By Alex Constantine
On August 27, Audrey McElravy waited at the airport outside Hagersland, Maryland for her husband Steve to return on Flight 5191 from a drug abuse prevention strategy conference in Lexington, but the plane never arrived ...
Bruce McElravy, Steve's brother, felt a chill when he saw the crash on television, an intimation deep down that his brother was on the plane ...
Steve had visited Lincoln only a few weeks before. He'd come to comfort an aunt whose daughter had died of breast cancer. After Bruce learned of the crash, he sat in a lawn chair in his back yard and looked up to find his brother's face gazing back at him.
"I can still see his face." Bruce was unable to extricate his thoughts from his brother's last moments, "the exploding fuel tank, the final thoughts [Steve] must have had ... "
Bob Schroeder of Lincoln was Steve's co-worker at the Nebraska Council to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Abuse four years ago. McElravy, he said, was "a bright man with a deep acceptance of himself and others....
"He was big into meditation, just very much at peace with himself.”
Steve McElravy's hometown paper, the Lincoln Journal-Star, published the obituary on August 28:
" ... Steve McElravy, 57, a social worker who worked in the field of drug- and alcohol-abuse prevention here until moving to Maryland about four years ago ... He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ... then received his master’s degree in social work in Ann Arbor, Mich. ... "
It begins this way every time – the grief, confusion, memories, goodbyes, the funeral ... then the silent suffering of the families ...
And the path of this investigation is also determined. Cutting through the mystery of McElravy's death drags you step-by-step into a sewer of ultra-conservative pathologies. Every Flight 5191 passenger examined so far was swallowed by it. He was no exception.
The brilliant illusions of McElravy's life will fade a layer at a time, like the others, each layer a little less brilliant, and at the heart of it, a sealed vault of blackness. When you dig beneath the surface, his life was the antithesis of everything it appeared to be.
McElravy was not a social worker, exactly – he was social engineer, a cog in an Orwellian machine.
And the machine had an operator – a ubiquitous presence in this story tightly connected to 9/11.
The leads left by every passenger so far have made a bee-line for the Kennedy killers in the Lone Star State who funded the Bush campaigns – and 9/11. The McElravy case is a little unusual – he worked for the Bush regime. No bee-lines. He was already there, in the vermins' nest. This investigation shouldn't take long, you think ...
Well, there was the brilliant veneer of illusions, but with a little patience you cut away the cover stories ...
Ostensibly, his job was laudable. After 9/11, Steve McElravy was recruited by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, one of three divisions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). He traveled around the country assisting in anti-smoking programs.
"In 2004," Steve McElravy explained in a capsule history of substance abuse prevention posted at the SAMHSA site, "the administration of the Drug Free Communities (DFC) program was moved to CSAP. The DFC program provides grants of up to $100,000 to community coalitions that mobilize their communities to prevent youth alcohol, tobacco, illicit drug, and inhalant abuse."203
This appears to be a liberal, even Clintonian program – but G.W. Bush does not run a liberal administration.
The director of CSAP is Beverly Watts Davis, an African-American, former senior VP of United Way in San Antonio and Bexar (pronounced "Bear" by locals) County, Texas, also executive director of San Antonio's Fighting Back Anti-Drug Community Coalition. She has served as the principal investigator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Promotion.204
A liberal activist? Not exactly. Ms. Watts Davis is another social engineer.
Clements
Her political career began with a seat at the Austin' Minority- and Women-Owned Business Commission. This appointment brought her to the attention of then Gov. William P. Clements, a Republican. Clements tapped her to co-chair the state's minority-owned, small business advisory council. Before long, Davis was transiting through Texas government in a series of appointments to state boards and committees. Her Rolodex bulged with the names of the state's political elite: "I worked with people all over the state of Texas," she enthused in an ainterview. Her life was "a tumultuous affair, with countless board appointments and responsibilities."205
One day, Aaronetta Pierce, "a well-known and highly regarded community leader in San Antonio," approached her with a an offer that she "attempted to refuse because she had so many other interests and commitments: the job of executive director of San Antonio Fighting Back, a new local anti-drug initiative already teetering on the brink of collapse."
"In 1990," according to a charitable foundation in Princeton, New Jersey that funded her, "San Antonio Fighting Back was struggling. The United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, together with a coalition of San Antonio's civic leaders, municipal agencies and local grassroots organizations, had received grant money from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to run the program. However, the effort lacked buy-in from the residents of the target area, a 25-mile area on the East and Southeast sections of San Antonio plagued by crime and drug sales, and weighed down by poverty, illiteracy and a crumbling infrastructure."
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Johnson & Johnson.
The chairman of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is THOMAS KEAN, the familiar face (at Pepsico board meetings and the 9/11 Commission, cf. parts 1, 20, 24 and 25). From the foundation's web site, we learn that Kean "was elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in January 2005, effective April 2005. He has been a member of the board since July 1990. ... He serves as chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. He has received honorary degrees from 25 colleges and universities."206
But Thomas Kean isn't a liberal, either.
Pierce, a board member of the United Way, recruited Davis to the Fighting Back group, advised her "to stop whatever she was doing and take over the leadership of SAFB. At first, Davis only agreed to a temporary assignment. Within a short time, she realized that she was fully committed."
In May 2003, that commitment took her to the District of Columbia and the Department of Human Services under Bush-appointee Michael Leavitt.207
"Her high-powered connections are many." Davis is currently a consultant to the U.S. Department of Human Services National Center for the Advancement of Prevention, and she serves on the advisory board of the National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention and the National Center for State Courts. She serves on countless boards, including the National Crime Prevention Council, National Organization of Weed and Seed Crime Prevention Coalitions and the National Association for Drug Court Professionals.
"Let me put it this way," confides Capt. Larry Birney, commander of the San Antonio Police Department's Community Services Section and an ardent SAFB supporter. "If George W. Bush doesn't know who she is, I would be shocked."
Capt. Birney might also be shocked by the RW Johnson. The founder, Robert Wood Johnson, sat on the Citizens' Commission on Utilization of Manpower in the Armed Services, created with Budapest-born Anna Rosenberg's appointment as assistant secretary of defense (1950-52) under Robert A. Lovett, a Bonesman. Other members included Artemus L. Gates, another Bonesman, and CIA Mockingbird David Sarnoff, chairman.208
Robert Wood Johnson IV
Foundation Trustee Robert Wood Johnson IV is a ranking GW Bush campaign contributor, a Major League PIONEER in the 2000 election cycle, a Ranger in 2004.209
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation bills itself as "the largest US foundation devoted to improving the health and health care." On the contrary, the RW Johnson Foundation is the largest US foundation devoted to pharmaceutical industry profits – it only gave 3.3 percent of its assets to charity in 2001.
