I got your Demon Face right here.

[Octafish]

Ignored terror warnings and used attack to lie America into wars for profit.

[malokvale77]

1. That's a Demon Face if there ever was one. nt

[Octafish]

29. The gold brick doesn't fall from the good ol' crony fam'ly tree.

Look at what Barrick Gold, one of Poppy Bush's favorite charities doing wonderful things in mineral extraction, did to The Guardian and Greg Palast...



Their crime? Telling the truth.

Poppy Strikes Gold

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Originally Posted July 9, 2003
By Greg Palast

EXCERPT...

And while the Bush family steadfastly believes that ex-felons should not have the right to vote for president, they have no objection to ex-cons putting presidents on their payroll. In 1996, despite pleas by U.S. church leaders, Poppy Bush gave several speeches (he charges $100,000 per talk) sponsored by organizations run by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, cult leader, tax cheat—and formerly the guest of the U.S. federal prison system. Some of the loot for the Republican effort in the 1997–2000 election cycles came from an outfit called Barrick Corporation.

The sum, while over $100,000, is comparatively small change for the GOP, yet it seemed quite a gesture for a corporation based in Canada. Technically, the funds came from those associated with the Canadian's U.S. unit, Barrick Gold Strike.

They could well afford it. [font color="green"]In the final days of the Bush (Senior) administration, the Interior Department made an extraordinary but little noticed change in procedures under the 1872 Mining Law, the gold rush–era act that permitted those whiskered small-time prospectors with their tin pans and mules to stake claims on their tiny plots. The department initiated an expedited procedure for mining companies that allowed Barrick to swiftly lay claim to the largest gold find in America. In the terminology of the law, Barrick could "perfect its patent" on the estimated $10 billion in ore—for which Barrick paid the U.S. Treasury a little under $10,000. Eureka![/font color]

Barrick, of course, had to put up cash for the initial property rights and the cost of digging out the booty (and the cost of donations, in smaller amounts, to support Nevada's Democratic senator, Harry Reid). Still, the shift in rules paid off big time: According to experts at the Mineral Policy Center of Washington, DC, Barrick saved—and the U.S. taxpayer lost—a cool billion or so. Upon taking office, Bill Clinton's new interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, called Barrick's claim the "biggest gold heist since the days of Butch Cassidy." Nevertheless, because the company followed the fast-track process laid out for them under Bush, this corporate Goldfinger had Babbitt by the legal nuggets. Clinton had no choice but to give them the gold mine while the public got the shaft.

Barrick says it had no contact whatsoever with the president at the time of the rules change.(1) There was always a place in Barrick's heart for the older Bush—and a place on its payroll. In 1995, Barrick hired the former president as Honorary Senior Advisor to the Toronto company's International Advisory Board. Bush joined at the suggestion of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who, like Bush, had been ignominiously booted from office. I was a bit surprised that the president had signed on. When Bush was voted out of the White House, he vowed never to lobby or join a corporate board. The chairman of Barrick openly boasts that granting the title "Senior Advisor" was a sly maneuver to help Bush tiptoe around this promise.

CONTINUED...

http://www.gregpalast.com/poppy-strikes-gold/

Wow. So his flock of supporters in the media and elsewhere wanted it known: George Herbert Walker Bush did do something nice when he was President. It just happened to be that it was for a rich, powerful corporation.

The story continues, in which Mr. Palast details how said gold mining company employed fascist tactics to take over the mine, part of which involved bulldozing the miners homes and mines, some with the miners still inside. Let that, uh, sink in. For his trouble in reporting the story, Barrick threatened to sue.

The Truth Buried Alive

—By Greg Palast, From The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Penguin/Plume, 2003)

Source: UTNE Reader
April 2003 Issue

EXCERPT...

Bad news. In July 2001, in the middle of trying to get out the word of the theft of the election in Florida, [font color="red"]I was about to become the guinea pig, the test case, for an attempt by a multinational corporation to suppress free speech in the USA using British libel law. I have a U.S.-based Web site for Americans who can’t otherwise read my columns or view my BBC television reports. The gold-mining company held my English newspaper liable for aggravated damages for my publishing the story in the USA. If I did not pull the Bush-Barrick story off my U.S. Web site, my paper would face a ruinously costly fight.(1)[/font color]

Panicked, the Guardian legal department begged me to delete not just the English versions of the story but also my Spanish translation, printed in Bolivia. (Caramba!)

