BEST OF YEAR 2002 WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEFS

 

JAN 4, 2002

 

WHY ISRAEL SPIES ON THE US

A couple of major stories have broken recently about Israeli spying on the US, including a devastating exposé by Fox News reporter Carl Cameron.   Cameron (incorrectly) claimed that the Israeli Mossad operates the biggest spy ring in the US.  [Actually, Israel is the third largest, after Russia and China.]  Of course, both the US and Israeli governments put pressure on Fox to cancel this coverage, acting in lock step, as usual.  The Israeli embassy discounted the Fox story in a published denial of wrong-doing in the Jerusalem Post: “The report on Fox News contains no quoted source, it has in no way demonstrated anything more than anonymous innuendo, and should be regarded accordingly. Israel does not spy on the United States of America.”   Meanwhile, most Americans are outraged, not knowing how the world really works.  Why would an ally who has been the recipient of so many voluntary contributions as well as taxpayer-funded foreign aid spy on its benefactor?   Actually, the reasons are varied and complex, but they become much more clear when the realities of the nature of the US government and its relationship with Israel are better understood.

 

Americans live under the naive illusion that the US is a benign liberty-loving nation, and that its government is a champion of freedom around the world.  Indeed, that is the intent of the American people, and it is also the stated, public position of its government.  But the reality is far different, as far as our government is concerned.  The US government has a very bad reputation around the world as a betrayer of its friends and allies who resist the US/NWO control agenda.  As a result, none of our allies trust the US completely, and each engages in some form of espionage against the US in order to protect itself from US meddling.  Remember the scandal in the last decade about French spying on the US?  That was only peanuts compared to the US government’s use of the Echelon global spy system to eavesdrop on all French government and commercial communications.  It is this complete arrogance on the part of the American government in deeming it their exclusive right to spy on the whole world that, in part, makes us the “ugly American” to other nations and induces the hatred we experienced on 9/11.  This is not a hatred of our freedoms.   

 

Israel has good reason to mistrust the US as its professed ally. Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who was employed as a US intelligence analyst, is currently serving a life sentence for taking the US at its word.  There has been a long-standing secret agreement between the US and Israel, of which Jonathan Pollard was well aware, to share intel with each other that affects the security interests of either country.  Israel collects intelligence from many parts of the world (that the US cannot gain access to on the ground) and shares this important human intelligence (Humint) with the US.  But the US often does not live up to its part of the agreement.  Pollard became aware of information from US satellite signals intelligence (Sigint) crucial to Israel’s security.  He found out that this information was not being forwarded to Israel as per US/Israeli protocols.   When he brought this to the attention of his superiors, he was told to keep silent.  They claimed it was a matter of “national security”--a typical tactic by government leaders to suppress illegal acts and dissent within ranks.  Pollard went against the illegal demands of his superiors and provided the crucial information to Israel anyway and was prosecuted for it.  His sentence of life imprisonment (an uncharacteristicly severe penalty for delivering secrets to an ally) was handed down specifically to keep him locked up so that he could not reveal what he knows about illegal government operations and betrayals.

 

The foregoing is one of the reasons Israel spies on the US--it doesn’t trust the US to live up to its agreements.  However, there are other more serious and dangerous reasons for Israel’s distrust which have much to do with dark-side US-Israeli operations.  Israel’s Mossad has had a close relationship with the CIA since the early 1950’s, when Israel was battling for survival after the fragile truce of the first Arab-Israeli war.  Being almost totally dependent on US military support, the Mossad was anxious to ingratiate itself to the US, and became an eager accomplice in many international operations where the CIA wanted someone else to shield them from blame and to maintain plausible deniability.  The Mossad has done much of the CIA’s dirty work over the years, including  international assassinations and other illegal operations in which the CIA did not want to appear directly involved. 

 

For instance, the CIA has used Mossad agents assigned to the CIA to set up and manage overseas drug importation and money laundering centers, such as Michael Harawi did in Central America.  According to various CIA and military whistleblowers, Harawi was involved with Panama’s corrupt President Manuel Noriega (a CIA lackey) in the drug-for-weapons exchanges that were carried out under the cover of the NSA’s IRAN-CONTRA operations.  For a full catalog of these joint CIA/Mossad drug operations, see Rodney Stitch’s book, Drugging America (1 800-247-7389).  Much of the evidence in this book, including copies of statements by the Israeli embassy confirming joint Mossad/CIA operations, can also be found in Stich’s main work, Defrauding America, which I have previously recommended. 

 

This dark-side relationship between the CIA and the Mossad is still ongoing.  As recently as November of 2001, Israeli operatives were thwarted as they attempted to carry out a terror attack on the Mexican Congress.  A Mexican newspaper  La Vox De Aztlan, carried the story that “two men, one of them a former Israeli Colonel and Mossad agent, were arrested INSIDE the Mexican congress carrying 9mm pistols and dynamite, but were released following intense pressure from the Israeli Embassy.”   This was happening at a time when Mexico’s new President Fox (who has deep ties to the American NWO crowd) was having great difficulty getting the PRI opposition to go along with his support of President Bush’s phony war on terrorism.  Fox was booed by members of the Mexican Congress when he tried to rally support for America.  I suspect that the Israelis were engaged in an agent-provocateur exercise on behalf of the CIA to induce the recalcitrant Mexican left to get on board the anti-terrorist bandwagon. 

 

But the dark-side partnership with the Mossad hits America even closer to home.  The CIA and FBI have contracted much of the government’s illicit wire tapping to the Mossad.  Why?  Because (until the passage of the infamous US Patriot Act) it was illegal for the CIA and FBI to be tapping the communications of innocent Americans.  So, they would assign the Mossad to do it.  Is it little wonder that the Mossad would turn that same wire tapping equipment around and tap the communications of the CIA, FBI and high government officials?   Not at all.  They do it all the time.  Some of the best leaks about Bill Clinton’s misconduct came from Israeli surveillance, at a time when our own government agencies were protecting him. 

 

The important thing to realize is that Israel and the US are joint partners and partial adversaries at the same time.   Israel does a lot of the dirty work for the US, and in so doing Israel gets a huge junk of underground cash each year--cash which finances illegal operations inside Israel and which also lines the pockets of Israeli politicians loyal to the CFR globalist leaders who run America.  Israeli agents and government officials also see enough of the dark side of US operations to know that the dark side of the American government is ruthless and needs constant watching in order to keep from being stabbed in the back.  Just as Mafia chiefs spy on each other for personal protection, competing corrupt governments in the quest for survival in the lethal NWO do the same.

 

ASHCROFT USES EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE TO COVER FOR FBI CRIMES

NY Times columnist William Safire has been aiming his big guns at the Bush White House for days now.  In his latest salvo, he correctly chides the Bush Justice department for continuing the cover-up of both Clinton era crimes and ongoing FBI criminal links with the Mafia.  Sadly, he doesn’t understand the motives behind these continued cover-ups.  Here are some relevant quotations [with my commentary in brackets and emphasis added]:

 

“Stephen (the Rifleman) Flemmi is a gangster who spent a generation as a valued informant for the FBI in Boston. He is now awaiting trial for 10 murders he is charged with committing while on the FBI payroll.  Also charged is his FBI handler, John Connolly Jr., accused of tipping off Flemmi and his mobster boss before police were dispatched to pick them up. The boss, accused of 19 murders, is still a fugitive. Six years ago the Rifleman claimed that the FBI had promised him immunity from prosecution for his killings [true--a key element in the feds’ ability to control and use corrupt people to do their bidding] — allegedly including a couple of his girlfriends — but Federal Judge Mark Wolf, in a landmark decision, ruled that nobody in law enforcement had the power to sanction murder. [His ruling will probably be overturned on appeal]

 

“The New England FBI's long-running abuse of power is ‘the greatest failing in federal law enforcement history,’ according to James Wilson, chief counsel to the House Government Reform Committee. Evidence of this sustained miscarriage of justice was the 30-year imprisonment of Joe Salvati, whom FBI officials are said to have known to be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted — but they remained silent to protect Mafia sources [more than ‘sources’--these are partners in criminal dark side activities]. John Ashcroft's Department of Justice does not want Congress to air out this long, shameful story...Accordingly, the Bush Justice Department induced the president to sign an order asserting executive privilege over its ‘deliberative documents’ that would inform the public of answers to questions like: Why did Justice decline to indict an FBI supervisor who admitted taking money from Flemmi's gang?  Why did Justice help defend a hit man in California who killed a man while in the witness protection program? Much of this systemic perversion of justice took place decades ago, but the Ashcroft-Mueller crowd is determined to keep the embarrassing institutional history hushed up. That's why department lawyers recently adopted a policy of refusing all documents relating to its declinations to prosecute.” [In reality, the reason for the continued cover-up is because the dark side of government is still in control and Ashcroft and FBI director Mueller are part of the system.  These leaders project Christian identities only as a cover to keep conservatives believing.] 

