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IRAQGAIT
!!!!!!!!!! (out of Kuwait:)!!!!!!!!!!
US/UK COVER-UP!S COLLAPSING!
the 2 nation conspiracy
which concocted the war
is now its weakest link
the war in iraq never ends - there are 3 times as many incidents as are being reported as hundreds maybe thousands of angry, humiliated arab youths head for iraq to take pot shots at handy american soldiers.IRAQGAIT
!!!!!!!!!! (out of Kuwait:)!!!!!!!!!!
US/UK COVER-UP!S COLLAPSING!
the 2 nation conspiracy
which concocted the war
is now its weakest link
invasion achieves exactly what it was supposed to prevent as latest osama tape (with mulla omar remember him? the ex-leader of afghanistan) encourages the iraqis to “support the resistance” and throw out the satanic invader.
iraqi guerrilla resistance spirals out of allied control.
blair’s hands-on fingerprints are discovered in the kelly suicide affair.
public support continues to tumble in both countries.
officials start deserting each other as the noose tightens.
ASK YOURSELF: IS TERRORISM GOING DOWN AS PROMISED?!!!
i suppose you have to be my age to actually remember how the Watergate conspiracy and cover-up fell apart. it didn’t happen overnight, it started to wriggle into the media before the election which Nixon went on to win, but then it just kept dribbling out until other reporters started to smell the blood till the feeding frenzy went totally rampant in the final stages.
and at first the general public (who’d just elected Nixon by a large majority!) were simply not interested, and even many quite rational people thought it was a fairly trivial matter a mere break-in to find information.
but there was enough detail, enough names, and finally enough Cover-Up (as the Nixon admin ‘spun’ like hell to answer the questions raised by each new uncovered detail, precisely as both admins are doing now) that each tiny new clue in the detective story started to become the news. (as is already happening) what will be revealed in tomorrow’s media?! whodunnit?! who knew when did they know who gave the order?
well, you can see we’re approaching this point with Iraqgait. britain is leading the way (because the fascist spirit is weaker here) but, when the american system finally gets going, legally, public senate enquiries and the like will really start to blow the whole Bush admin to pieces.
and nothing can stop it now, this is the point!
the question Is There Enough Material To Keep This Story Going is absolutely answerable as YES!!! this admin has been lying and breaking legal and ethical codes since its first minute (including the actual election!) once the cowed officials feel the noose tightening, once the public gets the real appetite and taste for whodunnit & whodunwot there will be no stopping the process!
nor are we talking about a bit of Watergate skulduggery such as both major parties have always indulged in, we’re talking WARS, INVASIONS, MASS CIVILIAN MURDERS, NEEDLESS MILITARY DEATHS, LIES, the breaking of international treaties, and mega-money corporate corruptions that could fill the media for decades. YES, THERE’S ENOUGH STORY MATERIAL!
george bush, “history’s greatest schmuck”, will be long gone by the time this story runs dry, of course, but i fancy the public will learn to love this process, the final falling apart (in full public glare) of the
Dinosaur’s Last Stand. :) fraser.
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la - la - la - lap-toppling da system!
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u cant understand the world without innerstanding yourself u cant understand yourself without nnerstanding the world
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis,
maintain their neutrality." Dante.
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p.5 BUSH ACTION FIGURE RECALLED; WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NOT INCLUDED!the UP! //:-) 167 aug 20, 2003
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u cant understand the world without innerstanding yourself u cant understand yourself without nnerstanding the world
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis,
maintain their neutrality." Dante.
Man of the Year?
contentsp.8 ACID HOUSE REVISITED - Mark Moore/S Express
p.9 NEO TANTRICS unCORNERed
p.11 SCIENCE HAS BECOME RELIGION! Arp!
p.14 DINOS LOOK TO GORY RECENT PAST FOR IDEALISM, CULTURAL CREATIVES TO A NEW FUTURE - new study of bush's authoritarian psyche touches a raw nerve
LETTER: I’M BORED OF THE US
p.16 OUTLINE HISTORY of America’s First Family- and some of their choice friends - FILE THIS AWAY FOR FUTURE TRIALS
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Goethe.
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Goethe.
This is probably heresy but I'm bored with the US. There's no hope for them until they stop behaving like the Roman Empire, including deifying their emperors.
Could we have more European contributors please?
Much love
clareslaney / uk
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Chemical Kelly and The Story Of My Life
Since, in our deeply sick society (denatured & deformed through ignorance imposed by the ignorant), any project which “succeeds” needs necessarily to do so by buying into increasingly serious levels of the general sickness, i have always and in everything found myself ultimately to be faced with a choice: to play the Game (and succeed) or to refuse to play the Game? (and ‘fail’?)
NAME A SINGLE SUCCESSFUL PERSON WHO SPEAKS HIS MIND OPENLY YOU CAN’T!
by consistently refusing the proffered blandishments, i have consciously (of my own free will) put myself outside. i don’t say i have no regrets, but i do say i have a helluva lot less of them than people like Chemical Kelly, a “perfectly decent Englishman” who was earning £1200 per week for developing viruses that could end life on the planet.
Chemical Kelly seems to me a symbol of the dying English Culture - scrape below the surface of any of them and it’s not a pretty sight. of course the media has ignored this aspect (they’re as guilty as the rest!), presenting him as a victim of the Blair government. maybe he was, maybe he showed a flicker of conscience near the end, but let's never forget how much ALL of them have sold out to get their names in the media, their houses in Surrey, their awards and their honours.
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"It's the most difficult decision I've made in my entire life, except the one I made in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax." Arnold Schwarzenegger, announcing his gubernatorial candidacy on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno"
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"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations,
which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Thomas Jefferson
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OPTIMISM PREVAILS
For the next two days, let the inner child out.
Over the weekend we can communicate bigtime,
and celebrate our last hurrah of unrestrained exuberance.
Then we begin a new annual cycle of love and expansion.
Next week begins with a burst of creativity.
