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World Can’t Wait just announced their next major protest- October. Anyone else think that’s a little funny?

Last year the Downing Street Memo came out on May 1st, soon after UFPJ announced the big rally for Sept 24th. Why do they always skip over the summer months? Because that’s when the weather is nice, and people might actually have the time to camp and stay.

The crooks in power don’t care if we schedule another weekend protest- the one thing they don’t want is an extended protest like the Ukranians had. Several weeks of peaceful demonstration led to their President stepping down. That’s what we need.

We sure as hell don’t need this pathetic Congress to investigate anything else- at this point asking for another committee is just plain insanity.

Let’s think about this- do George Bush and Dick Cheney and the complicit fools in Congress want 500,000 Americans camping out on their front porch? No. So why are we appeasing them? They don’t want us camping on the Capitol mall- so we should do just that.

Thursday May, 18th Cindy Sheehan and Ray McGovern (mp3) are meeting at Lafayette park near the White House, then Marching to Rumsfeld’s personal residence. Wouldn’t it be great if someone brought a video cameda, and it’s thousands of people standing outside Rummy’s house, singing along to #3 from Neil Young’s new album, “Don’t Need- No More Lies!” In fact that ought to be on repeat over at the big protest camp going up on the DC Capitol Mall- with the speakers turned to Congress and cranked to 11.

March on the Capitol,
Stay Until the Nightmare is Over.

The DC Capitol Mall was created as a place for citizens to gather and protest their grievances to the government- that is it’s purpose.

Isn’t it time to use that space for an extended protest?

If not now when?

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Circa 1999 from Techweb

A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has shown that special access codes for use by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) have been secretly built into all versions of the Windows operating system….

But according to two witnesses attending the conference, even Microsoft’s top crypto programmers were stunned to learn that the version of ADVAPI.DLL shipping with Windows 2000 contains not two, but three keys. Brian LaMachia, head of CAPI development at Microsoft was “stunned” to learn of these discoveries, by outsiders. This discovery, by van Someren, was based on advance search methods which test and report on the “entropy” of programming code…

According to Fernandes of Cryptonym, the result of having the secret key inside your Windows operating system “is that it is tremendously easier for the NSA to load unauthorized security services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once these security services are loaded, they can effectively compromise your entire operating system”. The NSA key is contained inside all versions of Windows from Windows 95 OSR2 onward…

“How is an IT manager to feel when they learn that in every copy of Windows sold, Microsoft has installed a ’back door’ for the NSA — making it orders of magnitude easier for the U.S. government to access your computer?” he said.

Van Someren said he felt the primary purpose of the NSA key might be for legitimate U.S. government use. But he said there cannot be a legitimate explanation for the third key in Windows 2000 CAPI. “It looks more fishy,” he said on Friday.

www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990903S0014

or Bellaciao

This is a letter to all of those Americans that know what is really happening in America.

We now know that Bush is openly disregarding the Constitution. We know that Congress is doing nothing about it, maybe they’ll appoint another ‘bi-partisan’ commission to ‘investigate’.

This is not acceptable.

All of those elected officials swore to Uphold and Defend the Constitution. They have collectively failed, whether due to bribes, blackmail, incompetence, collusion, etc we know not, but we know that they have FAILED to Defend the Constitution- period.

What are we supposed to do, just keep watching while they turn America into Orwell’s nightmare? Wait for Hilary in 2008? lol.

Solution:
435 Patriots to run for Congress.

Regular citizens that are mad as hell, and aren’t going to take it anymore. Here are the myths that WE need to dispell:

1. That Bush and Co. are honest Republicans.
2. That Democrats in DC are worth voting for.
3. That it takes millions of dollars to win a Congressional Race.

The top two are self-evident, but they are the issues that we’ll need to prove to the American people.

#3 is what I wish to prove to you.

I an positive that most of America is FED UP with this BUllSHit Government. What evidence do I have? These polls that have 87% voting to impeach, 98% believe that Congress is not working for US.

