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The sad reality is Michael Moore UNDER-stated throughout! If he'd told it
all, it would've taken too long, & would have seemed truly impossible.
Like the Bush clan's long-term associations with sundry international
crime rings, none of that mentioned. Moore's film fails to note that many
of his failed business dealings were intended to fail after lining the
Shrub's pockets -- some were pay-back projects that began even while his
dad was Vice Prez and could effect legislation special legislation to
serve exclusively monied interests including the Bushes themselves. So
when Michael goes on about the oil company that never managed to dig even
one well, he failed to note that that was never really a business but a
scam, & Bush always got richer off these kinds of failed deals.

It's amazing to me that dewy-eyed right-wing naifs see Michael's
understatements as over-the-top. It makes me wonder if such ignorance is
self-imposed in order to remain deluded about the merits of George Dubya
Bush, or if such naivity & stupidity is truly inate to rightwingers.

Sadly, it's the latter, I believe. You live in a fairly progressive part of the
nation. I live in the heart of Texas. Sure, Austin is the place to live if you
must live in Texas. It's quite liberal, multi-cultural, has a huge population
of University students and on the whole, a grand population of people, 67% of
which have higher education. Of that 67%, 24% have PhD level education.

However, there is a huge populous in other small towns, out in the hayseeds of
America which believe Bush loves them. Bush is a kreestchun and he's dewin the
loads workin's. Feh.

I will wait forever to hear the three things I ask for. Just three out of all
Moore's books, films or articles in featured magazines or interviews.

Victoria


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REPOST:
AMERICA'S FOREMOST CRIME LORDS RULE AMERICA

The original robber barons as even the junior collegiate dictionary will
tell you were ruthless industrialists of the late 19th Century who
acquired vast wealth by any & all unethical means & used their wealth to
corrupt government. The Bush Family of Crime Lords are modern robber
barons. The Bush Family Crime Lords were at the heart of the Savings &
Loans robberies of millions upon millions of dollars out of the pockets of
the working masses, but with a clan member already serving as president,
he was not apt to let his own son go to prison, so only the working masses
ever suffered for this robbery. Today the Shrub is letting his fellow
robber baron billionaires off the hook for having to pay whatever taxes are
not already adequately sheltered, while promising the working classes a
kidney pie made out of our own kidneys.

The Bush family is one of the most corrupt in America, so it is weird that
republicans won't even now let go of the smaller corruptions of the no longer
relevant President Clinton. Should Democrats get up off their cowardly
asses & become as crude & grotesque as seated Republicans, the criminal
investigations of the Shrub directly & through his closest relations would
stop the Shrub presidency in its tracks, because it won't be about whether
he got a blowjob or not, it'll be about some of the worst most murderous
gangster style international thefts filtering right into Bush Family Crime
Lords' pockets. Yes all politicians are corrupt, & the Clintons veneer of
idealism has only ever provided the smallest buffer against the villainous
norm of the typical politician. But the Bush Family of Crime Lords goes
way, way, way beyond the typical. The current batch of Shrubbery
certainly never worked hard for anything unless you'd also categorize
safe-crackers & mere work-a-day felons as hardworking chaps.

But let's get some specifics. Below, I offer a short history lesson about
the vast & horrifying criminal doings of the Bush Family Crime Lords:

The Shrub's involvement with Saudi-connected BCCI through Harken Energy
Corporation gave Harken -- which had never previously drilled even one
offshore oil well -- exclusive rights to offshore Bahrain oil. The Shrub
was a major stockholder in the Texas company, & since his daddy was
president who waged a war all around Bahrain to protect "America's" oil
access, no need to be surprised that "America" is defined as the Bush
family exclusively.

Harken never did learn anything about oil wells & eventually bankrupted,
but not before the Shrub lined his pockets with millions & millions of
dollars. Scant weeks before Harken ceased to exist as a company, the Shrub
with insider information bailed out for a $850,000 profit in that one
crooked deal alone -- he illegally delayed reporting the crooked stock
deal for several weeks in an attempt to disguise the "timeliness" of a
profit made by violating SEC regulations. The 850 thousand was small
potatoes though -- estimates are he made 25-million off crooked oil deals
up to that point, always with the Poppa Tree & the whole god damned
American war machine backing him. Pretty good for an alcoholic, but when
you have a big crime family helping out, you don't need to have that much
personally on the ball.

