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When anthrax-laced letters turned up on Capitol Hill last month, House
Speaker Dennis Hastert shut down the House of Representatives. His decision
drew praise from colleagues who were able to head home a day earlier than
expected. Media reaction to Hastert's decision was summed up in a New York
Post headline: "WIMPS." By contrast, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle
kept his chamber in session at the urging of fellow senators. In retrospect,
Daschle's decision was probably the wiser one. But the question remains:
Are senators really more courageous? Or do congressmen, who face re-election
every two years rather than every six, simply have a stronger reflexive
desire to get back to their districts?
*******
President George W. Bush and most of his White House staff are winning
extraordinary praise for their job performance since September 11. The
same cannot be said for press spokesman Ari Fleischer. His public reputation
took a hit when he censoriously warned that people like TV talk show host
Bill Maher "need to watch what they say." Privately, many reporters are
even more irritated by his querulousness and the stinginess with which
he doles out information. At an Oct. 16 White House briefing, for instance,
Fleischer refused again and again to characterize the sending of letters
filled with anthrax as "bio-terrorism." Yet days earlier, Health and Human
Services Secretary Tommy Thompson had said, "there's no question it's bio-terrorism,"
and Vice President Dick Cheney had said, "the only responsible thing to
do is to proceed on the basis that it could be linked to terrorists." With
so little information coming from Fleischer, reporters have had to go over
his head, phoning senior White House officials for the most basic information‹something
unlikely to endear Fleischer to his colleagues.
*******
In late September, conservative commentators, led by Andrew Sullivan,
launched a mini-campaign to pin blame for the September 11 attacks primarily
on Bill Clinton. The criticism was based on comments by ex-Clintonites
Nancy Soderberg and Jamie Gorelick who told The Boston Globe that the administration
could and should have done more to stop terrorism. But for the moment,
the campaign has fizzled for three reasons. First, The Washington Post's
Bob Woodward, Tom Ricks, and Barton Gellman broke news of energetic if
unsuccessful covert efforts by the Clinton administration to capture or
kill Osama bin Laden. Second, it's become increasingly clear that the FBI,
until recently headed by Clinton foe Louis Freeh, bears as much blame as
any agency for failing to prevent the attacks. Third, conservatives realize
it's hard to make a case that, prior to September 11, the Bush administration
was any more vigilant than Clinton had been. One of many examples: The
Bush White House hadn't gotten around to nominating anyone to fill the
Pentagon's top anti-terrorism job until Sept. 15, when it hurriedly named
Michelle Van Cleave assistant secretary of defense for special operations
and low intensity conflict.
*******
The residents of lower Manhattan have reason to feel especially grateful
that the man who represents them in Congress, Rep. Jerry Nadler, had the
foresight when elected in 1992 to procure a seat on the House Transportation
and Infrastructure Committee. The committee not only oversees FEMA, but
will have much to say about how the area in and around the World Trade
Center will be rebuilt in the years to come; Nadler is already advocating
new subway stops, more ferry service, and a Long Island railroad station
for lower Manhattan.
*******
It would be hard to exaggerate how much Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld and his top aide Steven Cambone were hated within the Pentagon
prior to September 11. Among other mistakes, Rumsfeld and Cambone foolishly
excluded top civilian and military leaders when planning an overhaul of
the military to meet new threats, thereby ensuring even greater bureaucratic
resistance. According to The Washington Post, an Army general joked to
a Hill staffer that "if he had one round left in his revolver, he would
take out Steve Cambone." Cambone's reputation in the building hasn't improved
much since September 11, but Rumsfeld's has been transformed. Moments after
the attack on the Pentagon, the secretary rushed to the scene, putting
himself in harm's way to help with the rescue effort. That brave act won
Rumsfeld deep loyalty within the military. He has also gotten high marks
for the confident precision of his press conference performances, and for
his willingness to delegate war-fighting tactics to the brass. Alas, the
secretary still has not figured out how to manage the building. One insider
reports that he and his management team have "completely lost control"
of their efforts to organize homeland defense, with multiple overlapping
task forces and bureaucratic turf battles grinding progress to a halt.
*******
Like many magazines, The Washington Monthly often gets letters from
eccentrics insisting that a cabal of powerful men secretly controls world
events. A recent story makes you understand why they might think that way.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Saudi Arabia's Binladen Group, the
construction company owned by the family of Osama bin Laden (from whom
Osama is estranged), has more than $2 million invested in a military contractor
buy-out fund managed by the Carlyle Group. Carlyle's chairman is ex-Secretary
of Defense Frank Carlucci. Its senior counselor is former Secretary of
State James Baker. The senior adviser to the firm's Asian Partners fund
is former President George H.W. Bush.
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above normal between Sept. 6 and Sept.10, and 285 times higher than average
on the Thursday before the attack– [CBS News, Sept. 26] - A jump in American
Airlines put options 60 times (not 60 percent) above normal on the day
before the attacks. [CBS News, Sept. 26] - No similar trading occurred
on any other airlines. [Bloomberg Business Report, the Institute for Counterterrorism
(ICT), Herzliyya, Israel citing data from the CBOE] - Morgan Stanley saw,
between Sept. 7 and Sept.10, an increase of 27 times (not 27 percent) in
the purchase of put options on its shares. [ICT Report, Mechanics of Possible
Bin-Laden Insider Trading Scam, Sept. 21, citing data from the CBOE]. -
Merrill-Lynch saw a jump of more than 12 times the normal level of put
options in the four trading days before the attacks. [Ibid]" cyberexpose.net
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Warn the Troops formenonly www.cyberexpose.net Once war begins in Iraq,
China will mobilize its troops through India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Russia. While the United States is fighting in Iraq, Iraq will be supported
militarily by China, Russia, Iran, India, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
Yemen, Oman, Lebanon, Qatar, Libya and Somalia. The United States, Turkey
and Israel are going to be caught in the middle…and the only way out will
be nuclear. World War III, Armageddon, the End Times in earnest, will have
begun. The Third World War will have begun because the United States and
the United Kingdom have reneged on the original New World Order agenda.
The ‘new and improved’ New World Order will be comprised of the U.S., the
UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the countries comprising NATO. Here is
a complete listing of NATO Member Countries: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic,
Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. But, wait…there’s more. Some countries are turning
against the United States and its revised New World Order agenda. Under
the leadership of Putin, the countries which made up the old Soviet Union
will be recombined, lending its might to China. And, France will side with
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Warn the Troops formenonly www.cyberexpose.net Once war begins in Iraq,
China will mobilize its troops through India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
into Iran. As China joins forces with Iran, Turkey will be attacked by
Russia. While the United States is fighting in Iraq, Iraq will be supported
militarily by China, Russia, Iran, India, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
Yemen, Oman, Lebanon, Qatar, Libya and Somalia. The United States, Turkey
and Israel are going to be caught in the middle…and the only way out will
be nuclear. World War III, Armageddon, the End Times in earnest, will have
begun. The Third World War will have begun because the United States and
the United Kingdom have reneged on the original New World Order agenda.
The ‘new and improved’ New World Order will be comprised of the U.S., the
UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the countries comprising NATO. Here is
a complete listing of NATO Member Countries: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic,
Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. But, wait…there’s more. Some countries are turning
against the United States and its revised New World Order agenda. Under
the leadership of Putin, the countries which made up the old Soviet Union
will be recombined, lending its might to China. And, France will side with
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is updated Bush continued speaking to kids after the attack Bush continued
speaking to kids after the attack ... hmm. Just as there remains lingering
doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald fired a burst of fatally accurate shots from
the Texas Book Depository, so there is skepticism that "cells of Islamic
terrorists" secretly coordinated and simultaneously commandeered four commercial
jetliners. The culprit responsible for the Sept. 11 attack is now rumoured
to be the same one who lurked behind the grassy knoll: the oil-dependent
U.S. military-industrial complex. Not everyone is ready to accept this
-- a substitute teacher in Vancouver's elementary school has been called
on the mat for suggesting to Grade 5 students the Central Intelligence
Agency might have been involved in 9/11. And at last count, there were
a dozen U.S. Congressional Committees investigating the tragedies and how
such an intelligence and security breakdown was allowed to occur. In Germany,
a former minister of technology made headlines when in an interview he
dismissed the U.S. government's explanation that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida
network is responsible for the attacks. His own explanation implicated
the White House. "I wonder why many questions are not asked," he said.
