AMAZING BOOK: Family of Secrets - the bush dynasty...
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... The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White House, And What Their Influence Means For America
My most amazing girl got me a copy of this book the other day (after i had hinted at how much i wanted to read it) and IT IS FUCKING AMAZING!
http://www.familyofsecrets.com/
This book is INCREDIBLY WELL RESEARCHED,
and in the first 20 pages alone Russ Baker manages to CONCLUSIVELY PROVE THAT G HW BUSH IS A LIAR, THAT HE WORKED FOR THE CIA AS FAR BACK AS THE MID 50's, AND THAT HE HAS ENGAGED IN A LIFE LONG PUBLIC DECEPTION REGARDING THE TRUE FACTS OF HIS LIFE.
In fact, this book has TONS OF NEW INFORMATION, and tons of information that was previously only available in WIDELY SCATTERED books, or in source documents NOT publicly available, or decades old magazine and news article.
IT EVEN HAS NEW INFORMATION DIRECTLY LINKING G HW BUSH TO THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK,
AND to the frame up job on Nixon known as "Watergate".
You may think this is lunacy,
and if you get your "information" from sources like Time Magazine or The LA Times YOU WILL think it so.
HOWEVER, you should know something, BOTH THOSE PUBLICATIONS ARE OWNED BY THE VERY SAME FORCES THAT ARE BEHIND THE BUSH DYNASTY.
In fact, wouldn't you know it that The LA Times shows up in footnote 13 of Chapter 3. The publisher of the LA Times was at one point on the borad of the Dresser Company (an oil services company).
The Dresser Company was purchased by none other than Brown Brothers Harriman -- a company at which Prescott Bush (G HW Bush's father) was both a partner and board member. Baker (author of Family of Secrets) explains that Dresser was purchased by BB Harriman after Prescott had made the Harriman brothers (Averell and Roland) aware of the fact that it was up for sale. They appointed Neil Mallon as the President.
Neil Mallon, Averell and Roland Harriman, and Prescott Bush ALL attended Yale, and were ALL members of Skull and Bones. And then the publisher of the LA Times gets appointed to the board of directors for their company.
So are you going to believe the LA Times when it says this book is a crock of conspiracy bullshit, or are you going to call them out on being PART of that conspiracy?
Look,
i'm telling you straight up...
this book may very well be the most important book published in the last 50 years.
The scope and magnitude of the research performed by the author is simply breathtaking, and the incredible picture that it paints regarding the Bush family, their connections, the people backing them, and WHAT THEY HAVE DONE to your country is SCARY AS HELL.
494 pages
PLUS SIXTY FUCKING PAGES OF FOOTNOTES!
A MUST FUCKING READ.
(if you care at all about the REAL history of your country)
PS - This book has gotten mad positive reviews by both Gore Vidal and Bill Moyers.
Fuck Time Mag and the LA Times.
My most amazing girl got me a copy of this book the other day (after i had hinted at how much i wanted to read it) and IT IS FUCKING AMAZING!
http://www.familyofsecrets.com/
This book is INCREDIBLY WELL RESEARCHED,
and in the first 20 pages alone Russ Baker manages to CONCLUSIVELY PROVE THAT G HW BUSH IS A LIAR, THAT HE WORKED FOR THE CIA AS FAR BACK AS THE MID 50's, AND THAT HE HAS ENGAGED IN A LIFE LONG PUBLIC DECEPTION REGARDING THE TRUE FACTS OF HIS LIFE.
In fact, this book has TONS OF NEW INFORMATION, and tons of information that was previously only available in WIDELY SCATTERED books, or in source documents NOT publicly available, or decades old magazine and news article.
IT EVEN HAS NEW INFORMATION DIRECTLY LINKING G HW BUSH TO THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK,
AND to the frame up job on Nixon known as "Watergate".
You may think this is lunacy,
and if you get your "information" from sources like Time Magazine or The LA Times YOU WILL think it so.
HOWEVER, you should know something, BOTH THOSE PUBLICATIONS ARE OWNED BY THE VERY SAME FORCES THAT ARE BEHIND THE BUSH DYNASTY.
