Chris R
01-01-2007, 01:26 PM
9/11 and the Greenberg Familia [and the attack on our economy
Group: alt.discuss.clubs.public.issues.politics.restore_a merica Date: Sun, Dec 31, 2006, 10:15pm (EST-3) From: Rosebudv@webtv.net
**9/11 and the Greenberg Familia [and the attack on our economy From: Vicky Davis *
Background -
On November 9, 2001, George Bush signed a trade agreement with India for technology and knowledge industries.* More than any other agreement, that one was like a knife in the heart of America's economy.*
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In the 1990's roughly 65% of our economy was in knowledge jobs.* After the agreement, a huge percentage of those jobs were exported to India and - insult to injury, massive numbers of visas were issued to allow the import of Indians for technology jobs.*
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The way it works is that the Indians come over here - learn the systems and then the systems are exported to India.* Silicon Valley is now in India.*
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The following are just a few of the articles I've collected over these years.*
http://www.channelingreality.com/Economic/India.htm *
The curious thing has always been that George Bush related the signing of that agreement to terrorism plus the date is the inverse of 9-11.* This agreement dwarfs in magnitude the attack*on our economy on 9-11.*
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011109-10.html *
On this webpage, on the left hand panel under the picture of Vajpayee and Bush, you can read about the initiative.* All the industries mentions were the industries and jobs at the high end of our economy.* *
http://www.channelingreality.com/The_Coup/admin_coup.htm *
One of the hyperlinks I have is to a Press Release: *
http://www.channelingreality.com/India_Trade_Saved/Press_Release_Clinton.htm
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The U.S.-India Business Council and the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) are pleased to announce the Knowledge Trade Forum, the culminating event of the Knowledge Trade Initiative (KTI), to be held in Bangalore, India, November 29-30, 2001. *
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The Forum will pull together key industry and government stakeholders from India and the U.S. focusing on knowledge-based industries. The American delegation will be led by USIBC Chairman Ambassador Frank Wisner, Vice-Chairman AIG, and Chairman of the Knowledge Trade Initiative, Dean O'Hare, CEO of The Chubb Corporation. *
A "Hollywood meets Bollywood" extravaganza
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will kick off the proceedings on November 29th, followed by a full day of events on November 30th focusing in particular on four tracks: IT services, biotechnology, e-entertainment, and bridging the digital divide. Workshops will take place throughout the day on topics including: accessing venture capital, entrepreneurial success stories, and proven paths to success in the IT outsourcing space. There will also be a contest for the most innovative way to deliver communications access, with an award of $10,000 going to the winner as determined by a distinguished international panel.
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The Forum will also provide the backdrop for the presentation of the final report of the KTI. The KTI has formed a series of working groups to consider key policy areas that affect the trade in knowledge-based products and services. Over 150 international experts in each of their fields have met regularly over the past months coming up with policy recommendations for India and the U.S. to secure their positions as leaders of the new economy.
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Participants
http://www.channelingreality.com/Save_KTI/KTI_Participants.htm *
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To understand the signifigance you should be aware that*a programmer in India makes under $10,000 per year.* A programmer in the U.S. used to make about $60,000 or more per year.** The insurance industry is all about IT -*knowledge industry - information handling.*
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So for every IT job exported, they pocket $50,000 pure profit.**That's on top of the already lucrative profits of knowledge industries.*
*
http://www.channelingreality.com/Save_KTI/Knowledge%20Trade%20Initiative_background.htm *
More and more, India's workforce advantage will be replicated elsewhere. India needs to develop the hard and soft infrastructure of its IT sector in order to ensure its long-term, sustainable advantage in this sector. *
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More background - on Harris Miller, President of Information Technology Associates of America up until last year when he ran for the Senate.* *
http://www.channelingreality.com/Cards/harris_miller.htm* *
Harris Miller has orchestrated the destruction of our economy by working both sides of the ocean.* Initially, the export of our high technology jobs was done in secret as explained by WIPRO Chairman Azim Premji while "speaking at a seminar organised by the All India Management Association (AIMA) and Bombay Management Association (BMA)".[3] *
"Addressing management students here, Mr Premji explained that when software services were being outsourced, it was done surreptitiously. This was done because it was the requirement of that time. The industry then stood witness to a vast number of layoffs." *
One final thing that might not mean much to you, but it is incredibly significant to me.* Thomas Barnett (Pentagon's New Map) mentioned the re-insurance industry relative to 9-11.*
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The re-insurance industry is almost unknown to the public.* Only people connected with the insurance industry really know anything about re-insurance.* You have to read what I wrote about Thomas Barnett to understand the significance of his mention of the re-insurance industry.*
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Basically Barnett's thesis is that in the global economy, there is an old core and new core.*
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The U.S. and the developed countries are the old core.* China and India are the new core.* Reference Joseph Schumpter - creative destruction.* Destroying the old - to build the new.* *
http://www.channelingreality.com/The_Coup/The_Coup.htm *
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Barnett's mention of the re-insurance industry was in the video presentation of 'Military in the 21st Century'.* The four initiatives he mentions are all the things that are destroying our country and our economy.* That's why I transcribed the video presentation even though it was over 2 hours long:*
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On page 5 of the transcript
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*http://www.channelingreality.com/The_Coup/Barnett_NPg5.htm *
"What happens to the financial sectors - happens to the insurance industry - happens to the re-insurance industry if you follow that interesting tail.* Spills over into the airline insurance industry so you see the merging of these horizontal scenarios." *
Barnett described Wall Street's game plan in a presentation he gave to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.* The following is an excerpt from Barnett's presentation (note: he is a master at doublespeak).* The strategy below is the strategy to destroy the U.S.
