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George H.W. Bush? Big Al’s commitment to all of you.

Big Al
November 26, 2017

My personal commitment to members of our Forum is that I will examine George H.W. Bush from all sides and come back with my opinion either positive or negative.

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    CFS
    Nov 26, 2017 26:27 PM

    Way to go, Big Al.

    Some of us just have long memories, and pretty much hate most politicians.
    I, not being a Christian, am very slow to forgive mistakes (including my own) and have no reluctance at tossing stones, first or second.

      Nov 26, 2017 26:44 PM

      I am all for forgiving, but that doesn’t mean you forget, condone, or honor someone for doing them. The atrocities they foisted on other countries will not be forgotten for a LONG time, and their motives are sickening. Yes, most politicians have skeletons in the closet, but the Bush family committed huge wrongs on the planet, just like the Clintons, and were the epitome of cronyism politics. If we are going to be balanced, then let’s not put past slime balls on a pedestal just because they are “conservative” (when really they aren’t they are NeoCons and globalists).

      Big Al – You’ve made a big case against the Clintons in countless editorials and are absolutely right to do so. The Clintons have been a crime syndicate, and scourge upon the world for far too long, and their morals are not to be found.

      * Now imagine posting a key editorial topic that read like this:

      “Bill Clinton is courageous for speaking out against sexual predators, and Hillary Clinton was courageous as Secretary of State for making sure Russian deal makers got big briefcases full of money.”

      Big Al – How would you feel after reading it? Would just respond with “Yeah, Bill really understands womens feelings” or “Yeah, Hillary sure was courageous”.

      I seriously doubt it.

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      Whatever Clinton involvement there was in greasing the skids so the Obama department heads would give the Uranium One deal a green light, pales in comparison to what the Bushes and their cabinets did with their involvement in the Carlyle Group, or Halliburton, or hooking up their pals at so many defense contractor jobs.

      What is worse is all the proxy wars they raged against so many other countries, the lack of respect for human life (both our troops and their citizens), and the defiling of respect for Americans on the national stage.

        Nov 26, 2017 26:49 PM

        Big Al – One place to look beyond the Kennedy, CIA black ops, Drug Running, and Guns running from George HW Bush, is to look at the conflicts between Bush and what he did with the Carlyle Group. That is just the tip of the iceberg, but is enough to determine where his true interests laid.

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        The Carlyle Group, integrated by the Bush and bin Laden families awarded a billion dollar contract to “rebuild” Iraq:

        US arms group heads for Lisbon
        6 April 2003

        “Directors of one of the world’s largest armament companies are planning on meeting in Lisbon in three weeks time. The American based Carlyle Group is heavily involved in supplying arms to the Coalition forces fighting in the Iraqi war.”

        “It also holds a majority of shares in the Seven Up company and Federal Data Corporation, supplier of air traffic control surveillance systems to the US Federal Aviation Authority. The 12 billion dollar company has recently signed contracts with United Defence Industries to equip the Turkish and Saudi Arabian armies with aviation defence systems.”

        “Top of the meeting’s agenda is expected to be the company’s involvement in the rebuilding of Baghdad’s infrastructure after the cessation of current hostilities. Along with several other US companies, the Carlyle Group is expected to be awarded a billion dollar contract by the US Government to help in the redevelopment of airfields and urban areas destroyed by Coalition aerial bombardments.”

        “The Group is managed by a team of former US Government personnel including its president Frank Carlucci, former deputy director of the CIA before becoming Defence Secretary. His deputy is James Baker II, who was Secretary of State under George Bush senior. Several high profile former politicians are employed to represent the company overseas, among them John Major, former British Prime Minister, along with George Bush senior, one time CIA director before becoming US President.”

        “The financial assets of the Saudi Binladen Corporation (SBC) are also managed by the Carlyle Group. The SBC is headed up by members of Osama bin Laden’s family, who played a principle role in helping George W. Bush win petroleum concessions from Bahrain when he was head of the Texan oil company, Harken Energy Corporation – a deal that was to make the Bush family millions of dollars. Salem, Osama bin Laden’s brother, was represented on Harken’s board of directors by his American agent, James R. Bath.”

