Letter Never Sent

Have you seen these videos with cops hitting people with batons and punching them? There’s absolutely no excuse for that. I have spoken.

According to the Columbia Law Survey: Americans’ Knowledge of the U.S. Constitution Condensed Survey Results / May 2002 a majority of Americans believe the famous Marx line “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” appears in the US Constitution. That’s just hilarious.

Article about the CIA University to teach the next generation of elite globalist scumbags:

For four years From The Wilderness has been teaching that the CIA’s primary role, it’s raison d’etre, was to serve the interests of Wall Street and the major banks. In our recent three-country lecture tour, our documentation of the close links between CIA and Wall Street has taken many by surprise. Thirty years ago Professor Peter Dale Scott of Berkeley disclosed that six out of the first seven Deputy Directors of Intelligence (CIA’s number two position) had gone directly from Wall Street into service at the Agency. Since September 11th, FTW’s disclosure that the CIA’s current Executive Director, A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard is a former investment banker has caused deeper rumbles. The firm he once headed, AlexBrown/Deutschebank, has been connected to insider trading on United Air Lines stock just before the September 11th attacks. The NYSE’s current Executive Vice President for Enforcement, David Doherty, is a retired CIA General Counsel.

This new curriculum, as reported by Reuters correspondent T. Zakaria in a May 16 story and by the newsletter of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) dated June 24, 2002, absolutely and clearly establishes the priorities of the agency. Understanding this relationship helps people to rethink their paradigms when trying to understand the real role of secret intelligence operations in today’s world. As described recently by FTW friend Dr. Faiz Khan, M.D. – “A paradigm is what you think about something before you think about it.”

Since the U.S.-led conquest of Afghanistan was completed last November, a fresh opium crop has been planted that has currently put between 3,000 and 4,500 metric tons of opium back on the market after being harvested last month. That equates to an estimated $150 and $200 billion in liquid cash revenues that will enter the world’s banking system and financial markets, mostly in the U.S. In January of 2000 the Taliban destroyed some 96% of the country’s opium crop; an act of economic warfare that took an estimated $200 billion out of the world’s banking system. …

Regarding the drug trade, FTW has been focused for years on the fact that the control of the cash generated by the international drug trade has been one of the CIA’s primary concerns. This was the subject of a lecture given by this writer at the University of Southern California at the invitation of Professor David Andrus in December of 2000 entitled, “Wall Street’s War for Drug Money.” (A video of that lecture is available at www.copvcia.com).

Our government has some serious problems with corruption. Here are the most recent related stories:

• Huge drug ring operating inside the military busted: Authorities said in a news release that 61 active-duty service members were identified as possible distributors and 23 as designer drug users. Military officials said some were brought to court-martial but did not say how many.
• US army colonel charged with bribery: Army investigators found more than $700,000 in $100 notes hidden in the Moran home at Yongsan Army Base, according to the indictment, which was filed in California.
• Cops, FBI lied about probe, juror says
  Woman speaks out on Earth First trial after gag order lifted

John Kenneth Galbraith interview from Common Dreams Newscenter:

“We can’t say how serious this is yet, and anyone who makes such a prediction is suspect,” he says, eschewing the giant soundbite dangling in front of him. “I can only say I hadn’t expected to see this problem on anything like the magnitude of the last few months – the separation of ownership from management, the monopolization of control by irresponsible personal money-makers.” Time and again as we talk, the author of American Capitalism and of The New Industrial State, the chronicler of The Affluent Society, returns to the same two points. His first is that the large modern corporation, as manipulated by what he calls the “financial craftsmen” at Enron and elsewhere, has grown so complex that it is now almost beyond monitoring.

Second, and consequently, these new entities “have grown out of effective control by the owners, the stockholders, into nearly absolute control by the management and the individuals recruited by management”. And in the process, he insists, this latter group has “set its own compensation, either in the form of salaries which can get to fantastic levels, or of stock options”.

“That was the achievement of Roosevelt and the New Deal. Public attitudes were never quite the same again.” But then Galbraith leapfrogs 70 years and a dozen presidencies to the massive Bush tax cuts of 2001 to reinforce his point that nothing very much has changed. “It is still politically safe to be very rich,” he says, citing what he calls the “imaginative developments” of the Bush administration as a prime example.

“Assuming they will not be in power indefinitely, they are taking the interesting step of enacting tax legislation not for the immediate future but for all of a decade hence. We not only legislate for the affluent, we do it for their permanent advantage.” And suddenly, once more, the impish delight of the phrasemaker bursts through. “How’s that?” he asks with the sly chuckle of an iconoclast 93 years young.

From CNN.com:

The White House announced in a one-sentence statement Monday that President Bush had signed into law a nearly half-trillion-dollar increase in the government’s ability to borrow money.

White House press secretary Ari Fleischer put the news out on paper: “On Friday, June 28, 2002, the president signed into law S. 2578, increases the public debt limit from $5.95 trillion to $6.4 trillion.”

As Al Martin reports, wealthy Republicans have been relocating overseas to avoid a potentially explosive economic situation in the United States.