Deutsche Bank, Trump, Sondland, US Bank Bancorp

"A former Deutsche Bank executive who reportedly signed off on some of the institution’s unorthodox loans to Donald Trump killed himself in his Malibu home on November 19. 

Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank—which lent him around $2 billion after most other institutions had forsaken him for his history of defaults and bankruptcies—has come under investigation by two Congressional committees and the New York Attorney General, who are hoping the bank can shed light on Trump’s elusive finances, according to the New York Times. At one point, Bowers had a close connection to those finances.

Thomas Bowers, the onetime head of Deutsche Bank’s American wealth-management division, where he oversaw Trump’s private banker, committed suicide by hanging, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office. Bowers was 55.

Bowers isn’t the first Trump-connected Deutsche exec to commit suicide. In 2014, Deutsche derivatives analyst William S. Broeksmit, who reportedly had links to Trump and Russia, hung himself from a dog leash at his home in London."



https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/deutsche-bank-death/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bancorp


"The U.S. Bank name first appeared as United States National Bank of Portland, established in Portland, Oregon, in 1891.It changed its name to the United States National Bank of Oregon in 1964.

 In 1902, it merged with Ainsworth National Bank of Portland, but kept the U.S. National Bank name


*** March 2013, U.S. Bancorp announced that it was acquiring the $57 billion municipal bond trustee business from Deutsche Bank.

In February 2018, the bank was charged by the Department of Justice with failing to implement measures preventing illegal activities, including one case of abetting them.

 To defer prosecution, U.S. Bancorp agreed to pay $613 million in fines and agreed to implement measures to show the authorities that it had improved the monitoring of its customer transactions.

 $505 million was distributed in September 2018 to customers of an illegal payday loan business whose suspicious activities US Bancorp had failed to report.""

____________

https://useu.usmission.gov/our-relationship/our-ambassador/


" Ambassador Sondland is also a current member of the US Bancorp Advisory Board, and he also serves on the Board of Visitors of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University."

Alisha

Forest

sesame street 1659 (3-2-18)

Visit St George's by the light of the moon,
if you dare, there in olde Flushing
now surrounded by banks, the Chamber of
Insolence, and varied trees
with the fingerprints of Vikings and feudal serfs.
bring a metal detector
for the silver coffin in which
the blot
god sleeps, a blanket of seeds
up to the eyelids that never close,
watching how slavery on the streets above
has meanly molted, shed one outer skin,
and feasts on all makes and models
without the trappings of prejudice
in this dense hamlet of millions,
most diverse melting pot since
the dragon's breath turned all the Old World
to a cauldron of refugees,
pilgrims, migrants, swimming a stew
of gold, wrapped in beaver skinned leggings,
better bowling alleys, more
gruesome ghosts in hollow cold chain,
the burghers good on unleavened bread.
Visit St George's by the dark of the Sun,
there in New Vlissingen, if
you care, and wear the royal blue
once verboten, or the purple and green
of plants bearing our names,
once Latin, once guttural or gestured,
to show how time blooms,
covering the trails past wampum bay
over to the corner of a lot not
desecrated under a cement lid,
pry up the moss and dust off the tardigrade
guards dancing their 8 legged jig
on the silver box,
locked from within with his Captain's
fingernails grown through the inner 
hardware, moisture free from 360 years
of held ancient breath, and the 
speech Olde Bloetgoet took within his boob,
down to rummage the thousand years
prior, eyes open and a peck of
squash seeds ticking the inner ear,
as the Steeple of St George
heaved to the street, with the usual 
superstitions acquainted with phenomena,
there on the corner of Main and 39th,
the top hats all now gone
the tall sails sallied off
the hoop skirts and whalebone dentures done,
seeds still saw
their way out of the garret as
forms of sacrifice, the blot 
hanging from the trees riddled with ravens,
the bay fog warm
as it washes inland over stone joke hi-rises
mini-marts and cultural outposts,
championed by the unknown as religious
tolerance, doing unto others
as one would like done to ourselves, 
in their tidy life boxes and worthless plots,
the headstones long crumbled
the peg and awl termite known
the keel under repair in a barn half built,
clocks half maintained for the public good
and hourglasses filled
half, in open sesame seed

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Portland 3-2-18

*There are a few Bloodgoods buried at St George's.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1524648/memorial-search?page=1#sr-124402970


Frans Bloetgoet's property and home from 1659 preceded the first church property: "Services were conducted in the old Guard House until 1746 when the first church building was constructed. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Jansen_Bloetgoet

"Garretson Homestead was located on Main Street directly opposite St. George's Episcopal Church. Owned by Garret R. Garretson and his wife, Eliza Bloodgood, .."

