THE DOCUMENT- Book 2 This is a book which has been circulating around the world via various distribution paths. This book is one of the few ways left to ensure that organized covert criminal efforts cannot, ever again, take over a community, a country or an economy. This book is the light which can wither corruption no matter how great its power. That lightsource is simply: DISCLOSURE. As a human on this planet, we each have a moral obligation to help, freely, redistribute this book to every person we come in contact with via mail, internet, posting, public reading, free publication, or other means. The source of this material is from hundreds of reporters and researchers around the world. All of the information provided here has sources noted and can be verfified with minimal research. This is What the mainstream special-interest media never tells you about how the world really works. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Water is where hydrogen can be acquired. Hydrogen is the next source of energy when oil runs out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trina Tocco (by way of Tom Condit )" To: Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:11 PM Subject: Globalization of Water-This will take 2 minutes CONGRESS TRIES TO FORCE PRIVATIZATION OF LOCAL WATER SYSTEMS TELL CONGRESS TO KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF YOUR WATER!!! Take action -- go to http://capwiz.com/afscme/issues/alert/?alertid=128296 Background Federal legislation has been introduced that would lead to widespread privatization of the nation's drinking water and wastewater treatment systems. The Water Investment Act of 2002 (S. 1961) has the commendable objective of significantly expanding funding for the nation's drinking and wastewater infrastructure by authorizing $35 billion over the next five years for state revolving loan programs. However, a provision in S. 1961 would require water authorities and local governments to consider privatization as a condition of receiving federal financial assistance. AFSCME (www.afscme.org) represents thousands of people who work in the water and wastewater systems. Every day, thousands of AFSCME members work to protect our water supply and the environment. SO ITS TIME TO TAKE ACTION NOW!! Go to http://capwiz.com/afscme/issues/alert/?alertid=128296 and let Congress know that they can't sell our water - the most precious resource of all! Summary of Legislation Specifically, Sections 103 and 202 of the bill require water systems to consider forming so-called "public-private partnerships or other cooperative partnerships" before they can receive a loan to upgrade water systems or create water conservation projects. Such partnerships would result in privatizing or contracting-out of at least the operations of public water systems. While public water authorities and local governments currently can decide to privatize their systems, this is a matter of local discretion. However, for the first time, this legislation would mandate that these systems consider privatization - a sweeping and unwarranted extension of federal government authority. To find out more info on what AFSCME is doing about the privatization of water, go to http://www.afscme.org/action/legfs07.htm. ******** AFSCME organizers help workers win justice on the job. Find out more about jobs in NJ, WA, MO, IL, CA at www.afscmeorganizers.org --------------------------------------- Work for Justice www.afscmeorganizers.org Trina Tocco AFSCME Field Services 202-429-1026 ttocco@afscme.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:05:29 -0000 Subject: !b_a_Act: THE 101 YEARS AGO WAR-OR WAS IT? THE 101 YEARS AGO WAR-OR WAS IT? It was the 12th of December, 1900 and the man who came to dinner was Charles M. Schwab, http://www.mcall.com/html/potc/4277.htm president of Andrew Carnegie's http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/index.html steel company. John Pierpont Morgan, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=55073 "the leader of the financial forces of the day, sat at Schwab's right hand. Schwab was the after-dinner speaker who convinced Morgan that night "that the time had come to organize the United States Steel Corporation". "Morgan's intuition told him Schwab was right. Morgan called John W. Gates http://www.co.dupage.il.us/heritage/yps/gates.html to ask how to approach Carnegie. "Through Schwab", Gates instructed him; Schwab was Carnegie's white-headed boy, the one man who had real influence with the old Scotchman. The size of the steel trust that emerged shocked many. "President Hadley of Yale, http://www.bartleby.com/65/ha/HadleyA.html in an address shortly after the Morgan announcement, said that if trusts were not 'regulated by public sentiment' the country could expect 'an emperor in Washington within twenty-five years.' Morgan, Carnegie and Schwab were not the only players in the financial world in those days of course. "Edward Henry Harriman http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0822804.html had the aid of wealthy and influential friends in his early career. His father was an Episcopal clergyman. Edward Henry left school at 14 to become a messenger for a firm of stockbrokers in Wall Street. He learned the business from the ground up, set up his own firm, speculated successfully, married the daughter of the president of a small railroad, and 2 years later went into railroading himself by the Wall Street entrance -by buying a small run-down road, improving it, and selling it at a handsome profit. In 1883 at the age of 45 he became a director of the Illinois Central and soon was its vice president. Harriman was also a man of Napoleonic ambition: An ambition which in the spring of 1901 was to push him into shattering conflict with the forces of Pierpont Morgan." (Or so the story was told in the Lords of Creation by Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York and London 1935.) But was this "shattering conflict" all a sham? Was the 101 Years Ago War really a war at all? We take up our story again here: "Harriman's Union Pacific ran from Omaha to Ogden, Utah connecting there with railroads extending to the Coast. Considerably north of it was the Northern Pacific which ran from St. Paul and Duluth through North Dakota and Montana to the Coast. Still farther north was James J. Hill's http://www.railserve.com/JJHill.html Great Northern, hard against the Canadian border. The Northern Pacific and the Great Northern served virtually the same regions, Morgan had tried to combine them a few years earlier but the laws forbidding alliances between directly competing roads had prevented any such formal association. Both roads however did their banking with the House of Morgan. Both Harriman and Morgan 'cast longing eyes upon another railroad to the east. This was the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, popularly known as the Burlington. It had a network of lines running through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska. It connected with several other roads to the south and east, and better yet, it ran into Chicago. Both groups therefore set about trying to purchase the Burlington.'"