January 24, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Draft Jeb Bush
A charismatic and accomplished governor can save the Republican party.
By Artur Davis
In the early months of the election year, a polarizing president with a lackluster approval rating bided his time as the opposition party unraveled. Its nominating fight dissolved into chaos as the establishment front-runner collapsed, and an insurgent with a talent for galvanizing his party’s base surged, despite persistent fears about his electoral appeal beyond the party’s hardcore. A protracted primary fight ensued, with the insurgent and the party’s resistant establishment eviscerating each other for months; by the time it ran its course, a president who seemed imminently beatable was ahead by double digits. The story ends with that same president winning by an historic margin over a party that rejected its recent past in favor of a dangerously uncertain future.
This is a recounting of the 1972 election season. If it has the feel of a premonition, it’s because Republicans look dangerously on the verge of repeating the demolition derby that so weakened Democrats that year. Mitt Romney may be a better-constructed front-runner than Ed Muskie, but he is still a flawed contender whose candidacy seems at odds with his party’s mood and whose own half-answers have made his wealth seem shadowy and amoral. Newt Gingrich may be a far better-known quantity than the hapless George McGovern, but he still seems, like McGovern, more suited to the task of revolution than political persuasion. Republicans are, and should be, very worried.
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Enter the last dream date that Republicans may have at their disposal. His name is Jeb Bush, and this time, there is a feasibility around the idea that seemed unthinkable months ago.
To be sure, the Jeb scenario will need more instability in order to flourish. The likeliest path involves Gingrich’s momentum carrying him through Florida; the February races in Arizona and Michigan dividing between Romney and Gingrich; Romney rebounding in March in moderate-leaning midwestern states such as Illinois and Wisconsin; Gingrich winning easily in the Deep South on Super Tuesday and Texas in early April, with Romney proving equally strong in New York and the rest of the Atlantic coastline, while states like Ohio and Indiana fail to resolve the split.
Imagine that California’s ultimate showdown leaves Gingrich with the slightest of edges, but with Romney remaining viable and in possession of a broader geographic base, far more internal support from GOP leadership, and a substantial chunk of delegates. To stop Gingrich, Romney might have no practical choice but to offer to throw his support to Bush, whose popularity would also implode Gingrich’s slim plurality.
Not one bit of it is implausible. Arguably, a deadlock is an entirely realistic outcome in a race where Romney’s institutional edges are considerable, but his vulnerabilities and Gingrich’s raw campaign skills are more than enough to offset that advantage. It is also all too likely that the result of a protracted bout would be two candidates so bruised that neither remains competitive with Obama. If so, there will be a sense of panic, and it is not hard to conceive that Romney could come under intense pressure to sacrifice himself to avert a November catastrophe.
The less probable outcome is that Jeb Bush would abandon a year of disclaimers to accept a draft in a brokered convention. But there are two reasons he might. The first is that an Obama landslide would devastate conservatism enough that it might be irreparable for a generation. One doesn’t have to subscribe to Gingrich’s Manichean rhetoric to concede that an Obama sweep would, for the first time in 76 years, institute government-centered, redistributionist economics as the country’s central governing philosophy. It would be, after all, the agenda that Obama and congressional Democrats had campaigned on, in contrast to the deliberately muted, ideologically vague platforms that elected Carter, Clinton, and Obama in 2008; or the growth-oriented, business friendly liberalism that JFK and LBJ embodied.
Second, Bush would have a pathway to victory in November. His brand of reform-oriented conservatism might actually be his party’s only pathway: Unlike Romney, whose leadership of Massachusetts produced one signature achievement — a hodgepodge of a health-care law that he likely wishes he could take back — Bush’s legacy is an issue that Republicans ought to own but are ignoring, education reform. He also turned Florida into a national laboratory for controlling health-care costs and reining in medical tort liability, both soft spots in Obama’s record.
At the same time, Bush has revealed a capacity for coalition-building that has eluded Gingrich. He is a hero of the conservative base who has had remarkable electoral appeal to Jewish and Hispanic voters. He combines support for a modified version of the DREAM Act with backing stronger border security — a middle ground that is both tough-minded and assimilationist — and happens to be entering his fourth decade of marriage to a Hispanic woman. It goes without saying that Bush gives Republicans the best shot of removing Florida from the Democratic column, and winning states with a strong Latino presence such as Arizona and Colorado.
