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You cannot make crusades and Islamic reprisals, without ancient Masons, slain by Catholics, but now reconstructed, as giddy FREEMASONS:

2009-12-21T23:41:29Z

Modern masons are openly seditious, or we would not be able to FIX ENTIRE BATTLES, even wars, with hidden history, such as:

JEWS ARE FROM ETHIOPIA, Isaiah, notice 'Cush' is ancient Ethiopia, and the invasion of this land by the Axis in WWII was intended to clear a homeland, for repatriation of European Jewry.

Allied carpet bombing finished the job Hitler started, when he opposed Krystalnacht massacres and interrments, by invading Russia! He WAS going to invade Britain, but the killers of Jews forgot one slight detail! Alois Hitler, Adolf's paternal Grandfather, was a bar mitzvah'd Jew.

No way does Hitler ACTUALLY INVADE RUSSIA, without the Jew-haters cooking too many slaves. Hitler was part Irish, but you can clearly see Ashkenazi features, also in his face. He died, miscast by Vatican, D.C., London, and Tel Aviv propaganda, as a dire tyrant, but actually, Hitler was a tragic traitor, from Austria, similar to the traitorous, seditious Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's Governor, from out-of-state, a rioter.

Notice, how Krystalnacht in 1936 followed the 1926 Intifada, against the invading British and Zionists.

By ten years from CIA appointments of Shah in 1953 and Saddam in 1958 were the assassinations of the Zionist, corrupt, bootlegger's kids, Jack and Bobby Kennedy, who refused to help Bay of Pigs, but tried to set off the nukes, for the Cuban Missile Crisis, and prosecuted mobs and Jimmy Hoffa, although their dad sold booze, for a lot of money, as Ambassodor to Beth of Death's England, which owns your Christian dogma.

Into GOD, huh?

Are you a doctor's kid? If NOT, what are you fronting?

Christianity has been for order to chill riot and rehabilitate, or to desist and disband, for cause, since you RIOT.

Tell Coach Kiffen he cannot recruit another Peyton is one tactic, BUT IF YOU TELL THOSE VOLS, THEIR MESSIAH HAS COME AND GONE, SINCE HIS BROTHER ELI WENT TO MISSISSIPPI, you are demented.

Jews are controverted to Zionists, from Cush, or Ethiopia, by Abraham, rioter from Ur, who would have no restraint from invasion of Canaan, by either Aaron or Moses, who both tried to explain by the calf, how the Minoans were also interrupted, by an eruption, of Santorini-Thera, but hey!

You will be inconvenienced, in North America, by the equivalent of Tobe, 40 miles of nasty cauldera, directly underneath Yellowstone National Park, always due to blast, as is Long Valley, not as big, but also due, near Mammoth Lakes, where L.A. skis.

VOLCANOES CAN CUT YOU IN HALF, cross-eyed persons, at riot.

Jews are from Ethiopia, see Isaiah, any verse with 'Cush' in it. The whole chapter raves against the Habiru perverts, and against Egypt, their actual land of origin, which undermined the diluted Judaism, practised by the terrible ten tribes, ravaging, until chilled by conquest, from Babylon, Assyria, Aramid (the Kevlar tribe, also from Ethiopia, which caused Y'shua to speak ARAMAIC, not Roman, during his life, mis-named later as 'Jesus,' to confuse and incite), and the ROME. Many conquered first Israel, to destroy it, and then Judea.

The ten tribes of the invasion of Canaan slew Moses, so named, since when a volcanoe as big as Thera erupts, the clowns nick-name you, taking away the 'Ra-' prefix, from Ra-moses, like RAMONES, if you think the Beatles and Jacko are almost as hot as Jesus, not even his real name!

MOSES simply means, 'son.' When you name a kid in the old way, you call him 'Rahm.' Tut-tut, Moe. Your Curly chops also need work. Your Larry-act isn't as cool as David or Fine, is it.

Modern masons are openly seditious, or we would not be able to FIX ENTIRE BATTLES, even wars, with hidden history, such as:

JEWS ARE FROM ETHIOPIA, Isaiah, notice 'Cush' is ancient Ethiopia, and the invasion of this land by the Axis in WWII was intended to clear a homeland, for repatriation of European Jewry.

Allied carpet bombing finished the job Hitler started, when he opposed Krystalnacht massacres and interrments, by invading Russia! He WAS going to invade Britain, but the killers of Jews forgot one slight detail! Alois Hitler, Adolf's paternal Grandfather, was a bar mitzvah'd Jew.

No way does Hitler ACTUALLY INVADE RUSSIA, without the Jew-haters cooking too many slaves. Hitler was part Irish, but you can clearly see Ashkenazi features, also in his face. He died, miscast by Vatican, D.C., London, and Tel Aviv propaganda, as a dire tyrant, but actually, Hitler was a tragic traitor, from Austria, similar to the traitorous, seditious Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's Governor, from out-of-state, a rioter.

England sent its army into Andy Jackson's cannons, since Masons AND Zionists were secure, in England, and after Jefferson chased away Jewish Aaron Burr, to Mexico, Zionism in England took over, since the US also ignored how the Brits and US incited Karl Marx, a great Jewish intellect, by their crusading, and by downlow sedition, with deadly, seditious groups like the Freemasons and Trilateral Commission.

The Royal Hawaiians from Maui took over Oahu and united the islands, for a US coups, in 1893.

With the invasion of Palestine in 1882, in the year between the Boer Wars, as Disraeli died, 1881, the US and UK drifted into an illegal, secret treaty, to favor Spain, Windsor, Saud, Vatican, David, Tsars, and to undermine Asian, African, and Arab royalty and states, and to replace taken Tsarists, by invaded, illegally favored Imperial Japan, now at riot, by US incitement, against commerce clauses and quartering, standing armies having been illegally established for religion and royalty, both.

Desist at riot, and disband any of your illegal gatherings, under the tainted cross.

You may NOT drop your loads along the roads in 1187, and invent a word, which your women may not utter, in order to remind them, you may not keep Jerusalem, without TWO THINGS: China and Shiites, under your ignorant control.

That won't be easy, since China has an I Ching, the Mayans have a calendar, and both end up, in 2012, while YOU have been calling our native, land-bridge Asians, as 'INDIANS,' to confuse and injure, after Columbus told Isabella he had found Cathay.

Actually, he found wrecked sailors from the Ming's White Fleet, on Hispaniola and elsewhere.

They also left someone with Robin Hood, or his longbowmen would have no castiron arrowheads, not as good as those in Han service, 1800 years earlier.

Those English will cheat anybody, so the Ming sailor or group left the crossbows in Europe, which erupted in war, so bloody, Isabella became informed or curious enough, to send Columbus.

You may expect a PRC-Taiwanese-Chinese joint lawsuit, against you and the USA, to settle debts and the outstanding three invasions, yet unresolved by Panmunjon. Japan and South Korea also could lose ALL THEIR DEBT HOLDINGS, in the USA, if the Ming issues are allowed to fail, before conspiracy to defraud, by the US, UN, and all tainted, including the Republic of India, which may not assert cast, where its Brahmans are distorted.

The Abrahamic religions riot in the USA, sufficient to disband ALL THREE OF THEM, for sedition.

Get to your CROSS, and get up there, if you are so riotous, as to make a graven image, of yourself!

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Al Qaeda's Nuclear Inventory

2009-05-11T04:30:09Z

From Paul L. Williams' book "The Al Qaeda Connection" :

The beginning of the end took place on Sept. 27, 1991, when President George H. W. Bush Announced that the United States would unilaterally withdraw all nuclear weapons from its forces around the world with the proviso that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev would do likewise. Gorbachev readily agreed. The press and the people of both nations were pleased. The agreement represented a grand display of perestroika -- positive proof that the cold war was over and a new day of mutual trust (if not brotherhood) had dawned. The process of the withdrawal of the nukes was greatly facilitated by the enactment of the Nunn-Lugtar Soviet Threat Reduction Act on December 12, 1991. This act provided Russia with millions in funding to transport its nukes to various sites throughout the fourteen newly created republics of what was once the Soviet Union. This, too, seemed like a sensible measure that would make the world a safer place.

Yet the movement of the twenty-two thousand nuclear weapons occurred when everything in Russia was falling apart. With the closing of the communal plants and industries, more than 30 percent of the workforce became unemployed. Inflation soared over 2,000 percent, fueling crime and corruption. An average of eighty-four murders took place a day, many of which were contract killings. A hit could now be arranged with members of eight Mafia families within Moscow for less than $200. Millions of Russians now stood in lines for hours in order to redeem governement-issued coupons. There was one line for red beets and cabbages; another for eggs and bread; and yet another for vodka and cigarettes. Butcher shops sold blue chickens that had died of malnutrition and pies made from rancid beef and horse meat. The savvy customers soon learned not to purchase the pies that were surrounded by dead flies. In the wink of an eye, the second most powerful nation on earth had become transformed into a third world country.

Undfer the new capitalism, male life expectancy fell to fifty-eight years --- fifteen to seventeen years less than that of males in eastern Europe and the United States. By 1996 the suicide rate had doubled. Along with poverty, inflation, unemployment, and depression, Russians experienced a sharp drop in the birth rate. From 1991 to 2001, the population declined at a rate of 1.2 million a year.

Nowhere was the misery more apparent than within the military, which by 1996 had shrunk to a feeble force of 1.7 million soldiers. Because of chronic food shortages, many soldiers resorted to begging. More than ten Russian soldiers died each day from noncombat causes, including suicide and malnutrition. An estimated 110,000 loacked proper housing and became sheltered in hovels. No one in the military, not even a high-ranking general, was receiving a regular pay check. Russian army and navy officers began to sell almost every item at their disposal. In 1993 there were 6,430 reports of stolen weapons from army arsenals, ranging from assault rifles to tanks.

It is incredible to assume that the twenty-two thousand nuclear weapons were moved from strategic sites to arsenals throughout Russia without a single loss. When President George H. W. Bush announced his plans for a nuclear withdrawal, the then secretary of defense Dick Cheney said that the recovery of 90 percent of the nukes in Russia would represent "excellent performance." Such an "excellent performance" would mean that 220 weapons would have been lost, stolen, or otherwise unaccounted for. But what person in his right mind could expect such an outcome from the poorly housed, malnourished, disillusioned, and unpaid Russian troups of 1991? The temptation for gain would have been too great for an Orthodox saint to suppress when a kilo of chrominum-50 would sell for $25,000, cesium-137 for $1 million, and lithium for $10 million. Prospective buyers included agents from North Korea, Pakistan, Libya, and a well-financed group of Muslim terrorists called al Qaeda.

In the first three years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the black market in nuclear weapons and materials began to boom. Germany reported more than seven hundred attempted nuclear sales. These illegal sales were luckily stopped by the police, but that was not true of every case of smuggling. Other incidents have been more alarming. In January 1992 an Egyptian newspaper reported that Iran bought three Soviet nuclear warheads from Kazakhstan for $150 million. This report was later confirmed by Russian intelligence. In November 1993 two nuclear warheads, sufficient to kill millions in New York and Los Angeles, were stolen by two employees from the Zlatoust-36 Instrument Building Plant, a weapons assembly facility, in Chelyabinsk. Fortunately, the weapons were later recovered in a nearby residential garage, and the two employees were placed under arrest. Later that same month, Russian navy Captian Alexei Tikhomirov broke into a nuclear storage facility at the Sevmorput shipyard near Murmansk and robbed three pieces of a reactor core containing 3.4 kilograms of highly enriched uranium. At the time of Tikhomirov's arrest, the chief Russian prosecutor noted that "potatoes were guarded better" that the nuclear materials at Murmansk.

The Chechen Mafia, the most powerful criminal organization in Russia, now became the most dominant force in the trafficking of nuclear supplies and materials from Russia to rogue nation and terrorist groups. In March 1993 the Chechens seciured an unknown quantity of highly enriched uranium from Kazakhstan. More than six kilograms were transported from Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, to Istanbul, Turkey. Six months later, Interpol officials collared four Turkish businessmen and four agents of Iran's secret service and confiscated 2.5 kilos of the uranium. The remaining kilos had slipped through the proverbial cracks. In September 1993 the Chechen rebels stunned the world by the display of SS-20 missiles during a military parade in Grozny. The missiles, stolen from some Soviet arsenal, possessed a range of 9,500 kilometers and the capability to launch a nuclear warhead.

At the same time, the Chechen rebels began using radioactive isotopes, which had become available at rock-bottom prices, to commit acts of murder. The first victim was Vladimir Kaplun, the owner of a meat packing plant in Moscow. The Chechens planted gamma ray-emitting pellets in Kaplun's office. The businessman was dead within a matter of weeks. At least half a dozen similar cases were reported in the next three weeks.

In November 1994 Dzokhar Dudayev, the leader of the Chechen rebels, petitioned the Uniter Nations to dispatch troops to protect the weapons of mass destruction within the Chechen arsenal. Dudayev's request was taken as an attempt at grandstanding. The UN officials, along with the international press, scoffed at the notion that a group of Muslim dissidents from the backwater Russian province of Chechnya could possess, let alone maintain, nuclear weapons. This forced the Chechens to make a vivid display that would prove to the world that they possessed nuclear capability. On November 23, 1995, Chechen commander Shamil Basayev directed a television crew to a radiological bomb that had been planted in Izmailovsky Park near Moscow. The bomb was made of cesium-137 and, if detonated, would have killed hundreds in a matter of minutes and contaminated thousands more. The incident represented the first case of a dirty nuke to be shown as a weapon of terror.

Shortly after this incident, Dudayev notified the US State Department that he possessed tactical nuclear suitcase bombs. The Chechen leader said that he was willing to sell these weapons to rogue states of terrorist agencies, such as al Qaeda, if the United States failed to recognize Chechnya's independence from Russia. Dudayev's claim was supported by officials from the National Intelligence Council, an unbrella organization for the US analytical community. The officials informed a congressional committee that weapon-grade and weapons-usable nuclear material, including SADMs (small atomic demolition munitions), had been stolen from Soviet stockpiles. "Of these thefts," the officials said, "we assess that undetected smuggling has occurred, although we do not know the extent or the magnitude.

In January 1996 the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of Internation Studies received information from a "senior advisor to Boris Yeltsin" that an unspecified number of small nuclear bombs had been manufactured for the KGB and had never appeared on a list of the Soviet nuclear inventory.

In May 1997, during a closed door session with a US congressional delegation, former Russian Security Council secretary Alexander Lebed said that more than eighty-four SADMs had disappeared from Russian arsenals and could be in the hands of Muslim extremists. General Lebed said that he was able to confirm the production of 132 small nukes but could only account for 48. When asked the whereabouts of the missing nukes, Lebed replied: "I have no idea." He went on to say that he had no idea how many small nukes had been produced by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Lebed also said that some of these small nukes, with explosive yield of one kiloton of TNT, had been refined so that they could be carried by one person in a case measuring sity by forty by twenty centimeters (twenty-four by sixteen by eight inches) and represented "ideal weapons for nuclear terror."

General Lebed repeated these charges in an interview with the CBS newsmagazine 60 minutes that was aired on September 7, 1997. In the interview, he added that the SADMs were designed to be used in sabotage operations behind enemy lines and lacked the electronic combination locks that had been built into other Soviet nuclear weapons. The following is a sample of the exchange between CBS correspondent Steve Kroft and General Lebed over the matter of the missing nukes:

Kroft: Are you confidant that all of the weapons aqre secure and acoounted for?

Lebed: Not at all. Not at all.

Kroft: How easy would it be to steal one?

Lebed: It's suitcase-sized.

Kroft: You could put it in a suitcase and carry it off?

Lebed: It is made in the size of a suitcase. It is a suitcase, actually. You could carry it. You could put it in another suitcase if you want to.

Kroft: But it's already a suitcase.

Lebed: Yes.

Kroft: I could walk down the streets of Moscow or Washington or New York, and people would think I'm carrying a suitaces?

Lebed: Yes, indeed.

Kroft: How easy would it be to detonate?

Lebed: It would take twnety, thirty minutes to prepare.

Kroft: But you don't need secret codes from the Kremlin or anything like that?

Lebed: No.

Kroft: You are saying there are a significant number that are missing and unaccounted for?

Lebed: Yes, there is. More than one hundred.

Kroft: Where are they?

Lebed: Somewhere in Georgia, somewhere in Ukraine, somewhere in the Baltic countries. Perhaps some are even outside those countries. One person is capable of triggering this nuclear weapon -- one person.

Kroft: So you are saying these weapons are no longer under the control of the Russian military?

Lebed: I'm saying that more than one hundred weapons are not under the control of the armed forces of Russia. I don't know their location. I don't know whether they have been destroyed or whether they are stored or whether they've been sold or stolen. I don't know.

More to come, if you like. It's a great story that is forming up.

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Dreaming the NEW American Dream

2009-04-04T17:40:18Z

California poets Ava Bird & Rex Butters, and....

Santa Cruz artist Russell Brutsche - Karen Kwiatkowski of Virginia

Protests to stop immigration raids ... and more.
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http://www.newamericandream.net

The New American Dream

What's New?

* Karen Kwiatkowski column
* Ava Bird poetry
* Rex Butters poetry
* Gary Mennie poetry

Columns:
Sherwood Ross — why not shut down a few prisons in the United States as well?
Mickey Z — Americans are cowards, too comfortable, will never-ever-not-in-one-million-years revolt-or-even-bother-to-stand-up — no matter what the rich folks do to them.
Lydia Sems — It's The American Dream that is the problem.

and more from Jack Saunders ...

Resistance:
* Planned civil disobedience in Minnesota to stop raids against immigrants
* Protests at Creech AFB against U.S. drone terroristic activity
*100 days of protest against Guantanamo to culminate

All this, Northern Exposure, The Big Lebowski, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights ... a certificate for free toast ... and more.

Join us.

The New American Dream
Dude.
... because ... Sister Mary Anne told us, "There are no wrong questions, if you don't know the answers."

... from the Dream Team

http://www.newamericandream.net

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A closer look at Obama’s transition team

2008-11-07T18:46:36Z

A closer look at Obama’s transition team
By Joe Kishore
7 November 2008

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/tran-n07.shtml

Barack Obama's transition team is a collection of Washington insiders, former Clinton administration officials, corporate and banking executives, and individuals with roots in the Chicago Democratic Party political machine.

The Obama-Biden Transition Project is led by three co-chairmen. They are John Podesta, former chief of staff for Bill Clinton; Valerie Jarrett, a long-time Obama adviser, Chicago real estate executive and influential figure in the Chicago Democratic Party; and Pete Rouse, Obama's Senate chief of staff.

John Podesta

Podesta, chief of staff for Clinton from 1998 to 2001, will serve as the Transition Project's leader. Podesta is a long-time Washington insider, where he served, beginning in the early 1980s, as legal counsel for a number of congressional committees. As is the custom in Washington, Podesta made use of his political influence to establish a lucrative Washington lobbying firm, the Podesta Group.

Podesta authored a recent book entitled The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country. The lobbying firm of this "progressive" includes among its top clients the oil giant BP, defense industry corporations Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, biotech firms Genentech and Amgen, Swiss pharmaceuticals corporation Novartis Interational AG, and Wal-Mart.

Podesta has the dubious distinction of having been ranked the third most powerful lobbyist in Washington DC by the Washingtonian. According to the newspaper, BP, whose "pipeline problems and refinery fires have created regulatory and public relations issues," has turned to Podesta, who "has quietly been guiding BP through congressional hearings."

For Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, Podesta has been busy "trying to sell Congress and the Pentagon on another version of their Stryker troop transport vehicle."

Podesta is president and chief executive officer of the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank. The center was set up with substantial funding from billionaire investor and Obama adviser Warren Buffet.

Valerie Jarrett

Jarrett began her political career in 1987 under then-Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. She became deputy chief of staff for Mayor Richard Daley and later served as Chicago's commissioner of the Department of Planning and chair of the Chicago Transit Board.

Jarrett has also held leading positions on the Chicago Stock Exchange (member of the board from 2000 to 2007 and chairman from 2004 to 2007), the University of Chicago Medical Center (chairman of the board of trustees), the University of Chicago (vice chairman of the board of trustees) and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry (board of trustees).

Jarrett is the CEO of The Habitat Company, a real estate development firm in Chicago. She has been a top executive at the company since 1995, becoming CEO in 2007. Habitat has worked closely with the Chicago city administration to oversee public housing, receiving millions in local and federal subsidies.

A Boston Globe article from June 27, 2008 ("Grim Proving Ground for Obama's Housing Policy," by Binyamin Appelbaum) describes the state of one 504-unit public housing complex, Grove Parc Plaza, located in Obama's former state Senate district.

"About 99 units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale—a score so bad the buildings now face demolition."

"Grove Parc has become a symbol," the newspaper noted, "for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing—an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing."

The Globe reports "thousands of apartments" throughout Chicago, overseen by Habitat, that are characterized by similar disrepair. The Habitat Company "managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems."

There is some talk that Jarrett will be named housing secretary in the Obama administration.

Pete Rouse

Pete Rouse is an interesting case, whose political trajectory says much about the Obama campaign. Rouse was the chief of staff to Tom Daschle, the former Democratic leader in the Senate. Rouse was known as the "101st senator" in Washington circles due to the power he commanded, particularly when Daschle was the majority leader. He has worked on Capitol Hill for over 30 years.

After Daschle lost his seat in 2004, Rouse decided to take a position as chief of staff for Obama, then just beginning his first term in the Senate. The fact that an individual with Rouse's history and political ties decided to throw in his lot with a freshman senator with little political power or influence indicates that Obama was being groomed at an early stage by sections of the Democratic Party establishment, including Daschle, for bigger things.

Rouse has been a strong advocate of bipartisanship and "reaching across the aisle" to work with Republicans.

Also included on the Transition Project are:

* Carol Browner, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for eight years in the Clinton administration. After 2001, Browner took a position at the Albright Group, a firm headed by former Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that advises businesses on policy.

* William Daley, brother of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Daley was special counsel to President Clinton on trade (helping pass the North American Free Trade Agreement) and Clinton's secretary of commerce from 1997 to 1998. After leaving government, Daley took a position as president of SBC Communications and later served as Midwest chairman of JPMorgan Chase and Bank One. He serves on the boards of directors of airline manufacturer and defense contractor Boeing and drug giant Merck.

