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	http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/hongkongarchitecture/index.html   January 18, 2005 http://www.gothamist.com/jenchung.php Jason Kottke posted a link to photographer Michael Wolf's photgraphs of Hong Kong real estate density. The photographs totally capture what  I always try to explain when someone asks me what Hong Kong is like.  Hong Kong is about 2-3 times more dense than Manhattan, which says a lot, though I usually end up saying something like "It's like New York,  but more crowded and more intense and more materialistic." Hong Kong is essentially made up of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, attached to mainland China, and Hong Kong means "fragrant harbor."  However, the way Hong Kong development goes, there may be no more harbor, as there is very little government regulation that prevents  development onto the river. In other words, they reclaim the water by  putting fill in the harbor and build skyscrapers on top of that, which causes a host of problems for the harbor (weird currents, for example; my dad, a civil engineer, also complains how they dump raw sewage into the harbor). If I were in San Francisco, I would totally check out Michael Wolf's show, Architecture of Density, at the Robert Koch Gallery. And some photos I took back in 2003 of a couple Hong Kong buildings (my photo taking skills are much better now...but that's not saying that much). Posted by jen at January 18, 2005 9:46 PM Comments Wow, those pictures are incredible! The buildings almost look unreal or like one of the 3-D puzzles. Amazing. Posted by: Jason Pugh at January 21, 2005 1:39 AM Very Interesting. At first glance, to me, that photo looked like the  inside of a computer, with the balconies and dark windows being IC Chips! Weird. Posted by: S.D.  at January 21, 2005 2:02 PM Amazing. Also, and surely this is no accident, he has a lot of photos of pandas, too... Posted by: Michael at January 25, 2005 6:20 PM About Jen Chung Jen, a New Jersey-born New Yorker, edits Gothamist when not working at a NY advertising agency. At all other times, she ís most likely at a theater near you  to see one more movie.  Contact: jen (at) gothamist dot com All e-mail is read; replies are generally sent, if not promptly. Jen Chung Living Densely
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	Robert Lowenberg— A Clean Break Iraq the road to war - Source Watch The "Clean Break" document itself was authored by Richard Perle, Douglas Feith [2], David and Meyrav Wurmser[3],  James Colbert, and Robert Lowenberg ... www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq_War   Robert Lowenberg— A Clean Break Karl Rove  Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser Deputy White House Chief of Staff http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1343 http://rightweb.irc-online.org/corp/g2.html [2/15/2007 10:06:35 PM] Richard Bruce Cheney http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/cheney_r/cheney_r.php (1 of 4) [2/15/2007 11:04:08 PM] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq_War Center for Media and Democracy Publishers of PR Watch http://www.prwatch.org/spin XSpin of the DayFebruary 15, 2007 Texas Coal Showdown Spawns Multiple Front Groups Topics: advertisingcorporationsenvironmentfront groups Source: Dallas Morning News, February 15, 2007 "The politics of Texas power and pollution have moved suddenly into the living rooms of millions of Texans," over "electric companies' plans to build 16 coal-burning plants using conventional technology that pollutes more than a newer coal system." In addition to lobbying, interested parties are launching ad campaigns and websites and forming new "pressure groups." Campaigning for the coal plants are: Texans for Affordable and Reliable Power, which receives funding from the Dallas-based energy company TXU and includes "mayors, officials and business leaders in towns with TXU plants"; and Texas Business for Clean, Affordable, Reliable Energy, which was founded by the Texas Association of Business. At least six groups are opposing the coal plants: Texas Business for Clean Air, which includes nearly 100 "local or state business leaders"; Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition, which includes the mayors of Dallas and Houston; Texas Clean Sky Coalition, which launched a $1 million ad campaign is funded "by unknown parties," though "natural-gas companies are involved"; Clean Coalition, which was founded by a Dallas developer; Stop the Coal Plant, a joint effort of Public Citizen and Sustainable Energy & Economic Development; and Robertson County: Our Land, Our Lives, which was founded by local citizens. login or register to post commentspermalink SAIC: The Very Model of the Military-Industrial Complex Topics: corporationsIraqpropagandaU.S. government Source: Vanity Fair, March 2007 issue With 44,000 employees, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) "is larger than the [U.S.] departments of Labor, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development combined," Donald Barlett and James Steele write, in an in-depth profile of the military contractor. "SAIC currently holds some 9,000 active federal contracts," more than any other company. But "several of SAIC's biggest projects have turned out to be colossal failures," including "Trailblazer," a system to manage incoming intelligence for the National Security Agency, and the "Virtual Case File," a centralized data repository for the FBI. "SAIC executives have been involved at every stage ... of the war in Iraq," from pushing WMD claims to helping "investigate how American intelligence could have been so disastrously wrong." Under "yet another no-bid contract," SAIC created the Iraqi Media Network, supposedly a "free and independent indigenous media network" that quickly became "a mouthpiece for the Pentagon." Eventually, "the network was turned over to Iraqi control. Today it is a tool of Iraq's Shiite majority and spews out virulently anti-American messages." Moreover, SAIC's work on the Iraqi Media Network was criticized by the Pentagon's Inspector General as having "widespread violations of normal contracting procedures." login or register to post comments permalink ========================================================================== Center for Media and Democracy Publishers of PR Watch http://www.prwatch.org/spin XSpin of the DayFebruary 15, 2007 directed from Iraq War) [edit] Iraq: the Road to War From John Foster Dulles to the War in Iraq: Understanding Modern Warfare and Global Economics The United States is prepared to use armed forces to assist any nation or group of such nations requesting assistance against armed aggressors from any country controlled by international communism. -John Foster Dulles, 1958 "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." --Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels. The most tragic element of the Iraq war disaster is not the eventuality of war itself, but the manner in which highly educated men and women as students of history accepted the disinformation and distortion of military intelligence put forward by the Bush administration, which included patently false information and forged documents supporting allegations that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction [and thus posed a military threat to the United States] when in fact it did not; we must assume that Congress was complicit in the Iraq war fraud, or that Congress was misled by senior Bush administration officials in an alleged criminal conspiracy of a magnitude hitherto unknown in American history. The intent to deceive Congress through intentional deception, manipulation and submission of false data [as supplied by the Bush administration] with intent to authorize war versus another sovereign nation on false pretenses, is a crime versus the United States and an unlawful act on the part of the perpetrators. This paper briefly documents many diverse elements comprising the Bush road to war in Iraq, including: Three phases of US economic supremacy since World War 2 and its policies, and the attempt to secure the future of the petro-dollar as a global oil currency while forestalling the dollar's decline The Oil Triumvirate, Richard Cheney's Task Force on Energy, the Haifa pipeline and War for Oil Bad intelligence and the Pentagon policy arm versus the CIA US policy blunders in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and Israel/Palestine since 1947 and the "Clean Break" How CIA operations in Iran destabilized and subverted democracy in that country from 1953 thus planting the seeds of modern terror America's decline as a world hegemonic power with conversion of US political and military might to factious regional conflict with intent to monopolize and control global energy resources for the forseeable future. [1] Emergence of the secular Ba'athists and the ideal of the pan-Arab state Emergence of the Islamic Republic and American support for Iraq's war versus Iran Timeline to War Overview [commentary]: Military Power in an Age of Unreason As Chomsky points out, the nation-state maintains a monopoly of violence, and that monopoly provides the foundation for the state's power. Since the Falklands conflict several 'flash wars' have been initiated by the first world in response to real or imagined instability in the third world, but only when highly desirable political and geo-economic advantages can be leveraged on terms favorable to the global petro-village. Iraq's history [and indeed the history of the Arab Muslim world] is replete with examples of war and occupation. Since the time of the Crusades various forces have attacked this region from East or West; these attempts at occupation resulted in a shifting political and economic landscape which no single world power ever managed to dominate - invariably occupiers were displaced or forced to retreat in the face of guerilla war or worse, leaving behind a phoenix-like people with tribal identities incomprehensible to most Westerners. Bush's 2003 plan to invade Iraq originated as "a blueprint for America" in a 1996 think-tank whitepaper with the portentous title: "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm". The "Clean Break" document was written for Israel's then-current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and was prepared by Israel's Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies "The Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000". The main substantive ideas in this paper emerged from a discussion in which prominent Israeli and US Neo-conservatives participated, namely: Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks Jr, Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser. The "Clean Break" document itself was authored by Richard Perle, Douglas Feith [2], David and Meyrav Wurmser[3], James Colbert, and Robert Lowenberg - primary Neo-conservative figures in the Bush administration, as follows: Perle was Chairman of the Defense Policy Review Board from 2001-2003; Feith is currently Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Wurmser