* One Bush is a consultant to President Hoover (the Depression President); another Bush loses the most American jobs since Hoover
* One Bush heads the WWI War Industries Board, while forging gun parts for the War (enriching family & friends); another brokers weapons and oil deals for Nazi Germany (enriching family & friends); a third Bush arms friend and foe alike throughout the Middle East and Latin America (enriching family & friends); a fourth Bush creates the largest annual defense budget in world history
* Nixon and a Bush fight Communists in Vietnam "so we don't have to fight them here"; Reagan and a Bush fight Russians in Afghanistan and Latin America "so we don't have to fight them here"; George W fights terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq so... you guessed it!
*Halliburton companies develop close ties to the Bushes in the 1920's; during Vietnam, Halliburton companies receive lucrative defense contracts at home and overseas; from the '80s to the present, Halliburton companies make record profits providing war logistics and oil technology- and are repeatedly investigated for fraud
* Roger Ailes shapes the media profiles of Nixon and old Bush, and later uses FOX News to discredit opponents of young Bush
* Hillary Rodham helps run Nixon out of office, while one Bush discredits John Kerry for Nixon; another Bush discredits Kerry, and later, Hillary Rodham Clinton, as they run for President
* One Bush hires a PR firm to sell the public an unnecessary war, using manufactured arguments and doctored intelligence; another Bush sells an even bigger war- against the same enemy- using the same PR firm, manufactured arguments and doctored intelligence
*One Bush and a Nixon are media-supported by Unification Church founder, Reverend Sun Hyung Moon; Moon's 'Washington TImes' attacks another Bush's opponents and pushes mainstream media to the right
*One Bush or another, and Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, et al, find their way into the White House five times, commit the same crimes each time, and escape prosecution every time
See the Bush gang roughride through American history, leaving a long trail of corporate malfeasance, broken economies, well-armed dictators, ill-advised war policies, well-paid war manufacturers, manipulated energy companies, overthrown governments, ruined countries, dead soldiers and civilians, bamboozled voters, and even some mysterious plane crashes...
ONE: The Foundation of a House Divided, 1701-1900
The founding of Yale University; King George III a man of narrow intellect, little interest in diplomacy, and a propensity to meet force with force; 'Federalist' President John Adams trashes the new Republic; racists attempt to destabilize Union, kill President Lincoln and others; Skull & Bones and the Russell Trust; oil wells originally drilled for kerosene; progressive politics weaken stranglehold of industrial trusts; future Bush family benefactor, railroad baron E.H. Harriman.
TWO: Pushing Against an Iron Fist, 1900-1920
Texas discovers oil; Yale in China; Teddy Roosevelt pushes an anti-trust, progressive agenda; the Bureau of Investigation; Prescott Bush lies about military service; 'deranged loner' tries to kill TRoosevelt; WWI demonstrates world dependence on oil; Bushes, Walkers and Harrimans join forces investing in war; J. Edgar Hoover rises through ranks; Ku Klux Klan grows; American citizens embrace socialist, anti-immigrant and fascist ideologies; Halliburton incorporates; Iraq gives up the oil; race riots sweep America.
THREE: Party Time, 1920-1930
WWI allies carve up Middle East; American fascist groups gain in size, popularity; the Palmer detentions of thousands of European Jews, radicals, progressives; birth of the Red Scare; Bush marries into Walker family; Jew-hater Henry Ford; Bush friends and business associates, John and Allen Dulles- legal counsel to Nazis; Republican Teapot Dome oil scandal; Bush, Walker, Harriman shipping line smuggles German agents, Nazi propaganda, money for bribing American politicians; Union Banking Corp founded by Bush, Harriman, Fritz Thyssen to manage American-German investments and launder Nazi money; J. Edgar Hoover heads the BI; Republican-deregulated stock market collapses under its own corruption; Bush grandfather Walker is director of seven Cuban sugar, rum and railroad companies.