For details, see Maya’s Daily Success Guide at
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hey, suddenly the UP!’s back 2 normal. maybe next the world, eh? which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Thomas Jefferson
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OPTIMISM PREVAILS
For the next two days, let the inner child out.
Over the weekend we can communicate bigtime,
and celebrate our last hurrah of unrestrained exuberance.
Then we begin a new annual cycle of love and expansion.
Next week begins with a burst of creativity.
For details, see Maya’s Daily Success Guide at
www.daykeeperjournal.com
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keep the hip in hippie, the new in new wave, and lizard men in their pen. you're beautiful, neva' change (recommend you eat lifefood(.com).
peace my brooda'-
djjungleboy
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BUSH ACTION FIGURE RECALLED; WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NOT INCLUDED!
Contrite Manufacturer Apologises for Missing WMD
A G.I. Joe-like action figure depicting President George W. Bush as an "Elite Force Aviator" has been recalled by global corporate fantasy toy manufacturer Masons Action Dolls (MAD) after consumers complained that the $39.95 toy did not include the weapons of mass destruction pictured on the toy's packaging.
The box shows the President in his aviator flight suit made famous in his landing on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, uncovering weapons of mass destruction in a suspicious-looking Iraqi warehouse. But when parents brought the toy home to their kids, they found it contained only the action figure of the President and no weapons of mass destruction whatsoever.
Janis Martino, 32, a mother of two in Lansing, Michigan, said her son Tyler was "real disappointed" when he found no weapons of mass destruction inside. "He felt tricked," Ms. Martino said. "You can't tell someone that there are weapons of mass destruction and then have there not be any."
“GYPPED AND CONNED” BY HIGH PRICE TAG
Ms. Martino also said she felt "gypped" by the high price tag. She felt “conned and angry,” and kept asking reporters: "If there were no weapons of mass destruction, what were we spending all this money for?!"
However, while apologising for the words on the packaging that had forced the recall ("MAKE ELITE FORCE AVIATOR GEORGE W. BUSH FIND & DESTROY EVIL SADDAM'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!") MAD’s president seemed unrepentant: “Even if it was a little misleading, it was only sixteen words" he claimed.
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Fraser - in 2001 I helped out in the healing space at the Den of Enlightenment - I was still studying at the time but you gave me a chance to be a part of the experience... It was amazing and I learned loads - from Yasmine and everyone else I met.
this year my dreams have begun to manifest in accordance with the whims of chaos - I have set up a proper clinic. I wanted to say a massive thankyou for all the experience and confidence you helped me to gain...
although I was only an active part of the campus for a short time it’s something I think of often with joy! :)
cheers for letting me be a part of it.
love light and cosmic rainbows,
Liz xx / chepstow, uk.
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Fraser,
you seem to be trying to justify your support for George Galloway and his support for Saddam’s regime.
>> i DO support anyone who takes a brave stand against the zillion dollar hype machine, and he's being threatened with expulsion from the party. by 'support' i don't necessarily mean agreement of course, just his right and indeed duty to say what he truly believes, right or wrong. u can surely see it takes more balls and courage to do what galloway did than what most Labour MPs did, no?
If we can agree that, most if not all of the time, George Bush is wrong-headed and misguided to say the least, then surely we must be equally critical of someone like George Galloway. He had no excuse for not knowing what was going on in Iraq. His colleague on the 'left' of the Labour party Anne Clywd had a very different perspective on Saddam’s regime. She actively campaigned for his overthrow for many years.
>> did u support the war then? or r u just happy now iraq's been liberated? the CRUCIAL POINT is that, if we're now supposed to believe that WMD were NOT a proper reason for the invasion, then IT WAS and IS EVEN MORE TOTALLY REQUIRED THAT THE UN SHOULD HAVE BEEN INVOLVED. "pre-emptive strikes for self protection" is at least a logical figleaf, but we can't have people like bush, blair or even you deciding which regime's to be removed. that way anarchy and bio-disaster lies. and we have to endure bad truths sometimes rather throw everything we don't quite have down the plughole. no?
All I'm trying to say is that we have to work very hard to get to the truth and try to avoid slipping into the trap where just because George Galloway is anti war, anti-Bush, anti-Blair etc he must be worth supporting.
>> re 'supporting' c above.
hmm. of course i see your point, andy. lessee if i can explain my attitude this way: i once came up with the proposal that, when 2 countries were starting to get mutually hostile, the UN Charter should be able to force each side to regularly publish the other side's pov in prominent positions in all their public media . this i thot would stop the demonisation that always seems necessary to persuade us humans to go to war. this is how i see what galloway was doing.
now, of course, if some shitrag like the daily telegraph could show he was doing it for big bucks (rather than PR fees which every MP does to support whatever dirty cause), well, that would blow him out of the water. and that's why support for galloway's defence fund is totally worthwhile, just to get the truth out.
Keep up the good work!
Andy Jones./ “somewhere in britain”
thanks andy, it's not always eeezy as in this case. u c, it's almost impossible to take a rational position between 2 sides when one of them has the entire western lie machine behind it and the other's just a bit of desert. it's happening in liberia right at this moment. my advice is: always begin by assuming your government is lying but keep your mind open to be convinced :)
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FRI AUG 22 SUN AUG 31
The Rainbow Circle Magic Hat* Camps present their last event of the year - the Astrology, Magic & Music Camp - with astrologers, magicians and musicians gathering for a week of edutainment & enlightenment in a beautiful country site nr Gloucester. Named after the newly discovered planet Quaoar (kwa-o-w/h) which reveals the pulse of the live indigenous in us all.
I’ve been hanging there myself this summer, and there’s no better place to ‘get away from it all’. You can unwind, and you don’t need to hear a buncha bands you wouldn’t play on your machine at home! Just wind, trees, grass... See ya there, huh?
* Voluntary contributions only. Magic Hat is a means of living, as sharing - our energies, skills and love.
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Hi Fraser
Great issue of UP!
Like the journalist quote - rocking, I'll be using that :)
Much of this UP! i would say is one of the best i've seen, you are on a roll!