        “The connection between the Bush and bin Laden families can also be traced to the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in the 1990s. Members of the Anglo Pakistani bank’s board of directors included Richard Helms and William Casey, business partners of George Bush senior and former CIA agents. During their time at BCCI both Helms and Casey worked alongside fellow director, Adnan Khasshoggi, who also represented the bin Laden family’s interests in the US.”

        “The Portugal News has been told by a reliable source that the Carlyle Group meeting in Lisbon will discuss the relationship between the Saudi Binladen Corporation (SBC) and Osama bin Laden. Many US officials claim that the SBC continues to finance his political activities, and has done so for many years. If true, this would place George Bush senior and his colleagues at the Carlyle Group in an embarrassing position. As managers of SBC’s financial investments they might well be accused of indirectly aiding and abetting the United States’ number one enemy.”

        https://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/NEW304A.html

          Nov 26, 2017 26:52 PM

          The political and business cronyism only continued under his monkey-brained son:

          Cheney’s business alliances were far more obvious and sinister than anything Trump has done so far, but apparently some people have amnesia about what really happened not so long ago.

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          Halliburton, KBR, and Iraq war contracting: A history so far
          By Angie Drobnic Holan on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

          http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jun/09/arianna-huffington/halliburton-kbr-and-iraq-war-contracting-history-s/

            Nov 26, 2017 26:53 PM

            WHY IS DICK CHENEY SILENT ON THE OIL SPILL?
            BY RAVI SOMAIYA ON 6/11/10

            http://www.newsweek.com/why-dick-cheney-silent-oil-spill-73447

            Nov 26, 2017 26:30 PM

            “Bush managed to respond to the winding down of the Cold War by getting the U.S. deeply embroiled in the Middle East quagmire from which the country has yet to get out over two decades later, angered his own conservative base by going back on his “no new taxes” pledge, and lasted only one term. Angry middle class Republican base voters more worried about their jobs going overseas while the Republican Party wanted to play culture wars flocked to Ross Perot in 1992 while Bill Clinton ran a very different campaign from Dukakis to win in 1992.”

            >> Things that happened during his administration

            “The Satanic panic peaked just around the time he was elected. Manuel Noriega, the unelected military strongman of Panama, was ousted by Bush after it became public knowledge that Noriega made drug deals with the US as part of the funding given to the Contras. Bush, as Director of the CIA, blocked investigations into Reagan’s Noriega’s shadiness. Bush forced him to stand trial, but not for murder, and instead for drug trafficking, money laundering, and (we aren’t kidding) racketeering. As we just hinted, Noriega had been paid by the CIA to do the things he was accused and convicted of. Eventually, Noriega was tried for murder and convicted… by France.”

            “During his time in government, the checkout scanner/UPC bar code system was widely implemented, but no one told him in an elaborate practical joke to make him look clueless while running for re-election in 1992 against the upstart hillbilly, Bill Clinton, who went on to win, using the slogan “It’s … stupid!”

            “The Cold War officially ended on his watch, and aside from his “Chicken Kiev” speech the USSR thankfully fell apart with all the nukes in their place. In 1991-1992, a economic recession occurred due to a spike in oil prices post-Gulf War, and the bursting of the Reagan-era housing bubble from the ’80s, leading to three million people being unemployed. This gave Clinton the electoral advantage.
            Water baron”

            “Perhaps thirsty from all these money-as-water metaphors, the Bush family purchased 100,000 acres in the Paraguayan Chaco, giving them access to the Guarani aquifer, one of the largest fresh water reserves in the world.[8]
            Bad Company”

            “Before his promotion to Bush 41, Poppy was involved in a laundry list of crimes that permanently blackened the Agency’s reputation. As CIA honcho under Ford, he was put in charge of “Crisis Management” e.g. mopping up after the Agency’s involvement in coup d’etats and assassinations, including the ‘first’ September 11 — the 1973 murder of Salvador Allende which plunged Chile into a 17-year fascist dictatorship — and the Iran Contra affair. Over the next decade Langley spent over $3 billion establishing the Taliban, the Mujahadeen, and Osama bin Laden as CIA assets.”

            https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/George_H.W._Bush

            Nov 26, 2017 26:38 PM

            That last post was on Bush Sr. by the way.

