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BY TOM BURGHARDT / GLOBAL RESEARCH (Nov. 11), “President-elect Barack Obama is Republicans, many of whom helped Bush craft While expectations may be high that the unlikely to overhaul radically controversial his administration’s illegal policies. incoming Obama administration will reverse Bush administration intelligence policies, With US street cred at an all-time low, due many of the worst features of the Bush regime — advisers say, an approach that is almost certain in no small measure to Washington’s hubristic from warrantless wiretapping, illegal detention, to create tension within the Democratic Party.” fantasies that it really is an empire and not a rendition torture, “targeted assassinations” and With hyperbolic “change” rhetoric in the rapidly decaying failed state, ruling elites have preemptive war — now that the cheering has air, Obama is relying on a gaggle of former literally banked on Obama to deliver the goods. stopped, expect more of the same. intelligence insiders, warmed-over Clinton During his run for the White House, the According to the Wall Street Journal, administration officials and “moderate” CHANGE p. 8 $700 Billion Bank Robbery BY ELLEN BROWN / WEBOFDEBT.COM banks in exchange for equity, the plan was won’t be able to afford to let them fail. . . . The Stepfordville-like stability of the market widely referred to as ‘partial nationalization’– a That tethering of the public interest to private may have been engineered for another reason: radical measure required to get the banks companies is the real purpose of the bailout to divert Congress from reconsidering its $700 lending again. In fact, there has been no plan: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is billion bailout bill, which is proving to be as nationalization, partial or otherwise. Taxpayers handing all the companies that are admitted disastrous for the taxpayers as it is lucrative have gained no meaningful control, which is to the program – a number potentially in the Obama Team: Wall Street for the banks. The bankers are manning the why the banks can spend their windfall as they thousands – an implicit Treasury Department lifeboats as the taxpayers go down with the wish (on bonuses, mergers, savings . . .) and the guarantee. . . . [F]or the banks, the best part is Titanic. In an October 29 article in The Nation government is reduced to pleading that they use that the government is paying them – in some and Washington Insiders titled “Bailout = Bush’s Final Pillage,” Naomi a portion of it for loans. . . . cases billions of dollars – to accept its seal of Klein wrote: “By purchasing stakes in these institutions, approval. . . . BY RCFP STAFF the US military, he did volunteer for the Israeli “When the Bush administration announced it Treasury is sending a signal to the market that “[T]he market is being told loud and clear Obama’s first order of business, as president Defense Force (IDF) during the first Gulf War would be injecting $250 billion into America’s they are a safe bet . . . [b]ecause the government ROBBERY p. 4 elect, was to appoint Rahm Emanuel as chief of in 1991. staff. Obama said in a statement: “I announce Emanuel’s father, Benjamin, was a member this appointment first because the chief of of the Zionist organization, Irgun Zvai Leumi. staff is central to the ability of a president Mr. Emanuel named his son after “Rahamim”, Veterans Occupy National Archives and administration to accomplish an agenda.” a fallen member of the Lohamei Herut Israel, Emanuel, born in Chicago, is a dual American- also known as the “Stern Gang” by the British BY DAVID SWANSON with police focused on blocking traffic for G-20 Israeli citizen. While he has never served in This was the second time that a group of delegates’ endless limousine motorcades. That TEAM p. 8 veterans opposed to illegal wars and in favor remained the case throughout the day, as world of the rule of law had taken over the National leaders burned oil and produced hot air. Archives building in Washington, D.C. The first Eight people, including six members of time, several weeks ago, a group of them had Veterans for Peace, one member of Iraq Veterans Corporate Media Lies Exposed climbed onto a ledge on the front of the building Against the War, and one member of Military with flags and banners. This time, they aimed Families Speak Out got around a construction BY MATT SULLIVAN / RCFP in power by the 2003 CIA-orchestrated “Rose higher. fence, went up the Archives steps, and climbed We caught them lying again. This August, Revolution”. Mike Ferner gave me a report over the phone 90 feet of scaffolding. From the top of the the corporate controlled propaganda outlets like The Times of London, (Nov. 9), now reports at 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 15. He said that at 7:45 a.m. building they unfurled giant banners, the first Fox News and nearly every other new source in that two former British military officers will he and others had arrived at the Constitution at about 8:15 a.m. and the second around 8:45. the country, was accusing Russia of attacking its give crucial evidence against Georgia to an Avenue side of the Archives. There had been The first read: “Defend Our Constitution, Arrest smaller neighbor Georgia. This paper was one international inquiry convened to establish who no police presence on this side because the Bush and Cheney, War Criminals!” The second of the few to correctly report that the conflict in started the bloody five-day war with Russia in Pennsylvania Avenue side had been swarming said: “We Will Not Be Silent.” South Ossetia was instigated by neocon puppet August. Ryan Grist, a former British Army VETERANS p. 7 president Mikhail Saakashvill, the Harvard captain, and Stephen Young, a former RAF trained Georgian president who was installed MEDIA LIES p. 8 Fed Hides $2 Trillion in Bailout Money BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON / PRISONPLANET.COM emergency loans from American taxpayers or approval by Congress, Americans have no idea The Federal Reserve is facing a lawsuit after it the troubled assets the central bank is accepting where their money is going or what securities Everything You Know failed to comply with congressional demands as collateral,” reports Bloomberg. the banks are pledging in return.” for transparency and disclose the destination “Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Bloomberg has requested details of the Fed of at least $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said lending under the US Freedom of Information underscoring once again the failure of top down in September they would comply with Act and filed a separate lawsuit in an effort to socialism and the folly of trusting the foxes to congressional demands for transparency in a find out where the money has gone. About AIDS is Wrong guard the henhouse. $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two President-elect Barack Obama, who in a “The Federal Reserve is refusing to months later, as the Fed lends far more than that September 22 campaign speech promised to BY SHEILA CASEY / RCFP the blood test to detect the HIV antibodies. identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of in separate rescue programs that didn’t require On April 23, 1984, Secretary of Health and As a retrovirus researcher, Gallo had BAILOUT p. 4 Human Services Margaret Heckler and previously tried to pin the blame for Alzheimer’s, researcher Robert Gallo from the National leukemia and neurological disorders on a Cancer Institute held a press conference and retrovirus, all without success. Now AIDS was announced that Gallo had found the cause in his sights. Federal Funding for Child Sex Slavery of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome But Gallo had skipped an important step in (AIDS), the retrovirus HIV. Heckler estimated the scientific process: his HIV research had that a vaccine would be available in just two never been subjected to peer review, and was not Orwellian Twist: Funding Disguised as Anti-Sex-Slavery Program years. That same day in 1984, Gallo patented published until after the press conference with BY WAYNE MADSEN / WAYNEMADSENREPORT by WMR, is heavy on millions of dollars paid which expands the crimes and enhances the Heckler had already conferred legitimacy on it. 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AIDS from p. 1 and tuberculosis, but there are no large funding have unwittingly contributed to prolonging Research challenging the consensus that HIV programs for those diseases. If something is the fiction of a viral cause of AIDS, due to is the cause of AIDS. After that his funding called AIDS, money pours in. their unwillingness to confront and change dried up and he was dismissed as a misguided 12) According to Dr. David Crowe, a the behaviors that are destroying the immune contrarian by those with careers and billions tenured Professor in the Center for Molecular systems of gay men. Instead, they have in funding riding on the view that HIV is the Biology of Oral Diseases at the University successfully clamored for more research cause of AIDS. of Illinois at Chicago, HIV is not transmitted dollars focusing on the infectious model, The views of Dr. Duesberg, Dr. David sexually. He quotes a study done in the 90s on drawing a disproportionate amount of funding Crowe, Dr. Charles Geshekter, and other seroconversion in couples where one partner away from other, more prevalent diseases such disidents who dispute the infectious model for was HIV positive and the other HIV negative. as cancer and heart disease. FDA Extorts Money from AIDS are summarized below. Not a single case was found where the HIV But what about Africa? Surely there are 1) All viruses are harmless after antibody negative partner became positive, even after not large numbers of Africans inhaling poppers immunity. Disease is caused before the years of unprotected sex. and overloading their immune systems with antibodies are created, because it is the Supplement Makers 13) Different risk groups manifest AIDS in antibiotics? Yet we are told that AIDS is antibodies that neutralize the pathogen and a different way. IV drug users get tuberculosis decimating Africa, and that Africa is teeming enable the host to recover. When people test and wasting syndrome, gays get Kaposi’s with AIDS orphans who have lost both parents positive for the antibodies, that means they Sarcoma. Yet these specific diseases also occur to the disease. BY ELAINE SULLIVAN / RCFP the individually-named defendants stating that have developed resistance, ‘immunity’ to the in high numbers among members of these risk Yes, say the AIDS dissidents, Africans are For many years the FDA has been using “…personally certifies that the product labels, virus. No microbe causes disease only after groups who do not have HIV infection. much sicker now than they were 25 years ago. Mob tactics to extort money from nutritional labeling, promotional materials, and internet antibodies have appeared, as HIV is claimed If an IV drug user has tuberculosis and no Colonialism has destroyed traditional societies, supplement companies, according to Mike websites strictly comply with the requirements to do. Why develop a vaccine for people who HIV antibodies, he is simply diagnosed with and there is rampant malnutrition, malaria, war, Adams, the Health Ranger and editor of of the Act and its regulations and do not already have the antibodies to the disease? tuberculosis. If he has tuberculosis and does poverty and a lack of clean drinking water. NaturalNews.com. Under the guise of include unapproved or unauthorized claims Duesberg: “there is no virus in AIDS patients, have HIV antibodies, he is diagnosed with According to Charles Geshekter, Ph.D., protecting consumers from unsubstantiated that the products cure, mitigate, treat, prevent only antibodies.” AIDS. It is this method of defining AIDS a three-time Fulbright scholar who teaches health claims, the FDA has been leaning on and/or reduce the risk of disease. Thereafter, 2) Retroviruses, which are one type of that assures a high correlation between HIV African history at California State University health supplement companies and extorting Defendants shall submit certifications of virus, do not kill T-cells. They do not kill the infection and the constellation of diseases in Chico, the current explanation for the hundreds of thousands of dollars from them and compliance every three (3) months for a period cell they infect—ever. (AIDS is diagnosed defined as AIDS. AIDS epidemic in Africa is based on racist threatening the owners with imprisonment. of two (2) years.” partly by a deficiency of T-cells.) 14) HIV supposedly causes 30 different beliefs about African promiscuity. In fact, In a recent investigative article on The company must also pay for an ‘expert’ to 3) HIV does not infect enough T-cells to diseases. All other viruses cause only one says Geshekter, the European communities in NaturalNews.com, Adams explains how the conduct surprise inspections of the company’s cause disease. disease. Duesberg: “There is no HIV specific South Africa are far more promiscuous than FDA, using keyword-scanning software, administrative offices, warehouses and 4) No retrovirus causes disease and there is disease anywhere.” the Africans, yet AIDS is practically unknown searches the web pages of nutritional supplement fulfillment centers; to review the claims the no logical reason why they should. 15) AIDS occurs without HIV infection, among the Europeans, who are much richer, companies and health product companies for company makes for all of their products on their 5) Viruses replicate quickly; there is no and 95% of those with HIV infection never well-fed, and have access to clean drinking words like: cancer, cures, treatment, remedies, product labels, labeling, promotional material, such thing as a slow virus. If a host cannot get AIDS. water. and other words or phrases that might inform any internet websites owned or controlled by mount an immune defense quickly enough, Despite all this, it is clear that people are Also, virtually all HIV testing in Africa consumers of the health benefits of nutritional the company. At the end of this inspection the virus will overwhelm and kill the host in sick and dying. If not HIV, what are they dying is done at pre-natal clinics. Although products. FDA employees also search these the expert will analyze whether the company a matter of days or weeks. Yet we are told from? pregnancy causes high numbers of false sites for any links either to other health sites is operating in compliance with the Act and that HIV can cause up to 30 different diseases AIDS is a condition of suppressed positives, statisticians extrapolate from the tiny or even scientific articles from peer-reviewed in particular, certify whether the company has ten years after initial infection. None of these immunity, and there are many things that numbers at the clinics to the continent at large, medical journals that might explain the health “…omitted all claims from their product labels, diseases are specific to AIDS; all existed prior can suppress immunity. One of the worst is giving the impression of a vast epidemic. In benefits of specific foods, supplements or labeling, promotional materials, websites owned to the “discovery” of AIDS. the HIV drug AZT, which destroys the bone addition to pregnancy, there are 70 different nutrients. If the FDA finds pages containing any or controlled by Defendants, and in any other 6) HIV is not a new virus. When a virus marrow and which Duesberg describes as “the conditions—including use of cosmetics and of these “forbidden” words the FDA contacts media, that make any of their products drugs is new in a population that has never been most toxic drug ever licensed for long term skin lighteners—that can cause false positives the “offending” company and issues a warning and/or constitute unapproved or unauthorized exposed to it, it explodes exponentially. But consumption in the free world.” Many people for the HIV antibody. that the company must remove all information health claims within the meaning of the Act. The this is not what we see with AIDS. The number who test positive for HIV antibodies are told “After 25 years of a so-called epidemic, and links from their websites. This demand expert shall also review Defendants’ product of AIDS cases hasn’t changed since 1985. they must go on these dangerous drugs—even with unlimited amounts of money being spent, includes sites that have customer testimonials, labels, labeling, promotional materials, and 7) It fails Koch’s Postulates, which require though they are completely healthy. there is absolutely nothing to show for it,” says even when those testimonials make absolutely websites owned or controlled by Defendants to four steps to verify that an infectious agent is In a tragic case described by Celia Farber in Geshekter. He posits that there is not supposed no health claims. If the links and information is determine whether these include any references the cause of a disease. the March 2006 Harpers magazine, Joyce Ann to be an end to the AIDS epidemic in Africa – it not removed, some company officials have been to or endorsements of any other websites 1. the agent must be found in all cases of Hafford, a healthy 33 year old single mother, is just supposed to keep going. threatened with imprisonment. that convey information about Defendants’ the disease; four months pregnant, was