Government agencies were created to regulate certain industries in order to protect the American people. But as most of us know by now, they do the opposite: they protect the various industries they were meant to regulate. (By the way, if you're looking for a conspiracy with a capital "C," look no further).
In assessing the so-called "Phase Two" of the investigation into 9/11 and how the Bush administration handled ("managed") the intelligence they received from the CIA, one unanswered question seems to stand out in its total disregard by the SEC, the agency responsible for looking into it. I am referring to the suspicious options trading that occurred just before 9/11.
Someone purchased a very large number of put options on various airline stocks just days before the tragic event. You buy put options when you hope, or in this case KNOW, that certain stocks are going to go down. It is a highly leveraged way to make a lot of money if you're right.
But when you buy or sell options on an options exchange, there is a paper trail. The transactions can be traced back to an individual or an entity. If you discover only an entity, who was acting on behalf of some anonymous individual(s), you can almost always determine who those individuals were with proper investigation.
As far as anyone knows, the SEC or, for that matter, the CIA, have never even looked into this incredibly serious and likely revealing matter. Or, if they have, they are keeping the relevant information from the American people. It is part of that "C" word, a conspiracy between the administration and the agency or agencies with oversight powers into this specific area, in order to keep this vital secret to themselves.
By stonewalling this crucial piece of evidence, it allows us with vivid imaginations to arrive at no other conclusion than the likelihood that the buyers of these damning put options were the Bush administration's "friends" in Saudia Arabia.
It is one thing for speculators to make money by guessing a market's movement correctly. But it is a very different kettle of fish when individuals, armed with inside information into an impending horrific event, make windfall profits off the backs of mass murder. Someone should demand that the SEC fulfill its mandate and get to the bottom of this onerous act instead of covering up what might be an embarrassment to the administration.
Purchasing those put options was a crime. If we knew who bought them, we would know a whole lot more about 9/11 and what the Bush administration knew and how they handled that information as they moved relentlessly forward towards a war in Iraq.
11/06/2005
There is a Conservative conspiracy that runs this country's domestic and foreign policy. It is destroying America in its quest for a new world
Sunday, December 6, 2009
BUSH SHOPS WHILE NEW ORLEANS DROPS
The only reason we have a Federal Government is to protect the citizenry. Otherwise, there would be no point in having a government at all.
The aforementioned government has focused for years on three likely catastrophes: a terrorist attack in New York City or Washington, D.C., a major earthquake in San Francisco and a powerful hurricane making a direct hit on New Orleans with the accompanying disastrous flood. With that premise as a backdrop, it is inconceivable that Bush had no plan for getting people out of New Orleans just as he has no plan for getting our troops out of Iraq. It is one thing for the local and state authorities to issue a mandatory evacuation order. But if you have no means of evacuation, then you depend on your elected government in Washington to have some ideas on how to get you out of "harm's way."
The military should have been in there before the storm struck with whatever heavy machinery was necessary in order to evacuate those people too old, too weak and too poor to reach safety on their own. Remember, this was one of the three main events the government was anticipating for years.
And where was Bush this time? No, not in the school house, but rather flying out to San Diego to buy a guitar. The poor, black people in New Orleans simply did not matter to him or any of his cronies. All the after-the-fact flying into the region hit by the hurricane is nothing more than political maneuvering for damage control. Anyone not blinded by right-wing ideology can see through that charade. Finally, the Bush people, who talk about nothing but terrorism, have obviously been asleep at the switch when it comes to Mother Nature, the greatest terrorist of them all. And don't look now, W., but She has avian flu waiting in the wings.
Instead of spending most of the year trying to privatize Social Security (which is just round one in the Conservative's long-term goal of eliminating all entitlement programs), George Bush should have had his priorities on straight. A vaccine to protect Americans and the rest of the world from the possibility of a deadly avian flu pandemic would be far more worthy of a leader than trying to undue the safety net for people near the end of their lives.
President Bush has been a great embarrassment to this country, and his administration has done incredible damage both here and abroad in such a brief period of time. It is hard to believe that we have another three years to endure this ongoing fiasco.
10/07/2005
The aforementioned government has focused for years on three likely catastrophes: a terrorist attack in New York City or Washington, D.C., a major earthquake in San Francisco and a powerful hurricane making a direct hit on New Orleans with the accompanying disastrous flood. With that premise as a backdrop, it is inconceivable that Bush had no plan for getting people out of New Orleans just as he has no plan for getting our troops out of Iraq. It is one thing for the local and state authorities to issue a mandatory evacuation order. But if you have no means of evacuation, then you depend on your elected government in Washington to have some ideas on how to get you out of "harm's way."
The military should have been in there before the storm struck with whatever heavy machinery was necessary in order to evacuate those people too old, too weak and too poor to reach safety on their own. Remember, this was one of the three main events the government was anticipating for years.
And where was Bush this time? No, not in the school house, but rather flying out to San Diego to buy a guitar. The poor, black people in New Orleans simply did not matter to him or any of his cronies. All the after-the-fact flying into the region hit by the hurricane is nothing more than political maneuvering for damage control. Anyone not blinded by right-wing ideology can see through that charade. Finally, the Bush people, who talk about nothing but terrorism, have obviously been asleep at the switch when it comes to Mother Nature, the greatest terrorist of them all. And don't look now, W., but She has avian flu waiting in the wings.
Instead of spending most of the year trying to privatize Social Security (which is just round one in the Conservative's long-term goal of eliminating all entitlement programs), George Bush should have had his priorities on straight. A vaccine to protect Americans and the rest of the world from the possibility of a deadly avian flu pandemic would be far more worthy of a leader than trying to undue the safety net for people near the end of their lives.
President Bush has been a great embarrassment to this country, and his administration has done incredible damage both here and abroad in such a brief period of time. It is hard to believe that we have another three years to endure this ongoing fiasco.
10/07/2005