 

JAN 11, 2002

 

CHEMTRAILS: FINALLY, SOME ANSWERS

Canadian investigative reporter William Thomas has uncovered, through tenacious and prodigious research, some answers to the mysterious chemtrail issue.  “Chemtrails” are chemical laden vapor trails dispersed at high altitudes by US military tanker aircraft and by some private aircraft under top-secret contracts with the US government. A draft version of Thomas’ report can be read online at http://www.nexusmagazine.com/chemtrails.html.  I don’t agree with everything Thomas writes or speculates about, but I will summarize his conclusions and share my analysis of what I think is well founded.

 

The chemtrail phenomenon has been observed for many years in different parts of the US as well as in other allied nations.  These chemtrails are primarily characterized by thick trails of white vapor, which persist for long periods of time, gradually dispersing to cover wide areas of the sky.  Let’s review some of the major differences between these chemical vapor trails and the normal, harmless condensation trails (“contrails”) often emitted by aircraft.  There are several critical distinguishing characteristics between these two types of emissions:

 

1)  Chemtrails often occur at altitudes and in environmental conditions where normal contrails cannot and do not occur.  According to NOAA meteorologist Thomas Schlatter, quoted in the article, “At temperatures lower than approx  -40 deg F  contrails almost always form, regardless of relative humidity. The higher the ambient temperature, the less likely that contrails will form. At temperatures above -40 degrees F, contrails are not expected. The persistence of contrails depends upon temperature, relative humidity, and the vigor of mixing between the exhaust plume and the ambient air. At low temperatures, with high humidity, and with stable temperature stratification (which inhibits vertical mixing of the air), contrails persist for many hours."  Chemtrails also occur at altitudes where contrails occur and thus the two are mixed. 

 

2)  Chemtrails persist for many hours and spread out continuously until wide areas of the sky are covered.  Contrails spread out only slightly and evaporate within 10 seconds to several hours, depending on the upper air humidity and temperature.  Contrails can persist under exceptional circumstances, so this is not a definitive criteria.

 

3) Contrails are always pure white and don’t exhibit much halo effect.  Chemtrails have an oily glint to them, with pronounced rainbow-like color effects (reddish or pinkish tint) as the sun shines through.  Some of the best photographic evidence of chemtrails is found at http://www.carnicom.com/contrails.htm.

 

4) Contrails are composed of water vapor combined with a small amount of residue from burned jet fuel.   Analysis of chemtrail residues, in contrast, claims to have uncovered a variety of chemicals and other substances, including barium, aluminum oxide, microscopic fibers and oil-based products, none of which are intrinsic to normal jet fuel.

 

5)  Contrails exit directly behind the engines of the aircraft, which produce the moisture.  Thus, aircraft will exhibit only 1, 2, 3, or 4 distinct condensation trails, each trailing an engine.  Chemtrails, in contrast, are expelled from multiple ports along the entire wing surface, not directly in line with the engines.   Once again, see the pictures on www.carnicom.com.  These photos are perhaps the most definitive of all chemtrail evidence. Some debunkers use cropped photos of high-G manuevers which gives off aerodynamic condensation from the wing--as a supposed explanation to wing emitted chemtrails.  But this is bogus.  Aerodynamic condensation doesn’t occur in straight and level flight and never leaves a long contrail.  It also shows up within inches of the wing trailing edge, unlike chemtrail spraying.  

 

6)  Contrails cannot be shut on and off at will, nor abruptly, as witnesses have seen in numerous sightings of chemical spraying by aircraft.  I personally have seen this type of on/off spraying in Utah by two military tankers flying in loose formation.  When numerous witnesses called KSL--TV in Salt Lake City to investigate, KSL dutifully parroted the government’s official response:  that the aircraft was a government contractor flying a Lear jet and doing experiments on ice crystal formation.  Baloney!  As one of those witnesses, and an experienced pilot, I can tell you those two huge military tanker aircraft were not tiny Lear jets.  The government is lying--but at least, in this case, they didn’t try to outright deny what hundreds of people were watching, as they usually do.  They simply tried to take advantage of public ignorance of aircraft recognition, feeding them a phony but marginally plausible excuse. 

 

7)  Aircraft dispersing chemtrails always fly back and forth over a set area, creating circular or zig-zag patterns of vapor in the sky.  Often many chemtrail aircraft can be seen in one area, flying in crisscross patterns laying down vapor trails before flying off over the horizon.  Large airliners operating under Air Traffic Control fly on set airways and do not make such patterns in the sky.  Government representatives have tried to pass off reports of crisscross chemtrail patterns as merely the convergence of airliner contrails at normal air traffic intersections, but this is false.  For one thing, almost all airways in the US run in straight lines.  Neither do airliners fly in close formation with other aircraft.  In addition, chemtrail sightings almost never come close to normal airway intersections, lest they interfere with normal traffic or be observed by other airline passengers.  

 

8) All legitimate aircraft at high altitudes emitting contrails will be acknowledged by the FAA.  Conversely, the existence of aircraft spraying chemicals is always denied by the FAA, under orders from the government.  You can be on a cell phone, in real time, reporting the presence of an aircraft overhead to the FAA and they will tell you that no such aircraft exists on their radar screens.  They are flat-out lying.  It’s amazing to me how many military pilots and government ATC controllers can so easily justify these lies.  Surely some are aware of the damaging health effects reported on the internet.  Occasionally, an honest controller will admit there is a “military exercise” blocked out for that area. 

 

Many have long suspected that the government has been using these airborne chemical sprayings to test dispersal methods for mild forms of biological or chemical warfare.  Indeed, chemtrail sightings have long been associated with community-wide illnesses reported in the areas of the sprayings.  Thomas himself was involved in a case in Espanola, Ontario, in the spring of 1998.  Residents there had been complaining of “severe headaches, chronic joint pain, dizziness, sudden extreme fatigue, acute asthma attacks and feverless ‘flu-like’ symptoms over a 50-square-mile area [which] coincided with what they termed ‘months of spraying’ by photo-identified US Air Force tanker planes.”  An expert witness in the case, former Ontarion Provincial Police Officer Ted Simola, described the “lingering Xs and numerous white trails, some of which ‘just ended’ as if they had been shut off but remained in the sky,” observations consistent with other chemtrail sightings.  

 

On November 18, 1998, the people of Espanola petitioned Parliament, suspecting possible government involvement in these airborne chemical emissions.  They called upon Parliament to “repeal any law that would permit the dispersal of military chaff or of any cloud-seeding substance whatsoever by domestic or foreign military aircraft without the informed consent of the citizens of Canada thus affected.”  In response to their petition, the Ministry of Defense eventually replied: “It’s not us.”  The government assertion was mostly true: it was not Canadian aircraft, but US Air Force tankers which were conducting the sprayings.  Yet the Canadian government was complicit in allowing the US to experiment over Canada.

 

Thomas did finally get an American ATC controller to talk to him, under conditions of anonymity.  The controller works on the US eastern seaboard.  Thomas called his contact “Deep Sky.”  Deep Sky confirmed that the chemicals being spread in the exercises were acting as electrolytes, enhancing conductivity of radar and radio waves.  Additionally, the spread of the material was actually degrading, not enhancing, ATC radars – so there had to be some other purpose behind the sprayings.  It is significant that many of the exercises were conducted out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Ohio, which, according to Thomas, “has long been deeply engaged in HAARP’s electromagnetic warfare program.”  HAARP is a US government radio wave project in Alaska which could be related to weather modification.  HAARP’s  huge powerful transmitters and arrays of antennas are, according to the official website, designed to heat up the atmosphere above it.  Phasing the antennas can skew the heating effect directionally, and may even interact with reflective layers of metal particles in Chemtrails.  What is interesting is that HAARP’s location is at the 65th parallel, just south of the arctic circle.  This position corresponds to the atmospheric boundary where relatively moist southern air moving northward collides with cold arctic air coming south.  When these dissimilar air mass meet they rise and form new storm systems.  Heating the atmosphere directly under this boundary layer would tend to accelerate storm development.  Finally, through a series of questions, Deep Sky confirmed that the US tankers were indeed involved in climate modification experiments. 

