nice bubble chart of the Bu$h Crime Family. i would like to know how much of it was taxpayers money,

[sam sarrha]

and how much was made thru influenced legislation..

http://www.bushwatch.com/bushmillions.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=personal+wealth+of+george+w+bush&btnG=Google+Search

[Joanne98]

1. Here's what it looks like!

[izquierdista]

7. Suggested improvement

I'd like to see arrows indicating the flow of money and how much influence it bought. You KNOW that the green oval in the middle is going to be a suckhole of cash with $100 of favors paid out for every dollar taken in.

[Joanne98]

2. I love charts and pictures that explain connections,,

[Fridays Child]

3. This chart puts into perspective many, many names we've read about over the last eight+ years.

[dragonlady]

4. A few years ago we saw a traveling exhibition of an artist's work

He had painstakingly researched the network of connections between many, many powerful people around the world (the exhibit included a filing cabinet of his 3x5 cards). Then he had created numerous large ink drawings connecting various sets of names. From a few feet away it looked like an intricate design, but up close you could read the names, printed in tiny writing at the nodes of the design.

Unfortunately, he died under mysterious circumstances (possibly suicide) before he could complete another drawing touching on a contemporary event. This was in about 2002. I can't remember his name, and some searching in Google failed to find it. Does anyone recall?

[Fridays Child]

5. Mark Lombardi?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1487185

[Joanne98]

10. Yep, that's him. Global Networks he called it...

Someone once asked him what is was and he said "A study of evil".

[sam sarrha]

6. is this it...?? >Link>>

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1487185

[dragonlady]

14. Thanks to all of you for posting his name

Here are some more links about Mark Lombardi in case anyone is interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lombardi
http://www.steamshovelpress.com/altmedia18.html
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=42224

[Kucinich4America]

8. One glaring ommission from that chart: Clear Channel

Founded by Thomas Hicks and Lowry Mays.

So thank Chimpy and his friends, not only for corporate radio, but ridiculously priced concert tickets as well.

[sam sarrha]

9. that was after this chart.. maybe someone could update it

[Joanne98]

11. Here's another chart

[Joanne98]

12. Here's a chart of how our country is organized

[Ghost Dog]

17. nice chart n/t

[Joanne98]

13. Here's a chart of the Carlyle Group's new telecom product!

[fed-up]

15. kick/rec'd and bookmarked for future reference-please just one more rec needed nt

[cosmicdot]

16. re the UTIMCO part of the diagram

~snip~

Hicks shifted his heavy donations to Bush. Hicks gave $146,000 to Bush in both of his gubernatorial campaigns. In return for the gratitude, Bush approved legislation to form UTIMCO in 1995. Hicks had used a full-court press strategy, spending between $50,000 to $110,0001 in lobbying and using with the powerful lobbying team Vinson and Elkins, who represents several Texas business interests, to achieve this dream.

Conveniently for both men, Bush appointed Hicks as the first chair to UTIMCO, which began the tradition of tit-for-tat management and good-ol'boy favoritism that has defined the relationship between UTIMCO and Texas politics since. In 1998, Hicks would make Bush a multi-millionaire by purchasing the Texas Rangers. In addition, Hicks' company, Hicks, Muse, Tate, & Furst, Inc., is now Bush's number 4 career patron. The company is still donating to the GOP; Rick Perry has received $283,481 from Hicks Muse, with another $176,500 coming from Charles Tate . Hicks's brother Steven has also thrown in $138,516. ~snip~

Another notable company not covered by the Multinational Monitor was an investment in Capstar Broadcasting, run by R. Steven Hicks- Tom's brother. The brothers have had strong interests in national communications companies, and some deals that have been proposed (some sought after by trustbusters) have reached the billions. Clear Channel Communications/AMFM (owned by Hicks Muse with Tom Hicks as the vice-chair) is the largest chain of radio stations in the U.S. ~snip~

http://www.utwatch.org/utimco/hicks.html

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/216

[KoKo]

18. Big Kick...the charts should go on our Refrig....or at least Bookmark..

I remember the Lombardi drawing with lots of links years ago on DU. It was fascinating. Glad to see all this out there again. So many new folks don't know about this...and many legacy folks missed it before.

:thumbsup: