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	Monica   "The greatest controversy seems to have been the   Iconoclastic dispute." {789}   in vernacular, virtual hair split

It seems only yesterday that the Pax Americana was proclaimed. The Soviet Union had collapsed and the United States was acclaimed the sole superpower, a Rome for the 21st century. After the Gulf War, Geo. Bush announced the New World Order. Rome, after defeating Carthage (the Soviet Union of its day, geopolitically speaking) in the first century B.C., became the sole superpower of the western world. It remained that for 5 centuries.
Present-day Israel was part of the empire, as was much of present-day Iraq. However, becoming the sole superpower was fatal to the moral integrity & political competence of the representative institutions of the old Roman republic, and after Caesar's death in 44 B.C. the republic became an imperial dictatorship. Nonetheless the Pax Romana lasted for 200 years.
The decline of the empire did not begin until three centuries on, when the emperor's Praetorian Guard (the secret service of its day) began to nominate the emperors. After that it was a matter of waiting for the barbarians. The United States lives in a much faster timescale. The Pax Americana is likely to begin to crumble this coming week, when the attacks on Iraq are supposed to begin.   "The Decline of the New ®ome Has Begun" William Pfaff Intl Herald Tribune 2/21/98

"One of the great attractions of patriotism is that it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully & cheat. Bully & cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
  Aldous Huxley, English author, 1894-1963

The Prune Book 100 Toughest Management & PolicyMaking Jobs in Washington
by John H. Trattner 1988, Ctr for Excellence in Government. Madison Books, Lanham MD 623p $35 cloth. Skips political pinnacle of cabinet secretaries & agency heads but incl undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, directors & administrators who analyze & implement.
Plum & prune guides to legislative branch (38,000) & judicial branch (28,000) not available. Try the personnel office.

"In a democracy, everyone is free to join the argument, or so it is said in civic mythology. In modern democracy that has evolved, that claim is nearly meaningless. During the last generation, a "new politics" has enveloped govt that guarantess exclusion of most Americans from the debate, the expensive politics of facts & information.
A major industry has grown up in Washington around what might be called "democracy for hire", business firms & outposts of sponsored scholars devoting to concoting facts & opinions & expert analysis, then aiming them at the govt. That is the principle function of all those enterprises along Washingtons main boulevards like K street, the public relations agencies, the direct-mail companies, & opinion polling firms.
All these work in concert with the infastructure of think tanks, tax-exept foundations & other centers that churn out reams of policy ideas for political debate. Most are financed by corporate interests & wealthy benefactors. The work of lobbyist and lawyers involves delivering the material to the appropriate legislators & administrators.

Only those who have accumulated lots of money are free to play in this version of democracy. Only those with a strong, immediate financial stake in the political outcomes can afford to invest this kind of money in manipulating the governing decisions. Most Americans have neither the
personal ability nor the wherewithal to compete on this field.
Citizens have been incapacitated. Modern methodologies of persuasion have created a new hierarchy of influence over govt decisions, a new way in which organized money dominates the action while the unorganized voices are inhibited from speaking. A lonely congressman, trying to represent the larger public interest finds himself arrayed against an army of authorities-working for the other side."

Wm Greider Who Will Tell the People
The betrayal of American democracy Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) 992

"The cost of being presented as a "responsible & serious candidate" by the media is usually to show fundamental agreement with the existing distribution of wealth & power."

Michael Lerner, The Politics of Meaning 1997 p99

The American public, having accepted limits on govt's ability to change society, must now also accept equally exacting limits on society's ability to change govt. ¹

Jonathan Rauch "Government's End" National Journal 1/7/00

By means of unofficial private corp., named News Election Service (NES), Establishment press has actual physical control of counting & dissemination of the vote, and it refuses to let the public know how it is done."

Mae Brussell; suppressed book VoteScam by Jim & Ken Collier

Critics argue antitrust agencies impose an effective "merger tax" where leverage obtained in the review process is used to force concessions with little or no relationship to the merger. Defenders counter that agencies must employ analytic foresight in innovation markets where merger effects may not be seen for several years. In the end, any system that can be gamed will be gamed. If competitors believe merger investigations are piñatas yielding goodies if whacked with sufficient force, the merger review process will be one more way the politically connected feed at the federal trough.

Mit Spears column, Upside Magazine 9/00

Inside U.S. Counterinsurgency A Soldier Speaks
Nov-Dec.99   Stan Goff iF magazine

After reflection on my two decades plus of service, I am convinced that I only served the richest 1% of my country. Though phrased differently, this argument is not new. In 1935, two- time Medal of Honor winner, retired Gen. Smedley Butler accused major New York investment banks of using the U.S. Marines as "racketeers" & "gangsters" to exploit financially the peasants of Nicaragua. "There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It had its 'finger men' to point out enemies, its 'muscle men' to destroy enemies, its 'brain men' to plan war preparations and a 'Big Boss', super-nationalistic capitalism," Butler continued. Later, Butler stated: "The trouble is that when American dollars earn only six percent over here, they get restless and go overseas to get 100 percent. The flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag."
"I spent 33 years & four months in active military service in the Marines. I helped make Tampico, Mexico, safe for the American oil interests in 1914; Cuba & Haiti safe for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue; helped purify Nicaragua for the International banking house of Baron Broches in 1909-1912; helped save the sugar interests in the Dominican Republic; and in China helped to see that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. War is a racket."   more re war

