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Octafish's JournalYeah. Treason.
Who could think someone would loot an S&L, use the proceeds to buy guns, use the guns to buy drugs, use the drugs to buy politicians, newsmen and elections, and then see all the blame pinned on the president? Yet, that is what Poppy Bush and his crew managed during Iran-Contra. Then, Bush forgave the traitors before there were any trials to implicate his own hidden role in high treason. That'd be beyond tinfoil.
Torture is the American Way
Hey! Anybody see whatever happened to the right to petition government for a redress of grievances?
Ironic how victims of war can still do that in England, of all places:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/19/us-britain-iraq-damages-idUSBRE89I0VG20121019
4 on Japan nuclear safety team took utility money
[font size="1"]Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Number 3 explodes on March 13, 2011.[/font size]
More on why deregulation and democracy don't mix:
4 on Japan nuclear safety team took utility money
By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
Four members of a Japanese government team that sets atomic reactor safety standards received funding from utility companies or nuclear manufacturers, raising questions about their neutrality in the wake of last year's tsunami-triggered disaster.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said Friday that Nagoya University Professor Akio Yamamoto received 27.14 million yen ($339,000) over the past three years for research on reactors. That included 6.28 million yen ($79,000) from a subsidiary of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant that suffered meltdowns last year.
The authority said three others on the six-member standards team received industry funding. Getting such money is not illegal, but could call the neutrality of the team into question, since the industry would benefit from laxer standards.
SNIP...
The Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reported Saturday that such funding indicates a "danger the measures may turn spineless to reflect the utilities' wishes."
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/03/3080620/4-on-japan-nuclear-safety-team.html
Speaking of spineless, where is Corporate McPravda on this story? AWOL, as always? In the meantime...
A Public Service Announcement Regarding Plutonium
REVEALED: What George Bush told the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit...
"Money trumps peace." And how.
It's made a killing for me and my family and cronies.
So, invest in war and offshore.
Yeah, see? Got it?
That's why we're still here...
... Otherwise, the darkness will win. The stakes are major. Going by the history, we're on the glide path to the day when we won't be able to get anything other than the official story.
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/10/main-obama-adviser-blocking-prosecution.html?m=1
As Orwell saw, it was a boot.
Photo ID: Wen Jiabao and Henry Paulson
Two regular, fun loving guys.
Wen's thing is geological structures, useful trade for those in the mineral extraction industries.
http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Wen_Jiabao/bio
Henry's a BFEE banker royal:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7490955
Talk about trillion dollar smiles...
Know your BFEE: Chinese and American Ruling Elites In Bed Together for Fun and Profit
Ever wonder what happened to our standard of living? You, know, the Middle Class?
Well, it's been off-shored -- both in terms of money to Switzerland and manufacturing jobs to China.
Of course, I mean, don't worry! -- at a profit.
Guess who made a killing? If you said, "The ruling elite" you'd be correct.
What may be surprising to some is how the "ruling elite" crosses political, ideological, and philosophical lines when it comes to money. Case in point: China.
Currently, the people of China are largely unaware at how their ruling Communist elite got rich while the people slaved their asses off.
Here in the good old U.S. of A., the people are largely unaware that their ruling Capitalist elite got rich setting the policies that offshored their money and jobs.
Oh, well. Live and learn.
Thank you, MinM! Dr. Dodge put it into words.
"We have the international institutions and diplomatic skills, models and best practices today to resolve conflict without war. What is needed is the collective will and leadership to take this stand. The future of the planet depends on it. The choice is ours."
Regarding that time: Going by what we've learned about Operation NORTHWOODS (PDF) and the various suggested first strike plans put before Kennedy by CIA Director Dulles and JCS Chairman Lemnitzer, as well as the first strike suggested by Sen. George Smathers, doesn't it seem like a big coincidence that the evidentiary trail of crumbs connected Oswald to was Cuba?
Jack Kennedy called Mrs. King. (Richard Nixon did not.)
JFK helped him change his mind. Just prior to the 1960, then-Sen. John F. Kennedy risked alienating the conservative Southern Democrats by talking to Coretta Scott King while Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rotted in a "backwoods Georgia jail." The photo below was taken when Dr. King visited President Kennedy at the White House.
