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Why Oil Dependency Is As Fictitious As The War On Drugs and the ISIS Crisis

ISIS CRISIS HEIST US
by Meme Rein Waters, CPW NEWS SERVICE

OPEC is an oil cartel.  The leading OPEC nation is Saudi Arabia.  OPEC accounts for about 1/3rd of the current daily oil production or about 30 million barrels of the 90 million total daily worldwide production.  Oil is a fossil fuel.  It pukes carbon into the atmosphere and adds greenhouse gasses to the planet.

The Nazis used hydrogen to lift their massive zeppelins which bombed England and lifted the Hindenburg to eleven successful flights across the Atlantic before it blew with recent investigators showing that the explosion may have started from the blimp's skin.  With the evolution of the rocket science that followed Goddard and Von Braun into hydrogen/oxygen rocket fuels, the oil/gas producers were as frightened of hydrogen as they were of the later nuclear energy that was too difficult to meter and far too ubiquitous...for them....not for you. 

Hydrogen comes from the electrolysis of water which at full efficiency could produce from a single gallon over 4000 liters of hydrogen.  If hydrogen is good enough for NASA's rockets, isn't it good enough for you?   It is, but the oil and gas lobby doesn't want you to have access to it until they control your water.  They will use the process of hydrolic fracking to ruin your water, then clean it for you.  In Bolivia, Bechtel wanted 20% of citizen's monthly income to provide their water and their rainwater was to have been "non-collectable" meaning zoning laws that prohibited collecting rain water from the sky.  Your sky.  My sky.  Hello!  Why are we in the oil rich Middle East?  Because we like being bamboozled and as Alan Dulles said...."Americans don't read."

"Well this one does," said John Flushing, the author of an article on the failure of America's leadership to provide real vision.  "Henry Ford said that if he had asked people what they wanted he would have given them a faster horse," said Flushing.  "Well not me.  I would have known even then that Jules Verne's space ships were not going to be fueled with fossil fuels.  It's hydrogen that has dual purposes and doesn't smell, can burn and produce water vapor.  I would have asked Henry, a member of the 1930 German American Bund that wanted two time Congressional Medal of Honor winner, Smedley Butler, to lead a Fascist coup known as the "Business Plot" of which Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs, Charlie Lindberg and Prescott Bush, the father of two oily Presidents, were members, for a national hydrogen fuel policy.   Clearly there was something else at play in Henry Ford's motives to go with gasoline instead of hydrogen...hello John D. Rockefeller and the sludge pocket pioneers.  Oil is essential for plastics and the like, but as fuel it sucks....the life out of the planet.  Great for Napalm....bad for people.   Flushing had written:

"Enter David Seo, the undergraduate physics student at UCB, Berkley who takes the hydrogen discussion out of the realm of xenoglossia.   David Seo ran on-line the mathematical formula for the output of hydrogen from  a single gallon of H20….water…. and concluded:  “If every single one of those molecules was converted into hydrogen we would get twice as much hydrogen as we had of water or 2.53 x 10 to the 26^th power molecules of hydrogen.  However, since hydrogen is a diatomic molecule, meaning that the hydrogen that we talk about is H2, we would get 1.265 x 10 to the 26^th power molecules of hydrogen at 1 atmospheric pressure and 273K, 1 mole of hydrogen fills approximately 22.4 liters of volume, so 1.265 x 10 to the 26^th power molecules or about 210 moles, would fill 4707 Liters of volume.”

   Whoever moves the world away from this Vatican City of Anachronistic Indulgences and the Meccas and Medinas that also sit atop the earth's bitter and bloody sludge pockets will be the Jonas Salk of the next generation, but without Salk's fanfare.  Whoever moves in this new direction should expect to be like Zwingli or Huss, Copernicus and Galileo, Einstein...cordoned off from the Manhattan Project….or Robert Oppenheimer….stripped of his national security clearance…..under house arrest or burned at the stake!   Where is Bill Gates or Warren Buffet with a prize for the perfecting the process of highly efficient fracturing of oxygen and hydrogen with the award going to the process that come closest to hitting the 4707 Liter mark?   Do that and the world can talk later about where, whether and how to monetize it." 

   John Flusing was asked "But if you move toward hydrogen from water won't the desert peoples who lack water be looking for water?  Ours?", he replied:

"Yes, and at that point they will have assimilated into world culture or have gone up in flames created by their own oil through fossil fuel drones pumping depleated uranium missiles that penetrate their fossil fuel propelled tanks, our tanks,  which they have confiscated from the last generation of our best weaponry.  Endless terrorism and the Military Industrialist Complex's policy of tax (without a law that provides for the Fed's Income Tax...see Aaron Russo's Freedom to Fascism) and bomb with fossil fuel weapons and machinery is a really bad idea."  In the end the million-year half-life of the depleated uranium, the largest deposit of uranium in America owned by Neal and Linden Blue who make the U.S. Predator and Reaper drones, makes the battlefield uninhabitable for people who don't want their children forever eating through a long straw while balancing in a corner on stub left over from a battle wound or birth defect from the carcinogenic aftermath.  The Blues used the fresh uranium for reactors, pull it out as depleated uranium, put it in missiles because its atomic weight is stronger for shells than steel, and rains it down on people in the oil and poppy rich Third World.  It's a no-brainer for them and its all done on America's income taxes which the IRS and Pentagon have no law to support.  Of course, if you say that too loudly they will find some reason to send you to sweet Jesus....ala Rebecca Weaver."

Flushing also believed that the Bedouin peoples of the Middle East and Arab nations would drastically reduce their numbers if the threat from the West disappeared.  People naturally respond to the threat of conquest by producing more babies to field an army and to replace the expected losses.  When the threat is removed....and here is where the U.S. State Department obviously shows its stupidity....with 23 CIA agents being extracted from the Benghazi Embassy and only 7 diplomats....leading with its balls and brass instead of its diplomacy and heart....  Desert peoples....with the women sweltering in dark burkas in the desert sun and the men's rods rubbed raw from the gritty sand....don't find sex all that appealing....which is why the horrific custom of female circumcision was created in the first place.  It wasn't to keep the women from straying.   What man isn't keenly aware that he'd rather, as a course of pleasure, have a wife who is plugged in instead of one with a blown circuit.   Sex in the desert, heck on Pebble Beach, is not all that enticing.  Now, if they have water, lots and lots of fresh clean water, that could all change.....which will soon become Bechtel's next reason to control it and for the next Enron to figure a way to sell climate shares."

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Julia Child's and Diana Southwood Kennedy's Best Kept Secrets

French Soufflés, Chipolte Chicken, Peking Duck and the Evolution of the CIA

Julia Child, Diana Southwood Kennedy and the Culinary Connection to American Intelligence

By Winsip Custer, CPW News Service

     In the Schlesinger Library of Harvard University are the papers of Mrs. Paul Cushing Child, also known as Julia Child, whose cookbook, The Art of French Cooking, became from 1963-1972 the television series, The French Chef.

     It is not unusual for U.S. State Department personnel to see the foods of other nations as the doorway to better relations and the basis for the ancient  communal hospitality upon which good relations are built.  This was the legacy of Julia Child and the “Julia Child of Mexico,” Mrs. Diana Southwood Kennedy.  Both women were married to men knee deep in the work of the U.S. intelligence community.

     When the British East India Company was seeking pain killing opioids from Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Turkey and the ancient poppy growing region now known as the Golden Crescent, David Sassoon, a Sephardic Jew, was Baghdad’s leading middleman in the opium trade.  He left Baghdad and moved to Bombay, India, now known as Mumbai, making all the textbooks on the history of the region out of date and essentially muddling  the waters for historical researchers.  Bombay, on India’s West Coast was, along with the island of Ceylon on India’s East Coast, the transshipment points for fine tea, exquisite spices and opium.  It was here in Ceylon that Paul Cushing Child met Julia before  the couple moved to China and France.  Had they met after 1972 it would have been in Sri Lanka, the new name for Ceylon.  Like dishes on a menu the names keep changing, but the cuisine remains essentially the same.

     
    French food, British food, Indian food, Chinese food, Mexican food, American food... the food follows the money.  British ships picked up tea and opium in Bombay and Ceylon and traveled east across the Indian Ocean to French Indo China and then to China where the goods were exchanged for silk,  more spices and other commodities.  Britain controlled the port cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong while the French controlled Vietnam from the late 1800’s, but before this the Mekong Delta prior to the mid 1400’s was controlled by the Cham people….the Indianized settlers who provide a way station in Indo China for the goods traveling east then north to the port markets of China.   Opium, an essential commodity for pain relief and medicinal products, had an important alternate usage.  It greased the machinery of mercantilism in a variety of ways.

