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VeeJay says, "Bush's personal oil reserves?" 
Why is Bush laughing? After a little fib here and a little fib there...
You would have plenty of reason to laugh too,
if you had so easily hoodwinked everybody into
making you the richest man in the planet's history.
Bush's Popularity Wanes in Slow Economy
by Will Lester, AP, August 8, 2003
"People want President Bush to focus most of his attention on the struggling economy, says a new poll that indicates his public support has fallen to about the level it was two years ago."
Story ...
This one has got to make you laugh. Why do Americans bother to hope NOW? Bush has already sold them out. They just haven't been reading the newspapers. "Petition To: The White House and Congress
More than $1.1 trillion of federal government money is missing. Our government leaders say they will not account for it. However finding this money could solve all of our federal, state and local budget crises.
Where is the Money?
The Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of the Inspector General has reported that HUD has not and will not account for $59 billion of "undocumentable adjustments."
The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General has reported that DOD has not and will not account for $1.1 trillion of "undocumentable adjustments."
The "undocumentable adjustments" made by these government agencies are much like the balance adjustments many of us make when reconciling our checkbooks. Except that the amounts are staggering: California's share of the "undocumented adjustments" is $128 billion -- more than three times its current $35 billion budget deficit. The average American's share of the "undocumented adjustments" is almost $4,000 per person.
Where is the Money?
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ipetitions.com/campaigns/missing_money/
See also:
ipetitions.com/campaigns/missing_money/images/1.1trillion.htm
Military waste under fire $1 trillion missing
San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2003:
sfgate.com/article US's Missing Trillions Make Mainstream At Last
Scoop, May 26, 2003,
Story at:
scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00158.htm Ole Bush Walker told a fib, ee-i-ee-i-yo,
here a fib, there a fib, everywhere a fat fib,
Ole Bush Walker told a fib, ee-i-ee-i-yo!
In 1886, the physicist
Ludwig Boltzman was telling us: "The life contest is primarily a competition for
available energy." Der zweite Hauptsatz der mechanischen Waermetheorie, 1886
(Georold, Vienna) p. 210. By the mid-1920s, A. J. Lotka was telling us that
evolution was the product of maximized energy processing. "Energy determines what
you can do, and often what you will do."
groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/message/39969 Uzbekistan, Afganistan, Iraq and Africa. Bonanzas for Bechtel and Haliburton. What do the actions of George Bush amount to? Use of American military forces for building Bush's personal wealth. The new law by Executive
Order 13303. If the actions of George Wunderkind Bush haven't astounded you yet, probably this won't either. Bush signed into the Federal Register, Executive
Order 13303, May 28, 2003. Executive Order 13303 states:
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the
threat of attachment or other judicial process against the Development
Fund for Iraq, Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein,
and
proceeds, obligations, or any financial instruments of any nature whatsoever
arising from or related to the sale or marketing thereof, and interests
therein, obstructs the orderly reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration
and
maintenance of peace and security in the country, and the development of
political, administrative, and economic institutions in Iraq. This situation
constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security
and
foreign policy of the United States and I hereby declare a national
emergency to deal with that threat.
I hereby order:
Section 1. Unless licensed or otherwise authorized pursuant to this order,
any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other
judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void, with
respect to the following:
(a) the Development Fund for Iraq, and
(b) all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products ...
Here's the rest in the actual government document in pdf:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/pdf/03-13412.pdf |
Bush signs executive order claiming Iraq oil for himself :
UnderReported.com, June 25, 2003
underreported.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News
&file=article&sid=1028&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Comments posted in energyresources:
"The executive order (13303) is cleverly worded to make it seem as though all Iraqi
oil revenues are going into the Development Fund for Iraq. But that's not
what it says. (a) and (b) are independent above.
If any oil company goes in to pump Iraqi oil, no organization can sue
to have the revenues go to a just cause. The executive order says that
oil companies may pump Iraqi oil without fear of lawsuits. There will be
no pesky 9-11 style lawsuits to worry about.
"
groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/message/37893 "13303 is published both at the official White
House
site, and the Federal Register. The executive order not only lays claim
to Iraq
oil, it prohibits others from lawsuits against the oil and gas to pay other
debts.
But it gets better: What to do if the oil production is delayed but
you want cash now? Simple, just issue bonds against future oil
delivery. With the full force of the US backing up rights to the oil, bankers
will now be very happy to use future Iraq oil production as collateral
for cash
loaned now.
