We're All Republicans Now. We're Either Rich Republicans. Or We Are Banana Repub

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Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:49:28 EST

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A must read

Thanks for this article, Gordon. (gbet) This is one of the most

important articles I have read this year. I put it in the top three.

It is a must read for everyone. It's a little difficult to get through

some of it, but it's worth it to continue. I've made bold and bigger

print in some areas to emphasize points. If you get a little bored,

please keep reading. Your life may depend upon it. You need to send

this on to bush people also. Economics 101 would help to understand

this, but this guy does a good job explaining it even without. You

simply MUST read this.

 

I sometimes say if you have time for only one article today, this is

the one. I'll say if you have time for one article this year, this is

the one. S

 

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When he was asked what Bushonomics was, Senior replied by saying --

Bushonomics is the continuous consolidation of money and power into

higher, tighter and righter hands.

And this is how the Bushonian agenda was advanced in 2005...

 

It was George Bush Senior, who said that the people are nothing more than

fodder for the schemes and ambitions of those that govern them.

 

American author Sinclair Lewis said that fascism would come to the

United States

wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross

 

 

http://www.almartinraw.com/

 

 

 

We're All Republicans Now. We're Either Rich Republicans. Or We Are

Banana Republicans...

by Al Martin

 

 

(1-2-06) The year 2005 has been another stellar year for the top 20%

of the United States of America. It can also be reported that the

goal, or the " magic number " has finally been reached. That number

relates to what George Bush Senior said in 1992 †" the goal of having

the top 1% of the nation controlling 70% of all the private wealth in

the nation. That number is even a little deceptive because that

private wealth also includes " public wealth " because of the

concentration of holdings of U.S. Treasury and government obligations

by the top 1% of the nation. However Bushonomics should be lauded for

accomplishing its agenda. People should be reminded of what George

Bush Senior said (which we have mentioned many times before) in the

famous interview of November 1992. When he was asked what Bushonomics

was, Senior replied by saying -- Bushonomics is the continuous

consolidation of money and power into higher, tighter and righter

hands. And this is how the Bushonian agenda was advanced in 2005...

 

Certainly the magic numbers has been reached. We have heard James

Baker, George Schultz, Henry Kissinger, et al, mention this. And, as

of now (the start of 2006) the top 1% of the nation (75% of which is

Republican) now controls 70% of all of the private wealth in the

nation, along with a disproportionate share of the public wealth. This

has been accomplished, of course, by the mandate of Bushonomics, which

is to continuously transfer wealth from the bottom 80% to the top 20%.

 

The original Reagan-Bush Regime started the mechanism of wealth

transfer through disproportionate tax cuts. The Bush-Cheney Regime

increased the tempo by making tax cuts as disproportionate as they

have ever been in the history of taxation in the United States. As

such, all Bushonian tax cuts, individual so as to separate them from

corporate, proffered under the Bush-Cheney Regime, including the most

recent 70 billion, 68% (or more than 2/3rds) of the economic value of

those tax cuts have inured to citizens earning more than $250,000 per

annum, or with a net worth exceeding $5 million.

 

And how this has been accomplished is through a " trickle-up "

mechanism, which is at the very heart of Bushonomics. A trickle-up

mechanism is accomplished, first, by disproportionate tax cuts, where

the top 20% of the nation benefit at the expense of the bottom 80%,

whose taxes are not cut as much. Or, in some cases, citizens earning

less than $76,837 per annum have actually seen their aggregate tax

burdens rise, due in part to the continuing maintenance of the AMT

alternative minimum tax. This obviously transfers wealth. But it

isn’t the way most people think.

 

How the wealth is transferred is by creating a vacuum at the top.

If you consistently diminish the aggregate tax burden of the top 20%,

it’s like squeezing a bubble or bulb. You create a vacuum. As the

bulb is released, money from the bottom 80% is drawn up in to fill the

vacuum. That is literally how it works.

 

What expands that vacuum is the fact that the bottom 80% is

paying an increasingly greater proportion of the aggregate tax burden

of the nation relative to their incomes. Therefore, their bubble gets

squeezed as well. As their bubble gets released, it’s money flowing

out of them into the hands of the top 20%.

 

What disproportionate tax cuts do is effectively use the tax

revenues paid by the bottom 80% of the nation to provide subsidies for

the top 20%.

