A John Gray Dossier by Brian Salter
questionsquestions.net, 9 September 2004
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Update, 29 September 2004:
More information continues to circulate among 9/11 researchers who have been following the John Gray - Ramy el Batrawi - Adnan Khashoggi connection. The following two articles are examples of more direct proof from mainstream media sources of the el Batrawi - Khashoggi partnership extending back years before the Genesis Intermedia affair. Even more alarmingly, the events in question involve a company funded by el Batrawi and Khashoggi which was caught engaging in illegal arms shipments to Iran. (note that the first article uses an alternate spelling, Ramy El Batrawi = Remy Al Batswani).
Copyright 1992 UMI Inc.;
Copyright South Florida Business Journal, Inc. 1992;
Business Dateline;
South Florida Business Journal
May 4, 1992
Int'l Airline Support Sued Over Jetborne Deal
Melinda Zisser
Miami; FL; US
BODY: MIAMI--Garrick Overseas International, a company once owned by international arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, claims Miami's International Airline Support Group failed to live up to a contract giving Garrick 70,000 shares of its stock.
Garrick also invested in Jetborne International, which was indicted for illegally shipping arms to Iran last year. Garrick claimed it met its part of the deal --to deliver Jetborne's London business in exchange for stock in International Airline Support Group.
But in a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Miami last month, Garrick claims Airline Support Group Acquisition Corp. failed to issue the stock.
"Whatever it takes, we're not going to let them cheat us a second time," said Garrick President Remy Al-Batswani.
Attorney Myles Tralins, representing International Airline Support Group, has a different story: "It's our position that the case has no merit and we expect the claims to be dismissed.
"We're surprised a frivolous lawsuit has been brought when there was a lack in performance on Garrick's part," Tralins said.
Miami attorney Thomas Farrar with Holland & Knight is representing Garrick. He expects attorneys for International Airline Support to respond to the suit in the next two weeks.
"They've refused to issue the stock and they believe Garrick hasn't lived up to its end of the bargain," Farrar said.
International Airline Support was supposed to issue Garrick 70,000 shares in exchange for Jetborne's U.K. operations, according to a deal signed last year. At the time, the shares were trading for $ 5.50 a share.
The stock, which is traded over the counter under the symbol IASG, closed at $ 4.88 a share April 28 after trading in a 52-week range of $ 8.63 to $ 2.75 a share.
Early in 1991, Khashoggi paid $ 100,000 for a 2 percent stake in Jetborne International, a Miami company that sold aircraft parts. He also received warrants to buy 1 million more Jetborne shares between $ 3 and $ 3.30 a share that would have given him a 16 percent stake in the company.
According to the suit, Garrick began arbitration proceedings in Paris last August against Jetborne, relating to a shareholders agreement between Garrick and Jetborne. At the time, Garrick owned an option to buy Jetborne U.K., a Jetborne subsidiary.
Later that month, Garrick entered into an agreement that gave International Airline Support the right to buy Jetborne U.K. shares at the option price.
International Airline Support then agreed to register its stock to Garrick, the suit said. The agreement called for 42,000 shares of International Airline Support to be assigned to Garrick either when Garrick won its Paris arbitration, or when Jetborne recognized Garrick's option and consent to sell Jetborne UK shares.
The balance, 28,000 shares of International Airline Support, was to be transferred when the company completed its acquisition of Jetborne U.K. shares.
In connection with the agreement, Garrick said in the suit that it transferred 111,111 shares of Jetborne stock to International Airline Support. Those shares were to be held in a trust account for Garrick until the Paris arbitration was completed. If International Airline Support acquired Jetborne, the shares would be returned to Garrick.
In December, Garrick secured Jetborne U.K., but International Airline Support believed it had too much liability: about $ 2 million worth, the suit claimed.
The deal also called for Garrick to retain Iain Sturrock, a key Jetborne U.K. employee. Garrick retained Sturrock, the suit said, but the International Airline Support stock never materialized.
What's more, Sturrock also delivered orders for aircraft parts to International Airline Support, orders that went unfilled, according to Garrick official Al-Batswani.
Khashoggi is no longer formally involved with Garrick.
When Jetborne was charged with illegally shipping arms to Iran and forced into involuntary bankruptcy, Khashoggi lost his investment.
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Copyright 1991 Forbes, Inc.
Forbes
February 18, 1991
Adnan is back (did he ever go away)
EDITED BY JASON ZWEIG
BODY: WITH BOMBS RAINING down on the Middle East, it's no surprise that arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi has popped up again, this time with an investment in a tiny aircraft parts company. Khashoggi, a Saudi national who was acquitted last summer of charges that he had helped Imelda Marcos hide her wealth, recently paid $ 100,000 for a 2% stake in Jetborne International, a Miami-based firm that refurbishes and sells aircraft parts. Khashoggi also got warrants to buy 1 million more Jetborne shares at a price between $ 3 and $ 3.30; if exercised, the warrants would give him 16% of the company.