now serves as a senior member on Vice President Richard Cheney's staff. Topics from the "Clean Break" document arose during Bush's first meeting with his National Security Council on January 30, 2001, a mere ten days after his inauguration. Bush announced his intention to reverse the Clinton policy of interceding between Israel and the Palestinians, eg. Bush would allow Israel free reign in the Palestinian arena, again reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's delegation to Haig-Begin in the early 1980's. [4] Israel's Netanyahu rejected the proposal as drafted but George W. Bush approved a modified version of the paper which resurfaced just before he siezed power in 2001. Presumably Bush's attention concentrated on the following: "This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq -- an important strategic advantage in its own right." But Bush was similarly interested in those parts of the document which related to Syria and other Arab countries being "rolled back" while America simultaneously disengaged itself from interference in the 'Palestinian problem'. The idea was for the US to withdraw completely from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and to allow free reign to the Israelis, much as Reagan/Haig had done at the time of the Israeli-condoned Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon in 1982. In addition the "Clean Break" document advocated military pre-emption and aggression versus perceived regional 'enemies' of the United States, principally Iraq, Syria Iran. [5] Subsequent to the release of the "Clean Break" document in 1997, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld authored a letter to President Clinton calling for military force to be used in the ouster of Saddam Hussein, urging his removal as a primary "aim of American foreign policy". It is clear that this flawed foundation for war in Iraq - the concept of pre-emption and unprovoked aggression in the willful pursuit of war - constitutes a major catastrophe and foreign policy failure for the United States of America. The United States has failed to appreciate the one key element of global militaristic and economic domination, eg. that all wars must be fought with an eye to securing near-term and long-term goals of political, economic and social stability once the military ends have been achieved. The foregoing totally ignores any moral justifications for war. Regardless as to whether the global petro-village is morally right or wrong in its motivations, the ends must be seen to justify the means in order to maintain political will and ensure the intended future political alliances as well as economic success in the GPV sphere of influence. And to this point Iraq has proven to be an ultimate political failure for the Bush regime: by misunderstanding the true ramifications of the Iraq invasion, and with no real plan or exit strategy in such a volatile theater of operations, Iraq has become a truly major blunder for the Bush administration. But the purpose of this paper is to comprehensively describe the political, economic, historical and cultural background on the road to war in Iraq. The Intelligence War: Rumsfeld's Crazies Versus the CIA The intelligence war was a critical part of a broader offensive by prominent Pentagon Neo-conservative civilians within the Bush administration, versus the entire US establishment's historical quest for peace in the Middle East; the 'establishment' included the State Department, Pentagon military experts and CIA area specialists. Central to the quest for peace was an apparatus consisting of Foreign-policy/Defense and intelligence agencies, along with senior officials who were adamantly opposed to the bad intelligence fuelling the Bush administration's siren call for war in Iraq. A core base of approximately two-dozen prominent Neo-conservative hawks were behind the strategy for war devised by Vice President Richard Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the Bush administration's core support for Neo-conservative hawks effectively quashed all opposition to the Iraq war. But the Neoconservative case for war was driven at its heart by four radical civilian extremists in senior Pentagon positions: Richard Perle, Chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board; Paul Wolfowitz; Douglas Feith and David Wurmser. However the case for war in Iraq was based upon bad intelligence purchased from Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress, a shadowy group of anti-Saddam agents whose paymasters were the aforementioned civilian Pentagon Neo-conservatives. [5b] Meanwhile Middle East specialists, uniformed military officers and CIA operatives alike were marginalized by the Neocons, and their views on Iraq were ignored by the Bush administration at every level. "I've heard from people on the Middle East staff in the Pentagon," says Borg, referring to the staff under neocon Peter Rodman, the assistant secretary of defense for International Security Affairs. "The Middle East experts in those offices are as cut off from the policy side as people in the State Department are." But the sharpest battle was fought between the Pentagon's civilian Neo-conservative hawks and the CIA. "There is tremendous pressure on [the CIA] to come up with information to support policies that have already been adopted," says Vincent Cannistraro, a former senior CIA official and counterterrorism expert. But the CIA was not in tune with the Neo-conservative version of reality, and whenever the CIA attempted to provide objective, unbiased intelligence to the White House such intelligence was invariably rejected. Ironically, CIA director Tenet had no problem adopting the Neo-con predilection for war so favored by Richard Cheney and the White House, and Tenet's statement [linking Iraq and al-Qaeda] was a significant departure from the consensus view among intelligence professionals. Prior to the 911 attacks intelligence experts rejected the notion that Iraq provided any support to al-Qaeda, and intelligence experts continue to reject the notion today. Daniel Benjamin co-author of The Age of Sacred Terror, was Director of Counterterrorism at the National Security Council (NSC) in the late 1990s; Benjamin's group oversaw a comprehensive review of Iraq and its relation to terrorism, and the group concluded that there was no relation. "In 1998, we went through every piece of intelligence we could find to see if there was a link [between] al-Qaeda and Iraq," says Benjamin. "We came to the conclusion that our intelligence agencies had it right: there was no noteworthy relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq. I know that for a fact. No other issue has been as closely scrutinized as this one." Furthermore, the State Department's annual review with regard to state-sponsored terrorism concluded that there was no link between Hussein and Al-Qaeda. "It's demoralizing to a number of the analysts," says Cannistraro. "The analysts are human, and some of them are also ambitious. What you have to worry about is the 'chill factor.' If people are ignoring your intelligence, and the Pentagon and NSC keep telling you, 'What about this? What about this? Keep looking!' -- well, then you start focusing on one thing instead of the other thing, because you know that's what your political masters want to hear." One of the main sources of Defense Department pressure on the CIA was the Orwellian sounding "Office of Special Plans" a rump intelligence unit created by Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith. The OSP was established to provide Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz with data expressly designed to disparage, undermine and contradict the CIA's Iraq intelligence, and furthermore to incite the American people to war. Established post 9-11, the unit's primary focus related to Iraq's alleged links to al-Qaeda, and focussed on Iraq's alleged intent to use nuclear, chemical and biological weapons versus Israel and the West. In a controversial briefing at the Pentagon [possibly intended to be humorous] Rumsfeld noted that the primary purpose of the OSP was to provide Rumsfeld with ammunition that would allow him to harass a CIA staffer who was briefing him every morning, presumably with intelligence that he refused to accept. "In comes the briefer, and she walks through the daily brief and I ask questions," said Rumsfeld. "What I could do is say, 'Gee, what about this? Or what about that? Has somebody thought of this?'" With their access to reams of intelligence facts and 'plausible disinformation' Feith's team could easily create a steady stream of data bits for Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith - "intelligence" which actually consisted of manufactured disinformation designed to pick apart the CIA's conclusions, thus sending the CIA's analysts back to rewrite their reports. The fact that the Office of Special Plans was overseen by Douglas Feith [a radical partisan extremist who has consistently called for outright war versus Palestinians] immediately discredited the organization and raised fundamental questions about its impartiality. "It's one thing to create a unit to provide an independent look, and it's another thing to go on a fishing expedition," says Benjamin, the former NSC official. "The fact that this unit has been there for more than a year suggests that it is a fishing expedition." Feith appointed fellow Neo-conservative extremists, William Luti and Abram Shulsky to staff the Office of Special Plans, and Strauss desciple Shulsky was another key member of the Perle-Wolfowitz group of radicals. When Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) was elected to the Senate in 1976, he "brought with him some of [Sen. Henry M.] Jackson's most militantly neoconservative former aides, among them Elliott Abrams, Chester Finn, Abram Shulsky and Gary Schmitt," according to a 1986 account in The Washington Post. Perle was also a former Henry "Scoop" Jackson aide, and Shulsky, Perle and many kindred thinkers worked in Reagan's Department of Defense in the 1980's. Shulsky also did significant time at the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, a project of the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC), and at the RAND Corporation. At RAND, along with other fellow neocons, including Lewis "Scooter" Libby - now Richard Cheney's chief of staff - Shulsky contributed a study called "From Containment to Global Leadership: America and the World after the Cold War". That study was a forerunner of the "Clean Break" document which promoted the Orwellian idea of pre-emptive war as a means to enforce the peace. The OSP and Cheney's Pentagon policy arm supplied the bulk of the false/bogus Iraq intelligence to a compliant media, much of it based upon specific false information supplied to them by the INC and by Israeli intelligence. While US media operations never questioned the bogus intelligence on Iraq and accepted it as fact, Colin Powell rejected the "script" supplied by Feith's Israeli/INC operation in preparation for Powell's address to the United