I’m sorry to break up your little every-four-years political circle jerk, but really…after reading the following can there be any doubt left in your minds that a fix is indeed in and that it is in deep?
Please.
Exclusive: Obama to include Republicans in hard-hitting convention
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Convention planners are considering featuring a centrist Republican leader on at least two of the three nights. Nightly remotes from swing states may include a CEO or “major Republican.” On Wednesday night, a “notable GOP woman” is among the possible participants. And on the final night, Democrats may include a Republican leader — someone like former Sens. John Warner or Chuck Hagel — or a GOP woman.
“This segment would speak directly to independents, noting we are all `Americans first,’ ” the documents say. “Depending on the speaker’s background, the President’s military accomplishments might be highlighted.”
Thursday also may include a former military leader, perhaps paired with a former enlisted man or woman. “Ideally they would have witnessed first-hand the difficult decisions [Obama has] made,” the documents say. “A Republican leader would be ideal.”
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Unheard of!!!
Absolutely without precedent as far as I know.
The capper as far as I am concerned?
Do you know the name of the venue for this re-select-fest?
Bank of America Stadium.
Please.
Read on.
Please.
Yes, kiddies, the self-same Bank of America that was a major financial supporter of the entirely corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International. You remember that little adventure, don’tcha? The B.C.C.I flap? Iran Contra, CIA involvement in cocaine smuggling, etc? Apparently the Dems don’t think that you do, so here’s a little refresher course.
Please.
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BCCI was created with capital from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and Bank of America (25%).
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The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a major international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier.[1] The Bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London. Within a decade BCCI touched its peak. It operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches, and had assets in excess of US$20 billion, making it the 7th largest private bank in the world by assets.[2][3]
BCCI came under the scrutiny of numerous financial regulators and intelligence agencies in the 1980s due to concerns that it was poorly regulated. Subsequent investigations revealed that it was involved in massive money laundering and other financial crimes, and illegally gained controlling interest in a major American bank. BCCI became the focus of a massive regulatory battle in 1991 and on July 5 of that year customs and bank regulators in seven countries raided and locked down records of its branch offices.[4]
Investigators in the U.S. and the UK revealed that BCCI had been “set up deliberately to avoid centralized regulatory review, and operated extensively in bank secrecy jurisdictions. Its affairs were extraordinarily complex. Its officers were sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale, and to avoid detection.”
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A decade after its liquidation, its activities were still not completely understood.[4]
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The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency held numerous accounts at BCCI, according to William von Raab, former U.S. Commissioner of Customs. Oliver North also used and held multiple accounts at BCCI. These bank accounts were used for a variety of illegal covert operations, including transfers of money and weapons related to the Iran-Contra scandal, according to Time Magazine.[9] The CIA also worked with BCCI in arming and financing the Afghan mujahideen during the Afghan War against the Soviet Union, using BCCI to launder proceeds from trafficking heroin grown in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands, boosting the flow of narcotics to European and U.S. markets. [3]
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The US intelligence agencies used BCCI to funnel drug money to Afghan Mujahideen in their fight against Soviet invasion and to insurgents such as Nicaraguan Contras.
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Need I attempt to recreate the deliberations and negotiations that led to the Bank Of America’s involvement in his massively criminal scheme?
Please.
More from the Wikipedia article above.
By 1980, BCCI was reported to have assets of over $4 billion with over 150 branches in 46 countries. Bank of America was “bewildered”[7] by BCCI and reduced its holding in 1980
Can you imagine what 25% of that B.C.C.I. profit was worth in 1980, when the “bewildered” BOA sold off its stock in the company? $1 billion dollars. Way back in 1980, when 1 billion was a lot of money.
Or was it more?
From the same article
….founded in 1972 …
Within a decade BCCI touched its peak. It operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches, and had assets in excess of US$20 billion, making it the 7th largest private bank in the world by assets.[2][3]
One never knows, do one?
Nope.
No one really knows.
Bet on it.
Not without some heavy, heavy security clearances, anyway.
This should be all you really need to know.
JANUARY 4, 2011
Bank of America seeking help from CIA connected firm
NY Times – The day after Julian Assange of WikiLeaks threatened to “take down” a major American bank, the shares of Bank of America fell 3 percent. . . Since then, a team of 15 to 20 top Bank of America officials, led by the chief risk officer, Bruce R. Thompson, has been overseeing a broad internal investigation — scouring thousands of documents in the event that they become public, reviewing every case where a computer has gone missing and hunting for any sign that its systems might have been compromised.
In addition to the internal team drawn from departments like finance, technology, legal and communications, the bank has brought in Booz Allen Hamilton, the consulting firm, to help manage the review. It has also sought advice from several top law firms about legal problems that could arise from a disclosure, including the bank’s potential liability if private information was disclosed about clients.
Privacy International 2006 – Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., a prominent defense and intelligence consulting and engineering firm, has been hired as an outside “independent” auditor of the CIA and Treasury Department’s Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, which monitors banking transactions made through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Though Booz Allen’s role is to verify that the access to the SWIFT data is not abused, its relationship with the U.S. Government calls its objectivity significantly into question. Booz Allen is one of the largest U.S. government contractors, with hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. government contracts awarded each year. Booz Allen has a history of working closely with U.S. government agencies on electronic surveillance, including the Total Information Awareness program. Among Booz Allen’s senior consulting staff are several former members of the intelligence community, including a former Director of the C.I.A. and a former director of the N.S.A. In its private consulting practice, Booz Allen has been at the forefront of the push to increased information sharing.
PLEASE!!!
I can hear the DNC discussion now.
“Well sir, don’t you think having the convention in a place named “Bank Of America Stadium” might be a lttlle…risky?”
“Awwww, get off it, boy. First of all, the rubes don’t remember B.C.C.I from a hole in the wall. Hell, man, they don’t even remember what they had for breakfast, most of them. And even more importantly, BOA is a heavy, heavy hitter in the post-bailout financial scene. C’mon. Loosen up, kid. The rubes don’t know shit from Shinola about anything. Plus, we need some of the southern swing states if the fix is to hold, and North Carolina is important to us. BOA Stadium it is. Make it so.”
“Yassuh, boss!!! I’se on it!!!”
How heavy a hitter is BOA post-bailout time?
This heavy.
Bank of America was already an enormous U.S. bank, and the company grew even more when it acquired investment giant Merrill Lynch in 2008. Together, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch received billions of taxpayer dollars from a bill passed that year to bail out struggling financial companies. In addition to traditional banking services, Bank of America offers credit cards through its subsidiary, BA Merchant Services. The company lobbies on a number of financial issues, including proposed changes to privacy laws. It also pushes for a bankruptcy reform that forces consumers to repay at least some of their debts.
Wake the fuck up. Your president is in bed up to his asshole with this whole international financial fraud scene. If he wasn’t…why it’s very simple, really. He wouldn’t be president and someone else would be.
Duh.
Wake the fuck up.
You’ve been had.
Repeatedly.
From the left, the right, the front and the rear.
WTFU.
AG
P.S. If the polls show a close race, we’re liable to see someone as heavy as John McCain up there on the DNC platform blathering on about the decline of the Ratpublican Party. If they’re not? Lesser lights will show up, just to be sure the fix is in good and solid. And if those polls are really close? Watch for Reagan’s shade to miraculously appear and denounce the inheritors of his efforts.
“Them lasers kin do jest about anything these days, Hiram!!!”
“Yup. That they can, Jethro. That they can.”
Yup.
That they can.
That they can.
