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Cattle Industry Connections To Iraq and Vietnam Wars
by Minor and her poster Monday, Sep. 06, 2004 at 11:43 AM
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violence to mammals leapfrogs to human beings

CattleKillers: a short history of their connection to Iraq, Vietnam
and Mexican Wars
September 6 2004

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Sharon: largest cattle ranch in Israel
Menem.. puppet of Argentine cattle ranchers
Bernie Ebbers of MCI.. bought largest Canadian cattle
ranch with his stolen money and the help of Sandy Weill
of Citigroup
King Ranch.. largest in US.. connected to Anne Armstrong
of Halliburton and to war
Poland: an intelligence paper revealed that the chemical
addiction to scarce meat was a cause of crisis in Poland
in the past (trioxypurine or uric acid is more addictive than
caffein)
George Bush: silenced coverage of Mad Cow lawsuit
against Amarillo Texas cattlemen
New Zealand: thousands of sheep die of thirst on boat to
MidEast
Australia: thousands of sheep die of thirst on boat to MidEast
Tyson's.. illegal aliens

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Don't change horses in the middle of a stream or a wartime
president.. say some
while others respond with Pete Seeger's song:
waist deep in the Big Muddy and the damn fool says to push on
(a reference to the deaths of marines in training camp)
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http://www.newsmakingnews.com

VOTER FRAUD TEXAS STYLE (PART I) By Linda Minor

VOTER FRAUD - THE TEXAS AND FLORIDA CONNECTION [Part 2]
by Linda Minor L 2000


Several months ago NewsMakingNews published online evidence that Dick
Cheney is much more than meets the public eye. Click. All indications
are that Cheney is part of a global network of families whose ties
can be traced through the Union Pacific Railroad, Brown & Root
construction, Halliburton oil services, Dresser Industries oil and
gas pipeline accessories, and into the land development and oil
production projects ancillary to the real estate acquired by the
railroad whose investments they manage.

LBJ was a sleeper put in power by the King Ranch, which as was shown
in part I of this series, is closely tied to Anne Armstrong, is a
director of Halliburton. In 1942 until he left public office, LBJ was
financed completely by Brown and Root, now part of Halliburton. In
1960 LBJ was thrust upon Kennedy as his vice president so LBJ could
carry Texas for Kennedy. LBJ had proved in 1948 that he and his team
could guarantee winning the Texas vote. In 1963 Kennedy was killed
most likely by an assassination network operated by the King Ranch
group and Clint Murchison in Mexico. Murchison was, of course, very
close to Rockefeller. As soon as LBJ became president, he escalated
the war in Vietnam, which primarily benefited Brown and Root. If this
year's election fraud is allowed to stand, what does Halliburton,
headed by Dick Cheney, have planned for us?

Although individual men die a generation at a time, networks of
families live on. That is what Cheney represents. Thus it comes as no
surprise to see what is happening in the presidential election is
focused at the moment on Broward and Palm Beach Counties, Florida. A
network such as Cheney represents is always prepared for any
exigency. This same network was prepared to carry the vote in 1948
when Lyndon Johnson ran for the United States Senate.

But Johnson was a Democrat, you say! Not so. He was an egotist and a
pragmatist-- he did whatever he had to do to promote Lyndon. His
opportunity to broaden his horizons came during the Depression, when
he was offered a job in Congress working for a man, seemingly not
unlike George W. Bush, a scion of a wealthy ranching family in South
Texas with no real abilities or interests, who was elected to
Congress on his name and needed someone to do the work for him--
Congressman Kleborg.

Part One of this series showed the history of Congressman Kleberg,
and the King Ranch which his family owned--a ranch which was acquired
with profits made from
the shipping of contraband munitions during the Mexican War--a war
orchestrated by persons who used Barbara Bush's ancestor, Franklin
Pierce, to take the land south of the Nueces River from Mexico after
Texas was annexed as a state. The ranches in this territory, owned by
Richard King, Mifflin Kenedy and their partner Charles Stillman,
operated as a buffer between the U.S. and Mexico. Resentful Mexicans,
who felt their land had been stolen from them, engaged in continual
raids across the new Rio Grande border. To counteract these raids,
the Texas ranchers used the Texas Rangers, commanded by William G.
Tobin to chase away the raiding parties. Tobin's family has continued
its ties with the King Ranch family ever since.

The Tobin family is intermarried with the King-Kleberg family and
with the Armstrongs of San Antonio, Texas. From the present
generation springs Anne Armstrong, who is a director of Halliburton
alongside Dick Cheney. She has also served on the board of American
Express with Henry Kissinger and Vernon Jordan--not to mention having
been in London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James.

