Your Catbird Seat Guide
PART I - THE BIRDS
PART II - THE NESTS
PART III - THE PREY
Sightings from The Catbird Seat
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A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING KAMEHAMEHA’S COURT - ‘The Connecticut Connection’ starring Paul Silvester. A story of greed and corruption that spread from Connecticut to Hawaii, and wound up infecting the entire planet.
A SIMPLE SOLUTION - to Campaign Finance Reform.
ACCOUNTANTS’ HOEDOWN - Watch the big corporations switch their Big Five accounting partners to the tune of the Enron fiddlers.
ALL GOD’S CREATURES - Before you eat that next Big McCow burger or Tyson’s chicken finger, take in this exhibit!
ALOHA, HARKEN ENERGY! - Welcome to Hawaii, Mr. Bush! Would you like us to change your oil for free at Aloha Petroleum? We’ll also be happy top off your gas tank down the road at Bishop Estate’s Ali`i Petroleum. Oh, yeah, you may know James Ahloy...well, uh, he just might be available at either of these locations to help you with our strict vehicle emission test. And, oh, Arthur Andersen is still here just in case you need help with your oil depletion tax credits or travel expense deductions. Anything else we can help you with?
AMERICAN RED DOUBLE-CROSS? - Do you know where George Mitchell is taking your donations for the Red Cross’s 9-11 Liberty Fund? Or, how blood taken from HIV-infected prisoners is sold to our friendly neighbors up north in Canada?
APOLLO - Leon Black escaped the net in 1990 when Michael Milken and other Drexel Burnham Lambert cohorts were caged for their crimes of duping investors out of billions of dollars. In fact, Black and his company, Apollo Advisors, allegedly have continued their ‘vulture investing’ tactics, involving hundreds of millions of dollars in questionable deals ... many with the blessing of high public officials. Visit this nest and you will catch glimpses of some familiar birds like: George H.W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Paul Silvester, and Joseph Liberman. Then follow the well-worn path to some familiar nests like: Cendant Corporation; the State of Connecticut; the State of California; Executive Life Insurance Company; Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate; Trinity Holdings, etc., etc.
BANKRUPTCY BUZZARDS - A small glimpse of the buzzards who sit on the bar and gorge themselves on bankrupt bodies of the poor.
BIOTECH BIRDS - Do you know what’s in YOUR birdseed that’s produced by Ajinomoto, ConAgra, Monsanto and other monstrous biotech labs?
BIRDS THAT DRINK FROM CESSPOOLS - Don your new gas masks for a close look at The Carlyle Group.
BIRDS IN THE TRAILER PARK - Conseco, Conseco, Conseco: Where did the money go? A look behind the blinds at Conseco - and the third largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
BIRDS ON THE POWER LINES - A shocking glimpse of Politics, Greed and Energy, and the real reason for the BUSH PUSH for war with Iraq!
BLACK BERETS ... RED CHINA - Why was the US Army planning to pay $23 million of US taxpayer dollars to Red China to buy Black Berets?
THE BLACKSTONE GROUP - Come with us to see what crawls out when you turn over the Blackstones.
BLUEBIRDS OF HAPPINESS! - Words of wisdom and patriotism from our forefathers.
BLUE GOLD - Learn the secrets of the modern alchemists as you see how the Global Elite change YOUR WATER into THEIR GOLD...
BOEING BOUND - Take a closer look at the bribes and boondoggles of Boeing.
BROKEN TRUST - Tales of conspiracy and corruption in the South Pacific.
BUZZARDS OF PARADISE - The Hawaiians call them Lawyers!
BUZZARDS ON THE BAR - Attorney tales of terror!
THE CATBIRD RECOMMENDS - BOOKS ... MOVIES ...
CHUBB GROUP - Flushing out the buzzards at one of the world’s largest insurance companies.
CONDOLEEZZA AND THE CHICKEN HAWKS - With national security advisers like Condoleezza Rice and Elliot Abrams, why worry about world peace?
CONSIGNIA - Before you mail that next letter or package overseas, take a look at how Grandpa ‘X’ was steamed and cleaned by the U. S. Post Office!
