Greg Palast at the Harlem Book Fair

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   Damnit Janet on July 25, 2006 at 1:26 am

   Thanks for the heads up on the video links 🙂

   Greg Rocks!!!!! I wish he’d get more coverage. So many could use his wake up call.

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   readfinger on July 25, 2006 at 3:31 pm

   I had to join this blog just to tell you that your remarks on “Thoughts on Blogging about Israel” are the most rational and best thought out.

   Thank you for raising the spectre of Rahm Emanuel, who is a dastardly piece of business. Back when ex-spooks could talk some, in the late 90s, I had one highly connected ex-spook tell me about Emanuel when I was visiting, shall we say, an offshore country where he’s protecting his ass with evidence he circulated around the world in the event of his demise. [His evidence leads all the way to the WH, and it’s chapter and verse.] Word then was that Emanuel engineered the Monica thing to provide cover for the BCCI scandal results that came out two or three weeks after the Monica affair blew wide open in January. The BBCI results completely escaped complete congressional scrutiny as a result. And they would have been explosive if the surface were scratched.

   Ditto the OJ Simpson case, which was an experiment to see how the cables could be manipulated and for how long. Where they had to insert info to keep it going, and to set up the process of talking heads that could be placed in service later when more important ops were planned. The networks would call on their tried and true, etc. This was an ingenious extension of the Reston Gulf War manipulation. Ron Goldman’s father played his part on nightly TV like a real trooper with his incessant braying about his son’s death.  [I am not being callow. No parent should have to endure their child’s death, but Goldman pere was given unlimited access to the cable news to keep the story alive. Anytime. Anywhere. To secure the east coast element, Geraldo was introduced to Nicole’s sister and that pillow whisper fired the emotional Geraldo’s nuts. They knew they could count on his ambition and need for a cable show winner to flog it to death.]

   Anyway, I should get back to work. And for the record, you were not being anti-semitic in my view.

   I didn’t feel like posting this over where this should logically go and face the onslaught of rabidly pro-israeli and immoral nutcases.

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     Man Without A Country on July 25, 2006 at 6:04 pm

     A vast shadowy conspiracy from anonymous sources with absolutely no documentation!

     YOU wrote:

     Word then was that Emanuel engineered the Monica thing to provide cover for the BCCI scandal results that came out two or three weeks after the Monica affair blew wide open in January. The BBCI results completely escaped complete congressional scrutiny as a result. And they would have been explosive if the surface were scratched.

     So Monica Lewinsky (a JEW, remember) gave Clinton blowjobs to cover up this banking scandal (you might want to give your readers background on the BBCI scandal, by the way).

     What happened with BCCI, anyway?  Um, let me see…if only there was some way of checking that out..hey wait…Wikipedia?

     The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a major international bank founded in Pakistan in 1972. At its peak, it operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches, and claimed assets of $25 billion.

     BCCI became the focus in 1991 of the world’s worst financial scandal and what was called a “$20-billion-plus heist” (Beaty & Gwynne 1993). It was found by regulators in the United States and the United Kingdom to be involved in money laundering, bribery, support of terrorism, arms trafficking, the sale of nuclear technologies, the commission and facilitation of tax evasion, smuggling, illegal immigration, and the illicit purchases of banks and real estate. The bank was found to be worthless, with at least $13 billion unaccounted for.

     Investigators in the U.S. and the UK revealed that BCCI had been organized to avoid centralized regulatory review and to commit fraud on a massive scale, with its own intelligence network, diplomatic corps, and shipping and commodities trading companies.

     You wrote:  

     The BBCI results completely escaped complete congressional scrutiny as a result.

     Yep, except for this: after BCCI, a Pakistan-based bank that laundered money to support terrorism (the notorious Abu Nidal group), was closed by the British government in 1991, THIS is what hapened:

     On July 5, 1991, the Bank of England closed down BCCI. Around a million investors were affected. Amongst the customers of the bank at this time was Garrards and Mappin & Webb, the jewellers responsible for maintaining the crown jewels and markers of the trophy for the America’s Cup.