FOUR: The Deepening Ravine, 1931-1939
Brown Brothers, Harriman merge; Bush uncle takes over Cuban directorships; Un-American Activities committee initially investigates US fascist groups, Nazi propaganda activities; Prescott Bush buys into CBS; J. Edgar Hoover manipulates press, politicians, lives the high life; Hitler gains legitimacy with legal and financial aid from Dulles brothers, Bush-Harriman; German Constitution and civil liberties suspended after Reichstag fire; US radio broadcasts 'Christian Fascism' hatred of Jews, Communism, unions, Roosevelt; Nazi-US commerce funneled through Bush, Harriman's UBC; 'deranged loner' shoots at Roosevelt; Socal, later Unocal, obtains exclusive oil concessions in Saudi Arabia; Eugenics movement spreads to US; Hitler's plan to 'Germanize' America; Polish government fights Bush, Harriman, and Nazi stockholders for control of largest industry- Auschwitz the source of workforce; young Richard Nixon recruited for NY law firms by future intelligence czars Dulles brothers and William Donovan; US German groups boycott Jewish merchants; Congressman LBJ slides lucrative contracts to campaign financers Brown & Root (Halliburton); Leo Strauss' Darwinist political ideologies; Jewish mobsters combat anti-semites; new Un-American Activities Committee compiles blacklist of liberals, anti-fascists; German-American Nazi camps in small-town America; House Republians use official perks to disseminate pro-Hitler/fascist literature, visit with Nazi propagandists; many Republicans publicly support Germany while condemning Roosevelt; Hitler invades Poland, ending its ending legal battles with Bush, Harriman.
FIVE: Staring Into the Abyss, 1940-1944
Britain attacks Germany; Roosevelt pressured to stay out of war by pro-German Republicans; Cuban companies under Walker/Bush direction merge to form West Indies Sugar; Cuba good to Richard Nixon; United Fruit Co raids Cuban resources; Nazi Germany manipulates Republican, Democratic party platforms; America First Committee, formed by Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg, Herbert Hoover, pro-Nazi Silver Shirts and Klansmen, attracts nearly a million members (among whom are counted Gerald Ford, JFK, e.e. cummings, Sinclair Lewis, et al); Nixon joins Navy; Brown & Root (Halliburton) receives first military contracts; Roosevelt officially establishes an American intelligence group, the OSS; Harriman appointed US Ambassador; Bush partner advocates terror-bombing of civilians; Pearl Harbor; 'Yale in China' an intelligence front; Congress investigates Nazis payments to House members- lead whistle-blower dies in plane crash; Kennedy boys go to war; Roosevelt seizes three Bush, Harriman, Nazi companies, but allows Bush-Harriman to hold onto stock (Bush likely trades intelligence on German finances); senior George Bush becomes Navy's youngest fighter pilot; United Fruit Co raids Guatemalan resources; Joe Kennedy Jr dies in wartime plane crash.
SIX: Birth of the Military Industrial Complex, 1945-1950
US A-bombs a Japan trying to surrender; Richard Nixon and the Dulles brothers; organized Jewish immigration to Palestine; Eastern bankers and Western mobsters underwrite Nixon's campaign for Congress- Hoover offers FBI resources; Bush works for Dresser Industries (Halliburton), which also fulfills covert overseas contracts for US intelligence; Truman creates CIA; big-oil Texans court Hoover; Brown & Root (Halliburton) builds offshore oil platforms; Nixon elected after "dirtiest campaign in memory", gains national exposure in Alger Hiss trial; FBI, Republicans bent on regaining White House create the Red Scare; corrupt Nixon pal Joe McCarthy hijacks House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for Republican election gain; Bohemia Grove; senior George Bush starts oil company; Prescott Bush loses bid for Congress; Joe McCarthy a big hit in Texas.
SEVEN: Exporting the Divide, 1951-1959
Prescott Bush wins special election; Iran nationalizes oilfields; Prescott Bush collects $1.5 million from Nazi bank stock; Nixon's funding scandal; Nixon uses TV spin; Allen Dulles leaves Gulf Oil of Latin American to become director of CIA; CIA instigates and assists an Iranian coup, increases covert action in Latin America; US military overthrows Latin governments hostile to United Fruit Co; B-actor Ronald Reagan a House Un-American Activities Committee informant; Eisenhower sends special-ops, CIA 'advisors' to Vietnam; Reverend Moon founds a church; US corporations, mobsters own Cuba; Prescott Bush, LBJ serve together on Senate Armed Services Committee; CBS & CIA; McCarthy discredited; Howard Hughes exchanges CIA funding for business favors; Lee Harvey Oswald joins Civil Air Patrol; Bush begins offshore drilling, Brown & Root (Halliburton) builds platforms among Howard Hughes-owned islands; Robert Kennedy busts Nixon's campaign advisor, attacks organized crime; Hoover spies on civilians, bets on mob horse races, morphs the Red Scare into the 'Black Menace'; Saddam Hussein joins Ba'ath Party; Manuel Noriega & the CIA; Texas oil funds both Nixon and Johnson; Nixon expected to win '60 Presidential election; Eisenhower warns about "military-industrial complex"; Oswald leaves top-secret Marine post, where he charts U2 flights over USSR, defects to Russia; Walker-Bush asset West Indies Sugar is nationalized by Castro, loses $53 million in value.