Jetborne trades, thinly, over-the-counter (recent price: 1/2) and has 5 millions shares outstanding. Sales were $ 23 million in fiscal 19990 ending in April, up nearly 40% from 1989. But without the capital from Khashoggi's Panama-based Garrick Overseas International, Jetborne might have crashed. The firm lost over $ 500,000 in fiscal 1990, pinched by increased competition and sluggish business. In April Jetborne parted ways with Peat Marwick Main, after the auditors threatened to question Jetborne's future as a going concern (the new accountant is Norman Eliot & Co.). When Jetborne pondered spinning off one of its subsidiaries, one of the few investment banks reportedly interested in the underwriting was the malodorous penny-stock promoter Stuart-James.
With the cash from Khashoggi, Jetborne has the money to expand its office in Hamburg and to finance a joint venture with the well-connected Khashoggi that will broker aircraft parts to customers around the world. All in all, this deal looks timely for both parties.
UMI-ACC-NO: 9239516
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Another Khashoggi — 9/11 connection:
KHASHOGGI'S ATTY. MENTORED GIULIANI
Robert G. Morvillo
crimlaw.org
He is the name partner of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, a
40-lawyer firm he established in 1973. Among his other well-known clients
was Rep. Robert Garcia, convicted of extortion in the 1989 Wedtech scandal.
In another bribery case, he won acquittal in 1987 for John Zaccaro, husband
of former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. He also
represented the Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi, alleged to have siphoned
money from the Philippines for Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos but acquitted
with them in a federal case. Two years ago he represented Robert Iler, who
played the son of Tony Soprano of the HBO series "The Sopranos," on a
robbery charge (he got probation).
In the 1960s and 1970s, Morvillo served in the U.S. attorney's office for
the Southern District of New York. He was a chief trial assistant in the
fraud unit there, and then chief of the criminal division, where he mentored
a young assistant U.S. attorney named Rudolph Giuliani.
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A partial list of El-Batrawi business fronts registered in Florida:
Mars & Venus Counseling Centers [!!]
Genesis Media Group
Genesis Aviation
Genesis Aviation II
Genesis Studio & Production Corp.
Genesis Diversified Instruments, Inc.
Genesis Properties
The records of the following two businesses established by Adnan Khashoggi's daughter Nabila show the same address used by El Batrawi:
In Motion Pictures, Inc.
Plum Picture, Inc.
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Just as I was finishing this update, Daniel Hopsicker published a new article entitled "Cointelpro 9.11", available at www.madcowprod.com. Without yet commenting either way on its content, I'll note that he is promising more documentation concerning John Gray:
"Next Monday in Part II of COINTELPRO 9.11 we'll learn the truth about cultish involvement in 9/11 flourishing under the not-so-invisible hand of corrupt Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, as well as a few closely-guarded secrets of controversial author John Gray, including his bizarre connection to uber-UFO Cult Leader Marshal (“Just DO it”) Applewhite, leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult which committed suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, Ca. in March of 1997."
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quote of the week: "...pathetically shoddy research, and paranoid assumptions..." — Bill Douglas of 911truth.org, commenting on critiques of John Gray by 9/11 activist Nico Haupt and others, on the 911 Truth Alliance list.
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[Original article continues, posted 9 September 2004:]
Earlier this year, a controversy erupted over the participation of John Gray, "Ph. D" in the 9/11 Internation Inquiry held in Toronto. Gray is famous as a "relationship guru" and the author of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" series. Researchers Michel Chossudovsky and Matthias Broeckers discovered an alarming connection between Gray and the notorious Iran-Contra conspirator and international con man Adnan Khashoggi. The latter had been deeply involved in running a spectacular stock scam through Genesis Intermedia, a company with which Gray had been associated for years and was a part owner.
The story of the Genesis Intermedia (GENI) affair and its aftermath are summed up in this article from Businessweek:
businessweek.com
New York 9/11 researcher Nico Haupt also played an important role in pursuing this connection, and in pressing for disclosure of information concerning Gray's funding of the Toronto 9/11 Inquiry as well as a 9/11 activist organization, 911truth.org. Those involved with Gray, including the Toronto Inquiry organizer Barrie Zwicker (who has disclosed that Gray is helping him finance and produce a new 9/11 video project), Nikos Levis, Bill Douglas of 9/11truth.org, and others, were quite defensive and asserted that Gray was a victim of Khashoggi's GENI scam and that the two did not have any relationship of importance (Some of these denials reached the point of outright ridicule towards those raising questions about Gray, which is disturbing in itself).
