"all scandals overlap"

who killed investigative journalist iris chang ?


out of curiosity , i listened this morning to a report from dave emory concerning the death of iris chang and my interest in this case was revived .

it was put together in may 2005 over a year and a half after chang's death . according to emory , chang was receiving torrents of hatemail and death threats and said in her 'suicide' note that "external pressures" on her to end it all , were greater than the "internal pressures" on her .

she mentions unseen , powerful interests tapping her phone ,following her, pressuring her , threatening her to stop her investigations , to stop writing.

she included the cia as one of those groups possibly seeking retribution against her for her investigations into japanese war crimes and american complicity with japan after the war in covering the war crimes up --keeping the defeated japanese fascists in power as the coldwar began.

she believed that something had happened to her during a trip to louisville that she would never understand ..." as long as i am alive they will never stop hounding me" emory revealed she said in the long 'suicide' letter that she left .

the brief interview with a military colonel she conducted at her hotel as part of her unfinished work on the survivors of the world war two battan death march left her so terrified of that colonel and so terrified for her life that soon afterwards she checked into a norton psychiatric hospital in louisville with 'help' from the very same colonel the same afternoon of their interview... a friend mentioned that "she was afraid of him when he showed up ."

i remember reading about her apparent suicide by gunshot on 11-9-04 --quite tragically ironic, almost on veteran's day-- and immediately thinking to myself that women don't usually use guns to kill themselves .

at the time i was still grieving the losses of my own family members and what extra focus i had was absorbed in looking into the 2004 election fraud and the second bush theft of the presidency .

unfortunately , i only gave a cursory look into ms chang's 'suicide' . at the time , my paranoia gland told me something was wrong with the official story in the case , but left it temporarily , after seeing she had been recently hospitalized for depression when friends said that something that happened to her in kentucky while interviewing american survivors of the "battan death march" , had unnerved ms chang so badly that her husband and friends said she checked into a mental hospital .

soon after her treatment and release , she was found dead in her car on a california roadway from a gunshot wound --the papers said she left a suicide note which they quoted in part --with iris reportedly saying she had fallen apart and was no longer the woman she had once been and was ending her life because she could not bear for her family to see how badly she had unraveled --and the pitiful woman she had become compared to the celebrated investigative journalist she had just recently been , was too painful for her to live with.

i checked further, back then and saw that she had 2 small children --noted it might be considered unusual for a woman with small children to kill herself --her maternal instincts might encourage her to hold on to life--no matter how depressed-- just for the sake of her little kids --and then i noted that she had written a few books , one among them being "the rape of nanking " that caused quite a sensation .

the book dealt with japanese war crimes in china during the 30s. 350,000 chinese civilians brutally murdered by japanese soldiers mostly by bayonnets and swords . her investigations stepped on rightwing japanese corporate toes , especially in light of recent lawsuits by people used by the japanese army and used by corporations like mitsubishi, as slave labor , lawsuits also including korean and chinese women used as "comfort women" --raped by japanese soldiers in sexslave brothels during the war .

iris chang and others were investigating war crimes committed by japan . iris was doing follow up work for a related project involving "the death march from battan" , phillipines , where 70,000 american soldiers surrendered to the japanese army and were marched through the jungles in a deadly trek on which many perished . the survivors were used as slave labor and many were worked to death --some in japan itself.

back in 2004, considering the location she was at conducting some of her interviews --ohio and kentucky , i wrongly speculated that perhaps something racial might have come up during her interviews of these aging Us war veterans. with nothing else to go on , i speculated that perhaps so devastating an insult to ms chang's sense of herself as a celebrated chinese-AMERICAN author may have been issued that perhaps her self esteem could not handle it.

along with all the flak she was at the time receiving over her rape of nanking book from powerful japanese corporations , media and japanese rightwing i thought that perhaps the official story that all the stress pushed her over the edge might have been true .

in the next few days and weeks , not much else was being said about her and then with investigative journalist gary webb's "suicide" by gunshot a month after ms chang on 12 -09-04, followed by the "suicide" by gunshot of writer hunter thompson two months later on 2-20-05 i noted the coincidences but did not look as deeply into each case as i should have ...

www.bowstring.net

the sterling and peggy seagrave's website --"they show how hirohito's brother--prince chichibu headed the secret 'golden lilly' program to loot 12 asian countries and japanese colonies overrun by japanese forces in the half century between 1895 and 1945 . japan then pretended to be bankrupt using hidden war loot to quickly regain its place as world power and sharing the treasure with america in return for keeping japan's fascists in power to this day "

