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Lithuania to investigate secret prisons? Let's hope to welcome Lithuania into the fold!

timbo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:02:34 GMT

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2009/10/21/D9BFLSQ00_eu_lithuania_cia_prison/index.html

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fail

timbo — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:17:42 GMT

Obama's Justice Department refuses to indict former DOJ employee of perjury to Congress:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/no_perjury_charges_for_schlozman_--_schumer_calls.php

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Two American senior military commanders speak out against Cheny's lies and violations of international law

timbo — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:13:32 GMT

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1227832.html

Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar--patriots!

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DOJ Ethics Office seeks to reopen two dozen prisoner abuse cases...

timbo — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:09:36 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/us/politics/24detain.html

Thank you for your efforts, DOJ Ethics official(s) anonymous!

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The case against the torture is legal memo writers of the Bush Regime.

timbo — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:01:07 GMT

http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/08/prosecutions-opening-statement-in-us-v-bradbury-bybee-and-yoo/

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Thomas Tamm == Patriot

timbo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:59:45 GMT

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/doj_still_hounding_wiretap_whistleblower.php

Sadly, the DOJ is pursuing him and his family and friends for blowing the lid the unconstitutional and illegal spying done under the lawless Bush regime. A regime, thankfully, that appears to be ending in a few days. I hope he sues the pants and gets disbarred the moronicons that have been hounding him.

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McCain concedes...who will be pardoned now?

timbo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:15:48 GMT

The usual suspects.

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Colin Powell?

timbo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:05:45 GMT

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/19/the-powell-endorsement/

He endorsed Obama today for the Presidency. Sounds like General Powell is fed up with the racist and religious bigotry in the GOP...better late than never?

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McCain struggles to maintain a civil campaign...

timbo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:58:00 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6YKOkfFsE

Where goes the country?

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The Seven Years of Sinbad

timbo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:55:01 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZsLva3C4pU

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Georgian ambitions and Busholini's promises meet reality

timbo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:20:19 GMT

http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/2008/08/mccain_clueless.html

Where is Condie, anyways? Shopping? Oh well, sorry for all the promises, Georgia...

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New tribe against the occupation of Afghanistan

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:06:22 GMT

New tribe against the occupation of Afghanistan
http://tribes.tribe.net/outnow#

Massive U.S. intervention in Afghanistan began in 1978 and continues to this day. The ongoing war in Afghanistan continues to kill thousands of Afghan civilians and cause extreme suffering due to horrendous injuries, the displacement of people from their homes and livelihoods, home invasions, sexual abuse, arbitrary arrests and torture, and the general humiliation of the Afghani people.

As this author stated for Liberation News on September 12, 2001:

“Americans watched in horror as the World Trade Center collapsed. Yet it was a horror no different from what the U.S. government has done with it's bombing of civilian populations in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Korea. The U.S. bombings of just these countries, not to mention many other U.S. acts of war, murdered millions of civilians. Terror against civilians is never justified…

“Today the clerical fascists of the Taliban rule Afghanistan. The CIA put them in power with billions of dollars in U.S. military aid. This massive U.S. intervention in Afghanistan was in opposition to the revolutionary PDPA government that came to power in 1978 on issues of promoting women’s rights and land reform. Literacy campaigns began teaching the poor and women how to read and write.

“Foreign religious fanatics and wealthy defenders of the old feudal system came together in a terrorist organization called the Mujahideen. With billions of dollars in assistance from the U.S. [starting under the Jimmy Carter presidency] these fanatical cutthroats waged a holy war that included killing women for teaching little girls how to read and write and throwing acid into the faces of women who had become liberated from the veil. The Taliban came to power as a result of this U.S. intervention.

“Will a U.S. war now against the Taliban and former CIA aid recipient Osama Bin Laden set things straight? No. It will be the people of Afghanistan who suffer death and destruction from war as the U.S. attempts to install a puppet government friendly to U.S. corporate (oil) interests.” Steven Argue, Liberation News, September 12, 2001

The Taliban was put in power by U.S. intervention. U.S. occupation today is a cause for war and continues to keep an extremely reactionary religious government in power. Afghanistan had secular governments with much wider women's rights before the U.S. began its massive intervention in Afghanistan in the 1970's. All U.S. imposed governments have been religious and anti-women. In Afghanistan, the Afghanis are better qualified to solve the problems caused by U.S. imperialism than U.S. imperialism is.

Yet rather than get out of Afghanistan Obama and McCain are proposing more troops, more helicopters, and more war.

NO TO THE BIPARTISAN OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN!!!!

NO TO OBAMA and MCCAIN'S PROPOSED SURGE IN AFGHANISTAN!

U.S. OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW!

*~U.S. and Allies Out of Afghanistan!!~*
http://tribes.tribe.net/outnow#

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Gosh, the Constitution does apply in Guantanamo...

timbo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:09:59 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/washington/12cnd-gitmo.html

Supreme Court rules 5-4 that alleged terrorists in Guantanamo are subject to Federal Court review of their cases and trials. The ruling invalidates some of the law passed by Congress that created the "military tribunal" "legal" procedures down there that Busholini and his co-conspirators have perpetrated down there. Sadly, the Bush appointees on the Supreme Court are still maintaining that the Bush administration should have the right to trump the U.S. Constitution when they feel it is inconvenient. Stay vigilant! This was a narrow margin for a ruling...and surprisingly so since one would think that Supreme Court Justices should have more confidence in the U.S. Constitution and the Federal Court System, of which they themselves oversee, as being able to provide fair justice to human beings. No, the minority on the court sees our Constitution as quaint and "just in the way".

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Judge Maldonado: "The Relevance of Nuremberg to Bush Policies"

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:05:33 GMT

“The Relevance of Nuremberg to Bush Policies”

Presented by

The Honorable Albert H. Maldonado

Judge

Superior Court of California, Monterey County

In this talk, you will learn about the Bush Administration’s Interrogation Procedures on the battlefield and in prisons—a conflict with the Geneva Conventions, United Nations Charter, and Nuremberg Trials—an intercession by the United States Supreme Court. Judge Maldonado believes that judgment at Nuremberg in 1947 is highly relevant to American policy on torture, Geneva Convention, and International Law.

3pm – 5pm
Sunday, June 15th
490 Aguajito Road in Carmel

East side of Hwy 1 @ the PG/PB/Hwy 68 exit

Unitarian Universalist Church (www.uucmp.org)

There will be a question & answer period. Snacks provided. This is a no-cost event.
Please remain after the program to share your interests on peace matters.
Join others who share your desire to create a more peaceful world.

Sponsored by the Peace Coalition of Monterey County

www.peacemonterey.org

Community Meetings are held on 3rd Sundays, every other month. All are welcome.

For more information, contact Karen Araujo at LetsBePeace@cs.com

PEACE COALITION OF MONTEREY COUNTY:

MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS

African-Americans Against US Intervention
Barrios Unidos of Salinas
Carmel Valley Women's Network
Code Pink – Monterey/Seaside
Continuing the Peace Dialogue
Democracy Unlimited
Green Party, Monterey County
Humanist Association of the Monterey Bay Area
Libertarians for Peace
Monterey Bay Central Labor Council
Monterey County Citizens for Middle East Peace
Monterey County Democrats
Monterey Cuba Friendship Coalition
Monterey Peace & Justice Center
National Lawyers Guild, Monterey County Chapter
Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Monterey Peninsula Friends Meeting
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Monterey County
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Monterey Bay
Salinas Action League
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula, Social Justice Committee
United Nations Ass./USA of Monterey County
Veterans for Peace, “John Steinbeck IV Chapter” of Monterey County
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Monterey County Branch

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Nah--we don't need to know how much pesticides are being used!

timbo — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:51:33 GMT

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/22/usda_axes_national_survey_charting_pesticide_use/

Acting US Secretary of Agriculture decides unilaterally to end nationwide tracking of pesticide use...even though farmers, environmentalists, and the general public would like to have that information!

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George Bush: Gets The Steam Off My P*ss!

Wed, 14 May 2008 16:56:16 GMT

I always remember it, I'll never forget
That pretty young girl, when I asked her for a crisp
She looked at me and said, You! I wouldn't give you
The steam off my piss!
So next time I loiter, with intent in the loo,
At least I'll know now, somebody worthy, of giving it to.

Bush celebrating with Israelis, suggests himself for Nobel Prize
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2771&Itemid=1

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On This Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:45:03 GMT

On This Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre

By STEVEN ARGUE

Thirty eight years ago, on May 4, 2008, at Ohio’s Kent State University, the National Guard opened fire on students protesting the US war in Vietnam. The students were shot from distances of 275 to 400 feet, giving lie to claims that the students posed a threat to the Guardsmen. Four students were murdered and nine were injured. Nobody ever did time for those murders.

Before May 4, 1970, an anti-war movement had been building in the United States. The American people were increasingly impatient with the war, and an active anti-war movement helped build that kind of consciousness. People wanted an end to the war and Nixon kept promising a “light at the end of the tunnel.” On April 30, 1970, Nixon announced the invasion of Cambodia. This was the opposite of what people wanted to hear. Protests erupted on campuses that had not had them in the past, like Kent State. For many, the cold blooded murder of students at Kent State and murders of students soon after at Jackson State, were the final straw.

Immediately after the Kent State shootings 8 million students went out on strike, and some Universities, such as Berkley, were taken over by students and faculty as anti-war universities. After May 1970, the majority of those drafted were already opposed to the war before they got to Vietnam. This brought an end to the war. The US government could not win the war because they were facing fierce battles from the Vietnamese and many US soldiers were actively resisting the war. Commanding officers were winding up dead as they tried to force soldiers to kill people in a foreign land for a war they did not believe in. Nixon could not win a war with drafted soldiers who refused to fight, and this was a factor that forced the U.S. government to withdraw from Vietnam.

Three million Vietnamese were murdered as a result of the US occupation of southern Vietnam and massive U.S. bombing of the north. Over 50,000 US soldiers died. It was resistance, both by the Vietnamese people, and the resistance of the anti-war movement in the United States that brought an end to the US occupation of Vietnam. Had the working class of the United States been ready to join that strike of 8 million students in May 1970, we would have potentially had a revolution in the United States, but at that time the working class was not ready.

Today, after the lessons of Vietnam, and after decades of bi-partisan union busting, outsourcing, privatization, and declining living standards for the US working class, the U.S. working class is now stepping out and taking the lead in the struggle against the criminal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. On May 1st, 2008 10,000 U.S. port workers of the ILWU went out on strike against the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, shutting down all 29 ports on the West Coast for eight hours. Within the union, Vietnam Vets were some of the strongest advocates of the strike.

Joining the strike in solidarity with the demand of immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq were the Iraqi port workers at Umm Qasr and Khor Alzubair. They joined U.S. workers in a deeply symbolic one hour strike to end the occupation.

In going out on strike, the union ranks of the ILWU defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them not to strike. They also defied the employers of the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) who declared the strike “illegal”. This is the kind of defiance the working class will need to emulate in other industries, both to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to start winning better contracts.

Today, over a million Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S. invasion. In addition, the U.S. has installed a religious death squad government where women's rights have eroded, the economy has deteriorated, the environment has been seriously devastated by the radiation of US DU weapons, millions of refugees have fled the country, people are often arrested without cause and tortured, the US bombs civilians from the sky, and basic infrastructure like water and electricity have been destroyed by the US and not rebuilt by the US occupiers.

It is also a war that has cost the U.S. thousands of lives, tens of thousands of casualties, and trillions of dollars in debt. Yet, for a few extremely wealthy Americans it has meant massive profits for military contractors and other businesses with contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, multinational companies like Exxon, BP and Shell are drooling as the U.S. government tries to force an oil law down the throats of the Iraqi people that would turn ownership of Iraqi oil over to these corporations.

Meanwhile, the pro-war Democrat Party voted for the war and keeps voting to fund it. Today, the Democrats are once again pushing for $178 billion in funding for the war. Neither Clinton nor Obama would promise to withdraw all troops from Iraq by 2013 ("The Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC", New York Times 9/26/07). In addition, the two of them have offered differing versions of expanding these wars into Iran and Pakistan.

Whoever wins the upcoming election, it will take increased action by the working class to end these wars. ILWU member Jack Heyman is correct in saying of the May 1st strike against the war, “There's precedent for this action. In the '50s, French dockworkers refused to load war materiel on ships headed for Indochina, and helped to bring that colonial war to an end.” The longshore workers’ May 1st strike does indeed show the way forward. More strikes, and bigger strikes, along with building a workers’ party independent of the Democrats and Republicans, can indeed end these wars.

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Vermont AFL-CIO endorses May 1 anti-war strike

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:43:23 GMT

Labor's First Strike Against the War Gains Momentum

Vermont Union offers strong endorsement of West Coast longshoremen's action.

The Executive Board of the Vermont AFL-CIO, representing thousands of workers in countless sectors across Vermont, have unanimously passed an historic resolution expressing their "unequivocal" support for the first US labor strike against the war in Iraq.

Montpelier, VT -The Executive Board of the Vermont AFL-CIO, representing thousands of workers in countless sectors across Vermont, have unanimously passed an historic resolution expressing their "unequivocal" support for the first US labor strike against the war in Iraq. The strike, being organized by the Longshore Caucus of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), will seek to shutdown all west coast ports for a period of 8 hours on the day of May 1st 2008. The Vermont AFL-CIO is the first state labor federation to publicly back the Longshoremen; other state federations are expected to follow.

The resolution, among other things, calls the war in Iraq "immoral, unwanted, and unnecessary", states that the vast majority of working Vermonters oppose the war, and contends that the war will only be brought to an end by "the direct actions of working people." Many other Vermont labor unions and organizations, including the Vermont Workers' Center, have also made official statements condemning the war.

The resolution also calls on working Vermonters to "discuss the actions of the Longshoremen, to wear anti-war buttons, and to take various actions of their own design and choosing in their workplace on May 1st, 2008."

"Workers in Vermont and all across this nation are against this war. We have already demanded that the government end it, but they have consistently failed to heed our words. Therefore working people are beginning to take concrete steps to make our resistance known. If the war does not immediately end we, the unions and working people of Vermont, will also be compelled to take appropriate action," said David Van Deusen, a District Vice President of the Vermont AFL-CIO.

Traven Leyshon, President of the Washington, Lamoille & Orange County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, said, "Vermont labor has long called for an end to this war. The untold billions being spent on the war could instead be used to address our domestic needs. It is working people who pay the cost of the war - in some cases with our lives, but always with our sacrifices."

Full text of the resolution after the jump ...

Vermont AFL-CIO Resolution

In Solidarity With Longshoremen's West Coast Strike Against War

April, 2008

Whereas the war in Iraq is immoral, unwanted, and unnecessary,

Whereas this unjust war is opposed by the great majority of Americans & Vermonters, the bulk of organized labor, and by thousands of enlisted military personal,

Whereas this unjust war has already resulted in over 4000 American dead (including a disproportionate number of brave Vermonters), and tens of thousands of service men & woman being wounded,

Whereas this unjust war has further resulted in untold number of Iraqi deaths,

Whereas the Federal Government has not made any constructive moves towards the ending of this war and the full removal of US troops, and instead has taken the course of escalation and indefinite occupation,

Whereas the government of Vermont, and especially Governor Jim Douglas, have failed to find ways to bring Vermont National Guard troops home from Iraq,

Whereas this war will only be brought to an end by the direct actions of working people,

Therefore, Let It Be Resolved that the Vermont AFL-CIO continues to stand in firm opposition to this war, and unequivocally supports the decision of the Longshore Caucus of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) to shutdown the west coast ports for a period of 8 hours on May 1st, 2008, as a means of resistance.

Let It Be Resolved that the Vermont AFL-CIO stands in full solidarity with the New York Metro National Association of Letter Carriers who have resolved to conduct two minute periods of silence on May 1st, 2008, at 1PM, 5PM & 9PM in protest of the war and in support of the Longshoremen.

Let It Be Resolved that the Vermont AFL-CIO encourages all Vermont workers to stand in solidarity with the historic actions being taken by the Longshoremen & other labor unions to end this war.

Let It Be Further Resolved that the Vermont AFL-CIO calls for all Vermont workers to discuss the actions of the Longshoremen, to wear anti-war buttons, and to take various actions of their own design and choosing in their workplace on May 1st, 2008 as a means of resistance against this unjust war.

Also see:
ILWU to Shut Down Ports May 1 Demanding End to War in Iraq, Afghanistan
http://tribes.tribe.net/nobloodforoil/thread/f02f3fd2-9632-403e-8829-e3817def77c0

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Come to the May Day protest in San Francisco
WHEN: 10:30 a.m., May 1, followed by a rally at noon.
WHERE: Longshore Union Hall, corner of Mason and Beach (near Fisherman's Wharf).
WHAT: March to a rally at Justin Herman Plaza along the Embarcadero.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.ilwu.org/ and http://www.transportworkers.org/ or call (415) 776-8100.

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Join the new “Cool Earth Party” tribe

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:05:14 GMT

Join the new “Cool Earth Party” tribe

The Democrats and Republicans are the paid agents of the oil, armament, and insurance industries. Their continued rule of America will assure a future of more imperialist war, a healthcare system that doesn't work, and no meaningful action on global warming (the single biggest threat to the future of humanity and a healthy planet).

The Cool Earth Party is being established on the principles of revolutionary democratic socialism. We call for an end to the dictatorial power of the wealthy through the nationalization of major industries and for the establishment of a planned economy run to meet human and environmental needs. This socialist society must be established within the framework of full democratic freedoms and multi-party proportional democracy. To be truly Democratic all parties running in elections will be legally guaranteed equal time in the media, big campaign spending will be outlawed, and electronic voting machines (which are presently used to rig American elections) will be eliminated.

Upon taking power the Cool Earth Party will establish a system of socialized medicine for the United States, end all U.S. military occupations of other countries, end U.S. military aid to repressive governments, and nationalize the auto and energy industries to carry out immediate emergency measures to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Cool Earth Party
http://tribes.tribe.net/coolearth

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Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

History — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:00:58 GMT

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Greetings to all my relations.

This is the last step of our project History Watch. If History is
defined and known by the texts, we can now add to this definition the
recorded events of the filmed archives. Animated images are harder to
deny than printed words. Our objective is to spread out freely some of
the little broadcast, even hidden informations about our collective
History.

We put online a collection of 391 documentaries and other selected and
recut videos, to offer to a wide public the best of the infos
available on the net in english and in french. If you are interested,
you have the time, the right equipment and connection, all you have to
do is open the joint document and decompress it if needed (but normaly
your system should do it automaticaly). You'll find therein nine links
that will open the torrents for the nine DVDs we compiled (around 4.6
Gig each, for a total of a little over 41 G, being over 100 hours of
videos).

Otherwise, you can go directly to btjunkie.com and search for these titles.

11 Septembre 2001 - 9-11
Bush family & friends
Capitalist & Communist regimes
Capitalist conspiracy
Mind Kontrol - Secret Programs
New World Order - Secret Societies
Secret services - cover up - covert ops
Secret weapons - UFO
Terrorism Theories propaganda

Torrents are a system of peer to peer data transfer. The more people
download a torrent, the faster it spreads and the longer it stays on
the net. If you don't have a bittorrent software, we suggest that you
download uTorrent on utorrent.com. If you want to participate in
facilitating the diffusion of these infos about our collective
History, download these torrents on as many computers as possible,
whether it is in cybercafes. It takes one or two minutes to open up
the links and the downloading will keep proceeding on its own.

Please spread this out, take part in this action for social education
on a planetary scale. Thanks.

For more info: watch.history@gmail.com History Watch

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How We Can Really End the War

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:00:34 GMT

"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it." Socialist Anti-war Candidate Eugene Debs (who garnered nearly a million votes while he sat in prison for opposition to U.S. involvement in World War One).

"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action" wrote Ron Paul, who voted against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act in Congress, the act that gave Blacks the right to vote, quote from his “Ron Paul Newsletter”.

No to NYC Indymedia Censorship, How We Can Really End the War

By STEVEN ARGUE

Claiming that only an alliance with Ron Paul conservatives can end the war, New York City Indymedia volunteers have allowed blatant slander against Liberation News and have censored attempts to respond to those lies. Among the slanders posted were accusations that Liberation News is opposed to Ron Paul because we support Hillary Clinton and her healthcare program. I tried posting the following response, but it was censored on the site:

Ron Paul supporter: “it's pointed out that yes Ron Paul is a racist but Stevies candidate Hillary is even worse.”

Steven Argue: “I don’t support Hillary Clinton. Never have, but you don’t listen. This is pure slander.”

They then repeat their slander that I support Hillary Clinton for her healthcare plan saying, “It's pointed out that Stevie is willing to sacrifice liberty for a bogus health care plan”

Steven Argue: “Hillary Clinton opposes both socialized medicine and single payer healthcare. She supports insurance company healthcare, the kind that is killing untold millions in the United States. This is one of many reasons I oppose her.”

“And no, I don't see Clinton as a first step towards socialized medicine. Her promise to force people to buy insurance has nothing in common with socialized medicine, nor partially socialized medicine (i.e. single payer). I’m clear about this in my article:

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It, By STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php

“As for Ron Paul, he wants to privatize everything, including public education, Social Security, and Medicare, eliminate the Voting Rights Act and Roe V Wade in the name of "states rights", signed on to the "Marriage Protection Act", would eliminate every environmental and labor protection, etc. etc. etc. This is a prescription for the slavery of the majority to protect the “liberty” of a tiny handful of capitalists to exploit.

“I oppose both Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul. But I’ve already made that clear as being my position. These accusations are slanderous.”

Ron Paul supporter: “Then Stevie moves the goal posts again. Waaa. He's being censored.”

Steven Argue: “I repeatedly posted a response to the slander that I support Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan, and the response is censored every time. I have no motive to make that up. I mentioned it because I wanted people to see my response. Frankly, I’m quite surprised it is happening. Let’s see if this one goes up.”

That response, as I feared, was also censored. Revealing the reasons behind the Ron Paul censorship at the site, the Ron Paul backers posted the following:

“Get off your sectarianism.

“What you don’t get is that there are only two ways we're going to end the occupation of Iraq:

“1.) A recession, and a bad one.

“2.) Convincing the vast majority of conservative Americans it's wrong. Ron Paul reaches these people. The guy with the Free Mumia shirt selling the "Socialist Worker" doesn't.

“To get anything done in a democracy you're going to have to work with people you don't agree with and people you might not even like. People in grown up countries do this all the time. They're called "coalitions".

“The Labor Party in Israel, for example, makes alliances with the ultra orthodox. The Liberal Democrats have made common cause with the Tories in the UK. The left made common cause with Vicente Fox to get the PRI out of power in Mexico.

“It's only in the puritan USA where everybody thinks you have to like all your political allies and agree with them on everything.”

Besides the fact that the majority of Americans already oppose the war; and besides the fact that these points show a total lack of understanding of the bourgeois nature of the coalitions in the countries mentioned; and besides showing a total lack of understanding of what it will take to end the war (I discuss this at the end of the article); New York City Indymedia’s lack of confidence in the ability of people to change has caused them to build a coalition with a capitalist politician who is a racist, homophobic, anti-worker, anti-environmental, bible thumping, sexist, anti-labor, anti-poor, free-market privatization fanatic. On top of that, they censor the left in order to achieve that coalition.

While a Ron Paul presidency would likely end the war, at what price would this come?

Ron Paul uses the term liberty a lot, so let’s take a look at what he means by liberty.

The liberty Ron Paul demands is:

The liberty of the capitalists to exploit without labor laws and environmental protections;

The "state’s right” to prevent Blacks from voting without the interference of the Voting Rights Act (voted against its renewal in Congress);

The "states right" to ban abortions without the interference of Roe v Wade;

The freedom of the government to deny same-sex rights (was an original sponsor of the "Marriage Protection Act");

The freedom of children not to attend schools (would abolish public education);

The freedom of the elderly and disabled to starve (would abolish Social Security);

The freedom of the sick to die (would abolish Medicare);

The freedom of the U.S. to destroy the planet without even the most basic limits on carbon emissions (opposes signing on to Kyoto and all other carbon limitations);

This is, in short, the liberty of a wealthy minority to make their money from the exploitation of labor and the environment with zero interference from labor laws, environmental laws, and the IRS. While his program is liberty for a minority of rich white heterosexual males, it is slavery for the majority.

Simply put, Ron Paul’s promises to end the war are not enough when one looks at the fact that he would eliminate two centuries of hard fought social progress in the United States.

Some of the anti-war backers of Ron Paul argue that we don’t have to worry about these things because Ron Paul will never be elected. They think that backing his campaign is a way to win over his supporters. What is clear is that such arguments could only come from people who are utterly lost and rudderless, which leaves unclear the question of what they are winning Ron Paul supporters over to. They are supporting a candidate whose program is George Wallace on crack cocaine! Yet, the ultimate absurdity is the fact that they are backing a candidate whose most reassuring feature is that he won’t get elected! Is this point lost on these people? And is the chance that their support may help him get elected a chance they really want to take? Nobody thought that third party candidate Jesse (the body) Ventura would get elected in Minnesota either, but he was, and as soon as he was elected he discarded his libertarian values on drug legalization and prostitution and instead proceeded to carrying out attacks on labor and carrying out disastrous cuts in education and other social spending.

Others argue that if Ron Paul is elected, he will easily be able to pull the troops out of Iraq, but congress will block him on the other issues. There is no doubt that they would block parts of Ron Paul’s program in order to prevent the social unrest such measures would cause, but with the ruling class’s desire to step up the exploitation of labor and the environment through eliminating regulation and through privatization, there can be little doubt that if he is able to maintain his presidency without being shot, aspects of Ron Paul’s domestic program would be implemented.

Today, in the United States we have two rightwing capitalist parties that rule. The activists who run New York Indymedia are floating around utterly lost and rudderless. On the one hand, their anarchist philosophy prohibits them from putting forward their own leadership or supporting socialist candidates; and on the other hand, they are stuck in the “real politic” of supporting “lesser evil” capitalist politicians. It is these characteristics that made them susceptible to being swept up on the Ron Paul band wagon. Despite their “libertarian” values of “freedom”, they have now taken this to the point where they are even willing to censor critics of Ron Paul on their website.

While Ron Paul, the only Republican candidate opposed to the war, is not worth supporting, the front running Democrats are also very bad. Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, are all pro-war. Both Edwards and Clinton voted for the war. Obama supporters claim that Obama never supported the war. While Obama was not yet in the Senate at the time of the Iraq war vote, Obama, Edwards, and Clinton have all voted for war appropriations. This puts them all in the position of having supported the war. Over a million Iraqis are dead due to the U.S. invasion and occupation, and billions of dollars have been squandered. Obama, by helping pay for the war, has his hands in this mass murder just as Clinton and Edwards do.

Obama’s Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 supposedly would have begun troop withdrawal in May 2007. Yet, it didn't call for full nor immediate withdrawal. In addition, under the bill, the withdrawal could be halted if the Iraqi government met a number of criteria laid out by the Bush administration. These included a broad number of things such as changes in the use of oil revenue, government reforms, an end to sectarian violence, and other economic and reconstruction criteria. In Obama’s bill we have a crystal ball into the future. The excuses laid out in the bill will be heard once again as Obama, Clinton, or Edwards explain why they are keeping the troops in Iraq for their entire presidency; that is unless other actions are taken by the people to stop the war.

This brings us to the fundamental question of how to stop the war. If we are to listen to the Ron Paul censors / supporters at NYC Indymedia the only thing we can do to stop the war is support Ron Paul or hope for (pray for?) economic collapse. Yet, this ignores other less damaging possibilities. These include the troops refusing to fight, a general strike, strikes against the movement of war materials, or socialist revolution.

1. The troops refusing to fight. This worked in the struggle to end the U.S. aggression against Vietnam. It was the socialist movement who were the primary organizers of the anti-Vietnam War movement. That movement, immediately after the government’s murders at Kent State in May 1970 had 8 million students out on strike, and some Universities, such a Berkley, were taken over by students and faculty as anti-war universities. After May 1970, the majority of those drafted were already opposed to the war before they got to Vietnam. Refusal to fight was widespread, and the fragging of pro-war officers was common. Nixon could not continue to wage a war with soldiers who refused to fight. This, along with the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese, brought an end to the war in Vietnam.

Troops refusing to fight also helped bring an end to Russian involvement in the First World War, and helped bring down two pro-war governments in 1917.

2. A general strike or strikes against the movement of war materials. Strikes with such political demands have a long history of success. France has many good social programs because the workers there were willing to shut down their country to achieve them; and they are still willing to do the same to protect those hard fought gains.

3. Socialist revolution. The October Russian Revolution achieved an end to Russian involvement in the First World War. This was a good thing, despite the undemocratic nature of the revolution. Learning from those lessons, Liberation News opposes the dictatorial system of one party rule and raises the banner of revolutionary democratic socialism, while at the same time learning from many of the revolutionary strategies of Lenin and Trotsky.

Protests, pickets, information distribution, building a socialist movement, and answering pro-Ron Paul and pro-Obama-Clinton-Edwards propaganda all help towards building the momentum needed in achieving the kinds of actions that can end the war. Putting support behind Ron Paul only helps an extreme rightwing movement achieve the mantel of leadership for an anti-war sentiment that already represents majority public opinion. In addition, backing a guy like Ron Paul who just crossed a picket line to appear on Jay Lenno’s “Tonight Show” destroys the anti-war strategy of reaching out to the working class, as does backing a racist candidate like Ron Paul hurt the ability to reach out to the multi-racial working class.

No to the Democrats and Republicans!

U.S. Out of Iraq Now!

No to Insurance Company Healthcare, For Socialized Medicine!

Save the Planet, Curb Carbon Emissions Now!

Vote Socialist, Build the Labor Movement, Build the Anti-War Movement, Build the Socialist Movement.

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Rush Holt -- American Patriot

timbo — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:48:36 GMT

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005165.php

Rush has come out against the Patriot Act as a bad law that was instituted in a climate of fear and intimidation.

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Final Nails in Racist Ron Paul’s Campaign Coffin

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:47:08 GMT

Final Nails in Racist Ron Paul’s Campaign Coffin

By STEVEN ARGUE

Since I wrote the article:

The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/05/18470186.php

New information has surfaced regarding Ron Paul’s pro-fascist agenda.

That information is discussed in the following January 7, 2008 MSNBC interview conducted by Tucker Carlson with the New Republic’s Jamie Kirchick. In it he gives an inside look into his controversial piece on presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, due to hit newsstands on Friday.

http://antironpaul.com/

The following are newly released copies of Ron Paul’s extreme right newsletter to which Jamie Kirchick refers:

http://www.tnr.com/downloads/March1990.pdf
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/January91.pdf
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/October1990.pdf
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/June1990.pdf
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/August1990.pdf

In addition to these revelations, in New Hampshire Ron Paul also failed to repeat anything close to the 10% vote he achieved in Iowa.

Somewhat surprisingly, there are a large number of liberal minded anti-war people who have urged a vote for Ron Paul.

They are liberal "support the lesser viable evil" types that see Ron Paul as more viable than any anti-war Democrat (arguably Kucinich and Gravel).

Additional questions have always existed if Ron Paul really was viable, or if he really was a lesser evil. New Hampshire and the latest revelations ought to put both questions to rest.

But for me there are always more important questions than if a candidate is viable or a "lesser evil". I think that building a long-term movement for real change is much more important than backing a candidate of any degree of evil. For me that includes deflating illusions in the corporate politicians of the Democrat and Republican Parties, getting out information on candidates to the left of the Democrats (the real anti-war and anti-corporate candidates), and urging further actions such as protests, strikes etc.

Simply put, there is nobody worth supporting in the racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-worker, anti-poor, and capitalist Republican Party. Never has been, never will be. Get over it. In fact, there is nobody in the corporate Democrat and Republican Parties that are worth supporting. I discuss some of the candidates that may be worth supporting in the following article:

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States,
And the Struggle to Achieve It
By STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php

And just for fun, here's the Ron Paul Time Machine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7884Z6-FiMY

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Andrew Williams--Patriot

timbo — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 03:46:50 GMT

http://www.gateline.com/opinion/story/295.html

Navy Lt. Cmdr resigns citing torture abuse as reason for leaving U.S. Navy. Thank you for putting principle above expediency.

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The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:25:59 GMT

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States,
and the Struggle to Achieve It

By Steven Argue

As someone without healthcare, I support the idea of socialized medicine for the United States. Socialized medicine will bring healthcare to everyone. Besides legitimate self-interest, my personal position comes from being an advocate for social justice with a vision of an egalitarian society. As such, I not only see universal access to healthcare as a basic human right, I also see that socialized healthcare will mitigate some of the racial and class inequalities in our society. In addition, socialized medicine is cheaper than the costs of current system of for-profit capitalist healthcare. It also looses the profit motive of insurance companies to deny needed procedures. From this knowledge, and these personal convictions, I am strongly in favor of socialized healthcare in the United States like that established in Europe as well as established in Cuba with the 1959 revolution. Short of a fully socialized healthcare system I see that the single payer system (i.e. socialized health insurance run by the government), like in Canada, would be a significant step forward for the United States.

In the United States there’s a lot of confusion on terminology. With a system of socialized medicine hospitals are directly owned by the government and doctors are government employees. It’s a universal system where everyone is covered and all health care is paid for by the government. Under a single payer health care plan, health care is universal and paid for by the government, but it is a system still largely based on private hospitals and private physicians.

Two main arguments are encountered when discussing socialized medicine. One argument is that it will cost too much. The second argument is that socialized medicine doesn’t work to provide adequate healthcare. Neither argument stands up to scrutiny.
Socialized medicine and single payer medicine actually cost less than the United State’s current for profit capitalist health care system. Both statistics and common sense back this up.

According to statistics from 2003, the United States spends $5,711 per capita per year for health care while Canada spends about half of that, $2,998 per capita per year (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2007). In fact, the costs per capita are much cheaper in every other developed country with some form of socialized healthcare. In other examples Sweden spends $2,745, Germany $2,983, and the United Kingdom $2,317 (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2007). In addition, Cuba , with their well known socialized healthcare system, spent only $251 per capita on healthcare in 2006 (United Nations World Health Organization, 2006).

The reason socialized insurance is much cheaper and more efficient than private health insurance is because single payer eliminates the health insurance racket with all of its waste in capitalist profits, paperwork, and overpaid CEOs. In addition, such insurance practices as routinely denying needed medical procedures to keep profits up are eliminated, thus reducing capitalism as being the cause of death.

Socialized healthcare does work. It is working very well in Cuba. Cuban life expectancy in 2006 was 77.6 years, while the life expectancy of the United States for that same year was slightly less, 77.5 years (United Nations Development Program, 2006). It is interesting that poor Cuba with a history of poverty before their 1959 socialist revolution, and a devastating U.S. imposed economic blockade since, is able to provide good healthcare for everyone through socialized medicine. Cuba, unlike the United States, does not let people die in the emergency rooms without treatment, turn sick people away from receiving healthcare because they lack insurance, or allow insurance companies to decide, based on profit motive, whether the insured actually receive the care they paid for and need. The Cubans have done this by taking the profit out of illness and injury and providing healthcare as a basic human right.

Canada, like Cuba, has a higher life expectancy than the United States. In 2004 the life expectancy of Canada hit 80.2 years (Statistics Canada, 2004). With Canada’s socialized health insurance system, like Cuba’s socialized medical system, every single person is covered. In the United States 45.8 million Americans do not have health insurance (U.S. Department of Health and human Services, 2005).

On another key indicator of health, infant mortality, the United States is also nearly the worst in the developed world, only worse than the recently turned capitalist country of Latvia (Green, 2006). The infant mortality rate in the United States in 2002 was 7.0 deaths before the age of one per every 1,000 live births (Center for Disease Control, 2005). In comparison, other advanced countries with forms of socialized medicine and socialized health insurance have lower infant mortality. This includes rates per thousand births in Japan of 3.2, Germany with 4.4, Italy with 4.5, France with 4.6, and the United Kingdom with 5.6 (Treasury Board of Canada, 2003).

Cuba, with their system of socialized medicine has an infant mortality rate of 6.2 per thousand live births, a rate much lower the United States rate of 7.0 per every thousand live births (BBC News, 2002). This is also lower than every other Latin American country (BBC News, 2002).