"The first house built on the street was probably the Bloodgood House, which ... Later on, it was known as the Garretson House. For many years, it stood opposite St. George's Episcopal Church until it was torn down in the early 20th century."


________________

"The September 16, 2010 microburst across Brooklyn and Queens destroyed the church's 45-foot wooden steeple which crashed down on top of two New York City buses parked on Main Street.


It is unknown whether the destruction was caused by the 100+ mph winds or a reported lightning strike. 

It was rebuilt in 2013"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George%27s_Church_(Queens)

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secret tents of yemen (2006)

the music makes a rake where leaves have yet
to unfurl their blasting spirit
the twitch is notched in calibrations so the febrile
clergy might know how much force
to levy upon the faithful the roadmap took a tranquilizer
for a sense of purpose the bouzouki slapped
the ass of donkey as he tumbled down the shale of politics
the virgin said yes yes yes to a deafening chorus of
beermugs pounding the leadpaint off the table
where he danced wearing rusty milkpails of pinesap
covered not by insurance as it was the truth and
good enough for mr bigbucks
the bully threw rocks at the reflection of good in the 
pisspool he left for a thirsty dog
the continuing rain made a mockery of the desert so
they laughed a long cry the seasoned shishkabob was 
so flipping patient at the canceled hanging
the wall was not a fence but a barrier to the wall
that might outfence the fox
the shovel and rake and bulldozer turned the corpses 
so that worms could exit
the brothels chief artillery was a herpes so complex 
it made the pentagon look vapid
the camel learned to drink oil. that is how
he got the logo everlasting the humor spilled out
of the camp into the faces of orphans
until halloween's recall celebration was groped
from the feminist by a nazi now armed with nukes
it did not help, we could smell blood upon
typewritten smiles the millionth fly ate a 
smorgasbord of poop and washed it down with the Oregonian
the zit that could not pop had an 
unelected head of state the phrasing left
me speechless. luckily i had a camera and
plastic implosives the pregnant barbie doll a cultural weapon
the unwed took a seat next to the underfed
under the foot of the wellbled the bob hope tribute
shuffled aside by death of john ritter b.cuz 3's company
the upsurge was put down but it bobbed back
wobbled truthfully toward purity
the sand and storm were one with the milita man who
felt bespeckled in chaos the swan
& the sword did a silken dance by the oasis
the evening let down a fragrance of figs until the nomads
were wrapped in heaven the head had redemption
that governed the evil once could aspire to the gnat
and the turtle and the buzzard gave counsel
to the understandings lost on the fallen
the rations were severely passioned until caution
was the currency of fashion the only way
i can create this illusion is to paint a music language
i don't understand from a million wastes of
today trees who need certain conditions or they
exhume their roots and begin




2006, the dalles, oregon

there

his naked mountains silver veined
her glacial stomp
full of diamonds his cloud sweep of life-hail

her mists made of ice-dagger-fog his endless trees
harboring birds her meadow grass more gold to taste

his creases her map pleased timely
her wind shushing
all moans his lonely hum to home

casting couch velvet

lets be frank on this casting couch
your kooch i need to question un-pouched
   please recite as you drop all defenses
   alphabet-backwards-moral-pretenses

z is for zippers yes rip yours in half
Y is for --------why do i have to ask
  X is for ratings only this couch will see
   W is two yous,      both here all for me

happens to men but mostly to women
the ponzi scheme sex scam all industry's haven
   you'll get there much faster if first bare naked
   you pay forward your Love  that I'm taking

brazen the rapist, leaned back in his chair
dawn needed no velvet his carte blanche stare 

(ac·couche·ment

/ˌäko͞oSHˈmänt,əˈko͞oSHmənt/

nounARCHAIC 

the process of giving birth to a baby.)

