Jan 17, 2003 Enron & Alliance Capital
Manhattan Institute/Alliance Capital Management/Enron and the
Bush
administration:
It just keeps getting deeper
by Robert Lederman
<http://baltech.org/lederman/>
Last week I
sent out an essay about GW Bush's extensive ties to the
Manhattan Institute
[MI] a far right think tank founded by the CIA. Now the
South Florida
Sentinel has published a story detailing the think tanks ties
to Jeb Bush and
to Alliance Capital Management, Enron's top shareholder SEE:
<http://www.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8663286-0.html>
ALSO
see below for the Sun-Sentinel article, my previous article and many
other
quotes on MI]. It turns out that ACM is run by the top board members of
MI
while MI is financed by JP Morgan/Chase - the bank behind both Enron and
GW
Bush.
If you got my press release from 3/1/2002 [available at my
website
<http://baltech.org/lederman/> ] you'll note that
my attorneys just subpoenaed
MI's chairman of the board, Roger Hertog. Please
let me know if you get this
message and please pass it along to any media or
activist contacts.
From: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-fjeb02mar02.story?coll=sf>
la%2Dnews%2Dflorida
Praise
for Bush policy questioned
By Tamara Lytle
and Lori Horvitz Washington
Bureau
March 2, 2002
"WASHINGTON · Gov. Jeb Bush, who has staked much
of his legacy on improving
education in Florida, a few weeks ago gleefully
touted a study praising his
school policies. The report by the Manhattan
Institute think tank "provides
further evidence that Florida is truly making
a positive difference in
providing greater educational choice for Floridians
and improving student
academic achievement," Bush said in a Jan. 22 statement
shortly after the
study was released. What he didn't mention was that the
chairman of the
Manhattan Institute also is a top executive of Alliance
Capital Management,
a Wall Street investment firm that lost almost $300
million of Florida's
pension money by investing in Enron stock as it tumbled.
Another Alliance
Capital executive, Lewis Sanders, also serves on the think
tank's board.
That relationship has led to conflict-of-interest questions
about Bush's
role in protecting Florida's pension fund, because he is one of
three
trustees charged with overseeing the state's retirement system. The
Florida
pension fund kept Alliance Capital on the job, earning millions in
fees,
even though it had invested poorly for 18 months. Alliance Capital was
fired
in December after its disastrous decision to invest more and more in
Enron
stock as the price was dropping. Now critics are saying Alliance
Capital
should have been fired sooner and are suspicious that Bush may have
not done
enough to monitor the company connected to such a glowing report of
his
education plan. The study, released Jan. 22, was one of two in the past
year
by the conservative-supported Manhattan Institute praising Bush's
education
reforms. It singled out Florida as one of the country's leaders of
school
choice under Bush. "When you have political oversight of things like
state
pension funds, the fact the governor is getting political support from
them,
it definitely raises a question of whether there was a quid pro quo
there,"
said Bill Allison of the nonpartisan ethics watchdog Center for
Public
Integrity. "It looks like the ulterior motive was cozying up to the
governor
of Florida to keep a business arrangement beneficial to them
going."...The
Manhattan Institute studies were written by Jay Greene of Fort
Lauderdale, a
senior fellow of the think tank. Florida's State Department of
Education
paid for part of the February study; the think tank also
contributed. The
chairman of the think tank is Roger Hertog, who also is vice
chairman of
Alliance Capital. Greene said he doesn't know Hertog and was not
pressured
to report favorably on Bush's plan. "He may be chairman of the
board of the
Manhattan Institute but he's not my boss in any real sense,"
Greene said.
Tamara Lytle can be reached at 202-824-8255 or tlytle@tribune.com
<mailto:tlytle@tribune.com>
Copyright © 2002, South Florida
Sun-Sentinel
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Axis of Evil: Another Manhattan Institute Slogan in Service to
the NWO by
Robert Lederman
The man who coined GW's now infamous
slogan, "Axis of Evil" was a senior
fellow at the Manhattan Institute (MI)
before joining the Bush
administration. He's just been dropped from the Bush
payroll according to
the Washington Times [see article below]. MI also coined
the slogan,
"Compassionate Conservatism" for GW, who publicly claims
the
Rockefeller-funded organizations' influence on his thinking is, "second
only
to the Holy Bible".
What is the Manhattan Institute?