Mike Ruppert interviewed Gray in Toronto. He wrote:
"I spoke personally with John Gray in Toronto. He was extremely forthcoming and open and was grateful that someone just came to him directly and asked about Khashoggi. "He said that he had never met Khashoggi and that he had lost a great deal of money as a result of Khashoggi's manipulations of the company which had been handling his products. He said that Khashoggi was a late-comer in that K's arrival in the company happened AFTER Gray had started doing business with the company.
This great furor over him seems "much ado about nothing" and it would all have gone away immediately had someone gone to him directly at the instant the concerns first surfaced, asked him questions, and then immediately published his response within the relevant and appropriate circles."
Barrie Zwicker had this to say:
"I asked John personally about what connection, if any, he has or had with Adnan Khashoggi. Khashoggi, I have been aware since the early 1980's is one of the most disgusting international con men, and there is plenty of competition in that category. K is clearly a "merchant of death." John satisfied me that he is aware of the anti-life nature of Khashoggi's activities, that he has not associated with him and would never want to, that he was caught up in the aftermath of dirty dealings by Khashoggi and other dot com crooks and in fact was one of their victims. I studied a court document and an article from Business Week and some other materials that were sent to me and could not see how John was in league with Khashoggi or the others."
A quite different story was later presented in a provocative article by Daniel Hopsicker, who is actually being sued by Michael Roy Fugler, who was involved with GENI.
9/11's Big Dirty Secret
madcowprod.com
"To say that John Gray is in business with Adnan Khashoggi doesnít portray the relationship in quite the right light," stated another observer, asking to remain anonymous. "Khashoggi owns John Gray. He bought his whole Mars-Venus shtick, his company, and now Gray works for him."
In order to try and sort these conflicting stories out for myself, I set about seeing what I could find out about Gray and Khashoggi. As it turns out, it didn't take long to collect a large amount of information from the variety of legal complaints and other official documents from GENI-related court cases that are available on the web. After carefully sifting through these, I found what I think is more than sufficient documentation to counter the claims by Ruppert, Zwicker, and others that Gray was an innocent victim with no real connection to Khashoggi. Instead, the connection appears to be quite real, and obviously a matter of serious concern.
Concerning Hopsicker's work, there are some claims for which I am not personally aware of any direct evidence for, and these are Hopsicker's claims alone. Among these are: a) that Gray is currently 'working for' Adnan Khashoggi or serving as a money conduit. b) that Gray is controlling any aspect of 911truth, the Toronoto Inquiry, etc. c) that anyone working with Gray is operating on bad intentions. I am also not aware of any GENI-related case where Gray is named as a defendant (but also, i did not read all of the court complaints, of which there are quite a few).
I won't get into speculations about what Gray is or isn't doing and what his agenda is, which I don't have any specific knowledge for. But I can say that I think his background stinks to high heaven. There have been some complaints that Hopsicker was not fair in the way he has portrayed the role of the organizers of the Toronto conference, which I can't comment on either way given that I don't have the relevant inside knowledge, but I have found little reason to doubt what he has to say concerning Gray and Khashoggi themselves.
The following is an edited version of a post I made to the 911TruthAlliance list in mid-July of this year (note: if any of the links are no longer active, I can provide archived versions of these pages upon request):
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[21 July 2004]
the story we have on the table about gray's past run-in with the GenesisIntermedia (GENI) fiasco and khashoggi goes something like this: gray hooked up with genesis early on and made a deal with them to develop and market a video & audio product line based on his books. then, years later, international con man khashoggi moved in on genesis and more or less hijacked the company late in the game, running various scams manipulating the company's stock and victimizing many including gray, who lost a lot of money though all this, including his sale of his genesis stock to khashoggi (whom he apparently never even met).
now this really seems to put everything in the clear, but actually it's not the whole story. as a kind of litmus test for how this matter is being handled by gray's defenders, i have been waiting for someone to mention a certain name: ramy el-batrawi. and explain his role. but no one has. and i find this the most perturbing part yet, because it is el-batrawi who was the lynchpin and connector between genesis and khashoggi.
who is el-batrawi? he is a long-time business partner and friend of khashoggi. the two first worked together in 1988, and had already done several business deals together when el-batrawi formed genesis in 1993. he was with the company from its inception and served as its chairman and CEO from 1993 until 2001 when he stepped down as a result of the stock scandal.