The Goldfingers didn’t stop there. [font color="green"]Barrick’s lawyers told our papers that I personally would be sued in the United Kingdom over Web publications of my story in America, because the Web could be accessed in Britain. The success of this legal strategy would effectively annul the U.S. Bill of Rights.[/font color] Speak freely in the USA, but if your words are carried on a U.S. Web site, you may be sued in Britain. The Declaration of Independence would be null and void, at least for libel law. Suddenly, instead of the Internet becoming a means of spreading press freedom, the means to break through censorship, it would become the electronic highway for delivering repression.

And repression was winning. InterPress Services (IPS) of Washington, DC, sent a reporter to Tanzania with Lissu. They received a note from Barrick that said if the wire service ran a story that repeated the allegations, the company would sue. IPS did not run the story.

I was worried about Lissu. On July 19, 2001, a group of Tanzanian police interest lawyers wrote the nation’s president asking for an investigation–instead, Lissu’s law partner in Dar es Salaam was arrested. The police were hunting for Lissu. They broke into his home and office and turned them upside down looking for the names of Lissu’s sources, his whereabouts and the evidence he gathered on the mine site clearance. This was more than a legal skirmish. Over the next months, demonstrations by vicims’ families were broken up by police thugs. A member of Parliament joining protesters was beaten and hospitalized. I had to raise cash quick to get Lissu out, and with him, his copies of police files with more evidence of the killings. I called Maude Barlow, the “Ralph Nader of Canada”, head of the Council of Canadians. Without hesitation, she teamed up with Friends of the Earth in Holland, raised funds and prepared a press conference–and in August tipped the story to the Globe & Mail, Canada’s national paper.

CONTINUED...

http://www.mapcruzin.com/palast-2.htm

So. Greg Palast did something very bad from the BFEE perspective: He told the truth, including the bits about the buried alive gold miners, as it happens. So, the Big Corporation sued and sued and sued. With their deep pockets, they can buy justice, judges, prime ministers, presidents and whoever and whatever else they need to turn a buck.

Gee. It's getting harder and harder for a man without a corporation to be heard these days. One day soon, no one will wonder why so few people remember democracy.

[malokvale77]

39. It all just sickens me.

It creeps me out the way, so called Texans, accept these freakin' carpetbaggers as their own.

But then I remember history.

I love your posts, and I especially love your replies to me. You always give me more food for thought.

Thank you.

[Kalidurga]

2. Looks more like a lower level troll or

even an imp. I think the demons were his puppet masters.

[malthaussen]

12. I agree, he doesn't have the stature to be a demon. n/t

[Octafish]

32. Thank you! That's IT! Imp in service of War, Inc.

''Money trumps peace.'' And then the giggling warmonger laughs. Not that revealing for those who understand money has been more important than human life since the Dulles Brothers ran the show for Ike and Dick.

Those were the very words of George W Bush, uttered Feb. 14, 2007 during a press conference in which not a single of the callow, cowed press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.

A courageous private citizen and Gold Star mother, Ms. Cindy Sheehan, tried to bring it to our nation's attention. Maybe it was personal for her. Ms. Sheehan lost her son, Casey, in a war based on lies.

[Kalidurga]

36. He had that aw shucks schtick down pat by then

he worked hard to convince people he was a brick shy and I am still convinced that he is at least one brick shy probably two. But, I can also see that this act was rehearsed so that he didn't sound too aware or too intelligent about what he was talking about. That way people won't be so willing to aim anger directly toward the White House cuz the occupant isn't altogether there. He got a big pass for being a Jethro Bodine.

[Mnemosyne]

3. I expected Poppy, but this other war criminal demon spawn is close enough.

[maindawg]

16. H bush - C I A -1963- JFK

what more do you need.
Son of Satin is what you have here. Idiot son.
Truth is stranger than fiction my friends.

[Mnemosyne]

41. Much stranger, maindawg, much. nt

[Octafish]

65. George Herbert Walker Bush told FBI he was in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Fot some reason, he felt compelled to also report a suspect. One problem:

Poppy Bush warned FBI -- AFTER -- JFK assassinated.

In the hour of the death of President John F. Kennedy, Texas oilman George Herbert Walker Bush named a suspect to the FBI in a "confidential" phone call. He then added he was heading for Dallas. Skeptics need not take my word for it, that's what Poppy told the FBI:



Here's a transcript of the text:

TO: SAC, HOUSTON DATE: 11-22-63

FROM: SA GRAHAM W. KITCHEL

SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY

At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer by long distance telephone call from Tyler, Texas.

BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential but wanted to furnish hearsay that he recalled hearing in recent weeks, the day and source unknown. He stated that one JAMES PARROTT has been talking of killing the President when he comes to Houston.

BUSH stated that PARROTT is possibly a student at the University of Houston and is active in political matters in this area. He stated that he felt Mrs. FAWLEY, telephone number SU 2-5239, or ARLINE SMITH, telephone number JA 9-9194 of the Harris County Republican Party Headquarters would be able to furnish additional information regarding the identity of PARROTT.

BUSH stated that he was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel and return to his residence on 11-23-63. His office telephone number is CA 2-0395.

# # #

Gee. Why was Poppy Bush in Dallas when JFK was assassinated?

Could it be, he was on official business? I suspect he was on Secret Government business. After all, his eldest son bragged during his Texas Air National Guard and Harvard grad school days that his daddy was CIA.

Here's an FBI document from the same week of the assassination in which FBI Director J Edgar Hoover briefed one "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency." Some strange coincidence there, wot?



Here's a transcript of the above:

Date: November 29, 1963

To: Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director

Subject: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963

Our Miami, Florida, Office on November 23, 1963, advised that the Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in Miami advised that the Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U. S. policy, which is not true.

Our sources and informants familiar with Cuban matters in the Miami area advise that the general feeling in the anti-Castro Cuban community is one of stunned disbelief and, even among those who did not entirely agree with the President's policy concerning Cuba, the feeling is that the President's death represents a great loss not only to the U. S. but to all of Latin America. These sources know of no plans for unauthorized action against Cuba.

An informant who has furnished reliable information in the past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami has advised that these individuals are afraid that the assassination of the President may result in strong repressive measures being taken against them and, although pro-Castro in their feelings, regret the assassination.

The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. W. T. Forsyth of this Bureau.

# # #

I do remember that GHWB was head of the CIA when the Church Committee was looking into the CIA assassination programs. He made things all friendly-like and turned what had been a serious hunt for truth under previous DCI Colby into another dog-and-pony show that was big on show and light on facts.

Regarding Dallas: Now I don't know if Poppy was a trigger man, was only there to watch what happened or what just happened to be there. I do know Poppy Bush has never explained these memos. He's never even admitted where he was the day JFK was killed.

Seeing how he would go on to become President, as would his dim son, I believe it's vitally important that we learn the Truth.

Why? The United States and the world haven't been the same since November 22, 1963. And not a single major player in the nation's mass media have stepped up and demanded a real investigation. So, it's up to us, We the People.

What's more, Poppy Bush sheltered mass-murdering jet-bombing terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles.

Thanks for the remembering, maindawg!

[Marie Marie]

4. Well, doesn't that picture perfectly capture

the smugness of W? Just like Cheney's sneer captures his evilness. Like they say, by 50, you get the face you deserve!

[LawDeeDah]

5. I smell sulphur.

[zentrum]

15. Very funny.

Will never forget Chavez saying that in the U.N. right after Bush's speech.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

18. +1 loved that n/t

[zentrum]

63. It's really how we all felt

...at the time.

[Octafish]

34. Danger Man

Nothing he wouldn't do to his people



Loved the guy, Chavez.
Nothing he wouldn't do to help his people.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Almost half of America voted for ... that!

Some judgment, huh?

[Octafish]

42. Media Lie 24/7/365(6)

The Machine: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda vs Freedom & Liberty

Corporate McPravda owns the airwaves. And Corporate Tee Vee is still where most Americans get most of their information.

The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is Over a Century in the Making

Pulling back the curtain on how intent the wealthiest Americans have been on establishing a propaganda tool to subvert democracy.

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 00:00
By Andrew Gavin Marshall, AlterNet | News Analysis

Where there is the possibility of democracy, there is the inevitability of elite insecurity. All through its history, democracy has been under a sustained attack by elite interests, political, economic, and cultural. There is a simple reason for this: democracy – as in true democracy – places power with people. In such circumstances, the few who hold power become threatened. With technological changes in modern history, with literacy and education, mass communication, organization and activism, elites have had to react to the changing nature of society – locally and globally.