Gaiabolically yours, xxx
mark westmonster
ps is it okay to glitter dust? :)
>> well, only if u r not dusting at the same time.
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oi Fraser, listen do you have the UP without all the pink and the horrible shifting fonts and that stuff? its very unpleasant to read this way. If there is a list for minimalists, please put me on that one. Cheers,
Uke / London
>>certainly sir or modom, the Unformatted List is wot u require. have placed u there.
and, as we always enquire in these cases, strictly for our records: is sir or modem perhaps over 40?
> Not at all, not at all. way below in fact. just someone who enjoys content, but not pink.
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GREAT STUFF, FRASER!!!!! KEEP IT COMING AT ME!!!
AND YOU'RE DEFINITELY ON THE BUS!!!!
LOVE
Johnathen / Uttar Pradesh, India.
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ACID HOUSE REVISITED
Mark Moore/S Express
I was always a bit disappointed with the whole 1988 thing because it just became about taking loads of drugs and waving your arms in the air to stroboscopes.
Acid house could have become a really important political force and though there were strands that went off and did stuff, but in the end it didn't change much in society. I remember being a kid in the ‘60s seeing all those students rioting and thinking it was the coolest thing, though I know I shouldn't be saying that. Acid house could have become a huge political force but no-one wanted to become a figurehead, a Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix type character for the acid house generation, so it never happened, it just became a faceless, hedonistic phenomenon.
Now I see it as another era to add to my happy memories. I don't know what's going to happen next, personally I'm just interested in going to these new clubs where you can meet people with the same kind of outlook. They're not people I'd call explicitly political, I wouldn't call myself political, but they're aware and conscious of what's going on in the world. They don't want to take a back seat and let things happen and they want their voices to be heard.
That vibe was missing from a lot of the clubs that I was going to three years ago, whereas now I'm always meeting people whose minds are more attuned."
http://www.markmoore.com
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SAT/SUN AUG 22, 23
Mount Ephraim Gardens is the perfect setting for one of the UK's most welcoming festivals. Set in the grounds of a splendid Victorian mansion, the festival site nestles amongst acres of idyllic orchards, gardens and vineyards.
Some of the bands playing at Canterbury Fayre, now in its 4th year, are OTT ~ Loop Guru ~ Eat-Static ~ State of Bengal ~ Dreadzone ~ Kamel Nitrate ~ Banco-de-Gaia.
This year, the site has been further extended to incorporate the Whirl-y-Gig big top featuring DJ Monkey Pilot with special guests, and the Croissant Neuf circus stage.
More information & TICKETS
http://www.canterburyfayre.com
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NEO TANTRICS unCORNERed
To be perfectly honest I don't understand a lot of the neo-Tantric stuff.
But I read it knowing that it is all going in and making a difference even if not consciously.
But one thing you said in this context has had a profound effect on me. Seriously. And that is when you said that you had entered into a period of celibacy. This really struck a chord with me. It is soooooo relevant, given where I am in my voyage of self-discovery.
What do you think occupies most of my waking thoughts? (remember I am in Brazil by the beach!) Sex? Women? Women's arses? Women's tits? (Oh, the collective noun for tits I think is 'a faceful of tits') Women's pussies? Oral sex? Women? OK... just for completeness I'll add in love, companionship, company etc.. (I exaggerate for dramatic effect)
And how does this affect the way I live my life? Profoundly is the answer.
Now, and for many many years past, when I go out, I go out to those places/bars/nightclubs where I think there will be lots of women. When I go to the beach I look for a spot close to some horny chicks. When I'm in the shopping mall I'm scouting around for some gorgeous bimbette to stalk.
Basically, it drives my life. I'm not living MY life. I have totally externalised my happiness (at least this type or bit of happiness - which is pretty much all of it!) onto meeting and shagging and falling in love with some beautiful young (if possible) darling.
A puppet on a string’s life isn't free. I am a conditioned animal totally under the command of my penis, insecurities and need to be loved.
And the reality is that, for many many reasons, I don't go and chat up women anyway!
I have an exceedingly poor self-image. It all goes back a long long way - in the womb and after (and maybe even b4 - who knows?)
And now I have this thing about being old! Mate, I'm a bundle of insecurities. So even though I’m driven to chase women (at a safe distance so I don't run the risk of actually catching one) I am too much a bundle of insecurities to do anything about it effectively and, if I do, then I dive headlong into a need-driven relationship, scare them off and drop myself into depression. Hey, a winning strategy! Not!
And I'm getting a bit bored and pissed off with the whole thing. I'm 42 now. My 50th birthday looms. God - I'm not a kid anymore. When am I going to start living MY life, for ME, for MY benefit and happiness and well-being? When am I going to stop relying on someone or something else to make me happy?
God knows the way I’ve been living so far has led mostly to deep despair. And that's painting a rosy picture!
So I'm thinking "cut the crap".
I can't have a relationship based on unconditional love whilst I rely on it for my happiness. I have to be OK with myself first, to love myself first and then, when I've got that sorted (or more sorted) I’ll be better equipped to enter into a loving relationship not based on need and insecurity.
And your method of a period of celibacy strikes me as the perfect way to freedom!
It's only in my mind yet - it hasn't reached the point of commitment, but it’s getting a lot of air-time in my head. We'll see....
Of course, you don't need to tell me that taking a vow of celibacy when travelling through Brazil is the most fucked-up thing a man can do! I know! But I think it needs to be done. And where better than where the temptation is strongest?
Peace (before you die) and love (not need),
Chris / Brazil
Ignorance is bliss.
>> try going celibate for a DAY. (a day a week?) (maybe keep a diary?) but you gottta promise yourself, in your deepest Essence, that YOU WILL NOT GET EVEN THE SLIGHTEST BIT PHYSICAL and stick to it. otherwise this could seriously weaken your will.
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>we must always be on the defence.
