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From: Brian Redman (bigxc@prairienet.org)
Date: Wed Feb 08 1995 - 18:26:45 PST
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 85
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
There's plenty the popular press is not telling us about the
bailout of Mexico. For example: the horrendous conflict of
interest involving Maurice Greenberg, the chairman of the Federal
Reserve district bank in New York, who's also the chairman of the
American International Group, a tremendous company with interests
in Mexico.
UNKNOWN INTERVIEWEE:
At this point in time, we are being told by the Federal
Reserve that, "We need to go down and bail out Mexico."
Well guess what? *In* Mexico, American International Group
has a tremendous financial interest! They have invested
millions and millions of dollars there. How would *you* like
to be the chairman of the New York Federal Reserve district,
and not have any risk whatsoever, because you knew that if
something did happen to your investment, you could play a
key, integral role in bailing yourself and your corporation
out!
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, true. I understand. And the New York "Fed" is very
instrumental in the Mexico thing.
UNKNOWN INTERVIEWEE:
The "Fed", the New York branch of the "Fed", is *the* most
powerful group.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
(This is another interview with Pat Riatt(sp?), financial
researcher and publisher.) [CN -- As far as I can determine,
the following interviewee, Mr. Riatt, is not the same person
as the "unknown interviewee", above.]
PAT RIATT:
There's very, very little truth being said about the Mexican
situation. The real reasons that, we're being told, are
completely different than the phony reasons that we're being
given.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Such as what?
PAT RIATT:
Well, who are the parties that stand to gain from the
bailout? One of the things I can tell you -- and most people
don't have to be brain surgeons to understand -- is that the
Mexican people are not going to benefit from this bailout.
They're talking about a guarantee of $40 billion. They're
talking about a guarantee of $40 billion being leveraged
[with] Mexican oil going to pay for this. Well Mexican oil,
through their nationalized company, petroleum company, called
PEMEX, has already been mortgaged! This would be, like, the
30th mortgage on that, as a security! So if we're going to
get this $40 billion, we're going to be 30th in line. And how
much money do you think we're going to get when we're 30th in
line?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Probably not very much.
PAT RIATT:
No.
The people that are profiteering are the big banks, on Wall
Street (as you are hearing in the press). There are also
other large corporations, like U.S. Trust Company, which is
headed by Robert Day(sp?). He was down there; he used his
influence with Henry Kissinger -- Ya gotta remember: Henry
Kissinger is a *major* player in this entire scenario. He was
writing long columns, on and on and on, espousing the virtue
of the Mexican government. He claimed that he knew of no more
competent government in the world, to pass NAFTA! He pushed
NAFTA through, never telling anyone out there -- *anyone* --
that he had a major stake, at Kissinger Associates, his
consulting firm, and had *numerous* clients, where he was
profiteering from the very fact that NAFTA would be passed.
And there's no reason at all that public pension funds, for
instance, should have been investing in these type of
markets.
However, I can tell you that, as of a conversation that we
had with the director of the state of Wisconsin investment
board, just yesterday, whose name is Patricia Lippman(?),
that this particular investment board, which heads up a $35
billion investment portfolio, has lost *tens* of millions of
public pension money *down* *in* *Mexico*.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Also, a number of pension funds like that have lost a great
deal of money in derivatives.
PAT RIATT:
We have a situation in this country where we're not being
told the truth, and the American taxpayers are having to bail
out people that gave us false information and did not do due
diligence when they did the NAFTA.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well, the NAFTA, of course, also involves Canada. And there
are some astute observers that believe that Canada, like
Mexico, is bankrupt. And that the united States is in the
middle [of] sort of a "bankrupt sandwich". [laughs]
PAT RIATT:
Well we're a triple-decker, in that case, because we're
bankrupt as well!
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Another story, suppressed by the liars and whores of the press.
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "The Colossal Scandal in the Clinton White House".
(312) 731-1505.
New message Friday; we change it several times a week.
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the
Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the
latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political
assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.
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