     When the U.S. Navy eclipsed the British Navy following the American Revolution and War of 1812, it was just a matter of time before the U.S. moved into this region.   Part of this history was marvelously covered by the Robert Wise film starring Steve McQueen, The Sand Pebbles, based on the book of the same name by American Merchant Marine,  Richard McKenna.  Richard McKenna, like author of The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills, died of a heart attack in his early fifties, but both men had been outspoken critics of American misadventure through raw militarism.  McKenna’s Merchant Marines had, well before the 60’s anti-war movements of the Vietnam War era, been outspoken in their criticism of American ships supplying the French, then American, ambitions in Indo China.
     The foundation for America’s replacement of the British/Sassoon mercantilism in the region was laid by the Treaty of Wanghia that was negotiated by the Boston “China Trader”, a synonym for “opium smuggler”, Caleb Cushing.    Cushing, a close friend of the Confederacy’s President, Jefferson Davis, knew that the South had the edge on the rush to the Pacific with its flatter overland route to the West Coast and so from the home city of Harvard University in Boston where Julia Child’s library is domiciled and where the JFK Library is also housed, evolved the American Military Industrial Complex with it hard core among the New England "Brahmins"...the old guard Puritan Protestants that would also make up the core of the American intelligence community, its leading mercantile class, its key Wall Street investors, and the nation's best legal minds as well as provide the leadership for American munitions manufacturers, Remington, Colt, Winchester and others including the lead miners, bullet makers, sulfur refiners and gunpowder purveyors. 
     Opium, the pain killer, was forever linked to bullets and war wounds as Eli Lilly, a famous Civil War artillery commander and pharmacist could attest.  The sale of munitions meant the sale of opium and vice versa.  The two products had a very profitable symbiotic relationship for those who controlled their production.   Guns needed mobility and sustainability for the continuing flow of lead and sulfur so farm tractor tracks were redesigned into tanks which needed more oil and gasoline...which happened, in spite of the abundance of flammable and clean burning hydrogen, to be the fuel of choice for the Military Industrial Complex.  Hydrogen, like nuclear power, was too plenteous, too available and too difficult to meter.    

     That Caleb Cushing was friends with Confederate President Jefferson Davis is not insignificant.  The great granddaughter of Jefferson Davis would marry wealthy Houston, Texas oilman, Exxon investor and manager of GHWB's blind trust while Bush was President, William Stamps Farish.  Another of Davis' great great granddaughters, married the son of New Orleans' crime boss, Carlos Marcello.  Jefferson Davis had laid out in the 1850's a rail route to the Pacific designed to be an extension of the China trade's sea lanes and overland routes to the U.S. and Europe. 
     Davis' Attorney General was Thomas Bragg, brother of General Braxton Bragg.   Before the Civil War Braxton was a financial advisor to William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union General who insured that the South did not preempt the Northern rail barons' control of the continent's first Transcontinental railroad.  The Bragg brothers were completely compromised as leaders of the Confederacy...a truth not lost on General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the favorite Civil War personality of historian Shelby Foote who proudly asserted "I never consulted original materials, it had all been covered before."  This is excellent for following either Julia Child's recipe for beef burgundy or Diana Southwood Kennedy's recipe for shrimp Vera Cruz, but not for responsible historical research.
     Immediately before the Civil War, Sherman was working with George C. Bragg to secure the rail head at San Francisco for the North.  Sherman's "March to the Sea" essentially guaranteed that the South's eastern terminus was in shambles, buying the North some time which was enhanced by the discovery of dynamite by Alfred Nobel.   If Chinese spices were going to grace the palates of Americans they would come first through the restaurants and kitchens of the Northeast along with the  importation of the poppy's magic medicinal mysteries and other uses that would circumvent the South altogether. In time both Julia Child and Diana Southwood Kennedy, both with connections to New York and Boston would marvel at the arrival of sushi in the South and its gastronomical memorial to the marriage of Alfred Nobel's invention with the work of Orientals on the Transcontinental Railroad..... the sushi Dynamite roll.  "Julia used to laugh and laugh when she read that the sushi dynamite roll was featured in Southern Living and say 'those poor hicks haven't a clue," said one culinary customs watcher. Contrary to popular belief, Sushi's origin was not in Japan even though most sushi bars have a Samauri sword proudly displayed....a gentle reminder at bill paying time that while the U.S. won World War II, the Japanese won the peace.   Sushi originated on the Indo-Chinese mainland with nare- zushi having originated along the Mekong River.
     The British and French had high hopes of seeing a railroad across Mexico.  The Scottish opium smugglers of Jardine and Matheson were looking for access across Mexico from Baja to Bagdad.  Not David Sassoon's Baghdad, Iraq, but Bagdad, Mexico across the Rio Grande River from Brownsville, Texas.
     Joe Kennedy, as Ambassador to the German Saxe-Gotha or British Windors, the Court of St. James, would have been aware that Hitler's oil supplier through the Port of Brownsville was William Rhodes Davis, a man who claimed family relationship to British diamond miner, Cecil Rhodes and the Confederacy's President Jefferson Davis.  W.R. Davis' story can be read in Dale Harrington's book, William Rhodes Davis: Nazi Agent of Influence (Potomac Publishers, Sterling: 2001).  Today, the Queen of England stays at Farish House when she comes to Kentucky to breed her Thoroughbred horses, home of William Stamps Farish.  The Windsor's were, of course, a thorn in Winston Churchill's side precisely because of their inherent connection to Germany.  Churchill essentially put on ice for the duration of World War II the Duke of Windsor and his American Bride, Wallace Simpson, the American divorcee he had met over the tasty cuisine at San Diego's Coronado Hotel in San Diego, the proposed Western Terminus of the South's transcontinental railroad at the upper reaches of Mexico's Baja.  Baja had been the target of William Walker's failed annexation attempt in the 1850's, supported as he was by President Franklin Pierce, ancestor of Barbara Pierce Bush and Henry Clay Pierce of St. Louis whose railroad anti-trust case  became a historic legal precedent in Texas. William Walker, educated in Germany, with his failure to take over Baja had courted the South with a proposal of extending a Golden Circle of Slavery throughout the Caribbean including El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela, Columbia, Cuba and other Caribbean islands.  These nations, not surprisingly, equated future U.S. militarism in the region as originating not in a paternalism rooted in the Monroe Doctrine, but in a Fascist thirst for conquest and slavery of the type visited by Hitler on the Jews, Poles, Gypsies and justice loving Christians. 
     Not surprisingly, the U.S. Navy's SEAL headquarters, not far from the Coronado Hotel, where the Saxe-Gotha's Duke of Windsor met the Nazi spy, Ms. Simpson, were built in the shape of a Nazi swastika.  It was in San Diego that the current Chancellor to the University of Texas, Admiral William McRaven, and the SEAL Team 6 were trained.  It was in San Diego that the Admiral in charge of the Gulf of Tonkin Affair, which had plans to maintain the former Cham and French way point in Indo-China was stationed as well.  Admiral Morrison was the father of "People are Strange" and "Light My Fire" singer, Jim Morrison of the Doors....both of whom preferred Bratwurst over Sushi.
    The Cushing "China Traders'"....their fast cutters used by the Boston smugglers in the Pacific, were mostly built in Baltimore, the home city of Alexander Brown, progenitor of the National City Bank against which General Smedley Darlington Butler warns in his book War Is A Racket.   Brown, Brown-Brothers, Brown Brothers and Harriman, Brown and Root, Kellogg Brown and Root, KBR....turn-key war goods mercantilists and engineers, were also part of Butler's warning in as much as these entities including National City Bank were like eggs and bacon, bread and butter.  Smedley  Butler had also trained, like William McRaven, in San Diego, but with a substantially different result and take on his view of the U.S. military's penchant for war.   
    It is no surprise that both James Hamlet, the slave who was the "test case" for the fugitive slave laws that fueled the rush to the U.S. Civil War was working in the Brown’s Merchant Shot Tower….a bullet manufacturing facility in Alexander Brown's Baltimore or that Abolitionist leader, Fredrick Douglas, who had worked on the hulls of the China clippers, provided along with Hamlet, the camouflage behind which Boston’s lead merchant and “Secret Six” backer of abolitionist, John Brown, hid his real motives.   George Luther Stearns not unlike the Texas Hunt brothers trading on silver in the 20th Century, was working on a monopoly of the lead-bullet market before and during the Civil War.  War may be hell, but it is a lucrative hell for some and a living hell for others.  We have to forgive Julia Childs and Diana Southwood Kennedy for not mentioning the importance of guns while plugging the devilishly delightful advantages of butter over oleo.  A good wife and host does not allow the dinner conversation to move toward dark alliances and seedy aspects of mercantilism's unseen origins.
      George Luther Stearns, while dipping his Boston lobster roll in butter, came up with a bright old idea.  This idea was picked up by the founders, restaurateurs in their own right, of the current Ultimate Fighting Championships.  Find poor people, pay them to be thrown into a one-on-one brawl and a crowd of people will pay  to watch them beat each other's brains into an omelet, but control both corners of every fight, ticket sales, TV rights....and the popcorn and beer concessions!    
     Before the Civil War Stearns was asked if it was going to be war or peace.   He said "if I walk upon a couple of men fighting on the street corner and four are watching, three will egg them on and one will tell them to 'stuff it!'.  I'm betting on war."  
     Stearns was a financial wizard whose assessment explains why modern families pay $180 a month for cable TV and why the kids watch the latest cauliflower eared fighters go at it on Sunday morning and why the Military Channel and SPIKE are spiking the ratings.  With the profits from the bullet sales that felled 600,000 in the Civil War, even greater profits were snowballing with the invention of the machine gun that was capable of extruding lead like an icing piper laying down a  tight bead across a red velvet cake.
      George Luther Stearns sought from his home on Beacon Hill  in Boston not far from Caleb Cushing's church and the aroma of freshly baked Boston cream pie on Copley Square, to use the Civil War to corner the lead market while relying on the moral high ground of "abolition of slavery" to replace the iron chains with chemical ones that his Boston and New England "China Trading" buddies were supplying from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, India and Ceylon....Sri Lanka. 
     The result of this part of our history was the Chinese Opium Wars and the Cultural Revolution.   Now it is the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Syria and the fictitious "War on Drugs".  It is this fact that sends chills down the spines of the power elites as they now fear that in the U.S. a similar house cleaning....totally avoidable,  unnecessary and ineffective as we have now learned from the dual histories of the USSR, China and their lesser minions like Cuba or Venezuela.  Communists aren't communists.   Capitalists are not all soulless money grubbers, but Fascists?  Now there we seem to have a real problem!  The truly evil are hopelessly intent on pure evil.  Surprisingly, Nicaragua whose history in 1979 was being investigated by CBS reporter Bill Stewart, did not change things.  Stewart died at the hands of a soldier from the right-winged Anastosia Somoza's military, Somoza being a partner in the banana and cocoa business with current makers of our Predator and Reaper drones, the Blue brothers, the war machines with much more than an eye in the sky.   Nicaragua, in spite of the failure of the Contra's and their disappearance has seemingly fared better than any of the other left-leaning governments of Latin America, but that's another story that CBS's former anchor, Dan Rather, is best suited to tell.