	Ïmperium	analects court chatter ¹ rogue's gallery
	Jerry Brown Jimmy Carter Ralph Nader Bob Kerry Anne Richardson Cynthia McKinney James Jeffords Jesse Ventura 2004

 menage a trois

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Tony Coelho, Al Gore's Campaign Chairman and Charles Manatt go way back. 10/86 Atlantic Monthly story by Gregg Easterbrook described the dark days after 1980 Reagan landslide whene Republicans had all the money and the Democratic Party could seemingly raise none. Two new stars arose to resurrect the party and make it financially competitive again. "The Democratic camp stood in even worse disorder than usual, with little known Los Angeles lawyer, Charles Manatt, taking over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the utterly anonymous Tony Coelho, 39yr old California congressman with no organizational experience, assuming leadership of the related Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which is charged with raising money for democratic congressmen. Twenty-five more seats in 1982 would have given the GOP the House, and with it, full control over federal decision making. The conventional wisdom held that the Democratic Party would not get out of the Reagan revolution alive." [ motive of desperate urgency ] But get out alive it did altho not without incurring wrath of some Democratic old guard that Coelho and Manatt resurrected party finances. But, according to Easterbrook article, "Coelho tripled the take from DCCC fund raising, from $2 million to $6 million, in his first two years." The story continued three paragraphs later, "Another businesslike decision Coelho made early on was to invest a portion of the DCCC's rapidly increasing income. Previously, the money had immediately gone out to finance campaigns or to retire old debts; some of these venerable obligations date to the days of the Humphrey-Nixon race. Coelho set aside about $3.5 million of the first $6 million he raised to finance a media center and a direct-mail operation; at the DNC, Charles Manatt was doing much the same." Major Democratic Party figures doing business with drug traffickers & intelligence agencies is not as surprising as it might sound. Hopsicker also interviewed Iran-Contra insiders who told him that Democratic powerhouse attorney Richard Ben Veniste had, also in 1982, incorporated a company named Trinity Oil for Barry Seal as a vehicle to launder Seal's enormous cocaine cash flow. Clearly, by 1982 the Democratic Party had learned from watching the old OSS/CIA veterans who had acquired decades of drug dealing experience in Corsica, France, Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. They had used the drug trade to finance elections, form political cadres, buy institutions and they had used that experience to elect Ronald Reagan. The Democrats were now back in the game as tons of CIA protected cocaine began to flow through Mena Arkansas and much of the money flowed through Arkansas banks, state agencies & law firms. Key was placing yourself to be in control of right strategic locations ahead of time. In the 1980s Arkansas, Louisiana and California were the places to be if you were a Democrat. 12/9/99 Charles Manatt presented his credentials to the Dominican Republic govt & became the fortieth U.S. Ambassador to the DR since 1883. Unusual features to Manatt's appt in a Presidential election year: Former party chairmen, prodigious fund raisers & power brokering attorneys are not appointed to such backward & undesirable postings. Pamela Harriman, arch fundraiser &and Presidential groomer asked Clinton for & got Paris. DR, with its rampant poverty, on the same island that is credited with helping spread AIDS to North America, with no major resorts, is a backwater. Even Maxine Waters' husband Sidney Williams, as a reward for services to the cause was given Ambassadorship to the Bahamas where he served from 1993 until 1998. Bahamas are much nicer than DR. They speak English there and have casinos & resort hotels like The Atlantis where drug lord Carlos Lehder's beautiful wife/consort, Coral Baca, even has a tower named after her and her photo adorns the publicity brochure, the same Coral Baca who delivered the federal grand jury transcripts to Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Webb at The San Jose Mercury News in 1995. That contact resulted in The Dark Alliance stories that swept across the nation in 1996 (also a Presidential election year), giving Maxine Waters a national forum to talk about Republican backed cocaine trafficking during the 1980s. According to State Dept records, the previous twelve U.S. Ambassadors to the DR, dating back to 1957, have not been political appointees receiving rewards at all. They have been career foreign service officers, assigned to the post because no "politicals" wanted it. The post remained vacant for almost 2 years from 1997 until Manatt arrived just in time for the Presidential election campaign. In ancient Rome it was customary, whenever there was a critical political or military alliance with a province, for the Emperor to send a member of his family as a Consul or emissary to signify the importance of the relationship with Rome. This also served to demonstrate that no action would be taken against provincial leaders, who could, if necessary, take the emissary hostage knowing his importance to the Empire. The presence of the dignitary also provided status for the provincial leaders as they conducted business both within and around their territories. How right is FTW's analysis here? It is right enough that in February of this year the U.S. Attorney's Office in Harrisburg tried to rake the attorney for Pennsylvania narc John McLaughlin over the coals because FTW had acquired their confidential report on Dominican drug traffickers used in this story. Don Bailey, as former Member of Congress, wasn't going for the intimidation. Knowing that FTW had acquired the document legally, he suggested in terse & eloquent letter that DoJ, "Buzz off." In a conversation with this writer he stated the obvious, "They aren't concerned with drug traffickers getting the information. They are concerned with covering up their own actions."