The only other country in the Americas with an infant mortality lower than Cuba is Canada with their system of socialized health insurance. The Canadian infant mortality rate in the year 2000 was 5.3 (Treasury Board of Canada, 2003).

In addition, a United Nations report on the status of Native Americans in Canada has credited Canada’s relatively recently established socialized health insurance system with drastically reducing an extremely high infant mortality among Native Americans (United Nations, 1993). In 1979, that death rate for Canadian Native Americans was 27.6 per thousand live births, but by 1999 it had dropped to 8.0 deaths per thousand live births (Treasury Board of Canada, 2003). These improvements coincide with Canada’s passage of the Canada Health Act in 1984 that brought their socialized insurance system to the entire country at that time (Health Canada, 2002).

For Blacks in the United States between 1995 and 2002, the infant mortality rate was 13.9, more than double the rate of 5.9 for whites in the same time period (Center for Disease Control, 2005). Canadian statistics are a strong indication that a socialized insurance system in the United States could both decrease the infant mortality rate of the general population and dramatically decrease the infant mortality of oppressed and impoverished minorities such as Blacks, as it did for Canadian Native Americans.

The statistics show that socialized medicine is cheaper, saves lives, and helps alleviate class and racial inequalities in healthcare.

Prospects for Socialized and Single Payer Medicine

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has declared, "It's time to provide quality affordable health care for every American, and I intend to be the president who accomplishes that goal finally for our country" (CNN.com). This is the same promise that Bill Clinton made when he ran for office in 1992.

After being elected, in Bill Clinton’s first State of the Union address, he said, “And on any given day, over 37 million Americans -- most of them working people and their little children -- have no health insurance at all.” Yet, despite Bill Clinton’s campaign promise of universal health care, his defeated proposal to congress would not have provided health care to every American, nor did it address the other fundamental problems of private health insurance. After his health care proposal was defeated, Clinton dropped the issue. In fact, the Bill Clinton administration was opposed to a bill for single payer health care introduced by Wellstone, Conyers, and Mcdermott that actually would have provided universal health care. By the time Bill Clinton left office, an additional three million more Americans were uninsured.

Today Republican candidate Mitt Romney has declared of Hillary Clinton’s promised health care plan, “It’s a European-style socialized medicine plan, that’s where it leads–and that’s the wrong direction for America” (Shulte).

Yet, unfortunately, Clinton’s plan has nothing in common with socialized medicine, neither of the European variety, nor the Canadian single payer. Her plan is to keep the broken and expensive capitalist system of health care, a system that keeps the insurance industry in charge of life and death questions of whether or not we receive health care when we need it.

In addition, the Clinton plan would make the purchase of health insurance by America’s uninsured mandatory for those who do not get insurance from their employer and who do not qualify for government assistance. Yet, the problem for America’s nearly 50 million uninsured is not that we don’t want to have insurance, the problem is that we can’t afford it. Clinton’s plan of making us criminals for not purchasing health insurance will not resolve this fundamental problem.

By making the purchase of health insurance mandatory Clinton makes the false claim that hers is a plan for universal health insurance as compared to the plan of Obama. Neither would provide universal health care. John Edwards has taken the absurdity of forced insurance purchases one step further, detailing a plan that would include the necessity of showing proof of health insurance at the time of paying taxes, with penalties for those who do not provide that proof.

In a similar fashion as Mitt Romney, Republican contender Rudolph Giuliani has extended false accusations of socialized medicine to other Democratic hopefuls stating, “Whether it’s HillaryCare or ObamaCare or EdwardsCare, the idea that it’s not socialized medicine is a trick. It’s a massive growth of government control of medicine” (Rovner).

The truth, however, is that the only presidential candidates of the Democrat and Republican Party that are for single payer health care are Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel, and none are for full socialized medicine. The other major candidates, who oppose single payer, enjoy massive contributions from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

In addition to being excluded from money, the Kucinich and Gravel campaigns have also been excluded from debates. Most recently, for the 2008 election, CNN and the Des Moines Register made the decision to exclude both Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from a key debate in Iowa. Yet Biden and Dodd, who are behind Kucinich in the national polls, but who reject single payer health care, were allowed into the debate. This kind of undemocratic shenanigan is to be expected of CNN, a corporate media source that was forced to publicly apologize for a number of lies they told about Michael Moore’s pro-socialized medicine film “Sicko”.

While Kucinich has alienated the corporate power structure with his stand for single payer health care, he has also alienated much of his natural base by voting for Bush’s “War on Terror”, voting for the U.S. travel ban against Cuba, and by voting against Mumia Abu-Jamal.

In 2001 Kucinich voted in favor of the US travel ban against Cuba. The travel ban does not allow U.S. citizens to spend any money in Cuba, basically making travel to Cuba illegal. It is under the travel ban that Michael Moore has been harassed by the U.S. government for bringing sick 9/11 rescue workers, who were unable to receive medical treatment in the United States, for medical treatment in Cuba. The United States has had hostile relations with Cuba ever since the 1959 Cuban revolution overthrew the U.S. backed Batista dictatorship, nationalized the United Fruit Company owned by the Rockefeller family, ended Jim Crow style racist segregation, and began providing free socialized health care and education.

In contrast to Kucinich’s support for U.S. measures against Cuba, Mumia Abu-Jamal recognizes the gains Cuba has made in areas such as health care. Of the U.S. and Cuban health care systems, Mumia Abu-Jamal stated May 2nd, 2003:

“What about the human right to health care? In the US, you can obtain excellent health care if you can afford it. Cuba, meanwhile, boasts the largest number of doctors per capita on earth. They provide medical care to people all around the world. Indeed, there are more Cuban doctors working in other countries than the UN’s World Heath Organization. Millions of men, women and children in this country have no medical insurance and no real prospect for decent medical care.” (Abu-Jamal 5/2/03)

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner in the United States whose trial, according to Amnesty International, was not fair and “did not comply with international justice standards” (Amnesty International). Yet, in 2006 Kucinich voted to condemn the French City of St. Denis for naming a street after Mumia. The resolution boldly proclaimed Mumia’s guilt, despite international recognition of the injustice dished out to Mumia, and despite the fact that the courts are still reviewing the case. Despite the injustice represented by this resolution and despite 31 members of Congress voting against it, Kucinich voted for it.

Showing a similar lack of support for the needs of the people, Kucinich voted for Bush’s so-called “War on Terror”. This was a vote that effectively gave Bush the power to invade any country at any time. That vote could have been used for anything, and was used by Bush to invade Afghanistan. Likewise, despite pretending to be a peace candidate, Kucinich’s calls for a strong and efficient military do not address the fact that the United States is the most aggressive and dangerous nation in the world.

The tremendous lack of judgment on these three votes alone, along with Kucinich’s promotion of the pro-war, anti-single payer health care, and corporate controlled Democrat Party, have alienated the left from Kucinich’s campaign.

Presidential candidate Mike Gravel doesn’t have a recent voting record, but was actively opposed to the Vietnam War in Congress, voting to cut off funding for the war, and helping to release the Pentagon Papers that exposed many wrong doings by the U.S. government in Vietnam. On the issue of health care, Gravel states on his website that he proposes “a universal healthcare system that provides equal medical services to all citizens, paid for by a retail sales tax (a portion of the Progressive Fair tax)” (Gravel website). Yet, sales taxes are not fair taxes. They are regressive taxes that charge the poor a much higher percentage of their income than they charge the rich. While it is true that the rich are not paying their fair share under the current tax system, Gravel’s proposal is even worse.

Sadly for those who think solutions could come from the Democrat Party, Kucinich and Gravel are the best the Democrat Party could produce.

While the mainstream of the American political establishment rejects any form of socialized medicine, all political parties to the left of the Democrats and Republicans support some form of socialized medicine. This is true from the Green Party and Reconstruction Party to the various socialist parties who run candidates, including the Peace and Freedom Party, Socialist Action, Socialist Party, Workers World Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, and Socialist Equality Party.

Breaking from the pro-war anti-health care Democrat Party is former Georgia Democratic Congressperson Cynthia McKinney. In a video news release declaring her candidacy for president she says, “The Democrat is no different from their Republican counterparts, eat out of the hands of corrupt lobbyists and feed at the same corporate tough” (McKinney). McKinney is running for president on the Reconstruction Party ticket as well as in the Green Party primaries.

On health care McKinney states, "I've supported every universal single payer health care plan. She goes on to state, “People who rail against `socialized medicine' in Canada and the UK have to explain why life expectancy is longer in Canada and the UK, why infant mortality is lower in Canada and the UK" (Deeth). McKinney further denounces the war in Iraq stating that the money being squandered could be better used on social programs such as rebuilding New Orleans, child nutrition, and health care, stating in part, “one billion dollars a day can provide medical care for the 47 million Americans who don’t have health insurance” (McKinney).

Another Green Party candidate, Kent Mesplay, declares on his website:

“Medical attention is a human right not yet recognized by the United States government. Nearly every other industrialized country on the planet has National Health Care. We are tied with South Africa for last place. In the same manner that we have a socialized military that at best provides for some aspects of our physical security, single payer health insurance is necessary to ensure that all people within our borders receive at least a basic level of medical and dental care.” (Mesplay).

While this may be a good position on single payer health care, it ignores the fact that the U.S. military does not provide physical security to the people of the United States, but is instead used to kill and terrorize the people of the world for the security of the profits of American corporations.

Also supporting single payer health care, Green Party candidate Kat Swift states:

“Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, and other prominent Democrats are the greatest obstacle to universal health coverage. Except for a few mavericks like Rep. John Conyers [D-Mich.], who has regularly introduced single-payer bills, Democrats have joined Republicans in favoring HMO and insurance corporations over guaranteed publicly-financed quality health care for every American. It's a safe bet that the 2008 Democratic nominee will -- like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry before them -- follow the same pattern.”

Likewise, Green Party candidate Jared Ball, a Black free-lance journalist and college professor who calls for freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and all political prisoners states, “Medicine for profit cannot be sustained as a model of managing health care for any progressive society” (Ball).

To the left of the Green Party is Elaine Brown, a former Black Panther Party member and activist for social programs for the poor and for prison reform. On health care she declares herself for, “Full and free health care for everyone, as exists in most civilized countries.”

Elaine Brown was a candidate for nomination as Green Party candidate for president until, on December 28, 2007, she broke with the Green Party, pointing out it was a capitalist Party and accusing the Green Party of racism. In her public statement Brown declared, "In effect, the present Green Party leadership promotes a kinder, gentler capitalism, a moderated racism, an environmentally-sustainable globalism, which I cannot support." On racism in the party she declared she intended to use her campaign “to bring large numbers of blacks and browns into the Party, particularly from the hood and the barrio” but that the Green Party “hierarchy seemed utterly fearful of the prospect of a massive influx of blacks and browns into the Green Party". Brown has given no indication that she now intends to continue her run as a candidate to the left of the Greens.

To the left of the Green Party are socialist candidates that call for full socialized medicine, like in Europe and Cuba, but who also see that single payer health care would be a step forward. These include likely Socialist Equality Party candidate Bill Van Auken, who calls for full socialized medicine, and says of the Canadian Single Payer system as an imperfect form of “socialized medicine”.

Likewise Peace and Freedom Party candidate and Socialist Party USA nominee for vice president, Stewart Alexander states,

“I favor a fully socialized medical care system, with as a first step a single-payer system similar to Medicare, but covering people of all ages. I favor eliminating the "co-pays" that are such a burden, and keep people from seeking needed care. We should take the profit out of the health-care system, and fully fund it. (The money now spent on health care in the USA is about twice as much per person as is spent in Western Europe, with less effective delivery of care. No additional money would actually be needed, but taxes on the wealthy few should be used initially to help fund improvements.) Eventually, I favor a fully-socialized system, funded from the surplus of the socialized economy, with an emphasis on prevention and public health.” (Alexander)

Also advocating full socialized medicine is Socialist Party USA nominee and Peace and Freedom Party candidate Brian Moore. In the California Voters Guide he states that he would, “establish guaranteed minimum income, housing and socialized healthcare for all”.

Not mentioning socialized medicine, but supporting single payer, Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee and Peace and Freedom Party candidate Gloria La Riva states, “The three main focuses of my campaign will be to oppose the racist attacks on immigrants; to propose a massive jobs program and increased social spending as an alternative to anti-crime hysteria and new prisons; and to give strong support for Single Payer Healthcare” (La Riva).

While generally being a good activist party, a strong concern among many on the left towards the Party for Socialism and Liberation is their uncritical support for undemocratic communist models, a problem that will cause many to instead vote for non-Stalinist candidates such as Stewart Alexander or Brian Moore in the Peace and Freedom Party primaries, or for other anti-Stalinist socialist parties that may run candidates such as the Socialist Equality Party, Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Action, or the Freedom Socialist Party.

In contrast to some of the anti-democratic positions of Gloria La Riva’s party, presidential candidate Stewart Alexander states,

“Socialism is the common ownership of the means of production, but I like to be more specific. There are, have been, and can be many forms of socialism, but I believe that the best, strongest and most beneficial form of socialism, the kind of socialism I personally work for, is common ownership of the economy coupled with its democratic control by working people.” (Alexander)

Obviously, there are clear alternatives to the capitalist Democrat and Republican Parties that are working hard to promote a workers agenda that includes either fully socialized medicine or single payer healthcare. Yet, almost all of the unions of the United States remain committed to endorsing and financing Democrats and only Democrats in elections. A good number of unions, such as the SEIU, even endorse Democrats that are opposed to single payer health care and help fund the same campaigns that are being funded by the big insurance companies. These endorsements of the anti-worker politicians of the Democrat Party are a blatant violation of the interests of the membership. Such endorsements hurt attempts at building alternative parties that represent workers interests, and hurt the ability of workers to protest and strike against such politicians that are not representing our interests. Some other unions, such as the California Nurses Association, take the stand of only endorsing candidates who support single payer health care. This is a step forward, but many on the left see that a full break by labor from the corporate controlled Democrat Party will be necessary.

Ultimately, what is needed is the building of a spirit of resistance among workers, the unemployed, and students, where we no longer passively agree to politicians and union leaders who pretend to be lesser evils, but are rarely even that. We must challenge and change the organizations we are part of, and when that fails, break away and build new ones. Most importantly, we must fully resurrect the use of political strikes and demonstrations to force the bosses and government to give us what we need, as is often done in countries with socialized medicine such as France. It is this kind of resistance that won socialized healthcare in Europe after the Second World War, and it will be this that will bring socialized medicine to the United States.

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Labor Motion, Calling for Strikes Against The War

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:05:36 GMT

Jack Heyman - Convenor

MAIN MOTION (AS AMENDED)
THE LABOR CONFERENCE TO STOP THE WAR

Mobilize the Labor Movement Through Workers’ Actions to Stop the War!

Whereas, the overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. and around the world oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and

Whereas, both major American political parties, Democrats and Republicans, have continued to vote to fund these wars, and

Whereas, the international labor movement through workers action has the power to stop the war, and

Whereas, the people of Iraq and Afghanistan are being killed and those countries destroyed, as U.S. imperial might and its regional allies, the Zionists and puppet Arab monarchists and generals threaten to expand attacks to Iran and Syria, while Palestinian rights are blatantly denied, and

Whereas, the bloody war abroad is waged against Iraqis and Afghanis, while the “war on terror” at home is targeting American working people, oppressed minorities and immigrants,

1. One of the first targets of government repression since 9/11 was the ILWU, which during longshore contract negotiations in 2002 was threatened by the Bush administration with a military occupation of the docks.

2. Recently, under the guise of Homeland Security two black longshoremen were attacked by police in the port of Sacramento, victims of racial profiling and police brutality, while at the start of the war scores of antiwar protesters and longshore workers were shot by police during a demonstration in the port of Oakland.

3. Victims of Hurricane Katrina, mostly black and the poor, in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast died needlessly as the world witnessed a callous and racist disregard for their lives by the U.S. government. And the hanging noose from the schoolyard tree in Jena, Louisiana shows how deeply rooted racism is in America.

4. People here are victims of government repression- spying, extraordinary rendition, attacks by police against antiwar protesters, -- all violations of civil liberties supposedly protected by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The rights of women to equality in the workplace, freedom from sexual violence and harassment and control over their own bodies, have all been eroded.

5. As the great anti-imperialist American labor leader, Eugene V. Debs said from prison during World War I, “It is the master class that declares war. It is the subject class that fights the battles.” And it is true today as working class youth are used in a bloody imperial quest for oil and power in the Middle East.

6. And both political parties threaten to expand the war to Iran, Syria and Lebanon, while repressing Palestinians and denying their fundamental rights as a people.

Therefore be it resolved that this conference calls for participants to go back to their unions committed to the urgent task of organizing actions, including strikes where possible, at the workplace against the war, recognizing that only an independent mobilization of labor can stop these wars and withdraw the troops immediately.

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Addendum: From the workshop “Middle East: The War for Oil and Empire” a motion was passed “ calling for educating and mobilizing rank and file workers in union locals and in organized forums about the false nature of the Category of Terror, to expose the role of our rulers in using state power to stage terror events as a pretext for repression, imperial war and the massive destruction of our rights as part of a heightened class war on working people everywhere.”

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Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen

Alexander — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:01:33 GMT

Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
December 14, 2007

Ohio's Secretary of State announced this morning that a $1.9 million official study shows that "critical security failures" are embedded throughout the voting systems in the state that decided the 2004 election. Those failures, she says, "could impact the integrity of elections in the Buckeye State." They have rendered Ohio's vote counts "vulnerable" to manipulation and theft by "fairly simple techniques."

Indeed, she says, "the tools needed to compromise an accurate vote count could be as simple as tampering with the paper audit trail connector or using a magnet and a personal digital assistant."

In other words, Ohio's top election official has finally confirmed that the 2004 election could have been easily stolen.

Brunner's stunning findings apply to electronic voting machines used in 58 of Ohio's 88 counties, in addition to scanning devices and central tabulators used on paper ballots in much of the rest of the state.

Brunner is calling for widespread changes to the way Ohio casts and counts its ballots. Her announcement follows moves by California Secretary of State Deborah Bowen to disqualify electronic voting machines in the nation's biggest state.

In tandem, these two reports add a critical state-based dimension to the growing mountain of evidence that the US electoral system is rife with insecurities. Reports from the Brennan Center, the Carter-Baker Commission, the Government Accountability Office, the Conyers Committee Task Force Report, Princeton University and others have offered differing perspectives that add up to the same conclusion.

Coming in the state that decided the 2004 election for George W. Bush, Brunner's confirmation of the electoral system's vulnerabilities adds huge new weight to the charge that the Buckeye State's vote count was stolen.

In a series of investigative reports dating to well before the 2004 election, the Columbus Free Press and Freepress.org have documented several dozen different means used by the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign to steal the official 2004 vote count.

The final official tally for Bush---less than 119,000 votes out of 5.4 million cast---varied by 6.7% from exit poll results, which showed a Kerry victory. Exit polls in 2004 were designed to have a margin of error of about 1%.

In various polling stations in Democrat-rich inner city precincts in Youngstown and Columbus, voters who pushed touch screens for Kerry saw Bush's name light up. A wide range of discrepancies on both electronic and paper balloting systems leaned almost uniformly toward the Bush camp. Voting procedures regularly broke down in inner city and campus areas known to be heavily Democratic.

In direct violation of standing federal election law, 56 of Ohio's 88 counties have since destroyed all or part of their 2004 election data. The materials were additionally protected by a federal court injunction in the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal civil rights lawsuit (in which we are attorney and plaintiff). To date, no state or federal prosecutions have resulted from this wholesale destruction of presidential election records, including 1.6 million ballots, cast and uncast, needed for definitive auditing procedures. However, two Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) election officials have been convicted of felony manipulation of an official recount. The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the state's largest newspaper, recently editorialized that there is "no evidence" the 2004 election was stolen, but omitted mention of the destruction of the electoral records by more than half the counties in the state. The Plain-Dealer and other mainstream media have consistently ignored findings by the Free Press and others indicating widespread manipulation and theft of the kind Brunner has now confirmed was eminently do-able within the Ohio system.

Brunner says "the results underscore the need for a fundamental change in the structure of Ohio's election system to ensure ballot and voting system security while still making voting convenient and accessible to all Ohio voters." Among other things, she advocates replacing touch-screen machines with optical-scan units that include a paper balloting system.

The study was managed by the Battelle Corporation, and conducted by Columbus-based MicroSolved Inc., SysTest Labs of Denver along with a consortium of academic subcontractors. It was reviewed by a dozen county officials, and included scrutiny of voting systems produced by Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Hart Intercivic and Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold).

Brunner is the Democratic successor to Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell, who administered the 2004 election as Secretary of State while also serving as state co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign. The report comes as part of her pledge to guarantee a fair and reliable vote count in the upcoming 2008 presidential election.

Under Blackwell, Ohio spent some $100 million installing electronic voting machines as part of the Help America Vote Act, passed by Congress in the wake of the scandals surrounding the 2000 election. Former Ohio Congressman Bob Ney, HAVA's principle author, now resides in a federal prison, in part for illegalities surrounding his dealings with voting machine companies.

Blackwell, who was defeated in a 2006 race for the Ohio governorship, outsourced web hosting responsibilities for the 2004 vote count to a programming firm that also programmed the web site for the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. Blackwell's chosen host site for the state's vote count was in the basement of the Old Pioneer Bank Building in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the servers for the Republican National Committee, and the Bush White House, were also located.

Brunner has now recommended that all Ohio's voting be done on optical scan ballots, with reliance on central tabulation. Voters with disabilities could use AutoMark machines with bar coding devices that allow the marking of ballots with little or no additional assistance.

"It's a testament to our state's boards of elections officials that elections on the new (federally) mandated voting systems have gone as smoothly as they have in light of these findings," Brunner said.

Conversely, it is also a testament to the ease with which the 2004 election was stolen by election officials who had clear conflicts of interest aimed at keeping George W. Bush in the White House.

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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman are co-authors of HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008 (www.freepress.org) and of WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO? (The New Press) with Steve Rosenfeld. THE FITRAKIS FILES are available at www.freepress.org, where this article first appeared. Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030, is at www.solartopia.org.

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2920

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Sorry, Jesus, But You're Out

kisserofsinners — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:37:33 GMT

enjoy

NanceGreggs's Journal: Nance Rants
Sorry, Jesus, But You're Out
Posted by NanceGreggs in General Discussion (www.democraticunderground.com)
Wed Nov 14th 2007, 12:09 AM
I hate to be the one to break it to you, Jesus, but it looks like you’re pretty well out of a job. Your followers have decided to replace you with someone more in keeping with the times, and the times apparently call for a new, improved Savior - one who is okay with torture, adores a good war, and just generally kicks butt.

Let’s face it, Lord, it’s not like you didn’t have a good run. Two thousand years is nothin’ to sneeze at in the Son of God business. But the whole Prince of Peace shtick just ain’t going over as well as it used to back in the day.

These Christians we got nowadays don’t want to hear about turning the other cheek, being thy brother’s keeper, loving thy neighbor, yadda, yadda. They’re just not into that Do Unto Others thing, and would much rather have a Do Unto Yourself kind of credo, if you get my drift.

What they want to hear is that accumulating personal wealth was part of your divine plan all along. They want to get on their cellphone and order a Green Prayer Cloth of Prosperity to place on their Bible as they pray for that promotion-plus-raise-plus-stock-options – and know that if they act now, they can get two for the price of one donation. They want to hear that things like hating Muslims, homosexuals and Liberals were only left out of the Commandments because your Dad could only fit ten on the tablets, and inadvertently left off the really important stuff.

So what they’ve done is they’ve come up with a new Jesus, one created in their own image and likeness. (How’s that for irony?) And because the new kid on the cross is willing to see things their way, he’s catching on with the Fundies like a burning Bush (ha, ha, made you laugh!)

Yeah, this New Jesus is something else again. You won’t catch him blessin’ the Peacemakers and talking about that goodwill towards men crap (although I understand that if the New Jesus preaches forgiveness for adulterers and fornicators, especially if they happen to be elected-to-office Republicans, that’s appreciated).

Yes, sir, this New Jesus is ready to rock. If people on the other side of the world stand in the way of good Christians having the oil they need to get their Mercedes to church on Sunday, well screw ‘em. If sick kids are going to be a drain on taxpayers’ dollars, screw ‘em. If the workers are going to start demanding decent wages, screw ‘em.

And for God’s sake (no disrespect intended), let’s hear some positive parables about how the money-changers in the temple were really the good guys, and how that eye of a needle that rich men have to pass though to get into heaven is actually big enough to accommodate an SUV, fully loaded!

You see where this is going, Jesus? (Being all-seeing and all-knowing, I kinda figured you might.) You’re just an acoustic guitar with a simple lyric about brotherhood and compassion in a world of fix-it-in-the-mix muzak for the masses.

Now, I don’t want to say you’re out of business entirely. You still got some people down here who believe in you just the way you are – that is, just the way you’ve always been, before the mega-rich preachers in the mega-churches started advertising a more pliable Savior with a more palatable agenda.

Hey, don't get me wrong, Jesus. Your real fans are still out there. If you don’t hear them cheering as loudly as you used to, it’s just because they’re being drowned out by the megachurch megaphones blaring hatred and bigotry from every corner, selling this New Jesus who will do their bidding.

Sorry to be the bearer of these bad tidings, but if you’re going to insist on sticking with that as you do to the least among you, so you do unto Me act, it seems you’re going to have to start getting used to playing to smaller crowds.

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Where is Everyone?

BlingAyez — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:28:29 GMT

I don't mean to be offensive but this should be the busiest Tribe on the block. The steady drumbeat gets the prize. Or, like the Democrats, have we all lost our backbone?

Hi

I'm new to the Tribe and like you mad as hell about Bushco. I don't care if his presidency is cut short by just one day. Impeachment is one venue but I prefer trial for treason. He has surely destroyed our nation for many generations to come. He and his cronies have stripped our freedoms to the bone and yet they ask more (see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071111/ap_on_go_ot/terrorist_surveillance;_ylt=Av2El26vTll1m3ciXpNOY66s0NUE )

Why are there not riot in the streets like there were in the 60's. Where have all the backbones gone? Gone to dollars every one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

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Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Listening

MO — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:49:38 GMT

My blog entry...

http://people.tribe.net/d9be4860-db8a-4240-982d-4607b116170f/blog/c9fe9ebb-5f1a-4ce0-96a0-78f7817ac723

The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth and Guantanamo Bay is practically a holiday camp. The annual cruise organized by the 'National Review,' mouthpiece of right-wing America, is a parallel universe populated by straight-talking, gun-toting, God-fearing Republicans.

We're doing an excellent job killing them."

The Vista Lounge is a Vegas-style showroom, with glistening gold edges and the desperate optimism of an ageing Cha-Cha girl. Today, the scenery has been cleared away - "I always sit at the front in these shows to see if the girls are really pretty and on this ship they are ug-lee," I hear a Reviewer mutter - and our performers are the assorted purveyors of conservative show tunes, from Podhoretz to Steyn. The first of the trip's seminars is a discussion intended to exhume the conservative corpse and discover its cause of death on the black, black night of 7 November, 2006, when the treacherous Democrats took control of the US Congress.

There is something strange about this discussion, and it takes me a few moments to realise exactly what it is. All the tropes that conservatives usually deny in public - that Iraq is another Vietnam, that Bush is fighting a class war on behalf of the rich - are embraced on this shining ship in the middle of the ocean. Yes, they concede, we are fighting another Vietnam; and this time we won't let the weak-kneed liberals lose it. "It's customary to say we lost the Vietnam war, but who's 'we'?" the writer Dinesh D'Souza asks angrily. "The left won by demanding America's humiliation." On this ship, there are no Viet Cong, no three million dead. There is only liberal treachery. Yes, D'Souza says, in a swift shift to domestic politics, "of course" Republican politics is "about class. Republicans are the party of winners, Democrats are the party of losers."

The panel nods, but it doesn't want to stray from Iraq. Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan's one-time nominee to the Supreme Court, mumbles from beneath low-hanging jowls: "The coverage of this war is unbelievable. Even Fox News is unbelievable. You'd think we're the only ones dying. Enemy casualties aren't covered. We're doing an excellent job killing them."

more.... http://www.alternet.org/story/57001/?page=2

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Mumia Abu-Jamal: When Wars Backfire

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:33:41 GMT

When Wars Backfire [col. writ. 7/12/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal

For most Americans, the Iraq War is a wrap.

Polls taken today overwhelmingly reveal the deeply held belief that the Iraq War was an error of epic proportions, and barely a third of those polled now claim to support the policies of the incumbent president, George W. Bush.

With the exception of a few true believers, most folks want to push that era blithely into the past, to be forgotten, if not forgiven.

That deeply held belief is now echoed by all segments of society, even among elites who were previously silent, or even supported the war.

The 'stay the course' crowd has been whittled down nearly to the bone. Witness the presidential ambitions of Sen. John McCain. His joined-at-the- hip support of the Bush administration has cost him dearly, as his poll numbers surge--downwards.

Recently, British newspaper and TV journalist, Jonathan Freedland, gave some sense of the breadth of opposition to the administration in a June 2007 essay in the New York Review of Books. Freedman wrote:

"One of the few foreign policy achievements of the Bush Administration has been the creation of a near consensus among those who study International affairs, a shared view that stretches, however improbably, from Noam Chomsky to Brent Scowcroft, from the antiwar protestors on the streets of San Francisco to the well-upholstered office of former secretary of state James Baker. This new consensus holds that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a calamity, that the presidency of has reduced America's standing in the world and made the less, not more, secure, leaving its enemies emboldened and its friends alienated. Paid-up members of the nation's foreign policy establishment, those who have held some of the most senior offices in the land, speak in a language once confined to the T-shirts of placard-wielding demonstrators. They rail against deception and dishonesty, imperialism and corruption. The only dispute between them is over the size and depth of the hole into which Bush has led the country he pledged to serve." (From: Freedland, J., "Bush's Amazing Achievement" , NYROB, June 14, 2007, p. 16)

His words had an almost eerie quality to them when the news recently reported that Al-Qaeda is stronger now, especially with the influx of recruits, than at any time since 9/11.

If, after 4 1/2 years of war, your enemy is stronger, then to claim to be "winning in Iraq" (as some Bushites do), is a kind of madness, if not profound self-delusion.

Wars either weaken combatants, or strengthens them.

As journalist Larry Everest has reported in his 2004 book, Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda (Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press, 2004), the highest levels of government sought to use any lie to tie the Hussein regime with Al-Qaeda, including sending then CIA head, James Woolsey, to London with fake 'evidence' to get the Brits on board. As Everest wrote:

Woolsey then began raising various charges against Iraq: that Iraqi agents met with Mohammed Atta, the alleged "ringleader" of the September 11 attacks: that Iraq provided fake passports for all 19 hijackers; that Al Qaeda members traveled to Baghdad in 1998 to celebrate Saddam Hussein's birthday; that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members; and that Iraq was linked to anthrax mailed to U.S. Senators in October 2001. There was no real proof for any of these charges...in fact it later turned out that the most likely source for the anthrax letters was someone associated with the U.S. military. Yet these charges were widely reported in the mainstream U.S. media nonetheless. (p.12)

And now, with the U.S. Army recruiting down, Al Qaeda is flourishing, mostly in the country that the U.S. claims as 'ally', Pakistan.

Amazing.

If this is winning, what does failure look like?

--(c) '07maj

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner in the United States, with what could be the final decision on his legal appeals possibly coming down this summer. That decision could give Mumia his freedom, life in prison, or execution. It is time to turn up the heat against this injustice. Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

For more on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal read:

Top Ten “Fry Mumia” Myths Debunked
(Myth #1) “Five eyewitnesses saw Mumia shoot officer Faulkner.”
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2007/07/41176.shtml

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Conyers-Sanchez letter to Harriet Miers' attorney regarding contempt for Congress if she fails to appear...

timbo — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:19:50 GMT

Ms. Miers attorney states that she will not appear before the House of the People because she has an excuse note from the President's lawyer (that we're paying the salary for BTW). Here is the info and response from the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives issued in the past 12 hours:

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=571

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Mumia Abu-Jamal on "Scooter" Libby

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:07:15 GMT

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Of Cronies and Kings

[col. writ. 7/5/07] (c) '07 by Mumia Abu-Jamal

The recent presidential commutation of Vice-Presidential aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has demonstrated how deeply politics and cronyism invades the realm of law.

In commuting Libby's 30-month prison sentence, the president has made it clear that, while he made his political career on being 'tough on crime' (especially when it comes to the death penalty), in the cases of his homies, the regular rules don't matter.

This is a politician who, when governor of the Republic of Texas, only granted one commutation to a man on Death Row (to Henry Lee Lucas), while denying every other request, even one advocated by the Pope, for Christian convert Karla Faye Tucker.

As a rule, this is not the guy who even grudgingly gives up either pardons or commutations until, that is, it came to his homie, 'Scooter.'

The power to pardon actually has it roots in the "royal prerogative of the kings and queens of England.

Yet, this act owes more to simple cronyism than to the English precedents.

"Scooter" held the keys to the kingdom. Faced with prison, his lips might have loosened as to the real roots of the Valerie Plame affair. He had it potentially within his power to threaten not just the Vice President, but the White House entire.

Thus, this commutation (pending a full pardon) is as much an act of self-defense, as it is of grace.

The power, under U.S. law and precedents, is virtually total.

The president can pardon or commute any sentence of any person serving (or having already served) a federal criminal sentence or sanction.

Yet, when have we heard of a commutation without someone actually filing for it?

This is an act of power, or politics, and cronyism.

For Bush, this was a freebie.

He never has to face another vote in his life.

With a 27% approval rating in the polls, he as much as told the American people to kiss his ass.

He could care less what you think.

'Scooter' was his homie.

Nor does this 'tough on crime' politician give a fig about what happens to hundreds and thousands of other Americans, every day.

For the statute governing perjury to a federal grand jury, and the range of sentences available under the law, doesn't change a bit.

The White House hasn't, and won't, send a recommendation to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to change the range of sanctions.

'Scooter' got a break because of who he knew in the White House.

The rest of us are on our own.

Cronyism. Homieism.

There is one law for the privileged and the powerful: another law for the rest of us.

'Equal Justice under the law?'

Yeah, right.

--(c) '07 maj

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner in the United States, with what could be the final decision on his legal appeals possibly coming down this summer. That decision could give Mumia his freedom, life in prison, or execution. It is time to turn up the heat against this injustice. Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

For more on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal read:

Top Ten “Fry Mumia” Myths Debunked
(Myth #1) “Five eyewitnesses saw Mumia shoot officer Faulkner.”
http://people.tribe.net/steveargue2/blog/d6e00c07-4d42-4eb0-8220-c00a1894a8e9

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Pro-War Democrats Battle for the Presidency

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:51:45 GMT

Pro-War Democrats Battle for the Presidency

By Steven Argue

Every four years the American people are subjected to the farce of bourgeois democracy, a “democracy” where only the candidates chosen by the very wealthy have any chance of being elected. That season of nicely dressed pathological liars and false hopes is now upon us.

Since the corporate media of the United States has long ago abandoned any semblance of reporting on anything of substance about candidates such as voting records and actual political views, it is up to the journalists of the left press and Indy-media to do so.

A front-runner in the race is pro-war Democrat Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton has voted for every war the United States has carried out since she came into office in 2000. Those pro-war votes include the Iraq war. She also voted to take away our civil liberties by supporting the “Patriot Act” and its renewal. Hillary Clinton, like many Democrats, pounds the war drum for the racist Zionist state of Israel even louder than the Republicans. In addition she voted for the anti-immigrant wall.

In her recent successful run for Senate Hillary Clinton amassed more than 22 million dollars, making her the biggest campaign finance recipient running for Senate in the country. Her money came from such corporate interests as drug and hospital conglomerates, Wall Street finance interests, real estate developers, and rightwing corporate media mogul, Rupert Murdoch.

Barack Obama

Another front-runner and “rising star” of the Democrat Party is Barack Obama. Like Hillary Clinton, Obama has voted for the Patriot Act by voting to renew it in 2006. He also voted for the racist anti-immigrant wall as well as the “guest worker” program that denies immigrants rights, but allows them to come to this country to be exploited and under-paid. Obama also voted for the so-called “Class Action Fairness Act” that makes it harder for the people to sue corporations.