     The conquest of China by the West was accelerated by the massacre of American sailors in Chinese and Japanese ports.  Going ashore for the local cuisine and sometimes the local female's affections, they often didn't make it back to their ships and though there were no ISIS-like warnings with visual executions via Youtube, the message had the same net-effect...."Yankee go home!" 

     News of the killings in the U.S. led to American "gunboat diplomacy".  It was difficult to know who was motivated to do the killings as the power elites in both nations had reasons to protect the concealed alliances and their drugs and wars for profit.  Richard McKenna handles the story in a way similar to Herman Melville's Moby Dick.  Melville, the New Englander's novelist of choice,  could not freely acknowledge that the great white whale was the New England whalers chasing the great white drool of the opium poppy in the evolving shift from whaling to opium smuggling.  In The Sand Pebbles, Jake Holman, Steve McQueen's character, survives only because his USN gunship is beholding to his knowledge of the engines that will safely get the ship home.   Holman would have made a perfect human sacrifice for manufacturing the consent for war at home, but for one little wrinkle.  He  alone knew the ship's engine!  Sadly, however, Holman has no Queequig to leave him a casket upon which to float away.  He didn't need one. He made his own choice.   A U.S. diplomat explains to Holman  the score, along with some Christian missionaries intent on bringing Western technology not as political, military or theological conquest to the Orient.  The diplomat sees the Chinese as backward barbarians whose local warlords, like Al Qaeda or ISIS, behead people at whim. 
     The Chinese war lords, like Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden who came from the power elite family of Saudi Arabia via Yemen, found their ambitions, like those of their closest American business partners, thoroughly compromised.
     In time the American “arsenal of freedom” that defended our butter and the Oriental and Middle Eastern spices and opium, became the “arsenic of freedom” if one happened to live in targeted terrorities….those rich in natural resources….especially oil and opium.   The growing brutality manufactured consent for war.  The New England China Traders simply morphed over time from whalers to drillers….from low level mercantilism and transportation agents to high level logistics, insurance and security experts who depended on the ever evolving technology of warfare to defend the spoils of war.  Indeed, AIG Insurance, one of the biggest recipients in the 2008 bailout, had its history in insuring the China Traders’ shipments  across the Pacific.  Cushing, Oklahoma set the benchmark price for U.S. crude oil for over a century while the most plenteous fuel on earth, hydrogen, easily "electrolosized"  from water by solar, wind or nuclear energy, was sending space craft to distant galaxies, but is unavailable on earth as a cheap, reliable, plenteous and, most importantly, a clean source of energy.
     It is difficult to show the direct link between the “Julia Child of Mexico,” Diana Southwood Kennedy, to JFK except that her husband Paul P. Kennedy had been in a particularly sensitive position with the New York Times relative to the Bay of Pigs.   It is not difficult to show Julia Child’s connection to the New England Cushings.  She was married to Paul Cushing Child, an early member of the OSS which became the CIA.  Paul P. Kennedy, on the other hand, had gone public weeks before the Bay of Pigs invasion of Operation Zapata  in The Nation and NY Times with the fact that American soldiers were training the Cuban invasion force in Nicaragua.  As the Bay of Pigs became the Cuban missile crisis, JFK looked weak to some, but to the New England Brahmans he was upsetting their historic power politics.  We have no direct reference by either Julia Child or Diana Southwood Kennedy of the proper preparation of pork in any cookbooks from this Bay of Pigs era, however.
    It is not known if Albert Lasater Maher, the Texan who stood in Times Square with famed folk singer Bob Dylan and others at the heights of the Vietnam War to protest the war, then taking students to visit Castro's Cuba via a flight through Czechoslovakia, took any of the Mexican cooking classes that Paul P. Kennedy's wife, Diana, taught at the couples 240 Riverside apartment on the upper West Side, but Maher's family were major investors in George H.W. Bush's Zapata Corporation.   Many believe that this name informed the Bay of Pig's code name "Operation Zapata," and that Albert Lasater Maher like William Ayers of the Chicago Weathermen who reportedly concocted the "Oedipal Chicago Pizza" was encouraging the creation of an "Oedipal Tex-Mex Taco."
     As Anthony Sutton in his book on the U.S. transfer of technology from the U.S. to the Soviet Union and as Edwin Black's book, War Against the Weak, meticulously documented,  the U.S. "Business Plotters" in the 1930's supported Hitler's Reich.    It was clear well before the 1930's that American diplomacy had no high moral ground, no principled core beyond monetary profit, but that the diplomats love good food and fine wine.   Sutton's book was reviewed as an accurate assessment by respected national security advisor, Zbiegniew  Brzezinski and Sutton would make the further claim that the U.S. power elites created the Soviet Union as the "best enemy money could by".....leading to the conclusion that even the Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crisis were part of a game for manufacturing the consent for war.....Cold War.....that has morphed into the extensive, pervasive, prolonged tax money mill....the "war on terror" which was, according to one expert on General Smedley Darlington Butler, the slogan that he once opened in a Chinese fortune cookie.   "War On Terror: Big Bamboozle!"
      Zbigniew Brzezinski in Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (New York: Viking Press;1970),  wrote:

For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917–1930, which argues that 'Soviet economic development for 1917–1930 was essentially dependent on Western technological aid' (p.283), and that 'at least 95 per cent of the industrial structure received this assistance.' (p. 348).

