Bush’s top-secret Cayman Islands speech: ‘You’re welcome, America’
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2012/11/bushs-top-secret-cayman-islands-speech-youre-welcome-america.html/The last place I would expect elder statesman George W. Bush to show his face would be the Cayman Islands, home to some of the worlds most notorious and nefarious financial intrigue. After the 9/11 attacks, U.S. investigators focused on secret Cayman Islands accounts thought to be used by al-Qaeda operatives to funnel money to the hijackers. Right around that time, Enron was collapsing as various shell companies its top executives established in the Cayman Islands proved not to be the promising new business ventures that Enron investors were led to believe they were.
At the time, the founder and head of Enron was Kenneth Lay, a good friend of President Bush. They were so tight, Bush liked to call him Kenny.
When you want to hide what youre doing, the Cayman Islands is the place to go. Just ask Mitt Romney, who according to MSNBC invested up to $25 million in 12 Cayman Islands-registered funds. His old company, Bain Capital, has more than 138 investments in the Caymans and 40 secret offshore accounts.
This stuff really doesnt look good when youre running for president and youre trying to distance yourself from the worst aspects of the previous Republican administration, or when youve been president and youre trying to distance yourself from the worst aspects of your own administrations behavior: an obsession with secrecy, an obsession with breaking the law under the cloak of secrecy, an obsession with trampling on First Amendment rights, sweetheart treatment of old friends like Enron and Halliburton. The list goes on and on.
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)He found 8 Willard Romney Cayman accounts
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Elder?..Not really...At least not while Daddy still walks around....statesman??...Not in any rational persons wildest imagination....George W. Bush?...OK..I'll give him that much...
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)Well, I hope so, anyway.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)I think so too......Still,I was compelled to comment....
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Why is this cynical bull shit allowed to happen. I think the world has entered the Twilight Zone. We are truly neoslaves. This is the new technocratic way to control the populace. Religion is slowly losing it's grip as a controlling factor of the world masses so "in you face" flaunting of power, though forbidden to discuss, is taking hold. When I refer to ''slave" I don't mean a penniless person who digs ditches, though that happens. I'm referring to people like me who have an income and education and seem to be surviving but will never move beyond the pittance that is doled out to while the 1% keep the majority and make the laws that say it's ok for powerful people to torture, murder and allow the underlings of society to die because it's more economically feasible. I not talking about communism. I'm talking about equity.
Also, the everyday person is fed by the media, both journalistic and artistic, only the concepts and ideas that have been blessed by the powerful decision makers. It's not a conspiracy. It's a natural human mode called greed and lust for power.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)Thanks for the thread, deminks.