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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:21 AM
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Homeland Security Chairman Bankrolled Terror!
Feel safer yet?

""The chairman of the nation's Homeland Security Advisory Council was helping to guide America's security strategy at the same time he was a top executive with an international banking firm that was investigated and eventually fined more than $100 million for cash transfers to rogue nations, including Iraq, Iran, Libya and Cuba, a Newsday investigation has found.
Joseph Grano Jr., 56, said he did not inform Bush administration officials, including Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, about the problems of Swiss banking giant UBS, where he worked until June, because he said it "is public record" and he wasn't required to do so.
He denied any wrongdoing and said he was unaware of the accusations against UBS until the Federal Reserve's May announcement of one of its largest fines ever -- for the bank's improper money transfers to "rogue" nations under U.S. economic sanctions and its "deception" in trying to cover it up.
Grano said he assumed Ridge and the administration already knew about the federal investigation of UBS, where Grano worked as one of the bank's senior-most executives after its $11 billion merger with his old firm PaineWebber in January 2001. He simultaneously served on the advisory council and as an executive at UBS for two years."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-engran15,0,2569046,print.story?coll=ny-top-span-headlines

So either he deliberately bankrolled terror...or he was too incompetent to know what the company he headed was up to...one helluva choice to keep America safe, no?
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:47 AM
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1. Kerry - money laundering
He's talked about money laundering legislation and powerful interests blocking it for a while now. Not often, I think it's too monotonous or something. He wrote some of the money laundering legislation in the Patriot Act. I wonder if a story like this will help him make his case again. Or whether it'll die a quick death because there's no sex involved.
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:54 AM
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3. This definitely deserves more attention...
Write your local newspaper....
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:50 AM
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2. That's disgusting.
Edited on Sat Oct-16-04 11:07 AM by lwfern
Consistent with the other Bush appointees, but disgusting, none the less.

Out of curiosity, who are the other 17 appointees on the council?

edit: nevermind, I found them (most of them), short bios here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020611-6.html

Joseph J. Grano, Jr.
William H. Webster
Richard A. Andrews
Kathleen M. Bader
Dr. Jared Cohon
Governor Michael Leavitt
James T. Moore
James Rodney Schlesinger
Mayor Anthony Williams
Dr. Ruth David
Ambassador Paul Bremer
Dr. Lydia Waters Thomas
Steven Young
Sidney Taurel
Lee Herbert Hamilton
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:54 AM
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4. Isn't it?
Couple it with the news that they didn't bother to cut off Zarqawi's dough until YESTERDAY...
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OutsourceBush Donating Member (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:56 AM
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5. Bush crime family surrounding themselves with criminals
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 11:20 AM
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6. They don't seem to know any honest people...
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 11:28 AM
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7. UBS, is really UBS Warburg! They also financed Hitler!
Along with Brown Brothers Harriman Bank and Prescott Bush! Paul and Max Warburg set up the Federal Reserve banking system in America! UBS Warburg also owns Enron now! Here is the story!

Chapter - II - The Hitler Project

Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy

SNIP

Prescott Bush's American Ship and Commerce Corp. notified Max Warburg of Hamburg, Germany, on March 7, 1933, that Warburg was to be the corporation's official, designated representative on the board of Hamburg-Amerika.@s2@s9

Max Warburg replied on March 27, 1933, assuring his American sponsors that the Hitler government was good for Germany: `` For the last few years business was considerably better than we had anticipated, but a reaction is making itself felt for some months. We are actually suffering also under the very active propaganda against Germany, caused by some unpleasant circumstances. These occurrences were the natural consequence of the very excited election campaign, but were extraordinarily exaggerated in the foreign press. The Government is firmly resolved to maintain public peace and order in Germany, and I feel perfectly convinced in this respect that there is no cause for any alarm whatsoever. ''@s3@s0

This seal of approval for Hitler, coming from a famous Jew, was just what Harriman and Bush required, for they anticipated rather serious `` alarm '' inside the U.S.A. against their Nazi operations.

