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From Karl Schwarz, November 26, 2005
We Do Not have Clean Hands in Afghanistan
To all members of the Email Update List,
A scant percentage of Americans know that ten days before President Kennedy was
assassinated, he made a speech at Columbia University, during which he made the
following statement:
"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to
destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the
citizen of this plight." -John Fitzgerald Kennedy May 29, 1917 -
November 22, 1963
I have given a lot of thought to those words, his assassination, and what he was
prevented from saying to America.
One of the things most noticeable to me since 1963 is how the Office of the
President of the United States has been used to create and push bogus policy on
bogus facts. History has shown that the Gulf of Tonkin incident that
escalated the Vietnam war was staged by the United States. I have repeatedly
seen this nation invent enemies or even arm enemies to create a war in the
future for massive defense spending initiatives. I have also seen them
implement policies based on lies just so the wealthy elite can make a lot of
money, stained with the blood of dead American soldiers. Yes, they also use
policy by gun point to steal what belongs to others and then hold themselves up
high as Great Americans when they are mere thieves.
One of the coming email updates will address how the past three presidential
administrations have undermined our national security by breaching every level
of common sense when transferring high technology to the People's Republic of
China.
Knowing what I know about Washington, D.C. (my office was there from 1989 to
1996), when I see our government act I look behind the scenes for what the real
motives were.
Afghanistan -- and why our President ordered our military to invade it -- is
just such a instance of bogus policy based on outright lies. I have been
following this matter since 1999, well before the attacks of 9-11, due to
someone I met in 1999. That person gave me information regarding a lawsuit in
Texas and I followed it because I have been concerned for many years about the
energy policies and foreign policies of this Republic. What you are about to
read below is not my word against George W. Bush; it is a matter of public
record in our U.S. Courts.
The military training for the invasion of Afghanistan started less then sixty
(60) days after Bush was sworn into office, and waiting only for 9-11 to happen
to justify the invasion. I also suspect that the drafting of the Patriot Act
and the formation of Homeland Security started at about the same time.
If I were in a position to appoint the Real 9-11 Commission, it would start
by investigating the four energy companies that have electrical plants in
Pakistan, all attendees of the Cheney Energy Task Force and the list of Foreign
and American names found by whistleblower Sibel D. Edmonds. In short, I
would see to it that the investigation started off with those that stood to
benefit the most by attacking Afghanistan and taking over that pipeline and the
list of names found by Sibel Edmonds to determine if they were the real
perpetrators of 9-11 to put such policies into action.
Our government has in the past, and is right
now, suppressing the truth across the board regarding a wide range of matters
that affect the lives of all of us. That stops when we as American citizens put
a stop to it.
One of the missions of American Patriot
Movement will be to remove the U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and conduct
a full investigation of 9-11 with a panel of ten qualified, disinterested
experts. Such a panel would also investigate the Cheney Energy Task Force
and every person who participated. That is a pretty bold move, but I
explain below why I would make it plus open up landmark investigations aimed
right at the heart of the problem.
It is my goal to find out the truth and present it to you. The major media
outlets-television, print, radio and even many websites- are withholding
information and entire stories that our current government does not want the
citizenry to know. I look at it this way: - if you or I can find trails and
answers, so can the major media outlets with their much finer investigative
apparatus and greater resources.
The inescapable conclusion is that
those media either do not look, or they know and do not tell. I have put many
in the media on notice and they ignore the facts; they look the other way and
refuse to put the truth before their American audience. It is also an
inescapable conclusion that the U.S. government has withheld this information as
well and for what I believe is cause to cover up
their crimes.
What you are about to read (if for the first
time) was not heard from the U.S. government or major media. It is time all
Americans stand up and demand straight answers to straight questions about the
conduct of certain people in this Republic.
In the email update of November 19th, I introduced you to a Neocon that I have
been watching for quite some time. In the email update of November 26th, I
introduced you to a chapter in Neoconned Again that exposes the writings of Mr.