>why do more womyn like chocolate than sex? it's because we're having bad sex. it's because most men on the planet don't know where the clitoris is.
it's time to end this ridiculous boy vs. girls thing... get off the defensive, quit acting powerless, drop the victim shtick, start getting to know men as real people, and encourage your womyn friends to do the same. it's communication and understanding that are going to save this sorry world.
peace in chaos,
chas / glasgow
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So Fraser, do I read between the lines and guess that you actually voted for T Blair the first time around?
>> never vote, nor sign up for it (now another law i beak) but i do far more important work than that in a democracy i argue loudly to persuade others to vote, and yes, i urged them blair-wise.
Which was the bit that sold him to you? Was it perhaps:
- his promise to make lots more millionaires?
- his promise to take a tough line with the homeless?
- his assurance that he was ready to push the nuclear button?
>> heh heh. am a sucker for a new face and general promises. and, realistically, that’s probably the best we can hope for on the level of mere politics.
naturally, if that had been all he’d promised it wouldn’t have grabbed me. but i confess his 3rd Way balance (to change no faster than our society can hold together with yes, Daily Mail readers) felt right to me. now we know he was only saying what his market research people were telling him people wanted. he himself isn’t that way at all :(
but listen, john, if you don’t think the world has massively changed since the days of There Is No Alternative, then you’re closing your eyes. there decidedly IS an Alternative now, even if Blair’s not it.
John Dav / Amsterdam
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SCIENCE HAS BECOME RELIGION! Arp!
My description of the changes which will come about with the acceptance by the scientific community of what we can accurately call the new astronomy were inspired by Arp's previous book, "Quasars, Redshifts, and Controversies." In an essay, What Has Science Come To? from the Journal of Scientific Exploration in 2000, he begins:
”50 years ago, one could hardly avoid falling into a heated argument on whether science and religion were compatible. Today, that is a dead subject.
As a scientist, I just assumed people had come to realize that science is what works, and religion was based on myths and guesses. But now an astonishing realization has begun to dawn on me - religion has prevailed! Science has become religion!”
The weight of all this will not fall on the public mind like a hammer, as it has on you and me and others who armchair-study these ideas; the changes in thought will trickle down, like snow of a different colour. The snow will be blue instead of white and people will eventually begin to wonder how we could have been blinded for so long by all that whiteness. A Big-Bangless universe will gradually become the norm, and only historians will catch the social implications of it. We hear, often, "It don't matter who's president. Nothing changes anyway." Only years after does the public see the historical importance of this or that eight year term of office.
It's exhilarating (that's about the closest I can come to an accurate adjective) being on the cutting edge of such knowledge, or what is becoming knowledge. Arp's findings are as important today as Copernicus telling a doubting Europe that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
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WHERE IS THE MONEY?
A new interactive web site hits you in the face over the Enron-style looting of the US Treasury and what it means to YOU personally, and collectively.
A political reality-check for all of America, the only one you’ll be getting soon.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/080803_where_money.htmlAOL Users:
<a href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/080803_where_money.html">Click Here</a>
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fraser, i can just c u with an apron and a feather duster attacking the nic-nacs... while your hound looks on askance.... perhaps folks should exchange dust.... 'this is my dust... shed for u.. and in thy holy name.'
lots of fun.... don’t u know this is the modern age? make that a pinny.. and enough with the nud-nic talk, already.
we love u! once more round the gaff.....
brian x. shepherds bush, london
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//YOU FEEDBACK:A LIL HISTORY by Santosh
The USA and Britain did not invade Iraq to remove Saddam because there was no provision to do so under anything agreed at the United Nations. They invaded to remove Iraq's 'weapons of mass destruction'. The UN, and the American / British parliaments, were provided with evidence of the existence of these weapons. Its hard to see how any evidence of their existence could not contain some reference to their supposed whereabouts. The fact that no proof to back this claim has yet been found shows that this 'evidence' was mere conjecture (at best).
Let's not get into a semiotic quagmire over this. The excuse that "we were unaware that the information was a bit dodgy" cannot be accepted from those whose solemn duty it was to verify the facts, and indeed were among the few able to do so.
The presentation of unfounded conjecture as truth to the US / British parliaments and their electorates and to the UN is tantamount to lying ... to the entire world!
Brad, you were lied to. You maybe had some doubts, but you couldn’t possibly tell at the time because you had no actual evidence either way, like all of us. The very lack of solid evidence made many of us suspect we were being led down the garden path. Yet Imp equally sure many simply put their faith in their democratically elected leader, and had a right to do so, and had a right not be lied to on such an issue (or any?)
The question is, what are we going to do now? The lie didn't start or end with George Bush and Tony Blair. Besides a press that was (criminally?) derelict in its duty, there were many in public service who propagated what they must have known was a lie; they should be held accountable too. Unpopular as it may have been at the time, their duty was to us, the electorate, their employers; they should have resigned and blown the whistle.
Jerry - Brescia Italy
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BASIC IDEAS OF TIME CHALLENGEDA bold paper that’s been published in the August issue of Foundations of Physics Letters seems set to change the way we think about the nature of time and its relationship to motion and classical and quantum mechanics.
The work also appears to provide solutions to Zeno's paradoxes.
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> Tests showed that it was actually the large quantity of water she drank.
Which doesn't prove that Ecstasy is safe
>> which nobody on our side has ever said it is. it’s the other side that’s overstating.
> Yes they have, I'm afraid - including dealers.
u ever heard a salesman underplaying his product? i was referring to the Pro Drug Activist Argument.
- if it can cause you to drink enough water to kill yourself, then I'd call that a pretty serious side effect.
>> but zero to do with the drug itself (one of the safest there is) and 100% to do with cultural voodoo playing, witchburning panic, and state-created ignorance, no?
> Absolutely to do with the drug itself. I've seen enough gurning loons to know it can put you into unsafe situations - situations that you wouldn't be in if you weren't off your face. It's no worse than alcohol in that respect of course.
absolutely nothing to do with MDMA. no gurning, none of that. the ‘products’ to which you keep referring are (indirectly but unerringly) created by the laws that make them illegal. NOT THE DRUGS THEMSELVES. which are another matter: if we are discussing the values of “getting off your face” in a safe (legal) environment with clean pure drugs then that is another discussion.