One might think that Obama, as a black man in racist America, might have something to offer on issues dealing with the suffering caused by the racist police state, mass incarceration of the poor, lack of healthcare, and dramatic drop in the standard of living of the multi-racial working class and poor. Instead Barack Obama plays into racist stereotypes, blaming the victims of racist America rather than the corporate criminals, stating:

"Such wisdom might help us move beyond ideological bickering and serve as the basis of a renewed effort to tackle the problem of inner-city poverty. We could begin by acknowledging that perhaps the single biggest thing we could do to reduce such poverty is to encourage teenage girls to finish high school and avoid having children out of wedlock. . ." Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, pps. 255-256

The inner cities of America have, by and large, been abandoned by the same capitalists that got rich off of the jobs they have now exported, just as the victims of hurricane Katrina were left to die by this same racist system. Yet the best thing to do according to Barack Obama is for black girls to stop having children out of wedlock.

In his book Uncle Obama not only lets this racist system off the hook, but he praises one of the worst anti-working class reforms of the Clinton administration stating, "we should also acknowledge that conservatives-and Bill Clinton-were right about welfare as it was previously structured." Bill Clinton’s welfare reform has caused homelessness, hunger, and less access to other basic necessities for the poor in America, but Barack Obama says Bill Clinton and the conservatives were right.

Both Obama and Clinton have voted for war appropriations. The fact that they both decided at the last minute to vote against war appropriations in the most recent vote on supplemental war appropriations is a symptom of the fact that the war has not gone as planned. The war has not gained the desired oil loot for U.S. corporations and has caused a number of growing problems for U.S. imperialism including internal dissent in the United States. And while Clinton and Obama have finally voted against war appropriations this time, their pro-war Democrat Party garnered plenty of other votes to keep the imperialist war going.

In his book, Barack Obama makes clear his support for the billions being squandered on lining the pockets of the military contractors stating, “given the depletion of our [military] forces after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we will probably need a somewhat higher [Pentagon] budget in the immediate future just to restore readiness and replace equipment.” (Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, p 307).

Joe Biden

Another Democrat candidate is Joe Biden. Unlike many Democrat presidential candidates that have tried to distance themselves from the war that they voted for to begin with, in the most recent vote on war appropriations Joe Biden voted with the majority of the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate putting billions of dollars towards the continued U.S. imperialist slaughter of the Iraqi people.

John Edwards

Another presidential candidate with a pro-war record is John Edwards. Edwards voted for the war against Iraq and campaigned as a vice presidential candidate on the pro-war John Kerry ticket. At that time both candidates defended their votes for the war. John Edwards has since apologized for his vote for unprovoked military aggression and mass murder (without using that wording and without recognizing that his vote for war was a criminal act).

Yet when Edwards was running for the position of vice president in 2004 this what he had to say on his pro-war vote:

“We need to stick to this [defending their Iraq war votes]. We should stand by our votes, say we would vote that way again. If you admit a mistake, it shows weakness in time of war. That's what the Republicans want us to do.” (John Edwards's changing tune on the Iraq vote, Scot Lehigh, The Globe, April 17, 2007)

Bill Richardson

Another candidate trying to paint himself as an antiwar candidate of the people is presidential candidate and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. Richardson doesn’t call for immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, but instead calls for a slow withdrawal. In the early 1990s he did vote against the U.S. war to reinstate the anti-woman pro-U.S. corporate oil monarchy in Kuwait, but later said he regretted that vote. In addition Richardson is a strong supporter the pro-corporate anti-worker NAFTA, GATT, and WTO. On the death penalty Richardson, like many Democrats, says it is a good thing.

Well over one hundred inmates in the United States have had their convictions overturned as a result of new DNA evidence being brought to light, with some of these being death penalty cases. Still prosecutors have fought against the use of DNA evidence to overturn old convictions, even when the lives of innocent people are on the line. In racist America, death penalty juries are always more likely to convict because all who oppose the death penalty are excluded from these juries, making them juries that are more biased towards supporting the prosecution. Blacks often face all or mostly white death penalty juries. These are juries likely to contain a number of people who think that all Black people are criminals, making these jurors incapable of weighing the evidence and understanding the concept of reasonable doubt even in those rare circumstances when the evidence is fairly presented.

Why would anybody support the death penalty being carried out by a system that has been proven to make so many mistakes? The answer lies in the fact that the death penalty is an instrument of terror used by the American ruling class against the working class, poor, and people of color. On the one hand when such innocent people are executed it has no importance to the likes of Joe Biden because to them the lives of the poor and people of color are cheap. But for the ruling class, the added bonus of the death penalty is when it is used in political cases to silence dissent such as with the executions of Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Julius Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg, the Haymarket martyrs, and the threatened execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal. As governor, the fact that Joe Biden has no problem with the death penalty means that he already has blood on his hands.

Dennis Kucinich

Likewise Dennis Kucinich is portraying himself as the standard bearer of peace, love, and liberalism, but has voted in favor of the frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The resolution Kucinich voted for falsely claims, “Mumia Abu-Jamal stood over Officer Faulkner and shot him in the face, mortally wounding him…” Yet this is not what the eyewitnesses said. For instance eyewitness William Singletary says, "Mumia Abu-Jamal didn't shoot Daniel Faulkner. The passenger in the right-hand side of the Volkswagen [that Faulkner had stopped] got out of the car and shot him. When Mumia came on the scene, we [Singletary and another man] were on the police radio trying to radio for help." ("Witness: Abu-Jamal didn't do it" Philadelphia Daily News Dec. 8, 2006)

In the last presidential election Dennis Kucinich portrayed himself up as an anti-war candidate of the Democrat Party. Yet on his web site the Kucinich campaign stated that Kucinich, “Supports a strong and efficient military. He believes that the current practice of procuring ever more costly weapons has the effect of weakening military readiness. As the cost of new weapons systems rise, the cost of merely replacing aging weapons with new ones becomes prohibitively expensive. As a result, U.S. military forces shrink, while they become at the same time more expensive to maintain and more prone to failure.”

So Kucinich advocates more frugal and efficient spending on imperialist terror and murder.

This is the same position taken by two U.S. generals waging the war in Iraq. During the U.S. invasion of Iraq General Stanley McCrystal complained, "It was enough for the enemy to show a little resistance and some creative thinking as our technological superiority begun to quickly lose all its meaning. Our expenses are not justified by the obtained results. The enemy is using an order of magnitude cheaper weapons to reach the same goals for which we spend billions on technological whims of the defense industry!"

Similarly General Richard Mayers commented on precision-guided munitions, "The rate of their use is incompatible with the obtained results. We are literally dropping gold into the mud!"

The contradiction here was purely limited to the difference between the pure profiteering of the military industrial complex and the desire for actual cost effective results for imperialist victory on the battlefield.

Dennis Kucinich spoke to a gathering of the Southern California Americans for Democratic Action claiming, "We [he and the congress] did not authorize an eye for an eye. Nor did we ask that the blood of innocent people, who perished on September 11, be avenged with the blood of innocent villagers in Afghanistan. We did not authorize the Administration to wage war anytime, anywhere, anyhow it pleases. We did not authorize war without end. We did not authorize a permanent war economy. Yet we are upon the threshold of a permanent war economy."

Yet that is exactly what Kucinich and the rest of the congress, with the exception of California Democrat Barbara Lee, agreed to with their votes authorizing Bush’s endless war on the world. The entire Democrat Party in both the Senate and Congress, with only one exception, voted for Bush's war.

Since a different vote was later taken authorizing the US war in Iraq, the most practical application of this vote by Kucinich was to authorize the US war in Afghanistan.

In stark contrast to Kucinich’s vote for war Mumia Abu-Jamal wrote on March 2002:

“When U.S. President George W. Bush spoke about an "endless war," some took it as mere political speech, or rhetoric designed to gain the top spot on the evening network news. I did not. "W" is an agent of his class, the wealthy oil merchants of the land, and his intentions are to press for an ever-wider war in all corners of the earth, to make the world safe for capital exploitation and unbridled commerce. This will eventually become a war that reaches into a slew of countries in the Middle East, on behalf of the rich and powerful elites who rule. Make no mistake: this is a war that has nothing to do with democracy. The U.S. enters the region, armed to the gills, not to defend democracies, but to defend theocracies; to defend kings, princes and sultanates; to defend U.S. access to vast oil resources in the region.” Mumia Abu-Jamal

The U.S. war in Afghanistan has in fact killed tens of thousands of civilians and brought the Afghan nation back to the chaos of fragmented warlord rule last seen after the various U.S. trained and financed Mujahideen forces defeated the Soviet backed PDPA government.

The day after the September 11 attack this author wrote:

“Today the clerical fascists of the Taliban rule Afghanistan. The CIA put them in power with billions of dollars in U.S. military aid. This massive U.S. intervention in Afghanistan was in opposition to the revolutionary PDPA government that came to power in 1978 on issues of promoting women’s rights and land reform. Literacy campaigns began teaching the poor and women how to read and write.

“Foreign religious fanatics and wealthy defenders of the old feudal system came together in a terrorist organization called the Mujahideen (from which the Taliban were later formed). With billions of dollars in assistance from the U.S. [starting under the Jimmy Carter presidency] these fanatical cutthroats waged a holy war that included killing woman for teaching little girls how to read and write and throwing acid into the faces of women who had become liberated from the veil. The Taliban came to power as a result of this U.S. intervention.

“Will a U.S. war now against the Taliban and former CIA aid recipient Osama Bin Laden set things straight? No. It will be the people of Afghanistan who suffer death and destruction from war as the U.S. attempts to install a puppet government friendly to U.S. corporate (oil) interests” Steven Argue, Liberation News, September 12, 2002

Kucinich, the “peace candidate”, as much as he may now want to deny it, voted for the war in Afghanistan and played his part in making it happen.

On the war in Iraq Kucinich now states, "There is only one way in which the United States will withdraw from Iraq, prior to the end of President Bush's term: Congress must vote to cut off funds." (Rep. Kucinich, The Huffington Report) This position not only ignores the role of the people of the United States, Britain, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere rising up and resisting the war and imperialist occupations, but it is also is being put forward by a politician that voted for the war in Afghanistan, wants a leaner meaner imperialist military, voted for the racist legal lynching of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and who has worked hard to bring the anti-war movement back into the pro-war Democrat Party.

Some may argue that Kucinich is not perfect, but he’d make a better president than Bush. Yet it is unlikely that Kucinich has any intention of winning the presidency. His role is one of bringing the anti-war movement and others who are breaking from the establishment and the twin parties of war and racism back into the fold of the pro-war Democrat Party. Kucinich makes this point clear when he states, "The Democratic Party created third parties by running to the middle. What I'm trying to do is to go back to the big tent so that everyone who felt alienated could come back through my candidacy" (Counter Punch, April 2003).

Yet that tent Kucinich speaks of is one that, despite its name, is not democratic. It is a tent dominated by big capital and the politicians subservient to it. It is under this tent that the ruling class would like to swallow up the legitimate opposition of the people towards war and turn us into the water boys for the “responsible” politicians of the Democrat Party.

It is such "responsible" politicians, including Kucinich, that voted in their vast majority to back the racist legal lynching of Mumia Abu-Jamal. It is outrageous that that the Democrat party would vote in its House majority to condemn a French city for daring to make an issue of this racist legal lynching, while at the same time doing nothing about the liar and killer, Bush. But then again that should be no surprise either since the Democrat Party voted in its majority for the war in Iraq.

Hillary Clinton

In a press conference on August 21, 2006 George Bush Jr. finally admitted what Liberation News has been pointing out since before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. That Iraq had nothing to do with September 11th. Yet Bush had used a supposed connection as a pretext for the U.S.’s unprovoked aggression against Iraq. In addition, Bush Jr. also admitted that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.

Most of the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, Hillary Clinton included, supported going to war with Iraq. Today Hillary Clinton has no remorse for that murderous decision stating, "Obviously, I've thought about that a lot in the months since. No, I don't regret giving the president authority because at the time it was in the context of weapons of mass destruction, grave threats to the United States, and clearly, Saddam Hussein had been a real problem for the international community for more than a decade." Hillary Clinton: No regret on Iraq Vote, CNN.Com

In trying to let themselves off the hook many Democrats claim that Bush “did not fairly represent intelligence”. Feeble cries by these politicians today that their votes for war weren’t their fault because they were lied to by Bush not only make them look stupid, they are an insult to the intelligence of the American people. Clinton, however, is worse in not even distancing herself from this “justified invasion” and “weapons of mass destruction” lies.

While the Democrats helped promote the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq had no right to defend itself, Liberation News pointed out that it is the United States that has the weapons of mass destruction. Instead we supported the right of Iraq to acquire the weapons necessary to defend themselves from U.S. aggression. There can be little doubt that if Iraq had acquired those weapons they might not be in the mess they are now.

Yet for Bush Jr. and Hillary Clinton Iraqi weapons were never the real motive for mass murder in Iraq. The capitalist ruling class, and their Democrat and Republican representatives, thought that they could use their superior military power to quickly move into Iraq and establish by force a stable neo-colonial puppet regime, and then make massive profits from the privatization of the Iraqi economy, especially oil. It is the failures of this imperialist plan, in the face of Iraqi resistance and growing unpopularity at home, that has forced some Democrats to try to rethink, or at least distance themselves from, the Bush policies they have supported.

Just as Liberation News opposes the U.S. occupation and corporate looting of Iraq, we also denounced the starvation blockade that was carried out through the UN by the Bill Clinton administration. That blockade, partially due to the capitalist nature of the Iraqi economy under Saddam Hussein, cost the lives of about a million people, many of them children. While a socialist economy like that of Cuba could have made sure that everyone in Iraq had food, blame for this mass murder should also be put on the Bill Clinton administration. Likewise, it was this Clinton starvation blockade that also weakened Iraq for the Bush invasion.

Today, while the U.S. occupation of Iraq has murdered well over 655,000 people and the U.S. starvation blockade of Iraq murdered a million or more, the U.S. government and its puppets in Iraq had the nerve to put Saddam Hussein on trial, and execute him, for propaganda purposes. Yet the worst crimes of the Saddam Hussein regime were also carried out when he was directly backed by the United States. In the 1980’s the U.S. was giving massive military assistance to Iraq to help Saddam Hussein commit genocide against Kurds and carry out a bloody war with Iran at a time when Saddam Hussein was being used as an asset of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. Likewise the CIA helped Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party come to power, supplying them with the names of 5,000 socialists and labor leaders that the Ba’athists subsequently rounded up and executed.

Yet to those who claimed that an invasion of Iraq would be a chance for the U.S. to finally set things straight and set up a democracy in Iraq, Liberation News responded before the U.S. invasion saying:

“In the 1970s Iraq nationalized its oil fields. This helped the Iraqi people by taking a chunk of the profits made off of oil out of the hands of the international oil monopolies and instead keeping them in Iraq. This money helped pay for free healthcare and education. As such this was a socialist measure carried out by Saddam Hussein’s capitalist government. It was also a measure that stood up to the interests of the rich and powerful nations. For both reasons socialists supported the nationalization of Iraqi oil while those measures infuriated the imperialists...

“While defending Iraq against imperialist attack and supporting their right to defend themselves socialists also recognize that Saddam Hussein is a capitalist leader and that the Iraqi people have their own scores to settle with him. Yet any government set up by a US occupation army will not be democratic and will only lead to the privatization of the resources that American oil monopolies intend to steal...”

“U.S. imperialism will never solve the question of women’s liberation in the Middle East. Unlike all of the US supported governments and forces in the Arab World, Iraqi women have many rights found nowhere else in the Arab World except in the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Over 50% of Iraqi doctors are women. Iraqi women are allowed to walk unescorted in the streets. They are allowed to drive. Iraqi women can even freely criticize men. In addition Iraqi women have the right to work and control their own funds. This is in stark contrast to the treatment of women under the repressive U.S. backed governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia where women have no rights what-so-ever.

“The U.S. ruling class hates governments like Iraq, Libya, and Venezuela who use the profits of their oil resources partly to benefit the people with social programs. Likewise they love governments like that of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that strip the people of all their rights and keep the oil profits in the hands of the international oil monopolies and their corrupt local servants. Today in the United States we face unemployment, homelessness, and a lack of health care. The billions of dollars the U.S. will squander on killing Iraqis to steal their resources should be spent to benefit the working class and poor of the United States instead.” -From Liberation News: What Is Socialism, and Why We Oppose The Invasion of Iraq

What was predicted is reality. Those predictions were not from a crystal ball. They were accurate because they were based on the past behavior of U.S. imperialism. Today in Iraq the U.S. has set up a puppet Islamic government with functioning death squads and torture chambers. Socialists have been excluded from participating in elections and unarmed demonstrators have been shot down and murdered in the streets by U.S. troops and troops of the puppet Iraqi government. The puppet Islamic government also opposes women’s rights and women’s rights have deteriorated dramatically since the U.S. invasion. The rebuilding of basic infrastructure, such as electricity, has lagged way behind what was rebuilt by Saddam Hussein after the massive U.S. bombardment of Iraq in 1992.

With the exception of the privatization of Iraqi oil, all of the predictions have shown themselves to be true and the only reason that Iraqi oil isn’t completely under the direct control of U.S. oil monopolies now is because of the union resistance of 23,000 organized oil workers as well as the general resistance by the Iraqi people to the idea of Iraq’s resources being looted by U.S. corporations.

For the working class in the United States there is ever growing frustration with a war that is costing many lives and billions in dollars while needed programs for healthcare, jobs, the environment, and disaster relief do not get the funding they need. Just as the new imperialist masters of Iraq have shown a criminal lack of interest in the rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure, so too they left the people of New Orleans.

Yet for the ruling class their failure in Iraq is not in the murderous, undemocratic, and anti-woman puppet regime they have set up and the money that has been squandered in doing it, but in the failure of that regime to deliver the stability needed to acquire the oil loot. They complain that oil production in Iraq is below prewar levels and the occupation by U.S. and British troops serve as targets for the insurgency.

The words of Hillary Clinton, an icon of Democratic Party liberalism, makes abundantly clear that what she opposes is not the oil war itself, but the fact that Bush is not winning it:

“Let us not confuse the leadership’s failures with either the remaining mission in Iraq or the war on terrorism or with our support for our troops. What we have here is a failure of leadership to accomplish that mission. What was hailed as our shortest war has now become one of our longest. What was hailed as a model of democracy teeters on the brink of complete anarchy. What was the leadership that quickly claimed credit for success has been lethargic in the face of misjudgments and setbacks.” Hillary Clinton

As a result of imperialism’s failure in Iraq some Democrats that voted for the war like John Kerry have called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year. Yet the Kerry-Feingold plan actually calls for keeping troops in Iraq that are "critical to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces." The Kerry-Feingold plan also calls for "an over-the-horizon" troop presence in the region that could come to the aid of a failing puppet government in Iraq as well as intervene elsewhere in the so-called war on terror. (Lawmakers begin Bitter Debate on U.S. Troop Withdrawal Plan for Iraq, FOXNews, online report, June 2, 2006)

Hillary Clinton even opposed the Kerry-Feingold plan and voted against it arguing against any withdrawal timeline.

Unlike Hillary Clinton and the leading Democrats, Liberation News sees nothing good that can come from the continuation of the U.S. war against Iraq. The U.S. occupation of Iraq is doing nothing for anybody except the capitalists that are profiting from the war and the tax dollars of the American people. We call for no support to the Democrats and we demand: Iraq to the Iraqis! U.S. Out Now!

Liberation News calls for ending the war through building the mass movement in the streets; striking against arms producers; hot cargoing war materials on the docks, trains, and trucks; and building towards a general strike against the war. Likewise we support the right of military personal to refuse orders and resist this war. We support students, such as those at UC Santa Cruz that have repeatedly driven military recruiters off campus. And we call for building the socialist movement to end imperialism through socialist revolution.

The Role of Peace Action (Formerly Sane / Freeze)

Hillary Clinton’s record is clearly pro-imperialist war. Yet the group “Peace Action” gives Hillary Clinton the passing grade of voting for peace 89% of the time. Other Democrats are given similar scores by these political hacks.

“Peace Action” is deceiving the anti-war vote. Why? Because Peace Action is a pillar of the status quo that sees no alternative to delivering votes to what they see as the “lesser evil” Democrat Party, even when the Democrats are equally pro-war. This strategy has made “Peace Action” an obstacle to peace and a pillar of the status quo of war.

Every few years the ruling class of the United States parades its selected representatives in front of the American people to give us the chance to vote for their so-called “lesser” and “greater evil” representatives in the Democrat and Republican Parties. The corporate media and liberal pro-war groups like “Peace Action” ignore the real anti-war candidates and back pro-war Democrats by misrepresenting their records to the people.

Liberation News urges all of the super-exploited workers that go door to door raising money for the Peace Action bureaucracy to quit your meaningless jobs and look for better work while looking for ways to hook up with the real anti-war/anti-imperialist movement that is marching in the streets. Likewise we urge all of the liberal and leftist minded people that give money to Peace Action to stop doing so and instead participate in the mass anti-war movement in the streets with your bodies, minds, and your money if you can afford it.

No to the twin parties of war and oppression! Yes to the independent organization and mobilization of working people!

Obama, Clinton, and Richardson, Supporters of Racist Israel

Hillary Clinton, like many Democrats, has pounded the war drum for the racist Zionist state of Israel even louder than the Republicans. The U.S. gives Israel billions of dollars in military aid every year and Senator Clinton’s vote backs that money for death. Israel is a racist settler state established in 1949 that has denied the original inhabitants, the Palestinians, many basic rights, often including the basic right to live. Besides denying Palestinians the same rights to travel, jobs, housing, and education as allowed Jews, the racist and religious Zionist State has used massacres and other forms of terror, wars, and torture to drive out the original Palestinian inhabitants.

Likewise Israel is always at war with its Arab neighbors. Israel’s recent attack against Lebanon where their aerial bombardment of the civilian population murdered 1,150 people and destroyed vital infrastructure is only the latest such terrorism by Israel. Yet Hillary Clinton recently told a pro-Israel rally “We will stand with Israel because Israel is standing up for American values as well as Israeli ones.”

She’s got it wrong, the mass murder and racism of Israel are in league with the values of American ruling class, as has been seen in Iraq, but these are not the values of the American people.

Claims of Israel being the victim, bombing and invading Lebanon on the pretext of two Israeli soldiers taken prisoner do not hold water in light of the fact that Israel is holding 2,000 Lebanese prisoners in their torture chamber dungeons from their previous invasion of Lebanon. In addition numerous reports say those two Israeli soldiers were captured in Lebanon, not in Israel. Those reports are from such sources as AP, Hindustan Times, and AFP.

On Israel “anti-war” Richardson shares Hillary Clinton’s views stating, “I am firmly committed to one of the United States' closest and most important allies - the State of Israel. Throughout my career, I've steadfastly supported Israel, obtaining a consistently pro-Israel voting record in Congress and defending Israeli interests as Ambassador to the United Nations.”

Barack Obama also backs racist Israel stating, “The United States and Israel share important interests - promoting a peaceful Middle East, combating terrorism, and encouraging reform in the Arab and Muslim world.” Likewise as a senator he has backed the massive military aid the United States gives Israel every year and says he will continue this policy as president stating he will, “insist on fully funding military assistance to Israel”.

For Socialist Democracy!

Let me be clear on this point, Obama and Clinton, and the rest of the pack will not betray us. They cannot betray us because they were never with us. Under the current politics most Americans would never have heard their names if they were on our side.

A truly democratic society would eliminate corporate control of the elections by nationalizing the corporate media and allowing all candidates equal access to the airwaves, cable, and print. Likewise a truly democratic society would carry out a sweeping “campaign finance reform” through the nationalization of the means of production (using that wealth for human and environmental needs rather than decadence and deception).

Up against the likes of Hillary Clinton, with her millions of dollars in corporate bribes, a sympathetic corporate media, growing police state, and increasing electoral fraud, it will take a socialist revolution to bring democracy to the United States.

How we can all resist:

Tell the truth!

Build the mass movement in the streets!

Strike against arms producers!

Become ungovernable!

Hot cargo war materials on the docks, trains, and trucks!

Build towards a general strike against the war!

Support the right of military personal to refuse orders and resist this war!

Drive military recruiters off campus!

No tolerance or excuses for the pro-war, racist, and capitalist Democrat Party!

Build the socialist movement to end imperialism, racism, environmental destruction, and capitalism!

End U.S. imperialism through socialist revolution!

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Jill Simpson and her affidavits

timbo — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:26:20 GMT

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/jill-simpson/?resultpage=1&

The text of her recent press statement regarding Republican illegal activities in Alabama, including possible selective political prosecutions of American citizens and also possible violations of election, campaign and other laws as yet not yet revealed.

Ms. Simpson is a Republican lawyer who helped out in many Republican campaigns in Alabama. Recently though, because of her allegations that Karl Rove was involved in discussing and possibly influencing unConstitutional prosecutions against political opponents of the GOP in Alabama and other possible crimes against various applicable state and federal laws, she has come under libel and slander from her former "friends" in the GOP in Alabama.

I think she may be trying to cover her butt but she's doing a favor to the rest of us by showing that she still has faith that patriotism towards something more than the Bushites may still prevail. And for that, I salute her effort to come to grips with just how far the country has fallen away from the rule of law...and to somehow do her part to call the thugs in power before a court and away from running our legal system.

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My Anti Bush Art Illegal in 4 soon 5 States

Vince — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:47:20 GMT

Hello Tribe Members

I joined tribe to network, learn, share and grow. As an Artist I am involved in many project over time. Last fall I spent the time to create a controversial piece of poignant Anti Bush Anti War Art. This art is now illegal for me to advertise, display in the context of my other works, or sell in 4 US States and will be illegal in my home State of Texas on September 1st.

If they take away the activists and artists, then how many will remain to speak of truths and uncover injustices.

My art can be seen at bushliedtheydied.com In this site there is a FREE public domain version of my art for downloading, printing, and mass copying. Please distribute far and wide.

Sincerely
Vincent D K Greene

The Illegal War Art of
Vincent D K Greene
bushliedtheydied.com

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Habeaus Speeches from Washington

timbo — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:34:04 GMT

https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DOA_learn#speakers

The speech by Sister Ortiz is very powerful...

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No North American Union March Seattle Saturday August 18th, 2007

☼Sunshine☼ — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:33:13 GMT

NO NORTH AMERICAN UNION! * * * * * * AMERICANS & CANADIANS UNITE AGAINST THE NAU!

Washingtonians For Immigration Reform (WFIR) in cooperation with Let Freedom
Ring America and StoptheNAU.org is planning to lead a march through Downtown Seattle Saturday August 18th, 2007,
Sign up now - This is your opportunity to stand up for America!

August 20th, 2007 is the date for the next "Security & Prosperity Partnership" (SPP.GOV) summit in Quebec, Canada
where the *3 Amigos* (Leaders of US, Canada & Mexico) will be meeting to further advance their
agenda of creating a "North American Community" by 2010. The Canadian Peace Alliance is planning to lay out the "Unwelcome Mat" for Bush and his "North American Union" allies. Let's help out our Canadian neighbors to * * * LAY OUT THE UNWELCOME MAT * * * in Seattle, Washington on August 18th, 2007 March to take place from The Space Needle to the Federal Building and then back to the Space Needle

Please email contact@mfawash.org if you plan to attend or would like more information
(notification of attendance so we get the proper permits from the City so they can block off the streets).
Everyone is encouraged to bring an American & Canadian flag as a show of solidarity with our
Canadian counterparts who don't want the NAU anymore than we do.

March for America! Washington Infoline:
1-877-MFA-WASH (632-9274) - or - E-mail contact@mfawash.org

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The Fourth is Independence From Imperialism Day

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:13:54 GMT

The Fourth is Independence From Imperialism Day

By Steven Argue

Today is a celebration of a revolution against imperialism, that being the American Revolution against British imperialism. Today this holiday is all too often seen as a day of nationalist celebration of the United States, the biggest imperialist power in the world. Yet the true roots of this celebration are in anti-imperialism.

We send out our sympathies and solidarity to the people of Iraq and Haiti suffering under US occupation and US imposed death squad governments. Likewise, we send out our sympathies and solidarity to the Afghani people suffering under decades of bloodshed and religious anti-woman governments imposed by US intervention. We send out our sympathies and solidarity to the people of the Phillipines and Colombia where US troops and money are propping up murderous governments. We send out our sympathies and solidarity to the people of the “third” world, many starving, under US imposed governments, unfair imperialist economic policies, and the constant threat of US military intervention.

We send out congratulations to the people of those few countries that have stood up to US imperialism and set up the governments and economies that they see fit for their countries.

U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler summed up US imperialism well:

"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

"For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.... I must face it and speak out.

"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service."

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."

"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

Butler's 1935 exposé "War is a Racket" begins with these powerful lines:

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

Bulter's words were not empty. This was a man who was on the inside of the world's most powerful fighting force. He goes on to reveal:

"There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its 'finger men' to point out enemies, its 'muscle men' to destroy enemies, its 'brain men' to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" - Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism. It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to."

You can read the whole Butler article online
"War is a Racket," Common Sense magazine, November 1935.
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/racket.html
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

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Pacific Northwest anti-war activists up the ante by blocking military shipments to Iraq

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:12:26 GMT

Pacific Northwest anti-war activists up the ante by blocking military shipments to Iraq

by Linda Averill

Freedom Socialist Newspaper, Vol. 28, No. 3, June-July 2007
www.socialism. com

A new breed of struggle is flowering in the Northwest anti-war movement. Its aim: to stop public ports from being used for export of war materials. Activists in Washington state are evolving from demonstrators and lobbyists into direct actors against the war masters, blocking streets and facing arrest as needed.

This development isn’t happening in a vacuum. A product of anger over congressional inaction on the war and repulsion at the militarization of U.S. society, it is also inspired by a rising resistance movement among GIs.

A statement from the Port Militarization Resistance (PMR) puts it this way: "The weapons shipments, and the use of our public property to prolong and supply the war in Iraq, have made us complicit in crimes against humanity. We refuse to be complicit any longer."

The first action took place last year in Olympia, near Fort Lewis. Participants blocked entrance to their port to stop the Army from shipping war materials.

In 2007, activists declared victory when the Army announced it was going elsewhere. The new location turned out to be Tacoma, 30 miles north of Olympia. Students from the nearby University of Puget Sound, military veterans, teachers, a city councilman, and many others quickly sprang into action, aided by organizers of the blockades in Olympia. As Tacoma protester Leah Coakley said, "We will not serve as a pit stop for the war machine."

A cause catches fire.

Campaign stalwart Molly Gibbs offers insight into the shift in thinking of those involved. Gibbs, who works in high schools to counter military recruitment efforts, is no newcomer to politics. On the war, she has e-mailed, lobbied and written letters to congressional representatives like Adam Smith, she tells the FS, "until I’m blue in the face."

But this year, Fort Lewis was the scene of the high-profile case involving Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to openly refuse to serve in Iraq. His defiance, amplified by an effective defense effort, inspired many anti-war activists, including Gibbs.

In January, she helped organize a tribunal to publicize his case. She then left for Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress again. When her group tried to meet with U.S. Senator Patty Murray and got the runaround, it was the last straw. "I was so disgusted, so angry," Gibbs says.

>From that experience, she concluded that a different strategy was needed. "I’m done dealing with my congressional representatives, " she says. "It is in our hands. We have to do something."

Opportunity came in March, when the military moved its port operations to Tacoma. Members of several groups mobilized, including Students for a Democratic Society, United for Peace of Pierce County, and the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace. They held rallies, publicized their actions to the media, and lined the streets to take a stand.

On March 10, police used violence to break their lines, firing rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd. Protesters refused to back down, and Gibbs was among several people arrested for stepping over police lines to deliver a "Citizens’ Injunction to Halt the Shipment of Military Material to Iraq." When soldiers with the Stryker Brigade rode by one evening, many of them waved and gave the thumbs-up to the anti-war contingent.

On to Aberdeen.

The Army ship sailed, but when the dust had cleared, Tacoma had spent $500,000 on police protection. Who would pay — the port or the Pentagon?

While that question lingered, the military moved its shipping operations to Aberdeen, 50 miles from Olympia near the Pacific Coast. PMR quickly spread word and headed west.

Military officials cordoned off neighborhood streets and called in police reinforcements from across the region. The military racked up another huge bill and angered local residents, who resented seeing their town become an armed camp.

Sparked by these examples, similar efforts and solidarity actions are spreading. In March, 100 students occupied a military recruitment office in New York City to express support and, in April, resisters blocked a port in Oakland, California.

Many campaigners have been charged with crimes. In the Northwest, a mistrial was declared on March 29 in the case of the "Oly 22," who were arrested in 2006. Public support is being mobilized now for those arrested in Tacoma.

Grow the resistance!

How strongly this movement will take root is uncertain. Those who are part of it harbor no illusions about the challenges ahead. The Army is operating in greater secrecy, keeping protesters on their toes. There are court battles ahead, and police violence to face. Gibbs mentions the need for more community training, strategy development, and reinforcements.

However, she is motivated by knowing one thing for certain: as long as the war continues, "the death and destruction is only going to get worse."

Information about how to help the campaign is available on several web-sites, including www.omjp.org and www.ufppc.org.

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THE NOTHING / MATRIX HAS YOU

truthgathering — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:24:25 GMT

36 hours later .... NO DONATIONS SO FAR

Life is getting tricky again / worse than usual

With no donations, I have to decide whether to
cancel the website, or not be able to eat in a
week's time when my monthly payment is taken
for http://www.worldgathering.net

One reason I feel 'World Gathering' may be worth
pursuing is because two days after launching 'World
Gathering 25/26 August 2007' - on May 1st - the
power of the directed energy attack on me doubled.

This increase in harassment seemed to tell me
that there are things 'they' do not want me to do.
The truth is, though, whenever I do any large
postings on the Internet, the power of the laser,
microwave, pulse, sonic, or whatever it is, increases.

'They' just do not want me to communicate with
many other people.

Why are they worrying?

So far, hardly anyone seems interested in the
World Gathering.

A few weeks ago quite a large number of people
were copying World Gathering posters and banners
onto their websites and blogs. But I didn't really
receive feedback from anyone, saying it’s a great
idea, or promising organisation of a local supporting
event for 25/26 August.

I get a spooky feeling.

I was bankrupted in 2004 by four years of targeting,
24/7, by severe amounts of directed energy (my eyesight
went bad and I could hardly walk on many days). I was
therefore made homeless in 2004 and had my full time
attention on the Internet diverted.

The spooky feeling I get is that the world seems to
have disappeared in the three years I have been pushed
off the Net.

People won't participate.

People won't encourage other people.

People won't give donations.
(In the past three years, I have received three
donations via the Internet ... in that time many
millions of people have benefited from the information
I left on the Net and duplicated at perhaps 200+
other websites.... not a very good 'energy exchange',
is it?)

It feels like 'The Nothing' has rendered people useless.

It looks like people are lost in The Matrix.

I think the massive Chemtrail Spraying has perhaps
made most people even more apathetic than they were
three years ago.

Perhaps that is why the World Gathering 25/26 August
2007 would be important .... to help people waken up
again. And to warn the world about the 'Nothing'
spraying......

As the late Hopi elder Dan Evehema said:
We must unite for our SURVIVAL.

But .................... NO donations so far.

