Colin Powell Now Says He Was Fired

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Wow, The hits just keep on coming for the Nazi Party.

It is being reported right now by MSNBC's LIVE at 8:45AM, this morning Sunday, October 1st.

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Colin Powell has stated in his new book that he was FIRED by President Bush. The call came from Andy Card the former chief of staff to Powell right after Bush's re-election.

Powell states that even though there was a rocky relationship between him and the cabinet he expected because of Bush's loyalty to remain in the White House for the second term.

Powell didn't resign folks, he was canned.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/1/85511/2707

[fido]

that is too bad, I like the man, even met him a couple of times. the bushies should have listened to him.

[Rohirrim]

Choosing Rumsfeld over Powell: Priceless.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Choosing Rumsfeld over Powell: Priceless.
The stupidity and idiocy of this administration just keeps growing and growing.

[BroncoBuff]

Bombshell!


The SHAME of it!

[BroncoBuff]

MORE BOMBSHELLS from "State of Denial"

On Imus this morning... apparently the book details, with no less a source than Brent Scowcroft - that daddy George is "crushed," even apoplectic over his son's invasion of Iraq. It is SO SAD how the "good Republicans," ie: Colin Powell, George Sr., Rudy Giuliani, keep getting steamrolled by this theocratic megalomaniacal power-mad cabal.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

MORE BOMBSHELLS from "State of Denial"

On Imus this morning... apparently the book details, with no less a source than Brent Scowcroft - that daddy George is "crushed," even apoplectic over his son's invasion of Iraq. It is SO SAD how the "good Republicans," ie: Colin Powell, George Sr., Rudy Giuliani, keep getting steamrolled by this theocratic megalomaniacal power-mad cabal.

I posted an article that detailed Scowcroft's displeasure with Junior quite awhile ago.

Just more proof that Bush and his minions are WAY, WAY to the extreme right of center on the political continuum.

[Atlas]

I'm glad Powell was canned. He couldn't have made much of a difference and his name would have been mud had he stayed in the administration.

[baja]

This is good news it will save Powell's political career if he want's one that is. I would vote for him in a minute for president. In spite of his lying for Bush.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

I would vote for him in a minute for president. In spite of his lying for Bush.

Really?

You would vote for him even though he lied for Bush? (Remember - this is a HUGE lie with disastrous consequences for America and Iraq.)

Even in view of his role in the My Lai coverup?

[baja]

Really?

You would vote for him even though he lied for Bush? (Remember - this is a HUGE lie with disastrous consequences for America and Iraq.)

Even in view of his role in the My Lai coverup?

The reason I say this is I think given the chance to be the man in charge Powell would be good for the country. I think he played lackey for Bush in hopes that he could be an influence for sanity within the administration. He stayed for the good of the country IMO. Looks like the puppeteers saw through his game though...

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

The reason I say this is I think given the chance to be the man in charge Powell would be good for the country. I think he played lackey for Bush in hopes that he could be an influence for sanity within the administration. He stayed for the good of the country IMO. Looks like the puppeteers saw through his game though...

I think Powell just seems like a rational, decent human being because he's always surrounded by extremist lunatics and thugs, i.e., the other members of the bush crime family. When you look at Powell's actual record, an entirely different, troubling picture emerges.

[baja]

I think Powell just seems like a rational, decent human being because he's always surrounded by extremist lunatics and thugs, i.e., the other members of the bush crime family. When you look at Powell's actual record, an entirely different, troubling picture emerges.

Truth be told I am glad Bush is president of the most powerful country in the world. Why do I say such a thing? I think Bush has become the great uniter he promised he would be. He is a poster boy for a broken system. He gives us the best chance to make a new model because the one he represents is on it's way down the drain. We have become the greatest debtor nation in the history of the world. Individually we don't know how to do shiit except what we specialize in. We are no longer a nation of small farmers familiar with nature and living off the land. We are an empire in decline with 2 million people in jails. Within the next two years we will likely see the mother of depressions befall this nation. The dollar is worth nothing and as soon as the rest of the world dumps as many of them as they can they will refuse to loan the US government any more money and then the game is over.

[gunns]

I'm glad Powell was canned. He couldn't have made much of a difference and his name would have been mud had he stayed in the administration.

I'm disappointed he was fired. I figured he was man enough to have a consciencous (sp) about the lies he told, the consequences of those lies and was tired of playing the puppet for a moronic administration. The fact that he was fired indicates to me he's just another politician out for himself.

[alkemical]

Does anyone else thing that really - the president is the image of our country at it's point in time in history?

Not nec. that who is president creates an image of how people act, but a vice versa thing.

[baja]

Rasal;

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/colin3.html

[baja]

LABF

Thanks for the My Lai connecton to Powell I did not know about that and I would now need to know much more about Powell before I would consider voting for him. With that said just who the hell does one proudly and hopefully vote for in this Empire in decline?

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

LABF

Thanks for the My Lai connecton to Powell I did not know about that and I would now need to know much more about Powell before I would consider voting for him.

De nada, compadre.

Sorry to have to be the one to disillusion you about this loyal soldier for the dark side.

With that said just who the hell does one proudly and hopefully vote for in this Empire in decline?

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BTW, is the October surprise coming soon?

Thom Hartman was saying something this morning about an unusually high number of put options, i.e., bets that the stock market is going to crash, for October 6th.

[Hotrod]

De nada, compadre.