> as for “one of the safest there is”, safest is the closest you can get to safe - so you are implying that it is safe, albeit qualified as a relative judgement.
there isn’t a human activity that is ‘safe’. in terms of employing or consulting an ally to explore other dimensions than Coca Cola or even Radio 4 would recognise as existent, MDMA is “one of the safest there is”.
> Several other cases of teenagers dying from over consumption of fluid have been recorded after all-night, often drug-fuelled dancing in hot clubs.
What we can say for certain is that there were plenty of promoters at the time running clubs and raves where Ecstasy was sold in wholesale quantities with little regard for the safety of punters - whether due to overcrowding, overheating, over or under hydration or drug toxicity. Not to mention fire risk and permanent damage to hearing.
>> actually my main criticism would be they didn’t provide enough free water many turned off the taps the toilets to increase bar sales common in all alcohol fuelled clubs of course.
> Free water wouldn't have saved Betts.
if club owners hadn’t been terrified of providing free water because cops would interpret it as them knowing that E was being taken in their premises (whether they liked it or not) then probably poor Leah would have been a bit more knowledgeable about how much water to take. don’t u agree?
>> but nobody was forcing anyone to go to these events and everybody was sick of being over-nannied by the authorities to the point where they’d soon be telling you to stay at home to be safe (actually getting closer every day now)
> Sure - but peer pressure is powerful, especially amongst young people. I've seen plenty of people talked into doing things they knew were stupid.
which is why i blame the government and stupid misguided, misinformed and misshapen “anti-drug” campaigners most of all. “peer pressure” (as u call it) is a fine healthy thing in a fine healthy informed culture.
Megatripolis was the exception that proved the point - but please don't gloss over the thatcherite/organised crime aspect of most of the other promoters in the 90's. I doubt it's much different now.
>> alright, i wont gloss over it, daniel. its true. but it’s far from the whole truth, and its more a by-product than the actual Phenomenon.
> I've been told that established gangsters took an active interest in acid house within a few weeks of the first London parties.
if the stuff’s illegal who do u think is going to get involved innit?!
PLUS i never really understood how exceptions prove the point. MegaT spread the tribal conscious vibe, so how does it prove the criminal irresponsible stuff?
> By being so obviously different, it exposed the dodginess of the other clubs. The kind of places where you were more in danger from the security guards than anyone inside...
Daniel / London
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I love your rants! Thank you for the UP!, please keep it coming and tickling the outer dendrites!
But a minor point: energy and matter may be interchangeable but they're not the same thing, they're different forms of something more fundamental like quarks. Light is energy, not matter.
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NEW STUDY OF BUSH'S PSYCHE TOUCHES A RAW NERVE
Julian Borger
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism, and the intolerance of ambiguity".
The report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, as all suffering from the same affliction.
All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".
President George Bush, according to the authors, turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.
"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic clichés and stereotypes."
The psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
One of the psychologists , Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
The authors, presumably aware of the outrage they were likely to trigger, added a disclaimer that their study "does not mean that conservatism is pathological or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false".
"The variables we talk about are general human dimensions," said another author, Arie Kruglanski, of the University of Maryland. "These are the same dimensions that contribute to loyalty and commitment to the group. Liberals might be less intolerant of ambiguity, but they may be less decisive, less committed, less loyal."
George Will, a Washington Post columnist who has long suffered from ingrained conservatism, noted, tartly: "The professors have ideas; the rest of us have emanations of our psychological needs and neuroses."
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'Americans are not critical thinkers by and large. We suffer from a collective sociogenic learning disability based on the complete commodification of our consciousness by consumerism and electronic media. So we are not only bitterly unhappy and alienated, we are intensely stupid and attached to denial.'
From an interview with an ex-US Special Forces guy:
http://truthout.org/docs_03/073103A.shtml
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Marvin Minsky, MIT professor and founding father of Artificial Intelligence, says today's artificial-intelligence methods are fine for gluing together two or a few knowledge domains but still miss the "big" AI problem.
He says the missing element is something so big that we can't see it... common sense!
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THE PART OF THE NET THAT’S PUBLIC
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From Congress to Silicon Valley, the nation's largest communication and entertainment conglomerates - and software firms that want their business - are seeking to restructure the Internet, to charge people for high-speed uses that are now free and to monitor content in an unprecedented manner. This is not just to see if users are swapping copyrighted CDs or DVDs, but to create digital dossiers for their own marketing purposes.
All told, this is the business plan of America's handful of telecom giants - the phone, cable, satellite, wireless and entertainment companies that now deliver high-speed Internet access. Their ability to meter Internet use, monitor Internet content and charge according to those metrics is how they are positioning themselves for the evolving Internet revolution.
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U.S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS 1.
"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. . . .
"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937. (1)
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Alfred Mendes and some of their choice friends
AN OUTLINE HISTORY
NOTE: they are also "friendly" with the Harriman family, known supporters of the Democratic party. In fact, some would say thatPatricia Harriman was responsible for getting Clinton elected! And, one Harriman daughter recently married 70-year-old Baron Evelyn de Rothschild. A perspective that politics have more to do with bloodline than the 2-party system.
1897: Long-established Union Pacific Railroad (UPR) bankrupted.
1898: Edward Henry Harriman & legal partner, Judge Robert Scott Lovett, buy UPR for $110 million, a deal brokered by New York-based Kuhn Loeb investment bank house, of which Felix Warburg was a partner. During this period, Samuel Prescott Bush was president of the Buckeye Steel Castings Co.
1914: With war looming, Percy A. Rockefeller took control of the arms manufacturer, Remington Arms & appoints Samuel F. Pryor as CEO.
1918: Robert Scott Lovett (above) now president of UPR. Samuel Prescott Bush made director of the facilities division of the US War Industries Board under its chairman Bernard Baruch & his assistant, the banker Clarence Dillon.
