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- Many episodes in Abramoff’s relations with various congressmen have already been given considerable exposure in newspaper accounts and court filings. What follows is a summary of the most revealing... - America is witnessing pathological classism where the rich are literally conquering everyone else. One mistake that we, the people, have made for decades has been staying riveted to “breaking news.” We tend to miss the real news that is pre-empted, or in other words, not reported. The only American news is this - the current administration and their corporate backers are dismantling America.
- Asked by the BBC's Today if Mr Cheney could be accused of war crimes, he said: "It's an interesting question. Certainly it is a domestic crime to advocate terror," he added. "And I would suspect, for whatever it's worth, it's an international crime as well."
- And you thought that a chicken (sh*!) bomb did all of that damage? - It may be time for another galvanizing "Pearl Harbor-type event"; one that will strike at the legislative nerve-center of American democracy. With Congress out of the picture, the path is clear for one man rule; the final jewel in the neocon crown. - Every branch of government and ninety nine percent of the media operates in the corporate interest—not in the public interest, as we all too willingly assume. America is not even close to resembling a democracy, as the national myth proclaims—it is a corporate oligarchy.
- The road to the House of Bush is littered with the bodies of "suicide," plane crash, and gunshot victims.
- More than $140,000 of the foundation's funds... was used to purchase sniper scopes, night-vision binoculars, camouflage suits, thermal imagers and other materiel which Abramoff's foundation called "security" equipment. - "DeLay is so addicted to corporate money that he is now accepting it to fight charges that he laundered it..." - Wish I made a sweet deal with the devil. What an opportunity for me. The only reason I couldn't...is because I'm not Dick Cheney.
- The man who lost his job as head of the US response to Hurricane Katrina has started up a new firm - dealing with disaster readiness. - Murtha had no problem with the criminal enterprise of Iran-Contra—pulled off by the same criminals now in control of the White House and the Pentagon—and supported the illegal invasion of Iraq (100,000 Iraqi "soldiers" killed and 113,000 civilians slaughtered, according to the Red Crescent Society of Jordan). Murtha supported the intentional destruction of municipal water systems, waste material treatment and sewage disposal systems throughout Iraq. It can be assumed Murtha supported the violation of the Geneva Conventions and the laws of armed conflict, resulting in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- "I don't own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed. He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares – including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11." - Behind It All, Some Elite Giving the Order - This is not the first time a government agency has come to UC Berkeley looking for help with recruitment. The Central Intelligence Agency participated in a similar program on campus last fall. It was not well publicized.
- ...a mere X on Cheney’s face is hardly recompense for Cheney’s long and sordid career as a war criminal and scourge of humanity. I’ll feel better when he’s in an orange jumpsuit. - The Religious Nature of Politics - Sixty years ago the US hired Nazi scientists to lead pioneering projects, such as the race to conquer space. - "There’s no question in my mind where the philosophical guidance and the flexibility in order to do so originated—in the vice president of the United States’ office. His implementer in this case was Donald Rumsfeld and the defense department..."
- The result of having too many wealthy people in office is having calamitous impacts on America’s working class families -- the backbone of our society. It has resulted in the breakdown of the family unit. Wealthy people are likely to look out for their own financial interests rather than the welfare of society, especially the poor. This form of government excludes the vast majority of the citizenry from the process and leaves them utterly without representation. It leaves them alone and vulnerable to predation by the rich.
- Richard Perle, former top US "defense" advisor, unflinching advocate of Ahmad Chalabi, key member of the Project for a New American Century, and top 'Israeli-first' propagandist, may find himself back in the limelight, as his associate, Conrad Black, defends against multi-million dollar fraud charges. - Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war
- Justice Department drops case against company he counseled - The Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise on Friday, then postponed work on bills to curb spending on social programs and cut taxes in favor of a two-week vacation.
- How big is the intelligence budget? Usually we don't know because it's classified. Except this year we do know—it's $44 billion. - A former director of America's intelligence agency has branded the country's deputy leader a "vice president for torture".
- In mid-2002, as they struggled desperately to sell the war, these key players in "Plamegate" were engaged in full-out offensive aimed at convincing Americans that the country faced an imminent threat of a smallpox attack. To underscore this "threat," Libby began fanatically pressing to have the entire US population preemptively vaccinated against smallpox (which was declared eradicated in 1980). The proposal was immediately met with opposition from public health experts, including those at the Department of Health and Human Services. They warned Libby that the vaccine could injure, even kill people and that a universal vaccination could in and of itself spark a public health crisis in the US. - Cheney has pursued a political and corporate career to make himself very rich and powerful. He is the personification of a war profiteer who slid through the revolving door connecting the public and private sectors of the defense establishment on two occasions in a career that has served his relentless quest for power and profits. - Even after Richard Nixon's secret war in Cambodia became known, the president persisted in deception. "Publicly, we say one thing," he told aides. "Actually, we do another."
- The Bush administration's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy."
- No more liberal than their shareholders' bottom line, Hollywood and the media are the Olsen twins of hacksaw capitalism with a human face. And the corporate workplace, on which most of us depend and whose language many of us are forced to speak, does daily calisthenics to the tune of Mussolini. - Former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Dr. Paul Craig Roberts expressed his dire warning that the US government has fallen into the hands of psychopaths and that the Neo-Cons in the Bush administration may be set to stage another terror attack in the US as part of a black operation to demolish growing dissent and coerce the public to rally behind the government once again.