- not the strategy for the benefit of the U.S.
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"Four elements are put together.* I'll confess, I'm an economic determinist.* I'll say that technology is the main driver of history.* If globalization continues to advance - all these good things will happen.* You can attach numbers to most of these in terms of per capita income.** Get them below a certain level and they stop doing a lot of these bad things and they start moving in the direction of these positive things.* But I'll argue we have to manage carefully four crucial flows within globalization IV.*
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Those four crucial flows meaning resources in regions where they are plentiful have to migrate to regions where they are in scarce supply.******
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The movement of people is a key flow.* The money of energy is a key flow.* The movement of money - long term, foreign direct investments - not flows in and out of stock markets, not commercial bank loans but foreign direct investment - equity ownership.* Finally, the exporting of security which only the United States can do in any appreciable manner."
*
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Special Reports
9/11 and the Greenberg Familia
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
Sep 29, 2006, 01:06
Democratic Underground Demopedia reports in Who Killed John O'Neill that at the time of 9/11, AIG, the world's largest insurance company, and subsidiaries Marsh McLennan, ACE and Kroll, were run by the Greenberg family. With Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member Maurice "Hank" Greenberg as the AIG godfather, the Familia's tentacles curled around the heart of the tragedy.
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Hank's son Jeffrey, a CFR member as well, was chairman of Marsh & McLennan, situated on floors throughout the North Tower of the World Trade Center as well as the top floors of the South Tower. Marsh also had ties to the CIA. Son Evan Greenberg, a CFR member, was CEO of ACE Limited, situated in Tower 7, which also contained AIG subsidiary Kroll, closely related to the CIA, also with an office in Tower 7.
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Tower 7 also contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which contained prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud corporate, including Enron's), US Secret Service, Securities & Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records), and Citibank's Salomon Smith Barney, the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management and many other financial institutions.
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Greenberg's cousin, Alan "Ace" Greenberg, was former CEO of Bear Sterns, where the Bush family, Cheney family George Schultz, James Baker, et al, did business. It is the leading brokerage firm of the great and all-powerful Bush Familia.
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Also reported by Democratic Underground, AIG's Kroll "provided protection services," among other things, to high level Americans at home and abroad. Kroll had military teams in their company and merged with Armor Holdings on August 23, 2001, adding Defence Systems Limited, another private military corporation, to their operation, and an ex-KGB team called Alpha Firm earlier acquired by Defense Systems Limited.
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These four teams could have been used on 9/11, part of a "corporatizing" of black ops in tandem with military teams.
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According to whistleblower Richard Grove, who worked as a senior manager for SilverStream Software on Marsh and AIG accounts, Kroll also managed the Enron fraud once Kenneth Lay stepped down.
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Marsh, immediately after 9/11, established a specialized terrorism team called Marsh Crisis Consultancy (led by L. Paul Bremer III), adding the teams Control Risks Group, a British ex-SAS team and Versar, bio-terrorism and homeland defense team. These players could have known each other from 9/11, bringing in new assignments and profits.
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Democratic Underground also reports, AIG allegedly was laundering drug money, and was involved in the Afghanistan oil and gas pipelines. Greenberg and the Adnan Khasshogi family allegedly benefited from the Afghanistan narcotics trade and interests in the oil and gas pipelines, as well.