Texans for Public Justice reports that Robert Wood Johnson IV "is heir to the Johnson & Johnson health care fortune and heads his own personal investment
company. He also bought the NFL’s New York Jets (part 27-suppl.) for $635 million in 2000 and spent a couple years trying to get New York City taxpayers to build a new stadium for the Jets and a future Olympics. Johnson attended a 1998 bird hunt that Pioneer Heinz Prechter hosted for George W. Bush and 12 top GOP fundraisers at his 10,000-acre Texas ranch. Bush emerged from that hunt as the GOP moneyed elite’s candidate. Johnson also was a hit when he amused the other big guns by whipping out an elephant gun. The IRS included Johnson and Bush’s Eastern Caribbean Ambassador Earl Phillips, Jr. on a 2002 list of wealthy individuals who invested in dubious tax shelters marketed by accounting firms KPMG ..."210
Marcie Thomason: Murdered by CIA-Republicans and the JINGO-BRAINED American PROLES who SUPPORTED THEM
This brings us to another major Comair crash counter-coincidence ... at the time the illegal tax shelters were devised by the crooked accountants at KPMG, Flight 5191 passenger MARCIE THOMASON (parts 23-26) WORKED THERE.
The Virginia-Pilot reported on September 1, 2006: "Upon graduation she was employed as a certified public accountant in Washington, D.C., first with the firm KPMG LLP and most recently with the firm Alvarez & Marsal LLC ... "211
Robert Wood Johnson
According to the TPJ site, the RW Johnson Foundation "belongs to the Foundation Executives Group, which hired Pioneer lobbyist Bill Paxon in 2003 to kill legislation to require foundations to give at least 5 percent of their assets to charity each year."212
Among the charitable causes supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, count euthanasia.213 You'd almost conclude that the "largest US foundation devoted to improving the health and health care" serves a fascist agenda ...
[Postscript: Disgusting RW Johnson Foundation case history here:
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/318]
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
A PSYCHO-CIVILIZED SOCIETY
EMERSON'S LAW OF CONSERVATION AND THE "PUPPETMASTERS" – LEXINGTON COMAIR CRASH COMMENTARY:
http://halfway.oceanfalls.org//index.php?topic=123.105
Quote from: soulsurvivor on November 25, 2006, 05:23:23 AM
I'm learning. I'm just not exactly certain what I'm learning.
There is a very important point revealed here that I suspect even Alex doesn't yet consciously understand. He is getting there. This understanding first appears to be reason for despair but after awhile you begin to realize it also offers a ray of hope.
This goes back to the same thought that I have tried to express in the past based on personal experience. This thought is illustrated again here by Alex in a more broad based fashion.
The commonly held perception within the masses of western society is that the economic and political structures of the world are highly diverse and we interoperate within them in a random (democratic?) method amenable to equal opportunity for anyone with ambition to better their condition. We assume that all the enterprises both large and small compete with each other and keep the system competitive and honest.
This is a fallacy.
I discovered privately by rising towards the top in 3 widely differing industries, that all roads lead to Rome. The same people lived at the end of each road. The same selection process is in place on each road to determine who gets to partake of the fruits of the empire by passing the checkpoint.
Even relatively small operations come to the attention of the rulers and the operators are vetted for suitability to becoming members of the ruling class. This is not done openly, you just come under the microscope and it is decided if you know which side your bread is buttered on or not. If you do and are willing to play the game then your path is cleared for you to rise into the inner circle. If you don't you are either destroyed (because you offer competition) or are left to rot without the needed support to move forward.
Alex is demonstrating the same point here. You can take anyone in a crowd and follow the influences that determine their road in life to the same small group, the emperors of rome. These emperors literally have their fingers in every pie. Every single life on the planet is influenced by these anonymous elite rulers.
Even though we think we are motivated by our own volition,we are mostly dancing to someone else's tune. We are not knowing participants but we are nonetheless particpants. If you follow the rules of the game, you are playing the game.
I'll state the same thing from a different perspective to try to clarify the point. Contrary to everything we think we see around us that suggests we exist within a highly complex, diverse and vibrant societal infrastructure, the whole thing is just a sham. The multitude of differing businesses and governments are just window dressing to hide the fact that a few people control the situation. Once you look past the surface you will find strings everywhere leading back to the same small group.
Puppets being manipulated by the strings mostly don't realize what is happening. They think it is a natural phenomena when a string attached to their left arm raises it for them. It is not their place to question why, they need only respond to assure their own viability. To break the string means having to hold up the arm using their own power.
On one level this realization leads to despair as it appears that these emperors are omnipotent and control everything. When you think further on it you begin to realize these people are not all knowing. Many empires have arisen but all have collapsed, mostly sooner rather than later. This thinking leads to the more esoteric aspects of existence and we begin to consider the occult influences that detrmine the direction of people's lives. Are the elite knowingly in control of their own lives or are they following the dictates of occult strings that make puppets out of them?
On another level these realizations lead to hope. The situation becomes much simpler. Instead of the world being a quagmire of endless different/seperate negative influences which appear too complex to comprehend you realize that almost ALL these negative trends originate from 1 source. Instead of uncountable problems needing to be resolved you realize you have 1 problem which needs to resolved that will correct the countless symptoms that are present everywhere.
Stated simply, although not easily remidied, we simply need to stop being puppets and take responsibility for our own movements and all else will fix itself.
If there are no puppets, there can not be a puppetmasters.
NOTES
203.) Steve McElravy, MSW, SAMHSA, CSAP, "SAP History."
http://prevention.samhsa.gov/about/background.aspx
204.) "New CSAP Director Named."
http://www.samhsa.gov/samhsa_news/VolumeXI_2/article2.htm
205.) "Beverly Watts Davis's Story."
http://www.rwjf.org/portfolios/features/featuredetail.jsp?featureID=143&pageNum=2&type=3&iaid=131
206.) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation site, "RWJF Board of Trustees – The Honorable Thomas H. KEAN, Chairman."
http://www.rwjf.org/about/leadership.jsp
Also at the Robert Wood Johmson Foundation: Robert Wood Johnson IV was recruited by the George H.W. Bush administration, and served a three-year term on the President’s Export Council; Robert E. Campbell is a retired vice chairman of the board. Campbell joined Johnson & Johnson briefly in 1955, served as an Air Force officer for three years, rejoined J&J in 1959; Nancy-Ann DeParle, formerly with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was associate director for Health and Personnel, the White House OMB; etc..
