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Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Impeaches President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sets forth articles of impeachment stating that President Bush, in violation of his oath of office:
(1) illegally spent public dollars on a secret propaganda program to manufact... moreSee Full Bill Text
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What is it with a Congress that won't do their fair share of the work when it comes to holding criminals, such as President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney, responsible for their wrongdoings? Wrongdoings that put all of us at risk right now and for generations to come. Thank goodness for Representative Dennis Kucinich for standing up to Bush Crime Family and doing the right thing. Moreover, thank you Representatives Wexler, Lee, and Woolsey for standing by Dennis' side. History will shine brightly upon all of you for your good deeds towards this Country and the Constitution it is supposed to be based upon. On the other hand, shame on all you non-Representatives who stand in the way of justice and try to block the impeachment process -- thereby putting all of us in harms way. History will most certainly be unkind to you.
Look, What all of this boils down to is that we need to get off the pot and start doing what is needed to bring this country back from the grave.
The current Administration led by President Bush has the worst record to date of any other administration. Need we also be reminded that other Presidents have been impeached or censored for less than what President Bush and V.P. Cheney have done?
We need to bring the voice and power of government back to the people of the United States of America and not to the Elite who have $1billion or more to become President.
Please bring government back to the people. We left the monarchy behind: lets not create a new one.
Well, that's a great idea. Got any ideas on how to accomplish this?
The opposing attitude seems to be that the wrongs are "past", like spilt milk, but they could say the same of any murder. Would they ever prosecute a murderer, and why? Any wrong the murderer ever did is in the past, it's over, it's "spilt milk".
I accidentally came across your posting today, several months after the resolution was introduced. I didn't know about the resolution as the mainstream media didn't report it. Last week I sent comments to yours to the executive editor of our local newspaper (circulation is 200,000+) asking why there's no reporting about the impeachment resolution. His response was that all that was wrong happened in the past, nothing can be done about it now, and he preferred to look forward. I countered that the entire judicial system is about dealing with the past, so should we abolish the judicial system. He was obviously annoyed and replied, "I don't know where you're coming from to make such a leap of logic."
I meant to say, "... I sent comments SIMILAR to yours to the executive editor..."
What a waste of time and tax payer dollars. Anyone that thinks the President or Vice President is guilty of any crime is ignorant.
Do you spend all of are tax money in this state or do you just let it all go to other countrys?
Is this why Michigan is in the shape it is in?
and what do you think WE should do to stop this kind of treatment?
And on that note! If you have a reallized Idea of A Electric motor that could save and even the ather countrys have not thought of doing it the way I have, then why can't I get the help I have been looking for, I am not whining
I am looking foe ancers, not the runnaround, you know I told you in a e-mail to you and athers in YOUR feild and still you and all just give me the runnaround!
So just how can the People of this country help save this mess WE are all in if you stop people like me from even trying, is it just becouse I'm disabled or is it becouse the person that I did get to work with me Took my Idea out of this Country to ask his first cousen about it and he works and gets paid the same way you do! You should know that I have been trying to work since I got hurt and been blocked by every thing and it has never been on my part 9 year's and counting what the heck! is this Government doing to this country? the thing is what are you going to do to fix it so people like the Oil KING and his Buddys will not finnish us of like the past 8 years or should I just take my Idea to my Greave or this, just like the top , not me USA all the way, not NISSAN | Super Motor, Thay Still do not know what I do , My Idea is better than this becouse, There's still needs Battery's or a gas motor to run it I am
talking about running Big rigs as well as cars trucks SUV's
but still not getting the help I will need to make it happen her in the USA! Can you help me ! Please! 4 your Country! call me at 1-269-236-5019 Ask for Glen White to have a meeting or gkdaw_usa@msn.com Just becouse I am Disabled dose not mean I am not Bright.
or I'm being BUSH-Wacked again U.S.A. Or
NOT
or this ! Could Die with me ! you are not only Killing me but you are Killing my COUNTRY!
I think we are further from American Independents than We
>> were
>> from the start !