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Greenberg's Law Firm Connections to Bush According to http://www.sourcewatch.org, the Greenbergs were and are connected to the Bush Familia via their Miami-based law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, a 1,350-lawyer, full-service international firm. Here are a few connects . . .
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{{Greenberg Traurig = Abramoff]]
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1) G-T represented George W. Bush in the Bush-Gore 2000 Florida election vote recount.
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2) They personally represent Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
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3) They hired son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Election Day 2000 -- after which Justice Scalia cast one of the 5 to 4 deciding votes that placed Bush in the White House.
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4) They partially funded/sponsored a delegation to Israel by House-Senate Armed Services Committee members and government contractors to witness and be briefed on interrogations resistance procedures and torture techniques.
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5) The firm has prominent administrative positions in Massachusetts 9/11 Fund, which also involves Bush family banking house Brown Brothers Harriman (the same BBH involved with Prescott Bush's bankrolling the Nazis in World War II).
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6) Traurig Greenberg works with 9-11 victims on planning their US government "hushmail/bribery estates." That is, to receive the money, the victim's family must sign an agreement never to sue the government for any reason.
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Victim-wife Ellen Mariani is currently being legally harassed for not signing and for holding the Bush government's feet to the fire.
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7) Bush still owes the Greenberg Traurig firm nearly $1 million for work done by dozens of lawyers and paralegals, leaving questions why a Republican candidate would hire a Democratic lawyer from a Democratic firm. See Greenberg Traurig link above for more scandals.
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Greenberg's Relationship to Larry Silverstein On July 24, 2001, six weeks before 9/11, Larry Silverstein took control of the lease of all the WTC buildings. This followed the Port Authority decision on April 26.
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According to democraticunderground.com, the three companies who originally insured the WTC were AIG, Marsh and ACE, all run as mentioned by the Greenbergs at the time. They then sold stakes of the original contract to their competition, a technique called reinsuring.
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Once the Towers came down, the reinsurers got caught holding the bag. This would inextricably tie the Greenbergs to Silverstein and the larger conspiracy of 9/11. If they had no foreknowledge of events to occur, why would the Greenbergs have unloaded so many stakes in their contract?
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According to Michel Chossudovsky in Financial Bonanza behind the 9/11 Tragedy, "On October 17, 2000, eleven months before 9/11, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, of The Blackstone Group, L.P, purchased, from Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, the participating mortgage secured by World Trade Center, Building 7.1." [Blackstone in 2000 also purchased a 50 percent stake in Universal Studios, producers of the myth-perpetuating Flight 93.]
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"April 26, 2001 the Port Authority leased the WTC for 99 years to Silverstein Properties and Westfield America Inc.
"The transaction was authorised by Port Authority Chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg. This transfer from the New York and New Jersey Port Authority was tantamount to the privatisation of the WTC Complex.
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The official press release described it as 'the richest real estate prize in New York City history.' The retail space underneath the complex was leased to Westfield America Inc.
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"On 24 July 2001, 6 weeks prior to 9/11 Silverstein took control of the lease of the WTC following the Port Authority decision on April 26. "Silverstein and Frank Lowy, CEO of Westefield Inc. took control of the 10.6 million-square-foot WTC complex.
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"Lowy leased the shopping concourse called the Mall at the WTC, which comprised about 427,000 square feet of retail space." "Explicitly included in the agreement was that Silverstein and Westfield 'were given the right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed.''
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"In this transaction, Silverstein signed a rental contract for the WTC over 99 years amounting to 3.2 billion dollars in installments to be made to the Port Authority: 800 million covered fees including a down payment of the order of 100 million dollars. Of this amount, Silverstein put in 14 million dollars of his own money. The annual payment on the lease was of the order of 115 million dollars.
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"In the wake of the WTC attacks, Silverstein is suing for some $7.1 billion in insurance money, double the amount of the value of the 99 year lease." In fact, some $5 billion was actually returned, given the multiple court-case protests of the insurers.
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"The mortgaging of the WTC was handled by The Blackstone Group, headed by Peter J. Peterson, current head of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The Blackstone Group also bought a piece of Kroll in 1993 at the very same time AIG took over majority control. Henry Kissinger sits on the board of the Blackstone Group."
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By his own admission Silverstein had Tower 7 pulled by controlled internal demolition eight hours after the first two hits. No plane hit Tower 7. There were two small fires in it that were under control. In fact, it takes weeks, months to set up a building to be pulled. So his order to "pull it" catches him in a huge lie.