Edward Luttwak. He is Jewish, ultra-conservative, a military advisor, and was
an advisor to Reagan. If you stop to ponder that George H.W. Bush,
Rumsfeld, Cheney and others were also involved in the Reagan Administration, the
dots start to connect.
I have been following a court case through the U.S. District Court, Southern
District of Texas since 1999 when I was first told about it by employees of the
corporation involved. Long before 9-11 happened, I was looking at this
corporation and the actions surrounding it, and everything I have found suggests
I was on the right trail. Even after I started making these matters publicly
known in my book One-Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas, executives of this
corporation approached me discreetly to advise that I was not only on the right
trail but the matter was even more complicated and serious than I knew. U.S.
government officials were engaged in activities they did not disclose to the
American public. Furthermore, those officials sought to hide information about
those activities.
Some of you may know that I sent a demand letter to George W. Bush for the
truth about seven hours before the first debate with John Kerry. You may not
know that I also sent that demand letter to DNC and the Kerry campaign
headquarters at the same time Bush received it at the White House. The
following is from that Demand Letter - available at the following link -
http://www.karlschwarz.com/letter.html
You would have to read that Demand Letter to appreciate that Kerry and DNC
just rolled over and were given the information to rip Bush to shreds.
Excerpts from the "Demand Letter" to Bush:
1. I demand as an American citizen that you lift the "gag order" on Sibel D.
Edmonds and let Americans know what foreign names and what AMERICAN NAMES
she uncovered in her FBI translations that were involved in drug trafficking,
money laundering and the financing of 9-11. Her facts and your"official
story" lies do not add up. Americans demand the truth on that matter before the
election.
2. I demand to know what energy companies were in that Cheney Energy Task
Force meeting and what discussions there were as to the steps that would be
taken to remove the Taliban and Bridas Corporation as the last remaining
obstacle to the United States controlling the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline. I met
that company in 1999 and have known since then about the Bridas v Unocal, $15
billion interference of contract lawsuit in US District Court, Southern District
of Texas. I also know about the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision on
September 9, 2003 that upheld the Bridas $500 million arbitration settlement and
the March 22, 2004 denial of Writ of Certiorari at the United States Supreme
Court, Case 03-1018, Turkmenneft v Bridas.
3. I demand to know how many prisoners are being held at GITMO and other
places that are either BRIDAS EMPLOYEES or are persons that know all about
Bridas Corporation and what your administration did to get control of that
Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.
When that letter was received, I got a "thank you" from federal
investigators that suddenly had all kinds of people freaking out and
contacting each other that this had surfaced. In sending that demand
letter, certain people made the mistake of sending emails, telephone calls or
scheduling meetings to discuss what they supposedly knew nothing about. In
time the truth will be known by all.
Our freedoms and civil liberties -- and effectively the power of
Constitutional checks and balances -- have been altered because of 9-11 and the
9-11 Commission that was suborned by the Bush Administration and Congress.
They have even covered up the Cheney Energy Task Force, in which I suspect
that it was discussed that the landlocked oil deals in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan
and Uzbekistan would not be landlocked much longer,
since Cheney and Bush intended to take control of the
Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, or TAP as it is called, with military force.
The TAP was under contract from Turkmenistan,
through Afghanistan, through Pakistan to the ocean with an Argentine oil company
named Bridas Corporation and its parent Bridas S.A.P.I.C. On September 9, 2003,
Bridas prevailed at the Fifth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals on a $500 million
interference of contract lawsuit. That lawsuit was then taken to the U.S.
Supreme Court and on March 22, 2004 the high court refused to hear the case or
consider reversing the Fifth Circuit decision. See US Supreme Court, case
03-1018, State Concern Turkmenneft v. Bridas S.A.P.I.C., et al.
http://conlaw.usatoday.findlaw.com/supreme_court/orders/2003/032204pzor.html
Bridas Corporation signed contracts with Turkmenistan in 1992 and 1993, long
before our oil companies were welcome in these former Soviet satellites.