The Shrub already had a long history dirty oil deals, as the Saudis well
knew when BCCI essentially gave Harken to the Bush family to suck dry for
the family's personal gain. The pay-back was in the first Bush
Administration's middle east policies -- & don't doubt for a minute that
the the present war has any nobler purpose,
the same old profitable shit is the goal. Consider:
Chicago-born Palestinian Talat Othman became an advisor to the senior
President Bush on middle eastern policies, resulting in Othman's meteoric
rise of power & fortune representing Bahraini oil sheikhs -- plus Othman
sat on the board of directors of -- guess where! -- the Shrub's Harken
Corp!

Paranoids can't make up better conspiracies than these well-documented &
sordid connections.

These deals & connections really do show Machiavelli to be the Shrub's
favorite philosopher. The trail of ruined lives in his wealth-amassing
path is a twenty year history of an abusive, evil drunkard who only
sobered up in order to enter politics dragging his corruption in his wake.
The Shrub has never earned an honest dollar. What of his wealth that was
not inherited was gained through corruption & theft.

The family that thieves together sticks together. Prescott Bush Jr during
his brother George's presidency cemented many dirty deals in China -- he
set up all the Chinese "expectations" that made them bold enough to try to
buy into the Clinton administration without success, so pretty damned
ironic the Republicans keep ringing the Yellow Peril Bell at Clinton when
it was all due to Prescott Bush's machinations for the Bush family. Ten
days before President Bush's stop in Japan, Prescott Bush was already
there drumming up business for Prescott Bush Resources Ltd. Having
acquired a co-partnership with Akoi Corporation he then went to Shanghai
where the Akoi company was still hated because of connections to wartime
atrocities, but Prescott with presidential backing paved the way for
Akoi's next conquests with heaps of pay-backs to the Bush clan.

Soon after, Asset Management Corp paid Prescott a personal fee of a
quarter-million dollars to help launch a major communications project that
would link Beijing by satellite to its furthest provinces. Why was
Prescott needed? Because he had influence with bro' President Senior --
the senior Bush was the only person in the entire United States with the
single-handed capacity to make a "national interest exception" to get
Asset Management around legislation BARRING any US company from selling
satellite technology to Communist China! (And once again, Republicans keep
pretending Clinton permitted China to obtain illegal technologies by
spying & influence-purchasing, when it was the Bush Crime Family all along
doing it for no other reason than the amassing of personal wealth no
matter how grievous the laws that are broken). The president acted
according to instruction. Akoi & Prescott's commandments resulting in a
$300-million profit to Asset, & several more large pay-offs & investment
rewards straight into the Bush coffers.

Meanwhile, Prescott cemented his relationship with the yakuza-run West
Tsusho, which bought out Asset Management. When I say Crime Family I'm not
being rhetorical; oil sheiks & yakuza gangs & the Bushes -- these are
natural partnerships.

So the Inagawakai branch of the yakuza with controlling interest in West
Tshusho today own China's communications system thanks to continuous
pay-offs to the Bush clan. The Inagawakai launder something like ten
billion dollars each year -- a good Bush resource there too, the bushes
being plugged into many cross-connecting money-laundering schemes since so
much of their crime family wealth was legally obtained by no stretch of
the imagination. Prescott, by the way, headed up covert business
operations with Reagon administration backing -- not that Reagon had
enough of his marbles to know what was up, but the powers behind him & the
senior Bush ARE the same robber barons now backing the Shrub's presidency.

So we're not talking about "mere" corrupt politicians who take big money
from big corporations & screw the people as pay-back. We're talking about
a long history of deep & profound corruption & the Bush clan seeking out
investments among oil sheikhs & gangsters throughout the world.

How about the shrub's brother Jeb Bush? What a crook! He was the Reagan
administration's unofficial link with the Contras & Nicaraguan exiles in
Miami, plus the same powerful gangster families that ran Havana before
Castro sent them fleeing to Miami & Nicaragua. Jeb's illegal activities
were orchestrated with backing of right-wing Guatemalan politician Dr.
Mario Castejon who dealt through Jeb with Vice President Bush (Reagan
being too brain-damaged & naive to be included in the loop of course).
Under the guise of a "Medical Bridge to the Contras" millions & millions
of dollars were fed to the Contras -- w/ huge pay-offs to Jeb. These
machinations were assisted by fall-guy & super-dork, Oliver North, so the
"medical bridge" was built by Jeb, George, Oliver, Castejon...& arms
dealer Henry Waley. $27 million in "humanitarian" aid to the Contras in
1985 hugely profited corrupt government officials, Miami & Guatemalan
gangsters, crooked arms dealers -- & inevitably the Bush clan.

And you thought Jeb's biggest crime was heading a corrupt party that
stopped black people from voting in Florida, & got George II appointed to
a throne without having to count actual votes.