Nations Security Council on February 5th, 2003. For the UNSC presentation, Powell rejected Rumsfeld's false and fictional Iraqi National Council and Israeli-inspired intelligence, and he used the National Intelligence Council's 'National Intelligence Estimate' on Iraq instead, even though the NIE material contained almost as many inaccuracies as the Neo-con Israeli/INC material did. Chalabi's Bogus Iraqi National Congress [5b] Rumsfeld's Pentagon operatives and their war against the CIA relied heavily upon bogus intelligence from the Iraqi National Congress, a group established by the discredited Ahmed Chalabi, under Paymasters and handlers reporting to Feith himself. Most Iraq experts considered the INC's intelligence-gathering capabilities to be exactly nil. Yet, Perle, Woolsey and the Pentagon's policymakers, used the INC as their primary source of information about Iraq's weapons programs and Iraq's supposed relationship to international terrorism. "A lot of what is useful with respect to what's going on in Iraq is coming from defectors, and furthermore they are defectors who have often come through an organization, namely, the INC, that neither [the] State [Department] nor the CIA likes very much," according to former CIA director Woolsey. Early in 2004 the State Department abruptly stopped funding the INC's schemes to collect intelligence inside Iraq. "The INC could only account for $2.5 million out of $4.5 million they received for the program," says a State Department official. "I can't say that there was evidence of corruption or embezzlement, but $2 million was unaccounted for." Rumsfeld's hawks privately funded the INC and their "intelligence gathering" activities [via the State Department] a situation which created tremendous tension between the State Department and Rumsfeld's Pentagon extremists. "The only reason they stopped paying for that program is that the State Department hates the INC," says a knowledgeable source. The situation was therefore altered so that the INC's 'intelligence' could be funded and delivered directly to the Department of Defense. According to Col. David Lapan. "The intelligence guys here get the information first and do the analysis," he says. Goodman, the former CIA analyst, concurs, saying, "The INC is in the Pentagon every day." Pentagon critics were appalled to learn that intelligence provided by the INC was used to shape US policy with regard to the war in Iraq, an unlawful and criminal state of affairs, since taxpayer funds were misused to instigate an illegal war based upon intentionally false data. The CIA and the State Department viewed Ahmed Chalabi, the INC's leader, as the point man representing a corrupt organization skilled at lobbying and public relations, but totally inept at gathering real intelligence. [See "Tinker, Banker, Neocon, Spy," tap, Nov. 18.] "The [INC's] intelligence isn't reliable at all," says Cannistraro. "Much of it is propaganda. Much of it is telling the Defense Department what they want to hear. And much of it is used to support Chalabi's own presidential ambitions. They make no distinction between intelligence and propaganda, using alleged informants and defectors who say what Chalabi wants them to say, [creating] cooked information that goes right into presidential and vice-presidential speeches." Adds Cannistraro, "They're willing to twist information in order to serve that interest. They've opened up a channel at the Pentagon to collect intelligence from Iraqi exiles, using people off the books, contractors. It's getting pretty close to an Iran-Contra type of situation." The hostility of the Neo-cons toward the CIA on Iraq is key to understanding the root of bad intelligence and the unlawful foundation upon which the war in Iraq was sold. Quoting Perle himself: [The CIA's analysis of Iraq] "isn't worth the paper it's written on," and he adds that the CIA is afraid of rocking the ark in the Middle East. "The CIA is status-quo oriented," said Perle. "They don't want to take risks. They don't like the INC because they only like to work with people they can control." The Oil Triumvirate and Iran's Islamic Revolution 1978-1979 Revolutionary Iran's active, high level, and persistent support of SAIRI [Shia anti-Hussein] activities inside Iraq is designed to undermine the Hussein regime and pave the way for the establishment of an Iranian-type Islamic government in Iraq. [12] America's covert influence within Iran did not end with the installation of the Shah Reza Pahlavi, however details on American covert activities within Iran from 1953 to 1979 are beyond the scope of this paper. It is most notable that the Shah was installed in power by the United States and likewise the US participated in removing the Shah from power; America therefore had a direct role in the Shah's rise and fall due to Iran's extreme strategic importance as an oil exporting nation. Remarkably, the rise of Iran's embryonic Islamic Republic and aggressive Arab nationalization of the Arab and Persian oil cartels crystallized between 1973 and 1979 with the ascendance of OPEC as a key global oil exporting entity. [One curious Iraq war question relates to the manner in which Iraq - as a sovereign nation and not occupied by a foreign power - will ever participate in future OPEC activities should Iraq ever seriously resume oil exports.] The nationalization of Iraq's oil industry took place between 1972 and 1974, and this event effectively electrified Iraqis and stunned the oil industry worldwide. Iraq's nationalization of its oil industry set the oil kingdom dominoes falling throughout the Persian Gulf and the OPEC nations, as other countries ousted the multinationals and created state-owned enterprises. Eventually, even Saudi Arabia seized control of all-powerful Aramco Oil, the titanic consortium of Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Chevron which had long been the petro-colossus of the Persian Gulf. Now, cautiously, the oil industry foresaw a war in Iraq as a way to win back what had been lost. With regard to the Road to War in Iraq, the oil triumvirate itself is an extremely important entity. The Oil Triumvirate is simply the geologic triangle of Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia, where the tremendous strategic importance of world energy supplies cannot be calculated, estimated or imagined. We can see that with the collapse of influence in any one leg of the Triumvirate then the entire apparatus tends to become unstable; when two legs of the Triumvirate collapse then the dynamic becomes untenable. And this is the precise state of affairs with regard to Iran since 1979 and with Iraq since 1991 - essentially major oil exports from two legs of the Oil Triumvirate were lost to the United States. Of course the United States could not allow two-thirds of the Oil Triumvirate to be lost to it and the logical conclusion follows, that domination of the Oil Triumvirate is not limited to Iraq: Saudi Arabia and Iran also participate in the triangle. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been counted out within the US sphere of influence, but influence over Saudi affairs and the Iraq occupation has reformed the Middle Eastern energy resource equation. We briefly consider the third leg of the Oil Triumvirate, namely Saudi Arabia, and the unique problems the House of Saud presents for America's re-design of the Middle East. "Even in Saudi Arabia, all we can do is buy their oil," says an American oil company official. U.S. companies, this executive confirmed, want to return to greater direct control, perhaps through so-called production-sharing agreements that would give them both a direct stake in the oil fields and a greater share of the profits. Ultimately US neoconservatives and US oil executives look beyond Iraq and even Iran to their ultimate prize in Saudi Arabia. Since the first oil embargo of the 1970's political scientists have proposed and American occupation of Saudi Arabia's oil fields. The occupation of Saudi oil fields has been a cherished vision for a small but influential circle of political insiders and strategists from George H Bush to Richard Cheney. In 2001 Richard Perle invited a RAND Corporation analyst to speak to the Defense Policy Board on exactly that topic. Earlier in 2002 an article entitled "Free the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia," by Husdon Institute founder Max Singer suggested that the United States should help create a Muslim Republic of East Arabia. "I meant it seriously," says Singer. "Saudi Arabia is vulnerable not only to a U.S. seizure of their land but to U.S. unofficial participation in a rebellion by minority Shi'a in the Eastern Province." The Eastern Province, which is largely Shi'a, happens to include the vast bulk of Saudi Arabia's oil fields. Finally, consider the following lofty Neo-conservative notion: that America's control of the currency hegemon and the energy commodity itself [and in conjunction with the IMF and G-8 financial institutions whilst marginalizing the United Nations] enables America to effectively secure its position as a primary world economic leader for the forseeable future. Therefore the next logical step in US domination of the Oil Triumvirate is to leverage more effective control of Saudi Arabia's energy resources while, at the same time, provoking a new conflict for control of Iran. Richard Cheney and the Task Force on Energy Fadel Gheit, Oil Analyst at Oppenheimer & Co's New York Office reports: A select group of oil company executives met with Bush administration energy officials in the spring of 2001 for secret high level discussions regarding Iraq's oil reserves.