GenesisIntermedia Chief Executive Ramy El-Batrawi told Bloomberg News that he has worked with Kashoggi on deals dating back to 1988 and speaks with him "almost every day." larta.org
21. At relevant times, defendant Ramy El-Batrawi (ìEl- Batrawiî) was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for the Company. El-Batrawi has known defendant Khashoggi for fifteen years and worked with him on deals for years before the events alleged in this complaint. During the Class Period, he and Khashoggi spoke almost every day.
securities.stanford.edu
4. Defendant Ramy El-Batrawi ... served as Chairman of the Board and as the Company's Chief Executive Officer from its inception in October 1993 until his resignation in October 2001.
corporate-law.widener.edu
[note: hopsicker alleges that attorney michael roy fugler was involved with the incorporation of the company.]
in addition, genesisintermedia was apparently just one of several el-batrawi / khashoggi joint projects which were launched in the early to mid-90s. from research previously posted by nico:
Genesis is a code used by Khashoggi associated with a number of businesses he and Rami El-Batrawi created in the Tampa, FL area (I think of Tampa as home of Sami Al-Arian) in the mid-1990s, including Genesis Aviation.
thus it is amply documented that genesisintermedia was closely within khashoggi's orbit from the very start.
with this fact in mind, consider the version of events communicated by gray to mike ruppert in their face to face conversation in toronto, quoted here from ruppert's email:
"He said that he had never met Khashoggi and that he had lost a great deal of money as a result of Khashoggi's manipulations of the company which had been handling his products. He said that Khashoggi was a late-comer in that K's arrival in the company happened AFTER Gray had started doing business with the company.
the fact of khashoggi being a "late-comer" is almost meaningless -- in fact, it is outright misleading -- without mention of el-batrawi's role in the stock scam -- but gray has apparently left it conveniently unmentioned based on what we've seen so far. nor does he mention that he had been doing business for years with el-batrawi, who had FOUNDED genesis, and that this business had occured during a period where el-batrawi and khashoggi were working actively together on other projects. in fact, at some point, gray had become a part owner of genesis[!]. (i have not been able to find out when this occured but tentatively i think it's reasonable to assume it was early on, when gray and batrawi first made the licensing / marketing deal). this leads obviously to the question, what kind of relationship did gray have with el-batrawi when he was working with genesis?
first, observe that el-batrawi was the dominant figure in genesis' day-to-day business activities:
50. Prior to June 1999, GENI was a privately held California-based marketing and promotions company controlled by Defendant Ramy El-Batrawi, which was trying to break into the market for interactive multimedia technologies and the internet. As the Prospectus for its Initial Public Offering dated June 14, 1999, disclosed, however, GENI had achieved little success from its efforts and most of its revenue was derived from related-party transactions. In essence, it was little more than its founder, Mr. El-Batrawi, and some ideas.
mjktrustee.com
the media division of genesis, set up by el-batrawi, created and published gray's new video series, which was hit the market in 1994 (which is when genesis really began its business activities).
el-batrawi was an also an executive producer of gray's 1997 CD, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus - Songs for Loving Couples"
artistdirect.com
gray's products were a critical revenue source for GENI:
33. Incorporated on October 28, 1993, GenesisIntermedia.com, Inc. did not commence substantial operations until 1994. From inception through June 1997, the Company devoted substantially all its resources to selling products the Company owned or had purchased rights to sell through conventional marketing methods. The Company sold these products to the general public through the use of infomercials, radio advertisements, print media and retail outlets. A substantial portion of the Company's product revenue has come from its Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus product series authored by John Gray, Ph.D.
wyca.com
thus, it is amply documented that gray and el-batrawi had a close working relationship, that this was central to genesis business-wise, and they must have known each other well during this period.
it is also interesting to note that the relationship between gray and el-batrawi went beyond "just business" -- in the acknowledgements of his 1997 book "Mars and Venus on a Date", gray credits el-batrawi in a section which begins: "I thank the following family members and friends for their suggestions and valuable feedback to the ideas in this book..."
geocities.com
note that this book was not a genesis product -- it was published by harper-collins. therefore, it is documented that there was a positive personal relationship between gray and khashoggi's partner el-batrawi, over and above their business relationship at genesis.
this brings us to the next stage in the story -- the genesis IPO and the entry of khashoggi soon after. khashoggi did not come into the picture as a con-man out of the blue who ruined a perfectly good, successful company. in fact, genesis was already on the rocks after a trumped-up IPO in july 1999, desperate for cash and with its stock price down to $1.33 from an initial offering of $8.50. khashoggi saved the company with an infusion of cash loaned to his friend el-batrawi, and his assistance in bringing in resources for the scam which would inflate genesis stock to over $25.