(Again, so the story is told, in THE LORDS OF CREATION, but was something deeper being planned beneath the surface of all of this?) "During the early months of 1901 (Hill) succeeded in inducing the directors of the Burlington to sell. In April the deal was approved by the Burlington stockholders. Morgan and Hill had possession of the road. Harriman was beaten but his ambition was overwhelming as Judge Lovett http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/print/BB/jyb1.html http://www.employees.org/~davison/nprha/tteusra2.html http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lmnebraskaconnection.htm said of him later 'when he started upon a course nobody could swerve him from it'. Obviously he could not do it directly; so he decided to do it indirectly, by buying the Northern Pacific, Morgan's and Hill's own road right out from under their very noses. He would do this not by arrangement with the board of directors, or by private negotiation with the large holders of stock, but in the open market on the New York Stock Exchange. It is said that this project was proposed to Harriman by John W. Sterling, http://www.library.yale.edu/renovaxn/history.html the eccentric and secretive corporation lawyer who was the constant intimate of James Stillman, whose National City Bank could draw upon the vast hoards of the Standard Oil men."For more on Stillman please read: The Portrait of a Banker, James Stillman / by Anna R. Burr ISBN: 0405069502 Ayer Company Publishers, Incorporated 08/01/1975 Please see also http://www.scottwinslow.com/Live/w100/w61-80.htm "(Citibank - opened Sept. 14, 1812), Anna Robeson Burr (1927). The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman, 1850-1918. (New York, NY: Duffield & Company, 370 p.). Stillman, James, 1850-1918. First Citibank chairman in 1909. (Citibank), John K. Winkler (1934). The First Billion; The Stillmans and the National City Bank. (New York, NY: The Vanguard Press, 277 p.). Stillman, James, 1850-1918; Stillman, James Alexander, 1873-1944; First National City Bank of New York." http://www.kipnotes.com/Banking.htm "Founded in 1812 by Samuel Osgood, the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury, the City Bank of New York began by serving merchants and became a pioneer in overseas expansion in the early 1900s. More recently, Citibank became the first commercial bank to make personal loans, provide high-interest, specified-term CDs, and introduce ATMs on a large scale. It is also the world's largest issuer of credit cards. Be it a Harvard graduate in New York or a bicycle-riding salesman in Malaysia who greets you on behalf of Citibank, the message is the same: the customer comes first. Citibank, owned by Citicorp, is legendary for using technology to make life easier for customers. In April 1998, Citicorp and insurance giant Travelers Group announced a plan for the largest merger ever. The new entity was named called Citigroup. Citibank/Citigroup 399 Park Ave. New York, NY 10043 Phone: 800-285-3000 Fax: 212-793-3946 Website: www.citibank.com Ticker Symbol: C " http://careers.yahoo.com/s/wetfeet/v55.html "Harriman was now working hand in glove with Stillman and the Standard Oil millionaires. On Monday morning May 6th, 1901 brokers began purchasing for the Morgan-Hill forces in quantity. The leap in Northern Pacific stimulated speculation in other securities. On Tuesday May 7th, 1901 the drama was further advanced. The inevitable was approaching. The Morgan forces were still buying; and as some of he speculators who had sold short began to guess their predicament and sought to buy to cover their sales, the price of Northern Pacific zigzagged crazily upwar, touching 149 ¾ and closing at 143 ½ up 16 more points for the day. At the close of the market the Morgan purchases cease: Morgan and Hill now had their 15 millions of stock. But the mischief had been done. During the final hour of trading there was a premonition of trouble, and prices in general broke sharply. Rumors-as accurate as Wall street rumors usually are- were flying about- but by nightfall the truth was apparent -. Northern Pacific was cornered. It was rumored that the broker who had bought 20 millions of Northern Pacific on Monday had lent 12 ½ millions of it to short sellers. That looked as if there were a lot of them-and little or no stock available for them to buy. It was a desperate situation for the 'shorts' they had better buy Northern Pacific tomorrow regardless of price if they were to get it all-EVEN IF IT MEANT THROWING OVERBOARD OTHER STOCK TO GET THE CASH TO BUY IT WITH." It is this last key thought that got me wondering. A hundred years ago there was no internet. Who bought that OTHER STOCK that was thrown OVERBOARD and at what prices? Allen's account continues: "On Wednesday Northern Pacific opened at 155 gyrated even more senselessly than on the preceding day, touched 180,and closed at 160 up 16 ½ points for the day. MEANWHILE HOWEVER EVERYTHING ELSE WAS DROPPING. Men were selling stock to raise the money to pay for Northern Pacific and their sales were breaking the market. Where before the cry had only been 'Buy, buy buy', it became 'Sell, sell, sell'. The next day Thursday, May 9th, 1901 panic came in dead earnest making all that had gone before seem as nothing. On that day Northern Pacific opened at 170 swung up to 200,seesawed down and up and then to the utter consternation of those who in hundreds of banks and brokers' offices were watching the ticker-tape chatter its news of disaster, pushed up to 320, to 650, to 700 and on one sale to 1,000. MEANWHILE THE PRICES OF OTHER SECURITIES CASCADED AS IF THE BOTTOM WOULD NEVER BE REACHED. Money was almost unobtainable and the interest rate in the call-loan market at the Exchange had jumped to 75 per cent. In due course the treaty was made. Morgan, who now controlled a bare majority of the common stock of the Northern Pacific , was to be permitted to name the revised directorate of the road. The preferred stock, of which the Harriman forces held a majority, was to be retired. But Morgan had to give places on the Northern Pacific board to Harriman and to his ally William Rockefeller http://www.bartleby.com/65/ro/RockefelW.html and Harriman also got a place on the Burlington board. Both groups were thus given representation; 'community of interest' was thus achieved - at what cost!" Whatever the story may have been above, did x, y or z buy up who knows how many companies dirt cheap on those days in May, the 'community of interest' is certainly in existence