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Heritage’s James Phillips writes that Iran’s uranium enrichment program has increased by 84 percent since 2009, according to a new study by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, and author Greg Jones projects that Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to fuel a nuclear weapon in about 62 days if it chose to do so.
According to unconfirmed reports, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has acquired two missile warheads capable of being armed with a nuclear weapon. And a recently leaked U.N. report described suspected ballistic missile technology exchanges between North Korea and Iran, with the technology transiting through an unnamed neighboring country, which several U.N. diplomats, under the condition of anonymity, have identified as China.
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If Iran succeeded in fully blockading the strait for up to one week, Americans would see a massive spike in oil prices, a one-quarter drop in GDP of $161 billion, the loss of one million jobs, and a drop of real disposable personal income costing more than $260 billion.
Have you heard of Prescott Bush? Oh my, what a lot of catching up you've got ahead of you!
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by seabag
The Nazi connection can also link to bush and most bad leadership. The same leadership that destabilized Iran and now wants to sweep it under the global carpet of rewritten history. The thing is they have to erase it before it can be rewritten.
The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power.
damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W
Tantalising
Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.
Thyssen owned the largest steel and coal company in Germany and grew rich from Hitler's efforts to re-arm between the two world wars. One of the pillars in Thyssen's international corporate web, UBC, worked exclusively for, and was owned by, a Thyssen-controlled bank in the Netherlands. More tantalising are Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz. The ownership of CSSC changed hands several times in the 1930s, but documents from the US National Archive declassified last year link Bush to CSSC, although it is not clear if he and UBC were still involved in the company when Thyssen's American assets were seized in 1942.
Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All three are readily available, thanks to the efficient US archive system and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Archives at the University of Maryland.
Originally posted by aorAki
Originally posted by seabag
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by seabag
The Nazi connection can also link to bush and most bad leadership.
Bush connected to the Nazi's? Source?
Have you heard of Prescott Bush? Oh my, what a lot of catching up you've got ahead of you!
While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to the Nazi cause, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen's US interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered the war.
Originally posted by seabag
There is no doubt that Iran is trying to acquire nuclear weapons yet people here still deny it. This is NOT IRAQ where the information was questionable.
Originally posted by aorAki
Replace 'Jews' with 'Indians' and you have your multigenerational megalomanical genocide. It's institutional in the U.S.A., along with torture and human rights abuses.
More deflection and America bashing. Predictable...
So because America is tyrannical in your opinion then it's ok for crazy SOB's who commit suicide bombing to have nuclear weapons? Great logic
James Phillips is the Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He has written extensively on Middle Eastern issues and international terrorism since 1978.
Phillips is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, a prestigious bipartisan group dedicated to winning the war on terrorism. He also is a member of the Board of Editors of Middle East Quarterly , the leading conservative journal of Middle Eastern policy studies.
I’ve already shown the connection between Iran and Nazi Germany. Are we to wait until they wreak havoc on the world in devastating fashion, crippling fragile world economies, before we intervene?
If Iran succeeded in fully blockading the strait for up to one week, Americans would see a massive spike in oil prices, a one-quarter drop in GDP of $161 billion, the loss of one million jobs, and a drop of real disposable personal income costing more than $260 billion
Imagine if the Nazi’s could have been peacefully disarmed before they had a chance to act???? Imagine if world pressure could have peacefully taken away the Nazi’s destructive weapons???? Do you think Germany would have been invaded by Belgium or the US if they didn’t have those weapons??
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
No, the deflection is his. The debate is about whether or not Iran should have nukes. If you'd like to discuss whether or not America should them start thread and I'll join in the debate.
Originally posted by aorAki
Originally posted by Aeons
Originally posted by aorAki
We all realize that the Islamists hate immigrants.
Immigration is a one way deal with them.
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
No, the deflection is his. The debate is about whether or not Iran should have nukes. If you'd like to discuss whether or not America should them start thread and I'll join in the debate.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by SplitInfinity
This is because you have no real life experience in the field and have relied on what you read and have been told to formulate your opinions.
Real life experience in what field? The "field" of war is it? Perhaps you could clarify this mysterious field you so ambiguously refer to so maybe I can join you in laughing at my uneducated ways.
Originally posted by seabag
Originally posted by aorAki
Replace 'Jews' with 'Indians' and you have your multigenerational megalomanical genocide. It's institutional in the U.S.A., along with torture and human rights abuses.
More deflection and America bashing. Predictable...
So because America is tyrannical in your opinion then it's ok for crazy SOB's who commit suicide bombing to have nuclear weapons? Great logic
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
No, the deflection is his. The debate is about whether or not Iran should have nukes. If you'd like to discuss whether or not America should them start thread and I'll join in the debate.