From the late 19th century on, the “threats” to elite interests from the possibility of true democracy mobilized institutions, ideologies, and individuals in support of power. What began was a massive social engineering project with one objective: control. Through educational institutions, the social sciences, philanthropic foundations, public relations and advertising agencies, corporations, banks, and states, powerful interests sought to reform and protect their power from the potential of popular democracy.

SNIP...

The development of psychology, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines increasingly portrayed the “public” and the population as irrational beings incapable of making their own decisions. The premise was simple: if the population was driven by dangerous, irrational emotions, they needed to be kept out of power and ruled over by those who were driven by reason and rationality, naturally, those who were already in power.

The Princeton Radio Project, which began in the 1930s with Rockefeller Foundation funding, brought together many psychologists, social scientists, and “experts” armed with an interest in social control, mass communication, and propaganda. The Princeton Radio Project had a profound influence upon the development of a modern "democratic propaganda" in the United States and elsewhere in the industrialized world. It helped in establishing and nurturing the ideas, institutions, and individuals who would come to shape America’s “democratic propaganda” throughout the Cold War, a program fostered between the private corporations which own the media, advertising, marketing, and public relations industries, and the state itself.

CONTINUED...

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15784-the-propaganda-system-that-has-helped-create-a-permanent-overclass-is-over-a-century-in-the-making

Thankfully, to help spread light when the protectors of the First Amendment won't, Maria Galardin's TUC (Time of Useful Consciousness) Radio. The podcast helps explain how we got here and what we need to do to move forward, starting with putting the "Public" into Airwaves again:

Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy

The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.

John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.

Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.

This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.

SOURCE: http://tucradio.org/new.html

If you find a moment, here's the first part (scroll down at the link for the second part) on Carey.

http://tucradio.org/AlexCarey_ONE.mp3

It's important for there to be more than a handful of companies providing "news." Democracy depends on it.

[FiveGoodMen]

45. I certainly don't trust the media, but ...

what do you think the percentages were?

It should have been 90 - 10 or greater, but instead it was close enough to fool people.

[Octafish]

46. If everybody were required by law to vote...

Adequately informed by a democratic news media, my guess is the half that doesn't vote -- the disinterested and disenfranchised -- would break about 75-25 for Democrats. Add that to the quasi- 50-50 splits Diebold and affiliates "count" and things add up to about 63-37 Dems.

I believe you are correct, FiveGoodMen. Should the American people be informed as to what the bankster-loving, warmonger-enabling turds in office and running for office are about, there'd be no stopping progress. As it stands, there's the stench of plausible deniability on Wednesdays in November, even numbered year after even numbered year.

Remember how the newspaper consortium analysis found Gore won Florida on September 10, 2001? All that got forgotten when the "entire country" (90-percent) rallied behind glorious war monkey the next day.

[JEB]

7. That is the demon face alright, but

not a cop with an itchy trigger finger in sight.

[Octafish]

47. Guy killed thousands of US service men and women for a lie.

Even JOKED about it: "No WMD here."



And made a lot of money for his family and cronies in the process.

Yet he walks free, despite our best efforts, JEB.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

56. Imagine if Obama made a joke about BENGHAZI. The white house woud be surrounded by

RWers with torches and pitchforks (oh, and guns.) But then, ya know, "Bush kept us safe."

[SummerSnow]

57. Hes a disgrace

[hifiguy]

8. Seldom has a picture captured a person's essence more completely.

Looks awful constipated to boot.

[Octafish]

50. Eelect George W Bush creates a sinking feeling.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-12-04-plane-crash_x.htm

[IDemo]

9. Another one here:

Just sayin'

[El Shaman]

28. Be nice

to him- he was born with that defect!

[L0oniX]

10. Swamp Rat version bellow....

[alittlelark]

14. I miss SwampRat.......

[calimary]

40. Me, too! Love you, SwampRat - wherever you are!

I love that image. Hate the model, though!

[indivisibleman]

11. apparently the face of evil

looks like an assclown.

[NJCher]

13. yeah, three words

What. An. Ass.




Cher

[kairos12]

17. A man who believes ignorance is a virtue.

[Mira]

19. So ugly. So dismissive of everything. So abysmally stupid. n/t

[tclambert]

20. Goblin.

[navarth]

21. You're just misunderestimating him.

Fool me once.....

BTW I always refer to him as "The Mandrill". Simian, evil and ignorant all in the same package. No wonder KKKarl Rove fell in love at first sight.

