Bush goons threaten life of former Thatcher finance advisor

[RainDog]

read this article. then ask CNN why this isn't a bigger story than Kobe Bryant.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/Bank_Heist.html

"After interviewing Rogers and “a number of U.S. intelligence operatives,” Story confirmed he received three warnings to stop his investigation.

“I was told that 19 people are very dead as a result of trying to cover what you are exposing,” Story wrote in an editorial in the Review."

from this LBN thread by StandWatie

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php

The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) are accused by International Currency Review, the London-based journal, of mounting a joint ultra-secret operation to electronically remove an estimated $10 billion out of the Iraqi Central Bank hours before the start of Persian Gulf War II. The whereabouts of the money is not known.

“We believe it is in a secret CIA fund which will be used to mount further special services operations, such as tracking down Saddam Hussein,” said the Review’s publisher, Christopher Story.

Story is a former financial advisor to Lady Thatcher when she was Britain’s prime minister. In the past 10 years, he has testified before several congressional committees dealing with financial scandals.

[peacetalksforall]

1. two words in the url say it all

bank heist

[RainDog]

2. doesn't that money belong to the Iraqi people??

excuse me, but the lying crooks sold Americans on a liberation..not of Iraqi currency, but of the Iraqi people.

If any Bush supporters try to defend this action, they are beneath contempt...both the theft of billions that belong to the nation and thus people of Iraq, and the death threat to the man who has been investigating this issue.

Between this, the Wilson/Plame crap, the lies to go to war...

the only state institution this administration and their goons belong in is a federal prison.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. is he the same man that recieved money re: energy & 2003 blackout?

[RainDog]

4. no, that was Lord of the Flies

...I mean, Wakeham.

POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE --- THE TALE OF THE BRITS WHO SWIPED 800 JOBS FROM NEW YORK, CARTED OFF $90 MILLION, THEN TONIGHT, TURNED OFF OUR LIGHTS
by Greg Palast

...in 1990, one devious little bunch of operators out of Texas, Houston Natural Gas, operating under the alias "Enron," talked an over-the-edge free-market fanatic, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, into licensing the first completely deregulated power plant in the hemisphere.

...Enron rewarded Thatcher's Energy Minister, one Lord Wakeham, with a bushel of dollar bills for 'consulting' services and a seat on Enron's board of directors. The English experiment proved the viability of Enron's new industrial formula: that the enthusiasm of politicians for deregulation was in direct proportion to the payola provided by power companies.

... then came George the First. In 1992, just prior to his departure from the White House, President Bush Senior gave the power industry one long deep-through-the-teeth kiss good-bye: federal deregulation of electricity. It was a legacy he wanted to leave for his son, the gratitude of power companies which ponied up $16 million for the Republican campaign of 2000, seven times the sum they gave Democrats.

Enron circled California and licked its lips. As the number one life-time contributor to the George W. Bush campaign, it was confident about the future. With just a half dozen other companies it controlled at times 100% of the available power capacity needed to keep the Golden State lit. Their motto, "your money or your lights." Enron and its comrades played the system like a broken ATM machine, yanking out the bills. For example, in the shamelessly fixed "auctions" for electricity held by the state, Enron bid, in one instance, to supply 500 megawatts of electricity over a 15 megawatt line. That's like pouring a gallon of gasoline into a thimble -- the lines would burn up if they attempted it. Faced with blackout because of Enron's destructive bid, the state was willing to pay anything to keep the lights on.

And the state did. According to Dr. Anjali Sheffrin, economist with the California state Independent System Operator which directed power movements, between May and November 2000, three power giants physically or "economically" withheld power from the state and concocted enough false bids to cost the California customers over $6.2 billion in excess charges.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. raindog that's him "wakeham" thanks

[delete_bush]

5. Consider the source

From the American Free Press website:

<American Free Press, brought to you by the former staff of The Spotlight, who are now the publishers. We will bring you another issue every week. And this is exactly what each of us must do-choose a life of liberty under law and the Constitution-not slavery and death in the New World Order that is being prepared for us all.>

Spotlight Magazine is one of the most vulgar, anti-Semitic publications in America.

I googled <thatcher “christian story” advisor> and got nothing. (omitting advisor gets some hits but the ones I saw were stories about Christians)

I didn’t do an exhaustive search but couldn’t even find the “International Currency Review” published by Christian Story.

[RainDog]

6. I'm so sorry

I didn't know who Gordon Thomas was or is, but I got to it via LBN and hadn't seen a heads up there so I thought he was okay.

I apologize.

[RainDog]

8. this about Gordon Thomas

http://www.americanfreepress.net/06_29_03/Thomas/thomas.html


A commentator for TV-3 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, Thomas’s newspaper columns are featured regularly in major independent and syndicated newspapers throughout Europe. Over the years Thomas has won two Mark Twain Society Awards for Reporting Excellence.

His non-fiction writings range from the history of intelligence to religion and health. He has also written numerous novels, several of which are now being adapted for a television broadcast series in Britain.

Seven of his books have been made into major motion pictures, including Voyage of the Damned (nominated for five Academy Awards) and Enola Gay, which won the Emmy Awards Foreign Critics Prize. He won the Juries and Critics Prize at the Monte Carlo Film Festival. Thomas also won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Ship wreck, co-written with his frequent collaborator, Max Morgan Witts.

Through his father-in-law, who was a professional intelligence officer who worked for Britain’s MI5, Thomas had entrée to many in the global intelligence community. And because of his worldwide reputation, leaders of Israel’s Mossad agreed to cooperate with Thomas in his ground-breaking study of the Mossad, Gideon’s Spies.

Many supporters of Israel attacked Thomas for even having dared write the revealing book, despite the fact that the Mossad cooperated with Thomas in the book’s production.

Thomas and his wife, an interior designer, have four grown children who work in various sections of the entertainment industry. His web site can be found at: gordonthomas.ie.

....and then I read the site's "about us" feature and it definitely sounds as though I do not share their opinion on issues at all.

Seems this was an embarrassing lesson for me.



 

[delete_bush]

9. No apology necessary,

actually I found this to be quite amazing. I realize now after doing just this little bit of research that mom was right, don't believe everything you read.

There were other things I ran across that I didn't mention; one article mentioned the International Bank of Denver, which is another non-existent entity as far as I can tell.

This whole story seems to be built on the big lie. I mean, if you intimate that someone worked for Maggie Thatcher it must be true, right? Too easy to check out the facts, couldn't be made up. Incredible.