      Nov 26, 2017 26:55 PM

      * Big Al – I’d be curious to see what you think of Bush after watching this documentary:

      Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy – 2004 – Full Length
      Directed by: Steven Grandison

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf_EQPRf8s0

        Nov 26, 2017 26:18 PM

        skip into the 24:33 minute mark to skip all the intro and election stuff to get to where they start following the money. the 35 min mark gets even more revealing.

          Nov 26, 2017 26:32 PM

          By 37 mins to 41 mins there should be no remaining questions as to Papa Bushes morals.

            Nov 26, 2017 26:45 PM

            By the 52 minute mark, you should be shaking your head in disgust.

        Nov 26, 2017 26:51 PM

        The Oligarchical Bush Family of Generational Treason

        “The Oligarchical Bush Family of Generational Treason from the Nazi SS and Adolf Hitler to Osama bin Laden. The journalist in this video is providing factually true evidence. The oligarchical Bush family of generational treason reaching back to the namesake of the two Bush presidents, George Herbert Walker. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. In the same manner that Prescott Bush traded with the Nazi industrial complex against the United States during WWII, so too did both Bush presidents with the Carlyle Trading Group and Bin Laden family. Unbeknownst to the Saudi Arabian 911 hijackers, was that a number of those same enemy combatants were also psychologically conditioned CIA jackal assets.”

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4jrv71ZfgA

          Nov 26, 2017 26:58 PM

          How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
          Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell
          Saturday 25 September 2004

          “Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today’s president”

          “George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.”

          “The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.”

          “His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.”

          “The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator’s action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

          Nov 26, 2017 26:19 PM

          skip to 31:08 mark in the documentary above if the middle bores you.

            Nov 26, 2017 26:23 PM

            Bush Family Funded Adolf Hitler
            Iraq War.ru 8-26-2003

            http://www.rense.com/general40/bushfamilyfundedhitler.htm

            Nov 26, 2017 26:24 PM

            …. but maybe the Bushes showed great “courage” while committing treason. 😮

            Nov 27, 2017 27:49 AM

            great over all view of the Bush clan……..thanks

            Nov 27, 2017 27:10 PM

            EX:

            Bravo. As always you do a simply brilliant job of solid research and call spades, spades.

            DC
            Nov 27, 2017 27:06 PM

            Ex, you’re treasure! And spot on, per usual.

            b
            Nov 27, 2017 27:54 PM

            Dec 21, 1995 – The Bayer aspirin company has finally apologized for the inhumane acts … the Holocaust including one at which Wiesel worked as a teenager.

            JANE MAYER’S RECENTLY PUBLISHED Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, is causing a stir. She reports that Fred C. Koch, the father of billionaire rightwing political activists Charles G. and David H. Koch, founded a company, Winkler-Koch Engineering, which built a large oil refinery in Hamburg for the Nazi regime. According to Mayer, the refinery was personally approved by Hitler and played a vital role in the German war machine and in the growth of the Koch family fortune.

            There are quite a few american companies around that made fortunes working with the NAZIs, thing is, the NAZI party was a legitimate political party in the U.S. and the Americans were neutral until Dec.1941.

            Not that I think they were good people, but they were doing nothing illegal.

            Tuff to legislate morality.

            GH
            Nov 28, 2017 28:21 AM

            They WERE legal, but a number of interests continued to do business with the Nazis after hostilities commenced, and more or less through the war. Prescott Bush was among these I believe. Loftus, Americas Nazi Secret, gives some detail, as does Tarpley.

            b
            Nov 28, 2017 28:11 PM

            Yes GH, thats true.

    Nov 26, 2017 26:41 PM

    To understand the level of corruption in the U.S Government,spend an hour listening to this woman.
    Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged person in U.S History.
    This women is a tireless Patriot. She exposed Speaker of the House, convicted pedophile Dennis Hassert.
    She blew the whistle on FBI corruption during G.W second term and was silenced by Robert Mueller,then director of the FBI.
    She has exposed Congresswoman Jan Schakowski,she has exosed Jan’s convicted husband Robert Craemer who had no less than 340 visits with President Obama.
    She has exposed operation Gladio B with Bill Clinton’s Muslim agenda, when the CIA brought Turkish Mula Gulen to Pennsylvania and started pushing the “Moderate Muslim”agenda which was really a terrorist network.
    George Soros has nothing on Fartlek Mulan Gulen and our CIA.
    She has exposed Illinois as the financial center for Gulen’s activities.She has exposed all people in power in Chicago and their criminal ties to Gulens 20 billion.
    Her website is Newsbud.com
    Here is a good u-tube to start your education. Are you listening Al?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IClVKyb63m4

      Nov 26, 2017 26:53 PM

      I will also add that some of us are still waiting for the opinion on 9/11 that you said that you would give us later.

