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"Armed Madhouse" Book Party @ Vox Pop
Live Music, Local Six Point Beer, and
NY Times Best-Selling Author Greg Palast!
All in celebration of the explosive new non-fiction investigative indictment, Armed Madhouse.
Only at Vox Pop! 1022 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn.
Saturday, September 30th, 7 PM, $35 Tickets, In Advance >>
Why $35? Your ticket price includes a personally signed copy Armed Madhouse ($26.95 in stores), two free pints of Six Point Craft Ale, a reading, and Q&A with the author, plus...
live music from:
Bruce Markow!
Randy Nerve
and local pop punk sensation The Violets
So, $35 is really quite a deal, and this show WILL sell out, seating is limited, buy a ticket, here.
Sponsored by Sixpoint Craft Ale and Vox Pop's new newspaper, The New York Megaphone!
Here's a schedule for how is will all go down:
Randy Nerve - 7:30 PM or so
Bruce Markow - 8:15 PM or so
Greg Palast (reading, speaking, and book signing)- 9:00 PM
The Violets - 10:00 PM
From Vince Foster to Venezuela
Sander Hicks Interviews Greg Palast
This is an sneak preview of the
upcoming interview New York Megaphone will
be publishing in September, of best-selling author and investigative reporter,
Greg Palast.
S: What’s your theory on Vince
Foster?
G: Hillary Clinton suddenly found
her billing records for the Rose Law Firm, like under her bed at the White
House. But she only found those records after her senior partner at the firm, Webster
Hubbell, agreed to go to jail rather
than testify against the Clintons. Here’s where it gets interesting and
complicated: Remember that company Entergy she worked for? That she represented with Webster Hubbell? They
partnered up—with the Riyadi family in Indonesia and China. And they hired Hubbell as a consultant on his way to jail.
How many corporations hire a guy
who has admitted to a felony and is about to go to the Federal pen, as a
consultant? They paid him nice big bucks. I think it was half a million. So she
knew that Hubbell would say nothing about
her billing records and suddenly she found them. Now, what could her senior
partner say about her billing records? Well he could say that those were fake
hours. Now a lot of lawyers fake their
hours, and a lot of clients don’t mind them faking their hours, in fact there’s
a very good reason for an Entergy, for example, simply to pay a big check for
hours worked or not worked by the wife of the governor of the state in which
they operate. Entergy International is based in Little Rock, Arkansas, OK? The
guys that own the Indian Point Nuclear Plant. Following this?
S: Dixie Mafia, huh?
G: Dixie Mafia. Hillary takes money
from these guys. She can’t just take a check. The wife of the governor can’t
just take a check.
S: Maybe for the readers you should
just take a second and explain to our reader who the Riyadis are.
G: The Riyadis are an Indonesian
family which gave $1 million illegally to the Clintons, to the Clinton campaign
for president. Now this is not Greg Palast theorizing. One of their operatives
actually served time for involvement in arranging for foreign donations. By the
way, it’s against the law for foreign citizens to make donations to US presidential
campaigns. But Clinton came off without any indictment.
So suddenly she finds her billing
records. What could have been so dangerous about these billing records that
they had to be hidden? Ooh, did I say, “hidden?” No, I know they were simply
misplaced. Bullshit! If she wants to sue me on that one, then go right ahead.
She didn’t just find them, she only found them after Hubbell agreed to shut his
mouth, and go to prison.
What could be wrong with the
billing records? The nitwit that they
had as federal prosecutor, the schmuck named [Ken] Starr—he was looking for
evidence that Hillary was working on a project called Whitewater. What he
didn’t understand was that he didn’t know shit. The issue was whether she had phony billing hours because that is a very, very common activity among
lawyers, but if you get caught, you go to prison. You get debarred. That’s how
it is.
S: So why would Foster shoot
himself in the head with a pistol he didn’t even have?
G: Her partner was Vince Foster.
Foster is one person who got to see the billing records. There are two people
who got to see the billing records. Hubbell and Foster. Hubbell kept silent,
went to jail, got a big check. So he did a little “tennis time” in the pen and
got a big check. Anyone will take that deal. Not everyone has the same
personality. Not everyone will go to the pokey and take the check. I suspect
that Foster was one of those very moral people—
S: What!?
G: —who had a moral bone in his
body. He saw something he didn’t want to see and realize—
S: Greg, my friend, that
contradicts everything I’ve heard about Foster, man. Look at who he was
associating with. He wasn’t just business associates with these people, he was
friends with these Dixie Mafia people. Jackson Stephens and all these fat
cats of the Dixie Mafia. Anyway, but I’m interrupting you.
G: I think that he saw, you know,
not everyone wants to go to the pokey.
S: I mean, a month before he died
he was in Switzerland skimming $250 million off of mega-capital that was in UN
Contract 4 for the Palestinians and the Israelis on behalf of the Clintons,
from the Children
Defense Fund.
