Friday 29 August 2014

conspiracy!

Such things always make for a good discussion:
What have these got in common?



Rumsfeld shakes hands with Saddam (full video, no sound) - YouTube
GOP Rumsfeld Shakes Saddam Hussein’s Hand/ More | The Moderate Voice



Revisited - The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War in Iraq: A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth, by William Clark, updated: Jan 2004
Iraq: Baghdad Moves To Euro
Foreign Exchange: Saddam Turns His Back on Greenbacks - TIME



The demise of the dollar - Business News - Business - The Independent

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Proposed Afghanistan Pipeline





How 'threat' was reported






ENRON-IRAQ

Professor Alford was at the time of his death working along with his former student and Canadian scholar Dr. David Peerla on developing a new theory of misinformation, using Enron, other corporate scandals, and contemporary politics to examine what he considered an emerging phenomenon in our society. “On the one hand, more information is now produced and consumed than in any previous era. On the other hand, much of that information is fictitious and fraudulent,” he stated in Ideology and the Politics of Information: The Case of Enron, a paper jointly authored with Peerla. “The case of Enron, and subsequent corporate bankruptcies and scandals, is an example of the systematic falsification of information, or (to reverse it) the production of misinformation. What is striking is how little this phenomenon is recognized, let alone explained or theorized, in all of the theories of information that we have examined.” He went on to analyze the way in which the crisis in Iraq diverted media attention from the administration’s circumstantial connection to the corporate scandals.

We now know--from Harken, Halliburton, Enron, WorldCom, etc.--that the most basic data on the economic performance of corporations--costs, revenues, profits--have been and are systematically manipulated and distorted.


When the Enron scandal first broke in January 2002, Professor Alford discovered from his survey of the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, the story received 1,137 mentions in those newspapers. At that time Iraq got only 200 mentions. By Spring the Iraqi story grew almost 100%. Enron declined by 50%. By early summer, Iraq had received 1,529 mentions. In sharp contrast, Enron had received only 310.
“Remarkable, ins’t it”, concluded Fisk, “how you can clear a messy economic scandal off the front pages by renaming your hate figure.. Of course, it is also a good idea to change hate figures when your closest ally, Israel, is in danger of producing one in the form of Ariel Sheron”.

So I owe my enlightenment to Professor Robert Alford of the City University of New York Graduate Centre. A series of tables he drew up shows something remarkable: that the Iraq story started growing - and the Osama saga diminishing - just as the Enron scandal broke.
In January, Enron was receiving 1 137 "mentions" in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and Iraq only 200. Iraq stories grew almost 100 percent by early spring as Enron mentions declined by 50 percent to 618. After a dip in early summer, Iraq soared to 1 529 mentions, with Enron down to 310. Remarkable, isn't it, how you can clear a messy economic scandal off the front pages by renaming your hate figure? Of course, it's also a good idea to change hate figures when your closest ally, Israel, is in danger of producing one in the form of Ariel Sharon, its prime minister.
If we hadn't had Bin Laden and Hussein to worry about we might all have been taking a closer look at Sharon, who greeted the slaughter of one Hamas man and nine children in Gaza as "a great success".

Lay, of course, hasn't been charged with anything yet. But in the emerging court of public opinion he's become a radioactive character in a drama tailor-made for a class war. Democrats are poised to gin up every kind of Congressional committee they can think of this spring to very loudly look into the matter 

The Big Secret? Bush, Enron, And The Taliban
...And then there are the Enron coverups, as documents are shredded and the White House seeks to conceal details about meetings between Enron and Vice President Cheney.
The coverups are still very much a mystery. What were the documents that were fed into the shredder -- even after the corporation declared bankruptcy? What is the White House fighting to keep secret, even going to the length of redefining executive privilege and inviting the first Congressional lawsuit ever filed against a president? Were the consequences of releasing these documents more damaging than the consequences of destroying them?
Could the Big Secret be that the highest levels of the Bush Administration knew during the summer of 2001 that the largest bankruptcy in history was imminent? Or was it that Enron and the White House were working closely with the Taliban -- including Osama bin Laden -- up to weeks before the Sept. 11 attack? Was a deal in Afghanistan part of a desperate last-ditch "end run" to bail out Enron? 


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