Timely Tidbits...

Here's a couple stories from the "500 lb. Gorilla" file (as in, they can do whatever they want because no one can stop them):

Rigorous Intuition: Money doesn't talk

"A bank identified only as being one of the largest and most prominent in New York has been caught allegedly funneling an estimated $3 billion in profits from drug deals and other illegal activities to Mideast terrorists, The New York Post reports. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, the paper says, plugged the profits pipeline as part of an ongoing investigation of suspected funds flowing through local banks."

The Post today discloses the identity of the "mystery bank." And guess who:

The Manhattan DA is pursuing a settlement with the Bank of America in a major money-laundering probe of more than $3 billion that flowed from Latin America through one of the bank's accounts to Mideast fanatics, sources said yesterday.

The bank will be permitted to settle, like Jonathan Bush's Riggs Bank, because to find such institutions complicit would mean the Apocalypse of All Safe Assumptions. It's why September 11th's insider trading scandal, once reported by Bloomberg as "the worst case ever," was made to dry up and blow away, and the data recovery project of "dirty doomsday dealings" made on World Trade Center computers disappeared into the belly of the beast it was intended to investigate."

Jeff and readers go on to offer a bit of speculation about the details....which is good, since after all someone has to....the professional media won't touch issues this big (the above-quoted stories were only reports of the after-effects of the "official" investigation, and not an independent investigation itself).

And speaking of stories-to-big-to-touch, today's Wayne Madsen Report is worth visiting (and once again I'll quote at length because his reports don't have permalinks):

"While the mainstream media has ignored the sex perverts who dominate the Bush administration, from senior White House officials to lower level political appointees in various federal agencies, WMR has repeatedly reported on what amounts to a "wink and nod" cabal of individuals who represent anything but the much-ballyhooed GOP "family values." It helps to explain how a male prostitute managed to gain access to White House press conferences.

Bush administration appointees have been keeping Maryland police particularly busy. A few weeks after White House domestic policy adviser Claude Allen was arrested for shoplifting from Target and Hecht's stores, Department of Homeland Security Brian Doyle, who worked overtime to justify his department's sky marshal's shooting an unarmed mentally disturbed airline passenger in the back at Miami International Airport, was arrested in his Silver Spring home on 23 counts relating to the solicitation of sex from an undercover Polk County detective posing as a 14-year old girl. In one of the photographs of himself that Doyle sent to the detective, his Department of Homeland Security security badge lanyard is clearly visible. Doyle also revealed to the detective that he worked at Homeland Security and provided his official office and cell phone numbers to her.

The news about Doyle broke after Clifton Bennett, the 19-year old son of Arizona's GOP Senate President Ken Bennett was charged with sodomizing 18 boys who were between the ages of 11 and 14 at an Arizona youth camp. Bennett and a friend were charged with sodomizing the youths with broom sticks and flashlights. WMR has previously reported that similar abuse of underage teens at Abu Ghraib was videotaped and the tapes were made available to senior White House staff for "entertainment" purposes. The Taguba report mentions that prisoners at Abu Ghraib were sodomized by glow sticks.

From WMR, Nov. 18, 2005:

There is good reason for the embarrassment of the Pentagon in the affair. The orders to take the sexually-oriented photos and videos, some of which involve teenage Iraqi boys and girls and sodomization by their guards, came directly from a pedophile and closeted male homosexual ring operating in the White House, according to the intelligence sources. Copies of the tapes and photos were sent directly to the White House for the entertainment of senior members of the Bush White House, including officials in the Vice President's office and the Executive Office of the President.

When the photos at Abu Ghraib became public, the senior military command structure in Iraq "went nuts," according to an individual who witnessed the cover-up of the affair. "They ordered an immediate policy of denial about details of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib," said the source. The source added that senior officers were disgusted that lower ranking guards were prosecuted and jailed when the order for the mistreatment came directly from the White House."

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WRT orchestration of Abu Ghraib abuse:

1) Pedophiles who victimize children are not and never, ever will be legitimate members of the gay community. When members of the National Man-Boy Love Association try to march in gay pride parades, they get rocks and bottles thrown at them. (Not that I especially care for gay pride parades. The showy shenanigans that go on at those events can be rather alarming.)

2) If this abuse was indeed systemically orchestrated with orders from the top, there is going to be huge, huge blowback from this. (Yes, I'm talking about retaliatory terrorism, and no, I'm not saying that's a good thing. It's a horrible and scary thing.) May the Immortal Spirit have mercy upon us all.