The fact is that Jeb Bush bent Florida, a famously interest-group-ridden state, in a rightward direction; that’s an accomplishment Romney can’t begin to claim vis-à-vis Massachusetts. Bush is not just an authentic movement conservative, but a groundbreaker on an array of issues that drive votes, such as accountability for teachers and reining in the costs of private health insurance. While his record has blemishes that Democrats would exploit, from his stint in the Eighties lobbying for southern-Florida business interests to his ill-timed tenure at Lehman Brothers in 2007, this Bush is an adept, articulate campaigner who is unlikely to be tied in knots defending his history. Also, the statute of limitations seems to have expired on the ugliest sentiments around the last Bush presidency.
Jeb Bush should measure his reluctance against the risks looming for his party and, potentially, his country. The fact is that his party could be staring at an unavoidable disaster unless, in the interests of saving it, its best candidate comes out of retirement.
— Artur Davis served four terms in Congress representing Alabama’s 7th district.
THE GREEN HILTON HEAD AGREEMENT - 1963
2008 November 28
from
Ayemmo Website
By 1961, Keynes predictions of a world monetary crisis began to become a reality.
This problem was brought about by the lack of sufficient currency (especially US Dollars) in world circulation to support the rapidly expanding international commerce. The World needed US Dollars beyond the capacity of the good faith and credit of the United States Taxpayer in order to facilitate trade.
It was not possible to break the Bretton Woods
treaty due to the possible damage of the stable core of the world’s economy
as this had the potential of leading to another major war. To compound the
problem, the majority of dollars in circulation were in private banks,
multinational corporations, private businesses and individual bank accounts.
In 1963 the gold that had been entrusted to the care of President Soekarno
was recalled by the Nations to underpin the issuance of further US Dollars
in order to further facilitate international trade. Under this Agreement,
Soekarno (as the International Trustee Holder of the Gold) began the process
of repositioning the gold that had earlier been entrusted to the care of the
Indonesian People, back into the banking system to create a fractional
backing for the US Dollar.
Initially this was managed under the arbitration of the Tripartite Gold Commission in The Hague as per the decisions of the International Community through their Government representatives at the Innsbruck/Schweitzer Conference and its later revisions.
Under the agreement signed between President Soekarno and President John Kennedy, was that control of these assets would cede automatically to US upon the fall from power of President Soekarno.
This occurred in 1967. The potential of this agreement led to Executive Order 11110 issued July 1963, which would have provided the Department of the Treasury the power to issue United States Dollars. Within two weeks after signing the Green Hilton Agreement which would have then enabled consolidation of EO 11110.
Kennedy was assassinated a few days after his
signing of the Green Hilton Agreement. With the death of Kennedy, the
authority granted to the Treasury was never taken up.
Soekarno was awarded a 2.5% interest in the assets by the International
Community in return for his services. He willed all the documents of
guarantee and obligation to his Teacher ***** ***** ******** and his heir,
** **** *** ********.
To this day, these agreements stand to be honored (which was accommodated in
full under the “RESPECTING THE RIGHTS TREATY - BANGKOK - 2003). The assets
were placed into the International Collateral Combined Accounts that form
the Global Debt Facility.
While an apparently innocuous document to read, in it’s proper and full
interpretation, The Green Hilton Agreement is one of the most profound
agreements made between Presidents of any two countries within the twentieth
century, and most probably, in the history of the world, particularly so as
this agreement was made between a President of the United States and the
Trustee of the hidden, but combined wealth of the world.
These assets are not the property of the United
States, but centralized assets under the authority of a centralized system,
to be used as independently deemed to be for the better benefit of the
World.
Original Message —–
From: PZ
To: <bellringer@fourwinds10.com>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:56 AM
Subject: Wanta Fraud and Whistleblower
*Regarding: Wanta Fraud and Mr. Whistleblower*
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_static/general/contact_us.php
FROM: Mr. Whistleblower
TO: bellringer@fourwinds10.com
SENT: Tuesday, Mardch 04, 2008 11:56 p.m.
SUBJECT: Wanta Fraud
Regardless if one agrees with the account given by Mr. Whistleblower, there is one sentence which fails to connect to the other parts of the story.
He writes:
“At the same time, and there are two prominent points here, successive US Governments from 1963, following the execution of the *Green Hilton Treaty by President Kennedy and President Soekarno* (Note: Kennedy was assassinated 10 days after the signing of this Treaty), refused to recognize the Combined International Accounts and the Green Hilton Treaty.”
As I have seen the Green Hilton Treaty (full title: Agreement Green Hilton Memorial Building Geneve and Certificate of Geneve, signed by 3 persons, witnessed by 9 persons) some years back, I am wondering what the connection between the Wanta case and the Green Hilton Treaty might be? Can you forward my question to Mr. Whistleblower and act as a go-between for his replay?