"For 60 decisive minutes, the military and intelligence agencies let the
fighter planes stay on the ground; 48 hours later, however, the FBI presented
a list of suicide attackers. Within 10 days, it emerged that seven of them
were still alive." In Britain, a flight engineer has published a detailed
paper asserting the U.S. took the joysticks out of the pilots' hands using
a method of remote control developed by the American military in the 1970s.
An independent publisher and editor has drawn huge crowds to his two-hour
lecture in which he states baldly that the U.S. government was complicit
in the attacks and had foreknowledge. He opens his documentary presentation
with an offer of $1,000 US to anyone who can prove any of his sources were
misrepresented or inauthentic. A former government agent also has given
interviews claiming the CIA has been dealing with Osama bin Laden since
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? what about Linda Franklin? Saturday, October 26, 2002 -- Linda Franklin,
victim of sniper, remembered as loving woman News-Journal wire services
GAINESVILLE -- Linda Franklin, the ninth victim of the Washington D.C.-area
sniper, was remembered Friday as spiritual, loving woman who constantly
sought answers to some of life's most difficult questions. About 200 mourners
gathered at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church to remember Franklin {47-year-old
FBI analyst working on 911 investigation} from Arlington, Va., who spent
most of her childhood in Gainesville. "Every summer she would come home
for vacation and bring a list of questions," said her father, Charles Moore,
as he addressed the tearful audience in the church where Franklin was married.
"She would always seek the truth." Franklin was felled by a single shot
to the head Oct. 14 as she and her husband loaded their red convertible
in the parking lot outside a Home Depot in Falls Church, Va. Moore painfully
recalled how, as a child, Franklin questioned everything from religion
to how to dress. Her pursuit for the truth helped her earn a bachelor's
degree in education from the University of Florida. "She confounded me,
frustrated me, tormented me," Moore said. "But I loved her." Her death
came two months after the Moores lost their granddaughter in a car accident,
said church rector Gordon H. Tremaine. "I've seldom seen people be brutalized
by two such remarkable occurrences together," said Tremaine, who counseled
the Moores. "They have had their whole world explode." There was no direct
mention of the sniper during the service. Afterward, Tremaine said the
family was relieved that no one else would fall victim to the sniper's
random shot. "He's glad they caught him," Tremaine said, referring to Thursday's
capture of suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo. "But I didn't
hear any desire for vengeance." Franklin's survivors include her husband,
Ted, two grown children, Thomas Belvin and Katrina Hannum, and her parents,
brother and sister. Franklin's body was buried earlier this week in National
Memorial Park in Alexandria, Va. "She called every week," said Moore as
he fought back tears. "She hasn't called for a few weeks and it hurts."
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June 23, 2003 at 12:07:09 PDT Dean Formally Announces White House Run By
R FOURNIER ASSOCIATED PRESS BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Democratic presidential
hopeful Howard Dean sought to redefine and broaden his liberal, anti-war
campaign in formally announcing his candidacy Monday, telling disenchanted
American voters, "You have the power!" to oust President Bush and rid Washington
of special interests. With at least 2,500 supporters crammed into a brick-lined
town square, the steeple of a Unitarian church behind him, the former Vermont
governor pledged to speak "for a new American century and a new generation
of Americans." Dean pledged to fight conservative Republicans, docile Democrats
and the rest of the Washington establishment - all of whom he holds responsible
for turning Americans away from the political system. "You have the power
to take our country back!" he shouted. "You have the power! You have the
power! You have the power!" He accused Bush of dividing Americans, creating
a "chain of insurmountable debt" and promoting tax cuts "designed to destroy
Social Security, Medicare, our public schools and our public services through
starvation and privatization." The president's foreign policies, Dean argued,
have alienated allies much like the ancient Roman empire once did. "Every
American president must and will take up arms in the defense of our nation.
It is a solemn oath that cannot and will not be compromised," said Dean,
knowing he faces questions about his lack of foreign policy experience.
"But there is a fundamental difference between the defense of our nation
and the doctrine of pre-emptive war espoused by this administration," Dean
said. "The president's group of narrow-minded ideological advisers are
undermining our nation's greatness in the world." Dean, 54, a 20-year veteran
of Vermont politics, actually began his campaign months ago. But he staged
a formal announcement to draw attention and money to his long-shot bid.
The nine Democratic candidates are in a race for cash before the second
fund-raising quarter closes June 30. Dean is expected to raise at least
$4 million by the deadline, a jump from the $2.6 million he collected in
the first quarter, a senior campaign official said. Dean is airing the
first political ads of the 2004 campaign, spending $300,000 in Iowa through
July 2. Supporters were urged through e-mail last week to help pay for
the TV time. Besides a crowd here that spilled from an intersection into
two nearby streets, 15,000 Dean supporters had signed up to attend campaign
events in more than 300 cities. A turnout of that size would validate Dean's
boast that he is building an Internet-driven, national grass-roots organization.
It was impossible to verify Dean's projections, but in one city, Des Moines,
Iowa, 87 supporters signed up to watch his address at the campaign headquarters;
47 showed up. "It's a good way to get out of the office," said Ben Stone
of Des Moines. A former governor in a race dominated by congressional Democrats,
Dean has gotten off to a surprisingly strong start despite a lack of money
and meager support from party insiders. The key has been his opposition
to the U.S.-led war against Iraq - a position that galvanized liberal voters
who believe that Democratic leaders are kowtowing to Bush. In a call to
disenchanted voters of all political stripes, Dean said, "You have the
power to rid Washington of all the politics of money." "You have the power
to take back the Democratic Party." The liberal tag defies his record in
Vermont, where Dean was known as a centrist, pro-business governor for
12 years. He battled Democrats to restrain spending and balance the state
budget, even pushing for cuts in human services programs such as benefits
for the aged, blind and disabled. He nominated tough-on-crime judges, most
of them former prosecutors. And he imposed work requirements on welfare
recipients well before former President Bill Clinton did. As governor,
some of his strongest supporters were Republican leaders of the business
community. Difficult to label, Dean once called himself "an odd kind of
Democrat." Now that he's a presidential candidate, Dean is not trumpeting
his moderate credentials from Vermont, nor did he dwell on his anti-war
position during Monday's address. Instead, he sought to widen his appeal
by casting himself as a blunt-speaking, anti-establishment populist who
will reform American politics issue by issue. "This president has forgotten
ordinary people," Dean said. The physician-turned-politican once intended
to make health care and children's issues the cornerstones of his campaign,
but then came the war and his introduction to a disenchanted electorate.