 

At this point in the article, Thomas launches into a theory that the reflective clouds are being used to reduce the effects of global warming (Edward Teller’s theory).  He discusses the Welsback patent, issued in 1994 to Hughes Aircraft, [long involved in government black operations] which involves the use of a reflective blanket of aluminum-laced cloud cover to cool the earth.  However, I think Thomas was fed disinformation here.  The government often uses phony patents to lead investigators down the wrong trail--especially when dealing with HAARP.   Global warming is a fraud.  There is no way the US government would engage in this massive a cover-up and risk illness to the US population over a theory with little basis in fact and even less evidence of actual damage.  Besides, government sponsored aerosol spraying has been going on before global warming became an issue. 

 

However, the weather modification process is, in my opinion, the best explanation so far as to the widespread use of spraying.  The reflective aluminum particles or fibers in the created cloud barriers cause cool spots over normally warm areas, which influence the rise or fall of air masses.  These reflective layers may also react with HAARP transmissions in some way.   Radio transmissions need reflective layers to channel the energy in specific directions.  The creation of sun or radiation shielding may explain why spraying occurs at high altitude, during the daytime, and in cloudless areas--where the reflective shield would be visible and effective for a long time.

 

None of these characteristics fit a biological or chemical warfare test scenario.  If the government was testing delivery methods of biological or chemical agents, it would be more likely to mix the chemicals in clouds at much lower altitudes where it would more easily precipitate downward on the population.  The chemtrail sprayings always take place at high altitudes where the materials can linger or drift long distances: hardly an accurate delivery method.  The sprayings are also done only in clear areas of the sky--which, again, points to weather modification.

 

What I’m convinced of now, is that the widespread flu-like and Alzheimer’s symptoms have been mere side effects of the sprayed chemicals, and not the direct purpose of the sprayings.   The extensive use of aluminum oxide, found as the primary component of these reflective clouds, does have serious medical side effects and may well explain the upsurge in Alzheimer’s disease in the US--which is reaching epidemic proportions.  I think it is also clear that the government has been experimenting with different types and mixes of chemicals, which explains why the observations and effects differ over time.  Several years ago, there were many sightings of sticky droplets falling from the sky, trailing spider-web-like strands behind.  Upon contact they made people very ill.  Later chemical analysis has shown a lot of aluminum oxide and micro fibers, also composed of barium and aluminum.  People living under these spray patterns have developed Alzheimer’s-like symptoms.

 

As expected, the US continues to deny any spraying as well as any experimentation in weather modification.  The media is totally complicit in this cover-up as well.  The allegations have been widespread over the internet for years.  Thousands of inquiries have gone out to the media over the years and not once has the major media ever done a story on this issue.   The health consequences are huge.  Even the politically correct environmental movement has had no luck in pressing the media for coverage.   There is no way to explain the media’s refusal to investigate or give coverage to this story except that they are fully aware of it and are under bogus  “national security” orders to spike the story.

 

A US Air Force Colonel, according to Thomas, told a senator: “The Air Force is not conducting any weather modification and has no plans to do so in the future.”   But as Thomas retorts, “In fact, attempts to steer hurricanes by spraying heat-robbing chemicals in their paths began in the 1950s. The recipe for creating ‘cirrus shields’ was outlined in an unusually arrogant US Air Force study. Subtitled, ‘Owning the Weather by 2025,’ the 1996 report explained how weather force specialists were dispersing chemicals behind high-flying tanker aircraft in a process the air force calls ‘aerial obscuration.’”   Sounds just like what people are describing as chemtrails.  Even members of Congress know about Chemtrails.  The term is in the list of prohibited Space activities of Rep. Kucinich's HR 2977 “Space Preservation Act.”    Because of the variety of different chemicals used in Chemtrails over the past 10 years and the changing patterns of spraying, I’m convinced the government is still experimenting and hasn’t actually found a predictable way yet to harness the weather.   Sadly, this only means the secret experiments will continue and people will suffer. 

 

EMERGENCY HEALTH POWERS ACT SPREADS TO THE STATES

The Neal Knox Report (http://www.shotgunnews.com/knox/knox.dog) mentions that “The Centers for Disease Control, which calls ‘gun violence’ a public health epidemic, has sent a ‘model law’ to state legislatures which would give state agencies unprecedented powers in the event of a public health emergency -- including the power to seize ‘private property.’  The first draft of the Model Emergency Health Powers Act -- the version introduced in some of the 14 states where it has been filed -- specifically includes the power to ‘control, restrict and
regulate ... firearms ....’  Other sections of the bill authorize seizure and destruction of ‘private property’ and exempt the state from liability.”   Whenever the government engages in illegal activities they always seek for official immunity. 

 

These are totally unconstitutional provisions that infringe on our constitutional protections for private property and self-defense rights.  Make sure conservative state legislators knows to watch out for this bill when “friendly” Republicans introduce it into your state legislator.  These dangerous proposals are being initiated by the Ashcroft Justice Department.  Sadly, it’s totally in line with the weekly betrayals of liberty we have been seeing from the Bush-Ashcroft team.  While the gun violence restriction didn’t make it into the final US Patriot Act (a terrible misnomer), the first draft of this bill produced by Ashcroft’s team contained a major limitation upon the fundamental and constitutional right of habeas corpus--the provision that allows any person to demand of the court that a prisoner be brought forth, forcing the government to show cause why he is being held.  Ashcroft’s proposal, to waive this important constitutional guarantee in the name of “suspected terror” (broadly defined), was stricken from the bill in committee, but it could show up at any time in some other bill or amendment.  We must be ever vigilant in safeguarding our remaining rights. 

 

JAN 18, 2002

 

ENRON-ANDERSEN & CO. ACCOUNTING SCANDAL: A BROADER VIEW

Yes, all the shocking news stories are true.  Enron has been heavily involved in insider trading, fraudulent accounting, investor deception, political payoffs, tax evasion, and personal enrichment of selected executives.  But the media neglects to discuss the underlying collusion that has protected and will continue to protect the biggest players in this debacle.  The Enron-Andersen scandal is really all about the arrogance of power that comes when top executives achieve protected status within the ranks of the American power elite; when they come to realize that loyalty to the establishment insiders (who all play a roll in the global NWO) can guarantee immunity from the laws that constrain ordinary businessmen.  This unwritten assurance of immunity is reinforced over time as these executives watch others climb the ladder of enrichment and power through less than ethical means and escape both scrutiny and prosecution.  It is reinforced when others whisper in their ear that the President of the United States (whether Democrat or Republican), the Attorney General, the SEC, international bankers, and even judges are on the same team.  All who have gone before were enriched and protected by demonstrating their loyalty to the same unnamed system.  [CNN reported this week that “The federal judge overseeing a host of shareholder lawsuits against Enron Corp. recused herself from the case, according to an order made public Monday.   US District Judge Lee Rosenthal, in a one-page order, wrote simply that ‘the undersigned judge is withdrawing from these cases,’ giving no explanation whatsoever for her decision.”  Giving no reason is a sign that either she had secret ties to Enron or that she wasn’t going to comply with secret pressure coming  from above to protect Enron and chose to recuse herself rather than join the conspiracy]

Knowing that this powerful team can provide wealth and immunity is heady stuff--and, like alcohol, it does go to some people’s head.  Enron was on a drunken power roll and fell off the wagon.  The resulting spectacle is proving to be messy and the Powers That Be don’t like it.  A lot of covering up is going to take place in the next year, and cover-ups always increase the risk of exposing the interconnectedness of the power elite. 

 

Enron, however, isn’t the only company acting brashly and irresponsibly.  There are dozens of other high flying companies that are cooking the books, with the help of one or more of the “Big Five” accounting firms. These companies are guilty of defrauding unwary investors--investors who foolishly rely upon the certified profit and loss statements of these big accounting firms and/or upon the rosy analysis of Wall Street brokers--who are also climbing their own establishment-supported ladder and repeating the trumped-up hype they are being fed by senior partners. 