Thanks and best regards
PZ
(Response)
—– Original Message —–
From: Whistleblower
To: Bellringer
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Wanta Fraud and Whistleblower
Dear Mr Bellringer,
In response to the question from PZ.
Dear PZ:
Thank you for your question via fourwinds10.com.
Our response on same follows:
The comments in question do not relate directly to the other content. They are meant to clearly indicate that the US, by not recognizing the Green Hilton Treaty, actually deny that the assets held by President Soekarno are part of the Combined International Collateral Accounts of the Global Debt Facility, thus implying that they still belong to the original Owners (hereditary or otherwise).
The fact is that assets held by Soekarno were not owned by Indonesia, its’ numerous Sultanates, or otherwise, but by several other countries, Royal Families, etc. which were deposited in Indonesia commencing 1921, which is the very same period as assets were deposited in The Philippines.
It was the Japanese who were charged by the World’s Nations to undertake the excavation of tunnels, mines, bunkers, etc, and deposit assets within same as and when then were shipped to Indonesia.
It is common knowledge that over the years the US has deliberately broadcast over the Airwaves, that they are the real owners and that anyone locating or finding any assets should report same to the US Embassy immediately. This was a ploy by the US to locate assets and ultimately steal them. Not recognizing the Green Hilton Treaty, which was relevant to Indonesia and President Soekarno, allowed the US to lay claim to the assets and thus steal / plunder them for their own purpose.
Additionally, the US, by its denials and non-recognition of the Green Hilton Treaty, opened the doors for descendants of President Soekarno, plus many others who were appointed as Secondary Holders, Administrators, Sub-secondary Holders / Custodians etc by President Soekarno (Note: we hold a full list of these people, which is embodied within President Soekarno’s records, Volume 4), to lay claim to the assets held in Indonesia.
The very same situation arises with The Philippines and other countries. In Russia alone, during the Yeltsin era, President Clinton claimed that the Gold deposited in Russia was actually owned by the US. Thousands of MT of Gold were moved out of Russia by train into Switzerland and Germany, under orders of President Yeltsin.
This movement was monitored and President Yeltsin was held to order on this. His condition to step down from the Presidency of the Russian Federation, entailed a Full International Immunity from prosecution for his criminal acts of Theft of Assets from the Collateral Accounts in conjunction with others (These acts are beginning to come back and bite the other persons involved quite viciously).
Coming back to the point of issue. The statement was made as an example to indicate the tactics used by the US to steal, illegally use, plunder, etc the assets of the Combined International Collateral Accounts. The example was considered to be the best possible example as it linked to a situation in the US which is still questionable today. Other examples could not be used as much as this, and corrective actions against such illegal use, abuse, theft etc, are all “Classified”.
In respect of your statement claiming you have seen the Green Hilton Treaty. We do not dispute your claim on this, but advise as to caution. The reason being is that there are at least Three (3) known forgeries of this Treaty in existence. There may be more. All differ from each other and all of them do lead to confusion with those who make claims of having read the Treaty.
It is not known who composed any of the forgeries, although guesses are abound.
The “Real” Treaty states, that an agreement has been reached, and shall be referred to as a “Treaty” between Sovereign Nations, by the President of the United States and the President of Indonesia, that Assets of the Combined International Collateral Accounts pursuant to Treaties ……. (numerous Treaties referred to) ……. and held under Custodianship within Indonesia, shall be transferred to ……… (Name of location in the USA) ……… and utilized by the USA to fractionally back the International Currency of the US Dollar. Note, the content of the treaty actually states several further issues, but the above is the main issue.
In return for President Soekarno’s cooperation in this matter, conjointly with the Owner / Sole Arbiter, Indonesia were given financial Hereditary rights equal to 2.5% of the value of the assets, to be used within Indonesia to assist in the development of the country.
Those rights and with full reference to the Green Hilton Treaty were confirmed within the “Recognizing the Rights” Treaty, Bangkok, Thailand, dated 2003.
You will also find reference to all of this within various Schweitzer / Innsbruck Conventions.
Needless to say, the assets have yet to be used for the benefit of Indonesia. Some have been moved illegally, some stolen / plundered, but basically the two aforementioned Treaties remain ineffective and unrecognized by the US, whom, through the Federal Reserve prevent movement, allotment, allocation, or otherwise of same for use not only for Indonesia, but for every other country in the World and the People.
Many Indonesians, as with Filipinos, travel the World holding various Gold and Platinum Bullion Certificates, claiming they are the owners of the Bullion, only to be arrested and incarcerated. This will continue until the Truth comes out.