His cause changed, Dean said. "Everywhere I go people are asking fundamental
questions: Who can we trust?" he said. Dean hopes to galvanize Democrats
who have not voted in recent elections, as well as independents who rallied
behind insurgent candidates such as Republican Sen. John McCain in 2000
and Democrat Gary Hart in 1984. Polls place Dean among the top three candidates
in Iowa and New Hampshire, where the first votes for the Democratic nomination
will be cast. He lags in nationwide polls. --- On the Net: Dean campaign:
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news_3.tripod.com NEWS ALERT NEWS ALERT http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/agtexasgateltr61803.pdf
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/txdpsinterview.pdf PRESS RELEASE
Congressman John Conyers, Jr. Fourteenth District, Michigan Ranking Member,
Committee on the Judiciary Dean, Congressional Black Caucus --------------------------------------------
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: June 18, 2003 Dena Graziano (202)226-6888
CONYERS RELEASES NEW DOCUMENTS SHOWING COVERUP IN TEXASGATE Representative
John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued
the following statement regarding the attached letter sent to Attorney
General John Ashcroft regarding the illegal use of Homeland Security Department
resources to find Texas Democrats: "These documents, provided to the Judiciary
Committee late last evening, are the smoking gun that shows a cover up
of Texas Gate. Who asked the Texas police to deliberately deceive the Department
of Homeland Security and misuse homeland security resources? It has been
alleged that the Texas Governor's office or the House Majority Leader's
office may have been involved. But Texas police will only say "several
individuals" made the suggestion but refuse to provide the names of those
individuals to federal investiigators. Who told the Texas police to destroy
documents? Again, they refuse to tell federal investigators. It is extremely
troubling, it is a cover up and it is a violation of federal criminal laws
when public safety officers obstruct a federal investigation in this manner.
The question is: who are they trying to protect and why are they trying
to protect them?" June 18, 2003 The Honorable John Ashcroft Attorney General
of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 10th and Constitution Avenue,
N.W. Washington, DC 20530 Dear Mr. Attorney General: After reviewing documents
released by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General late
last night, we are concerned that the Department of Public Safety ("DPS")
may be involved in covering up the identity of the individual or individuals
that prompted the DPS to mislead the Department of Homeland Security into
using its terrorism fighting resources for partisan purposes. This conduct
may constitute a violation of federal criminal laws pertaining to obstruction
of justice and we ask that you open up an immediate investigation into
these matters. First, a "Memorandum of Activity" for a "personal interview"
with a Member of the DPS (the identity of the interviewee has been redacted)
raises substantial concerns. At the outset, it appears clear that DPS representatives
were uncooperative with DHS investigators: "During questioning of [redacted]
the DHS-OIG was consistently interrupted and challenged by DPS participants
that questions were not within the scope of the DHS-OIG investigation.
The DPS asked the OIG if (redacted) would be given a Miranda warning. The
OIG advised the DPS that (redacted) would not be given Miranda warnings
since (redacted) was only a witness regarding a DHS-OIG investigation."
IN03-OIG-LA-0662, page 1. We would hope you agree that it is extremely
troubling that a public safety officer, who apparently believes he has
knowledge of criminal activity, would choose to obscure such facts to federal
investigators. Second, this public safety officer revealed that there were
several individuals who requested that he contact Homeland Security to
look for the plane, but refused to provide the identities of those individuals:
"(Redacted) said several individuals requested (redacted) to look for the
airplane. At that point in the interview (redacted) asked (redacted) and
(redacted) if (he or she) had to answer the question regarding who requested
(redacted) to look for the airplane. (Redacted) advised that this question
was outside the scope of the DHS-OIG investigation. The DHS-OIG informed
(redacted) that this question was pertinent to the investigation; however,
the DHS-OIG could not compel (redacted) to answer. (Redacted) declined
to answer the question." IN03-OIG-LA-0662, page 1. As you know, it has
been alleged that high ranking state and federal officials prompted DPS
to contact homeland security. This DPS officer's apparent reluctance to
reveal the names of "several individuals" lends further credence to that
claim. Finally, the same officer declined to reveal who shredded notes
from conversations regarding the missing airplane: "(Redacted) was questioned
regarding any notes taken regarding the missing airplane. (Redacted) said
(redacted) noted from (redacted) conversations regarding the missing airplane
with USCS were shredded. (Redacted) said (he or she) did not shred the
notes. (Redacted) said (he or she) does not recall who (he or she) gave
the notes to for shredding." IN03-OIG-LA-0662, page 2. Because the OIG's
investigation of this matter was an official proceeding, all of these actions
by this officer may well constitute a violation of federal obstruction
of justice laws, which provide in part, that it is illegal to "knowingly
. . . engage[] in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent
to . . . alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with the intent
to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official
proceeding or . . . otherwise obstruct[], influence[], or impede any official
proceeding or attempt[] to do so." 18 U.S.C. § 1512. We ask that you
open an immediate investigation into this conduct. Should you have any
questions or concerns about this request, please feel free to contact us
through the House Judiciary Committee Staff, 2142 Rayburn House Office
Building, tel. 202-225-6504, fax 202-225-4423. Sincerely, Congressman John
Conyers, Jr. Congressman Jerrold Nadler Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
Congressman Robert Wexler (More signatories to follow) Document available
at: ##JUD-108-06/18/2003##
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Topic: Could the collapse of WTC and other buildings have been a nuclear
attack? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1- that pit was "smoking" hot for a ridiculously long time .... the temps
were extremely high. 2- explosions would have happened in the upper floors
if you believe the jet fuel theory. (there is not enough fuel in the jet
to melt that much steel in the bottom floors) 3- the rubble was quicly
hauled away. (without forensic examination) 4- has anyone heard any rumours
about the firemen experiencing any gulf war type syndromes?? Could it be
possible, possible mind you, that the attacks on New York City, Washington
D.C., and the aborted attack foiled by the courageous actions of the passengers
and crew of Flight 93, were only a diversion to what were bomb and even
missile attacks? At risk of being labeled some kind of "conspiracy wacko"
I am bringing these questions to public forum. Consider this information:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/07_14_02/Unexplained_9-11_/unexplained_9-11_.html
Unexplained 9-11 Explosion at WTC Complex - Despite the fact that the horrible
events of Sept. 11 occurred in broad daylight and were widely photographed,
significant aspects of the attacks have been completely suppressed by a
media blackout. A massive explosion, witnessed by millions of television
viewers on CNN, evidently devastated World Trade Center 6, the eight-story
U.S. Customs building, although no national newspaper, other than American
Free Press, has written a word about it. Before the smoke had cleared from
around the stricken South Tower, a mysterious explosion shot 550 feet into
the air above the U.S. Customs House at WTC 6. The unexplained blast occurred
between the burning North Tower and the 47-story Salomon Brothers Building,
known as WTC 7, immediately after United Airlines Flight 175 smashed into
the South Tower, at about 9:03 a.m. The explosion at WTC 6 was shown afterward
on CNN. But because it was not broadcast as it happened there has been
some confusion about when it actually occurred. The large amount of smoke
seen cascading around the South Tower in the video led some observers to
mistake the blast for a dust cloud from the subsequent collapse of the
tower... http://www.americanfreepress.net/07_14_02/Unexplained_9-11_/unexplained_9-11_.html
There is a great deal more information in the entire article. Then, when
you have digested that information, consider this: http://www.americanfreepress.net/09_03_02/NEW_SEISMIC_/new_seismic_.html
NEW SEISMIC DATA REFUTES OFFICIAL EXPLANATION Two unexplained "spikes"
in the seismic record from Sept. 11 indicate huge bursts of energy shook
the ground beneath the World Trade Center’s twin towers immediately prior
to the collapse. American Free Press has learned of pools of "molten steel"
found at the base of the collapsed twin towers weeks after the collapse.
Although the energy source for these incredibly hot areas has yet to be
explained, New York seismometers recorded huge bursts of energy, which
caused unexplained seismic "spikes" at the beginning of each collapse.