CROUCHING DRAGON ... HIDDEN RATS - Shining a light on some of the American Sewer Rats that run with Crouching Chinese Dragons!
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY - Take a bird’s-eye look at who’s guarding YOUR NEST tonight!
DIRTY GOLD IN GOLDMAN SACHS? - How GREED corrupted Goldman Sachs!
DIRTY MONEY, DIRTY POLITICS AND BISHOP ESTATE - The Kamehameha Schools / Bishop Estate scandals.
PART I - The stealing begins...
PART II - The stealing continues...
PART III - The scandals begin again...
DONKEY NESTS - A Bird-Watchers’ Guide to where Democrats hatch their schemes.
DOWN ON THE FACTORY FARM - What stinks more than manure on TYSON’s chicken farms? Hold your noses and take our tour!
DROWNING IN THINK TANKS - Which stinks worse: Think Tanks or Septic Tanks?
ELEPHANT NESTS - A Bird-Watchers’ Guide to where Republicans hatch their schemes.
FLOCKS OF FLYING DONKEYS - The Catbird spots Democrats.
FLOCKS OF FLYING ELEPHANTS - The Catbird spots Republicans.
FLYING HIGH IN HAWAII - The saga of Ronald Rewald, Hawaii’s High Society, and the CIA.
FRANKEL-STEIN MONSTER - The very scary tale of Martin Frankel, with scenes set in the Vatican!
FREEDOM TO SING - “In the beginning, God gave birds the freedom to sing. No government on Earth has the power to take away that freedom.” - The Catbird
GAME BIRDS - Some call it gambling, some call it gaming ... but whatever you call it, it’s down a road paved with political corruption!
GAMES POLITICIANS PLAY - How politicians make millions playing with your tax money!
GENERAL ELECTRIC - We bring to light the connections between the world’s richest corporation and ENRON ... plus much, much more!
GLOBAL CROSSING - One of the birds you’ll find at this Global Crossing nest: George H.W. Bush! Other global nests you’ll spot here include: Arthur Andersen and Carlyle Group!
GREAT NEST EGG ROBBERIES - Are YOUR retirement nest eggs in a safe place tonight?
HAIL TO THE CHIEF! - The Gang’s All Here (well, a lot of them anyway)!
HEAVENS AND EARTH - Who owns the Heavens and the Earth? And what are the environmentalists trying to tell you?
HOW TO COOK A GOLDEN GOOSE - Learn from the BIG FIVE master chefs how to cook a tasty bird prepared with the new “Bush Hot Sauce.”
HOW TO PLUCK A NON-PROFIT - Make MILLION$ by becoming a Trustee of a rich NON-PROFIT TRUST. We show you how in three easy steps and with three outstanding examples: THE MILTON HERSHEY TRUST; THE MacARTHUR FOUNDATION; and THE KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS.
HUD - Amazing ‘horror stories’ about fraud and corruption in the Department of Housing & Urban Development.
THE INDONESIAN CONNECTION - We connect some of the dots between: Bill Clinton ... Al Gore ... Suharto ... Lippo Group ... Mochtar Riady ... James Riady ... John Huang ... Ron Brown ... Michael Brown ... Gene & Nora Lum ... Dan Inouye ... John Waihee ... Donna Tanoue ... Sukamto Sia ... Bank of Honolulu ... Bank of Hawaii ... Kamehameha Schools / Bishop Estate ... Panin Group ... Henry Peters ... Guido Giacometti ... George Soros ... Robert Rubin ... and a whole flock of other black-as-night financial vultures!
INVESTIGATING INVESTCORP - Follow the money trail from the Bushes to the bin Ladens. Along the way you’ll see the nests of Aloha Petroleum, Bank of America, BCCI, Bishop Estate, Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs, Harken Energy, Saks Fifth Avenue, Unocal and a host of intriguing companies operating in the mysterious Middle-East.
KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS - A timely allegorical poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.
THE KISSINGER OF DEATH - Mind control and sex slaves to the rich and famous - here you’ll get a glimpse the dark side of His Excellency Henry Kissinger that has been hidden for decades from the eyes of us poor, mere mortals.
