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Follow the Money Come home, Carl Bernstein

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Posted 2007-May-08, 20:26

Supposedly, the advice given about Watergate by "Deep Throat" to Woodward and Bernstein was to "follow the money."

Is there another Carl Bernstein around today? Three reasons we could use him now.

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Jim Willie recently revealed;

“The Bank of Baghdad was cited as a trading pit for JPMorgan last week, where oil funds are actually used to suppress the crude oil price. It is a clearing house for more, a convenient bank without the encumbrance of regulatory oversight, the perfect central bank for the cabal in power. The more sinister overt effect from the war is the invisible gun pointed at the heads of the Persian Gulf nations.”



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Mr. Jim Willie,

“The US Federal Reserve is JPMorgan. The Dept of Treasury is Goldman Sachs. The Iron Triangle supports the US Military. These entities do the government’s bidding and execution of programs. Not one single Wall Street firm or bank has been marred by the rash of scandals since 2000. Only outsiders were damaged or ruined.”



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reported in BusinessWeek Online in a piece titled, Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules,

“President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations. Notice of the development came in a brief entry in the Federal Register, dated May 5, 2006, that was opaque to the untrained eye


Someone is going to have to explain to me how accounting methods and security-disclosure methods of publicly traded companies is connected to "national security".
Unless by "national secutiry" you mean the security for the secretiveness and protection of cabal that runs the country, it makes no sense whatsoever.
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Posted 2007-May-09, 10:23

Obviously, when you have something to hide.... you hide it..... :rolleyes:
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Posted 2007-May-09, 11:07

well it was either hidden or it wasn't... if it appeared in the fed register it wasn't hidden, regardless of how "opaque" it might have been
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Posted 2007-May-09, 13:39

luke warm, on May 9 2007, 12:07 PM, said:

well it was either hidden or it wasn't... if it appeared in the fed register it wasn't hidden, regardless of how "opaque" it might have been

Hide in plain site - notice that no one is saying illegal, which would imply truly hiding - the implication here is that there is more to the Iraq war than terrorism and it would be interesting to see a Woodward and Bernstein type pair track down the money and see where those implications lead.
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Posted 2007-May-09, 20:58

Our government at work:

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Nick Juliano
Wall Street Journal
Wednesday May 09, 2007

Vice President Dick Cheney’s surprise trip to Baghdad today was meant to deliver a tough message to the Iraqi government – put off your vacation plans and get back to work.

U.S. officials have been livid since discovering that Iraq’s fledgling parliament – hardly a hive of activity in the first place – was planning to take a two-month summer recess, postponing work on a bill spelling out how oil money would be shared among Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian groups or a law authorizing new regional elections


We went to all this trouble and expense for the oil and now you are going on vacation before we get a deal????? No wonder everyone's so mad.
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