told Andrea Carener of the Nebraska Department of Social Services how she was regularly taken to Washington by plane, with other children, to attend parties hosted by King involving many prominent people, including businessmen and politicians. Lisa specifically named George Bush as being in attendance on at least two separate occasions.[49]



Walters told Tarpley and Chaitkin that in 1986 she interviewed Lisa and her sister, who were temporarily living at the home of Kathleen Sorenson, who, like Caradori, would subsequently die in a suspicious car crash. Walters explained that Lisa, who came from an underprivileged background with no knowledge of political affairs, gave minute details of her attendance at political meetings. As Walters’ report states:



“3/25/86. Met with Kathleen and Lisa for about 2 hours in Blair [Nebraska] questioning Lisa for more details about sexual abuse.... Lisa admitted to being used as a prostitute by Larry King when she was on trips with his family.... Lisa said she first met V.P. George Bush at the Republican Convention and saw him again at a Washington, D.C. party that Larry hosted.... Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him again at one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C. trip....”[50]



A Franklin Committee report further states:



“Apparently she [Lisa] was contacted on December 19 [1988] and voluntarily came to the FBI offices on December 30, 1988. She was interviewed by Brady, Tucker and Phillips. She indicates that in September or October 1984, when [Lisa] Washington was fourteen or fifteen years of age, she went on a trip to Chicago with Larry King and fifteen to twenty boys from Omaha. She flew to Chicago on a private plane.... She indicates that she was coerced to going on the trip by Barbara Webb. She indicates that she attended a party in Chicago with King and the male youths. She indicated George Bush was present. She indicates that she set [sic] at a table at the party while wearing nothing but a negligee. She stated that George Bush saw her on the table. She stated she saw George Bush pay King money, and that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent. Lisa said the party George Bush attended was in Chicago in September or October 1984. According to the Chicago Tribune of October 31, 1984, Bush was in Illinois campaigning for congressional candidates at the end of October. Lisa added more details on the Chicago trip, and told why she was sure it was George Bush she had seen. According to a May 8, 1989 report by investigator Jerry Lowe, “Eulice [Lisa] indicated that she recognized George Bush as coming to the party and that Bush had two large white males with him. Eulice indicated Bush came to the party approximately 45 minutes after it started and that he was greeted by Larry King. Eulice indicated that she knew George Bush due to the fact that he had been in political campaigns and also she had observed a picture of Bush with Larry King at Larry King’s house in Omaha.”



In keeping with the pattern of cover-up, a Washington County, Nebraska judge in December 1990 dismissed all charges against two of the girls’ abusers, Jarrett and Barbara Webb. The judge ignored testimony of the 1986 report by Julie Walters which states:



“Lisa was given four polygraph tests administered by a state trooper at the State Patrol office on Center Street in Omaha. The state trooper, after Lisa’s testing was completed, told [another foster parent] he tried to ‘break Lisa down,’ but he was convinced she was telling the truth.”[51]



As Kathleen Sorenson writes in a report dated May 1, 1989, “This was long before he [Bush] was President. It seems like there were more exciting people to ‘lie’ about if that’s what they were doing.’’





Ritual Abuse



Victims of King and his associates also charged him with participating in at least one satanic ritual murder of a child.



As DeCamp reports, victim-witness Paul Bonacci was at one point taken to a retreat for political elites such as George Bush and Henry Kissinger in Northern California called Bohemian Grove, where they were forced to participate in sex and to consume parts of a child whom they had watched being murdered by the cultists. As DeCamp writes:



“A ‘snuff” pornography film was made of these events; it was directed by a man the party had picked up in Las Vegas whom Paul identified as “Hunter Thompson”—the same name as a well known sleaze-culture figure.



“Paul has told investigators that the ring which plunged him into Satanism was centered at Offutt U.S. Air Force Base near Omaha; that he was taken to Offutt to be sexually victimized by a babysitter’s boyfriend when he was about three years old, around 1970. Offutt is the headquarters for the Strategic Air Command, and has had a cadre of thousands of intelligence personnel.



