Dom Maltempi has given me a link to give to you. I hope you like it: Perversion in Art, a topic of interest to perverts and Christianists alike, which leads me to
Long backgrounder: George Bush, Skull & Bones and the New World Order. I read much of this years ago, but the last time I searched for it it was gone! It's here now, tho. Some of it smacks of nutty conspiracy-theory conjecture, but there is a mighty steaming pile of fact, too, and it's creeeepy...
Hard to stay out of politricks lately: Dick Chaney is sketchy, as if you didn't know. The link, via jorn, is to a nice summary article explaining Halliburton's illegalities (of course, Arthur Andersen Consulting was involved):
Despite repeatedly claiming his company would not do business with Iraq - he was defense secretary during the Persian Gulf war -Halliburton racked up $23.8 million in sales to Iraq in 1998 and '99. It did so by using two European subsidiaries, so Halliburton was not directly violating the sanctions against Iraq. Hey, it was business.
And striking another blow for freedom from government interference, Mr. Cheney led Halliburton into the top ranks of corporate welfare hogs, benefiting from almost $2 billion in taxpayer-insured loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. In the five years before Mr. Cheney joined the company, it got a measly $100 million in government loans.
Mr. Cheney also specialized in getting government contracts for the firm. During his five years as CEO, Halliburton got $2.3 billion in contracts, compared with $1.2 billion in the five years before he took over.
Don Brown and Dan Reynolds performed Saturday at a great new North Portland space: Polyp & Fury. Bryan Eubanks and I interpreted the compositions; much of my score from Dan took place during the preceding week, but it left me in a very different headspace for the performance, and I think it showed. Actually, I played 3 sets Sat. with 3 diff bands: * (Asterick) and Hundred Flowers Ensemble were very successful as well, I'd hazard to say. Exhausting but invigorating. Later that night, while the fellows were pretending to be rockstars, I took a nice long walk and boy did I need it.
Also, Super Unity played Friday night sharing the bill with Jackie O Motherfucker and Hochenkeit (who seemed to have a completely different lineup than last time I saw them [years ago] - maybe one holdover member, weird).
posted by Brad Larcen 6/11/2002[edit]
