Around the web in 80 seconds.
- With McSame’s cronies, it’s not about country — it’s all about the benjamins.
- Speaking of benjamins, looks like McSame has a new big-time fundraiser.
- After careful consideration and a long, tedius column, Rover concludes that Ohio will be critical in the election.
- Suck it, Pantload: BBC uncovers a 1933 Fascist coup plot against FDR.
- Police still seeking motive in Arkansas shooting.
- Stay classy, Anchor Baby.



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Fitz! Jane! Kobe! USA Basketball versus Greece… R E V E N G E!
Good morning BT.
Now that Ralph Reed is raising money for Mc$$$$ is His for hire going to come out in favor or against Indian gaming, change churches again, have a special lounge installed on the bus?
I think there are more than enough nutjobs with guns running around, but there are never enough for the NRA.
“The 1933 Business Plot?” “The Iraq Oil Plot?” The rape of America!
BT, you are a God. I could only read the headline on the Rove editorial. Not enough coffee/drugs/ice cream in the world to counteract the masochism of reading further…
I wonder what would happen if Reed found himself stranded late some night in an area populated by some of the Native Americans he helped screw.
Morning’s frazzly, can’t remember details, wasn’t there a shooting earlier this summer by some guy who was a Hannity-O’Reilly listener who was blaming his job loss on Dems? Anybody got a linky? Thnx.
And just when you think McShame couldn’t get more sleeze into his bed.
http://www.openleft.com/viewQuickHits.do#2685
The US 1933 coup attempt
Submitted by rescueus on Thu, 08/02/2007 – 01:05.
* Banking
* Fascism and Corporatism
This BBC audio special documents the 1933 coup attempt by some notable US families to oust FDR and install a fascist dictatorship. As the BBC explains:
Listen Here
The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodyear, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott)believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
The neocons have a field day trashing Dem advisors but when McSFB stacks the deck with scumbags? *crickets*
Rove was talking about four states being important this fall. The state of Iraq, the state of Israel, the state of Georgia and the state of Iran
It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
EPU’d from last thread.
I just heard on NPR news headlines that McSFB has given an interview to The Weekly Neocon, saying he’d be willing to pick a “pro-abortion” candidate for VP. Maybe he was just trying to make Kristol’s head explode.
I was listening to Doors albums last night while preparing our pre-primary FEC filing and was reminded of this.
I’d love to express what I think should happen to Rove but I’d be banned for life if I did.
Wow. The BBC doing a doc on the 1933 “Business Plot” is fantastic news. The BBC also did an investigation last year about RFK’s assassination and has a pretty convincing case it was a rogue faction within the FBI (some of the same folks rumored to be involved in JFK’s as well).
Maj Gen Butler blew the whistle on the coup attempt by “agents of Wall St,” which included Prescott Bush. Butler was and still is one of the most decorated people in military history, and I highly doubt he’d get sworn in to testify in front of Congress, which he did about this, and lie. Marines have this thing about honor and duty, ya know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Dismantling the Military/Media Industrial Complex is the most important task of our time (we wouldn’t need to rely on the BBC to get to the truth about U.S. history). Is it any wonder Gen Eisenhower said the same thing in his farewell address to America?
Fortunately, we can do a lot in this regard by making sure Blue America candidate Alan Grayson get’s elected.
http://www.graysonforcongress.com/
Omerta Media in US will maintain their silence.
Unless it involves sex.
Maybe.
Might’ve been CIA…can’t remember offhand.
I read The Plot to Seize the White House back in ‘73 when it first came out, and it immediately put me off the American Legion, something I’ve maintained to the present day. The poor schmucks in the Legion have no idea what their organization was part of; they still think they’re part of a patriotic organization. It was a good read 35 years ago, and it still makes my blood boil today.
Lots of speculation that a rogue element of CIA was unhappy with JFK re Cuba. The tainting of information by ideology isn’t new.
Absolutely correct! The Legion does a very good job of burying this disreputable part of their past. It always amazes me how many Americans know absolutely nothing about sordid part of our history, our Prescott Bush for that matter. But then again, the standard history texts have been very carefully “whitewashed” (for lack of a better term).