background Manatt was skilled attorney & also a banker. In 1965 he founded L.A. law firm of Manatt and Phelps that eventually to became one of largest & most powerful Democratic law firms in the country. Manatt would mentor & stay close to leading California Democratic political figures like Maxine Waters, Gray Davis & Tom Bradley. Powerful behind the scenes, Manatt also became deal maker & big time money man. Surprisingly however, Charles Manatt also been linked to deals that connected to legendary drug smuggler Barry Seal & covert Contra era CIA operations. FTW Contrib.Editor Daniel Hopsicker's finished but as yet unpublished bio of CIA pilot/operative & legendary drug smuggler Barry Seal as well as co-author Oct.99 FTW story "Why Does George W Bush Fly In Drug Smuggler Barry Seal's Airplane?" discovered Beechcraft King Air 200, tail number N6308F was directly connected to CIA "front" company through series of fraudulent financial transactions. That particular airplane leased to Barry Seal by real estate mega-developer Eugene Glick. To his surprise, while going through boxes of Seal's personal records, Hopsicker also came across documentary evidence, in Seal's own handwriting, that Glick's attorney at the time (1982) was none other than Charles Manatt. FTW has called the offices of Manatt and Phelps several times and inquired if their records confirm Manatt's representation of Glick. As of press time, firm has not responded. Other Manatt bona fides according to FDIC records & his own published biography are founding & serving as Chairman of First Los Angeles Bank in 1973 that was in serious trouble in 1989 & later criticized for mismanagement by the govt and courts before being finally sold in 1995. This was at the same time that Tony Coelho's questionable association with junk bond king and L.A. resident, Michael Milken forced him to resign abruptly from Congress. Manatt's law firm, including as partner future Clinton crony Mickey Kantor, also represented BCCI insider & #2 man, Swaleh Naqvi. BCCI's well documented connections to drug money laundering & CIA suggest other possible intelligence connections for Manatt. Internal BCCI documents are said to show the bank used the Manatt firm to lobby National Security Council in 1992 in an attempt to close down the investigations of New York DA Robert Morgenthau into BCCI operations. Manatt, Phelps and Kantor, (later to become Manatt, Phelps and Phillips) also represented Mochtar Riady's Lippo Group & Worthen Bank of Arkansas, which was then owned by Jackson Stephens (Jimmy Carter's roommate at Annapolis). Both Lippo Group & now defunct Worthen Bank turn up like a carpet weave throughout Bill Clinton's history, the history of Mena Arkansas, Democratic Party fundraising and BCCI story of BCCI. Charles Manatt also sits on Board of Federal Express. A search of CIA-Base (c), research tool developed by retired CIA agent Ralph McGehee offers another clue. Charles Manatt also served as a Director of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI). The CIA subsidized NDI, counted among its directors, Manatt, Walter Mondale and Edmund Muskie according to records in the National Endowment for Democracy. The NDI's ostensible purpose was to help facilitate elections in such CIA areas of operation as Northern Ireland, Taiwan, South Korea, Nicaragua, Panama and Chile. Tony Coelho left Congress in 1989 under allegations regarding his financial practices in middle of his 6th term as Representative from California. As Chairman of Al Gore's Presidential Campaign, he is the rainmaker. On him, and the money he can raise, ride hopes of emerging dominant faction in American politics. But recently, Tony Coelho has fallen under investigation from the State Department regarding his alleged misuse of govt funds while serving as the U.S. Commissioner General at Expo 98 in Portugal. Detailed 3/23/00 article by Bill Hogan in The National Journal, describes Coelho's expensive tastes and questionable business practices. … "Coelho invited Manatt & Wm Cable and spouses to Portugal … Manatt and Cable both invested $200,000 apiece in Coelho's soon to fail LoanNet".

Throughout their careers Tony Coelho & Charles Manatt have done one thing better than all the rest. They raised money. Now, with Coelho as Chairman of the campaign and Manatt protecting the money flow from the DR, especially just after the Clinton controlled DEA has disrupted all Caribbean competition, Democrats stand a chance to compete financially with the decades old entrenched drug money behind the Bush family. … If there are 3 "branches" of govt today, they are banks & financial institutions, govt as enforcer and the criminal syndicates. There is no rule of law, there is only the rule of money. And I am often amazed at how conservative Christians sometimes ask me to label Democrats, Socialists, Communists, Illuminati, Trilaterals, Jews, Bliderbergers, Masons, or Nazis as the source of evil in this world. I wonder why they don't read their own book. It says it quite clearly there - in the words of their own Master - "For the love of money is the root of all evil."