1919: George Herbert Walker forms W.A.Harriman & Co. bank - with Walker as president & chief executive, & Averell Harriman (son of Edward Henry Harriman - above) as chairman (He was to become US Ambassador to the USSR [‘43 - ‘46]; US Secretary of Commerce [‘46 - ‘48]; & Governor of NY State [‘55 - ‘59])
1920: Averell Harriman & George Herbert Walker of W.A.Harriman & Co. gain control of the German Hamburg-Amerika Line after negotiations with the latter’s chief executive, William Cuno, & Max Warburg of the shipping line’s bankers, M.M. Warburg. The American holding now known as the American Ship & Commerce Corp. (ASCC). Samuel F. Pryor (above) of Remington Arms had been involved in the deal & now served on the board of ASCC.
(Cuno was subsequently to become a heavy contributor to Nazi Party funds). It should be noted that Averell Harriman was chairman of UPR from 1920-1946.
1922: Averell Harriman set up a branch of W. A. Harriman & Co. in Berlin under the residency of his partner, George H. Walker.
1923: Fritz Thyssen’s contributions to the Nazi Party began with a donation of 100,000 marks (ref: his book “I Paid Hitler” ‘41).
Prior to ‘24: As revealed in a US government memorandum dated Oct. 5 ‘42 to the Executive Committee of the office of the Alien Property Custodian: “W. Averell Harriman was in Europe sometime prior to 1924 & at that time became acquainted with Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist”, and they agreed to set up a bank for Thyssen in New York. It adds that the Thyssen agent “H. J. Kouwenhoven..came to the United States..prior to 1924 for
conferences with the Harriman company in this connection”.
1924: W.A.Harriman & Co invested $400,000 in setting up Union Banking Corp. (UBC) in New York to act in partnership with the Thyssen-owned Bank voor Handel en Scheepvart (Bank for Trade and Shipping, BHS) in Holland. The UBC was now in a position to transfer funds back & forth between the US and Thyssen’s companies in Germany - his Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel) in particular. Prescott Sheldon Bush Snr. (son of Samuel Bush, & son-in-law of George H Walker) joins the Harriman - controlled US Rubber Co.
1926: Prescott S. Bush Snr. made Vice-President of W. A. Harriman & Co. The Wall Street banker, Clarence Dillon (an old colleague of Prescott S. Bush Snr.’s father, Sam Bush - see above), of Dillon Read, set up the German Steel Trust with Thyssen & partner, Friedrich Flick, whereby Dillon Read would handle the Trust’s corporate banking in return for two Dillon
Read representatives being on the board of the German Steel Trust, whose chief executive was Albert Voegler, another German industrialist who was to help Hitler into power. He (Voegler) also held directorships in the BHS bank, & the Hamburg-Amerika Line. The UBC was by now in partnership with Friedrich Flick’s vast steel, coal & zinc conglomerate operating in Germany & Poland - the Silesian Holding Co. Walker, Bush, & Harriman now owned one third of Flick’s conglomerate, calling their holding the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corp.
1930/’31; As admitted by Fritz Thyssen during interrogation in Sept. ‘45, he arranged with Rudolph Hess for the transfer of “about 250-300,000 marks” via his (Thyssen’s) Dutch bank BHS to the Nazi Party - adding it was “about the sum I’d given before”. In total, he had donated & loaned more than one million dollars to the Nazi Party.
1931: W. A. Harriman & Co. merged with the British-American investment house, Brown Brothers, resulting in Prescott S. Bush Snr., Thatcher M. Brown & the two Harriman brothers being the senior partners of the new Brown Brothers Harriman firm. A board member of Brown Bros., Robert A. Lovett (son of Robert Scott Lovett [above] & Asst. Sec. for Air [in WW2]; Under Sec. of State [‘47 - ‘49]; Dep. Sec. of Defense [‘50 - ‘51]; Secretary of Defense [‘51 - ‘53]), an American whose father had served on the War Industries Board of WW 1 with Sam Bush [above]), became another partner in the newly- merged firm. Prescott S. Bush Snr. now ran the New York office of the the newly-merged firm, while Thatcher Brown ran the London end. vCertain pertinent facts about Brown Bros. are worthy of note here: Montagu Collet Norman, governor of the Bank of England & well-known Nazi sympathiser, was not only an ex-Brown Bros. partner - his grandfather had also been boss of Brown Bros. during the American Civil War when they (Brown Bros.) were shipping 75% of slave cotton from the southern states of America to British mills.
1932: As reported by the US embassy in Berlin to Washington not long before Hitler’s taking over of power, questions were being raised as to who were the financial backers behind the Nazi Party electioneering & their 300,000 - 400,000 SA & SS troops - adding that the American-owned Hamburg-Amerika Line was funding propaganda against the German government’s attempts to disband these troops!
Jan. 1933: Hitler assumes power in Germany.
Mar. 7 ‘33: Prescott S. Bush Snr. notified Max Warburg (above) that he (Warburg) was to be the American Ship & Commerce Line official representative on the board of the Hamburg- Amerika Line. Warburg had been a long-time advisor to Hjalmar Schacht (German Economics Minister & a close friend of Montagu Norman), & was an executive in the Reichsbank. A further pertinent connection: Max Warburg’s brothers ran the Kuhn Loeb investment bank, which had handled E. H. Harriman’s buy-out of the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1890’s (above).
Mar. 29 ‘33: As revealed in Moshe Gottlieb’s book “American Anti-Nazi Resistance ‘33 - ‘41”, Max Warburg’s son, Erich, cabled his cousin, Frederick Warburg - who was a director of the Union Pacific Railroad - instructing him to use his influence to stop all anti-Nazi propaganda & activity in America.
Mar. 31 ‘33: As a result: the American-Jewish committee (within which the Warburgs had much influence) & The B’nai B’rith (which subsequently became known as the Anti-Defamation League) issued a joint statement counselling “that no American boycott against Germany be encouraged”!