In fact, wouldn't you know it that The LA Times shows up in footnote 13 of Chapter 3. The publisher of the LA Times was at one point on the borad of the Dresser Company (an oil services company).
The Dresser Company was purchased by none other than Brown Brothers Harriman -- a company at which Prescott Bush (G HW Bush's father) was both a partner and board member. Baker (author of Family of Secrets) explains that Dresser was purchased by BB Harriman after Prescott had made the Harriman brothers (Averell and Roland) aware of the fact that it was up for sale. They appointed Neil Mallon as the President.
Neil Mallon, Averell and Roland Harriman, and Prescott Bush ALL attended Yale, and were ALL members of Skull and Bones. And then the publisher of the LA Times gets appointed to the board of directors for their company.
So are you going to believe the LA Times when it says this book is a crock of conspiracy bullshit, or are you going to call them out on being PART of that conspiracy?
Look,
i'm telling you straight up...
this book may very well be the most important book published in the last 50 years.
The scope and magnitude of the research performed by the author is simply breathtaking, and the incredible picture that it paints regarding the Bush family, their connections, the people backing them, and WHAT THEY HAVE DONE to your country is SCARY AS HELL.
494 pages
PLUS SIXTY FUCKING PAGES OF FOOTNOTES!
A MUST FUCKING READ.
(if you care at all about the REAL history of your country)
PS - This book has gotten mad positive reviews by both Gore Vidal and Bill Moyers.
Fuck Time Mag and the LA Times.
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
If I opened it now would you not understand?
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FAMILY OF SECRETS
By Russ Baker
2009
CHAPTER 1
How Did Bush Happen?
This is the true story of a family we thought we knew -- and a country we have barely begun to comprehend.
George Bush, father and son, are vastly more complicated, and their doings are vastly more troubling, than the conventional wisdom would have it. This book reveals the story behind their story, documenting the secrets that the House of Bush has long sought to obscure.
These revelations about the Bushes lead in turn to an even more disturbing truth about the country itself. It's not just that such a clan could occupy the presidency and vice presidency for twenty of the past twenty-eight years and remain essentially unknown. It's that the methods of stealth and manipulation that powered their rise reflect a deeper ill: the American public's increasingly tenuous hold upon the levers of its own democracy.
As his second term came to a close, George W. Bush's approval ratings reached new lows. The prospect that Bush might go down in history as the worst president in a century, and quite possibly the worst ever, became a topic of grim speculation, even among those who had once voted for him. W. had become the lamest of lame ducks. Bush's own father, the forty-first president of the United States -- along with his influential friends -- watched in silent dismay.
The litany of Bush disasters was as dismally familiar as the brash one-liners that accompanied them: the failed pursuit of Osama bin Laden ("Wanted: Dead or Alive"); the bungled federal response to Katrin ("Heck-uva job, Brownie"); the mishandled occupation of Iraq ("Mission Accomplished"); the collapse housing bubble that sent the economy sliding toward recession and millions of Americans into foreclosure ("We're creating an ownership society").
No wonder that by George W. Bush's final year in office, 81 percent of Americans told pollsters they believed the country was headed in the wrong direction. And it was becoming clearer to many that this wrongness was as a matter not just of flawed policy decisions, but more fundamentally of W.'s personal limitations. Which raised an obvious question -- so obvious that just about everyone passed it by: How did Bush happen? Why was this particular man out of all possible aspirants encouraged and even propelled to the top?
During his meteoric career, George W. Bush has been treated as a singular if highly controversial man, an island unto himself. Many books -- from the favorable Misunderestimated to the critical The Bush Tragedy -- have sought to unpack, dissect, and psychoanalyze the forty-third president. Most brought some new insight, but none of the portraits seemed to fully capture the essence of the man. And as the end of his presidency neared, there was an understandable rush to move on. We had seen what happened; we were mostly appalled or, in fewer cases, ambivalent or, in fewer still, supportive. But the consensus seemed to be that whatever damage W. had wrought, his presidency was at worst some kind of aberration, a glitch in the system that could and would be patched over by his successors, who would return Washington to some semblance of representative democracy. The George W. Bush chapter would soon recede into history.