* Michael Froman is president and CEO of CitiInsurance, a branch of banking giant Citigroup. During the 1990s, Froman served in the US Department of Treasury as deputy assistant secretary for Eurasia and the Middle East, and later as chief of staff.

* Federico Peña was secretary of transportation (1993 to 1997) and secretary of energy (1997 to 1998) under Clinton. After leaving government, he took a post in Vestar Capital Partners, an investment firm.

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There's still time for "W" to do something stupid!

2008-11-06T15:01:25Z

I'm so happy about the election results. For the first time in 8 years I'm actually hopefull. But I keep having this same nightmare that G"W" does something really DUMB, then declares a state of RED ALERT and makes himself "KING GEORGE"!!!! Say it isn't so.

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GOP= shameless

2008-11-04T07:40:40Z

California GOP files FEC complaint over Obama's visit to grandmother
John Byrne

Oops.

In what the Washington Post called "perhaps the most ill-timed press release of the 2008 campaign," the California Republican Party announced that they'd filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Sen. Barack Obama had illegally funneled funds from his campaign account for his personal use.

The use? Visiting his dying grandmother, whose passing was announced this afternoon.

The GOP sent the release at 1:30 pm ET, a few hours before Obama's grandmother's death was announced.

"Obama for America violated federal law by converting its campaign funds to Senator Obama's personal use," the release stated. "Senator Obama recently traveled to Hawaii to visit his sick grandmother. This was the right thing for any grandson to do -- at his own expense -- but it was not travel that his campaign may fund."

Federal law prohibits campaigns from using campaign funds for personal travel. Obama's campaign said beforehand that they had reviewed the trips with their lawyers and believed it was allowable. Republicans, meanwhile, contend that because Obama did not campaign in Hawaii, it should not have been budgeted as a campaign expense.

Obama announced Monday that the grandmother who brought him up had died, aged 86. He flew to Hawaii to visit Madelyn Dunham's side in Hawaii two weeks ago, fearing she would not live to see what polls suggest may be his triumph.

"It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer," Obama said in a joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng.

"She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility," he continued. "She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances."

"She was proud of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and left this world with the knowledge that her impact on all of us was meaningful and enduring," he added. "Our debt to her is beyond measure."

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Don't forget the November surprize

2008-11-04T07:22:25Z

For whatever reason, McCain supporters failed to employ (or take advantage of) an October surprize. Since that's the case, I have to conclude that they've already planned a November surprize. But if they don't employ a November surprize, I will be very, very, very surprized.

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Republicans target ACORN: the great “voter fraud” fraud

2008-11-02T22:55:52Z

US Republicans target ACORN: the great “voter fraud” fraud
By Tom Eley
18 October 2008

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/vote-o18.shtml

A community activist group called ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has become a lighting rod for Republican attacks as the US presidential election approaches.

In Wednesday night’s presidential debate, John McCain warned that ACORN “is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.” He demanded to “know the full extent of Senator Obama’s relationship” to this purportedly criminal organization.

In a recent fundraising email, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin warned that “far-left groups in this country will do anything to help the Obama-Biden Democrats win the White House and maintain their majorities in Congress. The left-wing activist group, ACORN, is now under investigation for voter registration fraud in a number of battleground states.... We can’t allow leftist groups like ACORN to steal this election.”

ACORN is now at the center of a media controversy fueled by Republican accusations. The FBI has announced an investigation, as have a number of states, counties and municipalities.

What is this group that is allegedly responsible for “destroying the fabric of democracy”?

ACORN describes itself as an organization of “low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families” which focuses on such goals as raising the minimum wage and expanding access to affordable housing. It unreservedly supports the Democratic Party and has endorsed Barack Obama for the presidency. In the lead-up to the 2008 election, ACORN has launched a major voter registration campaign to bring poor and minority people—who tend to vote Democratic—to the polls in the upcoming election. It claims to have registered over 1.3 million voters, largely in critical “battleground” states.

There is no evidence that ACORN has committed fraud, a charge that implies intent. As is typical of registration and petition drives, ACORN has hired low-paid workers to carry out registrations. Some of these workers, in an effort to take home more pay, have invented the names of registrants. However, ACORN claims that it examines all registration material and flags forgeries in an attempt to assist state officials in prosecuting cases of fraud. In fact, ACORN claims that Republican officials have used the same registration cards ACORN has flagged for attention as a means of discrediting the group’s operations.

In any event, the Republicans have yet to explain the mechanics of how the supposedly false voting cards would actually result in thousands of false votes. The hue and cry over finding names like “Mickey Mouse” on a registration form begs the question: How could anyone cast a ballot under such a name? If the voters are fictional, as the Republicans claim, presumably they will not show up at the polls.

The Republican charge of “voter fraud” is itself a fraud. Through sensational accusations the Republicans hope to resuscitate their faltering presidential and Congressional campaigns. These charges could also be used to cast doubt over the legitimacy of the electoral outcome.

More fundamentally, however, the aim is to suppress the vote among sections of the working class and youth in an attempt to manipulate the outcome of the election. This is the real “voter fraud”—and there is a history to it.

The current charges against ACORN are only the latest chapter in this right-wing campaign to suppress voting rights. The campaign to restrict the franchise, found its most anti-democratic expression in the US Supreme Court’s intervention in the 2000 presidential election to hand victory to Bush by means of invalidating legally cast ballots, ruling that there was no inherent right among citizens to vote for the president. (Purchase online: “The Crisis of American Democracy: The Presidential Elections of 2000 and 2004”).

Since 2000, the Republican Party has taken steps to impede the vote not seen since the days of the Jim Crow voting restrictions targeting blacks in the South. Republican strategists sense that as the most rapidly growing sections of the electorate—youth, minorities, naturalized immigrants, and workers—punish their candidates at the polls, survival will depend on limiting these groups’ access to the ballot.

On October 9, the New York Times ran an exposé revealing that tens of thousands of voters in the “swing states” that will ultimately decide the presidential election had been purged from the election rolls, perhaps illegally.

In Ohio, the Republican Party sued the secretary of state in an effort to toss out the names of 200,000 legally registered voters for discrepancies—most likely clerical errors—in their registration data. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Republican Party did not have the right to bring the case.

In other states, new restrictions on the right to vote are aimed at those whose homes have been foreclosed and those who lack photo identification, such as drivers’ licenses.

The mainstream media conveniently forgets that the US attorneys scandal that led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales also arose from a Republican attempt to suppress the vote. A number of the attorneys were sacked because they did not comply with Republican pressure to expedite the prosecution of voter fraud cases, so that they would take place before the 2006 elections. For example, the US Department of Justice has found that US Attorney David Iglesias was dismissed for failing to investigate a local ACORN chapter in New Mexico. (See “Special prosecutor appointed to investigate US attorney firings”)

More craven than the Republican attacks on ACORN has been the cowardly response of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. In response to McCain’s attack on ACORN, Obama disowned any relationship to the organization, which has worked feverishly on his behalf for months. Moments earlier he had disowned Bill Ayers, the former radical routinely condemned by Republicans as a terrorist. (See “In defense of Bill Ayers”) Shortly afterward he listed those he considers his true associates. These include the world’s richest man, Warren Buffett, and former Federal Reserve Board head Paul Volcker, whose high interest rate “shock therapy” in 1979 was responsible for devastating many of the communities where ACORN now seeks to register impoverished voters.

The Democrats are not opposed to voter suppression in either principle or practice. They engage in it when it suits their purposes, regularly purging the nominating petitions of left-wing, and especially socialist, opponents. Barack Obama’s benefactors in the Illinois state Democratic Party have twice attempted to invalidate thousands of signatures of registered voters from third party nominating petitions in order to remove Socialist Equality Party legislative candidates from the ballot—Tom Mackaman (in 2004) and Joe Parnarauskis (in 2006). Obama personally came to Danville, Illinois, to campaign against Parnarauskis. (See “Democrats conspire against voters in bid to remove SEP from ballot” and “Judge orders election board to certify Illinois SEP candidate”).

The notion, pedaled by the Republicans—that the great threat to American democracy is that ineligible voters might somehow cast ballots—is absurd. The US is a country where only half of the eligible population votes and where the great majority of the electorate is politically disenfranchised by the two-party duopoly of big business.

In fact, the greatest threat “to the fabric of democracy” is the capitalist class, which cannot maintain democratic norms under conditions of growing social inequality in which the vast majority of the population is increasingly impoverished.

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Nobamas glaring lack of experience

2008-10-08T05:50:05Z

Tale of the Tape: Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama
Don't forget, by the way, that they're running for different positions

Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 11:46AM

Sarah Palin

Barack Obama

Office being sought
Vice President
President of the United States and Leader of the Free World

Full name
Sarah Louise Heath Palin
Barack Hussein Obama II

Nickname
Sarah Barracuda
Barry Obama; 'The One'

Public opinion
Smoking hot in a 'naughty librarian' sort of way
May be The Messiah

Age
44
48

Children
5: two sons, three daughters
2: two daughters

Religion/Church attendance
Evangelical Christian;

attends Juneau Christian Center when in Juneau and grew up attending Wasilla Assembly of God
Attended Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years, a 'black liberation theology' church formerly led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright and governed according to the Black Value System

Current Job
Governor of Alaska
Junior Senator from Illinois

Previous Public Jobs
Mayor of Wasilla, AK (1996-2002); President of Alaska Conference of Mayors;

City Council member (1992-1996)
State Senator (1997-2004);

Community Organizer

Executive Experience
Governor for 2 years;

Mayor for 10 years
None

Foreign Relations experience
Governor of state that borders two foreign countries (Canada and Russia)
Chaired Senate subcommittee on Europe but never called it into session;

once gave a speech to 200,000 screaming Germans

Military Affairs experience
Commander in Chief of Alaska National Guard;

Son is enlisted Infantryman in U.S. Army
None

Private Sector Experience
Sports reporter;

Salmon fisherman
Associate at civil rights law firm

Speaking ability
Beautifully executed initial stump speech in Dayton, OH hockey arena without a teleprompter
An enter...wait--did you say without a teleprompter??

Spouse's name
Todd Mitchell Palin
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama

Spouse's occupation
Salmon fisherman;

Former North Slope production supervisor for BP Oil
Vice President for Community and External Affairs at University of Chicago Hospitals;

former Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago;

former Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies;

former Assistant to the Mayor of Chicago;

former associate at Sidley Austin law firm

Reaction to spouse's political success
Quit 17-year BP oil job when BP became involved in natural gas pipeline negotiations with wife's administration
Promoted and given 160% pay raise by UofC hospitals within months of husband's election to U.S. Senate;

Employer received $1,000,000.00 federal earmark, requested by husband, after her promotion

Coolest thing about Spouse
Tesoro Iron Dog Snowmobile race champion (longest snowmobile race in the world);

In 2008, while defending his championship, was injured when he was thrown 70 feet from his machine. He was sent to the hospital but still finished in fourth place
Sister of Oregon State University head basketball coach Craig Robinson

Most Courageous Moment in Public Service
Resigned in protest from position of Ethics Commissioner of Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in order to expose legal violations and conflicts of interest of Alaska Republican leaders, including the former state Attorney General and the State GOP Chairman (who was also an Oil & Gas Commissioner), who was doing work for the party on public time and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.
Gave an anti-Iraq war speech to a crowd of anti-Iraq war demonstrators in Hyde Park in 2002

In Current Office Because...
Upset sitting Governor in GOP primary due to public support for her efforts to clean up corrupt government establishment
Republican opponent, who was leading in the polls, was forced to leave race after unsealing of divorce records exposed a sex scandal

Theme:
Change and Clean Government
Hope and Change;

'Bringing Change from Outside Washington'

What they've done to live that theme:
Replaced entire Board of Agriculture and Conservation because of conflict of interest;

Resigned from position of Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in order to expose corruption among members of own party
Selected 36-year incumbent Senator as running mate

Family Affairs
May have removed State Public Safety Commissioner as part of effort to protect sister in messy divorce and child custody battle
Often says, 'I am my brother's keeper';

Brother lives in a hut in Nairobi on $12 per year

Union affiliation
Union member, married to Union member
Endorsed by a union

Iraq and Troop Support
Formerly (pre-surge) critical of apparent lack of long-term strategy for Iraq;

Visited wounded U.S. soldiers in Germany;

visited AK National Guard soldiers deployed to Kuwait;

Son deploying to Iraq on 9/11/08 as Army infantryman
Gave an anti-Iraq war speech to a crowd of anti-Iraq war demonstrators;

almost visited wounded troops in Germany, but decided to go shopping in Berlin instead

Bipartisan/'maverick' credentials
Married to a non-Republican;

Exposed corruption within own party;

Campaigned for Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell against corrupt GOP congressman Don Young;

Called out Sen Ted Stevens (R-AK) to 'come clean' about financial dealings that are under fed investigation
Talks about bipartisanship

Legislative Record
Passed a landmark ethics reform bill;

Used veto to cut budgetary spending;

Prevented 'bridge to nowhere' that would have cost taxpayers $400 million dollars.
Voted 'present' over 100 times as IL state senator

How they dealt with corrupt individuals in home city/state
Exposed legal violations and conflicts of interest of Alaska Republican leaders;

Campaigned against corrupt GOP Representative;

Ran against and defeated corrupt incumbent governor in GOP primary
Launched political career in home of unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers (and still refers to him as a part of 'mainstream Democratic Chicago';

Purchased home with help of convicted felon Tony Rezko

Guns
Lifetime member of NRA and avid hunter;

video can be found on YouTube of Palin firing an M4 at a military firing range
Worked to pass legislation in Illinois that would prevent all law-abiding citizens from owning firearms

Earmarks
Opposed 'Bridge to Nowhere' project;

Said Alaska should avoid relying on federal money for projects;

Campaigned against porker Don Young (R-AK) in 2008 primary
Secured federal earmarks for wife's employer and for campaign bundlers

Abortion
Pro life;

gave birth to 5th child knowing that he would have Down's syndrome
Pro-choice;

only IL state sen. to speak against the Born Alive Infant's Protection Act, which required medical care to be given to live infants who survived abortions

Energy
Believes energy independence is a matter of national security;

For drilling in ANWR, which is in her state
Says Americans should 'get tune-ups' and 'check tire pressure';

Says 'we can't expect the world to be okay with' our use of heating and air conditioning

Environment
Chair of Alaska Conservation Commission (2003-4);

Announced plans to create sub-cabinet group of advisors to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in AK
Talks about the environment a lot

Athletic prowess
Runs marathons
Has reporters tailing him to the gym

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Vetting Biden...........

2008-09-02T17:31:15Z

The O team has decided on Joe Biden (D - Beltway Establishment) to give us the OBAMA BIN BIDEN ticket. This is a great pick ... for the Republicans. Here's why the thin man has blown his first decision:

1. Like when Obama picked Eric Holder and Jim Johnson to do vetting itself, it's another DC insider appointment. "So much for hope and change." There IS no real change with Obama, it's just big, meaningless, campaign hype to present the same old liberal policies of Mondale, Dukakis and Kerry in a shiny new package. Even AP says: "The candidate of change went with the status quo."

2. Biden is a gaffe machine who has already made the case for McCain over Obama in previous comments.

Biden, on a post-debate appearance on MSNBC, October 30, 2007: “The only guy on the other side who’s qualified is John McCain.”

Biden appearing on The Daily Show, August 2, 2005: “John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who...”

Biden spent most of 2007 running on 'experience' and reminding people of its importance in the White House. Biden in an interview with the Huffington Post, he assessed Obama and Clinton: “The more people learn about them (Obama and Hillary) and how they handle the pressure, the more their support will evaporate.”

Biden said in a campaign ad, “When this campaign is over, political slogans like ‘experience’ and ‘change’ will mean absolutely nothing. The next president has to act.” When Obama gave a speech saying he’d send troops into Pakistan, Biden told NPR that “It’s a well-intentioned notion he has, but it’s a very naïve way of thinking how you’re going to conduct foreign policy. ... Having talking points on foreign policy doesn’t get you there."

He also released an ad that said: ”The White House isn't a place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power ... the economic future of the next generation,' the narrator of Biden's 1988 ad for the Democratic nomination said. "The president has got to know the territory.” (Source: Politico.)

Then there is this, which sums up the clear put-down of inexperienced Obama that the McCain campaign is using already in ads - Video here:

“You were asked, “Is he ready?” You said, ‘I think he can be ready but right now, I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.’”
Mr. Biden: “I think that I stand by the statement.”

3. Forget the 'Biden is a centrist' talk. Biden was for Iraq war, but is otherwise quite liberal. His lifetime ACU rating is 14%. The most liberal U.S. Senator picked the third most liberal Senator as a running mate. The kind of guy who says: "I WOULD LET THE TAX CUTS FOR ALL OF THE MIDDLE CLASS LAPSE". We still have the most liberal ticket ever, that outdoes Kerry and Mondale tickets in being way to the left. Ticket is more liberal than Chomsky/Ward Churchill: "In the coming days, you will hear every single moron in the national Barrystream Media talk about Biden's moderate stances on things. That is quite frankly, yet another lie from our media. Biden is almost as far to the left as Barry Obama."

4. Sub-average Joe had trouble in College and wiki tried to cover it up when he got picked! This is the watered-down version:

"at Syracuse Law School, Biden had plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote ... Biden drew "chunks of heavy legal prose directly from" the article in question. ... Biden was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F, which was subsequently dropped from his record. ... Biden had claimed falsely to have graduated in the "top half" of his class, (when he actually graduated 76th in a class of 85). that he had attended on a full scholarship, and had received three degrees.[29] In fact he had received two majors, History and Political Science, and a single B.A., as well as a half scholarship based on financial need."

The non-watered-down version mentions his actual undergrad grades at U. of Delaware (on Newsbusters link). Ouch! F in ROTC, C and D's except for an A in physical education.At the University of Delaware, Biden was 506th out of 688 classmates. Sub-average Joe did his share of partying.

5. Biden voted for the Iraq war and has at times expressed support for it in ways that steps on the "Bush is a warmongering fool" meme. "I still believe that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction and that the war in Iraq was justified." - Joe Biden, 2003 on the Iraq War

6. With a white-haired dude VP pick who is old enough to collect social security checks, the issue of McCain’s age is now off the table.

7. Biden's gaffes are legion:
- Barry and I have been tested for AIDS
- Biden: "I’M A BIG FAN OF JIMMY CARTER’S. I WAS, AS YOU REMEMBER, HIS NATIONAL CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN IN 1976, THE FIRST PERSON TO ENDORSE HIM."
- Biden's infamous 'clean' comment on Obama: “the first mainstream African American [candidate] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
- Biden gets out of hand dissing DeLay: “The next Republican that tells me I’m not religious, I’m gonna shove my rosary beads down their throat!”
- Biden on President Bush: “This guy is brain dead. I know I’ll be quoted, I’ll be killed for that.” July 2007 (Source: FR.)
- Some of Biden's comments have bordered on the insensitive to racist (not just the above one). One infamous one is this: "In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans - moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." - Joe Biden, speaking to Indian-Americans.

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The great Satan

2008-09-02T17:14:18Z

THE GREAT SATAN CELEBRATES HIS SON BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ANTICHRIST FOR AMERICA

Barack Hussein Obama Is The Antichrist
http://www.cuttingedge.org/ce1081.html

BE AFRAID AMERICA FOR SATAN'S CHILD IS NOW AMONGST US AS A BLACK/WHITE MAN!

Since the redemption of Adam/Israel by the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the indwelling of the Spirit in the White race has been accomplished. However, what if there were no White people left on earth in which God's Spirit could dwell? God would have no place to dwell. It is quite conceivable then, for the enemies of God, the jews, to destroy the ability of our race to propagate and the surest way to do that, short of killing us outright, is to mix our racial stock producing what the Bible calls 'bastards' or mongrels (Deut. 23:2). The end product is a mixed breed empty of an undefiled body tainted with hybrid genetics, void of a Spirit/temple in which God can dwell. This breed of jews, as well as all other mixed breeds, have violated God's biological Creation of 'kind after kind' and therefore cannot worship the God/Creator of pure undefiled races. They have defiled God's original intent and sponsor the proliferation of more ungodly defiance. http://clifylq.livejournal.com/44676.html

MISCEGENATION

The "original sin" was hybreeding or miscegenation. God expelled Adam and Eve from the paradise of Eden for this great wickedness and He will not allow us to return on the basis of its replication today. Miscegenation between the families of Cain and Adam spells genocide to Adam's race, for the offspring of such misalliances are not on the Book of Life and cannot breed themselves back. They are therefore without redemption.

When miscegenation reached its climax God destroyed all but one of Cain's lineage in the Great Flood. Perhaps the most visible prophecy for the last generation before the Day of the Lord is the repetition of this great sin of Genesis 6:1-4. Daniel 12:4 prophesied waves of refugees deliberately displaced from their homelands following the revelation of the Seven Seals which signaled "the time of the end" and the second or 'parousia' Coming of Messiah in the Office of Son of man. Jesus said, at this time the sin of the days of Noah would repeat (Matthew 24:37).

God's Word is true. Messiah opened the Seven Seals in 1963 and returned in WORD form through the mouth of His Prophet, William Branham (Amos 3:7; Acts 3:21; I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:1-7). Soon He will return to Israel through the mouths of two Hebrew prophets (Zechariah 4; II Peter 1:21; Revelation 11).