enrolled in an HIV “To ask hard questions threatens the Companies that refuse to comply have been products that cause those products to be a drug 2. it must be isolated from the host; drug trial, put on three anti-HIV drugs in June, livelihood of the thousands of AIDS threatened with arrest and seizure unless they and/or contain unapproved or unauthorized 3. it must cause the same disease when and was dead by August 1. Although Hafford researchers, as well as the journalists who sign the “consent decree” and pay hundreds of health claims within the meaning of the Act, injected into a healthy host; and felt completely well prior to the drug trial and have won Pulitzer Prizes for conforming to the thousands of dollars to FDA contractors. This and certify in the written report whether 4. it must then be found growing again in the drugs immediately made her violently ill, received wisdom about AIDS in Africa,” says “consent decree” forces the company to pay for Defendants have omitted any such references the newly infected host. she stayed on them in the belief that she must, Geshekter. FDA contractors’ travel time, hotel rooms, per or endorsements.” The company must not only HIV fails all of these tests. Although at all costs, prevent passing the HIV virus on to Geshekter says that humanitarian groups diem, storage fees for all products seized by submit to this invasion; it must pay for it: hourly theoretically it can be found and isolated from her unborn child. Hafford had only one HIV have a strong incentive to hide the truth about the FDA and hourly wages (up to $100.00 per wages ranging from $78.09 to $93.61 per hour, a host, this is in practice very difficult to do, test prior to enrolling in the study, and was AIDS in Africa. “All the people with money hour). What does the company get out of this? $0.485 per mile for travel, government rate for since the HIV virus is not found in humans; never told that pregnancy can cause a false in Africa are those in AIDS programs.” He The FDA contractors proceed to scrutinize the air travel, the published government per diem only antibodies to HIV are found. positive HIV test. goes on to explain that there is little money company’s records, products, manufacturing rate, per day per representative for subsistence The history of medicine has many examples According to Duesberg, recreational drug for organizations helping Africans build wells facilities, storage facilities, websites, product expenses. of diseases which were assumed to be infectious use also suppresses immunity and the gay and improve their nutrition and sanitation—but information, etc. looking for any “illegal” The company must also provide FDA but later proved not to be. Scurvy is caused by community has, to some degree, brought their billions upon billions poured into programs to information. with a list of “…all domain names and IP a vitamin C deficiency, Beriberi is caused by a woes upon themselves. He points out that fight AIDS. According to Mike Adams, part of the FDA’s addresses they use to market or describe any thiamine deficiency, and pellagra is caused by it is common knowledge that toxic foreign As for journalists, Geshekter states baldly strong-arm strategy is to force companies to sign product, regardless of whether such sites a niacin deficiency. All failed Koch’s postulates substances cause disease: alcohol causes that those who report the truth about AIDS lose the “consent decree” where they admit to crimes mention specific products Defendants sell.” If and all ultimately proved to be non-infectious cirrhosis of the liver and smoking causes their jobs, while massive research organizations they never committed. From NaturalNews’ the company does not comply they must pay dietary deficiencies. emphysema. But gay activists typically would shrivel up and die if it became known investigation they were able to obtain a copy of for damages per violations per day until they 8) AIDS has remained in its original risk dismiss it as homophobia to point out that that HIV does not cause AIDS. a public court document the FruitFast Company do comply and if the United States brings groups and has not broken out into the general drug use and sexual promiscuity can result in The pharmaceutical companies would be signed due to FDA threats and extortion tactics. a contempt action against the company and population. Outside of Africa, 97% of AIDS lowered immunity. wiped out by lawsuits from the survivors of the This document forced FruitFast to admit to wins, the company is liable for attorney fees, patients are homosexuals, IV drug users, Crowe says that gay community leaders millions of people who have died after taking crimes it did not commit; namely: investigational expenses, expert witness fees, hemophiliacs and transfusion patients. essentially had a choice between facing up toxic HIV drugs, if the truth were to come out. “Violating the Act, by introducing or travel expenses, etc, etc. 9) The US Army tests recruits for HIV and to promiscuity in the gay population, or to It seems that everyone is making money delivering for introduction, or causing to be And, last but not least; “All decisions finds the virus evenly divided between men and the rampant use of recreational drugs such as from the AIDS epidemic – all at the expense of introduced or delivered for introduction, into specified in this Decree shall be vested inthe woman, yet AIDS is 90% a male disease. inhalant nitrate poppers. They were willing those who suffer and die from the constellation interstate commerce articles of drug that are discretions of FDA and shall be final.” 10) With other infectious diseases, cases to face up to the promiscuity, but not the drug of diseases, many of them pharmaceutically misbranded within the meaning of 21 U.S.C. Interestingly the FDA does not force are always seen among the doctors and nurses use. induced, we call AIDS. SS 352(f)(1).” pharmaceutical companies to sign the “consent who work with infected patients—but this has Because recreational drugs such as heroin, In 1990, Neville Hodgkinson, then medical “What ‘drugs’ did the FruitFast company decree”. The FDA is partly funded by the drug not happened with AIDS. Medical workers are cocaine, speed and poppers suppress immunity, and science correspondent of the London introduce that were ‘misbranded?’ Cherries, it companies through “user fees” which could actually less likely to become sick with AIDS many gay men use large amounts of antibiotics Sunday Times, wrote: “If HIV does not cause turns out. Cherry juice concentrate was being potentially lead to a conflict of interest between than the general population. to combat infections. Repeated antibiotic use AIDS, then we will have witnessed the biggest sold with the accurate statement that it helped the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies the 11) AIDS behaves differently depending eventually wears down the immune system. medical and scientific blunder of this century.” eliminate gout (which it does). This, according FDA is supposed to be regulating. on geography. African AIDS appears to be If a gay man with a depressed immune Eighteen years later, it seems all but certain to the FDA, was enough to magically transform ab a completely different disease. In part, this system develops pneumonia and is found to be that Hodgkinson was right. cherry juice into an ‘unapproved drug’ and Mike Adams, the Health Ranger and editor of is because in Africa, no HIV test is necessary HIV positive, he will be diagnosed with AIDS cause it to be ‘misbranded.’ NaturalNews.com makes several suggestions for what for diagnosis. A patient is considered to have and put on toxic HIV drugs, which will further ab we the people can do. The first action is to sign the This document also coerces the targeted AIDS if he exhibits three of the 4 symptoms: Reform the FDA petition, www.ReformFDA.org, second destroy his immune system and virtually Sheila Casey is a DC-based journalist. Her work has company to contractually agree that they have: protest to your congressperson or senator. Rep. Ron persistent cough, persistent fever, persistent guarantee his eventual death. appeared in The Denver Post, Reuters, Chicago Sun- “...removed all claims from Defendants’ Paul has sponsored the Health Freedom Protection diarrhea and weight loss. These also happen According to AIDS dissidents such as Times, Dissident Voice and Common Dreams. She Act, which you can read at www.StopFDACensorship. to be the symptoms of malaria, malnutrition Crowe and Duesberg, gay community leaders blogs at sheilacasey.com product labels, labeling, promotional materials, websites owned or controlled by Defendants, org. NaturalNews has also started an audio tips line, and in any other media that cause that product where FDA employees who wish to leak information to NaturalNews can anonymously call and leave a to be a drug and/or contain unapproved or message: (323)924-1664. unauthorized health claims within the meaning of the Act; and This article was based on a longer article by (ii) removed, from their product labels, Mike Adams; you can read the full text at: http: Austrian Health Agency Finds GM Food Harmful in Mice labeling, promotional materials, and websites //www.naturalnews.com/024569.html owned or controlled by Defendants, references to or endorsements of any other website Genetically Modified Crops may Pose Danger to Humans as Well that conveys information about Defendants’ products that cause those products to be a drug and/or contain unapproved or unauthorized BY ELAINE SULLIVAN / RCFP documents 65 serious health risks of GM on GM corn and Indian investigators have health claims within the meaning of the Act.” According to a long-term feeding study products in his book Genetic Roulette. Mr. documented fertility problems, abortions, “This means, of course, that these companies commissioned by the Austrian Agency for Smith is also the Executive Director of the premature births, and other serious health can no longer even LINK to other websites, Health and Food Safety, genetically modified Institute for Responsible Technology claims issues, including deaths, among buffaloes fed including websites of scientific journals that (GM) corn seriously affects reproductive that “GM foods are likely responsible for GM cottonseed products. discuss the proven health benefits of such health in mice. In the study mice were fed several negative health trends in the US. The The principal GM crops are soy, corn, natural products (foods, herbs, etc.)” (Adams, a diet of 33% of a GM variety developed by government must impose an immediate ban on cottonseed and canola with GM sugar from NaturalNews.com). Monsanto or a closely related non-GM variety. these dangerous crops.” sugar beets to be introduced before the end of the Even after the company has complied Statistically significant litter size and pup Other studies have shown an increase in year. Readers can download a free Non-GMO with this decree and removed all educational weight decreases were found in the third and infant mortality, lower birth weights, and the shopping guide at www.healthiereating.org. information and links from their websites, fourth litters in the GM-fed mice, compared to inability to reproduce in rats fed GM soy, as ab they are then required to submit to severe the control group. well as altered DNA functioning in the embryos Elaine Sullivan is the Health Editor at the Rock Creek measures of ‘censorship enforcement’ by the GM corn is modified with genes that of GM soy-fed mice. Male mice fed GM soy Free Press FDA. At the request of the FDA the company produce a pesticide toxin, as well as genes that had damaged young sperm cells. must submit a copy of any and all requested Brooklyn allow it to survive application of Monsanto’s US farmers have reported sterility or materials to the FDA and they must submit to herbicide Roundup. Author Jeffery M. Smith, fertility problems among pigs and cows fed a certification of compliance, signed by each of Manhattan Pg. 2 December 2008 Rock Creek Free Press Rock Creek Free Press December 2008 Pg. 3 Rock Creek Free Press

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However, traditionally, debts that are beyond an economy’s ability to service are inflated Circulation: 16,000 (aproximately 10,000 Robert Reich, an adviser to President-elect Obama, issues distributed in Washington, DC and the calls it a “mini-depression,” and that designation away. This suggests that the coming depression will remainder distributed to every state of the union might be optimistic. The Russian economist, Mikhail be an inflationary depression. Instead of falling prices and abroad.) Khazin says that the “US will soon face a second mitigating the effects of falling employment, higher ‘Great Depression’.” It is possible that even Khazin is prices will go hand in hand with rising unemployment optimistic. — a situation worse than the Great Depression. I cannot predict the future. However, I can explain The incompetent Clinton and Dubya administrations, what the problems are, how they differ from past times unregulated banksters and Wall Street criminals, greedy A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney? of troubles, and why traditional remedies, such as the CEOs, and a no-think economics profession have public works programs that Reich proposes, are unlikely destroyed America’s economy. BY SCOTT HORTON Side (for which I was both a consultant What is the remedy for simultaneous inflation and on a couple of occasions we got into a to succeed in reviving the US economy. Gene Burns is one of the nation’s most and interviewee) and Sherry Jones’s PBS unemployment? spirited debate on this program about Khazin points out, as have others, such as University popular talk radio hosts. For years he has feature Torturing Democracy investigate of Maryland economist Herman Daly and myself, that Three decades ago the solution was supply-side waterboarding, and whether waterboarding dismissed accounts of torture; America, was torture. And I took the position the administration’s policies and conduct. consumer debt expansion is the fuel that kept the US economics. Easy monetary policy had pushed up he has said, does not torture. But recently, that it was not torture, that it was Both draw from decision-makers inside economy alive. The growth of debt has outstripped the consumer demand, but high tax rates had curtailed after watching Torturing Democracy and simulated drowning, and that if that the administration and soldiers on the growth of income to such an extent that an increase output. It was more profitable for firms to allow prices realizing that he had not understood how produced information which preserved frontline. in consumer credit and bank lending is not possible. to rise than for them to invest and increase output. important and serious an issue torture had our national security, I thought it was The administration did its best to Consumers are overburdened with debt. This fact takes Supply-side economics changed the policy mix. become, Burns abruptly changed his tune. permissible. spike both films. Taxi was to be aired monetary policy out of the picture. Americans can no Monetary policy was tightened and marginal tax Here’s a transcript of his Novemeber 15 And then I saw Torturing Democracy. on the Discovery Channel, but with rates were reduced, thus stimulating output instead of longer afford to borrow more in order to consume remarks: And I’m afraid, now that I have Discovery Communications then in more. inflation. seen what I have seen, that I was wrong the process of going public and facing This leaves economists with fiscal policy, which, Today the problem is different. The US has abused I now believe that some international human rights organization ought to about that. It looks to me, based on sensitive SEC clearances, executives as Reich realizes, also has problems. Reich is correct the reserve currency role, thus endangering its credit open an investigation of the Bush this documentary, as if in fact we have apparently decided not to risk provoking that neither a reduction in marginal tax rates nor a tax worthiness and the exchange value of the dollar. Jobs Administration, I think focused on Vice engaged in behavior and practices at the anger of the White House. As I rebate is likely to be very effective. Reich, a Keynesian, have moved offshore. The budget deficit is huge and President Dick Cheney, and attempt to Guantánamo Bay, and in these illegal reported elsewhere, PBS also found that has an uncertain grasp of supply-side economics, but growing. If foreigners will not finance the widening gap, bring charges against Cheney in the renditions, that are violations of the it had no network space for Torturing as one who has a firm grasp, I can attest that marginal the printing presses will be employed or the government International Court of Justice at The international human rights code. Democracy until January 20, 2009—the will not be able to pay its bills. tax rates today are not the stifling influence they were Hague, for war crimes. Based on the And I believe that Dick Cheney is day the Bush Administration decamps The bailout funds have been wasted. The expensive prior to John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. As Art manner in which we have treated prisoners responsible. I believe that he was the from Washington. Laffer said, there are two tax rates, high and low, that bailout does not address the problem of falling at Guantánamo Bay, and the manner