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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 11:44 PM
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BBC 4 Documentary: The White House Coup
In case you didn't hear it.
Here's a description:


"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, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 11:49 PM
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1. And 50 years later they had the SCOTUS do it for them.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 11:50 PM
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2. Hanging for treason is not the worst thing.
Letting them go having done treason is worse.
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rAVES Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 11:51 PM
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3. its an incredible story all right.. Prescott was one slimy son'bitch
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 01:11 AM
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8. Prescott's bank
helped fund the prison camps in Poland where they killed many Jews, etc.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:09 AM
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4. Yep. To me it stands out as the final piece of the puzzle. The Bush Family has hated America for a
long time. They were defeated in 1935 (Thank you, Gen. Smedley Butler, you old patriot and hero!), so they were patient.

They waited until FDR died before foisting the National Security Act of 1947 on Truman, who knew nothing of Prescott Bush's dreams of being Ambassador to Germany of the Facsist States of America.

That Act gave the Bushies their base of power and secrecy from which to gather their aristocratic pals and their old Nazi pals (Google "Operation Paperclip") to regroup again.

JFK was about to expose them and shut them down, so he was killed by a "Lone Gunman" who conveniently and I am sure just coincidentally, was gunned down before he could talk.

RFK was murdered when it became clear hew ould be President and would probe aggressively into the murder of his brother. It was recently revealed by British researchers reexamining pictures of that fateful day that two people were there who had no business being there that day at the Ambassador Hotel. Two Bushies, two high-ranking CIA men who had no earthly reason to be there.

http://gnn.tv/headlines/12601/RFK_assassination_photos_reveal_C_I_A

Now, they are very VERY close to putting the nation that THEY, The Bushies own and control and use as their private playpen, piggybacnk, and box of toy soldiers.

Nearly all the laws are in place to fufill Grandpa Prescotts Nazi Dreams by "kinder and gentler" methods, now merely awaiting a "triggering event" to turn our nation into a Bushie-Nazi Prison Camp.

Be forewarned. To anyone who is paying attention, the Bush Family is so very close to the "payoff" of 70+ years of fighting against the Old American Republic, weakening and looting it whenevr they could, murdering or otherwise destroying anyone who gets in their way.

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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:46 AM
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6. Why else would they ruin us
Edited on Mon Jan-07-08 01:09 AM by mac2
and take away our wealth and security? The Bush family robbed us during the Savings & Loan scandals, Iraq wars and rebuilding, rebuilding Katrina, missing gold on 911, etc. They are a world crime gang. Their loyalty is to themselves.

If you ever dought this read: The Conspirators by Al Martin. http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/58/18523
Mr. Martin turned states evidence. He was part of the Bush crime family and tells all. The Congress had hearings around Iran Contra, etc. so they know about the Bush family Ponzi schemes. It's not new to them yet they refuse to impeach or remove them.

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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 01:13 AM
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9. When are they going to impeach
and take them to the Hague for robbery and genocide?
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RuleOfNah Donating Member (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 01:01 AM
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14. The potential upside...
We get to be the people that stopped them before it was too late.

:patriot:
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 02:12 AM
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15. I pray you are right. n/t
:patriot:
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:21 AM
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5. WOW Britain news media evidentally has caught up with
all of us
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:49 AM
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7. FDR was too liberal for the Neo Cons
FDR gave the people a little hope and help to allow them to survive. The Neo Cons today want it all...and all of us gone.

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." F. D. R.
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:34 PM
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10. This should be DVD'd and released in the U.S. w/some promotion. Yeah, right...
as if it would get any attention anyway.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:40 PM
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11. MUST see documentary that backs everything you posted-
"Century of Self" four one hour segments.
I repeat, It is a MUST see as far as fully comprehending
the charade of politics we have witnessed in our life times.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=8339

Intro:
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized." - Edward Bernays

Please, my fellow patriots, check it out.

BHN
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:51 AM
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16. Great compliation of information. Thanks
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:45 PM
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12. Thanks
Edited on Mon Jan-07-08 10:47 PM by seemslikeadream



IMPEACH CHENEY




They Thought They Were Free - Read by Dave Emory

The Germans, 1933-45

Excerpt from pages 166-73 of "They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955

By Milton Mayer

But Then It Was Too Late

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

....

"Yes," I said.

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’



Michael Parenti - Terrorism, Globalism & Conspiracy



"Coincidence Theory: By shear chance things just happen repeatedly and coincidentally to benefit their interests without any conscious connivance by them, which is most uncanny. There is also: Stupidity Theory, Innocence Theory, Momentary Aberration Theory, Incompetence Theory, Unintended Consequences Theory and Innocent Cultural Proclivities Theory."

- Michael Parenti
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:48 PM
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13. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF HISTORY EVERYONE SHOULD LISTEN TO!
Rec'd again and again and again!
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:09 AM
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17. My curiosity ...
For me, information about George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott have been common knowledge before the 2000 election.

Normally, during a campaign cycle every real or imagined blemish or skeleton in a person’s closet is revealed. Why is it that * got a pass both times and no one ever touched his grandfather?
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RuleOfNah Donating Member (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:26 PM
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18. "got a pass both times"
And how is that different than now?

The crimes have grown and silence remains on the table.
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