Michael Irving

> World Gathering 25 & 26 August 2007
> http://www.worldgathering.net
> http://www.michael-irving.com
> Mirror websites
>
> 1) Appeal By World-Action / World Gathering
> 2) Words of Inspiration To Change The World
>
> ---------
>
> 1) Appeal By World-Action / World Gathering
>
> WORLD GATHERING NEEDS DONATIONS
> - OR WEBSITE MAY GO
>
> World Gathering Needs Your Help ...
>
> http://www.worldgathering.net/news03.html
>
> I am asking people who have benefited now
> or in the past from inspiration, information
> and events organised through the various
> websites I have had over the years, to make
> a donation to help this effort to assist
> the world keep going.
>
> Can you put in a bit to help?
>
> Then, together we can press on forwards
> to help change the world.
>
> Please go to this webpage:
> http://www.worldgathering.net/news03.html
>
> Please pass this request to your friends who know
> about World-Action, Stop-Chemtrails, World Gathering,
> Inspiring Times, Words Waken World, etc. - thank you
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Sincerely,
> Michael Irving
> World Gathering, World-Action, Stop Chemtrails,
> Inspiring Times, Words Waken World, World-Action 2
> http://www.worldgathering.net
> http://www.michael-irving.com
>
> ---------
>
> 2) Words of Inspiration To Change The World
>
> "We must do what we conceive to be the right
> thing and not bother our heads or burden our
> souls with whether we will be successful.
> Because if we don't do the right thing, we
> will be doing the wrong thing and we will just
> be a part of the disease and not a part of
> the cure." - E. F. Schumacher
>
> "Each of us is put here in this time and this
> place to personally decide the future of humankind.
> Did you think you were put here for something
> less?" - Chief Arvol Looking Horse
>
> "To be yourself, in a world that tries, night
> and day, to make you just like everybody else
> - is to fight the greatest battle there ever
> is to fight, and never stop fighting."
> - e. e. cummings
>
> "We are at the final stages now ... so as our
> prophecy says. Then it must be up to the people
> with pure hearts that will not be afraid to
> help us to fulfil our destiny in peace for
> this world" - Dan Evehema, late Hopi elder
>
> "Learn to listen to the voice of truth which
> is within you and will lead you onto the path
> of evolution. This is our message to you,
> our dear friends. We have watched you growing
> for many years, just as you have watched our
> lights in the sky. You know now that we are
> here and that there are more beings on and
> around your Earth than your scientists care
> to admit. We are deeply concerned about you
> and your path towards the light and we will
> do all that we can to help you."
> --- This is the ending of the 1977 'Voice-Over
> Message' in the UK. Millions of TV viewers
> in southern England heard a voice give this
> message while normal TV pictures were shown.
> TV engineers struggled to stop the audio
> broadcast, but failed. A similar TV voice-over
> happened in the USA within a year or two
> of the above message.
>
> "Our lives begin to end the day we
> become silent about things that matter."
> - Martin Luther King, Jnr
>
> "The most courageous act is still to think
> for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
>
> "The world is now too dangerous for anything
> less than utopia." - Buckminster Fuller
>
> ---------
>
> WORLD GATHERING NEEDS DONATIONS
> - OR WEBSITE MAY GO
> World Gathering Needs Your Help ...
> http://www.worldgathering.net/news03.html
>
> ---------
>
> World Gathering 25 & 26 August 2007
> http://www.worldgathering.net
> http://www.michael-irving.com
> Mirror websites
>
> Please forward to friends and contacts
> - thank you

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Following orders not to investigate the higher ups...

timbo — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:39:03 GMT

See Taguba's interview in the New Yorker as he speaks out about Abu Ghraib after he retires...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh

Seems that the brass may have lied to Congress...and War Crimes may have been committed...

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World Gathering - 25 & 26 August 2007

truthgathering — Sat, 26 May 2007 10:24:47 GMT

World Gathering - 25 & 26 August 2007
--------------------------------------------

Please forward to friends, contacts and mailing lists.
---

World Gathering
- 25 & 26 August 2007
- Saturday and Sunday
http://www.worldgathering.net
http://www.michael-irving.com
(These 2 websites are mirror images of each other.)

- WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007
- All Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide
- Use Powerful Flashlights To Signal Other Hilltops
- Time For The Gathering - New Dawn Coming
- Truth For The World - Peace For The World
- Global Meetings - Global Powwows
- The Truth Is Coming
- 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 WORLD GATHERING
- HILLTOPS WORLDWIDE - BE THERE!

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"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe
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"A very great vision is needed and the person who
has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest
blue of the sky." - Chief Crazy Horse
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WORLD GATHERING - August 2007
Saturday August 25 and Sunday August 26
Three Events In One .....
(1) Saturday - DAY: Meet with friends and
contacts and discuss the world situation.
(2) Saturday - NIGHT: Meet on a hilltop and
shine a beacon of hope through the night.
(3) Sunday - DAY: Meet with friends and
contacts and discuss the world situation.

The main details for the World Gathering are here:
http://www.worldgathering.net/gathering.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/gathering.html

Arrange Meetings, Powwows, and Hilltop 'Beacon'
vigils for Saturday and Sunday, 25th & 26th August.
Then, send your event details to the email on this page:
http://www.worldgathering.net/contact.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/contact.html

Details of LOCAL 'World Gatherings' will be displayed
under fourteen 'World Regions'; then by Country/Nation;
then by area, state, etc. The main index for the details
of LOCAL 'World Gatherings' is on this webpage:
http://www.worldgathering.net/events.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/events.html

The World Gathering is being launched at the end of
May, 2007, so there may not be many details at our
websites for Local Events until the end of June.

'What should I organise in my area for the World
Gathering?' - Ideas and suggestions on this webpage:
http://www.worldgathering.net/yourevent.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/yourevent.html

Join our Google and/or Yahoo Newsletter lists:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldgathering

Watch a short, 'World Gathering' slideshow video at
either Google Video or YouTube. Search at Google
Video or YouTube for: 'WORLD GATHERING'.

Please help publicise this unusual and unique global
linkup. Print out posters; place a WG banner on your
website; forward our Update mailings to your friends,
contacts, and mailing lists; and tell friends about the
World Gathering video at Google and YouTube.
Ideas and materials for WG promotion here:
http://www.worldgathering.net/publicity.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/publicity.html

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"Use every letter you write, every conversation
you have, every meeting you attend, to express your
fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others
the vision of the world you want."
- Dr Robert Muller, formerly of the U.N.
------------------
“We are at the final stages now… so as our prophecy
says. Then it must be up to the people with pure hearts
that will not be afraid to help us to fulfil our destiny in
peace for this world.” - Dan Evehema, Hopi Nation
------------------

Additional 'World Gathering' inspiration here:
http://www.worldgathering.net/worldgathering.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/worldgathering.html

- WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007
- All Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide
- Use Powerful Flashlights To Signal Other Hilltops
- Time For The Gathering - New Dawn Coming
- Truth For The World - Peace For The World
- Global Meetings - Global Powwows
- The Truth Is Coming
- 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 WORLD GATHERING
- HILLTOPS WORLDWIDE - BE THERE!

World Gathering
25 & 26 August 2007
http://www.worldgathering.net
http://www.michael-irving.com
(These 2 websites are mirror images of each other.)

Please forward to friends, contacts and mailing lists.

Thank you. World Gathering.

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presidential directive at whitehouse.gov gives Bush imperial powers

Alexander — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:44:06 GMT

presidential directive at whitehouse.gov gives Bush imperial powers

Just heard about this presidential directive from their own website. This means any event that is considered a disruption of the nation or its normal routine (from the mega-quake in Cascadia to the even a computer virus) then Mr Bush can declare this emergency with 90s imperial rule. They can even take over Native American Reservations or anything else deemed important for military stragedy. Add to this this week's ruling on environmentalism as possibly ecoterrorism.

One news report with the actualy whitehouse.gov announcement:

Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency
By Matthew Rothschild
May 18, 2007

With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack.

In a new National Security Presidential Directive, Bush lays out his plans for dealing with a “catastrophic emergency.”Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government.”

He laid this all out in a document entitled “National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51” and “Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20.”

http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807

The White House released it on May 9.

Other than a discussion on Daily Kos led off by a posting by Leo Fender, and a pro-forma notice in a couple of mainstream newspapers, this document has gone unremarked upon.

The subject of the document is entitled “National Continuity Policy.”

It defines a “catastrophic emergency” as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function.”

This could mean another 9/11, or another Katrina, or a major earthquake in California, I imagine, since it says it would include “localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies.”

The document emphasizes the need to ensure “the continued function of our form of government under the Constitution, including the functioning of the three separate branches of government,” it states.

But it says flat out: “The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government.”

The document waves at the need to work closely with the other two branches, saying there will be “a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government.” But this effort will be “coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial
branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers.”

Among the efforts coordinated by the President would ensuring the capability of the three branches of government to “provide for orderly succession” and “appropriate transition of leadership.”

The document designates a National Continuity Coordinator, who would be the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.

Currently holding that post is Frances Fragos Townsend.

She is required to develop a National Continuity Implementation Plan and submit it within 90 days.

As part of that plan, she is not only to devise procedures for the Executive Branch but also give guidance to “state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure.”

The secretary of Homeland Security is also directed to develop planning guidance for “private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators,” as well as state, local, territorial, and tribal governments.

The document gives the Vice President a role in implementing the provisions of the contingency plans.

“This directive shall be implanted in a manner that is consistent with, and facilitates effective implementation of, provisions of the Constitution concerning succession to the Presidency or the exercise of its powers, and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 USC 19), with the consultation of the Vice President and, as appropriate, others involved.”

The document also contains “classified Continuity Annexes.”

from http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807

___ actual presidential directive from whitehouse.gov:

National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive

White House News

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51

HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20

Subject: National Continuity Policy

Purpose

(1) This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity policies. This policy establishes "National Essential Functions," prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency.

Definitions

(2) In this directive:

(a) "Category" refers to the categories of executive departments and agencies listed in Annex A to this directive;

(b) "Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;

(c) "Continuity of Government," or "COG," means a coordinated effort within the Federal Government's executive branch to ensure that National Essential Functions continue to be performed during a Catastrophic Emergency;

(d) "Continuity of Operations," or "COOP," means an effort within individual executive departments and agencies to ensure that Primary Mission-Essential Functions continue to be performed during a wide range of emergencies, including localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies;

(e) "Enduring Constitutional Government," or "ECG," means a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers among the branches, to preserve the constitutional framework under which the Nation is governed and the capability of all three branches of government to execute constitutional responsibilities and provide for orderly succession, appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability and support of the National Essential Functions during a catastrophic emergency;

(f) "Executive Departments and Agencies" means the executive departments enumerated in 5 U.S.C. 101, independent establishments as defined by 5 U.S.C. 104(1), Government corporations as defined by 5 U.S.C. 103(1), and the United States Postal Service;

(g) "Government Functions" means the collective functions of the heads of executive departments and agencies as defined by statute, regulation, presidential direction, or other legal authority, and the functions of the legislative and judicial branches;

(h) "National Essential Functions," or "NEFs," means that subset of Government Functions that are necessary to lead and sustain the Nation during a catastrophic emergency and that, therefore, must be supported through COOP and COG capabilities; and

(i) "Primary Mission Essential Functions," or "PMEFs," means those Government Functions that must be performed in order to support or implement the performance of NEFs before, during, and in the aftermath of an emergency.

Policy

(3) It is the policy of the United States to maintain a comprehensive and effective continuity capability composed of Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government programs in order to ensure the preservation of our form of government under the Constitution and the continuing performance of National Essential Functions under all conditions.

Implementation Actions

(4) Continuity requirements shall be incorporated into daily operations of all executive departments and agencies. As a result of the asymmetric threat environment, adequate warning of potential emergencies that could pose a significant risk to the homeland might not be available, and therefore all continuity planning shall be based on the assumption that no such warning will be received. Emphasis will be placed upon geographic dispersion of leadership, staff, and infrastructure in order to increase survivability and maintain uninterrupted Government Functions. Risk management principles shall be applied to ensure that appropriate operational readiness decisions are based on the probability of an attack or other incident and its consequences.

(5) The following NEFs are the foundation for all continuity programs and capabilities and represent the overarching responsibilities of the Federal Government to lead and sustain the Nation during a crisis, and therefore sustaining the following NEFs shall be the primary focus of

the Federal Government leadership during and in the aftermath of an emergency that adversely affects the performance of Government Functions:

(a) Ensuring the continued functioning of our form of government under the Constitution, including the functioning of the three separate branches of government;

(b) Providing leadership visible to the Nation and the world and maintaining the trust and confidence of the American people;

(c) Defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and preventing or interdicting attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests;

(d) Maintaining and fostering effective relationships with foreign nations;

(e) Protecting against threats to the homeland and bringing to justice perpetrators of crimes or attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests;

(f) Providing rapid and effective response to and recovery from the domestic consequences of an attack or other incident;

(g) Protecting and stabilizing the Nation's economy and ensuring public confidence in its financial systems; and

(h) Providing for critical Federal Government services that address the national health, safety, and welfare needs of the United States.

(6) The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government. In order to advise and assist the President in that function, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHS/CT) is hereby designated as the National Continuity Coordinator. The National Continuity Coordinator, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National

Security Affairs (APNSA), without exercising directive authority, shall coordinate the development and implementation of continuity policy for executive departments and agencies. The Continuity Policy Coordination Committee (CPCC), chaired by a Senior Director from the Homeland Security Council staff, designated by the National Continuity Coordinator, shall be the main day-to-day forum for such policy coordination.

(7) For continuity purposes, each executive department and agency is assigned to a category in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and

responsibilities in support of the Federal Government's ability to sustain the NEFs. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall serve as the President's lead agent for coordinating overall

continuity operations and activities of executive departments and agencies, and in such role shall perform the responsibilities set forth for the Secretary in sections 10 and 16 of this directive.

(8) The National Continuity Coordinator, in consultation with the heads of appropriate executive departments and agencies, will lead the development of a National Continuity Implementation Plan (Plan), which shall include prioritized goals and objectives, a concept of operations, performance metrics by which to measure continuity readiness, procedures for continuity and incident management activities, and clear direction to executive department and agency continuity coordinators, as well as guidance to promote interoperability of Federal Government continuity programs and procedures with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate. The Plan shall be submitted to the President for approval not later than 90 days after the date of this directive.

(9) Recognizing that each branch of the Federal Government is responsible for its own continuity programs, an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall ensure that the executive branch's COOP and COG policies in support of ECG efforts are appropriately coordinated with those of

the legislative and judicial branches in order to ensure interoperability and allocate national assets efficiently to maintain a functioning Federal Government.

(10) Federal Government COOP, COG, and ECG plans and operations shall be appropriately integrated with the emergency plans and capabilities of State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to promote interoperability and to prevent redundancies and conflicting lines of authority. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate the integration of Federal continuity plans and operations with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to provide for the delivery of essential services during an emergency.

(11) Continuity requirements for the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and executive departments and agencies shall include the following:

(a) The continuation of the performance of PMEFs during any emergency must be for a period up to 30 days or until normal operations can be resumed, and the capability to be fully operational at alternate sites as soon as possible after the occurrence of an emergency, but not later than 12 hours after COOP activation;

(b) Succession orders and pre-planned devolution of authorities that ensure the emergency delegation of authority must be planned and documented in advance in accordance with applicable law;

(c) Vital resources, facilities, and records must be safeguarded, and official access to them must be provided;

(d) Provision must be made for the acquisition of the resources necessary for continuity operations on an emergency basis;

(e) Provision must be made for the availability and redundancy of critical communications capabilities at alternate sites in order to support connectivity between

and among key government leadership, internal elements, other executive departments and agencies, critical partners, and the public;

(f) Provision must be made for reconstitution capabilities that allow for recovery from a catastrophic emergency and resumption of normal operations; and

(g) Provision must be made for the identification, training, and preparedness of personnel capable of relocating to alternate facilities to support the continuation of the performance of PMEFs.

(12) In order to provide a coordinated response to escalating threat levels or actual emergencies, the Continuity of Government Readiness Conditions (COGCON) system establishes executive branch continuity program readiness levels, focusing

on possible threats to the National Capital Region. The President will determine and issue the COGCON Level. Executive departments and agencies shall comply with the requirements and

assigned responsibilities under the COGCON program. During COOP activation, executive departments and agencies shall report their readiness status to the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary's designee.

(13) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall:

(a) Conduct an annual assessment of executive department and agency continuity funding requests and performance data that are submitted by executive departments and agencies as part of the annual budget request process, in order to monitor progress in the implementation of the Plan and the execution of continuity budgets;

(b) In coordination with the National Continuity Coordinator, issue annual continuity planning guidance for the development of continuity budget requests; and

(c) Ensure that heads of executive departments and agencies prioritize budget resources for continuity capabilities, consistent with this directive.

(14) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall:

(a) Define and issue minimum requirements for continuity communications for executive departments and agencies, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President;

(b) Establish requirements for, and monitor the development, implementation, and maintenance of, a comprehensive communications architecture to integrate continuity components, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President; and

(c) Review quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities, as prepared pursuant to section 16(d) of this directive or otherwise, and report the results and recommended remedial actions to the National Continuity Coordinator.

(15) An official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall:

(a) Advise the President, the Chief of Staff to the President, the APHS/CT, and the APNSA on COGCON operational execution options; and

(b) Consult with the Secretary of Homeland Security in order to ensure synchronization and integration of continuity activities among the four categories of executive departments and agencies.

(16) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall:

(a) Coordinate the implementation, execution, and assessment of continuity operations and activities;

(b) Develop and promulgate Federal Continuity Directives in order to establish continuity planning requirements for executive departments and agencies;

(c) Conduct biennial assessments of individual department and agency continuity capabilities as prescribed by the Plan and report the results to the President through the APHS/CT;

(d) Conduct quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities in consultation with an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President;

(e) Develop, lead, and conduct a Federal continuity training and exercise program, which shall be incorporated into the National Exercise Program developed pursuant to Homeland Security Presidential Directive-8 of December 17, 2003 ("National Preparedness"), in consultation with an

official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President;

(f) Develop and promulgate continuity planning guidance to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators;

(g) Make available continuity planning and exercise funding, in the form of grants as provided by law, to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators; and

(h) As Executive Agent of the National Communications System, develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive continuity communications architecture.

(17) The Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall produce a biennial assessment of the foreign and domestic threats to the Nation's continuity of government.

(18) The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall provide secure, integrated, Continuity of Government communications to the President, the Vice President, and, at a minimum, Category I executive departments and agencies.

(19) Heads of executive departments and agencies shall execute their respective department or agency COOP plans in response to a localized emergency and shall:

(a) Appoint a senior accountable official, at the Assistant Secretary level, as the Continuity Coordinator for the department or agency;

(b) Identify and submit to the National Continuity Coordinator the list of PMEFs for the department or agency and develop continuity plans in support of the NEFs and the continuation of essential functions under all conditions;

(c) Plan, program, and budget for continuity capabilities consistent with this directive;

(d) Plan, conduct, and support annual tests and training, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, in order to evaluate program readiness and ensure adequacy and viability of continuity plans and communications systems; and

(e) Support other continuity requirements, as assigned by category, in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and responsibilities

General Provisions

(20) This directive shall be implemented in a manner that is consistent with, and facilitates effective implementation of, provisions of the Constitution concerning succession to the Presidency or the exercise of its powers, and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. 19), with consultation of the Vice President and, as appropriate, others involved. Heads of executive departments and agencies shall ensure that appropriate

support is available to the Vice President and others involved as necessary to be prepared at all times to implement those provisions.

(21) This directive:

(a) Shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and the authorities of agencies, or heads of agencies, vested by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations;

(b) Shall not be construed to impair or otherwise affect (i) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, and legislative proposals, or (ii) the authority of the Secretary of Defense over the Department of Defense, including the chain of command for military forces from the President, to the Secretary of Defense, to the commander of military forces, or military command and control procedures; and

(c) Is not intended to, and does not, create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its

agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(22) Revocation. Presidential Decision Directive 67 of October 21, 1998 ("Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of Government Operations"), including all Annexes thereto, is hereby revoked.

(23) Annex A and the classified Continuity Annexes, attached hereto, are hereby incorporated into and made a part of this directive.

(24) Security. This directive and the information contained herein shall be protected from unauthorized disclosure, provided that, except for Annex A, the Annexes attached to this directive are classified and shall be accorded appropriate handling, consistent with applicable Executive Orders.

GEORGE W. BUSH

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

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David Iglesias -- Patriot

timbo — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:21:41 GMT

He's putting country before party:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/16736/2/RealTime-Iglesias.mov/

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BIBLICAL EVIDENCE THAT BUSH IS ANTICHRIST

AMan-ManA — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:54:12 GMT

EXAMINING THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE THAT BUSH IS ANTICHRIST

[Part 1 of 3]

Regarding “The End of Time” the Bible states:
"There will be signs in the heavens" (sky), which likely relates to the vast number of saucer-sightings since the 1st atomic test at Los Alamos NM. Also stating that ;
"There will be signs on earth" ... which likely relates to the many complex geometrical crop circles.
The Bible also makes reference to the rebirth of the State of Israel as a sign of the end, saying "The fig tree will put forth its branch" (Luke 21:29), and also that "One head of the beast came back to life from the dead" … again presumably The State of Israel which was revived in 1948 … an integral part of the Roman Empire ... referred to in the Bible as "The Beast" … (actually “monster” in original tongue).

Also an important signal is the prophesy of "Wormwood" -(Rev. 8:11) the word Wormwood is "Chernobyl" in Russian … a Nuclear Facility which could easily be depicted as a Fallen Star in metaphorical language (parables), being that stars are radioactive bodies as are reactors. Wormwood is an ancient medicinal herb (Artemisia Absinthium) which has been used for thousands of years to kill internal parasites and to make a liquor called Absinth, and is known around the world by several names.

It is possible that the world is much farther ahead in prophesy (1000 yrs.) than people are willing to accept having been conditioned and pre-programmed by intense institutional doctrine. They say that Anti-Christ must first set up his throne in Jerusalem. And the antichrist identity be revealed before Christ appears. The Bible states that a thousand years is a day and a day is a thousand years, so “The Day of The Lord” may be a metaphorical term relating to a time which is not measured, this time which is a metaphor and/or enigma.

I pointed out that Revelation speaks of a “new heaven” and a “new earth” ... and a "New JerUSAlem" ...Since it’s discovery America has been referred to as “The New World” !
A land which pursues the exploration of space (the “New Heaven”).

And one which fits the description of the "Promised Land" at least as well as Palestine (America being the worlds #1 producer of Milk ... it is said that the Biblical Promised Land "flows with milk.
America was the “Land of Promise” ... because it offered religious freedom to so many persecuted groups in Europe ... they migrated to "The Promised Land" that’s how Caucasians got here.

So wouldn’t then the "New JerUSAlem" be the power center of the New World (as is Washington DC) ? And wouldn’t this New JerUSAlem be the place where the antichrist sets up his throne ?
Revelation speaks of the New World having 12 gates, possibly the 12 main sea ports, which stretch from the Great Lakes to Seattle WA.

I was asked "If this is true then what about the bible
script which says that Christ will come on his white horse with all the armies of heaven and slay the wicked, and every eye will see him"
I realized that one such bible prophesy was fulfilled in the days of the crusades when the Christians took back Jerusalem, Revelation 14:20 says "The blood will run as high as the horses bridal". This event became documented history when forces led by the Knights Templar slaughtered Moslems to an extent which caused their horses to wade through rivers of blood 3 feet deep.
I am not suggesting that Moslems are evil either, only acknowledging the reality that they and Christians have been adversaries to each other since their origins, battling over control of Jerusalem.
To Christians Moslems are antichrist to Moslems Christians are the infidels. Actually to historians they are "half-brothers" locked in a sibling rivalry.

IS GEORGE BUSH “THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST” ?
In the Bible it becomes clear that the "Image of the beast" is "THE EVIL ONE", the "False Prophet" (Pope) and "The Beast" take second lead.
In Genesis it states that God made his sons in his "image" ... (like father like son). Therefore should we ask ... could the "image" of the beast be someone’s son ... made in the image of their father (like father like son)?
Project Disclosure (http://www.projectdisclosure.org) reveals that George Bush senior denied access of Extraterrestrial Info to President Carter when he was director of the CIA.

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stemcell tribe!~LEARN, SUPPORT...?

lmbfreespirit — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:59:11 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/weneedstemcellresearch?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B833e19cd-292d-48b2-af68-69643a2d8d72%5D

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PLEASE JOIN~ Iknow you the promise!

lmbfreespirit — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:52:14 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/weneedstemcellresearch?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B833e19cd-292d-48b2-af68-69643a2d8d72%5D

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get rid of these FREAKS!

lmbfreespirit — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:31:35 GMT

WE ARE NOT America, we have become america! IT BREAKS MY HEART!~ w/important issues such as global & stemcells, SOMETHING has to change!
~join my group: we need stemcells! I, for 1 of countess peeps NEED stemcells!
LET'S GET ACTIVE: YOU KNOW someone they will help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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But really...

timbo — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:15:28 GMT

...that $140,000 was for furniture...oh, and, uh, for making sure there was no anthrax in the President's email...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2007_03_25.php#013285

I mean, it really is patriotic to, you know, check the President's email and bribe Congressmen. Carol Lam == American Patriot

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Ousted US Attorney McKay--American Patriot

timbo — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:01:23 GMT

See

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002774.php

for details. Gist is that McKay is demanding that the DOJ IG or a Special Prosecutor investigate how and why he and others were fired. In McKay's case, he claims that the White House and also a former so-called head of the US House of Representatives Ethics Committee tried to pressure him into investigating Democratic "voter tampering". Apparently when he did investigate (in secret to avoid unfounded allegations in the press about Democrats) he found nothing. Apparently, the White House and the former head of the Ethics committee didn't like that...so they fired him. McKay is a Republican that apparently takes his responsibility to the People and the Constitution more seriously than he wants to be part of the Bush/Republican attempts to drag our country into the mud.

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America Freedom to Fascism

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:14:29 GMT

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198&q=

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Gerald Ford--not an American patriot

timbo — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:55:41 GMT

It turns out that cowardice and cynicism knows no bounds in Washington today. When I was young, I was told that I should stand up for my beliefs. When I was young, I was told by Gerald Ford that he was pardoning Nixon to heal the political body of our nation. When I was young...but when I was older, after Gerald Ford dies, I am hearing a different story...a story of cronyism.

Let me get this straight--Gerald Ford opposed the current US Administration's policy in Iraq in 2004...but didn't want to mention it til after he was dead? Yeah, great. Thanks, Gerald, for all your patriotism there. Why didn't you want to say anything? Because you didn't want to offend your old friends, your former staffers in your White House? I mean, what kind of dirt did they have on you that you couldn't say anything when you were alive?

But, the final straw, yeah, the final straw is hearing that the real reason you pardoned Richard Nixon was not to heal the country its political wounds but because Nixon was your "friend". That about does it for me. He picked you to be his Vice President because you would help him preside over vice without having to go to jail. It is that simple.

Given that you are obviously a better politician and a better friend and a better spokesperson for our country than any of the current bevvy of goons you left us to ruin our country, it makes me shudder. And, frankly, I am glad that you are no longer around to help your former White House staffers out any further. I just hope that the current politicians in Washington will have enough sense to clean the whole lot of you and your ilk out of Washington...like would have been done the first time if you hadn't pardon Nixon "for the good of the nation".

In fact, you make me want to change my Constitution to eliminate the Presidential pardon power for ten years after a political offense is committed by a nationally elected official who is impeached. I think that might go some way to end your kind of "friendship" in the most powerful political office in the world. I hope to see this in my lifetime. I also hope I live a long sweet time to see people who are as cynical as you are and as cynical as the current gang in our White House something that will be a thing that people read about in horror, instead of watch live on TV everyday.

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The Propaganda War over Venezuela (in free online films)

Alexander — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:29:32 GMT

The Propaganda War over Venezuela (in free online films)

The following are video files about the current situation in Venezuela. The first movie is actually not about Venezuela, but is about he American orchestrated coup in the “Banana Republic” of Guatemala in 1954 for the United Fruits. This movie looks how American imperialism manufactures lies and distorts information for corporatist pursuits. The next two films are by Greg Palast. Followed by an eight part documentary called “Chavez - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” followed by “Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war” and “Venezuela - Uncle Sam's Coup?” (which also documents unknown snipers that killed average citizens). The next series is films from the opposition. Watch how they use imagery to link Chavez to communism and even prostitution. Over the last summer, Gene Sharp's group Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), which does workshops on non-violent revolutions, has been having workshops with oppositions to Hugo Chavez. There is a strong possibility the corporatists with American Imperialist financing could try to generated “manufactured consent” the hours and days after this news series of Venezuelan elections. Beware that Venezuela maybe the stage for a false "color revolution" that would be manufactured in the corporate media.

the following are descriptions and links to films documenting Venezuela the last few years:

Engeniering of Consent: Guatemala coup 1954
07:09
Extract from "The century of the self" by Adam Curtis. Story behind the coup d'etat which toppled elected president Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. The film explains how Edward Bernays, recruited by United Fruits, created the conditions for a government intervention. Mass media were successfully used for manipulating the public and generating consensus around a military action involving the CIA.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jnYZVNVqBgU

Greg Palast covers a story on President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4991354545733857055&q=VENEZUELA&hl=en or google video search of Greg Palast covers a story on President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela

Hugo Chavez interview by Greg Palast

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-742015553245977789&q=Hugo+Chavez

HUGO CHAVEZ ELECTED PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA IN 1998, IS A COLORFUL, UNPREDICTABLE FOLK HERO, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington‚s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."

Part 1 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=8kmMzukS1cs
Part 2 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=M6oEvlvk56s&mode=related&search=
Part 3 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2435ycuZU&mode=related&search=
Part 4 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=25rLLizbwoI&mode=related&search=
Part 5 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=lTuSjU8IVL4&mode=related&search=
Part 6 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=DY24bo9jnX8
Part 7 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=a1ruUmNubhU
Part 8 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=qzIV0OA5Oao

Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3117181384995669233&q=VENEZUELA

Venezuela - Uncle Sam's Coup?
When Chavez was briefly ousted from power in 2002, many suspected America was involved. Now, a lawyer has obtained incriminating CIA documents proving it was.

A top secret CIA brief, written five days before the coup, proves the most incriminating. “It says the coup will take place in the first weeks of April, violence will be provoked in an opposition rally and the President will be taken prisoner”, states lawyer, Eva Golinger. “This is what happened.” Golinger has spent the last three years investigating the coup, tracing the money trail from Washington to key organisations involved. “It wasn’t just that they were giving them money. They quadrupled the funding from 2001 to 2002.” Other declassified documents show the US Embassy praising the coup leader as “the right man at the right time for Venezuela”. Remarkably, although the coup failed, Washington has stepped up its funding for the opposition. As Golinger states: “It’s as if they said ‘We didn’t give you guys enough. We’ve got to give you more because you failed.’” But ironically, America’s support for the opposition seems to have only strengthened Chavez’s hold on power.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4124074101371070575&q=VENEZUELA&hl=en

Plan V para recuparar la Democracia en Venezuela el 3-D
03:37
Este es el Plan de acción No Violenta que promueve la oposición en Venezuela para salvarla del Castro Comunismo de Hugo Chávez y su llamada Revolución Bolivariana.

"La teoria de que el poder deriva de la violencia, y que la victoria necesariamente va del lado de la mayor capacidad para ejercer la violencia, es falsa".

Gene Sharp
El Poder de la Fe

Este video fue realizado por ORVEX (Organización de Venezolanos en el Exilio) tomando la presentación en FLASH que aparece en la sección del Plan V del sitio www.atrevetevenezuela.com.

ORVEX
www.orvex.org/noviolencia.html

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BJ989_vIjhQ

Una Versión Diferente del Amor de Hugo Chávez
05:00
Todo tiene su final. En ORVEX creemos que esta pesadilla que se viste de demócrata solo podrá salir si se usan los espacios democráticos que aún quedan en Venezuela para aplicar técnicas no violentas de lucha.

"La teoria de que
el poder deriva de la violencia,
y que la victoria necesariamente va del lado
de la mayor capacidad para ejercer
la violencia, es falsa"

Gene Sharp
El Poder de la Fe

Te invitamos a conocer las técnicas no violentas, las mismas que utilizaron Gandhi en la India y Martin Luther King en los Estados Unidos, para devolverle la Libertad y la Democracia a Venezuela.

http://www.orvex.org/noviolencia.html

"Huid del país donde uno solo ejerce todos los poderes. Es un país de Esclavos". Simón Bolivar

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t64GCvNIcck

¿Qué será de los Venezolanos después del 3-D?
03:59
Video que busca motivar a todos los Venezolanos para que SIN MIEDO este 3 de Diciembre de 2006 SALGAN A VOTAR en contra de Hugo Chávez y a COBRAR.

Aún cuando sabemos que Hugo Chávez no va a dejar el poder, independientemente de los resultados, porque simplemente él no es democrático, el ir a votar masivamente en su contra es un signo de que NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO.

Otro signo de que NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO a Hugo Chávez será el quedarnos en las mesas para observar LOS ESCRUTINIOS, es decir, el conteo de los votos, ya que ese acto es público, Y EXIGIR EL CONTEO MANUAL.

Es muy importante NO TENER MIEDO, porque lo único que le puede seguir dando el poder a Hugo Chávez es si nosotros le demostramos MIEDO y si ACTUAMOS CON MIEDO.

Es importante saber que el poder que hoy día tiene Hugo Chávez se basa en el MIEDO que nosotros le demostremos, y NO en LA VIOLENCIA que el pueda ejercer. Y Hugo Chávez, COMO ES MILITAR, piensa (ERRADAMENTE) que las ARMAS Y LA VIOLENCIA lo mantendrán en el poder, ya que las utiliza PARA INFLIGIR MIEDO en los Venezolanos. De hecho, él ya ha comprado más de 100 mil fusiles Kalasmikov para amedrentar a la oposición interna más que para defenderse de una supuesta agresión externa imaginaria que nunca llega.

A medida que la oposición sucumba al miedo, más poder le estará otorgando a Hugo Chávez y a sus seguidores.

El peligro actual que tiene la oposición, y que sellará su derrota el 3 de Diciembre si no actua correctamente de aquí en adelante, está en creer que la violencia es el único camino de obtener el poder, y que la victoria esta del lado del que tiene más armas.

La buena noticia es la siguiente:

"La teoria de que el poder deriva de la violencia, y de que la victoria necesariamente va del lado de la mayor capacidad para ejercer la violencia, es falsa."

Gene Sharp
El Rol del Poder en la Lucha No Violenta
www.orvex.org/noviolencia.html

Para Hugo CHavez, el PODER actual que tiene deriva del MIEDO que la gente le pueda tener. Y si NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO a Hugo Chávez, éste caerá sin remedio INDEPENDIENTEMENTE DE QUE EL TENGA MAS ARMAS QUE EL PUEBLO.

Es por ello que "LA CAPACIDAD DE DESAFIAR Y LA CAPACIDAD DE RESISTIR" se convierten en el aspecto central del poder, y que su acción efectiva radica en que exista una oposición unida, o lo que Gene Sharp llama "oposición corporativa".

ORVEX, en su afán por reducir el fenómeno del Exilio, la Persecución Política, y el Número de Solicitudes de Asilo Político, está promoviendo la utilización de TECNICAS DE LUCHA NO VIOLENTA para que la oposición venezolana las conozca y las ponga en práctica DE LA MANERA CORRECTA, y evitar que suceda lo que pasó en Venezuela, por ejemplo, durante la Huelga General de 2 meses realizada entre el 2 de Diciembre de 2002 y el 2 de Febrero de 2003, la cual buscaba sacar a Hugo Chávez de una manera pacífica y democrática, pero que NO FUE DEBIDAMENTE LIDERADA porque la misma sirvió para desgastar a la oposición y desmoralizarla, y no cumplió el objeto para la cual fue convocada: SACAR A HUGO CHAVEZ.

Por la fatídica experiencia venezolana, se podría llegar a pensar que la LUCHA NO VIOLENTA no tiene sentido ni es efectiva. Sin embargo, si nos detenemos a ver que Gandhi en la India logró vencer a los Británicos SIN HACER UN SOLO DISPARO, y que Martin Luther King Jr. logró los Derechos Civiles de las personas de color en los Estados Unidos SIN VIOLENCIA, entonces la pregunta no es si las técnicas de protestas no violentas sirven o no sirven, sino que la cuestión está en COMO APLICARLAS.

La diferencia que tenemos con los Cubanos, es que a los Venezolanos AUN NOS QUEDAN PEQUEÑOS ESPACIOS DEMOCRATICOS como el de IR A ELECCIONES.

Si no nos ponemos las pilas los Venezolanos este 3 de Diciembre de 2006, Hugo Chávez cerrará los pequeños espacios democrátioos que quedan en Venezuela, para hacer que toda Venezuela sea ROJA ROJITA. Es por ello que las elecciones del 3 de Diciembre no son unas elecciones más, sino LA ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD de demostrarle a Hugo Chávez QUE NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO, que VAMOS A VOTAR, que VAMOS ESTAR AHI PRESENTES durante el conteo de votos, y que VAMOS A RECUPERAR la Libertad y Democracia en Venezuela.