In a gesture to deflect criticism that the US is acting unilaterally,
note that the loans will be opened to international bankers."
groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/message/37904 Washington, June 25, 2003, Reuters article;
"Edmund Rice, president of the Coalition for Employment Through
Exports, said his group was lobbying a proposal to use oil revenues
amounting to about $3 billion a year as security to borrow money from
commercial banks for projects in Iraq.
'We have received strong support from the administration (for this
proposal),' said Rice, whose group has among its members some of the
key players doing work in Iraq, such as oil giant Halliburton HAL.N
and engineering firm Bechtel."
"Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman wrote to the military this week
demanding information over possible plans to mortgage Iraq's oil to pay for contracts with Bechtel and Halliburton, which was once led by
Vice President Dick Cheney.
Waxman said such a move would 'conflict fundamentally' with the claim
that Iraq's oil belonged to the Iraqi people."
reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=2988992 "Executive Order 13303 was issued pursuant to U.N. Security
Council 1483, which in paragraph 22 granted Iraq temporary debt relief
from its creditors and called upon all member states to pass whatever
domestic laws were needed to assure such protection. Whether the wording
actually covers more than that, I don't think anyone can know unless and
until someone other than an Iraqi creditor tries to sue and we see what
the courts say."
groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/message/37915 A look at Enron justice should be a good indication of just how future lawsuits, if any, would likely be decided. Given the wording of the relevant documents, Bush and his consiglieri could take as much as they desire. We told you so, we told you so, we told you so. Bush and his consiglieri are not tip-toeing around. It's no secret. They can be watched from the front page of any newspaper as they commit their astounding acts of GIGA-Thievery. Secrecy is unnecessary. Rivals Say Halliburton Dominates Iraq Oil Work
by Neela Banerjee, New York Times, August 08, 2003
"After the United States Army Corps of Engineers quietly selected Halliburton in the spring to perform early repairs of the Iraqi oil business in the aftermath of the war, other companies and members of Congress protested that the work should have been awarded through competitive bidding. Halliburton's role in the rebuilding has been under political scrutiny because the company was formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. But the Bush administration and the Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the Iraqi oil reconstruction effort, have repeatedly said that Halliburton has no inside track."
Story ...
When politicians have said it was not about sex, guess what, jelly bean? It was about sex.
When politicians have said it was not about inside tracks? Guess what, jelly bean? It was about inside tracks. And money. Billions and potentially trillions. |
A War Crime or an Act of War?
by Stephen C. Pelletiere The New York Times, Jan. 31, 2003
"But the truth is, all we know for certain is that Kurds were bombarded with
poison gas that day at Halabja. We cannot say with any certainty that Iraqi
chemical weapons killed the Kurds. This is not the only distortion in the
Halabja story.
I am in a position to know because, as the Central Intelligence Agency's senior
political analyst on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and as a professor at the
Army War College from 1988 to 2000, I was privy to much of the classified
material that flowed through Washington having to do with the Persian Gulf. In
addition, I headed a 1991 Army investigation into how the Iraqis would fight a
war against the United States; the classified version of the report went into
great detail on the Halabja affair.
This much about the gassing at Halabja we undoubtedly know: it came about in
the course of a battle between Iraqis and Iranians. Iraq used chemical weapons
to try to kill Iranians who had seized the town, which is in northern Iraq not
far from the Iranian border. The Kurdish civilians who died had the misfortune
to be caught up in that exchange. But they were not Iraq's main target.
And the story gets murkier: immediately after the battle the United States
Defense Intelligence Agency investigated and produced a classified report,
which it circulated within the intelligence community on a need-to-know basis.
That study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds, not Iraqi
gas.
The agency did find that each side used gas against the other in the battle
around Halabja. The condition of the dead Kurds' bodies, however, indicated
they had been killed with a blood agent - that is, a cyanide-based gas - which
Iran was known to use. The Iraqis, who are thought to have used mustard gas in
the battle, are not known to have possessed blood agents at the time.
These facts have long been in the public domain but, extraordinarily, as often
as the Halabja affair is cited, they are rarely mentioned. A much-discussed
article in The New Yorker last March did not make reference to the Defense
Intelligence Agency report or consider that Iranian gas might have killed the
Kurds. On the rare occasions the report is brought up, there is usually
speculation, with no proof, that it was skewed out of American political
favoritism toward Iraq in its war against Iran.