 

Furthermore, under this regime, of course, the Federal Reserve

has cooperated marvelously (there is no other way to put it) by

maintaining, and still maintaining, despite 13 Fed rate increases,

what is known as an easy-money policy, which allows plenty of

liquidity in the system, so that asset values rise, even though the

demand, or the number of people being able to afford an appreciating

asset is declining. The value of the assets, nonetheless, can continue

to rise even though the number of people who can afford to purchase

them can fall.

 

The reason why that can happen is that the ability to finance the

purchase of the item has been made easier.

 

So, let's say, for instance, that you are in the top 20% of the

nation and your house was worth $500,000 in 1990, but today it’s

worth, let's say, $2.5 million. Let’s also say that the available

pool of people, in terms of numbers, that could purchase that house

for $2.5 million has fallen, which it has. Obviously that happens as

more wealth moves into the top 20%, which contains fewer people, than

the bottom 80%. However, although the available pool of buyers has

shrunk, their ability to purchase and finance that house, because of

the maintenance of an easy-money, low-interest-rate policy, has

increased, thus giving an individual buyer greater buying power, which

offsets the actual decline in the aggregate numbers of potential

purchasers.

 

Essentially the same theorem works with almost any tangible item

of value. It could be securities, debt instruments, commodities, or

real estate. However this is due to the combination of

disproportionate tax cuts combined with an easy-money policy -- the

maintenance of an easy or liquid money policy combined with

exceptionally low interest rates relative to the underlying rate of

inflation, i.e., exceptionally low real interest rates or interest

rates minus inflation.

 

This is what Bushonomics I under Bush Senior started to do in

1988. This was a very similar type of period. When they saw the end of

the asset boom coming, they began to squeeze the lower 80% even harder

by fostering even more disproportionate tax cuts and more restrictive

bankruptcy laws. This having been done in 1988 was also done again in

2005.

 

To further facilitate the transfer of wealth, the Bush-Cheney

Regime, as of October 17, 2005, had the bankruptcy laws changed, which

the banking industry had been repeatedly asking for. In return the

banks were forced to give nothing back. In exchange for Democratic

support of the Bushonian bankruptcy law, the Democratic proposal

mandated that banks would have to roll back certain fees and interest

rate structures †" but this was abandoned because the Republicans had

the support to pass it without the Democrats. (sharin's note - no more

checks and balances -- we are a one-rule country -- what we learned in

government class was very dangerous -- the loss of balance of checks.

The republicans the dumbed down in this country voted for screwed

citizens royally with this bill)

 

Effectively, what this does now is it makes it more difficult to

declare bankruptcy. If you want to declare Chapter 7, or liquidating

bankruptcy, you are going to be forced to pay back with what's called

a hard debt of at least 30%. That was one of the big changes.

 

This then also puts fresh restrictions on bankruptcy, thus

reducing the number of people that can find shelter in bankruptcy

proceedings and forcing those people to pay back more than they would

have otherwise, which further discourages citizens who have been de

facto victims of Bushonomics from declaring bankruptcy.

 

One of the consequences of Bushonomics, as we saw in the 1980's

and early 90's, and as we are seeing again under Bush Cheney, is that

personal bankruptcies rise precipitously.

 

Remember, when this regime came to power, personal bankruptcies

were averaging 1.4 million per annum. They will reach 2.6 million in

2006, as estimated by the American Bankruptcy Institute.

 

Indeed, under this regime, 10 million citizens (a record number

for any 5-year period) have filed for bankruptcy. Small business

bankruptcies have also reached 3.5 million.

 

Insofar as bankruptcy is one of the consequences of Bushonomics,

readers should note that, of the 10 million citizens who have declared

bankruptcy, 83% of all personal bankruptcy filers have been in the

bottom 50% of the economic population. That, frankly, is an astounding

statistic.

 

The regime, is further concerned now about people being able to

pay their debts, in that it is maintaining an aggressive job

exportation policy. What the Democrats had tried to do was to proffer

some sort of 'softening of the blow of Bushonomics' legislation by

trying to offer outs of the new bankruptcy legislation, which is now

bankruptcy law. That failed.

