Conspiracies of the Right
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About that secret government -- you can bet it's the one that makes the real decisions. Go ask Bush's oil cronies about it; the location isn't so secret from them. He's setting things up so he can stage a terrorist "attack" and switch key decisions to his unaccountable private pocket government. No more deals with the Democrats, no more listening to anyone else. Congress and the Supreme Court are toast.
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Dow up 270 on the day the shadow government story breaks. Of course. The ecnomic numbers were fudged. They manufactured that rally to push the government story off the top position. Need a distraction from what's really up.
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Clifford Baxter: suicide, my ass. he was threatening to go public so they had to get to him.
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Ken Lay was under consideration for the job of Secretary of Energy, until the background checks revealed that Enron was a house of cards. Of course, he was summarily booted from consideration for not warning the Bushies about it. That's why the Administration was "smart" enough not to stick its neck out for Enron; they knew Lay wasn't a team player. Cheney, as an energy man, wanted to screw Lay over; energy men are supposed to be honest with each other, and Lay's lack of candor was a personal insult.
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The Enron mess was allowed to happen by the Bush administration who, early on, were in need of a crisis to fix. What better than something in which they could say (a) we acted properly, unlike some Democrats we know, and (b) look we are business-savvy barons, now we're cutting taxes for the rich. Then Osama entered the picture. Now they're just trying to hustle it through proceedings so that everyone can get back to admiring George W.
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The Oscars are rigged. Accuracy is for sissies when you, the Academy of Arts and Sciences, have $100 million in advertising revenue on the line, and you, the auditors, have $10 million in "auditing" revenue that could come to you. The PricewaterhouseCoopers auditors hired every year for the Oscars? The Academy isn't interested in boring Oscar ceremonies. They pay PwC to look official and they pay PwC to do exactly what they want. Sometimes head honchos agree with the voters-- Schindler's List gets the Jews and all the righteous open-minded people, but it had some great thriller scenes and all that directing stuff. But sometimes... I mean how much better is it to have Gwenyth up there instead of Steven Spielberg...again... for Saving Private Ryan. The Greatest Generation doesn't fall in the 18-54 demographic. Auditing and accounting is as we all see now completely and totally shit. Need I even mention how fucked Arthur Andersen is for its "auditing" of Enron which was completely in the toilet at least 3 years ago. Laugh at your CPA cousin. It's all meaningless paper pushing. They're not even counting beans anymore.
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Why Gitmo? Not U.S. soil, but close enough for certain high-placed U.S. government officials to fly and visit the "prisoners" without taking time out from their schedules.
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GE, looking boost it's sales in the airplane engine business, is encouraging the military to continue with their campaigns using shorter-range planes. Unfortunately, Donald Rumsfeld is a high-tech nut (former General Instrument Chairman / CEO -- GI is now owned by Motorola) and wants to build lots of B-2 bombers.
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The pharma companies have had a hand in naming if not creating the psychiatric illness that are all the modern rage, particularly around depression and social anxieties. They're getting their hands dirty in all sorts of metaphysical issues to push a few more of their chemicals to people paranoid about social anxiety disorder (didn't exist before SmithKline Beecham now Glaxo SmithKline made the drug Paxil). The pharma companies of course encouraged removal of the ban on prescription drug advertising to further their "public awareness" efforts, but the biggest conspiracy now is that they are sponsoring Internet websites (Prozac sponsoring WebMD), the most relied on source for information.
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Don't think it's any concidence that Cantor, Fitzgerald was a major contributor to the Democratic party and helped the DNC broker some of its asset management deals.
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OF COURSE we're letting some of the al Qaeda lieutenants slip away into Pakistan. We have to have someone left to go after. Bush and company have cut a deal with the Pakistanis to fly them for free to Iraq, Sudan, and the Phillipines.
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Bush knows the tribunals are causing an outrage overseas and he's glad about it. He wants to keep the U.S. from ever being able to play the human rights card on other countries. If they have the tribunals against us, they'll never listen, and we can't preach to them. This shuts up liberals and other people who want to make human rights a focus of foreign policy. If we're openly brutal, it gets harder to advance a do-gooder line and people who try just look dumber.
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