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Intro­duc­tion: These pro­grams con­tin­ue (from FTR#‘s 1345 & 1346explo­ration of the his­to­ry of U.S. involve­ment with Asian fas­cism from the pre-World War II peri­od until the present.

Crit­i­cal back­ground infor­ma­tion on U.S. cap­i­tal sup­port for Japan­ese fas­cism and Japan’s cen­turies-long sub­ju­ga­tion of Korea may be found in FTR#‘s 905 and 1141.

Top­ics and Points of Dis­cus­sion For Inclu­sion in this series: The Cab­i­net Research Offi­cer next to Ruby at the press con­fer­ence; Gen­er­al Arisue and his myr­i­ad con­nec­tions; Tsu­ji Masanobu and his links to Arisue, the Bataan Death March and also high­light­ing the death of Iris Chang in this dis­cus­sion; Both Syn­g­man Rhee’s and Ngo Dinh Diem’s work for the Japan­ese; The use of the Uighurs by the Japan­ese and their imme­di­ate suc­ces­sors; The divid­ing of Korea at the 38th par­al­lel by Col’s David Dean Rusk and Bon­es­teel; Rusk’s work for Admi­ral Hil­lenkoet­ter at CIA, as well as any oth­er intel­li­gence links you have for him (There was at least anoth­er, but I can’t remem­ber if off the top of my head); Colonel Bonesteel’s lat­er work in Viet­nam as a Gen­er­al and for CIA; Gen­er­al Kim Sook Won and his work as a “Ban­dit Hunter;” Kim Sook Won’s role as com­man­der of Syn­g­man Rhee’s bor­der forces; We will dis­cuss I.F. Stone’s Hid­den His­to­ry of the Kore­an War, not­ing that it appears that South Korea attacked first, bat­ing the North to coun­ter­at­tack; What the Kore­an War did strate­gi­cal­ly for MacArthur & Company—precluding an attack by Mao’s forces on Formosa/Taiwan, as well as solid­i­fy­ing Rhee’s posi­tion in South Korea (which might have been end­ed by a pop­u­lar ref­er­en­dum); JFK’s cut­ting loose of Syn­g­man Rhee and his White Terror—undoubtedly anoth­er major rea­son for his assas­si­na­tion; Willough­by, of course; Jim Wilcott and the Japan­ese fas­cists with whom he worked; Oswald in Japan and E. Howard Hunt’s role in covert oper­a­tions in Japan; Review of JFK’s attempts to extri­cate us from Viet­nam; Eisuke Ono’s role as a Japan­ese Naval Intel­li­gence pay­mas­ter in the U.S. in1933; Fred­er­ick Rutland’s work for Mit­subishi and the oper­a­tional links to Kodama Yoshio and Arisue (Rut­land was the guy Ono was pay­ing); The posi­tion of Ono in the post-WWII bank­ing milieu inex­tri­ca­bly linked with Gold­en Lily—The links to Tiarks, Nor­bert Bog­dan and the role of the Bank of Tokyo as the suc­ces­sor to the Yoko­hama Specie Bank.

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Pterrafractyl's Nest

Oligarchs for Austerity and the CNP Have a Big New Scheme: Suing their Way to a New Constitution Did you hear? President Trump is going to be running for a third term in office. And he's not joking. Who knows how serious he is, but as we're going to see, the constitutionality of third presidential term may not be as set in stone as many suspect. Along with the rest of the US Constitution. A constitutional convention could be just around the corner. Just a lawsuit away. And we can thank the DC austerity lobby and their fellow travelers at the Council for National Policy (CNP) and the American Legislative Exchange Committee (ALEC) for this looming threat. The same austerity lobby that has spent years trying to roll back Obamacare, eviscerate Medicare and Medicaid through block-grants, and generally erode what's left of the US's social safety-nets as more and more Americans are forced to take any work available just to qualify for increasingly meager government assistance. That austerity lobby. It's back with a big sneaky plan: a lawsuit purporting to prove that the 34 state threshold for an Article V constitutional convention has already been met. David M. Walker - the former US Comptroller for both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - is leading the legal effort, with legal support from NRA lawyer (and CNP member) Charles "Chuck" Cooper. If the lawsuit succeeds, get ready for a new constitution written by and for the oligarchy. But this story isn't just about this new lawsuit. It's also about how the DC austerity lobby has been working with CNP to push these constitutional convention ambitions since at least 2013, which is right around the same time it become clear that the last major round of DC austerity lobbying had failed in achieving a "grand bargain" of slashed entitlements. A round of lobbying that began in earnest as the 2008 financial crisis was still playing out with David Walker - then President and CEO of the newly formed austerity-centric Pete Peterson Foundation - taking on a lead role as public austerity advocate. The Great Recession was a great opportunity for a "grand bargain". And it almost worked. But didn't work, at least not entirely, and it wasn't long after that failure became clear that we saw the austerity lobby and the CNP begin hatching far more ambitious plans. Plans that just might be about come to fruition. Because as we're also going to see, if a constitutional convention does happen, the forces behind this plan are the ones who will be running it. The DC austerity lobby really is just a lawsuit away from winning everything. Read more »

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