Joseph comments on two very different things in this News and Views from the Nefarium: (1) the Connecticut school shooting, and (2) the latest on gold-backed bonds, and on these articles: The Connecticut school shootings: Operation Chaos News Criminal Network Wanted To Use These $US1b Bills To Acquire Plutonium A More Effective Euro Area Monetary Policy than OMTs - Gold-Backed Sovereign Debt … [Read more...]
ALMOST HALF A CENTURY, AND STILL THE DOCUMENTS ARE CLASSIFIED: JFK
June 2, 2012, I took time to listen to friend and colleague, Richard Dolan's new internet radio show, and to join in on the discussion in his chatroom. It was, as one might expect from Mr. Dolan, a fun and wide-ranging discussion, and it turned to one of my favorite topics toward the end of the broadcast, when Mr. Dolan mentioned the following interesting article on the amount of documents still classified, nearly half a century after the assassination: Is the Government Holding Back Crucial Documents? The article speaks for itself: why is Mr. Sustein in charge of President Obama's "open … [Read more...]
JAPANESE YAKUZA ACTIVE IN RELIEF EFFORTS
A friend of this site, Thomas Marzac, sent me the following link, and it's one more data point to be considered in any reflection on the crisis in Japan: JAPANESE YAKUZA INVOLVED IN RELIEF EFFORTS One can imagine a similar disaster in this country, and then the National Guard helicopters showing up, and unloading crates stamped "A Gift from the John Gotti Family," proudly proclaiming the Mafia's role in relief efforts. What intrigues here is the openness with which this is being conducted and carried out. The Japanese Yakuza, like criminal syndicates in most countries, is an intimate … [Read more...]
THE TENTACLES OF THE NAZI OCTOPUS
By now, some readers of this site will have begun reading, or have read, my latest entry into the saga of post-World War Two politics, LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy: A Coalescence of Interests. There, among the many other "coalescing interests" represented in the assassination of JFK, I detailed more connections between the Texas oil barons and the postwar Nazi International. But there are other details not mentioned there, or in any of my other books, except in passing, so here I'd like to fill in just a few of the blanks. The blank in this case is Otto Skorzeny, and his … [Read more...]