I am not trying to rehabilitate the character of Saddam Hussein. He has much to
answer for in the area of human rights abuses. But accusing him of gassing his
own people at Halabja as an act of genocide is not correct, because as far as
the information we have goes, all of the cases where gas was used involved
battles. These were tragedies of war. There may be justifications for invading
Iraq, but Halabja is not one of them."
nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PELL.html
groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/message/39695 Also from the same article:
A War Crime or an Act of War?
by Stephen C. Pelletiere, The New York Times, Jan. 31, 2003
"We are constantly reminded that Iraq has perhaps the world's largest reserves
of oil. But in a regional and perhaps even geopolitical sense, it may be more
important that Iraq has the most extensive river system in the Middle East. In
addition to the Tigris and Euphrates, there are the Greater Zab and Lesser Zab
rivers in the north of the country. Iraq was covered with irrigation works by
the sixth century A.D., and was a granary for the region.
Before the Persian Gulf war, Iraq had built an impressive system of dams and
river control projects, the largest being the Darbandikhan dam in the Kurdish
area. And it was this dam the Iranians were aiming to take control of when they
seized Halabja. In the 1990's there was much discussion over the construction
of a so-called Peace Pipeline that would bring the waters of the Tigris and
Euphrates south to the parched Gulf states and, by extension, Israel. No
progress has been made on this, largely because of Iraqi intransigence. With
Iraq in American hands, of course, all that could change.
Thus America could alter the destiny of the Middle East in a way that probably
could not be challenged for decades - not solely by controlling Iraq's oil, but
by controlling its water. Even if America didn't occupy the country, once Mr.
Hussein's Baath Party is driven from power, many lucrative opportunities would
open up for American companies."
nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PELL.html
groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/message/39695 Blair rightly focuses on completing job in Iraq, USA TODAY, July 18, 2003
In Washington on Thursday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair used a rare honor -- a
speech to a joint session of Congress -- to make a compelling case for U.S. and
British forces to stay the course in Iraq in spite of escalating guerrilla
attacks. ''Finishing the fighting is not finishing the job,'' he said. ''We
promised Iraq democratic government. We will deliver it.''
Story....
They may deliver "it" alright. If given the
chance. A puppet ersatz democracy. Let them finish the job. Regardless of how
badly the Iraqi people are robbed of their mineral and oil heritage by avaricious
hegemonists and their shills. There will probably be enough leftover revenues
used for building a decent life for the Iraqis, electricity, roads, schools,
hospitals, sewage treatment plants, etc. And if the country is no longer
considered a "terrist" country you should be able to go to visit archeological
sites and people and other interesting things in Iraq. These considerations,
what really matters to the non-elite classes of humans, are important.
We did predict that the anti-war folks
would get egg on their faces. They did and they will get more egg on their
faces. This does not mean that the ultimate Bushie goal is not Armageddon. That
ultimate goal remains. But think of what is to be written in the history books.
In order to create and maintain a contrived moral high ground after the
Holocaust, this rebuilding of Iraq is necessarily important. It will contribute a
misleading impression that the instigators of Operation Biblical Prophesy
Fulfillment will have been blameless. We told you so, we told you so, we told you so. Bush and his consiglieri are not tip-toeing around. It's no secret. They can be watched from the front page of any newspaper as they commit their astounding acts of GIGA-Thievery. Secrecy is unnecessary. Bush appoints supporter to run Iraqi corporate sector AFP, August 8, 2003
"President George W. Bush has appointed one of his major political fundraisers, Thomas Foley, to run the Iraqi state business sector and draw up a sweeping privatization, Foley said. As the coalition's director of Iraq public sector development, Foley will effectively decide which of the roughly 200 state-owned companies, employing about half a million people, should survive or die.
Foley, who expected to depart as early as Monday, is to report to the US governor of Iraq, Paul Bremer."
"All Iraqi state-owned businesses other than oil and the two state-owned banks would report to Foley, he said."
Story ...
No Ethics? No Experience? No Problem!
by Ted Rall, August 21, 2003
"WorldCom Inc., recently and hilariously accused of rerouting phone calls to avoid paying connection fees to other phone companies (who was running the joint, frat dudes?), ranks with Enron in the annals of modern corporate debauchery. After an $11 billion accounting scandal sunk the infamous telecommunications conglomerate into bankruptcy, the U.S. General Services Administration banned federal agencies from doing business with WorldCom. So how is a proscribed 'company that has demonstrated a flagrant lack of ethics'--the words belong to Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), chairperson of the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee--poised to land a $900 million Pentagon contract to build a cell phone system for occupied Iraq?
'I was curious about it, because the last time I looked, MCI has never built out a wireless network,' comments Len Lauer of Sprint.