“At Offutt, and later at other military installations, Paul says this ring “trained” him by tortures, heavy drugging, and sexual degradation, while instructing him in military arts including assassination. In fact, his personal knowledge in these realms can scarcely be accounted for other than by crediting the indictments he has made.”



While these allegations may strike the uninitiated as bizarre, a similar case of CIA involvement in child kidnapping, satanism, pedophilia and mind-control—the “Finders” case—was revealed in a 1987 U.S. Customs report obtained by the author. When D.C. police and Customs agents raided a Washington, D.C. warehouse being used by the group, they found “a set of instructions which appeared to be a broadcast via a computer network which advised participants to move ‘the children’ and keep them moving through different jurisdictions, and instructions on how to avoid police attention.” (The children were headed for Mexico, tending to confirm Cathy O’Brien’s allegations.) As Customs Agent Ramon Martinez writes in his report:



“Cursory examination of the documents revealed detailed instructions for obtaining children for unspecified purposes. The instructions included the impregnation of female members of the community known as Finders, purchasing children, trading, and kidnapping. ... One of the officers presented me with a photo album for my review. The album contained a series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets participation in a ‘blood ritual.’ “The ritual centered around the execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution, disembowelment, skinning and dismemberment of the goats at the hands of the children. This included the removal of the testes of a male goat, the discovery of a female goat’s ‘womb’ and the ‘baby goats’ inside the womb, and the presentation of a goats head to one of the children.”



The CIA-connected Finders were never prosecuted. The report adds that...



“... the activity of the FINDERS had become a CIA internal matter. The MPD report has been classified SECRET and was not available for review. I was advised that the FBI had withdrawn from the investigation several weeks prior and that the FBI Foreign Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD not to advise the FBI Washington Field Office of anything that had transpired.”[52*]



The head of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Division at the time was Oliver “Buck” Revell—a crony of Oliver North and George Bush who would allegedly play a role in the cover-up of numerous crimes, including Iran-Contra, drug-running at the CIA/NSA/DoD proprietary E-Systems, and the bombing of Pan Am 103.[53*] (See Appendix)



A member of Nebraska’s Concerned Parents group reported hearing from two North Omaha witnesses that “King used to send limousines down to Offutt Air Base to pick up CIA agents for parties.”



King, FBI agents Gerry Wahl and Alan Baer, Omaha World-Herald publisher Harold Andersen, and former Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman were all reported as collaborators in this satanic military-based ring. King reportedly told Paul’s captors at Offutt, “He’s young—but you trained him good.” Some say King provided the CIA with information garnered from his pimping activities for America’s perverted elite.



Victim-witness Paul Bonacci also described one of his “commanders” at Offut Air Force Base—Bill Plemmons and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino.



Until recently, Aquino was a Colonel in the U.S. Army and a national commander of the Eagle Scouts Honor Society. Ironically, Aquino is a publicly avowed Satanist. In 1975, while still in the Army, Aquino founded the Temple of Set—an offshoot of the Church of Satan, started in 1966 by Anton LaVey. Set is the Egyptian God of the underworld and the dead.[54]



Aquino made a pilgrimage to Heinrich Himmler’s “Hall of the Dead” at Wewelsburg Castle in 1984, where the SS practiced their black magic rituals, so he could allegedly “cleanse” the Temple of Set of its corrupt vibes.



Although Aquino’s membership has dwindled in recent years, members of The Temple of Set have included high-ranking military and police officers.

Although no cases of ritual murder or abuse have been directly linked to either group, in numerous cases of ritual murder, Church of Satan and Temple of Set material such as LaVey’s The Satanic Bible, have been found among suspects’ paraphernalia.



In 1987, San Francisco was shaken by a scandal at the Amy’s Presidio day care center, in which Aquino and a day care worker were accused by [the parents] of a three year old girl, (and subsequently several other parents) of being subjected to bizarre satanic rituals at Aquino’s home. Although there proceeded a lengthy investigation by the San Francisco Police Department, the FBI and the Army CID, no charges were ever brought against Aquino. As recently as 1995, the SFPD detective in charge, who I interviewed, was still too frightened to reveal details of the case.[55]



As for Larry King, he reported his own adoring relationship to the late CIA Director William Casey in a September 7, 1988, interview in the Omaha publication Metropolitan.[56]





The Cover-Up



As they would do with Iran-Contra, the FBI and the majority of the mainstream press covered up the scandal. Harold Andersen’s Omaha World-Herald, along with the local FBI office under the leadership of Nick O’Hara, played a major role in covering up these activities. Andersen was seen at numerous parties by several children who gave statements to Franklin investigators.