today. J. P. Morgan Chase Defends Its Enron Role By REUTERS http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/business/25BANK.html Thursday, July 25, 2002 J. P. Morgan Chase defended itself yesterday against Congressional allegations that it had helped Enron hide huge debts, and its statement helped prop up the company's share price as well as the stock market. "My belief is that we acted properly and with integrity in all the Enron matters," William B. Harrison Jr., the chief executive of the company, told analysts and investors in a conference call. "Yesterday's hearings didn't change my view on that at all." J. P. Morgan Chase's shares rebounded from Tuesday's 18 percent drop to rise 16 percent, or $3.22, yesterday, to $23.30 a share. The Standard & Poor's rating agency said yesterday that concerns about a possible cash shortage at the bank were unfounded, also helping the stock. J. P. Morgan Chase executives spoke to Wall Street after Congressional investigators said that J. P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup had helped Enron, an energy trader, hide debt for years, something that ultimately led to Enron's collapse. "We are no doubt in a political and media frenzy that is quite extraordinary," Mr. Harrison said, adding, "but we are very comfortable with the basic fundamentals of our company." Citigroup, another leading Enron lender, said on its Web site that its Enron transactions had been appropriate, based on what it had known and what it had been told by Enron. "The KorAm Bank board of directors consists of 13 members, including six foreigners. Among the directors are Kim Byung-joo, president of Carlyle Asia Investment Advisors Ltd., Timothy Ryan, Jr., managing director of J.P.Morgan, and Peter J. Clare, managing director of Carlyle Group." http://www.hankooki.com/kt_biz/200103/t2001033016593843110.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/politics/05CARL.html "Elder Bush in Big G.O.P. Cast Toiling for Top Equity Firm http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/md.html "SENIOR COUNSELOR James A.Baker, III CHAIRMAN Frank C. Carlucci" Carlyle Group expects up to US$800m for Asian venture fund September 7 2000 WASHINGTON-Carlyle Group Inc, the private equity firm Carlyle, whose board members include George HW Bush, John Major and Fidel Ramos http://www.singapore.cnet.com/news/2000/09/07/20000907z.html http://www.judicialwatch.org/press_release.asp?pr_id=978 "BUSH, SR. SHOULD STOP WORKING FOR INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FIRM WHILE SON IS PRESIDENT Conflict of Interest Could Cause Problems For America's Foreign Policy in Middle East and Asia (Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, called on former President George Herbert Walker Bush to resign immediately from the Carlyle Group, a private investment firm, while his son President George W. Bush is in office. the elder Bush is an "ambassador" for the $12 billion private investment firm and last year traveled to the Middle East on its behalf. The former president also helped the firm in South Korea. as compensation, the elder Bush is allowed is allowed to buy a stake in the Carlyle Group's investments, which include ownership in at least 164 companies throughout the world (thereby by giving the current president an indirect benefit). James Baker, the former Secretary of State who served as President George W. Bush's point man in Florida's election dispute, is a partner in the firm. The firm also gave George W. Bush help in the early 1990's when it placed him on one of its subsidiary's board of directors. "This is simply inappropriate." stated Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel. "Questions are now bound to be raised if the recent Bush Administration change in policy towards Iraq has the fingerprints of the Carlyle Group, which is trying to gain investments from other Arab countries who would presumably benefit from the new policy," stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton." http://www.caller.com/2001/march/12/today/contribu/20029.html The senior Bush's unseemly job WASHINGTON - There is something inappropriate about former President George Bush's international activities on behalf of the Carlyle Group, a powerful private equity firm made up of Washington insiders from three past presidential administrations.. Bush, whose connection with the $12 billion enterprise is made more questionable by the fact his son now occupies the Oval Office, is not the only former world leader involved with the group. Former British Prime Minister John Major and former Philippine President Fidel Ramos, among others, use their considerable global connections to peddle influence for Carlyle. It includes former Secretary of State James Baker and Richard Darman, who headed the Office of Management and Budget for the senior Bush. The managing director and chairman is Frank Carlucci, defense secretary under Ronald Reagan." http://www.upr.com/investor/97annrep/directors.shtml Lynne V. Cheney wife Dick Cheney a member of the Board of Directors of Union Pacific. http://www.ltvsteel.com/htmfiles/skinner.htm URL FOR "THE GEORGE W. BUSH MONEY TREE" http://www.examiner.com/000206/0206bush2.html (Texas Governor George W. ) "Bush fund-raising at-a-glance" "Several big givers are counted among "Bush's Pioneers," fund-raisers who have brought in at least $100,000 for his presidential campaign. Others have interests before the federal government. The list includes: Samuel Skinner, former chief of staff for President Bush, $10,000. http://www.ltvsteel.com/htmfiles/skinner.htm Re Former President Bush's Chief of Staff "Samuel K. Skinner Director since 1993. Partner and Co-Chairman of the law firm of Hopkins and Sutter. Former President and a director of Commonwealth Edison Company. He was previously Chief of Staff to the President of the United States. Prior to his White House service, Mr. Skinner served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation. He is also a director of ANTEC Corporation, Union Pacific Resources Group Inc., Midwest Express Holdings, Inc., NAVIGANT Consulting, Inc. and U.S. Freightways Corp. Member of LTV's Board Affairs and Audit Committees." PLEASE SEE ALSO: UNION PACIFIC BOARD OF DIRECTORS http://www.upr.com/investor/97annrep/directors.shtml "Lynne V. Cheney Distinguished FellowAmerican Enterprise Institute Public policy Research" "Samuel K. Skinner President, 1993 - 1998 Unicom Corporation and Commonwealth Edison Electric utility" Cisco Systems Watered Stock Pyramid Analysis ... Board of Directors and Audit ... note that Lynne Cheney, wife of Dick Cheney, Lockheed board. Qwest., which company US West Inc http://www.billparish.com/ciscopyramid.