"And You Thought They Were Only Minor Crooks - Part 9"

FPF-fwd.: Nolan K. Anderson*

Here is Part 9 in a 10 part series on a very pertinent subject at this time. US mainstream and Internet publishers run from this series like it contains some pertinent truths - or touches on some very sensitive nerve endings of some very important people. See what you think.

(THE HISTORY OF THE GREATEST HEIST(S) IN WORLD HISTORY - AS IT/THEY UNFOLD)

By Nolan K. Anderson ... Part 9...

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

... Aesop ...

"We'll do what we goddam well please"

...George Bush White house Aide...

Act 5, Scene 1:

Are you beginning to feel that you don't know much about your government, Mr. And Mrs. America? Standby, we are just beginning to get to the "good" part. The "good" part is where our government proves to the world that it would rather sacrifice the tax and income benefits to the United States Treasury of 4.5 TRILLION dollars (and ignore the fact that approximately 67.5 TRILLION dollars have already been stolen) than to give up the possibility of being able to steal the principle and income from this remaining money and place it in the personal offshore accounts of our highest government officials, or use it to finance the "off-the-books deficits that our "secret" government has run up in financing its declared "War on Terror" and its undeclared "WAR OF TERROR" on various countries whose resources we need. All this while our leaders trash the integrity of the United States in the eyes of the world financial community by failing to honor its commitments to those countries we owe money.


IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR JUSTICE OR POSITIVE CHANGE IN OUR GOVERNMENT, THE BALLOT BOX IS NOT THE PLACE TO LOOK.

But, Mr. And Mrs. America, remember that no single party is guilty of this mass robbery - both parties (the only two we have given the power to run/ruin our lives) have been party to all the schemes of larceny, false criminal charges, imprisonment of an American citizen, lying to Americans and to the world community to cover their acts and tracks and to cover the defaults that have already been perpetrated against foreign governments. So, if you are looking for justice or positive change in our government, the ballot box is not the place to look. I will leave it to you to explain to yourselves and others where one may go to seek better government. We have been given a wonderful system of government, with all the definitions and guarantees that were possible. 230 years after we were given this system, we have allowed it to be ignored, shredded and circumvented by the politicians WE elect and send to Washington to represent our values and needs and those of our children. WE think our job is done the moment we pull the lever or press the button in the voting booth. 230 years of neglect after voting have given us what we have and robbed us of the benefits of what we could have had.

We Americans have a moron for president whose unblemished record of stupidity and corruption can't even be matched by such luminaries as George H.W. Bush, LBJ, Slick Willy Clinton, Nixon or even "the great communicator", Ronald Reagan. While we Americans fret about the war in Iraq and the 343 billion dollars officially identified as its cost during the last three years, the bandits in this production have stolen approximately 67.5 TRILLION dollars from the American Treasury since Reagan left office. This fact of life bears repeating.

THIS AMOUNT IS OVER 8 TIMES THE OFFICIALLY ADMITTED NATIONAL DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES.

The ramifications of this loss to our Treasury has already been presented in some detail; however, the detail may not have hit home. It appears that there is about to be a vast awakening to the consequences of this loss. There were some very nervous tremors in the European financial markets and world gold prices in May and June of 2006. In November 2006, the value of the dollar slipped significantly in world markets and the tremors were felt in the stock market.[2], [3] American talking heads call this a correction to an "overheated" US market, but there seems to be a nagging realization that there are few if any tools in the American arsenal with which to fight a world-wide attack on our American currency which has been precipitated - at least in part - by the effects of our dishonest dealings with the world financial community and the effects of 70 TRILLION dollars - over which we have no control - sloshing around the world outside the United States and outside the control of our Treasury. (Oh yes, we have the "Fed" looking after the best financial interests of the United States, but there is a growing feeling that the "best interests" of the United States may not be best served by a group of privately owned foreign banks who call themselves "THE FEDERAL RESERVE".

Let us stand back and take a look at what "might have been". For example, let's place ourselves in the shoes of the Austrian Government for a moment. (The reason for choosing Austria is about to be made clear).

AMBASSADOR LEO EMIL WANTA, WHO IS LEGALLY A RESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA, HAS OFFERED THE NEW AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHARGE ITS STANDARD 50% CORPORATE TAX ON THE ENTIRE PORTFOLIO OF ASSETS, WORTH ORIGINALLY $27.5 TRILLION, AND NOW VALUED, WITH ONGOING ACCRUALS, AT IN EXCESS OF $70 TRILLION. HE IS LEGALLY THE PRINCIPAL OF THESE FUNDS.