agent of the United States government Why was the administration so will produce the same tax revenues by expanding or employment and rising mortgage defaults. Treasury in which we have engaged in illegal charged with developing the methodology concerned about these two films? The contracting economic activity. Marginal tax rates are no Secretary Hank Paulson could not see beyond saving rendition that is, surreptitiously used at Guantánamo Bay, supervising it conversion of Gene Burns supplies the longer in the higher ranges. As for a tax rebate, Reich is Goldman Sachs and his bankster friends. The Paulson kidnapping prisoners and flying them to for the administration, and indulging in answer. No one who sits through these correct that in the present situation a tax rebate would be bailout does nothing except take troubled assets off foreign countries where they could be practices which are in fact violations films, I believe, will be able afterwards dissipated in paying off creditors. banks’ books and put them on the overburdened tortured by foreign agents who do not of human rights. to accept the official version of events. A large part of the population still Reich sees the problem as a lack of aggregate taxpayers’ books, thus endangering the US Treasury’s follow the same civilized standards to George Bush has good reason to be afraid credits the Bush Administration’s demand sufficient to maintain full employment. His credit rating. which we subscribe. of too many Americans watching these absurd claim that it never embraced or solution is for the government to spend “a lot” more on What the Bush Regime has done is to stick the I’ve always said that I’ve thought documentaries. applied torture to detainees as a matter of infrastructure projects on top of a trillion dollar budget taxpayers with the banks’ mistakes. An intelligent that even at Guantánamo Bay, the United ab Scott Horton is an assistant editor at deficit -- ”repairing roads and bridges, levees and ports; government would have used the money to refinance policy. Two recent documentaries, Alex States was careful to stay on this side Antiwar.com and is the host of Antiwar Radio. the troubled mortgages and stop the defaults. By saving Gibney’s Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark investing in light rail, electrical grids, new sources of torture. In fact, you may recall that Scott is based in Austin Texas. of energy.” This spending would boost employment, the mortgages from default, the banks’ balance sheets wages, and aggregate demand. would have been made secure. By failing to deal with I have no opposition to infrastructure projects, the subprime crisis, Bush and Congress have added a but who will finance the baseline trillion dollar US financial crisis to the exhaustion of consumer demand budget deficit plus the additional red ink spending on and the problems of financing huge trade and budget infrastructure? Not Americans. The US savings rate deficits. Wall Street: Trillion Dollar Crime Scene is zero or negative. Home mortgage foreclosures are Belatedly, Paulson has realized his mistake. On in the millions. Officially, US unemployment is 10 November 12, Paulson announced, “We have continued million, but if measured by pre-Clinton era standards, to examine the relative benefits of purchasing illiquid Why Aren’t the Dems Doing Something About It? unemployment is much higher. Statistician John mortgage-related assets. Our assessment at this time is Williams, who measures the unemployment rate by that this is not the most effective way to use [bailout] the pre-Clinton standards concludes that the rate of US funds.” BY NAOMI KLEIN funds for any purpose other than lending change. To cite just one example, that unemployment is about 15 percent. President Clinton The financial crisis has cost taxpayers far more The more details emerge, the clearer it — for bonuses, for severance pay, for $140 billion in missing tax revenue “reformed” the unemployment statistics by ceasing to than the amount of the bailout. Americans’ savings becomes that Washington’s handling dividends, for acquisitions of other is almost the same sum as Obama’s count discouraged workers as unemployed. and pension funds have been devastated. Americans in of the Wall Street bailout is not merely institutions, etc. — is a violation of the renewable energy program. Obama owes For years, the US government’s budget has been investment partnerships, who have been required by IRS incompetent. It is blatantly criminal. act.” Yet, this is exactly how the funds it to the people who elected him to call dependent on foreigners financing the red ink. Countries rules to pay income taxes on gains in the partnerships’ In a moment of high panic in late are being used. this what it is: an attempt to undermine such as Japan and China and OPEC suppliers of oil to portfolios, have had the accumulated multi-year gains September, the US Treasury unilaterally Then, there is the nearly $2 trillion the electoral process by stealth. the US have huge export surpluses with the US. They wiped out. They have paid taxes on years of “capital pushed through a radical change in how the Federal Reserve has handed out in Yes, there is only one president recycle the dollars by buying US Treasury bonds, thus gains” that have disappeared, thus doubling their bank mergers are taxed — a change emergency loans. Incredibly, the Fed at a time, but that president needed financing the US government’s red ink budgets. losses. long sought by the industry. Despite will not reveal which corporations have the support of powerful Democrats, The open question is: how much longer will they America’s economic troubles will rapidly accumulate the fact that this move will deprive the received these loans or what it has including Obama, to get the bailout do so? if the dollar loses its reserve currency role. To protect the government of as much as $140 billion accepted as collateral. Bloomberg News passed. Now that it is clear that the Bush Foreign portfolios are overweighed in dollar assets. dollar and the Treasury’s credit standing, the US needs in tax revenue, lawmakers found out believes that this secrecy violates the law administration is violating the terms to Currently the dollar’s value is benefitting from the to curtail its foreign borrowing by reducing its budget only after the fact. According to the and has filed a federal suit demanding which both parties agreed, the Democrats financial crisis, as investors flee to the reserve currency. deficit. It can do this by halting its gratuitous wars Washington Post, more than a dozen full disclosure. have not just the right but a grave However, sooner or later the huge outpourings of dollar and slashing its unnecessary military spending which tax attorneys agree that “Treasury had Despite all of this potential responsibility to intervene forcefully. debts will cause foreign creditors to draw back. Already exceeds that of the rest of the world combined. The no authority to issue the [tax change] lawlessness, the Democrats are either I suspect that the real reason the China, America’s largest creditor, has sent a signal that empire has run out of resources, and the 700 overseas notice.” openly defending the administration or Democrats are so far failing to act has that time might be drawing near. Recently the Chinese bases must be closed. Of equally dubious legality are the refusing to intervene. “There is only one less to do with presidential protocol than government asked, as they do indirectly through third Can Americans afford massive infrastructure equity deals Treasury has negotiated with president at a time,” we hear from Barack with fear: fear that the stock market, parties, “Why should China help the US to issue debt spending when they cannot afford health care? In Florida many of the country’s banks. According Obama. That’s true. But every sweetheart which has the temperament of an without end in the belief that the national credit of the a Blue Cross Blue Shield group policy for a 60-year old to Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), deal the lame-duck Bush administration overindulged 2-year-old, will throw one US can expand without limit?” woman costs $14,100 annually, and this is a policy with one of the architects of the legislation makes threatens to hobble Obama’s of its world-shaking tantrums. Disclosing that enables the deals, “Any use of these ability to make good on his promise of Is the rest of the world, which has demanded a deductibles and co-payments. Supplementary policies CRIME SCENE p. 5 financial summit to work toward a new financial order, from AARP to fill some of the gaps in Medicare can going to permanently allocate the world’s supply of cost retirees $3,300 annually. When one looks at the capital to covering American mistakes? economic situation of the vast majority of Americans, If not, the bailout and the stimulus package will have it is astonishing that the Bush Regime regards wars in President-elect Obama: Close Down Guantanamo! to be financed by printing money. the Middle East and taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street And the bailout needs are growing. Car loans and criminals as a good use of scarce resources. credit card debt were also securitized and sold. As the US corporations, which have moved their production BY SHERWOOD ROSS their mental health.” Guantanamo cell replica Amnesty economy worsens, credit card and car loan defaults for US markets offshore in order to drive up their share If Barack Obama is the humanitarian This phrase is a generous International put on tour in major cities, are rising. Moreover, AIG needs more money from prices and provide their CEOs with multi-million he appears to be, one of his first acts as understatement. The manner in which you cannot imagine the horror these the government. Fannie Mae’s loss has widened to $29 dollar bonuses, can be provided with a different set president surely will be to shut down Gitmo prisoners are confined in a tiny prisoners are enduring. Let’s just say a billion despite the $200 billion bailout. General Motors of incentives that encourage the corporations to bring Guantanamo Bay prison and release its cubicle with no sunlight, fresh air, books, Gitmo cell resembles a small bathroom and Ford need taxpayer money to survive. General employment back to the US. For example, the corporate long-suffering inmates — nearly all of family visits or contacts, and denied the with sink, toilet, and tiny sliver of a Motors says that its GMAC mortgage unit “may not income tax can be restructured to tax corporations whom have spent years there without company of other prisoners, reflects window a few inches wide that cannot survive.” Deutsche Bank sees General Motors shares according to the value-added in the US. The higher the being charged with a crime. psychological sadism refined to its nth truly be called a window. There’s room “as likely worthless.” value-added in the US, the lower the tax rate; the lower President Bush’s idea of degree. Only vicious degenerates could enough to stand, take two or three steps, Shades of the Weimar Republic. the value-added, the higher the tax rate. “compassionate conservatism” has been contrive to inflict this living hell on other and that’s it. What Reich and the American economic Cutting the budget deficit by halting pointless wars to punish human beings presumed to human beings. According to HRW, “These detainees establishment do not understand is that the recession and unnecessary military spending and reducing the be innocent in solitary cells in which no “Guantanamo detainees, who have not have extremely limited contact with paradigm does not apply. There are no jobs waiting at US trade deficit by bringing jobs back to America are simple self-respecting zookeeper would cage even been charged with a crime, are being other human beings, spend 22 hours a manufacturers for a demand stimulus to pull Americans tasks compared to confronting inflationary depression. baboons. Since President Bush ordered warehoused in conditions that are, in day alone in small cells with little or no back into work. The problem is not a liquidity problem. The world has had enough of American military commission trials in November, many ways, harsher than those reserved natural light or fresh air, are not provided To the contrary, there have been many years of too much irresponsibility and is taking away the reins. At the 2001, only two dozen of the hundreds for the most dangerous, convicted any educational opportunities, and are liquidity. Credit has grown far more than production. November 15 economic summit, the world will begin of detainees at Guantanamo have even criminals in the United States,” said given little more than a single book and Indeed, US production has been moved offshore. Jobs the process of imposing a new financial order on the been charged and only three have been Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorism the Koran to occupy their time.” that used to support the growth of American incomes US in exchange for continued lending to the bankrupt convicted. counsel at HRW. “Even their two hours of ‘recreation’ and the tax bases of cities and states have moved, along “superpower.” According to a report by Human Rights “Security measures don’t justify time — which is sometimes provided with US GDP, to China and elsewhere. With bailouts eating up the world’s supply of capital, Watch (HRW), a non-governmental locking people in windowless cells…for in the middle of the night — generally The work is gone. All that is left are credit card and continued foreign financing for Washington’s wars of advocacy organization located in New months and years on end, with almost takes place in single-cell cages so that mortgage debts. aggression is out of the picture. York, more than two-thirds of the 270 no opportunity for human interaction, detainees cannot physically interact with Anyone who thinks that America still has a vibrant ab detainees at Guantanamo Bay are being physical exercise or mental stimulation,” one another,” the HRW report says. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury housed in inhumane conditions that are she said. HRW’s 54-page report, “Locked economy needs to log onto www.EconomyInCrisis.org during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of Unless you happened to see the and face the facts. the Wall Street Journal “reportedly having a damaging effect on GUANTANAMO p. 7 Pg. 4 December 2008 Rock Creek Free Press Rock Creek Free Press December 2008 Pg. 5 $700 Billion Bank Robbery

ROBBERY from p. 1 a guy named Robert Heller – who had just left adjusted payments for Social Security. that Washington will not allow the country’s the Federal Reserve Board – suggested that the Most traders who see this manipulation financial institutions to bear the consequences government rig the stock market in times of dire going on don’t complain, because they think of their behavior. This may well be Bush’s emergency. . . . He didn’t use the word ‘rig’ but the Fed is rigging the market to their advantage; most creative innovation: no-risk capitalism. that’s what he meant. Proposed as an op-ed in but unwary investors are being induced to From the left: Allan Greenspan, SEC Chairman Levitt, Sen. Phil Graham (R-TX), Rep. LaFalce (D-NY), Sen. . . . Meanwhile, every day it becomes clearer the Wall Street Journal, it’s a seminal argument place risky bets on a nag on its last legs. The Sarbanes (D-MD), Pres. Bill Clinton (seated), Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA), Rep. Tom Bliley (R-VA), Far Right -Rep. that the bailout was sold on false pretenses. It that says when a crisis occurs on Wall Street, people become complacent and accept bad John Boehner (R-OH). was never about getting loans flowing. It was ‘instead of flooding the entire economy with leadership, bad policies and bad laws, because always about turning the state into a giant liquidity, and thereby increasing the danger they think things are still “working” for them insurance agency for Wall Street – a safety net of inflation, the Fed could support the stock economically. Worse, there are insiders to this for the people who need it least, subsidized by market directly by buying market averages in scheme who must find it difficult to resist Original Sin: the 1999 the people who need it most.” the futures market, thus stabilizing the market the temptation to capitalize on their favored William Greider, writing in The Nation on as a whole.” positions. As Chuck Augustin observed in a the same day, discussed a stinging letter sent The PPT was to be the Roman circus of June 2006 article titled “Plunge Protection or to Henry Paulson by Leo Gerard, president of the twenty-first century, distracting the masses Enormous Hidden Tax Revenues”: Repeal of Glass-Steagall the United Steelworkers, comparing the sale of with pretensions of prosperity. Instead of “Today the markets are, without doubt, very similar bank stock to the American public fixing the problem in the economy, the PPT manipulated on a daily basis by the PPT. The Glass-Steagall act was a depression-era distinctions between loans, securities, and and to billionaire Warren Buffett, who got a could just “fix” the investment casino. Crudele Government controlled ‘front companies’ such law designed to prevent banks from creating deposits are not well drawn. They are losing much better deal. Greider wrote: continued: as Goldman-Sachs, JP Morgan and many others just the kind of risky ‘investments’ that have market shares to securities firms that are not “The swindle of American taxpayers is “Over the next few years . . . whenever the collect incredible revenues through market recently imploded. The bill that ultimately so strictly regulated, and to foreign financial proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as stock market was in trouble someone seemed manipulation. Much of this money is probably repealed the Act was introduced in the Senate institutions operating without much restriction the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the to ride to the rescue. . . . Often it appeared to returned to government coffers, however, by Phil Gramm (R-TX) and in the House of from the Act. national election. Treasury Secretary Hank be Goldman Sachs, which just happens to be enormous sums of money are undoubtedly Representatives by James Leach (R-IA) in 2. Conflicts of interest can be prevented Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the where Paulson and former Clinton Treasury skimmed by participating companies and 1999. The bills were passed by a 54-44 vote by enforcing legislation against them, and by nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Secretary Robert Rubin worked.” individuals. along party lines with Republican support in separating the lending and credit functions Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you For obvious reasons, the mechanism by “The operation is similar to the Mafia- the Senate and by a 343-86 vote in the House through forming distinctly separate subsidiaries look more closely at Paulson’s transaction, which the PPT has ridden to the rescue is not controlled gambling operations in Las Vegas of Representatives, Nov 4, 1999: After passing of financial firms. both the Senate and House, the bill was moved 3. The securities activities that depository the taxpayers were taken for a ride — a very detailed on the Fed’s website; but some analysts during the 50’ and 60s but much more effective to a conference committee to work out the institutions are seeking are both low-risk expensive ride. They paid $125 billion for bank think they know. An antitrust group called and beneficial to all involved. Unlike the stock that a private investor could purchase for differences between the Senate and House by their very nature, and would reduce the GATA (the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee) Mafia, the PPT has enormous advantages. versions. The final bipartisan bill resolving the total risk of organizations offering them – by $62.5 billion. That means half of the public’s has been tracking the PPT’s moves for many The operation is immune to investigation differences was passed in the Senate 90-8-1 and diversification. money was a straight-out gift to Wall Street, for years. Michael Bolser of GATA concluded in or prosecution, there [are] unlimited funds in the House: 362-57-15. Without forcing a veto 4. In much of the rest of the world, which taxpayers got nothing in return. . . . 2004 that PPT money is being funneled through available through the Treasury and Federal vote, this bipartisan, veto proof legislation was depository institutions operate simultaneously “If the same rule of thumb is applied to the Fed’s “primary dealers,” a group of favored Reserve, it has the ultimate insider trading signed into law by President Bill Clinton on and successfully in both banking and securities Paulson’s grand $700 billion bailout fund, advantages, and it fully incorporates the spin November 12, 1999. markets. Lessons learned from their experience Gerard said this will constitute a gift of $350 I was deeply disappointed that Paulson’s and disinformation of government-controlled The banking industry had been seeking the can be applied to our national financial structure billion from the American taxpayers ‘to bailout plan did not include firing squads. media to sway markets in the desired repeal of Glass-Steagall since at least the 1980s. and regulation. reward the institutions that have driven our direction. . . . Any investor can imagine the In 1987 the Congressional Research Service The repeal of Glass-Steagall was pushed by - letter to the Austin American-Statesman nation and it now appears the whole world riches they could obtain if they knew what prepared a report which explored the case for CFR Chairman, Citigroup director and Treasury preserving Glass-Steagall and the case against Secretary Robert Rubin, (now an Obama into its most serious economic crisis in 75 Wall Street brokerage firms and investment direction stocks, commodities and currencies preserving the act. advisor) because the repeal enabled commercial years.’ banks. The device used is a form of loan called would move in a single day, especially if they The argument for preserving Glass-Steagall lenders such as Citigroup, the largest U.S. bank “Is anyone angry? Will anyone look into could obtain unlimited funds with which to a “repurchase agreement” or “repo,” which is (as written in 1987): by assets, to underwrite and trade instruments these very serious accusations? Congress is invest! . . . [T]he PPT not only cheats investors a contract for the sale and future repurchase of 1. Conflicts of interest characterize the such as mortgage-backed securities and off campaigning. The financiers at Treasury Treasury securities. Bolser explained: out of trillions of dollars, it also eliminates granting of credit – lending – and the use of collateralized debt obligations and establish so- probably assume any public outrage will be lost “It may sound odd, but the Fed occasionally competition that refuses to be ‘bought’ through credit – investing – by the same entity, which called structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, in the election returns.” gives money [‘permanent’ repos] to its primary mergers. Very soon now, only global companies led to abuses that originally produced the Act. that bought those securities. And just to make sure that public outrage is dealers (a list of about thirty financial houses, and corporations owned and controlled by the 2. Depository institutions possess enormous And we know how well that turned out. buried, the Plunge Protection Team (PPT) has Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, etc). They [financial] elite will exist.” financial power, by virtue of their control of (Editors’ Note: I must also note that one of been busily painting the arid landscape of the never have to pay this free money back; A research firm reporting on the other people’s money; its extent must be limited the greatest opponent of the repeal of Glass- US economy with roses and dewdrops. thus the primary dealers will pretty much do unexpectedly high quarterly profits of Goldman to ensure soundness and competition in the Steagall was Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) The PPT Rides Again whatever the Fed asks if they want to stay in Sachs in March 2004 wrote cynically: market for funds, whether loans or investments. We miss you, Paul!) For anyone who still doubts the PPT’s the primary dealers ‘club.’ “[W]ho does Goldman have to thank for the 3. Securities activities can be risky, leading to enormous losses. Such losses could threaten the existence and ability to control markets, this “The exact mechanism of repo use to latest outsized quarterly earnings? Its ‘partner’ integrity of deposits. In turn, the Government article will expand on one I posted a week support the DOW is simple. The primary in charge of financing the proprietary trading insures deposits and could be required to pay ago on the group and its behind-the-scenes operation — Alan Greenspan.” dealers get repos in the morning issuance . . large sums if depository institutions were to activities. As noted in my earlier article, the Henry Paulson headed Goldman Sachs . and then buy DOW index futures (a market collapse as the result of securities losses. PPT is formally called the Working Group on that is far smaller than the open DOW trading before he succeeded to Treasury Secretary in 4. Depository institutions are supposed to Financial Markets (WGFM) and was created volume). These futures prices then drive the June 2006, following in the footsteps of Robert be managed to limit risk. Their managers thus by President Reagan’s Executive Order 12631 DOW itself because the larger population of Rubin, who headed that major investment bank may not be conditioned to operate prudently in 1988 in response to the October 1987 investors think the ‘insider’ futures buyers have before he was appointed Treasury Secretary in more speculative securities businesses. An stockmarket crash. The WGFM includes the access to special information and are ‘ahead’ of in 1995, just in time for Goldman and other example is the crash of real estate investment President, the Secretary of the Treasury, the the market. Of course they don’t have special investment banks to capitalize on the drastic trusts sponsored by bank holding companies (in Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the Chairman information . . . only special money in the form devaluation of the Mexican peso. An October the 1970s and 1980s). of the Securities and Exchange Commission, of repos.” 2006 article in the conservative American The argument against preserving the Act (as and the Chairman of the Commodity Futures With Paulson’s new $700 billion credit Spectator complained that the US Treasury was written in 1987): Trading Commission. Its stated purpose is to card, the PPT obviously has access to much being turned into “Goldman Sachs South.” 1. Depository institutions will now operate F.D.R. signs Glass-Steagall act in 1933. Sen. Carter in “deregulated” financial markets in which Glass on the left, Rep. Henry Steagall to the right.. enhance “the integrity, efficiency, orderliness, more money than in 2004 – enough money, no In his October 28, 2008 letter, United and competitiveness of our Nation’s financial doubt, to buy large blocks of some key stocks. Steelworkers president Gerard wrote to Henry markets and [maintain] investor confidence.” Those purchases, in turn, would trigger the Paulson: According to the Order: program traders’ computers, which follow like “The recipients of the first wave of gift- “To the extent permitted by law and subject robots according to pre-set formulae. Although giving include Goldman Sachs. It has been to the availability of funds therefore, the thousands of stocks are publicly traded, only 30 widely reported that you have surrounded Fed Hides Destination of Department of the Treasury shall provide the stocks compose the Dow, making this trend- yourself with former Goldman employees as Working Group with such administrative and setting index fairly easy to manipulate. well as individuals from other Wall Street firms. support services as may be necessary for the While the Dow is being propped up by the Yet it has never been revealed whether in fact $2 Trillion in Bailout Money performance of its functions.” PPT through massive buying, the gold market you and they have fully divested yourselves In short, taxpayer money is being made is held down by massive short selling, since of your Wall Street holdings. Doesn’t it seem BAILOUT from p. 1 available to manipulate markets. The shady gold is considered a key indicator of inflation. just a wee-bit of a conflict of interest for those the real economy sinks deeper into the toilet. history of the PPT was tracked by journalist “Make our government open and transparent If the gold price were to soar, the Fed would setting the price of the investment to be either so that anyone can ensure that our business is But what else could we have expected upon John Crudele in a June 2006 New York Post have to increase interest rates to tighten the so directly linked to the firms receiving the the people’s business,” refused to comment on hearing that ex-Goldman Sachs executive Neel series, in which he wrote: money supply, collapsing the housing bubble investments or, even worse, direct beneficiaries the story when contacted by Bloomberg, which Kashkari was appointed by Paulson to dole out “Back during a stock market crisis in 1989, and forcing the government to raise inflation- of the decision to overpay with taxpayer is no surprise considering the fact that the man the ill-gotten gains of the bailout to the rest of money? . . . who guaranteed “change” has indicated he will the corporate crooks? Washington DC Hosts “Out in the real economy, we need our not only follow the Bush administration policy If you let the fox guard the henhouse, then government to invest in creating sustainable of a socialized financial system, but radically he’s going to eat the chickens. Interactive shared prosperity – not play Santa Claus to expand it. In this case, the Fed and the gaggle of bastard banker children sucking on its teat, gobbled up the scoundrels who have laid waste to the The Fed’s secrecy on the issue of where $5 trillion plus in taxpayers’ money and then Peace Mural American Dream.” the bailout money is going underscores the figuratively stuck the middle finger up when Nov. 29th – Jan. 30th age-old problem with top down socialism as Where is the public outrage? As the fog of questions were asked about where that money 3336 M Street, NW the election lifts from our plundered nation, we a tool of re-shaping the economic landscape. The promise to fairly redistribute the wealth, was going. Georgetown wait to see. with full accountability, to achieve a solution Meanwhile, the bailout has had no effect Free and open to the ab that will ultimately benefit everyone, is trumped whatsoever, increasing the severity of the public. Ellen Brown, J.D., developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In by the cold reality of the fact that corrupt elites, financial downturn and allowing the same elite Sun-Thurs: 10am – 9pm Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an once the taxpayers have been suckered into to exploit the crisis as a pretext for centralizing Fri & Sat: 10am – Midnight analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” believing the lie, merely hoard all the money for control of the world economic system and She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power Grand Opening Ceremony themselves and don’t redistribute it to anyone creating a new world order and a single global to create money from the people themselves, and how currency. Sunday, Dec. 7 at 2pm we the people can get it back. Her eleven books include apart from their own inner circle of cronies. Indeed, the banks have admitted that they are ab Internationally renowned artist the bestselling Nature’s Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Paul Watson is an investigative journalist at Huong will display her interactive, Lynne Walker, and Forbidden Medicine. Her websites hoarding cash and will keep on doing so while www.PrisonPlanet.com. He is the author of Order Out 600-foot-long exhibit of more than are www.webofdebt.com and www.ellenbrown.com. bigwigs reward themselves with fat bonuses as of Chaos published in 2003. 2,000 paintings known as the Peace Mural for the first time in the nation’s Capitol. The Vietnam War refugee-turned- artist and peace activist will also unveil a new painting entitled If You Are during the Grand Opening ceremonies. www.peacemural.org contact: John Frank, Peace Mural Foundation (904) 705-4322 or email: [email protected] Pg. 4 December 2008 Rock Creek Free Press Rock Creek Free Press December 2008 Pg. 5 Federal Funding for Child Sex Slavery Funding Disguised as Anti-Slavery Programs