a good summary of this stage is christopher byron's july 2001 article from the new york observer:
observer.com
note especially how byron shows how gray's friend and confidante el-batrawi was already playing games with the funds raised from the july 1999 IPO, BEFORE khashoggi came in and began his active involvement at the end of 1999.
the entire affair and its aftermath are summed up in this businessweek article:
businessweek.com
now, to return to gray's assertion of being a victim of khashoggi: "He said that he had never met Khashoggi and that he had lost a great deal of money as a result of Khashoggi's manipulations of the company which had been handling his products. He said that Khashoggi was a late-comer in that K's arrival in the company happened AFTER Gray had started doing business with the company."
there are two problematic issues here. first, gray is saying that he lost money through lost sales of his products, allegedly as a result of khashoggi's manipulations. however, numerous sources confirm that genesis had not met with success in diversifying its revenue sources at the time of its IPO, and did not add any new revenue sources of any significance in the subsequent period. but overall revenues remained relatively steady during the 2000-01 period, which can be verified here:
forbes.com
thus, since gray's products were a main revenue source for genesis, but its overall revenues did not decline, i would hope we could see some real documentation of what gray said he lost. i think this is reasonable to ask. for example, his royalties should show a clearly anomalous decline in sales of his CDs and videos marketed by genesis during the relevant period. (note also that by 1998 at the latest, gray was working with other publishers for his new videos, and there were no new genesis products that i could find).
the second issue is that gray was also a PART OWNER of genesis, thus the rise in the stock price engineered by el-batrawi and khashoggi beginning in late 1999 was in his interest insofar as his stock ownership was concerned. we need to know how many GENI shares he owned, when he aquired them, and when he sold them and for what price. the victims of el-batrawi and khashoggi's scam were those who were left holding GENI stock after 9/11, when its value finally collapsed (which also ties in to the important fact that the GENI scam has been implicated in connection with pre-9/11 INSIDER TRADING). this included individual stockholders as well as the brokerages which had borrowed GENI stock in exchange for cash collateral, which was the central mechanism of the scam. GENI part owner john gray, on the other hand, was one of the lucky ones who cashed out early, as noted in reserach posted by nico haupt:
John Gray was paid by Adnan Khashoggi a significant amount for all of his stock in GenesisIntermedia the month before the attack on America.Ý He has remained close to Michael Roy Fugler (another B Team player) who filed a lawsuit against Daniel (Hopsicker) to attempt to have his book on Barry Seal "Barry & the boys" snuffed...."
so, i can see why gray would mention alleged problems with his product revenues but not mention his ownership and sale of GENI stock. if the info above is not correct, then let's see a documented refutation asap.
on top of this, one of the legal complaints contains a very alarming disclosure.
the suit filed by ruined broker MJK indicates that SOME STOCK PURCHASES IN THE EL-BATRAWI / KHASHOGGI SCAM WERE MADE THROUGH AN ACCOUNT IN JOHN GRAY'S NAME!
94. For example, in August 2001, Mr. El-Batrawi himself bought more than $23 million in GENI stock,[9] and Mr. D Angelo that same month bought $30 million in GENI stock, at the same time he was selling about $27 million in GENI stock. In fact, from June through September 2001, Mr. D Angelo cumulatively bought more than $67.2 million and sold $68.7 million in GENI stock.10 On more than one occasion during that time, Mr. D Angelo proudly maintained that he alone was the market for GENI... [footnote] 9 This number includes purchases made through accounts in Mr. El-Batrawi s name, in the name of GenesisIntermedia.com, in the name of Genesis Diversified, and in the name of John Gray, a part owner of GENI.
mjktrustee.com
now this requires some explaining. and gray certainly hasn't explained it, because all he has mentioned is losing money through mismanaged product sales, but this has nothing to do with product sales. futhermore, since el-batrawi was totally involved in the illegal activities which supposedly victimized gray, the latter should have had plenty of opportunities as both a licensor of genesis' main product line and stockholder to seek legal remedy for this betrayal. but i've not been able to find any indication that he has done so. if this is the case, then why?
and indeed, if gray was truly relieved and eager to talk about how khashoggi came out of the blue and ruined his business relationship with genesis, why isn't he also chomping at the bit to mention how the person who really would bear the guilt for conning him was not so much khashoggi as his longtime friend and business partner ramy el-batrawi, who had been with genesis from the start and had run the show all along? if gray was eager for this to be known and understood, then why has he put forth the technically true but misleading story that khashoggi was a "latecomer" whom he had never met, when in fact it was his longtime partner el-batrawi who was running most of the nuts and bolts of the stock scam AND USING GRAY'S ACCOUNT TO MAKE SOME THE TRANSACTIONS?