There is no direct connection to the Wanta case, as may or may not have been implied. The statement was used as an example to indicate to others what mechanisms are used by the US and others to illegal use, steal, plunder, etc, assets of the Combined International Collateral Accounts.
We apologize if this lead to a misunderstanding, as we did not purposely or intentionally design this statement to be misleading.
There are many factors connected to the Combined International Collateral Accounts, illegal activities, theft, plunder, etc that are all inter-related in one way or another whereby to isolate one issue away from all the others is not easy. To understand the enormity of the situation one has to understand the whole picture and appreciate the relativity of one part to other parts.
We do not purposely or intentionally restrict illegal activities to the US, although the US is responsible for a substantial majority of the problems involved. Other Countries, Central Banks, Rogue elements of Intelligence Agencies, Commercial Banks, individuals, have also been active in the area of Theft, Plunder, Illegal use.
We hope that this has satisfactory explained the statement we have made, and we thank you for your interest in same. Please feel free to seek further answers should you find the need to do so.
Kindest regards.
Whistleblower.

MEET THE GOLDEN ARCHES McDONALDS FAMILY
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________HOW THE US CREATED AL QAEDA
July 2008
How deep does the rabbit hole really go?
Every time I dig for the truth I realize that the controlling economic forces are far more omnipresent, insidious and unaccountable than I can truly comprehend. Those that have been thoroughly corrupted by power and greed have become blind to the connected nature of all life on Earth. There are synaptic pathways in their brains that may never again be accessible. Still, I'm praying for them to wake up to their own "Scrooge Moment" and, like it was Christmas morning, shift all their resources towards sustainability. (T. Boone Pickens, George Soros, and Warren Buffet might be the beginning of this unlikely phenomenon)
Till that miracle occurs, be wary of any information disseminated and / or financed by Exxon Mobil and the fossil fuel industry, Halliburton and the war for profit industry, Fox News and the news for profit networks, The Pharmaceutical industry, GM and the auto makers, George Bush, Dick Cheney and all members of the current administration as well as many members of Congress. For higher quality BS, and less of it, try C-Span, NPR and PBS, the BBC, independent media sources such as Free Speech TV, The Huffington Post and independent news papers, Senator Bernie Sanders, Congressmen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.
In 1979 Jimmy Carter initiated a national energy policy to have more than 20% of our energy from renewable sources by the year 2000. He put solar panels on the White House. When Ronald Reagan took office, he promptly removed those and handed our country back to the oil companies and the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower had cautioned us against. (not that they ever really let us "have" the country)
In 1996, in response to California Clean Air Legislation, fully electric cars were on the road in California with the supportive infrastructure initiated. The Bush administration, along with the oil companies and car manufacturers, sued the state of California. All those electric cars have been recalled and subsequently crushed. The patents are now owned by the oil companies. The technologies supported by this administration, ethanol and hydrogen fuel cell cars, are slight of hand tricks to keep the profits in the hands of the oil companies. Increased corn-based ethanol production is very unsound environmentally and economically. And the hydrogen fuel-cell cars may never really arrive, and they may never surpass the fully electric cars produced in 1996 in terms of overall environmental footprint. The Japanese Water (HHO) Car may be a leap in the right direction. Regardless, conservation is by far, the #1 priority of any rational energy policy. That should be repeated, conservation is the #1 priority of any rational energy policy.
What I believe it will take to rescue the United States economy and help lead the world towards a peaceful, sustainable global community is a "New Deal for the 21st Century". Instead of retrofitting auto factories for tank production, we will be retrofitting our entire infrastructure to a sustainable environmentally-based infrastructure. I am personally preparing to assist in job training programs and helping people to live a "simpler" lifestyle. Once this begins it will be remarkably easy to assimilate. The intellectual resources in this country are vast and comprehensive in this regard: Environmental Economic "Monsters", Lester Brown and William McDonough just for starters. We will also need a new approach to justice. As more and more information regarding the usurpation of the US resources and reputation for private gain surfaces, we will have to hold our current President, Vice President, House Speaker, several corporations and many co-conspirators accountable. We need to innovate here. Throughout history when the "good guys" have ousted the "bad guys", the good guys have turned into the bad guys. - If you have to become evil to fight evil, then evil wins… - The time is coming to offer amnesty for restitution and the truth, and a return to representative democracy. To be the purveyors of real justice we will need to remember that any of us might have succumbed to the trappings of enormous wealth and the illusions of "power".
Before this administration leaves office, they will most likely incite an incident with Iran to keep their hold on the public consciousness. Watch out for that. Lawyers for the international community may already be preparing to file suit against Bush and Cheney for war crimes.