These spikes suggest that massive underground explosions may have literally
knocked the towers off their foundations, causing them to collapse... SEISMIC
‘SPIKES’ Seismographs at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
in Palisades, N.Y., 21 miles north of the WTC, recorded strange seismic
activity on Sept. 11 that has still not been explained. While the aircraft
crashes caused minimal earth shaking, significant earthquakes with unusual
spikes occurred at the beginning of each collapse. The Palisades seismic
data recorded a 2.1 magnitude earthquake during the 10-second collapse
of the South Tower at 9:59:04 and a 2.3 quake during the 8-second collapse
of the North Tower at 10:28:31. However, the Palisades seismic record shows
that—as the collapses began—a huge seismic "spike" marked the moment the
greatest energy went into the ground. The strongest jolts were all registered
at the beginning of the collapses, well before the falling debris struck
the Earth. These unexplained "spikes" in the seismic data lend credence
to the theory that massive explosions at the base of the towers caused
the collapses. A "sharp spike of short duration" is how seismologist Thorne
Lay of University of California at Santa Cruz told AFP an underground nuclear
explosion appears on a seismograph... http://www.americanfreepress.net/09_03_02/NEW_SEISMIC_/new_seismic_.html
But, we're not glowing yet. Effects of the Neutron Bomb: could it be possible
for such a device to be planted deep in the earth, explode, destroy the
support towers to a structure such as the WTC towers, and by the time the
temperature cools enough, and the rubble has been cleared, to show no sign
of residual radiation? Just speculating. Neutron bombs are designed to
MINIMIZE damage and MAXIMIZE casualties. It's use would be to detonate
it over a city, and still have the city intact, but everyone dead. http://www.baltech.org/lederman/giuliani-wtc-collapse-3-01-02.html
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This is getting too weird. now confirmed by Federal investigators [see
NY Times article below], the collapse of #7 WTC was caused by thousands
of gallons of diesel fuel illegally stored in the building by former Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani. Was this incredibly dumb move an accident, an oversight
or part of a specific plan to eliminate incriminating evidence? The NY
Times article notes that the cause of the collapse was very similar to
that which brought down the Federal building in Oklahoma City. The similarities
go much further than the interactions between diesel fuel, the laws of
physics and the strength of structural steel. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The "independent" NY Times is at war with any/all conservatives.Their practice
of bending facts of any kind is a conspiracy in itself. It seems like a
massive explosion in the basement or sublevel of the WTC would produce
a profound puff at the base,or ground level.There was a documentary a week
ago on Public Broadcasting(TV).They showed many photographs detailing the
WTC collapsing.Their engineering experts say the structure was weakened
by the intensive heat of the fire,causing the collapse.Who is right on
the collapse ? Theories will abound. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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1- that pit was "smoking" hot for a ridiculously long time .... the temps
were extremely high. 2- explosions would have happened in the upper floors
if you believe the jet fuel theory. (there is not enough fuel in the jet
to melt that much steel in the bottom floors) 3- the rubble was quicly
hauled away. (without forensic examination) 4- has anyone heard any rumours
about the firemen experiencing any gulf war type syndromes?? cyberexpose.net
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is updated S E C T I O N 14.0 Why was this executive order called on September
7, 2001 which was four days BEFORE the September 11 horror? Government
> Search > Executive Orders Search > #2001-261 EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-261
WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard has the statutory responsibility to
provide support to law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel
in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters; and WHEREAS, the
Florida National Guard has the responsibility to provide training support
to law-enforcement personnel and community-based organizations relating
to counter drug operations; and WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard must
train to meet such responsibilities; and WHEREAS, the Florida National
Guard is funded for any such training by budgetary appropriation or grants
before any such training; and WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard must
conduct such training in active service of the state, as defined by Section
250.27, Florida Statutes (also known as active military service and state
active duty) for members of the Florida National Guard to be covered by
Section 250.34, Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, as Governor, I may delegate
the authority contained in Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes, to order
training to help respond to civil disturbances, natural disasters, and
counter drug operations to The Adjutant General of the State of Florida;
and WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the State of Florida that I
delegate such authority, so that the Florida National Guard is adequately
trained to meet its obligation to help respond to civil disturbances, natural
disasters, and counter drug operations and so that members of the Florida
National Guard performing such training are covered by Section 250.34,
Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, the Governor may order the Florida National
Guard to provide extraordinary support to law enforcement upon request
and such a request has been received from the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement (FDLE) to assist FDLE in performing port security training
and inspections. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JEB Bush, as Governor of Florida, by
virtue of the authority vested in me by Article IV, Section 1(a) of the
Florida Constitution, and by Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes, and all
other applicable laws, do hereby promulgate the following Executive Order,
to take immediate effect:
Section 1. Based upon the foregoing, I hereby
find that the public welfare requires that the Florida National Guard train
to support law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel
in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters and to provide
training support to law-enforcement personnel and community-based organizations
relating to counter drug operations. Section 2. I hereby delegate to The
Adjutant General of the State of Florida all necessary authority, within
approved budgetary appropriations or grants, to order members of the Florida
National Guard into active service, as defined by Section 250.27, Florida
Statutes, for the purpose of training to support law-enforcement personnel
and emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or
natural disasters and to provide training support to law-enforcement personnel
and community-based organizations relating to counter drug operations.
Section 3. The Florida National Guard may order selected members on to
state active duty for service to the State of Florida pursuant to Section
250.06(4), Florida Statutes, to assist FDLE in performing port security
training and inspections. Based on the potential massive damage to life
and property that may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port,
the necessity to protect life and property from such acts of terrorism,
and inhibiting the smuggling of illegal DRUGS into the State of Florida,
the use of the Florida National Guard to support FDLE in accomplishing
port security training and inspections is "extraordinary support to law
enforcement" as used in Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes. Section 4.
The Adjutant General shall not place members of the Florida National Guard
into active service for longer than necessary to accomplish the purposes
declared herein. Section 5. This Executive Order supersedes Executive Order
Number 01-17. Executive Order Number 01-17 is hereby revoked. Section 6.
This Executive Order shall remain in full force and effect until the earlier
of its revocation or June 30, 2003. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and have caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be
affixed at Tallahassee, the Capitol, this 7th day of September 2001. S
E C T I O N 15.0 We know it is difficult to understand that there are people
who love this country and love the constitution but are opposed to the
U.S. government bombing in Afghanistan. Why? Consider the following: 1.
The U.S. planned to invade Afghanistan in October of this year even prior
to the WTC tragedy. 2. Osman bin Laden has worked directly with the agency
for 15 to 20 years. He was trained by the agency to fight the Afghani-Soviet
war. He was paid by the agency to destabilize the economy of the USSR -
later resulting in the collapse of their economy. He was paid to provide
weapons and men to train KLA soldiers in the Balkans. 3. The U.S. has had
long-standing plans to install a gas pipeline and an oil pipeline through
Afghanistan. The Clinton administration was unable to get it done, despite
installing the (agency planned) Taliban government which was supposed to
be fully cooperative in the plan. 4. The tunnels and caves used by bin
Laden was partly constructed and modified by the agency using taxpayers
dollars. If you care to research these matters, you will find that everything
I have said here is true. Osman bin Laden (actually agent Tim Ossman) is
the best terrorist that the U.S. government could CREATE and buy. He is
worth his weight in gold to the U.S. government because he is enabling
legislation to be passed such as the USA "Patriot" Bill which eliminates
the Fourth Amendment - PERMITTING HOMES TO BE SEARCHED AND ITEMS TO BE
SEIZED WITHOUT A WARRANT, in any case not necessarily relating to terrorism.
Our government is using the terrorism card to take away your freedom, forever.
Don't be so quick to fight for the bankers and the oil companies - because
THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. Yes, terrorists killed 5000+ people on 9/11,
but who allowed those terrorists into the country and provided them free
latitude to do whatever they wanted, despite the efforts of some bureau
agents who tried to stop them but were not permitted to do so. It hard
to believe that your government is so corrupt and evil, but it is - and
it doesn't take much research to reveal it. Wanting to replace the corrupt
people in high government offices doesn't mean we are anti-American, rather
it means WE CARE A GREAT DEAL ABOUT AMERICA and want to preserve this republic,
its sovereignty and its liberties for another generation of Americans.
THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GIVE UP THEIR LIBERTIES
FOR A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY. If they have their way, you will see the
rise of a global government and the loss of our republican form of government.
The children of those who died on 9/11 deserve better than that from us.
We owe them something - and that is to seek the truth and to deal with
it.b The elected politicians who sit in DC today are only temporary representatives
of our government. Eventually they leave office or die of old age. What
makes our government great is the constitution, the balance of powers,
equal justice under the law, the rights of individuals to determine their
own destiny. It's our system of government that we love, respect and defend
- not the people who are temporarily representatives of it and decision-makers
within it. Right now we have people in government who are not acting in
the best interests of this nation or its people - for various reasons.
These congressmen are virtually unremovable because they have set up a
system whereby they are ensured millions of dollars to keep themselves
in power. Unless we can vote them out of office in the next two elections,
our nation and our system of government that we love so much will be gone
and we will have lost what our forefathers fought and died to preserve
for us. We have to forget about party affiliations, we have to select men
and women for government office who will act in the best interests of the
nation and who will honor their oaths to protect and defend the constitution.
The Secret SocietiesAndover installed a new headmaster in 1933. Claude
Moore Fuess (rhymes with fleece) replaced veteran headmaster Alfred E.
Stear ns, whom the Brahmins saw as a dyed-in-the-wool reactionary. Stearns
was forced out over a "scandal": a widower, he had married his housekeeper,
who was beneath his social class. The new headmaster was considered forward-looking
and flexible, to meet the challenges of the world political crisis: for
example, Fuess favored psychiatry for the boys, something Stearns wouldn't
tolerate. Claude Fuess had been an Andover history teacher since 1908,
and gained fame as an historian. He was one of the most skillful liars
of the modern age. Fuess had married into the Boston Cushing family. He
had written the family-authorized whitewash biography of his wife's relative,
Caleb Cushing, a pro-slavery politician of the middle nineteenth century.
The outlandish, widely known corruption of Cushing's career was matched
by Fuess's bold, outrageous coverup. / Note #1 / Note #4 During George
Bush's years at Andover, his headmaster, Fuess, wrote an authorized biography
of Calvin Coolidge, the late U.S. President. This work was celebrated in
jest as a champion specimen of unwholesome flattery. In other books, also
about the bluebloods, Fuess was simply given the family papers and designated
the chief liar for the "Bostonian Race." Both the Cushing and Coolidge
families had made their fortunes in opium trafficking. Bush's headmaster
named his son John Cushing Fuess, perhaps after the fabled nineteenth century
dope kingpin who had made the Cushings rich. / Note #1 / Note #5 Headmaster
Fuess used to say to his staff, "I came to power with Hitler and Mussolini."/
Note #1 / Note #6 This was not merely a pleasantry, referring to his appointment
the year Hitler took over Germany. In his 1939 memoirs, Headmaster Fuess
expressed the philosophy which must guide the education of the well-born
young gentlemen under his care: "Our declining birth rate ... may perhaps
indicate a step towards national deterioration. Among the so-called upper
and leisure classes, noticeably among the university group, the present
birth rate is strikingly low. Among the Slavonic and Latin immigrants,
on the other hand, it is relatively high. We seem thus to be letting the
best blood thin out and disappear; while at the same time our humanitarian
efforts for the preservation of the less fit, those who for some reason
are crippled and incapacitated, are being greatly stimulated. The effect
on the race will not become apparent for some generations and certainly
cannot now be accurately predicted; but the phenomenon must be mentioned
if you are to have a true picture of what is going on in the United States."
/ Note #1 / Note #7 Would George Bush adopt this anti-Christian outlook
as his own? One can never know for sure how a young person will respond
to the doctrines of his elders, no matter how cleverly presented. There
is a much higher degree of certainty that he will conform to criminal expectations,
however, if the student is brought to practice cruelty against other youngsters,
and to degrade himself in order to get ahead. At Andover, this was where
the secret societies came in. Nothing like Andover's secret societies existed
at any other American school. What were they all about? Bush's friend Fitzhugh
Greene wrote in 1989: "Robert L. 'Tim' Ireland, Bush's longtime supporter
[and Brown Brothers Harriman partner], who later served on the Andover
board of trustees with him, said he believed [Bush] had been in AUV. 'What's
that?' I asked. 'Can't tell you,' laughed Ireland. 'It's secret!' Both
at Andover and Yale, such groups only bring in a small percentage of the
total enrollment in any class. 'That's a bit cruel to those who don't make
AU[V] or 'Bones,'|" conceded Ireland. / Note #1 / Note #8 A retired teacher,
who was an advisor to one of the groups, cautiously disclosed in his bicentennial
history of Andover, some aspects of the secret societies. The reader should
keep in mind that this account was published by the school, to celebrate
itself: "A charming account of the early days of K.O.A, the oldest of the
Societies, was prepared by Jack [i.e. Claude Moore] Fuess, a member of
the organization, on the occasion of their Fiftieth Anniversary. The Society
was founded in ... 1874.... "[A] major concern of the membership was the
initiation ceremony. In K.O.A. the ceremony involved visiting one of the
local cemeteries at midnight, various kinds of tortures, running the gauntlet
-- though the novice was apparrently punched rather than paddled, being
baptized in a water tank, being hoisted in the air by a pulley, and finally
being placed in a coffin, where he was cross-examined by the members....
K.O.A. was able to hold the loyalty of its members over the years to become
a powerful institution at Phillips Academy and to erect a handsome pillared
Society house on School Street. "The second Society of the seven that would
survive until 1950 was A.U.V. [George Bush's group]. The letters stood
for Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas. [Authority, Unity, Truth]. This organization
resulted from a merger of two ... earlier Societies ... in 1877. A new
constitution was drawn up ... providing for four chief officers -- Imperator
[commander], Vice Imperator [vice-commander], Scriptor [secretary], and
Quaestor [magistrate or inquistor].... "Like K.O.A, A.U.V. had an elaborate
initiation ceremony. Once a pledge had been approved by the Faculty, he
was given a letter with a list of rules he was to follow. He was to be
in the cemetery every night from 12:30 to 5:00, deliver a morning paper
to each member of the Society each morning, must not comb or brush his
hair nor wash his face or hands, smoke nothing but a clay pipe with Lucky
Strike tobacco, and not speak to any student except members of A.U.V. "After
the pledge had memorized these rules, his letter of instruction was burned.
The pledge had now become a 'scut' and was compelled to learn many mottoes
and incantations. On Friday night of initiation week the scut was taken
to Hartigan's drugstore downtown and given a 'scut sundae,' which consisted
of pepper, ice cream, oysters, and raw liver. Later that night he reported
to the South Church cemetery, where he had to wait for two hours for the
members to arrive. There followed the usual horseplay -- the scut was used
as a tackling dummy, threats were made to lock him in a tomb, and various
other ceremonies observed. On Saturday afternoon the scut was taken on
a long walk around town, being forced to stop at some houses and ask for
food, to urinate on a few porches, and generally to make a fool of himself.
On Saturday night came the initiation proper. The scut was prepared by
reporting to the cellar in his underwear and having dirt and flour smeared
all over his body. He was finally cleaned up and brought to the initiation
room, where a solemn ceremony followed, ending with the longed-for words
'Let him have light,' at which point his blindfold was removed, some oaths
were administered, and the boy was finally a member...." Notes for Chapter
4 - Part 2 16. Richardson to Prescott Bush, June 10, 1954, H. Smith Richardson
Papers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 17. Wayne S. Cole, "America
First: The Battle Against Intervention, 1940-1941" (Madison: the University
of Wisconsin Press, 1953); Interviews with Richardson family employees;
H. Smith Richardson Foundation annual reports; Richardson to Prescott Bush,
March 26, 1954, Richardson Papers. "Washington Post", April 29, 1990. 18.