Es nuestra ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD. No hay otra.

Si tenemos MIEDO y no aprovechamos esta ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD, entonces VENEZUELA SERA OTRA CUBA, y creo que ninguno de nosotros deseará que nuestras mujeres, hijas y nietas terminen como las mujeres cubanas que aparecen en el Video, y creo que ninguno de nosotros deseará vivir en un sistema BASADO EN EL MIEDO Y EL TERROR.

Si no, no nos quedará otra que seguir el consejos de Simón Bolivar (que no era chavista, por cierto):

"Huid del país donde uno solo ejerce todos los poderes: Es un país de esclavos".

Animo, y a cobrar este 3-D.

Elio Aponte
C.I. V.- 5.531.657
Presidente
www.orvex.org

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u1PF2n4c1a0

El Terrorismo Petrolero de la PDVSA Chavista

Se puede creer en cosas que no se han visto. Y si alguien tenía dudas del secuestro de PDVSA, este memo podrá ayudar.

Es un tema en technicolor para hacer algo útil del amor. AMOR, palabra vilmente prostituida:

" ... he actuado unicamente por AMOR y lealtad a MI PUEBLO en todos mis pensamientos, y actos de mi vida. Ellos me dieron la fuerza para tomar las decisiones mas difíciles que mortal alguno nunca confrontó. En ello he empleado mi vida, mi esfuerzo en el trabajo y mi salud ..."

"Mi Testamento Político", primera parte, 1945.
Adolfo Hitler.

No se puede negar la existencia de algo palpado, por más etereo que sea. No se puede exigir una prueba de decencia de aquello que es tan verdadero.

Que más prueba que este memo de PDVSA, de tantos que hay, de la verdadera ilegalidad, inmoralidad, indecencia, e ignorancia.

La nobleza y pureza del Sistema Democrático ha sido vilmente burlada, violada y secuestrada por el Chavismo.

Los Chavistas están desbordados.

Venezuela es cual Supermercado, en donde uno encuentra que no hay cajeros, y ve a la gente salir con lo que puede, con sus carritos y bolsillos llenos de víveres y productos, mientras que por la parte trasera van llegando más camiones con mercancia, y el ciudadano decente mira desde afuera y le pide al vigilante que haga algo para detener el saqueo, y éste responde con indiferencia: "Si no tienes el Carnet Rojo de entrada, no puedes pasar ni agarrar nada. Ellos están con el proceso, y pasan cuando quieren y agarran cuanto quieren. ¿Que esperas para unirte al cambio?".

El Chavismo se desbordó con su indecencia; banda de delincuentes, que violan la Ley, malversando los fondos del país, violando los derechos humanos ante la mirada impune de las autoridades.

Los Chavistas, viviendo en la romería de los mutilados, en la fantasía de los infelices, en el día a día de las meretrices, de todos los bandidos y desvalidos.

No tienen decencia, ni nunca tendrán.

Oh, ¿que será de Venezuela, oh que será?

En pantalla, solo algunos de los nombres de los miles. Como dice su líder: "AL MUNDO".

Finalmente, por sus crímenes pagarán. Porque ya se oye la puerta tocar ... ay ! .... la puerta tocar. La puerta de salida de este régimen nefasto que algún día le llegará su hora.

Viva Venezuela Libre, Democrática, Decente y Próspera en donde impere la Ley y haya igualdad de Deberes y Derechos.

________

Música del gran Willie Colón.

ORGANIZACION DE VENEZOLANOS EN EL EXILIO
ORVEX
www.orvex.org

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=gG3bQ7lJoDY&mode=related&search=

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Rebutting the Denier-n-Office

timbo — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:06:32 GMT

From Josh Marshall's website

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/011272.php

Use it to argue against the theory that we have to stay in Iraq so that a bad policy can be ended later, rather than sooner.

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Mor-on TALON

timbo — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:50:23 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/washington/21protests.html

Basically, the Pentagon is purging the database of the network of Soviet block style spying they were doing over the past few years...because they were interested in providing political intelligence to the Bushites "to prevent attacks on military bases". TALON is a very interesting program if you combine it with the concept of a "Unitary Executive". If the intention of a government program is to prevent the exercise one's right to petition the government with a list of grievences well, then, it is almost certainly unconstitutional...

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How to handle a worsening situation...

timbo — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:24:49 GMT

No plan and indecision make Jack a dull boy...
----
Been there, done that?

November 2006: "President Bush said Monday that he has made no decisions about altering the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, and he refused to discuss the pros and cons that would accompany such a decision."

August 2005: President Bush said Thursday no decision has been made on increasing or decreasing U.S. troop levels in Iraq, saying that as "Iraqis stand up, we will stand down" and that only conditions on the ground will dictate when it is time for a reduction in U.S. forces.

April 2004: "Gen. John P. Abizaid, the senior commander in the Middle East, has asked for contingency plans for increasing the number of troops in Iraq. No decision has been made to supplement the 134,000 troops now there, and White House officials said it was unclear whether such a move would help the situation."

November 2003: "The President is going to do what is most effective in Iraq, and he gets recommendations from his commanders on troop levels and what is needed. No decisions have been made about future troops levels," said National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice.
-- David Kurtz

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When Iraq hawks start to squawk...

timbo — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:38:59 GMT

ref. http://harpers.org/sb-ken-adelman-1164050030.html

...don't forget to check the history carefully. They're planning to revise their participation in the "Bush's policy in Iraq is the best medicine" for the Middle East travesty. Remember that they peddled a war and war plan that didn't work...and they shouldn't be allowed to avoid responsibility for that disaster. A disaster that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, untold suffering, and has not ended yet at all. The folks that framed that policy should not, ever, be allowed to make decisions under the same formula again.

And what I mean by formula is the formula of a snake oil salesman. As the Harpers article above points out, America is still subjected to their attempts to escape blame even as they "admit" that the policy is wrong, they seem to be avoiding the responsibility for sending America to war and then losing the peace. They must be made to pay a political price in the long-term for their short sighted policies and their now flimsy attempts to cover-up their disingenuous natures. They are sycophants and panderers who are leeching off of America. They either need to be honestly and fully contrite or they need to be disregarded. If we can help them along further, let's do so.

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Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

BillyC — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:54:45 GMT

I have been reading about this new law 109-364.
Do you guys think we should be concerned about it?

http://www.nowpublic.com/bush_moves_toward_martial_law

Frank Morales' recent article, Bush Moves Toward Martial Law , succinctly outlines the nuances of what the bill authorizes and why it is potentially more dangerous to freedom in America than even the Military Commissions Act.

"Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

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Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

Alexander — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:42:06 GMT

Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

Conyers Toes Party Line: No Impeachment
Something Is Extremely 'Rotten In The State Of Denmark'

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, November 10, 2006

The latest Democrat "saviour" to flip flop 180 degrees in light of
their victory is Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. Presumed to become
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January, Conyers today
said that impeachment of President Bush "is off the table."

"In this campaign, there was an orchestrated right-wing effort to
distort my position on impeachment, " Conyers said in a statement
released by his Judiciary Committee spokesman. "The incoming speaker
(Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.) has said that impeachment is off the
table. I am in total agreement with her on this issue: Impeachment
is off the table."

Conyers seems to have forgotten that last December he laid out the
grounds for impeachment in a 350 page long report called "The
Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception,
Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Cover-ups in the Iraq War"
and later updated to add "illegal domestic surveillance. "

For a while Conyers was the darling of left leaning bloggers and
readers everywhere:

At this site, we are especially proud of the new Conyers
Report, "The Constitution in Crisis." By purchasing this book, you
have the opportunity to own a part of history and help the
Congressman hold the Bush Administration accountable. Your
assistance in helping Congressman Conyers become the next Chairman
of the House Judiciary Committee will bring us one step closer to
getting the American people the answers from this Administration
that they deserve.
- www.afterdowningstr eet.org

Conyers is so admirable. One of the very few in Congress who still
has integrity and principles. It is too bad that he does not get
more MSM coverage but why would they do that? He might upset the
Republican and Corporate plans for total control and could expose
their nefarious doings.
He is risking much by not following the official DNC program too, in
addition to challenging the Bushies.
- Huffington Post

In december 2005, upon release of the report, Conyers stated:

The Report concludes that a number of these actions amount to prima
facie evidence (evidence sufficiently strong to presume the
allegations are true) that federal criminal laws have been violated.
Legal violations span from false statements to Congress to
whistleblower laws... The Report also concludes that these charges
clearly rise to the level of impeachable conduct... In response to
the Report, I have already taken a number of actions. First, I have
introduced a resolution (H. Res. 635) creating a Select Committee
with subpoena authority to investigate the misconduct of the Bush
Administration with regard to the Iraq war and report on possible
impeachable offenses.

So Conyers was already underway with setting up investigations into
impeachable offences, but now he says that impeachment is off the
table? Clearly he has been given orders to toe the party line or
face the consequences.

Despite the fact that 86% want to see the President impeached,
leading Democrats have already ruled this out. The same leading
Democrats that voted for the war in Afghanistan, for the Patriot
Act, for Homeland Security and against a bill that simply condemned
torture of prisoners in Iraq.

After Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, Conyers is the latest Democrat
to show us their true colours once in power.

Conyers and the other Democrats highlight precisely why we need to
regroup, consolidate and redouble our efforts in light of the
theatrical shift of power in Washington to the left. Because as soon
as this happened, overnight, the truth movement lost a great deal of
support from those that believe the job is now done.

Taking note of many reader comments over the past few days I have
noticed a startling uprise in the amount of negative and dismissive
feedback from some readers. Evidently those who expected us to be
out dancing in the streets at the news of a Democrat landslide in
Washington have been bitterly disappointed.

We have never once suggested that the solution to a corrupt and
fascist Neocon leadership is a passive and capitulating Democrat
sideshow leadership, so why is it any surprise that we are
continuing on the same course as before?

Comments such as the following emphasize my point:

"You can only have it one way. What the hell is up with you people.
The whole time the Bush regime was in power you begged for change.
Now you have it, but your still complaining. "

Yes we are seeking change, but not a simple change of personnel as
we have witnessed this week. As we reported yesterday "There's no
doubt about it, to see frothing Neo-Cons who have been strutting
around like John Wayne for the past five years finally eat humble
pie is a breath of fresh air, but let's not be so deluded as to
think that the Neo-Con agenda, which took decades to craft, was
simply brushed aside by the victory of a party that has supported
Bush every step of the way on major issues."

Seeing Bush on TV admitting he'd took a hell of a beating was great,
for about five minutes, then he started laughing and joking about it
and talking about pushing forward to work closely with a new crowd.

Is rolling over and going back to sleep going to get Bush impeached?
Should we shut down the websites now and go save the whales or
something else we'd all love to be doing if we didn't have to
relentlessly keep fighting to stop our leaders killing our freedoms?

Within hours the Democratic elite have shown us that they don't give
a damn about holding the Bush administration up to scrutiny. With no
effective opposition in the form of a political party it is up to
the people to continue to demand justice and to continue to attempt
to reign in those who have heinously abused their power.

Thomas Jefferson described Congress as "a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question
everything and yield nothing."

In light of this how can any representative say something like
impeachment is 'off the table?'

found at
http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/101106Rotten.htm

Nancy Pelosi on YouTube and Howard Dean

Nancy Pelosi on the YouTube saying "NO TO IMPEACHMENT... ITS OFF THE TABLE"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R-4vw2qw3Wc
or
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAGCgY4PDNA

Howard Dean Says No Impeachment Of Bush
Lapdog Democrats to waste two years on minimum wage and mass illegal amnesty, no to Iraq inquiry, no to police state rollback, no to bringing troops home

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, November 9, 2006

Howard Dean last night said there would be no impeachment proceedings against President Bush under a Democrat controlled Congress, echoing the pledge of Nancy Pelosi to protect the administration that lied a nation into a war and dismantled the very fabric of America.

Here's the exchange from Dean's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.

STEWART: "How long in your mind do you feel it's gonna be before power corrupts you absolutely?"

DEAN: "Well, you know...."

STEWART: "The last guys did it in three and a half days, what are you guys aiming for?"

DEAN: "Longer than that."

DEAN: "I know half the audience wants us to impeach the President and all that kind of stuff but we're not gonna do that - we're not gonna do that."

Dean is toeing the party line first crystallized by Nancy Pelosi when she told the 60 Minutes program, "Impeachment is off the table....it's a pledge....it is a waste of time."

When will jubilant mindless liberals realize that their darling Democrats have been installed as ringers to halt the momentum of the anti-war and 9/11 truth movements while committing to shielding the Bush administration for the very crimes and misdemeanors that supposedly cost them the House and Senate in the first place?

Democrats have already clearly stated how they intend to "get to work" over the next two years - by helping Bush push through a mass amnesty for illegal aliens - something his own republican House even prevented him doing - and also wasting time on the non-issue of the minimum wage.

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens help rollback the devastation the Bush administration has wrought on the U.S. Constitution?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens bring the troops home?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens re-instate the nine amendments to the Constitution that were abolished under the Military Commissions Act?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to can the unconstitutional domestic eavesdropping program?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to claw back the out of control deficit?

We were told the Republicans were abandoned because of corruption and Iraq and yet the Democrat shills have completely avoided specifics about how they intend to address these issues and on the question of impeachment have vowed to protect Bush. Empty rhetoric about a "policy change" in Iraq is nothing more than hot air betrayed by a legacy of Democrat support for keeping the troops in the quagmire - exemplified no better than Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, who both support imperial jaunts in the name of the "war on terror."

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has already stated that Blair's government will not co-operate with any move to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and she needn't worry because the Democrats are not going to even try it.

The Associated Press reports that Pelosi and Bush have already proclaimed reconciliation and are now "making nice" and devising how they can work in tandem. Tuesday's vote and its superficial euphoric aftermath was not about a populist reaction to six years of abuse and deceit - it was a sad indictment of the fact that a majority of Americans, particularly the establishment left, still buy the hoax that the Republicrats and the Democons are anything more than two different CEO's bidding for control of Slavery Incorporated.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/091106deansaysno.htm

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Rumsfeld out, Waxman in!

timbo — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:57:20 GMT

Yeah, it was a good day today. But don't expect the next two years to be a cakewalk--there is a lot of corruption in government that needs to be dealt with and, frankly, it may extend up to and including the US Supreme Court. That's how bad the cancer on the US government is. Also, if you can, lend your moral and other support to help the Senate candidates in Montana and Virginia who are probably going to end up in runoff elections against Bush's cronies.

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Flip-flopping on the bird

timbo — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:04:04 GMT

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/nov/03/wa_08_reichert_caught_in_lie_about_driver_who_fipped_bird_to_bush

School district bus driver fired for flipping Bush off...

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We have lived as if in a trance.

Alexander — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:29:12 GMT

We have lived as if in a trance.

"The Beginning of the End of America."

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
Countdown
Updated: 3:00 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2006

On Tuesday, President Bush signed legislation authorizing tough interrogation of terror suspects and paving the way for trials before military commissions.

Tonight, "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann addresses the legislation in a special comment entitled "The Beginning of the End of America."

You can read an excerpt of Olbermann's comment below.

We have lived as if in a trance.

We have lived as people in fear.

And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.

Therefore, tonight have we truly become the inheritors of our American legacy.

For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:

A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.

We have been here before—and we have been here before, led here by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush.

We have been here when President John Adams insisted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use those acts to jail newspaper editors.

American newspaper editors, in American jails, for things they wrote about America.

We have been here when President Woodrow Wilson insisted that the Espionage Act was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he disparaged as “Hyphenated Americans,” most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace in a time of war.

American public speakers, in American jails, for things they said about America.

And we have been here when President Franklin D. Roosevelt insisted that Executive Order 9066 was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that order to imprison and pauperize 110,000 Americans while his man in charge, General DeWitt, told Congress: “It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen—he is still a Japanese.”

American citizens, in American camps, for something they neither wrote nor said nor did, but for the choices they or their ancestors had made about coming to America.

Each of these actions was undertaken for the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And each was a betrayal of that for which the president who advocated them claimed to be fighting.

Adams and his party were swept from office, and the Alien and Sedition Acts erased.

Many of the very people Wilson silenced survived him, and one of them even ran to succeed him, and got 900,000 votes, though his presidential campaign was conducted entirely from his jail cell.

And Roosevelt’s internment of the Japanese was not merely the worst blight on his record, but it would necessitate a formal apology from the government of the United States to the citizens of the United States whose lives it ruined.

The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

In times of fright, we have been only human.

We have let Roosevelt’s “fear of fear itself” overtake us.

We have listened to the little voice inside that has said, “the wolf is at the door; this will be temporary; this will be precise; this too shall pass.”

We have accepted that the only way to stop the terrorists is to let the government become just a little bit like the terrorists.

Just the way we once accepted that the only way to stop the Soviets was to let the government become just a little bit like the Soviets.

Or substitute the Japanese.

Or the Germans.

Or the Socialists.

Or the Anarchists.

Or the Immigrants.

Or the British.

Or the Aliens.

The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And, always, always wrong.

“With the distance of history, the questions will be narrowed and few: Did this generation of Americans take the threat seriously, and did we do what it takes to defeat that threat?”

Wise words.

And ironic ones, Mr. Bush.

Your own, of course, yesterday, in signing the Military Commissions Act.

You spoke so much more than you know, Sir.

Sadly—of course—the distance of history will recognize that the threat this generation of Americans needed to take seriously was you.

We have a long and painful history of ignoring the prophecy attributed to Benjamin Franklin that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

But even within this history we have not before codified the poisoning of habeas corpus, that wellspring of protection from which all essential liberties flow.

You, sir, have now befouled that spring.

You, sir, have now given us chaos and called it order.

You, sir, have now imposed subjugation and called it freedom.

For the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And — again, Mr. Bush — all of them, wrong.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has said it is unacceptable to compare anything this country has ever done to anything the terrorists have ever done.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has insisted again that “the United States does not torture. It’s against our laws and it’s against our values” and who has said it with a straight face while the pictures from Abu Ghraib Prison and the stories of Waterboarding figuratively fade in and out, around him.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens “unlawful enemy combatants” and ship them somewhere—anywhere -- but may now, if he so decides, declare you an “unlawful enemy combatant” and ship you somewhere - anywhere.

And if you think this hyperbole or hysteria, ask the newspaper editors when John Adams was president or the pacifists when Woodrow Wilson was president or the Japanese at Manzanar when Franklin Roosevelt was president.

And if you somehow think habeas corpus has not been suspended for American citizens but only for everybody else, ask yourself this: If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an “unlawful enemy combatant”—exactly how are you going to convince them to give you a court hearing to prove you are not? Do you think this attorney general is going to help you?

This President now has his blank check.

He lied to get it.

He lied as he received it.

Is there any reason to even hope he has not lied about how he intends to use it nor who he intends to use it against?

“These military commissions will provide a fair trial,” you told us yesterday, Mr. Bush, “in which the accused are presumed innocent, have access to an attorney and can hear all the evidence against them.”

"Presumed innocent," Mr. Bush?

The very piece of paper you signed as you said that, allows for the detainees to be abused up to the point just before they sustain “serious mental and physical trauma” in the hope of getting them to incriminate themselves, and may no longer even invoke The Geneva Conventions in their own defense.

"Access to an attorney," Mr. Bush?

Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift said on this program, Sir, and to the Supreme Court, that he was only granted access to his detainee defendant on the promise that the detainee would plead guilty.

"Hearing all the evidence," Mr. Bush?

The Military Commissions Act specifically permits the introduction of classified evidence not made available to the defense.

Your words are lies, Sir.

They are lies that imperil us all.

“One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks,” you told us yesterday, “said he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America.”

That terrorist, sir, could only hope.

Not his actions, nor the actions of a ceaseless line of terrorists (real or imagined), could measure up to what you have wrought.

Habeas corpus? Gone.

The Geneva Conventions? Optional.

The moral force we shined outwards to the world as an eternal beacon, and inwards at ourselves as an eternal protection? Snuffed out.

These things you have done, Mr. Bush, they would be “the beginning of the end of America.”

And did it even occur to you once, sir — somewhere in amidst those eight separate, gruesome, intentional, terroristic invocations of the horrors of 9/11 -- that with only a little further shift in this world we now know—just a touch more repudiation of all of that for which our patriots died --- did it ever occur to you once that in just 27 months and two days from now when you leave office, some irresponsible future president and a “competent tribunal” of lackeys would be entitled, by the actions of your own hand, to declare the status of “unlawful enemy combatant” for -- and convene a Military Commission to try -- not John Walker Lindh, but George Walker Bush?

For the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And doubtless, Sir, all of them—as always—wrong.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15321167/

audio:

http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podcast/pd_countdown-10-18-2006-180800.mp3

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Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:57:18 GMT

Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?

By Steven Argue

In California pro-war incumbent Democrat Diane Feinstein has a lead of around 20% over Republican challenger Richard Mountjoy. There are also three socialist candidates running in California for the Senatorial seat now held by Feinstein. Of these, the two that Liberation News is giving critical support are Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action and Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party. In addition International Socialist Organization (ISO) member, Todd Chretien, is running as a Green Party candidate.

Feinstein has voted for every war the United States has carried out since she came into office in 1992. Diane Feinstein also voted to take away our civil liberties by supporting the “Patriot Act” and its renewal. She voted for the 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act speeding up the government’s ability to carry out the racist death penalty and ignore evidence of innocence. And she has supported expanded wire tapping as well as a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning.

Feinstein is a capitalist politician, representing a capitalist party. She also has a personal net worth of 50 million dollars, so she benefited directly when she voted to eliminate the estate tax. Ironically Feinstein has also stated, “Food stamps for the poor are cut ... so that millionaires can have a tax cut.'' Indeed, while this statement was directed at the Republicans, it also applies to her. (Feinstein Urges Regime Change, San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2006)

Diane Feinstein, like many Democrats, has pounded the war drum of the racist Zionist state of Israel even louder than the Republicans.

And just as she is no defender of human rights in the United States she has voted for continued military support to the right wing death squad government of Colombia.

Diane Feinstein: Supporter of Imperialist War

In a press conference on August 21, 2006 George Bush Jr. finally admitted what Liberation News has been pointing out since before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. That Iraq had nothing to do with September 11th. Yet Bush had used a supposed connection as a pretext for the U.S.’s unprovoked aggression against Iraq. In addition, Bush Jr. also admitted that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.

Most of the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, Diane Feinstein included, supported going to war with Iraq. As anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has pointed out, “She voted for the war. She continues to vote for the funding. She won't call for an immediate withdrawal of the troops." (Cindy Sheehan May Challenge California Senator AP, Jan. 26, 2006) Cindy Sheehan’s son was a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.

In trying to let herself of the hook Diane Feinstein claims that Bush “did not fairly represent intelligence”. Feeble cries by these politicians today that their votes for war weren’t their fault because they were lied to by Bush not only make Feinstein look stupid, they are an insult to the intelligence of the American people.

While the Democrats helped promote the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq had no right to defend itself, Liberation News pointed out that it is the United States that has the weapons of mass destruction. Instead we supported the right of Iraq to acquire the weapons necessary to defend themselves from U.S. aggression. There can be little doubt that if Iraq had acquired those weapons they may not be in the mess they are now.

Yet for Bush and Feinstein Iraqi weapons were never the real motive for mass murder in Iraq. The capitalist ruling class, and their Democrat and Republican representatives, thought that they could use their superior military power to quickly move into Iraq and establish by force a stable neo-colonial puppet regime, and then make massive profits from the privatization of the Iraqi economy, especially oil. It is the failures of this imperialist plan, in the face of Iraqi resistance and growing unpopularity at home, that has forced some Democrats and Republicans to try to rethink, or at least distance themselves from, the Bush policies they have supported.

Feinstein herself has directly profiteered from the U.S. imposed misery in Iraq. Her husband, Richard Blum, is a billionaire investor that together with CEO Ronald Tutor own investment companies that hold 75% of the voting stock in a company called Perini. On March 12, 2004 Perini was awarded a $500,000,000 contract for rebuilding the electrical infrastructure of southern Iraq. So Feinstein is profiting from the U.S. bombing of the Iraqi infrastructure as well as its inefficient rebuilding by private U.S. contractors. Perini also received the contract for the construction of facilities to support the First Brigade of the Afghan National Army. These include barracks, dining facilities, a power plant, a water treatment facility and a wastewater treatment plant. Diane Feinstein not only voted for the wars and occupations that made these contracts possible, she also sits on the Appropriations Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence. (Perini Corporation, The Center For Public Integrity)

Just as Liberation News opposes the U.S. occupation and corporate looting of Iraq, we also denounced the starvation blockade that was carried out through the UN by the Clinton administration. That blockade, due to the capitalist nature of the Iraqi economy under Saddam Hussein, cost the lives of about a million people, many of them children. While a socialist economy like that of Cuba could have made sure that everyone in Iraq had food, blame for this mass murder should also be put on the Clinton administration. Likewise, it was this Clinton starvation blockade that also weakened Iraq for the Bush invasion.

Today, while the U.S. occupation of Iraq has murdered over 100,000 people and the U.S. starvation blockade of Iraq murdered a million or more, the U.S. government and its puppets in Iraq have the nerve to put Saddam Hussein on trial for propaganda purposes. Yet the worst crimes of the Saddam Hussein regime were also carried out when he was directly backed by the United States. In the 1980’s the U.S. was giving massive military assistance to Iraq to help Saddam Hussein commit genocide against Kurds and carry out a bloody war with Iran at a time when Saddam Hussein was used as an ally of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. Likewise the CIA helped Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party come to power supplying them with the names of 5,000 socialists and labor leaders that the Ba’athists subsequently rounded up and executed.

Yet to those who claimed that an invasion of Iraq would be a chance for the U.S. to finally set things straight and set up a democracy in Iraq, Liberation News responded before the U.S. invasion saying:

“In the 1970s Iraq nationalized its oil fields. This helped the Iraqi people by taking a chunk of the profits made off of oil out of the hands of the international oil monopolies and instead keeping them in Iraq. This money helped pay for free healthcare and education. As such this was a socialist measure carried out by Saddam Hussein’s capitalist government. It was also a measure that stood up to the interests of the rich and powerful nations. For both reasons socialists supported the nationalization of Iraqi oil while those measures infuriated the imperialists...

“While defending Iraq against imperialist attack and supporting their right to defend themselves socialists also recognize that Saddam Hussein is a capitalist leader and that the Iraqi people have their own scores to settle with him. Yet any government set up by a US occupation army will not be democratic and will only lead to the privatization of the resources that American oil monopolies intend to steal...”

“U.S. imperialism will never solve the question of women’s liberation in the Middle East. Unlike all of the US supported governments and forces in the Arab World, Iraqi women have many rights found nowhere else in the Arab World except in the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Over 50% of Iraqi doctors are women. Iraqi women are allowed to walk unescorted in the streets. They are allowed to drive. Iraqi women can even freely criticize men. In addition Iraqi women have the right to work and control their own funds. This is in stark contrast to the treatment of women under the repressive U.S. backed governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia where women have no rights what-so-ever.

“The U.S. ruling class hates governments like Iraq, Libya, and Venezuela who use the profits of their oil resources partly to benefit the people with social programs. Likewise they love governments like that of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that strip the people of all their rights and keep the oil profits in the hands of the international oil monopolies and their corrupt local servants. Today in the United States we face unemployment, homelessness, and a lack of health care. The billions of dollars the U.S. will squander on killing Iraqis to steal their resources should be spent to benefit the working class and poor of the United States instead.” -From Liberation News: What Is Socialism, and Why We Oppose The Invasion of Iraq

What was predicted is reality. Those predictions were accurate because they were based on the past behavior of U.S. imperialism. The U.S. has set up a puppet Islamic government with functioning death squads and torture chambers. Socialists have been excluded from participating in elections and unarmed demonstrators have been shot down and murdered in the streets by U.S. troops. The puppet Islamic government also opposes women’s rights and women’s rights have deteriorated dramatically since the U.S. invasion. The rebuilding of basic infrastructure, such as electricity, has lagged way behind what was rebuilt by Saddam Hussein after the massive U.S. bombardment of Iraq in 1992.

With the exception of the privatization of Iraqi oil, all of the predictions have shown themselves to be true and the only reason that Iraqi oil isn’t completely under the direct control of U.S. oil monopolies now is because of the union resistance of 23,000 organized oil workers as well as the general resistance by the Iraqi people to the idea of Iraq’s resources being looted by U.S. corporations.

For the working class in the United States there is ever growing frustration with a war that is costing many lives and billions in dollars while needed programs for healthcare, jobs, the environment, and disaster relief do not get the funding they need.

Yet for the ruling class their failure in Iraq is not in the undemocratic and anti-woman nature of the puppet regime they have set up and the money that has been squandered in doing it, but in the failure of that regime to deliver the stability needed to acquire the oil loot. They complain that oil production in Iraq is below prewar levels and the occupation by U.S. and British troops serve as targets for the insurgency.

As a result some Democrats that voted for the war like John Kerry have called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year. Yet the Kerry-Feingold plan actually calls for keeping troops in Iraq that are "critical to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces." The Kerry-Feingold plan also calls for "an over-the-horizon" troop presence in the region that could come to the aid of a failing puppet government in Iraq as well as intervene elsewhere in the so-called war on terror. (Lawmakers begin Bitter Debate on U.S. Troop Withdrawal Plan for Iraq, FOXNews, online report, June 2, 2006)

Senators Harry Reid and Carl Levin have put forward a similar proposal, rendered meaningless with similar loopholes to Kerry-Feingold’s, but their proposal calls for the [partial] withdrawal of troops by the end of 1997.

Diane Feinstein supported the Levin-Reid proposal. Defending the proposal Feinstein said, “Our amendment is not about cutting and running. Rather, our amendment acknowledges that staying the course is a strategy that shows no promise of success, and it is time to change that strategy.” (Video clip shown on CNN’s O’brien Show, online transcript, June 23, 2006)

Unlike Feinstein, Liberation News sees nothing good that can come from the Levin-Reid proposal of staying at full war with the Iraqi people for another year and then carrying out a possible partial Iraqification of the war the year after. We disagree with Feinstein when she says, "We all know we can't cut and run, what I'm talking about is changing the nature of this mission. We have to say to Iraq that it's time for your soldiers and police forces to take over.'' (Feinstein Urges Regime Change, San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2006)

The U.S. occupation of Iraq is doing nothing for anybody except the capitalists that are profiting from the war and the tax dollars of the American people. We demand: Iraq to the Iraqis! U.S. Out Now! On this issue we agree with the campaigns of Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action, Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party, and Todd Chretien of the Green Party that are all calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq:

“More than 2,250 young American troops and over 100,000 Iraqis have died with no end in sight. If we want to stop the dying and respect the Iraqi people's right to run their own country, then we must immediately withdraw all American military forces from Iraq and the surrounding countries.” -Todd Chretien, California Senate candidate of the Green Party

“Immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the Middle East!”
Marsha Feinland, California Senate candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party

"Immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq! War is an inherent part of capitalism and the ultimate solution to the internal contradictions of the profit-driven and competition-driven system. The U.S. military-industrial complex is organized and designed to maximize profit rates for the corporate few and to serve the imperial economic and political interests of the war-making class—regardless of the capitalist party in power. Socialists acknowledge our fundamental obligation to challenge the U.S. war-makers and their twin parties and to defend the rights and struggles of all those who resist imperialist domination and oppression.” -Jeff Mackler, California Senate candidate of Socialist Action

Liberation news agrees with these calls for U.S. troops out now. In addition we call for the labor movement to break from the Democrat Party of war and exploitation and to end the war through building the mass movement in the streets; striking against arms producers; hot cargoing war materials on the docks, trains, and trucks; and building towards a general strike against the war. Likewise we support the right of military personal to refuse orders and resist this war. We support students, such as those at UC Santa Cruz that have repeatedly driven military recruiters off campus. And we call for building the socialist movement to end imperialism through socialist revolution.

The Role of Peace Action (Formerly Sane / Freeze)

Diane Feinstein has never seen a pending imperialist war she didn’t like. In her entire time in office she has voted for them all. Likewise Feinstein voted for the “Missile Defense System” and other “defense” boondoggles meant to line the pockets of the military industrial capitalists. Yet the group “Peace Action” gives Feinstein the passing grade of voting for peace 89% of the time.

“Peace Action” is deceiving the anti-war vote. Why? Because Peace Action is a pillar of the status quo that sees no alternative to delivering votes to what they see as the “lesser evil” Democrat Party, even when the Democrats are equally pro-war. This strategy has made “Peace Action” an obstacle to peace and a pillar of the status quo.

Every few years the ruling class of the United States parades its selected representatives in front of the American people to give us the chance to vote for their so-called “lesser” and “greater evil” representatives in the Democrat and Republican Parties. The corporate media and liberal pro-war groups like “Peace Action” ignore the anti-war candidates and back pro-war Democrats by misrepresenting their records to the people.

Liberation News urges all of the super-exploited workers that go door to door raising money for the Peace Action bureaucracy to quit your meaningless jobs and look for better work while looking for ways to hook up with the real anti-war/anti-imperialist movement that is marching in the streets. Likewise we urge all of the liberal and leftist minded people that give money to Peace Action to stop doing so and instead participate in the mass anti-war movement in the streets with your bodies, minds, and your money if you can afford it.

In response to the reformist call of, "Anybody But Bush," Socialist Action candidate Jeff Mackler aptly replied, "No to the twin parties of war and oppression!" and "Yes to the independent organization and mobilization of working people!"

Feinstein, Supporter of Racist Israel

Diane Feinstein, like many Democrats, has pounded the war drum for the racist Zionist state of Israel even louder than the Republicans. The U.S. gives Israel billions of dollars in military aid every year and Senator Feinstein’s vote backs that money for death. Israel is a racist settler state established in 1949 that has denied the original inhabitants, the Palestinians, all basic rights. Besides denying Palestinians the same rights to travel, jobs, housing, and education as allowed Jews, the racist Zionist State has used massacres and other forms of terror, wars, and torture to drive out the original Palestinian inhabitants.

Likewise Israel is always at war with its Arab neighbors. Israel’s recent attack against Lebanon where their aerial bombardment of the civilian population murdered 1,150 people and destroyed vital infrastructure is only the latest such terrorism by Israel. Yet when Senator Bill Frist introduced a bill backing Israeli / U.S. aggression in Lebanon Diane Feinstein voted for it along with Senate Democrat colleagues John Kerry (Mass.), Barack Obama (Ill.), Harry Reid (Nevada), Maria Cantwell (Wash.), and Edward Kennedy (Mass.).

Claims of Israel being the victim, bombing and invading Lebanon on the pretext of two Israeli soldiers taken prisoner do not hold water in light of the fact that Israel is holding 2,000 Lebanese prisoners in their torture chamber dungeons from their previous invasion of Lebanon. In addition numerous reports say those two Israeli soldiers were captured in Lebanon, not in Israel. Those reports are from such sources as AP, Hindustan Times, and AFP.

In contrast to Diane Feinstein and her pro-war Democrat colleagues, here is what the candidates to the left of her have to say:

“Israel is a racist state. It has separate laws for Arabs and Jews. The leader of the South African trade union COSATU recently stated that he thinks that the Palestinians face worse conditions than Blacks faced during South African Apartheid. There will never be peace in the Middle East as long as the Zionist state is given a blank check from the United States to treat the Palestinian people as less than human. Israel is part of the American empire and is key to US plans for permanent domination of the Middle East. If we ever want to see our troops come home from Iraq, then the anti-war movement must fight to cut off all American aid to Israel.” -Todd Chretien, California Senate candidate of the Green Party

“As a Jewish American, I chose to run for U.S. Senate partly as an act of conscience in support of the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories. The wall which impedes people from conducting a normal life must come down. Israel should abandon the settlements and retreat to its pre-1967 borders. I do not condone any violence against civilians, and favor full rights for all people in any state…End U.S. aid to Israel until it withdraws to its 1967 borders.” -Marsha Feinland, California Senate candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party

“For a democratic and secular Palestine! End all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel! Stop the bombing of Lebanon and Gaza! For a united socialist federation of the Middle East! Socialists reject the legitimacy of the Zionist colonial settler state of Israel, just as we do all colonial settler states. We see no difference between the imperialist colonization of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East of yesteryear and today’s U.S.-backed Zionist conquest and occupation of Palestine. Israel today serves as the chief U.S. instrument for the imperialist domination and exploitation of the Middle East”. -Jeff Mackler, California Senate candidate of Socialist Action

All three candidates of the left take the correct and most important position of ending U.S. aid to Israel, but there are important differences in building an international movement.