1-16-18 Portland, Or

in the hammersmith garage (1986)

winter prys its icy fingers
into the crack of the huge sliding door,
pointed colors gust in the car exhaust.

greasy joe slides under a car
&wrenches at pipes, straining
not unlike a man milking a cow
in the frost of four a.m. iowa

he loosens a nut that drains the oil
and the cow wobbles
weakheaded. he puts a feedsack over the hood

and gives the back fender a
fleshy, familiar slap




1986 Lawrence Ks

autumn lettuce (1989)

a halloween cross of two by fours leans on my living room
wall. feathers and dirty coins on the floor where the dust
has been etched by dragged sheets. a stain on the
bedside wall. the garden next door full of clouds
and autumn lettuce. an auction across the 
street, turkey talk. a pumpkin too tiny to
carve. wind back the clock, the phone's
disconnected. lists of things to avoid
doing. naked on the couch, backdoor locked making
slowlove with her shirt on, a vw starts. cow skulls
hung with flags poked in the holes.
melville poems by the potty.
milky coffee, dirty dishes
and a bag of groceries
on the table. celery
and razors. car
door parked by
puddle gape,
step over
william
carlos
williams




1989 Lawrence Ks

lullaby fish ( 1989)

slept thru the big banjo pickoff 
and was awakened
by a hot turd of sunlight
that commenced to leeching energy from my skin
in the forms 
of precious money be it rubies rubles or scruples

slept thru them dueling mandolin gods on high
and sought music in my dreamstate
with pasty beerbreath and tinfoiled sleeping bag
i felt like
a pig-n-ablanket 

listening to no music
save the crunch and smelter of aluminum cans
and the slurp
of green river flowing thru the willow garden

so deep and dark and flowing
with teemings of catfish
no noodling can capture

slept thru the balladeers in the concert hall
of cattle pens while thicknecked farmers
sat on their daughters
&inverted their day off the tractors,
plowing self

woke up to the skipping of rocks
one two three and nearly
four i killed a lullaby fish





1989 Winfield Kansas Bluegrass Festival

in Wister, Ok (1988)

we sat on high heeled stools in the fisherman's lounge 
tavern while a couple of cartoon faced men
shot some rank pool. zippy was standing in the corner,
by the jutebox when a farmhickmama
ax'em if he like rock-n-roll.
i like everything he replied, not calculating
the precise volume of flesh stuffed
into her tubetop
not squinching at the creak of listening naugahyde eyelids
not igniting the belches erupting from the oilfield
worker hunched next to his mom.
jim and i just sat there watching this, savoring
the finely layered ices on top of our beer draft.
thinking about goofing off,
the real work to get done



1989 Lawrence Ks.
a nod to gary snyder

in the beginning (1988)

in the beginning there were no wine glasses,
only the drinking troughs of logs
fallen& filled with veggie matter rotting sweetly

&back then, there were no handy bowls
of nuts or popcorn to provoke
thy thirst, all one had was the parching plains wind
&endlessness of night

no glowing neon phalluses
no high heeled pinball jezebels chawing sugarfree gum
no smoky jutebox come ons
no puddles of thrown up lite beer
no lastcalls over drones of monday night football

in the beginning, the accident was the creation,
the result was a sacrament





1988 Lawrence Ks.

Trump Trolls ASAP Rex,,,,post.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/27/donald-trump-rocky-picture-twitter#img-1R


"People are used to seeing Donald Trump’s face transposed on to a lot of things: satsumas, the Queen, a giant floating baby flying across the US and the UK.

But this morning, the president himself posted a photo where his head was photoshopped on to something utterly surprising: the super-buff, bare body of the fictional boxer Rocky Balboa.

It was tweeted at 10.54am, with Trump offering exactly zero explanation – not even a caption. All we know is that the tweet was sent during a golf trip at one of Trump’s golf clubs in Florida, during his Thanksgiving holiday at Mar-a-Lago.

Who knows how we should interpret it? Perhaps the 45th president suffered a blow to the head this morning. Or perhaps he wants us to know he’s a fighter. Maybe he’s upset about of all the low blows thrown his way during his tenure"

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LSD OKC 1953, Jolly West, Kesey Ginsberg

"IN 1954, around the same time as Chere Jo Horton’s murder, West began to split his time between Lackland and the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, where he would lead the psychiatry department.

West had told his prospective employer that his Lackland duties were “purely clinical” and that he’d “been doing no research, classified or otherwise” — and he asked the board of directors at Oklahoma for permission to accept money from the Geschickter Fund for Medical Research, which he called “a non-profit private research foundation.” In fact, as the CIA later acknowledged, Geschickter was another of Gottlieb’s fictions, a shell organization enabling him.

In 1956, West reported back to the CIA that the experiments he’d begun in 1953 had at last come to fruition.

