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Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:48:19 -0400

Support the Troops

Learn The Truth about

* Depleted Uranium
* Anthrax Vaccinations
* 50,000 "Stop Lossed"
* 250,000 Homeless Veterans

Support the Troops v1.0
w/ movie and mp3 links

Iraq

$9 Billion Lost:
No investigation, instead Congress just wrote another check

Iraqi Oil given
to the Oil Companies
Hundred of billions of dollars- at $40/barrel...

Secret UK Poll of Iraqis:
82% "strongly opposed" to occupation troops

more on Iraq

Spying

Legal Scholars Letter to Congress:
The DOJ letter fails to offer a plausible legal defense of the NSA domestic spying program... it is also beyond dispute that, in such a democracy, the President cannot simply violate criminal laws behind closed doors because he deems them obsolete or impracticable.

more on Spying
Bush's Own Words Prove that he is Lying
Legal Scholars: Bush Spying Excuse "not even close"
Former NSA Lawyer: Bush committed a crime
Pentagon spying on Peace Groups

The Separation of Wealth: A Visual Demonstration

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:41:58 -0400

The separation of wealth in America - The L Curve:

The red line represents a graph of family income across the population. The height of the curve at any point is the height of a stack of $100 bills equalling that income.

Median US family income (the family at the 50 yard line) is ~$40,000 (a stack of $100 bills 1.6 inches high.)

--The family on the 95 yard line earns about $100,000 per year, a stack of $100 bills about 4 inches high.

--At the 99 yard line the income is about $300,000, a stack of $100 bills about a foot high.

--The curve reaches $1 million (a 40 inch high stack of $100 bills) one foot from the goal line.

--From there it keeps going up...it goes up 50 km (~30 miles) on this scale!

Notice how even those with $1,000,000 income are down with the peons, near ground level, only the billionaires - the last .0001 percent, go vertical... $1 million = 40 inch stack of $100 bills, but $1 billion is a 1/2 mile stack of $100s. The billionaires now own more wealth than the bottom 95% combined!

Bush claims the Executive Authority to break 750 Laws

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:16:43 -0400

The Boston Globe today has a report on President Bush's extraordinary power grab.

President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.

Here's a comparison with other presidents. The founding fathers would turn over in their graves if they learned how Bush has decimated the separation of powers doctrine.

Petrified of the ramifications, Americans adopt denial as primary strategy to ignore 9/11 Scam

Fri, 26 May 2006 19:24:35 -0400

MP3 Audio - ST911: Denial

Jim Fetzer: [911] has a psychological dimension to it, because the very idea that the government that's supposed to protect you might in fact be abusing you- it's a lot like incest. Something that's so traumatic and so devastating to contemplate that- you know how many mothers deny that it's even taking place, or in this case- so many citizens deny that it's even taking place- because they're petrified of the ramifications.

Pyschologists call it cognitive dissonance when there are beliefs that threaten your previous beliefs that you find it impossible to reconcile, and denial becomes the role that you adopt.

George Noory: It's almost as, 'if it is true, we don't want to know it.'

JF: That's right. But we have to know- it's like cancer, that claim that, 'what you don't know can't hurt you' has never been more false. This government has fallen into the hands of gross abusers- they're committing incest on the nation on a grand scale, and if we don't stop them, we are going to suffer the ravages, it's going to get worse and worse and worse.

Federal Debt up $26 TRILLION Since Dubya Took Office !!!

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:56:00 -0500

The total Federal Debt was $6 trillion when Bush came into office, now it's $8.2 TRillion and climbing, or so I thought. Then I read this:

The federal government’s fiscal exposures
now total more than $46 trillion,
up from about $20 trillion in 2000.

This staggering revelation was included in the US Dept. of Treasury's own report.
2005 Financial Report of the United States Government (1mb PDF)
(Page 28 printed, or pg 32 in Adobe reader)

That's an additional $26 TRILLION in debt since Dubya took office!

Captive Minds: The Conditioning of America

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:41:23 -0500

I found this interesting 80s documentary "Captive Minds" on how cults use subtle brainwashing to convince their followers. It's quite interesting how they recruited young people looking for direction and convinced them to believe total bullshit.

1. "A conflict between what they have been brought up to believe and this new belief sets up a battle in the mind of the recruit which can lead to total confusion."

The interviewee had internal conflicts, arguing with herself. Her rational self knew this was wrong, but another little voice told her to hush up and go along with everyone else, don't make trouble.