From the beginning of his first term I had doubts. There were signs of something more consequential and pervasive -- well beyond the missteps, overreaching, and palace intrigues one finds in all presidential administrations. The fanatical secrecy, the proclivity for police state tactics and contempt for democratic safeguards, the blatant determination to advance the interests of those who already had so much, the efforts to politicize government services from top to bottom -- these were evidence of a mind-set rarely seen in American politics. Above all, the deception at the root of the decision to invade Iraq and the disastrous occupation that followed only confirmed my feeling that the assumption of power by Bush pointed to something deeper than a callow and entitled president surrounded by enablers and Ia-gos with dark schemes.
In 2004, as George W. Bush headed toward reelection, I began the research that would lead to this book. I resolved to grapple with questions that went beyond the sound bites of the twenty-four hour news cycle: What did the ascendancy of this frighteningly inadequate man signify? Could anything be learned from the George W. Bush phenomenon that would help us understand how we Americans choose our leaders and chart our collective course?
Certain things were already apparent. The Ira War was not, and never had been, about an imminent threat to the safety of America and its allies; even Republicans like former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan were publicly acknowledging that it was mostly about oil. George W. Bush, who had run as a moderate "uniter," had in fact done everything in his power to exacerbate the divisions in our society for political gain. As a direct result of his administration's policies, the distribution of wealth in America had been further skewed toward the wealthiest fraction of Americans at the very top. An administration headed by a Republican who preached limited government with limited powers was both shrouded in secrecy and aggressively intrusive in the name of national security.
All this was generally attributed to the actions of one man, aided and abetted by a small coterie of loyal associates. Some Bush critics talked about a larger network of backers who had nurtured Bush and were benefiting from his actions. But these allusions were general and vague, and supporting facts were few. Few of the critiques succeeded in putting the Bush phenomenon in a larger context that would help people understand what forces in America had helped to bring about this state of affairs.
Seeking answers, i crisscrossed the United States, speaking with all kinds of people -- Washington insiders and Texas muckrakers, old friends of Bush and dedicated foes, tycoons and typists. I interviewed scores of people familiar with the Bush family, many of whom had never spoken publicly (or in such detail) before. I read everything I could get my hands on, from popular histories to arcane treatises and self-published memoirs, along with obscure and moldering documents of every description. Old drilling records, campaign finance filings, and little-read oral history transcripts became my constant companions.
My Bush library grew to approximately five hundred books, which occupied an entire wall in my New York apartment. I reexamined the Bushes from all angles: their history, family dynamics, business dealings, the social world they inhabit, and the networks of associates, employees, and funders who were instrumental in their rise. I worked from the bottom up and the outside in -- questioning neighbors and factotums, ex-girlfriends and ex-employees, and hundreds of ordinary people whose personal experiences and observations came to provide and entirely new view of this purportedly overexposed dynasty.
The more I learned, the broader my questions grew. And as my research deepened, disturbing patterns coalesced.
I came to grasp why early in his presidency, George W. Bush had sought to roll back reforms designed to provide greater access to documents that shed light on America's recent past. He seemed determined to lock the file drawers. But what did those drawers contain? Could there be clues regarding the origins of George W. Bush's most damaging policies -- the rush to war in Iraq, officially sanctioned torture, CIA destruction of evidence, spying on Americans with the collusion of private corporations, head-in-the-sand dismissal of climate change, the subprime mortgage disaster, skyrocketing oil prices? Indeed there could. None of these developments looks so surprising when one considers the untold story of what came before. This book is about that secret history, and the people and institutions that created it.
Bush's mistakes -- and his biggest surely was the delusion that he could successfully lead the nation as its president -- were only the most recent chapters in a story that goes back to his father and even his grandfather. Ultimately, it finds its origin in the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, when the so-called robber barons -- whom Teddy Roosevelt called "malefactors of great wealth" -- gained control of enormous industrial, transportation, and financial empires.