PLEASE read more, then ACT on it!

A Republican staffer has named Frist and Hastert as the two lawmakers that added the vaccine makers liability protection to the defense bill- after the committee had met several times that day, and Dems even asked Alaska Senator Ted Stevens if the language was in the bill, and he told them no.

After the conference committee broke up, a meeting was called in Hastert’s office, [Rep staffer Keith] Kennedy said. Also at the meeting, according to a congressional staffer, were Frist, Stevens and House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo.

About 10 or 10:30 p.m., Democratic staff members were handed the language and told it was now in the bill, Obey said.

He took to the House floor in a rage. He called Frist and Hastert “a couple of musclemen in Congress who think they have a right to tell everybody else that they have to do their bidding.”

Frist and Stevens deny this charge saying the language was in the bill when the conferees voted on it- but if that’s so, why did Stevens tell Obey no? It appears there are several witnesses to the Leaders meeting… this is the top two Republicans in Congress caught in an outright lie, blatantly adding in crap that wouldn’t pass on it’s own.

Frist has received $271,523 in campaign donations from the pharmaceutical and health products industry since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group.

Remember how Frist slipped this exact same lawsuit protection into the Patriot Act. At that time it was a big scandal, he didn’t even change the font- but literally copied and pasted this tiny item at the end of 450 pages of legal mumbo-jumbo. Now they have the gall to do it again… because they know the Democrats won’t do anything about it. A few will make noise, but that’s about it…

Why are the pharmaceuticals so concerned about this lawsuit protection anyway?

When the hell will people wake up to this dog and pony show of Reps and Dems screwing us all over?

Dear Cindy,

who are the Democratic CongressCritters that called you and told you NOT to run? Is that a privileged secret, or can you out them for us. Don’t we the people have the right to know which Dems are DINOs?

I was going to write asking you to reconsider… but then I thought of something even better. You said,

If I thought that running for Senate would bring our young people home more quickly, I would do it in a minute, but I am not convinced that that would be so.

Frankly, I agree, just you in the Senate wouldn’t accomplish what we desire. But what if you ran for a House seat, and you found 434 Fellow Citizens to run with you… then we could Take Back America. Would you like to Impeach BushCo and End the War? Then please consider my idea for the Working Family Party.

Please get away from the naysayers. Money is not needed to win, that’s just their excuse to discourage regular citizens from running.

Imagine a 10 point common sense platform that all Americans can agree on, this can win across America.

1. Restore the bill of rights
2. End war for profit
3. Punish fraudulent companies (esp those that steal taxpayer dollars)
4. Repeal the ‘bankruptcy reform’ bill
5. Repeal the medicare (pharma giveaway) bill
6. End lobbying
7. Free Air Time for candidates (take money out of politics)
8. Universal Health Care
9. Impeach Bush & Cheney
10. Seize the assets of lying media corporations- you lie, you lose the right to broadcast on our Public Airwaves.

The false Republican vs Democrat division is a lie, if presented with these options, 98% of Americans would agree.

I’m asking you Cindy, because you have the spotlight. But… I would only want you to hop aboard if, and only if, you are able to think for yourself. In other words, if your beliefs can be swayed by Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright and other ‘friends’, the same people that turned down the 160 acres in Crawford, then don’t bother.

* Note to all Patriots: Cointelpro is alive again, don’t trust anyone you haven’t known for years. Of course it sounds crazy, but perhaps they are using the “trust nasal spray” on Cindy and most of Congress.

America needs 435 guys like this to run for congress. Paul Craig Roberts:

The purpose of the FISA court is to ensure that administrations do not spy for partisan political reasons. The warrant requirement is to ensure that a panel of independent federal judges hears a legitimate reason for the spying, thus protecting a president from the temptation to abuse the powers of government. The only reason for the Bush administration to evade the court is that the Bush administration had no legitimate reasons for its spying. This should be obvious even to a naif.