After repeatedly reviewing tapes of the 9/11 building collapses, my opinion as a physicist is that there is only a very small probability that they came down from something other than a controlled demolition…
We have been lied to from the highest levels of government and business all the way down to our living rooms. "They" have controlled the flow of money and information at a level beyond what any fiction writer could conceive. None of us really knows the whole truth of anything. Period.
What we do know is that what we do matters. If we keep believing and working towards a rational sustainable society we just might get there.
"All of us together under the same sun."
The Big Guys Work For the Carlyle Group
What exactly does it do? To find out, we peeked down the rabbit hole.
FORTUNE
Monday,
March 18,
2002
By Melanie
Warner
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=206684
Are you the sort of person who believes in conspiracies--the Trilateral Commission secretly runs the world, that sort of thing? Well, then, here's a company for you. The Carlyle Group, a Washington, D.C., buyout firm, is one of the nation's largest defense contractors. It has billions of dollars at its disposal and employs a few important people. Maybe you've heard of them: former Secretary of State Jim Baker, former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, and former White House budget director Dick Darman. Wait, we're just getting warmed up. William Kennard, who recently headed the FCC, and Arthur Levitt, who just left the SEC, also work for Carlyle. As do former British Prime Minister John Major and former Philippines President Fidel Ramos. Let's see, are we forgetting anyone? Oh, right, former President George Herbert Walker Bush is on the payroll too.
The firm also has about a dozen investors from Saudi Arabia, including, until recently, the bin Laden family. Yes, those bin Ladens. Is it any wonder that Internet sites with names like paranoiamagazine.com are rife with stories about Carlyle's shadowy, corrupt global network? And it's not just wackos. "Be careful," a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley wrote in an e-mail when he learned I was doing a story on Carlyle. "The rabbit hole runs really deep on this one.''
Leaving aside the conspiracies for a moment, what exactly does the Carlyle Group do? Start with the basics: It's one of the world's largest and most powerful private-equity investment firms, meaning it buys and sells privately held companies and divisions of large public companies for big profits. Founded in 1987 (and named after the favorite New York hotel of the firm's first investors, the Mellon family), Carlyle has raised a total of $14 billion from investors in just the past five years--more than any other private-equity firm has attracted in the same period, except the Blackstone Group and CSFB Private Equity. Profits, too, have been pretty terrific. Not counting the standard 20% cut that goes to Carlyle's partners and managing directors, the firm's average annual rate of return has been 36%.
It's quite a success story, and to understand how Carlyle pulled it off, FORTUNE spent a month and a half peeking down that rabbit hole. One conclusion seems clear: While most of the conspiracy theories are amusingly overblown, this is a firm that's been built on the backs of Bush and other big shots who have lent Carlyle their names, their golden networks of friends in high places, and their insights into how government works. It wasn't until Carlucci joined, for instance, that Carlyle really took off. Founded by David Rubenstein, a lawyer who worked as an aide in the Carter White House, Bill Conway, a former CFO at MCI, and Dan D'Aniello, a former finance executive for Marriott, Carlyle early on invested in a motley assortment of deals--buying an airline-catering business, a health-food chain, and a biotech firm, for example. In 1990, Carlucci got the trio interested in the $150-billion-a-year U.S. defense industry, making introductions to companies that would turn into some of Carlyle's most lucrative investments. Rubenstein quickly realized the wisdom of recruiting a former Secretary of Defense and followed it up with a former Secretary of State, then a former White House budget director, and on and on.
The revolving door has long been a fact of life in Washington, but Carlyle has given it a new spin. Instead of toiling away for a trade organization or consulting firm for a measly $250,000 a year, former government officials can rake in serious cash by getting equity cuts on corporate deals. Several of the onetime government officials who have hooked up with Carlyle--Carlucci, Baker, and Darman, in particular--have made millions. Carlyle isn't the only organization doing it: Metropolitan West Financial in Los Angeles recently hired Al Gore to help with tech deals and make introductions overseas, for example. But Carlyle, which pioneered the idea, seems more adept at it than any other firm.
Unlike other private-equity groups, Carlyle concentrates on companies funded by the government, such as defense contractors, or those affected by government regulation, such as telecommunications firms, and then hires people with relevant government experience. As the company once put it in a brochure, "We invest in niche opportunities created in industries heavily affected by changes in governmental policies." Doing so, of course, raises the ultimate rabbit-hole question: Is Carlyle's approach just a smart twist on good old business networking or a step over the line into an ethical twilight zone in which the public trust is broken?