Sorry to have to be the one to disillusion you about this loyal soldier for the dark side.


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BTW, is the October surprise coming soon?

Thom Hartman was saying something this morning about an unusually high number of put options, i.e., bets that the stock market is going to crash, for October 6th.

I never being one to stir the pot ;D but alot of put options were placed on airlines prior to 9/11...............

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

I never being one to stir the pot ;D but alot of put options were placed on airlines prior to 9/11...............

Thanks, hotrod - I was going to say "just like right before 9/11" in my post, but I forgot.

:thumbsup:

[bendog]

I never being one to stir the pot ;D but alot of put options were placed on airlines prior to 9/11...............

oh but those were all 'easily explained' to the 9-11 commission. I trust my govt.:pigsfly:

[Hotrod]

What does not make sense this time is from my understanding is a large portion are on diamonds/producers and other such items. Are the diamond minds the next terrorist target ;D

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

What does not make sense this time is from my understanding is a large portion are on diamonds/producers and other such items. Are the diamond minds the next terrorist target ;D

Someone is betting the market is going to crash - for whatever reason - on 10/6.

Kinda spooky.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

oh but those were all 'easily explained' to the 9-11 commission. I trust my govt.:pigsfly:

ROFL!

[baja]

How do you place a put buy?

[Hotrod]

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/put.asp

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

How do you place a put buy?

Beats me.

Ask me about a chord or something, man. ;)

[baja]

Your link will not load Hotrod.

[Hotrod]

I've never done it myself.

Also interesting to note most put options are set for the 3rd friday of the month. Oct 6 and Sept 11 were obviously not within the standard.

[Hotrod]

If your interested I'd suggest talking to your financial advisor if you have one or doing alot of research.

[Hotrod]

http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html

"FTW - October 9, 2001 – Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.

Until 1997 A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown. A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard’s last position at Banker’s Trust (BT) was to oversee “private client relations.” In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.

Krongard joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year. BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. The combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe. And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks.
THE SCOPE OF KNOWN INSIDER TRADING

Before looking further into these relationships it is necessary to look at the insider trading information that is being ignored by Reuters, The New York Times and other mass media. It is well documented that the CIA has long monitored such trades – in real time – as potential warnings of terrorist attacks and other economic moves contrary to U.S. interests. Previous stories in FTW have specifically highlighted the use of Promis software to monitor such trades.

It is necessary to understand only two key financial terms to understand the significance of these trades, “selling short” and “put options”.

“Selling Short” is the borrowing of stock, selling it at current market prices, but not being required to actually produce the stock for some time. If the stock falls precipitously after the short contract is entered, the seller can then fulfill the contract by buying the stock after the price has fallen and complete the contract at the pre-crash price. These contracts often have a window of as long as four months.

“Put Options,” are contracts giving the buyer the option to sell stocks at a later date. Purchased at nominal prices of, for example, $1.00 per share, they are sold in blocks of 100 shares. If exercised, they give the holder the option of selling selected stocks at a future date at a price set when the contract is issued. Thus, for an investment of $10,000 it might be possible to tie up 10,000 shares of United or American Airlines at $100 per share, and the seller of the option is then obligated to buy them if the option is executed. If the stock has fallen to $50 when the contract matures, the holder of the option can purchase the shares for $50 and immediately sell them for $100 – regardless of where the market then stands. A call option is the reverse of a put option, which is, in effect, a derivatives bet that the stock price will go up.
A September 21 story by the Israeli Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, entitled “Black Tuesday: The World’s Largest Insider Trading Scam?” documented the following trades connected to the September 11 attacks:

- Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines, but only 396 call options… Assuming that 4,000 of the options were bought by people with advance knowledge of the imminent attacks, these “insiders” would have profited by almost $5 million.
- On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls. Again, there was no news at that point to justify this imbalance;… Again, assuming that 4,000 of these options trades represent “insiders,” they would represent a gain of about $4 million.
- [The levels of put options purchased above were more than six times higher than normal.]
- No similar trading in other airlines occurred on the Chicago exchange in the days immediately preceding Black Tuesday.

- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in the three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an average of 27 contracts per day before September 6. Morgan Stanley’s share price fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks. Assuming that 2,000 of these options contracts were bought based upon knowledge of the approaching attacks, their purchasers could have profited by at least $1.2 million. Merrill Lynch & Co., with headquarters near the Twin Towers, saw 12,215 October $45 put options bought in the four trading days before the attacks; the previous average volume in those shares had been 252 contracts per day [a 1200% increase!]. When trading resumed, Merrill’s shares fell from $46.88 to $41.50; assuming that 11,000 option contracts were bought by “insiders,” their profit would have been about $5.5 million."

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Much more to the story if the link works this time ;D

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html



Isn't it strange how this story more or less slipped off the radar after 9/11?

Why haven't these individuals been identified, hunted down, questioned, brought to justice, etc?

[baja]

Wow

[Hotrod]

Wow


Yep and hopefully its just a strange occurance that there is an increase in put options set for Oct 6th 2006 (which again is not a normal day for put options....so early in the month most are for the 3rd friday of every month)

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Yep and hopefully its just a strange occurance that there is an increase in put options set for Oct 6th 2006 (which again is not a normal day for put options....so early in the month most are for the 3rd friday of every month)

Let's hope so.

I don't like the way this smells.

If anything happens, it's been nice knowin' ya, fellas.

[baja]

I'm in San Diego but leaving for Baja tomorrow.