Indeed, WorldCom's MCI division never figured out how to build a cell network in the U.S., and ultimately gave up trying."
Story ... |
VeeJay says, "For Lexiophiles (lovers of words)"
>
>A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
>What's the definition of a will? It's a dead giveaway.
>Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
>A backward poet writes inverse.
>In democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism it's your count that
>votes.
>She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
>A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
>If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
>With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
>Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.
>When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
>The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
>A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum
>Blownapart.
>You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
>Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
>He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
>Every calendar's days are numbered.
>A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.
>A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
>He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
>A plateau is a high form of flattery.
>The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
>
>Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
>When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
>Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
>When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
>Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
>Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
>Acupuncture is a jab well done.
>Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE THIS.
-- VeeJay |
FRONT PAGE STORY - 03/08/2002
September 11 - US Government accused
"A Portugal-based investigative journalist has presented THE NEWS with version of the September 11th attacks that has to date failed to attract the attention of the international press. The report, compiled by an independent inquiry into the September 11th, World Trade Centre attack, warns the American public that the government's official version of events does not stand up to scrutiny."
Story from the-news.net
Duh! "A group of military and civilian US pilots, [...] has concluded that the flight crews of the four passenger airliners, involved in the September 11th tragedy, had no control over their aircraft."
"The report seriously questions whether or not the suspect hijackers, supposedly trained on Cessna light aircraft, could have located a target dead-on 200 miles from take off point. It further throws into doubt their ability to master the intricacies of the instrument flight rules (IFR) in the 45 minutes from take off to the point of impact. Colonel de Grand said that it would be impossible for novices to have taken control of the four aircraft and orchestrated such a terrible act requiring military precision of the highest order."
Story from the-news.net "A further question raised by the inquiry was why none of the pilots concerned had alerted ground control. It stated that all pilots are trained to punch a four-digit code into the flight control's transponder to warn ground control crews of a hijacking - but this did not happen."
Story from the-news.net "The FBI also came in for criticism for the various pieces of contradictory evidence it has published regarding the suspects. Questions are now being asked as to how incorrect information was given out regarding the ID cards of the suspects, and the seat numbers they supposedly occupied after boarding the flights.
None of the suspects named by the FBI appeared on any of the official passenger lists."
Story from the-news.net "Colonel Donn de Grand said that if President Bush is lying it would not be the first time that the American people had been mislead by its government. He cited the recently published official government archives describing President Roosevelt's duplicity in deceiving Americans about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, which triggered the US entry into WWll."
Story from the-news.net Nobody expects the energy flow would be strategically cut off intentionally. Everyone expects oil prices to skyrocket...
Dwindling Oil
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, August 7, 2003
"The world is running out of oil and it's running out fast. Out of the estimated 2 trillion barrels of oil reserves we started off with, 900 billion have now been used. That leaves us with about 40 years of oil supplies .
Even pumping the 1.1 trillion barrels of oil that remain becomes harder and harder as time goes by. As the wells are emptied, they lose pressure, slowing the flow of crude. This means we're likely to reach a peak in production well before we run out of oil altogether.
Once demand outstrips supply, we can expect oil prices to skyrocket, dragging the global economy into a recession of apocalyptic proportions. To discuss this impending crisis, we are joined by a trio of experts from three continents.
Richard Hardman is the Trustee of the London-based Oil Depletion Analysis Centre and former president of the UK Geological Society. Matthew Simmons is an energy adviser to the former Clinton and current Bush administrations. He's also an energy investment banker and President of Simmons and Company, a Houston-based investment firm. Dr John Wright is the Director of the CSIRO flagship program, Energy Transformed, based in Newcastle."
abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/stories/s918926.htm
Listen (requires RealAudio)
abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/stories/m665258.ram 
Troop deployments and oil map of Mid-East region.
US Military presence in 130 countries: Global Deployments of US Forces, July 30, 2003
globalsecurity.org/military/ops/global-deployments.htm
US nuclear threat in the Korean Peninsula: The Bully In The China Shop Edward W. Miller, July 28, 2003
globalresearch.ca/articles/MIL307A.html
Revealing? Hardly. But the title is appropriate. 
This obedient puppet doeth whatever King George commandeth.
Both Asian and American lobotomatons still don't get it.
Millions of South Koreans have been pounding the table about it for years.
What could be more amusing?
No American ODA, No North Korea. No North Korea, No excuse for American forces in Asia.
It's really simple. In fact, it's really, really, really simple.
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