Why is it that no elected officials are capable of speaking this simple truth?

They didn’t go thru FISA because they were spying regular Americans- not al Qaida- FISA wouldn’t have approved. It’s been verified that the gov’t has been spying on Catholic workers, peace groups, the Truth Project, & even Quakers… perhaps they were also spying on Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader and others during the 2002 and 2004 election season.

This is exactly the reason Nixon was going to be impeached, for spying on political oppponents. Why can’t the Democrats in DC speak to this? It’s been long enough… now they had the big hearing where Gonzales wasn’t even sworn in. The Mercury News on Gonzales’ testimony:

The administration’s response boils down to this: Trust us, we’re spying on terrorists. The answer is inadequate, particularly for an administration whose reservoir of trust with the American people is dangerously close to empty.

Now “Magic Bullet” Specter says to wait a few weeks for another hearing… this is such BUllSHit. It’s all been exposed- there is no need for further investigation- Gonzales lied in his confirmation hearing!

• They’ve been spying on political oppenents since 2002.
• They withheld this information from the public before the 2004 election.
• Bush lied to his supporters on the campaign trail.
• Bush knowingly disregarded the Constitution and broke the law by ordering spying without a warrant.
• Bush admitted to an impeachable offense on national tv.

They have no legal justification- period.

No person is above the law, not even the president. Therefore, if we are to be a country governed by law, the entire Bush Administration must be impeached.

What is wrong with the 535 politicians in DC? Are they incompetent, complicit or afraid?

It’s almost like they’re stalling, just hold out a bit more and that next terrorist attack will occur. jokingly?, I predict multiple attacks, perhaps occurring over several days (maximum fear), coordinated by a team of “Iranian, Syrians and Venezuelans” with a few poor Americans as accomplices. This will allow BushCo to bomb all three countries and give him license to round up all dissidents, most of whom are poor.

I’ve been busy, so no links or direct quotes this time…

In his State of the Union speech, Bush unabashedly declared the need for more war. According to him, we cannot sit idly by why “radical islam” plots to attack us, we must attack them first.

“Radical Islam” is the racist lie on which this phony war on terror is built. On the night of Sept 11th, Bush declared, “They hate us because we’re the brightest beacon of freedom,” establishing this lie that “wacko muslims hate us because we’re free”. That’s not why they hate us (mp3), if there is hatred for America, it’s because of our foreign policies around the world. Don’t take it from me, listen to former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern (mp3).

One glaring question to me is, why haven’t the Democrats called out Bush on this lie? Because they are the enablers. As we’ve seen over the past few years, the Democrats cannot call Bush on anything, especially the “war on terror”.

Cindy Sheehan was arrested for a t-shirt, demonstrating they don’t need the new “Patriot” Act to arrest “disruptors”… unfortunately it seems like she was set-up. Having her arrested made all the news stories about that, and while it’s good to expose their fascist tactics, there were no headline stories about protests in 100 different cities. Activists around the country are talking about Cindy’s arrest, when they should be trying to prevent the coming war with Iran. I hate to say it, but Cindy was used, and it seems that Lynn Woolsey was part of the scam- why did her staffers call around telling the media Cindy was going to go… so much so that she felt obligated.
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This article pretty much sums it up:

Could we be constantly tracked through our clothes, shoes or even our cash in the future?

I’m not talking about having a microchip surgically implanted beneath your skin, which is what Applied Digital Systems of Palm Beach, Fla., would like to do. Nor am I talking about John Poindexter’s creepy Total Information Awareness spy-veillance system, which I wrote about last week.

Instead, in the future, we could be tracked because we’ll be wearing, eating and carrying objects that are carefully designed to do so.

The generic name for this technology is RFID, which stands for radio frequency identification. RFID tags are miniscule microchips, which already have shrunk to half the size of a grain of sand. They listen for a radio query and respond by transmitting their unique ID code. Most RFID tags have no batteries: They use the power from the initial radio signal to transmit their response.