In a 1956 paper titled “The Psychophysiological Studies of Hypnosis and Suggestibility,” he claimed to have achieved the impossible: 

He knew how to replace “true memories” with “false ones” in human beings without their knowledge."

https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/



According to records in West’s files, his “crash pad” was funded by the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry, Inc., which had bankrolled a number of his other projects, too, across decades and institutions.

 Dr. Gordon Deckert, West’s successor as chair at the University of Oklahoma, told me that he found papers in West’s desk that revealed that the Foundations Fund was a front for the CIA.


________

MKUltra was so highly classified that when John McCone succeeded Dulles as CIA director late in 1961, he was not informed of its existence until 1963. 

Fewer than half a dozen agency brass were aware of it at any period during its 20-year history.

"At the invitation of Stanford psychology graduate student Vik Lovell, an acquaintance of Richard Alpert and Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey volunteered to take part in what turned out to be a CIA-financed study under the aegis of MKUltra,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra



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"n the 1950s, West, then an Air Force doctor at Lackland Air Force Base,[3] was appointed to a panel to discover why 36 of 59 airmen captured in the Korean War had confessed or co-operated in Korean allegations of war crimes committed by the United States. 

Amid speculation that the airmen had been brainwashed or drugged, West came to a simpler conclusion: "What we found enabled us to rule out drugs, hypnosis or other mysterious trickery," he said. "It was just one device used to confuse, bewilder and torment our men until they were ready to confess to anything. 

That device was prolonged, chronic loss of sleep." 


Died 2 January 1999 (aged 74)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jolyon_West


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"KLICKITAT COUNTY: Police find knife, seek van in triple stabbing
Sun | Local

The Associated Press — Jan 2nd, 1999


KLICKITAT - This county's new sheriff says he has good leads but no suspects in the New Year's Eve stabbing deaths of two men and a pregnant woman."


https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/1999/01-02/0039_klickitat_county__police_find_kni.html___________

"Plea agreement reached in triple homicide
Sun | Local

AP — Apr 20th, 2001

YAKIMA - A young man accused, with his father, in the fatal stabbings of three people in a small Klickitat County town in 1998 has agreed to plead guilty to avoid a possible death sentence, an attorney said.

Billy Jean Neal Jr., 21, will enter the plea Monday in Klickitat County Superior Court, Mike Foister, a Vancouver lawyer, told the Yakima Herald-Republic.

"His statement will be that he acted with premeditation, that he inflicted injuries upon some of the people that are deceased," said Foister, who was appointed to represent the younger Neal.


He is expected to plead guilty to aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of Carlos R. Mendoza, 30, and Dionna L. Gomez, 22, and guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Juan Olmos, 30. Mendoza, Olmos and Gomez, who was pregnant, were killed Dec. 31, 1998, in Klickitat."

Anna Shoemaker Morris Bloodgood

Francis Bloodgood died on 5 March 1840, aged 71. 

He was also buried in the Presbyterian burial ground. At the time of his death he was married to Anna Shoemaker (born 27 March 1777), from a Philadelphia Quaker family, the widow of Robert Morris Jr.

 His wife lived on until 5 March 1865, when she died in Philadelphia.

 His son was Major William Bloodgood, father of Captain Edward Bloodgood, who died at Fort Larned on 31 July 1867

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bloodgood

About Anna Bloodgood

Daughter of Benjamin Shoemaker and Elizabeth (Warner) Shoemaker Wife of Robert Morris, III and Francis Bloodgood


https://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Bloodgood/6000000013052586505

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/robert-morris-the-creator-of-the-subpoena-1/


"The history of subpoenas, and the fiery congressional hearings that have captivated Americans for centuries began with a Founding Father raising his hand to say, “Investigate me!” "

_______________

Son of Robert Morris, Jr., Signer of the "Declaration of Independence" and Mary Morris

Husband of Anna  Shoemaker Bloodgood

The children of Robert MORRIS, Jr. and Mary ("Molly") WHITE were:

1. Robert MORRIS III (19 December 1769, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania - AFT 1804, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania) [M]:

Married Anna SHOEMAKER (27 March 1777, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania - 5 March 1865, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania), 5 May 1796, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


Anna SHOEMAKER was the daughter of Benjamin SHOEMAKER (9 January 1747, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, British North America - 4 September 1808, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania) and Elizabeth WARNER (died 8 December 1823) who were married 18 May 1773 at the Friends Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, British Nortrh America. 

She was second married to Francis BLOODGOOD, sometime clerk of the Supreme Court of New York and mayor of Albany, New York, November 1823

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Robert Morris, Jr. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806) was an English-born merchant and a Founding Father of the United States.