- As a potentially devastating winter approaches, promising more trouble for the Bush administration, the temptation for them to kill and blow things up becomes even greater.
- But only because one of them is the vise president's daughter, and the other is Wolfie's gal pal .
- Wary White House aides, under constant scrutiny from a paranoid Bush administration hell bent on stopping leaks, have turned to a technique used by drug dealers and criminals to avoid detection – prepaid, disposable cell phones. - "Even as White House aides Karl Rove and Scooter Libby dominated the headlines," read a typical analysis last week, "according to many observers Jack Abramoff remains the Republican Party's most dangerous problem." - The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents. The African leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, met with President Bush in the Oval Office on May 26, 2004, 10 months after Mr. Abramoff made the offer.
- A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people."
- Bush rewarded one of his loyalists with the ambassadorship to Italy -- despite his past as the founder of an cult-like teen rehab clinic. - The liberals' ridiculous defense of Bill Clinton
- ...8. Thou shalt not steal unless you let the European corporations have a little too...9. Thou shalt not bear false witness unless it helps you start a war...
- Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann, the Nobel Prize winners who see war as a game - The players and politicians who are so desperately distancing themselves from Abramoff would prefer that we think of him as some small-time hustler, a fringe sleazeball who crawled out of the shadows. He wasn't. He was a big-league hustler and a mainstream sleazeball. And he was all theirs.
- I told you so....
- It was the first time in Texas history that the power of eminent domain has been used to assist a private organization like a baseball team. - Consider the poster boy for global terrorism, Henry Kissinger.
- Democrats and liberals seem incapable of understanding it does not matter if a Democrat or Republican is in office—there will be invasions, mass murder, corporate thievery, neolib foreign and economic policy, encroachments on the Constitution and liberty, and an ever-growing police state and police state outrages (the Democrat Clinton, after all, oversaw the incineration of babies at Waco).
- If the Democrats were not simply playing partisan games, attempting to score points against Bush for self-serving political reasons, they would demand Bush’s immediate impeachment and move to indict him for high crimes and misdemeanors... - ...just because something sounds noble, doesn’t mean it is. - Former Italian government informant talks about Alito's shady past, including dishing out favors to known underworld figures.
- When you control the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald as well as the presiding judge US District Judge for the District of Columbia Reggie Walton, the Bush Cabal wins -- and the Bush Cabal coverup is complete. - Bush, whose obscenity-laced temper tantrums increase with each new setback and scandal, abruptly ended one Camp David meeting by telling everyone in the room to "go fuck yourselves" before he stalked out of the room
- DynCorp employees in Bosnia, where the company plays a major policing role, have engaged in organized sex-slave trading with girls as young as 12, and DynCorp's Bosnia site supervisor was filmed raping a woman.
- "Pioneers and Rangers" handed access to contracts, policymakers - ALITO WOULD OVERTURN ROE V. WADE...ALITO SUPPORTS UNAUTHORIZED STRIP SEARCHES... - 60 years? Libby won't do 60 minutes...The lesson from all this for the American left?: stop putting all your political hopes on a Republican prosecutor appointed by John Ashcroft, get the crooked voting machine problem fixed...
- Walton was the judge who...placed a gag order on former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds.
- Following 9/11 everything from the giant street signs at doughnut shops to blinking signs on gas pumps insisted that Americans must never forget. There were even sweatshirts being sold in supermarkets and gardening centers. It was all one huge, confused, and dangerous reaction spurred on by an incompetent man at the top muttering about "with us or against us." - The rulers of the United States rule over far more than you and me. They control and strongly influence many foreign rulers of dependent satellite countries. This extended rule makes our Presidents the powerful emperors of a vast Empire. - Towards an even more dangerous international security apparatus - Imagine if a criminal broke into your house and made off with your television, stereo, camera, and the gold coins you hid under the mattress. Imagine the cops caught him speeding away. But instead of arresting him for stealing your goods, they simply issued him a ticket for speeding.
- "Casino Jack", the "Headless Hammer" & The Republican War Cabal - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take, whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency. - The robber barons of old ruled their world. Today’s robber barons are much more powerful than those earlier titans, and they appear to be all but unbeatable. - ...But Crooked High Court Judges Will Never Have The "Legal Balls" To Enforce The Law
- The neocon policies will persevere. - Thanks to history textbooks, Hollywood, television and politicians (Democrat and Republican), the US people are kept in ignorance of their imperial past. Each intervention is presented as an altruistic response to a crisis.
- Now I know they are the minor leagues compared to the GOP, but they are both pigs at the trough of American corruption. It has never ceased to amaze me that we can have 31 flavors of ice cream in this country but only two coherent political philosophies. Everyone who fights for progressive causes knows the 2004 and 2000 elections were stolen. Similarly, we know that we are heading for another theft in 2006, and then 2008. - In President Bush's first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
- Ritter says Neo-Cons are embattled, surrounded, could resort to desperate measures to further global domination
- Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of Halliburton might well lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French court on charges of bribery, money-laundering and misuse of corporate assets. - ...Wal-Mart made a $5,000 contribution to support Tom Delay’s corruption 2 days after his indictment. - ...Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged person in the history of the United States, at least according to her ACLU lawyers. If gag orders were nickels, she'd be rich. - Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 - 10 times the land's worth - despite the state's objections to the way the price was determined... - Hard information is in short supply
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