     Edwin Black's book, on the other hand, War Against the Weak, shows without mentioning it that Teddy Roosevelt's 1907 display of the USN's "Great White Fleet" was the fleshing out of Melville's hidden thesis in Moby Dick, but hiding Teddy's "big stick" under the white wash of a big shtick.
     Like the other China traders, the Roosevelt's were hopeless Anglophiles who embraced white as superior to darker colors and the pseudo-science of eugenics as the justification to the forced sterilization embraced by Oliver Wendell Holmes in his famous decree for the State of Virginia. Holmes' historic argument that informed the development of the Nazi's "final solution" of the 1940's.  Black's book, though certainly more acceptable to many Anglophiles had Edwin's last name been "White",  has become a perpendicular against which to judge the mythology of American history.   So much for railroads, ships and guns.  Back to butter.
     While Julia Child was drawn to French culture, Diana Southwood Kennedy was drawn to Mexican culture and received the highest civilian award given by Mexico.... the Order of the Aztec Eagle.  She also took a keen interest in the Austin, Texas restaurant, Fonda San Miguel, where another CIA connection becomes as clear as the clarified butter both women prefer for their cooking.    It was at this restaurant that former CIA Director, George Herbert Walker Bush’s son, George Walker Bush, is said to have proposed to Laura Welch.  That proposal was, or eventually led to, a marriage proposal.
     The art of French and Mexican cooking cannot leave out Middle East, Indian and Oriental cuisine.  With the promise that the U.S. would not do to the Chinese what had been done by the British, Richard McKenna’s novel, The Sand Pebbles, expresses the actual betrayal through the American China missionaries who in his novel were willing to renounce their American citizenship to pursue a higher principle.   Obviously they were not bound by Carl Schurz's "My Country Right or Wrong" reflected in the "Love it or leave it" of the Muskogee, Oklahomans whose dwindling oil deposits have colored their sensibilities and whose most cherished dish is barbecued beef and pork ribs washed down with Jim Beam or Jack Daniels and hidden from the local Baptist minister.
     The China Light missionaries who took great pleasure in finally mastering their chop sticks, in the end were more appealing to Jake Holman than his commitment to the USN and USA or of his love of the machinery that propelled the San Poalo, the Sand Pebbles, gunship.  In a way, Holman was like John Steinbeck in his book Travels With Charlie who laments going into an American diner for breakfast and taking his silverware out of plastic wrapper which triggers a memory of hot tea shared over a camp fire in North Africa with a Muslim Bedouin in an old drinking glass opaque from use and finding the desert hospitality preferable.   Holman's pursuit of that higher principle in the end cost him his life.   Dying at what Richard McKenna called the "China Lights Mission," Jake Holman let's out with the ever familiar exclamation of a  Peking duck before the falling axe blade..."What the hell happened?"  Fittingly, when Steve McQueen was dying of cancer it was with his Bible in his weakening hands.
     It would be irresponsible to say that Julia Child or Diana Southwood Kennedy were serving the U.S. drug trade, but all loyal Americans serve their "Ship of State" and most just haven't taken much time while whisking cream in the galley to ask...."hey, what besides the silk, spices and teas are in the holds and whose running this friggin' ship anyway?"
     Sometime before 1998 the twenty-three-year-old son of a Presbyterian minister from Corpus Christi, Texas, Patrick Carr, was befriend by “the Julia Child of Mexico”,  Diana Southwood Kennedy.  He presumably met her at Fonda San Miguel Restaurant in Austin where he had been delivering organic vegetables....lettuce, cilantro, carrots, spinach, radishes, as a part-time job while in college.   He visited her home that spring on a trip to San Miguel, Mexico, a Mexican city that not unlike Merida, Mexico had become a safe haven for retired CIA officials who love to share their accumulated knowledge of distant cuisines from various parts of the world.  She gave him an autographed and dated copy of My Mexico, her celebrated cookbook.  She maintained a home south of San Miguel in Michoacán as well as an apartment at 240 Riverside in New York where she taught cooking classes in classic Mexican recipes.
     Historically, the Catholic Irish Kennedy’s from Boston would have found ready-made allies in Roman Catholic Mexico and Joseph P. Kennedy’s Nazi sentiments during WWII put him in the camp of the fascist American “Business Plotters” whose Nazi sympathies can be seen in the Presbyterian,  Alan Dulles’ post WWII alliances.  Dulles, who cousin Avery had converted to Catholicism and became the only Cardinal to skip the office of Bishop, brought to the U.S. leading Nazi scientists through "Operation Paper Clip."   That CIA program fueled the expansion of the NASA space program through Nazi rocket scientists.   The NASA program, intended by JFK to be domiciled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was  commandeered from Harvard, MIT and Cambridge and moved to Clear Lake, Texas following the murder of John F. Kennedy.  JFK and Robert Kennedy's populace politics was a betrayal of their father's earlier sentiments and in concert with the position of Paul P. Kennedy, assuming a  likely family connection, would have put both brothers on a short list for elimination.  The New England Brahmans, predominantly Protestant, shared power with the "unwashed Catholic Irish" from Boston, but with very short, very tight strings attached.  Yale University professor,  Sidney Ahlstrom, won the 1973 National Book Award for his A Religious History of the American People, in which he chronicled the historic shift in power that JFK's 1960 election represented.  Until then it was the history of the New England Puritan Protestants whose ambitions were, like nearly anyone else, not all that "pure".
     In August of 2000, twenty-three-year-old Patrick Carr moved to Houston from Austin, Texas.  His uncle’s friend had offered him a job with Stone Mortgage Company, a Clear Lake area financial company.   Nearby was the Bin Laden owned Houston Gulf Manor Airport, bought by Khalid Bin Mafouz, the Saudi Arabian royal family’s banker with the help of GWB’s Air National Guard roommate, Jim Bath.   Patrick’s uncle was a close friend with William E. King, a lawyer for Bracewell and Giuliani Law Firm and business partner with James R. Bath at Ellington Field’s Southwest Airport Services….the fuel concession at the CIA linked Ellington Field that had not only produced General Claire Chennault of the AVG or American Volunteer Group that helped to protect the lucrative China marketplace from Japanese incursion, but also of Chennault’s AVG ace, “Tex” Hill, son of Rev. Pierre B. Hill, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio, Texas.  
     The AVG fliers backed Chiang Kai-Shek who in turn was supported by the brutal Chinese Green Gang, China's premier opium dealers and protectors of the Western drug routes into the Chinese homeland.  Not excusing Japan's primitive violence, was it any wonder that the brutality of the Japanese was unleashed as it was on the hearths and woks of the Chinese for fear that they, too, would be overrun by American misadventure from the nearby mainland?   Was it any wonder in the years after the bombing of Japan that the Chinese expelled the West?   Along with them the good missionaries with whom Richard McKenna's Jake Holman had identified? 
        In 2000, with the Presidential election teetering on the hanging chads in Florida, twenty-three-year-old Patrick Carr from Corpus Christi, was unknowingly moving within the dangerous backwaters of the controversial issue of George Walker Bush’s  Air National Guard record and the Iran-Contra network.  That network, like the Bay of Pigs supply lines operated freely along the Houston to Galveston I-45 corridor.   
     Texas’ former Attorney General, Ben Barnes, was by his own admission sitting on the Bush story in 2000 saying that "Gore didn't need the help."  In 2004, the story resurfaced during the Bush/Kerry election leading  to the bitter "Swift Boat" retaliation that sought to give Kerry as much discrediting as the Bush Texas National Guard memos.   It was adolescent politics as usual with most American missing altogether the total lunacy of the endless warfare that prompted their bitter battle in the first place. It also cost Dan Rather and Mary Mapes their lucrative jobs at CBS.   Rather had interviewed the Ellington Field secretary for GWB’s commander, Col. Jerry Killian, who remembered writing the troubling memos for her boss.   Her name was Mrs. Marion Carr Knox.  Her son was named Patrick Carr.
     Back on December 10, 2000, three days before the election was decided by the Supreme Court and as the nation sat on the edge of its seat, Patrick Carr, the twenty-three-year-old from  Corpus Christi was burned to death in his car near the south end of the Ellington Field tarmac.  The medical examiners’ assessment was impossible.  It was pronounced a suicide by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office that was under investigation for mismanagement of numerous cases.  The medical examiner had been the former Washington D.C. examiner who had overseen the investigation into the death of Danny Casalaro who had been investigating the same topic as author of Dark Alliance, Gary Webb and as Mark Lombardi, who also died in 2000.   Lombardi, a Houstonian,  laid out visually the entire Iran-Contra network in artistic form that was eventually put on display at New York’s Whitney Museum where all Americans could see what Smedley Butler called the "racket of war."    Italian crime families and the Irish Republican Army were familiar with having a flow chart of their connections for all to see, but not the MIC.....the Military Industrialist Complex.  
    Gary Webb died on December 10, 2004, the anniversary of Patrick Carr’s death on December 10, 2000, just after GWB won his 2004 race against John Kerry that had, through Rather and Mapes, used Mrs. Marion Carr Knox’s testimony.  Again, in Webb's case there was an unbelievable scenario… two bullets to the head from a pistol.   Two! "I had just sent out letters to area Presbyterian ministers asking for their help in solving the case the week of December 10, 2004 that had mentioned the Iran-Contra connections and Webb's book," said Patrick Carr's father.
     Mrs. Marion Carr Knox said that the memos that Rather had in his possession were not authentic, but the contents were.  Her testimony was firm, unwavering. George W. Bush was a “favorite son”.   He was much more than that.    He was an heir to a system that freely sacrifices other peoples’  children, but not their own....the American Military Industrialist Complex.   
     Bush's loyal defender, Pennsylvania's Dick Thornburgh who had been a key Bush water carrier during Iran-Contra, arrived shortly after the 2004 Bush victory over Kerry and Rather's interview with Marion Carr Knox to provide the findings of an independent CBS panel, as if it actually could be independent.  The Thornburgh panel determined that Mrs. Marion Carr Knox had recanted all of her assertions.  It was an amazing turn of events.  What had happened in the Thornburgh interviews to have produced such an amazing reversal of testimony?  Ben Barnes, the Texas Attorney General whose history had included his part in the Sharpstown scandal, had told Rather and others that the information from Mrs. Carr was available in 2000, but that Al Gore didn't  feel he needed to use it. That fact in and of itself would have put anyone near the Bush/Gore 2000 election in serious danger if it appeared that they were in any way connected to the Marion Carr Knox story that Ben Barnes was holding.  In 2001 the pastor had called his parishioner in Dallas, the former General Deputy of the FBI who would have had a significant part in overseeing the FINCEN investigation that was focusing on Saudi influencing peddling in the U.S. and which had it not received a "stand-down" order  in 1992 could have netted the 911 terrorists, 15 of which were from Saudi Arabia.  The FBI General Deputy's grandson had unexpectedly committed suicide on December 11, 2000 under equally mysterious circumstances.  He was dumbfounded..."I can't believe you are telling me this," he told the pastor.
     Mrs. Marion Carr Knox's son, Patrick Michael Carr, and the pastor's son from Corpus Christi, William Patrick Carr, again, were not related though his father was a seminary classmate with the fellow pastor who conducted the re-marriage of Neil Mallon Bush's ex-wife's....all covered in a new book titled One Nation Under Oz: Paying Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain soon to be released.  "He told me if you get in their way they will kill you," said the pastor who had prided himself  up until the death of his son in 2000, on being apolitical.
     The imported investigator into the problems at the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office would be Michael Bromwich, the prosecutor, some say “firewaller”, in the Iran-Contra scandal who sacrificed John Poindexter, Casper Weinberger, Oliver North, Elliot Abrams and others to avoid the ultimate embarrassment of sending Reagan and Bush to an impeachment for actions that made Richard Nixon’s Watergate break in look like child’s play.  Bromwich would go on to head up the investigation into the Deep Water Horizon disaster that has the Chef's of Louisiana, Texas Mississippi, Alabama....be they French, Mexican, Italian, Cajun or Chinese....lamenting the taste of Exxon's CorExit in their seafood and water foul.