He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. 

From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, becoming known as the "Financier of the Revolution". Along with Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, he is widely regarded as one of the founders of the financial system of the United States.
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"Union Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood held Brentwood, a station on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, with 400 men on the morning of March 25, 1863, when Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, with a powerful column, approached the town.

The day before, Forrest had ordered Col. J. W. Starnes, commanding the 2nd Brigade, to go to Brentwood, cut the telegraph, tear up railroad track, attack the stockade, and cut off any retreat.

Forrest and the other cavalry brigade joined Bloodgood about 7:00 am on March 25. A messenger from the stockade informed Bloodgood that Forrest's men were about to attack, and had destroyed the railroad tracks.

Bloodgood sought to notify his superiors and discovered that the telegraph lines were cut. Forrest sent in a demand for a surrender under a flag of truce, but Bloodgood refused. Within a half-hour, though, Forrest had artillery in place to shell Bloodgood's position and had surrounded the Federals with a large force. Bloodgood decided to surrender.

Forrest and his men caused considerable damage in the area during this expedition, and Brentwood, Tennessee, on the railroad, was a significant loss to the Federals."



https://www.revolvy.com/page/Battle-of-Brentwood

Cream of the Crop Neil Bush Ponzi

OneCoin Scam Paid $300K to Neil Bush, George H.W. Bush’s Son and George W. Bush’s Brother

https://all-stocks.net/onecoin-scam-paid-300k-to-neil-bush-george-h-w-bushs-son-and-george-w-bushs-brother/

"The vanished head of the OneCoin crypto Ponzi scheme, Ruja Ignatova (also known as the CryptoQueen), has paid $300K to Neil Bush, the son of the late 41st U.S. President George Bush and the brother of the 43rd President George W. Bush, for attending meetings organized by Ignatova’s fraudulent cryptocurrency company.

OneCoin is again in the news for all the wrong reasons. It is undergoing a legal investigation in the United States for allegedly laundering money. Mark Scott, a former attorney at Locke Lord (an international firm) is also facing legal proceedings in a District Court in the United States.

 It is alleged that Scott conspired with Ruja Ignatova and her brother Konstantin Ignatov (who recently confessed to fraud) to run the crypto-based Ponzi scheme, OneCoin.

However, Scott’s attorney, Arlo Devlin-Brown, has made it clear before the court that his client had no idea that the OneCoin was based on a fraud.

According to the attorney, when his client had learned that Neil Bush, who comes from a powerful presidential family, had met Ruja Ignatova and her brother, his confidence in OneCoin grew. The attorney also mentioned that there was a transaction with the name of Bush on it.


Upon hearing this, the presiding judge asked whether there was a meeting between Neil Bush, Ruja Ignatova and her brother. Devlin-Brown replied in the affirmative. He also alleged that for this meeting, Bush was paid $300K by Ruja Ignatova.

Devlin-Brown apprised the court that Bush, as a member of the board of Hoifu Energy, had attended a meeting in Hong Kong where the head of the company, Dr. Hui Chi Ming, had informed Bush that he obtained cryptocurrency for an oil deal in Madagascar.

It was here that Neil Bush met with the head of OneCoin Ruja Ignatova. It was later revealed that OneCoin was to be one of the facilitators of that cryptocurrency deal.

Based on investigation conducted by the FBI, Scott’s attorney claimed that Neil Bush was promised 10% of the cryptocurrency deal. Even though the deal never materialized, that does not dissolve the suspicious ties that Bush had with the cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme.

OneCoin has been in the news fora lot of notorious reasons. Investigators unearthed the massive $4 billion scam that OneCoin had been orchestrating behind the curtains.

 It led its customers to believe in a fake scheme that emphasized a much higher than the actual value of its digital token. A lot of people fell for the trap and ended up investing in the company by buying the valueless digital token"

https://all-stocks.net/onecoin-scam-paid-300k-to-neil-bush-george-h-w-bushs-son-and-george-w-bushs-brother/

____________________



"A former savings and loan regulator testified under oath yesterday that officials in Washington ordered him to wait for two months in 1988 -- until after Election Day -- before closing a failing Colorado thrift where President Bush's son Neil had been a director.

The delay was ordered despite a request by field supervisors that action should be taken in October, said Kermit Mowbray, former president of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Topeka, Kan. He testified before the House Banking Committee, which is investigating the failure of the Denver-based Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association. Mowbray was the top regional regulator for thrifts in a four-state region that includes Colorado."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1990/06/20/ex-regulator-silverado-closing-was-delayed/0e86d2a0-b4c5-41a4-a2f0-39903589edbe/




Sounds like a big story? Bigger than ASAP Trumpy?

