Archive for February 28th, 2009

I need a CASE of tissues over here, stat!

Elie Wiesel cannot forgive Bernie Madoff. Wiesel’s “little foundation,” built no doubt from the money he made writing about the Holocaust (TM), has lost everything, along with the Wiesel’s personal fortune. The victims [sniff]… they are practically countless. It could be close to six million people (just a guess).

Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize, showed little inclination this week to make peace with accused swindler Bernie Madoff, whom he called “one of the greatest scoundrels, thieves, liars, criminals.”

“Could I forgive him? No,” the 80-year-old told a panel assembled Thursday by Conde Nast’s Portfolio Magazine at New York’s 21 Club to discuss Madoff, whose alleged victims included Wiesel and his foundation, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.

“To forgive, first of all, would mean that he would come on his knees and ask for forgiveness,” the Auschwitz survivor said. “He wouldn’t do that.”

…Wiesel said a wealthy friend who has known Madoff for 50 years introduced them. The two men met twice over dinner, and Wiesel checked with financial experts whom he trusted before investing all of his and his wife’s personal money.

Then, once Madoff had gained his trust, Wiesel invested all $15.2 million that his foundation had amassed, he said.
“We thought he was God, we trusted everything in his hands,” the Boston University humanities professor said.

Whoa…dude, there’s your mistake right there!

Wiesel rejected the suggestion that “affinity fraud,” the tendency for people to trust others of similar background, played any role in leaving him vulnerable to Madoff. Both men are Jewish.

“It’s not the Jewishness in him, it’s the inhumanity in this man who simply believed he can go around depriving people of their livelihoods. What he has done to certain people, it breaks my heart,” he said.

Mmm hmm. It’s not the Jewishness, it’s the inhumanity. Madoff acted like he was god, believing he could go around depriving people of their livelihoods. And even though Elie Wiesel says himself he believed Madoff actually *was* god, that does not justify what Bernie did, because he was supposed to be a GOOD god, and not deprive “certain people.” So you see, this has nothing to do with “affinity fraud,” because Bernie did not properly display his affinity.

“At the end, he went down to swindle thousands and thousands of people, and hurt thousands and thousands of people. Take our little foundation. My wife takes care of 1,000 Ethiopian children in Israel. What he does to them — we were going to open a third center in Jerusalem. We cannot do it now. What [he has] done to others, to hospitals, to educational institutions, my God! Didn’t he think?”

Wiesel said he is planning legal action against Madoff but called for the federal government to bail out charities just as it has bailed out carmakers and banks.

“I think it would be a great gesture that the Obama administration should show, we really think of those who are helpless and who are doing with their money only good things.”

Wiesel offered a punishment he would like to see meted out to the financier, who is under house arrest but has not been indicted.

“I would like him to be in a solitary cell with a screen, and on that screen, for at least five years of his life, every day and every night there should be pictures of his victims, one after the other after the other, always saying, ‘Look, look what you have done to this poor lady, look what you have done to this child, look what you have done.’

“But nothing else — he should not be able to avoid those faces, for years to come. This is only a minimum punishment.”

Wow, kind of like imprison him in a sort of Financial Holocaust (TM) Museum! I get it! That’s a great idea. No waterboarding or anything, just the torture of listening to his victims complaining incessantly, “Look what you did to me!” You know, that is fucking torture.

Dirty

Corrupt intelligence services, including but not exclusively the CIA, have been for decades running amok. They use black budgets derived from drug running, gun running, human trafficking and money laundering, among other things, to finance their destabilization activities and buy off whoever might be in the way. That can include businesspeople, politicians, judges, law enforcement…anyone who has a price. Those without a price most likely get whacked if they know too much, like all those bankers who have recently been ’suicided.’ Any casual observer who spends enough time reading up on the real state of affairs in our world knows it’s just like the movies, but worse. People are venal.

This game has now circled the globe so many times that it has trapped just about everyone of consequence in its snares. As Christopher Story explains in his latest installment, the Rule of Law cannot be applied because to do so would result in the arrest of practically our entire ruling class. Nonetheless, the corruption now draws like a lasso around the bullshitters.

Here are some indications that bright lights now shine in dark corners:

The CIA Beyond Redemption and Should Be Terminated

The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently.