While Todd Chretien holds a good position on Israel, the Israeli Green Party is a Zionist capitalist party that holds the position of deputy mayor of Tel Aviv. In a recent letter to the Green Party of the United States by Green Party chairman and deputy mayor, Pe’er Visner, the closest he got to recognizing any crimes by the Israeli government was saying, “We are “sorry” that the Israeli army prevents Palestinian suicide bombers from “expressing” their “human rights” to bomb themselves among Israeli citizens.” This racist response to the suffering of the Palestinian people should serve as a warning to Green Party members in the United States of what happens to parties that fail to put forward a revolutionary program for the overthrow of capitalism as well as fail to be a tribune for all of the most oppressed and exploited in society.

Unlike Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party, Liberation News does not call for a withdrawal of Israel to its conquered borders of 1967. We instead call for pushing Israel back to its 1948 borders for a democratic, secular, and socialist Palestine within the 1948 borders with a separation of religion and state and equal rights for Palestinians and Jews including the Palestinian right to return, a society to be formed by the multi-ethnic working class through socialist revolution.

This is our context of demanding an end to U.S. military aid to racist Israel as well as to the repressive capitalist governments of Egypt and Jordan. Such a cut off is not intended to pressure Israel into a better two state “solution” as Marsha Feinland asks the U.S. government to do, but to allow the people of the Near East self-determination and revolution without the interference of billions of dollars in U.S. military aid to murderous regimes.

Jeff Mackler, in seeing Socialist Action as part of an international socialist movement with an international revolutionary program, has proposed a similar revolutionary program to that of Liberation News, but missing a key ingredient:

“Zionism is an ideology of racism and apartheid segregation. It is a deathtrap for the Jewish people, a central source of almost 60 years of war and oppression of the Palestinians. Socialist Action supports the creation of a democratic and secular Palestine, where Jews and Arabs can live together as equals in a new society, a society predicated on the immediate right of return of all dispossessed Palestinians. In this society, revolutionaries will fight for the construction of an egalitarian socialist state.” -Jeff Mackler, California Senate candidate of Socialist Action

Missing from this formula is the understanding that only socialist revolution, led by (a) secular multi-ethnic socialist party or parties will be capable of solving the national and democratic questions of Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. The capitalists and their parties, be they Kadima, Likud, Labour, Shas, Hamas, Fatah, or the Hashemite King Hussein of Jordan base their rule on capitalist exploitation and are incapable of providing any real solutions. Liberation News disagrees with the idea that democratic secular revolution should occur now and provide the basis for a later struggle for socialism, pointing out that this is the essence of Stalin’s Two-Stage Theory of Revolution when we instead hold high the banner of Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution.

It was this Stalinist Two-Stage Theory that provided the political basis for the Communist Party of South Africa putting all of their resources into building the African National Congress (ANC) as the democratic alternative to the racist apartheid government of South Africa. Yet by building a political party and movement that supported the continuation of the capitalist system they created a new capitalist party that now rules South Africa for the rich white capitalists at the continued expense of the super-exploited and poor black majority workers, minus overt racist laws. Strikes for healthcare and other workers’ demands have been broken by the ANC for the capitalists, HIV-AIDS goes untreated, and the massive mineral wealth of South Africa continues to go into the pockets of the capitalists instead of their potential of benefiting the workers, environment, and world revolution.

So when is the Communist Party of South Africa going to set about fighting for the next stage of the revolution? The answer is never. They are now part of the capitalist apparatus and part of the problem. It will take the other socialist parties of South Africa, the Trotskyist parties, to lead the socialist revolution.

While Stalinism has done much to stifle workers’ democracy in the deformed workers states under Stalinist control, it has also greatly sabotaged the world socialist revolution through Stalin’s Two-Stage Theory. Socialist Action is not a Stalinist organization, but they appear to have adopted part of their program.

So what would be Socialist Action’s ANC for Palestine? Fatah? They’ve already discredited themselves. They’ve sold the Palestinian people out with the Oslo Accords placing the Palestinian people on tiny Bantustan’s without a real basis for an economy. Would their ANC be Hamas? The imposition of Islamic law could hardly be considered a democratic secular revolution. Would they then suggest that Palestinian and Israeli socialists build a party with a purely democratic secular program, abandoning the socialist program as the Communist Party of South Africa did? Let’s drop the nonsense, build for the socialist revolution! For a democratic, secular, and socialist Palestine!

Liberation News rejects Stalin’s Two-Stage Theory of Revolution. We instead hold up the banner of Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution. It was through this theory that Trotsky explained that the democratic and the socialist revolutions are inseparably linked.

Yet the differences between Liberation News and Socialist Action as well as our differences with the Peace and Freedom Party on these questions do not prevent us from giving critical support to both in this election.

The Role of the Green Party

While Todd Cretien of the Green Party has good immediate positions on the war, Liberation News does not support Green Party candidates because the Green Party is a capitalist party. In Santa Cruz, where the Green Party has elected their party member Tim Fitzemaurice to office, Tim Fitzemaurice has backed the fears of local shop owners by voting for anti-homeless laws such as the law that makes it illegal for the homeless to sleep at night. While criminalizing those who cannot pay the high rent Fitzemaurice refuses to take a stand for rent control. Likewise Tim Fitzemaurice has refused to take any stand against police violence used against anti-war protesters in 1999 and other repressive measures against activists including my arrest and beating for distributing literature and the police murder of homeless activist John Dine. Recently Fitzemaurice did take a stand against police infiltration of the organizers of a Santa Cruz anti-war parade, but his stated reason for doing so was an attempt to maintain the credibility of the Santa Cruz police.

Tim Fitzemaurice is not a leader for change in Santa Cruz. He is instead a pillar of the status quo. This is the future of all political parties and politicians that do not have a clear program for the overthrow of the capitalist system.

The Green Party is clear in their program. They state that they are for a system of small capitalism. Yet the small capitalists commonly have a smaller profit margin and often exploit workers worse than the big capitalists. In opposition to such a vision of small and inefficient capitalist exploiters, Liberation News looks to labor struggle and the nationalization of industry under workers’ control as the way to fight and neutralize the corporate exploiters and bring justice for the working class.

On a national level the Green Party generally is not even seeking power, but pressure and reform of the Democrat Party. Yet the policy of many Greens in promoting votes for Democrats when the vote between the Democrat and Republican is close only promotes further illusions in the Democrats. Likewise promising votes to Democrats when it looks close does nothing to pressure the Democrats and their super rich backers to move to the left.

It was a massive and fighting labor movement led to large extent by socialists that forced the American ruling class and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to carry out the New Deal reforms in the 1930’s. This was out of fear of further unrest and potential revolution. It is the position of Liberation News that the most meaningful reforms do not come from reformism, such as that of the Green Party, but from revolutionary and working class struggle.

While making these criticisms Liberation News does recognize that there are differences between the program of Todd Chretien and that of the Green Party. If Todd Chretien was also speaking out for the Green Party to adopt a socialist program we could possibly give him support, but he is not. By running as a candidate and being a spokesperson for a party with a capitalist program Todd Chretien is helping build that capitalist party and program, so we must respectfully withhold our support.

Critical Support To The Socialist Candidates

Liberation News is giving critical support to Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action and Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party. These are two socialist parties that hold socialist programs (for the most part) and are also active in the anti-war, free Mumia, and labor movements. To a large degree they represent the kind of political alternative that Liberation News promotes in opposition to the Democrats and Republicans.

Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action

Jeff Mackler is a long time socialist that has done much in organizing protests against imperialist wars, for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal, for socialism, and other leftist causes.

Jeff Mackler and other expelled members of the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) were part of establishing new groups that continued on in some of the better traditions of the SWP, a party that led the 1934 Teamster’s Strike (a turning point in U.S. labor history), a party that was a major leader in the anti-war movement of the 1970’s and 1960’s, and a party that helped establish the world Trotskyist movement and expose the crimes of Stalinism.

Yet Jeff Mackler’s group, Socialist Action, was also born with a few programmatical errors. One was their abandonment of Trotsky’s concept of Political Revolution. The call for political revolution in the deformed workers states, such as the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, was a call for overthrowing the repressive Stalinist bureaucracy and institutionalizing workers’ democracy without overthrowing the nationalized planned economy itself. While Trotskyists call for political revolution in the deformed workers’ states, we also defend those socialist economies from imperialist attack and internal counter-revolution. The failure of Socialist Action to understand the true nature of the counter revolutionary movements in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Afghanistan led to important mistakes.

In supporting Solidarnosc in Poland Socialist Action backed a political movement that had a clear program for capitalist counter revolution and joined ranks with the CIA, the Pope, and Ronald Reagan in backing Solidarnosc’s rise to power. After taking power Solidarnosc’s program became even clearer with the outlawing of abortion (that used to be free on demand) and privatizations of the economy that led to 50% unemployment. Yet despite how clear it is today that Solidarnosc led a capitalist counter-revolution as opposed to a socialist political revolution (that would maintain the socialist economy, but oust the Stalinist bureaucracy and institute workers’ democracy) Socialist Action has not changed their position on Solidarnosc.

On Black liberation we at Liberation News advocate Richard Fraser’s Theory of Revolutionary Integrationism as opposed to the Black Nationalism promoted by Socialist Action. Socialist Action’s advocacy of Black Nationalism has brought them to the point of even promoting the religious and pro-capitalist Nation of Islam of Louis Farrakhan. Liberation News sees the promotion of Black Nationalism as a dead end. There is no geographical area that we can point to on a map and say by its demographics that it would make sense to set up Black nation there. Even if it were possible or desirable to set up a separate Black Nation in the United States the pain and suffering such an adventure would cause in terms of dislocations of the working class would not be worth the price. Liberation News, in contrast, calls for the overthrow of the racist capitalist system and the building of an egalitarian socialist society that guarantees racial equality, full employment, and access to health care for all.

Liberation News does, however, see Socialist Action’s campaign for Senate as a supportable campaign that, despite its mistakes, is promoting socialism as the alternative to the capitalist Democrats, Republicans, and Greens.

Here are some of the demands that Mackler is putting forward with his campaign:

1) Immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq! No U.S. aid to Israel! Israel out of Lebanon and Gaza! Shut down Guantanamo! U.S. hands off Cuba and Venezuela! End the Cuba blockade!
2) Tax the rich, not working people! Jobs at top union wages for all! Shorten the work-week with no cut in pay! For a revitalized and fighting labor movement! For a Labor Party!
3) Human needs before capitalist profits! Nationalize so-called bankrupt corporations under workers’ control.
4) Free quality health care and education for people of all ages! Build schools not jails! Quality affordable housing for all!
5) An emergency program to combat global warming! End our dependency on fossil fuels! No to nuclear power and weapons!
6) Stop the attacks on civil liberties! Repeal the Patriot Act! End police brutality! Support the right of marriage for same sex couples!
7) Defend a woman’s right to control her own body! Ready access to abortion is a fundamental right!
8) Immediate amnesty, legalization, and equal rights for all immigrants! No to La Migra! Demilitarize and open the border! Self-determination for oppressed nationalities! Affirmative action with quotas to remedy past discrimination! Support to Black and Latino independent political action!
9) For a government of, by, and for working people and the oppressed! For socialism!

While Liberation News agrees with many of these slogans we see a couple as too transitional. We do not see any good reason for limiting calls for nationalization to so-called “bankrupt corporations”. Perhaps this is in imitation of the economic crisis of Argentina and the many “bankrupt corporations” that have been taken over and run by workers as part of a miniature workers’ economy that employs about 10,000 Argentinean workers.

Liberation News sees no reason for limiting the nationalization of companies to those that the capitalists don’t want anymore, companies that the capitalists are no longer making super profits from. The exploitation of workers’ and the environment have produced all wealth, and the revolutionary movement of the working class wants it all back! We want the railroads, the banks, the health care industry, and of course oil! Only a society with a planned economy can meet the needs of the working class, can end war for capitalist profit, and can begin to save the environment. Revolution takes bold vision; we want it all; leave the conservatism to the Democrats and Republicans!

Imperialism has caused the poverty of Mexico, and an open border is the only right thing to do. Yet an open border would be coupled with a massive influx of immigrants and should be combined with the call for a socialist economy that guarantees jobs for all. Only socialism can solve the national question.

Jeff Mackler’s campaign for senate, despite its errors, does help show the way forward by pointing to socialist demands and solutions.

Due to the undemocratic laws of the state of California making it very difficult for third parties to gain ballot access Jeff Mackler will not be on the ballot so if you choose to vote for him you will have to write in his name.

Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party

The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is the only socialist party in California that does have ballot status. Liberation News is also extending critical support to the PFP candidacy of Marsha Feinland. Here are key points of Marsha Feinland’s campaign:

1) Withdraw troops and advisors from Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti and Colombia
2) End aid to Israel until it withdraws to its pre-1967 borders
3) Raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour
4) Create universal health care with a "single payer" (Canadian type) system- no insurance company profits
5) Shorten the work week with no loss in pay and guarantee paid vacation time for all workers
6) Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act - restore the right to strike and end "right to work" laws
7) Abolish the death penalty
8) End the phony "war on drugs" - legalize marijuana and decriminalize drug use
9) Fully fund the U.S. government share of education costs, particularly special education
10) End the war on children - stop the government mandated testing craze in public schools
11) Protect the National Forests and other public and native lands from corporate exploitation
12) Abolish the Senate and the Electoral College - one person, one vote

In this platform Marsha Feinland raises a number of good points, including opposing the undemocratic nature of the Senate itself stating, "Abolish the Senate and the Electoral College - one person, one vote." This is in reference to the way that the senate has equal numbers of representatives from each state, regardless of that state’s population. On a similar issue Diane Feinstein has been criticized by activists in Washington D.C., a district where the people do not get representation in the Senate, for supporting Washington D.C. school vouchers that were undemocratically crammed down their throats.

In the United States more than 45 million Americans have no health coverage. These include 9 million children. Millions of others have inadequate coverage. It is a crime that the richest nation (rich due to imperialist exploitation of the world) leads in medical technology, but has the worst access to healthcare of any developed nation. Marsha Feinland’s call for single payer healthcare of the Canadian model, covering everyone and getting rid of the insurance industry middlemen would be a welcome change. And yes, despite the propaganda, government programs are always more efficient than private profiteering with its stockholders, overpaid CEOs, and advertising. But the Cuban model with nationalized healthcare and no private hospitals or pharmaceutical companies profiteering from illness works even better. It is this healthcare model that Liberation News advocates.

In fact Marsha Feinland’s platform is not just missing a full socialized medicine program, it is missing another key ingredient. Besides calling for eliminating the private insurance industry through single payer, nowhere in her platform or other materials does she call for the nationalization of the capitalist economy. She has no reference to the expropriation of big oil, industry, and finance capital or even any calls for the nationalization or municipalization of the generation, distribution and sales of electric power. Without such a socialist program it will be impossible to neutralize the power of the capitalist class and meet the needs of the working class.

Liberation News also strongly disagrees with the Peace and Freedom Party’s practice of endorsing Democrats in city elections. In Santa Cruz this has meant that the Peace and Freedom Party has helped elect some of the most anti-worker, anti-homeless, and pro-police oppression Democrats such as Mike Rotkin. Rotten Rotkin publicly opposed the bus drivers when they went on strike, is currently campaigning against a city initiative to raise the minimum wage, has voted for and supported every anti-homeless law in Santa Cruz, and has backed the police in every act of repression, violence, and spying that they have carried out against the left in the city. The local PFP may not support Rotkin anymore, but they did help get him elected, and they continue to help elect other Democrats and Greens in Santa Cruz that have virtually identical programs to that of Rotkin. Liberation News says: No to support for Democrats or Greens in local or national elections! Yes to the socialist candidates!

It will take a massive working class movement for good socialist candidates to actually win elections. An important element of this will be breaking the labor movement from the Democrat Party. By backing the candidates worth voting for today we at Liberation News feel that we are helping build the foundations of that movement today and into the future as people get more and more fed up with capitalist exploitation and wars. Ultimately the ruling class will use ever more violence to try to maintain their grip on power and a revolution will be necessary for the working class to actually seize power and transform society.

Liberation News:
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news

Marsha Feinland, California Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for Senate:
http://feinlandforsenate.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Jeff Mackler, California Socialist Action Candidate for Senate:
http://www.socialistaction.org/macklerforsenate/index.html

Todd Cretien, Green Party Candidate for Senate:
http://www.todd4senate.org/

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Give Peace A Vote-Please Sign!

Code Pink — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:57:25 GMT

Dear Friend:

Aren't you ready to let the politicians know that we, the majority of Americans, want an end to the ongoing war in Iraq? Then please join me, along with Yoko Ono, Susan Sarandon, Alice Walker, Dolores Huerta, Cornell West, my friends at CODEPINK, and MANY MORE in signing Give Peace a Vote.

This is a Voters Pledge that we will only vote for candidates who publicly call for a speedy withdrawal from Iraq and will keep us from engaging in future unjustified wars. Let's send a clear message this November and beyond, that we believe in international law and diplomacy over aggression.

Please sign the Voters Pledge and ask at least 10 of your friends to sign as well. With millions of peace voters, we can elect leaders who will Give Peace a Chance. That's all we are saying.

Simply copy and paste this url in the address bar of your web browser to sign up NOW: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/codepink/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=295&t=GPV.dwt

Thank you for taking action!

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Impeach Him

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:44:01 GMT

Go to www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer

Fill out the form, or have it filled out for you. Automatically sends to your representative. Done in minutes.
Do it now. This guy is working fast to cover his tracks and rewrite the laws. We don't have time to waste.

Shall we take responsibility for our country? Or continue letting him run amuck?

Also see the movie "Why We Fight"
Rent it or order it if you can. Apparently it also shows online at
www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/

Educate yourselves on the military industrial complex, how it is dangerously gaining uncontrollable power, why we destroy nations and commit mass murder, what are we really fighting for?
This is the best context / point of view I have seen in explaining our war on terrorism

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NSA wiretapping injuncted!

timbo — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:09:59 GMT

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/15296522.htm

Not to get anyone's hopes up or anything but a federal judge has ruled this an abuse of the seperation of powers under the Constitution. Now all it has to do is work its way up to the US Supreme Court to find out whether it's just "a scrap of paper".

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Isreal NOT Lebanon started war.

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:37:14 GMT

War Is Terrorism With a Bigger Budget

Israeli war crimes continue unabated across Lebanon and Palestine

By Christopher Bollyn

The Israeli aggression against Lebanon is a monstrous war crime in which the Zionist state has been aided and abetted by the U.S. government. The vicious Israeli assault on Lebanon has been accompanied by a host of lies that have been dutifully parroted by the Bush administration and the Zionist-controlled mass media.

After two weeks of fighting, at least 422 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Lebanon and thousands more have been injured, while in Israel, 18 Israeli civilians are reportedly killed. Certainly, many more Lebanese dead will be found beneath the rubble of the many flattened residential buildings of south Beirut and southern Lebanon. Up to 750,000 Lebanese have been driven from their homes and have become refugees. Israel’s ethnic cleansing of south Lebanon is now a fact.

The controlled media lies about the Israeli aggression in Lebanon are similar to its propaganda about the terror attacks of 9-11. In both cases the gross deception foisted upon the public caused widespread misunderstanding of the facts and the identity of the guilty party.

A poll conducted by USA Today and Gallup found that 53 percent of the U.S. population blamed Hezbollah for the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and the popular Shi’ite resistance group based in south Lebanon. Hezbollah, which was formed in 1982 as a local resistance movement
to challenge the Israeli occupation, is increasingly popular today throughout the Arab and Muslim world because of its ability to confront Israel.

The Gallup poll reveals how successfully the media has deceived the American public about the current crisis in Lebanon. The poll found that 39 percent of respondents blamed Iran, while 29 percent blamed Syria. Lebanon, the beleaguered and devastated victim, was blamed by 27 percent while Israel, the party most clearly responsible for the criminal destruction of Lebanon, was only blamed by 15 percent of those polled. These results reveal the degree of Zionist mind control over American perceptions of the Middle East.

The poll, which was conducted as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice departed for the region, found that 67% of the population does not think the Bush administration has a clear and well thought out policy in the Middle East, although it is obviously supporting the Zionist agenda.

ISRAELIS CAPTURED

In the controlled press, Hezbollah, branded as a “terrorist” group by the United States and Israel, is blamed for having sparked the crisis by having “kidnapped” two Israeli soldiers from Israeli territory on July 12. Iran and Syria are usually blamed for being the powers behind Hezbollah.

The initial news reports, however, indicate that the two Israeli soldiers were not kidnapped at all. They were reported to have been captured—inside Lebanon—after having crossed the border and entered the Lebanese village of Aitaa al-Chaab.

The capture of the Israeli soldiers inside Lebanon was reported by a number of leading international press services, including the German news agency (DPA), AP, AFP from France, and UPI Arabia.

“The Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement announced Wednesday that its guerrillas have captured two Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon,” the DPA reported from Beirut on July 12.

“Implementing our promise to release the Arab prisoners in Israeli jails, our strugglers have captured at 9:05 a.m. two Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon,” the Hezbollah statement said.

The BBC, usually quite precise, translated the Hezbollah statement as having said “captured two Israeli soldiers at the border with occupied Palestine.”

Lebanese police said the two Israeli soldiers had been captured as they “infiltrated” into the Lebanese town of Aitaa al-Chaab, which lies near the fortified border with Israel.

Early in the day, Joseph Panossian of the Associated Press reported that Hezbollah “captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes Wednesday across the border in southern Lebanon, prompting a swift reaction from Israel, which sent ground forces into its neighbor to look for them.”

“The two Israeli soldiers were captured in Lebanese territory, in the area of Aitaa al-Chaab, near to the border with Israel, where an Israeli unit had penetrated,” the Agence France Presse reported from Aitaa al-Chaab and Beirut.

On July 13, the DPA reported that Israel vehemently denied reports by Lebanese police that the two soldiers had been captured inside the Lebanese border. Israel said the soldiers had been on patrol on the Israeli side of the border fence.

Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said he would only return the captured soldiers through “indirect negotiations and an exchange of prisoners.”

“This is the only available way to release” Lebanese prisoners held in Israel,
he said. “The Israelis always first say they do not wish to negotiate but eventually they accept.”

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denounced what he called “kidnappings” as an “act of war” by one sovereign country against another. Olmert said, “Lebanon will bear the consequences of its actions,” and warned of a “very, very, very painful” response.

The Israeli response has been both disproportionate and illegal in its use of U.S. supplied precision-guided weapons, cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons to target civilians and civilian infrastructure.

The obvious falseness of the Israeli military claim that it does not target civilians was plain to see from the front page of The New York Times on July 22.

The lead story reported that the Bush administration was rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel while the large color photograph next to the article showed some of the coffins of 86 civilians who had been killed in Tyre.

Reports on National Public Radio described how Israeli planes and helicopters had targeted civilian vehicles fleeing from their homes and villages in south Lebanon. One family’s car was struck just feet from the hospital in Tyre. In another case 23 of the 27 civilians in one truck were killed by an Israeli missile. An Israeli helicopter machine gunned a civilian vehicle killing all 9 civilians.

As Israel is wont to do, a number of Red Cross ambulances were targeted. “Israeli missiles had clearly pierced the very center of the red cross on the roof of each ambulance,” Robert Fisk of The Independent (UK) wrote on July 26.

Meanwhile, U.S. war planes arrived at Israeli airbases carrying weaponry and military equipment. The American planes came from Gulf States including Qatar and Saudi Arabia, according to the Al Manar newspaper. The newspaper reported that five U.S. planes had landed in three Israeli airbases, bringing more weapons and “vacuum bombs of many sizes.”

“We are aiding and abetting war crimes,” Francis A. Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, said about the U.S. weapon shipments to Israel. “This has been planned for quite some time,” Boyle added.

On the same day that U.S. war planes delivered weapons to Israel, Israeli bombs struck a reportedly well-known and clearly marked United Nations observer post in Lebanon, killing 4 UN monitors from China, Austria, Finland and Canada.

Despite six hours of urgent calls from top UN officials in New York and its officers on the ground to the Israeli mission the base continued to come under fire and received a total of 21 strikes from the air, 12 of them artillery rounds.

UN General Secretary Kofi Annan called the Israeli attack on the Khiam
base “deliberate.”

China strongly condemned the Israeli air strike and summoned Israel’s ambassador in Beijing to demand an apology.

Asked about the attack on the UN base, Boyle said, “They do it all the time; it’s a power thing.”

Israeli officials are demanding an apology from Annan for his comments.

Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, rejected claims that the Israeli military had intentionally targeted the UN peacekeepers. “We want it to be clear it was not a deliberate attack because Israel would never target a UN force. It is not part of our policies; it is not part of our values,” Livni said.

Livni’s statement is a bald-faced lie. Israel does target UN bases. On April 18, 1996, during the Israeli “Grapes of Wrath” aggression against Lebanon, then Prime Minister Shimon Peres, now the vice premier, ordered the precisionguided artillery shelling of the UN base at Qana (Cana) in which hundreds of Lebanese had sought shelter. Some 102 Lebanese civilians were killed in this previous deliberate attack on a UN base.

Christopher Bollyn is a the American Free Press Midwest Bureau Chief. He has written extensively on a wide variety of subjects including the controversy surrounding computerized voting systems, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the many unanswered questions surrounding 9-11.

(Issue #32, August 7, 2006)

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Impeachment Forums across the Nation 7/19

Constitution Summer 2006 — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:20:25 GMT

Signed up at the official Constitution Summer website:http://www.constitutionsummer.org/?q=node/15

Do you want to know how to impeach a President? RSVP NOW!

You're Invited. Please RSVP NOW!

Who: You ALL are invited
What: to an impeachment teach-in near you (nationwide)
When: July 19, 2006
Where: check your local listening for time & place
Why: "We've had enough. This President has ruined this country. Let's impeach him."
How: "Register your dessent" and RSVP NOW!

To view the ENTIRE documentary; RSVP NOW! to a teach-in. These screenings are part of a nationwide series of impeachment teach-ins based on the book, Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush , written by attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights and published by Melville House .

HAVE YOU RSVPed YET? Which city? Let us know? Join Constitution Summer on myspace:

To RSVP:
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To visit the Constitution Summer website:
http://www.constitutionsummer.org/

to buy the book, articles of impeachment against George W. Bush:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933633085/ref=ase_constitutions-20/104-8273108-3999125?s=books&v=glance&n=283155&tagActionCode=constitutions-20

to visit the Center for Constitutional rights website:
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp

to visit the Melville House publishing website:
http://www.mhpbooks.com/

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Crime is...up!

timbo — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:12:04 GMT

Yes. Surprise. Crime is up in America finally. It must be all the good governing going on. Or, maybe it's the number of GOP operatives that are under investigation, being arrested, singing, that are causing all the problems. Or, maybe, it's the violation of the Geneva Convention, whatever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/us/12cnd-crime.html

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Trying to put their head around the malfeasence and tyranny?

timbo — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:55:45 GMT

http://www.abanet.org/media/releases/news060506.html

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The Peoples Party (a reality tv game show that will make adifference)

Alan — Mon, 29 May 2006 13:06:04 GMT

Is it really possible to have a peoples party at this point in time? A party who's candidate was chosen, and supported by the American people?
Yes... it really is possible. And high time if you ask me.
When I was in school they told me I could be anything I wanted. Even the president of the United States. But they never taught me how. Oh sure, we had a class president and all that, (and I seem to remember something about a cartoon bill that kept getting vetoed or something), but somehow I just don't think it's the same thing. But I have asked dozens of people (smart ones too) if they new how to go about being president if they chose to. None of them had the slightest clue. Not that I would ever want to be the president. I can't even ballance my own check book, (or remember if that cartoon bill ever got passed or not) let alone trying to balance the budget for a nation. However, I have met quite a few people along my journeys that I thought had all the attributes I would like to see in a president. Strong, responsible, honorable people, always seeming to naturally look out for the needs of others, less fortunate, and weaker than themselves, while at the same time accomplishing great feats of productivity, (including balancing their check books).
Ive met them in all walks of life. All shapes, sizes, sexes, and colors. Proud Americans, all of them. According to our constitution they have the right to run for president. The only question is... how? Well check it out...

A Letter to Michael Moore...

Hey Mike,
I hope all is going good with the new project. I can't express to you how much I appreciate your work. You both inspire me and give me hope that someday we the People will find our voice again and take our country back. On that note, I have a great Idea I’d like to share with you. This is an idea I’ve spent serious time thinking about. I’d like to humbly ask for your help. The idea needs shepherding from someone of your caliber. So here it is…

“The People’s Party”
A reality television game show
by Alan Abbott

Contestants will compete for a chance to run for President of the United States for the People’s Party.

Possible contestants, chosen from the general public, are asked (via television & radio) to send in a video tape or DVD, 3 minutes or less explaining why they or the person they are nominating should be considered as a presidential candidate.

The show will be run Documentary/American Idol style. The cameras follow each contestant on their quest. Throughout the campaign contestants and their entourage travel together, eat together, stay at the same hotels, and share the same campaign headquarters in the convention rooms at the hotels where they stay.

The American public will have the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice by telephone and the contestants with the lowest number of votes steps down each week.

The winner of the show wins the candidacy for the Peoples Party, and actually runs for president of the United States of America.

That is the basic idea. I see it as an entertaining way to empower the people to establish their own party, educate the public about what it takes to run for president. Most importantly, it will give the people a chance to take their country back.

I have been developing the show for over a year and have a lot more material. I didn’t want to bombard you with it all right now. I have made several trips to and from L.A. (from Maui) trying to contact you through “more appropriate means” than e-mail, but to no avail. So here we are.

This is actually the second e-mail I have sent you, but I fear the first may have gotten lost in the crowd, as I know you try to respond to all your e-mails. So just to give you a heads up, I am going to ask a few friends to give me a hand in getting your attention. After all, election time is around the corner, and I’d like you to be given the first opportunity to give the country back to the people. Hope you don’t mind. Please feel free to e-mail me or call me at; 808-264-0984. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Alan

We The People
Really can make this happen. More impossible dreams have come true. But we have to work together. Together... the American people can do anything.
I am asking all of you to please copy this entire post and send it to michael@michaelmoore.com then send it to everyone you know.
Michael Moore is my first choice, but I know he is not everybody's cup of tea. If you have someone in mind you like better for the task of producing, directing, and/or hosting The Peoples Party? Copy and send this entire post to them, and tell them so.
But please keep in mind that the show, and everything written here is copywritten so please don't try to pass it off as your own, you'll just get yourself in a lot of trouble. Do however feel free to share with as many people as you want. In fact please do. Post it everywhere!
I sent this letter to Michael Moore on May 19th, 2006 but Mikes a busy guy. He probably hasn't even checked his email yet. He is currently shooting another feature documentary, and I'm sure the shooting schedule is very labor intensive. Not ot mention the amount of e-mails the guy must get every day. Then when he does finaly get a chance to read them, I'm sure he has a priority list of some kind. Either way, he has not returned this e-mail yet.
But Michael is not the only person that is important to reach. If we are going to make a difference we have to work together, and spread the word to everyone.

Thank you all very much.
Sincerely, Alan
Power To The People

michael@michaelmoore.com

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Green Scare Resources

Alexander — Fri, 26 May 2006 19:10:46 GMT

Green Scare Resources

"The term Green Scare, alluding to the Red Scare of the 1940s-50s, is an expression used by environmental activists to refer to legal action by the U.S. government against the radical environmentalist movement."

Green Scare
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Scare

found this post in PortlandIndyMediaCenter:

Green Scare Resources
author: havetheirbacks
this is a list of online resources for greenscare info . . .
GREEN SCARE RESOURCES

Civil Liberties Defense Center: excellent archive of legal papers, updates on indictments.
http://www.cldc.org

Portland Independent Media Center [IMC] Green Scare page
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/topic/greenscare/

Green Scare informational website
http://www.greenscare.org

Wikipedias pages on:
Green Scare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Scare

Operation Backfire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Backfire_%28FBI%29

Green is the new Red
http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/

Providence Green Scare
http://www.myspace.com/greenscarepvd

Media:

BOOM! Who are the real terrorists? BY ALAN PITTMAN
Eugene Weekly, March 9, 2006
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/03/09/coverstory.html

Sourcecodes ..1 Terrorist Threat?
Download Quicktime movie below
http://sourcecode.freespeech.org/sc302EcotageDL

Operational Backfire: Criminalizing Dissent By MICHAEL DONNELLY
Counterpunch.org
http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly05242006.html

War on the First Amendment
The Great Green Scare By BEN ROSENFELD
Counterpunch.org
http://www.counterpunch.org/rosenfeld03102006.html

The Green Scare by Karen Pickett
http://shiftshapers.gnn.tv/blogs/13536/The_Green_Scare

all found at http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/340003.shtml

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The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America parts 1,2 &3

Alexander — Wed, 10 May 2006 09:38:27 GMT

The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America parts 1,2 &3

The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America, part 1 of 3
Tibor S. Friedman
Online Journal Contributing Writer

May 8, 2006, 00:31

America is being destroyed by enemies within and with the help of a corrupted Congress and dumbed down (through public education and the corporate media), apathetic, indifferent and lazy public. The window for action to reverse the fascist trend of the last 50 years is fast closing and only an awake and vigilant citizenry can begin to comprehend and take action against the coming totalitarian devastation we have allowed to manifest in our country.

September 11, with the perpetrators in the shadow government and clandestine operations, signaled the final stages from the NWO (New World Order) cabal that they are now in a flight forward end game. The elders in this ‘open conspiracy’ for global totalitarian control of the planet, its peoples and resources, David Rockefeller, George H.W. Bush, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Prince Philip, the Rothschild’s, and the rest are pushing for some major advancement in their diabolical agenda before their mortal demise.

Briefly, I will attempt to elaborate on three conclusions reached from my research: Democrats and Republicans are two home teams working for the same masters -- the enemies within; corporations and covernment (using the corporate media as their mind control tool) operate as one entity; and the New World Order (using the CFR, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg, et al) is an open conspiracy to reduce the population of America (and the world), destroy American sovereignty and to create a totalitarian global government.

It will be useful to ask ourselves, while reading this, why our leaders -- both Democrats and Republicans alike -- after having sworn to uphold the Constitution and to protect America and the American people -- have deliberately worked together to destroy America and to what purpose have they made America a pariah in the world?

The Duopoly . . . Two sides of the same Coin

Genocidal chemtrail spraying across the US, begun about 1996-1998 by Democrat Bill Clinton, continues unabated today and the recent passing of the un-PATRIOT Act by the Senate, with an overwhelming 89-10 vote in spite of the refusal to enforce it by more than 440 cities and counties, are two examples of shared criminality by the duopoly. Although the list of bipartisan crimes against Americans (and the world) is endless they share the common agenda of destroying America and an allegiance to the global banking elites through their membership in the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group. These groups form the trinity in the globalization of the world by members who are involved in the highest levels of government, industry, academia, military and the media.

Mordecai Zember’s list of the CFR 2005 membership reflects the cross-section of elites that control policy and propaganda in America today. Google also the list of members in the Trilateral Commission for 1973 and 2006; you will find Leonard Woodcock and John Sweeney on it -- leaders of the UAW and AFL-CIO, among others. How about Daniel Ellsberg being a member of the CFR? See “Sheep Dipping CFR style: The Kerry and Ellsberg Cases” for an interesting peek at the CIA.

As someone in the upcoming movie “From Freedom to Fascism” describes the duopoly, it is like the Gambinos and Genovese families who share the power and eat their gnocchi from the same plate. No offense to them; but this is how the system works as both parties advance the interests of the globalists, the International bankers and their corporate proxies. The politicians, who take their share of the plunder, are generally fronts who wrap themselves in the flag and patriotism as it serves their needs to accomplish their assignments received from their bosses behind the curtain -- the elites in the shadow government.