>> It started out to be U.S. verses British Rule and now it is the United
>> States of America Verses The rule of OIL but are we fighting to help the
>> rule of Oil or are WE fighting to brake away from Oil it is all the to be
>> looked at but we are on the wrong side at this time in history
>> of true Independents we have the technologies to brake away from the
>> RULER
>> of Oil but our Leader in not for Independents he is for the Rule of OIL
>> and
>> the Rule of Oil is not IN this Country so the Ruler
>> is not in this country and so the people of this country is too suffer
>> the
>> poor to suffer the most of all because the ruler of Oil has sent job's
>> away
>> so the people would have more to complain about and still not
>> really do a thing to fix this mess , the Rule has taken away all your
>> Rights
>> from are True INDEPENDENTS to try to replace it with the rule of Oil ,
>> and
>> not to use the TECHNOLOGIES of yesterday to bring it to the Future, so by
>> doing so we are not so Independent as WE should be. I can not stand it, I
>> could be thronging names or Businesses names but most people know the
>> truth
>> and it is just a mater of time when the people of this country start
>> dying
>> for this U.S.A. country agian !
>> Electric could be are NEW INDEPENDENTS! FROM THE RULER OF OIL! Happy
>> Independents Day America!
>>
>> I am so addicted to Oil but can not find the OIL RE-HAB LAB? I
>> hate Oil!
>>
>> I herd about anther energy it is called Electric and it make's electrons
>> how
>> cool is that! if you can cool it ?? I think, you can, I even past on my
>> thought's too be a good AMERICAN and FORD ran out of the country. and
>> G.M.
>> did it here what I said?
>>
>> Time for Dare you to get off oil, time to get Terrorisms out of your
>> Government terrorism, YOUR money is paying for the criminal acts against
>> American's
>> that are killing yes, you & me!
>>>> As the politicians and pundits scream for the blood of all those who
>>>> harbor, finance or support terrorism - do not mistake the fact that
>>>> YOUR
>>>> money paid for the criminal acts More & MORE know this is the truth!
>>>> this? IMPEACH !, or it could hurt your
>> young it is hurting them today but tomorrow? It will destroy them!
>>
>>>> Just too many people see this too ? it is really hard too think this
>>>> but,
>> all about Finding the link with Hitler & the Bush's there is just to
>> much to just stop,
>> to help to save WE THE PEOPLE! ,well ,If my grandfather was a
>> cunning
>> criminal I
>>>> would like to get even to . But my grandfather was a good man not a
>>>> Bush
>>>> trying to get
>>>> even with U.S.! well you should look out that the USA dose not get even
>>>> with you BUSH.?!
>>>> (BUSH & OIL)
>>>> To gain control first they create a problem then they provide the
>>>> solution. One way or another the solution always results in more loss
>>>> of
>>>> freedom for USA and more power for them.
>>>>
>>>> As the politicians and pundits (THE FOULS) and some still do not see or
>>>> will not see, and still scream for the blood of all those who
>>>> harbor, finance or support terrorism and it is them that are still
>>>> FOULS
>>>> the REPUBLICANOT'S - do not mistake the fact that,
>> YOUR money paid for the criminal acts How's that working' out for
>> ya?
>> Don't get squeamish on me.
>> If it weren't true, It would not be such a big thing with them! and
>> I
>> wouldn't say it. George W. Bush and the OIL elite know it, and
>>>> the entire Intelligence establishment of the United States government
>>>> knows it. some have come out of the wood work and are very afraid
>> So Why is this the most important untold story in the world today?
>> The mainstream media and your government representatives are
>> complicit
>> in the mass-murder committed in the attacks that took place all over this
>> World
>>>> They are guilty of harboring and giving aid and comfort to the
>>>> perpetrators U.S. and of It's institutions only some are responsible
>>>> for
>>>> the carnage.
>> The mainstream media needed to put a stop to the NON-EXISTENT
>> "homegrown terrorism" threat. and admission of accountability for the
>> crime's The Ruler has put in are Path .! & ?
>>>>
>>>> Hebrews 13:7
>>>> Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you
>>>> the
>>>> word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their
>>>> conversation.
>>>>
>>>> Revelation 9:11
>>>> And they had a King over them. which is the angel of the bottomless
>>>> pit. Those name in the Hebrew tongue is A-bad' don, but in the Greek
>>>> tongue
>>>> hath his name A-pol'ly-on.