and so, why haven't any of gray's defenders given an explanation which accounts for his relationship with khashoggi's henchman, el-batrawi? anyone who wants to work with gray should have had this answered already.
one thing is for sure, we're not going to hear much from gray's supposedly "ex" friend and business partner el-batrawi himself. as noted in the businessweek article, he's just as elusive as khashoggi: "El-Batrawi could not be located and has not responded to the suits. One of his attorneys declined to comment."
what it looks like to me is that no one has really done "due dilligence" on gray before deciding to work with him. i certainly see no evidence of this being done. all we have been offered are word-of-mouth assurances which have not been verified. now, mark my words -- i can certainly imagine possibile explanations where gray still comes out being the innocent victim, and i'm still completely open and ready to hear a credible and COMPLETE explanation. and i don't see any evidence that anyone who is working with gray is operating with ulterior motives, so i'm not implying such an accusation. i just see extreme lack of effort to check him out -- and a very weird defensiveness at the same time.
at this point, blind faith and verbal assurances are not going to be adequate. this needs to be looked at seriously, and documented, third-party-verifiable proof of gray's version of the story ought to be presented. those who insist that an issue like this must be settled on "trust" are actually the ones violating the trust we need in this movement. sometimes, trust requires verification. of course this will take some effort so i wouldn't expect such a thing to happen immediately while we all have so many things on our plates and are busy with various urgent projects. but at some point, it needs to, and i will continue paying close attention to what is being said, and if further explanations about gray's background manage to address all the facts, or continue to be full of holes.
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Addendum:
The following is part of an earlier post of mine to the 911TruthAlliance list which has some additional peripheral information about Gray that might be of help in understanding what he's about:
From: Brian Salter
Subject: Re: [911truthalliance] The 911Truth.org Secret Team
Date: June 30, 2004 1:01:09 AM GMT+07:00
To: Nico Haupt , 911 Truthalliance
... Gray has deep past associations with the world's quintessential shady huxter guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. he also holds a very sketchy "Ph.D." which was exposed a few years back (as well as previous degrees from a Maharishi "university"). Gray is not simply a "self-help" author, he is a major figure in the "new age" scene (his books are subtly but heavily laden with new agey ides; more obvious in his recent stuff) and gets around in the same circles as the usual social engineers / agents like Barbara Marx Hubbard (Club of Rome), Robert Muller (Temple of Understanding, Lucis Trust), Marilyn Ferguson (SRI, Willis Harmon), etc etc. this should be kept in mind by those who would associate with him. now, i'm not bashing people who are into new age stuff on their own but the fact is that that field is completely overrun with intel fronts, agents, mind control projects, and the sort of cult-promotion that the 'NWO' elites have been doing full-time since the late 19th-century, and i think caution is due especially with any mass-promoted celebrities.
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A Newsweek article reports that Gray spent nine years as a celibate monk and secretary to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (October 2, 1995, Page 96.) Surely if you're a Beatles fan you'll remember the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi!Ý Time ran an article in 1997 wherein it was revealed that Gray earned himself a B.A. and M.A. in the Science of Creative Intelligence from the Maharishi European Research University in Switzerland.Ý And just what is the "Science of Creative Intelligence?"Ý According to a timeline of chronicling the highlights of the Maharishi's campaign to establish heaven on earth, in 1971 "His Holiness" formulated the Science of Creative intelligence as the "scientific theory for the development of higher states of consciousness, which naturally develop through the practice of Trascendental Meditation."Ý Yeah, I hear all your Harvard Medical School graduates are doing this now.ÝÝ Cripes!Ý No wonder Najarian was eso vasive.
Oh, and the "University?"Ý Well, that's been rumored to be evidenced by the existence of a few desks in the a hotel run by the movement in Seelisberg, Switzerland.
With this puzzling foundation established, I wondered where Gray received a Ph.D. Ý On Gray's book jackets and WWW sites, we are told that he received a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia Pacific University. Now, I won't profess to know every school that dots the landscape of the United States, but I became concerned when I was unable to find a reference to Columbia Pacific University in any volume of Dissertation Abstracts.Ý After all, Gray acts quite the authority throughout his publications and on talk show appearances; I fully expected the man to have a degree from an esteemed and widely respected institution. As a result, I did some checking on Gray's alma mater and here is what I found. ï One master's-degree student was given credit for "a learning contract describing how he would continue taking dance lessons and watch dance demonstrations in order to improve his skills as a Country Western dancer." ï A Ph.D. dissertation written in Spanish was approved by four faculty who cannot speak the language. ï One dissertation "had no hypothesis, no data collection, and no statistical analysis. A member of the visiting committee characterized the work as more like a project paper at the college freshman level." The dissertation, The Complete Guide to Glass Collecting, was 61 pages long. ï At least nine students who received Ph.D.s in 1994 had been enrolled less than 20 months, four of them less than 12. [Point Reyes Light, December 24, 1997]
ourworld.compuserve.com
John Gray attempted some legal heavy hitting against a blog which discussed his "Ph.D." background: gavinsblog.com
more results of Gray's legal actions:
mensnewsdaily.com
gray answers his critics (amazing quotes...):
insideedition.com
John Gray headlining a recent New Age conference alongside John Hagelin, a leading figure in Maharishi's Natural Law Party:
newageexpo.com
Maharishi gets around...