This phenomenen of miscegenation was most marked from the latter years of the twentieth century to the present day. Of course it is as unnatural as grazing sheep in lion country, but wicked men who control education and communications have brainwashed the silent majority who know not God and His unchanging Word. They have caused confusion by changing the meaning of language. The word Jew once meant a resident of Judea regardless of religion or race, whereas nowadays it has been changed to mean an Israelite. Miscegenation was once known to be sinful and accursed of God. Today it is called "multiculturalism" and encouraged by prominent citizens who know not God. We live in the time foretold by the 'insider' George Orwell in his famous book, "1984," love means hate, and peace means war. http://clifylq.livejournal.com/42237.html

There are indeed two manners of people in the world: those who remain racially pure and those who don't. The problem again arises with the twin boys, Jacob and Esau, fulfilling their separate destinies from the time of their birth. History also shows that whenever these people sought to integrate and intermarry, the results were always the same: violence, confusion and judgment from God. On the other hand, when they lived separately as God ordered, each respectively lived in harmony apart from each other. History also shows that whenever the racially pure offspring of Jacob failed to assume their God-mandated office of taking dominion and administering God's Laws, conversely allowing the offspring of Esau to occupy and determine the law of the land, there has been nothing but trouble, chaos and God's judgment. Destruction of White Christian civilization is the primary purpose of the jewish drive towards racial amalgamation. They know that it has always been White Christian society that has proclaimed liberty throughout the land and are the custodians of freedom. So in order to control the world, this element of God's Spirit must go to the grave in various forms of genocide. Historians and social engineers know that a mongrelized people is easier to control, because they have a deformed spirit and no identity. These destroyers of mankind know that every White civilization (and there have been some 25 of these civilizations in the sixty centuries of recorded history) that has practiced race mixing, has destroyed themselves from within. You want to talk about fairy tales? There has never been a great Black civilization in Africa and mongrels have never been able to rule their subjects justly. South Africa enjoyed White Christian apartheid until its Christian faith was undermined by antichrist distortions of the Word. It is now the murder capital of the world. http://www.kinsmanredeemer.com/RacemixingIsNotChristian.htm
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/41334.html

HOMOSEXUALITY

Since man is a very special creation of God made in His own image, that image must be destroyed by corrupting man with homosexuality. Especially since Christ was born of a virgin and celibate, thus the gift of gender is changed to the evil of homosexuality and lesbianism. We will set the stage to emulate Christ dieing for man with a staged act of the son being mortally wounded but is reborn resurrected unto new evil for the father. To further destroy man and taking away man's choice by demanding his obedience and his praise of me/my evil by placing my mark onto his person.

REMEMBER AMERICA:

Genesis 18:20-19:25 -- God preserves for eternity the story of Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed because of their open practice of homosexuality. God destroyed these cities completely. What is shocking is that this instance occurred hundreds of years prior to God's Law. http://www.cuttingedge.org/ce1063.html

Jesus also had some very stern things to say about homosexuality in Revelation. In Chapter 21, Jesus tells us that certain people will be cast eternally into "the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone." (verse 8) However, earlier in this verse, Jesus listed those types of people who would be cast into this Lake of Fire. He includes those who are "depraved and defiled with abominations..." Jesus used the same words, "defiled" and "abominations" here that He used in Leviticus 18 and 20 to refer to homosexual acts!!! Remember also that God said in Leviticus 18 and 20 that these sexual sins defiled the land, and the land would vomit out her inhabitants. Here, Jesus reiterates that this sexual sin defiles.

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, that and only that is what he shall reap." That word, "deceived" keeps popping up again and again, particularly during the End of The Age. At this point in our history, those who are loudly proclaiming that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality are specifically targeting our children, no, your children. We have been warning you repeatedly that this lie keeps cropping up in various textbooks, especially health textbooks, in the Junior and Senior High Schools. If this is not enough to convince you that now is the time to either homeschool your precious children or to do whatever is necessary to send them to a Christian school, we invite you to understand a new development. A homosexual activist group has prepared a series of books which show homosexuality to be perfectly normal, and has published them through Alyson Publications, located in Boston, Massachusetts. One of these books, "Daddy's Roommate", was discovered in the Seekonk Public Library by two of our members, Bruce and Renee Swallow. They immediately protested and began a drive to get the book removed from the library. At first, library officials seemed cooperative, but they later began most uncooperative. In fact, they stated that they were not in the business of "censorship". This is a standard answer to virtually any protest over a book or a magazine to which Christians object. This label serves the same purpose as the label, "homophobia" -- it is simply a smoke screen behind which the activity can continue. Whenever anyone is called a "censor", they recoil, because they remember that time in history when Hitler's Nazi Party acted as a most cruel and unreasonable censor. They did censor many books which should not have been censored. And, the infamous pictures of Nazi officials burning books is indelibly etched into the minds of millions of Americans. Thus, proponents of the practice of many immoral and unGodly activities, including homosexuality and lesbianism, have created these terms, "homophobe" and "censor", with the express purpose of silencing, confounding, and even confusing their opponents. http://www.cuttingedge.org/ce1063.html
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/21939.html

THE GAY AGENDA

http://clifylq.livejournal.com/25165.html
SATAN'S UTTER CONTEMPT FOR GOD

ABORTION

Yeshua said of those who harm a young child that it would truly be better "... for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matt 18:6 NKJ). As someone who has dwelled in the Kingdom and returned to this world to guide others in TheWay, let me convey to you that the sin of abortion is a direct sin against God! Those who abort -- those who champion abortion -- and even those who vote for those who champion abortion --are themselves Dead Men/Women Walking! There are alternatives to abortion that every follower of Yeshua should seek to bring about in the world. http://brotherofyeshua.com/deadmen.htm
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/29223.html

Barack "Hussein" Obama
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party. The U.S. Senate Historical Office lists him as the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.[1]

Born to a black Kenyan father and a white athiest American mother, Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings. He lived for most of his childhood in the majority-minority U.S. state of Hawaii and spent four of his pre-teen years in the multi-ethnic Indonesian capital city of Jakarta. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer, university lecturer, and civil rights lawyer before running for public office. He served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, launching his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

NEWS BRIEF: "Senator Obama a Player in Left's Redefining of Christianity, Says Illinois Activist", Agape Press, By Jim Brown
December 12, 2006

"A pro-family leader says one of his U.S. senators -- Illinois Democrat Barack Obama -- is becoming 'the poster boy for the liberal redefinition of Christianity' ... Senator Obama is in the midst of a nationwide tour to generate support for a possible 2008 presidential run and to promote his book, The Audacity of Hope. In his memoir, Obama writes: "I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided."

Now you know that Obama claims to be a Christian -- but who hasn't made that claim? President Bill Clinton carried a huge old Bible with him when he went to church, holding up over his head as he walked out of the sanctuary. President Bush has made a firm claim to be a Bible-believing Christian, as did his dad, as did Ronald Reagan.

What is new about Obama's claim is this strange statement that he is willing to consider that he should not be opposed to gay marriage!

Returning back to our featured article, we read:

"Peter LaBarbera is president of Americans for Truth and the former head of the Illinois Family Institute. The first-term senator can say he is talking religious values to the public and continue portraying himself as a traditional-values Christian, says LaBarbera, but Obama is actually advancing policies that attack those values."

Can you imagine that? Obama is actually "advancing policies that attack" Fundamental Christianity? It looks like the old Army Intelligence adage that the truth is often discovered in exactly the opposite direction of the public rhetoric (NEWS1558, "BREAKING OUT OF THE MENTAL BOX -- LEARNING TO THINK IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF PROPAGANDA TO FIND THE TRUTH") is true in this case, as well.

PREPARE YOURSELF, FOR THE SHOCK OF THE TRUTH BEHIND OBAMA IS ABOUT TO GET WORSE.

"...for Obama to say that, in order to be a good Christian, he has to consider 'something that's anti-Christian is just wrong', says the Christian activist. He describes Obama as 'as pro-abortion as they come, and very pro-homosexual'."

This last segment tells us from whence Obama got his very Liberal christian views:

"Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination and attends Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago ... "The United Church of Christ has now merged with the largest gay church in the world, called the Cathedral of Hope, in Texas," LaBarbera notes. "And so they're welcoming in churches that are embracing homosexuality, so they've become one of the most liberal denominations in the country."

"At its General Synod last year, the UCC adopted a resolution calling for "equal marriage rights for all" -- regardless of gender. Obama has been quoted as saying that the denomination's "spirit of inclusiveness" has served as a model for him during his time in the Senate."

The word, "inclusiveness" is on the lips of gay activists more than any other word these days. The matter is clear: Barack Obama is just as Liberal as either Bill or Hillary Clinton. And, he may just be planned as a Vice-Presidential candidate running with Hillary. Remember this: even though the "race" is going to be interesting, the plan is already fixed - "the fix is in", and Obama has a role to play. http://www.cuttingedge.org/newsletters/121606.html

Stanley Ann Dunham
Obama's Mom Holding Obama
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/27492.html

"I know, it's a boy's name . and no, I don't like it. I mean, would you like to be called Stanley?" Johnson recalled her saying. "But my dad wanted a boy and he got me. And the name 'Stanley' made him feel better, I guess."

The Obama Mama From Mercer Island

March 28, 2007
The Tribune has a lengthy portrait of Obama’s deceased mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. She was, says the piece, “a strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960.”

“She was not a standard-issue girl of her times. … She wasn’t part of the matched-sweater-set crowd,” said Wall, a classmate and retired philosophy teacher who used to make after-school runs to Seattle with Dunham to sit and talk — for hours and hours — in coffee shops.

“She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she’d read about and could argue,” said Maxine Box, who was Dunham’s best friend in high school. “She was always challenging and arguing and comparing. She was already thinking about things that the rest of us hadn’t.”…a vivid portrait of Barack Obama’s mother as a self-assured, iconoclastic young teen seemingly hell-bent to resist Eisenhower-era conformity.

The article also suggests that Obama “in his best-selling book, “Dreams From My Father” and in campaign speeches…glosses over Stanley Ann Dunham’s formative years, spent not on the Great Plains but more than 1,800 miles away on a small island in the Pacific Northwest.” Apparently, he seems to think that the Plains paint a prettier political picture than does Mercer Island.

His first book was titled Dreams From My Father, but Barack Obama has said that, after his mother's death to cancer in 1995, he wishes he had written more about her. Obama has called her death of ovarian cancer at age 53 the worst experience of his life and said, "The biggest mistake I made was not being at my mother's bedside when she died. http://howieinseattle.blogspot.com/2007/05/obamas-mom-not-just-girl-from-kansas.html

OBAMA'S DECEASED MOM IS THE STAR OF HIS NEW POLITICAL AD

Barack Obama’s got his mama helping out. The Illinois Democratic senator this week unveiled his second TV ad, this one featuring an image of his deceased mother holding baby Barack. The 30-second commercial, called “Mother,” with the picture of Stanley Ann Dunham, who died at 53 of ovarian cancer in 1995, is designed to convince voters that he is better able to resolve the nation’s health care problems.

“I remember just being heartbroken, seeing her struggle through the paperwork and the medical bills and the insurance forms. So, I have seen what it’s like when somebody you love is suffering because of a broken health-care system. And it’s wrong. It’s not who we are as a people.” In his ad, Obama says his health care proposal will cover everyone. What do you think of Obama having his mother in the political ad?

THE EVIL TRUTH AMERICA

OBAMA OFFERS FAKE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE PLAN

As Kal Swift of the Green Party has put it, "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." http://www.rense.com/general77/devs.htm

Barack Obama Senior
http://michaelinmi.wordpress.com/category/barack-obama/

Senator Barack Obama’s Dad Was A Drunk Polygamist Bigot
Wow, the UK media is doing a better job researching and reporting on Senator Barack Obama’s background than the American media. Well, I guess that is not too suprising actually.

Via Sweetness and Light: UK Paper: Obama’s Dad Was A Drunk Polygamist Bigot

By the way, as Steve Gilbert notes, it is more worrisome that Senator Obama’s role model is Malcolm X.

Title: A drunk and a bigot - what the US Presidental hopeful HASN'T said about his father.

OBAMA'S BOOK ABOUT HIS FATHER
Family members and acquaintances believe that the real cloud over Mr Obama's life has been the discovery that his father was far from the romantic figure that his mother tried to portray.

A family friend said: "He is haunted by his father's failures. He grew up thinking of his father as a brilliant intellectual and pioneer of African independence only to learn that in Western terms he was basically a drunken lecher."

This ugly truth, say friends, has made Mr Obama ruthlessly determined to use every weapon that he has to succeed, including the glossily edited version of his father's story. http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=174618&Disp=All&

Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/62126.html

"Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination and attends Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago ... "The United Church of Christ has now merged with the largest gay church in the world, called the Cathedral of Hope, in Texas," LaBarbera notes. "And so they're welcoming in churches that are embracing homosexuality, so they've become one of the most liberal denominations in the country."

What Obama’s black church believes

As readers know, I think that Christianity properly understood is compatible with the expression and preservation of distinct peoples, nations, and cultures. Therefore I am not necessarily hostile to a Christian church which defines itself as black. The Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, to which Barak Obama belongs, defines itself as black. Fine, no problem. However, the racial component of this church, as laid out in its About Us page, doesn’t stop with an acknowledgement of blackness. TUCC is drenched in an exclusivist, anti-American, black racial consciousness. Literally everything it cares about, it defines in terms of an all-embracing blackness. It defines ethics in terms of a “Black” ethics. It identifies itself solely and exclusively with Africa, which it calls the “cradle of civilization.” It places itself effectively outside America, which it speaks of only in negative terms of “the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism.” It even promotes a “Black Work Ethic,” while simultaneously disavowing “the Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness.’” It would be interesting to know more about a work ethic in America that does not lead to middleclassness. Perhaps TUCC is talking about how to, uh, “work” the system? http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007292.html

Barack Hussein Obama's church, Trinity United Church of Christ . This may be more damning to Obama than his Muslim history:

... afrocentric in the extreme would be a gross understatement. It's not simply afrocentric, it's African-centric. In fact, one could argue that this organization worships things African to a far greater degree than they do Christ, and gives the impression of being a separatist "church" in the same vein as do certain supremacist "white brethren" churches – or even Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.

Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007292.html

Barack Obama’s Pastor And “Spiritual Mentor”
As noted in our earlier article, Barack Obama is a member of a radical church that preaches Afrocentrism, racism and Bush-bashing.

A Message From our PASTOR, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Senior Pastor

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just “disappeared” as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns. http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obamas-pastor-called-911-wake-up-call-from-people-of-color

Again, Reverent Wright is the man that Mr. Obama claims got him interested in politics. He speaks of him as his political father and even his surrogate father. http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/02/what_obamas_chu.html

Here is a video from YouTube that purports to be a sermon from Obama’s pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.: http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/a-message-of-hate-from-obamas-pastor-via-youtube

OBAMA'S POLITICS AMERICA

http://www.rense.com/general82/dedfy.htm

Massive Brzezinski
Control Of Obama
The real power behind the throne-to-be...
7-23-8

It is hard to sort through the hype and heat of Obamania, but one thing is clear: who's pulling the strings, argues Eric Walberg

As the United States election race enters the final stretch, Barack Obama as the candidate promising change is revealing his true colours, much to the despair of anyone actually expecting any change. His recent call to declare Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel, his denial of Palestinians' right of return, and his support for a Bantustan Palestinian "state" which poses no threat to Israel show how completely he has caved in to the Zionist establishment on that issue.

As President George W Bush calls for early reductions in combat troops in Iraq, Obama's position on Iraq - a vow to bring troops home within 16 months, excepting a "residual force" - looks less and less of a defining moment in his foreign policy. Whatever happens to troop levels, there is no explicit talk of overriding the plans for 14 permanent bases.

Obama is toeing the line in Afghanistan, too. As NATO casualties continue to mount, surpassing monthly Iraqi causalities as of June this year, he is proposing - now seconded by McCain - that the United States shift up to 15,000 more troops there from Iraq. Just prior to his trip to Afghanistan, he wrote in a New York Times Op Ed, "We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence- gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there." Please, will someone show me the silver lining in an Obama victory in November?

But then none of the above should come as any surprise to those familiar with his chief promoter and foreign policy adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who, along with current (and likely future) Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has already entered history as helping "suck the Soviets into a Vietnamese quagmire". These are the words of President Jimmy Carter's Under-Secretary of Defense Walter Slocumbe in March 1979, eight months before the Soviets were successfully "sucked in", when Gates was CIA chief. The changing of the guard, come November, will change nothing. US foreign policy has a logic which transcends who sleeps in the White House.

What's especially ghoulish about all this is that there are five Brzezinski offspring who are all onboard the Obama wagon: Mark (director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton, and one of the prime movers of the 2004 color revolution in Ukraine), Ian (currently the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and NATO affairs and a backer of Kosovan independence, NATO expansion into Ukraine and Georgia and US ABM missiles in Poland), Mika (political commentator on MSNBC whose interview with Michele Obama contributed to the general media Obamania) and finally, Matthew (a friend of Ilyas Akhmadov, "foreign minister" and US envoy of the Chechen opposition).

Brzezinski's brand of anti-Russian, anti-Muslim geopolitics will dominate a future Obama administration. In Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, published last year, he lays out his New World Order agenda without so much as a blush. Apparently, there is a global political awakening going on, the goal of which is "dignity". Not economic development, not the alleviation of poverty, not national sovereignty against the IMF and World Bank. Just plain old dignity, though Zbig's brand of dignity is the kind attained through secession, balkanisation, and the creation of weak statelets for each ethnic minority subservient to the US. Think: Kosovo and - if he has his way - Chechenia. Neo- Wilsonian demagogy in the service not of peace but of US world domination, encirclement of Russia and control of the Arab world.

Zbig said in endorsing Obama: "What makes Obama attractive to me is that he understands that we live in a very different world where we have to relate to a variety of cultures and peoples." Obama's alleged global approach and trans-ethnic, trans-racial allure are right out of Zbig's university textbook, or rather Second Chance, which will be the manual for the Obama campaign and presidency.

Obama is literally a second chance for Brzezinski: having destroyed the Soviet Union and shattered the Warsaw Pact, he now wants to dismember the Russian Federation itself and put the finishing touches on Afghanistan as an impregnable US military base against China, Russia... the list is endless. Perhaps Zbig is dreaming of restoring Greater Poland circa 1600 - from the Black Sea to the Baltic, all controlled by petty szlachta aristocrats like... the Brzezinskis?

The Economist blog put it best: "A new brain for Barack Obama! It's 78 years old and it still works perfectly. It belongs to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the peppery ex-national security adviser to Jimmy Carter."

The messianic idealism of the Obama campaign has not been seen since the days of another Brzezinski creation - Jimmy Carter, who made him national security adviser with disastrous results. Brzezinski's anti- Russian obsession back in 1976 prompted him to foment the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, which he touted as the greatest single bulwark against Soviet communism. Tarpley argues that Brzezinski was even a prime behind-the-scenes mover in the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and installing Ayatollah Khomeini in power in Tehran. Brzezinski cared less about the Middle East and its oil than he did about the need for a centre from which Islamic fundamentalism of the most retrograde type could penetrate the soft southern underbelly of the USSR. For Brzezinski, the space between the southern frontier of the Soviet and the Indian Ocean littoral became an "arc of crisis", and we have his handiwork to thank for the horrors taking place there to this day.

The 1980 Carter Doctrine - that the US was determined to dominate the Persian Gulf - is at the root of the first Gulf War, of the present Iraq war, and of the possible war on Iran. Brzezinski's grandiose schemes of world transformation caused a renewal of the Cold War and gave birth to Al-Qaeda, and without Soviet restraint the results could easily have been far more tragic than they turned out to be. By 1980, disillusionment with Carter led to the nightmare of the Reagan regime. But this was of little concern to Brzezinski - a mere blip on his radar screen.

In 2008, we have an obscure Illinois senator, a neophyte with no legislative achievements to speak of, but with a raft of utopian promises, including solving the race problem once and for all. Recession, unemployment and an alarming rise in poverty are of no consequence; a golden age is at hand thanks to his magnetic personality. Since he knows nothing of foreign policy, these matters will be competently managed by the Brzezinski cabal.

But there seems to be one slight hitch. Despite Obama's slavish pro- Israeli genuflections of late, he is still not trusted by the Jewish lobby. Quite possibly because they know who the power behind the throne-to-be is, and they can't stomach him, nor he them. Addressing the AIPAC crew in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, he said, "They operate not by arguing but by slandering, vilifying, demonising. They very promptly wheel out anti-Semitism. There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel."

But then Brzezinski was a key player in Carter's 1978 Camp David Accords, much loathed by the Zionists as giving up Sinai in exchange for a cold peace with Egypt. Brzezinski is definitely not a hardcore Zionist, though he's happy to allow the destruction of Palestine. Perhaps he is, under his suave exterior, still the quintessential Polish anti-Semite, with a vision of the New World Order without Israel at the centre.

If he can keep up the momentum, however, he may be able to outflank the Zionists in Washington and bringing his horse first past the finish line. They are on the defensive these days, what with spy trials, even J Street Project, a Jewish lobby group that - gasp - dares to criticise Israel. Is this, then, the silver lining in an Obama victory? http://clifylq.livejournal.com/88222.html

END FREE SPEECH SO PERVERTS CAN MOLEST SMALL BOYS & GIRLS
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/15821.html

U.S. Senate Passes 'Hate Crimes' Bill: Co-sponsored by Obama and Durbin
U.S. Senate Passes 'Hate Crimes' Bill

How did Illinois' Two Senators Vote?

David E. Smith, Executive Director, Illinois Family Institute

Both Sens. Durbin & Obama joined Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) in co-sponsoring "Hate Crimes" legislation.

Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate voted 60-39 today to pass Senator Ted Kennedy's "Hate Crimes" legislation which would add federal penalties for crimes involving sexual orientation or gender identity, giving special protections comparable to that given race and religious belief.

Since both U.S. Senators Richard Durbin and Barack Obama co-sponsored this dangerous legislation, it should be no surprise to you that they voted in favor of this bill.

A complete roll call vote breakdown can be found HERE.

The Kennedy bill includes a provision which adds "perceived gender identity" as a protected class -- a phrase that the Senate has not even debated in any hearings. The bill's definition (p. 15) is vague and raises more questions than it answers. "Gender identity" itself is a vague, self-chosen description which is used to grant special rights to cross-dressers and transvestites. This bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year by a vote of 237-180. The Illinois Congressional Delegation voted 13-5 in favor of this bill in May.