On March 29, 1933, two days after Max's letter to Harriman, Max's son, Erich Warburg, sent a cable to his cousin Frederick M. Warburg, a director of the Harriman railroad system. He asked Frederick to `` use all your influence '' to stop all anti-Nazi activity in America, including `` atrocity news and unfriendly propaganda in foreign press, mass meetings, etc. '' Frederick cabled back to Erich: `` No responsible groups here urging boycott German goods<,> merely excited individuals. '' Two days after that, On March 31, 1933, the American-Jewish Committee, controlled by the Warburgs, and the B'nai B'rith, heavily influenced by the Sulzbergers (New York Times), issued a formal, official joint statement of the two organizations, counseling `` that no American boycott against Germany be encouraged, '' and advising `` that no further mass meetings be held or similar forms of agitation be employed. Much More.......

http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm

SEC SUES UBS WARBURG

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr18112.htm

UBS Warburg, 2003 Edition
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UBS Warburg represents the investment-banking operations of UBS, the Swiss-based financial services behemoth with more than 70,000 employees worldwide. Besides investment banking, UBS offers private and corporate banking services through UBS Wealth Management and Business Banking, investment management and mutual funds through UBS Global Asset Management, and brokerage services through UBS PaineWebber. After a tumultuous history of mergers and acquisitions, UBS is well on its way to becoming a major player in the U.S. market. In May 2000, the Swiss bank listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange and made it clear that UBS Warburg had expansion and acquisitions on its agenda. The firm didn't disappoint: In July 2000, UBS announced that it would be acquiring PaineWebber for $11.8 billion in hopes to meld PaineWebber's strong retail presence with the rising investment-banking business of UBS Warburg. The merger, more than two years old, has proven successful. UBS Warburg, already a star in Europe, is banging on the door of the bulge-bracket in the States. More...

http://www.vault.com/career/UBS_Warburg__2003_Edition.html

UBS Warburg Wins Enron Auction

http://www.local6.com/money/1186149/detail.html

Enron casts pall on UBS Warburg

HOUSTON Eight months ago, when UBS Warburg acquired Enron Corp.'s trading unit, the Swiss investment banking company thought it had made a steal.

UBS paid nothing but the promise of a percentage of any future profit for Enron's most prized asset, a rapidly growing energy-trading operation that in 2000 and 2001 booked about $4 billion in operating profit.

But now, UBS Warburg's drive to become a major force in the energy-trading business is facing major hurdles - not just Enron's troublesome legacy but a drastic contraction in energy trading itself.

On Thursday, Timothy Belden, a top Enron trader who had followed the operation to UBS, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco to having helped manipulate power markets during the California energy crisis. Belden, who recently resigned from UBS, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in their continuing investigation, which could ensnare other former Enron traders or executives now at UBS.
More...

http://www.iht.com/articles/74308.html


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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 12:17 PM
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8. More on UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland Warburg) and friends!
DeepBlackLies

Bringing in-depth reporting of crime and corruption in high places

http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/secret_gold_treaty_pr.htm

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crickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 09:52 PM
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9. Kick! nt
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OxQQme Donating Member (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:10 PM
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10. kick
And Martha Stewart is in jail. Ironic !
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NecessaryOnslaught Donating Member (691 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 11:42 PM
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11. You indecent propagator of internets rumors
:kick:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-17-04 07:50 AM
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12. Do you feel more secure now than you did four years ago?
:kick:


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RollergirlVT Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-17-04 08:41 AM
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13. more lies greed and deception.
Oh what a tangled web we weave.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-17-04 09:39 AM
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14. Since yesterday the Tarpley websites have been shut down!
Edited on Sun Oct-17-04 09:44 AM by Hubert Flottz
GONE? :tinfoilhat:

I found this:

GEORGE BUSH: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY

http://www.american-buddha.com/unauthor.bio.bush.htm

better get it while you can...

EDIT}}}}Chapter - II - The Hitler Project

Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy

http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook/bush2.html

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