After his exit from the US Senate, Phil Gramm found a job at Swiss bank UBS as vice chairman. He later brought on former President Bill Clinton. What a coincidence, they are the two key figures in repealing Glass-Steagal. Since the New Deal it was the financial regulation that protected the US taxpayer from the Wall Street casino. Oh well, what's a $16 trillion bailout among friends?



It's a Buy-Partisan Who's Who:

President William J. Clinton
President George W. Bush Heh heh heh.
Robert J. McCann
James Carville
John V. Miller
Paula D. Polito
Anthony Roth
Mike Ryan
John Savercool

SOURCE: http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html

One of my attorney chums doesn't like to see his name on any committees, event letterhead or political campaign literature. These folks, it seems to me, are past caring.

Some of why DUers and ALL voters should care about Phil Gramm.

The fact the nation's "news media" don't should also be of great concern.

PNAC and the Bilderbergers:



ONLINE:

https://books.google.com/books?id=wcfHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&dq=pnac+bilderberger+realpolitik&source=bl&ots=YOSXOuHh13&sig=Gh8ubHHrTzwbJRbS7xOYXJZ2LAg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHkIPwnYTKAhXBdz4KHeLaCZUQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=pnac%20bilderberger%20realpolitik&f=false

Like the Gulf of Tonkin, it's getting me down that no one remembers Eastasia.



Or that Ho Chi Minh served with the United States in the fight against Japan during World War II. During the Eisenhower years, the USA, for some rea$on, sided with the French colonialists in their claim against the North.

by William Blum

“I think it’s time we held Sukarno’s feet to the fire,” said Frank Wisner, the CIA’s Deputy Director of Plans (covert operations), one day in autumn 1956. Wisner was speaking of the man who had led Indonesia since its struggle for independence from the Dutch following the war. A few months earlier, in May, Sukarno had made an impassioned speech before the US Congress asking for more understanding of the problems and needs of developing nations like his own.

The ensuing American campaign to unseat the flamboyant leader of the fifth most populous nation in the world was to run the gamut from large-scale military maneuvers to seedy sexual intrigue.

The previous year, Sukarno had organized the Bandung Conference as an answer to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), the US-created political-military alliance of area states to “contain communism”. In the Indonesian city of Bandung, the doctrine of neutralism had been proclaimed as the faith of the underdeveloped world. To the men of the CIA station in Indonesia the conference was heresy, so much so that their thoughts turned toward assassination as a means of sabotaging it.

In 1975, the Senate committee which was investigating the CIA heard testimony that Agency officers stationed in an East Asian country had suggested that an East Asian leader be assassinated “to disrupt an impending Communist [sic] Conference in 1955”. (In all likelihood, the leader referred to was either Sukarno or Chou En-lai of China.) But, said the committee, cooler heads prevailed at CIA headquarters in Washington and the suggestion was firmly rejected.

CONTINUED...

http://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/indonesia

Things really changed in 1964.

It's fun to miss a week now and then. It's surprising to see how much news happens that is literally earth shaking every few days.





Wonder what all else has already slipped out of view?

Interesting times, ours, Judi Lynn. Uniquely ours, too. Honored and happy to get to share it with you.

Neoliberal. Neoconservative. Doesn't make a bit of difference. Money trumps peace.

Ask Leo Strauss.

That truth? That seemed absolutely fulsome, especially compared to the vaporware word of George W Bush and Richard Cheney, given with each other's presence, and not under oath. That truth stinks of wholesale treason. Ask Cass Sunstein.

Rather than let everything JFK, MLK, RFK and the Wellstone Wing of the Democratic Party destroyed, I am proud to write that more than a brave handful have stepped forward. People who don't see that smear me as a "Conspiracy Theorist" and what not. So, I'm in good company.

Private Prison Exec Waves Off Criminal Justice Reform, Predicts More Profits

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/22/geo-group-explains-crime/

http://www.c-span.org/video/?321703-2/discussion-lee-harvey-oswald-cia-mexico-city

Thank you for the narrative triad. It's why musicians love trios -- the conversation can get somewhere.