>>>> America is waving the flag for unity while REPUBLICANOT'S beating the
>>>> drums of war.
>>>> America is claiming that "Freedom" But, Freedom was dead and buried
>>>> long
>>>> before September 11th, and the war that the ignorant masses seek will
>>>> be
>>>> more horrible than they can even imagine.
>> At the end of all of this, we will have a One-World Government, a
>> Global Apostate Religion and we will join these two abominations with
>> the
>> Global finance system that already controls the money system of the
>> world.
>> You will be forced to take a "mark", without which you will not buy or
>> sell.
>> You will wave your flag and beat your drums in the Globo-fascist world
>> that
>> you have helped to create.
>> And you will bow your knee to Caesar, or you will lose your head for your
>> trouble. and If you would like a good read on how it worked out last time
>> then just you read this too.
>>
>> ( Day-ja-vo)
>> George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton
>> Chaitkin
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapter
>> - II - The Hitler Project>>>> Bush Property Seized--Trading with the
>> Enemy>>>> In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II,
>> America was>> preparing its first assault against Nazi military forces.
>> Prescott Bush>> was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His
>> 18-year-old son>> George, the future U.S. President, had just begun
>> training to become a>> naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government
>> ordered the seizure of>> Nazi German banking operations in New York City
>> which were being>>conducted by Prescott Bush.>>>> Under the Trading with
>> the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union>> Banking Corporation,
>> in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien>> Property Custodian seized
>> Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares, all of>> which were owned by Prescott
>> Bush, E. Roland `` Bunny'' Harriman, three>> Nazi executives, and two
>> other associates ofBush.@s1>>>> The order seizing the bank `` vests ''
>> (seizes) `` all of the capital>> stock of Union Banking Corporation, a
>> New York corporation, '' and names>> the holders of its shares as:>>>> ``
>> E. Roland Harriman--3991 shares''>> [chairman and director of Union
>> Banking Corp. (UBC); this is `` Bunny''>> Harriman, described by Prescott
>> Bush as a place holder who didn't get>>much into banking affairs;
>> Prescott managed his personal investments]>>>> ``Cornelis Lievense--4
>> shares ''>> [president and director of UBC; New York resident banking
>> functionary for>> the Nazis]>>>> `` Harold D. Pennington--1share ''>>
>> [treasurer and director of UBC; an office manager employed by Bush at>>
>> Brown Brothers Harriman]>>>> `` Ray Morris--1 share ''>>>>[director of
>> UBC; partner of Bush and the Harrimans]>>>> `` Prescott S.Bush--1 share
>> ''>> [director of UBC, which was co-founded and sponsored by his
>> father-in-law>> George Walker; senior managing partner for E. Roland
>> Harriman and Averell>> Harriman]>>>> `` H.J. Kouwenhoven--1 share
>> ''>>[director of UBC; organized UBC as the emissary of Fritz Thyssen
>> in>>negotiations with George Walker and Averell Harriman; managing
>> director>> ofUBC's Netherlands affiliate under Nazi occupation;
>> industrial>> executive inNazi Germany; director and chief foreign
>> financial executive>> of the GermanSteel Trust]>>>> `` Johann G.
>> Groeninger--1 share ''>> [director of UBC andof its Netherlands
>> affiliate; industrial executive>> in Nazi Germany]>>>> ``all of which
>> shares are held for the benefit of ... members of the>> Thyssenfamily,
>> [and] is property of nationals ... of a designated enemy>>country....
>> ''>>>> By Oct. 26, 1942, U.S. troops were under way for NorthAfrica. On
>> Oct.>> 28, the government issued orders seizing two Nazi
>> frontorganizations run>> by the Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American
>> TradingCorporation and>> the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation.@s2>>>>
>> U.S.forces landed under fire near Algiers on Nov. 8, 1942; heavy combat>>
>> raged throughout November. Nazi interests in the Silesian-American>>
>> Corporation, long managed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law George>>
>> Herbert Walker, were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act on
>> Nov.>> 17, 1942. In this action, the government announced that it was
>> seizing>> only the Nazi interests, leaving the Nazis' U.S. partners to
>> carry on the>>business.@s3>>>> These and other actions taken by the U.S.
>> government in wartime were,>> tragically, too little and too late.