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/e98/e2415.htm " Cheney as V.P. faces a serious cut in pay Lynne Cheney earned more than $300,000 last year in retainers and stock compensation as a director at defense contractor Lockheed-Martin, publisher Reader's Digest Association , energy services firm Union Pacific Resources Group and AmEx/IDS, the mutual fund arm of financial services behemoth American Express-Lynne Cheney, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, didn't return calls. Her board seat at Union Pacific Resources Group ended this month after a merger with Anadarko Petroleum Combined with Dick Cheney's directorships at consumer products giant Procter and Gamble, Union Pacific railroad and Electronic Data Systems, few power couples share as many directorships." "Is Qwest playing accounting games?" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/3119 "Global Crossing battles accounting controversy" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/3121 http://www.qwest.com/about/inside/board_anschutz.html Philip F. Anschutz Chairman of the Board Philip F. Anschutz has been a Director and the Chairman of the Board of Qwest since February 1997. He was a Director and Chairman of the Board of QCC from November 1993 until September 1997. He has been a Director and Chairman of the Board of Anschutz Company, Qwest's principal stockholder, for more than five years, and a Director and Chairman of the Board of The Anschutz Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anschutz Company, for more than five years. Since the merger of Southern Pacific Rail Corporation (. . SPRC. . ) and Union Pacific Corporation (. . UP. . ) in September 1996, Mr. Anschutz has served as Vice-Chairman of UP. Prior to the merger, Mr. Anschutz was a Director of SPRC from June 1988 to September 1996 and Non-Executive Chairman of SPRC from 1993 to September 1996. He also has been a Director of Forest Oil Corporation since 1995." http://www.barnburners.com/anschultz1.html "Philip Anschutz, 55, is also the owner of the MLS Colorado Rapids and the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings. His main business is The Anschutz Corporation, Denver, Colorado. The company's major business interests are in the fields of natural resources, railroads, real estate, and communications. Mr. Anschutz is a native of Kansas, having been born in Russell, and graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in business. He started The Anschutz Corporation in 1965. He is currently serving as chairman of the board of Southern Pacific Rail Corporation; is on the boards of the American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C.; the National Petroleum Institute Council, Washington, D.C" http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/billnew/richmain98.asp?value2=9040 "Philip F. Anschutz Net Worth $8.8 billion." http://205.180.59.50/news/state/reports/staplescenter/anschutz.htm "a worth of $16.5 billion, as Forbes says Anschutz does," "Part of Anschutz's vision for the growth of Qwest is pure genius. Not only has he laid the cable on his railroad rights-of-way, he has also laid miles of open pipe alongside, so that when other communications companies run out of capacity, Qwest will be ready to serve. At a steep price, of course." http://infinity.ccsi.com/~comcause/news/dolead.html Philip Anschutz a billionaire Denver oilman who serves on Dole's campaign finance committee, hadn't given heavily to the RNC in recent years. But in April, after Anschutz and his wife reached their individual contribution limits for Dole's presidential campaign, his company, Anschutz Corp., gave the RNC $250,000." http://publicintegrity.org/buying_updates.html List of top 10 Dole contributors -includes Anschutz http://www.ccsi.com/~comcause/news/rncdonor.html TWENTY-ONE WEALTHY SOFT MONEY DONORS GAVE $100,000 OR MORE EACH TO RNC http://www.unionpacific.com/sharehld/directors.htm "Union Pacific Directors - Philip F. Anschutz Chairman" http://www.uprr.com/uprr/ffh/history/sig-indv.shtml Edward Henry Harriman 1848-1909 Railroad magnate, former president of the Illinois Central and president of the Union Pacific from 1904-1909. In 1897, Harriman, as part of an investment group., bought the bankrupt UP for $110 million dollars. Soon he set about improving the line, spending over $240 million, and creating a railroad empire. Known for possessing a vision of the new order toward which railroads were evolving, Harriman embraced gigantic undertakings and served as a catalyst in changing how railroads were run, specifically promoting consolidation and acquiring rival companies. One scholar writes of Harriman, "If they would not sell the colt, Harriman would buy the mare." "Averell Harriman 1892-1986 Son of E.H. Harriman chairmanship of Union Pacific (1920-1946)" http://www.caller.com/2001/march/12/today/contribu/20029.htm J.P. Morgan and Chase are now one. "Over the course of a company's history, few events truly are pivotal. This company witnessed just such an event in 2000, when J.P. Morgan and Chase Manhattan merged. The new company, J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. http://www.jpmorganchase.com/chase/gx.cgi/Applogic%2bFTContentServer?p agename=Chase/Hrefandurlname=jpmchase http://www.konformist.com/2000/chase.htm "Chase Manhattan Banks' Right-wing Relationship" Daily Deal - Koram deal to be Carlyle's biggest investment ... Logo. The $410 million that Carlyle and Morgan have agreed to pump into KorAm depositary receipts follows a $40 million investment the pair completed on June 30 http://www.thedailydeal.com/topstories/A28290-2000Sep7.html Asia Times Online official said Saturday that KorAm recently asked for government approval for JP Morgan and Carlyle forming a consortium to buy 35 percent of the bank for 500 http://www.atimes.com/bizasia/BF13Aa01.html The Wall Street Journal of December 1st, 2000 page one states: " 'Madame Butterfly' Theresa Le Pore wasn't always an embattled Palm Beach ballots chief. In the 1980s she moonlighted as a flight attendant on private planes owned by Saudi weapons dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a middleman in Reagan administration arms sales to Iran." Theresa Le Pore designed the infamous Butterfly Ballot in Palm Beach Florida. The Plot Thickens as they say, or does it, time will tell. Pamela Harriman was married to Randolph Churc hill before she married Averell Harriman. Averell Harriman was the partner in Brown Brothers, Harriman, with Prescott Bush, the father of former President Bush, and with George Herbert Walker, former President Bush's grandfather. The W in George W. Bush stands for Walker. Pamela's son was named after his grandfather, Winston Churchill. Pamela's son ,Winston's alleged former mistress was Soraya Khashoggi, who was the former wife of arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Small world isn't it. Khashoggi was also allegedly deeply involved with former President Bush in the Iran-Contra Affair. "The