207.) "Beverly Watts Davis's Story."
208.) "Manpower Waste In Services Hunted," New York Times, Nov. 26, 1952. Also see: Seymour Brody, "Anna M. Rosenberg (1902-1983)," Jewish Virtual Library.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ARosenberg.html
209.) Texans for Public Justice web site, "Bush Donor Profile – Robert Wood Johnson IV."
http://www.tpj.org/docs/pioneers/pioneers_view.jsp?id=46
210.) Ibid.
211.) Marcie Thomason obituary, September 1, 2006.
http://home.hamptonroads.com/obits/details.cfm?obitID=40297
212.) Texans for Public Justice.
http://www.tpj.org/docs/pioneers/pioneers_view.jsp?id=46
213.) See Karen Ward, RN, "Myra Christopher, Euthanasia and The Healthcare Connection - Part 11," June 30, 2006.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/063006MyraChristopher11.html
"Advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." - PNAC, Rebuilding America's Defenses, p. 60
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 27: The Path of Bliss
"I'm crestfallen,
The world of illusion is at my door ..."
– Bob Dylan
One of the passengers on Flight 5191 placed his faith in this:
The swastika in the rising sun of this abomination is a reference to the roots of his religion ...
Time Machine
The seeds of this religious movement were germinated in Nazi Berlin, a vile place made that way by the upper-upper-crust who proxied the government and military, mustered an army, declared war on the world and tried to take over. The Russians were so disgusted with the ensuing carnage that when the Germans gave up, they built an "Iron Curtain" (as Joseph Goebbels referred to it), to prevent fascists from the West rolling in again and shooting everybody ...
Forty-five years later, the Iron Curtain crumbled, a resounding anti-climax, the polar political tension gave way and influence shifted to the West without so much as a moan ...
Unfortunately, however, American capitalism, too, entered a phase of steep decline in the middle-'80s, and it would culminate with the inevitable economic crash of 1990 ... the world was about to be pitched into chaos ... soon, we would all be paupers on the streets, begging for food and water ...
''People in a position to pay taxes should pay them now,'' the famed economist warned. ''If they do, we still have time. We still have two and a half years to go ..." Some well-heeled entrepreneurs sitting in the audience sneered and walked out.
Dr. Batra
But the powerful Hunt brothers remained in their seats and took notes.
The speaker at the podium was Ravi Batra, the famed "Depression Guru." Batra's lecture at the Dallas' Crescent Club in August, 1987 drew more than 200 of the city's upper-upper-crust.
Batra's book, The Great Depression of 1990, was number three on the New York Times non-fiction best-seller list.
"His predictions in the early 1980's of low inflation, falling oil prices, a wave of mergers and a booming stock market – mocked for years – have proved close to the mark," the New York Times reported. "But as Dr. Batra's ideas spread, a growing sense of unease about their theoretical underpinnings – even about Dr. Batra himself – seems to be gathering steam. Some critics say Dr. Batra is flogging overblown academic credentials. His book, which had been rejected by 40 publishers, is a compilation of articles that Dr. Batra could not get published elsewhere. But what has perhaps aroused the most skepticism is his theoretical and spiritual ties to an Indian mentor, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, whom he calls 'my best friend' and 'a leading scholar from India.'
"Sarkar, once jailed for murder in a highly publicized case, was later vindicated on appeal, and heads an Indian sect called Ananda Marga, the Path of Bliss. His followers, who have been known to dance in public with knives and human skulls in their hands and to gather under a full moon at cremation sites, have been accused of attacks on Indian officials in Stockholm, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Washington and elsewhere. They also run orphanages, schools and programs for rural poor ... "200
By sheer perseverance, the world pulled through the terrible crash of 1990. Dr. went on to issue dire warnings of the crash coming in 1998, "a devastating and complete economic collapse," followed by a military coup.201 (It wouldn't be the last global crisis, of course. Down the road waited Saddam Hussein's tiny vial of population-decimating anthrax, bird flu and nuclear Iranians. You didn't hear much snickering then ... well, maybe at the White House ... )
Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss) was conceived by guru Ananda "Ba'ba" Murti. Today, the movement, which operates around the world, and it's spin-off, PROUT (Progressive Utilization Theory), are proponents of socialism – in theory. "In actual fact they look more like a new version of the older national socialism, the Dialogcentret site notes. "The Ananda Murti himself is hailed as a god incarnate, called Tarak Brahma, a third incarnation after Shiva and Krishna. As a god he claims absolute obedience from his followers. Even as a young boy he is said to have exercised supernatural powers, and his life has been marked by a number of remarkable acts which identify him as a typical siddhi-yogi on the basis of Tantric ideology. He was probably initiated by his notorious uncle Subhas Chandra Bose, an extremist politician who supported the Japanese and German forces against the English, whom Bose hated with life-long animosity."
Subhas Chandra Bose was born in 1897. His followers referred to him as "Netaji," or "Leader of Leaders" (the German translation was "Führer"). Bose was in Berlin from 1941-43, and he threw in with the belligerant Nazi templars created by the upper-upper-crust to protect their wealth and privilege from communist incursions.
"The Japanese declaration of war against Great Britain and the US on December 7, 1941," writes Indian historian Sisir K. Majumdar, "coupled with the advance of the Japanese army towards the Indian frontier radically altered the war situation. The German Foreign Minister prepared a draft declaration on India without any consultation with Netaji. Japan also prepared one. There was an understandable difference in attitude towards India in Germany and Japan, and Netaji tried to cash in on this rift by again insisting on the publication of his own draft declaration. Ribbentrop, however, was interested in using him for Nazi propaganda, and for the invasion of Soviet Union. Netaji, as clever as he was, surely realized that he was in the wrong company in Berlin to achieve the right objective, and also that the world and future history would portray him as an ally of the hated fascist clique. He decided to leave for the Far East. Many historians assign his decision to the failure of Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1942. In fact, he wanted to be nearer home when Japan decided to invade India so that he could be physically available to offer leadership to the people and the prisoners of war of Indian origin in South East Asia. ... 102
"Encounter with Hitler: It happened on May 29, 1942 at the Reich Chancellery. Though a few other ministers like Ribbentrop were present, Hitler was the sole actor at the show. He seemed to have been reasonably briefed in advance by his military intelligence on the internal situation in India. After an exchange of initial formalities, Hitler gave a long lecture on the world situation of the day. He spoke extensively on the Soviet threat to India once she was freed from the British, and euphorically boasted that for Germany, it is only possible to reach India over ‘the dead body of Russia’. It was more a ‘talking shop’ staged with racial hatred and national chauvinism, banal boasting and empty threats."