>> President Bush's family had already>> played a central role in financing
>> and arming Adolf Hitler for his>> takeover of Germany; in financing and
>> managing the buildup of Nazi war>> industries for the conquest of Europe
>> and war against the U.S.A.; and in>> the development of Nazi genocide
>> theories and racial propaganda, with>>their well-known results.>>>> The
>> facts presented here must be known, and their implications reflected>>
>> upon, for a proper understanding of President George Herbert Walker
>> Bush>> and of the danger to mankind that here presents. The President's
>> family>> fortune was largely a result of the Hitler project. The
>> powerful>> Anglo-American family associations, which later boosted him
>> into the>> Central Intelligence Agency and up to the Whitehouse, were his
>> father's>> partners in the Hitler project.>>>> President Franklin
>> Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley,>> signed Vesting
>> Order Number 248 seizing the property of Prescott Bush>> under the
>> Trading with the Enemy Act. The order, published in obscure>> government
>> record books and kept out of the news,@s4 explained nothing>> about the
>> Nazis involved; only that the Union Banking Corporation was run>> for the
>> ``Thyssen family '' of `` Germany and/or Hungary ''--``>> nationals ...
>> of designated enemy country. ''>>>> By deciding that Prescott Bush and
>> the other directors of the Union>> Banking Corp. were legally front men
>> for the Nazis, the government>> avoided the more important historical
>> issue: In what way were Hitler's>> Nazis themselves hired, armed and
>> instructed by the New York and London>> clique of which Prescott Bush was
>> an executive manager? Let us examine>> the Harriman-Bush Hitler project
>> from the 1920s until it was partially>> broken up, to seek an answer for
>> that question.>>>> Origin and Extent of the Project>>>> Fritz Thyssen and
>> his business partners are universally recognized as the>> most important
>> German financiers of Adolf Hitler's takeover of Germany.>> At the time of
>> the order seizing the Thyssenfamily' S Union Banking>> Corp., Mr. Fritz
>> Thyssen had already published his famous book, I Paid>> Hitler,@s5
>> admitting that he had financed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi>> movement since
>> October 1923. Thyssen's role as the leading early backer>> of Hitler's
>> grab for power in Germany had been noted by U.S.diplomats in>> Berlin in
>> 1932.@s6 The order seizing the Bush-Thyssen bank was curiously>> quiet
>> and modest about the identity of the perpetrators who had been>>
>> nailed.>>>> But two weeks before the official order, government
>> investigators had>> reported secretly that `` W. Averell Harriman was in
>> Europe sometime>> prior to 1924 and at that time became acquainted with
>> Fritz Thyssen, the>> German industrialist. '' Harriman and Thyssen agreed
>> toset up a bank for>> Thyssen in New York. `` [C]ertain of [Harriman's]
>> associates would serve>> as directors.... '' Thyssen agent `` H. J.
>> Kouwenhoven ... came to the>> United States ... prior to 1924 for
>> conferences with the Harriman Company>> in this connection....
>> ''@s7>>>>When exactly was `` Harriman in Europe sometime prior to 1924
>> ''? In>> fact, he was in Berlin in 1922 to set up the Berlin branch of
>> W.A.>> Harriman &Co. under George Walker's presidency.>>>> The Union
>> Banking Corporation was established formally in 1924, as a unit>> in the
>> Manhattan offices of W.A.Harriman & Co., interlocking with the>>
>> Thyssen-owned Bank voor Handel enScheepvaart (BHS) in the Netherlands.>>
>> The investigators concluded that ``the Union Banking Corporation has>>
>> since its inception handled funds chiefly supplied to it through the>>
>> Dutch bank by the Thyssen interests for American investment. ''>>>> Thus
>> by personal agreement between AverellHarriman and Fritz Thyssen in>>
>> 1922, W.A. Harriman & Co. (alias Union Banking Corporation) would be>>
>> transferring funds back and forth between New York and the `` Thyssen>>
>> interests '' in Germany. By putting up about$400,000, the Harriman>>
>> organization would be joint owner and manager of Thyssen's banking>>
>> operations outside of Germany.>>>> How important was the Nazi enterprise
>> for which President Bush's father>> was the New York banker?>>>> The 1942
>> U.S. government investigative report said that Bush's Nazi-front>> bank
>> was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte Stahlwerke(United>> Steel
>> Works Corporation or German Steel Trust) led by FritzThyssen and>> his
>> two brothers. After the war, Congressional investigators probed the>>
>> Thyssen interests, Union Banking Corp. and related Nazi units. The>>
>> investigation showed that the Vereinigte Stahlwerke had produced
>> the>>following approximate proportions of total German national
>> output:>>>> 50.8%of Nazi Germany's pig iron>> 41.4% of Nazi Germany's
>> universal plate>> 36.0%of Nazi Germany's heavy plate>> 38.5% of Nazi
>> Germany's galvanized sheet>>45.5% of Nazi Germany's pipes and tubes>>
>> 22.1% of Nazi Germany's wire>>35.0% of Nazi Germany's explosives.@s8>>>>
>> Prescott Bush became vice-president of W.A. Harriman & Co. in 1926.