Roy Stephens, a private investigator and head the Missing Youth Foundation who worked on the case “says there is reason to believe that the CIA is directly implicated,’’ and that the “FBI refuses to help in the investigation and has sabotaged any efforts’’ to get to the bottom of the story.[57]



As tearful victim-witness Troy Boner told Sandie Caradori, wife of investigator Gary Caradori on the evening of his death, “Sandie, I tried, I tried. I went to [FBI Agent] Mickey Mott and.... They laughed at me....”[58]



When DeCamp and Senator Loren Schmit confronted Senior Agent in Charge of the Omaha office Nick O’Hara, O’Hara, a friend of Police Chief Robert Wadman’s, blurted out, “You fuck with Bob Wadman, you fuck with the FBI!” DeCamp and Schmit left O’Hara’s office in a state of shock.[59]



So began the cover-up.



Indeed. The FBI threatened and intimidated numerous witnesses, approximately 15 of whom wound up dead under highly suspicious circumstances. Victim-witness Alisha Owen, then still a teenager, was threatened by FBI agents Mott and Baer to change her story. When she refused, she was sentenced to 20 years in jail.



Senator Bernice Labedz recounted her conversation with former Franklin employee Noel Seltzer:



“One of the most important things that I thought he told me was the fact that when they first went into the investigation of Larry King, he was talked to by the FBI and he told them mostly everything that he told me about the sexual abuse and so forth. And then he said he was told by the FBI, ‘we’re going to advise you it’s best for you that you keep your mouth shut.’ And I said, ‘say that again,’ and he repeated it so I could write it down.”[60]



Victim-witness Terry Muller told Gary Caradori “that the FBI and a member of the State Patrol were harassing her brother and trying to get him to talk about things that he just didn’t know about.”[61]



Department of Social Services worker Joanie Gregory, who discovered evidence of wrongdoing in the homes of foster parents Jarrett and Barbara Webb, themselves involved in the abuse ring, was told by the FBI “that it would probably be in her best interest if she ‘forgot this information.’”[62]



As Caradori himself told the Franklin Committee: “I think they (the grand jury) are being misled by the influence of the State Patrol investigator and various people in the FBI.”[63]



DeCamp writes that “the legislative investigator found that the FBI interfered with material even before he got to it.”



As Troy Boner states in a sworn affidavit: “... I was carefully rehearsed by the FBI as to what I would say and what questions would be asked and then after rehearsing everything with the FBI I was taken over to Mr. Moran the prosecutor to go through the rehearsal again.”



Boner claims the FBI threatened him, and had in fact killed his brother Shawn as a warning.[64]



The Murders



Kathleen Sorenson, the social worker who assumed foster care for Nelly and Kimberly Webb after they fled the home of Larry King’s relatives Barbara and Jarrett Webb, died in a suspicious head-on car crash. Retired FBI Senior Agent Ted Gunderson, who investigated the crash, believes Sorenson was killed as a satanic contract suicide. The belief in such a murder/suicide is that the murderer will reincarnate with more power granted by Satan.



Sorenson, a vocal anti-Satanist, whose itinerary was known to at least several people, was traveling on a long, narrow stretch of road between Fremont and Blair, Nebraska. Both the women who rammed into her head-on and her husband had prior arrest records for cruelty to animals—a common sign of satanic activity.