Suddenly, after our presence started there, the Turkmenistan government issued
on order blocking Bridas from exporting the oil and gas they had found from
Turkmenistan. That was after Bridas had the foresight to start laying the
groundwork for the pipeline across Afghanistan to get that oil to markets around
the world. Bridas signed the agreement with the Taliban in 1996 and in 1997
a full court press was put on Pakistan and Afghanistan to get the deal into U.S.
hands. They cut off the north end of that pipeline (Turkmenistan) and then
the south end of that pipeline (Pakistan) and isolated the remaining element to
Afghanistan / Taliban / Bridas Corporation.
The Bush Administration does not want any American knowing the truth about
what happened in Afghanistan or that we breached a commercial contract with
military force to take over a deal that was denied to US oil companies, because
there was already a deal in place. Under the Clinton Administration they
upended the Pakistan government to cut off that part of the Bridas Corporation
deal. Under the Clinton Administration, they compelled Turkmenistan to breach
its agreements with Bridas, hence the judgment award of $500 million for
interference of contract. Clinton does not want you to know what actions
were taken under his administration, and there were many.
The only remaining obstacle on 9-11 was the remaining agreement between the
Taliban and Bridas Corporation. The Bush Administration, Congress, many in
our major media, and even the 9-11 Commission and Cheney Energy Task Force all
know about Bridas Corporation because that Argentine oil and gas company was
standing in the way of our US oil companies and UK oil companies. The
Caspian Basin oil is landlocked and there are only so many ways to get that oil
out of the ground, to the ocean ports and into your gas tanks or home heating
oil tanks.
There is the direct route from Turkmenistan across Iran to the ocean, but that
is not politically popular since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran many years
ago. There is: 1.) the route across the Caspian Sea westward, which is
extremely costly; and through Azerbaijan through Turkey to the Mediterranean;
and 2.) from Turkmenistan through Georgia to the Black Sea; and 3.) through the
Ukraine to Europe; and 4.) the Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan to
the ocean.
Until one of those solutions was in place, the holes being drilled into the
ground by British Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon and others could not go anywhere and
could not produce revenues for those companies. A route northward through
Russia would put US oil companies at risk to changes in Russian politics and the
Eastward route through China was not deemed secure enough since China is soon to
become the second largest user of petroleum in the world after the United
States.
In short, the people that were in the Cheney
Energy Task Force were the same people that stood to gain if we attacked
Afghanistan and took the deal away from the Taliban and Bridas Corporation.
They had spent years getting the deals, invested billions into drilling and
could not turn a dollar of cash flow or profits until that pipeline was under US
control. That is Economics 101 and when one considers that there is over $12
trillion in oil at stake and over $3 trillion in natural gas, that also might be
Prime Motive Number 1 for 9-11.
They probably could have joint ventured that
pipeline with Bridas, but then Argentina would have been raking in billions in
hard cash and not hanging on for dear life as they are now.
[Economic tyranny by IMF banksters has been punishing
Argentina every since. -CR]
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security
advisor to Carter and Foreign Intelligence advisor to Reagan even wrote a book
titled The Grand Chessboard , American Primacy and It's Geostrategic Imperatives
about the grand adventure to take over the
Caspian Basin and its mother lode of oil and natural gas.
In case you are wondering, Mr. Brzezinski, as well as John Sununu, Nicholas
Brady, James Baker, III and many other former Reagan and Bush I Administration
people are also involved and have been for years. See:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard
If you are like me, you see no "geostrategic imperative" about sending your
sons or daughters, wife or husband, off to some far away place just so a few
elite insiders can make billions in oil in a deal they have conspired to take
over for at least the past three presidential administrations.
That is exactly what they have done and exactly
why they suppressed the investigations into 9-11 and the Cheney Energy Task
Force.
Consider for a moment Condoleezza Rice, who
used to sit on the Chevron Board of Directors at that exact time that Chevron
made the decision to invest billions into oil and gas production in the Caspian
Basin and without any way in sight to get that oil to ocean ports. You
cannot convince me that Ms. Rice was unaware of Bridas Corporation and that they
had beat US and UK oil companies to the punch way back in 1992 and 1993 when
they starting signing oil and gas deals with the Turkmenistan government.