MI is
a right wing think tank founded in 1978 by William Casey,
Bush/Reagan's CIA
director. Following WWII Casey helped bring thousands of
former Nazis
involved in eugenics and the Holocaust to the U.S. As CIA
director he later
funded bin Laden and Co. with billions in arms, terrorist
training and cash
and was also a key player in arming the Contras.
MI is funded by JP
Morgan/Chase bank (owned by David Rockefeller) and by
pharmaceutical
companies (Pfizer and Lilly) directly connected to
Rockefeller, Bush senior
and many of the current Bush administration
officials. Bush senior was
director of Eli Lilly in the late 70's. Bush
Budget director Mitch Daniels
was also a Lilly senior executive. Donald
Rumsfeld formerly headed Searle
Pharmaceuticals. All of these companies
depend in large part for their
products on research originally done by the
IG Farben chemical cartel in Nazi
Germany.
Rockefeller's Chase bank was among Hitler's biggest U.S.
supporters before
and during WWII. The Rockefeller families' Standard Oil of
NJ was half owner
of IG Farben - the industrial base of the entire Third
Reich. GW Bush's
grandfather, Prescott Bush and Prescott's father-in-law
George Herbert
Walker (who GW is named after) were Wall Street bankers whose
fortune was
made operating and financing shipping companies, banks and steel
foundries
for the Nazi regime.
MI's most famous alumni after Rudy
Giuliani is Charles Murray author of "The
Bell Curve" a modern classic of
eugenics. The Bell Curve popularized the
idea that Blacks are genetically
inferior in intelligence to Whites as a
justification for eliminating
welfare, increasing so-called quality of life
arrests, limiting parole,
taking children from Black families etc. Murray
was a paid consultant on
Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson's welfare program
and is a spokesman for
the Federalist Society, which has direct ties to a
number of current U.S.
Supreme Court judges.
Thompson's #2 man on welfare reform was Jason
Turner, who Rudy Giuliani
later hired to head up NYC's welfare reform. Turner
actually quoted the
motto from the gates of Auschwitz to explain Giuliani's
workfare policy and
was later forced to apologize. Rudy Giuliani also claims
to get all of his
ideas directly from MI. Many of his policy ideas are
directly based on
Murray's books.
MI has spearheaded a decades long
effort to make the goals of eugenics
respectable again. The Bush family, the
Harriman family (the Wall Street
business partners of Bush in financing
Hitler) and the Rockefeller family
are the elite of the American eugenics
movement.
Axis of Evil. You'll find the center of that axis right here in
NYC at the
Manhattan Institute.
To verify that David Frum is
associated with MI see:
<http://www.aei.org/bradley/bl060799.htm>
"Where
Did the Sixties Come From? By David Frum Senior Fellow at the
Manhattan
Institute."
Or do a search at the MI website on David
Frum
manhattan-institute.org
There are hundreds of pages of documents
related to him.
Hundreds of mainstream media quotes on the Manhattan
Institute, Bush,
Giuliani, the CIA, Chase Bank and the connection of them all
to Nazism,
eugenics and 9/11 will be found in the articles at:
<http://baltech.org/lederman/>
At the end of
the eugenics article below are a sample of these quotes which
I've spent
eight years compiling.
Excerpted from THE WASHINGTON TIMES
2/26/2002
<http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&ArticleID=20020226-12>
681279
'Axis
of evil' writer leaves Bush's staff
author: Robert Stacy McCain
"David
Frum, credited with authoring the headline "axis of evil" phrase in
President
Bush's State of the Union address, has left the White House
speechwriting
staff.
"It has been the experience of a lifetime and it's been the honor of
a
lifetime to be here during this presidency," Mr. Frum said in a
telephone
interview yesterday. "I leave with nothing but the highest regard
for all of
my colleagues."...Mr. Frum specifically denied commentator Robert
Novak's
claim, made yesterday on CNN's "Inside Politics," that he was ousted
from
the speechwriting team because the president was angered by an e-mail
from
Mr. Frum's wife that became public this month.
Author Danielle
Crittenden e-mailed friends after the Jan. 29 State of
the Union address
expressing "wifely pride" that her husband had contributed
the "axis of evil"
phrase. Mrs. Crittenden's e-mail was published in an
Internet journal by
writer Timothy Noah...As for his role in the "axis of
evil" speech, Mr. Frum
said: "I contributed language to the president's
speech. That is what I was
paid to do. But what matters is not the language
that is proposed to the
president; what matters is the language the
president decides to use. ... The
words become important only because the
president uses them."