"Netaji" and Hitler discussed propaganda techniques, and the Indian nationalist advised that the Aryans openly declare their intentions for India. Hitler "proudly reiterated his well known ugly racist chauvinism against India. In his talk with Netaji, Hitler gave sufficient indications about his expansionist intentions towards India.... Possibly, at that juncture of history, there was no other alternative for him but to depend on the devil. Hitler did reassure Netaji that if and when German forces reached the Indian frontier, he would be invited to set foot on Indian soil in the company of German liberators to trigger ‘the revolution.’It was an empty promise and a cruel joke."
Bose was disillusioned and repulsed by Hitler, but he clung to the regime in Berlin. "Within certain limitations he was allowed to pursue his organizational work, and he was able to mobilize Indians living in Germany at the time under the banner of the Free India Centre (total members: 35) with an avowed allegiance to Netaji personally and not to India. It was granted diplomatic status with fabulous financial grants. One important activity of his in Germany was the formation of the first unit of what he thought would be the future Indian army recruited from the Indian prisoners of war from North Africa. In forming this he had the idea that: it would not be a part of the German military; it would be self sufficient; it would only fight against the British army on Indian soil and not on any other front or country; and, it could not be engaged at the German-Soviet front. But recruitment was very slow. Only 3,500, less than one third of the total Indian prisoners of war from North Africa, were recruited. They took an oath of allegiance to both Netaji and Hitler. This paved the way for using this Indian legion in other war fronts. Contrary to his wishes, after Netaji left Germany this legion was dispatched to Holland and France to perform various military duties.
"Even after deciding to leave Germany for the Far East, Netaji wasted one whole year in Berlin only to meet Hitler. He was held up by the Germans because they wanted to use him in the event of a German victory over Russia. He was allowed to leave only after the German surrender in Stalingrad, and Hitler's secret plan for India fell apart. The long journey to the Far East was very dangerous. He boarded a German submarine (U Boat) on February 8, 1943 from Kiel with another Indian colleague, Abid Hassan, leaving behind his wife and only child, daughter Anita, and many well wishers in Germany."
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
THE WORLD OF ILLUSION
All Power, each Tyrant, every Mob
Whose head has grown too large,
Ends by destroying its own job
And works its own discharge;
And Man, whose mere necessities
Move all things from his path,
Trembles meanwhile at their decrees,
And deprecates their wrath!
– Rudyard Kipling, "The Benefactors"
NOTES
200.) Thomas C. Hayes, "Depression Guru: Ravi Batra; Economist or Mystic? Tune in, Around 1990, to Find Out," New York Times, August 30, 1987.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DC1639F933A0575BC0A961948260&sec=health&pagewanted=print
201.) http://www.contumacy.org/9Cults.html
202.) Sisir K. Majumdar, "Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany."
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv7n1/Bose.htm
The world of illusion is at my door ..."
– Bob Dylan
One of the passengers on Flight 5191 placed his faith in this:
The swastika in the rising sun of this abomination is a reference to the roots of his religion ...
Time Machine
The seeds of this religious movement were germinated in Nazi Berlin, a vile place made that way by the upper-upper-crust who proxied the government and military, mustered an army, declared war on the world and tried to take over. The Russians were so disgusted with the ensuing carnage that when the Germans gave up, they built an "Iron Curtain" (as Joseph Goebbels referred to it), to prevent fascists from the West rolling in again and shooting everybody ...
Forty-five years later, the Iron Curtain crumbled, a resounding anti-climax, the polar political tension gave way and influence shifted to the West without so much as a moan ...
Unfortunately, however, American capitalism, too, entered a phase of steep decline in the middle-'80s, and it would culminate with the inevitable economic crash of 1990 ... the world was about to be pitched into chaos ... soon, we would all be paupers on the streets, begging for food and water ...
''People in a position to pay taxes should pay them now,'' the famed economist warned. ''If they do, we still have time. We still have two and a half years to go ..." Some well-heeled entrepreneurs sitting in the audience sneered and walked out.
Dr. Batra
But the powerful Hunt brothers remained in their seats and took notes.
The speaker at the podium was Ravi Batra, the famed "Depression Guru." Batra's lecture at the Dallas' Crescent Club in August, 1987 drew more than 200 of the city's upper-upper-crust.
Batra's book, The Great Depression of 1990, was number three on the New York Times non-fiction best-seller list.
"His predictions in the early 1980's of low inflation, falling oil prices, a wave of mergers and a booming stock market – mocked for years – have proved close to the mark," the New York Times reported. "But as Dr. Batra's ideas spread, a growing sense of unease about their theoretical underpinnings – even about Dr. Batra himself – seems to be gathering steam. Some critics say Dr. Batra is flogging overblown academic credentials. His book, which had been rejected by 40 publishers, is a compilation of articles that Dr. Batra could not get published elsewhere. But what has perhaps aroused the most skepticism is his theoretical and spiritual ties to an Indian mentor, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, whom he calls 'my best friend' and 'a leading scholar from India.'
"Sarkar, once jailed for murder in a highly publicized case, was later vindicated on appeal, and heads an Indian sect called Ananda Marga, the Path of Bliss. His followers, who have been known to dance in public with knives and human skulls in their hands and to gather under a full moon at cremation sites, have been accused of attacks on Indian officials in Stockholm, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Washington and elsewhere. They also run orphanages, schools and programs for rural poor ... "200
By sheer perseverance, the world pulled through the terrible crash of 1990. Dr. went on to issue dire warnings of the crash coming in 1998, "a devastating and complete economic collapse," followed by a military coup.201 (It wouldn't be the last global crisis, of course. Down the road waited Saddam Hussein's tiny vial of population-decimating anthrax, bird flu and nuclear Iranians. You didn't hear much snickering then ... well, maybe at the White House ... )
Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss) was conceived by guru Ananda "Ba'ba" Murti. Today, the movement, which operates around the world, and it's spin-off, PROUT (Progressive Utilization Theory), are proponents of socialism – in theory. "In actual fact they look more like a new version of the older national socialism, the Dialogcentret site notes. "The Ananda Murti himself is hailed as a god incarnate, called Tarak Brahma, a third incarnation after Shiva and Krishna. As a god he claims absolute obedience from his followers. Even as a young boy he is said to have exercised supernatural powers, and his life has been marked by a number of remarkable acts which identify him as a typical siddhi-yogi on the basis of Tantric ideology. He was probably initiated by his notorious uncle Subhas Chandra Bose, an extremist politician who supported the Japanese and German forces against the English, whom Bose hated with life-long animosity."