 

It’s difficult to avoid this corruption process.  The problem with a business market that has numerous government strings attached, is that when certain big corporations are allowed to bypass some of the high costs of taxation and government regulation, and advance through insider connections, it gives them an illegal advantage in the marketplace relative to non-corrupted corporations, who watch their bottom line being continually eroded by the high costs of compliance and bureaucratic delays.  It translates into a perverse incentive to either join in the collusion with government or stagnate.  Certainly one’s chances of increasing market share, in the global “controlled” economy, is limited if you don’t play along with those that have partial immunity from the rules.  In other words, selective enforcement is used to impede those companies who don’t have “connections,” or at least to increase their price of doing business so as to induce them to join the globally-connected club, now euphemistically called “public-private partnerships.” 

 

While personal enrichment of the top players does occur in virtually all cases of such public-private partnerships, I do not believe this is the sole attraction to join nor the main criteria used by those higher in the chain to select which companies are allowed into the inner circle.  I believe the main criteria for acceptance is a corporate leader’s willingness to harness his corporation for global purposes related to the emerging NWO and to use his corporation to facilitate secret government operations.  Such facilitation may involve providing millions in contributions to pet global causes, revolving-door high-paying jobs for government cut-outs (agents playing the role of private citizens), laundering money from government dark-side operations (drug ops), hiding black budget weapons programs within high dollar contracts (military contractors), or covering for illegal government military and political intervention in foreign countries via private contractors.  All of this goes on in ever-increasing amounts as I have detailed in past briefs.  Not surprisingly, these activities always involve the same group of favored multi-national corporations, many of which expand their range of services from energy or financial services to also include covert military operations so that they can assure their usefulness to the dark side of US government operations. 

 

Enron was a well-oiled global player who could be counted upon to pony up lots of money for organizations promoting the NWO agenda.  Enron gave millions to the Baker Institute so they could award an annual “Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service.”  Its first recipient was retired general Colin Powell, then ex-Soviet dictator Michael Gorbachev, and the latest is Eduard Shevardnadze, still a secret Communist who rules CIS/soviet Georgia--all reliable global players in need of constant promotion. 

 

This is not to say that everyone in Enron is aware of these hidden globalist ties.   Only those at the top of the power pyramid in these multinational corporations know of the globalist objects they serve.  The top executives of almost every major US corporation with extensive government relations are members of the Council on Foreign Relations--the prime organizer and cheer leader of the NWO agenda.  But only a few within the CFR know of the organization’s true power structure and chain of command, which goes beyond the CFR itself.  Many others only know that a loose control system does exist and that it can either make them or break them depending on how they play along.  That seems to be sufficient to keep most people loyal and compliant.

 

Each major player knows a dozen or more powerful people they can call upon to secure government contracts or bail them out if they have problems, but they almost never know where the ultimate trail of leadership leads.  They also know, by hints and intimidation, not to ever ask too many questions about where the ultimate power comes from.  Although the system prefers to operate more out of predictability, suggestion, and the lure of rewards than by direct pressure or threats, the latter happens often enough to keep people in line. 

 

It is the fuzzy nature of this power structure that allows for insiders to occasionally get sloppy, arrogant, and overconfident.  The Enron fall was partially due to that kind of bravado and overconfidence.  Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) displayed that same kind of bravado and lack of due care in the high flying derivatives markets.  LTCM was saved by the Powers That Be (PTB) because its dissolution threatened the whole system.  In like manner today, J P Morgan Chase is currently in tenuous financial straits, as are many major Wall Street firms.  They won’t be allowed to fail because they could bring down the whole economy--which the insiders aren’t ready for yet (though it’s still coming).   

 

So why didn’t they bail out Enron?   It certainly wasn’t for lack of pleading.  Enron executives met various times in private meetings with VP Cheney, Pres. Bush and Treasury Sec. O’Neill trying to forge a solution. As the NY Times reported, “Bush told reporters that he had not talked with Enron CEO Kenneth L. Lay about the company's woes.  But the White House later acknowledged that Lay, a longtime friend of Bush's, had lobbied Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. Lay called O'Neill to inform him of Enron's shaky finances and to warn that because of the company's key role in energy markets, its collapse could send tremors through the whole economy...An O'Neill deputy, Peter Fisher, got similar calls from Enron's president and from Robert Rubin, the former Treasury Secretary who now serves as a top executive at Citigroup, which had at least $800 million in exposure to Enron through loans and insurance policies. Fisher—who had helped organize the LTCM bailout—judged that Enron's slide didn't pose the same dangers to the financial system and advised O'Neill against any bailout or intervention with lenders or credit-rating agencies.”  Either Enron was in too deep to save or the executives were turned down for other reasons.  It’s possible that the insiders decided they needed to teach an object lesson to the other corporations in the NWO club, who are running similar games, to tighten up.

 

In any case, Enron itself won’t be the big loser; bankruptcy laws ensure that an insolvent company’s losses are transferred to the employees, stockholders and creditors.  The principles have already taken out their millions and walked away.  A controlled Congressional committee will investigate (and do nothing); the SEC will instigate more control boards (which restrain only those not part of the insiders’ team); and the Justice Department will only prosecute a few mid-level players, who will spend a little time in jail and then will be compensated after they get out.  Many of the culpable players will sign plea bargains in exchange for immunity--a scheme used regularly in government to make it appear as if the investigation is going on in earnest, while shielding the favored players.

 

THEORETICAL COMMENTS ON COLLUSION: In this briefing, I will attempt to do what the insiders fear most--expose a few more linkages of connectivity and support between players that are not supposed to have any lawful connection or supporting relationships.  Each messy scandal adds to the evidence that a conspiracy of power exists.  Don’t look for the testimony of any defecting insider who will admit all.  I know that is what skeptics want, but the players in these evil conspiracies are too smart to allow that to happen.  Conspiracies illuminate themselves only dimly by the glimpses we get of government officials acting (multiple times) in ways that run counter to their legal mandate, and by cross contacts between supposedly separate fiduciary entities that violate their public trust--not in some unitary lone example, but in a pattern of conduct, and with a recurring group of players, each rewarded and protected for doing his or her part.

 

The reason the public finds it hard to believe in high level conspiracies is that the discovery process is long and voluminous.  One has to study and research a variety of scandals and cover-ups and remember enough names to correlate the common players, including business executives, judges, and government officials.  Key individuals have a habit of showing up in multiple scenarios.  It is also instructive to watch how the key players involved in certain scandals are shuffled into other protected employment rather than being disgraced or jailed (revolving door tactics).  Companies that have hired fallen agents or culpable executives of past scandals are almost always part of the protection racket.

 

However, since none of us in the private sector have the unlimited resources of government investigative agencies, a full view of the existent conspiracy is difficult or impossible to acquire.  The most voluminous leaks are always dated.  For example, we have fairly cohesive evidence of the collusion that took place during the 1980s--thanks primarily to the numerous whistleblowers of that era--but fewer and fewer whistleblowers are emerging these days as the ruthlessness of the enforcement divisions in government instills widespread fear amid the ranks.  Additionally, there are fewer and fewer principled people still in government service who are bothered enough to blow the whistle--at least at the mid levels and higher, where glimpses of collusion are sometimes visible.  The best we can do is gather and assimilate the various bits and pieces that other independent researchers find out and post on the Web.  I’m not the best of those detailed researchers because of my time restraints.  But my strong point is being able to scan lots of miscellaneous testimony see the emerging patterns of collusion.    Here are some anomalies from the Enron scandal that will illustrate the patterns of collusion at play here.  To due complete justice to the subject, it would take several books.  I will continue to add evidence in my briefs as it surfaces.

 

1.  SELECTIVE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT:

Evidence of collusion with government is strong when oversight agencies consistently choose target the small or medium companies and let multi-national corporations get away with egregious faults year after year.  Even  when the agencies claim to be underfunded and understaffed, as the SEC claimed in regards to Enron inquiries, logic would dictate that they would use scarce resources to go after the big fish.  In fact, they do on occasion--but these audits are a cover to obscure the public’s ability to see a pattern of selective enforcement.  For the most part, the few big companies targeted for enforcement by oversight committees are usually the ones out of favor with the insiders, or those which are not showing any willingness to support global objectives.

 

Selective enforcement may be a valid excuse if such selectivity is random, but there is no randomness in the history of the SEC and other government agencies covering for big Wall Street brokers and government-connected industries.  The worst offenders with the most connections with government get almost uniform protection.   For example, in the past 10 years, the IRS consistently failed to investigate Enron’s hundreds of off-shore entities and partnerships through which it engaged in sheltering billions of dollars in income.  The luck of the audit draw?  I don’t think so.  Enron’s audit profile was a mass of red flags.  Despite a gross income of over $100 billion per year, Enron paid taxes in only 1 out of the past 5 years.  The company even received over $143 million in taxes returned by the US Treasury.