>> That>> same year, a friend of Harriman and Bush set up a giant new
>> organization>> for their client FritzThyssen, prime sponsor of politician
>> Adolf Hitler.>> The new German Steel Trust, Germany's largest industrial
>> corporation, was>> organized in 1926 by Wall Street banker Clarence
>> Dillon. Dillon was the>> old comrade of Prescott Bush's father Sam Bush
>> from the `` Merchants of>> Death '' bureau in World War I.>>>> In return
>> for putting up $70 million to create his organization, majority>> owner
>> Thyssen gave the Dillon Read company two or more representatives on>> the
>> board of the new Steel Trust.@s9>>>> Thus there Is a division of labor:
>> Thyssen's own confidential accounts,>> for political and related
>> purposes, were run through the Walker-Bush>> organization; the German
>> Steel Trust did its corporate banking through>> Dillon Read.>>>> The
>> Walker-Bush firm's banking activities were not just politically>> neutral
>> money-making ventures which happened to coincide with the aims of>>
>> German Nazis. All of the firm's European business in those days was>>
>> organized around anti-democratic political forces.>>>> In 1927, criticism
>> of their support for totalitarianism drew this retort>> from Bert Walker,
>> written from Kennebunkport to Averell Harriman: `` It>> seems to me that
>> the suggestion in connection with Lord Bearsted's views>> that we
>> withdraw from Russia smacks somewhat of the impertinent.... I>> think
>> that we have drawn our line and should hew to it. ''@s1@s0>>>> Averell
>> Harriman met with Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini. A>>
>> representative of the firm subsequently telegraphed good news back to
>> his>> chief executive Bert Walker: `` ... During these last days ...
>> Mussolini>> ... has examined and approved our c[o]ntract 15 June.
>> ''@s1@s1>>>> The great financial collapse of 1929-31 shook America,
>> Germany and>> Britain, weakening all governments. It also made the
>> hard-pressed>> Prescott Bush even more willing to do whatever was
>> necessary to retain>> his new place in the world. It was in this crisis
>> that certain>> Anglo-Americans determined on the installation oaf Hitler
>> regime in>> Germany.>>>> W.A. Harriman & Co., well-positioned forth's
>> enterprise and rich in>> assets from their German and Russian business,
>> merged with the>> British-American investment house, Brown Brothers, on
>> January 1, 1931.>> Bert Walker retired to his own G.H. Walker & Co. This
>> left the Harriman>> brothers, Prescott Bush and Thatcher M. Brown as the
>> senior partners of>> the new Brown Brothers Harriman firm. (The London,
>> England branch of the>> Brown family firm continued operating under its
>> historic name--Brown,>> Shipley.)>>>> Robert A. Lovett also came over as
>> partner from Brown Brothers. His>> father, E.H. Harriman's lawyer and
>> railroad chief, had been on the War>> Industries Board with Prescott's
>> father. Though he remained a partner in>> Brown Brothers Harriman, the
>> junior Lovett soon replaced his father as>> chief executive of Union
>> Pacific Railroad.>>>> Brown Brothers had a racial tradition that fitted
>> it well forth Hitler>> project! American patriots had cursed its name
>> back in U.S.Civil War>> days. Brown Brothers, with offices in the U.S.A.
