Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

perhaps because of its well known CIA connection, the
offer was ignored. The UPI reported from Houston Aug.
2, 1984 that a $3 billion proposal for a slurry line from
Wyoming to the Gulf Coast had been defeated.
Michael Berryhill noted in Harpers, Dec. 1983, that
Dallas was planning an $8.3 billion rail network. "The
Bechtel Corp., the huge and secretive San Francisco
firm with strong ties to the Republican Party, prepared
the feasibility study, and will probably get the design
contract." Bechtel is also planning a $5 billion convention
center in Hoffman Estates III, near Chicago and other
huge projects.
Bechtel frequently remains behind the scenes in its
major projects. The proposed MX missile plan was
headline news for weeks, but not a single journalist
bothered to find out that the MX proposal had been
drawn up by a presidential commission composed of
John McCone, Richard Helms, and Nicholas Brady,
former Senator from New Jersey and now chairman of
Dillon Read -- loyal Bechtelites, one and all. Mother
Jones pointed out in June 1984 that Stephen Bechtel Sr.
was on the advisory committee of the Export Import
Bank, which finances many Bechtel projects, and that
Bechtel Corp. created a new position for John Moore,
president of EX-IM Bank, as "executive vice president for
financial services", which he had no doubt rendered.
Mother Jones continued:
"Never before has a corporation been so visibly linked to the presidency. It
has had close ties with every chief of state since Eisenhower. Bechtel