“Not long after Sorenson’s death, a teenager in a youth care facility told a worker, “You better watch out or we will get you like we got that lady from Blair.” The youth went on to describe a ceremony of drawing lots for the privilege.”[65]



On July 11, 1990, during the course of his investigations, Franklin Senate Committee investigator Gary Caradori, 41, died in the crash of his small plane, together with his 8-year-old son Andrew, after a mid-air explosion. Caradori told friends repeatedly in the weeks before his death that he feared his plane would be sabotaged. As previously mentioned, just days before he died, he called Senator Schmit and announced that he had obtained information that would “blow this case wide open.”



Shawn Boner, brother of victim-witness Troy Boner, would die from a gunshot wound allegedly resulting from “Russian Roulette.”



Aaron Owen, brother of victim-witness Alisha Owen, was found hanged in his cell in Lincoln, Nebraska hours before his sister was to testify.



Bill Baker, a restaurant owner and pornography partner of King’s, was found shot in the back of the head.



Newt Copple, a confidential informant for Caradori, died in his sleep.



Clare Howard, former secretary of Alan Baer who arranged many of Baer’s pedophile trysts, died in her sleep the same year.



Mike Lewis, a former caregiver for victim-witness Loretta Smith, died of a “severe diabetic reaction.”



Joe Malek, an associate of King’s and owner of Peony Park, where homosexual galas were held, died from a gunshot that was ruled a “suicide.”

Charlie Rogers, a homosexual partner of King’s who stated he feared for his life, found his head blown off with a shotgun.



Dan Ryan, another associate of King’s, was found suffocated in his car.



Bill Skoleski, an Omaha police officer believed to have been keeping a file on King, died of a heart-attack.



Curtis Tucker, an associate of King’s, was found on the sidewalk beneath the window of his room at the Holiday Inn in Omaha.



Harmon Tucker, a Nebraska and Iowa school superintendent and a known homosexual, was found dead near the plantation which Omaha World-Herald publisher and Nebraska-Iowa FBI chief Nicholas O-Hara used for hunting. His murder had signs of a satanic ritual killing.[66]



Darlene Novinger, an FBI operative, discovered during an FBI investigation that George Herbert Walker Bush and two of his sons were using drugs and prostitutes in a Florida hotel while Bush was Vice President. She was warned not to report her findings to FBI officials. Four hours after she appeared on Tom Valentine’s July, 1993 Radio Free America show, her father was found dead. A white canary was placed on his grave as a warning. Her husband was also beaten to death. Novinger has since gone into hiding.[67]

Donald Gregg’s friend, Craig Spence, was found dead in a Boston hotel room shortly after his sordid affairs were published in the Washington Times.



As one lady stated during a town hall meeting in Omaha in December of 1990: “I think George Bush is involved in this child abuse case, and that is why all these people have been dying.”[68*]





Drugs



“Since the end of World War II, the United States has spent a thousand billion dollars—one trillion dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these men and their hunger for power. Could the CIA kill a president to keep such an operation going? Kings have been beheaded for infinitely less.”

- Judge Jim Garrison, A Heritage of Stone (1970)



As for Bush’s friend Larry King, it was reported that he was a top contributor to a Contra support committee—the Citizens for America. Contra organizer Oliver North was seen by at least one witness at one of King’s parties.



King’s public relations firm was also used by the drug-running Contras. Sources told John DeCamp that Omaha Police Chief Bob Wadman “was protecting the expansion of the Cryps and the Bloods into Omaha—far from their home turf of Los Angeles. As DeCamp writes:



“One of Caradori’s informants stated that Wadman was instrumental in bringing the drug-trafficking gangs, the Los Angeles Bloods and Cryps, into Omaha. According to a June 19 1989 report by Caradori’s predecessor at the Franklin committee, Jerry Lowe, members of the Bloods and Cryps were identified by local police as driving Larry King’s car....”