      CFS
      Nov 26, 2017 26:29 PM

      Be careful, JohnK, accepting the word of Sibel Edmonds.
      What she presents may be totally true, except may also only be half true.
      i.e. Lying may be done by commision; making a statement which is false.
      or by omission; making a statement which is true, but omits certain facts, which if known would alter your belief as to her actual story.

      I only listened to part of her account. Did whe tell you she was iranian/Azerbaijani with Turkish nationality? (Her uncle, if I remember correctly, was mayor of Istanbul.
      She claims to be only a whistle-blower. The whistleblower part is probably true.
      It is not clear to me if she had further ulterior motives, involving planting false information,

        Nov 26, 2017 26:34 PM

        CFS:
        I have no time for you anymore. You are a total waste of my time.

        GH
        Nov 27, 2017 27:19 AM

        Yet another classic from CFS, playing some more 4D chess.

          GH
          Nov 27, 2017 27:23 AM

          Your statement is pure innuendo, based on her ethnicity.

          That anyone can be a disinformation agent goes without saying. But if you don’t have anything more than that, well, that would be typical.

            GH
            Nov 27, 2017 27:24 AM

            As in ‘par for the course’.

            Some more intelligent political dialogue, I guess.

    Nov 26, 2017 26:28 PM

    I will also add that once you start lying it is really hard to stop.
    And of course NASA went to the moon.

      Nov 26, 2017 26:31 PM

      So did the Russians and the Chinese.

      CFS
      Nov 26, 2017 26:31 PM

      Sarcasm does not translate over the internet well.

        Nov 26, 2017 26:39 PM

        God is Truth.

          CFS
          Nov 26, 2017 26:40 PM

          Whose God

            Nov 26, 2017 26:50 PM

            I already know you are not a Christian,to be honest I thought you were a Closet Muslim who liked 9 year old girls and little boys.

            CFS
            Nov 26, 2017 26:17 PM

            After all the Islamic scum bashing I have done on this site?

            JohnK, you are lacking in perceptive analytic capability or memory.
            You may rule out the 3 major religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

            Nov 26, 2017 26:23 PM

            CFS:
            You have ego problems. I don’t have time for it.

            Nov 26, 2017 26:24 PM

            I will add your not alone.

    Nov 26, 2017 26:30 PM

    AL. Here is a website you and your listener’s to log on too this website http://www.goldenjackass.com Check all of his pages of Jim Willie on the website. He also Hat trick newsletter paid subscription. and some free stuff also and free audio’s programs. Jim Willie. He has been all kinds of talk programs he has been on. He also speaks about The Bush family bad stuff on some of his audio’s time to time. What he talks about about its an Eye opener, and its about of all kinds of subject about everything that we all need to know about.

    Nov 26, 2017 26:43 PM

    We must all remember that corruption and wrong doing have always been with us, Al Capone, The Ku-Klux Klan, The Big Red Scare, we all want normalcy. The nation is tired, we all need healing. The wrongdoers need to be dealt with somehow so we can all have some peace for a while. DT

      CFS
      Nov 26, 2017 26:27 PM

      Normalcy is perpetual corruption.

      I want truth, openness, honesty in Government.

      Of course, Hillary in jail would be a good start. Then we can start scrutinizing all the Congress-critters and their cronies. We should be able to put to better use those FEMA internment camps they built at our expense.

      Nov 26, 2017 26:44 PM

      Agreed DT. Corruption and wrong-doing have always been with us.

      It would have been nice to justice served to Rockefeller or Brzezinski before they recently passes. There is still time with Soros, the Clintons, and the Bushes though.

      I doubt it will ever happen, but “honoring them for their courage” is something that should never go unchallenged.