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Tower 7 may have been the nexus of the operations. That may have been the real reason to pull it. In fact, it may have been set up weeks in advance with Towers 1 and 2 for demolition. Ironically, Tower 7 is the only tower that has been rebuilt, and more opulently than its predecessor, although tenancy is about 18 percent.
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Towers Taken Down for Profit and to Blame Muslims
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Given the involvement of the Greenbergs and Silverstein, and other commercial entities that stood to profit hugely, it is difficult to believe 9/11 occurred at the hands of 19 rag-tag Muslims with box-cutters and the help of their leader, Osama bin Laden, sitting in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan with his laptop and dialysis equipment.
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The real reasons behind 9/11 were financial greed and the willingness to demonize Muslims for the "Pearl Harbor-type" act that would instigate America to wage a war on terror, pursuing PNAC's (Project for a New American Century) goal of World Hegemony.
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The latest documentary on the WTC, The 911 Mysteries from 911WeKnow.com, provides highly convincing proof that the buildings were taken down in six fatal steps. They involved the use of high-powered explosives, including thermite and/or thermate, with techniques more advanced than those of traditional controlled-demolition companies, most likely the military's, given their bunker buster technology.
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The six steps are . . .
Pre-collapse sub-basement explosions
Pre-collapse interior blasts
Pre-collapse ground level explosions
Top level collapse initiation
Mid Collapse Squibs (explosions)
Final time-delayed rolls (explosions)
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Without all these steps, the Towers could never have free-fallen in 10 seconds, the speed of gravity. Any obstacles or pancaking had to be eliminated otherwise the number of seconds of fall would increase dramatically.
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The documentary also reminds us that on February 13, 1975 there was a major fire on the 11th floor of the North Tower that did not topple it, though the loss was estimated at over $2 million, no mean event. Check it out.
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It is possible that in 1996, when Securacom took over WTC security and installed a new $8.3 million security system, that the explosives and charges were also put in place.
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Sitting on the board of Securacom was the director Marvin Bush, George Bush's younger brother.
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In any case, this is patently the confluence of the military/industrial complex with a healthy dose of Wall Street, earning millions if not billions in put and call options on companies involved with the catastrophe, including airlines on the down (put) side and military suppliers on the up (call) side.
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In addition, there is the missing gold from the basement of Tower 4, $200 million of which was retrieved, and an untold amount stolen.
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The real bottom line was that the Towers were two financial white elephants. And both Silverstein and Greenberg had to know that. The tenancy was dropping. They were out of date. And most dangerously, they were __asbestos bombs, loaded with the dangerous building material when they were completed in 1972-73.
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By law the buildings could not be taken down by internal demolition. And since it would cost a billion dollars or more to take the towers down beam by beam, it would be at great loss to the Port of Authority or its leaseholder. Thus the reasons are obvious to take WTC down in act of terror also a false-flag operation.
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Remember, the concept for the WTC Towers originated with the Nelson and David Rockefeller, members of the Council on Foreign Relations and among the world's elites. A "New Pearl Harbor" would serve those interests well.
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Additional Connections to Greenberg
John O'Neill, mentioned in the first paragraph, was the FBI anti-terror chief who spent years trying to track down bin Laden and "al Qaeda" members. At every point, he was stopped or frustrated by his superiors.
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Finally, O'Neill parted company with the FBI. Jerome Hauer, who formerly worked for Kroll, got him the job as chief of security at the WTC. On 9/11, O'Neill lost his life in the North Tower. Mr. Hauer's job as Kroll chief was also held by Michael Cherkasky, who came out of the New York County District Attorney's Office, which also brought us Rudy Giuliani, Elliot Spitzer and Patrick Fitzgerald. Mr. Cherkasky also brought Mr. Spitzer into the NYC County DA's office.
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Today Cherkasky is a substantial contributor to Spitzer's campaign for New York State Governor. Cherkasky was bumped up to head Marsh McLennan in 2004.
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As an aside, there were about 200 electrical engineers working in the World Trade Center around the time. Additionally, AMEC and Tully Construction played a major role in the clean up of Ground Zero and both have specialized controlled demolition companies.
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Lastly, can you believe that one of the Council on Foreign Relations members who engaged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran in a debate about the holocaust at CFR's reception last week was none other than Hank Greenberg, who said he witnessed the Dachau camp as Germany fell? Could it all possibly be payback and then some?