Richardson to Chase Bank executive Cole Younger, Sept. 17, 1952, H. Smith
Richardson Papers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 19. Parmet,
Herbert S., "Eisenhower and the American Crusades" (New York: MacMillan
Company, 1972), p. 481. 20. John Prados, "Keepers of the Keys: A History
of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush" (New York: William
Morrow, 1991) pp. 92-95. 21. Robert Callaghan in "Covert Action", No. 33,
Winter 1990. Prescott, Jr. was a board member of the National Strategy
Information Center as of 1991. Both Prescott Sr. and Jr. were deeply involved
along with Casey in the circles of Pan American Airlines, Pan Am's owners
the Grace family, and the CIA's Latin American a ffairs. The Center, based
in Washington D.C., declines public inquiries about its founding. See also
"EIR Special Report", "American Leviathan: Administrative Fascism under
the Bush Regime" (Wiesbaden, Germany: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur,
April, 1990), p. 192. 22. For example, see Trumbull Higgins, "The Perfect
Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs" (New York:
W.W. Norton and Co., 1987), pp.55-56, 89-90. Unverified information on
the squads is provided in the affidavit of Daniel
P. Sheehan, attorney
for the Christic Institute, reproduced in "EIR Special Report" "Project
Democracy: The 'Parallel Government' behind the Iran Contra Affair" (Washington,
D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1987), pp. 249-50. Some of the hired
assassins have published their memoirs. See, for example Felix Rodriguez
and John Weisman, "Secret Warrior" (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989);
and E. Howard Hunt, "Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent" (New
York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974). cyberexpose.net prescott-bush-connections
S E C T I O N 4.0 Some have reaped the financial rewards of the revolving
money door between the military and industry. Cheney became a member of
the board of directors of Morgan Stanley. the Union Pacific Corp., Procter
& Gamble Co. and Electronic Data Systems Corp. (Ross Perot company)
Most importantly, in 1995 Cheney became the CEO of Halliburton (owner of
Brown and Root) As chairman of the board, he held a $45.5 million stake
as Halliburton's biggest individual stockholder. Brown and Root reaped
multi-millions from the Bosnia war. In 1998 he got the idea that Halliburton
should purchase Dresser Industries, for $8.1 billion (creating the world's
largest oil-drilling services company) while on a quail hunt with Dresser
chair Bill Bradford. Dresser and Halliburton merged. Dresser Industries
was owned and operated by Brown Brothers Harriman. Prescott Bush (George
H.W.'s father) was a partner of Brown Brothers and on the board of Dresser
for decades until he became a U.S. Senator. Permindex was a corporate front,
headed by Major Louis M. Bloomfield of Canada. Clay Shaw operated a division
of Permindex in New Orleans at the International Trade Mart. Halliburton
was one of the financiers of Permindex. George and Herman Brown of Brown
and Root were also financiers. Halliburton acquired Brown and Root after
1963. Researchers of JFK have tried since 1963 to determine if George H.W.
Bush had any intelligence role in November 1963. Efforts to conclusively
prove that GHWB was an agent at that time have been futile. Efforts to
conclusively prove that he was directly involved with the Cuban exiles
have also been futile. This is so, despite the close proximity of the Zapata
oil platform to Cuba and the naming of boats for the Bay of Pigs invasion,
notably the "Barbara." However, the financial and corporate structures
which have financed GHWB and now his son, can be conclusively proven by
documents. Note how these roots lead to the Harrimans, British Intelligence
(right-wing variety) and to Halliburton and Brown and Root, thus to Permindex.
Who were the clients of Brown Brothers Harriman when Prescott Bush and
his wife's father, George H. Walker, worked for them? It was these investors
who funded campaigns. His biggest contributors were his uncle Herbie Walker,
formerly of St. Louis, and Eugene Meyer, whose father spent his entire
career working for a competing investment bank--Lazard Freres--or Lazard
Brothers, as it was called in London.The Bush family ties to the Lairds
and Lords of Scotland and England.Lazard Brothers was controlled by officials
in the British government. It was always the investment bank of David Rockefeller.
And, besides Meyer and Walker, George Bush's other large investor in Bush-Overbey
was British Assets Trust, Ltd., an investment company whose directors interlocked
with the management of companies associated with Lord Kindersley, such
as Hudson's Bay Company. In the same year that Zapata and Pennzoil were
moving toward hostile takeovers, a new Swiss bank opened in Houston with
J. Hugh Liedtke and George Bush's securities adviser, W.S. Farish III,
amoung the directors. Called "Bank for Investment and Credit Berne" (BICB),
its stock was owned by Capital National Bank and Paravicini Bank, but investors
included Seagrams, Boeing, Minute Maid in Zurich, the London subsidiary
of Brown and Root and the Schlesinger organisation of London and Johannesburg.
These investors are more than interesting in light of the fact that Paravicini
is a descendant of the Venetian Pallavicini family, whose attorney in Rome,
Carlo d'Amelio, was the general counsel to Centro Mondiale Commerciale
(CMC), the Italian arm of Permindex. CMC was incorporated in Berne Switzerland,
and D' Amelio sat on the board of directors during the time that Seagrams'
attorney, Louis Mortimer Bloomfield of Montreal, was chairman of Permindex.
When the role of CMC in the attempted assassination of President DeGaulle
of France was discovered, it fled Europe and re-emerged in Johannesburg,
South Africa. However, the parent company, Permindex, continued to be managed
from Montreal by Bloomfield. Clay Shaw, the man prosecuted in New Orleans
by Jim Garrison for his role in the Kennedy assassination, was also a board
member of CMC, with which his International Trade Mart had connections.
The connections between Clay Shaw, David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald have,
at this time, been proven by documentary and photographic evidence, despite
myriad attempts to discredit the Garrison investigation. According to a
1970 report called "The Torbitt Document," a compilation of information
gathered by a Texas attorney from "court-approved and documented evidence"
from sources in the U.S. Customs Department and the Narcotics Bureau, from
the Warren Commission and the Garrison investigations, Bloomfield's Permindex
Corp. supervised five subsidiary groups: (1) "White Russian" organisation
called the Solidarists--members Ferenc Nagy of Dallas (former Hungarian
premier) and Jean De Menil of Houston (head of Schlumberger); (2) American
Council of Churches--H.L. Hunt organisation; (3) Free Cuba Committee--Carlos
Prio Soccaras (Cuban ex-president); (4) "The Syndicate"--Clifford Jones
and Bobby Baker working with Joe Bonanno Mafia family; (5) Aerospace security
division--Werner Von Braun, headquarters in Redstone Arsenal in Muscle
Shoals, Alabama and on East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio. The JFK scenario
was planned and carried out by Division Five of the bureau, which acted
in conjunction with the defence intelligence agency under the control of
the joint chiefs. These divisions had a highly secret police agency called
the defence, industrial and security commands, which also worked with aerospace,
atomic energy commission (AEC), USIA and weapons and ammunition supply
corporations (munitions makers) which contract with those agencies. The
police force originated in the 1930's to work for the Tennessee Valley
Authority, then expanded to the AEC, tying it in with army intelligence.