EIGHT: CIA vs JFK, 1960-1962
Howard Hughes rents islands to CIA for Cuba invasion training; Bush's Zapata is drilling for oil among these islands, begins intelligence career traveling Texas, New Orleans, Florida, Mexico, the Caribbean; FBI traces Oswald impersonator; CIA uses mob to undermine Castro; mobsters finance Nixon's campaign; Chicago mobsters deliver Presidency to JFK; press exposes US plans to invade Cuba- New York Times claims 'Mr.B of the CIA' is in charge; Bobby Kennedy embarrasses J. Edgar Hoover; Bay of Pigs invasion fails; JFK fires Dulles, limits CIA's power; Bush commiserates with Dulles; Brown & Root (Halliburton) wins billion dollar Vietnam contract; Kennedys infuriate radical right-wing oilmen, Hoover, mob; associate of VP Lyndon Johnson busted for graft- three who could link him to Johnson 'commit suicide'; FBI blackmails Kennedy White House with threat of sex scandal; JFK plans to enforce Hoover's mandatory retirement; civil rights activists face violent social, legal, political resistance; racist Democrats flee to Republican camp; Oswald renews US citizenship, returns unharassed by US intelligence; Halliburton buys Brown & Root.
NINE: Killing the King, 1963
JFK negotiates with Russia, despised by warhawks; Bobby Kennedy busts hundreds of mobsters; Colin Powell in Vietnam; Saddam Hussein, CIA torturer? Kennedy investigates longstanding oil tax breaks; billionaire religious-right Texas oilmen and their Kennedy obsession; televised images of US racist brutality stun world, Dr. Martin Luther King accuses FBI of complicity; Kennedy publicly supports Civil Rights and Voter Acts; church bombing kills four black girls; King marches on DC; Kennedy derided as Communist and "nigger-lover"; Colin Powell develops 'overwhelming force' doctrine during search-and-destroy missions; senior George Bush chairs Houston Republican Party; JFK gestures peace to Castro, publicly vows to never invade; orders withdrawal of 1000 advisors from Vietnam, plans all troops home by '65; FBI smears King; US assassinates South Vietnamese leader without JFK's approval; JFK removes CIA's covert combat authority, fires Allen Dulles; Bush sues Texas Governor John Connally to create a new Republican district- where Bush can run unopposed; JFK assassination threat in Miami; VP Johnson under 'kickbacks' investigation over jet fighter contract; White House planning to dump Johnson in '64; 'deranged loner' kills Kennedy in Dallas; Texas Governor John Connally also shot (he cries, "My God, they're going to kill us all!"); Oswald arrested in Howard Hughes' Texas Theater, claims to be a patsy, is shot next day by Jack Ruby; Johnson appoints Warren Commission, stopping all independent investigations; Allen Dulles defacto head of Commission; FBI's Hoover tries to block Time magazine from crowning King 'Man of the Year.'
TEN: A Fractured Decade, 1964-1969
Johnson appoints Hoover 'FBI Director for Life'; Bush runs campaigns against civil rights bill, for Cuban invasion; Moon opens US headquarters; Bush pushes escalation of war, limited use of nukes; Bush oil drills in Latin America, Middle East- tax evasion charges taint election prospects; Ted Kennedy runs for Senate- plane crash breaks his back, kills two; Nixon campaigns for Bush; Bobby Kennedy runs for NY Senator; Bush mounts greatest campaign spending spree ever, uses Nixon-style dirty tricks; Kennedys win, Bush loses; Warren Commission blames Oswald, no motive; LBJ signs Civil Rights Act; Klan lynches Lemuel Penn; CIA creates Gulf of Tonkin incident; more Vietnam contracts to Halliburton; massive bombing of North Vietnam; Malcom X shot; Bush wins redistricting, campaigns unchallenged- saying "I want conservatism to be sensitive," but mocks civil rights leaders, anti-war protestors; Dr. King protests Vietnam war; Eisenhower, others promote Moon; Democrats enact 'progressive tidal wave': poverty is halved, CEO-worker wage disparity reaches historic low; Jerry Falwell condemns civil rights, touts segregation as "God's Order"; Republicans appeal to white working class fear, gain 47 House seats; 20-year old Bill Clinton confronts Arkansas racists; CIA experiments; Bush hires advertiser to run campaign, wins election and unprecedented appointment to influential committee; press attacks King's anti-war stance; Colin Powell protects superiors from reports of US atrocities; George W at Yale; Jim Garrison tilts at Warren Commission; DC panics as King plans massive 'poor people's march'; Tet offensive exposes White House lies; future Fox News director Roger Ailes creates 'a cuddly Nixon' in the media; George W enters special Air National Guard unit, despite near-failing scores; Ross Perot, Howard Hughes buy Nixon; Nixon-Kissinger undermine LBJ's Vietnam peace talks before election; 'deranged loner' shoots Martin Luther King; 'deranged loner' shoots Bobby Kennedy; the Pentagon Papers and Nixon's reaction; Colin Powell works for Nixon, meets mentors Frank Carlucci, Casper Weinberger.