        GH
        Nov 27, 2017 27:27 AM

        “honoring them for their courage” is something that should never go unchallenged. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        Nov 27, 2017 27:24 AM

        Stop and look very close at all these powerful families. One thing they have .The rockefeller, bushes,trumps,clintons, Gore’s, Kennedy’s, v.p. Joe B.etc……. All their daughters married the world’s enemy. Now they’re luciferians too. We have know one powerful with our best interest

          Nov 27, 2017 27:49 PM

          Good point about the inter-marrying to consolidate more power.

            DC
            Nov 27, 2017 27:17 PM

            Well, that’s how the Rulers of most countries and tribes have done it since time began. Nothing new about that tactic.

            Of course, there were also times when it backfired.

    Nov 26, 2017 26:51 PM

    Amen D.T

    CFS
    Nov 26, 2017 26:52 PM
    CFS
    Nov 26, 2017 26:54 PM
    Nov 26, 2017 26:53 PM

    Family of Secrets-Russ Baker.The Bush Dynasty,Americas invisible Government,and the hidden history of the last fifty years.-Russ Baker-
    Americans don’t read-Allen Dulles

    Nov 26, 2017 26:29 PM

    Al, you don’t need to buy the Unauthorized Biography of george Bush. I gave you the free online website yesterday. And there are many more people on youtube discussing Bush’s roll on 11-22-63

    Nov 26, 2017 26:33 PM

    It will be a hoot when Caroline Kennedy’s son finds out that he presented the Kennedy Profile In Courage Award to a man (George Bush) who was one of the CIA men LBJ used to murder JFK. How ironic!

      GH
      Nov 27, 2017 27:29 AM

      How could the Kennedy’s possibly be unaware of who was responsible? I would think all of the East Coast Establishment has a good idea of what happened.

      Maybe the Kennedy’s had to do this to propitiate TPTB?

        Nov 27, 2017 27:56 AM

        The liberals are totally clueless that JFK was murdered by LBJ and his gang.

    CFS
    Nov 27, 2017 27:17 AM

    Trump appointed a swamp creature for the Interior:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/zinke-aims-shave-national-monuments-055536052.html

    CFS
    Nov 27, 2017 27:44 AM

    Swamp creatures also have existed in England for 30 + years

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/882881/Brexit-EU-secret-document-truth-British-public

    Nov 27, 2017 27:02 AM

    Silver smack down monday…………

      Nov 27, 2017 27:10 AM

      The loss of common sense in the age of Technology and Scientism.

      CFS
      Nov 27, 2017 27:56 AM

      It’s options expiry tomorrow.

      What did you expect?

        Nov 27, 2017 27:06 AM

        I keep forgetting that…….. 🙂

      Nov 27, 2017 27:13 AM

      Populism is the dismissive propaganda term that the media uses to distract us from the real cause of our problems: the total failure of the status quo, the corrupt, predatory, exploitive, inefficient, rentier pay-to-play-“democracy” cartel-state hierarchy that has failed the bottom 95%.

      Nov 27, 2017 27:22 AM

      Home builders are not always the sharpest guys on the block………

        Nov 27, 2017 27:29 AM

        Maybe not the sharpest. Knowing how to build something with your hands in my book is a good foundation.Being able to draw and read Blueprints doesn’t hurt either.

          Nov 27, 2017 27:32 AM

          I like this one Jerry
          “And Jesus was a Carpenter”

            Nov 27, 2017 27:36 AM

            Got to love a carpenter………… 🙂

          Nov 27, 2017 27:35 AM

          I paid my way through college , framing apartments……so, I have a lot of respect for those in the trades…..Also, use to own a commercial ceramic tile business with 33 employees …and a real estate business with 55 people…..just so you know… 🙂

            Nov 27, 2017 27:42 AM

            Talking smack about Home Builders does not cut it with me.
            I don’t care where you came from. I have the broken bones as a reminder.
            Some times the most perceptive person is the guy dumping the trash.

            Nov 27, 2017 27:53 AM

            Have a lot of respect for trash collectors, too……….. 🙂

          Nov 27, 2017 27:52 AM

          been there done that…………

            Nov 27, 2017 27:20 AM

            Al likes to talk smack about the greaters at Walmart.
            Instead of being thankful for those that do the jobs you don’t have to,where is the benefit talking smack about them?