 

Next, let’s consider the failure of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) oversight; it borders on the incredulous.  Publicly traded stock companies are required by the SEC to report income and expenses to investors every quarter.  In addition the SEC receives a copy of the year-end report to stockholders, which must be independently audited by accounting firms with no connection to the company.  The SEC has the authority to investigate those reports and challenge the results.  They refused to challenge Enron on numerous potential violations despite letters from company whistleblowers and angry investors detailing suspected irregularities.  Instead, the SEC chose to rely on the “Big Five” auditing firms to do its work.  Yet, as the SEC well knew, all of the Big Five accounting firms are involved in covering for the illegal accounting practices of government connected corporations.  Additionally, there is an incestuous revolving-door relationship between the big accounting firms and these insider-protected companies--an improper relationship which the SEC is also only too familiar with.  In fact, the SEC has the same relationship itself with the Big Five accounting firms.  Almost all the Chairmen and Chief Accountants of the SEC come from the ranks of either insider-connected Wall Street Brokers or the “Big Five” accounting firms.  Current SEC Chairman, Harvey Pitt, is an attorney who used to represent Arthur Andersen.  The current Chief Accountant of the SEC is from the “Big Five.”   It is little wonder that the SEC doesn’t blow the whistle on its own friends.

   

 

Specifically, the SEC refused to prosecute Enron executives on obvious violations of the law regarding insider stock trading.  These executives falsified reports of Enron’s true financial condition so as to allow themselves the opportunity to transfer their own stock ownership to other unsuspecting investors, who were left holding the bag those same executives knew would soon be worthless.  Enron’s employee pension funds were also devastated by the collapse.  In fairness to the SEC, they are proceeding (after the fact) to pursue some charges: Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who was fired from Enron in October after making an estimated $30 million on the partnerships deals within the company, is facing criminal charges about the sale of personal Enron stock in the weeks before bankruptcy.  Almost all Enron executives had separate lucrative partnerships with Enron to allow Enron to hide bad loans and to shelter income.   Fastow is going to be the token sacrificial lamb though there are dozens of others who should be include.  And why not Kenneth Lay, the captain of the ship?  He has connections!

 

Enron’s Chairman of the Board, Kenneth Lay, could not have been ignorant of the illegal accounting practices that Enron and its accountants from Arthur Andersen & Co. cooked up over his 10 year-plus tenure as Enron Chairman.  After all, Lay authorized and paid AA & Co. hundreds of millions of dollars in consulting fees specifically to create these accounting strategies. Internal Andersen documents which have been made public, according to the NY Times, “showed that as long ago as February, Andersen executives considered dropping Enron as a client because of concerns that it was keeping debts off its main balance sheets [via partnership agreements and off-shore corporate shells].  The documents also indicated that Kenneth L. Lay, Enron's chairman and chief executive, disposed of stock within days of receiving a letter in August warning him of accounting problems.”

 

The establishment press also dredged up one “smoking gun” letter written to Chairman Kenneth Lay by Sherron Watkins, VP for Corporate Development at Enron.  She detailed several looming crises that were about to explode, and spoke openly about the risk that investors might discover the financial fraud underlying previous reports issued by the company.  Watkins also pointed out to Lay the questionable nature of the partnerships involving several company executives that would potentially “implode in a wave of financial scandals.”  To read the unsigned Watkins letter, recently released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1764000/1764308.stm

 

2.  THE COMPLICITY OF WALL STREET BROKERS

Despite all the warning signs available to Wall Street in mid-year 2000, few warnings to shareholders were forthcoming.  Brokers obviously weren’t interested in doing any last minute “due diligence” for the millions of Enron investors and employees who were at risk of an imminent stock collapse. Newsday.com reported, “As Enron stock climbed and Wall Street was still promoting it, a group of 29 Enron executives and directors began to sell their shares. These insiders received $1.1 billion by selling 17.3 million shares from 1999 through mid-2001, according to court filings based on public records.  They continued selling just before Enron's stock started to tumble early last year and the company began its slide into bankruptcy protection.”  Well connected brokerage houses were also involved in the selling of Enron at its peak even while promoting it.

 

One of the biggest sellers was Kenneth L. Lay, Enron’s Chairman and a major player in funding President Bush’s governorship and run for the presidency.  According to Newsday, “He [Lay] was among more than a dozen Enron executives who received $30 million or more, including one who sold shares valued at $353.7 million.”   After the stock had dropped by more than half of its original value, company employees started to worry about their 401(k) pension funds and began switching to other stocks.  To add insult to injury, Chairman Lay intervened to void the employees’ option to change the composition of their pension plans.  They could not longer sell Enron stock.  As I reported earlier, the final act of greed and hypocrisy by top Enron executives was the draining of a large chunk ($50 million!) of remaining cash reserves to award bonuses to themselves and other mid-level executives days before filing for bankruptcy.  Even ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling participated in the looting as he continued to accept huge “consulting fees” from Enron after he stepped down as president.  He escaped responsibility but still profited.

 

Despite the fact that unscrupulous lawyers and accountants can find loopholes in the laws to justify much of this looting and personal enrichment, an aggressive SEC could have used much of their discretionary power of investigation and prosecution to indict dozens of Enron executives.  It did nothing until the damage was irreversible.  Neither have any heads rolled at the SEC, which is predictable considering the trails of Enron connections and political donations that infiltrate the Bush administration as well as both parties in Congress.  Election records indicate that nearly two thirds of the Senate and almost half of the House of Representative received financial backing from Enron.   As to the Bush administration connections to Enron, the president himself has the most.  George W. Bush was the one to call and pressure Argentina to accept Enron’s bid for the Argentina-Chile pipeline, even though Enron had no previous experience in pipeline building and was offering to pay Argentina the least compensation for gas and oil.  Enron, CEO Skilling and Chairman Lay gave a total of $300,000 to President Bush’s inaugural fund.  President Bush’s selection as head of the Republic National Committee is former Montana Governor, Marc Rasicot [pronounced ROSS-coe] a former Enron lawyer and lobbyist.  Attorney General Ashcroft has received money from Enron in his former Senate campaigns.  

 

It is also telling that former chief accountant of the SEC, Lynn Turner, resigned last year, in part due to stonewalling by the agency and Congress on reforms that would have targeted regulatory violators like Enron.  Turner had tried in vain to create new rules that would have restricted big corporations and their Big Five hired guns from stretching accounting rules to hide poor performance or illegal financial activities.  His parting words were: “...the system is near a breaking point...The average investor is going to be nervous today as to whether these numbers are good or not, and I think he should be in light of what's going on...[M]y profession has to respond to what's going on, and come back and demonstrate to investors why they should trust us again....Since 1998, there has been a surge in the incidents of large public companies stretching accounting rules.  The amount of gimmickry and outright fraud dwarfs any period since the early 1970s, when major accounting scams such as Equity Funding surfaced, and the 1920s, when rampant fraud helped cause the crash of 1929 and led to the creation of the SEC.”  [Arthur Andersen & Company was the auditor which “failed” to discover the massive fraud in the Equity Funding scam.]

 

3. INSIDER CONNECTED ACCOUNTING FIRMS ARE ENRICHED THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS

This is the big story that needs to air in order to see fully the connection between the Enron scandal and the other private partners in government cover-up and crime. Recent revelations about collusion between Enron and its auditing/accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Co. are shocking, and telling.  It was revealed this week that AA & Co.’s senior partner David Duncan, the man in charge of auditing Enron, was fired on Tuesday for allegedly ordering the destruction of Enron-related documents and e-mails after the SEC issued a subpoena for information on the firm.  He is now cooperating with members of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee and will be granted some partial immunity for his cooperation.  While the focus of attention is on Duncan as a rogue player (an exception and not the rule), everyone in the Big Five accounting firms knows that he would never have acted without specific direction from higher-ups.  [In fact, Duncan is spilling the beans about the culpability of higher partners in Andersen and Enron, but I suspect that information will be buried by certain members of the House committee.] Incredibly, Duncan continues to assert that the roles of the “Big Five” accounting firms and government SEC regulations are suitable to guarantee the honesty of big business and big government.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The entire system is awash in cross-linking good-old-boy networks whose prime mission is to cover for each other.