The events before, during and after publication of this story
• 2/14/00   Mary Catherine Frye, Assistant US Atty for Middle District of Penn. directs a letter to Don Bailey, attorney for John McGlaughlin indicating her awareness that I am in possession of the law enforcement sensitive NDIC report on the Dominicans and hinting at punitive action.
• 4/29/00   One day before publication of our story, the FTW computer is hit with 5 brand new & unidentified "back door" computer viruses that "tanked" our system for 12 hours and nearly prevented us from publishing (Norton [Symantec] Case ID # 4010679966 - Contact ID # 312578074).
• 5/15/00   Mexican web site www.narconews.com, with permission, reprints entire article in English on a site that receives 80,000 visitors a month.
• 5/22/00 & 5/29/00   Thanks to promotion from narconews publisher Al Giordano, Mexican weekly (a national glossy) La Crisis translates & reprints article in two parts.
• 5/15 - 6/25/00   US govt agencies leak stories to AP & major publications spinning my story without addressing it directly. One story even uses my original phrasing, "Once the drugs are in Puerto Rico it's the same as if they were in Kansas."
• 6/15/00   Tony Coelho resigns as Gore Campaign Chair citing health reasons.

Power Behind the Scenes
Staffers' power is covert, crucial to foreign policy
7.98   Miles Pomper Foreign Service Journal AFSA

An intern's guide to Capitol Hill   D.C.'s Political Boot Camp
7.18.01   Jas. Ridgeway, S.Bisin & A-L. Anderson Mondo Washington Village Voice

It's common to see young women with older men in Washington. And revelations about such carryings-on are not uncommon. The flow of interns continually refreshes the pool of young people available for potential sexual liaisons. While Newt Gingrich was speaker of the House, he took up with a young aide, Callista Bisek, whom he has since married. Garry Bauer, the conservative Christian candidate for president, was accused of spending too much time with a young campaign aide. Bauer steadfastly denied the relationship. These days, the city is rife with rumors about what happened to Chandra. In addition to suspicions that Democratic congressman Gary Condit may know something about her fate, there are other theories circulating: She could have been murdered by a thug in her neighborhood, where there have been a number of street crimes in recent months. Or she could have been lured into a van in the Dupont Circle area, where passengers were trying to pick up women of Chandra's age the day before she disappeared. Or she stumbled onto a heroin deal and was shot. Or someone who knew her accidentally got into a brawl with her and killed her by mistake. Police reports say that Chandra was actively using her computer on the morning of May 1 to find out how to get to the Klingle mansion, an out-of-the-way building in Rock Creek Park, which suggests she may have taken a taxi to meet someone or that she could have gone there to commit suicide. Police have repeatedly said Condit is not a suspect.

The police say they will re-interview members of Condit's staff. Condit doesn't have a car and is sometimes chauffeured by a staff member. One staff member's car has been searched. Condit's well-known affection for motorcycles has reportedly led the police to look into any possible links between him and the Hells Angels. Another theory has the D.C. police balking at investigating secret sex-rings in the city for fear of somehow implicating themselves. On 11.26.97, The Washington Post reported that then police chief Larry Soulsby resigned after his best friend on the force was arrested for "fairy shaking", extorting married men leaving gay sex clubs in the southeast part of Washington. Then there is Condit's own family. The New York Daily News reported last week that one of Condit's two brothers, Burl Condit, is a Modesto cop who in 1999 was caught up along with other officers in a scandal that involved selling the department's old guns. He was never charged with any wrongdoing. Darrell Condit, the younger brother, has a jail record dating back to the 1970s and was once called a drug addict by a judge. He has been arrested on a variety of charges including theft, DUI, possession of heroin and psilocybin, and smoking marijuana while in jail. He also was charged with assaulting Modesto deputies in 1989 with a hammer handle, and on one occasion threatened political retaliation against a cop who stopped him in California

Sex scandals have laid low many powerful politicians. Senator Gary Hart's presidential ambitions ended with revelation of his relationship with Donna Rice in 1987. 2 years later Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank hit the news when it was revealed he had hired a male prostitute as an aide. He is still in office. In 1974 Wilbur Mills, a leading Democratic congressman, made headlines when a stripper named Fanny Foxe leaped from his car into the Tidal Basin when Mills was stopped for erratic driving. In 1976 Elizabeth Ray, an aide at the House administration committee, claimed she was the mistress of Democratic congressman Wayne Hays, making the legendary statement: "Supposedly I'm on the oversight committee, but I call it the out-of-sight committee." Hays admitted the relationship while denying hiring her for sex, but his political life shortly came to an end. In the midst of President Clinton's impeachment storm, House speaker-designate Bob Livingston admitted he "strayed from my marriage" and quit. Based on a dozen or so interviews, here's a brief rundown on Washington's summer boot camp for interns—how they got their jobs, whom they most admire, what they want to do with their lives, where they smooch and hang. Some are paid about $3000 for the summer, while others are paid nothing. Best make-out spot Georgetown waterfront National Cathedral at night Gravelly Point near Reagan National Airport   (planes distract would-be watchers) Best place to live George Washington Univ. dorms   (room to yourself & plenty of people to meet) American University dorms Georgetown University dorms Best places to hang out Bar Nun (13th St. and U St. NW)   Hip-hop, go-go, techno. $5 cover. No sneakers, no jeans. Politiki (3rd St. and Pennsylvania Ave. SE)   Swing, jazz, blues, folk, pop. No cover. "Funkiest Polynesian drinks." The Spot (6th St. and F St. NW)   Top 40, international hip-hop. Features parties for interns. Tryst (18th St. and Columbia Rd. NW)   jazz, pop. Tequila Grill (20th St. and K St. NW)   All kinds of music. $5 cover. Free draft beer. Tue. are intern nights. Job description Answer phones Research answers to constituents' questions Lead tours of Capitol Fetch coffee Best reasons to be an intern Looks good on résumé See famous people up close Network for the future Watch history get made Learn nuts & bolts of politics How I got my job Mom/Dad gave bucks to member's campaign Worked for member's political campaign Sent a letter & résumé Cold call