MARSH BIRDS - A birds-eye view of Marsh & McLennan - the world’s largest insurance broker.
MERCENARIES - From America to Afghanistan, we track the migration of mercenaries.
THE MYTH AND THE METHANE - Follow the wampum trail from Kamehameha Schools to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and back again, while seeing some prominent birds like George Bush, Bill Clinton, Dan Inouye, Dave Thomas, Ron & Michael Brown, Gene & Nora Lum, Marc Rich, Robert Rubin, William E. Simon, ‘Ted’ Fields, Wayne Rogers and others of like feather.
NESTS ON THE RAILS - Democracy derailed on Track 29. How CSX Corp. (being conducted by CEO, John Snow) and other corporate railroad giants are taking US taxpayers for a ride.
NESTS IN THE PENTAGON - The Military-Industrial Complex made simple.
NESTS OF OSAMA BIN LADEN - Follow the migration of bin Laden’s money through some very familiar terrain (like in our own back yards).
NUCLEAR NESTS - Some deadly serious things you should know before you start to glow.
NUTRASWEET SYNDROME - On a diet? Downing a gallon of Diet Coke a day, but your belly getting bigger? And short-term memory getting shorter? Check this out before YOU check out!
P-S-S-T, WANNA BUY A GOOD AUDIT? - Get the poop on the BIG FIVE: Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Deloitte & Touche.
PARROTS IN THE NEWS ROOM - Why does the news on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, FOX and in all the syndicated newspapers pretty much look the same? Enter this parrots’ cage to find out!
THE PEACEMAKERS - The patriots world-wide who believe that we are all safer and better off in peacetime than in wartime.
PIMPS TO POWER - Take a walk along K Street – Washington’s red light district – for a glimpse of Angela Barbee Styles, Josh Bolten and other political procurers. See how they feather some fancy nests with a $200 BILLION-A-YEAR budget of US Taxpayers’ Money!
POINTING THE FINGER AT WORLDPOINT - The rapid rise and fall of WorldPoint Interactive, Inc.
THE POOP ON AON - Another company that the SEC has spotted with questionable stuff on their books.
PREDATORS IN PARADISE - What’s in a Sandwich Isles Communications’ sandwich? Taxpayer lettuce! Bite into this one before it bites into you!
PRIVATIZING HELL! - A look at politics, profits and privatized prisons - with an octopus named Wackenhut taking center stage.
PRUDENTIAL - A nest on shaky ground.
RAND CORPORATION - Follow your tax dollars down the golden brick road from Washington to Wall Street to the Land of Rand!
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR! - The story of the ‘Battle of Niihau’.
RICO IN PARADISE - A modern-day David & Goliath tale: Harmon vs. Federal Insurance Co., Marsh & McLennan, Kamehameha Schools, Bishop Estate, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Torkildson Katz, et al.
SECRET NESTS - Flushing out some hidden birds in... Part I: the CIA. Part II: the FBI. Part III: the Mossad.
SEND IN THE CLONES - How to build an Army of Arnolds ... and ‘CC’ the cloned cat!
SINKING THE ‘EHIME MARU’ - Giving ‘Distinguished Visitors’ the Disneyland E-Ride on a nuclear submarine.
SNOW BIRDS - You’ll need a big shovel to handle the snow job that the Bush administration will pile on to defend his choice of CSX president and CEO JOHN SNOW as his new Treasury Secretary.
SOCIAL SECURITY - See how the Bush push to privatize Social Security is yet another way the Global Elite are planning to suck the yolk out of the World’s Biggest Nest Egg.
SONGS OF THE DRUG VULTURES - Some very wealthy individuals are spending millions of dollars to hype the ‘benefits’ of legalizing marijuana and other addictive drugs. See WHO, and learn the real reasons WHY, at this site.
SPOTTING THE SEC - Taking a closer look at who’s protecting your nest eggs: Harvey Pitt, William H. Donaldson, and the Securities & Exchange Commission.
STORY OF ENRON - The story of Enron is a story of “unmitigated PRIDE and ARROGANCE”!