He praised
Mr. Bush, saying, "I began [the White House job] thinking he
would be a good
president, but I go thinking he's proven himself to be one
of the great
presidents of American history."
NY Times June 12, 2000
Bush Culls
Campaign Theme From Conservative Thinkers
"Gov. George W. Bush has said his
political views have been shaped by the
work of Myron Magnet of the Manhattan
Institute."
NY Times 5/12/97 Manhattan Institute Has Nudged New York
Rightward
"...the institute was founded as a free-market education and
research
organization by William Casey, who then went off to head the
Central
Intelligence Agency in the Reagan Administration."
>From
The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders, New Press [pg 132]
"The
fund raising arm of the Free Europe Committee [a CIA front] was The
Crusade
for Freedom for which a young actor named Ronald Reagan was a
leading
spokesman and publicist. The Crusade for Freedom was used to launder
money to
support a program run by Bill Casey, the future CIA director,
called the
International Refugee Committee in New York [aka International
Rescue
Committee], which allegedly coordinated the exfiltration of Nazis
from
Germany to the United States where they were expected to assist
the
government in fighting Communism...[pg 142]...The Ford Foundation
gave
$500,000 to Bill Casey's International Rescue Committee and
substantial
grants to another CIA front, the World Assembly of Youth...the
convergence
between the Rockefeller billions and the U.S. government exceeded
even that
of the Ford Foundation ."
NY Daily News 12/7/98 Chase Banked
On Nazis - Report
"The New York-based bank controlled by the Rockefeller
family closed Jewish
accounts even before the Germans ordered them to do so
and did business with
the Nazis while they were sending Jews to the gas
chambers, Newsweek
magazine reports in this week's edition. And while the
U.S. was at war with
the Nazis, Chase also apparently helped German banks do
business with their
overseas branches, the magazine reported...The
relationship between Chase
and the Nazis apparently was so cozy that Carlos
Niedermann, the Chase
branch chief in Paris, wrote his supervisor in
Manhattan that the bank
enjoyed "very special esteem" with top German
officials and "a rapid
expansion of deposits." Niedermann's letter was
written in May 1942 - five
months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and
the U.S. also went to war
with Germany...And subsidiaries of Ford and General
Motors have been accused
of forcing thousands of Jews, Poles and others to
work as slave laborers."
Boston Sunday Globe 2/22/98
"The Manhattan
Institute clearly has become the force, and there is no progr
essive force to
counter it. There isn't even a debate.' "The mayor has a
very close working
relationship with the Manhattan Institute," Giuliani's
communications
director, Crystine Lategano, said...Another sign of how much
New York has
changed: The most influential source of political ideas is a
conservative
think tank that was founded by [William Casey] Margaret
Thatcher's mentor and
Ronald Reagan's spymaster."
The Hard Heart of Poverty, 4/3/2001
Washington Post
"His name is Myron Magnet. Eight years ago he published a
book called "The
Dream and the Nightmare," which George W. Bush has called
the most
influential book -- aside from the Bible -- that he's ever read. The
new
president's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, has declared "The
Dream
and the Nightmare" a "road map" to Bush's attitudes on the role
of
government. Magnet, 56, has also written columns defining
compassionate
conservatism for the Wall Street Journal and for City Journal,
the
provocative urban policy magazine he edits for the neoconservative
Manhattan
Institute...Giuliani, who says he often has drawn on Magnet's
"searching"
writings, goes further: A "tyranny of political correctness
rules
intellectual life" in New York, he says. "It's like the
Spanish
Inquisition."
"Education and Welfare: Meeting the
Challenge
A Message from CCI Chairman, Mayor Stephen Goldsmith
[CCI is a
division of Manhattan Institute]
America is in the midst of an urban
renaissance...CCI's April
conference "Next Steps in Welfare Reform"
highlighted just how far we've
come. The conference brought together public
officials like Wisconsin
Governor Tommy Thompson [GW Bush's Sec. of Health
and Human Welfare] and
scholars like Dr. Charles Murray [author of The Bell
Curve] to discuss how
governments and private groups have reduced dependency
and increased
self-sufficiency...Fifteen years after the Manhattan Institute
published
Charles Murray's landmark study of American welfare policy, Losing
Ground,
the presentations showed that ideas once seen as radical now form
the
mainstream of the welfare debate."