San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb has meticulously documented how the LA street gangs were intimately tied in with Contra liaisons in the U.S. George Bush, Oliver North’s boss, was essentially running the Contra show, or at least the drug angle. As DeCamp writes:



“So, was Larry King’s buddy George Bush the country’s ‘drug kingpin’ in the 1980s? I don’t know. But what I do know, is that if Bush were running the Contra affair, and drugs were a big part of it, that would certainly jibe 100% with everything known or rumored about Bush, Larry King, and the Franklin Credit Union....”[69]



As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz, the most highly decorated Special Forces officer of the Vietnam War and later head of Special Forces in Central America, adds in his book, Called To Serve:



“George Bush was head of the CIA in 1975-76, appointed by President Gerald Ford; as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, he was our top drug cop for eight years; one of his chief aides, Donald Gregg, was a direct contact in the Contra line of communication to the White House. Ollie North’s personal diary has more than 550 entries citing drug money being used to support contra operations. If George Bush didn’t know about the drug smuggling, he wasn’t doing his job. If he did know about it, then he is clearly culpable. Either way, it doesn’t stand as a credit for a man who would represent the best interests of the United States.”[70]



Like Richard Nixon, Bush publicly claimed to be a strong anti-drug president, escalating the so-called “war on drugs” begun by his mentor Richard Nixon. Nixon had first brought Bush into his “war on drugs” in 1971-77 when Nixon appointed him to the White House Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control.



In his first formally scheduled prime time television address to the nation as President in September of 1989, Bush again reiterated his plan to rid the nation of its devastating drug scourge. Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine for the camera and announced with mock incredulity that it had been purchased right across the street from the White House, in Lafayette Park. In fact, the drug bust of the dealer had been a set-up.



During his 1988 election campaign, Bush had hawked himself as President Reagan’s number one drug fighter. In his acceptance speech before the 1988 Republican National Convention, Bush stated: “I want a drug-free America. Tonight, I challenge the young people of our country to shut down the drug dealers around the world.... My Administration will be telling the dealers, “Whatever we have to do, we’ll do, but your day is over. You’re history.’”



Bush was telling the truth, in a sense. At least small drug dealers would be out of business—replaced by the Medellin Cartel which Bush, along with Ted Shackley, allegedly helped organize. The CIA reportedly arranged at least two meetings with Colombian drug smugglers—first in Buenaventura, Colombia in September of 1981, then in December of that same year, with approximately 200 dealers in attendance. The meeting, according to former FAA investigator Rodney Stich’s (Defrauding America and The Drugging of America ) CIA sources, was held at the Hotel International in Medellin. The CIA set up a “crisis” situation to compel the dealers to consolidate under the protection of the CIA by kidnapping drug kingpins Carlos Lehder and Jorge Ochoa’s sister. The CIA reportedly paid a group known as M-19 three million dollars to carry out the kidnapping. As CIA operative Trenton Parker told Stich, “...Bush knew the whole goddamn thing.”[71]



According to Russell S. Bowen, a highly decorated World War II P-38 ace and former OSS agent imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the U.S. from Colombia (and other sources), Noriega and the Israeli Mossad worked hand-in-hand with the CIA in the drug traffic from Central and South America.[72]



Bowen was a friend of Shackley’s, having worked with him from the early 1950s until 1984. In 1959, Shackley was a passenger onboard a C-46 piloted by Bowen when the plane crashed in the Bolivian Andes. As Bowen told Stich: “It was loaded with drugs!”



“[Bowen] stated that this trip occurred several years before Shackley was made CIA station chief in Miami, and that Shackley was instrumental in setting up the CIA drug trafficking into the United States from South America....



“Bowen described the conflict between different CIA factions. “At that time, “ Bowen said, “Shackley was the leader of the CIA faction bringing the drugs in. The CIA team I worked for did not want the drugs in.”



“I asked who set up that initial drug operation. Bowen, referring to Shackley, said, “He was the mastermind of the drug operation. he had full authority to set it up.”[73]



Another pilot maintained in voluminous correspondence from prison with Senator John Kerry’s Iran-Contra Committee (and since his release in 1990) that “Bob Haynes” was the alias used by Shackley during their close interaction between 1979 and 1984. As Harry Martin reports in the Napa Sentinel:



“[The pilot] also has a number of documents in safekeeping which prove the presence of Shackley in Medellin, not only directing the cocaine cartel, but orchestrating many of the activities in Panama and Costa Rica related to the contra war in Nicaragua, and the large-scale smuggling of cocaine into the United States. Included among them are a handwritten note from Haynes/Shackley directing him to deliver a DC-6A aircraft from the Dominican Republic to Floyd Carlton in Panama “for Col. Robert.”