Agents of this force included Clay Shaw, Guy Bannister, David Ferrie, Lee
Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby and others, and was headed up by Bloomfield. According
to the Torbitt report: The principal financiers of Permindex were a number
of U.S. oil companies, H.L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, John De Menil, Solidarist
director of Houston, John Connally, as executor of Sid Richardson estate,
Haliburton [sic] Oil Co., Sen. Robert Kerr of Okla., Troy Post of Dallas,
Lloyd Cobb of New Orleans, Dr. Oechner of New Orleans, George and Herman
Brown of Brown & Root, Attorney Roy M. Cohn, Chairman of the Board
for Lionel Corp., New York City, Schenley Industries of New York City,
Walter Dornberger, ex-Nazi general and his company, Bell Aerospace, Pan
American World Airways and its subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotel Corp.,
Paul Raigorodsky of Claiborne Oil of New Orleans, Credit Suisse of Canada,
and Heineken's Brewery Of Canada and a host of other munitions makers and
aerospace contractors directed by the defence, industrial and security
commands. Permindex was the operator of death squads in Europe, Mexico,
Central American, the Caribbean and the United States. The persons and
corporations who worked with Permindex took over the government of the
United States of America on November 22, 1963. The perpetrators have never
been brought to justice, and now Halliburton, a Permindex backer. Roy Cohn
was a very close friend of Lewis Rosenstiel, who was in turn a friend of
Sam Bronfman. Bloomfield was also president of Heineken of Canada. What
these companies seem to have in common is their shareholders, directors
and financiers. They are the same persons who invested in Bush-Overbey,
Zapata and Dresser Industries through the investment trusts they controlled.
The 1992 edition of Dope, Inc. (a LaRouche publication) has this to say
about the banks involved: Both Seagram's (and its old Prohibition rum-running
partner, Hudson's Bay) are interlocked through a maze of contacts with
all five of the big Canadian chartered banks: the Bank of Montreal, the
Royal Bank of Canada, the Bank of Nova Scotia, the Toronto Dominion Bank,
and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Thus, the "dirty" money gleaned
from the drug trade is conduited through these banks to points further
south: The banks' offshore centers in the Caribbean, and from there the
money makes its whirlpool round of worldwide laundering. The chairman of
this Houston-based international investment bank, BICB, whose investors
included Seagrams and the Schlesinger mining interests in South Africa,
was Johan F. (Fred) Paravicini. Vice-chairman was L.F. McCollum, Sr.-a
long-time Humble Oil employee, who headed CONOCO and founded Capital National
Bank of Houston in 1965. The bank's president was Baker Lovett, cousin
of James A. Baker III, and grandson of the first president of Rice University,
Odell Lovett, a friend of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton. In an interview
with the Houston Post, Baker stated that his experience of 15 years in
banking indicated that Houston had a relatively short supply of money,
and that venture capital had to come from New England-from "more mature
economies." He believed a bank "should dedicate a portion of its resources
to relatively risky situations because it's those which sometimes really
pay off." As the 1980s showed, however, it was also that type of investment
that resulted in the bailout of the savings and loan industry. In addition
to its investment in the BICB set up by CONOCO's chairman, Seagrams also
owned a great deal of stock in CONOCO and caused a major eruption with
DuPont in 1981 over who would control the company. Seagramswas interested
in CONOCO because it owned a 53% interest in Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Co.
in Canada. Since it had recently received $2.3 billion cash profit from
the sale of Sunoco stock, with which it had tried and failed to purchase
control of DuPont's St. Joe Minerals, the Scottish-financed liquor barons
at Seagrams saw another chance to grab something prized by the New Englanders-control
of CONOCO. In 1969 W.S. Farish III was 31 years old and was a partner in
the investment companies of Underwood Neuhaus and W.S. Farish & Co.,
through which he handled millions of dollars of his family's wealth in
addition to George Bush's blind trust. Farish was also serving as president
of a company called Fluorex, an international mineral and exploration company,
and in 1973 also became a director of Houston Natural Gas. He was the only
grandson of one of the founders of Humble Oil, W.S. Farish, Sr., who had
been chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey prior to World War II. W.A.
Harriman & Co. helped Jersey Standard finance a merger with I.G. FARBEN,
THE GERMAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION WHICH MANUFACTURED THE GAS USED TO EXTERMINATE
SO MANY JEWS. Lehman Brothers, which had an office in Capital National
Bank's building at 1300 Main-on the same floor, incidentally, as George
Bush's friend (and later, Commerce Secretary, Robert Mosbacher), was represented
on the board of the Capital National and its international investment branch.
One director was Lehman Brothers partner, John B. Carter, Jr., and another
was director I.H. "Denny" Kempner III, heir to the Imperial Sugar fortune,
whose brother was a Lehman representative in Houston. The decision to form
a partnership with Paravicini may have also been influenced by another
Lehman representative- William Mellon Hitchcock- grandson of William Larimer
Mellon, founder of Gulf Oil, and nephew of banker Andrew Mellon. Bush's
partners in Zapata were the sons of William Liedtke, Sr.-one of the "highest
ranking lawyers in Gulf Oil Corp." What Hitchcock shows us is a classic
fondi member, educated at Harvard, trained at Lazard Brothers during Lord
Cowdray's tenure, who while vacationing in Venice, is recruited to work
for agency-connected investment bank with connections to the Bronfman family
by a member of his father's polo team! How did he manage to get caught?
These people never get caught. But what was never followed up on was how
Hitchcock and Paravicini were connected to CONOCO, Seagrams, Standard Oil,
Brown & Root and the Schlesinger mines in Johannesburg. These connections
lead straight to Permindex, the Bronfmans and to the Dallas oil men funding
the JFK scenario. They also lead to George Bush through W.S. Farish- investor
of his blind trust. Although it has never been proven that Farish, Liedtke
or George Bush had any background in intelligence operations before Bush
was appointed director of the agency by Gerald Ford in 1976, an inference
can be made just by reviewing the associations that existed in the Texas
oil community in the 1960s. Billy's training as an investment banker had
taken place at the English branch of Lazard Freres, which has been shown
to be closely tied to one of George Bush's original investors, Eugene Meyer,
and to Everett DeGolyer, a Dresser director who had spent most of his career
working for Sir Weetman Pearson (Viscount Cowdray). A vice-president of
Empire Trust in Dallas was Jack Crichton (also president of Nafco Oil &
Gas, Inc.) who was connected with army reserve intelligence. In a 1995
book written by Fabian Escalante, the chief of a Cuban counterintelligence
unit during the late 1950s and early 1960s, he describes that as soon as
intelligence was received from agents in Cuba that Fidel Castro had "converted
to communism," a plan called "Operation 40" was put into effect by the
National Security Council, presided over by Vice-President Richard Nixon.
Escalante indicates that Nixon was the Cuban "case officer" who had assembled
an important group of businessmen headed by George Bush and Jack Crichton,
both Texas oilmen, to gather the necessary funds for the operation. Nixon
was a protégé of Bush's father Preston [sic] who in 1946
had supported Nixon's bid for Congress. In fact, Preston Bush was the campaign
strategist that brought Eisenhower and Nixon to the presidency of the United
States. With such patrons, [Tracy] Barnes was certain that failure was
impossible. According to Peter Dale Scott, Crichton arranged for Marina
Oswald to have Ilya Mamantov as her interpreter when she was questioned
after Oswald's arrest. Mamantov also taught scientific Russian classes
at Magnolia Oil Co. Lee and Marina Oswald first met the Paines at a party
at the home of Richard Pierce and Everett Glover where practically all
the guests worked for Magnolia Oil. The guests included a German named
Volkmar Schmidt who came to Dallas in 1961 to do geological research at
Magnolia's laboratories in nearby Duncanville. MacNaughton's personal accountant
was George Bouhe, who also worked at the Tolstoy Foundation with Paul Raigorodsky-a
man involved with the National Alliance of Solidarists. Bouhe was closely
tied to George DeMohrenschildt, who later became famous as the White Russian
assigned to "handle" Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas. It was DeMohrenschildt
who had taken the Oswalds to a party where they met Volkmar Schmidt, and
then a later party at the same house where they met Michael Paine. DeMohrenschildt
was also the one in charge of getting Marina a place to stay at Ruth Paine's
home, and it was Ruth Paine who found Oswald the job at the book depository
office in the building owned by Jack Crichton's friend. DeMohrenschildt
also was involved with the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia in Dallas
which received subsidies from the Baird Foundation, which was determined
to be a agency conduit by the Patman House Select Committee hearings [cf.