 

What was the Bushonian response? To re-institute the use of body

writs to threaten people who do not pay their bills, or in essence,

turning the nation back to the times of debtor prisons. That is the

Bushonian response, as it always has been -- to look at the bottom 50%

of the population as nothing more than rabble, rabble that must be

controlled.

 

It was George Bush Senior, who said that the people are nothing

more than fodder for the schemes and ambitions of those that govern

them. And I labeled all citizens that are in the bottom 50% as OFU's

(One Fodder Unit). That’s my invention.

 

Treasury Secretary Snow was pleased to report that the Regime,

through a carefully crafted package of tax incentives for business and

industry, met its goal, under its official job exportation program.

Remember, this is the first regime ever in the history of the nation

to have an official jobs exportation program.

 

Secretary Snow has announced with great delight that the regime

has met its goal of exporting 500,000 manufacturing, factory, other

types of service jobs, principally clerical jobs, etc. throughout the

nation, and that, indeed, further tax incentives for business and

industry will be provided in 2006 and the regime will now seek in 2006

to expand the jobs export program to 700,000 in order to increase the

productivity of the economy. Because, as Secretary Snow correctly

points out, productivity, which had peaked in the second quarter of

`04, has been declining ever since.

 

One way to increase, certainly, or the most direct way, the

Bushonian way†" what has always been the preferred Republican way of

increasing productivity -- is to mount a job export program, or to

encourage jobs to move overseas. For those who don’t understand

productivity, it’s very simply put: If you have 20 people on a

factory assembly line, you take one out and you speed the line up 5%.

That’s what productivity’s all about.

 

This certainly requires an understanding of Economics 101, but

the regime's need to continuously increase productivity is because of

the other half of the productivity report, or statistic, which is

called per-unit labor cost.

 

If you're going to maintain an exceptionally easy money policy

that creates inflation, you have to act to continuously drive down

that inflation. The way that is most commonly done or had been done in

the past is through the maintenance of a strong dollar policy,

something this regime was unable to maintain, in that the dollar has

lost 40% of its international exchange value since this regime has

come to power.

 

Now, much of that has not been interest rate differential, as the

regime likes to say. Much of it has been, simply put, a loss of

confidence in the U.S. dollar by savvy foreign holders of dollars, due

to Bushonomics,

 

A falling dollar is, in itself, inherently inflationary.

Therefore, Bushonian regimes are left with very few tools to keep a

lid on inflation. One of those tools is to continuously increase the

rate of productivity, which, in turn, continuously decreases per-unit

labor cost †" and to ensure that wage growth, ex of inflation,

doesn’t increase, as well as to ensure that wages do not create any

pressure on inflation, something that the regime has been very

successful at, and successful again in 2005.

 

As of December 2005, year over year, real wages (wages net of

inflation) have been absolutely zero. In other words, zero-percent

growth rate in wages over the past 12 months. The regime has done a

remarkable job in keeping down wage growth, wherein, now, over the

past 5 years, real aggregate, 5-year real wage growth, is now a minus

number.

 

And that's a remarkable job for a regime to stay in power and be

able to do that: to diminish wages of the bottom 50%, to increase the

net aggregate tax burden of the bottom 50%.

 

That can be explained by understanding that Bushonian regimes

have always been kept in power by the continuous creation of foreign

diversions, like wars.

 

It should be noted that American author Sinclair Lewis said that

fascism would come to the United States wrapped in a flag and carrying

a cross. And isn’t that what we've seen under this regime? As George

Bush Sr. used to say -- We should thank God for our flag. Oh, how many

Bushonian sins it hides!

 

The restructuring of the Republican Party has taken an

unprecedented turn under this regime. What the regime has done, as we

have mentioned before, is to totally obliterate what was left of the

old Republican factions -- the old party wings within the party. Ever

since 1980, of course, the moderate and liberal Republican wings have

been squeezed to the point of evisceration. The liberal wing of the

Republican Party no longer exists, and the moderate wing is on life

support. If you don’t believe that, ask Senator Grassley or Senator

Snow.

 

The regime has used patriotism to split the party into new

factions and to create what is essentially 3 new or re-packaged

factions. Much of the grassroots Right and Christian Right have now

been repackaged into this rabid Pro-Bush Faction. It is literally a

distinguishable wing within the party, and it is now the predominant

wing because the regime has been very crafty in putting it together.

