see also Enron review could free Conrad Black below
Dear all, As what could be capitalism's terminal crisis enters ever more dysfunctional phases, with fake recoveries and artificial traumatising of medium and small businesses by politically motivated private banks (and public banks where political control has been blocked) it is frustrating to hear mainstream media repeating the lie that ‘nobody foresaw this crisis’. Unfortunately the vast majority of mainstream media economic analysts are spellbound by entryist middle media managers and vested interests from the very financial system on which they report. The worst of them are steeped in vanity, but could their naivety be the outstanding quality for which they have been employed? This propaganda methodology is exacerbated because the majority of the national press employ compliant, young, naïve and docile economics correspondents. The archetype of which is the BBC’s Robert Peston. His appears usable by The City as a star-struck conduit for ready spun ‘leaks’. In the days and weeks following a Peston pronouncement it is followed up by fake ‘analysis’ by anonymous writers in the Economist and broadsheet economics editors. Their task is to tack Peston’s hogwash down with suitable authoritative sounding gravitas. But for the latest economic advice untrammelled by the NATO zone private military/financial media grid do check out the commercial French economic analysts at LEAP 2020. They provide for free a basic summary of their free projections and if you need detailed analysis then you have to pay. http://www.leap2020.eu/English_r25.html Anyhow, there are two interesting new documents on Bilderberg.org from the first meeting in 1954 for all those Bilderberg aficionados out there. I have been given a complete PDF of the first ever Bilderberg attendee list as well as a photograph to complement the famous black & white photo, with Bernhard in the Chair, taken in the first Bilderberg meeting. It shows the other side of the room and one can even see a sceptical looking Hugh Gaitskell in the corner of the room scratching his chin. http://bilderberg.org/bildhist.htm#1954 http://bilderberg.org/bildhist.htm all the best Tony Gosling (supporter of analogue TV and radio) www.thisweek.org.uk Enron review could free Conrad Black Dominic Rushe New York http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article7043931.ece THE US Supreme Court will begin reviewing the conviction of Enron boss Jeff Skilling on Monday in a move that could also lead to the release of Conrad Black, the jailed press baron. Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in jail in 2006 for his role in the collapse of the Houston energy company. He was convicted of depriving shareholders of his “honest services”, a Federal offence that has been widely used in white-collar criminal prosecutions. The 1988 law that says public officials and executives can be convicted of fraud if they deprive those they represent of the right to “honest services” has already attracted the criticism of Supreme Court judges. Justice Antonin Scalia called the law “mush” and Justice Stephen Breyer said the law’s language was so broad it could apply to a man who falsely compliments his boss. John Coffee, Adolf A Berle professor of law at Columbia Law School, said he expects the court will limit the honest-services fraud statute for not being clear enough and could throw it out. “It is clear that the statute is in danger of being void for vagueness,” said Coffee. Related Links Black fights ‘honest services’ conviction Prison cell is safest place for Madoff Black, serving a six-and-a-half-year sentence, was prosecuted using the honest-services statute. His case, and a third involving the former Alaska legislator Bruce Weyhrauch, will also be reviewed by the Supreme Court before this summer. All three could appeal against their sentences and be released if the statute is thrown out. Black was convicted of three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice in December 2007. He was acquitted of nine other counts, including racketeering and misuse of corporate perks. Even if the statute is thrown out, Black would still be guilty of obstruction of justice but a court could decide he had served that part of his sentence. James Cox, law professor at Duke University, said the honest-services statute had been a useful tool in bringing white-collar criminals to court: “But I think this is one of those cases where the court is going to read the statute fairly narrowly. Depriving a corporation of your fiduciary obligations, even where there is a self-serving motive, isn’t going to be enough,” he said. Stanley Twardy, a former US prosecutor who is now a partner at Day Pitney, said the statute “has been overused by the government”. He said there was a good chance that government prosecutors would now lose their “favourite weapon”. Rewriting the statute will present many difficulties for US prosecutors. Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is now awaiting trial for corruption in Chicago and had been charged with a variety of breaches of the honest-services statute. This month he was charged for a second time, a move lawyers suggest was motivated by prosecutors’ fears that the honest-services fraud statute will not hold up. -- Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield? There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PEPIS" group. Please feel free to forward it to anyone who might be interested particularly your political representatives, journalists and spiritual leaders/dudes. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pepis?hl=en
