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07 July, 2010
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04 July, 2010
Because Goldfinger Wants It That Way
Columnist Paul Rubin asks, in an unexpected Wall Street Journal article (link below), why the EPA, the Coast Guard, and the Obama administration stand in the way of cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. He quite rightly laments that “the EPA is unwilling to grant a temporary waiver of its regulations” to allow available vessels to go about cleaning up as much oil as possible. He questions why the Obama administration won’t accept offers of assistance from other countries, or even “allow” more than 20 % of American skimmers to take care of business.
Rubin points out several possibilities as to why – like his predecessor, during and after Katrina – “solving the problem” seems to be omitted from Obama’s priority list. In a fit of candor I found remarkable (in a WSJ piece), Rubin actually acknowledged the simplest truth:
Because Goldfinger Wants It That Way.
Of course, he didn’t say that in so many words. As he put it:
“Finally there is the most pessimistic explanation—that the oil spill may be viewed as an opportunity, the way White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said back in February 2009, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Many administration supporters are opposed to offshore oil drilling and are already employing the spill as a tool for achieving other goals.”
Hmmm. Goldfinger’s Goldman Sachs division made a FORTUNE (again!) by selling a large block of its BP holdings not long before the Deepwater Horizon became news. Funny, how that "opportunity" enabled GS to make a killing in the market.
The Halliburton subsidiary (of Goldfinger) was curiously able to acquire "Boots and Coots", a company described as “doing” the cleanup (?), three weeks before most of us ever heard of Deepwater Horizon. Remarkable, the stroke of luck that Halliburton would acquire such a company a mere three weeks before an oil rig Halliburton operated on made such a mess...
Could it be that this is why Obama refuses all offers of help? Why EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers, and Coast Guard continue to drag their feet (when not actively resisting efforts by others)?
Yeah, I know…another crazy conspiracy theory. It’s only coincidence that these guys “get in” or “get out” at just the right time.
Every time.
Time after time.
After time.
After time.
After time.
(Note: one wonders if the author, who “held several senior positions in the federal government in the 1980s”, is any relation to Robert Rubin, of “U.S. Department of Goldfinger”…oops, “Treasure’…no, “Treasury”. Yeah, that's what they call it!)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703426004575339650877298556.html
Rubin points out several possibilities as to why – like his predecessor, during and after Katrina – “solving the problem” seems to be omitted from Obama’s priority list. In a fit of candor I found remarkable (in a WSJ piece), Rubin actually acknowledged the simplest truth:
Because Goldfinger Wants It That Way.
Of course, he didn’t say that in so many words. As he put it:
“Finally there is the most pessimistic explanation—that the oil spill may be viewed as an opportunity, the way White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said back in February 2009, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Many administration supporters are opposed to offshore oil drilling and are already employing the spill as a tool for achieving other goals.”
Hmmm. Goldfinger’s Goldman Sachs division made a FORTUNE (again!) by selling a large block of its BP holdings not long before the Deepwater Horizon became news. Funny, how that "opportunity" enabled GS to make a killing in the market.
The Halliburton subsidiary (of Goldfinger) was curiously able to acquire "Boots and Coots", a company described as “doing” the cleanup (?), three weeks before most of us ever heard of Deepwater Horizon. Remarkable, the stroke of luck that Halliburton would acquire such a company a mere three weeks before an oil rig Halliburton operated on made such a mess...
Could it be that this is why Obama refuses all offers of help? Why EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers, and Coast Guard continue to drag their feet (when not actively resisting efforts by others)?
Yeah, I know…another crazy conspiracy theory. It’s only coincidence that these guys “get in” or “get out” at just the right time.
Every time.
Time after time.
After time.
After time.
After time.
(Note: one wonders if the author, who “held several senior positions in the federal government in the 1980s”, is any relation to Robert Rubin, of “U.S. Department of Goldfinger”…oops, “Treasure’…no, “Treasury”. Yeah, that's what they call it!)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703426004575339650877298556.html
21 June, 2010
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11 June, 2010
Goldfinger's Pissed!
"Pentagon investigators" (no doubt a euphemism for a "Special Ops" team) are, according to an article in the Daily Beast, Pentagon Manhunt, are "desperately" looking for Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Written by Philip Shenon, a former investigative reporter at The New York Times, and author of The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, the article quotes one "U.S. Official" as saying "We’d like to know where he is; we’d like his cooperation in this."
Yeah, right. Wikikeaks is, if the backstory is true, preparing to publish as many as 260,000 U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, which it is claimed "could do serious damage to national security". Although earlier stories expressed concern on State's part that "foreign officials" might actually discover what Ambassadors and embassy staff really think of them, I have little doubt that the "national security" concerns revolve around documentation of renditions and "black site" prisons where torture (and YES IT IS) and other war crimes were committed.
"His cooperation" is likely to be a euphemism for "terminate -- with extreme prejudice" which, of course, is itself a euphemism for "Kill that M#$%^&*". Daniel Ellsberg, famed for his courage in leaking "The Pentagon Papers", which he discovered when he worked for the Rand Corporation (the Vietnam Era's "Halliburton"), knows that Assange is in danger, remarking "you have to understand these guys never use the word ‘kill.’”
Ellsberg should know, having himself "been the target of a White House hit squad" in 1972, when "a dozen CIA assets from the Bay of Pigs, Cuban émigrés" were brought up from Miami with orders to “incapacitate [him] totally”, observed "Obama is now proclaiming rights of life and death, being judge, jury, and executioner of Americans without due process. No president has ever claimed that and possibly no one since John the First."
For my part, thanks, Julian.
Yeah, right. Wikikeaks is, if the backstory is true, preparing to publish as many as 260,000 U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, which it is claimed "could do serious damage to national security". Although earlier stories expressed concern on State's part that "foreign officials" might actually discover what Ambassadors and embassy staff really think of them, I have little doubt that the "national security" concerns revolve around documentation of renditions and "black site" prisons where torture (and YES IT IS) and other war crimes were committed.
"His cooperation" is likely to be a euphemism for "terminate -- with extreme prejudice" which, of course, is itself a euphemism for "Kill that M#$%^&*". Daniel Ellsberg, famed for his courage in leaking "The Pentagon Papers", which he discovered when he worked for the Rand Corporation (the Vietnam Era's "Halliburton"), knows that Assange is in danger, remarking "you have to understand these guys never use the word ‘kill.’”
Ellsberg should know, having himself "been the target of a White House hit squad" in 1972, when "a dozen CIA assets from the Bay of Pigs, Cuban émigrés" were brought up from Miami with orders to “incapacitate [him] totally”, observed "Obama is now proclaiming rights of life and death, being judge, jury, and executioner of Americans without due process. No president has ever claimed that and possibly no one since John the First."
For my part, thanks, Julian.
07 June, 2010
Gene Kernan sent you this from FreedomsPhoenix.com
 News LinkEntire Feb 2010 Issue of "American Behavioral Scientist" Devoted to State Crimes Against D 06-06-2010 • coto2.wordpress.com The prestigious 50-yr-old scholarly journal claims 9/11 was a State Crime Against Democracy (SCAD) typical of an ongoing, scientifically demonstrable pattern of many other such crimes. The entire issue lays out a new framework for further investigati |
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