Staging Media Events and the Changing of the Guard

Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.

In America, the corporate media and their counterparts, the liberal gatekeepers, are preparing us for the changing of the guard. Remember six years into Bill Clinton’s neoliberal and globalist assault on Americans was the Monica sex circus that the media served up 24/7 to distract us from all the real serious crimes of the Clinton era. Which, in hindsight, seamlessly dovetailed with the Bush 2 agenda after his selection by the Supremes: the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) and the execution of 9/11, the illegal Afghan and Iraq wars (against non-threatening and, in the case of Iraq, sanction weakened, sovereign nations) and continued predator globalization (spreading ‘democracy’ via capitalism and so-called free trade).

The elites (manipulating the elections) chose Bush -- twice. Now, almost six years into the fascist Bush 2 era we are witnessing both parties criticizing Bush (giving the sheeple false hopes, again) even as the corporate media begin propping up Hillary or McCain (what maverick?) or Edwards (or other globalist tools) as ‘alternatives’ to the madness in Washington. One cannot run for or become president without the approval of the elites.

As Paul Joseph Watson warned us, ‘Hillary is the rat poison that will sink America.’ It matters not who is selected. The madness will continue unabated until America is totally destroyed for the international bankers and globalists and driven into the waiting arms of the UN -- created to institute a One World Government; achieving David Rockefeller’s long time dream and goal: controlling the world’s resources (monopoly) and the reduction of the world population through manipulated wars and bio-engineered diseases . . . and the enslavement of those that are allowed to remain to serve the elites.

We are and have been an occupied and fascist state -- the blending of corporations, banking and government. As Patrick Wood of the August Review, a research center for globalism, points out, ‘the Global Elite march in three essential columns: Corporate, Political and Academic.' Corporate determines the goals; Academia provides the white papers or propaganda for the Politicians to then sell to the unwitting citizens. Corporate media and all liberal gatekeepers are not only controlled by the CIA, but have members on their boards from all three groups to facilitate the manipulation of the desired public opinion. An example is a Carlyle (Bush family connected military industrial complex investment group) board member on the New York Times board; cross-pollination exists throughout the elite spectrum encompassing all aspects of finance and power. Everyone, those with their hands on the levers of power, is literally on the same page.

Welcome to the New World Order -- Ready or Not

David Rockefeller -- the godfather of the New World Order - a member of the Bilderbergers and the Council of Foreign Relations and co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, thanked the media facilitators (most of whom are also members of one or more of these groups):

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years . . . It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated now and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries”

David Rockefeller gave this talk at the annual Bilderberg meeting in June 1991 held in Germany.

Alex Carey, an Australian scholar on propaganda techniques observed: "The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."

It is clear that what has been a long and deliberate process has become evermore sophisticated in its manipulation of Americans and the world. For at least 100 years, America has been occupied by the Rockefellers, the Morgan’s, the Rothschild’s and other international bankers who have used their wealth and power (and by their illegal creation of the Federal Reserve and Income Tax Acts in 1913) to subvert America and humanity, in general, for their own greedy and nefarious purposes -- the documentation exists and only connecting the dots is needed.

The late William Cooper, a former military intelligence officer and world-renowned researcher, said this about the New World Order, "They are bound together by blood oaths, a secret religion, and the promise of an elite status within regional government, or the world supra government. Their religion is based upon the Kabbalah, the Luciferian Philosophy, and the worship of the Sun. They are not bound by any oath or allegiance save their own. They are loyal to no government or People save their own. And they are Citizens of no country save their already in place secret world government. In their words, 'If you are not one of us you are nothing.' To garner some sense of 'feel' for the concept see the movie 'They Live.'

"It is a largely 'open' conspiracy, in that much of its membership, structure, methods, and operations, are matters of public record, however scattered and obscure. Its manner of coordination is atypical. Two nuclei -- the elite core of the Wall Street clique (orbiting the House of Rockefeller) and the elite core of the European financial clique (orbiting the House of Rothschild) -- coordinate this global conspiracy by waging psychological warfare on the rest of the conspirators, telling each no more than is necessary for him to fulfill his designated role, often with explicit recognition neither of his role, nor of the unarticulated rules that govern him.

"Thus, the overwhelming bulk of the conspirators do not know, but only suspect, that they are part of and in service to a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

Further he added: . . . emerging realities in 2006, "There will be no individual Rights only privileges. These will be granted or denied at will by the world supra government. All property is to be owned by the State. There will be a redistribution of wealth. They plan to eliminate class differences and reduce the standard of living to a lower level in the advanced nations, such as the United States, and to a higher standard of living in the so-called third world nations.

"This leveling of the standard of living will be accomplished through a global economic collapse which is in its beginning stages. The economic collapse will fulfill the goal of Marx and Engle’s' Communist Manifesto mandating the elimination of the middle class. The graduated income tax was the first implementation of this process and is one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto. NAFTA and GATT (add now CAFTA and the pending FTAA) are a part of this process encouraging industry to move into third-world nations in order to exploit cheap labor.

"All existing religions will disappear. The only religion will be the state religion (humanism or illuminism).

"All County and State governments will be eliminated and replaced with regional government. These regional governments (Home Rule) are already in place. Regionalism is gradually taking control throughout America.

"There will be no more cash. Trade will be accomplished by a system of computer credits with accounts accessed through debit cards or computer chip implants. The cards or implants will also serve as personal identification, drivers license, and etc. When this is completed the human race will be shackled to a computer in a never ending cycle of debt. No action or movement will ever again be private."

The Constitution for the United States of America and its Bill of Rights will be scrapped. A parliamentary form of government will take its place. All military forces and individuals are to be disarmed except for an internal police force which will carry only the minimum weapons needed to maintain internal order.

Although Cooper only lived to see a little more than a year of the Bush presidency, he was a firm advocate that President Clinton, although posing as a man of the people, was (and still is) in fact one of the biggest and most diabolical front men for the New World Order.

William Cooper, author of the classic, ‘Beyond a Pale Horse’ was killed on November 5, 2001, by authorities at his home in Arizona.

Globalization, free trade and ‘spreading democracy’ are Trojan horses for the NWO/International Bankers true predatory intent. The fact that America's downward financial spiral started in earnest shortly after the Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Breszinksi in 1973 is not incidental. The very policies that brought us the "New International Economic Order" (their own phrase) have wrecked our country. Trilateral member and Democratic President Jimmy Carter had 19 Trilateral members (including VP Mondale and Breszinksi as national security adviser) in his administration in 1976 and began David Rockefeller’s mission to de-industrialize America. The elites in fact have bankrupted (sold off) and destroyed America by off-shoring critical manufacturing enterprises and knowledge and technologies, which is continuing and is now, 30 years later, almost complete as the Big 3 auto manufacturers have been designed to collapse, further eroding America’s independence and vitality.

The (State) Media Lies

Joel Skousen (on his site) wrote recently that the media are completely in lockstep with the USG. I would add that we have been under the greatest psychological operations ever in the history of man, involving all levels of media -- corporate media and liberal gatekeepers. Information is the coin of the realm and our minders would rather have us believing their fiction and not what we may find in our research on the Internet.

The media lies and manipulates perceptions as a matter of course -- and as corporate-owned organs of the power elite structure they serve only to protect the status quo and those in power in their quest towards creating a New World Order and protecting their international banking interests.

The CIA’s annex, the Washington Post, and best patron, the late Katherine Graham, once remarked the world is a dangerous place and that democracy operates best when some details are not shared with the population. The WP and the New York Times, the lead so called ‘premier’ papers, operate similarly and are conduits of propaganda for the Powers That Be and their security apparatuses, and provide the ‘copy’ for all the other press in the US. The Daily News and New York Post -- comic book versions of the news -- are dumbed down propaganda rags for the ‘common man’ with loud headlines, plenty of mindless celebrity gossip and partially naked women to distract. TV land (including PBS, C-SPAN) and radio (like NPR) mimics repetitively (through all news and Sunday talk shows) the same official fictions that are disseminated in the press. The evening news on all of the alphabet channels is eerily alike in format and content -- by design, of course.

Polls are used to fine tune messages/propaganda and are manipulated to reflect the desired public perception -- like the deliberate linkage of 9/11 and Iraq. Online CNN polls have been known to disappear after the results were not as expected -- suggesting that no matter the propaganda the public may not be buying it -- forcing the puppet meisters to recalibrate their propaganda efforts. The average citizen it is assumed will fall in line with the ‘majority’ view of a poll even though Joe Citizen has no way to confirm the poll. It is possible that the majority of people may consider that they are in the minority,.victims of the corporate media propaganda and poll manipulation, and remain silent about critical issues because of it.

The NWO and their political / media / clandestine operatives use a technique called Problem-Reaction-Solution where a situation is created for which the public demands a solution -- by orchestrating the problem and manipulating the reaction, a solution, originally desired, is effected. It accomplishes their goal while the public thinks they had some input. This process is repeated over and over and is evident in the current Immigrant demonstrations that have been organized by the elites at the top to foment unrest and division in America. Events are created and managed to accomplish the elite’s desired goals with the politicians and the corporate media as accomplices and facilitators -- all moving incrementally towards the creation of the New World Order.

Add to this the elite’s ownership of and control of media corporations, 40,000 lobbyists, hundreds of think tanks, the foundations, the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg and countless other groups that ‘control the dialogue’ and provide both parties (the duopoly) with mountains of propaganda to create distractions and wedge issues (abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration, etc); or the latest ‘trivia news saturation’ (missing blondes, rapes at Duke, a Kennedy in rehab) while the greater issues of the day are conveniently disregarded. All this and more is arrayed against the lone American citizen struggling to understand what is happening to his country and the world. It is no wonder that the American citizen is not informed -- by design, of course.

Mark Twain once said that if one does not read the newspaper he is uninformed and misinformed if he does.

Nothing important gets into the corporate media unless officially created, sanctioned, approved or leaked on purpose.
Next: In Part 2, we will further explore the corporate media, liberal gatekeepers and how the news and views are controlled by the elite ruling class. Parts 2 and 3 will elaborate on some of the ways the New World Order and their proxies -- the Democrats and Republicans -- are destroying America.

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The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America, part 2 of 3
Tibor S. Friedman
Online Journal Contributing Writer

May 9, 2006, 01:32

Nothing important gets into the corporate media unless officially created, sanctioned, approved or leaked on purpose.

I cite two recent examples of media manipulation, omission and/or fabrication.

The NSA domestic spying story: Spying has been standard operating procedure by the US government for decades against its own citizens -- the story was held by the New York Times before the 2004 elections but was released in December 2005!

Why?

Certainly not to inform the unwitting and manipulated public! The New York Times publisher was at the White House discussing this story prior to its release, raising suspicions about the motivation. The ensuing (staged with the usual talking points) controversy favored increasing the president's powers ‘in time of war’ and even a censure (slap on the wrist) from Sen. Russ Feingold had no traction because of the spineless Democratic members. So, what was the point? To further condition Americans to the idea that spying on them was to protect them from terrorists and that giving up liberty for security was an acceptable sacrifice. The lopsided Judicial Committee (10 Republicans and. 8 Democrats -- why even bother?) had hearings (dog and pony shows) to reinforce the idea of the war powers of the president. Manipulation of public perception seemed to be the primary motivation.

Spying & the Internet: The Internet -- originally created by the US government spook lab DARPA -- may soon be controlled (and charging tolls) by the large media and cable corporations with limited content and access, threatening the last bastion of real free speech. Technology used by the US government is at least several generations ahead of commercial technology available in the market. It is rumored that all new monitors have micro cameras imbedded that can remotely watch you whether or not the computer is on unless the power is shut off. However, in tandem with corporate assaults against the Internet is the Pentagon’s view of the Internet (free speech) being as dangerous as an ‘enemy’s weapon system’ as stated in their declassified report ‘The Information’s Operation Roadmap.'

See the Center for Digital Democracy for more information on what our so-called ‘representatives’ are being lobbied (bribed) to legislate (currently being debated) against Network Neutrality (the Open Internet) -- all for money and silencing dissent.

The second story was about DPW (Dubai Ports), while generating much media bread and circus critical pieces of information were omitted. All media outlets ignored the globalization process that is and has been orchestrated and deliberate and not the ‘natural process’ as Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Neocon/Globalist Thomas 'Flat Word' Friedman of the New York Times would have us believe. Focusing on the ‘security issues’ -- the circus included the usual suspects and ‘experts’ from the CFR (now out of the closet) and think tanks, etc., while none strayed from the ‘security’ talking points. Little attention was given the fact that America has been virtually sold out from under our feet by our so-called leaders.

The centerpiece of this story is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) -- the group that vets and reviews all foreign investments. The corporate media (and liberal media) across the board repeatedly told us that CFIUS was a secret body that informed cabinet members of pending deals -- well it turns out that the members are not only cabinet members but Bush insiders. What an egregious omission!

Patrick Wood’s August Review tells us that the CFIUS committee membership is hardly made up of second-rate government staffers. Its 12 members include:
John W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman

John Marburger, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor

Stephen Friedman, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy (TC)

Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security

Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (CFR)

Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce

Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General

Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff

Rob Portman, U.S. Trade Representative

N. Gregory Mankiw, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

On April 3, Rep. Jim Kolbe (R) addressed the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (a Globalist think tank and Bilderberg member) -- more like singing to the choir -- about national security and foreign investments. Kolbe referred to CFIUS as a group that is secretive but is concerned about national security. His pep talk was about the positive attributes of globalization -- allowing foreigners to ‘invest’ in America because it made us friends in the world.

As you can see from the CFIUS members list -- all are Bush insiders and cabinet members. Omissions and Lies are reinforced throughout the information pipeline -- talking points and scripts replace the truth. Of 1,500 deals passed through CFIUS during the Bush reign only one has been rejected! In fact, small local newspaper recently reported, "President Bush has approved the takeover by a Dubai-owned company of American plants that make parts for jets and tanks after a review that seems to have satisfied lawmakers who helped block an earlier Dubai deal." The AP report also said, "Initial reaction from Capitol Hill was favorable." (Which ‘lawmakers’?)

Specifically, the Dubai company takes over control of at least nine factories, including military production facilities in Connecticut and Georgia. Dubai settled the deal for $1.2 billion. The corporate media had not reported any of these details to most Americans. Selling our national security interests to the Arabs seems rather risky, don’t you think?

So the media lies, omits and ignores important information if it conflicts with the ‘official’ story, message or goals. Any challenges to power that the media pose are usually safe or intended to suppress further scrutiny of an issue. Disinformation and outright propaganda is disseminated along with credible pieces of information to facilitate redirection or neutralization of inquiries.

As Robert Fisk, a seasoned and honest journalist covering the Middle East, recently stated that stories written with ‘officials say,' or ‘officials confirmed’ have become commonplace in the corporate media. It reflects not only journalistic laziness, but is used to condition Americans to blindly accept ‘official’ sources. He stated that he no longer consumes any corporate media -- print or TV. I suggest the same -- turn off your TV and stop buying the New York Times -- it’s all lies. Occasionally I tune in to see what they are reporting as ‘news,’ but try to save your mind and use your discrimination in processing their stories and their propaganda techniques -- once the code is cracked you are free to see through their smoke and mirrors.

Gatekeepers -- the So-Called Liberal Media Also Cover for the Elites

The corporate media and the so-called liberal pundits (the gatekeepers) both continue their perennial charade of framing all debate between the Democratic and Republican orbits. Typical of the liberal tack, Robert Dreyfuss, a gatekeeper at Mother Jones, in a C-SPAN interview threw in discussion about progressives (not as a separate entity, but as parts of the duopoly) needing to concentrate on grassroots efforts to make changes. They know full well that most Americans have neither the will nor all the information -- which leads them into dead ends -- as all gatekeepers like Amy Goodman, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart , Noam Chomsky and publications like the Nation, The Progressive, Mother Jones, etc., are intended to do. This is gatekeeping at the margins.

Corporate media Gatekeeper Jon Stewart and his Daily Show is an example of the allowable ‘mainstream’ dissent with guests like Sen. John Kerry (remember his Democratic Convention ‘free speech zones’?), Sen. John McCain, Sen. Joe Lieberman, the genocidal war criminal Henry Kissinger, Sen. Edward Kennedy (his bill adding another 350,000 H1B visas), without asking them the right or tough questions . . . framing all the dialogue, again, in the context of Democrat vs. Republican -- the two headed hydra. Stewart buys into and advocates the ‘official’ 9/11 lie, the phony War on Terror, and the illegal wars on Afghanistan and Iraq -- “now that we are there . . ." His pointless Bush-bashing detracts from having to address the elites who are behind the curtain really running the show (and providing his paycheck) or having to address the war crimes committed by Bush and Cheney. Stewart, like other gatekeepers, doesn’t stray far from the official mythologies peddled by Uncle Sam and cleverly focuses on ‘personalities’ and not real issues. Although gatekeepers may provide some peripheral information (not in the corporate media) for the citizen to ponder they are deliberately marginalized in acting on it; the politicians and the corporate media are instrumental in blocking real action for change. All the exits are covered -- by the occupiers.

The corporate media and the liberal gatekeepers, not surprisingly, are funded by the same elite structures -- foundations and corporations -- whose mission it is to protect the elite and their shadow government that are truly in control, while they distract the public with their mindless drone about Hollywood and sports celebrities. When the duopoly talk about the ‘liberal media’ they omit that people like FOX (News Corp) Rupert Murdoch -- neocon and pro-Zionist media mogul -- provide some of the most dumbed down, decadent and degrading entertainment on TV. Murdoch recently acquired MySpace.com -- for reasons I think may be suspect and nefarious. In short, there are no liberal media -- they're all one big happy corporate family fooling and dividing you. All one needs to do is to examine the cross pollination that exists in corporate boardrooms -- like the Carlyle director sitting on the (so called ‘liberal’) New York Times board.

Hollywood hedonism is a propaganda by-product of the media conglomerates -- and worshiping and creating ‘stars’ has long been cultivated as part of the cultural phenomenon -- as epitomized by absurdly hedonistic award shows like the Oscars where the ‘stars’ kiss each others asses -- all fed to the public via the corporate media for their distraction and fantasy.

Hollywood, as part of the elite corporate community, has been instrumental since the beginning of moving pictures in creating propaganda for the masses that operate under the radar as entertainment meant to distort reality and deceive the population. Creating a confused public provides grist for the corporate media to distract and divide people while other crimes against the people are ignored -- look here, not there.

Distractions are created deliberately to keep us focused on trivial things while those in power move incrementally towards enslaving us and destroying real human values. Hollywood is an integral part of the New World Order / Corporate Propaganda Machine that serves to undermine American values and independence.

Some CFR members from Hollywood are Michael Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss and Warren Beatty -- what are they doing at the Pratt House? Anyway, people are seeing through Hollywood and their deviant propaganda products -- the sleeping giant is awakening to the fraud foisted upon them.

Although the corporate media is the main gatekeeper for the general public the liberal/progressive left has its own circle of controlled alternative media -- much of it interspersed with new age hype to dilute credibility. Discussions of the New World Order, 9/11 truth, the emerging police state, City of London International banking, the privately owned Federal Reserve cartel, chemtrails and weather modification by the military (see HAARP), and other critical issues are deliberately avoided. A recent C-SPAN phone Q&A with Robert Dreyfus had a caller ask about 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing and the conversation was, as is typical, immediately redirected by the moderator to another topic and the caller was disconnected. That is media gatekeeping in action. Don’t ask questions -- move along . . . never happened . . .

A recent article, “Noam Chomsky -- Controlled Asset of the New World Order," by Daniel Abrahamson, confirmed my suspicions and disappointment about the ‘master of dissent’ as I have often wondered why his view of the 9/11 official story and other matters of importance diverged. How can one maintain employment by MIT for decades, a giant government contractor and still rant on about US Imperialism?

Abrahamson shares that while Chomsky blames ‘America’ and ‘corporations,’ he fails to acknowledge the hidden Globalist over class which pulls the strings, using the US as an engine of creation and destruction -- and after pinning the world's ills on American imperialism, he offers the solution of world government under the UN. Chomsky calls the CFR, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Groups nothing organizations.

Chomsky’s hero status is amplified by left gatekeeper publications like Z Magazine, The Nation, The Progressive and Democracy Now! -- all receive funding from Globalist-front groups like the Rockefeller, Carnegie and MacArthur Foundations.

The AM (Alternate Media): If you are reading this it is neither in the New York Times’ op-ed section nor in The Nation. As in the corporate media and the so called liberal alternative media, the AM has writers, researchers and content that are not equal and requires sorting out by the reader. Like pulling on a thread it leads you somewhere and it is up to each of us to hone our researching skills to add to our database of useful information already acquired and to use our precious time recognizing what is useful in further developing our understanding. Recognize the difference between a rant and good research.

Educated in cultural anthropology, I have been researching for several years now and use AM for my checks against corporate media and alternative media sources, and for new sources of information. Multiple sources are needed to verify conclusions and I have tried to present an informative article based on these practices. I have a list (provided later) of core sites I frequent; there are writers/journalists I look for who have high standards for research and analysis -- with new additions as my research widens. It is up to each of us to be Information Guerillas and to seek out the truth no matter what horrors and atrocities we discover -- to be free is to seek the truth no matter where it leads. And as I attempted to do here -- share your knowledge with others and encourage dialogue and discovery.

Thus far, we have shown that both Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same, both working for the same masters. We have also pointed out that not all media are equal and the corporate media and liberal gatekeepers are financed by the same corporations and foundations and controlled by the CIA. At the top of this power pyramid is the New World Order cabal with their shadow governments. Alternate Media is the last bastion of free speech and Internet 2 is soon coming -- print or save your important articles.

Now for the really ugly and nasty stuff . . .

Destroying America for the New World Order

Chemtrails. . . . In the Skies, but not in the News . . .

Having observed CTs (chemtrails) for some time I am convinced that our leaders (and their masters) would not hesitate killing 3,000 citizens if it served their purpose, which, undoubtedly, 9/11 has. With two illegal wars and more already in the early stages, the construction of a police state (the soft cage) and 800 detention centers (and Halliburton building more), the bipartisan passage of the un-PATRIOT Act (It is us they fear, not the terrorists) which abrogates the Constitution and the creation of the phony War on Terror (renamed the Long War), etc., it is clear that they have Americans targeted for population reduction and enslavement.

Chemtrails have been sprayed across America by the military and contractors almost daily since at least 1998 -- begun by Democrat Bill Clinton. Chemtrails include aluminum and barium oxides, the very toxic pesticide ethylene bromide and raw jet fuel occasionally mixed with bio germ toxic cocktails like pseudomonas fluorescens and mycoplasma.

Amy Worthington’s “Chemtrails: Delivery System for Dept. of Death’s Toxic Cocktails” details some of the biochemical warfare ‘experiments’ the military has conducted on the American people in the last 50 years. The sharp increase of respiratory illnesses and various cancers indicates they are succeeding at killing many thousands with compromised immune systems and weakening others exposed to CTs.

Ken Welch concludes in his “Chemtrails -- Predictions” written earlier this year that this is a two-step process with Chemtrails spraying first and then ‘for the second part, the biological culmination, is the intentional release of the1918 Spanish Influenza, or some minor but souped-up variation..'

According to Michael Chertoff’s (DHS) announcement on March 9, the same day the un-PATRIOT Act was renewed, the avian flu is a mere months away from reaching the US. Dr. Len Horowitz tells us in his article, “Avian Flu Fright: Politically Timed for Global Iatrogenocide” that ‘if the avian flu becomes more than a threatened epidemic, it will have done so by political and economic design,’ adding that this would also serve depopulation objectives. These merchants of death in the military-industrial-academic/research complex see biochemical warfare and weather modification (experimenting and creating ‘natural’ disasters has been going on for decades) as ‘conflicts short of war’ economic substitutes for standard militarization. Both Dr. Horowitz and Jerry Mazza (“The AIDS Virus: Made in the USA?” Online Journal, 10/26/05) explain that AIDS was created in a military lab and was deliberately transmitted to Africa and India via smallpox vaccines by the WHO -- a Rockefeller funded organization. The Ebola virus, the swine flu, Lyme disease, West Niles virus, SARS and other bioengineered weapons made by the US have been used as ‘test runs’ before the ‘Big One,' now being propagandized by the leaders and the corporate media, is possibly unleashed.

A weakened and compromised population offers little resistance to the authorities.

The current mumps (a normally mild virus) outbreak in the Midwest was called a useful ‘drill’ by a CDC spokesperson. According to Patricia Doyle, PhD, the virus has mutated away from that which the vaccine covers, rendering it useless. Is this another test?

If this is enough to scare you, consider that the 1918 Spanish Flu (H5N1) has been recreated (what madness!!) and is in the labs of the CDC and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology! No doubt the elites will have their vaccines close at hand when and if the Big One is unleashed.

Today, the Rockefeller family, its foundation, the UN and WHO remain at the forefront of administering ‘population programs’ designed to reduce world populations to more ‘manageable’ levels. The David Rockefeller directed Council of Foreign Relations periodical Foreign Affairs has advertised targeting the US for 50 percent reduction.

A note on Chertoff: The dual (US/Israeli) citizen has two deputies working in Homeland Security -- ex-KGB General Yevgeni Primakov and ex-STASI (East German intelligence) Markus Wolfe -- both declared terrorists by the US in the 1990s. Why would DHS have these kinds of folks working in America? This is eerily similar to the CIA’s Operation Paperclip where hundreds if not thousands of Nazi scientists were brought to the US after World War II to expand torture, mind control and biowarfare techniques for the CIA. Incidentally, almost a hundred microbiologists have been murdered or committed ‘suicide’ in the last few years -- a coincidence? For more on Chertoff visit Newswithviews.com Patrick Briley's extensive and enlightening expose. This is the guy protecting you!

President Bush has already warned us that in the event of an avian flu pandemic people would be quarantined (martial law) and forced to take vaccinations (we know can’t possibly work). The cowardly and complicit Congress has budgeted $8 billion for Tamiflu made by Roche (formerly I.G. Farben, a Nazi era company supported by and benefiting the Rockefellers, Harriman’s and the Bushes before, during and after WW II), which Dr Horowitz warns us could be the ‘flu vaccine’ that will precisely deliver this pandemic to the world to affect population control.

Vaccinations are usually harmful -- such an example is the Lyme disease vaccine that crippled 750,000 people within months of its release and subsequent recall by the FDA. The anthrax vaccine has had similar results with the forced vaccinations of military personnel, and much of the population’s outright rejection and refusal to take it including health care first responders. Dr. Horowitz states in his article that “a growing body of scientific evidence strongly suggests vaccines are largely responsible for increasing cases of autism and other learning disabilities, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, Lupus, MS, ALS, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, hay fever, allergies, chronic draining ear infections, type 1 autoimmune diabetes, and many, many more pandemics.

A note on martial law: One million foreign troops are alleged to be 'training' at various locations on US soil. Once martial law goes into effect they will be used to detain and control the population as part of the 'peacekeeper force' of the UN. (This is the real mission of FEMA -- population control -- not disaster relief, see educate-yourself.com) Over the years white UN vehicles have been noticed being shipped by rail in many parts of the country. Eight hundred detention centers are estimated to exist in America with base closings becoming new centers; along with large vacated industrial parks being converted into same. Halliburton just received a $385 million contract to build more detention centers 'rapidly' for 'new programs.'

Beginning in the 1950s, underground cities for the elites and 'government officials' have been created and increased in the 1990s under Clinton, bringing the completely self-sustaining underground cities to about 135. There is protection for the elites but not for American citizens. What are they expecting or planning?

These are not things that our elected officials share with us or have the authority to do without our permission; yet they do whatever they want under the guise of 'National Security' and other phony pretexts. This is the shadow government at work.
Next: In Part 3 we will continue to discuss the destruction of America by the New World Order cabal, the powers behind the curtain.

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The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America, part 3 of 3
Tibor S. Friedman
Online Journal Contributing Writer

May 10, 2006, 01:03

“Military men are just stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy” -- Kissinger
Depleted uranium weapons were first given by the US to Israel for use under US supervision in the 1973 Sinai war against the Arabs. Since then the US has tested, manufactured, and sold depleted uranium weapons systems to 29 countries. An international taboo prevented their use until 1991, when the US broke the taboo and used them for the first time, on the battlefields of Iraq and Kuwait.
Depleted uranium (DU) is a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) that was used under the direction of George H. W. Bush and then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney in the 1st Gulf War in 1991. Democrat Bill Clinton used it in the Balkans (and in Iraq, using the no-fly zones as cover) and it continues to be used today in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In Irving Wesley's “Depleted Uranium for Dummies,” he tells us that more than 400 tons were used in 1991; that rose to at least 2,000 tons in the Balkans, more than 1,000 tons used in Afghanistan and over 3,000 tons used so far in the current liberation of Iraq by George W. Bush.
The explosion of DU munitions on the battlefield creates microscopic and submicroscopic insoluble uranium oxide particles that remain suspended in the air and travel around the earth as a radioactive component of atmospheric dust, contaminating the environment, indiscriminately killing, maiming and causing disease in all living things where rain, snow and moisture remove it from the atmosphere
DU is a death sentence not only for our soldiers and their families but also for all the people whose land is forever contaminated -- with DU attacking the master code of DNA.
Eleven thousand troops have died and over 500,000 are on disability from the 1st Gulf War -- 56 percent of those having served now have serious health problems.
Depleted Uranium use is genocide and a war crime of the highest order. It is now circulating around the world via the trade winds and has been detected in the UK. It will eventually arrive in the US and to add to what already exists here, as exposed recently in a report on LANL (Los Alamos National Lab) detailing Weapons Testing of Depleted Uranium by explosions and fires in the open air in New Mexico, near Santa Fe -- contaminating the area forever. Forty-two states in America are contaminated with nuclear waste, DU weapons manufacturing and testing.
It is clear that the insane are running the asylum. Who are the real terrorists?
In “Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,” Leuren Moret, a former Livermore Labs expert, provides a deeper analysis of this greatest of all crimes against humanity.
It is important to note and understand that the complicit and criminal Congress and the corporate media refuse to address or report on chemtrails (CTs) and DU, two major crimes against humanity -- open conspiracies that one can see up in the skies and in military personnel returning who are having children with multiple birth defects.
I have sent many articles and email to my representatives, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Rep. Maurice Hinchey, and the corporate media about these two specific issues and have never received any replies. This is how their system works -- they ignore and marginalize dissent.
These are war crimes committed by both Democrats and Republicans against humanity.
The hysteria now echoing in the corporate media about a nuclear Iran requires reasoned analysis before we all buy into the same lies we were sold before attacking Iraq. Jack Smith’s article, “Bush’s War Plans Include the Use of Nuclear Weapons,” provides a sane appraisal of the madness contrary to what we are fed daily by the corporate media and propagandists.
Poisoning and Drugging Americans . . . Population Control and Profits
The recent Food Labeling Act passed by the corrupt Congress allows further relaxation of labeling requirements on what is in your food, essentially letting the corporate food conglomerates to poison you at will!
GMOs (genetically modified organisms), rather than feeding the world as Bill Clinton -- responsible for the FDA approval of these poisonous products -- would have us believe are cash cows for Monsanto, ADM, DuPont and Dow, et al, and a way for the New World Order (NWO) to control the world's food supply. As an example, Paul Bremer, former Viceroy of Iraq and Medal of Freedom recipient, issued 100 orders before fleeing the country. Order 81 specifically dealt with prohibiting the saving of seeds as they have in Mesopotamia (Iraq) -- the cradle of civilization and agriculture -- for thousands of years and required that they instead buy and use GMO seeds from Monsanto, DuPont and Dow.
William Engdahl’s articles on this subject are a must read: “Iraq and Washington’s ‘seeds of democracy’” and “WTO, GMO and Total Spectrum Dominance.”
Bremer's illegal orders also call for the privatization of all Iraq’s state owned industries and services with multinational (American) corporations getting them for pittance. This is predatory globalization. Have you ever heard these 100 orders discussed in the corporate media? Of course not.
What will Iraq look like if the new "government" succumbs to US dictates and Bremer's Orders? "A small sampling of the most important orders demonstrates the economic imprint left by the Bush administration: Order No. 39 allows for: (1) privatization of Iraq's 200 state-owned enterprises; (2) 100 percent foreign ownership of Iraqi businesses; (3) 'national treatment' -- which means no preferences for local over foreign businesses; (4) Unrestricted, tax-free remittance of all profits and other funds; and (5) 40-year ownership licenses," wrote Antonia Juhasz, a project director at the International Forum on Globalization in San Francisco (LA Times, August 5, 2004).
Other poisons our fascist (corporate /government) leaders allow in the water and air and food: Fluoride, MSG, aspartame (a product introduced by Searle -- eventually Monsanto -- a company where Rumsfeld was CEO and with his coercion was approved by the FDA), chlorine, hydrogenated oils, and so on . . . some food for thought as you go shopping. Mike Adams’ article, “The Mass Poisoning of Humanity,” further elaborates on this -- another ongoing bipartisan crime committed for money by Congress.
As Democrats start whining again this election cycle about wanting to get universal healthcare for all Americans, we need to remember that these folks along with their criminal partners, the Republicans, are responsible for the above toxic warfare against us. You never hear much about preventative initiatives only about ‘cheap drug access,’ which still benefits Big Pharma. Newswithviews.com contributor, Carolyn Dean, MD, has researched that an estimated 748,000 people die annually using modern medicines (allopathic) products and services.
America is Broke and Deep in Debt . . . Leveling the Playing Field
The national debt is $8.5 trillion, with the ceiling now at $9 trillion, and consumer debt (your mortgage, car loans, etc) is $50 trillion. The international banking elites (Trilateral Commission, CFR, Bilderberg) having exported your well paying jobs -- American manufacturing, businesses and technologies -- now have you indebted to their banks without you having the means to really pay them back! This has been the plan all along - a bankrupt nation has no leverage against the elites that own the banks, control the policies and work towards creating a global totalitarian government.
A brief introduction to the Federal Reserve System is required at this point to fully appreciate the catastrophe that we now face.
The Federal Reserve is a privately owned banking cartel. It is not federal nor is there any reserve. It creates fiat currency out of thin air (printed by the Treasury Dept. upon the Fed’s request) and is backed by no gold reserve but by the faith of the user.
The Federal Reserve System was established by the passing of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 by a handful of senators on Christmas Eve when most lawmakers had gone home; primary among them was Senator Nelson Aldrich, father-in-law of John D Rockefeller who had organized a meeting of the major bankers at the Rockefeller and Morgan owned Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia in 1910.
The highly secretive meeting -- as told by Edward Griffin in his informative book “The Creature from Jekyll Island” -- was to come to an agreement on the structure and operation of a banking cartel. The goal of the cartel, as is true with all cartels, was to maximize profits by minimizing competition between members, to make it difficult for new competitors to enter the field, and to utilize the police power of government to enforce the cartel agreement. In more specific terms, the purpose and, indeed, the actual outcome of this meeting was to create the blueprint for the Federal Reserve System.
With the stroke of a pen President Woodrow Wilson and the US Congress abdicated their constitutional responsibility to control and print currency based on actual gold reserves and as a consequence we have been an occupied nation since 1913.
Ten Families Are the Private Owners of the Federal Reserve: The Occupiers
1. Rothschild Bank of London
2. Warburg Bank of Hamburg
3. Rothschild Bank of Berlin
4. Lehman Brothers of New York
5. Lazard Brothers of Paris
6. Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
7. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
8. Goldman, Sachs of New York
9. Warburg Bank of Amsterdam
10. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York (Rockefeller)
Eustace Mullins in "World Order" says, “Besides its controlling interest in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Rothschilds had developed important financial interests in other parts of the US . . . The entire Rockefeller empire was financed by the Rothschilds”
In 2000, the estimated worth of the Rothschilds was over $100 trillion and the Rockefeller family’s was $11 trillion. How much is enough one could ask?
For more on the creation of the ‘Fed,’ see “A Talk by Edward Griffin” and on The Modern History Project's site, “Final Warning: A History of the New World Order” -- Ch. 2.3 (this free on line book is recommended and is an excellent overview of the NWO).
The Federal Reserve quietly announced that as of March 20, it would no longer publish M3 data used by the public, investors or bond holders to know how much currency exists. Without it, there is no way to gauge how much a "dollar" is truly worth. Inflation, as the average person knows all too well, is not what the US government claims.
Sources in the U.S. Treasury have leaked that the Federal Reserve recently ordered $2 trillion to be printed! The U.S. Treasury is allegedly running printing presses 24/7 to accommodate that order. Treasury employees were specifically ordered not to talk about this to anyone because it could cause economic collapse. It is speculated that the whole Immigration Amnesty Debate (especially the well-funded, organised and well-attended protests) was deliberately scheduled to take place to divert attention from this massive printing/devaluation of the U.S. dollar.
Three hundred trillion in derivatives (market side bets that no one can explain how they work) are about to implode as those in that business say it is getting unmanageable. Is the whole planet leveraged? Warren Buffet calls derivatives the neutron bomb waiting to go off.
It is believed that the miraculous surplus in some state coffers and the rise in the stock market -- the pumping up -- have been attributed to this excess cash being spread around by the Fed. The real question is why the bankers would intentionally create a hyperinflationary environment unless they desire to collapse the US economy. It was the bankers who engineered the crash of 1929 and then bought up stocks afterwards for pennies on the dollar, consolidating even greater wealth.
On April 25, Rep. Ron Paul (R) of Texas addressed Congress. In his speech, “What the price of gold is telling us,” he was the only brave and honest member of Congress to denounce fiat currency as practiced by the Federal Reserve and the dangers it represents to our economy and political system. He told us that “Inflation, as exposed by high gold prices, transfers wealth from the middle class to the rich, as real wages decline while the salaries of CEOs, movie stars, and athletes skyrocket -- along with the profits of the military industrial complex, the oil industry, and other special interests.” Visit his site.
Reporting on Greenspan's final G7 meeting, Reuters last December 3 noted, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, who chaired the meeting of finance leaders from the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, said Greenspan”has served not only America but the whole world.”
“As you know, yesterday he also became a freeman of the City of London and he has signed an oath of allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen to do so -- something as you know Americans have been reluctant to do for the last 250 years,” Brown told a closing news conference.
No further confession is requires. History will have to reveal the damage done to America by the criminal banker, CFR and Trilateral member Alan Greenspan.
This confirms what we already know, that the elites in the US (including the Bushes) have allegiance to the international bankers ensconced in the City of London -- the Rothschilds, the European elites and the Monarchy of Great Britain.
Another issue not covered here is the US Judicial System viewed by some international observers as one of the most corrupt in the world -- that serves to protect the elites and to punish those that offend and challenge the ruling class. The recent Moussaoui kangaroo trial, with no evidence and a series of ‘witnesses’ like the complicit Rudy Guiliani and 9/11 victims' survivors, had no merit other than the US looking for a ‘trophy case’ as a law professor noted. The case speaks volumes about coercion and propaganda.
The Great Dumbing Down of America . . . Preparing for Diminished Expectations
Television (owned by the corporate media) and the taxpayer-funded educational system are the two main forces that have deliberately and directly contributed to the mass dumbing down of Americans.
When viewing television the normal activity in the neocortex is diminished; while the lower brain regions (limbic system) associated with primal functions increases. The reptilian (lower brain) is unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality leaving us vulnerable to manipulation -- which the mind control specialists have taken full advantage of.
Early on the elites knew the potential of owning and harnessing the media for the purpose of mass mind control and used the guidance of the Tavistock Institute in London, which has conducted experiments in the creation of controlled chaos and their effects on populations. September 11 was an event meant to shock and immobilize people -- further conditioning them for brainwashing. Dr. Byron T. Weeks’ “Tavistock: The Best Kept Secret in America” details the nefarious history and reach of this institute through academia (Stanford), the think tanks and foundations in the United States.
Manuel Venezuela, in his incisive “Land of the Puppet People,” understands the power of mass control through television: Our masters can today do with us as they wish, using the television as the instrument to implant corporatist propaganda into our minds, knowing that millions upon millions of Americans no longer think for themselves, certain that the anemic education prevalent throughout the nation is succeeding in molding loyal sheep conditioned to obey, consume and produce.
Our thoughts are being homogenized; our minds now linger in the assembly lines of corporate propaganda, robbing us of individuality, of different personalities, of various tastes and wants. We are the pawns in the front lines of the corporatist takeover of our nation and most importantly, our minds, with those in power toying with us, making us marionettes whose strings are easily manipulated by the few who control television.
Concluding . . .
The Globalists and International bankers (NWO) as you can see have used and depleted Americas resources and after using this great country to undermine and destroy other nations in the world for their own control and benefit, they are now intent on destroying what remains of America as they turn us into another Third World country.
Returning to our original question -- why are our leaders turning America into a pariah in the world? Americans are increasingly concluding that neither party represents them and that they are both corrupt and ‘taking the country in the wrong direction.’ In fact this is what the NWO desires, as they offer the solution of a One World Government (the UN) as a means to address these problems. This shift is visible as the CFR, Hoover and Brookings Institute’s and others are used as ‘official sources’ to confirm that the NWO is now an open conspiracy and that the old way of governance is not suitable anymore.
So there you have it - a thumbnail sketch of the alternate view of the world as opposed to the sanitized propaganda spewed by the corporate media.
My wife and best friend said that this article is depressing, as it should be or not, if it allows us to wake up and realize that this precious life and the earth we all share is all we have, and to honor it is to do what we can within our limited purview to save it -- it is good.
We cannot let the forces that attempt to keep us ignorant win and we cannot allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the madness we see, hear and learn about. We should balance our lives with love in our pursuit of freedom of speech and a better world.
What Can We Do?
• Stop supporting and feeding the corporate ‘tapeworm,’ as Catherine Austin Fitts calls it. Divert your financial resources. Boycott Exxon-Mobil. Cut up your credit cards, and pay off your bills and your house if you can. Live within your means. I would suggest dumping stocks as well -- they will crash eventually. Remember gold and silver will be confiscated by DHS in case of an emergency; they have already notified the banks not to open safe deposit boxes without a DHS agent present. Invest in Survival.
• Boycott elections.
• Prepare. Stock up on supplies for at least three months or more; have a strategy when martial law takes effect. Share all this with your family and friends.
Recommended Sites:
Onlinejournal.com; Rense.com; whatreallyhappened.com; globalresearch.ca; another day in the empire.com; infowars/prisonplanet.com; counterpunch.com; joelskousen.com are some great sites offering eclectic and varied sources for analyses and information.
August Review.com -- Chronicles the process of Globalization and the creation and influence of the Trilateral Commission by David Rockefeller and Zbignew Breszinksi. Critical analysis of the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and BIS -- institutions for implementing the Trilateral plan for globalization. Google to ‘Trilateral Membership 2006’ -- at www.august review.com pdf 2006. The membership lists members and their affiliations; along with corporate members John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO is on the list as was Leonard Woodcock in 1976 -- and other curious labor / corporate collusions.
Newswithviews.com is another excellent site that is conservative and Globalization, NWO, communitarianism, sustainable growth issues are analyzed. I recommend Deanna Spingola’s “Bush’s War on Terror” 9 part series on the history of the War on Iraq.
Disclaimer: This commentary is free to reprint as long as the writer and Online Journal are credited, and is solely for educational purposes.