May. 20. ‘33: As reported in the New York Times: on Hitler achieving power, an agreement to coordinate all trade between Germany & America was reached in Berlin after negotiations between Hitler’s Economics Minister, Hjalmar Schacht (above) & John Foster Dulles. As a result of this, the Harriman International Co. - under Oliver Harriman (Averell’s first cousin) - formed a syndicate of 150 firms/individuals to conduct all exports from Germany to America. It should be noted here that the two Dulles brothers, partners in the corporate law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, had acted for many Nazi enterprises during & after this period, including I. G. Farben, developer of the nerve gas, Tabun; SKF, supplier of 60% of its bearings to Germany; & the Schroeder Banking house, of which Allen Welsh Dulles became a director of its New York branch - a post he held until 1944. (Further pertinent details of the Dulles brothers: J. F. Dulles became Secretary of State [‘53 - ‘59]; A. W. Dulles became CIA Deputy Director for Plans [‘51]; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence ['51 - ‘53]; & Director of CIA [‘53 -’61]).
Sept. 5 ‘33: North German Lloyd Co. merged with Hamburg-Amerika Line in Hamburg.
Nov. 4 ‘33: American Ship & Commerce Corp. (owners of Hamburg-Amerika - see above) installed long-time Harriman executive, Christian Beck as manager of ‘freight & operations’ in North America for this newly-merged company, now known as Hapag-LLoyd, whose chairman was Emil Helfferich, a Nazi. Nazi security guards accompanied all shipping so engaged in this trade.
Sept. '34: At the US Senate Nye Committee hearings, it was revealed that Samuel Pryor, executive ctte. chairman of Remington arms & founding director of both the UBC & the American Ship & Commerce Corp., had joined in a cartel agreement with I. G. Farben, the German chemical/armaments conglomerate (see above). It was further revealed that the Nazi troops (noted above) were “nearly all armed with American guns”.
Dec. 7 ‘41: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour - US now in World War 2.
Aug. 28 ‘42: Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the US government - via Leo T. Crowley, the US Alien Property Custodian - ordered the seizure of all property of Hapag-LLoyd.
Oct. 20 ‘42: Leo T. Crowley, the US Alien Property Custodian - seized the stock shares of the Union Banking Corp. of New York, whose shareholders were: Chm./Dir. E. Rowland Harriman (of Brown Brothers Harriman); Pres./Dir. Cornelis Lievense (banking functionary for the Nazis); Treasurer/Dir. Harold D. Pennington (of Brown Brothers Harriman); Dir. Ray Morris (of Brown Brothers Harriman); Dir. Prescott S. Bush Snr.(of Brown Brothers Harriman); Dir. H.J. Kouwenhoven (Dir./Chief foreign financial exec. of German Steel Trust & the man who had brokered the deal between Fritz Thyssen & the UBC); Dir. Johann G. Groeninger (Industrial Exec. in Nazi Germany). These seized shares were described in the Vesting Order as “shares held for the benefit of members of the Thyssen family, property of nationals.. of a designated enemy country”.
Oct. 28 ‘42: US government seized 2 Nazi front companies - the Seamless Steel Equipment Corp. & Holland-American Trading Corp. - both run by the UBC.
Nov. 17 ‘42: Nazi financial interests (only) in Silesian-American Corp. (above) seized, leaving US partners (UBC) “to carry on the business”.
Jul. 2 ‘45: As revealed by the US Treasury Dept. in hearings before a 79th Congress committee: the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (see above) had produced the following proportions of Nazi Germany’s total output: Pig iron 50.8%; Pipe & tubes 45.5%; Universal plate 41.4%; Galvanised sheet 38.5%; Heavy plate 36%; Explosives 35%; Wire 22.1%.
1954: George Herbert Walker Bush Snr. (son of Prescott S. Bush Snr., grandson of Samuel Bush & George Walker - see above) now president of Zapata Offshore (oil drilling company). He had previously joined Dresser Industries & subsequently co-founded the Bush-Overby Development Co. (both in oil).
‘71 - ‘72: George Herbert Walker Bush Snr. made US ambassador to UN.
1972: George Bush Snr. made chairman of the Republican Party National Committee.
‘74 - ‘75: In aftermath of President Nixon’s resignation, President Gerald Ford appointed George Bush Snr. to head the US Liaison Office in Beijing
Jan. 30 ‘76 - Mar. 9 ‘77: George Bush Snr. Director of CIA.
1979: During Jimmy Carter’s presidency, & as a result of the Sandanista rebellion led by Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
Jan. 20 ‘81: Ronald Reagan now president with George Bush Snr. his Vice-President. Defeat of the left-wing Sandanistas became an immediate aim of the Reagan Administration, & this was to be implemented using secretive methods (which were later to prove illegal) under the control of the Special Situations Group, whose chairman was Vice-President George Bush Snr. (who had wrested this post from Secretary of State Alexander Haig early on). Enter Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North who served on both the Inter-Departmental Group on Terrorism & the Terrorist Incident Working Group - both under Bush. They were to set-up, finance & arm an anti-Sandanista militia, the Contras, using neighbouring Guatemala as a training ground.
1983: Contras begin offensive against Sandanistas in Nicaragua.
Apr. ‘84: US congress refuses to authorise $24 million aid to Contras requested by Reagan.
Sept. ‘84: The small oil company Arbusto Energy Inc. founded by George Walker Bush Jnr. (eldest son of George H. W. Bush Snr.) in the mid-70’s proves to be an unsuccessful venture & is bought out by another oil company, Spectrum 7 Energy Corp. George W. Bush Jnr. is made president of Spectrum.
Oct. ‘84: Congress cuts off any funding & support to the Contras. John Ellis (‘Jeb’) Bush, the 2nd eldest son of George Bush Snr. - & a real estate developer - had been acting as the Reagan administration’s unofficial link with Contra & Nicaraguan exiles in Miami. He also put the right-wing Guatemalan politician, Dr. Mario Castejon, in touch with Oliver North, which led to Castejon & Henry Whaley ( a former arms dealer) proposing that the State Department supply medicines, field hospitals & light aircraft to the Contras. This proposal was passed to the CIA via TGS International, a firm owned by Ted Shackley, who had served as Associate Deputy Director of Operations in the CIA under George Bush Snr. (‘76 -‘77).