 

It used to be there were the “Big Eight” accountancy firms,  then the “Big Six.”  Now, because of recent mergers, there are only the “Big Five:” Arthur Andersen, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and KPMG (Klynveld Kraayenhof & Co, Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell & Co plus Reinhard Goerdeler).   All of these firms are international powerhouses with operations in every major country of the world.  Each has a history of merger strategy that includes aligning big European or British firms with powerful American firms.  These Big Five firms have themselves become corrupt as they have served as facilitators in the corrupt world of public-private partnerships.

 

To be fair, I should make it clear that these multinational accounting firms operate much like the government: there is a “white side” and a “dark side.”   Most of the accountants who work for the major firms know nothing of these conspiratorial affairs.  They operate diligently according to “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” (GAAP).  Only proven unprincipled partners and accountants are allowed into the secret dark-side world of helping government-connected corporations hide their true financial picture.  These unscrupulous accountants are enriched beyond their wildest dreams, so the incentives are great. 

 

One of the prime attractions of the big accountancy firms has been their ability to promise insider contacts with government--in other words: to get around the system.  If accounting were only about keeping honest track of company records, income and expenses, smaller accountancy firms would fare better in this world.  But since government favoritism plays such a large role in determining which companies are allowed to do business internationally, accountancy firms that promise “access” are indispensable in helping companies to grow into mega-corporations.  In the age of globalism, companies cannot survive in the corrupt world of government favoritism and bureaucratic red tape without the high-priced help of the Big Five accounting firms.  Indeed, this promise of “access” is one of the reasons that the big accountancy firms are able to garner such outrageously high fees from their clients.   

 

In addition, all the Big Five firms have even larger consultancy components that have been split off as separate corporations.  These allow the Big Five to not only serve as general auditors and accountants, but to reap millions in business consultancy contracts with the same firms for which they serve as auditors.  It is this mixing of business strategy consulting and fiduciary auditing responsibilities, an inherent conflict of interest, that has given partial rise to the need for cover-up of accounting corruption.  Enron paid Arthur Andersen not only an outrageous $27 million for auditing fees, but also a whopping $52 million in consulting fees.  And for what?  It certainly wasn’t to straighten out the corporate problems, but to cook the books and design strategies to hide secret loans and expenses.  In the year 2000, Arthur Levitt, then SEC chairman, tried to restrict the consulting work that accounting firms could do, but he could not convince Congress to go along due to high pressure lobbying by the Big Five accounting firms. Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ total lobbying expenditures for last year were $960,000 and their lobbying income was a whopping  $6,500,000.   Someone obviously knows Pricewaterhouse has clout in government.

 

Meanwhile, virtually no one in the news is questioning the $27 million Arthur Andersen received last year for auditing services at Enron--setting aside the issue of the $52 million in consulting fees.   How about an audit of what services that kind of money really provided?   To rack up that kind of money, AA & Co. would have to be providing Enron with 300 auditors per day for every working day of the year--very doubtful.  I suspect there was a lot of pay-off money hidden in those exorbitant accounting and consulting fees.  Part of the fees were also no doubt intended as protection money to cover the blame the accounting firm will likely absorb as the facts unravel.   

 

Is this scandal going to break Arthur Andersen?   Not at all.  Complicity in accounting fraud is a valued commodity in this world.  Andersen’s services will still be in demand.  As before, they will confront state regulators (threatening their license to practice) by claiming that Duncan was a rogue element acting on his own.  Andersen has been hit with huge multi-million dollar lawsuits and penalties many times before, as have all the other “Big Five.”  They simply factor penalties into their compensation schedule.   For example, in the Waste Management fiasco, AA & Co. paid fines and counter litigation fees of $120 million for culpable accounting practices--but it’s all peanuts compared to the steady flow of protected income the company had previously received.  

 

And it’s not just Arthur Andersen.  All of the “Big Five” play “good guy-bad guy” in their turn, though Arthur Andersen and Pricewaterhouse Coopers are the two biggest government players.   When AA & Co. gets caught, they are fired and Pricewaterhouse comes in to play the good guy, uncovering Andersen’s fraud and collecting huge fees.  In another case, they may switch places.   One gets paid for the corruption and the other gets paid for uncovering it--each of the “Big Five” earning millions for helping dissolve firms each year that go belly up through the accounting magic of one of the other five.  Of course, the judges and lawyers have gotten in on the bankruptcy racket too, as I have outlined in previous briefs.   The only ones who lose consistently are the investors and employees, who are left with nothing, after the lawyers and accountants are paid. 

 

For example, in the UDC Homes Inc. collapse of 1995, a class action suite was filed against Arthur Andersen for “aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty and fraud by the directors and officers of the company. The shareholders, along with Coopers & Lybrand (now part of Pricewaterhouse), settled for $4 million.  The plaintiffs did prevail, however, in their claim that UDC had issued false and misleading financial statements that painted a rosy picture of the company's financial status for fiscal 1992, 1993 and 1994, and that Arthur Andersen had signed off on these statements.   There are tens of other similar cases.  Enron is not unique.

 

In one of the more egregious cover-ups directly related to the dark side of government, we see a direct connection between Pricewaterhouse and the CIA. In the 1980s the CIA ran their drug and money laundering operations through BCCI (with affiliate First American), which collapsed when the CIA withdrew its funds--leaving private parties holding all the debts.  Guess who was BCCI’s accountant?  Pricewaterhouse. Pricewaterhouse faced approximately $12.5 billion in legal claims from the Deloitte & Touche (another of  the “Big Five”) liquidators of the collapsed bank.  The fact that Pricewaterhouse could absorb these huge claims tells us something about the huge profits they make in their world of protected immunity.  While it may appear that paying huge fine proves they DON’T have immunity, they simply receive immunity by back-door compensation.  It’s all the same to them.  But this way, the public is still fooled into believing that the government is serving its fiduciary purpose of prosecuting this kind of evil.  Very slick!  

 

 Meanwhile, the CIA moved their money laundering operations offshore to the Cayman Islands with a proprietary bank called Nugan Hand Bank. Nugan Hand was also found to be laundering money, and involved with the illegal trade of arms for drugs in the Iran-Contra scandal.  Michael Hand, a CIA operative (cut-out) and former Green Beret in Vietnam, and co-owner of Nugan Hand, suddenly disappeared permanently in 1980 after the government (white side) began investigations.  Meanwhile, Francis Nugan, his CIA partner, was found dead in Australia on an abandoned country road sitting in his car. Amid his papers were found with the body were, according to investigative reporter Tom Legg, “hand-written letters linking Nugan Hand illegal operations to Republican Representative Bob Wilson, and former CIA chief, William Colby, who was acting legal counsel for Nugan Hand.”  Again the firm that was the “independent auditor” of the books for this CIA operation was none other than  Pricewaterhouse.

 

Pricewaterhouse Coopers was also implicated in the audit cover-up of diversion of IMF funds by the Russian Mafia.  In its audit of the Central Bank off-shore firm FIMACO, [one of the prime sources of diverted funds] Pricewaterhouse auditors blindly relied solely on documents provided by the Mafia-controlled Russian Central Bank to give FIMACO a clean bill of health.  Rather than be penalized for this kind of conduct, the US government continues to employ Pricewaterhouse to audit Russian problems.  Predictably, Russia always comes out the winner and the US, IMF, and World Bank can justify pouring more millions down the Russian rat hole.

 

In almost every major financial scandal in the past two decades, you will discover the participation of two or more of the current “Big Five”  accounting firms.  The pattern is unmistakable if you read enough cases.  I have only touched the surface in this brief.  The fact that the “Big Five” have grown and prospered despite this pattern of cover-up and collusion means to me that there exists an underlying system rewarding this behavior.  These players never lose their license to certify financial conditions despite hundreds of cases of abuse.  This is, indeed, a protection racket of the highest order. 

 

JAN 25

 

MARTIN LUTHER KING--THE MAN BEHIND THE MEDIA MASK

Every year America endures the same propaganda media-blitz on Martin Luther King day--the false portrayal of the “Reverend” King as an American hero; a saintly, self-sacrificing religious martyr for the cause of civil rights.    He was everything but that and certainly no hero that any American should look up to.  I have written extensively about the defense of true civil rights, no one can accuse me of hating the cause.  I say this be way of introduction in anticipation of the fury my remarks will generate among the media attempting to perpetrate this growing myth upon American culture.  Everything about Martin Luther King is a fraud. Here are the real facts.

 

1) NAME CHANGE: MLK is really Michael King, Jr.  His father was a minister and arbitrarily decided to rename himself and his son, Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. 