Washington interns They're not as silly & worthless as you think.   7.20.01   David Plotz Slate … The intern is attracted to the man for obvious reasons: The interns are young, they're hormonal, and they're political junkies. To them, a second-rate congressman looks like Mick Jagger. And why are the men infatuated? It's not just because the interns are young & sexy. It's because the interns still honestly believe in Washington, believe that a congressman is just as important as he thinks he is. In a jaded city, that faith is the rarest & most enticing quality of all. Best place to be House floor Career goal Lawyer-lobbyist Federal judge U.S. senator Governor Political hero My boss Michael Jordan Jimmy Carter Carol Mosley Brown Gandhi Steve Forbes Role model Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Jesus Dress for success women Separate yourself from peers who inappropriately wear tank tops and short skirts by dressing in a suit. Otherwise stick to knee-length skirts and sweater sets. Above all, women must fit into office decor, which is set by the congressperson. (Sexist pigs!) men Blazer, tie Favorite drug Alcohol Favorite drink women Cosmopolitan, Long Island Ice Tea,   Gatorade, Kir Royal men Bud, Miller Light What my Mama said when I left home "Be careful." "To use my brain not to do anything risky." "Don't get involved with an older man." "Use the wisdom [my parents] gave me so I won't do anything ridiculous like sleeping around with a congressman."

Levy case throws spotlight on Washington interns ¹ 7.8.01   Reuters WASHINGTON   The case of Chandra Levy, an intern whose mysterious disappearance and friendship with a U.S. congressman became national news, has thrown a spotlight on the army of young people working in Washington. A 9 week search for Levy, 24, who went missing after finishing her internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has yielded few clues. She was last seen on April 30, the day she was expected to return to California for her college graduation. For most of the college-aged interns, a temporary job in Washington offers a chance to taste the fast pace of the federal capital, perhaps laying roots for a future career in govt or lobbying firms. As many as 20,000 interns can be working in Washington at one time. For a few, like Levy, and the most notorious intern of recent years Monica Lewinsky, who had an affair with President Bill Clinton while working at the White House, things may go terribly awry. Police found Levy's bags packed in her apartment, along with her credit cards and other personal items after her parents reported her missing. Attention fell on Rep. Gary Condit, who represents her California district. Washington police said on Saturday they interviewed Condit for a third time. However, Assistant Police Chief Terrance Gainer declined to comment on news reports that Condit admitted to police investigators that he had a sexual relationship with Levy. Gainer declined to answer questions about the nature of the relationship between Levy and Condit, 53. Levy's aunt, Linda Zamsky, released a statement on Friday alleging that Condit was involved in a romantic relationship with the missing intern. CNN and Newsweek, citing law enforcement sources, reported on Saturday that Condit acknowledged to police investigators that he had a sexual relationship with Levy. The former intern was one of more than 98,000 persons missing in the United States at the end of June, according to statistics maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. More than 6,000 of these were between the ages of 22 & 29. preying on young people "There are individuals out there who are going to prey upon the vulnerability of a young adult," said Kym Pasqualini, president of Nation's Missing Children's Organization and Center for Missing Adults, whose group is working with Levy's parents. Reports of missing college-aged students have increased in recent years, Pasqualini said, noting that the first thing she hears from their parents is that the young adults failed to realize just how vulnerable they were. "One thing that we've found with missing persons is it can absolutely happen to anybody," she said. "It can happen by associating with individuals that you don't know well, but it can also happen just by walking down the street." District police chief Charles Ramsey told reporters on Thursday he was "not really happy" with how little progress had been made in over two months of intense investigation into Levy's disappearance. But officials pointed out that her case was still being treated as a missing person, not a murder, case and that the Californian was among 55 adults and 86 juveniles reported missing in the capital in the last year. Most seemed unfazed by the Levy case, which has been a prime topic of conversations largely because of the suspicion that fell on Condit. Many of the interns come from protective college campuses or suburban communities. on their own "You're always aware of your surroundings," said intern Lorien Hallas from St. Louis, who has learned street smarts during three summer internships in the city. "I'm on my own a lot more" in Washington, she added. Some become lonely. "I could see it being real rough for somebody who is here and does not have many friends here," said intern Allen Thompson from Lenoir, NC. Erica Hesch, who coordinates the Everett Public Service internship program, said: "They're coming here for educational purposes. If they have a personal problem and feel comfortable talking to their supervisors they might bring it up. But I don't think that's the real focus." Jim Forbes, a spokesman for the House of Representatives Administration Committee, said no changes were made to how his office dealt with nearly 700 summer interns in the House of Representatives based on Levy's disappearance but added, "This has hit us really hard." Summer interns expressed concern about Levy, but many shrugged off the possibility that something mysterious could happen to them. "It seems so much more involved than just an intern missing out of nowhere," said intern Adrien Smith from Salt Lake City. "I'm not really scared or threatened by it." ¹ Fellow intern Marshall Smith from Dallas, Texas agreed. "It's kind of a bummer for her parents," Smith said, noting that his high opinion of the city remains unchanged. "Bad things happen all over the place," he said.