            Nov 27, 2017 27:32 AM

            The conversation has gone off the rails…….
            Actually, my original point , in posting the article on home prices and my comment concerning the home builders, was more of indicating the timing. And in my experience in real estate, there have been plenty of times when the spec builders get it wrong.

            Nov 27, 2017 27:35 AM

            I also, coupled the builders with the article below, concerning the wealth effect of the overprice stock market…………Most indebted sheeple will get it wrong again, for their income do not match the DEBT they have created for themselves.

            Nov 27, 2017 27:37 AM

            Btw…….sorry, if I offended you in anyway concerning your past occupation, besides my comment was not directed to you……..best…….OOTB

    Nov 27, 2017 27:24 AM

    The article I posted earlier by Sibel Edmond addresses the corruption of the media and how they have failed us.I will add CFS tried to discredit also.
    It is the media who is suppose to be keeping the Elected in line.
    Unfortanely it is only getting worse IMHO.

    CFS
    Nov 27, 2017 27:00 AM

    I did not say trust the media…….simply that Sibel Edmonds was not as clean as she portrays herself.

      Nov 27, 2017 27:15 AM

      Say what you will CFS. Sibel exposed Dennis Hassert ten years before he was convicted.
      Nobody wants to listen. Everybody wants you to listen to them.
      Why do you think the corruption is as bad as it is?
      I am so much richer than you therefore you must listen to me.WRONG

      GH
      Nov 27, 2017 27:32 AM

      “Sibel Edmonds was not as clean as she portrays herself.”

      If you have anything to lend credence to this statement, you should share it. Otherwise it’s just innuendo.

        CFS
        Nov 27, 2017 27:33 AM

        My memory on this, and I no longer have citations as to sources, was that she was an Iranian/ azerbaijani born, Turkish nationality, whistle-blower who was working with or for FBI translations, because of her linguistic ability. (after 9/11)
        The FBI believe that while many of her translations were correct and proper, she was feeding information to Turkey and not including anti-turkey information that she should have and the FBI terminated her contract.
        She had also released whistle-blowing information, which I believe was correct to do (even though that violated her FBI oath/contract)

        She claimed she was an innocent victim of whistle-blowing retaliation.

        I simply was indicating the REAL TRUTH was not as simple as she relates. If you follow her reports in the media, you are getting one-side of the truth.

        I’m not saying her whistleblowing actions were not true or morally wrong.
        I am saying, I do not believe her story as she tells it, because I believe she dresses up the story by omission of details. i.e. she misleads by omission.

          CFS
          Nov 27, 2017 27:39 AM

          She considers and describes herself as a female Edward Snowden, who she has written supporting articles about.

            Nov 27, 2017 27:48 AM

            Another prime example of attack the messenger and not the message.
            You CFS never miss an opportunity. Now go do some science and tell us about the moon landing.

          GH
          Nov 27, 2017 27:04 AM

          Okay, so this is the meat of it:

          “The FBI believe that while many of her translations were correct and proper, she was feeding information to Turkey and not including anti-turkey information that she should have and the FBI terminated her contract.”

          Will look into it to see if it’s anything more than the innuendo of a twisted agency striking back at a whistle blower (which is virtually guaranteed to happen).

      Nov 27, 2017 27:02 AM

      This pushes up equity prices, making investors feel richer and more willing to splurge on the kinds of frivolous stuff (new cars, big houses, extravagant vacations) that produce rising GDP numbers.

        Nov 27, 2017 27:03 AM

        Notice it says……….big houses, relate this to the above article of the average house price of $400,000……like duh

    GH
    Nov 27, 2017 27:37 AM

    Hi Al, I’m recycling a few posts from last Tuesday–badly timed for the holiday.

    On November 22, 2017 at 5:17 am,
    GH says:

    Hi Al,

    I made a new post on the Harlan Ullman thread, suggesting you read Webster Tarpley’s book on GHW Bush:

    http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/

    Yale. Skull and Bones. War profiteering. Financing the Nazis. CIA. JFK. S&L scandal. Iran-Contra affair. The War on Drugs. Desert Storm. The Carlyle Group. 9/11 and the Afghan and Iraq wars. This is just a start of the list of events with which the last few generations of Bushes have been intimately associated.
    Reply to this comment

    GH
    Nov 27, 2017 27:38 AM

    My post from the Ullman page:

    On November 22, 2017 at 5:03 am,
    GH says:

    Hi Al,

    So back to our agreement on my reading Ullman’s book, and your reading on one George HW Bush.