Group: alt.discuss.clubs.public.issues.politics.restore_a merica Date: Sun, Dec 31, 2006, 10:15pm (EST-3) From: Rosebudv@webtv.net
**9/11 and the Greenberg Familia [and the attack on our economy From: Vicky Davis *
Background -
On November 9, 2001, George Bush signed a trade agreement with India for technology and knowledge industries.* More than any other agreement, that one was like a knife in the heart of America's economy.*
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In the 1990's roughly 65% of our economy was in knowledge jobs.* After the agreement, a huge percentage of those jobs were exported to India and - insult to injury, massive numbers of visas were issued to allow the import of Indians for technology jobs.*
.
The way it works is that the Indians come over here - learn the systems and then the systems are exported to India.* Silicon Valley is now in India.*
*
The following are just a few of the articles I've collected over these years.*
http://www.channelingreality.com/Economic/India.htm *
The curious thing has always been that George Bush related the signing of that agreement to terrorism plus the date is the inverse of 9-11.* This agreement dwarfs in magnitude the attack*on our economy on 9-11.*
*
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011109-10.html *
On this webpage, on the left hand panel under the picture of Vajpayee and Bush, you can read about the initiative.* All the industries mentions were the industries and jobs at the high end of our economy.* *
http://www.channelingreality.com/The_Coup/admin_coup.htm *
One of the hyperlinks I have is to a Press Release: *
http://www.channelingreality.com/India_Trade_Saved/Press_Release_Clinton.htm
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The U.S.-India Business Council and the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) are pleased to announce the Knowledge Trade Forum, the culminating event of the Knowledge Trade Initiative (KTI), to be held in Bangalore, India, November 29-30, 2001. *
snip*
The Forum will pull together key industry and government stakeholders from India and the U.S. focusing on knowledge-based industries. The American delegation will be led by USIBC Chairman Ambassador Frank Wisner, Vice-Chairman AIG, and Chairman of the Knowledge Trade Initiative, Dean O'Hare, CEO of The Chubb Corporation. *
A "Hollywood meets Bollywood" extravaganza
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will kick off the proceedings on November 29th, followed by a full day of events on November 30th focusing in particular on four tracks: IT services, biotechnology, e-entertainment, and bridging the digital divide. Workshops will take place throughout the day on topics including: accessing venture capital, entrepreneurial success stories, and proven paths to success in the IT outsourcing space. There will also be a contest for the most innovative way to deliver communications access, with an award of $10,000 going to the winner as determined by a distinguished international panel.
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The Forum will also provide the backdrop for the presentation of the final report of the KTI. The KTI has formed a series of working groups to consider key policy areas that affect the trade in knowledge-based products and services. Over 150 international experts in each of their fields have met regularly over the past months coming up with policy recommendations for India and the U.S. to secure their positions as leaders of the new economy.
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Participants
http://www.channelingreality.com/Save_KTI/KTI_Participants.htm *
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To understand the signifigance you should be aware that*a programmer in India makes under $10,000 per year.* A programmer in the U.S. used to make about $60,000 or more per year.** The insurance industry is all about IT -*knowledge industry - information handling.*
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So for every IT job exported, they pocket $50,000 pure profit.**That's on top of the already lucrative profits of knowledge industries.*
*
http://www.channelingreality.com/Save_KTI/Knowledge%20Trade%20Initiative_background.htm *
More and more, India's workforce advantage will be replicated elsewhere. India needs to develop the hard and soft infrastructure of its IT sector in order to ensure its long-term, sustainable advantage in this sector. *
*
More background - on Harris Miller, President of Information Technology Associates of America up until last year when he ran for the Senate.* *
http://www.channelingreality.com/Cards/harris_miller.htm* *
Harris Miller has orchestrated the destruction of our economy by working both sides of the ocean.* Initially, the export of our high technology jobs was done in secret as explained by WIPRO Chairman Azim Premji while "speaking at a seminar organised by the All India Management Association (AIMA) and Bombay Management Association (BMA)".[3] *
"Addressing management students here, Mr Premji explained that when software services were being outsourced, it was done surreptitiously. This was done because it was the requirement of that time. The industry then stood witness to a vast number of layoffs." *
One final thing that might not mean much to you, but it is incredibly significant to me.* Thomas Barnett (Pentagon's New Map) mentioned the re-insurance industry relative to 9-11.*
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The re-insurance industry is almost unknown to the public.* Only people connected with the insurance industry really know anything about re-insurance.* You have to read what I wrote about Thomas Barnett to understand the significance of his mention of the re-insurance industry.*
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Basically Barnett's thesis is that in the global economy, there is an old core and new core.*
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The U.S. and the developed countries are the old core.* China and India are the new core.* Reference Joseph Schumpter - creative destruction.* Destroying the old - to build the new.* *
http://www.channelingreality.com/The_Coup/The_Coup.htm *
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Barnett's mention of the re-insurance industry was in the video presentation of 'Military in the 21st Century'.* The four initiatives he mentions are all the things that are destroying our country and our economy.* That's why I transcribed the video presentation even though it was over 2 hours long:*
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On page 5 of the transcript
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*http://www.channelingreality.com/The_Coup/Barnett_NPg5.htm *
"What happens to the financial sectors - happens to the insurance industry - happens to the re-insurance industry if you follow that interesting tail.* Spills over into the airline insurance industry so you see the merging of these horizontal scenarios." *
Barnett described Wall Street's game plan in a presentation he gave to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.* The following is an excerpt from Barnett's presentation (note: he is a master at doublespeak).* The strategy below is the strategy to destroy the U.S.