>> and in England, had>> carried on their ships fully 75 percent of the
>> slave cotton from the>>American South over to British mill owners. Now in
>> 1931, the virtual>>dictator of world finance, Bank of England Governor
>> Montagu Collet>> Norman, was a former Brown Brothers partner, whose
>> grandfather had been>> boss of Brown Brothers during the U.S. Civil War.
>> Montagu Norman was>> known as the most avid of Hitler's supporters within
>> British ruling>> circles, and Norman's intimacy with this firm was
>> essential to his>> management of the Hitler project.>>>> In 1931, while
>> Prescott Bush ran the New York office of Brown Brothers>> Harriman,
>> Prescott's partner was Montagu Norman's intimate friend>> Thatcher Brown.
>> The Bank of England chief always stayed at the home of>> Prescott's
>> partner on his hush-hush trips to New York. Prescott Bush>>concentrated
>> on the firm's German activities, and Thatcher Brown saw to>>their
>> business in old England, under the guidance of his mentor
>> Montagu>>Norman.@s1@s2>>>> Hitler's Ladder to Power>>>> Adolf Hitler
>> became Chancellor of Germany January 30, 1933, and absolute>> dictator in
>> March1933, after two years of expensive and violent lobbying>> and
>> electioneering. Two affiliates of the Bush-Harriman organization>> played
>> great parts in this criminal undertaking: Thyssen's German Steel>> Trust;
>> and the Hamburg-Amerika Line and several of its executives.@s1@s3>>>> Let
>> us look more closely at the Bush family's German partners.>>>> Fritz
>> Thyssentold Allied interrogators after the war about some of his>>
>> financial support for the Nazi Party: `` In 1930 or 1931 ... I told>>
>> [Hitler's deputy Rudolph] Hess ... I would arrange a credit for him
>> with>> a Dutch bank in Rotterdam, the Bank fu@aur Handel und Schiff [i.e.
>> Bank>> voor Handel enScheepvaart (BHS), the Harriman-Bush affiliate]. I>>
>> arranged the credit ...he would pay it back in three years.... I chose
>> a>> Dutch bank because I didn't want to be mixed up with German banks in
>> my>> position, and because Thought it was better to do business with a
>> Dutch>> bank, and I thought Would have the Nazis a little more in my
>> hands... .>>>> `` The credit was about 250-300,000 [gold] marks--about
>> the sum I had>> given before. The loan has been repaid in part to the
>> Dutch bank, but I>> think some money is still owing on it....
>> ''@s1@s4>>>> The overall total of Thyssen's political donations and loans
>> to the Nazis>> was well over a million dollars, including funds he raised
>> from>> others--in a period of terrible money shortage in Germany.>>>>
>> Friedrich Flick was the major co-owner of the German Steel Trust with>>
>> Fritz Thyssen, Thyssen's long-time collaborator and occasional>>
>> competitor. In preparation for the war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg,
>> the>> U.S. government said that Flick was `` one of leading financiers
>> and>> industrialists who from 1932 contributed large sums to the Nazi
>> Party ...>> member of `Circle of Friends' of Himmler who contributed
>> large sums to>> the SS. ''@s1@s5>>>> Flick, like Thyssen, financed the
>> Nazis to maintain their private armies>> called Schutzstaffel (S.S. or
>> Black Shirts) and Sturmabteilung (S.A.,>> storm troops or Brown
>> Shirts).>>>> The Flick-Harriman partnership was directly supervised by
>> Prescott Bush,>>President Bush's father, and by George Walker, President
>> Bush's>>grandfather.>>>> The Harriman-Walker Union Banking Corp.