Although George W. Bush styled himself something of a family rebel, and the media echoed this self-serving portrayal, to a remarkable degree George W. has followed a path laid out for him by his forebears. He went to the same schools, joined the same secret societies, and benefited from similarly murky financial arrangements. He has made the same kinds of friends and surrounded himself with people closely related to those who surrounded his father, his grandfather, and even his great-grandfather. Despite all the talk about his "Oedipal" relationship with his father, the younger Bush clung closely to the trunk of the family tree.
To my surprise, I began to see that understanding George H. W. Bush (Senior, or Poppy, as his relatives and friends call him) was really the key to understanding the son -- and not just in the simplistic, psychoanalytical terms to which some commentators have resorted.
For this reason, half of this book deals principally with Poppy Bush. It lays out the ways in which the father epitomizes the intersection of oil, finance, and sub rosa intelligence that has been a shadow force in our country for the last half century and more. This background is crucial to understanding George W. Bush. As Kevin Phillips so aptly noted, "Dealing separately with the administrations of George H. W. and George W. -- or worse, ignoring commonalities of behavior in office -- is like considering individual planets while ignoring their place within the solar system."
Building on the hidden past of George Bush the elder, I reveal how and why that most improbable national leader, George Bush the younger, was essentially cleaned up, reconditioned, and ten "managed" into becoming his father's successor in the White House. Once this is understood, it becomes clear that George W., like his father, has both benefited from and faithfully served powerful interests that have remained largely hidden from the public eye and immune to public debate.
There's a paradox here: while serving forces that operate best in the shadows, the Bushes craved for themselves a place in the spotlight. To get what they wanted and to do what they felt they must, they had to live what amounts to double lives. Even as the Bushes gained fame and power, they managed to somehow avoid careful scrutiny of their actions and purposes. So adept were they at this game that they are almost never mentioned in their colleagues' writing s-- not Senator Prescott Bush, and not United Nations representative and Republican National Committee chairman George H. W. Bush. Although Richard Nixon makes bland reference to Poppy Bush's vice presidency and presidency in his memoirs, he does not even bother to mention that Poppy served him in two top posts and held cabinet rank. It is almost as if this clan never existed until the moment it occupied the White House.
This book fills in the gaps. It chronicles the evolution of both the Bush clan and the powerful interests in represented over the last century. In detailing how George W. Bush rose to power, it challenged the accepted wisdom with regard to a number of seminal events in recent American history. And it does so with names, dates, and sources clearly spelled out. Wherever possible, I make clear the identities of those I interviewed,; virtually every informant is named.
Even some early biographers sensed that the Bushes' supposedly supporting role in history was in fact something far different. Bill Minutaglio, who wrote the first biography of George W. Bush, before he became president, shared his perceptions with me in 2004. "The Bushes, when you really begin examining them and their network, back to the founding of the country and when they set foot here, they live in the gray zone. If you think of them as part of a photograph, they're in the frame at all these watershed moments in presidential politics and at the pinnacle of finance and business power. They're right there with the Rockefellers and the Vanderbilts and the Astors, but they're not in the middle of the frame. They're off to the side in the sepia photo; they're less clear. But they are perhaps the most profound political dynasty in the history of this country."
The reason the Bushes are relevant today, even with W.'s exit from the national stage, is that the family and its colleagues and associates represent an elite that has long succeeded in subverting our democratic institutions to their own ends. And they will continue to do so unless their agenda and methods are laid bare to public scrutiny.
The story of the Bushes' rise -- and fall? -- is a story we ignore at our peril.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
http://www.bravenewbookstore.com/
Interview with Russ Baker at Buzzflash
Mark Karlin at Buzzflash just posted a new interview with Russ Baker about Family of Secrets. Here’s a taste:
BuzzFlash: What is the biggest “bombshell” in Family of Secrets?
Russ Baker: Based on early feedback, I’d say there are a number of contenders. Could be the four chapters of never-before-revealed facts surrounding the JFK assassination. Or the evidence I have uncovered suggesting a new interpretation of Watergate. Some are most intrigued by the new examples of George W. as a naughty fellow and moral hypocrite — including on the matter of abortion. And some say that my examination of W.’s military service record is especially effective in settling the dispute over whether this eager-beaver “warrior king” skipped out on his own military obligations. Finally, some are most struck by the new evidence of a cynical calculation behind George W’s so-called religious rebirth.