2. "The group must always be made to feel that they are right. Others are wrong, or better yet, evil."

Sound familiar?

It is our duty as human beings

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:21:46 -0500

"The world is a dangerous place not
because of those who do evil
but because of those who look on
and do nothing."
-- Albert Einstein

After all the lies and corruption, the death and destruction caused by this group of greedy bastards in DC...

I am mad as hell (mp3) and I'm not going to take it anymore. Does this ring a bell? I hope so, because I'm looking for thousands of people that feel just like we do, cause I'm Takin' my Country Back (mp3 - play for bushites)

It is our duty to do something about this madness gripping America. But what do we do?

Run for Congress. You need to look up who is running for Congress in your district- and if the choices are some Bushite Republican and Nancy "got no plan" Pelosi - then it is your duty.

"Since the Federal Government has shown
that it isn't going to do anything about it but talk
then it is a duty.
It is your and my duty as men, as human beings
it is our duty to our people."
-- Malcom X

FBI Memos Reveal Torture Approved by Top Officials

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:26:31 -0500

by Drew Brown, Knight-Ridder News

WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours...

FBI agents working at the prison complained about the military interrogators' techniques in e-mails to their superiors from 2002 to 2004, 54 e-mails.. showed. The agents tried to get the military interrogators to follow a less coercive approach and warned that the harsh methods could hinder future criminal prosecutions of terrorists because information gained illegally is inadmissible in court.

Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who was in charge of the prison at the time, overrode the FBI agents' protests..

[Ed Note: Miller was then sent to run Abu Ghraib. The sent this torture freak General to Iraq on purpose!]

The memos offer some of the clearest proof yet that the abuses and torture of prisoners in U.S. military custody weren't the isolated actions of low-ranking soldiers but a result of policies approved by senior officials.

How We Can Save America: Summary

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:02:50 -0500

The Concept:
435 Patriots to Take Back America

The Premise:
1. Politicians of Both Parties have failed We the People.
2. Most of America knows this.

A Common Sense Platform of Restoring the Constitution and removing every corrupt, spineless Congressperson in DC can win in every district nationwide.

Rumsfeld Sept 10, 2001: The Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 TRILLION

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:09:45 -0500

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.

"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.

Deeper in Debt

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:00:09 -0500

For the fourth time since 2002, the federal government has maxed out its credit limit.

Just five years ago, the national debt was $5.6 trillion. A series of deficits in the years since has pushed the debt to the current $8.2 trillion limit. That's more than $27,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that an unbroken line of annual deficits will send the national debt soaring to $11.3 trillion by 2011, about double its level of 2001.

Bush to go after "those who sympathize with the enemy"

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:11:35 -0500

Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the administration’s domestic operations -- Fifth Columnists, supposedly disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy.

“The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column movements,” Graham, R-S.C., told Gonzales during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Feb. 6.

“I stand by this President’s ability, inherent to being Commander in Chief, to find out about Fifth Column movements, and I don’t think you need a warrant to do that,” Graham added, volunteering to work with the administration to draft guidelines for how best to neutralize this alleged threat.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022106a.html

I don't think you need a warrant? Does Graham not understand the 4th amendment? Either way he proves that he cares not about upholding the Constitution.

This is a long, detailed and well-documented article.

Guess who the big loser is under Bush health plan

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:06:15 -0500

Heads up, Americans. The Bush administration is now greasing the skids for employers to drop your health coverage. This is a biggie.

Radical change was not the headline when the president unfurled his latest proposals for health savings accounts. It was presented mainly as a sensible-sounding way for people without medical insurance to buy it with pre-tax dollars, the same way companies do.

Bush's new HSA is actually a rocket-powered tax shelter dressed up as a sweet little program to help the uninsured. It would also undermine the traditional health coverage now offered by employers. (More on that in a minute.) And in case anyone still cares about deficits, it would cost the Treasury $156 billion in lost tax revenues over 10 years — more than wiping out any savings Bush hopes to achieve with his cuts in projected Medicare spending.

Demonically, the Bush proposal gives employers new reasons not to offer traditional health coverage, or any medical benefits at all. Indeed, the new health savings accounts could do to the traditional health plan what the 401(k) plan did to the traditional pension: Kill it off.

Polls proving MOST of America is with US

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:54:18 -0500

7 more amazing poll results every American ought to see.

Bush Removed Abramoff Prosecutor- TWICE!

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:18:10 -0500

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?