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January 16, 2014
The Bush Family Nazi Connections
by William Bowles
ThirdWorldTraveler
EXCERPT...
"George Walker, GW's great-grandfather, also set up the takeover of the Hamburg-America Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. In Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust. The Bush family was not unaware of the nature of their investment partners. They hired Allen Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest."
SNIP...
"On October 20, 1942, the US Alien Property Custodian, under the "Trading With the Enemy Act," seized the shares of the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), of which Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder. The largest shareholder was E. Roland Harriman. (Bush was also the managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, a leading Wall Street investment firm.)
"The UBC was established to send American capital to Germany to finance the reorganization of its industry under the Nazis. Their leading German partner was the notorious Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who wrote a book admitting much of this called "I Paid Hitler."
"Among the companies financed was the Silesian-American Corporation, which was also managed by Prescott Bush, and by his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, who supplied Dub-a-Ya with his name. The company was vital in supplying coal to the Nazi war industry. It too was seized as a Nazi-front on November 17, 1942. The largest company Bush's UBC helped finance was the German Steel Trust, responsible for between one-third and one-half of Nazi iron and explosives.
"Prescott Bush was also a director of the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, (this one owned largely by Roland's brother, Averell Harriman), which owned about a third of the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, the rest owned by Friedrich Flick, (a member of Himmler's "Circle of Friends" who donated to the S.S.)."
CONTINUED...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Bush_Gang/BushFamily_NaziConnections.html
He was talking about Bush41 and Bush43.
The Bush Family Nazi Connections
by William Bowles
ThirdWorldTraveler
EXCERPT...
"George Walker, GW's great-grandfather, also set up the takeover of the Hamburg-America Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. In Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust. The Bush family was not unaware of the nature of their investment partners. They hired Allen Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest."
SNIP...
"On October 20, 1942, the US Alien Property Custodian, under the "Trading With the Enemy Act," seized the shares of the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), of which Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder. The largest shareholder was E. Roland Harriman. (Bush was also the managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, a leading Wall Street investment firm.)
"The UBC was established to send American capital to Germany to finance the reorganization of its industry under the Nazis. Their leading German partner was the notorious Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who wrote a book admitting much of this called "I Paid Hitler."
"Among the companies financed was the Silesian-American Corporation, which was also managed by Prescott Bush, and by his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, who supplied Dub-a-Ya with his name. The company was vital in supplying coal to the Nazi war industry. It too was seized as a Nazi-front on November 17, 1942. The largest company Bush's UBC helped finance was the German Steel Trust, responsible for between one-third and one-half of Nazi iron and explosives.
"Prescott Bush was also a director of the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, (this one owned largely by Roland's brother, Averell Harriman), which owned about a third of the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, the rest owned by Friedrich Flick, (a member of Himmler's "Circle of Friends" who donated to the S.S.)."
CONTINUED...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Bush_Gang/BushFamily_NaziConnections.html
January 15, 2014
We laughed and laughed and laughed...
Waits said that to Martin Mull and Fred Willard on 'Fernwood Tonight.'
We laughed and laughed and laughed...
January 15, 2014
Why does my pointing out hypocrisy make you laugh?
It's interesting to discover how many people who post on DU also were posting on Amazing Randi.
The common denominator: Zero tolerance for others' opinions that disagree, whether the subject is religion or the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
If you were open minded, a democratic attitude I might add, I wouldn't point this out. Perhaps you should write a letter to the Amazing Randi about this.
January 14, 2014
Mind The Credibility Gap: Syria And The History Of US War Disinformation
By James Henry
WhoWhatWhy.com on Sep 30, 2013
Americans—and others—are in heated discussion these days over whether an attack on Syria might be justified by alleged use of chemical weapons. But no such discussion is complete without consideration of a long history of disinformation disseminated in order to drum up support for overseas wars.
SNIP...
Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish
Was this just a small mistake? To quote a recently declassified NSA internal history titled, Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish:
“… it is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night [emphasis original].”
Even more troubling, subsequent inquiries revealed that the Navy, the intelligence establishment, and the Johnson administration all knew the attack claim was a calculated lie, part of a deliberate strategy of justifying a widened conflict. In point of fact, the CIA had been orchestrating the shelling of the North Vietnamese coast, and the Maddox had been sailing provocatively close to shore–in North Vietnamese waters.