You cannot convince me that Ms Rice was not completely aware of the geostrategic
imperative of that oil pipeline across Afghanistan.
If I had been a 9-11 Commission member, Ms. Rice would still be answering
questions. I have many serious questions for her, and I am sure qualified,
disinterested investigators would grill her, too.
The law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw was the firm that kept Bridas tied up
in court at Fifth Circuit and at the U.S. Supreme Court. Senior partner of that
law firm, while these lawsuits were in progress, is Richard Ben Veniste, 9-11
Commission member. He put on quite a show at the 9-11 Commission while his law
firm kept Bridas tied up in court and not a word said that someone else had
beaten the US and our oil companies to the contracts. This is the same law
firm that helped Andy Fastow at Enron set up all of those bogus offshore SPE
[Special Purpose Entity] that were "special" just to steal from investors.
Details at
http://www.mayerbrown.com/news/index.asp?page=12&archive=Y&nid
The Republic is now led by a dishonest government that will tell any lie
to carry out any objective where it involves
money, greed and power. They
care not at all what they do in our name or what they do to undermine our
freedoms and what this nation has always stood for.
I have given much consideration to the steps
necessary to remedy this situation. Here are but a few:
1.Removal of all troops from Iraq, possible relocation of those armored
divisions to Palestine; and
2. A series of Executive Orders that would shred the veils that this government
hides behind. All investigations would be thrown wide open to public view, and
all persons that deserve to be prosecuted would be prosecuted; and
3. Dismantling and re-defining of the Patriot Act so that it focuses on the
problems, and not be used as a tool to undermine the Constitution and our
freedoms; and
4. Fiscal sanity would start by reigning in the wasteful spending and the
National Debt curve would start heading the other way; and
5. Possible price controls and definite investigation, prosecution of market
manipulations; and
6. Barring of AIPAC from Capitol Hill due to them being a foreign lobbyist that
is decidedly pro-Israel; and
7. Deregulation and breaking up the media monopolies and other monopolies that
threaten this nation and the wellbeing of each and every one of us. None of
us can make good decisions in a vacuum or when lies are being spoon fed to us as
the news.
8. Appointment of a 9-11 Commission that would cut through the D.C. nonsense and
get to the bottom of who to prosecute for the crime of 9-11 against this nation
with possible charges filed against the past 9-11 Commission members on a wide
range of legal issues.
Those would just be for starters to commence the clean up in D.C.
The State of California, liberal bastion that it is, should support me for one
simple reason. I would force the 21 energy companies that plundered the rate
payers of California to reimburse that $5.5 to $7.5 billion they stole and
Bush did nothing about it but dole out miniscule fines compared to the crime.
That some of those 21 firms are involved in the
big Caspian Basin oil deals is something that deserves a full investigation
regarding the light nature of their fines.
These are the same firms that sat in on the Cheney Energy Task Force that the
Bush Administration does not want anyone to look into.
I would also have the executives of four energy companies that were involved in
this fleecing of California called before a legitimate 9-11 Commission for one
very simple reason. They have electrical power generation plants in Pakistan
and we would get to the bottom of who (what company or what name) was talking to
them about cheap natural gas supplies after the Taliban and Bridas Corporation
had been eliminated from the picture.
I would wager that the name of that person is not Osama bin Laden. I would
also wager that the person or company knew all about 9-11 coming.
Neither the Bush administration nor the Clinton Administration wants Americans
to know about Bridas Corporation or that it had signed major oil and gas
development agreements with Turkmenistan as early as 1992 and 1993. Bridas
then signed agreements with Pakistan and Afghanistan because the
Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline is one of only a few routes to get the landlocked
Caspian Basin oil to the ocean and distributed around the world. The folks at
Bridas Corporation are not stupid. They knew full well that they needed a
pipeline to the ocean to get their part of the oil and gas out to the world
markets.