Robert Kennedy-His Life by Evan Thomas
EXCERPT…
(Robert) Kennedy seemed to fret about what to do as John Seigenthaler drove him to the airport early that afternoon. He was flying to New York for a campaign event. Maybe, he told Seigenthaler, he should take the heat off his brother and act as a "lightning rod" by calling the judge himself. Seigenthaler, whose phone had been ringing all morning with calls of angry southern politicians protesting JFK's call to Mrs. King, urged Bobby to stay out of it. Bobby wearily agreed.
The next day, a press aide told Seigenthaler that the wires were reporting that the judge had released King -- at the intervention of Robert Kennedy.
Can't be true, Seigenthaler said; Kennedy had assured him he wouldn't call the judge. But it was true. Seigenthaler called Kennedy, who sheepishly disclosed the call. He said that, on the plane to New York, he had got to thinking about the whole matter. It was "disgraceful...It just burned me up," Kennedy said. "It grilled me. The more I thought about the injustice of it, the more I thought what a son of a bitch the judge was." So Kennedy called the judge and gave him a lecture on the constitutional right to make bail, and the judge agreed to release King. Later, speaking with Wofford, Kennedy said he told the judge, "If he was a decent American, he would let King out by sundown. I called him because it made me so damn angry to think of that bastard sentencing a citizen to four months hard labor for a minor traffic offense."
The impact of JFK's call to Mrs. King and RFK's intervention with the judge was immense. Daddy King, Martin Luther King's father, an extremely influential Baptist preacher, openly shifted his endorsement from Nixon to Kennedy. The Kennedy campaign brilliantly exploited the symbolism of phone calls with a samizdat campaign in the black community. Careful not to tout the Kennedy-King connection in the popular mainstream press, lest southern voters take umbrage, the Kennedy campaign published hundreds of thousands of leaflets and handbills that were distributed at black churches and bars. On one side, a flyer read: "Jack Kennedy called Mrs. King" On the other side it said: "Richard Nixon did not." Many political analysts believe that this PR offensive decided the election. In a half-dozen states in the East and Midwest carried by Kennedy by very narrow margins on election day, black turnout made the difference. Richard Nixon's chauffeur understood. "Mr. Vice-President," he told his boss after the election, "you know I had been talking to my friends. They had been all for you. But when Mr. Robert Kennedy called the judge to get Dr. King out of jail -- well, they just all turned to him."
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Excerpted from "Robert Kennedy: His Life” by Evan Thomas, pages 101-102.
You are welcome, Uncle Joe! Didya see this about Sanford Weill?
A guy who got bounced* from his column at the LA Times reports:
For He’s a Jolly Good Scoundrel
By Robert Scheer
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
How evil is this? At a time when two-thirds of U.S. homeowners are drowning in mortgage debt and the American dream has crashed for tens of millions more, Sanford Weill, the banker most responsible for the nation’s economic collapse, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
So much for the academy’s proclaimed “230-plus year history of recognizing some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders.” George Washington, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Albert Einstein must be rolling in their graves at the news that Weill, “philanthropist and retired Citigroup Chairman,” has joined their ranks.
Weill is the Wall Street hustler who led the successful lobbying to reverse the Glass-Steagall law, which long had been a barrier between investment and commercial banks. That 1999 reversal permitted the merger of Travelers and Citibank, thereby creating Citigroup as the largest of the “too big to fail” banks eventually bailed out by taxpayers. Weill was instrumental in getting then-President Bill Clinton to sign off on the Republican-sponsored legislation that upended the sensible restraints on finance capital that had worked splendidly since the Great Depression.
Those restrictions were initially flouted when Weill, then CEO of Travelers, which contained a major investment banking division, decided to merge the company with Citibank, a commercial bank headed by John S. Reed. The merger had actually been arranged before the enabling legislation became law, and it was granted a temporary waiver by Alan Greenspan’s Federal Reserve. The night before the announcement of the merger, as Wall Street Journal reporter Monica Langley writes in her book “Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World ... and Then Nearly Lost It All,” a buoyant Weill suggested to Reed, “We should call Clinton.” On a Sunday night Weill had no trouble getting through to the president and informed him of the merger, which violated existing law. After hanging up, Weill boasted to Reed, “We just made the president of the United States an insider.”
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/for_hes_a_jolly_good_swindler_20120418/
Just-us.
* and replaced by Jonah Goldberg, of all people.
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