 

They have taken voters that constitute about 30% of the nation,

which we call the Fippies, Nifwics and Rens. To explain that again,

the Fippies are the fear, ignorance and prejudice brigades. And their

erstwhile cousins, the Nifwics, are the naive flag-waving crowd,

supported by their chums, the Rens, right-wing religious nuts.

They’re about 30% of the vote.

 

The Republican Party has formulated control over this new little

bloc by using the flag. That’s how they were able to get the PATRIOT

Acts passed despite the fact it is within this working class that

Republicans have suffered because of Bushonomics. However, the regime

is able to maintain the line: " We are at war. We must expect

sacrifices. " There is still a third of the population, the

flag-wavers, that are prepared to accept that.

 

Combined with the Rens, the right-wing religious nuts, which,

nationally, can deliver perhaps, maybe 6 to 8% of the vote and you add

onto that the traditional corporate vote combined with the top 20%,

which is what I would call the Republican money vote, whose ranks have

swelled under this regime, and you find out that what the regime is

consistently able to deliver is between 50 and 53% of the vote. Forget

the polls. I’m just saying what they can deliver in the voting booths.

 

It is after all a moot point that the Republicans run the voting

machine companies. The conspiracy theorists like to say the

Republicans run the voting machines and thus the voting process.

That’s true. That’s a true conspiracy.

 

What I'm saying is they need that. They can actually only deliver

in the voting booths 50 to 53%. And that’s on a good day. They need

the ability to control voting machines, to control the voting process,

to be able to manipulate potentially up to 3% of the vote nationwide

to ensure that they could maintain majority.

 

The politics of the nation have certainly changed under

Bushonomics. The PATRIOT Acts have turned the Constitution on its

head, turned it upside down, inside out, whatever words you want to

use. Now what we have is a regime that, public support

notwithstanding, doesn’t have to really concern itself anymore with

political opinion polls or even, or as Henry Kissinger once put it,

" the inconvenience of a vote. "

 

And PATRIOT Act I solidified the power of the regime (of the

President, more specifically) to cancel or postpone elections

permanently through the declaration and continued maintenance of a

National State of Emergency -- which we are still under, and have been

under since October 14, 2001. It removed the 90-day reporting

requirement to Congress, and vested in the hands of the President the

ability to maintain a state of emergency and/or state of martial law

forever without consulting Congress, without any vote by Congress.

 

It further extended the 1947 War Power Act authority of the

President to cancel or postpone the election, which, prior to the

PATRIOT I Act, a President could only do for up to 90 days without the

consent of Congress under a defined set of parameters, such as war,

civil unrest, economic calamity. It was a very defined set of

parameters in which the President could invoke the War Powers Act.

Those have all been now swept aside.

 

PATRIOT I has swept aside all of those parameters and condensed

the language to so that the President of the United States has the

sole ability A) To instigate a state of national emergency, B) To

maintain it without notification of consent of Congress forever, and

C) once said state of national emergency has been so declared, the

President has the absolute and unfettered right, ex of congressional

approval or judicial consent, to permanently postpone elections.

 

Thus, armed with the power, the regime no longer has to be

concerned about public opinion polls. You would note that, despite

public opinion polls showing support for the regime at less than 40%,

the regime has not caved in. The regime has not come to any compromise

with the Democrats or moderate Republicans on any of its economic

agenda. It claims that it will continue to prosecute war in Iraq

forever, or until such time as it deems otherwise, despite the $100

billion per annum expenditure. It also maintains that it will continue

to proffer tax cuts for the Republican Rich. As we have said before,

it is safe to use that term, in that 68% of all citizens who earn more

than $250,000 per annum are Republican. Therefore the majority

classified as being rich, according to the Internal Revenue’s own

guidelines, are Republican. Therefore it is statistically correct to

use this term -- the Republican Rich.

 

It has been said that no matter what, we’re all Republicans

now. If we're not Rich Republicans, we’re Banana Republicans.

 

And that is also a key advance in the agenda of Bushonomics.

We're all Republicans now, Rich or Banana.

 

What would you rather be? A Rich Republican or a Banana

Republican? (Subscribers to InsiderIntelligence.com have chosen to be

Rich Republicans.)