SLAVERY from p. 1 Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and and young children, are bought and sold and Training (OPDAT), courtesy of funds from John Podesta Valerie Jarrett Pete Rouse often sexually abused by violent criminals. USAID and Justice, fl ew to Georgia, Indonesia, Our nation is determined to fi ght and end this Russia, Latvia, Romania, Kyrgyzstan, Tanzania, modern form of slavery.” Bulgaria, Nepal, and Azerbaijan for more However, as evidenced in the Attorney “outreach.” Obama Team: General’s report, the Bush administration has The dubious International Criminal lined the pockets of a number of “faith-based” Investigative Training Assistance Program organizations and private contractors in its anti- (ICITAP), a program with CIA fi ngerprints all All Wall Street and Political Insiders traffi cking program. over it, used anti-traffi cking funds from the TEAM from p. 1 Roel Campos (former SEC Commissioner) board are Xerox Corp. Chief Executive Offi cer In addition, recipients of anti-traffi cking pedophile-plagued State Department, as well William Daley (Chairman of the Midwest, Anne Mulcahy and Time Warner Inc. Chairman money include organizations that have reported and notorious for murderous rampages against as USAID, to conduct training boondoggles in Palestinians and political assassinations of JP Morgan Chase; Former Secretary, US Dept Richard Parsons. Mulcahy and Parsons were connections with perpetrators, including US Albania, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Nigeria, Gabon, of Commerce, 1997-2000) also once directors at Fannie Mae when that intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA. The Swedish UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Gambia, Madagascar, Uganda, Tanzania, the and British diplomat Lord Moyne. Lehi was William Donaldson (Former Chairman of company was committing accounting fouls. International Rescue Committee (IRC), which Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, and the SEC, 2003-2005) Another member of Obama’s new economic has had a long history of connections with the formally dissolved and integrated into the Malaysia. Israeli Defense Forces on May 31, 1948, its Roger Ferguson (President and CEO, TIAA- board, former Commerce Secretary William CIA and has counted Ronald Reagan’s Vice The same Department of Homeland Security CREF and former Vice Chairman of the Board Daley was also a past director of Fannie Mae. Chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence attache offi ce at the US embassy in Bangkok of Governors of the Federal Reserve) Daley is now a member of the executive Advisory Board Leo Cherne, Reagan CIA that provided John Mark Karr with the business Jennifer Granholm (Governor, State of committee at JPMorgan Chase & Co., which, director William Casey, US Information Agency class plane ticket and a phony story about his Michigan) like Citigroup, is among the nine large banks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty head John killing Jon Benet Ramsey to spirit him away Anne Mulcahy (Chairman and CEO, Xerox) that just got $125 billion of Treasury’s bailout Richardson, and Henry Kissinger among its from a Thai trial in a sex sting case had the Richard Parsons (Chairman of the Board, budget. principals. temerity to give seven presentations to 270 Time Warner) Laura Tyson has been a director at Morgan The very same US intelligence community members of the Royal Thai police on “forced Penny Pritzker (CEO, Classic Residence by Stanley for about 10 years. Morgan Stanley got that has sponsored child prostitution networks in child labor, sexual exploitation, the use of the Hyatt) slapped for accounting violations by the SEC in Southeast Asia and the Balkans is also involved internet to commit crimes against children, Robert Reich (University of California, 2004 and in October 2008 got $10 billion from in tracking the smuggling of children through human traffi cking and smuggling of women and Berkeley; Former Secretary, US Dept of Labor, Treasury. its participation in the Human Smuggling and children.” Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama 1993-1997) Traffi cking Center (HSTC), descibed in the More outrageous is a 24-hour hotline called Robert Rubin (Chairman and Director of Attorney General’s report as a “joint venture the National Human Traffi cking Resource leaders getting amnesty from prosecution or the Executive Committee, Citigroup; Former of government experts from the prosecutorial, Center that is funded through the Department reprisals as part of the integration. Secretary, US Dept of Treasury, 1995-1999) law enforcement, policy, intelligence, and of Health and Human Services. The prime Obama’s transition team is led by three co- Eric Schmidt (Chairman and CEO, Google) diplomatic areas teamed to combat traffi cking contractor for the hotline is defense contractor chairmen, John Podesta, Valerie Jarrett and Pete Lawrence Summers (Harvard University; in persons, migrant smuggling, and clandestine Lockheed Martin Aspen Systems Corporation. Rouse. Called the Obama-Biden Transition Managing Director, D.E. Shaw; Former terrorist travel.” This center combines US The subcontractor is Covenant House. Project, it is an assortment of Washington Secretary, US Dept of Treasury, 1999-2001) Foreign Service personnel with CIA agents, the Covenant House was founded by Father Bruce insiders, former Clinton administration offi cials, Laura Tyson (Haas School of Business, deadly combination that has seen US diplomatic Ritter, a Catholic priest, for homeless teenagers. corporate and banking executives, and Chicago University of California, Berkeley; Former outposts, particularly in Southeast and South Ritter resigned from the organization and the Democratic Party politicians. Chairman, National Economic Council, 1995- Asia, used to provide cover for pedophile VIP Franciscan order in 1990 after allegations that John Podesta, was chief of staff for 1996; Former Chairman, President’s Council of visits for purposes of sex tourism and pedophile he had sexual relations with young teens at the Clinton from 1998-2001; he will serve as the Economic Advisors, 1993-1995) US diplomats. Manhattan Covenant House, shelter. Transition Project’s leader. Podesta is head Paul Volcker (Former Chairman, US Federal Aid agencies, according to the Attorney World Hope International, a faith-based of a lobbying fi rm, the Podesta Group, which Reserve 1979-1987) Penny Pritzker General’s report, have received funds from the aid organization headquartered in Alexandria, counts among its clients oil giant BP, defense Let’s take a closer look at a few of these Penny Pritzker, the Obama campaign’s US government to combat child traffi cking. Virginia, received $1,300,000 from USAID for industry corporations Lockheed Martin and advisors. First, there’s former Treasury Secretary national fi nance chairwoman, is heiress to one Yet, according to the July 22, 1999 Guardian, anti-traffi cking activities in Cambodia. Among General Dynamics, biotech fi rms Genentech Robert Rubin. Rubin was the chairman of of the richest families in the world. She was on an orphanage in Ethiopia founded by the Swiss its directors is Robert W. Clyde, Vice President and Amgen, Swiss pharmaceuticals corporation Citigroup Inc.’s executive committee when the the board of the holding company for subprime charity Terres des Hommes Federation “became of AIG, the insurance giant that is being bailed Novartis International AG, and Wal-Mart. bank pushed phony analyst research and helped lender Superior Bank FSB the Chicago-area the target for pedophiles, men who knew how out by the American taxpayers and one that Next on the list is Valerie Jarrett, part of the Enron Corp. alter its books, and then got caught thrift, that was seized by the Federal Deposit easy it would be to abuse their positions of WMR previously linked to CIA activities in Chicago connection, she began her political falsifying their own books. Rubin was also a Insurance Corp. in 2001. The thrift’s owners power and trust.” Asia and a retired President of Lockheed Martin career in 1987 under then-Chicago Mayor agreed to pay the government $460 million over In 2007, Terre des hommes received Space Mission Systems. Harold Washington. She became deputy 15 years but the Pritzkers got to keep millions $443,000 from USAID for an anti-child The CIA-linked World Vision received chief of staff for Mayor Richard Daley and they made on the deal. traffi cking program in Albania. $300,000 for anti-traffi cking efforts in Laos. later served as Chicago’s commissioner of William Donaldson, former SEC Chairman, A recipient of anti-traffi cking funds World Vision has, for quite some time, been the Department of Planning and chair of the was on the audit committee at a provider of from the CIA cipher, the US Agency for linked to CIA activities at Jonestown, Guyana; Chicago Transit Board. free e-mail services called Mail.com Inc. from International Development (USAID), is The the Sabra and Chatila Palestinian refugee camps Rounding out the chairmanship is Peter 1998 to 2001. Before he left the SEC, in Asia Foundation, a past CIA cover organization. in Lebanon (the site of the 1982 massacre of Rouse; former chief of staff to Tom Daschle, 2005, the agency disciplined the company over The Asia Foundation is receiving money for refugees by Israeli and Lebanese Phalangist the former Democratic leader in the Senate. In accounting violations that had occurred on his an anti-traffi cking program in fi ve provinces forces); and Cuban refugee camps in the 2004, after Daschle lost his seat, Rouse took the watch. Donaldson was chairman when the SEC of pedophile-plagued Vietnam. Other USAID United States. The father of would-be Ronald position as chief of staff for Obama, then just voted in 2004 to let Wall Street banks, including funds have gone to Hagar International, a Swiss Reagan assassin John W. Hinckley, Jr., John beginning his fi rst term in the Senate. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Christian organization based in Phnom Penh, W. Hinckley, Sr. was the chairman of the board According to their press release, “The Stearns Cos., prop up their balance sheet. Cambodia, for anti-traffi cking activities in of World Vision and John Lennon assassin Transition Economic Advisory Board will help Paul Volcker served as an economic adviser India, Nepal, and Vietnam. Mark David Chapman once worked at a World guide the work of the Obama-Biden transition for Obama during the campaign. Volcker In June 1987, Jozeph Verbeeck, the head Vision-run refugee camp in Arkansas. team in developing a strong set of policies to was Chairman of the Federal Reserve under of the Belgian offi ce of UNICEF, was arrested Creative Associates, described as respond to the economic crisis.” Robert Rubin Presidents Carter and Reagan (from August for involvement in a large pedophile and child a “privately-owned, nongovernmental Members of the board include: director from 2000 to 2006 at Ford Motor Co., 1979 to August 1987) and was a founding pornography ring. USAID granted UNICEF organization” received $1,480,000 from USAID David Bonior (Member House of which also committed accounting mistakes and member of the Trilateral Commission. funds to reintegrate boys and girls, forced into to reintegrate traffi cking victims in Albania. Representatives, 1977-2003) now wants bailout cash. The names, infl uences and misdeeds remain sexual traffi cking, into their communities in A favorite USAID contractor, Chemonics Warren Buffett (Chairman and CEO, Two other Citigroup directors on the Obama the same – is there any hope for change? Ituri in northeastern Congo. The area is plagued International, started in 1976 by conservative Berkshire Hathaway) ab by Ugandan and Rwandan troops, backed by Republican Gerald Murphy, in part, because U.S. CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency as he told The New York Times in 1993, agents, who are the main perpetrators in the “I’ve always wanted a way to do two things: child traffi cking. one, have my own CIA, and two, be helpful Justice Department Civil Rights Division to people,” received $500,000 to support Wall Street: Trillion Dollar Crime Scene personnel have used the anti-traffi cking law to USAID fi eld missions, but nothing says the participate in boondoggles to other countries money, supposedly for use in combating child ostensibly to engage in “outreach” missions. traffi cking, was used for that purpose. Why Aren’t the Dems Doing Something About It? Countries visited include Thailand, Canada, The Department of State gave $51,000 to the Mexico, Russia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Italian Union of Major Superiors to conduct an CRIME SCENE from p. 3 Stephanopoulos” whether Obama would market will react violently to any signal that Poland, Malawi, Tanzania, Austria, Bulgaria, anti-child traffi cking seminar for Catholic nuns the truth about who is receiving federal loans, be moving quickly to increase taxes on the there is a new sheriff in town who will impose and Hungary. Not to be outdone, attorneys for in cooperation with the US embassy in Vatican we are told, could cause the cranky market to wealthy, as promised, Emanuel pointedly did serious regulation, invest in people and cut off the Criminal Division, Child Exploitation and City. bet against those banks. Question the legality not answer the question. the free money for corporations. In short, the Obscenity Section, traveled to Nepal, Indonesia, ab of equity deals and the same thing will happen. This same market-coddling logic should, markets can be relied on to vote in precisely the and China to present “anti-human traffi cking Wayne Madsen is a Washington based investigative Challenge the $140 billion tax giveaway and we are told, guide Obama’s selection of opposite way that Americans have just voted. training” seminars. Boondoggling personnel journalist. www.WayneMadsenReport.com mergers could fall through. “None of us wants treasury secretary. Fox News’s Stuart Varney (A recent USA Today/Gallup poll found that 60 of the Justice Department’s Offi ce of Overseas to be blamed for ruining these mergers and explained that Larry Summers, who held the percent of Americans strongly favor “stricter creating a new Great Depression,” explained post under Clinton, and former Fed chair Paul regulations on fi nancial institutions,” while just th New this Fall from 7 Street Press one unnamed Congressional aide. Volcker would both “give great confi dence to 21 percent support aid to fi nancial companies.) More than that, the Democrats, including the market.” We learned from MSNBC’s Joe There is no way to reconcile the public’s Obama, appear to believe that the need to Scarborough that Summers is the man “the vote for change with the market’s foot-stomping soothe the market should govern all key Street would like the most.” for more of the same. Any and all moves to economic decisions in the transition period. Let’s be clear about why. “The Street” change course will be met with short-term Which is why, just days after a euphoric victory would cheer a Summers appointment for market shocks. The good news is that once it is for “change,” the mantra abruptly shifted to exactly the same reason the rest of us should clear that the new rules will be applied across fear it: because traders will assume that the board and with fairness, the market will ““Mike Palecek has the uncanny ability to convey an “smooth transition” and “continuity.” understanding of real events through the medium Take Obama’s pick for chief of staff. Summers, champion of fi nancial deregulation stabilize and adjust. Furthermore, the timing of fi ction. No one who reads this book will ever feel Despite the Republican braying about his under Clinton, will offer a transition from for this turbulence has never been better. Over the same way about our government and will burn to partisanship, Rahm Emanuel, the House Henry Paulson so smooth we will barely know the past three months, we’ve been shocked so learn how close he has come to revealing the truth it happened. Someone like FDIC chair Sheila frequently that market stability would come as about the events of 9/11. The answer, alas, is, all too Democrat who received the most donations close!” from the fi nancial sector, sends an unmistakably Bair, on the other hand, would spark fear on the more of a surprise. That gives Obama a window reassuring message to Wall Street. When asked Street — for all the right reasons. to disregard the calls for a seamless transition — James H. Fetzer, Ph.D., Scholars for 9/11 Truth November 9th on “This Week With George One thing we know for certain is that the and do the hard stuff fi rst. 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JFK And The Unspeakable The Lusitania: By James W. Douglass Orbis Books, 2008 A Classic Example Of War Profi teering