Churchill Society London ... Mr Churchill, whose former mistress Soraya Khashoggi, the former wife of arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/wscminor.html "THE TIMES NEWSPAPER 19th February 1997 By Andrew Pierce and Tom Rhodes WINSTON CHURCHILL who spent most of his life living in the shadow of his glamorous mother Pamela Harriman, was left $10 million (6.2 million pounds) in her will it was disclosed yesterday." http://www.examiner.com/000206/0206bush2.html ( Texas Gov. George W ) "Bush fund-raising at-a- glance Several big givers are counted among "Bush's Pioneers, Charles Schwab, head of the investment firm that bears his name, $19,500. -Samuel Skinner, former chief of staff for President Bush, $10,000." http://www.latimes.com/news/asection/20010501/t000036708.html "Bush Taps Lawyer and Ex-Yale Fraternity Brother as China Envoy- From CHINA TOWN by John B. Judis The New Republic "Cheney, formerly a director of Morgan Stanley and now the chairman of Halliburton Oil- Cheney, who had joined the board of directors of Morgan Stanley, visited China with representatives from the bank and secured meetings with high-ranking Chinese officials, including Defense Minister Chi Haotian. In the months after Cheney's visit, the People's Construction Bank of China, a joint venture between the government and Morgan Stanley, announced a major expansion of its services." "money door between the military and industry. Cheney became a member of the board of directors of Morgan Stanley. the Union Pacific Corp., Procter and Gamble Co" http://www.newsmakingnews.com/archive7,24,00,7,29,00.htm http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/5_05/vs.html "VITAL STATISTICS: Chevron Board of Directors and their Connections" "CONDOLEEZZA RICE Director since 1991 Dr. RiceDr. Rice is a Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science. Prior Positions Held: Dr. Rice has been a member of the Stanford University faculty since 1981. From 1989 until April 1991, she served on the Bush Administration's National Security Council as Special Assistant to President Bush for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Soviet Affairs. Other Directorships: Charles Schwab Corporation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Other Memberships: Council on Foreign Relations, J.P. Morgan International Advisory Council." http://www.evote.com/features/bushcampaignstaffers.asp The Bush Campaign: The Brains Behind The Smirk" "Condoleeza Rice - Rice, Bush's foreign policy advisor" Speaking of Condoleeza Rice, http://www.usmm.org/socalships.html "Ships of Standard Oil of California "SoCal," [now Chevron] - since 1895 The Pacific Coast Oil Company, later known as Standard Oil of California or "SoCal", and now known as Chevron, was founded in 1895 Condoleeza Rice 1993 Bahamian" Yes, that is right she has a ship named after her. "Professor Condoleeza RICE | Political Interviews | TIES WEBZINE ".I am a corporate director of the Chevron Corporation" http://www.tiesweb.org/interviews/rice.htm "She is a corporate board member for Chevron, the Hewlett Foundation, and Charles Schwab. In addition, Rice is a member of J.P. Morgan's international advisory council." http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/BIOS/rice.html "THAT'S AOL FOLKS Thursday, July 25, 2002 By DAN COX The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating media giant AOL Time Warner for allegedly claiming advertising revenue it never got. The company broke the stunning news to Wall Street yesterday after the stock market closed. It's the latest bad news for the company, which has seen its stock tumble from well above $50 per share a year ago to just above $11.40 yesterday. On the day of Wall Street's big rally, the company's stock fell 15 cents - even before the probe was disclosed". http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/4109 "Last October, after New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani returned a $10 million gift to the city from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the prince criticized Israel in published comments, McKinney issued a public letter supporting the prince" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/4097 July 25, 2002 Markets Expected to Give Back Some Gains on News of AOL Inquiry http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-markets-stocks.html July 25, 2002 AOL Accounts Under Scrutiny From the S.E.C. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/business/25AOL.html July 25, 2002 "William Conway Jr., former chief financial officer of MCI Communications, hooked up at New York's Carlyle hotel in 1987 to form the company, the Carlyle Group spent two lost years investing in a hodgepodge of companies. It wasn't until 1989, when the company brought in Mr. Carlucci, fresh off his two-year stint as U.S. secretary of defense, that Carlyle got serious in government. In 1991 the company made a name for itself by facilitating a $590 million purchase of Citicorp stock for Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Shortly thereafter, Carlyle snatched up defense contractors Harsco, BDM International, and LTV, turning the companies around and selling them to the likes of TRW, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S. president George Bush Sr., former U.K. prime minister John Major, and former president of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's family among its high-profile clientele." http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html "Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal reportedly believes AOL is the 'anchor' of the Internet. Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Thursday that he intends to double his investment in America Online (NYSE: AOL), bringing his stake to a whopping $2.05 billion (US$)" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/4110 ------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:09:56 -0000 Subject: !b_a_Act: Powell destroyed his own notebooks Powell destroyed his own notebooks See also 2004 Presidential Poll at end of this post. Back in the 1960s it was called THE CREDIBILITY GAP. That gap widened between the American people and then President Johnson, who finally announced, to a tiny TV audience, that he would not seek re-election in 1968. There was a war on then, called The Vietnam War. Maintaining Credibility with the American people is essential for any inhabitant of the White House. Once that Credibility is lost the White House cannot function as it should. These days the destruction of evidence at Enron and Arthur Andersen is very much in the news. In the Watergate Era what really connected with the American people was the then shocking revelation that Nixon's Acting FBI Director, L. Patrick Gray, had burned some Watergate related documents. This was the scene during the