New York Times, March 5, 1967, p. 36]. DeMohrenschildt immigrated to the
U.S. in 1938, having been involved in espionage with the OSS and probably
with the Nazis. He had a doctorate in commerce from the University of Liege,
Belgium, when he came to the United States at age 27 where his brother
Dmitry was a professor at Dartmouth, having degrees from Columbia and Yale.
While visiting his brother and American sister-in-law at Bellport, near
East Hampton, on the eastern, ocean tip of Long Island, DeMohrenschildt
met many influential people, including stockbroker Jack and Janet Bouvier
(Jackie's parents). He was also a friend of Margaret Clark Williams, whose
family had vast land holdings in Louisiana, who gave him a letter of introduction
to Humble Oil. DeMohrenschildt came to Texas by bus "where he got a job
with Humble Oil Company in Houston, thanks to family connections," and,
"[d]espite being friends with the chairman of the board of Humble," he
worked as a roughneck in the Louisiana oil fields. DeMohrenschildt came
to Texas in 1944 and got a master's degree in petroleum geology at the
University of Texas at Austin. For a time he worked overseas for the Murchisons'
Three States Oil and Gas and for Pantipec, an oil company owned by William
F. Buckley, Jr.'s father operated in Mexico at the same time Sir Weetman
Pearson (later Viscount Cowdray) and DeGolyer were there running the Mexican
Eagle. In fact, Buckley and his brother were the attorneys for the Mexican
oil companies after their properties were taxed illegally by the Mexican
government. According to William Engdahl, Pearson worked for British Secret
Intelligence, "as did all other major British oil groups." They had financed
and put in power the regime of General Victoriano Huerta, subsequently
overthrown by President Woodrow Wilson, who was supporting the objectives
of Standard Oil in attempting to take from Britain at least a portion of
its concessions for half of Mexico's oil. The U.S. under Rockefeller cover
sent money and arms to Carranza. Pete Brewton, The Mafia, the CIA and George
Bush, p. 137. Brewton's information came from two articles in the Houston
Post-dated April 25, 1969 and January 11, 1970. The earlier article, naming
the corporate investors in the new bank, had no by-line. Dope, Inc. (1992),
p. 459. Dope , Inc., p. 256. The Royal Bank of Canada is said by the EIR
writers of Dope, Inc. to be the "dirtiest" bank, followed closely by the
Bank of Nova Scotia, of which Bronfman aide and Zionist, R.D. Wolfe, is
a director. This bank is also involved in the financing of business in
Jamaica tied to the arms trade, as well as being tied to the Canadian gold
markets through an interlock with Noranda Mines. THE GOLD EXCHANGE ALSO
SERVES AS A MEANS OF PAYMENT FOR THE ILLEGAL WEAPONS TRADE. Through these
family and social contacts, connections arose between the Canadian banks,
Scottish banks, the Far East, South Africa, the Caribbean and New England.
These same families also had strong ties to the Carolinas which was originally
settled by a great number of Scottish emigrants who retained strong ties
to the mother country. Connections can be shown between Larry Johnson,
General Homes and Walter Mischer - a close friend and fund-raiser for George
Bush-through an assortment of complicated corporate relationships. He was
the founder of Houston Land & Trust Company, the first trust institution
in the State of Texas. Marie Phelps McAshan, On the Corner of Main and
Texas: A Houston Legacy (Houston: Gulf Publishing Co.,1985), p. 130; Marguerite
Johnston, Houston, the Unknown City, 1836-1946 (College Station: Texas
A&M University Press, 1991), pp. 75 and 404fn. The name "Barziza" is
similar in sound to "Barozzi," which was the name of one of the case vecchie
that existed in Venice [Allen and Rachel Douglas, manuscript entitled "Venice:
The Fondi.and related matters", p. 12] Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Oil &
Honor: The Texaco-Pennzoil Wars (G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York), p. 36.
Incidentally, Allen Dulles, before becoming director of the agency, had
been legal counsel to Gulf Oil for Latin American operations, as well as
counsel to Prescott Bush at Brown Brothers Harriman. Webster Griffin Tarpley
and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (EIR: Washington,
D.C., 1992), pp. 148-49). John McCloy also represented Gulf in 1975 when
the scandal involving bribery and payoffs of elected officials occurred.
New York Times, June 8, 1973. Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy: Dresser
Industries, Inc.1880-1978 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979), pp. 232
and 388. DeGolyer's death was reported in a December 15, 1956 Houston Post
article, which stated that he "shot himself to death Friday in his Dallas
office. His death was ruled a suicide. No immediate reason for DeGolyer's
act could be determined. However, DeGolyer's son, E.L. DeGolyer, Jr. said
his father had been in ill health for seven years and for the last two
years suffered from aplastic anemia, a disease similar to leukemia. He
said his father required frequent blood transfusions, having had the most
recent one about four weeks ago. Stephen Birmingham, "Our Crowd": The Great
Jewish Families of New York (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1967), pp.
444-445. Dick Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much (New York: Carroll &
Graf Publishers/Richard Gallen, 1992), p. 615 and pp. 792-93 fn. 14. Crichton
was also director of Dorchester Gas Producing Co. with D.H. Byrd, founder
of the Temco Co. (later LTV), who owned the building to which the Texas
School Book Depository had moved several months before Kennedy was killed.
Fabian Escalante, translated by Maxine Shaw, edited by Mirta Muniz, The
Secret War: CIA Covert Operations against Cuba 1959-62 (Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia: Ocean Press, 1995), p. 42. See Peter Dale Scott, The Dallas
Conspiracy, chapter III, p. 37 (quoted in Bartholomew, p. 71). See Peter
Dale Scott, Crime and Cover-Up, p. 66. Marrs, Crossfire, p. 278-9. Gaeton
Fonzi, The Last Investigation (New York: Thunder Mouth Press, 1993), p.190.
Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Marina and Lee (Harper & Row, 1976), p.
216. Ibid., p. 219. Ibid. The quoted passage does not identify which of
the Humble Oil founders was DeMohrenschildt's friend, but it is known that
his UT roommate, Hines Baker did later become chairman of Humble Oil. McMillan
revealed that DeMohrenschildt was also friendly with H. L. Hunt, Clint
Murchison, John Mecom, Robert Kerr and Jean De Menil of Schlumberger. According
to Jim Marrs' interviews with Jeanne DeMohrenschildt after her husband's
death, George was making regular trips to Houston from Dallas during 1962-63
on oil business with Mecom and De Menil. George's Russian friends in the
Tolstoy Foundation told Marrs that he was going to Houston to see George
and Herman Brown (Crossfire, p. 282.) Peter Dale Scott, Crime and Cover-up,
p. 34 Buckley Sr., a Texan, as an undergraduate lived in the same upper
class dorm at the University of Texas at Austin where DeMohrenschildt,
brothers Rex G. Baker and Hines Baker (who W.S. Farish, Sr. later hired
as attorneys and top management for Humble Oil) lived when they were at
UT. See Richard Bartholomew, Possible Discovery of an Automobile Used in
the JFK Conspiracy (the Nash Rambler) --unpublished manuscript, pp. 63,
88-89. Engdahl, p. 72. new-world-odor geocities.com/jackdomb7 cyberexpose.net