Here's what Google does with the news:

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"Silverado Savings and Loan collapsed in 1988, costing taxpayers $1.3 billion. Neil Bush, the son of then Vice President of the United States George H. W. Bush, was on the Board of Directors of Silverado at the time. Neil Bush was accused of giving himself a loan from Silverado, but he denied all wrongdoing.[29]

The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision investigated Silverado's failure and determined that Neil Bush had engaged in numerous "breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest". Although Bush was not indicted on criminal charges, a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court, with Bush paying $50,000 as part of the settlement, The Washington Post reported.[30]

As a director of a failing thrift, Bush voted to approve $100 million in what were ultimately bad loans to two of his business partners. And in voting for the loans, he failed to inform fellow board members at Silverado Savings & Loan that the loan applicants were his business partners.[31]

Neil Bush paid a $50,000 fine, paid for him by Republican supporters,[32] and was banned from banking activities for his role in taking down Silverado, which cost taxpayers $1.3 billion. An RTC suit against Bush and other Silverado officers was settled in 1991 for $26.5 million."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

"Neil Bush was a member of the board of directors of Denver-based Silverado Savings and Loan from 1985 to 1988,[3] during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. As his father, George H. W. Bush, was Vice President of the United States, his role in Silverado's failure was a focal point of publicity.

The US Office of Thrift Supervision investigated Silverado's failure and determined that Bush had engaged in numerous "breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest." Although Bush was not indicted on criminal charges, a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court, with Bush paying $50,000 as part of the settlement.[4]

A friend who also donated funds to the Republican Party set up a fund to help defer costs Neil incurred in his S&L legal defense."

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"I just don't recall," he told reporters during a break in the hearing.

Mowbray submitted a formal recommendation that Silverado be placed into receivership one day after George Bush was elected president, and the thrift was seized by federal regulators on Dec. 9, 1988.

The thrift's failure is expected to cost taxpayers $1 billion, a sum that congressmen from both parties say could have been substantially reduced if officials in Topeka and in Washington had taken action in 1986 and 1987, when its problems first became known.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1990/06/20/ex-regulator-silverado-closing-was-delayed/0e86d2a0-b4c5-41a4-a2f0-39903589edbe/

Parnas Nunes Firtash Trump CNN

Over the past two weeks, CNN approached Nunes on two occasions and reached out to his communications staff to get comment for this story.

In the Capitol on Nov. 14, as CNN began to ask a question about the trip to Vienna, Nunes interjected and said, "I don't talk to you in this lifetime or the next lifetime."

"At any time," Nunes added. "On any question."

Asked again on Thursday about his travel to Vienna and his interactions with Shokin and Parnas, Nunes gave a similar response.

"To be perfectly clear, I don't acknowledge any questions from you in this lifetime or the next lifetime," Nunes said while leaving the impeachment hearing.

 "I don't acknowledge any question from you ever."


https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/politics/nunes-vienna-trip-ukrainian-prosecutor-biden/index.html
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"New York (CNN)Earlier this year, Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, received a sudden windfall of money from a prominent Ukrainian oligarch who is fighting extradition to the United States and is suspected of having ties to the Russian mob, according to four sources who spoke with Parnas.

This summer, Parnas told potential business associates that his company began receiving payments from the oligarch, Dmytro Firtash, who is living in Austria while fighting bribery charges in the US, the sources told CNN.

Parnas also told these people he met with Firtash several times over the summer while in Vienna."

Forest salsa

the firstcat (1988)

The first cat to tip the garbage can found
An undiscovered treasure chest of thrownaway scraps
And jarred a sleeping nest of mice causing them to scurry
Fatally into his mouth and stupefied the owner of the slum hideaway
Who awoke from the floor to pour a saucer of milk invoking
Sympathy from the housewife who upon seeing
Him with battle worn ears and crusty matted fur took him in
To clean and in the end found himself
Presenting his lament MEOW to a coffeehouse of
Mousehaired pseudo-intellectual yuppies
Who with the first drag off poverty can only muster a
Googooeyed wow, who were really too uptight
To purr in public in the first place




1988 Lawrence Ks.

in tune in tune (1988)

On a mandolin there are shadow strings
Corresponding mates of the same note
In tune in tune with one another