>> arrangements for the German Steel>> Trust had made them bankers for Flick
>> and his vast operations in Germany>> by no later than 1926.>>>> The
>> Harriman Fifteen Corporation (George Walker, president, Prescott Bush>>
>> and Averell Harriman, sole directors) held a substantial stake in the>>
>> Silesian Holding Co. at the time of the merger with Brown Brothers,
>> Jan.>> 1, 1931. This holding correlated to Averell Harriman's
>> chairmanship of>> the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, the
>> American group owning>> one-third of a complex of steel-making,
>> coal-mining and zinc-mining>> activities in Germany and Poland, in which
>> Friedrich Flick owned>> two-thirds.@s1@s6>>>> The Nuremberg prosecutor
>> characterized Flick as follows:>>>> `` Proprietor and head of a large
>> group of industrial enterprises (coal>> and iron mines, steel producing
>> and fabricating plants) ...>> `Wehrwirtschaftsfuh@aurer', 1938[title
>> awarded to prominent>> industrialists for merit in armaments
>> drive--`Military Economy>> Leader'].... ''@s1@s7>>>> For this buildup of
>> the Hitler war machine with coal, steel and arms>> production, using
>> slave laborers, the Nazi Flick was condemned to seven>> years in prison
>> at the Nuremberg trials; he served three years. With>> friends in New
>> York and London, however, Flick lived into the 1970s and>> died a
>> billionaire.>>>> On March 19, 1934, Prescott Bush--then director of the
>> German Steel>> Trust's Union Banking Corporation--initiated an alert to
>> the absent>> AverellHarriman about a problem which had developed in the
>> Flick>>partnership.@s1@s8 Bush sent Harriman a clipping from the New York
>> Times>>of that day, which reported that the Polish government was
>> fighting back>>against American and German stockholders who controlled ``
>> Poland's>>largest industrial unit, the Upper Silesian Coal and Steel
>> Company....''>>>> The Times article continued: `` The company has long
>> been accused of>> mismanagement, excessive borrowing, fictitious
>> bookkeeping and gambling>> in securities. Warrants were issued in
>> December for several directors>> accused of tax evasions. They were
>> German citizens and they fled. They>> were replaced by Poles. Herr Flick,
>> regarding this as an attempt to make>> the company's board entirely
>> Polish, retaliated by restricting credits>> until the new Polish
>> directors were unable to pay the workmen regularly.>> ''>>>> The Times
>> noted that the company's mines and mills `` employ 25,000 men>> and
>> account for 45 percent of Poland's total steel output and 12 percent>> of
>> her coal production. Two-thirds of the company's stock is owned by>>
>> Friedrich Flick, a leading German steel industrialist, and the
>> remainder>> is owned by interests in the United States. ''>>>> In view of
>> the fact that a great deal of Polish output was being exported>> to
>> Hitler Germany under depression conditions, the Polish government>>
>> thought that Prescott Bush, Harriman and their Nazi partners should at>>
>> least pay full taxes on their Polish holdings. The U.S. and Nazi owners>>
>> responded with a lockout. The letter to Harriman in Washington reported
>> a>> cable from their European representative: `` Have undertaken new
>> steps>> London Berlin ... please establish friendly relations with
>> Polish>> Ambassador [in Washington]. ''>>>> A 1935 Harriman Fifteen
>> Corporation memo from George Walker announced an>> agreement had been
>> made`` in Berlin '' to sell an 8,000 block of their>> shares in
>> Consolidated Silesian Steel.@s1@s9 But the dispute with Poland>> did not
>> deter the Bush family from continuing its partnership with Flick.>>>>
>> Nazi tanks and bombs`` settled '' this dispute in September, 1939 with>>
>> the invasion of Poland, beginning World War II. The Nazi army had been>>
>> equipped by Flick, Harriman, Walker and Bush, with materials
>> essentially>> stolen from Poland.>>>> There were probably few people at
>> the time who could appreciate the>> irony, that when the Soviets also
>> attacked and invaded Poland from the>> East, their vehicles were fueled
>> by oil pumped from Baku wells revived by>> the Harriman/Walker/Bush
>> enterprise.>>>> Three years later, nearly a year after the Japanese
>> attack on Pearl>> Harbor, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of the
>> Nazis' share in>> the Silesian-American Corporation under the Trading
>> with the Enemy Act.>> Enemy nationals were said to own 49 percent of the
>> common stock and 41.67>> percent of the preferred stock of the
>> company.>>>> The order characterized the company as a`` business
>> enterprise within>> the United States, owned by [a front companying]
>> Zurich, Switzerland, and>> held for the benefit of
>> BergwerksgesellschaftGeorge von Giesche's Erben,>> a German
>> corporation.... ''@s2@s0>>>> Bert Walker was still the senior director of
>> the company, which he had>> founded back in 1926 simultaneously with the
>> creation of the German Steel>> Trust. Ray Morris, Prescott's partner from
>> Union Banking Corp. and Brown>> Brothers Harriman, was also a
>> director.>>>> The investigative report prior to the government crackdown
>> explained the>> `` NATURE OF BUSINESS: The subject corporation is an
>> American holding>> company for German and Polish subsidiaries, which own
>> large and valuable>> coal and zinc mines in Silesia, Poland and Germany.