ELEVEN: The Center Doesn't Hold, 1970-1974
Nixon plans for a right-biased media; Bush receives Nixon funds but loses Senate race; George W dates Nixon's daughter; Chile nationalizes oil, banking; Nixon appoints Bush UN Ambassador; Richard Cheney is Nixon's White House aide; Nixon looks to oust unstable J. Edgar Hoover; Kent State anti-war protestors killed; Bush's oil partner delivers cash to Nixon campaign; Saddam Hussein nationalizes oil; CIA destabilizes Chile, Iraq; Pinochet terrorizes Chile; Bush promotes escalation of Vietnam at UN; 'deranged loner' shoots candidate George Wallace,' suspects Nixon; Lucianna Goldberg (later sets up Tripp-Lewinsky scandal) hired by Nixon as sex spy on McGovern; Nixon sells Lincoln Bedroom overnights; Hoover found dead- buried sans autopsy; Secret Service strips Hoover's house immediately, top to bottom; burglars arrested in Watergate; military begins mandatory drug testing, George W and James Bath suspended for skipping tests; outspoken Democrat Hale Boggs disappears in plane crash just before elections; press ignores Watergate scandal, Nixon wins re-election; CIA's E. H. Hunt blackmails Nixon over Watergate; Hunt's wife killed in plane crash; Nixon brags "Bush will do anything for us"; Moon uses call girls to compromise US Senators; Deep Throat warns "everybody's life is in danger"; Bush appointed to deflect Watergate blame; Arab nations form OPEC; young, vocal attorney Hillary Rodham helps Judiciary Committee investigate Nixon impeachment; Reverend Moon, followers publicly support Nixon in national demonstrations; head of College Republicans, Karl Rove, helps Bush paint Watergate as a political witch hunt; White House tapes expose Nixon's brutish and darkly Machiavellian worldview and political style; Bush urges Nixon resignation; Gerald Ford is the only VP and President to take office in both without being elected to either; Bush and Nixon blame Watergate on 'liberal media'; Ford pardons Nixon, immediately ending deeper investigations into Nixon administration crimes; Nixon's former Treasury Secretary William Simon sets out to create a right-wing media machine.
TWELVE: Never Another Watergate, 1975-1979
US House investigates the intelligence community, especially CIA; Church Committee focuses on CIA assassinations; CIA Director Colby too cooperative- Donald Rumsfeld has him fired; Ford appoints Bush new CIA Director; CIA obstructs, stalls investigators; Bush handles arms & dope runner Noriega; mobster Sam Giancana killed shortly before testifying about JFK assassination; Kissinger invests personal funds in the West Bank; Chilean economy rebuilt on free market principles, becomes most unstable in Latin America; CIA acknowledges bizarre experiments; 'deranged loner' tries to shoot President Ford; another 'deranged loner' shoots at Ford seventeen days later; Dick Cheney now White House Chief of Staff; Saddam Hussein wins UNESCO award for raising Iraq's literacy rate; Bin Laden construction firm one of largest in Middle East; House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) re-examines JFK, King killings; Church Committee learns hundreds of journalists are CIA assets, Bush won't release names; Bush CIA buys planes from George Jr's Air Guard friend James Bath, finances deals through corrupt BCCI; Church Committee concludes: "the investigation of the (JFK) assassination was grossly deficient"; Ford, Bush try to bury the Pike Committee report on CIA abuses, Daniel Schorr leaks it to press; 'Koreagate,' Moon, KCIA; Bush CIA destabilizes Jamaica, tries to kill Bob Marley; Bush CIA think tank falsifies US-USSR 'arms-gap' figures; Bush Sr
gets a DUI; Carter wins Presidency, immediately removes Bush from CIA; Congress investigates Reverend Moon; George W begins oil company; four of seven Warren Commission counsels express doubts about original Report; gangster Santos Trafficante pleads the 5th on all HSCA questions regarding JFK assassination; Oswald benefactor and alleged 'handler' commits suicide by gunshot four hours after HCSA subpoena to testify; former Assistant FBI Director William Sullivan dies of gunshot wound while hunting, shortly before scheduled HSCA testimony; George W loses first Congressional race; Jimmy Carter applies sanctions against Iraq, takes Noriega off CIA payroll; Iran throws out Shah, takes American hostages; Bush arranges for Iran to hold hostages until after election; Jerry Falwell, other US religious leaders file court briefs in defense of Reverend Moon.