For me, the big story is simply the cumulative sense, based on hundreds and hundreds of fresh facts, of the extent to which elites write our history. And the realization that, as we flee the Bush years, we remain utterly in the dark about so much.
Amen, Russ, Amen.
This book is fucknuts awesome. On the last 100 pages now (out of 500, slow reader, packed book).
If I opened it now would you not understand?
you can buy it at Borders, Barnes & Noble, or any other major book store for that matter... but good for you supporting your local bookstore!
Because Russ Baker did original interviews with several dozen people for this book.
Several dozen people who are close associates of the Bushes, and more.
He digs up information out of old semi-private memoirs (self published, given to friends),
from corporate filings, and from a whole host of other sources,
and he weaves it together seemlessy, in to a big picture story that still gives staggering details, and it lays out the evidence to clearly implicate George HW Bush in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
It does this and it does it with substantial heft, and dozens of pages of footnotes.
It deconstructs Watergate and shows you how it was really an inside-job (shocker these days, right?) orchestrated by the intelligence community (which is a proxy for, and run by the elite themselves) to dethrone a man who did not really feel himself beholden to his real masters (a shadowy nexus of east coast elite bankers, Yale-ites, and of course the Bush family).
The book doesn't stop there though, it keeps going, digging deep in to the history books, including quite the look at George W. Bush, and his apparent associations with the intelligence world, the elite back-room types, the oil world, and lots of global corruption.
It's hard to see this book as NOT clearly bombshell breaking news.
SOME of this information was available before, but NEVER together, NEVER with this much insight from the author, and never this clearly written about from the stand point of a timeline that runs from mid 20th century clear on up through the present.
This guy got it ALL in to 500 pages.
At one point he even gives you the dibs that 3 of the KEY players in a Saudi money laundering operation involving the Bush clan, the CIA, and industry Fat Cats were all Masons. 2 being 32nd degree, and the 3rd being a 33rd Degree Grand Master himself.
I think it was at that point (page 330 something) that i was like, "Goddamn! This guy really is starting to see the big picture."
Its great. The only thing i'd like to see more of is tying the secret society stuff together a bit more.
His focus is clearly on the Bush family, and in things that are accountable to record (secret societies by definition falling outside that category) so i can understand that it is only mentioned in passing.
But tying together the fact that Skull & Bones, The CIA, The Elite, and in all probability the upper ranks of Masonry are ALL tied together, are infact all products of the same creature, is a key point that this book does a good job at getting to in a round about fashion, and by way of concrete, proveable, and near proveable examples using the Bush family as Target Numero Uno.
Any further questions?
If I opened it now would you not understand?
It is a good read and I hope more people read it because this is stuff that just isn't talked about anymore. The amount of references alone boggles my mind.
Anyway, I'm glad you brought this book to attention because it covers some things that I was always curious about but never could find any solid answers too.
It's difficult to see how anyone could read this and not feel the need to be more involved politically.
I'm really glad to see that there are more than a few people around this place that DO take the history of their country seriously, and ARE WILLING TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT THE PAST.
REMEMBER GEORGE ORWELL!
The Party's slogan was:
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
This isn't just a cute phrase, it is literal, and i get the feeling Orwell knew a lot more than he ever said in his books. And he said a LOT.
If you want to know something like, "who killed Kennedy", you best remember that whoever killed Kennedy, probably did it to gain power. That they were able to do so, and that they were able to MAINTAIN that power, means that by CONTROLING THE PRESENT, they are capable of rewriting history to ERASE the REAL past, and therefore TO CONTROL THE FUTURE.
It is YOUR job as a RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN to CHALLENGE AUTHORITY and QUESTION EVERYTHING.
Only then may you have a chance at understanding WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON.
This book IS WORTH YOUR TIME.
Listen to these other folks, and please read it.
Thanks
-dbts-
If I opened it now would you not understand?