When North Vietnamese patrol boats approached, the Maddox fired on them first. This was not a case of North Vietnamese aggression. Yet, this story became the justification for a war that cost the lives of 58,220 Americans and well over a million Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians, plus hundreds of thousands of wounded on all sides.
War with Iraq: Part One
Then came a few small wars based on big lies: the invasion of Grenada, the invasion of Panama, and the proxy war in Nicaragua among them. But the Vietnam disaster had turned so many Americans against large-scale military commitments abroad that it wasn’t until 1990 that the US public came to support another big war-–this time following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of the oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait.
As usual, Americans were presented with a context-free story of what supposedly happened – a story that contained no hint of behind-the-scenes diplomatic machinations encouraging Hussein to think the US would not oppose his marching into Kuwait. And this simplistic black-and-white tale was bolstered with emotionally charged imagery of dead babies – a staple of war propagandists going back to World War I and before.
Saddam the Baby Killer
Remember Nayirah, the young Kuwaiti girl who testified before Congress? She said she saw Iraqi soldiers storm the hospital where she worked, and dump newborn babies out of their incubators, leaving them on the cold floor to die.
It was all an elaborate fraud. Soon after the war ended, a New York Times article outed the outrageously brazen trick being played on the American people by its own government. Nayirah, it turned out, was no ordinary Kuwaiti—she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. And her testimony about dead preemies “was arranged by the big public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton on behalf of a client, the Kuwaiti-sponsored Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which was then pressing Congress for military intervention.” In short, the “atrocity” never happened.
CONTINUED...
http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/09/30/mind-the-credibility-gap-syria-and-the-history-of-us-war-disinformation/
Now, the same folks 'n' forces want to make Iran glow -- just for the OIL (as Ray McGovern succinctly and acronymically reminds us).
Gates Conceals Real Story of "Gaming" Obama on Afghan War
By Gareth Porter
Monday, 13 January 2014 09:31, IPS News | Report
Criticism in the memoirs of former secretary of defence Robert M. Gates of President Barack Obama’s lack of commitment to the Afghan War strategy of his administration has generated a Washington debate about whether Obama was sufficiently supportive of the war.
But the Gates account omits two crucial historical facts necessary to understanding the issue. The first is that Obama agreed to the escalation only under strong pressure from his top national security officials and with very explicit reservations. The second is that Gen. David Petraeus reneged on his previous commitment to support Obama’s 2009 decision that troop withdrawal would begin by mid-2011.
Gates makes only the most glancing reference in the newly published “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War” to the issue of the beginning of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The former defence secretary refers to “suspicion and distrust of senior military officers” by both Obama and vice president Joe Biden. And he describes a Mar. 3, 2011 National Security Council meeting in the White House situation room which Obama opened by criticising the military for “popping off in the press” and vowing to push back against any military delay in beginning the withdrawal.
Gates quotes Obama as saying, “ If I believe I am being gamed . . .” and says he left the sentence “hanging there with the clear implication the consequences would be dire.”
Gates writes that he was “pretty upset,” because he thought “implicitly accusing Petraeus” of “gaming” him at a big meeting in the Situation Room was “inappropriate, not to mention highly disrespectful of Petraeus.”
“As I sat there,” Gates recalls, “I thought: the president doesn’t trust his commander, can’t stand [Afghanistan President Hamid] Karzai, doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”
CONTINUED...
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21181-gates-conceals-real-story-of-gaming-obama-on-afghan-war
Without people who give a damn -- and bother to read, let alone research and write -- we are up the War Party's creek without a paddle or a light, let alone a dry match. Thank Moon for DU.
That's why DU and the Internets are important.
This is why I think the world of real journalism: Justice, Democracy and Liberty (for starters) depend on it.
Mind The Credibility Gap: Syria And The History Of US War Disinformation
By James Henry
WhoWhatWhy.com on Sep 30, 2013
Americans—and others—are in heated discussion these days over whether an attack on Syria might be justified by alleged use of chemical weapons. But no such discussion is complete without consideration of a long history of disinformation disseminated in order to drum up support for overseas wars.