THIRTEEN: Back in Black Ops, 1980-1986
Bush loses bid for Presidential nomination; Bush's campaign staff full of former and current CIA; Reagan reluctantly chooses Bush- whom he doesn't like, trust- as VP; Governor Clinton takes on entrenched Arkansan racist and business interests, appoints African-Americans to state positions; Iran hostage crisis dooms Carter; Reagan wins election, hostages released during inaugural; 'deranged loner' (Hinckley- friend of Neil Bush and George W) nearly assassinates Reagan; Hinckley had been kicked out of the American Nazi party; Reagan funds covert war in Central America; Noriega back on payroll; Iraq attacks Iran; Reagan army recruiters sent primarily to ghettos; Bush votes to renew chemical weapons tests; Project Democracy begins to collect funds from right-wing donors; Moon publishes ultra-right tabloid Washington Times; Bush Sr chairs task force which deregulates banking industry, leading to S&L meltdowns of late '80s- in which his sons are complicit; Moon convicted of tax fraud, sentenced to prison in CT; BinLaden Construction and Halliburton assist Saudis in military buildup and construction of holy sites; Congress forbids US tax dollars for CIA missions; US sells bacteria, viruses, retroviruses, fungi to Iraq, China; Bush sons involved in numerous unethical, fraudulent business ventures; Bush buys SAM missiles from China, provides nuclear/satellite technology- sells to Iran, profits sent to Central American covert actions; Reagan launches propaganda program targeted at Americans; Moon leaves prison, embraced by Reagan during White House visit; Jerry Falwell speaks at Moon-sponsored events; Noreiga accuses Oliver North of $5 million dollar rip-off; Prime Minister of Sweden shot to death shortly after rejecting Oliver North weapons deal; Iran-Contra exposed; like Nixon, Bush surrounded by Bay of Pigs-CIA figures.
FOURTEEN: The Abyss Redux, 1986-1989
Independent Kuwait seized by brutal, super-rich al-Sabah family; Colin Powell sends HAWK missiles to Iran, leaving US troops in Europe vulnerable; Pat Robertson uses charity to support his diamond, lumber interests; illegal Contra aid, drugs funneled through CIA airport in Mena, AR; DEA informant pilot Barry Seal killed hours before testifying; Averell Harriman dies, wife Pamela later funds Democrats against Bush; Ross Perot sent after POW's, complains of CIA gun/drug runner interference; Perot-Bush feud; American cargo plane crashes, full of contra arms- surviving CIA crewman repeats: "George Bush"; Bush sends family attorney to facilitate his release; Republican Special Counsel appointed for Iran-Contra investigation; day before scheduled testimony, CIA Director Casey stricken during routine exam, left unable to communicate- becomes Iran-Contra scapegoat; Carlyle Investment Group formed; FCC scraps Fairness Doctrine; birth of right-wing talk radio; Colin Powell lies under oath; bin Laden's brother Salem, business partner of George W and friend James Bath, dies in plane crash; Pan Am 103, part of US drug sting operation, explodes over Scotland; Bush beats Dukakis in vicious race-baiting election; CIA-backed Osama bin Laden drives Russia out of Afghanistan; Exxon Valdez spills oil in Alaska, avoids paying fines; Prescott Bush Jr sells satellites to China; FBI's Robert Mueller heads Iran-Contra probe (later runs Bush FBI); Little Rock, AR's Stephens Inc is largest investment bank outside Wall Street; founder Jack Stephens deals with Bush family for years, despises Clinton; Bush pardons anti-Castro terrorist; US invades Panama, kills 3000+ civilians but avoids wealthy areas where Prescott Bush Jr has invested in luxury hotels; Bush replaces Noriega with two other drug kingpins.
FIFTEEN: The First Gulf War, 1990-1991
Bush sons get minimal fines in S&L convictions, Republican party pays; Dick Cheney obstructs Nelson Mandela's release, claiming it "bad for US interests"; General Schwartzkopf runs Iraqi invasion computer war games; Kuwait siphons Iraqi oil; Iraq threatens retaliation, US implies support; George W sells Harken stocks before they drop, illegally reports four transactions; George W, Texas Rangers investors convince taxpayers, fans to pay for new Enron Stadium, then illegally claim eminent domain, seizing 270 acres around ballpark and selling to developers at profit; media attacks Oliver
Stone's JFK over a year before release; Bush, Kuwait hire PR firms to sell Gulf War; Bush lies to Saudis about Iraqi threat; Bush calls Senator Paul Wellstone "chickenshit"; Rodney King; research report: "The more TV people watch, the less they know; and the less people know the more likely they are to back Bush"; US begins heavy bombing in Iraq; White House controls all war coverage; US massacres 10,000+ retreating Iraqis, on the 'Highways of Death'; Bush encourages Kurds, Shi'ites to rise up against Hussein; Powell advises US to not support uprising, leaves Hussein US helicopters which are used to gas and kill thousands; Bush camp warns Clinton not to run for President; US violates international law by sabotaging Iraqi clean water; former US Attorney General charges Bush with 19 violations of law in Gulf War actions; Saudi Arabia agrees to permanent US presence, infuriating Osama bin Laden.