     Something to think about next time you eat French soufflés, chipotle chicken or Peking Duck.

American Militarism and Manufacturing Consent For War

From:  http://winsipcuster.blogspot.com/2011/08/smedley-butler-william-ayers-albert.html

     Another example is Barack Obama's friend, former Weatherman, William Ayers. Most people believe that the anti-war movement of the 60's was sparked by American hippies and radicals. Actually the anti-Vietnam war movement was initiated by American merchant marines in the 1950's who were vocal about American ships having to carry munitions into Indo China to support the French efforts to preserve and extend their empire there.   The U.S. merchant marines were close enough to the U.S. Navy to see the hypocrisy of their nation's proclaimed drug war and the Army and Navy's protection of the poppy fields and sea lanes connecting Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Indo China's Golden Triangle to world markets.  Indeed, one of America's biggest drug propagandists was lead singer of the rock group, The Doors, Jim Morrison whose father was the USN Admiral in charge of the Gulf of Tonkin Affair.
     Obama's friend William Ayers, whose father was a prominent Chicago industrialist who served on the boards of many of America's military-industrialist corporations, had seen first hand the quagmire one enters when veering right into the forest of Capitalistic-Fascism in the quest for the light of the distant fire.  Ayers mixed the fire with explosives and was jailed for being a home-grown terrorist.  So like a similar personality, Albert Lasater Maher, who like C. Wright Mills was the descendant of a prominent Texas trailblazer and rancher, Ayers, the Mid-westerner,  veered left into the quagmire of Communism's bogs and bungholes, rejecting his prominent father's example perhaps learning at home a contempt for the raw power that General Butler had wielded then rejected," said Offrol who noted that Maher's father, John F. Maher, was shown in the 1979 SEC report of Zapata Corporation to own 5.9% of the common stock--527,964 shares and was domiciled at 2131 San Felipe, Houston, the address for Hobby Communications, the company of former Texas Governor William P. Hobby whose family was intermarried with U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador and San Antonio, TX businessman, Henry Catto.  Catto's wife, Jessica Hobby Catto, a prominent San Antonio environmentalist served on the Board of Trinity University, a Presbyterian related college, on whose board serves such notable personalities as former U.S. President, George Herbert Walker Bush and Presbyterian pastor, Louis Zbinden.

     I noted that most of my friends believe that the Anti-Vietnam war movement began in the late 1960's about the same time as the Human Rights Movement in America. "Nope," said Offrol. "It started with the merchant marines, guys in the front lines who were able to see first hand, as had General Smedley Butler, the misadventure of enlightenment's promising quest. Albert Lasater Maher stood up with Philip Abbott Luce in Times Square, New York on a busy workday afternoon in 1964 and shouted to people through a bullhorn to wake up and see where they were really going. In time Maher and his friends would be hauled before the House on Un-American Activities, whose leader after the tyrannical buffoon, Senator Joseph McCarthy, was Senator Richard Ichord. Maher had taken a group of American students to Cuba in 1964 in opposition to the U.S. travel and trade embargo against Castro following the Bay of Pigs, also known as Operation Zapata, the brainchild of George H.W. Bush. This was after the Cuban Missle crisis," said Offrol.

     National Review Magazine publisher and son of the Sheriff of Duval County, Texas, William F. Buckley Jr.,  grew up not fifty miles from the ranch-home at Lagarto, Texas, of Columbia University professor and noted sociologist, C.Wright Mills. Mills' book, The Power Elite, pointed to the validity of Smedley Butler's bravery and disillusionment in the face of the growing threat from the far right. Mills died a mysterious death at a young age from a purported heart attack while on a commuter train.  "I am not aware of what happened to Albert Lasater Maher, though I tried to contact his aunt, Margaret Lasater Clark, whose writings have included a history of the First Presbyterian Church of Corpus Christi, Texas titled On This Bluff," said Offrol.

     Following the death of Corpus Christi preacher's son, William Patrick Carr, during the Supreme Court ruling on the Bush/Gore 2000 presidential election....a mysterious death that occurred on December 10, 2000 in Houston and the subsequent mysterious death of the former head of the FBI's General Deputy's grandson in Dallas one day later on December 11, two days before Al Gore's concession speech on December 13th, I attempted to find out if there might be any connections to Maher, Carr and Revell, the FBI director's grandson.   Much of this story has been covered in earlier articles including the connections to Zapata and the Bay of Pigs, to N.Y. Times reporter Paul P. Kennedy, and to the Presidential election of 2000.   William Patrick Carr's father's new church, the church of Maher's aunt Peggy Lasater Clark, had paid for the education of Carlos Emilio Ham as the pastor's request meeting unanimous church board approval. Ham being head of the Reformed Church in Cuba it seemed a decent thing to do. That was prior to the boys' deaths and the pastor had been the FBI's General Depty's minister in Dallas before moving to Corpus Christi. He said that the request for the help for Rev. Carlos Ham came initially from the president of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Dr. Jack Stotts, former president of Chicago's McCormick Presbyterian Theological Seminary in William Ayer's home town.  "I never saw it coming," said the pastor who still grieves the losses.


 

Robert Redford to Play Dan Rather In 'Truth'

But Who Is Playing the BEST Parts?
by Winsip Custer CPW NEWS SERVICE

     With James Vanderbilt writing the screenplay and Robert Redford playing the part of Dan Rather the world waits with baited breath in the afterglow of 911 to see just what lost Dan Rather his anchor chair at CBS.   Rather was critical of GWB's National Guard record in 2004.   Bush had already served up yellow cake uranium.  His administration had betrayed intelligent, principled CIA agents, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal had blown, the lunatic war profiteering with it fields of depleted uranium from U.S. shelling had littered the Middle East not unlike Vietnam's fields of Agent Orange where the world's largest cancerous tumor was recently "fixed" by Chicago surgeon McKay McKinnon.   Now Rather looks like a prophet, even as the flames of war in the Middle East  continue to rage.  Bush's bamboozling through the Iraq War continues the burning.  Wars are easily started by those who have never fought them, or so was the message of Rather's 2004 story that cost him his CBS job.

     Redford is playing Rather.  Kate Winslett is playing Mary Mapes.  GWB?   Joe Allbaugh?  Karen Hughes?  Don't forget Karl Rove!  

     Who is playing Marian Carr Knox?  Her husband William Alan Knox? Both worked at Ellington Field where GWB was stationed and Marian typed those original unfortunate memos....not the ones Texas Attorney General Ben Barnes put into Rather's hands, but the originals.