 

We must be mindful that we are in the end of the game for the

Republic of the United States as now constituted. We have repeatedly

reiterated the comments of Comptroller General Walker, who stated that

if the Bush Regime were re-ensconced for a second term, which it now

has been, that the United States’ continuing ability to service its

debt post Q-2 2009 would be severely jeopardized. And the regime

certainly is acting like this.

 

Some people misinterpret what the regime is doing as desperation.

Like they're trying to get through the final tax cuts, the final last

stab, the last push to consolidate wealth and power within the hands

of the top 10% -- more specifically, the hands of the top 1%. That’s

not necessarily true. They would only be acting with desperation if

they knew that they had to face elections.

 

Since they now have the sole control as to whether to even hold

elections or not, they're not acting in desperation. What they’re

doing is acting within the confines of economic reality. They know

that the Fed is raising rates. They know that the Fed is going to

become less accommodative in terms of monetary policy next year, that

the Fed has gradually shrunk money supply, the Fed is acting to remove

liquidity from the system.

 

As this liquidity is removed, the housing bubble is now bursting,

which is a whole separate problem, which, frankly, threatens to

unravel the entire American economy by 2007. And you hear increasing

concerns about this out of Wall Street certainly.

 

But what the regime is doing, it is sucking or transferring as

much wealth from the bottom 80% to the top 20% -- as economic

liquidity allows. It is not any political concern, as some people like

to think. How could it possibly be political concern when they control

whether even elections will be held or not?

 

However, they are certainly planning for the future. You’ve

heard remarks by our new Deputy Reich Fuehrer, Michael Chertoff, that

the Homeland Security wants to house or detain 3 million people on

federal work camps to be located on federal lands. Watch the language,

and it tells you a lot.

 

Chertoff is no longer even bothering with the facade of linking

it to terrorism. He’s now saying that it is a future economic

necessity because the government has to have the ability to absorb

millions of the economically displaced through Bushonomics. We are

seeing the increasing economic displacement. Hurricane Katrina exposed

a lot of this. The fact that the government classified the people as

refugees originally, and then as internal economically displaced exiles.

 

The fact that they were already set up to quickly move 400,000

into military bases (FEMA camps) and the fact that they were able to

do it quickly shows the organization and effort that’s been

committed to the housing of economic detainees.

 

And now -- do you ever hear anything more about these 400,000?

You never hear anything about them. They just disappeared.

 

So what happens when you can't disperse the useless eaters

anymore? That's what Chertoff is referring to. When you can’t

disperse them anymore in the bowels of wherever, you need a

large-scale CILF (Civilian Inmate Labor Facility) program to act as a

place to house the economically dispossessed.

 

And that's exactly what they're building, a WPA-style work camp

or Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

 

It's funny and it's ironic that this Bush Regime, which is so

anti-Roosevelt, is effectively following the FDR model. The difference

is that Roosevelt inherited the collapsed economy, while this Regime

is the one whose economic policies are fostering the collapse. That's

the primary difference.

 

What these CILFs are becoming is more economically oriented. That

is the reason why Chertoff interrupted the Department of Interiors

lease program. He said that they have got to be located on

economically productive lands. That's a key sign of what kind of

people they intend to be putting in these things.

 

In conclusion, the top 20% of the nation should be cheering and

looking forward to another year of Bushonomics in 2006, wherein the

net aggregate tax burden for the top 20% of the nation will continue

to fall.

 

Meanwhile the net aggregate tax burden for the bottom 50% will

continue to rise. Furthermore, another cheery news for the bottom 50%

is: Anybody with credit card debt knows that, as of November 1, the

new Bushonian mandated contraction of credit card cycles went into

effect, which, in some cases, means as much as double credit card

payments. They’ve done this effectively by edict, despite Democratic

opposition.

 

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (and even the

Treasury itself ) has been concerned about record consumer installment

debt levels in this country created because of Bushonomics -- as

people deplete their savings and withdraw equity from their homes in

order to maintain consumer spending. This has created, as we know now,

RECORD debt levels in this nation. Beyond anything that could have

been previously imagined.

 

And how does the regime respond to debt which its own economic

policies have created? It has done so by contracting credit card

payment, or loan, cycles, thus increasing the amount of the monthly

payment.

 

If you've got a credit card and the debt is based on a 36-month

cycle, you contract that to 24, your monthly payment increases.