- not the strategy for the benefit of the U.S.
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"Four elements are put together.* I'll confess, I'm an economic determinist.* I'll say that technology is the main driver of history.* If globalization continues to advance - all these good things will happen.* You can attach numbers to most of these in terms of per capita income.** Get them below a certain level and they stop doing a lot of these bad things and they start moving in the direction of these positive things.* But I'll argue we have to manage carefully four crucial flows within globalization IV.*
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Those four crucial flows meaning resources in regions where they are plentiful have to migrate to regions where they are in scarce supply.******
.
The movement of people is a key flow.* The money of energy is a key flow.* The movement of money - long term, foreign direct investments - not flows in and out of stock markets, not commercial bank loans but foreign direct investment - equity ownership.* Finally, the exporting of security which only the United States can do in any appreciable manner."
*
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Special Reports
9/11 and the Greenberg Familia
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
Sep 29, 2006, 01:06
Democratic Underground Demopedia reports in Who Killed John O'Neill that at the time of 9/11, AIG, the world's largest insurance company, and subsidiaries Marsh McLennan, ACE and Kroll, were run by the Greenberg family. With Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member Maurice "Hank" Greenberg as the AIG godfather, the Familia's tentacles curled around the heart of the tragedy.
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Hank's son Jeffrey, a CFR member as well, was chairman of Marsh & McLennan, situated on floors throughout the North Tower of the World Trade Center as well as the top floors of the South Tower. Marsh also had ties to the CIA. Son Evan Greenberg, a CFR member, was CEO of ACE Limited, situated in Tower 7, which also contained AIG subsidiary Kroll, closely related to the CIA, also with an office in Tower 7.
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Tower 7 also contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which contained prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud corporate, including Enron's), US Secret Service, Securities & Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records), and Citibank's Salomon Smith Barney, the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management and many other financial institutions.
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Greenberg's cousin, Alan "Ace" Greenberg, was former CEO of Bear Sterns, where the Bush family, Cheney family George Schultz, James Baker, et al, did business. It is the leading brokerage firm of the great and all-powerful Bush Familia.
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Also reported by Democratic Underground, AIG's Kroll "provided protection services," among other things, to high level Americans at home and abroad. Kroll had military teams in their company and merged with Armor Holdings on August 23, 2001, adding Defence Systems Limited, another private military corporation, to their operation, and an ex-KGB team called Alpha Firm earlier acquired by Defense Systems Limited.
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These four teams could have been used on 9/11, part of a "corporatizing" of black ops in tandem with military teams.
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According to whistleblower Richard Grove, who worked as a senior manager for SilverStream Software on Marsh and AIG accounts, Kroll also managed the Enron fraud once Kenneth Lay stepped down.
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Marsh, immediately after 9/11, established a specialized terrorism team called Marsh Crisis Consultancy (led by L. Paul Bremer III), adding the teams Control Risks Group, a British ex-SAS team and Versar, bio-terrorism and homeland defense team. These players could have known each other from 9/11, bringing in new assignments and profits.
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Democratic Underground also reports, AIG allegedly was laundering drug money, and was involved in the Afghanistan oil and gas pipelines. Greenberg and the Adnan Khasshogi family allegedly benefited from the Afghanistan narcotics trade and interests in the oil and gas pipelines, as well.