 

2) PLAGIARISM IN HIS DOCTORAL THESIS:  The most complete analysis of King’s chronic plagiarism in his academic career was done by Gerry Harbison, professor of Chemistry at University of Nebraska:  “In 1988, the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project made a discovery that shocked it to its core. The Project, a group of academics and students, had been entrusted by Coretta Scott King with the task of editing King's papers for publication. As they examined King's student essays and his dissertation, they gradually became aware that King was guilty of massive plagiarism - that is, he had copied the words of other authors word-for-word, without making it clear that what he was writing was not his own. The Project spent years uncovering the full extent of King's plagiarism. In November 1990, word leaked to the press, and they had to go public. The revelations caused a minor scandal and then were promptly forgotten.”   Suppressed would be a more accurate description.  The National Endowment for the Humanities actively suppressed the story in preparation for celebrating King.  Its then director was Lynne Cheney, wife of the current Vice President.   For the full story see Prof. Harbison’s website: http://chem-gharbison.unl.edu/mlk/plagiarism.html

 

3) COMMUNIST BACKGROUND AND CONTACTS: It appears that King established an early liaison with the American Communist Party and sought to create civil unrest in support of the revolution.  His own biographer, David J. Garrow admitted that king once privately “described himself as a Marxist.”  King constantly surrounded himself with Communists, hired them, and even went to great lengths to keep them on through secret relationships. King’s personal secretary in the 1950s was communist and homosexual Bayard Rustin.  According to Sen. Jesse Helms, “King was repeatedly warned about his associations with known Communists by friendly elements in the Kennedy Administration and the Department of Justice [DOJ] (including strong and explicit warning from President Kennedy himself). King took perfunctory and deceptive measures to separate himself from the Communists [Stanley David Levison  and Hunter Pitts O’Dell ] against whom he was warned. He continued to have close and secret contacts with at least some of them after being informed and warned of their background, and he violated a commitment to sever his relationships with identified Communists.”

 

4) IMMORAL AND ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR:  Dr. King had an ample reputation as a philanderer and abuser of women of ill repute.  The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover had run surveillance on King and his entourage for years attempting to gather data on his Communist connections.  While the Bureau did surveill King’s attendance at Communist meetings, but most of the surveillance records show an extreme preoccupation after hours with illicit sex.  In deference to King’s usefulness in promoting a national holiday for civil rights, US Federal judge John Lewis Smith, Jr. ordered all the FBI records sealed up in the National Archives for 50 years (till 2027).  When I was Executive Editor of Conservative Digest, I called retired  Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray and asked him what was in the evidence locked away.  His answer surprised me.  He said there were approximately 15 file cabinets of evidence on King--14 of them were full of recordings and transcripts of his illicit relationships with prostitutes.  Only one file cabinet contained evidence of his Communist relationships.

 

Even former co-workers have blown the whistle on King’s scurrilous conduct.  The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, in his book, And the Wall Came Tumbling Down, King spent his last night in the motel having an immoral liason with three women and then beat one of the woman in the morning before he was shot. Assistant Director of the FBI Charles D. Brennan wrote a letter to Sen. John P. East (R-NC) in which he stated that King's conduct consisted of  "orgiastic and adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in his sexual abuse of women."  The FBI surveillance records covering his first night in Stockholm, Sweden, where he was to receive the Noble Peace Prize, document that his only interest was how to secure prostitutes for he and his entourage.  An orgy followed.  King’s surveillance and wiretaps were personally authorized by then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.   If these allegations are true, this man should never have been put forward as a national hero.  Yes, I am aware that other national heroes have had there weaknesses, but King’s conduct borders on a Clinton-like sexual addiction.

 

SHOWDOWN BETWEEN TAX PROTESTERS AND IRS CANCELED

It was another one of those “too good to be true” stories:  Robert Shultz begins a hunger strike on the Capitol Steps and is successful in compelling the IRS and Treasury Department to hold face to face hearings with tax protesters to answer their direct and specific challenges to the legality of the Income Tax. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md  agreed to act as a facilitator of the meeting and received assurances from the IRS that they would attend. According to Jon Dougherty of WND.com, “Assistant Attorney General Dan Bryant agreed July 20, 2001, to send a representative from the Justice Department to the tax honesty forum after being persuaded by Bartlett. Bryant and Bartlett signed a written agreement signifying their commitment, while the IRS said it would meet with Schulz only in private. But Bryant assured Schulz of IRS' participation. ‘I assure you. The IRS will be there at those meetings,’ he said, according to Schulz.”  I believe Schultz.  He’s an honest man.

 

However, I expressed skepticism at the time that the IRS or the Bush Treasury Department would follow through.  I reasoned that the government could have easily closed all the tax protest loopholes and ambiguous language years ago, but have never attempted to do so--not once.  I concluded that they maintain these loopholes as a trap to see how many conservatives they can lure into activity that will make them vulnerable to arrest.

 

The original showdown was schedule for September 24-25, 2001.  The Bush administration used the events of Sept 11 as an excuse to cancel.  I knew then the jig was up.  There was absolutely no reason it could not have been held.  After some prodding, the Bush administration agreed to reschedule the meeting for Feb 27-28.   But, Evidence has now surfaced that Rep. Bartlett capitulated to the administration weeks ago and failed to tell Schultz.  The administration let Bartlett know last year that they were reneging on the agreement and Bartlett refused to tell Schultz.  He was apparently waiting for Schultz to make a false move that could help him justify the cancellation.  Schultz weakened his own position, as predicted by Bartlett, by trying to capitalize on the upcoming showdown to bolster the tax protest movement.  He launched a big media campaign to convince taxpayers to wait until after the February hearings to file their taxes.  This was all Bartlett needed.  He backed out claiming he would not be party to a tax protest movement.  But Schulz refuted Bartlett’s contention that the Wait to File ad was advocating non-payment of taxes.  The campaign merely (and rightfully) encouraged taxpayers to wait for the outcome of the February forum before they filed.  The Forum was schedule well before the tax filing deadline of April 15.

 

Barlett’s response was disingenuous, as well.  According to Schulz, [as reported by WND] the language for his “Operation Wait to File Until the Trial” campaign was approved by Bartlett staffer Lisa Wright Jan. 11 – nine days before the campaign launched.  What is even more bizarre is the Bartlett’s office knew the meeting was already canceled when they acknowledge his proposed campaign.  Worse, other Congressmen knew the IRS forum had been canceled before Schultz was notified. Again, according to the WND article, “Schulz also cited an e-mail sent by Kim Herb, a legislative assistant to Rep. John Linder, R-Ga., to ‘district directors’ Jan. 14 indicating that neither DOJ nor IRS would attend the Feb. 27-28 forum.” Linder specifically wrote, “Recently, it has been stated that there will be a congressional hearing on the IRS. I wanted to dispel this rumor. There will be NO hearing. I repeat, there will be no congressional hearing on the IRS in February,”   Even the accounting publication,  Tax Notes, written by Warren Rojas, he had seen a letter from Treasury in 2001 reneging on the forum. 

 

ENRON'S BAXTER DEATH: ANOTHER RUSH TO JUDGMENT

The day after the death of Enron VP John Clifford Baxter, a Texas medical examiner quickly ruled Baxter's demise a suicide--too quickly, in my opinion.  Sugar Land, Tx. police detective Billy Baugh had not even started his investigation into fingerprints, origin of the weapon, blood splatter analysis, and tracing of Baxter’s actions prior to his death.  Baugh is not at all convinced this was a suicide, despite the presence of a suicide note.  A suicide note can be forged, or written under duress, and must undergo extensive analysis to determine its authenticity.  One thing is for sure--the authorities behind the medical examiner want to put this issue to bed.  I don’t expect we’ll hear any more from detective Billy Baugh, especially if he uncovers evidence of foul play. 

                A lot of big players at Enron had good reason to want Baxter out of the way, permanently.  He was the one executive who was specifically named in the blockbuster letter by VP Sherron S. Watkins to Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay, in which she complained numerous times about improper accounting practices and the threat of collapse.  In the Watkins memorandum, she warned Lay that the questionable secret use of the LJM partnerships to hide debt (a strategy partially designed and implemented by highly paid Andersen & Co. consultants) could bring the company down.  “Cliff Baxter complained mightily to Skilling [Jeff Skilling, then CEO] and all who would listen about the inappropriateness of our transactions with LJM,” Watkins wrote.  Baxter had already been subpoenaed and was expected to tell all.  Apparently he knew enough to sink a lot of important people. 