SIXTEEN: Trouble in Toyland, 1991-1993
More election year plane crashes: John Heinz (R-PA), investigating Medicare fraud, dies in freak plane crash; next day, former Texas Senator John Tower, writing about his Iran-Contra investigation, dies in plane crash; Condi Rice leaves Bush Sr's National Security Council, joins Chevron board; Carlyle Group recruits former Reagan-Bush defense officials; Bush nominates Clarence Thomas to Supreme Court; Anita Hill charges him with sexual harassment, is publicly denigrated; Thomas wins; Danny Casolaro, investigative journalist, is found dead of a gunshot wound in Richard Mellon Scaife's office building, an apparent suicide; CIA admits financial link to BCCI; Bush's top fundraisers sued for S&L fraud; Oliver Stone's JFK spurs Congressional creation of Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), Bush refuses to appoint members; Colin Powell's flawed Iran-Contra testimony; Bush pardons Iran-Contra figures, dissolving case against himself; Whitewater story released on eve of Democratic primaries; Rodney King defendants acquitted, triggering worst race riots in recent US history; Dick Cheney plans future 'war zones'; Robert Mueller insists Whitewater continue, though investigators say no evidence; on eve of NH primary, Gennifer Flowers sells story of Clinton affair to tabloids, but produces no evidence to prove long-term affair; audio tapes likely doctored; Jesse Helms asks Bush to pardon Pakistani drug smuggler; Bush on payroll of Barrick gold mines, allowing mines on Nevada public land; judges Sentelle, Silberman (later of Monica Lewinsky fame) void convictions of Iran Contra figures Ollie North, John Poindexter; Neil Bush sells Kuwaitis on Enron; Paul Wilcher sends Janet Reno documents about October Surprise, found dead in home; Bush appointee embezzles millions from Travel Office- Republicans object to firings and create 'Travelgate'; Cheney heads Halliburton, does business with terrorist nations; right-wing 'echo chamber' up and running.
SEVENTEEN: A Vast, Right-wing Conspiracy
1970's unkind to Republicans and conservatives, who declare "never another Watergate"; Clinton the murderer; the politics of personal destruction; Richard Mellon Scaife, 'Justice Jim' Thompson, indicted embezzler Judge Hale; cycle of revenge; American Enterprise Institute; right-wing philanthropy; The Heritage Foundation and the 'kitchen cabinet'; the 'liberal media'; Reverend Moon and Christians unite against progressives; The Council for National Policy; tabloidesque anti-Clinton videos; PAC's; the language of propaganda; Wednesday morning meetings; sex sells; judicial activism and the Federalist Society; Bohemia Grove; Project For a New American Century (PNAC).
EIGHTEEN: Meanwhile, Back at the Compound, 1993-1998
Racists Jim Thompson, Sheffield Nelson, embezzler Judge Hale target Clinton; Rush Limbaugh claims Vince Foster murdered over Whitewater; Richard Scaife funds the American Spectator; George W elected Texas Governor; veterans file Gulf War Syndrome lawsuit; Linda Tripp last to see Foster alive; Gingrich takes Congress; Paula Jones, backed by Scaife and the Federalist Society, announces sex-harassment suit; Bush Sr's own RTC probe into Whitewater concludes Clintons not guilty; Commerce Secretary Ron Brown dies in plane crash while on Enron trip; TWA 800 crashes during naval missile-defense exercises; Halliburton targets Caspian Sea basin; Clinton pushes investigations into CIA drug trafficking; Unocal, Taliban talk Afghan pipeline; Clinton's omnibus terror bill reduced to uselessness by right; Jesse Helms, Trent Lott openly dismissive of terrorist threats; Ralph Reed, Gary Bauer, other religious right speak at Reverend Moon functions; Alger Hiss outlives Nixon; Bush Sr helps Reverend Moon launches another newspaper after corruption charges in South America; Pat Robertson uses charity for diamond mines supplies; George W decimates Texas' budget surplus; US Supreme Court rules in favor of twice-overturned Paula Jones suit; Clinton blocks Halliburton contracts because of recurring fraud accusations; Rumsfeld, Cheney in Project for the New American Century (PNAC) lobby for regime change in Iraq; government finally admits Gulf War Syndrome link- George W will later repeal; former sex spy for Nixon helps set up Tripp/Lewinsky tape; FOX News busted for falsifying news; George W's Texas Housing Dept rife with theft, fraud; CIA investigates and exonerates itself of drug trafficking charges- CIA staff director then commits suicide; Taliban hires former CIA director's daughter to improve image in US; Paula Jones accused of mishandling right-wing defense funds; Halliburton in Bosnia, building Bush's Enron stadium in Houston; AOL, with Colin Powell on board, pays the Drudge Report $3000 monthly to carry water for the Republicans; he receives funds from the RNC and several right-wing foundations also; Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu visits Reverend Falwell in US, afterward meets with President Clinton; numerous uncovered adulteries among conservative leaders get little attention from the press.
NINETEEN: DejaVu All Over Again, 1999-2000
The CIA names its new world headquarters after George Bush; George W executes his 99th prisoner; hides from Dr. Martin Luther King Day celebrants; African police, hired by Halliburton, Shell, shoot protestors; Republicans try to pin Chinese spy secrets on Clinton; George W's Texas record; Enron needs trans-Afghanistan pipeline for India plant to turn profit; re-opening Alger Hiss files after 50 years proves Nixon's deceit; Clinton freezes $300 million in Taliban assets as Bush Sr is courting Taliban for Carlyle Group, Unocal; John Kennedy Jr dies in plane crash; world's largest funeral corporation sued for fraud but protected by George W, who perjures himself in deposition and fires investigating team; Michael Powell of the FCC fails to recuse himself in the dubious AOL/Time-Warner merger, even though father Colin sits on board, owns stock; St. Martin's Press kills release of George W expose Fortunate Son containing documentation of cocaine arrests; another suicide; Halliburton follows US military, investigated repeatedly for fraud; millennium terrorist plots in US and overseas quietly foiled by Clinton administration; Election 2000 begins; Bush Sr and Barbara clear millions selling Global Crossing stocks before scandal- no investigation; PNAC publishes report calling for imperial America, with pre-emptive war policies; NRA boasts a home in White House after election; USS Cole hit by suicide bombers; Bush team spreads racial, homosexual rumors about John McCain; Democrat Mel Carnahan, poised to beat John Ashcroft, is killed in plane crash right before elections; Karl Rove promises media leaders a golden age of deregulation; Editor & Publisher magazine finds 2-1 bias in favor of George W among top press publishers, editorial decision makers; Enron partners with IBM, Blockbuster Video, AOL; Halliburton scoops British defense contracts; Bush campaign plants false stories about Gore falsehoods, position George W as honest; Bush election team plans to challenge Electoral College in projected loss to Gore; progressive Senator Paul Wellstone survives assassination attempt in Columbia; Clinton spending on 'domestic terrorism security' jumps from $42 million to $1.5 billion; Arial Sharon instigates Palestinian intifadah, Clinton-Gore peace progress disappears days before the first Bush-Gore debate; Burke's Peerage writes: "Not one Bush family member...was ever working class, middle class, or even upper middle class, ever." Gore's American bloodline includes Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone and England's Edward I- best known as the king who defeated and executed Braveheart.
TWENTY: Faultline Exposed, Election 2000
More documented incidents of voter fraud and disenfranchisement than in any election since the Voter Rights Act in the 1960's.
TWENTY-ONE: The Great Divider, 2001
CIA briefs Condi Rice on bin Laden threat; George W suspends bin Laden investigations; FAA warns of hijackings; Moon hosts inaugural lunch- Ashcroft speaks, Billy Graham, most major televangelists in attendance; 25,000 protestors line Presidential route, hurling eggs, insults; Bush rehires felons from father's administration; average net worth of Bush cabinet ten times that of Clinton's; Senators Hart, Rudman send urgent anti-terror package to Condi Rice; Enron, others help bankrupt California by manipulating market, meet secretly with VP Cheney; Cheney mocks energy conservationism; Carlyle Group, Donald Rumsfeld meet; Judicial Watch criticizes Bush Sr Carlyle Group role; Bush camp makes Paul Wellstone a priority to beat; J. Baxter warns Ken Lay about Enron irregularities; nuclear sub USS Greenville- Bush donor at helm- sinks Japanese boat, killing nine; Prescott Bush Jr opens US-China Chamber of Commerce, assists George W with spy plane incident; US quietly increases troop strength around Caspian Sea; media targets missing aide Chandra Levy, ignores dead Republican aide found under suspicious circumstances at ther same time; many indications of "possible, imminent terrorist attack"; John Ashcroft stops flying commercially; anti-aircraft weapons protect Bush at G8 summit; arresting officers find discredited author of George W expose' dead by suicide; Bush takes August off- receives intelligence brief on imminent terrorist threat in America; hundreds of Arab/Muslim websites shut down when FBI raids ISP; in days before 9/11 abnormally high levels of put options purchased on United Air Lines, American Airlines; John O'Neill quits anti-terrorism team as State Dept blocks al Qaida investigations, becomes Security Chief at World Trade Center; on 9/10 Ashcroft refuses FBI. counterterrorism budget increases.