(Click HERE to see how your Illinois representative voted on this "Hate Crimes" bill.)
http://hostageinillinois.blogspot.com/

ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

Referring to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in January 2006, Obama denounced Hamas while praising former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. At a meeting with then Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on the eve of Hamas' sweeping election victory,[19] Obama stated that Sharon's role in the conflict had always been "absolutely important and constructive."[20] At a meeting with Palestinian students two days later, Obama stated opposition to Hamas in favor of rival party Fatah, noting his desire to "consolidate behind a single government with a single authority that can then negotiate as a reliable partner with Israel." In a comment aimed at Hamas, he said that "the US will always side with Israel if Israel is threatened with destruction."[21]

Obama was also a cosponsor of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, which in part calls on "members of the international community to avoid contact with and refrain from financially supporting the terrorist organization Hamas until it agrees to recognize Israel, renounce violence, disarm, and accept prior agreements, including the Roadmap."[22] However, on March 11, 2007, Obama said that "if we could get some movement among Palestinian leadership, what I'd like to see is a loosening up of some of the restrictions on providing aid directly to the Palestinian people."[23]

He defended Israel's response to the Zar'it-Shtula incident on August 22 in an interview with Tim Russert, saying, "I don't think there is any nation that would not have reacted the way Israel did after two soldiers had been snatched. I support Israel's response to take some action in protecting themselves." A month earlier he said, "I don't fault Israel for wanting to rid their border with Lebanon from those Katyusha missiles that can fire in and harm Israeli citizens, so I think that any cease fire would have to be premised on the removal of those missiles."[24]

Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on 2 March 2007, Obama called Israel "our strongest ally in the region," and stated: "We must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs." On the Palestinian Authority's new unity government, Obama said: "We should all be concerned about the agreement negotiated among Palestinians in Mecca last month."[25]

Obama has also discussed in general terms some thoughts about Palestinians vis-a-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On March 11, 2007 Obama said: "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people."[26] On June 4, 2007 Obama stated that "resolution [to the conflict] and a better life for all people" "is something that can be achieved, but it's going to require some soul-searching on the Palestinian side. They have to recognize Israel's right to exist; they have to renounce violence and terrorism as a tool to achieve their political ends; they have to abide by agreements. In that context, I think the Israelis will gladly say, 'Let's move forward negotiations that would allow them to live side by side with the Palestinians in peace and security.'"[27]

http://clifylq.livejournal.com/80823.html

IMMIGRATION

On immigration reform, Obama has said that he "will not support any bill that does not provide [an] earned path to citizenship for the undocumented population." Obama supports a guest worker program.[28]

In September 2006, Obama voted for the Secure Fence Act, authorizing the construction of 700 miles of fencing along the United States–Mexico border.[29]

IRAN

During his 2004 Senate campaign, Obama stated that he had not ruled out military action against Iran. In a meeting with the Chicago Tribune editorial board, Obama stated: "The big question is going to be, if Iran is resistant to these pressures, including economic sanctions, which I hope will be imposed if they do not cooperate, at what point are we going to take military action, if any?" Obama stressed that he would only resort to force as a last resort.[30] Obama has not declared a change in this stance since the 2004 campaign. In 2006, he called on Iran to "take some ownership for creating some stability" in Iraq.[31]

In an interview with Tim Russert on October 22, 2006 Obama said, "I think that military options have to be on the table when you're dealing with rogue states that have shown constant hostility towards the United States. The point that I would make, though, is that we have not explored all of our options...We have not explored any kind of dialogue with either Iran or North Korea, and I think that has been a mistake. As a consequence, we have almost no leverage over them."[32]

Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on 2 March 2007, Obama stated that he regards Iran's government as "a threat to all of us," stating that the US "should take no option, including military action, off the table, sustained and aggressive diplomacy combined with tough sanctions should be our primary means to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons."[33] Diplomacy would include "more determined U.S. diplomacy at the United Nations," "harnessing the collective power of our friends in Europe who are Iran's major trading partners," and "a cooperative strategy with Gulf States who supply Iran with much of the energy resources it needs."[34]

IRAQ

Senator Obama was an early opponent of Bush administration policies on Iraq, when other Democratic leaders supported the legislation that led to the war. Obama was not in the United States Senate, and was therefore unable to vote during the Iraq Resolution of 11 October 2002, authorizing the use of force against Iraq. During a fall 2002 anti-war rally at Chicago's Federal Plaza, while still an Illinois State Senator, and in a speech alongside Jesse Jackson, Obama stated: "I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. [...] You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings."[35] He also speculated about the sectarian violence in Iraq after the fall of Saddam, and talked about the need for a strategy to stabilize Iraq and hand over power to the Iraqis in an interview in 2002.[citation needed] Speaking before the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in November 2006, he said: "The days of using the war on terror as a political football are over. [...] It is time to give Iraqis their country back, and it is time to refocus America's efforts on the wider struggle yet to be won." In his speech Obama also called for a phased withdrawal of American troops starting in 2007, and an opening of diplomatic dialog with Iraq's neighbors, Syria and Iran.[36]

On January 30, 2007, Obama introduced the Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007 into Congress. Among other things, the Act calls for capping the level of troops in Iraq at January 2007 levels, and for commencing a phased redeployment of US forces from Iraq "with the goal of removing all combat brigades from Iraq by March 31, 2008, a date that is consistent with the expectation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.[37][38] Announcing the act on the Senate floor, Obama stated that "no amount of American soldiers can solve the political differences at the heart of somebody else's civil war."[39]

SOCIAL POLICY

ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION

In his write-in response to a 1998 survey, Obama stated his abortion position as: "Abortions should be legally available in accordance with Roe v. Wade."[40]

While serving in the Illinois Senate, Obama had a 100 percent rating from the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council[41] due to his consistent voting in favor of abortion rights, family planning services, and having female contraceptives covered by health insurance.[42] Since his election to the United States Senate Obama has maintained a 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood (as of 2007) and NARAL (as of 2005).[43] While serving in the Illinois State Senate, Obama opposed legislation that required "medical care for aborted fetuses" because the legislation's wording defined the fetus as a child -- a measure he said would "essentially bar abortions."[44]

LGBT ISSUES

Obama voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment which would have defined marriage as between one man and one woman, but believes that marriage is defined as a religious bond between a man and a woman. He supports civil unions that would carry equal legal standing to that of marriage for same-sex couples, but believes that decisions about the title of marriage should be left to the states.[45][46][47]

Obama stated on 15 March, 2007, that "I do not agree...that homosexuality is immoral."[48] During the 23 July, 2007 CNN/Youtube debate, Obama further stated that "... we've got to make sure that everybody is equal under the law. And the civil unions that I proposed would be equivalent in terms of making sure that all the rights that are conferred by the state are equal for same-sex couples as well as for heterosexual couples."[49]

GUN CONTROL

As a state legislator in Illinois, Obama supported banning the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic firearms, increasing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms and requiring manufacturers to provide child-safety locks with firearms.[50] He sponsored a bill in 2000 limiting handgun purchases to one per month. He also voted against a 2004 measure allowing a self-defense exception for people charged with violating local weapons bans by using a gun in their home.[51]

Obama was also a board member[52] of the Joyce Foundation which funds and maintains several gun control organizations in the United States.

He supported several gun control measures, including restricting the purchase of firearms at gun shows and the reauthorization of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.[53]

While in the US Senate, Obama has voted against legislation protecting firearm manufacturers from liability.[54]

DEATH PENALTY

Obama believes the death penalty is used too frequently and inconsistently. However he is still in favor of it for cases in which "the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage."[55] Speaking as a state senator about the Illinois legislature's constant additions to the list of factors that render a defendant eligible for the death penalty, Obama said, "We certainly don't think that we should be... have this laundry list that does not make any distinctions between the run-of-the-mill armed robbery that results in death, and systematic killings by a terrorist organization. And I think essentially what the reduction of aggravating factors does is it says, 'Here's a narrower set of crimes that we think potentially at least could deserve the death penalty.'" [56]

RELIGION

Obama has encouraged Democrats to reach out to evangelicals and other church-going people, saying, "if we truly hope to speak to people where they’re at—to communicate our hopes and values in a way that’s relevant to their own—we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse."[57][58]

STEM CELL RESEARCH

Obama supports embryonic stem cell research and was a co-sponsor[59] of the 2005 Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act which was passed by both houses of Congress but vetoed by President George W. Bush. Obama condemned Bush's veto, saying "Democrats want this bill to pass. Conservative, pro-life Republicans want this bill to pass. By large margins, the American people want this bill to pass. It is only the White House standing in the way of progress - standing in the way of so many potential cures." He also voted in favor of the 2007 bill for embryonic stem cell research that was passed but was also vetoed by President Bush.[60]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Barack_Obama

SUMMARY OF THIS INFORMATION ON MR. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA THUS FAR IN THIS POST

MR. OBAMA IS:

AGAINST FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA (FOR GAYS, LESBIANS, PEDOPHILES - PREVENT OPPOSITION TO ISRAEL)
PRO ISRAEL
PRO ILLEGAL ALIENS
PRO NUKING IRAN
PRO ABORTION (http://clifylq.livejournal.com/29467.html)
PRO GAY AGENDA
AGAINST FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT (OK GAYS TO MARRY)
PRO GUN CONTROL
PRO DEATH PENALTY
PRO STEM CELL (http://www.stemcellresearch.org/alternatives/75newreasons.pdf)

OBAMA'S CHURCH IS:

ANTI-AMERICAN, RACIST, PRO GAY, PROMOTES AFROCENTRISM

THE REAL BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA:

THE OBAMA WAFFLE SHOP
OBAMA THREATENS TO INVADE PAKISTAN
OBAMA DOESN'T THINK PRESIDENT'S ILLEGALITIES ALL THAT BAD (http://clifylq.livejournal.com/59123.html)
OBAMA GOT $168,000 FROM INDICTED BUSINESSMAN OVER THE YEARS
OBAMA: BRANDING TIMIDITY AS A VIRTUE
OBAMA PUSHING COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ENERGY PLAN
OBAMA OFFERS FAKE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE PLAN
OBAMA WOULD CONSIDER WEAKENING SOCIAL SECURITY: "EVERYTHING IS ON THE TABLE"
PANTS ON FIRE: CLINTON & OBAMA MISLEAD VOTERS DURING DEBATE
WHY OBAMA IS CALLED BLACK
OBAMA'S WHITE MOTHER
WHY OBAMA ATTRACTS THE RIGHT
A FEW THINGS TO FORGET ABOUT WHEN SUPPORTING OBAMA
WHY THE MEDIA IS PUSHING OBAMA (http://clifylq.livejournal.com/6656.html)
OBAMA: IMPERIALIST IN DOVE'S CLOTHING
OBAMA WORKED FOR LAW FIRM TIED TO DUBIOUS LANDLORD

FULL STORY HERE AMERICA
http://prorev.com/obama.htm

SUMMARY ON THE FAMILY OF OBAMA

NOTE: SINCE THIS INFO HAS BEEN FLOATING AROUND THE NET, I DECIDED TO ADD IT ON THIS POST FOR YOU TO REVIEW. IT HAS ALSO SINCE BEEN DEEMED AS NOT TRUE. I QUESTION THAT CONSIDERING ALL THE REST OF THE FACTS BEING PRESENTED JUST ON THIS POST. IT IS CONSISTENT WITH OBAMA'S STORY. IT REST WITH THE READER TO BELIEVE OR NOT. WITH ALL THE EVIL BEING GENERATED BY OUR FACIST GOVERNMENT, IS THIS REALLY THAT HARD TO BELIEVE AMERICA? SO MUCH EVIL SO LITTLE TIME!!

I.E.,

Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to black Muslim Barack Hussein Obama Sr. of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and White atheist, Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas.

When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, a Muslim as well, moving to Jakarta with young Obama, when he was six years old.

Within six months he had learned to speak the Indonesian language Obama spent "two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school" in Jakarta.

Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. Mitigating that information, by saying that for two years, he attended a Catholic school.

Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a radical Muslim who migrated from Kenya to Jakarta, Indonesia. He met Obama's mother, Ann Dunham?at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Obama's spin- meisters are now attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam, came from his father and that influence was only temporary, which is true. Obama Sr. returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. But,

Lolo Soetoro, Ann Dunham's second husband, educated his stepson Barack Hussein Obama, as a good Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta's Wahabbi schools.

Wahabbism is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrorists, who are now waging Jihad on the industrialized world. Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office in the United States, Obama joined the United Church of Christ, to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim. http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=173154

Michelle Robinson, Obama's Wife
(born January 17, 1964)

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Obama's C.F.R. Ties Exposed by Swarming Ron Paul Supporters JonesReport.com August 29, 2007

Members of WeAreChange Central Florida descended upon an event for Barack Obama where they exposed his wife Michelle Obama's membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, an elite extra-governmental organization that steers a global agenda within the U.S. framework. http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/chicago_council_board_directors.php

COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS AKA CFR & Their Master Plan:"The question of how and why the United Nations is the crux of the great conspiracy to destroy the sovereignty of the United States and the enslavement of the American people within a U.N. one-world dictatorship is a complete and unknown mystery to the vast majority of the American people. The reason for this unawareness of the frightening danger to our country and to the entire free world is simple. The masterminds behind this great conspiracy have absolute control of all of our mass-communications media, especially television, the radio, the press, and Hollywood.
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/32491.html

Why Jesus would not vote for Barack Obama

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Posted: July 19, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

In February 2004, U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law stopping doctors from stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls.

Michelle called partial-birth abortion "a legitimate medical procedure," and wouldn't supporters please pay $150 to attend a luncheon for her husband, who would fight against "cynical ploy[s]" to stop it?

But that's not why Obama's opponent Alan Keyes said Jesus Christ wouldn't vote for him.

Obama recalled Keyes' statement in a recent USA Today opinion piece but omitted his reasoning. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51121

ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS RELAVENT TO ONE OF HIS STAUNCH SUPPORTERS I.E., OPRA WINFREY

The Real Oprah Winfrey
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/54936.html

September 10, 2007
Just fyi, Oprah's Praying For Obama
Montecito, Calif. - Talk show monolith Oprah Winfrey welcomed more than $3.4M in donations for Barack Obama at her 9/08 fund-raiser, a Gastby-like affair at her 42-acre estate here on Santa Barbara's pristine, pricey coast.

"I'm praying for this man," Winfrey told the 1,500 guests traipsing her various lawns with their $2,300 tickets. "Nobody can stand in the way of destiny. Nobody. The moment is now."
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/09/just_fyi_oprahs.html

REMEMBER MY PAST POST ON THIS PERSON AMERICA?

Oprah is the Most Dangerous Woman in the World!

Why you ask? According to Oprah Winfrey's introduction page on the internet, the Oprah Winfrey Show is the highest rated talk show in television history, seen by 15-20 million viewers each day in the U.S., and in 132 other countries. Yet Oprah NEVER shares the Gospel of Jesus Christ with her fans. In fact, Oprah denied Jesus in front of millions of viewers. The Word of God plainly teaches that the ONLY Way to salvation is by Jesus Christ (John 14:6). Oprah denies this Truth. Oprah's show has been the number one talk show for 12 consecutive seasons. Since it's beginning in 1986 it has received 32 Emmy awards. In 1996, Oprah began Oprah's Book Club designed to get America reading again. Each of the books selected has become an instant bestseller averaging sales of over 1 million copies each. In 1997, Oprah was named Newsweek's "Most Important Person" in books and media, T.V. Guide's "Television Performer of the Year," the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Television Performer," and in 1996, Time Magazine recognized Oprah as one of America's "25 Most Influential People."

This is why Oprah is so dangerous..she has massive influence over millions of people & is tragically using it to lead them straight into the -

FIRES OF HELL!

http://www.av1611.org/hell.html

AND SHE IS PRAYING TO WHO AMERICA ...... ??
WHY OBAMA'S "TRUE" FATHER OF COURSE SINCE SHE BLATANTLY DENIES JESUS CHRIST ON HER SHOW!!

Barack "Hussein" Obama, The Antichrist Being Being Cast In The Media As The "Messiah"
http://supportbordercontrols.blogspot.com/2007/10/barack-obama-antichrist-messiah.html#links

STAR AND CRESCENT [OF ISLAM]:

With God mockingly placed as the moon (the goddess of love, Dianna), Satan assumes the role of the star, which is a mockery of Jesus as the ...bright and morning star...: [Rev. 22:16] ." Satan was cast out of heaven because of trying to usurp Jesus -- Satan wanted Jesus' position(2)

http://clifylq.livejournal.com/88056.html

WHO IS THIS WONDER BOY?

He was born in Hawaii to an African father (Barack Obama), and a white mother (Anne Dunham), who finally divorce. He is raised by Dunham's parents in Hawaii.

Somehow he winds up at Columbia University, works in Chicago, attends Harvard Law. In 1991 he works for a Chicago Law firm, then becomes a professor at the University of Chicago. In 2004 he is elected to the US Senate.

http://clifylq.livejournal.com/32491.html

THE INVISIBLE HAND

If you went into a detailed look you would see the 'Invisible Hand' of Judaism as the guiding factor in his career.
No one just appears, and runs for President!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Barack Obama.)

His Jewish racial connection must be a little far back, like Kerry's. So far the publicity is posting this: Stanley Armour DUNHAM and Madelyn Lee PAYNE were married on 5 May 1940, and had the following children: http://judicial-inc.biz/O_bama.htm

Prince Charles Purported Antichrist
http://www.cuttingedge.org/NEWS/n1678.cfm

Let us repeat the prophetically significant portion: "the people of the other prince who will come".

Antichrist is going to be a "Prince", not a King! If Charles were to be named a King, he would no longer be a candidate to become Antichrist. Therefore, it may be highly significant that Queen Elizabeth announced that she is not stepping down as Queen, an action that would automatically elevate him to King. If Prince Charles turns out to be Antichrist, this announcement will loom very large in the prophetic scheme of things.

However, what this story did not make clear is that Queen Elizabeth II does intend to enlarge Prince Charles' sphere of responsibility, thus adding to his already enormous international stature. As we stated above, Charles' reputation among the followers of Islam is huge, a factor that could figure prominently into the incorporation of those 1.4 billion people into the global government, economy, and religion. The Pope also has a substantial following amongst Muslims, because they also revere the Virgin Mary greatly, as we have mentioned in earlier articles.

Thus, both the future False Prophet and Antichrist have carefully cultivated strong standings within the Muslim religious community.

Barack "Hussein" Obama
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/62126.html

clifylq
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/

Mr. Barack Hussein Obama America
Was Raised by Evil Parents/Mentors
He Is PRO Everything that is EVIL
http://www.rense.com/general74/4iim.htm

AMERICA

I'M SURE THAT MANY OF YOU WILL HO HUM THIS POST OR EVEN GET UPSET BY IT ESPECIALLY THE BLACK COMMUNITY WHO THINK THEY ARE FINALLY GETTING A BLACK MAN TO REPRESENT THEM IN THIS COUNTRY. REMEMBER OBAMA IS A BLACK AND WHITE (MUSLIM RAISED) MAN. ALSO CONSIDER WHAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED IN THIS POST ARE HIS BELIEFS FOR AMERICA. HE FITS SATAN'S SEED QUITE WELL I'M AFRAID AMERICA IF YOU TRULY CHOOSE TO SEE IT. EVEN THE EVIL COMMUNIST MAIN STREAM MEDIA IS TOUTING HIM AS THE "MESSIAH". JUST THINK HE IS BLACK AND A SHOE IN TO BE ELECTED. HIS FAMILY ARE ATHIESTS. HIS FATHER WAS A WAS A DRUNK, POLYGAMIST, BIGOT AND TERRORIST WHO LEFT HIS MOTHER WHEN HE WAS TWO. HIS STEP FATHER TAUGHT HIM WAHABBISM WHICH IS THE RADICAL TEACHING THAT CREATED THE MUSLIM TERRORISTS. HE CO SPONSORED/VOTED WITH THE EVIL TED KENNEDY TO END FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA WHICH HELPS TO PROTECT GAYS/PEDOPHILES AND ANYONE WHO MIGHT WANT TO CRITICIZE ISRAEL. HE BELONGS TO AN AFROCENTRISM, RACIST, RADICAL, PRO GAY, ANTI-AMERICAN CHURCH THAT'S HEADED BY A SUPREME RACIST. HE SUPPORTS ABORTION, THE GAY AGENDA, THE EVIL OF ISRAEL AND IS AGAINST THE FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT. HE ALSO SUPPORTS GUN CONTROL AND THE DEATH PENALTY. WHY NOT ONLY IS HE A SHOE IN FOR THE PRESIDENT FOR ISRAEL, BUT A SHOE IN FOR SATAN'S CARISMATIC, LIKEABLE YET TOTALLY EVIL SON. NOTE: WAHABI OR WAHIBI (KNOWN AS WAHABBISM SAME EVIL OBMAMA STUDIED) AS YOU CALL THEM WERE CREATED BY THE ZIONISTS AND THEIR ENGLISH FRIENDS WHO THINK THEY ARE THE LOST TRIBE OF ISRAEL ETC. http://www.rense.com/general74/masonh.htm

OBAMA SALUTES SATAN "HORNED HAND"
http://clifylq.livejournal.com/88056.html

GOAT OF MENDES:

The glossary in Watch Network's Be Aware! handbook defines "goathead" as "The Horned God, Goat of Mendes, Baphomet, God of the Witches, the scapegoat. It is a Satanist's way of mocking Christ as the 'lamb' who died for the sins of humanity". Alford's Occult Crimes Investigations defines "Goat Head" as "The symbol for death and is associated with Tammuz". Tammuz was an Assyro-Babylonian vegetation and fertility God who appears as the lover of Ishtar in the Epic of Gilgamesh. There is no mention of goats in any myth associated to him. The animal associated to Tammuz is the boar, not the goat. http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Wicca%20&%20Witchcraft/origin_of_the_satanic_hand_sign.htm

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no'bama should be up by 20pts. by now---------WTF???-----he is all talk and no substanance

2008-09-02T14:48:31Z

Election 2008 National Head-to-Head Polls
General Election: McCain vs. Obama
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Hotline/FD 08/29 - 08/31 RV 48 39 Obama +9
CNN 08/29 - 08/31 927 RV 49 48 Obama +1
CBS News 08/29 - 08/31 781 RV 48 40 Obama +8
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"SARAH PALIN AND THE EXPERIENCE ISSUE"

2008-08-30T22:57:56Z

I posted this to a debate thread recently, thought I would post it here as well....

"SARAH PALIN AND THE EXPERIENCE ISSUE"

This country will be a lot better off when people on the FAR-LEFT and the FAR-RIGHT stop being so purposefully delusional.

First of all... who first brought up the "experience issue" in this campaign?

It was John McCain; he declared it was crucial, remember?

Now, despite being 72 years old, a survivor of 5 cancer operations, with over 1,000 pages of medical records, McCain seems to have changed his mind about how prepared one must be for Presidential service - the VP's primary responsibility.