Subhas Chandra Bose was born in 1897. His followers referred to him as "Netaji," or "Leader of Leaders" (the German translation was "Führer"). Bose was in Berlin from 1941-43, and he threw in with the belligerant Nazi templars created by the upper-upper-crust to protect their wealth and privilege from communist incursions.
"The Japanese declaration of war against Great Britain and the US on December 7, 1941," writes Indian historian Sisir K. Majumdar, "coupled with the advance of the Japanese army towards the Indian frontier radically altered the war situation. The German Foreign Minister prepared a draft declaration on India without any consultation with Netaji. Japan also prepared one. There was an understandable difference in attitude towards India in Germany and Japan, and Netaji tried to cash in on this rift by again insisting on the publication of his own draft declaration. Ribbentrop, however, was interested in using him for Nazi propaganda, and for the invasion of Soviet Union. Netaji, as clever as he was, surely realized that he was in the wrong company in Berlin to achieve the right objective, and also that the world and future history would portray him as an ally of the hated fascist clique. He decided to leave for the Far East. Many historians assign his decision to the failure of Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1942. In fact, he wanted to be nearer home when Japan decided to invade India so that he could be physically available to offer leadership to the people and the prisoners of war of Indian origin in South East Asia. ... 102
"Encounter with Hitler: It happened on May 29, 1942 at the Reich Chancellery. Though a few other ministers like Ribbentrop were present, Hitler was the sole actor at the show. He seemed to have been reasonably briefed in advance by his military intelligence on the internal situation in India. After an exchange of initial formalities, Hitler gave a long lecture on the world situation of the day. He spoke extensively on the Soviet threat to India once she was freed from the British, and euphorically boasted that for Germany, it is only possible to reach India over ‘the dead body of Russia’. It was more a ‘talking shop’ staged with racial hatred and national chauvinism, banal boasting and empty threats."
"Netaji" and Hitler discussed propaganda techniques, and the Indian nationalist advised that the Aryans openly declare their intentions for India. Hitler "proudly reiterated his well known ugly racist chauvinism against India. In his talk with Netaji, Hitler gave sufficient indications about his expansionist intentions towards India.... Possibly, at that juncture of history, there was no other alternative for him but to depend on the devil. Hitler did reassure Netaji that if and when German forces reached the Indian frontier, he would be invited to set foot on Indian soil in the company of German liberators to trigger ‘the revolution.’It was an empty promise and a cruel joke."
Bose was disillusioned and repulsed by Hitler, but he clung to the regime in Berlin. "Within certain limitations he was allowed to pursue his organizational work, and he was able to mobilize Indians living in Germany at the time under the banner of the Free India Centre (total members: 35) with an avowed allegiance to Netaji personally and not to India. It was granted diplomatic status with fabulous financial grants. One important activity of his in Germany was the formation of the first unit of what he thought would be the future Indian army recruited from the Indian prisoners of war from North Africa. In forming this he had the idea that: it would not be a part of the German military; it would be self sufficient; it would only fight against the British army on Indian soil and not on any other front or country; and, it could not be engaged at the German-Soviet front. But recruitment was very slow. Only 3,500, less than one third of the total Indian prisoners of war from North Africa, were recruited. They took an oath of allegiance to both Netaji and Hitler. This paved the way for using this Indian legion in other war fronts. Contrary to his wishes, after Netaji left Germany this legion was dispatched to Holland and France to perform various military duties.
"Even after deciding to leave Germany for the Far East, Netaji wasted one whole year in Berlin only to meet Hitler. He was held up by the Germans because they wanted to use him in the event of a German victory over Russia. He was allowed to leave only after the German surrender in Stalingrad, and Hitler's secret plan for India fell apart. The long journey to the Far East was very dangerous. He boarded a German submarine (U Boat) on February 8, 1943 from Kiel with another Indian colleague, Abid Hassan, leaving behind his wife and only child, daughter Anita, and many well wishers in Germany."
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
THE WORLD OF ILLUSION
All Power, each Tyrant, every Mob
Whose head has grown too large,
Ends by destroying its own job
And works its own discharge;
And Man, whose mere necessities
Move all things from his path,
Trembles meanwhile at their decrees,
And deprecates their wrath!
– Rudyard Kipling, "The Benefactors"
NOTES
200.) Thomas C. Hayes, "Depression Guru: Ravi Batra; Economist or Mystic? Tune in, Around 1990, to Find Out," New York Times, August 30, 1987.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DC1639F933A0575BC0A961948260&sec=health&pagewanted=print
201.) http://www.contumacy.org/9Cults.html
202.) Sisir K. Majumdar, "Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany."
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv7n1/Bose.htm
Summary of Sally Denton's Bluegrass Conspiracy & Los Angeles Connections – Prehistory of the Lexington Comair Crash
Anita Madden
Letter from "Charlie"
The president doesn't actually "run" things but with him he brings his background, his connections, the powers that back him and those who are using him for their own political and social agendas. In many cases, his "backers" are way more powerful than he is. And he has to "go along" with what those backers do whether he may agree with it or not.
You are correct to mention Ollie North as having more power than his station in life called for but you have to put the CIA in the mix whom I believe he had and perhaps still have strong connections with.
The Ollie North/Mena/Contras situation will be the proof in the pudding that the CIA DOES--regardless of what they claim---have covert activities stationed right here in the USA. The training of the Cuban troops for the Bay of Pigs is another which was done in Florida and in Lousianna.
And we both have reason to know of the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Ga.
What many don't know is that many of the local law enforecement (due to huge amts. of Fed money coming in with strings attached) are trained in another facility in East Georgia run by the CIA. They are trained with military equipment and in wire-tapping, surveillance and swat team/military tactics (which in my opinion is the cause --or partly the cause of some the terrible tragedies when swat teams go into the Wrong house and kill somebody). This training has the potential (and the history as per Bluegrass Conspiracy and others) of being USED by government against the ordinary citizen.
I think that little "picnic" that you mentioned--The Good Ole Boy Roundup--in Chattanooga, Tenn. is a prime example. Many LOCAL law enforcement personel were at that picnic/campout that weekend. The FEDS and the local cops work much more closely together (CIA, DEA, Fish and Wildlife {in recent years} BATF and more) than the normal citizen would even dream that they do.
I have often wondered (because of the threats and harassment to the people who video-taped that little gathering and the timing of it) if Mark Fuhrman himself wouldn't have shown up on the video if the whole thing could have been played. They were sure anxious for WHO was on it not to be known.