"the seagraves have uncovered one of the biggest secrets of the 20th century"--iris chang-- comment quoted on the back the book "gold warriors- america's secret recovery of yamashita's gold" by sterling and peggy seagrave

because "all scandals overlap" , iris' investigation and interviews with american pow's came upon how the battan american pow's were used as slave labor by the japanese to build underground vaults to hold part of the more than $100 billions worth (in today's dollars maybe 2 trillion or more ) of gold and jewels stolen by the japanese armed forces as they blitzkrieged across asia and the pacific .

similar to the billions in gold and , diamonds and artwork looted by the nazis from their victims in europe and smuggled out during and after the war in large part with help from allen dulles and the harriman /bush skull n bones anglophile nazi faction on wallstreet who had infiltrated the american oss intelligence community .

this same right wing nazi-supporting faction would eventually take power in the Us and , portions of the looted buried treasure of japanese gold bullion and jewels were recovered by americans especially in the phillipines--(ed landsdale ,i'd bet had a significant hand in this ) .

these huge sums of looted wealth were used in both cases europe and asia as war chests --a huge right wing international slush fund to finance black ops , assassinations , regime changes , drug trafficking , arms trafficking , secret clandestine wars , used to put rightwing corporate -friendly candidates into office in various governments across the globe to play ball and forward the rightwing and corporate agenda during the coldwar era and up to this present day.

the same pattern seen in the contras--drug money to set up slush funds to finance regime change black ops assassination of rivals and furthering right wing agendas

the same pattern seen in the jack abramoff case-- huge slush funds based on gambling , prostitution drug money laundering , arms dealing , influence peddling and kickbacks to fix elections , fund black ops, finance regime changes , to put in politicians who will play corporate ball , and set up more wars for big corporate contractors to profit from...

so the corporate fascists in america ,britain , germany , italy and japan quickly mended fences with each other after the war and used hundreds of billions in gold , art and jewels looted from victims by germany and japan to build global right-winged intelligence networks to preserve their power ,set up national security states ,overlap and merge with certain elements of organized crime, invest in and take control of the burgeoning international narcotics traffick ,along with control of international prostitution , gunrunning, money laundering and gambling , change uncooperative regimes both domestic and abroad , support and install candidates into office willing to play corporate ball ,infiltrate and control media and use it to manipulate the public, pump up the phoney cold war for five decades and in the process--again and again , loot national treasuries with arms races against china and russia--countries who had recently been america and britain's allies against germany, italy and japan , and create crisis again and again to keep a constant state of war going to keep the machinery of the military industrial complex humming and the merchants of death employed and busy selling product...all in the name of free enterprise , profit , democracy and national security...

seems iris chang and the seagraves , as well as gary webb and hunter s thompson were all moving in similar directions investigating scandals that lead at the top to very powerful interconnected places --perhaps that's why all scandals overlap --because they originate from similar sources ?


gold warriors

"Book Description
In 1945, US intelligence officers in manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These would be combined with treasure recovered inside Japan during the US occupation, and with Nazi loot recovered in Europe, to create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism.

Overseen by General MacArthur, President Truman and John Foster Dulles ( *nazi-collaborator future sec of state and brother of oss member and future cia chief allan dulles--the dulles brothers were harriman and bush cronies and part of the legal team that helped restructure germany's ww1 reparation debts--this restructuring freed up enough capital for germany to rearm its military and made ww2 possible--without the debt restructuring there would have been no war -- no army + no weapons = no war), this "Black Gold" gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years. Drawing on a vast range of original documents and thousands of hours of interviews, Gold Warriors exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century."


"From Publishers Weekly
The Seagraves, bestselling authors (Lords of the Rim, etc.), contend that Japan systematically looted the entire continent of Asia during WWII, seizing billions in precious metals, gems and artworks. Further, according to the authors, from war's end to the present, the looted treasure, used by President Truman to create a secret slush fund to fight communism, has had a malignant effect on American and Asian politics. The Seagraves assert that the Japanese imperial family, along with Ferdinand Marcos,( * marcos' gold was among the 166 billion in gold that disappeared from the wtc during the attack and fires-- the saying 'all scandals overlap' seems truer by the day) every American president from Harry Truman to George W. Bush, and numerous sinister figures on the American hard right have been tainted and in many cases utterly corrupted by the loot. Postwar efforts to recover and exploit the treasure, according to the Seagraves, involved murders, dishonest deals and cover-ups. Readers who want to examine the full range of sources for this controversial account are referred in the book to the authors' Web site, where two CDs containing "more than 900 megabytes" of supporting documentation are available"



"what we point out is that total secrecy enabled corrupt people to abuse the resulting slush funds and these abuses have multiplied like a cancer ever since .
a global network of corruption has grown around the slush funds . bureaucrats , politicians , spooks and generals have become addicted to the 'black money'.
there are indications that a lot of this war gold has been siphoned off by america's far right under the guise of patriotism.

"those people and institutions that benefitted from this corruption will do anything possible to hide it , including murder." --sterling and peggy seagraves