    Honestly, I have never read a book on any Bush. My view of them has been formed by observing them, reading many articles over the past 25 years, and reading books and articles on related themes, like Desert Storm, or the CIA.

    But I decided to scan the books available at Amazon, to see what is available.

    To cut to the chase, I’m currently reading Webster Tarpley’s ‘George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography’, and would recommend this one to you. Aside from the Bushes, it is a great tour of many of the most significant events of 20th century American history.

    http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/

    Now, to get more long-winded.

    Many consider the Bushes to be a high-level crime family.

    Such suspicions can’t be refuted simply by saying ‘Put up or shut up–where’s the evidence?’ When one is talking about the crimes of oligarchs, and ones at the heart of the national security apparatus at that, obviously the justice system will be challenged. How are we to gather evidence, when they can control investigations, threaten or bribe officials at any level, etc.?

    But simply by stepping back and getting a clear picture of the Bush family, where they come from, who they associate with, and the activities in which they have engaged, we can get a good idea of the class of people they are.

    Yale. Skull and Bones. War profiteering. Financing the Nazis. CIA. JFK. S&L scandal. Iran-Contra affair. The War on Drugs. Desert Storm. The Carlyle Group. 9/11 and the Afghan and Iraq wars. This is just a start of the list of events with which the last few generations of Bushes have been intimately associated.

    I suppose we need to define our terms. What is your interest in politics? What is the ‘good’ that is going on in the US now? The ‘problematic’? What are the root causes of the problems?

    I think I’ve made my views on the problematic quite clear:

    -The corrupt monetary system
    -The military industrial intelligence complex and endless wars of aggression
    -The propaganda system (mass media and public education)
    -The surveillance system
    -A broken electoral/political system designed to transfer the wealth and power of the masses to a small handful of oligarchs.

    Of course, one can come up with endless examples of problems caused by the privileged parasites of our society–the rotten legal system, the murderous pharmaceutical industry, etc. But we need to get to the root of these problems, not focus on all their ramifications.

    On the other hand, Al, it’s not at all clear to me what it is that YOU consider to be the root problems facing the USA. If you don’t think the scheming of groups like the Bushes and their cronies get near the heart of the problems in the US, then what does?

    Not to put too fine a point on it, but again:

    How do you define the problems facing the US, and what do you think is to be done about them?

    Finally, a list of books that I think would be of use in understanding the Bushes:

    First, a couple more overviews of the family:

    Amazon: Immaculate-Deception-Crime-Family-Exposed/dp/0922356807/
    Amazon: Family-Secrets-Dynasty-Powerful-Influence/dp/1596915579/

    Anthony Sutton’s book likely sheds more light on the connections between the Bushes, their cronies, and the Nazis:

    Amazon: Wall-Street-Hitler-Antony-Sutton/dp/0945001533/

    These connections extended to bringing many Nazis to the US and putting them to work in the CIA, via Operation Paperclip (it wasn’t just scientists, as many think):

    Amazon: Americas-Nazi-Secret-Insiders-History/dp/1936296047/

    As closely as GHW Bush has been associated with the CIA, understanding more about that organization is key to understanding more about him:

    Amazon: Search-Enemies-John-Stockwell/dp/0393057054/
    Amazon: Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276166/
    Amazon: CIA-Organized-Crime-Illegal-Operations/dp/0997287012/
    Amazon: Mafia-CIA-George-Bush/dp/1561712035/

    Given the large amount of evidence linking Skull & Bones and the CIA to drug trafficking, this is another angle that may shed a lot more light on the real GHW Bush:

    Amazon: Barry-Boys-Americas-Secret-History/dp/0970659172/
    Amazon: Dark-Alliance-Tie-Contras-Explosion/dp/1609806212/
    Amazon: Lost-History-Contras-Cocaine-Project/dp/1893517004/
    Amazon: Cocaine-Politics-Central-America-Updated/dp/0520214498/
    Amazon: Whiteout-Drugs-Press-Alexander-Cockburn/dp/1859842585/
    Amazon: Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838/

    It wouldn’t do to leave out the pedophilia / sex trafficking angle:

    Amazon: Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Murder-Nebraska/dp/0963215809/

    And to wrap it up a more contemporary look at the fruits the Bush Dynasty has borne for America:

    Amazon: Bush-Cheney-Ruined-America-World/dp/1566560616/

    Sutton’s book can be found as a free pdf online with a simple search.