As mentioned earlier, one of the other routes is through the former Russian
state of Georgia. The leader of that nation, Georgian prime minister Zurab
Zhvania decided he was against the oil pipelines coming through his nation and
he wound up assassinated shortly after he made that fateful decision. Our
press painted the picture that he was killed due to his coziness with the
"West", but the fact is he was against our pipelines coming through Georgia.
You do the math.
Details at
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/92/371/15532_zhvania.html
Both the Bush and Clinton Administrations do not want Americans to know that
Bridas was interfered with in Turkmenistan and Pakistan to isolate both the
Taliban and Bridas Corporation regarding the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, a
pipeline that we now control through use of military force in Afghanistan.
This raises serious questions about our true motives in attacking Afghanistan
following 9-11.
We deserve to know why the Bush Administration does not want Americans to
know that Bridas Corporation and their parent Bridas SAPIC, prevailed in our
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding interference of contract in
Turkmenistan. That decision was handed down from a US Court on September 9,
2003, while the 9-11 Commission and Bush Administration were in cover up mode on
9-11. Bridas SAPIC v. Government of Turkmenistan, et al., No, 02-20929, 5th
Cir The original lawsuit in Texas was Bridas S.A.P.I.C., Bridas Corporation v.
Unocal, Turkmenneft, et al and was a $9 billion interference of contract
lawsuit.
http://www.asil.org/ilib/ilib0620.htm
We deserve to know why the Bush Administration does not want Americans to
know about the U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down on March 22, 2004, while
the 9-11 Commission was still playing "Where's Waldo?" that the High Court
denied the Writ of Certiorari and let the Fifth Circuit decision stand. Case
Number 03-1018, Turkmenneft v Bridas S.A.P.I.C. See Certiorari Denied at this
link:
http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/orders/2003/032204pzor.html
You did not hear of this from Bush, Congress or the 9-11 Commission, and
it is time you started asking why you did not hear about this from them.
You did not hear about this from the New York Times, Washington Post,
Washington Times, CNN or FOXNews, but it is about time you started asking why
you did not hear about this from them. It is time for Americans from every
state start demanding to know why their Senators and US House representatives
have been mum on this matter of what was in Afghanistan that we now control by
use of military force.
How much oil is in the Caspian Basin? More than 200 billion barrels, a
thirty-year supply and worth over $12 trillion dollars and climbing every time
they increase the price of oil. For every day of 30 years, that is just shy of
10 supertankers full of 2 million barrels of oil. That is right - 10
supertankers a day for every day the next 30 years. That is the single biggest
"motive" for any crime I have ever seen and was the probable reason that 9-11
was engineered so certain parties could take over that pipeline and that
colossal oil and gas deal.
How much natural gas? Reportedly as much as 12 trillion cubic meters, or
about $3 trillion worth of natural gas on top of the vast oil reserves.
It is not my word against Bush and Clinton. The historical facts and U.S.
court records say all that needs to be said about the possible taint on our real
motives of heading towards Afghanistan. If our government's motives for
invading Afghanistan were a lie, just like Iraq has been, the matter needs to be
looked into and charges brought against certain people. Just consider that
Afghanistan and our actions there are directly tied to 9-11. I have met very few
people that think the 9-11 Commission was doing its job rather than covering it
up.
Did you know about Bridas Corporation? Did you know about Mr. Ben Veniste's law
firm being involved the Caspian Basin and keeping Bridas Corporation tied up in
the court case while he was sitting on the 9-11 Commission?
These 9-11 Commissioners all have vested financial reasons directly and
indirectly to see 9-11 covered up as it was:
Republicans:
Thomas Keane, 9-11 Commission chairman and Amerada Hess -- tied to Big Oil
and major deals in the Caspian Basin region. Several Saudi oil companies
are involved and Amerada Hess is in bed with at least one of them Delta Oil of
Saudi Arabia. Delta Oil was one of the parties after the Afghanistan pipeline.
Fred Thompson, former Rep governor of Illinois -- sits on the board of FMC
and the oil equipment subsidiary doing well in the Caspian Basin.