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Fri, 05 May 2006 10:26:34 GMT

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Watch the CNN interview: Retired U.S. Colonel thinks Bush started secret Iran War

elvis_4_peace — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:03:09 GMT

Dear Folks,

I pasted this article below from Rawstory.com and replaced the very long original links with shortened links that I generated at tinyurl.com. For instance, the original Rawstory article is at http://tinyurl.com/s8s5n.

Retired colonel claims U.S. military operations are already 'underway' in Iran

Ron Brynaert, Published: Saturday April 15, 2006

During an interview on CNN Friday night (link to original CNN transcript page at http://tinyurl.com/zr3qz), retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner claimed that U.S. military operations are already 'underway' inside Iran, RAW STORY has found.

"I would say -- and this may shock some -- I think the decision has been made and military operations are under way," Col. Gardiner told CNN International anchor Jim Clancy (as noted by Digby at the blog Hullabaloo, see http://tinyurl.com/qrwng).

(Crooks and Liars has a video clip of the interview at http://tinyurl.com/kxxua)

Gardiner, who designed a war game in November of 2004 for Atlantic Magazine (see original article at http://tinyurl.com/dykvx) which simulated "preparations for a U.S. assault on Iran," also claimed that Aliasghar Soltaniyeh, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told him a few weeks ago that units who had attacked the Revolutionary Guard had been captured and confessed to working with Americans.

"The secretary point is, the Iranians have been saying American military troops are in there, have been saying it for almost a year," Gardiner said. "I was in Berlin two weeks ago, sat next to the ambassador, the Iranian ambassador to the IAEA. And I said, 'Hey, I hear you're accusing Americans of being in there operating with some of the units that have shot up revolution guard units.'"

"He said, quite frankly, 'Yes, we know they are. We've captured some of the units, and they've confessed to working with the Americans,'" said the retired Air Force colonel.

Last Thursday, Raw Story's Larisa Alexandrovna reported (On Cheney, Rumsfeld order, US outsourcing special ops, intelligence to Iraq terror group, intelligence officials say, see original article at http://tinyurl.com/qdaya) that, according to former and current intelligence officials, the Pentagon has been using a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) as an operational asset "to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack."

"[I]nstead of securing a known terrorist organization, which has been responsible for acts of terror against Iranian targets and individuals all over the world – including US civilian and military casualties – Rumsfeld under instructions from Cheney, began using the group on special ops missions into Iran to pave the way for a potential Iran strike," Larisa reported.

"They are doing whatever they want, no oversight at all,” an intelligence source told Larisa.

Larisa reported that the MEK soldiers were told to "quit" their organization and were "renamed" in accordance with a plan conceived by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld so that they could be "converted" into a military special ops team.

According to a UN official close to the Security Council whom Larisa interviewed, the "newly renamed MEK soldiers" were being employed in the place of U.S. military advance teams to commit "acts of violence in hopes of staging an insurgency of the Iranian Sunni population."

“We are already at war,” the UN official told RAW STORY.

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EUROPE PREDICTS the beginning of a major world crisis!!!

in-PHI-net — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:34:39 GMT

http://newropeans-magazine.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3463&Itemid=85

The Laboratoire européen d’Anticipation Politique Europe 2020 (LEAP/E2020) now estimates to over 80% the probability that the week of March 20-26, 2006 will be the beginning of the most significant political crisis the world has known since the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, together with an economic and financial crisis of a scope comparable with that of 1929.

How much of this is being programmed into our heads by the European Elitist Bankers. I mean after all it was the Elitist Europeans who first invaded this beautiful Country (and many others) . It was the Europeans who slaughtered the many pagans by the hands of Rome, slaughtered the Native people, gave birth to Hitler and the likes.... Europe colonialized and invaded most every country in the world when they had destroyed so much of their own....

The ultimate emergence of another power in Europe that is rising will absolutely stun the world. It will truly become the greatest global super-power the world has ever seen! It will be so great, so powerful, so economically viable, productive and successful that it will evoke WORSHIP from the masses under its sway, as well as adoration, adjuration and worship from nations all over the world! The coming super-state in Europe will be mostly of ONE RELIGION! And what is the majority religion of Europe? In most cases, it is ROMAN CATHOLIC.

THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

The forming of Ten nations in Europe— to evolve into what will be called "the UNITED STATES OF EUROPE"—will perhaps see that power move to OCCUPY PALESTINE (modern "Israel")—and when the world sees the POPE move his official headquarters to JERUSALEM, then perhaps....

Hitler brought about STATE WORSHIP. With his constant emphasis on the "super race"; his carefully orchestrated nighttime torchlight parades; his foam-flecked, shouting, mesmerizing speeches, caused the German people to utterly subject their personal will to Hitler's will. Thus, the adoration of the man and the state became one. Utter Idolatry. It may happen again.

The coming "beast"; the dictator of a United States of Europe, perhaps will be hailed as a "deliverer"; perhaps he will be worshiped! Already, there are countless MILLIONS of people in dozens of nations who worship the Pope! They adore, revere, and WORSHIP a human being who takes the very titles of God Himself! The present-day pope is no doubt worshiped by more people than any pope in all history! And some say waiting in the wings, soon to emerge, will be a super-dictator; a new "savior of Europe"; a major POLITICAL figure, who will weld the ten nations together into the greatest power the world has ever seen. He, also, will command adulation; adoration, worship from his followers.

Radio and television broadcasts that, "a `United States of Europe' will be formed, consisting of TEN NATIONS, FROM THE URALS TO THE ATLANTIC, possessing nuclear weapons." The pope, during a visit in West Germany, called for a "United Europe from the Urals to the Atlantic". Have you looked at a map of Europe lately? The Urals are a mountain chain deep inside Russia—East of Moscow. This expression was used by the geopoliticians, men such as Makinder and Haushofer, who believed the major power in the world lay in the heartland of Europe! The heartland of Europe; Central Europe, was the core of the many revivals of the "Holy Roman Empire", ruled over by many, many popes in Rome.

10 HORNS - This relates to the Confederation of Independent States being originally a Confederation of 10 states, although I think it is more now. Interestingly there is a red 10-horned beast in Revelations. It is explained in Revelations that this is a Confederation of 10 states that rises to power to overcome the people.

So now in the world we have a growing hatred for USA, the “Land of the Free”.

We are being subject to a lot of psychic abuse and hatred being directed towards us as a whole. But we forget that those people that are in political power right now are very PRO-EUROPEAN. It is not fair to the majority of us who really believe in the “Land of the Free”, when everywhere else has been destroyed and conquered/influences by the Europeans. CROWN LAND. Does the Queen still really own us all?

The Royal family in England, and the Roman Papal hierarchy. What is really at play here? Where are they involved in all of this? How much do they really own? There is a gap right now-- a gap in the market, but it’s also a political gap. People are looking at just what Bush is doing, but they don't understand the full dynamic. They don't understand how FOREIGN POLICY, domestic policy and what's happening to the unions are all one process. The people at the top of the country -- the people on Wall Street, in Europe, in the White House, in the Royal Palace, the people in the big banks -- know it's one process. The falling rate of profit is what is pushing it.

Neo-liberalism is designed to increase private companies' profits, and to drive down the welfare state, government spending and working class incomes. And that is happening because economic conditions are getting worse for them. The rate of profit fell all over the industrial world in the 1970s and has not since been restored.

More firms are going bust, which leads to increased competition between corporations, national economies and regional economies. And inequality of every kind gets worse. That is not just a crisis for us, it is a crisis for the people who run the corporations. They are all scared that they will go under, so they compete, but they also attack working people more viciously.

Anti-Americanism is on the rise.

People watch what's happening in Abu Ghraib or Fallujah and think, "It's the Americans." This is causing a wave of “nationalism” (which will help implement this One World Order). You can see it all over Europe, with the argument that the European Union (EU) would be a good counterweight to the US. You can see it in Palestinian leaders who are looking for alliances with the EU. You can see it in different ways with John Kerry.

There is a ruling class, and it is made up of human beings that are not solely from the USA. The Marxist method may seem that it is the best way to make sense of the world. The anti-war movement can fight on its heart, but it can't win without understanding. And there is much too little understanding at the moment. The way to win people is not to try to have an argument with what everyone else says and just point fingers, but to pull it together and make sense of it ALL as a whole: looking at the roots of domination and war from the beginning.

By crippling the USA, and with all the supposed “natural disasters’ going on in the USA a stage is being set up for a takeover which is trying to plunge us into the European standard of dictatorship. A One World Order ruled by only a few men at the top.

The global elite. The global nationalist bankers. The Bilderberg group of Europe. http://www.crystalinks.com/bilderberg.html

Some men have come to occupy positions in the World Society from which they can look down upon, so to speak, and by their decisions and banking power mightily affect the everyday worlds of ordinary men and women. They are not made by their jobs; they set up and break down jobs for thousands of others; they are not confined by simple family responsibilities; they can escape. They may live in many hotels and houses and traverse the world, but they are bound by no one community. They need not merely 'meet the demands of the day and hour'; in some part, they create these demands, and cause others to meet them. Whether or not they profess their power, their technical and political experience of it far transcends that of the underlying population. What Jacob Burckhardt said of 'great men,' most Americans might well say of their elite: 'They are all that we are not.'

The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences. Whether they do or do not make such decisions is less important than the fact that they do occupy such pivotal positions: their failure to act, their failure to make decisions, is itself an act that is often of greater consequence than the decisions they do make. For they are in command of the major hierarchies and organizations of modern society. THEY RULE BIG CORPORATIONS. They run the machinery of the state and claim its prerogatives. They direct the military establishment. They occupy the strategic command posts of the social structure, in which are now centered the effective means of the power and the wealth and the celebrity which they enjoy. They run the banking system.

The power elite are not solitary rulers. Advisers and consultants, spokesmen and opinion-makers are often the captains of their higher thought and decision. Immediately below the elite are the professional politicians of the middle levels of power, in the Congress and in the pressure groups, as well as among the new and old upper classes of town and city and region. Mingling with them, in curious ways which we shall explore, are those professional celebrities who live by being continually displayed but are never, so long as they remain celebrities, displayed enough If such celebrities are not at the head of any dominating hierarchy, they do often have the power to distract the attention of the public or afford sensations to the masses, or, more directly, to gain the ear of those who do occupy positions of direct power. More or less unattached, as critics of morality and technicians of power, as spokesmen of God and creators of mass sensibility, such celebrities and consultants are part of the immediate scene in which the drama of the elite is enacted. But that drama itself is centered in the command posts of the major institutional hierarchies.

The economy-once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance-has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated, which together hold the keys to economic decisions.
The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized, executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered, and now enters into each and every crany of the social structure.

WHO WILL GAIN FROM ANTI_AMERICANISM?

The European Union
“The European Union (EU) is not a federation like the United States. Nor is it simply an organization for co-operation between governments, like the United Nations. It is, in fact, unique. The countries that make up the EU (its "member states") pool their sovereignty in order to gain a strength and world influence none of them could have on its own. Pooling sovereignty means, in practice, that the member states delegate some of their decision-making powers to shared institutions they have created, so that decisions on specific matters of joint interest can be made democratically at European level.”

The Council of the European Union
“The Council of the European Union represents the member states, and its meetings are attended by one minister from each of the EU's national governments. Each minister in the Council is empowered to commit his or her government. In other words, the minister's signature is the signature of the whole government. Moreover, each minister in the Council is answerable to his or her national parliament and to the citizens that parliament represents. This ensures the democratic legitimacy of the Council's decisions.”

The Court of Justice
“The Court of Justice ensures that EU legislation (technically known as "Community law") is interpreted and applied in the same way in each member state. In other words, that it is always identical for all parties and in all circumstances. The Court has the power to settle legal disputes between member states, EU institutions, businesses and individuals.”

Main bodies of the European Union

The European Central Bank
“The European Central Bank is a financial body of the European Union. It was set up in 1998, under the Treaty on European Union, to introduce and manage the new currency - conducting foreign exchange operations and ensuring the smooth operation of payment systems. The ECB is also responsible for framing and implementing the EU's economic and monetary policy.”

The European Investment Bank
“The European Investment Bank is a financial body of the European Union. It helps achieve the Union's objectives by financing certain types of investment project.”

The European Economic and Social Committee
“The European Economic and Social Committee is an advisory body of the European Union. It represents employers, trade unions, farmers, consumers and the other interest groups that collectively make up "organized civil society". It presents their views and defends their interests in policy discussions with the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament.”

The Committee of the Regions
“The Committee of the Regions is an advisory body of the European Union. It is composed of representatives of Europe's regional and local authorities. It ensures that these authorities have a say in European Union policymaking and that regional and local identities and prerogatives are respected.”

Members States of the European Union

Belgium
France.
Germany.
Italy.
Luxembourg.
Netherlands.
Denmark.
Ireland.
United Kingdom.
Greece.
Portugal.
Spain.
Austria.
Finland.
Sweden.
Cyprus.
Czech Republic.
Estonia.
Hungary.
Latvia.
Lithuania.
Malta.
Poland.
Slovakia.
Slovenia.

Bush and his forefathers are not really devoted to USA, nor do they honor the Land of The Free. They have been working closely with European ties since the days when Bush’s grandfather was financing Hitler. A lot of the bourgeois and rich that are found here in the US & Canada are from European descent, and after raping, bombing and plundering their own countries into a despot of bad air, fowled land and water, they moved on to conquer this beautiful land here that we call the North American continent.

hmmmmn....well, well, well.....we shall see...

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Eaton == Patriot!

timbo — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:16:54 GMT

Paul D. Eaton is the two star general stationed in Iraq in 2003-04 to build up the Iraqi military. In a NYT article yesterday he unleashed a scathing attack on Rumsfeld's conduct of the war in Iraq, calling for his resignation for incompetence. Here's an excerpt. The rest of the article contains a lot of red meat as well...

A Top-Down Review for the Pentagon

By PAUL D. EATON
Published: March 19, 2006

Fox Island, Wash.
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DURING World War II, American soldiers en route to Britain before D-Day were given a pamphlet on how to behave while awaiting the invasion. The most important quote in it was this: "It is impolite to criticize your host; it is militarily stupid to criticize your allies."

By that rule, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is not competent to lead our armed forces. First, his failure to build coalitions with our allies from what he dismissively called "old Europe" has imposed far greater demands and risks on our soldiers in Iraq than necessary. Second, he alienated his allies in our own military, ignoring the advice of seasoned officers and denying subordinates any chance for input.

In sum, he has shown himself incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically, and is far more than anyone else responsible for what has happened to our important mission in Iraq. Mr. Rumsfeld must step down.

For rest of article see...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/19eaton.html

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Al Gore gives a speach excoriating the US Congress

timbo — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:38:59 GMT

Link to Real Player feed

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/ter/ter011606_gore.rm

Link to transcript--

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html

He is calling for a Special Prosecutor and demanding that the Congress perform oversight on the Executive branch. He also systematically demolishes many of the assertions of the administration and its supports, chastizing those who are still believers in a Constitutional form of government for complicity or laziness. One of the best political speaches in recent years and possibly his best speach ever, he comes across as someone who understands the situation and what it may well take to correct it.

Also of particular interest is his indictment of the theory that we are in a perpetual actual war.

Good going, Al!

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Violations of the USC for attending political events in uniform

timbo — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:30 GMT

The degradation of good discipline continues in the US Military as military personnel are beginning to appear in uniform at Republican political events...in contravention of US Military regulations and US statutes preventing political activities by active duty personnel.

reference

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060304/NEWS01/603040311/1002

specifically

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/larimercogop.jpg

a photo taken at the event but not appearing in the article from the Coloradoan.

This appears to be a clear violation of

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/html2/d134410x.htm

See TPM for regular follow ups on this issue...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

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Mora == Patriot

timbo — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:08:13 GMT

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060227fa_fact

When will the Congress get down to the business of ridding of us of this cancer on our Constitution? The respect for the Congress seems to be none at all in the office of the President, the Vice President, the Department of Justice, and the Pentagon. Bush has even nominated Haynes to the appelate court in Virginia! The coup seems to be underway...

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Bruce Bartlett--Patriot

timbo — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:15:16 GMT

http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2006-02-16/news/feature_full.html

Seems like even some of the conservative intellectuals have had enough of the Bush tripe...

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Rowland machine question

timbo — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:42:41 GMT

So, Rowland, the recently convicted govenor of Connecticutt, was being ballyhooed as a Presidential candidate for the GOP for years and years. The Enron crap, under Rowland's gang, cost Connecticutt $100s of millions of dollars in a bogus waste disposal contract. Now, my question is, what group of people were pushing Rowland to be a GOP presidential candidate in 2008? It seems the Duke Cunningham investigation has common players with the Rowland prosecution...so, who at the top ot the GOP was helping direct Rowland's career?

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bush is coming to denver

rod — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:02:45 GMT

greetings all, is there any protest of bush coming to denver? rod

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Calling All Interns & Staffers Working On The Hill

Clare — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:05:13 GMT

National cable network casting new docu-series showcasing a
never-before-seen look into the world of politics, through the lives of
ambitious men & women working on The Hill. This can include anyone from
interns, staffers, lobbyists, grassroots organizations to think tanks. This
groundbreaking show will be a fly-on-the-wall view of democracy in action
with a dynamic cast of individuals who may eventually go on to run the
country! For more information call 212-613-5417 or e-mail chgcasting@yahoo.com ASAP!

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Fitzgerald cannot provide Libby's defense with certain emails...

timbo — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:55:23 GMT

...because they were apparently deleted!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/387392p-328749c.html

See last paragraph for the bombshell. This is the only story covering this so maybe this is a rumor. We'll see in a few days no doubt. A rumor like that has to be either quelled or explained as best as possible...otherwise, its obstruction to any reasonable person.

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Newsweek Article uncovering struggle in DoJ over torture and domestic spying, Plame, etc

timbo — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:39:22 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11079547/site/newsweek/

Very interesting. I believe this article is seeing the light of day because of the upcoming Justice Committee hearings in the Senate...

Thankfully, there are still some people who put their integrity and oaths of office above the passions of the day. Or not...as long as their our checks and balances to tyrannical power, I'm happy.

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The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True

Dave — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:44:42 GMT

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GRI20060129&articleId=1846

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Zogby poll

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:41:42 GMT

Today, Zogby released polling results that stated that as of today, 52% of all Americans want Bush impeached for willfully breaking our laws and violating our Constitution by continuously approving illegal wiretapping of American citizens 1984-style. Interestingly, this story isn't making much news.

Go here to get e-mail addresses for Fox News, MSNBC, and the phone number for CNN to put pressure on them to do their duty and release this story. I did it! It's worth taking the couple of minutes to make a difference.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/1084

We seriously have a shot at getting this done after the 2006 elections. It's worth doing your own little part, and spreading the word to others.

Thanks!

Best to all of you guys!

;)

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IMPORTANT short documentary to watch and pass around...

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:05:32 GMT

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article11222.htm

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Please help John Conyers

Mailtrain — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:12:42 GMT

and sign the petition at

http://www.johnconyers.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC={29336D51-
F9AE-474D-8C08-8D69902D5149}

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Hey, its a joke, right?

timbo — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:39:31 GMT

So, I've started calling King George, Busholini. I think it fits much more properly into his abilities and political inclinations...not to mention his competency level.

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Dubya' Resume

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:56:44 GMT

George W. Bush's 50 greatest accomplishments
I attacked and took over two countries.
I spent the US surplus and bankrupted the US treasury.
I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy)
I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
In my first year in office I set the all-time record for the most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did).
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.
I set the record for most campaign raising trips by any president in US history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.
I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any other president in US history.
I set the record for fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of TV.
I presided over the biggest energy crisis in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other US president in history.
I cut health-care benefits for war veterans.
I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any one person in the history of mankind.
I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US histiry (the poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her).
I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the union simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.
I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.
I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the vast majority of the international community.
I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the US.
I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history (Reagan was hard to beat, but I did it!!!)
I am the first president in US history to compel the United Nations to remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.
I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.
I removed more checks and balances and have the least congressional oversight of any presidential administration in US history.
I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
I withdrew from the World Court Of Law.
I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations elections inspectors access during the 2002 elections.
I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for the most corporate campaign donations.
The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of EnronCorporation)
I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1).
I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.
I took the world's sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated US laws by not selling their huge investments in corporations that later made bids for gov. contracts.
I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
I have created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided that the US has been since the Civil War.
I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during time of war. I refused to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records of any SEC investigation into my insider trading or bankrupted companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All minutes of meetings of any public corporations for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

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Bush on the Constitution

Michael — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:39:32 GMT

Everybody ought to read this if they doubt Bush's resolve to become "dictator -in- chief." This man is really DANGEROUS.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

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No Experience Necessary

Dreamer9177 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:34:11 GMT

Wanted: Supreme Court Justice

Looking for: Right-wing HACK to take orders from Karl Rove, the RNC, Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, Bill Frist (provided that they don't share a cell together in the future), Fox News and religious extremists.

Female candidates looked favorably upon, although looks are NOT that important.

Republican connections a +.

Send resume to George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC 20500

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Protect free speech!

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:07:53 GMT

http://www.democrats.org/page/s/lamar

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More on the secret prisons from a Polish-American patriot

timbo — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:32:19 GMT

http://www.idlewords.com/2005/11/secret_cia_prisons_in_poland.htm

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It is an acronym, please use it that way...

Mailtrain — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:21:17 GMT

It is an acronym, please use it that way...

Many people refer to it as the Patriot Act! Wrong! It has nothing to do with patriotism as you and I understand it. This is a subversive attempt to re-define patriotism. If you are not using the correct grammatical configuration of an acronym, you are disseminating their propaganda FOR them!

H. R. 3162 This Act may be cited as the `Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001'

Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Get it? How about now? And guess what!? Not even the U.S.A. in the Act stands for the “United States of America”. It is an acronym for “Uniting and Strengthening America”. A small change until you begin the analysis.

This name is a product of the acronym-loving bureaucracy. We should really type it and read it as such:
"U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act"
because it has absolutely nothing to do with patriotism except in the minds of those who have fallen for the endless propaganda of Karl Rove.

U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act ---- Not "Patriot Act"

It may seem very fussy and nitpicky to you, but I think it is kind of a profound difference that most people just aren't getting. Yeah, it is a lot more work to type it that way, but don't you think that the people who wrote it are counting on our laziness to keep unconsciously promoting their agenda?

Please join the NEW tribe dedicated to the discussion of
the The U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act at
tribes.tribe.net/neoconscam

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Border Patrol

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 01:09:01 GMT

FEDS PROPOSE CITIZEN PATROLS

U.S. BORDER HONCHO CONSIDERS CIVILIAN VOLUNTEERS

By Mike Blair

The possibility of using civilians to assist the Border Patrol in policing both America’s northern and southern borders was offered recently, mostly as a
trial balloon, by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert C. Bonner.

The proposal was immediately rejected by the Department of Homeland Security. However, Bonner indicated that the Border Patrol was considering training volunteers to create “something akin to a Border Patrol auxiliary.”

Bonner’s proposal was not met with enthusiasm by the Bush administration.
The plan came as the result of the Minutemen Project deploying 15,000 civilian volunteers to man observation posts and conduct foot and horseback patrols along the Mexican border from Texas to California and the northern border with Canada from Maine to Washington.

The Minutemen are deploying patrols in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in the south and Idaho, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Vermont, Minnesota, and Washington in the north.

Bonner indicated that the Minutemen volunteers had brought considerable attention to the border crisis last April and had done so peacefully. He warned that deploying large numbers of project volunteers across several states could cause someone to get hurt if they are not properly trained.

Bonner told the House Government Reform Committee that the Border Patrol had over the years valued the support of civilians and that he wanted to “determine if there is a way to more effectively harness citizen volunteers.
“We are concerned about people getting unnecessarily hurt or killed in what can be a very dangerous and treacherous place,” Bonner said.

“It is actually as a result of seeing that there is the possibility in local border communities, and maybe even beyond, of having citizens that would be willing to volunteer to help the Border Patrol,” he said.

Prior to Bonner’s proposal the administration has been critical of the Minutemen Project, and President Bush has called them “vigilantes.”

However, the deployment of the citizen patrols last April resulted in a sharp decrease in the number of illegals crossing into the United States. This fact has forced the administration to take a closer look.

With polls showing Americans want strong border control, the Bush administration, which until now has permitted twelve million or more illegals to cross over, is apparently changing its tune.

“The problem is whether Bush is just giving lip service to increase his poll numbers,” a Minuteman volunteer in Vermont told American Free Press.

(Issue #45, November 7, 2005)

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State PAYING the Church????

Dreamer9177 — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:14:49 GMT

The Bush Crime Family is going to PAY Religious institutions for their CHARITY work???

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/27/fema.religious.reut/index.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse churches and other religious organizations that have provided shelter, food and supplies to the victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

The payments with taxpayer money would mark the first time that the government has made such payments to faith-based groups at a time following natural disasters, the newspaper reported, citing FEMA officials.

FEMA is a division within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

According to the article, religious groups that operated emergency shelters, food distribution centers or medical facilities at the request of state and local governments in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama would be eligible.

Rita, with winds of 120 miles per hour, struck the Gulf Coast over the weekend. Katrina came ashore in Louisiana on August 29, killed more than 1,000 people and caused as much as an estimated $200 billion in economic losses.

Reimbursements would cover a "wide range of costs," FEMA spokesman Eugene Kinerney was quoted as saying.

Kinerney said they would include "labor costs incurred in excess of normal operations, rent for the facility and delivery of essential needs like food and water," the report said.

The policy was outlined in a September 9 internal memorandum, titled "Eligible Costs for Emergency Sheltering Declarations."

Under the policy, religious groups, like secular nonprofit groups, will be required to document their costs and file for reimbursement from state and local emergency management agencies, which in turn will seek funds from FEMA, the report said.

The report cited a FEMA official in Louisiana as saying it is too early to know how many groups will seek reimbursement under the new program.

Copyright 2005 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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(|~ American Patriot vs. Bush Co. ~|)'s topics - tribe.net

Lithuania to investigate secret prisons? Let's hope to welcome Lithuania into the fold!

*fail*

Two American senior military commanders speak out against Cheny's lies and violations of international law

DOJ Ethics Office seeks to reopen two dozen prisoner abuse cases...

The case against the torture is legal memo writers of the Bush Regime.

Thomas Tamm == Patriot

McCain concedes...who will be pardoned now?

Colin Powell?

McCain struggles to maintain a civil campaign...

The Seven Years of Sinbad

Georgian ambitions and Busholini's promises meet reality

New tribe against the occupation of Afghanistan

Gosh, the Constitution does apply in Guantanamo...

Judge Maldonado: "The Relevance of Nuremberg to Bush Policies"

Nah--we don't need to know how much pesticides are being used!

George Bush: Gets The Steam Off My P*ss!

On This Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre

Vermont AFL-CIO endorses May 1 anti-war strike

Join the new “Cool Earth Party” tribe

Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

How We Can Really End the War

Rush Holt -- American Patriot

Final Nails in Racist Ron Paul’s Campaign Coffin

Andrew Williams--Patriot

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It

Labor Motion, Calling for Strikes Against The War

Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen

Sorry, Jesus, But You're Out

Where is Everyone?

Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Listening

Mumia Abu-Jamal: When Wars Backfire

Conyers-Sanchez letter to Harriet Miers' attorney regarding contempt for Congress if she fails to appear...

Mumia Abu-Jamal on "Scooter" Libby

Pro-War Democrats Battle for the Presidency

Jill Simpson and her affidavits

My Anti Bush Art Illegal in 4 soon 5 States

Habeaus Speeches from Washington

No North American Union March Seattle Saturday August 18th, 2007

The Fourth is Independence From Imperialism Day

Pacific Northwest anti-war activists up the ante by blocking military shipments to Iraq

THE NOTHING / MATRIX HAS YOU

Following orders not to investigate the higher ups...

World Gathering - 25 & 26 August 2007

presidential directive at whitehouse.gov gives Bush imperial powers

David Iglesias -- Patriot

BIBLICAL EVIDENCE THAT BUSH IS ANTICHRIST

stemcell tribe!~LEARN, SUPPORT...?

PLEASE JOIN~ Iknow you the promise!

get rid of these FREAKS!

But really...

Ousted US Attorney McKay--American Patriot

America Freedom to Fascism

Gerald Ford--not an American patriot

The Propaganda War over Venezuela (in free online films)

Rebutting the Denier-n-Office

Mor-on TALON

How to handle a worsening situation...

When Iraq hawks start to squawk...

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

Rumsfeld out, Waxman in!

Flip-flopping on the bird

We have lived as if in a trance.

Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?

Give Peace A Vote-Please Sign!

Impeach Him

NSA wiretapping injuncted!

Isreal NOT Lebanon started war.

Impeachment Forums across the Nation 7/19

Crime is...up!

Trying to put their head around the malfeasence and tyranny?

The Peoples Party (a reality tv game show that will make adifference)

Green Scare Resources

The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America parts 1,2 &3

Wow! Watch this!!!

Watch the CNN interview: Retired U.S. Colonel thinks Bush started secret Iran War

EUROPE PREDICTS the beginning of a major world crisis!!!

Eaton == Patriot!

Al Gore gives a speach excoriating the US Congress

fail