The Maharishi International University (MIU) [MUM] was established at Iowa in the US in 1971. The group of students and professors who were meditating at a converted apartment building in Santa Barbara, California, found that they needed more space. About that time Parsons' College went bankrupt; and the Maharishi bought it for about $2.5 million in 1973.
Soon after, in 1976, the `world government of the age of enlightenment' was established at Seelisberg, in Switzerland. Styled in the manner of a spiritual United Nations, its hierarchy is punctuated with ministers for information and inspiration, education and enlightenment, health and immortality... This vast organisation claims sovereignty in the domain of consciousness and 1,600 capitals of the age of enlightenment around the world'.
Periodically, the 'world government' inserts full-page advertisements in some of the most expensive newspapers and magazines all over the world, offering help to all countries in solving their problems. A massive sum is sunk in this propaganda exercise.
Among the yet to be substantiated tall claims of the Maharishi's followers is the high sounding claim that 'the Maharishi unified field-based education, health. government, economics, defence, rehabilitation and agriculture will perpetuate unified field-based ideal civilisation generation to generation'. All the same, it goes to the Maharishi's credit that there have been a lot of buyers for his philosophy. it is believed that some countries like Brazil, had responded to the Maharishi's world government's offer to help solve their problems free of cost. Even the Philippines, during Ferdnand Marcos's reign, had wooed the Maharishi to set up shop in his country.
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10 Things About the Natural Law Party's $3-Billion Transcendental Meditation Empire You Don't Know:
* In 1984, TM guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi crowned tinpot dictator Ferdinand Marcos ``President of the World Government of the Age of Enlightenment in the Philippines,'' saying Marcos was ``rising to be the guiding light in the family of nations.''
* In 1991, two English doctors who follow TM were barred from practicing medicine after they prescribed to AIDS patients TM herbal products containing feces.
* TM poster boy and Natural Law Party of Canada Vice President Doug Hewing embraces TM beliefs that include life-long celibacy and the stricture that anyone who ejaculates will never encounter the divine. Henning's former wife, Barbara DeAngelis, left the magician (tired of being sawed in half, surely?) for a gig in Los Angeles as a radio and TV sex therapist.
* In 1991, the Maharishi persuaded Zambian strongman Kenneth Kaunda, who had ruled for 27 years, to undertake the ``Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development Project,'' a multimillion agrarian utopia theme park for the country's six million poor. The project was to take up one-quarter of Zambia's land mass. The ``giggling guru'' claimed the project would disperse a ``wondrous aura of calm and anti-negativity.'' In Zambia's first multi-party election in 15 years, voters rejected Kaunda and the Maharishi's scheme. Both fled the country.
* U.S. federal tax returns indicate that between 1985 and 1989, two of the Maharishi's companies transferred a total of $54-million out of the country to his secluded fortress at Vlodrop, Netherlands.
* Ever the entrepreneur, the Maharishi offered to rid Washington, D.C. of ``the problems of crime and all behavior that brings unhappiness to the family of man.'' If local government or private donors would pay him $29-million. Baltimore, Md., would cost $88-million (at $36,000 for each of the 2,400 meditators needed.) So far, no takers.
* In 1989, a German court, basing its decision on West German governmental studies of TM, concluded that the movement ``could cause psychic defects or destroy personality.''
* Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, where the Natural Law Party was founded in 1991, is the source of many of the party's ``scientifically-validated studies.'' MIU has the highest student loan default rate for colleges in the entire state of Iowa.
* In 1989 the Maharishi decided to settle out of court with ten former TM members who sued him for fraud and negligence.
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speaking of Marcos, it's a small world...
Even Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer, have a guru--India's Shri Chandra Swamiji Maharaj. In addition to providing spiritual counsel to the fabulously wealthy and hobnobbing with Elizabeth Taylor, the guru, who's been called a "one-man jet-set-introduction service" apparently greases the wheels in weapons transactions and was implicated in the Iran-Contra arms deal. The vastly rich swami was arrested by the Indian police in 1987 on charges of currency fraud.