After this was written, Congress passed the new National ID Card Bill. In a year, all US Driver’s licenses will have RFID chips… the police state will be complete.

What America needs is some common sense. How can intelligent people let this pass?

For those displaced by Katrina, the US Gov’t is paying $60,000 per trailer, for an 18 month lease! So that $60,000 goes to the trailer company, not a dime to the people that lost everything. That’s $3,300 per month, which could get each family a nice condo, plus food, clothing and other essentials. But noooo, our government won’t allow that. W.T.F!

More Americans screwed while the pigs gorge at the trough.

What makes this doubly outrageous, is that there are plenty of Public Housing Projects that received little to no damage- yet the city has closed them down. The street lights are on, but the city won’t turn on the power to the projects. This video by Flux shows the water line on the 2nd step, with people refusing to leave their UNDAMAGED property. Trying to force them out, the city still hasn’t restored their their power since the Hurricane.

Street lights work, but they won’t give residents electricty. Who says this is ok?

Isn’t this enough already? Somebody arrest the perpetrators of this organized crime.

My position is this, Nobody (save the neo-Nazis) would support Bush & Co if they knew the truth. Nobody. If somehow we could get this information to the last remaining Bush supporters…

Armed Mexican Troops on US Soil

Stealing Iraqi Oil, giving it to Exxon
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Twice now, Bush has removed the prosecutor in the Abramoff case. Twice!

From the LA Times, Aug 8, 2005 via Bellaciao:

WASHINGTON — A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.

SF Chronicle, Jan 27, 2006:

The investigation into Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Republican lobbyist, took a provocative new turn Thursday when the Justice Department said the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down next week because he had been nominated to a federal judgeship by President Bush.

How can Bush remove Abramoff’s prosecutor twice and get away with it?

I’m utterly speechless. Do I need to explain this… ? I mean, why isn’t this a major scandal that every politician and news network isn’t breaking. This is 24/7 headline news… but the corporate media buries it, while calling bloggers ‘irresponsible’.

What could be worse… how bout this? Bush says he doesn’t really know Abramoff, but in May 2001, Abramoff charged his clients, the Coushatta Tribe, $25,000 to have lunch with Bush, The Texas Observer even has a copy of the check. This arrangement would make Abramoff the pimp, and Bush the whore. To me it is unbelievable that the President of the US would do this, to make his buddy rich. Why wouldn’t he just have lunch with the tribe because he’s the President and he cares!

Quotes from this WaPo article illustrate that contrary to what Bush says, Iraq is not getting better.

In the first month after the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division took over security duties in northern Iraq in late fall, roadside bombs killed or wounded more than a quarter of the 34-man platoon…

“It’s definitely more dangerous this time around,” agreed Spec. David Jones, 24, of New York, on his second tour in Iraq with the platoon. “I didn’t expect to lose so many friends so soon.”..

Heavy-handed sweeps through Baiji by U.S. forces in 2003 and 2004 left many people angry, frightened and humiliated, residents say.

“Most of the people fighting the Americans tell me they do nothing for us but destroy the houses and capture people,” Adil Faez Jeel, a director at the Baiji refinery, said of the U.S. forces. “There are no jobs, no water, no electricity.”..

“When Saddam was in power, we used to go to Mosul, to Tikrit, to Baghdad. . . . It was safer all over,” said Salah Aub Ramadan Obaydi, 65, a retired teacher.. Now “people get shot every day and no one cares.”..

“We have almost no support from the local people. We talk to 1,000 people and one will come forward.”

it continues with a somewhat gory scene
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Look at what “news” has been reduced to. All Things Considered with a Goebbels like pump for the “Patriot” Act. The entire article by Michele Norris reads “Gonzales says”- literally every sentence save one.
Read full story at NPR above, or click,
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