So is Sarah Palin less prepared to be president than Barack Obama? Yes. If you don't see this immediately, I can answer this for you quick, or slow.

HERE'S QUICK, it could save you some time, but you have to open your mind for a moment:

Let's say Obama and Palin had to debate, starting tomorrow, on all the key issues a president and vice president have to face. Assuming you were scoring not on ideology (which would be pointless in this discussion) but in some neutral way, based on "preparedness to talk on these subjects", "thoroughness of the answer", etc. - do you think this debate would be even close? You really think Palin is adequately prepared to debate these issues with anyone who has run for president this year? If you do, your thinking probably needs work. (Maybe you should rethink your entire belief system?)

Perhaps this will help you: In a recent interview (before asked to join the McCain ticket) Palin genuinely asked a reporter on a national show, "What exactly does the VP do everyday?"

If that's not enough, let's compare our contenders MORE SLOWLY:

Palin is 44. Obama 47.

Palin came in second in the Miss Alaska pageant and won a college scholarship and bachelor's degree from the University of Idaho.

Obama graduated from Columbia University, then Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor magna cum laude), where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review.

A few top Palin highlights: She then worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations, and as a commercial fisherwoman.

A few top Obama highlights: He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years. He joined a law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and economic development. He wrote a best-selling book.

Palin was elected to Wasilla City Council where she served from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she was elected to mayor of Wasilla (population 5,500).

Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, again in 1998, then again in 2002. (Population of Illinois 12,600,620).

In 2004 Obama was elected as a United States Senator.

2006 Palin was elected Governor of Alaska (the second least-populated state in the U.S. - 683,478 total). While there, some in the Republican party heralded her a rising star. In 2007 she scored approval ratings among Alaskans above 90%. Very impressive.

But here's the biggest thing:

Barrack Obama burst onto the NATIONAL SCENE several years back; some people thought he was the most exceptional politician they'd seen in decades - some did not. He gave the keynote address at the 2004 convention and blew most everyone away. As he served as a senator, people became more and more impressed. By 2006 he was on the cover of Time Magazine, along with the headline "Why Barack Obama Could Be The Next President" When he ran for President of the United States, some thought he was ready - some did not. Then he headed what is considered to be one of the most amazing National campaigns in recent history, beating out the toughest political machine the Dems have had in decades - the Clintons. He's given incredible speeches on very complicated "presidential" issues across the country, met with men and women in every state, weathered political difficulties (some real, some of his own making, some manufactured) on the national stage (garnering over 17,000,000 primary votes in the process). Then he traveled overseas where almost everyone knew of him (from top leaders to 200,000 citizens of Berlin), wanted to meet him, was amazed by him. He just finished the most attended (highest-rated, TV-wise) convention of all time, giving a speech that even top Republican pundits call "brilliant" (Mike Huckabee as well). The seated audience during the last night of the convention was FIFTEEN TIMES the size of Wasilla, where Palin served as mayor.

In summary, Obama's fought hard, performed well, and earned where he is at this point on the NATIONAL stage. You may not like Obama, you may not agree with him, but even most Right-Wing politicians would concede this point.

Population of our NATION, 305,009,416. Quite simply, it's a different game, one that Palin has almost no experience in at all.

Palin, while rightly appreciated by Republicans for her charm and ethics (until proven otherwise - her current Ethics Probe makes this a little dicey), got plucked from relative obscurity, from a tiny pond, and splashed down into the ocean of our 2008 Presidential Campaign.

A LAST METAPHOR:

Basketball. Comparing Obama to Palin in terms of preparedness to be President is like comparing LeBron James to a "Jane Doe" three years younger, who looks to have some good skills, but who has yet to play a single big game. Who is more experienced? The answer is that clear.

Well, the game is just starting for Palin, and we'll see what she and all the other players do. Maybe she'll amaze. Maybe she won't.

Hopefully, those in the stands will watch with open eyes.

I saw an article this morning that read "With Pick, McCain Reclaims His Maverick Image". Perhaps. Or perhaps it underscores his image as an aging politician who, based on imagined political gain, will reverse any position, to make poor choices on important issues that effect us all.

-- -- --

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837514,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_palin
http://wasilla.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/23/nation/na-mccain23

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

2008-08-29T08:30:21Z

TODAY IS THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF HURRICANE KATRINA, THE 45th ANNIVERSARY OF DR. KING’S DELIVERY OF HIS “I HAVE A DREAM” SPEECH AS WELL AS THE END OF THE 100 DAYS ALLOWED BUSH BY THE G-8 TO COMPLY WITH EVERYTHING!

ON TUESDAY, DENNIS KUCINICH TOOK THE HOUSE DOWN BY GIVING THE BEST SPEECH EVER! HILLARY DID THE RIGHT THING AND CARRIED HER WEIGHT TUESDAY NITE AND TRULY DID HER PART TO UNIFY THE PEOPLE FOR OBAMA. ON WEDNESDAY JOHN KERRY ABSOLUTELY MADE IT PERFECTLY CLEAR THAT MR. MCCAIN WAS COMPLETELY UNFIT FOR DUTY AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT. LATER, BILL CLINTON MADE IT MORE THAN CLEAR THAT SENATOR OBAMA WAS EXACTLY THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB AT THIS TIME. CLINTON ALSO ACCUSED BUSH FOR CRIMINALLY MIS-HANDELING KATRINA, FOR CRONYISM AND FOR AUTHORIZING TORTURE IN OUR NAME. FINNALY, SENATOR JOE BIDEN INDICATED, AS KEITH OLBERMAN POINTED OUT, THAT SENATOR MCCAIN WAS ‘COMPLICIT’ WITH WAR CRIMES.

LET’S SEE NOW WHAT SENATOR OBAMA WILL DO WITH THIS ENERGY TONITE! THOUGH IT SEEMS NO BIG BANG HAS OCCURRED YET, MANY THINGS HAVE BEEN SAID TO INDICATE A COOPERATIVE VENTURE TO POINT THE WAY TO THE TRUTH BEING ABLE TO BE PRESENTED VERY SOON TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!

SIBEL EDMONDS STORY WILL SHOW UP AS THE EVENTS UNFOLD! HER STORY IS MORE READY THAN EVER TO BE TOLD TO THE WORLD!

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WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!

2008-08-28T09:44:45Z

Dennis Kucinich at the DNC

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=bVp9cWOcZ7g

a great speech straight forward from the heart,

Thanks Dennis...

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THIS IS HORSESHIT

2008-08-22T06:47:08Z

By Cindy Sheehan

"It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be?" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

07/08/08 "ICH" -- - -You know, I don't care if it's not proper for a Congressional candidate to say: "horseshit." I don't care if it is not a good "tactic" to get kicked out of a Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a bunch of horseshit anyway. I don't care if I get accused of being too "extreme" for bucking the (cyst)em by doing everything from camping in a ditch in Crawford, Tx to non-violent civil disobedience to, lately, running for Congress as (oh no!) an independent.

If people can't see how this nation is teetering on the precipice of financial ruin and dragging the rest of this planet down with us as we destroy our ecology, too…and if people don't realize how desperate our situation is, then I must say, that's horseshit!

I am angry. No, I am incensed that hundreds of thousands of people are dead, dying, wounded, displaced from their homes or being imprisoned and tortured by the sadists that reside or work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the approval of their accomplices down the road in Congress. I am furious that I buried my oldest son when he was 24 years old for the unrepentant lies and the unpunished crimes of the Bush mob. Are you incensed? If not, maybe you should ask yourself: "Why?" Hypothetically: "Why am I not enraged that my country has killed or hurt so many people for absolutely no noble cause in my name and with my tacit approval?"

I am steamed that the working class has to, once again, pay for the excesses of the capitalist criminals that feeds its rapacious appetite with the flesh and blood of our children and won't rest until it owns every penny in this world and has all the power.

You may say, "But Cindy, it is not polite to be angry or to use such strong language in public." Horseshit! In my opinion, every citizen in this country should rise up in anger and DEMAND that George Bush and Dick Cheney not only be impeached and removed from office, but be tried and convicted for murder and crimes against the peace and humanity!

We should all walk off of our jobs and refuse to work and refuse to be cogs in the wheels of psychotic consumerism until our troops, military contractors and permanent bases are removed from Iraq and Afghanistan. We should, but most of us won't. We won't because it may mean that we would lose something of "value." Material possessions are so transitory, as are our lives. We can leave a lasting impression by our courageous activism and moral sacrifice, or we can leave a pile of rusting metal or rotting wood. I choose the former for myself.

We should come out of our comas of too much TV news and not enough non-biased information to push for alternatives to fossil fuels that are clean and renewable and protest nuclear facilities and off-shore oil drilling like we used to in the olden days when people actually cared enough about not poisoning our world to get off of their couches or (today) out from behind their computer screens to do something constructive instead of complacently shelling out hundreds of dollars a week for gasoline and food.

I get so pissed off when one of my supporters has a tooth ache and can't afford to go see a dentist to fix it or when my sister has had a cough for almost two years and doesn't have the health insurance she needs to get fully well. And when I think that almost 50 million people in this country are non-insured or under-insured, I see red. Why, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, do some have the "privilege" of being fully insured and healthy, when health care is a basic human right, not a privilege for the elitists? My heart hurts every night when the men who sleep propped up against my campaign office, huddled under their blankets against the San Francisco chill, wish me a "good night" and I can't choke the same words back to them, or do much of anything but give them coffee to keep warm and books to read to help pass the time. My campaign office is being visited on a daily basis by Iraq war vets who can't access the help they need to get physically or mentally healthy---and I am "extreme" because I actually want things to really change and choose to act on this desire and not sit around passively pretending that this horseshit doesn't exist?

Since Casey died, even though every day I am filled with pain and longing, I have tried to be the poster-mom for this pain telling my neighbors and fellow Americans how it feels to be profoundly hurt by the Military Industrial Complex and that it wouldn't be too long before the cancer of BushCo would strike every American home and now that this prediction is awfully coming true, I see more and more apathy and less and less action.

Three years ago today, I first sat in a ditch in Crawford, Texas and three years later, we are in dire straits, my friends, and the prognosis is not good, unless we all make a conscious effort to sacrifice some of today's comfort for the sake of our children and grand-children's futures.

Sixty-three years ago today, the monsters of the US war machine dropped a WMD on hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children and since then, this nation has just descended into a further spiral of war and profiting from war and preparing for war and more profiting from war; which is destroying every aspect of our society and we MUST reclaim our very souls from the Military Industrial Complex before it is too late.

Please don't wait for November, or January or for the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius because every second we allow this demented pattern to continue, is one second too long!

Get moving!

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Invasion violates international law

2008-08-11T14:28:21Z

According to that old John McCain, the Russian invasion of Georgia violates international law. Yet as we all know, the U.S. occupation of Iraq also violates international law. The contradiction here is quite profound considering that McCain supports the U.S. invasion of Iraq and not the Russian invasion of Georgia. Can you say, "Double standards by the megaton."?!?

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Robert F. Kennedy

2008-08-11T14:24:57Z

Robert F. Kennedy said, "What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."

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Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery

2008-08-09T23:42:54Z

John Byrne

In damning transcript, ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks

A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a new transcript of a conversation with the Central Intelligence Agency's former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer.

The transcript was posted Friday by author Ron Suskind of an interview conducted in June. It comes on the heels of denials by both the White House and Richer of a claim Suskind made in his new book, The Way of The World. The book was leaked to Politico's Mike Allen on Monday, and released Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the White House released a statement on Richer's behalf. In it, Richer declared, "I never received direction from George Tenet or anyone else in my chain of command to fabricate a document ... as outlined in Mr. Suskind's book."

The denial, however, directly contradicts Richer's own remarks in the transcript.

"Now this is from the Vice President's Office is how you remembered it--not from the president?" Suskind asked.

"No, no, no," Richer replied, according to the transcript. "What I remember is George [Tenet] saying, 'we got this from'--basically, from what George said was 'downtown.'"

"Which is the White House?" Suskind asked.

"Yes," Richer said. "But he did not--in my memory--never said president, vice president, or NSC. Okay? But now--he may have hinted--just by the way he said it, it would have--cause almost all that stuff came from one place only: Scooter Libby and the shop around the vice president."

"But he didn't say that specifically," Richer added. "I would naturally--I would probably stand on my, basically, my reputation and say it came from the vice president."

"But there wasn't anything in the writing that you remember saying the vice president," Suskind continued.

"Nope," Richer said.

"It just had the White House stationery."

"Exactly right."

Later, Richer added, "You know, if you've ever seen the vice president's stationery, it's on the White House letterhead. It may have said OVP (Office of the Vice President). I don't remember that, so I don't want to mislead you."

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NYT: Obama admires Bush Sr.: ''no complaints about handling of Desert Storm"

2008-07-28T08:12:58Z

Support for Empire is support for Empire -- any way you cut it. There's a reason Corporate American bankrolled Obama's campaign
...
**************
"I have enormous sympathy for the foreign policy of George H. W. Bush. I don't have a lot of complaints about their handling of Desert Storm."

Source:
- Barack Obama, from David Brooks article, "Obama Admires Bush, NY Times, May 16, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/opinion/16brooks.html?em&ex=1211169600&en=1577a90ae5048a04&ei=5087%0A

See:
Clinton and Obama: Failures on War and Global Warming
by STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/10/18478172.php

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

2008-07-28T05:52:56Z

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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Hearing held on Bush impeachment

2008-07-28T05:50:33Z

From www.presstv.irTehran]

Hearing held on Bush impeachment
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:26:52

House Judiciary Committee holds hearings for the impeachment of President George W. Bush after repeated calls by Dem. Dennis Kucinich.

The House Judiciary Committee held a debate on Friday in response to consecutive calls by Kucinich and other Democrats charging Bush with unconstitutional 'high crimes and misdemeanors. '

They have also charged Bush with 'culpability for leading the country to war under false pretenses', authorizing torture of prisoners and ignoring congressional oversight powers.

Democratic congressman Robert Wexler told the hearing of the Judiciary Committee, 'Faced with this litany of wrongful actions, I am convinced that the most appropriate response to this unprecedented behavior is to hold hearings for impeachment. '

Kucinich said, "Americans have been waiting for Congress to hold the President accountable for his long list of misdeeds and misrepresentations. This hearing is a long overdue first step."

Republicans have called the meeting a waste of time with Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith saying, "Nothing is going to come out of this hearing with regard to impeachment of the president. I know it, the media knows it, even the speaker knows it."

***********************************************************************************
From the International Liaison Committee for a Workers International:

Statement from Cindy Sheehan, independent candidate for U.S. Congress, on the Non-Impeachment Impeachment Hearings of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC

(Friday, July 25, 2008 -- 2 p.m. EST)

I got up at 6:30 a.m. this morning so that I could get into the hearings of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. -- and I sat through the hearings. I think they should have been real impeachment hearings and not sham hearings about the abuse of executive power.

Still, I recognize it was a baby step in the right direction -- and I think that our Cindy Sheehan For Congress candidacy in San Francisco was the tipping point that pushed Nancy Pelosi to say that hearings could happen.

A lot of good information was presented at the hearings, and some very strong, very incredible witnesses testified. Toward the end, when Vince Bugliosi stated before the Committee that there should be justice for the more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, I stood up and stated loudly, "Thank you" to Mr. Bugliosi -- as my son Casey was one of those soldiers who died because of lies and deception by George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Immediately, Committee Chairman John Conyers told the audience that his colleagues were urging him to take action. I then said loudly, "I urge you all to take action." That is when Chairman Conyers kicked me out of the hearings.

Yes. We need real impeachment hearings. We need Congress to take action against Bush, Cheney and all those in the administration who lied, abused their power, and violated the precious rights enshrined in our Constitution.

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Obama Lays Out Clear Plan For Iraq Withdrawal In NYT Op-Ed

2008-07-28T05:47:32Z

My Plan for Iraq
By BARACK OBAMA
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/opinion/14obama.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

July 14, 2008

CHICAGO — The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed for long-term success in Iraq and the security interests of the United States.

The differences on Iraq in this campaign are deep. Unlike Senator John McCain, I opposed the war in Iraq before it began, and would end it as president. I believed it was a grave mistake to allow ourselves to be distracted from the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban by invading a country that posed no imminent threat and had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. Since then, more than 4,000 Americans have died and we have spent nearly $1 trillion. Our military is overstretched. Nearly every threat we face — from Afghanistan to Al Qaeda to Iran — has grown.

In the 18 months since President Bush announced the surge, our troops have performed heroically in bringing down the level of violence. New tactics have protected the Iraqi population, and the Sunni tribes have rejected Al Qaeda — greatly weakening its effectiveness.

But the same factors that led me to oppose the surge still hold true. The strain on our military has grown, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated and we’ve spent nearly $200 billion more in Iraq than we had budgeted. Iraq’s leaders have failed to invest tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues in rebuilding their own country, and they have not reached the political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.

The good news is that Iraq’s leaders want to take responsibility for their country by negotiating a timetable for the removal of American troops. Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. James Dubik, the American officer in charge of training Iraq’s security forces, estimates that the Iraqi Army and police will be ready to assume responsibility for security in 2009.

Only by redeploying our troops can we press the Iraqis to reach comprehensive political accommodation and achieve a successful transition to Iraqis’ taking responsibility for the security and stability of their country. Instead of seizing the moment and encouraging Iraqis to step up, the Bush administration and Senator McCain are refusing to embrace this transition — despite their previous commitments to respect the will of Iraq’s sovereign government. They call any timetable for the removal of American troops “surrender,” even though we would be turning Iraq over to a sovereign Iraqi government.

But this is not a strategy for success — it is a strategy for staying that runs contrary to the will of the Iraqi people, the American people and the security interests of the United States. That is why, on my first day in office, I would give the military a new mission: ending this war.

As I’ve said many times, we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. We can safely redeploy our combat brigades at a pace that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 — two years from now, and more than seven years after the war began. After this redeployment, a residual force in Iraq would perform limited missions: going after any remnants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, protecting American service members and, so long as the Iraqis make political progress, training Iraqi security forces. That would not be a precipitous withdrawal.

In carrying out this strategy, we would inevitably need to make tactical adjustments. As I have often said, I would consult with commanders on the ground and the Iraqi government to ensure that our troops were redeployed safely, and our interests protected. We would move them from secure areas first and volatile areas later. We would pursue a diplomatic offensive with every nation in the region on behalf of Iraq’s stability, and commit $2 billion to a new international effort to support Iraq’s refugees.

Ending the war is essential to meeting our broader strategic goals, starting in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the Taliban is resurgent and Al Qaeda has a safe haven. Iraq is not the central front in the war on terrorism, and it never has been. As Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently pointed out, we won’t have sufficient resources to finish the job in Afghanistan until we reduce our commitment to Iraq.

As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan. We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there. I would not hold our military, our resources and our foreign policy hostage to a misguided desire to maintain permanent bases in Iraq.

In this campaign, there are honest differences over Iraq, and we should discuss them with the thoroughness they deserve. Unlike Senator McCain, I would make it absolutely clear that we seek no presence in Iraq similar to our permanent bases in South Korea, and would redeploy our troops out of Iraq and focus on the broader security challenges that we face. But for far too long, those responsible for the greatest strategic blunder in the recent history of American foreign policy have ignored useful debate in favor of making false charges about flip-flops and surrender.

It’s not going to work this time. It’s time to end this war.

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New tribe against the occupation of Afghanistan

2008-07-27T06:05:05Z

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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The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

2008-07-20T03:53:48Z

http://www.prosecutionofbush.com

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What great ads

2008-07-20T03:31:23Z

Those Glamor ads they run on this page are really great. Those chicks are hot. Now there are ads I like to see. I look forward to seeing that little blonde ticket, or her Latina friend.

Keep up the great ads Tribe guys!

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Message From Iraqi Resistance

2008-06-26T21:09:29Z

While I have disagreements with the following group, they make many good points in this video, and I agree most fundamentally with the right of Iraqis to run their country as they see fit without the US occupation.

Message From Iraqi Resistance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccMuRyBnTIs&feature=related

The following are insane US troops caught on tape in Iraq. Would you want this occupation army in your country?

US Marines Throw Puppy Off Cliff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6zXpgcpW5w&feature=related

US Soldier on tape admits to rape and torture in Iraq!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dvoBhevOQ&feature=related

Iraq - Soldiers shoot civilians
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWE5hu4z_8Y&NR=1

Abu Ghraib - Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz7UNxnOI3M&NR=1

American Soldiers attack on Terrorist sheep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQdgyEapvw&feature=related

Iraqi Kids Begging For Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnHudm5Cmk&feature=related

Apache killing Iraqi Truck drivers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVTfrm06v8&feature=related

Winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyRPYMTICRM&feature=related

Soldiers beat teenage Iraqis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnp0C0PNZT4&feature=related

US Soldiers Shoot A Dog!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQU89FyVw0&feature=related

US soldiers Killing a wounded Iraqi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qs71TYwoM&feature=related

American Soldiers having fun Killing Civilians in Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FD1jHueZZc&feature=related

American Soldiers Taunt Thirsty Iraqi Kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=667SaGS-Jqg&feature=related

US / British Troops Out of Iraq!

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McKinney's Call to Action on Impeachment Against Bush

2008-06-19T01:33:26Z

Cynthia McKinney's Call to Action in Support of Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment Against Bush

(statement also posted on www.runcynthiarun.org, the website of Cynthia McKinney's Power to the People presidential campaign)

With great satisfaction I learned of the courageous action taken by Congressman Dennis Kucinich on Monday, June 9th. On that day, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, he rose to introduce House Resolution 1258, containing 35 Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush. The litany of documented High Crimes and constitutional abuses by the Bush administration took over five hours to recite.

I wish to take this opportunity to thank and commend Rep. Kucinich for his courage and tenacity, for the comprehensiveness of his research, and for the leadership he exhibited to press forward the democratic demands of the People for accountability and justice.