Over the years “the Agency” as it is known, has given U.S. presidents so much wrong information on so many critical issues, broken so many laws, subverted so many elections, overthrown so many governments, funded so many dictators, and killed and tortured so many innocent human beings that the pages of its official history could be written in blood, not ink. People the world over regard it as infamous, and that evaluation, sadly for the reputation of America, is largely accurate. Besides, since President Obama has half a dozen other major intelligence agencies to rely on for guidance, why does he need the CIA? In one swoop he could lop an estimated 27,000 employees off the Federal payroll, save taxpayers umpteen billions, and wipe the CIA stain from the American flag.

If you think this is a “radical” idea, think again. What is “radical” is to empower a mob of covert operatives to roam the planet, wreaking havoc as they go with not a care for morality or, for that matter, the tenets of mercy implicit in any of the great faiths. The idea of not prosecuting CIA interrogators (i.e., torturers), as President Obama has hinted, is chilling. These crimes have to be stopped somewhere, sometime, or they will occur again.

Precisely accurate, unfortunately. And the whole things runs on laundered fiat money. But as the fiat money laundering machine grinds to a halt, it exposes the CIA. So what does the CIA do? It adds THE ECONOMY to its threat updates…puts it right in the cross-hairs. The very economy that the CIA worked to destroy through decades of corruption, milking it dry by destroying American jobs, by wrecking American minds with illegal drugs, by dumbing us down with official CIA slides, by rampant financial corruption on Wall Street, by embroiling us in wars of choice, and by many other creative ways of concentrating wealth into the hands of criminals like George Bush Sr and his Illuminati pals…you see? The economy has served its purpose. It’s purpose was to be stripped bare, denuded of every treasure, bled dry for the benefit of the masters. Now it will be immolated on the NWO altar, offered as a final glorious sacrifice to world domination.

The daily White House intelligence report that catalogs the top security threats to the nation has a grim new addition, reflecting the realities of the age: a daily update on the global financial crisis and its cascading effects on the stability of countries through the world.
The first Economic Intelligence Briefing report was presented to the White House yesterday by the CIA, the agency’s new director, Leon Panetta, revealed at a news conference. The addition of economic news to the daily roundup of terrorist attacks and surveillance reports appears to reflect a growing belief among intelligence officials that the economic meltdown is now preeminent among security threats facing the United States.

“We’ve seen the impact of a worldwide recession occur throughout the world,” said Panetta, who described the agency’s newest product at his first news briefing since his confirmation. Instigated at the request of the White House, the daily report will ensure that U.S. policymakers are “not surprised” by the aftershocks from bank failures and rising unemployment, he said.

Rich, rich, rich. How could they be surprised? Is this not what they have been planning over the course of many years? Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that these reports allow the corrupt intelligence services to savor every detail of this ultimate sacrifice. Look how the people lose their jobs….delicious. Look how their dollars lose purchasing power….scrumptious. Look how they despair….just orgasmic. Our economy imploding is NWO porn.

The spy agency is following worrisome trends in many corners of the globe, from East Asia to Latin America. In private meetings yesterday, Latin American intelligence officials warned their U.S. counterparts of a crisis spreading throughout the hemisphere, particularly in Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela, Panetta said.

“Clearly, it’s related: What happens in the economy, and what’s happening as a result of that, is affecting the stability of the world,” he said.

YES!!! Come on, instability….we’ll have them all over a barrel soon….oh yeah….can’t wait. We can kill them in wars, we can starve them, we can make them fight each other, we can set loose our terrorist attacks and biological weapons. It’s gonna be such fun. We’ll shake them down for their last pennies. Soon they’ll be eating out of our hands, begging us, docile, helpless, broken for good.

I’m sorry. Do you think I’m being harsh? Perhaps unfair? Do you think that the corrupt, psychopathic criminal elements ruling the world don’t relish the monstrous desctruction taking place? They do. They think that they will survive and we will perish. They think they have it all figured out. They have the money, they have the weapons, they have the media, they have the will. They want to take us all down and grind us under their boots. That is what these dirtbags have in mind.

Imagine their surprise when it doesn’t work out. Relish that thought. Hold it in your mind and savor it, because it will come to pass. One of these days we’re going to eat these pigs for supper, and they’ll feed the whole world.