British banking interests have been interested in the King Ranch
since as early as 1882 when Mifflin Kenedy sold his adjoining ranch
to a syndicate of Dundee, Scotland, called the Texas Land & Cattle
Co., Ltd. (See The King Ranch Tom Lea). Within a year of that sale,
King considered selling to the syndicate, but the deal was never
closed. Another syndicate of unnamed eastern capitalists attempted to
buy the ranch
in 1907, the same year that Bostonian F.S. Pearson was involved in
building railroads from Mexico through west and north Texas to
connect to St. Louis. In 1902 the ranchers turned to B.F. Yoakum,
friend of Uriah Lott, the creator of the Tex-Mex Railroad. As a
result, a corporation was formed with shareholders including the
Kings, Klebergs, Armstrongs, Kenedys and others--with Uriah Lott as
president. The railroad became the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexican
Railway--which like so many other railroads built by Lott was
financed by G.H. Walker & Co. of St. Louis.

WAS LBJ A TOOL OF THE DRUG LORDS?

Once Lyndon Johnson began to make himself heard in Congress, he
quickly attracted the attention of Franklin Roosevelt. He was groomed
for many of the endeavors he would use to make his name by FDR
backers such as Joe Alsop, who had begun his undercover intelligence
career in the O.S.S. Alsop and his brother Stewart were related to
FDR by marriage on his mother's side--the Delano family whose role in
the
opium trade has been documented previously on this website--as well
as being
the sons of Eleanor's first cousin, Corinne Robinson Alsop . In fact,
it was Joe Alsop who in 1963 repeatedly suggested to Johnson that the
only way to keep the Washington Post off his back was to appoint the
Warren Commission to investigate the assassination.

The Alsop, Delano, Roosevelt and Forbes families of Boston and New
York were interwoven by marriage and by financial investment in
enterprises such as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. These
families stem from a syndicate created by Thomas Handasyd Perkins of
Newburyport, Massachusetts--forced out of the lucrative African slave
trade to establish an alternative shipping empire based on opium. By
the 1830s, the Russells had bought out the Perkins syndicate and made
Connecticut the primary center of the U.S. opium racket.
Massachusetts families (Coolidge, Sturgis, Forbes and Delano) joined
Connecticut (Alsop) and New York (Low) smuggler-millionaires under
the Russell auspices. http://www.tarpley.net/bush7.htm This account
is supported by historical research conducted by John K. Fairbank in
his 1968 article for the American Historical Association, posted at
http://www.theaha.org/info/AHA_History/jkfairbank.htm . Fairbank
indicates that the opium profits were invested in the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad and the Michigan Central. A man named
John N. Alsop Griswold of
New York, a Russell & Company partner at Shanghai, returned to become
president of the Illinois Central in 1855 and was later chairman of
the CB &Q.

The CB & Q was, of course, based in St. Louis, and it constituted the
northern extension of the same railroad that dipped southerly into
Mexico through Kingsville and Laredo. It was financed by the same
opium profits. See the NewsMakingNews article
at http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lmharvardpart3.htm This railroad now
stretches from Mexico to Canada under the control of the Burlington
Northern Santa
Fe. http://www.tmm.com.mx/english/ihistoria/inuevatmm3.htm This
railroad was the primary beneficiary of NAFTA. It is also steeped in
allegations of drug smuggling.
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/wardrugs.html and
http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200007103.shtml

Alsop was aided in his handling of Johnson by Floridian, Phil Graham,
the son-in-law of Eugene Meyer--the only man besides Bush's Uncle
Herbie who is known to have invested in George H.W. Bush's first oil
company in Midland, Texas. In December 1959, in preparation for the
1960 election, Graham was already busy planning how to clinch the
Democratic nomination for Lyndon. As soon as Phil realized that
Johnson was not going to make it, he hatched the plan for Kennedy to
select Johnson as his running mate. Johnson himself would later
credit Phil with pushing Kennedy to choose him. He told biographer
Doris Kearns Goodwin that Phil "told Kennedy to make me vice
president."

Once Kennedy clinched the nomination, Phil and Joseph Alsop hurried
to his suite at the Biltmore and explained the virtues of Johnson as
running mate....According to Pierre Salinger, John Kennedy's press
secretary, Phil [Graham] was one of the elite group of journalists--
others were Ben Bradlee, Joe Alsop, Walter Lippmann--who could simply
pick up the telephone and call JFK. They were very close.

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