Watergate era: " Then-president Nixon's choice, (to be FBI Director) L. Patrick Gray, got caught up in the Watergate break-in scandal: While awaiting confirmation and serving as acting director, Gray burned some Watergate-related documents. Gray admitted he was wrong." http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2001/jul/fbi/010723.fbi.h tml "Time to burn files. Liddy shredded the gemstone files at CREEP. Dean cleaned out Hunt's safe at the White House, and gave Hunt's copy of the Gemstone file to L. Patrick Gray, acting FBI head: "Deep-six this-in the interest of national security. This should never see the light of day." " Gray burned the file." http://www.west.net/~wwmr/gemston2.htm Back then people thought they could trust the FBI never to do anything like that. Remember the fall of 2000 when people thought they could trust the US Supreme Court never to do anything like ordering an end to the counting of legally cast votes that the Florida State Supreme Court had ordered to be counted, thus handing the White House to the usurper Dubya and the Vice Presidency to Deputy Dictator Dirty Dick Cheney, AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO COLIN POWELL. THE TOXIC PCB TROIKA TEAM OF POWELL, CHENEY AND BUSH, ALL OF WHOM ARE ALLEGEDLY RELATED TO ONE ANOTHER AS MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY, RULES AMERICA TO THIS DAY. YET IMPEACHMENT FOR THIS TERRIBLE TRIO MAY, WE HOPE, BE IN THE OFFING. "When asked about this and other touchy points by congressional investigators on June 19, 1987, Powell pleaded a weak memory. He repeatedly used phrases such as "I cannot specifically recall." At one point, Powell said, "To my recollection, I don't have a recollection." When asked if Weinberger kept a diary, Powell responded, "The Secretary, to my knowledge, did not keep a diary. Whatever notes he kept, I don't know how he uses them or what he does with them. He does not have a diary of this ilk, no." As for his own notebooks from the Iran-contra period, Powell announced that he had destroyed them." "Tuesday January 15 (2002) Andersen Fires Lead Enron Auditor By MARCY GORDOHN, AP Business Writer ***destruction of Enron-related documents." http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020115/ts/enron_auditor_3.html "We could look at Enron's political clout. More than 70 percent of its $2.4 million in contributions during the 2000 election cycle went to Republicans, and helped secure Enron Chairman Ken Lay's volunteer position as private counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney when he put together the administration's energy plan under a shroud of official secrecy. Cheney has cited "executive privilege" in refusing to discuss details of those meetings." http://chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0201130032jan13.column?coll=chi · business-nav http://www.hoovers.com/officers/bio/7/0,3353,10697_1069715,00.html please see url above also re item directly below: "David Lesar, of Halliburton Company, Elected to Lyondell Board of Directors HOUSTON, July 31, 2000 - Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE:LYO) announced today that David J. Lesar has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors. This appointment increases the size of the Board to nine, eight of whom are outside directors. Lesar, 47, presently serves Halliburton Company, one of the world's largest diversified energy services, engineering and construction companies, as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Effective August 16, Lesar also will succeed Dick Cheney as Halliburton Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He is responsible for day-to-day operations, including execution of business strategy and shareholder relations for the company. Prior to his current position, Lesar served as President and Chief Executive Officer for Brown & Root, Inc., as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Halliburton Company and as Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration for Halliburton Energy Services. Prior to joining Halliburton in 1993, Lesar was a commercial group director and partner at Arthur Andersen Company." http://www.lyondell.com/html/financial/news_releases/lesar.html Should Bush and Cheney resign or be impeached we think Bush would name Powell to replace Cheney as V.P. and that once Bush resigned, or was impeached, Powell would become President and would name Christine Todd Whitman as Vice President. "Her (Christine Todd Whitman's) father Webster Todd, a building contractor whose projects included Rockefeller Center, was influential in the presidential candidacies of Eisenhower and Nixon. Her mother was a fund raiser for George Bush. Her husband and adviser John Whitman is the grandson of a Governor of New York." (Note Webster Todd was also allegedly very very close to Prescott Bush, father of former President Bush.) "When Colin Powell called himself a "Rockefeller Republican" - pundits found nothing odd He may well have picked it up from Christine Todd Whitman. Powell and New Jersey's first woman governor have become thick lately, and Nelson Rockefeller runs through her life like a trout line. She and her mother were among the original Rockefeller Republicans; her mother was chairman of Citizens for Rockefeller in 1960, 1964, and 1968, and Christie's first paid job was in Rocky's last campaign. - Christie's father, Webster Todd - and his father, John R. Todd, built Rockefeller Center for Nelson's grandfather, John D. Rockefeller.- John Whitman Christine Todd Whitman's husband) - is Yale, Harvard Business School, and the grandson of a New York governor. During their early married years while Christie wifed and mothered, John supported the family, first as a Citibank executive and later as a venture capitalist. He did extremely well, so well that if Christie seeks national office we can expect a marathon press conference à la Geraldine Ferraro. Christie's will last even longer, because John Whitman has done much better than John Zacarro. After he left Citibank he became chairman and CEO of Prudential-Bache Interfunding, which successfully invested a pool of $800 million in leveraged buyouts. In one deal, John put in $78,211 and made $981,553. Next he started a consulting company whose clients included Ford Motor Company, the U. S. Agency for International Development, and the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund. Now he heads Sycamore Partners, which concentrates on investments in the U.S. and Asia." http://www.spectator.org/archives/96-09_king.html .GAF, (General Aniline and Film) has had strong ties to Whitman. Early photo of Christie Whitman and Nelson Rockefeller appears at the url directly below: http://www.presageinc.com/contents/experience/christie/biography.gif The alleged role of GAF, (General Aniline and Film) a firm which