     In 1992, United States Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown co-authored a report on BCCI which was delivered to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The BCCI scandal was one of a number of crimes and disasters that influenced thinking leading to the Public Interest Disclosure Act of 1998. The report found that former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and his business partner Robert A. Altman had been closely involved with the bank from 1978, when they were introduced to BCCI by Bert Lance, to 1991. Clifford and Altman testified to the committee that they had never observed any suspicious activity. The federal government brought indictments against Clifford and proposed barring both from banking for life, but these were not pursued due to Clifford’s age and health.

     The British government also set up an independent inquiry, chaired by Lord Justice Bingham, in 1992. Its House of Commons Paper, Inquiry into the Supervision of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International was published in October of that year. Following the report, the bank’s liquidators launched the Three Rivers vs. Bank of England case, on behalf of thousands of BCCI creditors who are suing the Bank of England for its failure to properly oversee the bank. The BCCI creditors sought £850m in damages, claiming that the Bank of England was guilty of misfeance in public office. The case collapsed in November 2005, with the Bank of England seeking to re-claim legal bills. The cost of the case to the creditors could be as high as £100m. (BBC News Article)

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International

     Gee, sounds to me like as a result of the Kerry-Brown report, Congress actually passed legislation in 1998 in response to the BCCI scandal.  I’m not sure what the BCCI connection is to Rahm Emmanuel, Israel, the vast International Jewish Negro Communist conspiracy, the Illuminati, the Flying Saucer people, or Elvis faking his own death, but I’m sure you’ll be able to weave all the frayed ends together in a nice tight knot.

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       Man Without A Country on July 25, 2006 at 6:05 pm

       My wife and son are Jewish (I’m a heathen).  So yes, I’m part of the international conspiracy…and since my wife makes more money than I do, I’m living on “Jewish money”.

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       readfinger on July 26, 2006 at 1:38 pm

       How old are you, late 30s?

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       readfinger on July 26, 2006 at 2:32 pm

       The BCCI scandal started to grow legs in 1982, not 1991. You would have been — what? — 16 then? I’m sure BCCI ranked right up there with reading about missing kids on your corn flakes box. Or pulling your pud before school.

       I knew a couple of the early reporters on the story, drank with them at an Irish hole-in-the-wall down the street from ABC/Cap Cities on the Upper West Side, and I was present — a lot — when they interviewed one of their best insider sources, who was scared shitless and provided paper evidence. In order to save his own life after getting one too many death threats, one of these reporters went public with what he knew on a Sunday morning local, either ABC or CBS, can’t remember, and he wound up dead a few months later. Then, and only then, did the story make its way down to DC and the Kerry investigation.

       If you’re going to cut and paste to display your knowledge of the subject at least use reputable sites, not wikipedia.
       http://www.fas.org/
       http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/BusEcon/1998/be-980226.html
       Use BCCI as your search term as you drill down.

       BTW, the Feb 1998 report to Congress exonerated all the US players of any wrong-doing or fraud. Try and find that doc on the web. It’s been wiped clean.

       Abu Nidal was a Mossad asset.

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     BooMan on July 26, 2006 at 2:49 pm

     this is absolutely hilarious.  I’m laughing my ass off.

     OJ Simpson’s murder was utilized to set up the 24 hour news programs that brainwash us into passivity.  Brilliant.  It’s true, but who knew it was all a plan?

     Brilliant dude.

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       librarylil on July 26, 2006 at 2:59 pm

       Booman, Booman. You’re missing the point. It was all part of the JEWISH CONSPIRACY to maintain control of the U.S. government and public opinion. Don’t you know that all the major media owners are Jewish? Why do you think TV is so crappy anyway? It can’t be an accident. And of course that Jews own all the banks goes practically without saying. And the Jewish contingent of U.S. Senators and Representatives keep the rest of Congress in line with their special Jewish powers. So Jewish control of American civic, entertainment, and financial affairs is complete.

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         BooMan on July 26, 2006 at 3:06 pm

         and yet I can’t even get a good latke.

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           librarylil on July 26, 2006 at 3:10 pm

           Well you don’t expect us to give away all our secrets do you?