 

Furthermore, despite even some nervousness by senior pro-Bush

faction Republicans (for instance, Congressman Burton and Congressman

Baker) about how the regime has allowed banks and financial

institutions to increase fees to consumers. Not only credit card fees,

but bank fees and everything in between.

 

Even Congressman Baker said that senior Republicans, pro-Bush

faction Republicans are becoming nervous about this. In some cases,

people are paying $75 late fees on a $75 payment. But you listen to

Cheney, and he said -- We have, of course, removed any remaining

restrictions on the imposition of fees and surcharges. They have

modified the usury rate to allow a lifting of that rate. And he said,

-- No, this will continue.

 

So 2006 will be another banner year for Bushonomics. And, of

course, it will be another banner year for InsiderIntelligence.com

traders and rs.

 

The fiscal deterioration being caused by Bushonomics will

continue apace. There is an end to this, as Comptroller General Walker

has alluded to. The nation does, indeed, face financial collapse some

time past 2009.

 

Even the regime is aware of it and is acting accordingly†" the

change in debt instruments, the re-institution of the 30-year

bond†" because they know none of this debt’s ever going to be paid

back. They know that, ultimately, in order to monetize debt, they’ll

have to create a round of inflation unprecedented in the nation.

 

The Bushonian age of CILFs for the economically dispossessed, of

increased credit service cost, unlimited, with no right of redress,

with the ability now to indefinitely detain citizens even that may be

economically dispossessed, with the tightening of bankruptcy rules,

the re-institution of body writs, where now you can go to prison for

not paying your bills, the reduction of the so-called social safety

net, the continuing collapse of the American pension system.

 

You'd best be making money now. You'd better be knowing what to

do with that money because you don’t want to be living in the

country in 2009 not having any money.

 

This is what history teaches us about those who survive in an

economically collapsed environment. Namely, the wealthy, who everyone

presumes would be the survivors in a post-economically collapsed and

politically repressed environment are not necessarily the wealthy,

unless they know what to do with their money.

 

The ultimate survivors, if you look back through history, are the

traders. They are the down-in-the-dirt traders, those who have the

innate knowledge of how to buy and sell something of economic value

and turn a profit. They are the ultimate survivors. When everything

else begins to fall apart, when business and industry is depressed, it

is the ability to buy something for $100 and sell it for $105.

 

It is the classic trader. Those with the innate knowledge to

understand what the economy around them has done and the ability to

buy and sell something of economic value and continue to turn a profit

by it. If you look throughout history, it has been the traders that

have always been the survivors. Jews and Phoenicians come to mind.

 

There's a good analogy. Because Phoenicians, of course, no longer

exist. But the Jews over 2,000 years have migrated across the planet.

They have experienced both economic collapses within nations, economic

collapses within regions and theaters, geographically and politically

speaking. And yet they have always survived. They have always had the

ability to turn a profit.

 

And what are they by nature? They are traders.

 

Despite the jokes and denigration about Jews, perhaps it's time

we ought to look up to them. Remember -- they have been the traders of

this planet, and they have been the survivors, no matter what has

happened. They have lived through economic repressions, political

repressions, and military overthrows. No matter what has happened, it

is that innate knowledge that will prepare the citizens of the USA to

survive the future.

 

The long and short of it is for the average citizen: If you don't

know how to make money, you’ve got to learn because you don't want

to be living in this country after 2009 with no money.

 

 

 

* AL MARTIN is an independent economic-political analyst with 25

years of experience as a trader on NYMEX, CME, CBOT and CFTC. As a

former contributor to the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors,

Al Martin is considered to be a source of independent analysis for

financially sophisticated and market savvy investors.

 

After working as a broker on Wall Street, Al Martin was involved in

the so-called " Iran Contra " Affair as a fundraiser for the Bush Cabal

from the covert side of government aka the US Shadow Government.

 

His memoir, " The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider, "

(http://www.almartinraw.com) provides an unprecedented look at the

frauds of the Bush Cabal during the Iran Contra era. His weekly

column, " Behind the Scenes in the Beltway, " is published weekly on Al

Martin Raw.com, which also publishes a bimonthly newsletter called

" Whistleblower Gazette. "

 

Al Martin's new website " Insider Intelligence " (

http://www.insiderintelligence.com ) will provide a long term

macro-view of world markets and how they are affected by backroom

realpolitik.