is also a historical major asbestos player, in espionage against America and other activities for the nazis, during World War Two is described in a book by Charles Higham entitled . Trading With the Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949 . GAF, (General Aniline and Film) has had strong ties to both Torricelli and Whitman. All of this opens the door to the opportunity for the American people to take a good look at the alleged ties of Bush family and cabinet members to firms with alleged historical ties to the Hitler regime in Germany.. The documentation of Whitman's alleged ties to GAF (General Aniline and Film) and to the Rockefellers is a major research project. Please search the internet and the files of all New Jersey and regional newspapers for material . Please post that information and all other relevant information both here and at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters What we need to understand is the long-standing Rockefeller connection, not only to arabs and oil, but to Nazis and Bush and Harriman, it was Rockefeller money that paid for the so-called "palestinian refugee camps"in the first place rather than see those people repatriated BACK to the nations they had wandered INTO Judea, Samaria, Gaza, Israel IN THE FIRST PLACE FROM, THUS SETTING THE STAGE FOR Israel to be challenged by these so-called "refugees" who would claim a "right of return" in a vicious anti-Semitic parody of the REAL RIGHT OF RETURN for Jews back to the land of Israel, thus setting the stage for these so-called "refugees' to claim ALL of the land of Israel as theirs. and it is Rockefeller money that does many other things , here's a phrase from a typical "report": "Israel, with its superior firepower, has caused by far the most civilian casualties, and the most damage to residential homes and civilian infrastructure." Who PAID for the "report" ? " acknowledges with appreciation funding from the Compton Foundation, Ruth Mott Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, and Winston Foundation for World Peace "understanding." John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ... and work with refugee camps. A variety of designated gifts funding another 10 p 21 A Palestinian children's school http://www.uwint.org/annrpt/2000/2members.pdf Please read How interesting Bush, Bushnell Cheney Rockefeller all Related http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/3479 "Bush pardoned Weinberger and five other Iran-contra figures on Christmas Eve 1992, less than a month before Bush was to leave office. The Weinberger pardon spared Republican superstars, such as Colin Powell and possibly Bush himself, from the embarrassment of testifying and opening themselves to the risk of perjury charges." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/933 "Behind Colin Powell's Legend-Saving Reagan By Robert Parry and Norman Solomon "We need you, Colin," the familiar voice of new national security adviser Frank Carlucci pleaded over the phone in December 1986. "This is serious. Believe me, the presidency is at stake." With those words, Colin Powell re-entered the Iran-contra affair, a set of events he had dangerously advanced in January 1986when he arranged missile deliveries to Iran, while keeping Pentagon colleagues in the dark. But just as Powell played an important behind-the-scenes role in those missile shipments, he would be equally instrumental in the next phase, the scandal's cover-up in 1987-88 The documentary record-some of it recently declassified at the request of The Consortium-reveals disturbing new questions about Colin Powell's own "character and competence," including clear discrepancies in his sworn testimony." " But in late 1986, as Carlucci called Powell in West Germany, the White House needed some cool heads and some steady hands. President Reagan was reeling day after day from disclosures of the reckless arms-for-hostage scheme with Iran and diversion of money to the Nicaraguan contra rebels. After sounding Powell out about his willingness to join the National Security Council staff, Carlucci made sure he could wall Powell off from the scandal. On Dec. 9, 1986, the White House obtained from the FBI a statement that Powell was not a criminal suspect. The next day, Carlucci asked Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger "to call Peter Wallison, WH Counsel-to tell them Colin had no connection with Iran arms sales-except to carry out President's order," Weinberger wrote down. He then "called Peter Wallison-Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on Iran." With Carlucci satisfied that his old friend, Powell, could sidestep the spreading Iran-contra stain, Reagan formally asked the general on Dec. 12, 1986, to quit his post as commander of V Corps in West Germany and to become deputy national security adviser. Powell accepted, taking over those new duties on Jan. 2, 1987. As always, Powell took to his task energetically. To put the Iran-contra scandal behind the White House, he helped draft a limited mea-culpa speech by Reagan on March 4, 1987. The president admitted that the arms-for-hostage deal "was a mistake." But Powell failed to force in some phrasing exonerating his patron, Weinberger, and by inference, Colin Powell. A Confident General Powell testified before both the congressional committees and special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. Under oath, the general asserted that he did not know about the early 1985 arms shipments to Iran a key point given the fact that those arms transfers represented a felony under the Arms Export Control Act. He insisted that he did not know that U.S. weapons were being shipped until mid-January 1986 when President Reagan signed a "finding" that made the deliveries legal. The distinction was crucial to Powell's defense of himself and Weinberger. Powell stuck to his story even as evidence emerged proving that he and Weinberger were reading top-secret intelligence intercepts in September and October 1985 in which Iranians described the delivery of U.S. weapons. The Consortium obtained one of those reports, dated Oct. 2, 1985. It was marked "SECRET SPOKE ORCON" and was signed by Lt. Gen. William Odom, the director of the National Security Agency. The sensitive electronic intercept had picked up a phone conversation a day earlier between two Iranian officials, identified as "Mr. Asghari" who was in Europe and "Mohsen Kangarlu" who was in Tehran. "A large part of the conversation had to do with details on the delivery of several more shipments of weapons into Iran," wrote Odom in the "exclusive" report which went only to top officials at CIA, the NSC and the Pentagon. "Asghari then pressed Kangarlu to provide a list of what he wanted the 'other four planes' to bring. ... Kangarlu said that he already had provided a list. Asghari said that those items were for the first two planes. Asghari reminded Kangarlu that there were Phoenix missiles on the second plane which were not on the first. ...