THIS IS BECAUSE THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE U.S. TREASURY HAVE REFUSED TO HONOR AMBASSADOR LEO WANTA'S COMPROMISE $4.5 TRILLION SETTLEMENT.[1]

There is also a matter of some gold:

IN ADDITION, THE FULL VALUE OF THE 2,000 TONNES OF GOLD BULLION ACQUIRED BY LEO WANTA, DURING HIS FINANCIAL WARFARE OPERATIONS AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIRECT INSTRUCTIONS RECEIVED FROM PRESIDENT REAGAN, WILL BE CHARGEABLE TO INLAND REVENUE TAX IN AUSTRIA.

HE IS ALSO THE PRINCIPAL AND OWNER OF THIS GOLD.[1]

The Austrian government has received Mr. Wanta's proposal with great enthusiasm. "What's not to like"? What government could possibly hesitate for even a moment to accept such a proposal? What country could resist becoming one of the richest on the planet. Answer: It might be the government of any country which does not want to see itself destroyed as it is given a large dose of "democracy" at the hands of a nation which has proven itself to have a flagrant disregard for international integrity, international law AND has the most powerful military the world has ever seen.

Highly respected authorities feel that the legal details of such a proposition would be handled in the courts of the United States and Austria or various world courts. However, given the reputation of the United States since World War II there is little chance that any dispute would be handled this responsibly. There is much more chance that the details would be resolved with "smart bombs" and depleted uranium artillery rounds. This possibility could/would/should at least enter the minds of Austrian government officials - especially since top government officials in the United States have a very real interest in keeping the disposition of this money out of the courts and out of the public eye. Their personal bank accounts are involved as well as their freedom. These politicians, bankers, CIA agents and lawyers have done enough to have themselves imprisoned for life - even under the most lenient judicial systems of the world. Under more fair systems they would be tried for treason.

Just think what George Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Don Rumsfeld, Richard Perle et al., could do with 2000 tons of gold at $550 per ounce! That amount of gold would pay the "on-the-books" portion of our Iraqi boondoggle with enough left over to pay what the insurance companies in Louisiana have refused to pay to those who thought they had hurricane insurance before Katrina.

BACKGROUND MUSIC:

At a certain bank in Central London, there is a lock box belonging to several corporations owned by Ambassador Wanta, and it is open to the Ambassador to walk into this institution at any time, having made an appointment for the purpose, to request to open the lock box in the presence of the Bank Custodian, and to dispose of the real assets contained therein, as he sees fit.

If these assets have been used illegally as collateral for hypothecation purposes, so that their withdrawal from this bank might cause not just the bank in question, but others with which it has been merged, to collapse, that is not the Ambassador's problem any longer. Mr. Wanta has been leaning over backwards for months to 'provide space' for the American authorities to fulfill their Settlement obligations, so that the banks which have stolen and diverted funds for collateral and hypothecation purposes, could be let 'off the hook'.

But the US Treasury and the White House seem to prefer the prospect of a global financial calamity, to the simple task of ordering the $4.5 TRILLION to be transferred to the relevant securities accounts of AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc .[1]

INTERMISSION:

It is unfair to ask the audience to get up, stretch their legs, get another beer and make some more popcorn at this stage of our play. The music and drama have reached a crescendo. But, our play can not continue until history writes the closing scenes. However, please note the dates on the footnotes of this act of our drama. Each of these references is dated, October/November/December of 2006. The last one is dated December 3, 2006. The point is: History is right on our coat tails. I have a feeling that we don't want it to be written any faster than it is being written right now.

Those academics and others who have a fleeting interest in history may return for the final acts of our play. For others, the football games, Dancing With the Stars or Survivor will have to be watched even while the fires of world calamity are being lit.


REFERENCES:

[1] WANTA PLAN TO BE VALUED AND TAXED IN AUSTRIA UNITED STATES TO FORFEIT TRILLIONS MORE IN TAX PAYMENTS Monday 2 October 2006 16:37

By Christopher Story FRSA, Editor and Publisher, International Currency Review,
World Reports Limited, London and New York: www.worldreports.org.

[2] www.marketwatch.com/

Dollar woes poised to carry over into next year

Greenback is down about 50% vs. euro in past five years; down 6% vs. yen

By Wanfeng Zhou, MarketWatch

[3] www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main

US Setbacks see dollar plunge to 15-year low.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

11/30/2006

[4] Plunging dollar will set world markets reeling

By Heather Stewart, economics correspondent

12/03/2006 - "The Observer"

Also published at APFN web site - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yjgcrd

Nolan K. Anderson is a retired engineer and a veteran of Korea who was once a "conservative" until he found there was nothing left to conserve and as a veteran hates to see a tour in Korea go to waste. (He may be reached at nkanders@bellsouth.net ).

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Setting the limits of invasion journalism

FPF-fwd. John Pilger

"Those who euphemise these crimes are those Arthur Miller had in mind when he wrote: "The thought that the state... is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied."

NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN

Setting the limits of invasion journalism

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger reports an unprecedented study by three UK universities which found that, contrary to myth, 80 per cent of the media followed "the government line" on Iraq and only 12 per cent challenged it. He analyses the subtleties and insidious nature of censorship in free societies and asks why this is neglected by many media colleges.

GOVERNMENT “SPIN” AND THE “EMBEDDING” (CONTROL) OF JOURNALISTS

By John Pilger

12/07/06 "Information Clearing House" - On 14 November, Bridget Ash wrote to the BBC’s Today programme asking why the invasion of Iraq was described merely as "a conflict". She could not recall other bloody invasions reduced to "a conflict". She received this reply:

Dear Bridget

You may well disagree, but I think there’s a big difference between the aggressive “invasions” of dictators like Hitler and Saddam and the “occupation”, however badly planned and executed, of a country for positive ends, as in the Coalition effort in Iraq.

Yours faithfully,

Roger Hermiston - Assistant Editor, Today

In demonstrating how censorship works in free societies and the double standard that props up the facade of “objectivity” and “impartiality”, Roger Hermiston’s polite profanity offers a valuable exhibit. An invasion is not an invasion if “we” do it, regardless of the lies that justified it and the contempt shown for international law.

An occupation is not an occupation if “we” run it, no matter that the means to our “positive ends” require the violent deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, and an unnecessary sectarian tragedy. Those who euphemise these crimes are those Arthur Miller had in mind when he wrote: “The thought that the state... is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.”

Miller might have been less charitable had he referred directly to those whose job it was to keep the record straight.

The ubiquity of Hermiston’s view was illuminated the day before Bridget Ash wrote her letter. Buried at the bottom of page seven in the Guardian’s media section was a report on an unprecedented study by the universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds on the reporting leading up to and during the invasion of Iraq. This concluded that more than 80 per cent of the media unerringly followed “the government line” and less than 12 per cent challenged it.

This unusual, and revealing, research is in the tradition of Daniel Hallin at the University of California, whose pioneering work on the reporting of Vietnam, The Uncensored War, saw off the myth that the supposedly liberal American media had undermined the war effort.

GOVERNMENT “SPIN” AND THE “EMBEDDING” (CONTROL) OF JOURNALISTS
 
This myth became the justification for the modern era of government “spin” and the “embedding” (control) of journalists. Devised by the Pentagon, it was enthusiastically adopted by the Blair government. What Hallin showed – and was pretty clear at the time in Vietnam, I must say – was that while “liberal” media organisations such as the New York Times and CBS Television were critical of the war’s tactics and “mistakes”, even exposing a few of its atrocities, they rarely challenged its positive motives – precisely Roger Hermiston’s position on Iraq.

Language was, and is, crucial. The equivalent of the BBC’s sanitised language in Iraq today is little different from America’s “noble cause” in Vietnam, which was followed by the “tragedy” of America’s “quagmire” – when the real tragedy was suffered by the Vietnamese. The word “invasion” was effectively banned. What has changed? Well, “collateral damage”, the obscene euphemism invented in Vietnam for the killing of civilians, no longer requires quotation marks in a Guardian editorial.

What is refreshing about the new British study is its understanding of the corporate media’s belief in and protection of the benign reputation of western governments and their “positive motives” in Iraq, regardless of the demonstrable truth. Piers Robinson from the University of Manchester, who led the research team, says that the “humanitarian rationale” became the main justification for the invasion of Iraq and was echoed by journalists.

MODERN INVASION JOURNALISM

“This is the new ideological imperative shaping the limits of the media,” he says. “And the Blair government has been very effective at promoting it among liberal internationalists in the media.” It was the 1999 Kosovo campaign, promoted by Blair and duly echoed as a “humanitarian intervention”, that set the limits for modern invasion journalism.

The Kosovo adventure has long been exposed as a fraud that ridicules warnings of a “new genocide like the Holocaust”, though little of this has been reported. It as if our long trail of blood is forever invisible, intellectually and morally. Certainly, it is time those who run media colleges began to alert future journalists to their insidious grooming.

JOHN PILGER

First published in the New Statesman

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* HOW THE US JUNTA'S POWER VIA PROPAGANDA IS SPREAD - ASSOCIATED PRESS DECIDES? - From AxisofLogic.com - News Article - Oct. 28, 2004 - Vote fraud? - As Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin said: ''It's not important who votes. The people who count the votes decide." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5zosu

* THE USE OF THE PHRASE 'ANTI SEMITISM' IS PURE NONSENSE - Url.: http://www.counterpunch.org/hamod07122003.html

* PILGER IS A VERY GOOD JOURNALIST BUT WILL ALWAYS WRITE ABOUT THE EFFECTS; NEVER THE ORIGIN OF ALL MISERY - Url.: http://forpressfound.blogspot.com/2006/07/howard-zinn-nn-phant-in-room.html

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