     Who will play Randy Knox, the partner of Ben Barnes and the political consultant in Texas for Patrick J. Kennedy?  Marian's son, Patrick Carr?  Who is playing Mrs. Diana Southwood Kennedy, wife of Paul P. Kennedy whose recipes at the Austin, Texas eatery were made famous in her book My Mexico and whose husband blew the whistle on the secret military base at Retalhuleu, Guatemala for training the Operation Zapata soldiers just before the Bay of Pigs?  That scene could be shot in Austin at Fonda San Miguel Restaurant at the table where GWB proposed to Laura.  Talking about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer!

     Who will be playing William Patrick Carr the twenty-three-year-old man who was murdered on December 10, 2000, a recent friend of Diana Southwood Kennedy and who two days before Gore's conceding the Florida election and while all eyes were on the U.S. Supreme Court was burned to death in his car near Ellington Field where Bush had been stationed....a dark blue van with three or four men in it seen coming and going from the site in the hour before his death?   His crime four years before Rather's story was that he had the same name as Marian Carr Knox's son and that his uncle was a good friend of Jim Bath's attorney and that his father had helped to educate Carlos Emilio Ham, the head of the Reformed Church of Cuba.  The people who knew and loved him say that he was in no way political and that his family has never meant anyone harm and that he would not have committed suicide....and that if he did it wouldn't be by setting his car on fire on top of pile of burning rubble outside a gate leading to Ellington Field's tarmac.

     Ellington Field, where Bath, GWB's Texas Air National Guard roommate and his attorney owned the fuel concession, Southwest Airport Services, which was also close to the Bin Laden owned Houston Gulf Manor Airport.   That airport was bought for the Bin Ladens by James R. Bath and Khalid Bin Mahfouz the Saudi royal banker, the focus of the FINCEN investigation that evaporated just before the 1992 Presidential election and that would have likely nabbed the Saudi hijackers.  The Bin Laden airport, a favorite hangar site for NASA astronauts' private planes, it was razed after 911, wouldn't you know. 

     Vanderbilt can't responsibly start the story in 2004, because the absence of Ben Barnes and Marion Carr Knox's story in the 2000 Presidential election is the backbone of the continuing saga four years later.  The Rather/Mapes story....though not logically "theirs" was around since the early 70's when the events at Ellington Field actually happened.   It only came out in 2004 because it was being "managed".

     It really will have to go back to the 1992 election....or maybe the 1980 election with the death of CBS's Bill Stewart in Nicaragua after his return from Iran's hostage crisis, only to be killed by a National Guardsman beholding to Anastasio Somoza whose business partners in bananas and cocoa were Linden and Neal Blue who were working on drone airplanes to provide Somoza with deniability for over-the-horizon knock offs of opposition leaders.  Today the Blue brothers provide the Pentagon the Predator and Reaper drones for about $38 million dollars each.   Their drones, hundreds of them since 2004, are being used to manage ISIS's 30 M1-Abrams tanks that with failing parts are being hauled into battle behind trucks while giving the Saudi royals and their, up to this point, absent Muslim followers, within both the Orthodox and Reformed wings of Islam's two major denominations... both of whose leaders are appointed by the House of Saud.....a totally unbelievable make-over.   Unbelievable to all but Americans whose one-time CIA Director, Allan Dulles, said "Americans never read".

    Oh, will James Vanderbilt tell us somewhere in the story about Commodore Vanderbilt's battle in Central America with William Walker, the "Grey Eyed Man of Destiny", supported as he was by President Franklin Pierce and whether or not William Walker is related to George Herbert Walker or Franklin Pierce to Barbara Pierce Bush?  And how do they feel about William's vision of a "Golden Circle of Slavery" in the Caribbean and will Vanderbilt compare and contrast that fact with Prescott's Bush's directorship in Union Bank which Leo Crowley, FDR's custodian on the "trading with the enemies act",  shut down for dealing with Hitler's banker, Fritz Thyssen?  Will the fact that GHWB's Houston office is in the same building with Thyssen Oil be in the movie or that next door on the 9th floor is the company of the former Ambassador of Qatar whose wife is from Surgeon General Cumming's family from Sheridan, Wyoming?  The Surgeon General who oversaw the forty year Tuskegee Experiment?

      Will  James Vanderbilt tell us about the derailing of the FINCEN investigation in 1992 which may have netted the 911 hijackers if the FBI had been free to pursue its mission....Saudi influence peddling?    Remembering that 15 of the 19  September 11th hijackers were from Saudi Arabia!  Nope?  Shucks!   Eight years of serious oversight without muzzling would have given us plenty of time to show the U.S. what was really happening and which, no doubt, both Clinton and Perot had figured out, but why bring it up?

     Who will play Ben Barnes, the disgraced Texas Attorney General of the Sharpstown  scandal from the LBJ era and why if he admitted to having this same information about GWB's National Guard record in 2000 did he say that "Gore didn't need the help?"  Gore didn't?  Hanging by his finger nails and a swinging chad in South Florida in November and December, 2000?  So Kerry needed the help four years later in 2004 and so Barnes becomes Kerry's money man in Texas for the 2004 election?  What a coincidence!  Couldn't Gore afford the story four years earlier?  Was that why Mrs. Kerry sold her ketchup business?  Inquiring minds want to know!

     Tony Coelho.....Mr. Postman? Will he be in this story....the part that begins in 2000? He was Gore's campaign manager who resigned in the summer of 2000 that cleared the way for the son of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to take over while Coelho is appointed to the Bush Presidential Library Board in College Station?  Daley with SBC.  You know, the company that likes doing double splitters and email mirroring that guys like Assange and Snowden told us about and then have to hide for their lives?

    Who will play Gary Webb, the author of Dark Alliance who died on December 10, 2004 shortly after Bush's victory of a self-inflicted gunshot like Col. Theodore "Ted" Westhusing?  Yea, on the anniversary of Patrick Carr's murder.  Gary Webb had two shots to the head not one...the guy whose impeccable research earned a Pulitzer, but whose newspaper, like CBS,  pulled support for him like it had done from Rather and Mapes.  The same was true for Texas National Guard Commander, General Danny James, who pulled his support from Lt. Col. Bill Burkett who personally witnessed the substance of the Rather/Mapes reporting being destroyed.  The inclusion of Webb's death just after the victory of the Rather/Mapes shut-down would help journalists to really understand that the dangers at home are equal to those at the hands of ISIS or Al Qaeda and that truth-telling of the sort that Webb and Stewart were attempting carries a very high price.  Sitting at an anchor desk or even in a battlefield without asking the really, really hard questions is risky, but not nearly as deadly as others like Webb and Stewart have found out.

     Who plays Viacom's CEO, which owned CBS, Sumner Redstone,  who owned the Houstonian where GHWB lived as a Conn man with a Texas address?  That was the criticism of son, George W. Bush, by his early political opponent, Kent Hance, who also used Ricky Knox as his political consultant.  Will Vanderbilt tell us that Dan Rather works for HDTV....with its connections going full circle to the Blackstone Group with its CBS connections and Carlyle Group.....Mr. Cuban.  PLEASE!  "Like a circle in a circle like a wheel within a wheel.  Never ending or beginning on a never ending reel."  Who plays Cuban?  How about George Clooney? Ben Affleck?  Ben left so much out of Argo....like Gunther Russsbacher and Bill Stewart, but maybe he didn't know and like Dulles said, "Americans don't read."  Or maybe Affleck sees himself like so many in Hollywood as the Joseph Goebels of the American properline.

     Will Mr. James Vanderbilt from St. Paul's School, John Kerry's alma mater, and also the alma mater of Cornelius Vanderbilt III and William Howard Taft IV,  really do anything near the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the movie, Truth?  Or whatever James Vanderbilt is going to call it? Truth and Duty?  Better watch out....if the American public ever starts reading with real discrimination they will surely rename it Truly Do-Do-y.  We'll have to wait and see!
 

ISIS, SOTLOFF and The RACKET OF WAR

SOTLOFF’S WRITINGS: CLUES TO SYRIAN ISIS EVOLUTION

Ivan Levin  for CPW News Services

     It is well documented that the CIA created Al Qaeda within Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to help bring freedom fighters to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Mujahadin  in their battle against Russian occupation.  Houston, Texas’ Joanne Herring and Texas Congressman, Charlie Wilson, influenced the provisioning of  the weapons needed to defeat the Russians.... hand held missiles capable of taking down jets and helicopter gunships.   

     When Al Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 many within the American intelligence community  were surprised to discover that the culprits were former allies against the Russians….who in the world of continual war racketeering  had been the former U.S.’s allies against the Nazis.