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Greenberg's Law Firm Connections to Bush According to http://www.sourcewatch.org, the Greenbergs were and are connected to the Bush Familia via their Miami-based law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, a 1,350-lawyer, full-service international firm. Here are a few connects . . .
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{{Greenberg Traurig = Abramoff]]
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1) G-T represented George W. Bush in the Bush-Gore 2000 Florida election vote recount.
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2) They personally represent Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
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3) They hired son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Election Day 2000 -- after which Justice Scalia cast one of the 5 to 4 deciding votes that placed Bush in the White House.
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4) They partially funded/sponsored a delegation to Israel by House-Senate Armed Services Committee members and government contractors to witness and be briefed on interrogations resistance procedures and torture techniques.
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5) The firm has prominent administrative positions in Massachusetts 9/11 Fund, which also involves Bush family banking house Brown Brothers Harriman (the same BBH involved with Prescott Bush's bankrolling the Nazis in World War II).
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6) Traurig Greenberg works with 9-11 victims on planning their US government "hushmail/bribery estates." That is, to receive the money, the victim's family must sign an agreement never to sue the government for any reason.
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Victim-wife Ellen Mariani is currently being legally harassed for not signing and for holding the Bush government's feet to the fire.
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7) Bush still owes the Greenberg Traurig firm nearly $1 million for work done by dozens of lawyers and paralegals, leaving questions why a Republican candidate would hire a Democratic lawyer from a Democratic firm. See Greenberg Traurig link above for more scandals.
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Greenberg's Relationship to Larry Silverstein On July 24, 2001, six weeks before 9/11, Larry Silverstein took control of the lease of all the WTC buildings. This followed the Port Authority decision on April 26.
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According to democraticunderground.com, the three companies who originally insured the WTC were AIG, Marsh and ACE, all run as mentioned by the Greenbergs at the time. They then sold stakes of the original contract to their competition, a technique called reinsuring.
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Once the Towers came down, the reinsurers got caught holding the bag. This would inextricably tie the Greenbergs to Silverstein and the larger conspiracy of 9/11. If they had no foreknowledge of events to occur, why would the Greenbergs have unloaded so many stakes in their contract?
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According to Michel Chossudovsky in Financial Bonanza behind the 9/11 Tragedy, "On October 17, 2000, eleven months before 9/11, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, of The Blackstone Group, L.P, purchased, from Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, the participating mortgage secured by World Trade Center, Building 7.1." [Blackstone in 2000 also purchased a 50 percent stake in Universal Studios, producers of the myth-perpetuating Flight 93.]
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"April 26, 2001 the Port Authority leased the WTC for 99 years to Silverstein Properties and Westfield America Inc.
"The transaction was authorised by Port Authority Chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg. This transfer from the New York and New Jersey Port Authority was tantamount to the privatisation of the WTC Complex.
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The official press release described it as 'the richest real estate prize in New York City history.' The retail space underneath the complex was leased to Westfield America Inc.
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"On 24 July 2001, 6 weeks prior to 9/11 Silverstein took control of the lease of the WTC following the Port Authority decision on April 26. "Silverstein and Frank Lowy, CEO of Westefield Inc. took control of the 10.6 million-square-foot WTC complex.
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"Lowy leased the shopping concourse called the Mall at the WTC, which comprised about 427,000 square feet of retail space." "Explicitly included in the agreement was that Silverstein and Westfield 'were given the right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed.''
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"In this transaction, Silverstein signed a rental contract for the WTC over 99 years amounting to 3.2 billion dollars in installments to be made to the Port Authority: 800 million covered fees including a down payment of the order of 100 million dollars. Of this amount, Silverstein put in 14 million dollars of his own money. The annual payment on the lease was of the order of 115 million dollars.
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"In the wake of the WTC attacks, Silverstein is suing for some $7.1 billion in insurance money, double the amount of the value of the 99 year lease." In fact, some $5 billion was actually returned, given the multiple court-case protests of the insurers.
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"The mortgaging of the WTC was handled by The Blackstone Group, headed by Peter J. Peterson, current head of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The Blackstone Group also bought a piece of Kroll in 1993 at the very same time AIG took over majority control. Henry Kissinger sits on the board of the Blackstone Group."
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By his own admission Silverstein had Tower 7 pulled by controlled internal demolition eight hours after the first two hits. No plane hit Tower 7. There were two small fires in it that were under control. In fact, it takes weeks, months to set up a building to be pulled. So his order to "pull it" catches him in a huge lie.