"The Bush family fortune came
from the Third Reich." -John Loftus, former US
Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes
investigator and President of the Florida
Holocaust Museum quoted in the
Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000
<http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115>
<http://www.jewishxpress.com/nazisinbushs1988campaing/>
Philadelphia
Inquirer 9/10/98 David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of
several with
possible Nazi links," 9/10/98
>From an announcement on the MI website
in 1999
<http://www.manhattan-institute.org/>
Center
for Civic Innovation Welfare Conference Held at the Manhattan
Institute
Topic: "Next Steps in Welfare Reform."
Participants: [a partial
list]
Charles Murray (Author of Losing Ground; American Enterprise
Institute),
Jason Turner (Commissioner, NYC Human Resources Administration)
April 14,
1999 New York
From: The Manhattan Institute
website
Summer 2000
Book review: "The Journal That Saved the
City"
<http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_pi-the_journal_that_saved.htm>
"The
City Journal [MI's quarterly magazine] is important not only because it
has
played a key role in the urban renaissance of recent years. It is
important,
too, for the lessons it provides other think-tanks. These
institutions, some
of them based in Washington and focused on one aspect or
another of national
domestic and foreign policy, others concentrating on
regional affairs or, as
with the Manhattan Institute, on policy at the state
and local level, are
rapidly replacing our universities as homes for
scholars who seek to escape
the stultifying politically correct atmosphere
of campus life. In the case of
the Manhattan Institute, we have it to thank
not only for the City Journal
but for supporting the research of such
leading scholars as Charles Murray,
whose Losing Ground has gone from a
shockingly radical prescription for
welfare reform to mainstream public
policy in a few short years...To read, or
in this reviewer's case, to reread
the 35 articles reproduced here is to be
reminded of why the City Journal
has become the bible of New York mayor Rudy
Giuliani, whose annual "State of
the City Speeches" so closely follow City
Journal articles that Magnet could
easily win a plagiarism suit.
"
>From the Manhattan Institute website
M.I. people and ideas in
the Bush Administration . . .
"John DiIulio has been named Director of the
newly created White House
Office of Faith-based and Community
Initiatives.
Stephen Goldsmith has been named Special Advisor to the
President for
Faith-based and Community Initiatives and the board of the
Corporation for
National Services.
David Frum has been named Special
Assistant to the President for Economic
Speech Writing. He is the author of
How We Got Here: The 70's.
Abigail Thernstrom, Senior Fellow since 1993,
appointed to the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights | PRESS RELEASE. She is
co-author of the highly
acclaimed book, America in Black and White: One
Nation, Indivisible. (Simon
& Schuster, 1997)
Myron Magnet's The Dream
and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the
Underclass is "The book that
helped shape Bush's message"
Walter Olson, MI Senior Fellow since 1986,
appointed to the U.S. Justice
Department Transition Advisory
Committee
Karl Rove Read about Karl Rove and litigation reform on
Overlawyered.com.
He is the author of two influential books, The Litigation
Explosion and The
Excuse Factory.
Lawrence Lindsey, President Bush's chief
economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey,
while a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan
Institute, wrote The Growth
Experiment: How the New Tax Policy is
Transforming the U. S. Economy (Basic
Books, 1990)."
Village Voice
8/8/2000 Uncle Shrub's Cabin
"Absent in the sticky Philadelphia heat was the
drumbeat of the
fire-breathing, nay-saying Christian Right. In its place,
singing the
praises of the Jesus-influenced candidate and following a script
laid out by
the Manhattan Institute, were Reverend Herbert H. Lusk II, the
former
"Praying Tailback" for the Philadelphia Eagles, whose Greater Exodus
Baptist
Church had been transformed into a Republican revivalist stomping
ground,
and Stephen Goldsmith, the ex-mayor of Indianapolis, who is Dubya's
main
domestic-policy adviser. In June, Reverend Lusk told a GOP
platform-drafting
committee in Billings, Montana, that private, faith-based
groups, such as
his People for People, are better purveyors of social-welfare
services than
government welfare agencies. "The fact is, we are there we do
it better, and
we do it cheaper," Reverend Lusk said. In the background on
Sunday,
thundering the gospel of the black church, was a mass choir. After
an
inspiring musical opening, the social scientists from the
Manhattan
Institute rolled out their charts and reported that kids who go to
church in
poor neighborhoods do fewer drugs and thus, churches, mosques,
and
synagogues "should be supported as uniquely qualified agencies of
social
control that matter a great deal in the lives of adolescents in
America's
most disorganized and impoverished communities."
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