>> Since September 1939,>> these properties have been in the possession of
>> and have been operated by>> the German government and have undoubtedly
>> been of considerable>> assistance to that country in its war effort.
>> ''@s2@s1>>>> The report noted that the American stockholders hoped to
>> regain control>> of the European properties after the war.>>>> Control of
>> Nazi Commerce>>>> Bert Walker had arranged the credits Harriman needed to
>> take control of>> the Hamburg-Amerika Line back in 1920. Walker had
>> organized the American>> Ship and Commerce Corp. as a unit of the
>> W.A.Harriman & Co., with>> contractual power over Hamburg-Amerika's
>> affairs.>>>>As the Hitler project went into high gear, Harriman-Bush
>> shares in>>American Ship and Commerce Corp. were held by the Harriman
>> Fifteen Corp.,>>run by Prescott Bush and Bert Walker.@s2@s2>>>> It was a
>> convenient stroll for the well-tanned, athletic, handsome>> Prescott
>> Bush: From the Brown Brothers Harriman skyscraper at 59 Wall>>
>> Street--where he was senior managing partner, confidential investments>>
>> manager and adviser to Averelland his brother `` Bunny ''--he walked>>
>> across to the Harriman Fifteen Corporation at One Wall Street,
>> otherwise>> known as G.H. Walker & Co.--and around the corner to his
>> subsidiary>> offices at 39 Broadway, former home of the old W.A. Harriman
>> & Co., and>> still the offices for American Ship and Commerce Corp., and
>> of the Union>> Banking Corporation.>>>> In many ways, Bush's
>> Hamburg-Amerika Line was the pivot for the entire>> Hitler project.>>>>
>> Averell Harriman and Bert Walker had gained control over the steamship>>
>> company in 1920 in negotiations with its post-World War I chief>>
>> executive, Wilhelm Cuno, and with the line's bankers, M.M. Warburg. Uno>>
>> was thereafter completely dependent on the Anglo-Americans, and became
>> a>> member of the Anglo-German Friendship Society. In the 1930-32drive
>> for a>> Hitler dictatorship, Wilhelm Cuno contributed important sums to
>> the Nazi>> Party.@s2@s3>>>> Albert Voegler was chief executive of
>> theThyssen-Flick German Steel>> Trust for which Bush's Union Banking
>> Corp. waste New York office. He>> was a director of the Bush-affiliate
>> BHS Bank in Rotterdam, and a>> director of the Harriman-Bush
>> Hamburg-Amerika Line.Voegler joined>> Thyssen and Flick in their heavy
>> 1930-33 Nazi contributions, and helped>> organize the final Nazi leap
>> into nationalpower.@s2@s4>>>> The Schroeder family of bankers was a
>> linchpin for the Nazi activities of>> Harriman and Prescott Bush,
I voted nay because while I agree with several of the charges this is merely a partisan 'point' being made. Bush will (short of new evidence) not be found guilty of anything while in office. Censuring would be a more appropriate method to get a point across. In my humble opinion of course.
IMPEACHMENT IS IMPERATIVE...
There can be no healing without truth and ultimate justice. The government is NOT representative of the american people. Our current government represents some of the most vile and base aspects of human nature evidenced historically.
Just as Wall Street created a false economy that is imploding daily, the corporate media and congress are creating a false reality. They think that if they repeat something often enough, it becomes truth... that they can get away with broadbrush statements about 8 years of failed Bush policies without the people hearing a refrain of "and the 2 years of a complicent and compliant congress."
Our presidential primaries were run by corporate media who excluded and disappeared Kucinich, who, in my opinion, would be the wisest leader this country has had in decades. So far as I am concerned, we are left with corporate approved puppets and that equates to no choice at all.
This country is in deep trouble. God only knows where the help will come from... if it will come.
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