[13] Iraq is nestled in the heart of an area of heaviest oil concentration in the world with easy accessibility - no permafrost, no deep water, just giant pools of oil right beneath the warm ground. Iraq has vast quantities of untapped and easily accessible oil, almost untouched. "Think of Iraq as virgin territory .... This is bigger than anything Exxon is involved in currently .... It is the superstar of the future," says Gheit, "That's why Iraq becomes the most sought-after real estate on the face of the earth." Gheit just smiles at the notion that oil was not a major factor in the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Gheit compares Iraq to Russia, which also has large undeveloped oil reserves. But Russia has nuclear weapons. "We can't just go over and ... occupy (Russian) oil fields," says Gheit. "It's a different ballgame." Iraq, however, was defenceless and utterly lacking in weapons of mass destruction [ironically] thus making it a particularly easy target. And its location nestled between Saudi Arabia and Iran, makes Iraq an ideal location for an ongoing US military presence from which the US will control the entire Gulf region. Gheit smiles again: "Think of Iraq as a military base with a very large oil reserve underneath .... You can't ask for better than that." Although the Bush administration vociferously objected, another Task Force sourced document was released under court order, entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfields". The "Foreign Suitors" document identifies 63 oil companies from 30 countries and specifies the particular Iraqi oil fields each company was interested in and the status of relevant negotiations with Saddam Hussein's regime on their exploitation. Royal Dutch/Shell, Russia's Lukoil and France's Total/Elf Aquitaine, were all identified as potential developers in the fabulous, 25-billion-barrrel Majnoon oil field. Baghdad had "agreed in principle" to the French company's plans to develop this major oil holding in Iraq, however Cheney's Energy Task Force could not allow plans for French exploitation of the Iraqi fields to proceed. Cheney's Energy Task Force documents have attracted surprisingly little attention, despite their possible relevance to the question of Washington's 'mysterious' motives for its invasion of Iraq.Certainly any suggestion that private oil interests were in any way involved is hooted down with charges of conspiracy theory. However the documents suggest that those who took part in the Cheney task force -- including senior oil company executives -- were very interested in Iraq's oil and also specifically interested in the possibility of Iraq's oil falling into the hands of foreign [non-US] oil companies, rather than into the rightful hands of the US oil corporates. As the documents show, prior to Bush's invasion, foreign oil companies were nicely positioned for future oil exploration and exploitation in Iraq, while major US corporates were shut out fo the Iraqi oil picture after a dozen years of US-Iraqi hostilities; indeed, the US majors would have been the big losers if UN sanctions against Iraq had simply been lifted. "The US majors stand to lose if Saddam makes a deal with the UN (on lifting sanctions)," noted a report by Germany's Deutsche Bank in October 2002. We therefore arrive at a central point: The United States could not allow sanctions versus Iraq to be lifted upon completion of the UN Inspector's work there, because the exploitation of the tremendous Majnoon oil resources would then be fully open to a foreign corporate while Saddam Hussein would remain in power, and the US would remain shut out of a major new source of oil reserves. [14] == War in the Middle East [commentary] == The war on terror is widely touted in the media as an essential core political ideal in the current phase, but the "war on terror" is certainly an artificial construct intended to reinforce desired opinions and behaviors among first world populations, and in no way approaches any real or imagined ideal state of affairs with regard to the conduct of foreign policy. The "war on terror" is a favored distortion of global petro-village rhetoric because this construct of misunderstanding conveniently masks the monopoly of violence already maintained by the state itself. The foundation for the so-called "war on terror" is the state's promotion [and defense] of its own ability to control populations through propaganda, disinformation, fear and violence; however the Third World War versus third world populations - including Iraq - is certainly a very real war, presently and historically.[8] America's Military Power since World War 2: The United States achieved superpower status as a weapons manufacturer of first resort until the Soviet Union collapsed under its own weight in the early 1990's. Instead of reaping the so-called 'peace dividend' the US discovered that it too lost the cold war by relying upon its weapons manufacturing base to support its economy. Post-1991 the US faced a choice similar to that of the former USSR: face economic ruin or find new markets for US weapons. Besides new aggressive/interventionist foreign policies the result of this lost cold war is apparent in the state's inability to contain conditions under which [popular notions of] terrorism may thrive. It is therefore logical to ignore the artificial construct of the "war on terror" and refer to the real war in the third world as Petrol War 1 or the Third World War, which began in earnest with explosive violence in Lebanon's civil war of 1975/76, following the western oil crisis and the Yom Kippur war of 1973, and the floating of the dollar in 1971; these four noteworthy events are inextricably linked in time, cause and purpose. We shall briefly consider each event and its contribution to the road to war in Iraq. War in Lebanon The United States is prepared to use armed forces to assist any nation or group of such nations requesting assistance against armed aggressors from any country controlled by international communism. -- Dulles, 1958 The road to war in Iraq begins in Iran with the US-led 1953 coup which ousted the democratically elected government of Mossadegh; but the road to ideological confrontation begins in Lebanon where terrorism, unholy political alliances and a US failure to lead and/or constructively participate in middle eastern affairs ultimately leads to continuing escalation of violent conflict. The global petro-village came of age with the first true oil crisis and Arab oil embargoes of the early 1970's. Then as today powerful economic forces dictated a sea-change in diplomatic relations, and Lebanon's melting pot of radical religious groups, assorted martyrs, New Phoenician business people and influx of radical Palestinians conspired to create an unholy political powder keg destined to explode. Historically Lebanon was viewed as the Asian-western edge of Christendom while the Lebanese christians considered themselves as the eastern-most inhabitants of western Christendom. And until 1973 Lebanon played an important role as a business/banking hub for the West in the Middle east and business staging area for oil exploration; however the onset of the first energy crisis and Arab oil emabargo of 1973 crippled Lebanon's influence, and with this eclipse the smoldering socio-economic underbelly exploded. From the early 1970's Lebanon has been a violent playground for various middle eastern power factions whether Muslim, Palestinian, Syrian, Israeli, Maronite/Christian, American or European. Specifically and to the point, the conflicts in Lebanon, even into antiquity, may be seen as a microcosm of the religious, political, social and economic conflict that we experience in the Middle East and indeed throughout the world today. Principally Beirut was a center for Palestinian fedayeen activity and specifically, the 1972 Sabena hijacking, Lod airport shootings and Munich massacre of Israeli athletes were all masterminded by Palestinian terror groups in Beirut at the time. Lebanon's sympathy for radical Palestinians, coupled with a changing business and economic climate in a land known for its hotbed of politico-religious splinter groups was bound to be the Lebanon's undoing. Significantly within Lebanon and the civil war of 1975 until the subsequent Israeli-led invasion in 1982, we see new developments in new-age concepts of terrorism [for exammple airline hijacking and high-profile hostage-taking] and  in Lebanon we also see unusual political alliances among diparate religious groups, for example among Maronites and Israelis. ================================================================================== The Israeli-Palestinian War in Lebanon, 1982 The Israeli-Palestinian war was initiated by Israel in 1982 and deserves special mention because the background and concept of the war includes many parallels to the Bush invasion and occupation of Iraq; in typical doublespeak worthy of any bureaucrat today Israel called its war on the Palestinians "Operation Peace for Gallilee" and the irony when compared to America's war on Iraq called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is immediately apparent. By 1981/82 the Begin-Sharon government could no longer tolerate the perceived PLO threat on its northern border especially after the shellings of Gallilee with many Israeli fatalities, and the Reaganite extremist General Haig now allowed Israel free reign with zero US intervention; the UN was perceived by Reaganites as a thorn in the side of Israel's attempt to finally end all Palestinian resistance. Certainly the high-point of Palestinian resistance, Israel's massive invasion of Lebanon failed to defeat the PLO in spite of glaring odds in Israel's favor. A stalemate in the fighting caused a UN attempt to broker peace - Israeli propaganda represented the stalemate as a strategic halt due their unforseen rapid advance on Beirut beyond the 40 KM perimeter originally envisaged by Sharon - but the fact is that Israel could not decisively defeat the PLO militia by June 13th, 1982. This is the mystery and untold wonder of modern military history, that Israel's massive military machine which included one-half million soldiers in over seventy Army brigades, over eight thousand armored vehicles, five hundred advanced combat aircraft, ninety naval vessels, and billions of dollars in military funding [courtesy of the American taxpayer] yet could not decisively defeat a rag-tag improvised and poorly armed militia of approximately fifteen-thousand Palestinians. UN Security Council resolution 509 demanded Israel's withdrawal of all troops from Lebanon but Israel ignored the resolution and surrounded Beirut, with two key Palestinian camps under siege. In an alliance with Maronite Christians, the state of Israel and CIA [9] allowed Maronite terrorists to enter the Shatila, Sabra and Tal PLO camps. Official Red Cross figures put the number of dead Palestinian civilians at 543, however independent sources estimate the number of massacred Palestinian civilians to be far higher. [10] Certainly Israel's free reign in targeting Palestinian civilians now peaked under Reagan's regime where Alexander Haig failed to provide the US brake on Israel's military activities, a brake that maintained some sort of uneasy balance of power in the region since 1948. Under heavy fire from the newly found Lebanese Resistance, Israel partially withdrew from central Lebanon in 1984 and 1985 but enlarged its occupation of the southern part of the country up to the area of Jezzine. On April 11, 1996, following an escalation in intermittent skirmishes, Israel commenced a bombardment of southern Lebanon and certain other targets in Lebanon, including the southern suburbs of Beirut. On April 27, 1996 a cease-fire "April Understanding" came into effect. The cease-fire was based on a written but unsigned agreement drawn up by France and the United States and setting out a position mutually acceptable to Israel, Syria and Lebanon, which expanded and consolidated oral cease-fire understandings reached in July 1993. These arrangements established an international group composed of representatives of the United States, France, Syria, Lebanon and Israel to monitor the cease-fire. On May 24, 2000, Israel withdrew its troops from a large territory in southern Lebanon which Israel has occupied since 1978. A significant issue relating to the withdrawal remains unsettled: certain villages and adjacent land on the eastern side of Alsheikh Mountain, known as the “Shebaa Farms” have been occupied by Israel since 1967; the Lebanese government has advised the United Nations that