the Hunger   Senate balance teeters on 98 year old legs   4.12.01   Jeffrey Gettleman & Edith Stanley LATimes EDGEFIELD, S.C.   Talking about Strom Thurmond's health around here is a little like sticking your finger in a bowl of grits: It ain't polite. True, the Washington power dynamic rests on the stooped shoulders of the increasingly shaky 98-year-old Republican senator from South Carolina. With the Senate split 50-50, if Thurmond passes away before his term ends in 2003, the Democrats will probably take over and be in a position to block presidential nominees and stymie George W. Bush's legislative agenda. But in places such as Mims' Corner Store in Edgefield, which looks just as it should with corncob pipes dangling from the wall, buckets of seeds on the floor and dusty old men sipping Bud and watching "The Price Is Right," such conversation draws some hard looks. "It ain't nice to speculate on another man's demise," explained Louise Mims, the generously cut proprietor. "And Strom ain't going anywhere anyway. Y'all just wasting your time." A call to the office of Gov. Jim Hodges, a Democrat, to ask what will happen if the 8 term senator dies before the next election brings a scolding reply from spokesman Morton Brilliant: "That's morbid to even ask." Some say it's Southern courtesy not to count a man out till he's gone. Others call it denial. S.Carolinians are so attached to "Ol' Strom," the oldest U.S. senator in history and the longest serving, there's been little public maneuvering to take his spot. "We're more concerned about who's going to win the World Series in 2008," said Richard Harpootlian, the state Democratic chairman. "Strom's like the ocean. He was here before all of us. We fully expect him to be standing in the Capitol rotunda in January 2003 swearing in his successor." Indeed, Thurmond has not missed a single vote this year. But the man who, as president pro tem of the Senate, is third in the line of succession to the presidency is not exactly spry. He needs an aide on each elbow to get around. In February he checked himself into a hospital for a weekend. He felt tired, he said. It's not clear how together he is. His chief of staff, Robert "Duke" Short, is essentially running the office. In the middle of a recent vote, Thurmond was seen shuffling around the Senate floor, passing out candy. His aides are trying to keep him out of the spotlight. They've turned down interview requests, shooed away reporters and let few people get close to him. "It's almost like he's a Soviet leader or something," said David Lublin, a Southern politics specialist at American University. "Some people may wonder if he's really alive anymore." To the relief of many, Thurmond has announced he will not run again in 2002. If he can't make it that far, Hodges has promised, in previous brief comments on the matter, to appoint a caretaker senator, one who won't stand for election after the interim term is over. Two possibilities mentioned are former Education Secretary Richard W. Riley and U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn. Both are loyal Democrats. A small group of Republican legislators is trying to force Hodges to pick someone from the GOP if there's a Thurmond vacancy. But few expect that effort to succeed. As for the November 2002 election, the front-runner is Republican Rep. Lindsey O. Graham, an outspoken conservative who became nationally known as a leader in the impeachment of President Clinton. The Democrats are still searching for a candidate. There's a lot of pressure. Thurmond couldn't be a much tougher act to follow. With 72 years of public service, he's the undisputed champion of retail politics. Nobody in S.Carolina, it seems, is more than one or two degrees of separation from the teetering man with the translucent skin and thin, reddish hair. With a big staff, a record-setting tenure and a relatively small state, Thurmond has managed to build a block of support as solid and immovable as Ft. Sumter by doling out an unfathomable number of jobs, internships, judgeships, favors and personalized letters of congratulations and condolences over the years. "The first thing his staff does in the morning is clip the obits," said Jack Bass, author of a recent Thurmond biography. "It's worked." These days, with the Senate split 50-50, there's intense interest in just about everything Thurmond does. When he recently stopped gaveling open the Senate (one of his responsibilities as Senate president pro tem), the Republican leadership got nervous. Ditto when he didn't show up for President Bush's address to Congress. He had never missed that event before. So it was reassuring to supporters when he polished off 30 oysters last month at a Virginia seafood house. And they were delighted when he approached Hillary Rodham Clinton at her swearing- in and hugged her. A legendary ladies' man, Ol' Strom still seems interested. Throughout his life, Thurmond has shrugged off age. He volunteered for World War II at 41 and slipped behind enemy lines on D-day to fight the Nazis at Normandy. When he came home, he married a woman half his age. On his 65th birthday, he proved his vigor to a reporter by dropping to the floor in suit and tie and squeezing off 100 push-ups. Perhaps