“The pilot has claimed that he functioned as one of an elite group of military intelligence agents with service dating back to World War II, who reported, until his imprisonment in 1984, directly to [former OSS agent and CIA DCI] William Casey, and maintains that he was directly involved with Theodore Shackley in the establishment of the arms network to the contras through Panama in the early 1980s. Among the letters received from Haynes/Shackley was one directing him to acquire a number of planes in the Dominican Republic and Aruba for the network. The list has been verified by the special U.S. Customs team in Miami investigating Munitions Control Board violations as planes they are familiar with having been used in such activities.”[74]



“Haynes” also furnished the pilot with his business card for INTERKREDIT, with offices in Medellin, Ft. Lauderdale and Amsterdam. INTERKREDIT was the corporate cover under which Shackley conducted business with General Noriega during 1983.[75]



In addition to the pilot, witnesses allege Shackley maintained a home in Medellin, Colombia at one point, where he lived with his Colombian wife, Leona Ochoa, sister of cartel kingpin Jorge Ochoa.[76]



It was a convenient spot to manage the CIA’s drug business. As previously mentioned, the CIA, through DCI George Bush and Deputy Director for Operations Ted Shackley, virtually set up the Medellin Cartel. The meetings were held at the Hotel International in Medellin. Two CIA operatives: Trenton Parker and Gunther Russbacher, confirmed the meetings to Stich.[77]

Ramon Milian Rodriguez, an accountant and money launderer who had laundered $1.5 billion for the Medellin cartel, testified before a Senate committee that he had given Bush-Shackley CIA associate Felix Rodriguez $10 million from the cocaine profits to fund the Contras.



Rodriguez told journalist Martha Honey that Rodriguez had offered that “in exchange for money for the Contra cause he would use his influence in high places to get the cartel U.S. ‘good will.’”[78]



The CIA would eventually eradicate top leaders of the Medellin Cartel, killing Medellin founders Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa. Medellin co-founder Carlos Lehder and his associate Manuel Noriega would be sentenced to life terms. During Operation “Just Cause” in Panama, Bush replaced many Medellin allied bankers with political and financial leadership more closely allied with the rival Cali Cartel.



Trenton Parker said he secretly gave evidence of CIA criminality from 1976 to 1982 to Congressman Larry McDonald of the Joint Armed Services Committee. The files revealed corrupt activities of several presidents, numerous federal officials and the CIA. Immediately after McDonald let it be known that he was going to reveal the information, including information on the CIA’s drug smuggling activities, his plane was shot down.



Bush’s Zapata Petroleum Co. (later Zapata Offshore), with upwards of 600 branches worldwide, is reportedly used for the CIA’s intelligence gathering. (Bush had begun his career working for International Derrick and Equipment Company, a subsidiary of the Houston-based Dresser Industries—a long-time CIA cover. Dresser’s Chairman, Henry Neil Mallon, who offered Bush the job, was a friend of Prescott’s and a fellow Skull and Bonseman.) Some sources, including covert operatives interviewed by Stich, contend that Zapata’s offshore drilling rigs, located beyond the U.S. jurisdictional limit, are centers for transferring large quantities of illicit drugs and other contraband. CIA cable analyst Michael Maholy told Stich that he personally witnessed numerous drug flights while working on Zapata rigs, and was told to forget what he had seen. The operation was run through Rowan International. “Rowan International was a cover for a branch of Zapata Oil,” says Maholy. Three of the propietaries involved were the CIA-connected Evergreen (owned by Raytheon; see Chapter XX), Southern Air Transport, and Pacific Seafood.



Maholy says he worked directly under George Bush and Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. These people and their accomplices and agents, made hundreds of millions of dollars bringing drugs into the U.S. over the years.



Implicated in the Venezuelan operation were naval officer Lizardo Marquez Perez, Mossad agent Michael Harari, CIA officer Dewy Duane Clarridge, Army lieutenant General Paul Gorman, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Washington DEA Chief Ron Caffrey, Oliver North, Pacific Seafood’s Russell Hebert and others.