Dec. ‘85: Congress partially lifts ban on Contra aid, & authorises $13 million in aid - plus $27 million for ‘humanitarian’ aid.
1986: Behind-the-scenes machinations of the US Administration becomes public knowledge with the revelation of the illegal ‘Arms for Hostages’ scandal - known as the ‘Iran-Contra affair’. The Spectre 7 Energy Corp. (above) proves to be another unsuccessful venture for George W. Bush Jnr. It is sold to another small oil company, Harken Energy Corp., a deal whereby the partners in Spectrum received $2 million worth of shares in Harken, & George Bush Jnr. was made director & consultant of the Harken - with the added bonus of $600,000 extra shares.
Oct. ‘86: US Congress lifts remaining ban & authorises $100 million aid to Contras.
1987: In a CBS interview with Jane Wallace, Michael ‘Mickey’ Tolliver, a pilot involved in the trade of drugs, revealed details of one flight he had made involving the Contras: he had flown to Honduras with a cargo of 28.000 lbs of guns & ammunition, & after a 3-day rest there he had returned with a cargo of 25,360 lbs of marijuana - landing at the US Airforce Base in Homestead, Florida, where the cargo was unloaded! He had been paid $75.000.
Mar. 11 ‘88: Robert McFarlane (Reagan’s National Security Advisor ‘83 - ‘85) found guilty of criminal charges of witholding information from Congress about secret aid to the Contras.
Mar. 16 ‘88: John Poindexter (National Security Advisor from ‘85 - ‘86) & Oliver North (National Security Council - see above) both charged with conspiracy to defraud the US Government - but trials delayed.
Late ‘88: US Federal Regulators shut down Silverado Banking Savings & Loan Co., due, primarily, to non-repayment of questionable loans they had made. Neil Bush (3rd son of George Bush Snr.) had been director of Silverado from ‘85.
Jan. 20 ‘89: George Bush Snr. inaugurated as president of US.
May ‘89: Oliver North convicted on 3 counts, & in July ‘89 is fined $150,000 - plus a 3-year suspended jail sentence.
June ‘89: President George Bush Snr. imposed economic sanctions on China as a result of Tiananmen Square killings. Soon after these sanctions were imposed, the President’s older brother, Prescott Bush Jnr. of the consultancy firm Prescott Bush Resources, was hired by Asset Management International Financing & Settlement at a fee of $250,000 for consultation re-its (Asset’s) joint venture with China to set up the latter’s internal communications network. (This involved $300 million worth of Hughes Aircraft satellites - a key component of the deal).
Concurrent with this, Prescott Bush Jnr. was also acting as middleman for the buying-out of Asset Management by West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based investment firm controlled by the Inagawakai branch of the Yakuza, the well-known politically influential Japanese Mob. For this he received a $250,000 ‘finder’s fee’ & promised an annual retainer of $250,000 for the next 3 years - as consultant.
Nov. ‘89: US Congress passed additional sanctions specifically barring the export of US satellites to China - unless the president found the sale “in the national interest”.
Dec. 19 ‘89: President George Bush Snr. lifted the sanctions, citing “the national interest”.
1990: Orlando Bosch, an anti-Castro Cuban, leader of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organisations, who had masterminded many bombings in Cuba & a Cuban airliner over Barbados on October 5th ‘76, had finally been imprisoned in 88 in Miami for firing a bazooka at a Polish freighter in Miami harbour. He is now paroled after John Ellis Bush has lobbied his
father’s administration for his release from prison.
Jan. ‘90: Somewhat surprisingly for a small company, Harken Energy Corp. clinches a deal with the Gulf State of Bahrain, whereby the latter gives Harken exclusive right for oil & gas exploration. The report of the Office of Thrift Supervision into the failure of Silverado Banking revealed that Neil Bush (see above) had failed to disclose to Silverado Banking (on whose board he sat) his business connections with Ken Good & Bill Walters who had defaulted on $132 million in loans from Silverado. Good had given Neil Bush a $100,000 loan to invest in the commodities market. Neil Bush had Silverado write a letter of recommendation to Argentina, where Good International - in partnership with Neil Bush’s oil company JNB Exploration (which he had founded in ‘83) - was exploring for gas & oil. Bill Walters had contributed $150,000 to the initial capitalisation of JNB, and - through his bank Cherry Creek National Bank -had extended a $1.5 million line of credit to JNB (from which he, Bush, had drawn a salary of $500,000 over the next 5 years).
Apr. 7 ‘90: John Poindexter convicted on 5 counts, & sentenced to 6 months imprisonment - but convictions of both North & Poindexter subsequently ‘set aside’.
June 22 ‘90: George W. Bush Jnr. sold $848,560 of his Harken shares - & one week later the company announces a $23 million loss for the past quarter, & loses a further 60% of its value over the following 6 months. As the ‘News & World Report’ noted at the time: Bush Jnr. had recently been appointed by Harken to study the possible economic restructuring of the company!
Aug. 2 ‘90: Iraq invades Kuwait.
Mar. ‘91: Asset Management (see above) goes bankrupt, & the following year West Tsusho filed a $2.5 million suit against Prescott Bush Jnr. for not protecting their $5 million investment in Asset Management.
Apr.19 ‘91: US Government declared Neil Bush a bankrupt & imposed sanctions on him for violating ‘conflict of interest’ rules.
1992: Caspar W. Weinberger (Secretary of Defense ‘81 - ‘87) indicted on 5 counts of lying to Congress.
Dec. 24 ‘92: President George Bush Snr., having just been defeated by Clinton, pardons all those principal players (above) in the Iran-Contra scandal.
1998: George W. Bush Jnr. governor of Texas (for the second time); John Ellis (‘Jeb’) Bush governor of Florida.
Jan. 20 ‘2001: George W. Bush inaugurated as president of the USA (with not a little help from his brother ‘Jeb’)
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