SNIP...
Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish
Was this just a small mistake? To quote a recently declassified NSA internal history titled, Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish:
“… it is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night [emphasis original].”
Even more troubling, subsequent inquiries revealed that the Navy, the intelligence establishment, and the Johnson administration all knew the attack claim was a calculated lie, part of a deliberate strategy of justifying a widened conflict. In point of fact, the CIA had been orchestrating the shelling of the North Vietnamese coast, and the Maddox had been sailing provocatively close to shore–in North Vietnamese waters.
When North Vietnamese patrol boats approached, the Maddox fired on them first. This was not a case of North Vietnamese aggression. Yet, this story became the justification for a war that cost the lives of 58,220 Americans and well over a million Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians, plus hundreds of thousands of wounded on all sides.
War with Iraq: Part One
Then came a few small wars based on big lies: the invasion of Grenada, the invasion of Panama, and the proxy war in Nicaragua among them. But the Vietnam disaster had turned so many Americans against large-scale military commitments abroad that it wasn’t until 1990 that the US public came to support another big war-–this time following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of the oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait.
As usual, Americans were presented with a context-free story of what supposedly happened – a story that contained no hint of behind-the-scenes diplomatic machinations encouraging Hussein to think the US would not oppose his marching into Kuwait. And this simplistic black-and-white tale was bolstered with emotionally charged imagery of dead babies – a staple of war propagandists going back to World War I and before.
Saddam the Baby Killer
Remember Nayirah, the young Kuwaiti girl who testified before Congress? She said she saw Iraqi soldiers storm the hospital where she worked, and dump newborn babies out of their incubators, leaving them on the cold floor to die.
It was all an elaborate fraud. Soon after the war ended, a New York Times article outed the outrageously brazen trick being played on the American people by its own government. Nayirah, it turned out, was no ordinary Kuwaiti—she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. And her testimony about dead preemies “was arranged by the big public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton on behalf of a client, the Kuwaiti-sponsored Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which was then pressing Congress for military intervention.” In short, the “atrocity” never happened.
CONTINUED...
http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/09/30/mind-the-credibility-gap-syria-and-the-history-of-us-war-disinformation/
Now, the same folks 'n' forces want to make Iran glow -- just for the OIL (as Ray McGovern succinctly and acronymically reminds us).
Gates Conceals Real Story of "Gaming" Obama on Afghan War
By Gareth Porter
Monday, 13 January 2014 09:31, IPS News | Report
Criticism in the memoirs of former secretary of defence Robert M. Gates of President Barack Obama’s lack of commitment to the Afghan War strategy of his administration has generated a Washington debate about whether Obama was sufficiently supportive of the war.
But the Gates account omits two crucial historical facts necessary to understanding the issue. The first is that Obama agreed to the escalation only under strong pressure from his top national security officials and with very explicit reservations. The second is that Gen. David Petraeus reneged on his previous commitment to support Obama’s 2009 decision that troop withdrawal would begin by mid-2011.
Gates makes only the most glancing reference in the newly published “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War” to the issue of the beginning of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The former defence secretary refers to “suspicion and distrust of senior military officers” by both Obama and vice president Joe Biden. And he describes a Mar. 3, 2011 National Security Council meeting in the White House situation room which Obama opened by criticising the military for “popping off in the press” and vowing to push back against any military delay in beginning the withdrawal.
Gates quotes Obama as saying, “ If I believe I am being gamed . . .” and says he left the sentence “hanging there with the clear implication the consequences would be dire.”
Gates writes that he was “pretty upset,” because he thought “implicitly accusing Petraeus” of “gaming” him at a big meeting in the Situation Room was “inappropriate, not to mention highly disrespectful of Petraeus.”
“As I sat there,” Gates recalls, “I thought: the president doesn’t trust his commander, can’t stand [Afghanistan President Hamid] Karzai, doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”
CONTINUED...
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21181-gates-conceals-real-story-of-gaming-obama-on-afghan-war
Without people who give a damn -- and bother to read, let alone research and write -- we are up the War Party's creek without a paddle or a light, let alone a dry match. Thank Moon for DU.