Maholy says Bill Clinton was also in the loop. “...not only was I arrested four blocks from the then-Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton’s mansion,” says Maholy, “but I was also involved in the ‘Mena, Arkansas’ incident. Our drugs were going to many of the high-ranking state and government officials in Arkansas. Roger Clinton (Clinton’s brother) was one of our better customers.”[79*]



Former CIA operatives Russell Bowen, Tosh Plumlee, Gunther Russbacher, Chip Tatum and others confirmed much of Maholy’s story.[80]



Some of the money, according to former CIA operative Richard Brenneke, was banked at the infamous Nazi-connected Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank. Brenneke testified under oath that he opened an account there for Bush’s operation in 1980. The money was funneled through the John Gotti organized crime family.[81]



Another bank used for hiding Bush’s secret accounts was the Hawaii-based Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong—a CIA propietary that in part took over the failed CIA Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. Agency operative Ronald Rewald told Stich that he personally set up accounts for Bush under the aliases “Irwin M. Peach” and “Mr. Bramble.”[82]



According to former LAPD Narcotics detective Michael Ruppert, two key men in the drug pipeline were Ted Shackley and George Bush. Shackley, a CIA Deputy Director, had reportedly played the key role in smuggling heroin out of South-East Asia when he was Saigon Station Chief, as popularized by the movie “Air America.”



In 1976, Bush would appoint his friend Shackley as Associate Deputy Director of Operations—the third most powerful position in the CIA. Shackley had been in charge of the Miami CIA station that had been running the Agency’s anti-Castro activities, and was a key architect of the CIA’s “low intensity conflict” operations in Central America (death squads modeled after the Agency’s murderous Phoenix Operation in Viet Nam). Fired by the Agency in 1979, Shackley would re-emerge in the early 1980s as an integral player in Iran-Contra, meeting frequently with Bush at his Arlington, VA home.[83]



As Ruppert states: “Both men are central to the drug trafficking by CIA and NSC which became epidemic in the Iran-Contra era.”



A report by the Costa Rican government states that Oliver North, John Hull, and a number of other Americans were deeply involved in the drug trafficking in the area.[84]



When DEA agent Celerino “Cele” Castillo naively tried to inform Bush of the high-level drug running at a cocktail party in Guatemala City in 1986, he said, “Bush just smiled, shook my hand and walked away.”[85]



As former CIA operative Phillip Agee told the Associated Press in January of 1990: “Bush is up to his neck in illegal drug running on behalf of the Contras.”[86*]

These allegations would be repeated by numerous others. One man who decided to blow the whistle was former CIA operative Richard Brenneke. As Brenneke stated in a sworn deposition before Congressman William Alexander, Jr., and Chad Farris, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Arkansas:



A. ...As far back as 1968 and early ‘69, we had begun to launder money from organized crime families in New York. At that time, Mr. Gotti was an up-and-coming member of the families. I got to know them at that time. We used to wash their money out overseas and put it in Switzerland in nice, safe places for them.



Q. So you worked for Mr. Gotti as well as for the CIA?



A. Actually the CIA told me to do that on his behalf.



Q. So the CIA was in, would you say, partnership or association with Mr. Gotti?



A. Yes, sir. I would say a partnership.



Q. And can you describe the nature of that partnership?



A. Sure. The organized crime members had a need for two things: they needed drugs brought into the country on a reliable, safe basis; they needed people taken out of the country or people brought into the country without alerting customs or INS to the fact that they were being brought into the country; they also needed their money taken offshore so that it would not be subject to United States tax where they might have to declare its source. And so we performed these kinds of functions for them.



Q. Mr. Brenneke, are you saying that the CIA was in the business of bringing drugs into the United States?



A. Yes, sir. That’s exactly what I’m saying.



(snip)



Q. Can you recall any conversations you had with any of the CIA agents about the money, and tell us the nature of that conversation, the scope of it?



A. Sure. When I found that we were bringing drugs into the United States, and that we were receiving money which was being put into accounts which I knew to belong to the United States Government, as I’d set them up specifically for that purpose, I called Mr. Don Gregg, who was a CIA officer with whom I was acquainted, and complained about the nature of what we were doing.



