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Re: All of it is TOTAL FRAUD! Just as Enron is providing smoking guns that point in unexpected directions, it also provides a model for understanding our larger political situation. Bethany McLean showed in Fortune magazine a year ago that Enron, 'the 7th Largest Corporation In America,' was actually making less money than a small chain of Dairy Queens, yet no one would believe her. Jeffrey Skilling and friends went to her boss and demanded, 'What are her credentials?' Which is another way saying, 'She's just some punk reporter, a chick at that, and who is she to challenge the CEO of the 7th Largest Corporation In America?' And that summed up the entire reaction of Wall Street, brusquely dismissing McLean and continuing to issue 'Strong Buy' ratings on Enron till the bitter end. While Bethany McLean merely possessed the facts, what Skilling and Wall Street possessed is what can be called 'the prevailing narrative;' consisting of what everybody seems to be believing because it's what the particular vested powers of the situation want to be believed. Investors who lost billions in the collapse of the Internet bubble are currently being castigated because they believed the hype; yet during the bubble the business press printed nothing but hype. Same with Enron, same with all of Wall Street, with its pro forma earnings statements and consulting/auditing kickback schemes. The truth can't be told because the viability of the enterprise depends entirely on telling lies.
The facts of the Bush administration's true agenda in Central Asia, and of still undressed questions concerning the events of 9/11, can be discovered by anyone with the slight wit and ambition required to do a Google search. Try 'Zacarias Moussaoui and FISA warrants,' or 'FISA warrants and John Ashcroft and Janet Reno.' According to www.securityfocus.com/news/201 , under Clinton and Janet Reno, "In 2000 as in previous years, no FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant requests were refused." In the current Village Voice, Nat Hentoff reports that Ashcroft's chief legal counsel confirmed to him that FISA requests were rarely refused. Why was Zacarias Moussaoui the exception to the rule? An identified terrorist, already in custody on the basis of an expired visa and the paying of large wads of cash for rather selectively chosen flying skills? Now known to be the 20th hijacker? And why has MSNBC apparently scrubbed their original reporting on this issue? (Saved at www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/Access%20Denied.htm?cp1=1)
Do a search on Afghanistan, Caspian Sea Oil, pipelines, Unocal, etc., it's all out there. For a good overview, check out the Asia Times - »atimes.com/c-asia/DA25Ag01.html and »www.atimes.com/c-asia/DA26Ag01.html . The same story is found in the Russian press, the Indian press, the English press, etc. They have the mere facts, they just don't fit the prevailing narrative we're getting from CNN and Fox.
And speaking of whispers and murmurings, run a Google on 'Operation Northwoods,' and wonder why ABCNews chose this moment to confirm that in the early 1960's our Pentagon planned a coordinated series of attacks on American cities, airliners and ships to be blamed on Cuba, providing justification for an invasion of that country.
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