it considers this area to be Lebanese territory and, as such, the withdrawal must encompass the Shebaa Farms. At a news conference in Paris, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced that Damascus will demarcate their countries' border with Lebanon at Shebaa Farms after Israel withdraws from the region. Because of this, many Lebanese people feel that Syria is fighting a war by proxy with Israel on Lebanese soil. The conflict in Lebanon is inextricably intertwined with Bush's war in Iraq, complicated by regional territorial wars such as the Shebaa Farms and the Haifa oil pipeline project which ran from Kirkuk in Iraq to the port of Tripoli in Lebanon. The Haifa pipeline There is ample evidence that the plan to reopen the Haifa pipeline [closed in 1948] from Iraq to Israel has been in the works for many years, with Henry Kissinger an early progenitor of the project. James Akins, a former US ambassador to the region and one of America's leading Arabists explains: "There would be a fee for transit rights through Jordan, just as there would be fees for Israel from those using what would be the Haifa terminal. After all, this is a new world order now. This is what things look like particularly if we wipe out Syria. It just goes to show that it is all about oil, for the United States and its ally Israel." Akins was ambassador to Saudi Arabia before he was fired after a series of conflicts with then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, father of the vision to pipe oil west from Iraq. "Operation: Free Iraq Oil" dates back to 1975, when Kissinger signed what forms the basis for the Haifa project: a Memorandum of Understanding whereby the US would guarantee Israel's oil reserves and energy supply in exchange for political favors. Kissinger was also master of the American plan in the mid-Eighties - when Saddam Hussein was a key US ally - to run an oil pipeline from Iraq to Aqaba in Jordan, opposite the Israeli port of Eilat. The plan was promoted at the time by Donald Rumsfeld, and the pipeline was to be built by the Bechtel company, which the Bush administration has now awarded multi-billion dollar contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq. The memorandum has been quietly renewed every five years, with special legislation attached whereby the US stocks strategic oil reserves for Israel even if it entails domestic shortages. In 2002 the cost of ensuring Israeli reserves by these means cost US taxpayers $3 billion. However the new Iraqi pipeline will slash these costs with the added advantage of giving the US reliable access to a new source of Gulf oil. An anonymous senior CIA source maintains: "It has long been a dream of a powerful section of the people now driving this administration [of President George W. Bush] and the war in Iraq to safeguard Israel's energy supply as well as that of the United States. The Haifa pipeline was something that existed, was resurrected as a dream and is now a viable project." Currency and Empire http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq_War

			The Bush/Nazi Connection II  © . All rights reserved by J.Z Holden A balding, silver-haired Kurt Julius Goldstein opens the door to his hotel room overlooking the United Nations Plaza in New York. He is wearing dark brown corduroy slacks and a beige cotton turtleneck beneath a dark green V-neck pullover. His handshake is firm, and he smiles broadly. Inside the room, the sun reflects off a metal cane leaning against the bureau. Mr. Goldstein strolls past ignoring its presence. Instead, picking up his pace, he walks vigorously towards two chairs arranged by the window where the interview is to be held. His vigor is surprising; he looks like a man in his mid-sixties, rather than a man who is about to turn 91. From 1942 until 1945, this now robust elderly man, bathed in New York’s winter light with the world’s flags fluttering behind him, worked the night shift as a slave laborer in the coal mines at Auschwitz. He is one of two plaintiffs namedin an astonishing lawsuit suing President Bush and the US government for $400 Million. Kurt Julius Goldstein and Peter Gingold, the Auschwitz survivors named as plaintiffs in the litigation against the Bush family, are 91 and 89 years of age respectively. Mr. Goldstein claims to have mined the coal for Consolidated Silesian Steel - coal that fueled furnaces where armaments were made, coal transformed into oil, gasoline and airplane fuel for IG Farben that due to patent arrangements benefited the German war effort, coal for trains to transport Jews to the camp, and coal for the ovens to burn them after they were gassed. Mr. Goldstein said from his hotel room in New York, “Genocide is not forgivable and cannot be swept under the rug.” Both Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Gingold argue that hundreds of thousands of lives should have been saved as a result of an executive order issued by President Roosevelt on January 22, 1944, which established the “policy of the U.S. government to take all measures within its power to rescue the victims of enemy oppression who are in imminent danger of death and otherwise to afford such victims all possible relief and assistance consistent with the successful prosecution of the war.” Mr. Goldstein describes himself as “a German, a Jew and a Communist, in that order,” with “humanitarian values” learned as a young boy at his father’s bedside, who prior to dying of war wounds in 1920, tutored Mr. Goldstein in the works of Schiller and Goethe. After his father’s death, young Goldstein was absorbed by a large, upper-middle-class Jewish family with a successful textile business in Hamm. By 1927, he had become a member of the Communist party, and by 1935 he had left for Palestine, only to return to Europe by 1939 to fight in the war in Spain. By July of 1942, he had been captured and sent to Auschwitz. In 1945, after the liberation of the concentration camps, many survivors chose to leave Europe for the United States, Israel or South America. Mr. Goldstein chose to return to his homeland in order to “rebuild a better Germany”. He authored two books; one is a compilation of lectures and the other an autobiography entitled “The King of the Jews” in which he describes in detail his Auschwitz experience. He is presently working on a third “installment” which he plans to release on his 100th birthday. In his vast career, Kurt Julius Goldstein has been the Secretary of the KPD, has worked with youth groups all over Germany instilling in them the compassionate values he learned in childhood. He has always embraced all faiths, and all political parties. Probably best known as the Station Manager for the East German DDR Broadcast Company, he was a popular radio correspondent and considered “the official voice of the DDR”. Currently he is the voice of IPAS, or the Internationalen Projektgruppe Auschwitz-Sammelklage that has brought the class action suit again President Bush and The US Government. The second plaintiff, Peter Gingold is a close associate of Mr. Goldstein’s, who lives in Frankfurt and has been a mediator between East and West Germany since 1970. Mr. Gingold helped to establish the organization, Friends of Auschwitz and lost most of his family at Auschwitz. The general outline of the story has never been a secret, though of course the Bush family has hardly embraced it. The President’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, graduated from Yale where he had been a member of the secret fraternity known as “Skull and Bones.” Known for its sadistic initiations and outrageous pranks, the fraternity is also recognized for its highly prestigious and influential membership. All the members of the Bush family, including the current President, as well as most of their business partners met and formed lasting associations while members of Skull and Bones. When Prescott Bush married, he went to work for his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker at one of the most prominent private banking firms in America, Brown Brothers Harriman. From 1926 until 1952, George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush together, created an endless series of holding companies and subsidiaries with clearinghouses in Switzerland, from which they could move their German clients’ funds into bank accounts around the world. As a director of Brown Brothers Harriman, Prescott Bush was also a director of The United Banking Corporation or UBC, located at 39 Broadway, NYC. The Union Banking Corporation was comprised of several companies, all of which had holdings in Germany, and all of which played a major role in the German war effort. And most importantly, most were owned by the German Steel magnates, the Thyssen family. On July 31, 1941, two front page articles appeared; one in The New York Herald-Tribune, and the other in The Washington Post, regarding $3,000,000 concealed in the Steel Tycoon, Fritz Thyssen’s accounts at Chase Manhattan Bank, immediately followed on August 6, 1941, by the US Treasury Department’s formal investigation. One year later, on Oct. 9,1942, UBC’s assets were seized by the Office of the Alien Property Custodian of the U.S. Government. It was official, The UBC was being used to launder the money of German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, also known as Hitler’s ‘angel’. At a time when the US andGermany were at war, $3 Million of his fortune had found its way into accounts at The Chase Manhattan Bank. According to former Nazi Prosecutor and author John Loftus, “To aid his sons in their shell game, August Thyssen had established three different banks during the 1920’s, The August Thyssen Bank in Berlin, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, and the Union Banking Corporation in New York City. To protect their corporate holdings, all the brothers had to do was move the corporate paperwork from one bank to the other. This they did with some regularity. When Fritz Thyssen ‘sold’ the Holland-American Trading Company for a tax loss, the Union Banking Corporation in New York bought the stock. Similarly, the Bush family invested the disguised Nazi profits in American steel and manufacturing corporations that became part of the secret Thyssen empire. When the Nazis invaded Holland in May 1940, they investigated the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam. Fritz Thyssen was suspected by Hitler’s auditors of being a tax fraud and of illegally transferring his wealth outside the Third Reich…The Nazis did not know that all the documents evidencing secret Thyssen ownership had been quietly shipped back to the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin, under the friendly supervision of Baron Kurt von Schroeder. Thyssen spent the rest of the war under house arrest…Unfortunately, the August Thyssen Bank had been bombed during the war, and the documents were buried in the underground vaults beneath the rubble. Worse, the vaults lay in the Soviet Zone of Berlin.” The present day lawsuit against President Bush and the US Government has at its center two things: the alleged profits from those transactions, estimated at $1.5 Million in1951, and believed to have been put into a blind trust worth a fortune today, and the fact that the profits from both UBC and another company known as Silesian Steel, were made by slave labor. Both allegations have their basis in reality. The Silesian-American Corporation was organized in 1926 under the laws of the state of Delaware by the investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman. By October 3, 1942, the company’s assets were vested, like those of UBC, under the Trading with the Enemy Act. At that time, 49% of the company’s capital stock was owned by Bergwerkgesellschaft Georg von Giesche’s Erben, a company located in Breslau, Germany and the other 51% was owned by American interests located at the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at 25 Broadway in New York City. Both Anaconda and Geische’s Erben owned coal mines in Upper Silesia in the areas around Kattowice and Auschwitz, in Poland. Via Brown Brothers Harriman, both Prescott Bush and his father-in-law were directors of the company, and George Herbert Walker was also a shareholder. On the German side, there were several distinct players. Giesche’s Erben held various German and Polish mining subsidiaries which after 1933, continued to function under the watchful eye of the Third Reich. There were also the German controlled Swiss finance companies; a subsidiary of Giesche’s Erben known as Non-Ferrum Gesellschaft zur Finanzierung von Unternehmungen des Bergbaues und der Industrie der Nichteisenmetalle, of Zurich, Switzerland, (known as Non-Ferrum), and the Internationale Anlagen Gesellschaft (known as IKAP) of Switzerland, as well as Erzag Limited, also of Zurich, Switzerland. On the US side, The Anaconda Copper and Mining Company located at 25 Wall St. held bank accounts located at The National City Bank of New York, 55 Wall Street, Irving Trust Company, One Wall Street, Guaranty Trust Company of New York, 140 Broadway, Chemical Bank and Trust Company, 165 Broadway, Bank of the Manhattan Company, 40 Wall Street and Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, 70 Broadway – all were being investigated by the US government after 1942 and all were within walking distance of one another as well as the offices of UBC, Silesian Steel and Brown Brothers Harriman . Prior to being vested in 1941, representatives of Giesche’s Erben and representatives of Non-Ferrum approached the American partners of Silesian Steel through an intermediary fromthe American investment house, Lazard Freres and Company, offering to purchase the shares owned by Anaconda. When the US government vested Silesian Steel in 1942, the same representative, Otto Jeidels of Lazard Freres approached them again. Despite the war, despite public opinion, despite the fact that they were in partnership with the enemy, despite the fact that money was owed to the shareholders, and most importantly, despite the fact that by 1942 reports of what was happening inside the camps was starting to be known, Anaconda and the Property Custodian for the US government were clear that they were in no particular hurry to sell. In a document written by the Chief of the Division of Investigation and Research for the US government, Homer Jones, on September 25, 1942 the examiner’s report summed up the Silesian Steel investigation this way: “The subject corporation is an American holding company for German and Polish subsidiaries, which own large and valuable coal and zinc mines in Silesia, Poland and Germany. Since September 1939, these properties have been in the possession of and have been operated by the German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country in its war effort…These stocks have no present liquidating value to the German occupation of Polish properties. However, Mr. E.O. Sowerwine of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company stated that once the war was over and the properties were returned to their American owners, these stocks would again have considerable value, and that acting on this belief, The Anaconda Copper Mining Company was retaining their shares…” Journalist Burton Hersh, sheds some light on just how intertwined the roles of the various players on all sides of the equation were in his book The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, “The Alien Property Custodian, Leo Crowley, was actually on the payroll of the New York J. Henry Schroeder Bank, General Analine’s depository [and IG Farben’s American based subsidiary], where Foster and Allen Dulles both sat as board members. Foster arranged an appointment for himself as special legal counsel for the Alien Property Custodian while simultaneously representing [another Farben subsidiary] against the custodian…” According to that assessment, Leo Crowley, the Alien Property Custodian played a vital role in preventing the sale of Anaconda’s stock. Standard Oil was I.G. Farben’s largest single shareholder. The companies complemented eachother well: Farben transformed the coal mined at the Silesian Steel Company into synthetic oil and gasoline while Standard Oil and Ibn Saud kept the Nazi war machine afloat with a never ending flow of oil via Franco’s Spain. In the “mutually beneficial” business arrangement that developed between the two, I.G. Farben used Jews for its slave labor force from the Third Reich. The Third Reich purchased its coal and armaments from the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, and its extermination gas Zyklon-B, from I.G. Farben. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were dying in the process, but the New York based, American board of directors seems to have focused on the bottom line. At any rate, the Rockefellers remained partners with I.G. Farben, and Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker remained partners with the Nazis while acting as the directors of the Silesian Steel Corporation, well after it was vested in 1942. How much did people like Bush and Walker really know, when did they know it and what could have been done? According to a day by day accounting entitled Auschwitz Chronicle, 1939-1945, from the Archives of the Auschwitz Memorial and German Federal Archives, by Danuta Czech, “on August 15, 1941, the Polish Government in exile in London received the first news of inmates being shot and buried in mass graves at Auschwitz.” On June 29, 1942, “Cyryl Ratajski, pseudonym ‘Wrzos,’ the delegate of the Polish Government in Exile, writes a radiogram to the Polish Government in Exile in London: ‘In Auschwitz, 200 persons were shot in retaliation for Heydrich. Moreover, on June 8, 160 persons were shot for the murder of a Gestapo supervisor. At present, there are 14,000 people there, including about 3,000 women. The 70-year-old sculptor, Ludwik Puget, was shot in Auschwitz.’ The report was based on data from inside the camp itself and from the interest zone, which reached the outside world through underground channels.” In Night, Elie Wiesel tells the story of Moishe the Beadle the first person in his town to escape from a deportation in 1942, “He told me what had happened to him and his companions. The train with the deportees had crossed the Hungarian border and, once  in Polish territory, had been taken over by the Gestapo. The train had stopped. The Jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks. The trucks headed toward a forest. There everybody was ordered to get out…Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners…Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns… “Day after day, night after night, he went from one Jewish house to the next, telling his story and that of Malka, the young girl who lay dying for three days, and that of Tobie, the tailor who begged to die before his sons were killed. “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad.” In a letter written by Averell Harriman’s daughter Kathleen to his wife Pam from Moscow, dated November 1943, she writes, “I lunched with Lawrence (NY Times), Nichol (Chicago D.N.) and Bill Downs and they were worried as to whether or not they should believe the atrocity story they were told. (50,000 Jews killed and burned in a ravine just outside town.) [Babi Yar] None of the three got any feeling at allof the town or seemed to appreciate it was a great story. Shapiro was the only guy who reacted personally to the town, which prewar had a population of a million and now has 70,000. It’s too bad the US Press can’t send its best correspondents. The bunch here are either tactless as hell or so brow-beaten by the lack of information that they’ve lost all initiative.” Averell Harriman, who was the largest shareholder in Silesian Steel, knew better. On October 30,1943, acting on behalf of the US government as Ambassador to Russia, he attended a conference in West Africa to discuss German atrocities. The countries with representatives scheduled to attend were Great Britain, The United States, the Soviet Union, and China. A month earlier, on Sept. 22,1943, Ambassador Harriman received a memo stating, In addition to Section 38 of Title 22 which forbids an ambassador, minister and other foreign representative from engaging in business in a country to which he is accredited,the Regulations of the Department of State, Section 101.19, provide as follows: Officers of the Foreign Service are forbidden to transact, engage in, or have any interest in any business to, from or within the limits of their respective jurisdictions, either in their own names or in the names or through the agency of any other persons. Officers of the Foreign Service are also forbidden to make any investments of money within the limits of the foreign country to which the officers are accredited or assigned. This prohibition shall apply to the owning of real estate, bonds, shares, stocks, and mortgages, but does not extend to the purchase of a house and land for personal use. You own certain securities of the Imperial Russian Government, together with stock of Russo-Asiatic Consolidated, Ltd. which has a very large claim against the Soviet. Memo of Joe Powell is attached. All of these should be disposed of. Harriman Fifteen once owned stock of American-Russia Industrial Syndicate, Inc., but this was bought by Mr. Walker… Due to his placement within the government, because of his access to information and close ties to world leaders and his powerful business partners, Averell Harriman knew that the companies which he and his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman created, and which were making them all rich, were utilizing slave labor. As the memo indicates, whenever he needed to step back into his private role as investment banker, he had someone extremely reliable ready to step in and take over the transaction, Mr. George Herbert Walker. A spokesperson for Brown Brothers Harriman today, Marsha Horowitz, said that, “BBH does not have any information regarding either UBC or The Silesian Holding Company. Prescott Bush left his partnership upon his death in the 1960’s. And to the best of our knowledge, George Herbert Walker never worked for us.” Documents at the US Archives and The Library of Congress prove otherwise. Recently declassified documents at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland,show that Giesche’s Erben, the German half of Silesian Steel was listed as a subsidiary of IG Farben. As of October 1, 1944, the IG Farben plants had 180,000 slave workers and 19,300 miners. Kurt Julius Goldstein was one of those miners. Furthermore, the declassified documents show that the relationship between IG Farben and Silesian Steel had been established years earlier and that banking transactions had taken place between IG Farben’s bankers, Greutert & Cie (subsequently H. Sturzenegger & Cie.) and Anaconda through the Nationalbank located in Basel, Switzerland landing directly in Anaconda’s accounts at The Guarantee Trust of New York. For Mr. Goldstein, his memories of that time are as clear as if they happened yesterday, “In 1942, documents were smuggled out of Auschwitz. They went from Krakow to London and eventually ended up in Washington where they were delivered to President Roosevelt by American Rabbi Stephen Weiss. He personally asked the President to bomb the train tracks at Auschwitz.” That request was not as simple as it seemed. Edwin Black, the author of IBM and The Holocaust, The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation writes, “The war broke out on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Germany annexed northwestern Poland; the remaining Polish territory in Nazi hands was treated as ‘occupied’ and called the ‘General Government.’ That annexed northwestern quadrant was serviced by IBM’s German subsidiary, Dehomag, mainly to handle the payrolls of Silesian Coal mines and heavy industry.“The trains running to Auschwitz were tracked by a special guarded IBM customer site facility at 22Pawia in Krakow. The millions of punch cards the Nazis inPoland required were obtained exclusively from IBM, including one company print shop at 6 Rymarska Street across the street from the Warsaw Ghetto. The entire Polish subsidiary was overseen by an IBM administrative facility at 24 Kreuz in Warsaw.“ The (newly unearthed) IBM customer site was a huge Hollerith Buro. It was situated in the IG Farben factory complex, housed in Barracks 18 next to German Civil Worker Camp 7, about two kilometers from Auschwitz III, also known as Monowitz Concentration Camp.”   In a recent telephone interview Mr. Black added, “It’s a little known fact that the early numbers tattooed on the arms of the prisoners, were IBM numbers.” IBM has never challenged his findings. On the contrary, they have said publicly that everything in his book is “factually correct.” There are several indications that the US government had at least a fleeting intention to bomb parts of Auschwitz. According to the Auschwitz Chronicle, photos of Auschwitz, Auschwitz I, II and III, as well as the IG Farben compound were taken by U.S. air reconnaissance on June 26, 1944 from an altitude of 30,000 feet. They did bomb around the perimeter of the camp, but never disturbed the train tracks or the gas chambers. Mr. Goldstein says, “It was John J. McCloy [the assistant secretary of war under Roosevelt] who nixed the bombing.” There is however, enough documentation to indicate that there was tremendous pressure from the Dulles, Harriman, Bush, Rockefeller cabal to let that executive order languish. By July 10, 1944 the Press, seemed more alert. A daily entry in Auschwitz Chronicle says, “The St. Gallen [Switzerland] newspaper, Die Ostschweiz, publishes an article with the title, ‘People Are Disappearing.’ The article’s source is the Foreign Ministry of the Polish Government in Exile in London, and it reports that 400,000 Hungarian Jews have been deported to Poland, of whom the majority have been sent to Auschwitz. The deportations began on May 15 when 62 cars with Jewish children arrived in Poland. Since then, it has been observed that daily six trains of Jews pass the train station in Plaszow near Krakow,whereby the majority are taken to Auschwitz and the people are killed in the gas chambers. According to the Polish Interior Ministry, these gas chambers have a daily capacity of 6000 persons…Among the deported are children between the ages of two and eight… The authorof the article points out further that that according to figures supplied by the Polish Assistance Committee for Jews, two million Polish Jews have died in the three concentration camps.” If the voice of the IPAS lawsuit is Kurt Julius Goldstein, then the engine behind it is Dusseldorf Attorney Peter Wolz. During a recent interview which Mr. Wolz required to be done in writing with the questions sent via email, and his response sent via fax, he described the reasons for his attraction to this case, “On January 1, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by the Russian Army. At that time, my mother who was pregnant, fled on foot to escape the Red Army that was advancing from Sudetendeutschland. [My father was dead.] On January 31, 1945, I was born in an alpine pasture hut, slightly west of the murder factory. Since that time, Auschwitz has not let me go. “In December 1963, the trials against the Auschwitz murders began in Frankfurt A.M. I had just completed my Abitur Degree, and had not heard anything either in school or at home about the Holocaust. I was in a state of total shock. How could the German Culture-nation have perpetrated an industrialized genocide against the Jews of Europe? And why couldn’t the Allies have intervened? “Looking for answers I studied economics, government and forensic psychiatry. And then one day a former Nazi High School teacher said, ‘Our American friends in the finance world and big business were happy that we could deliver Europe to them free of the Jews.’ Since then, I’ve examined the notion of a US collaboration with the Nazis. And in 1974, I became an attorney.” When Peter Wolz finally began to pursue this case, it was with an obsessive fervor akin to Ahab pursuing Moby Dick. “Plaintiffs Goldstein and Gingold filed a first complaint in October of 2000 in Washington, DC. demanding $400 Million in reparations from the US Government. According to Peter Wolz, President Clinton responded on January 31, 2000 with the following comment,“the validity of the Human Rights established at the Nuremberg trials are recognized by the USA.” Ironically, at precisely the same time, 120 countries had voted to endorse the Rome Statute in The Hague which would eliminate immunity for world leaders and their governments, holding them accountable for war crimes. At the very last minute of his Presidency, President Bill Clinton signed the treaty prior to sending it to the Senate for ratification. The next day, when President Bush entered office as President, he said that his administration would not respect that signature. He then went on to publicly denounce the validity of foreign courts. Clearly, the two are not unrelated. Mr. Wolz claims that, “On January 2, 2001 we received a response from Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the Dept. of Justice, letting us know that the Bush administration would block the progress of the suit.” In April of 2003, after languishing in the courts for two years, the IPAS complaint was dismissed by Judge Rosemary Collyer, on the grounds that the President was protected by sovereign immunity. Only Congress, she pointed out in her response, has the power to waive sovereign immunity. By October of 2005, Mr. Wolz filed another complaint, this time with the U.S. District Court for The Eastern District of New York. The complaint was reviewed by Judge Edward R. Korman who has presided over many Holocaust related cases; the most significant was the restitution decision against the Swiss banks that was settled on March 30, 1999 for $1.25 Million. President Bush was served the papers on December 27, 2005 and was given twenty days in which to respond. After receiving President Bush’s response to the claim, on March 14, 2005, Judge Korman dismissed the charges as “patently frivolous.” Attorney Wolz and his associate Jan Lissmann say that the case is being pursued in The Hague, and they will submit the complaint in the US, until they are acknowledged. Encouraged by the success of the Gold Train Case, the attorneys are planning to file again. Attorney Wolz believes that President Bush is not protected by sovereign immunity, and that the Bush “clan” is liable under International Law. According to the code established at the Nuremberg trials there are four areas to be addressed: 1) a common plan or conspiracy, 2) crimes against peace, 3) war crimes including genocide, and 4) crimes against humanity. The plaintiffs are demanding $400 Million in reparations to be put into a fund for Holocaust survivors and their families. Thanks to the passing of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, since 2000 over 400,000 pages of previously classified OSS files have been released. According to Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman, former Nazi hunter, former member of Congress, member of the Interangency Working Group and former NYC Comptroller, “Democracies prove their strength by their willingness to let the truth out; we will never learn from our mistakes if we don’t know what they are…the previously classified OSS material raise important moral questions; I suspect we will be debating them for many years to come. In particular, it is crucial to have enough historians and staff available to review the material…and inform the public of its significance.” Those files document that in 1948 Interhandel, a Swiss holding company, also known as I.G. Chemie, the American sister of IG Farben, whose assets were still under the control of the US government as a result of the Trading with the Enemy Act, brought suit against the Attorney General of the US for the return of 93 percent of the stock of General Analine and Film Corporation (GAF), and about $1.8Million in cash. In the US National Archives and Records Administration, under the Holocaust-Era Assets finding aid it says, “The United States charged that from the time of the plaintiff’s incorporation in the 1920’s to the surrender of Germany in 1945 that Interhandel had participated in a conspiracy or common plan with the private Swiss banking house of Hans Sturenegger & Cie. (prior to 1940 known as Eduard Greutert & Co.), IG Farben and others to cloak the ownership, control and domination by IG Farben of properties in the United States in many other countries…The plaintiff, however, because of Swiss secrecy laws, refused to produce the records of Hans Sturzenegger & Cie…While these legal battles were being fought, the Attorney General ran GAF as a vested property. In June 1953 the Interhandel case was legally reinstated when the US Supreme Court decided in favor of Interhandel and reversed the lower courts. It held that Interhandel, even without the submission of the Swiss documents, was entitled to a hearing on the merits of the case. Under the Kennedy administration, the government was persuaded to settle out of court. Congress passed a bill permitting the sale of GAF without court action, and the President signed the bill into law on October 22, 1962.“ On March 9, 1965, the GAF stock was sold in a sealed bid at the largest competitive auction in Wall Street History. A syndicate, headed by Blyth & Company, with a bid of nearly 330 million dollars was the winner. Payment to Interhandel netted 122 million dollars – an impressive amount, especially in light of the fact that in 1950 Interhandel was willing to settle for 14 million dollars.” To date, the only directors of IG Farben to have been prosecuted at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII were German. Their American partners were never once mentioned. The Interhandel case took 24 years to be resolved. Should the complaint against President Bush and the US government take as lengthy a route to its conclusion, the plaintiffs Goldstein and Gingold would not live to see the outcome. Their children however, and the attorney Peter Wolz with the full support of the European Association of Rabbis behind him, do not plan to relent any time soon.   © . All rights reserved J.Z . Holden  "WhearTheFuckIsPrescottBbushTheNazi2"