Under House Rule 9, which Rep. Kucinich invoked in introducing H.Res. 1258 -- "a question of the privileges of the House" -- the full House of Representatives was compelled within 48 hours to bring the matter to a vote. Consequently, two days later, on Wednesday, June 11th, our Congressional Representatives voted overwhelmingly (by a 251-166 margin) to refer the matter to the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Congressman John Conyers. Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment effectively lay out the case against a lawless, degenerate regime that places corporate power and profits above the good and welfare of the U.S. Citizenry. In great detail they show that Bush & Co.:

- manufactured a fraudulent case for the Iraq war, lying to Congress and the American People;

- invaded Iraq illegally for the purpose of occupying a sovereign nation indefinitely and expropriating its public oil reserves and other natural resources for their billionaire cronies of corporate America;

- negligently failed to provide protective gear to our troops;

- outsourced the functions of the U.S. military and created a no-bid, private-contractor mercenary force which killed Iraqis with impunity and looted the treasuries of both the Iraqi and U.S. governments;

- tore up the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other binding international treaties to which the U.S. is signatory;

- retaliated against government whistleblowers attempting to shine a light on corruption, malfeasance and unconstitutional abuse of power;

- began illegal detentions without trial or access to counsel of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals alike;

- countenanced kidnapping and torture;

- created secret laws;

- unconstitutionally spied on American citizens without a court order; and the list goes on and on.

Each fact exhibited in Rep. Kucinich's 35 Articles of Impeachment is true beyond dispute, and each by itself is sufficient to demonstrate the need to remove this criminal President and his gang of thugs from the Executive Branch -- not least of all because most if not all of the crimes are still ongoing.

But, as a Black woman from the South familiar with the struggle against discrimination and racism, I am moved most profoundly, in particular, by three of the Articles of Impeachment that I think serve to point out the real sickness of this regime -- the fact that for Blacks, for Latinos, for Native Americans, for all peoples of color, and for much of the white working class, democracy has never really existed in the United States, and that today the limited gains in the direction of "a more perfect Union" that were won in struggle two generations ago are now being reversed through the deliberate, illegal policies of the gang that has taken over the government.
I'm referring to:

- Article 28 -- Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice;

- Article 29 -- Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965; and

- Article 31 -- Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency.
Therefore, I am hereby putting out an urgent call to all the progressive forces throughout this country -- including first and foremost the democratic forces of the Black community, together with my supporters in the Green Party, organizers of the Reconstruction Party, and most especially Katrina survivors -- to mobilize specifically around these three Articles.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, one thing we have learned through Barack Obama's success in capturing the Democratic Party nomination -- when everyone knows Hillary Clinton had been anointed by the Democratic Party apparatus -- is that the People, when they mobilize at the grassroots, can "flip the script" on the Power Structure.

This past Monday, backed up by the sustained pressure of a persistent mass movement for impeachment, Dennis Kucinich succeeded in "flipping the script" on the House Democratic leadership, and now the Articles of Impeachment are before the Judiciary Committee -- precisely the result that the impeachment movement has been fighting for over the last five years!

Today we find that the ball is back in our court. It's up to the People now to "flip the script" once again. A massive grassroots movement of the People must coalesce very quickly, which can move Chairman Conyers and the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on H.Res. 1258.

I call upon all the forces of the Black movement nationwide -- whether they currently support my presidential bid or the candidacy of Senator Obama, along with all my Green and Reconstructionist supporters, Katrina survivors and their supporters, the election protection movement, and all progressive forces -- to organize a mass mobilization to push the House Judiciary Committee to move on the 35 Articles of Impeachment, with an explicit emphasis on the Black demands for fairness, equality and justice as laid out in Articles 28, 29 and 31.

I propose that all these social movements immediately combine in their local Congressional districts to organize street demonstrations, send delegations to their Congress members, and take any and all other steps necessary, including the formation of ad-hoc action committees, to publicize Articles 28, 29 and 31 and convince their representatives to co-sponsor H.Res. 1258. Time is of the essence, brothers and sisters; it's necessary that we all swing into motion now.

Such efforts must especially focus on our Black members of Congress. Most important, activists in districts represented by the Black members of the House Judiciary Committee must most energetically target their representatives: Chairman John Conyers of Detroit; Bobby Scott of Richmond, Virginia; Mel Watt of Western North Carolina; Sheila Jackson-Lee of Houston; Maxine Waters of Los Angeles; my own distinguished successor in office, Hank Johnson of Atlanta; Luis Gutiérrez of Chicago; Artur Davis of Black-Belt Alabama; and Keith Ellison of Minneapolis-St. Paul.

In the coming days and weeks, I will be announcing some concrete steps I intend to take to assist in the development of the mass movement it will take to ensure that accountability and justice are imposed upon the lawless Bush gang. Immediately, I am instructing my campaign staff to assist by setting up internet resources through my campaign website, RunCynthiaRun.org, that will be useful to local activists in conducting their organizing.

We have seen in this very election cycle how the mobilized masses, with Black America as their indispensable animating force, can "flip the script" on the Powers That Be. The time is now for us to do it again.

Keep the faith, my beautiful, powerful People!

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Bush's Paris visit met by protests

2008-06-16T04:56:02Z

From www.presstv.ir (Tehran) Text edited]

Bush's Paris visit met by protests Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:40:23

Sarkozy's warm reception of Bush is condemned by thousands of Parisians.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy supports President Bush's message of a rebound in US-European relations, despite wide scale protests.

US-European relations have been rocky since the US-led invasion of Iraq, but even before he was elected last year, Sarkozy has been
working to mend relations with the US.

Bush arrived in Paris June 13 on his final European tour as US president and was met by thousands of Parisians, protesting Sarkozy's support for his policies.

Protesters condemned the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and expressed their support for the Palestinian and Iraqi people and
every other country that has been attacked by what they called "American and British imperialism. "

Two protesters enacted what they called a "citizens' arrest" of George W. Bush, leading a man dressed as Bush along the street in
chains accused of criminal acts....

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

2008-06-09T18:03:49Z

“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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John McCain Says He Hates “Gooks”

2008-06-01T18:39:33Z

John McCain Says He Hates “Gooks”

By STEVEN ARGUE

When asked in 2000 John McCain said, “"I hate the gooks, I will hate them as long as I live" ("McCain Criticized for Slur" SF Gate 2/18/2000).

The US War of Aggression against the people of Vietnam murdered three million people. Many of those people were murdered by the massive aerial bombing done by the United States. McCain was on his twenty third bombing raid when he was finally shot down by the Vietnamese near Hanoi. Timothy McVeigh was put to death for less, but the Vietnamese released McCain after only five years. How many people McCain murdered is impossible to know, but what is for certain, McCain is a war criminal who murdered thousands directly in Vietnam.

McCain's crimes against humanity have continued since his release, with McCain voting for the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and voting for military appropriations to fund those wars. The US occupation of Iraq has now cost the lives of over one million people. The true purpose of that war is now even more obvious with US attempts to get the Oil Law passed in Iraq, a law that would turn Iraqi oil over to Exxon Mobile, British Petroleum, and other oil monopolies. Meanwhile, racist war criminal John McCain has vowed to continue the occupation.

Similarly, Obama has voted to fund the occupation of Iraq, has spoken of waging war in Pakistan and Iran, and would not commit to withdrawing troops from Iraq by 2013, opposes socialized medicine, and is not putting forward real solutions on global warming.

In a debate in September 2007, when asked if he would have U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2013 Barack Obama said "I believe that we should have all our troops out by 2013, but I don't want to make promises not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out." Similarly Hillary Clinton Said, “I agree with Barack” ("The Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC", New York Times 9/26/07).

Not only do Obama and Clinton make no promise to get out of Iraq, both have voted for war appropriations. This puts them both in the position of having directly supported the war.

In addition, Clinton voted to invade Iraq. Obama was not yet in the Senate, so he didn’t vote on that resolution. Yet on the verge of the U.S. war of Aggression against Iraq, Barack Obama repeated Bush’s lies at an anti-war rally stating, “He [Saddam Hussein] has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity” (Obama, 10/2002 Speech, Federal Plaza).

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, when the truth that Bush was lying was readily available, not only make them 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 of war, 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 the Democrats and Republicans, Iraqi weapons were never the real motive for mass murder and occupation 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 pretend to distance themselves from the same Bush policies that they actually support.

Similarly, with Pakistan, it is US intervention that has kept in power a long series of dictators and fragile civilian governments who are overthrown by the military at the drop of a hat. While Obama says he wants to send US troops into Pakistan, the US has no right to intervene against those fighting against a US backed puppet government, labeling those who fought against the Musharraf dictatorship "terrorists". It is US intervention in support of Pakistani dictators, including Musharraf, that was the cause of Bhutto's death. The US has already harmed the Pakistani people enough and should get out now! NO TO OBAMA’S PROPOSED MILITARY INTERVENTION IN PAKISTAN!

No to the Democrats Republicans, the twin parties of war, global warming, and corporate exploitation!

In the long run, it is important for people to understand that we (the non-millionaire majority) are not represented in any way by the Democrat and Republican Parties and that we are much better off relying on our own power through mass protests, strikes, alternative media, and in building or supporting political parties to the left of those in power.

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Turning of the Tide - WGFT

2008-05-29T23:59:59Z

http://www.worldgathering.net/news24.html

Turning of the tide …
By Matthew,
Warrior-Poet from the Isle of Man, UK

We say we have it tough
But we always have enough
We say we are trying but the children are still dying
We read the news - got to get our daily blues... ohhhh

But we are ready
Ready for tomorrow
We got each other
From me you can borrow
They say you can never change a leopards spots
But they can’t see how we rearrange the dots

We are the power in everyone
We are the dance of the moon and the sun
We are the hope that will never hide
We are the turning of the tide

We will look to the stars and we will see the light
WE are powerful because we know what is right
We are ready
Ready for tomorrow
Sinking the ships of jealousy and sorrow

We are the power in everyone
We are the celestial dance of the moon and sun
We are the hope that refuses to hide
We are the turning of the tide

In your eyes a vision
In my heart a fire
We will unite our powers
To expose the Liar

We will not swallow any more excuses
We will not be party to your war on humanity
We have heard all your delusions
We are sated with your profanity...Liar

We are the power in everyone
We are the celestial dance of the moon and sun
We are the hope that refuses to hide
We are the turning of the tide

http://www.worldgathering.net/news24.html

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On This Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre

2008-05-06T00:43:22Z

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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Iraqi Port Workers to Join US Strike

2008-05-02T20:49:58Z

BREAKING NEWS: Members of the Port Workers Union of Iraq plan to shutdown the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Alzubair for one hour on May Day in solidarity with the shutdown of all West Coast ports by members of ILWU in opposition to the occupation of Iraq.

The second message is a May Day greeting from a broad cross-section of union leaders from many different unions and labor federations in Iraq as an expression of their appreciation for the solidarity demonstrated by organized labor, working people and all peace-loving people of the world in support of their efforts to end the foreign occupation of Iraq and the sectarian violence that occupation has spawned.

[This statement continues to be circulated in Iraq and as additional signers become known, their names will be added to the copy posted on the USLAW website.]

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May Day Message

From: The General Union of Port Workers in Iraq

To: The International Longshore and Warehouse Union in the United States

Dear Brothers and Sisters of ILWU in California:

The courageous decision you made to carry out a strike on May Day to protest against the war and occupation of Iraq advances our struggle against occupation to bring a better future for us and for the rest of the world as well.

We are certain that a better world will only be created by the workers and what you are doing is an example and proof of what we say. The labor movement is the only element in the society that is able to change the political equations for the benefit of mankind. We in Iraq are looking up to you and support you until the victory over the US administration's barbarism is achieved.

Over the past five years the sectarian gangs who are the product of the occupation, have been trying to transfer their conflicts into our ranks. Targeting workers, including their residential and shopping areas, indiscriminately using all sorts of explosive devices, mortar shells, and random shooting, were part of a bigger scheme that was aiming to tear up the society but they miserably failed to achieve their hellish goal. We are struggling today to defeat both the occupation and sectarian militias' agenda.

The pro-occupation government has been attempting to intervene into the workers affairs by imposing a single government-certified labor union. Furthermore it has been promoting privatization and an oil and gas law to use the occupation against the interests of the workers.

We the port workers view that our interests are inseparable from the interests of workers in Iraq and the world; therefore we are determined to continue our struggle to improve the living conditions of the workers and overpower all plots of the occupation, its economic and political projects.

Let us hold hands for the victory of our struggle.

Long live the port workers in California!

Long live May Day!

Long live International solidarity!

The General Union of Port Workers in Iraq An Affiliate Union with General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI)

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May Day 2008 Statement

From: The Iraqi Labour Movement

To: The Workers and All Peace Loving People of the World

On this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and occupation to increase support for our struggle for freedom from occupation - both the military and economic.

We call upon the governments, corporations and institutions behind the ongoing occupation of Iraq to respond to our demands for real democracy, true sovereignty and self-determination free of all foreign interference.

Five years of invasion, war and occupation have brought nothing but death, destruction, misery and suffering to our people. In the name of our "liberation," the invaders have destroyed our nation's infrastructure, bombed our neighbourhoods, broken into our homes, traumatized our children, assaulted and arrested many of our family members and neighbours, permitted the looting of our national treasures, and turned nearly twenty percent of our people into refugees.

The invaders helped to foment and then exploit sectarian divisions and terror attacks where there had been none. Our union offices have been raided. Union property has been seized and destroyed. Our bank accounts have been frozen. Our leaders have been beaten, arrested, abducted and assassinated. Our rights as workers have been routinely violated.

The Ba'athist legislation of 1987, which banned trade unions in the public sector and public enterprises (80% of all workers), is still in effect, enforced by Paul Bremer's post-invasion Occupation Authority and then by all subsequent Iraqi administrations. This is an attack on our rights and basic precepts of a democratic society, and is a grim reminder of the shadow of dictatorship still stalking our country.

Despite the horrific conditions in our country, we continue to organise and protest against the occupation, against workplaces abuses, and for better treatment and safer conditions.

Despite the sectarian plots around us, we believe in unity and solidarity and a common aim of public service, equality, and freedom to organise without external intrusions and coercion.

Our legitimacy comes from our members. Our principles of organisation are based on transparent and internationally recognised International Labour Organisation standards.

We call upon our allies and all the world's peace-loving peoples to help us to end the nightmare of occupation and restore our sovereignty and national independence so that we can chart our own course to the future.

1) We demand an immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from our country, and utterly reject the agreement being negotiated with the USA for long-term bases and a military presence. The continued occupation fuels the violence in Iraq rather than alleviating it. Iraq must be returned to full sovereignty.

2) We demand the passage of a labour law promised by our Constitution, which adheres to ILO principles and on which Iraqi trade unionists have been fully consulted, to protect the rights of workers to organize, bargain and strike, independent of state control and interference.

3) We demand an end to meddling in our sovereign economic affairs by the International Monetary Fund, USA and UK. We demand withdrawal of all economic conditionalities attached to the IMF's agreements with Iraq, removal of US and UK economic "advisers" from the corridors of Iraqi government, and a recognition by those bodies that no major economic decisions concerning our services and resources can be made while foreign troops occupy the country.

4) We demand that the US government and others immediately cease lobbying for the oil law, which would fracture the country and hand control over our oil to multinational companies like Exxon, BP and Shell. We demand that all oil companies be prevented from entering into any long-term agreement concerning oil while Iraq remains occupied. We demand that the Iraqi government tear up the current draft of the oil law, and begin to develop a legitimate oil policy based on full and genuine consultation with the Iraqi people. Only after all occupation forces are gone should a long term plan for the development of our oil resources be adopted.

We seek your support and solidarity to help us end the military and economic occupation of our country. We ask for your solidarity for our right to organise and strike in defence of our interests as workers and of our public services and resources. Our public services are the legacy of generations before us and the inheritance of all future generations and must not be privatised.

We thank you for standing by us. We too stand with you in your own struggles for real democracy which we know you also struggle for, and against privatisation, exploitation and daily disempowerment in your workplaces and lives.

We commend those of you who have organised strikes and demonstrations to end the occupation in solidarity with us and we hope these actions will continue.

We look forward to the day when we have a world based on co-operation and solidarity. We look forward to a world free from war, sectarianism, competition and exploitation.

Endorsed by:

Hassan Juma'a Awad, President, Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU)
Faleh Abood Umara, Deputy, Central Council, Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU)
Falah Alwan, President, Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI)
Subhi Albadri, President, General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI)
Nathim Rathi, President, Iraqi Port Workers Trade Union
Samir Almuawi, President, Engineering Professionals Trade Union
Ghzi Mushatat, President, Mechanic and Print Shop Trade Union
Waleed Alamiri, President, Electricity Trade Union
Ilham Talabani, President, Banking Services Trade Union
Abdullah Ubaid, President, Railway Trade Union Ammar Ali, President, Transportation Trade Union
Abdalzahra Abdilhassan, President, Service Employees Trade Union
Sundus Sabeeh, President, Barber Shop Workers Trade Union
Kareem Lefta Sindan, President, Lumber and Construction Trade Union, General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW)
Sabah Almusawi, President, Wasit Independent Trade Union
Shakir Hameed, President, Lumber And Construction Trade Union (GFWCUI)
Awad Ahmed, President, Teachers Federation of Salahideen Alaa
Ghazi Mushatat, President, Agricultural And Food Substance Industries Adnan
Rathi Shakir, President, Water Resources Trade Union
Nahrawan Yas, President, Woman Affairs Bureau
Sabah Alyasiri, President (GFWCUI) Babil
Ali Tahi, President (GFWCUI)
Najaf Ali Abbas, President (GFWCUI) Basra
Muhi Abdalhussien, President (GFWCUI), Wasit
Ali Hashim Abdilhussien, President (GFWCUI) Kerbala
Ali Hussien, President (GFWCUI) Anbar
Mustafa Ameen, President, Arab Workers Bureau (GFWCUI)
Thameer Mzeail, Health Services, Union Committee
Khadija Saeed Abdullah, Teachers Federation, Member
Asmahan, Khudair, Woman Affairs, Textile Trade Unions Adil
Aljabiri, Oil Workers Trade Union Executive Bureau Member
Muhi Abdalhussien, Nadia Flaih, Service Employees Trade Unions
Rawneq Mohammed, Member, Media and Print Shop Trade Union
Abdlakareem Abdalsada, Vice President (GFWCUI)
Saeed Nima, Vice President (GFWCUI)
Sabri Abdalkareem, Member, (GFWCUI) Babil
Amjad Aljawhary, Representative of GFWCUI in North America

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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Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president

2008-05-01T22:26:02Z

This tribe started with the idea to help get the word out that Bush was ("is"... ug) the Worst President Ever -

Well, now he's got a new title "Most Disapproved Of Ever"...

FROM CNN:

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president.

"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup Poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.

WASHINGTON DC (CNN) -- A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/index.html

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sad but true, the real weapons of mass destruction

2008-04-30T15:19:11Z

Best of Free Speech TV: Beyond the Treason

http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=11085&browse=0

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Beware of Newsmax ads on Tribe...

2008-04-29T15:41:55Z

They ask "Should Hilary Quit" or other issues about the Democratic candidates. But in reality, they are a radical right organization in Washington that is trying to put a positive spin on everything Bush... Like, it is Congress that is responsible for high gas prices not Bush. They trick you to taking their poll and then they bombard you emails full of lies and try to spin the truth. The organization is "Americans for Tax Reform." Their website address is atr.org. Check if out if you don't belive me. These people are unreal. Here are some titles of their propoganda:

Aren’t Fuel Prices High Enough!?!?

Take Action now to put the brakes on higher energy taxes!

How are we supposed to afford to take our kids to school and get to work when the liberals in Congress slap even more taxes on our fuel costs? GO »

Liberals Are Stealing Your Freedom, Crushing Your Jobs & Killing the American Economy
Don’t Allow the Left to Raise Taxes on Energy! GO »

Tell Your Congressman to Oppose the Tax Increase of the Week
Latest Tax Hike Will Force Companies Offshore GO »

House Liberals Vote Next Week to Tax Your Pension GO »

Don’t allow free speech to be silenced!

Amendment to kill the Fairness Doctrine to be voted on today! GO »

They try hard to blame the Democrats for everything Bush did and didn't do and now want to convince you.

Take a stand and let them know that they are full of s**t!. Call or fax them at 202-785-0266 off and 202-785-0261 fax
Stop whining about whats wrong and make your voice heard!!

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Vermont AFL-CIO endorses May 1 anti-war strike

2008-04-27T18:42:27Z

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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SF May 1st Strike: Cynthia McKinney, Danny Glover and Cindy Sheehan speaking

2008-04-24T18:44:47Z

PORT WORKERS MAY DAY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Clarence Thomas and Jack Heyman, Co-Chairs
Phone: 510.333.4301 * Fax: 510.215.2800
Email: news@may1.org

MEDIA ALERT

April 23, 2008

The Port Workers May Day Organizing Committee is proud to announce that Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman from Georgia; Danny Glover, renowned actor and political activist; and Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star mother whose son Casey was killed in Iraq four years ago, will be among the featured speakers at our "No Peace, No Work" Holiday mobilization in San Francisco on May 1st.

The West Coast longshore workers have voted to stop work to protest against the ongoing war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Port Workers May Day Organizing Committee and the other rank-and-file committees in ports up and down the West Coast have received pledges of support from labor councils, local unions and anti-war, anti-racist, immigrant and other social justice organizations across the country and around the globe.

The "March with Longshore Workers" will assemble at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 1st, at the Longshore (ILWU) hall at Mason & Beach, and will march down the Embarcadero for a noon rally at Justin Herman Plaza.

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

This has been distributed by Liberation News, subscribe free:
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Join the new “Cool Earth Party” tribe

2008-04-18T20:18:25Z

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.

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LISTEN TO THIS

2008-03-08T15:18:20Z

http://asx.ljcentral.net/mp3/eir/tls/2008/tls080301_en_hi.mp3

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Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

2008-03-06T14:36:52Z

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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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ILWU to Shut Down Ports May 1 Demanding End to War in Iraq, Afghanistan

2008-03-02T18:07:05Z

[Liberation News is in agreement with the following article of the Internationalist Group and both have also actively advocated these kinds of industrial actions.]

For Workers Strikes Against the War!

ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 Demanding End to War in Iraq, Afghanistan

In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East. In a February 22 letter to AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, ILWU International president Robert McEllrath reported that at a recent coast-wide union meeting, "One of the resolutions adopted by caucus delegates called on longshore workers to stop work during the day shift on May 1, 2008 to express their opposition to the war in Iraq."