All they require is breath of nimble fingers
All they need is space to fill with
Their innate harmonies

Sweet ingredients! Battle not under
The damp sheet but rise with each yeast’s
Muscle flex, bust the bowl

Be it condo, cavedwelling, or
Californian. Stroke resonance
Internal& merge 

as a bird’s summer hum



(1988, Lawrence Ks.

fourth of july (1988)

Fireworks celebrate the fourth of july sky over the gulf of Persia
And you’re in italy sleeping off a siesta,

The planes passengers crossing the channel to their homes 
Smelling of Lebanese meats and spices, the sound of silly

Children happy to see daddy, spouse’s complaint of the local
Vicious dog that terrorizes the innocent meter reader doing daily duties

I’m pitching horseshoes in Oklahoma, taking aim
And firing with my lower lip silently chewed in contemplation

Pitching my shoe and hoping for a ringer the macho
Burst of fireworks resounds in my mind

And all I felt was disgust, and all I felt was this remorseful code
Dashdashdash dotdotdot dashdashdashing thru all the

Miles and differing wartime zones, and all I felt
From this celebration of isolation was nausea

My mind churning with the bloated floating dead
O spangled banner of america who’d guess you’re not an island

Though surrounded by mental waters you only
Lower your drawbridge to send out armed salesmen, what

Carrion you produce along the skyways of commerce!
What blisters swelling on the triggerfingers of ignorance,

What vain nationalism with your civil plights
And comdom-nation of others! And what  say I of myself?

I’m america too, an isolatoe, but I think that think my nation
Hates thinking, knockout those with something to give

Wrap nature in disposable diapers and talcum the
Consciences by proclaiming I am 

Not me! Swear it doesn’t hurt though the drought burns
Our pink skins like sonic insults! Independence day

Fade away like a pipe bomb, like a tummy ache, like 
A cramp in the side, and shatter our illusory caskets!



Midland Review, Oklahoma State Univ., 1989



"Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board, including 66 children, were killed"

ain't no jobs (1988)

Ain’t no jobs in Stillsville none in the greasy armpit 
Restaurants where the youth roll up their sleeves and plunge
Into the putrid dishwater and choke on the shit eating grin 
While cleaning up for the zillionaire rednecks and
Their beehived concubines who snarl for ashtrays and deposit
Their chewing gum under yer apron

Ain’t no work in the convenience store unless ya lop off
Yer hair’s golden plumes and forsake the limbs of
Yer mind to the tree cutters and even if
You get the job it means livin on money stained with the
Feces of satan where bossman hides his piggybank full

Of coke and bribery ain’t no work with the paintbrush
Unless you got her papers certifying your ability to
Mask the seams cause even  if you were to get a shot at
That job you’d probably fall off a ladder with
Paint in your eyes

Ain’t no labor opportunity in the construction sectors because
They’re being hatched prefab in mexico and korea
Out of shredded old growth complete with bedside bible
And ten gauge and even if you lucked into a shift
Here and there you’d see thru the shabbiness of the human condition
And make homes of mud

But there ain’t no positions to fill being a protector of the 
Planet tho if I could get this appointment I’d
Take a few looks at our lawnmowers and suburban sprawl and
Family dissolution which would
Be more than an unending job





1988 stillwater/lawrence

extraterritorial pessimism( kirk incrustation)

extraterritorial pessimism unloosen
airman-first-class
snowball fetish right
survive Chinese reason
system jack dribble
scuttle pro-bono-publico
cannonball madam pompous
go ascetic being
crescendo fertile honeycomb
tableau reduce offspring
glitch deodorant hot
alligator estuary lymph
bon appetit
hawk bank dawdle
advertise bolt cutoff
deal eyesight treadmill
potentate garnishment awestruck
bluff augmentation chimpanzee
non compose mentis
scapegoat pod flag
awash gamey impasse

*

astrology
center
red cedar

metalwork
inappreciable
Fabian

impromptu
EMT
battalion

revive
chivalry
drag rap bet

*


carbonate press-room
geriatric biddy

flat ASAP
conundrum half-hearted

blank-verse insider
cap flatfish

missile Masonic
traffic ark

taxidermy currency
forge emend

kirk incrustation
fascism bulimia

precaution taxi
leg flick

blog carboy
hole cherry

*

limber jalousie album
faerie vice-admiral CEO




(automatic
dada poem)