I happen to believe that the same requirements from the Feds that began in the 70's (the CIA training) was in effect in LA during that time and later and caused the LAPD Intelligence Squad to come into existence. The LA Secret Police as Mike Rothmiller calls them. It sure caused havoc here with The Bluegrass Conspiracy. Cops were video-taping, wire-tapping citizens (prominent citizens, NFL players, actors, actresses) using drugs, gambling, prostitution and porn---all out of a house belonging to then Democratic Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. Yet Nobody was ever arrested (Rothmiller's claim for the LA Secret Police as well). Only the files were made but nobody was ever arrested.
Why? Blackmail used to FIX NFL and NBA games? Other blackmail as Daryl Gates was prone to use on the City Council, the governor, the mayor and more???
Gov. Brown
Gov. Brown was on a Fast-Track to the White House at the time, yet he lost and won a million dollars at a time in Vegas. He owned a house here in Lexington on Old Dobbin Road (a fine house) while he lived in the Governor's mansion and a man named Jimmy Lambert ran the gambling, drug, prostitution, porn, outfit out of it. A very good friend at the time was a man we heard of later with another Democratic governor by the name of Dan Lassiter. Dan Lassiter lived here in Lexington and was in the horse business and started the Ponderosa restuarants which were very popular back then. He moved on to Little Rock and became close friends with Gov. Bill Clinton and then went on to run drugs out of Mena, Arkansas by bringing back drugs on the empty planes that came back from South America.
People may say, where is she going with this.
Well, one of the "money" people behind this operation was a horse business woman by the name of Anita Madden. That woman at the height of the OJs trial had Kato Kalein as her houseguest. A couple of years later, she had both Phil Vannatter and Geraldo Rivera as her house guests. The next year, she had Kato back again.
This woman was indicted (but managed to have charges dropped), she supplied money, was involved in game fixing in the NFL and college games, was interviewed in the disappearance/death of Melanie Flynn (a party girl) who was last seen in her presence and more. She hired somebody to break into the courthouse and steal records/evidence. She never went to jail but the guy she hired did time for the crime.
This "scandal" involved Lexington cops on the Narc squad and more. Their lives were ruined. Some went to jail then and some since. A narc cop is believed to have been the one to kill Melanie Flynn (baseball player Doug Flynn's sister). The Lex PD covered it up. One of the chief people to help cover it up is now the Police Chief. One narc cop went on to bigger and better things by joining the Callie (sp) Cartelle and was killed in 1985 when his parachute failed (deliberately) when he parachuted with cocaine, secret CIA phone numbers, secret FBI and DEA secure numbers on his person. An ex-DEA agent friend of the family told me that they learned that Dan Lassiter had him killed. He also was from the "society set" here of horse business families.
Governor Brown ALSO owned that Florida golfing resort that Jean speaks of at the time...that was known for the drugs, prostitution and mobster connections. At one time, actor Warren Beatty was on the board of directors of the resort. (Shapiro met with Robert Evans and Warren Beatty every week of the trial at Evan's house).
Phyllis George
At the time that he was governor, Brown was married to Phyllis Anne George EVANS Brown. Her ex-husband was Robert Evan's fame of the Cotton Club Murders and Denise's former lover and Paramount film producer.
John Y. Brown, Jr. first met Phyllis Anne (former Miss America) while she was still married to Evans and they had "dealings' with each other. After the divorce of George and Evans, Brown stepped into the picture. Miss George has spent several nights in the LIncoln bedroom in the current administration. Her name has appeared on the pages of newspapers when the list has appeared.
I have often wondered if the Heidi Fleiss business where LAPD cops provided security wasn't one of the operations that we had here in the Bluegrass Conspiracy. Where tapes were made and a file kept for Blackmail purposes. And perhaps the LAPD cops were working with The Company (what they called themselves here) made up of cops, ex-cops, ex-military and mercenaries that Provided "security" for drug deals and money laundering. Many of the cops and others later arrested claimed that they had been told they were working for the CIA and of course the CIA disavowed them. (Mena and Contra deal WAS CIA). Foreign troops were trained here as well.
I just think the Heidi deal and other connections (whew! and this is just a few) had Intelligence connections or more.
charlie
http://www.smartfellowspress.com/_random1/0000000f.htm
Letter from "Charlie"
The president doesn't actually "run" things but with him he brings his background, his connections, the powers that back him and those who are using him for their own political and social agendas. In many cases, his "backers" are way more powerful than he is. And he has to "go along" with what those backers do whether he may agree with it or not.
You are correct to mention Ollie North as having more power than his station in life called for but you have to put the CIA in the mix whom I believe he had and perhaps still have strong connections with.
The Ollie North/Mena/Contras situation will be the proof in the pudding that the CIA DOES--regardless of what they claim---have covert activities stationed right here in the USA. The training of the Cuban troops for the Bay of Pigs is another which was done in Florida and in Lousianna.
And we both have reason to know of the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Ga.
What many don't know is that many of the local law enforecement (due to huge amts. of Fed money coming in with strings attached) are trained in another facility in East Georgia run by the CIA. They are trained with military equipment and in wire-tapping, surveillance and swat team/military tactics (which in my opinion is the cause --or partly the cause of some the terrible tragedies when swat teams go into the Wrong house and kill somebody). This training has the potential (and the history as per Bluegrass Conspiracy and others) of being USED by government against the ordinary citizen.
I think that little "picnic" that you mentioned--The Good Ole Boy Roundup--in Chattanooga, Tenn. is a prime example. Many LOCAL law enforcement personel were at that picnic/campout that weekend. The FEDS and the local cops work much more closely together (CIA, DEA, Fish and Wildlife {in recent years} BATF and more) than the normal citizen would even dream that they do.
I have often wondered (because of the threats and harassment to the people who video-taped that little gathering and the timing of it) if Mark Fuhrman himself wouldn't have shown up on the video if the whole thing could have been played. They were sure anxious for WHO was on it not to be known.
I happen to believe that the same requirements from the Feds that began in the 70's (the CIA training) was in effect in LA during that time and later and caused the LAPD Intelligence Squad to come into existence. The LA Secret Police as Mike Rothmiller calls them. It sure caused havoc here with The Bluegrass Conspiracy. Cops were video-taping, wire-tapping citizens (prominent citizens, NFL players, actors, actresses) using drugs, gambling, prostitution and porn---all out of a house belonging to then Democratic Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. Yet Nobody was ever arrested (Rothmiller's claim for the LA Secret Police as well). Only the files were made but nobody was ever arrested.
Why? Blackmail used to FIX NFL and NBA games? Other blackmail as Daryl Gates was prone to use on the City Council, the governor, the mayor and more???