G: I don’t know what drove Vince
Foster to kill himself, or if he killed himself.
S: Ok, riddle me this, riddler: how
do you kill yourself when the EMTs who discover your body don’t discover car
keys in your pockets, and the cops who discover your body don’t discover car
keys in your pockets. And when the actual senate investigation into your death
is being run by Michael Chertoff and Richard Ben-Veniste, a friend of the
Clintons?
G: Again, now you’re getting into
the details of Vince and his death. I’m telling you the one thing I do know, is
that the real questions arise here about Hillary doing it.
S: Right. And that’s interesting.
So you’re saying that Foster might have fallen on his sword.
G: Rather than face the
consequences.
S: Because the evidence is strong
of a relationship between Foster and Hillary, and he might have done this out
of love.
G: I have no idea. All I do know is
there are real questions that have never been answered about Hillary’s billing
records and all I know is the people who knew about the records—Vince Foster is
gone and Hubbell went to the can, silent, and got paid. And the payment was
arranged by Bill Clinton and the FBI records make that absolutely stone ass
certain, OK? These are not nice people. Now what if they got involved in taking
out one of their buddies with prejudice, because he knew too much, that I don’t
know. I mean that’s going a step more than I know. It would be a motive for him
to kill himself.
S: All right, fine, I’ll get off
this subject because I know there’s a lot more to talk about.
What’s the latest on this Venezuela
oil offer? What’s your latest take on that?
G: Well, they’re gonna have to kill
Hugo Chavez, are you kidding? [chuckle] They’ve gotta kill him. Basically
Chavez is happy to give us cheaper oil but he’s got to stabilize the price of
oil and he’s got to bust the Saudi chokehold on OPEC. He needs to take over and
control OPEC. And he’s got more oil than Saudi Arabia.
S: Yeah, I know. What are the
chances that OPEC will approve the observation that he has more oil than the
Saudis?
G: Zero. It’s a blood battle. I’ve
called Riyad—Chavez and the Saudis do not want this battle public. Let me tell
you. Chavez tells me how he’s buddies with King Abdullah and officially Riyad,
you know, “He’s our brother.” But you know what? They fucking hate each other.
And this is a blood battle because it has to do with whether Venezuela lives or
dies and whether the house of Saud stands or not.
We’re talking about a transfer of the geopolitical power center in oil from the Mideast to South America. That’s no
fucking joke, man. And Chavez knows—he’s a very smart guy—and he’s playing it very
carefully. As he says to me, he’s a very good chess player because you
know the obvious gambit there is for them to kill him.
S: You know—I have contacts in the
World Bank and there’s a lot of chatter there about how “we’ve met Chavez and
he’s corrupt. He’s a corrupt guy.” How do you respond to that?
G: Ha, ha, these guys are so used
to every guy from South America just salting it away. But we haven’t seen any
of that. His money’s transparent. This is the first thing that happened here.
Now you actually see that the money comes in for the oil and stays in
Venezuela.
What they don’t like is that he’s
taking money out of the US Federal Reserve and giving it to Argentina, Ecuador,
and Brazil….
S: Wait, wait, explain that?
G: Venezuela, even though it was
really poor… has been taking all its oil money, just as the Saudis did, and
lends it back to the US government in the form of Treasury bill purchase.
S: Yeah, “T bills,” right.
G: Now, Chavez says I’ll give you
cheap oil but I ain’t giving you the money, I’m not lending it back to you. I’m
going to use it to develop my nation. That’s what they don’t like. And that’s
why they have to kill him. It’s not even so much that he won’t turn over the
oil, of course he’s going to turn over the oil. He doesn’t have anyone else to
sell it to. Forget China and India, that’s the other side of the world.
He’s going to sell to the US. It’s
his best market. He has no problem with that. He’s never going to cut us off.
But he’s not going to give us the money. He’s going to say, you buy the oil.
I’ll give it to you cheaper, but the money stays here. It’s never happened
before. The money’s always recycled back to the US, often through Miami,
certainly through New York, but ultimately back to the Federal Reserve.
And Chavez says that’s it. The
money stays here. And he’s really built that nation. If you’ve been down to
Caracas you can’t imagine. You don’t have improvement in people’s lives, you have a revolution, a revolution in peoples lives. You’re talking about
people going from nothing, literally a million people living in these cardboard
shacks, all those people now have brick and mortar houses, they have education,
they have health care. It’s a unbelievable change.
Come celebrate Greg Palast's new, explosive non-fiction investigative indictment, Armed Madhouse.
Only at Vox Pop! 1022 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn.
Saturday, September 30th, 7 PM, $35 Tickets, In Advance >>
Your ticket price includes a personally signed copy Armed Madhouse ($26.95 in stores), two free pints of Six Point Craft Ale, a reading, and Q&A with the author, plus live music from Bruce Markow!
So, $35 is really quite a deal, and this show WILL sell out, seating is limited, buy a ticket, here.
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