11-21-19
Portland OR

ASAP Rex

little world

Silverado Savings and Loan

Silverado Savings and Loan collapsed in 1988, costing taxpayers $1.3 billion. Neil Bush, the son of then Vice President of the United States George H. W. Bush, was on the Board of Directors of Silverado at the time. Neil Bush was accused of giving himself a loan from Silverado, but he denied all wrongdoing.[29]

The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision investigated Silverado's failure and determined that Neil Bush had engaged in numerous "breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest". Although Bush was not indicted on criminal charges, a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court, with Bush paying $50,000 as part of the settlement, The Washington Post reported.[30]

As a director of a failing thrift, Bush voted to approve $100 million in what were ultimately bad loans to two of his business partners. And in voting for the loans, he failed to inform fellow board members at Silverado Savings & Loan that the loan applicants were his business partners.[31]

Neil Bush paid a $50,000 fine, paid for him by Republican supporters,[32] and was banned from banking activities for his role in taking down Silverado, which cost taxpayers $1.3 billion. An RTC suit against Bush and other Silverado officers was settled in 1991 for $26.5 million.

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Kermit Mowbray was a President for Topeka, KS in the Federal Home Loan Bank Board with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1990 House Committee.Appearances by Title:PreviouslyPresident, Topeka, KS, Federal Home Loan Bank Boardc. June 19, 1990 - c. June 18, 1990

https://www.c-span.org/video/?12746-1/silverado-savings-loan-closure

__________

"by doing nothing, all is done"

the Tao or the Dow Jones

_____________

After a short tenure as a CIA analyst,[8] in 1988, Volker joined the United States Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Foreign Service.[5] While in the Foreign Service, he served in various assignments overseas including London and Brussels, and the US Embassy in Budapest (1994–1997). Volker was special assistant to the United States special envoy for Bosnia negotiations, Richard Holbrooke.[9]


Volker served as a legislative fellow on the staff of Senator John McCain from 1997 to 1998. 


Volker went into the private sector in 2009, becoming an independent director at The Wall Street Fund Inc,[11] where he worked until 2012. He was a member of the board of directors at Capital Guardian Funds Trust[12] beginning in 2013.[13] Volker was also an independent director at Evercore Wealth Management Macro Opportunity Fund until 2012.[14]

Volker served as a senior advisor at McLarty Associates, a global consulting firm from 2010–2011.

In 2011, he joined BGR Group, a Washington-based lobbying firm and investment bank, where he currently serves as a managing director in the firm's international group.[15]


He then became executive director of Arizona State University's McCain Institute for International Leadership[16] when it was launched[17] in 2012. He resigned in 2019.



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

"On November 17, 1989, the Senate Ethics Committee investigation began of the Keating Five, Alan Cranston (D–CA), Dennis DeConcini (D–AZ), John Glenn (D–OH), John McCain (R–AZ), and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D–MI), who were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association.

Keating's Lincoln Savings failed in 1989, costing the federal government over $3 billion and leaving 23,000 customers with worthless bonds. In the early 1990s, Keating was convicted in both federal and state courts of many counts of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy. He served four and a half years in prison before those convictions were overturned in 1996. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to a more limited set of wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud counts, and sentenced to the time he had already served."



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1986 Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) purchased 50 percent of CITGO.

1990  CITGO became wholly owned by Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

That same year, the former Champlin Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, became a part of the company’s refining network.

1990   Collapse of the Soviet Union

godzilla on pause

scratching at the door, lonely
makes trouble, or announces it as a feature
or policy, amid muttered non sequiturs
aimed at ankle high pets
indoors nearly all day watching squirrels
run the fence tops beating winter,
anxious, watching the rain wait
touching the not dry paint
eating not folding clothes or making
play-dates, leaf wrangling with power tools
as the corner kitchen tilts
with eddies of soiled baggies and
thriftstore cups, soon cleaned back to
starting positions as frozen goods
fall from an overstuffed top door
if one takes a chance at ice
thawing trouble 
as i pause godzilla to find out what
they want



11-16-19
portland OR

Pleasantville Iowa 2007 with Senator Obama

On a side note:  

"When I first met President Obama, he said to me: “I saw that match when I was 12, and I’ll never forget it. 

It helped me think about how I want to raise my daughters to be strong.”

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/nov/26/billie-jean-king-there-was-a-lot-riding-on-that-match-90m-people-were-watching

Surreal T.S. 1996

 photo: Kat Nyberg

Bloodgood Nurseries "America's Oldest Nursery---est 1790"

Surreal Gwine Round the World

Weird Portland