                There are over a hundred lawsuits pending against Enron’s top executives.  It is obvious that everyone at the top of Enron knew about the problems.  Why else would every single top executive at Enron start selling huge amounts of stock (averaging a quarter of a million shares each) when Enron stock was sailing on top of the world?  Even Baxter took advantage of his insider knowledge of a potential meltdown and sold his near 600,000 shares to net a cool $35 million dollars.   Now, the rest of the shareholders have no other alternative than to go after those executives who profited, now that Enron itself is protected by its bankruptcy filing.  Meanwhile, the SEC is creating the appearance of an investigation, by linking up with an internal investigating committee headed by none other than William C. Powers Jr., of the University of Texas Law School.  Guess who is UT’s biggest contributor to the Law School?  Enron Corporation, which recently contributed $250,000 dollars.  Powers is personal friends with many of the Enron principals. 

 

MORE ON ENRON’S BAXTER DEATH:

Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media (www.aim.org) did some digging relative to the questions I posed last week about the rush to judgment in ruling Baxter’s death a suicide.  According to Irvine, “The autopsy found that Baxter was killed by a contact shot to his temple, not by a conventional .38 bullet, but by rat-shot, small pellets used to kill rats.”  None of these types of shutgun-type bullets have been found in Baxter’s home.   A New York Times reporter told Irvine that he called Baxter the day before his death to congratulate him for criticizing Enron’s questionable accounting practices before resigning.  In responding to a suggestion about a bodyguard, Baxter responded that he didn’t need one.  Obviously Baxter didn’t seem to be worried or threatened.  According to Irvine the Baxter family believe he was murdered.  I do too.  It is strange that the Police still haven’t released the suicide note.  We don’t know if his finger prints are on it, whether it was forged, or even the contents.  Reed Irvine reminds us that we ought to remember that Vince Foster’s suicide note was forged, according to three independent handwriting experts.

 

The most important piece of information dug up by Irvine is the identity and background of the medical examiner who so quickly ruled Baxter’s death a suicide.  It was Dr. Joye Carter, who previously was a medical examiner in Washington DC--one of the most corrupt, government controlled cities in America.  While working in the area she was, according to Irvine’s report, accused of falsifying an autopsy report and firing a whistleblower who discovered the evidence of Carter’s tampering.  This is precisely the kind of medical examiner the bad guys seek out to cover other crimes.

 

Now that Baxter is out of the way, all other Enron executives appearing before Congressional investigating committees, including former Chairman Ken Lay are invoking the 5th amendment against self-incrimination.  They all know they are guilty as hell.  The 5th Amendment merely forces the government to find its evidence elsewhere--and that “elsewhere” is much diminished with every additional death of people willing to talk.  Hopefully, the discovery process available to the hundreds of civil suits filed against Enron executives by employees and stockholders could bring much of the scandal to light--unless the judges are in collusion and sabotage that approach (likely). What is notably absent from prosecution is the prime federal regulatory body in charge--the SEC.  The SEC could easily find justification to impose millions of dollars in fines and penalties for “insider trading,” but so far, only silence.        

 

OFFICIAL LIES UNCOVERED IN THE BAXTER DEATH

According to the Mad Cow Morning News (a word play title mocking the establishment Dallas Morning News), Sugar Land, Texas police knowingly gave false information about the facts surround the discovery and condition of the body of John Baxter.  Here is what the official police spokesman said: “At 2:23 a.m. this morning [January 25] Sugar Land police officers on routine patrol discovered John. C. Baxter, a Sugar Land resident, inside a vehicle parked between two medians on Palm Royale Boulevard of an apparent self-inflicted wound to the head...Baxter was dead at the scene and the sole occupant of the vehicle.”  False, on several counts, according to Mad Cow Morning News (www.madcowprod.com).  Here is what they report.

                In point of fact, Sugar Land police didn’t discover the body at all, and Baxter wasn’t dead.  Baxter and his car were discovered by one of the local county constables under contract with the Sweetwater Development where Baxter lived. The constable found Baxter still alive and called for an ambulance.   Head constable S. H. Werlein said, “I don’t know why the Sugar Land Police Department is saying they found Baxter, because it isn’t true....My Deputy Constable found him.”  When confronted by the contradiction, Sugar Land Police spokesperson Patricia Whitty admitted that Werlein was correct, but offered no explanation as to why Sugar Land police chose to distort the facts. However, Ms. Whitty insisted that Baxter really did take his own life, stating there were “no apparent signs of foul play.”  None?  How can you make that statement at 10 a.m. on the same day without even a blood test or a ballistics test on the weapon? 

 

In the rush to judgment the Sugar Land police even sent the body to the mortuary without an autopsy.  The Baxter family had to intervene with a local judge to secure an order to have the body transferred to the morgue for an official autopsy.  The results released this week, according to the AP, indicate the high powered Enron executive had taken “a pain reliever, an anti-depressant and a sleeping aid” that night--supposedly implying suicidal tendencies.   But this brings up another question.  If Baxter was intent on committing suicide, why did he go to bed at a normal hour and take a sleeping pill?  How did he expect to wake up under those conditions to commit suicide?  --using an alarm clock, that would also wake his wife?  It doesn’t make sense.

 

MORE ATTEMPTS TO HIDE TRUTH BY BUSH ADMINISTRATION

Two stories have emerged this week further indicating that the Bush administration is aware of wrongdoing within the government and attempting to cover up.

                First, in a private meeting with Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle and other leaders of Congress, President Bush pushed to limit the scope of any Congressional investigation of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.  The meeting was called by Bush, indicating that he was sufficiently worried about the results of such an investigation, and was attempting to forestall it through a little arm twisting.  I think he and others up the chain are worried that Congress may discover or reveal to the public one or more of the numerous pieces of evidence that point to government prior knowledge of the events, and its recent relations with Osama bin Laden.   Bush knows that there are various witnesses who can give damaging testimony about government involvement--such as FEMA’s Tom Kenny, who has been kept completely out of sight and beyond the reach of any media interviews since he told Dan Rather that he and his team were sent to NYC on Monday prior to the 9/11 disaster; or the CIA station chief in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, who knows of US officials’ contacts with Osama bin Laden in the American hospital where bin Laden was being treated for kidney disease.   Even if the Bush administration is able to skirt the prior knowledge charges, they would certainly have trouble avoiding blame for egregious intelligence failures relative to the attacks--attacks committed by persons well known to the CIA and FBI and who were already in their computer files.  

                Second, Bush made an impassioned attack against Congressional efforts to force the administration to reveal what was discussed with Enron during the secret meetings on energy policy with VP Cheney.   The President said he must have the right to preserve a visitor’s private conversations if he is to be successful in getting people to talk with government.  Hogwash!  Bush might have had a point if the subject of the meeting were a matter of true national security or a criminal investigation, but this was supposedly a matter of government energy policy--something easily within the scope of government open meeting guidelines.  The only possible reason for wanting to maintain secrecy was to conceal government collusion with certain favored companies--designing policies and energy rates that would give those companies a favorable advantage in the market place.   We have the testimony of former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Curtis Herbert, Jr., who claimed that he was forced to submit to an interview with Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay prior to being considered for the post, and that Lay made improper demands to him about energy policy after he was installed.  Herbert also claims to have been removed by President Bush after he refused to comply with Lay’s demands.  If this is true, Bush has some explaining to do about why Enron seems to have veto authority over who serves in government energy oversight committees. 

 

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THE BUSH STATE OF THE UNION:

President Bush’s State of the Union speech was both predictable and boring.  It has become woefully clear that Dubya has only one style: mildly bombastic, and it is no longer refreshing--even for those of us who disliked the smooth smirking drawl of Bill Clinton.   The Bush speech writers continue to draw upon the same new/old techniques used by  Slick Willie’s people manipulators:  predictable cameo appearances by people representing causes designed to pull on people’s heart strings, pompous blustering about US pride, excess applause, and an absence of crucial truths that require real answers. 

                On the economic front, we continue to endure the same socialist planning hype, promising benefits to all the politically correct entities:  the poor, the environment, and education.  Despite the looming shortfalls of tax revenues Bush, like Clinton, could only do the irresponsible thing--promise something for everyone--never mind how much it would cost or who will pay.   Debt and the printing press seem capable of covering anything now.  They won’t always.  Someday there will be a reckoning and the economy will plummet even further, once the false supports bolstering America’s apparent prosperity begin to crumble.