     What is not well understood is the attempt by Al Qaeda to establish themselves in the somewhat secular nation of Syria after they left Egypt.  From Syria, where they were expelled by Assad, they moved to Saudi Arabia.  Like Saddam Hussein, Assad did not like to share power with anyone.  Al Qaeda's relocation to Saudi Arabia found their evolving leadership taking advantage of the money and position of the Bin Laden family with Osama Bin Laden rising to the head of the terrorist organization right under the nose of the Saudi Royal leaders.  

     The Bin Ladens are the Saudi Royal family’s chief construction engineers.   Osama Bin Laden was the son of the Bin Laden patriarch and, therefore, close to the keeper of the keys of Islam's bifurcated high holy places of Mecca and Medina.   These holy sites involve the ongoing civil wars between Shiite and Sunnis with the Al Saud family of “Prince Bandar Bush” threading a tenuous position between these warring factions....or, as with two corners in a prize fight....controlling the corners for profit.  
    
     "You can't have the Bush family with their obvious primitive leanings toward the feudal system of primogeniture that is strictly observed by the Saudi Royals leading a first world country that is dependent on enlightenment versus barbarity," said economist, Fritz Von Flukenretizen. "I don't care how much money they churn up from beneath the desert sand when we have the technology to power the planet with alternative fuels for millions of years this barbarity is totally unnecessary, but it is compounded by the leaders we stupidly endorse!"  Von Flukenreitzen argued.

     "Like the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain of Islam's continuing drama, the Al Saud's sit atop the equivalent of the Inca and Mayan's head popping pyramids," said Barney Billibous of the Society for the Study of Pyramid Sitters in Lima, Peru.  "They control their civil wars for profit just as the 1833 U.S. power elites at Yale....Boston, Baltimore, New York....controlled the U.S. Civil War that was essentially a battle over the control of Middle Eastern opium from the Golden Crescent that was dumped in China in exchange for silk and other commodities leading to the Opium Wars and eventually the Cultural Revolution.   The rush for a U.S. Transcontinental railroad to the Pacific was the real prize in the U.S. Civil War, not abolitionism.  Abolitionism provided the nice lace curtains on the slaughter house.  That war was a race to the Pacific between the North and South.  It was repackaged, pre-packaged for the dufus civilians as the battle to free slaves who like  poor whites, confined to the ghettos or share-cropping farms of the South, were chemically re-enslaved over time," said Billibous noting the CIA's Iran-Contra drugs-for-weapons-for-hostages drama as clear and costly evidence.

     Steven Sotloff’s “freelance”writings….if we are to believe that he was not working for U.S. or Israeli intelligence, had addressed the place of Abib Shishakly in rallying opposition to Assad from exiled Syrians many of whom had gathered in refugee camps in Jordan.  Shishakly’s grandfather had been President of Syria in the years before Assad’s  ascension to power and, like the Shah of Iran, had been put in place by the CIA.  Young Shishalky, who runs two airline supply companies  in Saudi Arabia, not unlike James R. Bath supplying the fuel for Houston’s Ellington Airport,  founded companies in Houston, Texas along with the Masam Foundation for helping Syrian refugees and opponents of Assad. 

    Sotloff by lauding the work of the Masam Foundation and its financial backer, Adib Shiskaly, in FP or ForeignPolicy.com. was sticking his neck way out as was Foley for working for GlobalPost and their deaths don't just find utilitarian value for recruiting ISIS soldiers, but also fueling profits for the weapons dealers on both sides of the conflict.  Sotloff's article "Syrian Purgatory" was reminding the Syrian people of CIA interference in the Middle East's political history.  Just as it has been widely argued that the Benghazi Embassy disaster was related to a mission revealed by the evacuation of 23 CIA agents and 7 career diplomats, security was therefore the real responsibility of the CIA and U.S. military whose cover under the diplomatic umbrella was obviously wind torn.  Sotloff and Foley found this out the hardest way.

    Shiskaly's grandfather who was assassinated in South America after leaving Syria and Lebanon showing in concert with the reporting of Texas Monthly Magazine's Gary Cartwright that the U.S. Southern Border has much more to worry about than Mexican drug cartels.  Cartwright's book, Dirty Dealing shows that the Chagra Brothers, Lee and Jimmy Chagra, from El Paso and Juarez are not Mexican at all, but Lebanese gun and drug runners who paid to have the first Texas Federal Judge assassinated in over 100 years, John Howland Wood.  They chose the name "Chagra" for its amorphic linguistic quality which combined with their olive complexions and dark hair provided the perfect cover for cross-border materials transport. 

    While it is not known if the Houston-based CIA agent,  Roland Carnaby, also Lebanese, knew of these border breeches, Sotloff's coverage of the Masam Foundation in Houston is certainly cause for alarm.   Sotloff's death, along with Foley's, rather than furthering the cause of peace, fuels the flames of war....music to the ears of all arms dealers and weapons manufacturers. 

     Roland Carnaby may have known that the Bin Laden's owned the Houston Gulf Manor Airport near the Houston Ship Channel and NASA and Ellington Field where James R. Bath and GWB were Texas Air National Guard roommates was razed after 911, and that the 1992 FINCEN investigation that had the Saudi Royal family and its banker, Khalid Bin Mahfouz and his partner, James R. Bath, in its crosshairs.  FINCEN was investigating Saudi influence peddling and was shut down by the FBI in the run-up to the 1992 Presidential Election as was the book by Houston Post reporter, Peter Brewton....The Mafia CIA and George Bush....which was to have been published by Simon & Shuster with Alice Mahew as the editor....the editor for Woodward and Bernstein's All The President's Men.  Nixon's Watergate break-in was child's play in comparison to what FINCEN was uncovering.

    Shiskhakly is also a stalwart in the Houston art community. That community has the dubious distinction of finding Mark Lombardi, a curator at Houston’s Contemporary Art Museum, laying out in artistic, visual form, the key connections of the Iran-Contra fiasco.  That clustered kill-in with its back alley war racketeering, drug running and hostage exchange mimicked the elements that fueled America Civil War....ala, John Brown's Boston "Secret Six" backer, George Luther Stearns, the 1850's Bunker Hunt of lead mining.  Lombardi's work was verified by San Jose Mercury New Pulitizer Prize winning reporter, Gary Webb, who wrote the book, Dark Alliance.  Lombardi and Webb pulled back the curtain on the power of fossil fuels to paint a convoluted, DaDa-Dali-ish oil portrait of Middle East, especially Saudi Araibian and U.S. dark alliances and retrograde political entanglements.  Lombardi died a mysterious death in 2000 just as the Bush/Gore campaign was battling over the White House.  Webb died too, not unlike West Point ethics professor, Col. Theodore "Ted" Westhusing, who had confronted General David Petraeus in Iraq over the racket of war.

     Houston, Texas was also the site of the Bin Laden family’s purchase of the Houston Gulf Manor Airport minutes from Texas’ sprawling oil refineries along the Houston Ship Channel.  It was purchased by the Saudi royal family’s  banker Khalid Bin Mahfouz and James R. Bath for the Bin Ladens who would be quickly escorted out of the U.S. following 911.  They bypassed the routine interviews required of any diligent investigator in a crime.   This was to the horror of rank and file FBI officials who are responsible for policing domestic terror.  The Houston Bin Laden airport was razed after 911 and evidence of the airport has been erased beneath the Tuscan façade of a new housing development near the NASA Space Center.  Understanding this reality puts into sharp focus the 2008 murder by the Houston Police of CIA Agent, and American Lebanese, Roland Vincent Carnaby who was working on security at the Port of Houston.  Carnaby died, not unlike CIA agent Matthew Gannon, who was pressing the CIA brass for answers to the blaring contradictions facing rank and file agents.  Gannon died on Pam Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.  The HPD denises Carnaby's killing was a murder, but their crime lab along with the Harris County Medical Examiner's office were being investigated for corruption and the imported investigator was the firewalling investigator in the Iran-Contra debacle, Michael Bromwich.  Bromwich insured that Bush and Reagan went untouched and unindicted.  Bromwich went on to lead the investigation into the Deep Water Horizon disaster.

     In 1992 an FBI investigation titled FINCEN was called off in the run up to that year's Presidential election which found GHWB, Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot locked in a heated battle.   

"Perot was investigating the Bush family connections to Iran-Contra and Indo-China's Golden Triangle which had cut into profits from the Golden Crescent's poppy growing region, the historic poppy pipeline that was once controlled by the British East India Company and Jewish import-exporter, David Sassoon, before being overtaken by the New England Brahmans and the American power elite....a subject informed by the book by Columbia sociologist, C. Wright Mills, in The Power Elite.    FINCEN's focus was Arab oil money and influence peddling which had James R. Bath, George W. Bush’s National Guard roommate, in its cross hairs.  Bath, featured in Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit 911, was shown by Moore to be a significant concern for the White House, but not simply because of Bush and Bath's Texas Air National Guard records.  Consider that 'Poppy' Bush is also nicknamed 'Moloch' after the child-sacrificing deity of antiquity.   The deity's high priests cremated care and sacrificed children on the altar of their debauchery....other peoples'," said Von Flukenreitzen.