Q. Now, who is Mr. Don Gregg?



A. At that time, he was... Vice President George Bush’s National Security Advisor....



Q. And can you tell us what you remember about that conversation?



A. I surely can. I was told that it was not my business, what I was flying in and out of the country. That I was hired to do specific things, and if I would do those things and not pay any attention to anything else, we would all be very happy. I didn’t like that.



Q. Well, what else did he say?



A. Shut up and do your job.[87]



Bob Martinez, after his defeat as Florida’s governor, was picked as Bush’s drug czar. Sources in Tampa told Russell Bowen that Martinez was under investigation for smuggling activities. But Attorney General Richard Thornburgh removed the Assistant U.S. Attorney before the indictments could be handed down.[88]



Two Assistant U.S. Attorneys in charge of drug prosecutions in Miami—R. Jerome Stanford and Richard Gregorie—resigned in disgust because of CIA stonewalling and cover-ups. Gregorie told a Senate subcommittee that the CIA’s lack of cooperation resulted in a “constitutional crisis.”[89]



As Stich’s CIA sources told him, the Agency was shipping arms to both sides in the Contra war to keep the war going, while publicly stating that the Sandinistas were the ones trafficking in drugs. As in Miami, the CIA set up another fake drug sting using their main drug pilot, Barry Seal. Seal’s plane was rigged with a hidden video camera which ostensibly recorded Sandinistas loading drugs onto the plane. In reality, they were Contras. The “evidence” was subsequently shown to Congress to justify the continued war.



To maintain his position as anti-drug czar, Bush along with CIA, DEA and Customs, set up a fake drug sting at Miami International Airport in March of 1980 using 4,000 pounds of bad cocaine donated by Jorge Ochoa. DEA and Customs agents were on-hand at the airport to make the drug “bust” to insure George Bush’s public heroism.[90]



On January 28, 1982, Bush created the South Florida Task Force to coordinate the efforts of various federal agencies to stem the tide of illegal narcotics. According to local and federal law-enforcement sources, radar balloons and other systems used along the southern U.S. border were not even operational much of the time.



As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:



“On February 16, 1982, in a speech on his own turf in Miami, Florida, Bush promised to use sophisticated military aircraft to track the airplanes used by smugglers. Several days later, Bush ordered the U.S. Navy to send in its E2C surveillance aircraft for this purpose. If these were not available in sufficient numbers, said Bush, he was determined to bring in the larger and more sophisticated AWACS early warning aircraft to do the job....



“By May, two of the four E2C aircraft that originally had been in Florida were transferred out of the state. By June, airborne surveillance time was running a mere 40 hours per month, not the 360 hours promised by Bush, prompting Rep. Glenn English to call hearings on this topic. By October, 1982 the General Accounting Office issued an opinion in which it found “it is doubtful whether the [south Florida] task force can have any substantial long-term impact on drug availability.”



“But the headlines were grabbed by Bush, who stated in 1984 that the efforts of his task force had eliminated the marijuana trade in south Florida. That was an absurd claim, but it sounded very good. When Francis Mullen. Jr., the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) criticized Bush for making this wildly inaccurate statement, he was soon ousted from his post at the DEA.”



This data supports information provided to this author by law-enforcement officers [who wish to remain anonymous]. According to numerous sources, the drug flow actually increased during Bush’s tenure as drug czar. As former CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee told Rodney Stich: “From the time that the money was appropriated to start [the drug war] we saw a 400 percent increase in the illegal drugs that were coming into this country.”[91]



On March 23, 1983, Bush would be cleverly placed in charge of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, which was supposed to stem the tide of drugs into the U.S.



Plumlee, who witnessed decades worth of drug smuggling by the CIA, the NSC, and the military, said that his government handlers tried to cover up for their smuggling activities by claiming that the shipments were to be used in law-enforcement “sting” operations. As he states: “We were documenting the loads and the routes and waiting for the big busts. But the busts never seemed to add up to the amount of cocaine we were bringing in.”[92]