as an American. BY DAVE DIONISI I happen to hold several advanced degrees What are the top reasons for war? At fi rst in American Culture — years and decades thought, imperial governments or self-defense spent sitting in comfortable chairs wearing new may come to mind. The truth is most wars Christmas pajamas, balancing a Jethro Bowl of are ultimately about money, oil, and power. cherry black walnut ice cream in my lap, seeking To prevent and end war, peacemakers need enlightenment by watching Johnny Carson, Don to understand the money system that war- Rickles, Dean Martin, Ed McMahon. profi teers use to make a “killing.” And then going to bed convinced beyond any The same “banksters” or money trust that reasonable doubt there is nothing more. designed the Federal Reserve have, for over This is what there is. two centuries, profi ted from war. Senator Louis This is life. McFadden (1876-1936) documented direct All there is to see and know is what I can see in my peripheral vision while watching Big Red involvement in wars in the 19th century. The list Football, Gunsmoke, Mayberry RFD, Happy of 20th century involvement in promoting wars Days, Survivor. is long and includes the Lusitania operation BOOK REVIEW, BY MIKE PALECEK in World War I, funding both Germany and I waited my whole life to read James W. Douglass’ That is all our Norfolk High School “U.S. History” books, all my parents, Isabel and England during WW II, helping to create the new book, “JFK And The Unspeakable.” conditions for the Korean War in 1953 (Korea The wait was not worth it. Milosh, the parish priests, mailman have to tell was intentionally divided in 1945), and beating I should not have had to wait, at all. us. the drums for war in Vietnam, just to name a This is supposed to be America, but it is not. They were my Socrates and I was their Plato, few. For dozens of current examples on how That is why I was made to wait. and in our daily discourse I learned not to ask war debt is driven up by corporations such Americans should not have to wait. certain questions. We like to have it right now. We want what Over the years and decades I had it drilled as Halliburton, see the documentary “Iraq for we want when we want it. into me the beauty and wonderment and majesty Sale,” www.iraqforsale.org. Now. that the rain was good for the farmers and that it Should it be a surprise to anyone that passenger ship named the Lusitania. German Government, vessels fl ying the fl ag of Please. would get cold again this winter. international bankers scheme to profi t from In the Athens that I imagined Norfolk to wars? Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson, Great Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to Sister Ellen walked into our third grade be, with its Central Park band pavilion and its The cycle of debt often starts with selling in an operation fi nanced by the major banking destruction in those waters and that travellers classroom, hands tucked neatly into the opposite “world’s largest stockyard,” which was also a weapons. Governments assume debt to buy houses, arranged for the shipment of weapons sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain brown sleeve. lie, I learned not to learn. weapons. The weapons manufacturers make on the Lusitania in May of 1915. The Lusitania or her allies do so at their own risk. IMPERIAL She was the principal at Sacred Heart But now … an unknown stone falls from the luxury ocean liner was owned by the Cunard GERMAN EMBASSY WASHINGTON, D.C., elementary, and she only came to the classrooms money on the sale and the bankers profi t from sky. Steamship Line Shipping Company and APRIL 22, 1915.” to announce that the poorest kid in our class interest on the weapons-generated debt. The Well … someone pick it up. offi cially part of the British auxiliary navy. Captain Dow, the Lusitania captain and his large family had run off a bridge this weapon sales accelerate if the weapons buyer, What’s this? The ship’s owners were paid £218,000 a year immediately before Captain Turner, resigned morning on the way to school, or lead us down usually a government, is faced with a perceived There is more? (£150,000 for reserve military service and on March 8, 1915 because he was no longer to the gym for the Christmas movie and extra or real threat. The country that buys the most A lot more. chocolate milk. weapons is the US (total weapons purchases £68,000 to carry Royal mail). As an auxiliary willing “to carry the responsibility of mixing The land of the free and the home of the So on Nov. 22, 1963, when lean, tall, straight exceed the combined sum of purchases by all naval ship, the Lusitania was under orders from passengers with munitions or contraband.” brave murders its own presidents when they Ellen fl oated in just after lunch recess —pre- other nations). Not surprisingly, government the British Admiralty to ram any German ship Captain Dow had had a close call just two days threaten the men with the money, like the ones Vatican II sisters had no feet, legs, arms, no hair offi cials, paid experts (often former government seeking to inspect her cargo. In 1915, it was earlier and was aware the rules of naval warfare who contributed to the schools we grew up in — we saw the Franciscan specter of death. offi cials), and corporate owned media promote against US law to put weapons on a passenger changed in October, 1914 when Churchill and the newspapers and the … Later, Mom ironed while she watched the calls for war as agents of this agenda to drive ship traveling to England or Germany. issued orders that British merchant ships with Oh, my. caisson and “Black Jack,” the riderless horse, on Three German spies attempted to confi rm munitions or contraband must ram U-boats. The amber waves of grain will roll right over up US debt. the black and white television in the front room. Prior to this change by Churchill, both England you, your children, your house if you stand in Bankers profi t from wars This was Norfolk, Nebraska. and Germany adhered to Cruiser Rules. Cruiser their path in any meaningful way. President George Washington and other The Norfolk Daily News and WJAG told us Rules enabled crews and passengers to escape Murder, Inc. founders of our country had fi rst-hand it was Oswald. We just assumed, along with in lifeboats before being fi red on. With the The business of America is business. experience with how banking families in Europe the Omaha World-Herald, that the Warren new Churchill ram rules, the German U-boats To protect and to serve. bankrolled military actions for their personal Commission had been commissioned by God. We will kill you and you and your sons and gain. In his farewell address on September 17, could no longer surface to issue a warning and Hometown hero Johnny Carson grilled an daughters, grandmothers to get what we want. 1796, George Washington warned Americans fi red while submerged. Churchill explained his actual hero, attorney Jim Garrison, because What we want is to eat and watch television to be on guard against alliances with Europe. ruthlessness with: Garrison had the gall to think for himself. in the dark. The history of how bankers have started and “The fi rst British countermove, made on my Then followed days and decades of lies. While we grow wrinkles trying to fi gure out continued wars is painfully long. We need only responsibility...was to deter the Germans from My mother and I watched out the back door at two plus two, those who have made that their look at past wars, to see a trail of blood money. surface attack. The submerged U-boat had to the turn of the ‘70s, toward the railroad track, to profession, manipulate … everything. rely increasingly on underwater attack and see if Dad might go past, while grandma Josie sat In the Middle Ages, the Knights Templars, most We vote and we work and we study and we thus ran the greater risk of mistaking neutral in her room in the dark, afraid to speak at all. known primarily as a military arm for expanding worry about our children having Ho Ho’s in their for British ships and of drowning neutral crews My dad died to open the ‘80s, the day before Christianity, performed the role of private lunchbox and friends on the bus. and thus embroiling Germany with other Great Ruth and I were married. central bank for the Crusades. Relatively few And we pay money earned on our knees Powers.” Football on TV, and lies. Knights Templars were soldiers. Most members to hire men and women to kill leaders and The above combined with the next Churchill Pot roast on Sunday, with lies. worked in their banking business. overthrow governments to make more money Turkey and dressing for Thanksgiving. White The Knights Templars and other fi nanciers quote speaks volumes about what really for those who built our schools and run our lies? Dark lies? of war are not representative of Christianity, happened and why. newspapers, and … Most recently Peter Jennings and ABC News Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or Hinduism. The “There are many kinds of maneuvers in And if those people also decide that our felt the need to cement the lies some forty years fi nanciers of war are international and value war...There are maneuvers in time, in diplomacy, president should die, then we can do that too. after the Kennedy coup. money more than human life. The Rothschild in mechanics, in psychology; all of which are And we pay to have that done. Like having the The program includes a computer-generated banking dynasty is highlighted in this article removed from the battlefi eld, but react often carpet cleaned, the lawn mowed, the oil changed. reconstruction of the shooting that confi rms that decisively upon it...The maneuver which brings And no newspaper or radio station or TV because they became the leading banking force Oswald was the lone gunman. And it fi nds no an ally into the fi eld is as serviceable as that station will ever talk about it. as a result of Wellington’s war with Napolean, persuasive evidence of a conspiracy to kill the which wins a great battle.” Unless telling us that it never happened. have profi ted from numerous confl icts, and president. Operation Lusitania And we will believe them. led the creation of the Federal Reserve. Their Through it all, through the fog of American On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania slowed to Because not believing them means fi guring involvement in World War I is a classic example cultural propaganda, some persisted, some wanted out something else to believe. of war profi teering. 75% speed hoping the English escort vessel, the truth, some like Oliver Stone in “JFK” in And we have things to do. We have lives … How World War I started the Juno, would arrive. Unknown to Captain 1991, hit hard enough to make the ground quiver to live. As with most wars, World War I started many Turner of the Lusitania, Winston Churchill had for a moment, crack in some places. And those lives mean nothing, less than years before the fi rst shot was fi red. In 1870, ordered the Juno to return to port. Churchill’s But the cracks were quickly fi lled by nothing, because they are built, constructed … the Franco-Prussian War resulted in France’s order left the Lusitania alone and unprotected volunteers with footballs, turkey, dressing, days laid down unevenly, brick by brick … on defeat by Germany. After that war, the triple in a known area with U boats. To put this cranberries, credulity. lies and murder. alliance was formed, consisting of Germany, in perspective, England had deciphered the Now comes James W. Douglass, long-time Lies. Murder. Austro-Hungary and Italy. Factors such as the German communications code on December 14, peace activist, professor, Catholic Worker. Lies. Killing. imperialist policies of Kaiser Wilhelm, the 1914. The level of detail known by the British Why is his book the one I’ve been waiting for? Lies. Death. Moroccan crisis of 1905 to 1911, and confl icts Admiralty was so precise that U boat names and Maybe it’s because of the fl ood of new And it goes on and on as if it will never stop. with Serbia led to increasing tension and set the general locations were known. For example, the information, at least new to me. And then one unexpected day, along comes a stage for war. British Admiralty knew U-30 left the area for Maybe it’s the way Douglass lays it out, on brave man, like those brave men murdered, who The spark came on June 28, 1914, the Germany on May 4th and the U-27 left the area the line, straight and true, brick by brick, looking is not like the weak men with the lies. because of jammed blow planes. us in the eye and telling us it was the CIA who assassination of Austro-Hungarian heir And everything changes. Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The In a 1981 book, Seven Days to Disaster: The killed John F. Kennedy. A revolution without guns. Black Hand Serbian secret society, with Sinking of the Lusitania by Des Hickey and Gus And that it was because of money. A cultural revolution, an undelicate purging connections to powerful English and French that the 90 tons of unrefrigerated butter destined Smith, they reported that one of the crewmen Of course. of turkey and cranberries, a detoxifi cation. intelligence, took credit. World War I had for a British naval base were weapons and on the U-20 responsible for passing the order to Is there something else? A new enlightenment, like the one that ammunition. The spies were detained on the I’m not an assassination expert. begun. France, England and Austria took on fi re to the torpedo room was Charles Voegele. spawned the men who made this country — that ship. The weapons loaded on the Lusitania were Voegele refused to kill civilians of a neutral I am an expert in living in America. the recent men have destroyed. the war debt. While many paid the price with seen by the German dock workers and reported country, and upon returning to Germany was I am a Ph.D in suffering through America, And the time does not seem quite so long. at least 20 million killed, war profi teers made a to the German embassy. To warn Americans court-martialed and imprisoned for three its propaganda, its holiday dinners, football Then and now are connected. Brought fi nancial killing. about the weapons shipment, the Imperial years. One torpedo was fi red on May 7 and the afternoons, coffee conversations, newspaper together. While historians still debate the causes German Embassy attempted to place an articles, television news shows, entertainment Come together. of World War I. President Woodrow Wilson warhead’s 300 pounds of explosives detonated advertisement in 50 East Coast newspapers. The shows. And now maybe. claimed the main cause was that the wealthy upon contact with the Lusitania. The Lusitania’s ads were printed with a date of April 22, 1915, If there were one thing worth listening to Maybe our children will not live within lies, had too much control over Germany, Russia and Captain Turner reported the fi rst explosion or hearing out of all those, there would be no houses of lies, schools of lies, lives of lies. Austria. Lenin went on record that the banking but the US State Department blocked all the sounded “like a heavy door being slammed need to excuse oneself to go stand in the garage Just maybe. merchants orchestrated the war. We now know ads except one. George Viereck, the man who shut” and was followed by a much larger smoking hidden cigarettes, holding the knife at ab that, at least at this high level, both Wilson and placed the ads for the embassy, protested to the explosion that rocked the ship. Turner wrote in your neck, then putting the cigarettes back into Mike Palecek is the author of Guest of the Nation, Lenin were correct. Financial interests, cloaked State Department on April 26 that the ads were the log “an unusually heavy detonation.” The the hiding spot and the knife as well, and going Iowa Terror, and other books. His email is: blocked. Viereck met with Secretary of State Lusitania sank 15-18 minutes later. [email protected] in good intentions and nationalism, fueled back, to try once more to think and live and act World War I. William Jennings Bryan and produced copies of On May 28, 1915, Germany’s offi cial False fl ag operationLusitania the Lusitania’s supplementary manifests. Bryan, response to the US government’s protest states The US was successfully fooled into entering impressed by the evidence that the Lusitania the German government has no intention to into the war in 1917 by a series of cleverly had carried weapons, cleared publication of the attack US vessels that are not guilty of hostile orchestrated efforts. President Woodrow Wilson warning. Someone higher than the Secretary acts and that war contraband was on board, The Real News Radio of State, likely Colonel House and President which explains the second explosion. was directly involved in these deceptions and formally sanctioned the US participation in Wilson, overruled Bryan. Nonetheless, one ad Despite British denials, weapons are Bringing the truth to the people... the war in a secret agreement with England on slipped past the State Department censorship recovered March 9, 1916. We know about this agreement into the Des Moines Register (and is shown on The banking families involved and Britain’s today because the agreement was leaked and the left). leaders, even a century later, still fear the confi rmed by Sir Edward Grey, Ambassador The warning read: “NOTICE! Travellers negative repercussions from Americans when Saturdays 10:00 AM Walter Hines Page, C. Hartley Grattan, and intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage they learn they were tricked into World War I. Colonel Edward Mandell House. are reminded that a state of war exists between For decades, the British and American streaming at WSICweb.com The focus of this article is on the centerpiece Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her governments have denied that there were of the pro-war propaganda which preceded the allies; that the zone of war includes the waters weapons on the Lusitania. The site was declared www.therealnewsradio.com 1916 secret agreement and involved sinking a adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance a protective site, denying divers access. To with formal notice given by the Imperial LUSITANIA p. 7 Pg. 6 December 2008 Rock Creek Free Press Rock Creek Free Press December 2008 Pg. 7

Six Held at Guantanamo After Plot Claim Is Dropped President-elect Obama:

BY ROBERT FISK / The Independent. of the Dayton Accord which they themselves charge has also been withdrawn by the US Close Down Guantanamo! In the dying days of the Bush administration, yet had negotiated. Then the Bosnian government government. another presidential claim in the “war on terror” would have lost its legitimacy and the country The administration has withdrawn evidence GUANTANAMO from p. 3 HRW called on the government to allow has been proved false by the withdrawal of the might have collapsed back into a civil war given by a federal prisoner, Enaam Arnaout, Up Alone: Detention Conditions and Mental videoconferencing with family members and to main charge against six Algerians held without which claimed the lives of tens of thousands against Boudella — that he trained at an al Health at Guantanamo,” describes the impact provide detainees with educational opportunities trial for nearly seven years at Guantanamo of civilians and involved mass rape as well as Qaeda camp in Afghanistan — when lawyers on two detainees — Mohammed Jawad and “and materials to promote mental engagement prison camp. massacre. The people of Bosnia might then have were about to discover that the US Justice Mohammad El Gharani — who were teenagers and reduce depression,” such as additional George Bush’s assertion in his 2002 State endured “terror” on a scale far greater than the Department had said five years earlier that an when taken into custody. Jawad has attempted books and writing and drawing materials. of the Union address — the same speech attacks of al Qaeda against the United States. FBI interview with the man was “not reliable.” suicide at least once and El Gharani at least The Bush regime’s practice of imprisoning in which he wrongly claimed that Saddam When the Bosnian court was preparing Even stranger is that the six prisoners are seven times. suspects without charges, as it has done with Hussein had tried to import aluminium tubes to release their six prisoners, Prime Minister claimed by the US to be “enemy combatants” HRW says several prisoners reportedly are hundreds of prisoners at Gitmo and tens of from Niger — was that “our soldiers, working Behman was informed that Mr Bush, Vice- when — with the dropping of the embassy “suffering depression and anxiety disorder, thousands of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the Bosnian government, seized terrorists President Richard Cheney and the Defense bomb-plot charge — there is no evidence they and some reported having visions and hearing strongly suggests the Pentagon has no real case who were plotting to bomb our embassy [in Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, had been have ever fought US troops or planned to attack voices.” Requests by attorneys for outside against them, and that the “War on Terror” is Sarajevo].” Not only has the US government personally briefed and the White House had US interests anywhere in the world. Part of the psychiatric evaluations and improvements in largely fraudulent, just as Bush’s attack on Iraq withdrawn that charge against the six Algerians, decided that, if they were freed, US troops in case against Bensayah involved the alleged conditions “have generally gone unanswered,” was based on lies. all of whom had taken citizenship or residence the NATO Stabilization Force in Bosnia would discovery of a piece of paper at his home, the human rights agency says. If there is any justice in the world, the in Bosnia, but lawyers defending the Arabs seize them, using “whatever force is necessary.” bearing a telephone number for an al Qaeda Last March, the Pentagon said it would allow Pentagon and CIA officials who designed — who had already been acquitted of such So, despite a three-month investigation by the operative, Abu Zubayder. “The Bosnian police detainees to make phone calls home but so far Guantanamo will be prosecuted and imprisoned a plot in a Sarajevo court — have found that Bosnian police, their clearance, and a specific couldn’t get this number to work in Afghanistan only 40 have been allowed to do so. themselves for this crime. Once he takes office, the US threatened to pull its troops out of the demand by the Dayton-established Bosnian or Pakistan,” one of the prisoners’ lawyers, Similarly, prison officials told HRW they President Obama cannot move fast enough to NATO peacekeeping force in Bosnia if the men Human Rights Chamber that they should not be Stephen Oleskey, says. “Now we believe planned to increase recreation time, allow rectify this national disgrace. were not handed over. According to testimony forced to leave Bosnia, US forces seized all six, an announcement that the paper had been prisoners to interact, and start language classes, ab presented by the Bosnian Prime Minister, Alija shackled and blindfolded them, and put them on discovered was made before it was ‘found’.” but “No schedule for these improvements,” Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based public relations Behman, the deputy US ambassador to Bosnia a plane to Guantanamo. Mr Oleskey says Clint Williamson, the US consultant and reporter who has worked for major dailies HRW said, “has yet been announced.” and wire services. Reach him at [email protected] in 2001, Christopher Hoh, told him that if he Mustafa Idir, Mohamed Nechla, Hadj war crimes ambassador, met Bosnia’s Prime did not hand the men to the Americans, “then let Boudella, Lakhdar Boumedienne, Belkacem Minister, Nicola Spiric, this week. “There’s only God protect Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Bensayah and Saber Lahmar have remained one reason he makes these visits,” he said. “To That such a threat should be made — and there since, the only European citizens still negotiate the return of people in Guantanamo.” the international High Representative to in Guantanamo. Five of their wives are still The White House may intend to save itself Corporate Media Lies Exposed Bosnia at the time, Wolfgang Petritsch, has waiting for them in Bosnia along with 20 of further embarrassment by ending the torment of (again) also told lawyers it was — shows for the first their children, two of whom their fathers have six more apparently innocent young men. time just how ruthless and unprincipled US never seen. Their case will be put to a habeas ab MEDIA LIES from p. 1 State Condoleezza Rice warned that Moscow’s foreign policy had become in Mr Bush’s “war corpus district court hearing in Washington Robert Fisk is an award-winning British journalist and wing commander, will testify that, before the attacks on Georgia jeopardized its integration on terror.” By withdrawing their military and in November — the six will appear in a live author. He is the Middle East correspondent of the UK Russian bombardment began, Georgian rockets into international institutions. diplomatic support for the Bosnian peace transmission from Guantanamo — where their newspaper The Independent, and has spent more than and artillery were hitting civilian areas of South The British officers’ testimony, which is process, the Americans would have backed out lawyers will point out that another critical 30 years living in and reporting from the region. Ossetia every 15 or 20 seconds. corroborated by many other accounts and other In August Americans were subjected to evidence, demonstrates once again that the US relentless propaganda and disinformation from news media and political leaders can not be news and political leaders who knew full well trusted to tell the American people the truth. that the Bush administration version of events especially when it comes to matters of war and was absolutely false. peace. The Lusitania: President George W. Bush criticized What are the chances that we will see Moscow’s “harsh military crackdown”, saying a retraction or correction of these grave the violence is “unacceptable and Russia’s misstatements from our politicial leaders or the A Classic Example Of War Profiteering response is disproportionate” while Secretary of media? ab

LUSITANIA from p. 6 On November 21, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had been President Woodrow further frustrate the ability to determine what Wilson’s assistant secretary of the Navy, wrote the Lusitania carried, since 1946 the Royal to Colonel House: “The real truth of the matter Veterans Occupy National Archives Navy repeatedly dropped depth charges on top is, as you and I know, that a financial element of the Lusitania as a site for target practice. In in the larger centers has owned the Government 1968, to keep the truth secret, the British Secret ever since the days of Andrew Jackson, and I VETERANS from p. 1 severely tarnished the reputation of America in Service unsuccessfully attempted to buy the am not wholly excepting the administration The enormous banners stayed up until the world. Their unlawful wars have squandered salvage rights to the Lusitania. In 1993, PBS of W.W. (Woodrow Wilson). The country is about 2:30 when it started to rain, hail, and billions of dollars that could have bolstered a Online visited the wreck and found previous going through a repetition of Jackson’s fight blow. Many hundreds of people stopped by. troubled economy.” visitors had tampered with the evidence. While J.P. Morgan yacht Corsair with the Bank of the United States — only on a One man, who said he’d seen the banners from The veterans are demanding Bush the British government aggressively worked to JP Morgan, Jr. was a Rothschild frontman far bigger, broader basis.” Colonel House knew blocks away, said he’d come over imagining the administration be tried for war crimes, crimes distort the truth, weapons were confirmed in when he helped create the Federal Reserve and the truth of the matter because he and his father, Archives had opened an exhibit on freedom of against humanity, and crimes against peace; July 2006, when Victor Quirke of the Cork Sub bring the US into World War I. For example, Thomas William House, were confidential speech. The vets took a sound system up with asking the media to clearly inform the public Aqua Club found 15,000 rounds of .303 bullets in 1914, he loaned $12,000,000 to Russia and American agents of Rothschild banking them, and all day blasted music and speeches of the administration’s crimes; and encouraging in the bow section of the ship. in 1915, he loaned $50,000,000 to France. interests in London. Colonel House is famous by Martin Luther King Jr. Down below, allies citizens to take similar nonviolent actions. The first casualty of war is the truth A key reason, beyond preventing terminated in history for being the person that selected passed out flyers and talked to reporters, According to Tarak Kauff, a VFP member, Authors have written for many years that interest payments, that banking families want Woodrow Wilson to be the 1913 Democratic including representatives of NBC News, “People say Bush and Cheney will be gone 1,201 people were sacrificed on the Lusitania “fronts” and “bagmen” is that war profiteering Party candidate for president. German television, Argentinean television, and soon so what’s the point? The point is, there is to create a reason for the US to enter World sometimes leads to revenge. In 1915, JP The Federal Reserve private banking cartel KPFA. no statute of limitations on war crimes, and if War I. Historian Howard Zinn wrote in A Morgan, Jr. was almost murdered by Frank enforced by public law was replicated on a As the banners were being unfurled Saturday not held accountable, criminality will continue People’s History of the United States, that the Holt. Holt claimed he wanted to stop the war global scale with the creation of the Bank for morning, a few security guards came out and regardless of who is in office. We either are or Lusitania carried 1,248 cases of 3-inch shells, profiteering that fueled, World War I. Holt’s International Settlements (BIS). The BIS was said that they might call the police and fire we are not a nation of law.” 4,927 boxes of cartridges (1,000 rounds in condemnation of JP Morgans, war profiteering established by the Hague agreements of 1930 departments to come and get the activists down, each box), and 2,000 more cases of small-arms These individuals took part: was correct, as almost all weapons purchased by and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. but that they hated to deprive citizens of the city ammunition. Colin Simpson, author of the book the U.S. and Britain were acquired through a JP The privately-owned BIS coordinates with 55 of needed services. Ferner found this ludicrous, • Elliott Adams VFP: 61, Sharon Springs, NY, VFP Pres. and former Army The Lusitania, claims Churchill conspired to Morgan company. JP Morgan loans to the Allies member central banks, including the Fed. The given the thousands of cops working overtime paratrooper, Viet Nam put the Lusitania in danger with the hope of • Ellen Barfield VFP: 52, Baltimore, MD, former Army Sgt. in World War I are estimated at $500,000,000. BIS owners facilitate global monetary control to wait on G-20 delegates. Later the guards sparking an incident to bring America into • Kim Carlyle VFP: 61, Buncombe County, NC, former Army Spec 5 In 1857, the Peabody and Morgan American by helping manage Gresham’s Law that bad threatened to arrest everyone on the sidewalk. • Doug Zachary VFP: 58, Austin, TX, VFP staff, former USMC Lance World War I. Historian Patrick Beesley supports banking partnership was directly influenced by money drives out good. Bad money refers to fiat Nobody took these threats very seriously, and Cpl. Simpson’s assessment. Christopher Hitchens’ • Tarak Kauff VFP: 67, Woodstock, NY, former PFC, Army Airborne the Bank of England. The Bank of England money that is not backed by assets with value they turned out to be empty. book, Blood Class and Nostalgia, further proves • Will Covert VFP: 63, San Diego, CA, VFP lifetime , former E4 Navy provided an £800,000 bailout package in such as money backed by gold or silver. “Our goal is to have the Bush administration • Elaine Brower MFSO: 54, Staten Island, NY, Military Families Speak the responsibility of First Lord of the Admiralty, return for concessions to curtail competition. In summary, the people who profit from tried for war crimes no matter how long it takes. Out, National Steering Committee, mother of USMC Sgt. James Brower Winston Churchill, in a deliberate action to pull on third tour in Iraq Over time, the Rothschilds acquired stock war make a “killing” There is no statute of limitations on war crimes,” America into World War I. History professor, • Matthis Chiroux IVAW: 24, Army Sergeant, served in Afghanistan, refused and gained control. A similar strategy enabled The Federal Reserve evolved as a “front” the veterans said in a press release. deployment to Iraq Ralph Raico and senior scholar of the Ludwig the Rothschilds to take the helm of the for European banking families following failed The same messages were also displayed von Mises Institute, notes Churchill wrote the And these people provided support on the ground: Rockefeller flagship bank, Chase Manhattan. past attempts to seize control of the Bank of at demonstrations in Santa Monica and Long week prior to the Lusitania sinking that it was The Rothschilds signaled the Rockefellers the United States and the refusal in 1845 when Beach, California on Saturday. • Mike Ferner VFP: 57, Toledo, OH, former Navy corpsman “most important to attract neutral shipping to were subordinate when, in 2000, JP Morgan several states elected to discontinue repaying “The offenses of Bush, Cheney, and their • Debbie Tolson VFP: 52, Potomac, MD, associate member of VFP our shores, in the hopes especially of embroiling • Michelle White MFSO: 24, Clarksville, TN, Military Families Speak Out, executives assumed the key management debt to foreign banks. The European banking accomplices are appalling,” said Kim Carlyle, the United States with Germany.” wife of Iraq war vet currently serving in Afghanistan positions of JPMorgan Chase. Today, the lead families needed their private banking cartel a VFP member and Army veteran. “Their • Michael Marceau VFP: 59, Rockville, MD, VP VFP Chapter 16, former Many are willing to be “fronts” and Rothschild American front man is JPMorgan to be enforced by US law and achieved this misdeeds have killed or maimed more than a Army, Viet Nam “bagmen” for a price • Bruce Berry VFP: 62, Minneapolis, MN, former SPC 4 Army, Viet Nam Chase’s chief executive Jamie Dimon. Dimon with their design of the Federal Reserve Act million people – American soldiers, innocent The “Business Above All” condemns JP • Fred Nagel VFP: 65, Rhinebeck, NY, former SPC 4 Army is ultimately subordinate to N M Rothschild & of 1913. civilian children, women, and men. They have • Jay Wenk VFP: 82, Woodstock, NY, former rifleman, 90th Inf. Div., WWII Morgan and his work as a frontman for the Sons Limited chairman David de Rothschild. The cycle of debt often starts with selling displaced almost five million people, with • Tony Teolis VFP: Rothschilds. Lessons like the French Revolution ab How does this relate to current wars? weapons. Governments go in debt to buy millions seeking refuge in other countries. Their taught global banking families that a lasting David Swanson is the founder of After Downing Street. In the 1930s, the identities of the Federal weapons. The weapons manufacturers make total disregard for international agreements has presence requires an ongoing disinformation Reserve designers began to surface. On May substantial money on the sale and the bankers campaign to conceal their wealth and the true 23, 1933, Congressman Louis T. McFadden make a financial “killing” on the interest from nature of their operations. JP Morgan (1837- brought formal charges against the Board of the the weapons-generated debt. The weapon 1913) partnered with George Peabody, who Federal Reserve Bank system, accusing them of sales accelerate if a government is faced with worked with London banks, including Barings war profiteering. a perceived or real threat. False reports are and Rothschilds. In 1845, George Peabody He said: “Some people who think that produced, often by the hidden hand of war was personally involved in previously secret the Federal Reserve Banks are United States profiteers, to trick the citizens of a country to conspiracies including bribing the famous Government institutions. They are private support the call for war. 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In that dark crew of Not surprisingly, we are heading toward a in the creation of American “fronts” for the financial pirates, there are those who would cut cliff due to a privately-owned central bank with Get Home Delivery great banking families of Europe. a man’s throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; owners that benefit from military spending. JP Morgan led what became the largest there are those who send money into states to When people understand that without economic Just $20/year American banking dynasty. 