TWENTY-TWO: The New Pearl Harbor
"The process of transformation [of America into an aggressive imperial power with pre-emptive war policy, controlling the Middle East and preventing the rise of any other super-power] is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor." Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, et al; Project for A New American Century, 1998
TWENTY-THREE: Tumbling Into the Crevasse
Two days after 9/11 China allowed into World Trade Organization- after fifteen years of unsuccessful attempts; those weird airline 'put' orders; Patriot Act rammed through Congress with little review; anthrax scare; aiming at Iraq; Carlyle investors reap a series of defense windfalls; problems with the FBI; Michael Powell further deregulates public airways; scientists debunk news reports tying Iraq to anthrax scare; Wall Street Journal reveals bin Laden connection to Bush Sr's Carlyle Group; Enron restates its earnings; dead and missing microbiologists; Halliburton reaps Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay contracts; FBI waits 90 days to 'raid' Enron; largest defense budget in history of the world; US bombs Afghanistan; Lockheed and the Bushes; Paul Wellstone battles Republican Congress.
TWENTY-FOUR: It's the New World Order
Enron corruption exposed, other giants fall; Enron's Baxter dead by suicide the week before testimony; Carlyle Group invests in communications; Daniel Pearl kidnapped; Bush uses Sasha Cohen to hawk for Beef Association; senior VP of El Paso Energy dead of gunshot suicide; Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan sign agreement on Afghan pipeline; Judicial Watch accuses Halliburton of earnings fraud under Dick Cheney; states lose their pension to Enron; another SCI 'Funeralgate' in Florida, investigator commits suicide; how Enron-El Paso ripped off CA; Rupert Murdoch pays almost no taxes; a second panel of acoustical scientists conclude a 2nd gunman shot at the 1963 Kennedy motorcade, to a 96% degree of certainty; European press deflates White House spin on Iraq by exposing PNAC's Rebuilding America's Defenses, which called for Iraqi invasion before Bush even took office; Wellstone votes against key components of the Bush agenda, including Homeland Security, the Iraqi invasion, ANWR oil drilling, aid to Columbia, subsidies to energy companies, etc, and advocates strenuously against many of Bush's judicial nominees; 20th anniversary of the Washington Times; Wellstone votes against war in Iraq, support for his campaign swells; right before election, Wellstone killed in a plane crash; serious problems with voting machines, inequities in general elections; Florida settles with NAACP for illegally purging tens of thousands of black voters (the names will remain off the rolls for the midterm elections, as well). Carlyle Group expands to Europe, Asia.
TWENTY-FIVE: The Future Ain't What it Used to Be
The Saudi-US connection; manufacturing bombs; Carlyle Group's 36% annual return wins Dream Team award; George W's friend and business partner Tom Hicks the vice chair of Clear Channel, dominates US radio market, using clout and Rush Limbaugh to advance Bush policies; Clear Channel runs pro-war rallies, sponsored by local radio stations, that denigrate progressives and Democrats; Clear Channel grows as FCC continues to de-regulate industry; Schwarzenegger quietly settles Enron, El Paso lawsuits; faith-based strategies a disaster in TX; Bush Sr buys Italian cigarette company; White House admits it created a 'Shadow Government' for emergencies, not one Democrat consulted or briefed; WorldCom busted for fraud, then granted large Iraqi contracts; Carlyle Group buys Britain's defense research institute; Human Rights groups charge Shell, Texaco, ExxonMobile, Unocal with abetting murder, rape, intimidation in Nigeria, Burma, etc; more voter machine funny business; Halliburton profits up 40%; vocal born-again Christian in charge of war against Islam; General Tommy Franks predicts suspension of Constitution; US government plan for a market allowing traders to speculate on likelihood of terror attacks, assassinations and other Middle East events- headed by Iran-Contra felon John Poindexter- nixed after public outcry, then quietly revived by private firm that helped develop it; Wal-Mart almost singlehandedly destroying American commerce; corporations sending jobs to India en masse; human genome research demonstrates that a gene-specific weapon can be produced, PNAC calls such a weapon "a politically useful tool."
TWENTY-SIX: DejaVu: You Should Have Seen It Coming