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ÝÝÝÝA rich and mysterious Indian guru is emerging as another key figure in the Harrods deal.Ý It was he, Shri Chandra Swamiji Maharaj, who arranged the introduction of Mohammed Fayed to the Sultan of Brunei in 1984. ÝÝÝÝThe Swami, a giant bearded figure in flowing white, claims to advise a number of leading political figures around the world, including King Hussein of Jordan, President Mobutu, Rajiv Gandhi and Richard Nixon.Ý He is currently on his way to visit ex-President Marcos in Honolulu.Ý He has met Mrs Thatcher several times. ÝÝÝÝThe Swami is always accompanied by his business adviser Mamaji, Kailash Nath Agar Vall, who relieves him of any unpleasant commercial transactions which may happily occur in the course of his spiritual interviews. ÝÝÝÝFayed was asked for two million dollars for the introduction to the Sultan.Ý Eventually Fayed paid the Swami half a million dollars plus a percentage of any future deals, which might result from the meeting.Ý These turned out to be substantial.Ý
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Some research notes forwarded to the 911TruthAlliance list by Nico Haupt, related to Hopsicker's investigations:
"...John Gray ...would cite his PhD from Columbia Pacific Institute (an organization that was literally a false PhD mill by mail based in Novato, CA that was shut down by authorities).Ý Gray worked with Adnan Khashoggi years ago.Ý Gray then helped Khashoggi frame "Genesis" around Gray's book.Ý The company was renamed GenesisIntermedia with yet another hyped merger and is a defendant (together with Khashoggi and El-Batrawi) in a class action lawsuit filed in Minnesota.Ý Genesis is a code used by Khashoggi associated with a number of businesses he and Rami El-Batrawi created in the Tampa, FL area (I think of Tampa as home of Sami Al-Arian) in the mid-1990s, including Genesis Aviation. Ý John Gray was paid by Adnan Khashoggi a significant amount for all of his stock in GenesisIntermedia the month before the attack on America.Ý He has remained close to Michael Roy Fugler (another B Team player) who filed a lawsuit against Daniel (Hopsicker) to attempt to have his book on Barry Seal "Barry & the boys" snuffed...."
Part of Gray's question-and-answer session at the Toronto Inquiry, where he expresses his opinion that we should be preparing to "forgive the government" (thanks to Angie D'Urso for this transcript):
Question from an audience member:
"John, in conclusion of your speech, I understood you to
say that we could heal ourselves by forgiving the government
for letting the terrorists commit the attacks. My question to
you is what makes you believe this long after 9/11 that
the terrorists who committed the attacks weren't within
the U.S. government?"
John Gray's Answer:
"I've written several books on forgiveness, and whenever anybody
talks about forgiveness they always think, it's like if you have a good excuse, then I forgive you. Like, let's say I'm late for dinner, my wife's upset with me, and I say, but honey there was a fire on the bridge and I rescued a child, and she say's oh, okay, that's a great excuse, I forgive you. That's not what forgiveness is. That means she doesn't need to forgive me because I have a great excuse. The government doesn't have a great excuse. These are murderers. The people we really
need to forgive are the Congress that allowed them to do it, because they know a lot of the details. And they're kind of like on the edge and they don't know ALL the information. So finding forgiveness for a government doesn't mean that you say that they had good reasons for it. They didn't have good reasons for it, they're killers and there's murderers and there's a few of them, there's not a whole lot of them. So, we want to forgive the
whole government because they were fooled just like we've been fooled. And for those people we forgive them as mentally ill and we put them away and we make a big show of it. I would personally like to even, I'm always out of the box a little bit, but I think that I would like to make a big show of it and demonstrate through brain scans the problems with their
brains. My research in the last 10 years is about brain research,
differences between men and women and brain research. And I bet every penny I have that if we could do live brain scans, that these men who run that will have very inactive prefrontal cortex which is associated with people, and this is a fact, there's people who can't feel happy unless there's violence in front of them, unless they're dropping bombs. And let me give you one brief example of that, in America, I know the statistics there, 1 out of 5 boys, 1 out of a 100 girls, and 1 out of 5 boys is taking Ritalin for ADD symptoms, which is an inactive prefrontal cortex. But, you put 'em on a videogame with bombs and immediately the brain starts producing more dopamine which
is pleasure and their brain begins functioning in a cogent, clear way. So what happens is these are smart guys, some of them, some of them aren't (George Bush), but they're smart guys, but they're unable to experience pleasure in their lives without some sort of stimulation. And I believe that before anybody could ever be
elected to a high authority position that we should do brain scans on their brains, make sure that their brain chemicals are normal because these people don't have normal brain chemicals." |