that's why, while neighboring 79-year-old Sen. Jesse Helms R-N.C. uses a motorized cart to get around, Thurmond refuses walker, wheelchair and cane. He won't wear a hearing aid either, although he needs one.
Even today, Thurmond's in better shape than some of his predecessors. In the 1940s, octogenarian Sen. Carter Glass D-Va. wasn't seen in the Capitol the last four years of his term. In 1969, S.Dakota Republican Karl Mundt was incapacitated by a stroke but remained a senator for 3 more years. Of course, there are a few people who quietly whisper they wish Thurmond hadn't run for reelection in 1996. "But after all Strom's done, how could I not vote for him?" asked Carolyn Holson, one of the shoppers at Mims' in Edgefield, Thurmond's birthplace. He ended up winning by 53%, his lowest margin of victory in decades. In January, Thurmond again tested the limits of loyalty. He recommended President Bush nominate his 28-year-old son, Strom Jr., as U.S. attorney. Li'l Strom, as they call him, is an assistant county prosecutor with no management experience. But in a sign of Thurmond's unique position among his colleagues, the nomination is expected to sail through the Senate.

The affection for Thurmond transcends party lines, just as he has: The former ardent segregationist started his career as a Democrat, ran for president in 1948 as leader of the doomed racist Dixiecrat party and turned Republican in 1964. As the years passed he softened his segregationist views, eventually hiring blacks on his staff and supporting better education for minorities. In a region that reveres its past, Thurmond is living history. His name is bolted to more bridges, more highways and more schools in S.Carolina than anyone else's. If anything keeps him going, it will be that, said Bass, the biographer. "Every morning Strom gets up and looks in the mirror and says to himself: 'I'm making history today. I'm the oldest man in the Yew-Ess Sen-nit,' " Bass said, imitating Thurmond's drawl. "And that gives him just enough adrenaline to get to work, through the day and up the next morning to look in the mirror and do it all over again."

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… Robert Lovett (Yale '18), Harriman's childhood friend, had been tapped into Skull & Bones by Prescott Bush's cell (Yale '17) & was a director at Brown Brothers, Harriman. "On October 22, 1945, Secretary of War Robert Patterson created the Lovett Committee, chaired by Robert A. Lovett, to advise the govt on the post-WWII organization of U.S. intelligence activities. … The new agency would 'consult' with the armed forces, but it must be sole collecting agency in field of foreign espionage & counterespionage. New agency should have an independent budget, and its appropriations should be granted by Congress without public hearings. Lovett appeared before the Secretaries of State, War, & Navy 11/14/45 … Lovett pressed for virtual resumption of wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS). … The CIA was established in 1947 according to the prescription of Robert Lovett of Jupiter Island."

After WWII, Prescott Bush became Connecticut senator & favorite golfing partner of President Eisenhower. Prescott claims responsibility for getting Nixon into politics and takes personal credit for bringing Dick on board as Ike's running mate in 1952. Kissinger era marked a low point in Skull & Bones' govt power. Wm. Casey, SEC & CIA chief, was Geo.Bush campaign manager & Sovereign Knight of Malta   "Geo. Bush; The Unauthorized Biography" Jas. Shelby Downard's article, "Sorcery, Sex, Assassination and the Science of Symbolism ," an underground classic, links American historical events with a wild, numerological, grand occult plan "to turn us into cybernetic mystery zombies". The assassination of JFK, this article contends, was the performance of a public occult ritual called The Killing of the King, designed as a mass-trauma, mind-control assault against our U.S. national body-politic. Project Monarch was the resumption of a mind-control project called Marionette Programming, which started in Nazi Germany. The basic component of the Monarch Program is the sophisticated manipulation of the mind, using extreme trauma to induce Multiple Personality Disorder. R. Armitage Bilderberg John Birch Beyond the Illusion Jeremy Bigwood Branton T.Casey Brennan F. Carlucci Carlyle Group D. Cheney Ctr for Public Inquiry Consumertronics Counterpropaganda Wm Daley & Clinton DCIA death squads diy EIR FEMA Jerry Fletcher Forbidden Politics FPIF Freemasonry Watch FTW Gehlen at Ft.Hunt Johnny Gosch Franklin cover-up Ted Gunderson D. Henwood LBO Hoffman Wire Hollywood T. Kazcynski Philander Knox Konformist Lobster Al Martin MKUltra Megiddo NameBase NatSec pubs OKC OKC² OKC³ Cathy O'Brien re C.O'Brien Project Artichoke's 8 methods Revilo P. Oliver Paranoia Robt. Parry C. Powell Mario Profaca J.Rense U.S. quislings Rumor Mill D. Rumsfeld Shrub Sherman Skolnick Spotlight SteamshovelPress Anthony Sutton Watch unto Prayer HRts refs   Mind Control, World Control, auth. Jim Keith Orwell's 1984 correct because he knew 1934 Tavistock   Jan. 99   review K. Starchyld … some Brits (Cecil Rhodes, H.G. Wells, the Round Table members, the Tavistock group, etc.) … developing eugenics as they sought biologically to program the race. Rockefeller made big contributions to such projects, including the salary to people like E. Cameron (Project Artichoke, Toronto) . … psychologists & sociologists, like John Dewey, B.F. Skinner, Kurt Lewin (founder of NTL as well) and Eric Trist of Tavistock, British brainwashing institution started in 1932 for modifying & controlling people. … Recent House speaker Newt Gingrich's involvement in Tavistock showed how much he advocated changing society by forcibly changing minds. The British Tavistock has functioned as a highly militaristic organization whose founder referred to its creating "psychological shock troops...to engineer the future direction of society". It receives contributions from such notables as the Britsh Crown, the foundations of the Rockefellers, Ford, and Carnegie, upstanding leaders who apparently want to see the world more regimented & controllable. CAHE In 1785, a bolt of lightning struck a courier en route to Paris from Frankfort-on-the-Main. A tract written by Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati, "Original Shift in Days of Illuminations," was recovered from the dead messenger, containing the secret society's long-range plan for "The New World Order through world revolution". The Bavarian Govt outlawed the society and in 1787 published the details of The Illuminati conspiracy in "The Original Writings of the Order and Sect of the Illuminati." In Adam Weishaupt's own words: "By this plan, we shall direct all mankind in this manner. And, by the simplest means, we shall set all in motion and in flames."   [ Illuminatissimus as Shiva worship ? ]