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Tower 7 may have been the nexus of the operations. That may have been the real reason to pull it. In fact, it may have been set up weeks in advance with Towers 1 and 2 for demolition. Ironically, Tower 7 is the only tower that has been rebuilt, and more opulently than its predecessor, although tenancy is about 18 percent.
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Towers Taken Down for Profit and to Blame Muslims
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Given the involvement of the Greenbergs and Silverstein, and other commercial entities that stood to profit hugely, it is difficult to believe 9/11 occurred at the hands of 19 rag-tag Muslims with box-cutters and the help of their leader, Osama bin Laden, sitting in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan with his laptop and dialysis equipment.
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The real reasons behind 9/11 were financial greed and the willingness to demonize Muslims for the "Pearl Harbor-type" act that would instigate America to wage a war on terror, pursuing PNAC's (Project for a New American Century) goal of World Hegemony.
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The latest documentary on the WTC, The 911 Mysteries from 911WeKnow.com, provides highly convincing proof that the buildings were taken down in six fatal steps. They involved the use of high-powered explosives, including thermite and/or thermate, with techniques more advanced than those of traditional controlled-demolition companies, most likely the military's, given their bunker buster technology.
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The six steps are . . .
Pre-collapse sub-basement explosions
Pre-collapse interior blasts
Pre-collapse ground level explosions
Top level collapse initiation
Mid Collapse Squibs (explosions)
Final time-delayed rolls (explosions)
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Without all these steps, the Towers could never have free-fallen in 10 seconds, the speed of gravity. Any obstacles or pancaking had to be eliminated otherwise the number of seconds of fall would increase dramatically.
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The documentary also reminds us that on February 13, 1975 there was a major fire on the 11th floor of the North Tower that did not topple it, though the loss was estimated at over $2 million, no mean event. Check it out.
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It is possible that in 1996, when Securacom took over WTC security and installed a new $8.3 million security system, that the explosives and charges were also put in place.
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Sitting on the board of Securacom was the director Marvin Bush, George Bush's younger brother.
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In any case, this is patently the confluence of the military/industrial complex with a healthy dose of Wall Street, earning millions if not billions in put and call options on companies involved with the catastrophe, including airlines on the down (put) side and military suppliers on the up (call) side.
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In addition, there is the missing gold from the basement of Tower 4, $200 million of which was retrieved, and an untold amount stolen.
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The real bottom line was that the Towers were two financial white elephants. And both Silverstein and Greenberg had to know that. The tenancy was dropping. They were out of date. And most dangerously, they were __asbestos bombs, loaded with the dangerous building material when they were completed in 1972-73.
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By law the buildings could not be taken down by internal demolition. And since it would cost a billion dollars or more to take the towers down beam by beam, it would be at great loss to the Port of Authority or its leaseholder. Thus the reasons are obvious to take WTC down in act of terror also a false-flag operation.
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Remember, the concept for the WTC Towers originated with the Nelson and David Rockefeller, members of the Council on Foreign Relations and among the world's elites. A "New Pearl Harbor" would serve those interests well.
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Additional Connections to Greenberg
John O'Neill, mentioned in the first paragraph, was the FBI anti-terror chief who spent years trying to track down bin Laden and "al Qaeda" members. At every point, he was stopped or frustrated by his superiors.
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Finally, O'Neill parted company with the FBI. Jerome Hauer, who formerly worked for Kroll, got him the job as chief of security at the WTC. On 9/11, O'Neill lost his life in the North Tower. Mr. Hauer's job as Kroll chief was also held by Michael Cherkasky, who came out of the New York County District Attorney's Office, which also brought us Rudy Giuliani, Elliot Spitzer and Patrick Fitzgerald. Mr. Cherkasky also brought Mr. Spitzer into the NYC County DA's office.
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Today Cherkasky is a substantial contributor to Spitzer's campaign for New York State Governor. Cherkasky was bumped up to head Marsh McLennan in 2004.
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As an aside, there were about 200 electrical engineers working in the World Trade Center around the time. Additionally, AMEC and Tully Construction played a major role in the clean up of Ground Zero and both have specialized controlled demolition companies.
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Lastly, can you believe that one of the Council on Foreign Relations members who engaged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran in a debate about the holocaust at CFR's reception last week was none other than Hank Greenberg, who said he witnessed the Dachau camp as Germany fell? Could it all possibly be payback and then some?