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What catches my attention is that a handful of less-than-democratic (to put it charitably) organizations have finally mustered a good offense/defense against American freedom of speech by attacking every possible domestic target as "anti-Muslim."  Top of the list is the demonstrably mendacious CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations.  It does do some good work; then it returns to a smiling, sharp-toothed practice of using US freedoms and legal guarantees to destroy - US freedoms and legal guarantees.    Reminiscent of that effective parasitic wasp http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm   --LM http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm Subject:         RF spy coins    Date:         Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:35:39 -0800 (PST)    From:         clayton U.S. defense workers warned about Canadian spy coins                    WASHINGTON: The Defense Department is warning its American contractor employees about a new espionage threat seemingly straight from Hollywood: It discovered Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside. In a U.S. government report, the department said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada. The U.S. report does not suggest who might be tracking American defense contractors or why. It also doesn't describe how the Pentagon discovered the ruse, how the transmitters might function or even which Canadian currency contained them. Further details were secret, according to the U.S. Defense Security Service, which issued the warning to the Pentagon's classified contractors. The government insists the incidents happened, and the risk was genuine. "What's in the report is true," said Martha Deutscher, a spokeswoman for the security service. "This is indeed a sanitized version, which leaves a lot of questions."                                                                Top suspects, according to intelligence and technology experts: China, Russia or even France — all said to actively run espionage operations inside Canada with enough sophistication to produce such technology. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it knew nothing about the coins. "This issue has just come to our attention," CSIS spokeswoman Barbara Campion said. "At this point, we don't know of any basis for these claims." She said Canada's intelligence service works closely with its U.S. counterparts and will seek more information if necessary. Experts were astonished about the disclosure and the novel tracking technique, but they quickly rejected suggestions Canada's government might be spying on American contractors. The intelligence services of the two countries are extraordinarily close and routinely share sensitive secrets. "It would seem unthinkable," said David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "I wouldn't expect to see any offensive operation against the Americans." Harris said likely candidates include foreign spies who targeted Americans abroad or businesses engaged in corporate espionage. "There are certainly a lot of mysterious aspects to this," Harris said. Experts said such tiny transmitters would almost certainly have limited range to communicate with sensors no more than a few feet (meters) away, such as ones hidden inside a doorway. "I'm not aware of any (transmitter) that would fit inside a coin and broadcast for kilometers," said Katherine Albrecht, an activist who believes such technology carries serious privacy risks. "Whoever did this obviously has access to some pretty advanced technology." Experts said hiding tracking technology inside coins is fraught with risks because the spy's target might inadvertently give away the coin or spend it buying coffee or a newspaper. They agreed, however, that a coin with a hidden tracking device might not arouse suspicion if it were discovered loose in a pocket or briefcase. "It wouldn't seem to be the best place to put something like that; you'd want to put it in something that wouldn't be left behind or spent," said Jeff Richelson, a researcher and author of books about the CIA and its gadgets. "It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense." Canada's physically largest coins include its $2 "Toonie," which is more than 1-inch (2.54 centimeters) across and thick enough to hide a tiny transmitter. The CIA has acknowledged its own spies have used hollow, U.S. silver-dollar coins to hide messages and film. The government's 29-page report was filled with other espionage warnings. It described unrelated hacker attacks, eavesdropping with miniature pen recorders and the case of a female foreign spy who seduced her American boyfriend to steal his computer passwords. In another case, a film processing company called the FBI after it developed pictures for a contractor that contained classified images of U.S. satellites and their blueprints. The photo was taken from an adjoining office window. ___ On the Web: CIA hollow coin: https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm 2 Hey Charles, This article is fantastic. I read it over very quickly, forwarded it to a couple of people. I'll read it more carefully later. I wrote a forward to a book called "Ambushed" by Toby Rogers, who has done some work connecting the Bushes to Auschwitz and the Silesian mines slave labor. Here are a few links to check out if you haven't heard of him. It connects closely with the article you sent. Here's Toby's article in Clamor: http://www.clamormagazine.org/issues/14/feature3.php And some other things related. Of course there are tons of things that come up on Google with these words. You're probably more familiar with them than I am, but just wanted to pass them on. http://www.hempworld.com/hemp-cyberfarm_com/htms/conspiracy/bushbloodmoney.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/bush-j05.shtml http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MDbushPR.htm ????????????? Fractals: an Introduction through Symmetry for beginners to fractals, highlights magnification symmetry and fractals/ chaos connections.This presentation is copyright © Gayla Chandler. All borrowed images are copyright © their owners or creators. While no part of it is in the public domain, it is placed on the web for individual viewing and presentation in classrooms,provided no profit is involved.. I hope viewers enjoy this gentle approach to math education. The focus is Math- Art. 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Different types of fractals share a common ground of parts that are similar to the whole. Even though self- similar substructure must technically be present all the way to infinity for something to be called fractal, the concept of fractility is loosened to apply to forms (esp.natural) with only a handful of levels of substructure  present..The simplification of complexity leading to useful results that we have been looking at is not unique to the field of fractals, it is a theme that runs throughout mathematics, although the methods of simplification vary. "Mathematics is about making clean "simplified" concepts out of things that we notice in the world around us. In the world [staying with fractals as an example], when it is applicable we make a clean concept by assuming the existence of self- similarity— infinite levels of substructure— when there are only a few, pushing beyond reality." 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It's a culture that uses fossil fuels like bodybuilders use steroids. To Jeff Fisher and William Scully….this culture is a legacy of the past — outdated, environmentally destructive and, they say, about to be outstripped by technologies that will make fuel as obsolete as the paddlewheel steamer. As with all visionaries, they are out to change the world. They want to replace cars with vehicles that require no fuel, produce no noise and, except for wheels, create no friction and have no moving parts — meaning no pistons, no gears, no transmission, no drive shaft, no flywheel, no clutch and, as a consequence, much less weight. On a factory floor in east-end Montreal, they've built prototypes to demonstrate that their ideas will work. There are about a dozen among the clutter of work tables, old bicycle parts, pieces of pipe, nuts and bolts.  The vehicles look boxy and rudimentary, like golf carts designed from a Meccano set. But they work, as Fisher and Scully demonstrated in a lane behind the factory. Their prototypes have a maximum speed of 28 km/h, and they've tested them successfully on a 280-kilometre run. Conventional terminology would refer to them as solar vehicles. Fisher and Scully call them fuel-less vehicles to mark them as different from other so-called vehicles for the future. Instead of heavy conventional lead-acid batteries, they use cellphone batteries assembled in packs of up to 48. A pack weighs a fraction of a conventional battery and can be recharged from the solar cells in 20 minutes. A conventional battery can take up to 12 hours to recharge. A vehicle will have three to five cellphone battery packs. It can run on one, and when that is depleted, the driver can switch to another, allowing the depleted one to recharge on the go. Fisher and Scully buy surplus solar cells and cellphone batteries from stores for about $3 a cell or battery. Parts for the entire vehicle come to about $1,600. The prototype weighs 136 kilograms and can carry up to its own weight. It's driven by two magnets in the hub of the front wheel. Pulses of electricity are sent to the magnets, creating a negative charge on each. Since negative charges repel, the repelling force is used to turn the wheel. Speed is varied by changing the frequency of pulses to the magnets. The more pulses, the greater the repelling force, and the faster the speed. Their websites, http://www.solarvehicles.org and http://www.uprightsolar.com, contain technical drawings, which are free to anyone wanting them. They ask only to be informed of improvements. http://www.solarvehicles.org/images/TorontoStarArticlebyCameronSmith.doc