    Many of these authors have interviews available on Youtube that convey they key ideas of their work in a faster and cheaper format. Loftus, e.g., author of America’s Nazi Secret.

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      Nov 27, 2017 27:46 AM

      Nice comments…………….jmo…………..ootb

      Nov 27, 2017 27:48 PM

      Great post GH.

      b
      Nov 27, 2017 27:33 PM

      neat you mention that not just nazi scientist were brought in to the states.
      one set that might be of interest were the propaganda guys. maybe not Goebbels himself but a bunch that worked for him.

      think Mcdonalds, say it often enough and loud enough and people believe it.
      Course Mcdonalds calls it marketing.

    GH
    Nov 27, 2017 27:41 AM

    Will read the Ullman book soon!

    Nov 27, 2017 27:51 AM

    On November 27, 2017 at 9:39 am,
    CFS says:
    She considers and describes herself as a female Edward Snowden, who she has written supporting articles about.
    Reply to this comment
    On November 27, 2017 at 9:48 am,
    JohnK says:
    Another prime example of attack the messenger and not the message.
    You CFS never miss an opportunity. Now go do some science and tell us about the moon landing.

    GH
    Nov 27, 2017 27:16 AM

    Thanks for stepping up with all the dirt on the Bushes, Excelsior.

    Loyalists, whether it’s to the Bushes, the Clintons, or the Obamas — the resulting gridlock is lethal to our well being.

    How is it that the Loyalists can see criminality in the one side, but not the other?

    I suppose it is unwillingness to challenge conclusions reached long ago based on very incomplete information.

    And because group loyalty is much a more powerful human instinct than is objectivity.

    And perhaps because of Sagan’s classic:

    “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

      Nov 27, 2017 27:46 PM

      Hi GH. Great Carl Sagan quote, and I’ve seen that one before, but perfectly placed.

      Yes, you raised the exact issue I was trying to point out. As far as being critical of policy issues, moral issues, crimes — What is good for the goose (Clinton/Obama), is good for the gander (Regan, Bush Sr, Bush Jr, Trump).

      I find it interesting how people can be come loyalists or they get tunnel vision that “their side is right”. Look how many people are upset at Trumps executive orders, that were just fine with Obamas. Look at how many want to lock up Hillary, but refuse to look at the war crimes of both Bushes. It is terrible when Bill Clinton goes after the ladies, but harmless fun if Bush does it. Look at how people are coming after Trump for Russian collusion, but can’t be bothered with the Clinton collusion with Russia. The hypocrisy just wears thin some days.

      We see it in politics, religion, sports, etc… Everyone believes their team is flawless and the members wear halos, but then they love to take issue with the smallest infraction on an opposing political/spiritual viewpoint, or team, or club.

    Nov 27, 2017 27:22 AM

    The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror. Phillip Marshall.
    The author was found dead along with his two children. Murder suicide attribited to domestic problems.
    The author was an airline pilot.

    Nov 27, 2017 27:47 AM

    Hey Ex. Are all the cobalt stocks on your list basically popping today or is just a select few. I don’t follow enough of them to know if it’s stock specific or the industry as a whole.

      Nov 27, 2017 27:22 PM

      Cobalt has been a mixed bag today. 1/3 up, 1/3 flat, 1/3 down.

        Nov 27, 2017 27:30 PM

        Thanks……guess I got lucky. my small list is up

    Nov 27, 2017 27:36 PM

    Bobby M……..on Novo………..good commentary…….
    http://www.321gold.com/editorials/moriarty/moriarty112717a.html

      b
      Nov 27, 2017 27:45 PM

      novo has dropped about 50% from its high, maybe it will stop falling now.
      we find out tomorrow.