Gov. Brown
Gov. Brown was on a Fast-Track to the White House at the time, yet he lost and won a million dollars at a time in Vegas. He owned a house here in Lexington on Old Dobbin Road (a fine house) while he lived in the Governor's mansion and a man named Jimmy Lambert ran the gambling, drug, prostitution, porn, outfit out of it. A very good friend at the time was a man we heard of later with another Democratic governor by the name of Dan Lassiter. Dan Lassiter lived here in Lexington and was in the horse business and started the Ponderosa restuarants which were very popular back then. He moved on to Little Rock and became close friends with Gov. Bill Clinton and then went on to run drugs out of Mena, Arkansas by bringing back drugs on the empty planes that came back from South America.
People may say, where is she going with this.
Well, one of the "money" people behind this operation was a horse business woman by the name of Anita Madden. That woman at the height of the OJs trial had Kato Kalein as her houseguest. A couple of years later, she had both Phil Vannatter and Geraldo Rivera as her house guests. The next year, she had Kato back again.
This woman was indicted (but managed to have charges dropped), she supplied money, was involved in game fixing in the NFL and college games, was interviewed in the disappearance/death of Melanie Flynn (a party girl) who was last seen in her presence and more. She hired somebody to break into the courthouse and steal records/evidence. She never went to jail but the guy she hired did time for the crime.
This "scandal" involved Lexington cops on the Narc squad and more. Their lives were ruined. Some went to jail then and some since. A narc cop is believed to have been the one to kill Melanie Flynn (baseball player Doug Flynn's sister). The Lex PD covered it up. One of the chief people to help cover it up is now the Police Chief. One narc cop went on to bigger and better things by joining the Callie (sp) Cartelle and was killed in 1985 when his parachute failed (deliberately) when he parachuted with cocaine, secret CIA phone numbers, secret FBI and DEA secure numbers on his person. An ex-DEA agent friend of the family told me that they learned that Dan Lassiter had him killed. He also was from the "society set" here of horse business families.
Governor Brown ALSO owned that Florida golfing resort that Jean speaks of at the time...that was known for the drugs, prostitution and mobster connections. At one time, actor Warren Beatty was on the board of directors of the resort. (Shapiro met with Robert Evans and Warren Beatty every week of the trial at Evan's house).
Phyllis George
At the time that he was governor, Brown was married to Phyllis Anne George EVANS Brown. Her ex-husband was Robert Evan's fame of the Cotton Club Murders and Denise's former lover and Paramount film producer.
John Y. Brown, Jr. first met Phyllis Anne (former Miss America) while she was still married to Evans and they had "dealings' with each other. After the divorce of George and Evans, Brown stepped into the picture. Miss George has spent several nights in the LIncoln bedroom in the current administration. Her name has appeared on the pages of newspapers when the list has appeared.
I have often wondered if the Heidi Fleiss business where LAPD cops provided security wasn't one of the operations that we had here in the Bluegrass Conspiracy. Where tapes were made and a file kept for Blackmail purposes. And perhaps the LAPD cops were working with The Company (what they called themselves here) made up of cops, ex-cops, ex-military and mercenaries that Provided "security" for drug deals and money laundering. Many of the cops and others later arrested claimed that they had been told they were working for the CIA and of course the CIA disavowed them. (Mena and Contra deal WAS CIA). Foreign troops were trained here as well.
I just think the Heidi deal and other connections (whew! and this is just a few) had Intelligence connections or more.
charlie
http://www.smartfellowspress.com/_random1/0000000f.htm
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 26: Return of the Bluegrass Conspiracy – Chimes of Freedom
"As the echo of the wedding bells
before the blowin' rain
Dissolved into the bells
of the lightning
Tolling for the rebel,
tolling for the rake
Tolling for the luckless,
the abandoned an' forsaked
Tolling for the outcast,
burnin' constantly at stake
An' we gazed upon the chimes
of freedom flashing ... "
– Bob Dylan
By Alex Constantine
The fifth anniversary of 9/11 was only two weeks off the morning Flight 5191 crashed. You could make out the smoke from Will Farish's veranda when Marcie Thomason's wedding plans went up in flames ...
Ralph Emerson's Law of Conservation holds that corruption is not sustainable – empires degrade and fall. Mussolini loses his head. The deformed beast eventually falls prey to its own internal corruption. Tainted power is illusive ... The illusions of 9/11 were scrambled across a hillside near Versailles five years later – 5191 = 5 9/11 – and the pieces scattered in the wreckage, glistening in the morning haze, to find and reconstruct – properly. That message wasn't lost on the jackals with their blood-stained teeth. And it wasn't lost around these parts, either.
Marcie Thomason travelled in all the wrong places – Mill Ridge Farm (owned by friends of Will Farish), Keeneland (Will Farish is CEO at the track), the Breeder's Cup (presided over by Will Farish). Doubtless, her phone was tapped. She knew all the wrong people – princes Abdullah and bin Salman, both on close terms with her father and the Chandlers, millionaires and billionaires, politicians, Will Farish ... such a world she lived in. The grace and beauty of the horses. Blue grass meadows. Enormous wealth. Saudi royalty. And (Gawd ...) QUEEN ELIZABETH visited a friend of the family, Mr. Farish ... Her adolescence was a dream of Southern pastoral elegance, diplomats, world oligarchs on a holiday ... illusion.
The triangulations only take you so far. Was Marcie steered to the prestigious Alvarez & Marsal tax consulting service in D.C. to keep her under supervision? Farish has connections in Washington. You make a note to search for a Farish link at A&M ... but even if this proves a dead end, it doesn't matter now because now you take in the sweep of her life in one moment. Over the years, Marcie saw things at Mill Ridge, overheard conversations between Alice, daddy, Mr. Chandler, bin Salman, Mr. Farish who took an interest in her ... the prince was in the news. She couldn't have missed the interviews – the noted author ... with the weasel-like features – Gerald Posner, said that the prince – who spent an awful lot of time with Mr. Chandler and daddy and Alice – was engaged in ...
She wasn't trusted. Her dreams perished in flames. Meaningless. Like the executions at Auschwitz.
Or the World Trade Center.
Bin Salman was central to the widespread misunderstanding that 9/11 was sponsored by the Saudis. The anti-American rhetoric of periodicals under the Saudi Research & Publishing Co. banner is posture, psyop material like the American press, as noted, but this works to Posner's advantage.