gap fillers Jewish Hate & the Global Conspiracy 5.01   Dr. L.Horowitz ¹ The Free American ¹   author, Emerging Viruses Aids & Ebola "Nature, Accident or Intentional?" ² also Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse   with Dr. Jos. E. Barber re prions & solfeggio ¹ … Zionism & virtually all major religions, heavily infiltrated, if not completely controlled, by primarily British globalists. … [ excellent heretofore unheard associations ] ²   Link between human AIDS virus, HIV, and chimpanzee immunodeficiency virus based on 3 year study of pandemic's origin published in 5.01 issue of scientific journal Medical Hypotheses, presented as preliminary findings at 1996 XI Intl Conf on AIDS in Vancouver; SRO audience in Boston at annual American Public Health Association conf. 11.00   Subject of recent BBC documentary. Risky pilot Hep.B vaccine trials involved growing hepatitis viruses in chimpanzees commonly known to be contaminated with retroviruses related to HIV. These findings scientifically explain for the first time how the chimpanzee AIDS virus (SIVcpz), closely related to HIV's gene sequence, suddenly jumped species to humans simultaneously on two far removed continents. Four lots of HB vaccine containing 200,000 human doses, believed to be contaminated with gene sequences common to HIV/SIVcpz, were prepared by passing live HB viruses, grown in chimpanzees, to polio vaccine recipients previously exposed to monkey cancer viruses already suspected of playing a role in initiating AIDS. The final preparations were injected into gay men in New York City & Blacks in Central Africa between 1974 & 1975. According to several investigators, this may best explain how & why there was sudden simultaneous outbreak of at least 4 major HIV strains on 2 far removed continents in 2 demographically distinct populations in the late1970s, corresponding to the only complete virus discoveries.   cit. Litton Bionetics, Dr. Maurice Hilleman contracts quasi-refutation re polio vaccine Polio Vaccine-AIDS Theory Refuted 4.26.01   David Brown Wash.Post pA9 cf Nature & Science magazines for reports cit. Hilary Koprowski of Wistar Institute, Philadelphia; Tom Curtis, Rolling Stone 1992; Edw. Hooper, UK The River 1999 Depleted uranium & Gary Webb were repudiated, too   Who is LaRouche & what does he want?   post1989   Mark Evans N.Coast Xpress … where LaRouche money comes from. That's easy; from Rockefeller, at least $10 million dollars of orig. pkg of seed money to expand the NCLC: buy telexes, computers and printing presses (probably, circa 1971).

Persistent though unsubstantiated rumor to this effect, which oddly enough, Berlet, King & Co. never reported, was confirmed in early 1973 by high-ranking "Caucusoid" in a candid moment to a professor of Afro-American Studies in Rochester, NY in privacy of the professor's home. Robert Veenis, present at this meeting in 1973, told me about it in 1989. …
  ibid … Mae Brussel, who inspired a generation of researchers aka "Brussel Sprouts", taught her disciples to read everything across whole political spectrum and to sift & weigh all pieces of information as separate elements of collective aggregate. She taught us to compare everything with every other thing and to work out contradictions between various voices that speak conflicting things because everything means something and nothing is without significance. If we use our heads, we can eventually find the whole truth. Reality is the total synthesis of all the voices, past & present, and in politics (polis being the city or society at large), every political faction contains a certain amount of truth as well as varying degrees of error.
[ in contrast to religion, which is wholly false ]

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