STRANGE SAGA OF BCCI - The Bank of Crooks and Criminals International ... and the Bushes, Clintons and bin Ladens!
TARNISHED WINGS - Graft and Greed at Lockheed Martin.
THE BIRDS - Horror stories featuring the blood-sucking Internal Revenue Service.
THE DEVIL AND WILLIAM WEBSTER - See who sold his soul for a lot more than 2 cents.
THE EAGLE AWAKES! - After the terrorism, a few eyes open.
THE EAGLE HOODED - PART I; PART II; PART III - The 9-11 cover-up crew, continued . . .
THE GREATEST GREED ON EARTH - Profiting from ‘Playing God’.
THE LONELY SAILOR - Lest we forget what war is all about - a commemorative poem.
THE MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS REPORT - An eye-opening look at the enormous nests of Kamehameha Schools; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Miller & Chevalier; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and more birds than you can shake a stick at!
THE STEPHEN FRIEDMAN FLOCK - Just as we got rid of Harvey Pitt and William Webster....
THE TURNSTONE BIRDS - Turn over some rocks, and what do you find? Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston, Putnam, CalPERS, and Eric Yeaman ... to name a few!
THE TURKEY NESTS - Guns, Greed and Genocide for the benefit of the Military-Industrial Complex.
THORNS IN THE ROSE GARDEN - Has a smoking gun been found in the White House rose bushes?
TRACKING THE TYCO FLOCK - From Boston to Bermuda, we track Dennis Kozloswski, Mark Swartz, Edward Breen, David FitzPatrick, David Boies and other Tyco birds as they migrate with the money to Bermuda and other tax havens - under the expert guidance of mother-hen, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
U.S. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS - “Over a century of mismanagement” ... and still going strong!
UN-AMERICAN INSURANCE GROUP - Exposing the long-running conspiracies of American International Group.
UNCLE SAM’S GUINEA PIGS - Bush claims that Saddam is evil because he used chemical and biological weapons against his own people. He also assures the Iraqi people not to worry – in the event of war, the U.S. will quickly rebuild their country. Right! (Just like we rebuilt Bikini atoll?)
VAMPIRES IN THE CITY - Bloodsuckers in a Castle called Citigroup!
VAMPIRES ON GILLIGAN’S ISLAND - Originally owned by Kamehameha Schools, take a half-hour tour of “Gilligan’s Island” and you may spot some of the financial bloodsuckers like Christian Holmes, Edwin Pauley and Katsuhiro Kawaguchi that have alternately owned this piece of extremely prime real estate in Hawaii.
VULTURES IN THE MEADOWS - Derivatives and Deception: The Investors Equity Life Insurance Company story starring Charles Keating, William Simon, Gary Vose, Henry Peters, Matsui Takabuki, Robin Campaniano, Wayne Metcalf, Lawrence Reifurth, and Rey Graulty, with a whole flock of financial vultures in supporting roles.
VULTURES OF THE SANDWICH ISLES - A nest with fiber optic connections similar to Global Crossing is now being constructed in the boonies of Hawaii. Here you’ll spot a high-flying flock of FINANCIAL VULTURES - like Robert Kihune, Gil Tam, Clayton Hee, Daniel Inouye, Robert H. Kennedy II, Harold Johnston, and a flock of others - in a U.S. taxpayer-built nest you have to see to believe!
WALL STREET - Nests of corruption spotted in the canyons of Wall Street.
WHAT PRICE WATERHOUSE ? - or, Who audits the auditors?
WHO’S GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE ??? - How secure is our National Security?
WILLIAM SIM0N SAYS... - “TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN!”
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION - What are all the protests about anyway?
THE XEROX CONSPIRACY - Financial vultures in the copy room.
YAKUZA DOODLE DANDIES - Who let the Yakuza into the American financial system? At this exhibit you’ll find a whole bevy of vampire bats in corporate nests like Goldman Sachs, Central Pacific Bank, Bank of Honolulu, Sumitomo Bank, Kamehameha Schools, Sanwa Bank, Mitsui Bank, and many others.
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