     “Who benefited from Sotloff’s death?” asked Fritz Von Flukenreitzen, chief economist for the Dutch financial newsletter, Geld Begrip.  “That is what is not entirely clear and clarity is the great enemy of the war racketeers.  Smoke screens  and camouflage are historic battlefield subterfuge methodologies.   Few know, for example, that the chief recipients of the Iran-Contra connection in Nicaragua and Honduras was Anastasio Somoza, the business partner of the U.S. Predator/Reaper drone manufactureer….Yale Skull and Bonesman (Class of ’58), Linden Blue.  Few know that CBS reporter, Bill Stewart, was covering Nicaragua after returning from Iran in the months before the 1980 Presidential election and likely knew of what was brewing with the Iran-Contra deal if Reagan and Bush went into office, not to mention the more immediate October Surprise.  Dan Rather would surely have known.  Perhaps Walter Cronkite, but judging from Cronkite's statements in Lewis Lapham's documentary on the American ruling class and Council on Foreign Relations he would never have taken on this group as Dan Rather did in covering GWB's Texas Air National Guard and Ellington Field records through the secretary of Bush's commander, Mrs. Marion Carr Knox," said Von Flukenreitzen.  Anyone near that seemingly random copulative assembly....which it was anything but, was in deep doo-doo!" Von Flukenreitzen reasoned.

     Blue’s company is set to benefit from the spread of war with each drone costing about $38 million and using depleted uranium from his uranium reserves....the largest in North America.   These shells are propelled by sulphur from the largest sulphur reserve in the world at Freeport, Texas, home of Freeport McMoran Sulphur Company on whose board is Henry Kissinger the cherub of bomb drops on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.  They didnt' stop that war.  Disgusted Americans did!  Kissinger owes his notoriety to mass murder made possible by Bernard Baruch and today he is selling his book that promises to tell you what is really going on, World Order.   Hah! People had not a friggin' clue as to the real reasons we were in Vietnam....well, the son of the USN Admiral in charge of the Gulf of Tonkin Affair did, Jim Morrison, lead singer for the Doors.  Fawn Hall, Oliver North's secretary, the shredding belle who married Morrison's music agent, Danny Sugerman.  Bo Gritz and H. Ross Perot were figuring it out.  Probably Obama's Chicago buddy and Weather Underground terrorist, William Ayers, whose Daddy....on the board of nearly every Midwest military contractor companies was put in charge of William's 'rehabilitation,' was figuring it out.  The dummy ISISians who step into a discarded M1 Abrams tanks will likely end up like Saddam’s million man army that smoldered along the highway linking Kuwait and Baghdad with the sizzle and rays of U.S. depleted uranium tank busters which have a planet polluting half-life of millions of years.  Obama?  What can he do but appear NOT to be trigger happy, but in the end will do what his handlers say.  This is what two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner, General Smedley Darlington Butler, warned against in his book, War Is A Racket,” said Von Flukenreitzen who said "let them throw their war....just don't show up!  If Butler rejected the war racketeering which provided his Medals of Honor you can forego their shinny hollow trinkets and glistening sabos! Lead a sit-in against using U.S. tax dollars for endless warfare that just makes the fat-cat weapons manufactures richer and richer.....but be prepared for an incoming salvo of depleted uranium shells raining on your little shindig for a circling drone."

     Von Flukenreitzen believes that America's National Guard armories have been emptied, left in the overseas battlefields to provide a proving ground for the next generation of high tech deadly weapons.  They need targets on which to practice their ever evolving and highly profitable war craft.   The excess has been spun off to the homeland police departments which have been increasingly militarized.   "The only thing missing is the patsy soldiers to fire them up, but make no mistake, the tank tracks on the M1 and every tank since the invention of the tank track has been paid royalties from the very beginning even from Nazi Germany.  Money makes the warring world go around in ever explosive circles.  That would have been the inventor....Benjamin Holt....who used his invention to create Caterpillar Co. which made his plowshares into swords during World Wars I and II and more recently to rake the homes off the West Bank and Gaza inflaming groups like ISIS which if they are only there to manufacture consent for more war are doing a damn good job of it!"

     "If Sotloff and Foley were sacrificed, so was Bill Stewart, the ABC newsman who had flown from Iran to Nicaragua in 1979, seven months before the Carter/Reagan Presidential campaign concluded that was the focus of Ross Perot's query of a top secret October mission to the Iranians.   That mission to negotiate the release of the Iran hostages....an exchange that included weapons that some fear found their way back to the U.S. with the downing of New York's TWA flight 800 off Long Island in July, 1996...proving that the shelf-life of the missiles is significantly longer than the government has reported," said Von Flukenreitzen.  "That knowledge would have the Americans caught in the blowback up in arms.  Ms. Joanne Herring is petrified that she will be blamed for the downing of TWA Flight 800," he continued.  "Jimmy Carter?  He thought he was President and Commander and Chief in 1979, but SURPRISE!  I believe that Bill Stewart was onto the October Surprise that benefited the Contras and Iranians and showed the lunacy of America's unspoken policies which the freely elected President could not control!" said Von Flukenreitzen.

    "Stewart was murdered by war racketeer partner of Linden and Neal Blue, Anastosio Somoza," said Von Flukenreitzen.

    Shishakly, who obviously benefits from his relationship to the  royal house of the Al Sauds in Saudi Arabia, had a Houston address for one of his businesses, TAJ Global,  at 1 Glendenning.  That address was owned by both "Prince Bandar Bush" and the Qatar Consulate, the nation that is home to the U.S. military's forward headquarters in the Middle East region.  "Anything is possible with respect to the hacking off of the heads of both Sotloff and James Foley who worked for GlobalPost....a company with obvious ties to the U.S. Information Agency and  to the CIA.   The sad part is that these poor guys may be the equivalent of "fish chum" in the war racketeers' fishing expeditions," said Von Flukenreitzen.

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           Shishakly's place in the future of Syria, post-Assad, is foreshadowed in the Dan Rather Reports program that places Shishakly squarely in the video frames of Syria's future.   Dan Rather, formerly the CBS anchor who succeeded Walter Cronkite, is now part of the Ryan Seacrest/Anschultz Group which is part of the BlackStone Group with its connections to Pete Peterson and the Carlyle Group.  "This is essentially the 'Order' that Anthony Sutton told the world in his books and interviews, especially his book  America's Secret Establishment, uses a devilish dialectic to control war racketeering, like a fight promoter controlling both corners in a prize fight," said Von Flukenreitzen.  "I recommend that the U.S. and other complicit governments be tried under RICO statutes....not for their war tactics, but for the derailing of the FINCEN investigation that would have likely nabbed the Saudi connection to airplanes, airports and Saudi based terrorists who hijacked the 911 planes and trained in the U.S.."

      "You wonder why we didn't invade Saudi Arabia after 15 of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia?  Wonder at what?" asked Von Flukenreitzen.  "If we were serious about eliminating Islamic fundamentalism as a failed ideology we would have to eliminate the Saudi Royals' and their control of Mecca and Medina.  We could flatten those cities like we did the with Hitler's vision of a capital of Germania, but there would be those who would argue that we'd need to do the same with the Dome of the Rock and the Vatican to really get people's attention," Von Flukenreitzen continued by adding "is all that necessary?  How about just practicing sanity?"

    Von Flukenreitzen was even more specific, but aware that the "Hitler" critique is wildly over used.     "No.  No.  In this case it is accurate and right on.  Right on!  Bulls eye right on!  Because Hitler was a mad-man and his banker, named with Union Bank of New York and Prescott Bush, Fritz Thyssen, in a 1930's trading with the enemies' judgment finds their organizations are still quite chummy today.  Thyssen Oil shares the same Memorial Drive address with Qatos the investment firm of the former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar and Republican U.S. Representative from the Tanglewood district of Houston, Chase Untermeyer, appointed by GWB as top diplomat to the home to the U.S. forward military bases in that region.  Why there?  Why not our biggest ally in the region?  Because Saudi Arabia needs....especially with the constant reminder of the 15 Saudi hijackers still out there.....to keep a safe distance and the image of disconnectedness.  FINCEN would have lassoed the whole bunch which can only mean that the nipple of what we believe is the Federal government is malignant and feeding us a steady stream of putrid pabulum.  Also in the building are the offices of the U.S. Secret Service and GHWB.   Don't look for a terrorist attack there, however.  It's a place with much better security than the World Trade Center had....or Sotloff, Foley, Stewart and countless others," said Von Flukenreitzen.