Afghanistan pipeline needed to get that landlocked oil and natural gas to the
oceans and huge amounts of drilling is in progress.
John F. Lehman, John F. Lehman & Company, Rep, former Secretary of the Navy --
now a private equity firm directly involved in Big Defense, known Neocon.
Fred Fielding, Rep, served on Bush transition team. Also sits on a board with
Diane Allbaugh, oil industry lobbyist and wife of Joe Allbaugh, Bush Cheney
2000 campaign manager. Mr. Allbaugh was appointed head of FEMA and shortly
before the Iraq Invasion in 2003 left to set up NewBridge Strategies, LLC, a
consultant in getting into the big money Iraq Reconstruction projects.
NewBridge Strategies, LLC is directly connected to the following well known and
not so well known Republican entities.
http://www.newbridgestrategies.com/bios.asp
Joe M. Allbaugh, Chairman and Director Joe M. Allbaugh -- CEO of The
Allbaugh Company, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based corporate strategy and counsel
firm. A native of Oklahoma, Joe served as the Director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) under President George Bush until March 2003. Prior to
moving to Washington, D.C., he was Chief of Staff to then-Governor Bush of
Texas and was the National Campaign Manager for the Bush-Cheney 2000
presidential campaign.
Ed Rogers, Vice Chairman and Director Ed Rogers is Vice Chairman of Barbour
Griffith & Rogers, Inc.-- the firm he founded with Haley Barbour in 1991. From
January of 1989 until August of 1991, Ed served as the Deputy Assistant to
the President of the United States and Executive Assistant to the White
House Chief of Staff. Additionally, Ed was the Senior Deputy to Bush-Quayle
Campaign Manager Lee Atwater, from February of 1987, through the general
election in 1988. Ed also worked in the White House Office of Political
Affairs during the Reagan Administration.
Jamal Daniel, Advisory Board Member Jamal Daniel -- a Principal with Crest
Investment Company, which invests in a wide-range of business ventures and is
based in Houston. Prior to his work with Crest Investment, Jamal was a Director
of the Uniteg Investment Company, Inc., providing U.S. and international
investors with comprehensive real estate services ranging from acquisition and
construction to financing and sales. Additionally, Jamal has extensive
experience in structuring investing in energy and oil and gas projects
throughout the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.
For those of you who do not know this yet, Crest Investments is where
Neal Bush acts as an advisor for $60,000 a year for about 3-4 hours of work a
week. It is this "hogs at the feed trough" matter I addressed
in a prior email.
Democrats:
Richard Ben Veniste, senior partner Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. Formerly was
the lead counsel for Enron and all of those fraudulent offshore entities set up
by Andy Fastow, and Mayer Brown used to share an office with Enron in
Uzbekistan. Now Enron is Primus Energy, Cayman Islands, all former Enron
International and former Halliburton people as management. Mayer Brown also
kept Bridas tied up in court prior to, during and following 9-11, and while the
9-11 Commission was conducting a mock investigation. The name Bridas
Corporation never came up publicly in any Congressional hearings or the 9-11
Commission.
Jamie Gorelick, sits on the board of Schlumberger -- firm is raking in record
profits from Caspian Basin business.
Tim Roemer, has taken political donations for years while in Congress from
Carlyle Group (Big Defense), Chevron (Big Oil and heavily involved in the
Caspian Basin and Condoleezza Rice as former Chevron board member), and Van
Scoyoc & Associates, major foreign lobbyist for Big Defense and Big Oil.
Any way you cut it, a 7 to 3 majority by people who have
direct conflicts of interests
is still a majority on the 9-11 Commission and makes it easy to cover up what
really happened.
For those Americans that think Clinton - Gore had nothing to do with the lead up
to invading Afghanistan over a pipeline we could not otherwise get control of,
take a look at what Max Boot, senior fellow Council for Foreign Relations had
to say in an interview with the Christian Science Monitor: The Neocons tried
for years to get Clinton to act and felt they could get Gore to act in the event
he won in 2000.