So while the Shrub specialized in enriching the Bush clan with Saudi oil
sheikh connections, we find that Prescott was doing the same with Asian
yakuza connections, & Jeb with Contra & Miami gangster connections.

A contra-connected right-wing Cuban who was for many, many years VERY
powerful in Miami -- namely Miguel Recarey, Jr -- hired Jeb as a "real
estate consultant" though no consulting was ever done. The first of many
"consulting" fees was $75,000. Recarey ran an organization calling itself
"International Medical Centers" which was a major donor to the Dade County
Republicans. These same powers are today orchestrating no-paper-trail
computer voting methods that any moderately skillful hacker can & will
rearrange for crime lord interests.

One of the largest areas of organized criminal endeavors is to pretend to
sell millions upon millions of dollars of medical equipment to all &
sundry, billing the US government. Recarey was already barred from any
further billings to Medicare, but Jeb Bush & Dade County Republicans
intervened, & Recarey's company was soon siphoning federal funds to his
company once again. HHS Medicare fraud inspector, Leon Weinstein,
discovered Recarey's fraudulently gained profits -- embezzled through
medicare patients. These ill-gained profits, after padding Republican
coffers & paying off the Miami gangster families, went primarily to
support the Contras. Robert Teich, the head of the Drug Enforcement &
Labor Racketeering in Miami, reported that all the stolen funds were in
banks outside the US & could not be recovered; & gave evidence that Santos
Trafficante, Jr., Mafia boss of Florida, was behind Recarey -- the same
Trafficante who had twenty years earlier joined with the CIA in a failed
effort to assassinate Castro.

Recarey's criminal empire collapsed but he was "permitted" to flee to
Venezuela -- the Bush administration made not even token moves to
extradite him (to Robert Teich's consternation) since opening up Florida's
Cuba Mafia would be too embarrassing to the Bush clan, knee-deep as they
are in pay-offs & gains thanks to longstanding Cuban mafia connections.

And that barely scratches the surface of Jeb's connections to people like
right-winger & Cuban-American drug smuggler Leonel Martinez & many such
people whose names & histories have reached the press (who knows how many
others never publicly revealed). So A Vote for Any Bush is a Vote for the
Cuban Mafia & for cocaine flooding into the USA.

When you look at this family, the corruption is SO gigantic it is mindboggling.

How about Neil Bush? Good lord, what a criminal! I won't outline his
Russian Mafia connections & his Savings & Loan machinations to benefit the
Bush clan robbing thousands of Americans of their life savings. Of all the
criminals that make up the Bush Clan, only Neil's crimes have been widely
reported so I'm going to assume everyone knows Neil is a slime-ball of the
first order of villainy, who stayed out of prison strictly because of his
family connections & because all these criminal endeavors are so well
interconnected that to let one Bush go down would have a domino effect
that would shake the very foundations the most crime-based political
family America has ever seen.

The senior Bush was a CIA career man & as such became expert in
international crime. In many ways he seems to be the only one of the clan
with clean hands, but that's an illusion maintained by his lieutenants all
of whom have Bush as their last names, all of whom based their entries
into government on the senior Bush, & their profitable crime connections
cemented by the senior Bush's eagerness to shove the government in
directions benefiting exclusively his crime family coffers. He was a great
resource to his brother & his sons in cementing the Bush clan's
longstanding association with the Cuban mafia, Japanese yakuza,
drug-smuggling contras, corrupt oil sheikhs, whose international organized
crime power sucked life savings out of even working stiffs who put their
money in what they thought were safe savings & loans.

None of which even begins to address the Bush Crime Family's Nazi
affiliations which are also damnable, as Grampa Prescott was a chief nazi
banker & business partner of Fritz Thyssen, through whom Prescott helped
fund the rise of Hitler. The Thyssen-Prescott connection continued through
the war -- eight months after America entered the war, Prescott was
revealed as orchestrating & protecting Hitler's assets in New York
investments. Grampa George Herbert Walker was in on the same game as
wartime profiteers with continuing banking interests between New York &
Berlin. That the Bushes & Walkers were nazi sympathizers & big-time
financial supporters is not even a skeleton in the closet -- it has been
revealed many times with the soundest of documentation -- but Republicans
do what they can to suppress information, & Democrats are just such
chickenshits they won't take advantage of the truth & so deserve the
losses they've earned, in a world where even a clan of nazi sympathizers
can defeat them.

And this is only the tip of the iceberg of a gargantuan level of
corruption that two Bushes have brought right into the White House. No
matter how bad you imagine things to be, it's actually much worse.

-paghat the ratgirl



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