FTR #740 Update on the Meltdown Part 6: The Wachovia File

Wachovia deeply involved with laun­der­ing money for Sinaloa car­tel; firm’s exec­u­tives com­plicit with cover-up; World’s major finan­cial insti­tu­tions depen­dent on drug car­tels for liq­uid­ity? Drug smug­glers may have bailed out those insti­tu­tions fol­low­ing crash of ’08.

Does Goldman Sachs Chief Lloyd Blankfein Enjoy Connections to the Intelligence Community?

COMMENT: In recent years there has [appro­pri­ately] been much dis­cus­sion of Gold­man Sachs. CEO Llolyd Blank­fein has an inter­est­ing pro­fes­sional back­ground, which might indi­cate oper­a­tional con­nec­tions to the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity.
After a rise that could truly be called a clas­sic Amer­i­can “up-by-the-bootstraps” ascent, Blank­fein worked for years as a tax lawyer for Dono­van Leisure, the [...]

Confirmation of U.S. Support for Egyptian, Mideast Uprisings

COMMENT: A recent New York Times arti­cle pro­vides fur­ther evi­dence of U.S. sup­port for what we have termed “Piggy-Back Coup.
A bullet-point syn­op­sis of this com­plex inves­ti­ga­tion is available.

“U.S. Groups Helped Nur­ture Arab Upris­ings” by Ron Nixon; The New York Times; 4/14/2011.
EXCERPT: Even as the United States poured bil­lions of dol­lars into for­eign mil­i­tary programs [...]

FTR #738 Turkish Taffy, Part II

Assur­ances to the con­trary notwith­stand­ing, Mus­lim Broth­er­hood poised to ascend in Egypt; Shed­ding the West’s old auto­crats in the Mid­dle East may ben­e­fit al-Qaeda; Obama poised for polit­i­cal destruc­tion over these events.

Was the Comcast/NBC Universal Merger Behind Keith Olbermann’s Sign Off?

COMMENT: Yes­ter­day, there was the sur­prise announce­ment that Keith Olber­mann was end­ing his show on MSNBC.  It’s offi­cially being declared that this had noth­ing to do with the approval of Com­cast’s takeover by NBC Uni­ver­sal but that seems ques­tion­able given that Com­cast’s leader’s are staunch GOP sup­port­ers.
Com­cast’s long-time rul­ing duo, Tom Mur­phy and Daniel Burke, [...]

Now, About Jared [Lee] Laughner . . .

COMMENT: In the wake of the shoot­ing in Ari­zona, many unan­swered (and often unasked) ques­tions sug­gest them­selves. To do jus­tice to the event will require more time and analy­sis than can be put into a Food For Thought post.
Suf­fi­cient analy­sis and dis­cus­sion will nec­es­sar­ily have to wait for a For The Record pro­gram and [...]

“Somewhere . . . Beyond the Sea . . . ” (Apologies to Bobby Darin)

COMMENT: Some very scary peo­ple, includ­ing extreme right-wingers asso­ci­ated with Face­book, as well as Car­lyle Group alumni, have been back­ing the con­cept of estab­lish­ing enor­mous, float­ing “Utopia” lin­ers as seago­ing liv­ing and recre­ational enclaves for the ultra-rich.
Pro­filed in FTR #718, Face­book finan­cial backer Peter Thiel is a major backer of this under­tak­ing. Along with associates, [...]

FTR #731 Interview with John Loftus about “America’s Nazi Secret”

Con­spir­a­to­r­ial process on a mas­sive scale pro­duced fas­cism, World War II; eco­nom­i­cally empow­ered by the Webb-Pomerene Act, the back­ers of the Axis col­lab­o­rated with Wall Street’s Rob­ber Barons before, dur­ing and after the war. State and Jus­tice Depart­ments complicit.

FTR #730 Interview with Russ Baker (Author of “Family of Secrets”)

Break­ing jour­nal­is­tic taboos about the JFK assas­si­na­tion, Russ Baker por­trays the real­ity of Amer­i­can power pol­i­tics, as exem­pli­fied by the Bush family’s use of covert action to manip­u­late the United States and its citizens.

FTR #729 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker: Strange Doings South of the Border

Attrib­uted over­whelm­ingly to Hugo Chavez, large-scale global drug traf­fick­ing net­work also involves ele­ments over­lap­ping clan­des­tine avi­a­tion net­works in South Florida through which 9/11 hijack­ers infiltrated.