OT Siegleman to speak at Demo convention
http://www.democraticundergrou…..15;3438328
The Plot to Seize the White House by Jules Archer was reprinted in paperback in 2007. Might have to order it but it’s available from your favourite indy bookseller.
and only a dead boy with a Republican would get any notice.
The recent BBC investigation on RFK’s assassination actually has film from the night where you clearly see some of the same people in the hall. There are acting very strangely, and the BBC interviews their boss at the time (now retired) and he was floored to see them there. He says there’s no reason for them to be there.
It’s on YouTube.
Expanding on the BBC’s “Business Plot” production…read through this and note all the key strategies and players. David Rockefeller was and remains, the Master Of The Universe where fomenting perpetual war for profit is concerned – and after the passing of John McCloy, Kissinger remains his most loyal co-conspirator. Kissinger wanted to ensure he was seen at the Olympics in order to have an alibi when the Genocide went down:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet…..ccloyJ.htm
Remember the reports of how many time Kissinger visited the White House to meet with fellow Rockefeller co-conspirator, Dick Cheney prior to the Iraq invasion? Rockefeller’s CFR and related “Think Tanks” are pulling all the strings, and GHW Bush, Cheney, Rove…all of them are acting under the direction of Rockefeller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1cFwkmSOXg
Explore the career path of Timothy F. Geithner and you’ll see that the current President of the New York Fed is actually in Rockefeller’s employ. David Rockefeller controls the Fed, Exxon, JP Morgan Chase and world events – and you’ll never see his name mentioned in the “news.”
There was no love lost between the Kennedy’s and Hoover. The old hands at CIA had all come out of OSS. Talk about an old boy network. Like our lovable neocons today these guys had their own vision of a world controlled by the US. The Kennedy’s didn’t fit in.
November 2002 and After: Karl Rove Concerned about 9/11 Investigation
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Presidential adviser Karl Rove is concerned about the 9/11 Commission, which is soon to be established (see November 15, 2002). Author Philip Shenon will say this is because he thinks that “in the wrong hands… [it] could cost President Bush a second term.” According to Democratic Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Republican Senator Trent Lott says that behind-the-scenes opposition to the commission’s creation is orchestrated by Rove and the White House’s political office. “It’s all Rove,” Lott tells Daschle. Rove is also involved in the selection of the Commission’s initial chairman, Henry Kissinger (see November 27, 2002), and his successor Tom Kean (see December 14, 2002)
Media Gives McCain Another Free Ride on Georgia
Jane’s upstairs!
OT. I knew we were in trouble but…. from today’s CPI news
I think that we can clear Michelle Malkin of any involvement in Gwatney’s killing.
After all, his killer, Timothy Dale Johnson didn’t like cheerleaders.
So that pretty much would exclude Malkin…unless of course, Johnson thought the proper role of sorority ******* was as a political blogger.
And it seems that Target lied to Johnson. They first said that whoever wrote the grafitti wouldn’t be fired if they fessed up. Johnson signed and dated a second bit of grafitti.
Then Target asserts that Johnson “resigned voluntarily”.
Oh right, he “resigned voluntarily”.
You can’t tell the (Globalist) players without a scorecard:
http://portland.indymedia.org/…..1918.shtml
How To Make A Citizen’s Arrest Of A War Criminal:
http://www.afterdowningstreet……eply/33704
Does signing a second piece of graffiti constitute stepping up and admitting it? Appears to be an angry and in-your-face statement to me.
Catch of the Day?
McCain just said on CNN, “In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.”
I wonder if McCain, like Pope Julian, is intending to make a revision of the Calendar to make the century begin sometime after March 2002?
Seems he’s forgotten about Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel’s invasion into Lebanon, Turkey’s invasion of Kurdistan, Thailand’s incursion into Cambodia, etc.
Well, perhaps Target wanted the guy to confess in front of the other employees…sort of like the good ol’ Communist style public humiliations. In addition, I wonder if the management threatened some sort of collective punishment if the “guilty party” didn’t come forward. It seems really odd that he would have done this escalation otherwise. That would explain not only why he confessed, but the manner in which he did it….and the references to the place being run like a sorority or a bunch of jocks.
Still, how any of this relates to the later killing is befuddling…unless the guy wanted to target a major individual and go out in a blaze of glory?
Wow. That was really interesting. A lot of it sounded eerily familiar…like disappearing documentation, making deals in exchange for no prosecution, etc.