There was nothing anti-American, for instance, about this business deal, reported in the business press on Oct. 29, 2003: "The Wall Street Journal and the Saudi Research & Publishing Co. (SRPC) reached an agreement to publish a weekly Wall Street Journal Special Edition inside The Arab News, the leading English newspaper in the Arab world." Nothing anti-American about that. "The articles in this section will be selected and paginated by the Journal's global copy desk. The Arab News also will have the rights to select Journal editorial-page articles for publication on its opinion pages. The Wall Street Journal Special Editions [are] published in local language or English in leading newspapers around the world." By folding it in Arab News, "The Wall Street Journal Special Editions will reach more than 6 million readers in 35 countries through 34 newspapers. The special editions are published in 12 languages. The Wall Street Journal Special Editions began in 1994 with The Wall Street Journal Americas. It is now published in Spanish and Portuguese in 18 newspapers in 16 Latin America countries."
"'We are delighted that a Wall Street Journal Special Edition will reach so many in the Arab world,' said WILLIAM E. CASEY JR., vice president of Special Editions for The Wall Street Journal?"193
Birds of a feather psyop together.
Modern American warfare depends on the military press. The murder of Nicholas Berg, for instance, was a psychological operation that drew on the services of the SRPC. On May 11, 2004, the website of the Muntada al-Ansar, an "arm of AlQaeda," broadcast a video on a Malaysian web site entitled, "Abu Masab al-Zarqawi shown slaughtering an American." "Both al-Zarqawi and Muntada al-Ansar," American news actors said, "are associated with the movement."194 The execution was said to be retaliation for the "Satanic degradation" of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
"This shows the true nature of the enemies of freedom," Scott McClellan explained to the assembled press. Reporters took dictation. "They have no regard for the lives of innocent men, women and children. We will pursue those responsible and bring them to justice."
But the combined forces of the CIA and Malaysian authorities couldn't answer the riddle of Al-anser. A few highly-trained intelligence professionals (bloggers), however, tracked them down without too much difficulty:
Al-ansar Net
184 High Holborn
London, London WC1V 7AP
United Kingdom
2078312310
Saudi Research & Marketing (UK) Ltd. is located at 184 High Holborn Street. The Democratic Underground bloggers ran the London address and came up with these results:
Al Jamilla, 184 High Holborn, WC1V 7AP (7831 8181);
Al Majallah , 184 High Holborn, WC1V 7AP (7831 8181);
Arrajul, 184 High Holborn, WC1V 7AP (7831 8181) ;
Asharq Al Awsat, 184 High Holborn, WC1V 7AP (7831 8181) ;
Hiya, 184 High Holborn, WC1V 7AP (7831 8181) ;
Sayidaty, 184 High Holborn, WC1V 7AP (7831 8181) ;
http://www.global-london.com/arabic/media.htm
"Asharq Al-Awsat daily Arabic newspaper is the leading newspaper in the Arabic World and is the flagship of sixteen publications owned by the Group. Asharq Al-Awsat is published in London by H. H. Saudi Research & Marketing (UK) Ltd. The Editor in chief is Mr Abdul Rahman Al Rashed. The newspaper is printed via satellite in London, Frankfurt, Marseilles, New York, Casablanca, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dharan, Dubai, Baghdad and, Lebanon. The London print centre, Satellite Graphics Ltd., is also owned by the Group. Other titles include: Al Majalla (International News Magazine ), Arrajol (Men's Interest Magazine), Sayidaty (Arab Family Magazine), Hia (Women's Interest Magazine) and Al Jamila (Beauty Magazine)."195
The Baltimore Sun went with the pack in mustering support for genocide (the kindest word the UN's final, pre-war report had for it) in Iraq: "Prince Faisal Bin Salman's brother is one Prince Ahmed bin Salman, owner of War Emblem, winner of the Kentucky derby in 2002. Some six weeks earlier, a high-ranking al-Qaida operative captured in Pakistan reportedly had named him as a go-between linking the terrorist organization and the Saudi royal family." Seven weeks later, "the prince was dead at age 43. News accounts said he succumbed to a heart attack in Saudi Arabia. His death is deemed suspicious in Posner's and Unger's books because the two other alleged intermediaries named by Zubaydah also died within four months of the interrogation. Both were relatives of the prince. One died in a one-car crash on the way to the prince's funeral. The other was found in the desert, having apparently died of thirst."196
Editors at the Saudi media group have denounced Posner as an incompetent reporter, but the false dialectic served its purpose, protecting the CIA from exposure.
Salman himself was a con artist. Paul Moran, the investigative slice-and-dice racing industry reporter at Newsday, reports that bin Salman directed his reporters at Arab News to announce that he'd been "selected honorary president of the New York Racing Association, the first non-American to hold that prestigious post." Moran called up the official president of the NYRA, Terry Meyocks, who responded, "There has never been an honorary president of NYRA, Arab or otherwise."197
He was a natural.
After 9/11, the Bush administration went to the trouble of flying the prince and his entourage to Lexington, then to the UK – away from prying reporters.
Who did the prince know in the UK? Silly question. Who else would a Saudi prince know well in London but Ambassador Farish's friend and houseguest – the QUEEN ... One of the late bin Salman's publications (the web site) explains that "Al Bawaba licenses BOTH READY MADE FEEDS (with pre-defined areas of coverage and languages) AND TAILOR-MADE PRODUCTS (coverage of specific topics, companies or personalities). The company's content clients include Reuters, Dow Jones, The Financial Times, Lexis-Nexis, ISI, and many other top information companies." Oh, and one more client: "Al Bawaba is proud to count .. among its clients H.M. Government - United Kingdom.198 This page has emblazoned upon it the Royal Arms of the British Empire. The Royal Arms are licensed by the Queen (http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page323.a – "The Royal Arms may only be used by businesses which are holders of a Royal Warrant ... The Queen handed the new seal matrix over to the Lord High Chancellor, currently Lord Irvine of Lairg, who is the traditional keeper of the Great Seal.")199
But today the prince is only a memory. And back in far-off Versaille, the chimes of wedding bells echo in the wind ...
[To be continued ... ]
NEXT ...
THE FIFTH PASSENGER
NOTES
193.) Anon., "The Wall Street Journal and The Arab News Form Special Editions Partnership; Four-page Section of Journal News to be Published Weekly," Business Wire, Oct. 29, 2003.http://www.businesswire.com/webbox/bw.102903/233025617.htm
194.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntada_al-Ansar
195.) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/5/13/232047/462
196.) Quoted, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/5/13/232047/462
197.) http://www.robertbove.net/bloodlines.htm
198.) http://corporate.albawaba.com/main/site/index.php3?lev <1>=9&page=9&stId=2&static=1
199.) Quoted at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/5/13/232047/462