This is the first time in decades that an American union has decided to undertake industrial action against a U.S. war. It is doubly important that this mobilization of labor's power is to take place on May Day, the international workers day, which is not honored in the U.S. Moreover, the resolution voted by the ILWU delegates opposes not only the hugely unpopular war in Iraq, but also the war and occupation of Afghanistan (which Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Republican John McCain all want to expand). The motion to shut down the ports also demands the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the entire region, including the oil sheikdoms of the strategically important Persian/Arab Gulf.

The Internationalist Group has fought from the moment U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan in September 2002 for American unions to strike against the war. Despite the fact that millions have marched in the streets of Europe and the United States against the war in Iraq, the war goes on. Neither of the twin war parties of U.S. imperialism - Democrats and Republicans - and none of the capitalist candidates will stop this horrendous slaughter that has already killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. The only way to stop the Pentagon killing machine is by mobilizing the power of a greater force - that of the international working class.

The action announced by the powerful West Coast dock workers union, to stop work to stop the war, should be taken up by unions and labor organizations throughout the United States and internationally. The ILWU should be commended for courageously taking the first step, and it is up to working people everywhere to back them up. Wherever support is strong enough, on May 1 there should be mass walkouts, sick-outs, labor marches, plant-gate meetings, lunch-time rallies, teach-ins. And the purpose of such actions should be not to beg the bourgeois politicians whose hands are covered with blood, having voted for every war budget for six and a half years, but a show of strength of the working people who make this country run, and who can shut it down!

Now is the time for bold class action. Opposition to the war is even greater in the U.S. working class than in the population as a whole, more than two-thirds of which wants to stop the war but is stymied by the capitalist political system. In his letter to Sweeney, the ILWU president asked "if other AFL-CIO affiliates are planning to participate in similar events." Labor militants should make sure the answer to that question is a resounding "yes!"

There should be no illusions that this will be easy. No doubt the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) bosses will try to get the courts to rule the stop-work action illegal. The ILWU leadership could get cold feet, since this motion was passed because of overwhelming support from the delegates despite attempts to stop it or, failing that, to water it down or limit the action. And the U.S. government could try to ban it on the grounds of "national security," just as Bush & Co. slapped a Taft-Hartley injunction on the docks during contract negotiations in the fall of 2002, saying that any work stoppage was a threat to the "war effort," and threatened to occupy the ports with troops!

The answer to every attempt to sabotage or undercut this first labor action against this war, and against Washington's broader "war on terror" which is intended to terrorize the world into submission must be to redouble efforts to bring out workers' power independent of the capitalist parties and politicians. If the ILWU work stoppage is successful, it will only be a small, but very important, beginning that must be generalized and deepened. It will take industrial-strength labor action to defeat the imperialist war abroad and the bosses' war on immigrants, oppressed minorities, poor and working people "at home."

ILWU in the Forefront of Labor Action Against the War

Workers strike action against imperialist war isn't new - it just hasn't happened here for a long, long time. During World War I there were huge mass strikes in Germany against the battlefield carnage, culminating in the downfall of the kaiser in November 1918. A year earlier in Russia, working-class opposition to the war led to the overthrow of the tsar and the October Revolution led by Lenin and Trotsky's Bolsheviks. The Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International call today for transport workers to "hot cargo" (refuse to handle) war shipments. In the early 1920s, Communist-led French dock workers did exactly that, boycotting ships carrying war materiel to suppress a colonial rebellion in the Rif region of Morocco, as they
also did during France's war in Indochina in the 1950s.

In the U.S., the ILWU struck in 1948 amid Cold War hysteria and in defiance of the "slave labor" Taft-Hartley Act to defend its union hiring hall against the bosses and government screaming about "reds" in the union leadership. In 1953, at the height of McCarthyite witch-hunting, the ILWU called a four-day general strike in Hawaii of sugar, pineapple and dock workers over the jailing of seven union members for being communists. During the Vietnam War, socialist historian Isaac Deutscher said that he would trade all the peace marches for a single dock strike. The ILWU was the first U.S. union to oppose the Vietnam war, but during war and especially during the 1971 strike union leader Harry Bridges refused to stop the movement of military cargo. (Ship owners made use of this by falsely labeling cargo as "military" to evade picket lines and undermine the strike.) This betrayal went hand in hand with a "mechanization and modernization" contract that slashed union jobs.

As the U.S.-led imperialist invasion of Iraq was looming, in January 2003 train drivers in Scotland refused to move a freight train carrying munitions to a NATO military base. The next month, Italian railroad unionists and antiwar activists blocked NATO war trains by occupying the rails. In the United States, ILWU dock workers were a target of "anti-terrorist" government repression, as police fired supposedly "less than lethal" munitions point blank at an antiwar protest on the Oakland, California docks, injuring six longshore workers and arresting 25 people (who eventually won their legal case against the police). And every year since the war started, the San Francisco/Oakland ILWU Local 10 has voted for motions for labor action against the war. Usually they were voted down at caucuses and conventions of the ILWU, but not this time.

Last May, Local 10 longshoremen and Local 34 ships clerks refused to cross picket lines set up by the Oakland Teachers Association and antiwar activists, defying arbitrators' orders by refusing to work ships of the notorious antiunion outfit, Stevedoring Services of America (see "Oakland Dock Workers Honor Picket, Shut Down War Cargo Shipper," The Internationalist No. 26, July 2007). In the aftermath of that action, the union issued a call for a Labor Conference to Stop the War that would "plan workplace rallies, labor
mobilizations in the streets and strike action against the war." The Call to Action stated:

"ILWU Local 10 has repeatedly warned that the so-called 'war on terror' is really a war on working people and democratic rights. Around the country, hundreds of unions and labor councils have passed motions condemning the war, but that has not stopped the war. We need to use labor's muscle to stop the war by mobilizing union power in the streets, at the plant gates and on the docks to force the immediate and total withdrawal of all U. S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq."

As the conference date approached, the union was the target of several police attacks, including a vicious cop assault on two black dock workers from San Francisco working in the port of Sacramento. Some 250 demonstrators from every ILWU local in Northern California rallied in their defense outside the courthouse. Their trial to be set march 18 at a hearing will encounter even larger demonstrations.

The Internationalist Group and its union supporters helped build and attended the October 20 conference, along with some 150 labor and socialist activists from the Bay Area, elsewhere in California and across the country. At the meeting, a particular focus was resistance to the Transportation Workers Identification Card (TWIC), which threatens minority workers and the union hiring hall, and which the Democratic Party in particular has been pushing in order to carry out a purge of dock workers in the name of the "war on terror."
Not long after that conference, a federal judge ordered Local 10 elections canceled and replaced by a Labor Department-run vote, on the eve of 2008 contract bargaining. Federal agents even invaded the union hall to enforce their order. This action is a threat to the independence of all unions.

This set the stage for the recent longshore-warehouse caucus, which voted a motion for a 24-hour "No Peace, No Work Holiday" against the war. The resolution was introduced in Local 10 by Jack Heyman, who also presented the motion for the 24 April 1999 coast-wide port shutdown demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther and renowned radical journalist who has been on Pennsylvania's death row for the last quarter century. Although the union tops maneuvered to prevent Heyman from being elected as a delegate to the Coast Caucus, the motion passed in Local 10. At the Caucus, the delegate from Local 34 referred to the October Labor Conference to Stop the War as the origin of the motion.

At the close of the Caucus on February 8, there was a vigorous debate on the resolution. The union tops tried to stop it, to no avail. They kept asking, "are you sure you want to do this action." The delegates overwhelmingly said "yes." Even conservative trade unionists, including veterans of the Vietnam War, were getting up saying the government is lying to us, we've had it with this war, we've got to put a stop to it now. So instead the bureaucrats tried to gut the motion, which was cut down from 24 hours to 8, and changed into a "stop-work" meeting (covered by a contract clause) instead of a straight-out shutdown, thinking that this would lessen opposition from the employers. In the end there was a voice vote and only three delegates out of 100 voted against.

The efforts to undercut the motion continue, as is to be expected from a leadership which, like the rest of the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy, seeks "labor peace" with the bosses. In his letter to Sweeney, ILWU International president tried to present the action as an effort to "express support for the troops by bringing them home safely," although the motion voted by the delegates says nothing of the sort. Playing the "support our troops" game is an effort to swear loyalty to the broader aims of U.S. imperialism. It aids the warmongers, when what's needed is independent working-class action against the system that produces endless imperialist war. Yet despite the efforts to water it down and distort it, the May 1 action voted for by the ILWU delegates is a call to use labor's muscle to put an end to the war.

Mobilize Labor's Power to Defeat the Bosses' War!

For the West Coast dock workers union to shut down the ports against the war means a big step forward in the class struggle. The Internationalist Group has uniquely fought for workers strikes against the war, when all the popular-front "peace" coalitions dismissed this and even some shamefaced ex-Trotskyists refused to call for it, saying it had "no resonance" among the workers (see our October 20007 Special Supplement to The Internationalist, "Why We Fight For Workers Strikes Against the War [and the opportunists Don't]"). With signs, banners and propaganda we have sought to drive home the central lesson that it is necessary to defeat the imperialist war abroad and the bosses' war "at home" by mobilizing the power of the workers movement independent of and against the capitalist parties.

That means fighting the war mobilization down the line. First and foremost, this means actively joining the struggle for immigrant rights as the government turns undocumented working people into "the enemy within." Class-conscious workers should demand full citizenship rights for all immigrants. Last year, San Francisco Local 10 voted to stop work and join marches for immigrant rights on May 1, but this was opposed by the employers PMA and sabotaged at the last minute by the union tops. Shamefully, Local 13 in Los Angeles, a majority Mexican American port, made no protest when police attacked immigrant rights protesters that same day. Today, as the ICE immigration police stage Gestapo-style raids across the country, organized labor should take the lead in organizing rapid response networks to come into the streets to block the raids. Despite the campaign by the capitalist media and politicians to whip up anti-immigrant hysteria, there is widespread disgust among American working people toward the jackbooted storm troopers who are terrorizing immigrant communities.

At the same time, the unions should use the power to put a halt to the attacks on civil liberties which are part of the home front of the imperialist war. Driver's licenses with biometric data, TWIC identification cards with "background checks," warrantless spying and phone tapping, setting up special military tribunals for "trials" in which defendants are denied the right of habeas corpus, to know the "evidence" or even the charges against them - all these are part of a drive that is in high gear pushing the United States toward a full-fledged police state. There have been scores, perhaps hundreds of resolutions by unions and city, county and state labor bodies against the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act, showing that labor activists are well aware of the danger. But just as is the case with the countless union antiwar resolutions, there has been no labor action. It is commonplace in the labor movement to bemoan the lack of real action when Reagan broke the 1981 PATCO air traffic controllers' strike, paving the way for massive union-busting, takeaways and racist attacks all down the line. Let's not let the labor bureaucrats bury the vital struggles of today.

Now is the time to turn words into deeds, to speak to the capitalist rulers in the only language they understand. The imperialist war parties must be defeated by a class mobilization of the working people at the head of all the oppressed. The ILWU motion to stop work on May Day to put a stop to the war can provide working people everywhere with the opening to turn from impotent protest to a struggle for power. For that the key is to build a class-struggle workers party fighting for a workers government, for socialist revolution here and around the world, that will put an end once and for all to the system of endless war, poverty and racism.

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Business networking and Events

2008-02-17T13:04:42Z

i would like to invite my Tribe network to join me on www.connectture.com - its a social business network based in Europe with a growing base of users from all over the world. Easy way of keeping track of your Business Network.

Cheers

Sarah

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Olbermann: Bush push for telco immunity 'textbook example of fascism'

2008-02-14T18:53:30Z

This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast January 31, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Olbermann_rails_against_Bush_fascist_telecom_0201.html

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How We Can Really End the War

2008-02-10T17:14:06Z

"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.

[Note, small changes were made to the response that was censored at NYC Indymedia to make it more readable within the format of this article. Those wishing to see the original version will be given it upon request. Likewise, anyone wishing further sources will be provided them upon request]

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IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY!

2008-01-31T09:58:19Z

Dead For Lies

By Cindy Sheehan

27/01/08 "ICH" -- -- Once, before I camped out in Crawford, Tx, I was speaking at a venue in DC and I called George Bush a "lying bastard." This was in May 2005; right after we discovered the revelations of the Downing Street Minutes which we believed was the smoking gun that would bring down BushCo in short order.

We held hearings in June of 2005 that Congressman John Conyers convened (in a crowded basement room in the Capitol) that exposed the deceit of the "yellow cake uranium from Niger" lie and the fact that Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby made many trips to the CIA offices to "cherry-pick" intelligence. Along with myself, Ambassador Joe Wilson, and ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern: Constitutional Attorney John Bonifaz wrapped up the panel to explain how and why the criminal Bush regime should be impeached and imprisoned.

Since then, I have been hailed or condemned for my strong language and told that if I "framed" my language better, I could be more effective. On the other hand, some people have told me to not dare temper my language because what our government is doing to people is so heinous that someone needs to strongly speak out against it. Now something has again surfaced that alternately angers and sorrows me.

A recent report found that BushCo told 935 lies in the two-year run-up to the war! We all know they lied, and frankly, I am surprised that the number is only 935, but it was an apparently exhaustive study by two media analysis groups.

Calling the President of the USA a "lying bastard" may, on the face of things, seem disrespectful, but there are two definitions of the word that seem appropriate to BushCo: 1) something of illegitimate or dubious origin (stolen elections) or 2) someone mean or nasty.

After nearly four years of living with the horrible knowledge that my son was killed in Iraq for the lies of the lying bastards of the Bush regime, I still mourn him and miss him with all my heart and soul and I don't know if I will ever be able to go through a day without being reminded that he should be alive and well and home with his family. Presidential daughter Jenna Bush will be getting married soon and I can't help but feel that Casey should have been able to have the same opportunity to get married and have his own children and future.

We cannot place the blame solely at the foot of BushCo, though. We have two Senators vying for their party's presidential nomination who are nothing but spoiled Demo-Brats who snipe and bicker at each other instead of calling for the immediate removal of our troops from Iraq and the ouster of the liars who are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the tragic creation of millions of broken hearts (when we buried Casey, I discovered that the term is not just a figure of speech).

We have a Speaker of the House who has taken impeachment "off the table" and refuses to even consider doing her job because impeachment would be too "divisive" when so many families have been physically, emotionally, and politically divided by Republican and Democratic war crimes and support of war crimes.

It is imperative that BushCo be impeached for past, present and future high crimes and misdemeanors. They have not only lied about the reasons for invading and occupying Iraq , but they have used their war of terror to redefine and lie about torture and commit unspeakable crimes against humanity.

Accountability should not be a politically partisan issue. No one should be above the law in a democracy and this is not a game of power plays or revenge for a past impeachment for lying about oral sex in the oval office.

We know they lied and now we must demand hearings from our dysfunctional employees in DC to find out why they lied so we can prevent it from ever happening again.

What's more obscene? The word "bastard" or the travesty and tragedy of wars based on so many lies told by so many liars?

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DONATE KENYA RED CROSS HELP KENYA

2008-01-07T08:38:26Z

DONATE KENYA RED CROSS HELP KENYA
The Shit hit the fan in Kenya, and many people are dying on account of two rich greedy fucks. Please, If you can do somethin hit up the Red Cross. I'm gettin rid of all the shit I don't need, cause there's like over half a million people displaced, people dying every day like Iraq, and the country is on the verge of economic collapse. The situation is totally fucked, and people are still only interested in power rather than those who are suffering. People ask how could we sit back and let Rwanda, and Darfur happen? I will not, and I am trying to do all I can to help alleviate the suffering of the many innocent Kenyans. Spread the word copy and send out as an e-mail.

-One

KENYA RED CROSS SOCIETY
P.O. BOX 40712
00100-GPO,
NAIROBI, KENYA

TEL: (254-20) 603593/608681/13
FAX: (254-20) 603589
MOBILES: 0722-206958 or 0733-333040
EMAIL: info@kenyaredcross.org
WEBSITE: www.kenyaredcross.org

Map
http://www.kenyaredcross.org/contacts.php?subcat=73

Also:

Please contact your local government and demand that they put pressure on Kenya, and perhaps send aid.

To take action, call and express your views:
• U.S. State Department.
• Africa/Kenya Desk (202) 647-8913
• Krilla, Jeffrey Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Rights, Democracy and Labor, (202) 647-1783
• Ambassador Richard Griffin,Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Diplomatic Security and Director of the Office of Foreign Missions (202) 647-6290
• Dr.Jendayi E. Frazer Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs (202) 647-4440
• Sean McCormack Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs (202) 647-6607
• Tom Casey Deputy

Those in Europe please contact the EU. The EU has been great during the whole fracas.
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/president/contact/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/index_en.htm
http://europa.eu/geninfo/mailbox/inst_en.htm

Kenya has ICJ jurisdiction, so they would also be a great source to contact:

International Court of Justice
http://www.icj-cij.org/
International Court of Justice
Peace Palace
Carnegieplein 2
2517 KJ The Hague
The Netherlands

If you can send a fax please do asap:
Telephone: (+31) (0)70 302 23 23
Telefax: (+31) (0)70 364 99 28

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at-Largely:by Larisa Alexandrovna: For journalists and others who like examining the landscape of investigative reporting.

2008-01-07T08:32:14Z

Sibel Speaks Part II: Naming Names...

I have decided that after years of not getting anyone to publish what I have found out about the Edmonds case, I am simply going to give you folks some names. I won't explain what the allegations are, or how these people might fit together or even if they fit together. I also don't claim to have all the names or know the full story by any means. But I am certain, that brilliant bloggers, researchers, and journalists will finally figure it out:

Richard Perle
Doug Feith
Eric Edelman
Marc Grossman
Larry Franklin
Dennis Hastert
Roy Blunt
Dan Burton
Tom Lantos
Bob Livingston
Stephen Solarz
Graham Fuller
David Makovsky
Alan Markovsky
Enver Yusuf
Sabri Sayari
Mehmet Eymur

And a few phrases for you folks to play around with (in no particular order):
Gray Wolves
Shanghai Cooperation Organization
RAND Corporation
PNAC
East Turkmenistan
Iran
Syria
Foreign Policy
King Faisal
ISI

Now start digging kids!!

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/01/sibel-speaks-pa.html

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McGovern: Time to impeach Bush - January 6, 2008

2008-01-07T05:53:27Z

McGovern is calling for Bush and Cheney to be impeached.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – George McGovern, the Democratic Party's 1972 nominee for president, is calling on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

And in an editorial in Sunday's Washington Post, McGovern writes the case for impeaching the current president is "far stronger" than the case made against former President Richard Nixon — the man who soundly defeated McGovern in the general election match up.

"Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses," McGovern writes. "They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time.

"Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world," he continued.

McGovern, a former three-term senator who ran for president on a fiercely anti-war platform, also called the administration's policy in Iraq a "a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war" in violation of international law.

"This reckless disregard for life and property, as well as constitutional law, has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949," he added.

But McGovern acknowledged there is little bipartisan support for an impeachment effort, blaming "superficial partisanship" among Republicans, and a "a lack of courage and statesmanship on the part of too many Democratic politicians."

– CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/06/mcgovern-time-to-impeach-bush/

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ACLU - January 11 WEAR ORANGE to symbolize disgust with Guantánamo Bay!!!!

2008-01-04T06:11:37Z

from the ACLU:

JANUARY 11, 2008, is the six-year anniversary of the first arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.

On January 11, we are calling on everyone opposed to torture and indefinite detention to WEAR ORANGE to symbolize their sadness and disgust with the national shame that is Guantánamo Bay.

See toolkit:

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/closeguantanamo.html

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

2008-01-03T01:25:11Z

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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Stonewalled by the C.I.A. by - By THOMAS H. KEAN and LEE H. HAMILTON (!)

2008-01-02T21:58:24Z

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

Wow.

Great to have Republican Kean let the Bush "goverment" have it on this one.

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Labor Motion, Calling for Strikes Against The War

2007-12-31T00:04:54Z

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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Vermont town seeks Bush, Cheney arrests

2007-12-30T10:53:31Z

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Town in Liberal Vermont Considers Measure to Have Bush, Cheney Arrested for War Crimes

DAVE GRAM
AP News

Dec 28, 2007 16:54 EST

President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid left-leaning Vermont: In one town, activists want him subject to arrest for war crimes.

A group in Brattleboro is petitioning to put an item on a town meeting agenda in March that would make Bush and Vice President Cheney subject to arrest and indictment if they visit the southeastern Vermont community.

"This petition is as radical as the Declaration of Independence, and it draws on that tradition in claiming a universal jurisdiction when governments fail to do what they're supposed to do," said Kurt Daims, 54, a retired machinist leading the drive.

As president, Bush has visited every state except Vermont.

The town meeting, an annual exercise in which residents gather to vote on everything from fire department budgets to municipal policy, requires about 1,000 signatures to place a binding item on the agenda.

The measure asks: "Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictment for consideration by other municipalities?"

The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. The press office did not immediately respond to an e-mail.

Support for the measure is far from universal, even in Vermont, where the state Senate voted earlier this year to support impeaching the president. Anti-war rallies are regular occurrences here, and "Impeach Bush" bumper stickers are common.

"I would not be supportive of it," said Stephen Steidle, a member of the town's selectboard, which oversees its government.

"It's well outside of our ability. From my perspective, the Brattleboro Selectboard needs to focus on the town and the things that need to be done here."

Daims has been circulating documents that claim the community acquires a "universal jurisdiction" to take such steps "when governments breach their highest duties."

"We have the full power to issue indictments, conduct trials, incarcerate offenders and do all other acts which Independent jurisdictions may of right do," the statement says.

Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, a Democrat whose office has repeatedly sued the Bush administration over environmental issues, called the move "of very dubious legality."

"I have not seen the proposal, and I've done no legal research on any of the issues," Sorrell said. "But at first blush, if this passed, they'd have really uphill sledding trying to have it be legal and enforceable."

Source: AP News

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THE IDEA OF A BLACK PRESIDENT By Mumia Abu-Jamal

2007-12-24T06:22:59Z

THE IDEA OF A BLACK PRESIDENT
[col. writ. 12/18/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal

For much of the US populace, the very idea of a Black president is one so new, so novel, that it forces many people to think of it as if it is barely possible; as if it is the stuff of fiction, not fact.

Fiction has indeed been the realm of this idea, as in movies, and television series, actors have played the part, but that, of course, is on TV.