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CHANGE from p. 1 classified research and development efforts be investigated by Congress or will gross Illinois senator may have mildly criticized where it is deemed that extraordinary criminality be prosecuted by a new team at the Hayden or Osama some of the administration’s so-called secrecy is needed to protect capabilities Department of Justice? Don’t hold your breath. “counterterrorism” policies including the and vulnerabilities. Special access programs The Washington Post reports that while Bushist penchant for secrecy, the disappearance are regulated by statute and are defined as “political considerations affected every crevice of “terrorist” suspects, driftnet surveillance deliberately designated programs where ‘need- of the department during the Bush years,” Ron of American citizens and legal residents, CIA to-know’ or access controls beyond those Klain, Al Gore’s former chief of staff who “black site” gulags and the crushing of domestic normally provided to classified information now occupies that position for Vice President- dissent. are created. The clearance and access elect Joe Biden, dismissed calls to overhaul But in the few weeks since the November requirements are identical to, or exceed, the Department and compared “preelection 4th general election, the contours of what those required for access to sensitive brainstorming sessions of Democrats” to “an Democratic Party corporatist grifters will roll compartmented information, and SAPs require escalating composition of woes.” Post reporter out come January 20, 2009 are taking shape. special (and expensive) security, access, and Carrie Johnson writes. Citing Obama’s carefully-crafted public communications measures.” (William M. Arkin, Obama will have to do a careful balancing relations blitz on the campaign trail opposing Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, act. At a conference in Washington in mid- illegal spying, the Journal reports: Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World, November former Justice Department criminal Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2005, p.18). division chief Robert S. Litt asked that the new “Yet he ... voted for a White House- Additionally, we have no way of determining backed law to expand eavesdropping powers administration avoid fighting old battles that what other secret slush funds are available to could be perceived as vindictive, such as seeking for the National Security Agency. Mr. Obama the “intelligence community” from a welter said he opposed providing legal immunity to prosecute government officials involved in of illegal ventures such as the laundering decisions about interrogation and the gathering to telecommunications companies that aided of illicit funds by CIA intelligence assets in warrantless surveillance, but ultimately of domestic intelligence. Human rights groups Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Balkans, Colombia have called for such investigations, as has voted for the bill, which included an immunity and Mexico, as well as funds and profits provision. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John generated by CIA proprietaries — secret CIA- The new president could take a similar Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.). controlled commercial fronts. Derived from approach to revising the rules for CIA “It would not be beneficial to spend a lot the international narcotics trade and “cleansed” interrogations, said one current government of time calling people up to Congress or in front as they pass through a series of off-shore official familiar with the transition. Upon of grand juries,” Litt said. “It would really spend banks and US financial institutions, far-right Which one are you more afraid of? The dead guy on the right, or the spy chief review, Mr. Obama may decide he wants to keep a lot of the bipartisan capital Obama managed narcotrafficking assets involved in the murder on the left who doesn’t know the first thing about the 4th amendment and has the road open in certain cases for the CIA to to build up.” (Carrie Johnson, “Obama Team of trade unionists, journalists, leftist opponents admitted to illegal surveilence of millions of Americans. use techniques not approved by the military, Face Major Task in Justice Dept. Overhaul,” the or indeed, the 9/11 attacks which kick-started but with much greater oversight.” (Siobhan Washington Post, November 13, 2008) America’s “war on terror,” are readily available Gorman, “Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely But as we’ve come to expect from the for planetary-wide US “special operations.” Intact,” The Wall Street Journal, November 11, corporate media, Johnson failed to investigate BY MATT SULLIVAN / RCFP Third Reich and the Soviet Union for so long. The Obama intelligence transition team is led 2008) Litt’s own conflicts of interest when it comes General Michael Hayden, the military leader As for Hayden’s statement about the The “current government official” cited by by former National Counterterrorism chief John to probing Bushist crimes by CIA and other of the previously civilian Central Intelligence Plot that would have “rivaled” 9/11; the Journal fails to specify precisely what it Brennan and former CIA intelligence analysis intelligence officials. As Glenn Greenwald Agency, made a statement to the press in mid when questioned about this claim a senior means to “keep the road open” when it comes director Jami Miscik, according to the Journal. observes, “This brazen defense of lawlessness November saying that Osama bin Laden is intelligence official said Hayden was referring to torturing prisoners of war in violation of the But what the Journal fails to mention however, articulated by Litt is now as close to a alive and well and living in Pakistan but that to the 2006 “liquid bomb plot” in London. Geneva Conventions. is that Brennan was a former president and CEO unanimous, bipartisan consensus across the the al Qaeda leader is increasingly worried That plot, you may recall, is the excuse used by Considering that top Bush administration of the The Analysis Corporation (TAC) and the political establishment as it gets.” about his personal security. The CIA had TSA for not letting you bring your coffee, or officials “repeatedly discussed and approved first chairman of the Intelligence and National Indeed, Litt’s argument in favor of impunity recently directed a series of missile attacks, shampoo or baby formula onto your last flight. specific details of exactly how high-value Security Alliance (INSA), as investigative for mass murder, torture and lawless spying by fired from remote controlled drone airplanes, Of course, what was not mentioned in any of al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by journalist Tim Shorrock reported in his essential high political officials, particularly the President into the Pakistan tribal areas. the glowing accounts of General Hayden’s the Central Intelligence Agency,” as ABC book, Spies For Hire. and those closest to him such as Vice President Hayden also claimed, without providing heroic agency, is that in the more than two News reported back in April, and that “high- Much of TAC’s business is with with the Richard Cheney, mean they literally are exempt details, that the intelligence agency had years since the London “liquid bomb plot,” it level discussions about these ‘enhanced National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) from the rule of law. disrupted an attack “that would have rivaled has been completely and thoroughly debunked. interrogation techniques’ were so detailed ... where Brennan worked for three years. As Greenwald reports that during his tenure the destruction of 9/11.” Hayden went on to It turns out that the accused “plotters” didn’t some of the interrogation sessions were almost Shorrock points outs, “In fact, the NCTC is at the Justice Department as the head of the say that al Qaeda is “is a determined, adaptive have a plan, had no tickets, no passports, choreographed — down to the number of times one of the company’s largest customers, and criminal division under Bill Clinton, Litt: enemy unlike any our nation has ever faced.” no chemicals, no “bomb materials” and the CIA agents would use a specific tactic,” one is TAC provides counterterrorism support to “...spent much of his career as a The Washington Press Corps, incredulous whole thing has been quietly dropped by the left to ponder what “much greater oversight” ‘most of the agencies within the Intelligence federal prosecutor, aggressively prosecuting as always, went off to write glowing accounts British authorities. As for the “plotters,” they would actually mean. Community,’ according to a company press and imprisoning all sorts of ordinary of our nations military intelligence triumphs. were either released or charged with minor Perhaps such “oversight” entails a cosmetic release.” Americans. He was one of the most vocal I suppose no one in the press thought to ask offences. shake-up at the top rungs of US intelligence During the 1990s, TAC developed the US advocates for prohibiting government-proof why, if Hayden knows so much about the The real reason for Hayden’s press agencies? The Washington Post reports that government’s first terrorist database, called encryption technology in order to preserve wherabouts of Osama bin Laden, they don’t conference, so soon after a new presidential “The nation’s top two intelligence officers Tipoff, for the State Department. In 2003, the Government’s ability to access people’s just go pick him up. Osama, if he were still election, is not that Osama (r.i.p.) is in fear expect to be replaced by President-elect Barack management of the database was transferred computer communications as part of criminal alive, has been on the loose for over seven for his security, but that apparently Hayden is to the NCTC which Brennan managed. By Obama early in his administration, according to investigations, and was part of a Clinton years since 9/11 and the CIA hasn’t laid a concerned for his own security—job security 2005 Tipoff had morphed into the Terrorist senior intelligence officials.” DOJ that very aggressively pursued even glove on him. Makes you wonder how we that is. Ident,ities Datamart Environment (TIDE), the But would the replacement of Director garden-variety drug cases and used mandatory ever got by with second-rate enemies like the ab mother of all federal counterterrorism databases of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, a sentencing guidelines to ensure harsher and the “wellspring” for watch lists distributed former admiral who oversaw spooky Booz sentences for common criminals.” (Glenn Allen Hamilton corporate contracts with the to airlines, law enforcement, border posts Greenwald, “Post-Partisan Harmony vs. the Rule “intelligence community,” and CIA Director and US consulates world-wide. According to of Law”, Salon, November 13, 2008). Michael V. Hayden, an Air Force general who Shorrock, in 2005 TAC won a $2.3 million While prosecuting and imprisoning low- implemented Bushist warrantless wiretapping contract in partnership with CACI International level drug offenders and the poor is an absolute programs while NSA Director, represent “to integrate information from the Defense moral obligation for Litt and his ilk, hauling “change” or continuity? Intelligence Agency into the TIDE database.” lawbreaking corporate and political clients While some Democrats may oppose retaining INSA, according to Shorrock is one of three before a court of law, like the impeachment of America’s top spooks because of their public “business associations representing intelligence felons occupying high-office, is “off the table.” support of Bushist policies, “other Democrats contractors” and the “one with the closet ties to Greenwald points out that as a partner at Arnold and many intelligence experts,” according the government,” which “primarily represents & Porter, an “up-armored” corporate legal to the Post “give high marks to the current contractors working for the NSA and the CIA.” behemoth, the company brazenly announced on cadre of intelligence leaders, crediting them And SourceWatch reports that among INSA’s Litt’s Arnold & Porter page that he represented with restoring stability and professionalism to leading members can be found such corporate several employees of intelligence agencies “in a community rocked by multiple scandals in heavy-hitters as the scandal-plagued BAE connection with criminal investigations. None recent years.” Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, Computer has been charged.” With a subtext arguing in favor of retaining Science Corporation, General Dynamics, While the Post may depict him as an McConnell and Hayden, Post journalists Hewlett-Packard Company, Lockheed Martin, objective analyst, Litt is no more than a shill Walter Pincus (who has a dubious history ManTech International Corporation, Microsoft for well-heeled, “covered” clients. Indeed, if he of collaboration with the CIA as researchers and Science Applications International represents CIA, NSA or White House officials Daniel Brandt and Steve Badrich note) and Corporation (SAIC). Indeed, current DNI Mike involved in illegal intelligence and surveillance Karen DeYoung, cite unnamed “intelligence McConnell, was INSA chairman between 2005- programs, Greenwald writes, “that obviously officials” who think their early departure “could 2007 before heading up the Office of National motivates his insistence that investigations not be seen as politicizing their offices and setting Intelligence. be pursued.” And so it goes... a precedent for automatic turnover when the According to the Washington Post, Brennan Memo to Obama supporters: the new product White House changes hands.” “is one of several names that have surfaced, roll-out is a smashing success, “change” has Hilariously (though I’m not laughing), including Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), as come to Washington, the corporate grift Pincus and DeYoung cite the case of Bush’s possible replacements for McConnell or continues. Any questions? retention of George J. Tenet as CIA Director Hayden.” One can almost hear the clink of ab as a “stabilizing move,” one viewed favorably glasses amid popping corks in corporate suites Tom Burghardt is a researcher and activist based in within the Agency. Tenet, a Clinton appointee across Virginia and Washington! the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to publishing in CovertAction Quarterly and Global Research, an What do we know about Jami Miscik, and political insider, was a primary architect independent research and media group of writers, of intelligence forgeries, along with Bushist Obama’s other intelligence transition team scholars, journalists and activists based in Montreal, minions in the Pentagon and the Office of leader? According to the Council on Foreign his articles can be read on Dissident Voice, The the Vice President when “the intelligence and Relations (CFR), Miscik “served as Director for Intelligence Daily and Pacific Free Press. He is the the facts were being fixed around the policy,” Intelligence Programs at the National Security editor of Police State America: U.S. Military “Civil prior to the 2003 US invasion and occupation Council during the Clinton Administration from Disturbance” Planning, distributed by AK Press. of Iraq. 1995 to 1996.” In the run up to the Iraq war, According to the Post, both men have Miscik played a key role in concocting fake expressed interest in keeping their perches atop intelligence about Iraq’s alleged “weapons of the US “intelligence community.” And why mass destruction” and “links” to al Qaeda that wouldn’t they? According to Secrecy News the were used by the Bush administration to sell the October 28 release by the Office of the Director war to the American people. During this period, of National Intelligence revealed that the 2008 as head of the CIA’s analytical division, she budget for the National Intelligence Program suppressed reports from Company analysts that amounted to $47.5 billion, not counting an rejected Bushist claims as unfounded. additional $10 billion in spending on the More recently, Miscik was “the Global Pentagon’s Military Intelligence Program. Head of Sovereign Risk at Lehman Brothers” It should be kept in mind the $57.5 billion according to the CFR. “In this capacity,” doesn’t include the Pentagon and other Miscik’s biographers write with a straight face, intelligence agencies’ “black budget” for “she assesses geopolitical and economic risks undisclosed programs and “special operations” for the firm’s senior management and clients.” hidden within ultra-secretive “special access But with the multi-billion dollar collapse of VISIBILITY 9/11 programs” (SAPs) kept off the books. Lehman Brothers amid allegations of massive with Michael Wolsey According to defense and security analyst fraud and management corruption, the failed William M. Arkin: firm is now under investigation for dodgy The Podcast of the 9/11 truth “There are also additional categories “structured products” and “mini-bonds.” One can only wonder what advice the incoming movement. A weekly conversa- ‘above’ Top Secret called “special tion about the events of 9/11 access programs” that are used to protect Obama administration would seek from Miscik presidential, military, intelligence, anti- or indeed from CFR! and what they mean for America. terrorism, counter-drug, special operations, Once the Obama team is in place come New guests every week and “sensitive activities,” as well as January 20, will the crimes of the Bush regime