January 13, 2014
By James Huang
WhoWhatWhy.com, Jan. 13, 2014
Applause for The New York Times , which has finally caught up to WhoWhatWhy’s reporting on the disturbing case of Roger Shuler. The Alabama journalist and blogger sits in jail as of this writing, where he has been locked up for the last 80 days, in a case vital to anyone who cares about a free press. You can read our original story here and hear from the man himself.
Shuler, a controversial figure for sure, blogged about allegations of a sordid affair between a powerful Republican scion and a lobbyist. A judge ordered the posts be removed from the Internet and Shuler has refused, citing free speech. He’s behind bars now for “contempt.”
The New York Times rightly points out that Shuler is the only person in the Western Hemisphere to join a list of imprisoned journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The list includes reporters held around the world, in places like China, Egypt and Iran.
Our question to The Times: He’s been in jail for 80 days. What took you so long?
SOURCE w mo' links: http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/01/13/better-late-than-never/
DUers have been on the case, too. Keep spreading the word. Generations to come will thank us for it.
Legal Schnauzer (friend of Gov. Don Siegelman) FINALLY gets noticed by The New York Times
Better Late Than NeverBy James Huang
WhoWhatWhy.com, Jan. 13, 2014
Applause for The New York Times , which has finally caught up to WhoWhatWhy’s reporting on the disturbing case of Roger Shuler. The Alabama journalist and blogger sits in jail as of this writing, where he has been locked up for the last 80 days, in a case vital to anyone who cares about a free press. You can read our original story here and hear from the man himself.
Shuler, a controversial figure for sure, blogged about allegations of a sordid affair between a powerful Republican scion and a lobbyist. A judge ordered the posts be removed from the Internet and Shuler has refused, citing free speech. He’s behind bars now for “contempt.”
The New York Times rightly points out that Shuler is the only person in the Western Hemisphere to join a list of imprisoned journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The list includes reporters held around the world, in places like China, Egypt and Iran.
Our question to The Times: He’s been in jail for 80 days. What took you so long?
SOURCE w mo' links: http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/01/13/better-late-than-never/
DUers have been on the case, too. Keep spreading the word. Generations to come will thank us for it.
January 13, 2014
Did you ever hear of Captain Beefheart? That's where the handle comes from.
His work: Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish gave me the idea. Before Beefheart, Ian Fleming wrote that the people of Bahamas occasionally referred to such a creature in "Dr. No." Probably all before your time. Going by what you add to my posts on DU, that should be no problem.
Why I use it is to remind DUers about the Octopus: what Danny Casolaro called the long line of treason committed by the War Party over the last century. In this thread, it's the bagmen, warmongers and greedheads that have done so much to harm democracy, justice, the United States and the planet. For short, I call them the War Party the BFEE in honor of their bagmen, the Bush Family Evil Empire.
Oh, yeah. Almost forgot. Why are you snooper2? Was there a snooper1?
January 11, 2014
Know your BFEE: Robert Gates did more than keep the doors open at BCCI
''Money trumps peace'' doesn't hold for Obama and Biden.
Know your BFEE: Robert Gates did more than keep the doors open at BCCI
January 11, 2014
That perfect high-level NAZI failed to act on information that would have protected JFK
In Miami and in Chicago. Attorney Mark North wrote a book documenting the FBI paper trail of these and other threats Hoover ignored.
Hoover obstructed justice, ordering the destruction of evidence: The Hosty note, among other things.
Two other high level NAZI hands on the Warren Commission: Allen Dulles and John McCloy.
And people wonder why "money trumps peace" NAZI-style these days.
January 11, 2014
The antidote, Doctor:
Power, Corruption and Propaganda: A Sampler
The website's motto: "We don't cover the news. We uncover the truth."
Their crazy ideas come from somewhere.
The antidote, Doctor:
Power, Corruption and Propaganda: A Sampler
The website's motto: "We don't cover the news. We uncover the truth."
January 11, 2014
Wall Street and the Master Race of the Universe
In the old days:
First they build up an enemy.
Then they buy the industries needed to fight said enemy.
Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich
Now, though, they own the government, too.
Unfortunately for democracy.
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