[Octafish]

27. ManDrill. Get it? Man-Drill?

Bush prefers Martin spokesman to his own

By JANE TABER
Toronto Globe and Mail

EXCERPT...

“Well, what do you do for this guy?” the President asked as he pointed to the Prime Minister.

“Well, you know, sir, I can't really say,” Mr. Reid said. “It's not that I don't want to. It's just that, you know, I don't really know from day to day.”

This is true. Mr. Reid handles a number of files and performs a number of different duties, depending on the issue and the day.

The President chuckled. “Well, you got a pretty face,” he told the surprised Mr. Reid. He wasn't done. “You got a pretty face,” he said again. “You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway.”

CONTINUED (Internet Archive)...

https://web.archive.org/web/20040118033128/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040116.wreid0116/BNStory/Front

[navarth]

37. I fear we're ALL getting it, my dear Octafish. nt

[Thespian2]

22. Was this thing

a human spawn? Murderers are murderers. Darren Wilson meet the son of one of America's most dangerous criminal families.

[valerief]

23. Bullshit. He's a total MIHOPer. nt

[libodem]

24. Aaagggghhhhh

Megog the effing Antichrist!

[Blue Idaho]

25. Dumb as a sack of hammers.

Mean as a junk yard dog.

[bvar22]

58. GW may be cruel and cunning,

but a "junk yard dog" has courage.
a JYD will attack and defend his property from all intruders, even to death.

On 9-11, Bush ran so fast he left a trail of yellow urine across 1/2 the US looking for a place to hide.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

26. That pic from the Todd Kincannon thread on GD

makes Chimp look like he finally graduated to half-wit by comparison. Kincanno's fraction of wit must come with several zeros to the right of the decimal point.

[zeemike]

30. Shame on you Octafish

For not putting a warning to children on the OP title...this could give kids nightmares...and the lesser parents could use it to get their kids to clean up their rooms and stuff..."if you don't clean up that room the Bushy Man will get you"

[Octafish]

33. My Friend, I fear our children have much bigger things to fear.

With vice president Giuliani waiting in the wings with his Homeland chum Bernie Kerik.

[fadedrose]

53. ++

[El Shaman]

31. Makes me

wonder what the capiruchos (Zoot Suit lingo for cops) are smoking in Ferguson USA!!!

[navarth]

38. That's Mark Bryan's work isn't it? Great stuff.

Anybody who doesn't know him should check his work out. Excellent artist and totally right on.

[bigwillq]

43. So proud of our Democratic leaders who prosecuted this demon.

Oh, wait.

[B Calm]

44. This one here has even more of a demon face.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

48. I'll never forget that particular Sunday afternoon

...when I kept saying to myself over and over, incredulously, "our Vice President just shot a man in the face". At least Weddington had the good sense to apologize to Cheney for getting blasted in the face with a shotgun.

[LanternWaste]

49. But, but but...! if we discuss him, give our opinions about what he did and what should happen...

But, but but...! if we discuss him, give our opinions about what he did and what should happen to him, then we're acting in place of the "judge, jury and executioner!" We should wait until ALL the facts come out and only then form an opinion!

[BeanMusical]

54. +1 n/t

[MoonRiver]

51. Eeeeeeeeek!

Talk about a nightmare flashback!

[bobthedrummer]

52. K&R Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. All kinds of demons in the BFEE, especially invisible 1's

Fiend Without a Face
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiend_Without_a_Face

[Octafish]

55. Thanks, bobthedrummer! Happy Thanksgiving to You and Yours!

That NORAD SF movie sounds like an idea gone bad go good in action. Love it!

[Dont call me Shirley]

59. Demon Duo

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.oneutah.org/tag/karl-rove/&h=310&w=413&tbnid=Q-NXxFVvEoRSzM:&zoom=1&docid=JJ4AVHFhFhJCuM&hl=en-US&ei=9E92VOPHHou7ogTPyAI&tbm=isch&ved=0CF0QMyhVMFU4ZA

[WinkyDink]

60. And his smarter brother:

[Enthusiast]

61. His actions cost the lives of hundreds of thousands—at least.

His administration engaged in torture just like the German Nazis that were executed after WWII for war crimes.

[Enthusiast]

62. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

Get with it, people!

[sylvanus]

64. Gotcha one better.

Ethan Couch

This kid steals from a convience store, kills four people and lives to tell the tale.

[bobthedrummer]

66. Demon Face Smirky, kick.