[Asghari] said that a flight would be made this week." When asked about this and other touchy points by congressional investigators on June 19, 1987, Powell pleaded a weak memory. He repeatedly used phrases such as "I cannot specifically recall." At one point, Powell said, "To my recollection, I don't have a recollection." When asked if Weinberger kept a diary, Powell responded, "The Secretary, to my knowledge, did not keep a diary. Whatever notes he kept, I don't know how he uses them or what he does with them. He does not have a diary of this ilk, no." As for his own notebooks from the Iran-contra period, Powell announced that he had destroyed them. Weinberger offered similar testimony, claiming that he took notes "occasionally, but comparatively rarely" and that they were not "kept in any formal way." Whatever their condition, however, Weinberger's notes were not delivered to Congress or to the special prosecutor. That gap of evidence was crucial in the failure of the early Iran-contra investigations to breach the White House stonewall. Fall-Guy Plan In 1987, the White House cover story-blaming the scandal on Oliver North and other out-of-control NSC officers-held, even though North had publicly denounced the official version as a "fall-guy plan." Thanks in no small part to Powell's fencing with his inquisitors, the investigation was blunted, Ronald Reagan's presidency was saved and George Bush could tell the voters that he had been "out-of-the-loop" on Iran-contra. The Consortium investigation found that Powell's records at the NSC and at the Pentagon revealed no information about-or apparent interest in-longstanding allegations that the contras engaged in cocaine trafficking -(Ironically, recent disclosures in federal court records cite Bermudez as the contra leader who gave a green light to massive contra cocaine shipments into the United States.) After Congress ended its Iran-contra investigation in fall 1987, Powell mounted a counter-attack -To his surprise, though, Powell was not quite through with Iran-contra. In 1991, Walsh's investigators stumbled upon Weinberger's long-lost notes which had been filed away in an obscure corner of the Library of Congress. Among those papers was a note from Oct. 3, 1985. It indicated that Weinberger had received information from an NSA intercept that Iran was receiving "arms transfers"-the point that Powell had tried so hard to obscure. The belated discovery of Weinberger's diaries led to the former defense secretary's indictment for obstruction of justice. The notes also prompted Powell to submit a pro-Weinberger affidavit that stunningly contradicted Powell's own earlier sworn testimony in which he had insisted that Weinberger maintained no "diaries." In the affidavit dated April 21,1992, however, Powell argued that he regarded Weinberger's daily notes as a "personal diary" and that it was "entirely possible" that Weinberger would not have understood these personal papers to be within the scope of the Iran-contra document requests. Though the contradiction was clear, Powell was never held to account.. The only threat to Powell's reputation would be the trial of Caspar Weinberger which was scheduled to start in January 1993 and which listed Powell as a prospective witness. Bush -pardon(ed ) Weinberger, on Christmas Eve 1992. Weinberger thus was spared a trial-and Powell was saved the embarrassment of public attention over his dubious role in the Iran-contra affair." Above sent for non-commercial purposes of discussion. Note: Bush was also spared being named by Weinberger for Bush's KEY role in Iran-Contra. As Vice President Bush had allegedly used BOTH Jordan's King Hussein and Egypt's President Mubarak to send a message to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War to start bombing Iran. The following weekend Saddam staged over 300 bombing raids against Iran. Bush then allegedly offered missiles to Iran to defend itself from Saddam. Thus beginning what was to become Iran-Contra." "The two topics most heavily documented in the Cheney files are the 1976 presidential campaign and the 1975 investigations of the intelligence community.-Materials on the intelligence investigations (over one linear foot) concern such topics as William Colby's report to the President in December 1974 on alleged abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency, the establishment and operation of the Rockefeller Commission, congressional investigations, and proposed presidential actions to reform the intelligence community-Researchers interested in the intelligence investigations or other topics relating to national defense and foreign affairs questions should be aware that archivists have withdrawn numerous classified documents during processing. These are not currently available for research, but researchers may initiate requests for agency review for possible declassification. The amount of material on most topics other than the campaign or the intelligence investigations is fairly small.- One area that is not well documented in this collection is the large number of meetings that Cheney attended. Although the senior staff met on a daily basis, only a few scattered notes by Cheney on the discussions appear in the files. Similarly, there are few notes from Cheney's meetings with the President and other individuals.-Over one foot of material relates to the 1975 investigations of the intelligence community." http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/ford/avproj/B1461-13A.jpg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/430 "Was George Bush involved?- Kennedy had enemies -Among his enemies were -former CIA director Allen Dulles ( of the Warren Commission!!!), George Bush tried to cover all CIA actions regarding the assassination. In 1976, when the HSCA conducted its investigation, he called a meeting with CBS officials William Paley and Richard Salant to gain support for the CIA's policy of "burying the past." When dealing with CIA contacts within the CBS, one told Bush, "we protect ours, you protect yours." Robert J.Groden writes about Bush: "The President John F. Kennedy Act of 1992 was enacted as a result of public outcry following the release of the movie 'JFK'. The Act requires any federal agency holding unreleased documents relating to the assassination to catalogue and transfer them to the National Archives. By June 1993, this review body still had not been appointed, partly because former President (and CIA director) George Bush left office with the needed records in his possession.] Groden, Robert J. The Killing of a President" http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/faq.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/513