Of course, time will tell if that is more than imagination, but for millions of people who share this vast land space we call North America, the idea is neither new nor ground-breaking.

That's because there are some 100 million people living in Mexico, and that country had a Black president (albeit briefly) --some 173 years ago.

It was during their war for independence from Spain, when a warrior emerged, a Black Indian named Vicente Guerrero.

In his first battle, he was commissioned a Captain. As the independence war raged on, many of the leading revolutionaries were either killed, or captured. Guerrero fought on, leading some 2,000 men into the Sierra Madre mountains to continue the fight.

By 1821, the Mexicans were prevailing over the Spanish, and Guerrero was hailed as an incorruptible independence fighter. In 1829 he became President of Mexico, and as scholar William Loren Katz writes in his 1986 book, Black Indians:

He began a program of far-reaching reforms, abolishing the death penalty, and starting construction of schools and libraries for the poor. He ended slavery in Mexico. Yet, because of his skin color, lack of education, and country manner, he was held in contempt by the upper classes in Mexico City. This president who had, according to {US. historian M.H.} Bancroft, " a gentleness and magnetism that inspired love among his adherents." was still " a triple-blooded outsider." Black historian J. A. Rogers summarized Guerrero's striking accomplishments by calling him 'the George Washington and Abraham Lincoln of Mexico."[p.48]

Guerrero, who in his youth was an illiterate mule driver, once bitten by the bug of Mexican independence, rose to the highest office in the land.

He learned to read when he was about 40, and helped craft the Mexican Constitution, of which he wrote the following provision: "All inhabitants whether white, African, or Indian, are qualified to hold office." He wrote this in 1824, over 30 years before the US Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision, which announced, emphatically, that"...a black man has no rights that a white man is bound to respect." and that black people weren't, and could never be citizens of the United States.

In that era of revolution and social transformation, a Black man became president of the second largest country in North America.

Today, 178 years later, we still wonder if such a thing is possible.

What does that say about the United States?

--(c) '07 maj

{Source: Katz, William Loren, Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage (New York: Simon Pulse, 1986 [Simon Pulse/pb ed.,2005], p.42}

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

Free Mumia!

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://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/19/18436405.php

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Lawyers Stepping Up

2007-12-23T11:45:46Z

Lawyers Stepping Up
Katrina vanden Heuvel

We are lawyers in the United States of America. As such, we have all taken an oath obligating us to defend the Constitution and the rule of law…. We believe the Bush administration has committed numerous offenses against the Constitution and may have violated federal laws…. Moreover, the administration has blatantly defied congressional subpoenas, obstructing constitutional oversight …. Thus, we call on House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers and Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy to launch hearings into the possibility that crimes have been committed by this administration in violation of the Constitution…. We call for the investigations to go where they must, including into the offices of the President and the Vice President. -- American Lawyers Defending the Constitution

Over one thousand lawyers – including former Governor Mario Cuomo and former Reagan administration official Bruce Fein – have signed onto the above statement demanding wide-ranging investigative hearings into unconstitutional and potentially criminal activity by the Bush administration.

In a conference call with reporters yesterday, Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and winner of the 2007 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship, said: "The majority of lawyers in this country understand that the Bush administration has really gone off the page of constitutional rights and off the page of fundamental rights, and is willing to push the Congress to restore those rights." Ratner said he was "dismayed" that a Democratic majority has failed "to push on key illegalities… the torture program, and now the destruction of the tapes involving the torture program; the warrantless wiretapping, the denial of habeas corpus, the secret sites/rendition program, special trials, and of course what we now know is the firing of US Attorneys scandal…. The minimal that absolutely is needed to get us back on the page of law is to have serious investigative hearings that go up the chain of command and figure out who is responsible for what."

Ratner noted that even with regard to the US attorney's investigations, where Congressional committees held Harriet Miers, Josh Bolten, and Karl Rove in contempt, leadership has failed to enforce these actions by bringing the resolutions to a vote. "Just announcing that investigations will be held and subpoenas will be issued is terribly insufficient unless Congress is willing to enforce the subpoenas by issuing contempt citations," Ratner said. "Congress has a constitutional duty to oversee the activities of the executive branch and our entire system of government is threatened when Congress simply folds before an obstinate executive. Issuing contempt citations against Bolten, Miers, and Rove should be Congress's first order of business in 2008."

Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild, discussed the administration's torture program violating three US-ratified treaties and the US torture statute; the illegal War in Iraq violating the US-ratified UN Charter as a war of aggression; and Attorney General Michael Mukasey's conflict of interest in overseeing investigations into the torture program and the destruction of the CIA interrogations tapes.

Also speaking with reporters was Jesselyn Raddack, a former Justice Department ethics lawyer who served as an advisor during the interrogation of John Walker Lindh (the "American Taliban"). Raddack said, "My e-mails documented my advice against interrogating Lindh without a lawyer, and concluded that the FBI committed an ethics violation when it did so anyway. Both the CIA videotapes and my e-mails were destroyed, in part, because officials were concerned that they documented controversial interrogation methods that could put agency officials in legal jeopardy…. " Raddack pointed to the Department of Justice's investigations of Enron and Arthur Anderson for obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence, and the need for the same aggressive oversight and legal proceedings in these scandals.

This is a vital effort by those charged with defending our constitution, as Ratner said, "This lawyers' letter and the growing number of signatures we'll have on it, and prominent people – it's a way of saying to Congress, ‘You need some backbone. You need to have a serious investigation, wherever it might go, on these issues that really have taken the United States out of the mainstream of human rights.' It's absolutely critical… We've opened up the door to illegality…. Unless we have accountability on those illegalities, we're going to be facing a very bleak future in which fundamental rights will not really be obeyed."

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In 1969 a group of radicals hatched a secret plan

2007-12-14T21:32:48Z

In 1969 a group of radicals hatched a secret plan:
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/08/20/tomo/

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Spurned by major newspapers, Dem Congressman takes 'impeach Cheney' appeal to Web

2007-12-14T18:51:03Z

Nick Juliano
Published: Friday December 14, 2007

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As the House Judiciary Committee continues to refuse any action on proposals to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, three of that panel's members tried to take their case to influential op-ed pages of the nation's largest newspapers.

They were turned down by every one -- including the New York Times, Washington Post and Miami Herald -- so now one of the lawmakers has taken his campaign to the Internet.

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) on Friday launched a new Web site, WexlerWantsHearings.com to advance his call to impeach Cheney. The site hosts an op-ed article censored by the nation's major newspapers and outlines the case for impeaching Cheney.

"The truth is the mainstream media have no interest in this issue," Wexler said Friday.

"They have bought into the notion that impeachment hearings are outside the bounds of what the congress ought to be doing," the six-term Congressman elaborated during a conference call Friday.

The House Judiciary Committee has before it a resolution introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) calling for Cheney's impeachment and accusing the vice president of a raft of high crimes, including manipulating intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, obstructing federal investigations and conspiring to expose the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said impeachment in strictly off the table, and the Judiciary Committee seems unlikely to move forward with any hearings. Wexler encouraged impeachment supporters to sign a petition on his new site to allay the notions of Democratic leaders that impeachment supporters are little more than "a fringe, marginal group of people."

Wexler said the House has the constitutional obligation to begin impeachment hearings to investigate malfeasance within the Bush administration, and he blamed the lack of enthusiasm thus far on the "bad taste" left by the GOP's last impeachment crusade.

"People are just afraid that we would just be putting the shoe on the other foot and just doing ... what the Republicans did to Bill Clinton," Wexler told the conference call, which was organized by Democrats.com.

The "kangaroo court" Republicans used to impeach Clinton, on grounds that he lied about his liaison with an intern, cannot become the precedent by which the constitutional tool is judged, Wexler said.

Although Bush and Cheney will be leaving the White House for good in 13 months, Wexler said impeachment hearings were necessary because of the need to ferret out possible criminality in the administration.

"We have to follow the evidence where it leads," he said. "We have an obligation to do it, and to do it as thoroughly as possible."

Wexler posted the following video appeal on his impeachment Web site.

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"Necon Job"

2007-12-08T15:56:35Z

By Keith Olbermann
MSNBC Countdown

Thursday 06 December 2007

Full text of Keith's Special Comment

Finally, as promised, a Special Comment about the president's cataclysmic deception about Iran.

There are few choices more terrifying than the one Mr. Bush has left us with tonight.

We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War Three about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole - or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked - at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so - whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible.

A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.

After Ms. Perino's announcement from the White House late last night, the timeline is inescapable and clear.

In August the president was told by his hand-picked Major Domo of intelligence Mike McConnell, a flinty, high-strung-looking, worrying-warrior who will always see more clouds than silver linings, that what "everybody thought" about Iran might be, in essence, crap.

Yet on October 17th the President said of Iran and its president Ahmadinejad:

"I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War Three, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon."

And as he said that, Mr. Bush knew that at bare minimum there was a strong chance that his rhetoric was nothing more than words with which to scare the Iranians.

Or was it, Sir, to scare the Americans?

Does Iran not really fit into the equation here? Have you just scribbled it into the fill-in-the-blank on the same template you used, to scare us about Iraq?

In August, any commander-in-chief still able-minded or uncorrupted or both, Sir, would have invoked the quality the job most requires: mental flexibility.

A bright man, or an honest man, would have realized no later than the McConnell briefing that the only true danger about Iran was the damage that could be done by an unhinged, irrational Chicken Little of a president, shooting his mouth off, backed up by only his own hysteria and his own delusions of omniscience.

Not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr. Bush.

The Chicken Little of presidents is the one, Sir, that you see in the mirror.

And the mind reels at the thought of a vice president fully briefed on the revised Intel as long as two weeks ago - briefed on the fact that Iran abandoned its pursuit of this imminent threat four years ago - who never bothered to mention it to his boss.

It is nearly forgotten today, but throughout much of Ronald Reagan's presidency it was widely believed that he was little more than a front-man for some never-viewed, behind-the-scenes, string-puller.

Today, as evidenced by this latest remarkable, historic malfeasance, it is inescapable, that Dick Cheney is either this president's evil ventriloquist, or he thinks he is.

What servant of any of the 42 previous presidents could possibly withhold information of this urgency and gravity, and wind up back at his desk the next morning, instead of winding up before a Congressional investigation - or a criminal one?

Mr. Bush - if you can still hear us - if you did not previously agree to this scenario in which Dick Cheney is the actual detective and you're Remington Steele - you must disenthrall yourself: Mr. Cheney has usurped your constitutional powers, cut you out of the information loop, and led you down the path to an unprecedented presidency in which the facts are optional, the Intel is valued less than the hunch, and the assistant runs the store.

The problem is, Sir, your assistant is robbing you - and your country - blind.

Not merely in monetary terms, Mr. Bush, but more importantly of the traditions and righteousness for which we have stood, at great risk, for centuries: Honesty, Law, Moral Force.

Mr. Cheney has helped, Sir, to make your Administration into the kind our ancestors saw in the 1860's and 1870's and 1880's - the ones that abandoned Reconstruction, and sent this country marching backwards into the pit of American Apartheid.

Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland ...

Presidents who will be remembered only in a blur of failure, Mr. Bush.

Presidents who will be remembered only as functions of those who opposed them - the opponents whom history proved right.

Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland ... Bush.

Would that we could let this president off the hook by seeing him only as marionette or moron.

But a study of the mutation of his language about Iran proves that though he may not be very good at it, he is, himself, still a manipulative, Machiavellian, snake-oil salesman.

The Bushian etymology was tracked by Dan Froomkin at the Washington Post's website.

It is staggering.

March 31st: "Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon ..."

June 5th: "Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons ..."

June 19th: "Consequences to the Iranian government if they continue to pursue a nuclear weapon ..."

July 12th: "The same regime in Iran that is pursuing nuclear weapons ..."

August 6th: "This is a government that has proclaimed its desire to build a nuclear weapon ..."

Notice a pattern?

Trying to develop, build or pursue a nuclear weapon.

Then, sometime between August 6th and August 9th, those terms are suddenly swapped out, so subtly that only in retrospect can we see that somebody has warned the president, not only that he has gone out too far on the limb of terror - but there may not even be a tree there ...

McConnell, or someone, must have briefed him then.

August 9th: "They have expressed their desire to be able to enrich uranium, which we believe is a step toward having a nuclear weapons program ..."

August 28th: "Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons ..."

October 4th: "You should not have the know-how on how to make a (nuclear) weapon ..."

October 17th: "Until they suspend and/or make it clear that they, that their statements aren't real, yeah, I believe they want to have the capacity, the knowledge, in order to make a nuclear weapon."

Before August 9th, it's: Trying to develop, build or pursue a nuclear weapon.

After August 9th, it's: Desire, pursuit, want ... knowledge, technology, know-how to enrich uranium.

And we are to believe, Mr. Bush, that the National Intelligence Estimate this week talks of the Iranians suspending their nuclear weapons program in 2003 ...

And you talked of the Iranians suspending their nuclear weapons program on October 17th ...

And that's just a coincidence?

And we are to believe, Mr. Bush, that nobody told you any of this until last week?

Your insistence that you were not briefed on the NIE until last week might be legally true - something like "what the definition of is is" - but with the subject matter being not interns but the threat of nuclear war.

Legally, it might save you from some war crimes trial ... but ethically, it is a lie.

It is indefensible.

You have been yelling threats into a phone for nearly four months, after the guy on the other end had already hung up.

You, Mr. Bush, are a bald-faced liar.

And more over, you have just revealed that John Bolton, and Norman Podhoretz, and the Wall Street Journal Editorial board, are also bald-faced liars.

We are to believe that the Intel community, or maybe the State Department, cooked the raw intelligence about Iran, falsely diminished the Iranian nuclear threat, to make you look bad?

And you proceeded to let them make you look bad?

You not only knew all of this about Iran, in early August ...

But you also knew ... it was ... accurate.

And instead of sharing this good news with the people you have obviously forgotten you represent ...

You merely fine-tuned your terrorizing of those people, to legally cover your own backside ...

While you filled the factual gap with sadistic visions of - as you phrased it on August 28th: a quote "nuclear holocaust" - and, as you phrased it on October 17th, quote: "World War Three."

My comments, Mr. Bush, are often dismissed as simple repetitions of the phrase "George Bush has no business being president."

Well, guess what?

Tonight: hanged by your own words ... convicted by your own deliberate lies ...

You, sir, have no business ... being president.

Good night, and good luck.

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An unlikely pair: Kucinich says he'd like Paul as his running mate

2007-11-29T09:15:54Z

Nick Juliano
Published: Wednesday November 28, 2007

Libertarian congressman, surging in GOP horserace, shoots down idea of bipartisan ticket

Call them 2008's odd couple: Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich says if his long-shot bid for the presidential nomination were successful, he'd ask Republican Ron Paul to be his running mate.

The two men are lagging in opinion polls of their parties' primary voters, but exploding in popularity among online supporters. With their powers combined ... well, who knows what would happen. Kucinich raised the possibility of a gadfly team-up at a recent campaign stop in New Hampshire, although the idea has been kicking around for months in blogs and Internet forums.

Rep. Kucinich (D-OH) recently told a crowd of supporters in New Hampshire that a ticket featuring him and the libertarian Texas congressman would help "balance the energies in this country," according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer blog.

"It would create a stunning, if dizzying, blend of beliefs, wedding two politicians who hold different views on abortion rights, the role of government in providing health care, and the use of government in fostering -- or hampering -- the public's greater good," report the newspaper's Sabrina Eaton and Stephen Koff.

Indeed, it wouldn't be the first time the two vehemently anti-war lawmakers joined forces. Earlier this year Paul and Kucinich teamed up to co-sponsor a bill that would've revoked President Bush's authority to wage war in Iraq.

However, even if Kucinich can bolster his support enough to topple the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama-John Edwards juggernaut currently battling for Democratic primacy, such a pairing is nearly impossible.

"Dr. Paul and Rep. Kucinich are friends and there is a lot of mutual respect," Paul communications director Jesse Benton told the reporters. "They have worked, and will continue to work, together on the ending the war and protecting civil liberties.

"However, Ron wants to substantially cut the size and scope of the federal government. There are too many differences on issues such as taxes and spending to think a joint ticket would be possible."

Besides, if either of the gadflies is going to take center stage in his party's presidential quest, Paul seems the more likely contender. He is on track to raise more than $12 million in the last quarter of this year and has seen his stock rise in polls of Iowa and New Hampshire voters, although he is still well behind frontrunners like Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani.

Kucinich's campaign, meanwhile, seems to be on much the same trajectory as his previous failed bid in 2004, when he failed to crack double digits in a single primary. The campaign is performing well online this time around, and it hopes to replicate Paul's recent one-day fundraising success with a Dec. 15 pledge drive. Kucinich's campaign says it wants to raise $10 million that day, tied to the date in 1791 when the Bill of Rights took effect.

Paul supporters are planning a similar fundraiser, hoping to raise $10 million on Dec. 15 and 16, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

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Flight School Head Admits Neither He Nor 9/11 Hijackers Could Fly 9/11 Planes

2007-11-27T09:59:02Z

Monday November 26, 2007

According to the owner of a flight school at which 2 of the 4 accused 9/11 hijack pilots trained on simple aircraft with questionable ... all » competence, neither he nor the 9/11 hijackers implicated in the attacks, could pilot the 757 and 767 aircraft that they are alleged to have flown into targets on September 11, 2001.

The alleged hijack pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which reportedly crashed into the Pentagon building on September 11, 2001, was deemed unfit for a solo flight on board a single engine Cessna aircraft, less than 1 month earlier.

Were the accused hijack pilots of the 9/11 planes, sponsored for flight school training by some unknown party, simply to create the appearance of an ability to pilot the aircraft used to strike symbolically significant U.S. targets that day?

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/261107_b_Hijackers.htm

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Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?

2007-11-24T14:08:25Z

Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?
Published on Friday, November 23, 2007.

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By Kurt Nimmo

According to Jessica Lee of Indypendent and Kamau Karl Franklin of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act was penned with plenty of help from the RAND Corporation.

“Rep. Jane Harman, Democrat from California, has had a lengthy relationship with the Rand Corporation,” Lee tells Democracy Now, although she was unable to determine if RAND wrote the bill. On the 12th anniversary of the OKC bombing, Rep. Harman, as chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, introduced the bill in the House of Representatives.
“The ‘Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007' seeks to address the roots causes of radicalization, and would establish a grant program to provide funds to States to foster badly needed vertical information sharing from the Intelligence Community to the local level and from local sources to state and federal agencies,” explains Harman’s website. “It also creates a Center of Excellence for the Prevention of Radicalization and Home Grown Terrorism to examine the social, criminal, political, psychological and economic roots of domestic terrorism and to propose solutions, and promotes international collaboration on strategies to combat radicalization."

Franklin mentions Brian Michael Jenkins, an “expert” on “terrorism, counterinsurgency, and homeland security,” according to RAND. Jenkins is “someone who helped the United States in counterinsurgency measures in Vietnam,” states Franklin. “In addition to that, he wrote a book, and in his own book” Jenkins declared that “in their international campaign, the jihadists will seek common ground with leftists, anti-American and anti-globalist forces, who will in turn see radical Islam comrades against a mutual foe.”

In short, according to Kamau Karl Franklin, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act is more about domestic political activism than Islamic terrorism, although it appears Jenkins—and neocons such as the former Marxist David Horowitz—are attempting establish a link between the two, an absurdity at best, as the best way to discredit both the antiwar and patriot movements.

According to a Center for Constitutional Rights factsheet, RAND is a key player in the “domestic terrorism” prevention effort detailed in this draconian bill. A RAND study “Trends in Terrorism,” Chapter 4 on “homegrown terrorism,” advocates “special attention to environmentalist, Anti-globalization activist and anarchists as potentially new terrorist in the making.”

Not surprisingly, RAND is intimately connected to the global elite and the military-industrial-intelligence complex: “The interlocks between the trustees at Rand, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations were so numerous that the Reece Committee listed them in its report (two each for Carnegie and Rockefeller, and three for Ford). Ford gave one million dollars to Rand in 1952 alone, at a time when the chairman of Rand was simultaneously the president of Ford Foundation,” notes SourceWatch (Rene Wormser, Foundations: Their Power and Influence, p65-66). “Two-thirds of Rand’s research involves national security issues. This is divided into Project Air Force, the Arroyo Center (serving the needs of the Army), and the National Defense Research Institute (providing research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies).”

As Lee Rogers notes, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, in its effort to flush out “terrorists,” including those opposed to the sort of globalism supported by Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations, will perform an end-run around the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The bill “states in the first subsection that in general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United States citizens and lawful permanent residents. How does this protect constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to prevent so called homegrown terrorism.”

This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately. The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.

“With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s ‘Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act’ passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain,” write Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson for the Baltimore Sun. “Not since the ‘Patriot Act’ of 2001 has any bill so threatened our constitutionally guaranteed rights.”

Harman’s “proposed commission is a menace through its power to hold hearings, take testimony and administer oaths, an authority granted to even individual members of the commission—little Joe McCarthys—who will tour the country to hold their own private hearings. An aura of authority will automatically accompany this congressionally authorized mandate to expose native terrorism.”

Ms. Harman’s proposal includes an absurd attack on the Internet, criticizing it for providing Americans with “access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda,” and legalizes an insidious infiltration of targeted organizations. The misnamed “Center of Excellence,” which would function after the commission is disbanded in 18 months, gives the semblance of intellectual research to what is otherwise the suppression of dissent.

While its purpose is to prevent terrorism, the bill doesn’t criminalize any specific conduct or contain penalties. But the commission’s findings will be cited by those who see a terrorist under every bed and who will demand enactment of criminal penalties that further restrict free speech and other civil liberties. Action contrary to the commission’s findings will be interpreted as a sign of treason at worst or a lack of patriotism at the least.

While Ms. Harman denies that her proposal creates “thought police,” it defines “homegrown terrorism” as “planned” or “threatened” use of force to coerce the government or the people in the promotion of “political or social objectives.” That means that no force need actually have occurred as long as the government charges that the individual or group thought about doing it.

As Shaffer and Robinson note, examples of “resulting crackdowns on such protests include the conviction and execution of anarchists tied to Chicago’s 1886 Haymarket Riot.” Additionally, we might add that the FBI’s COINTELPRO—targeting civil rights, antiwar, and national liberation movements—may serve as a template for “insidious infiltration of targeted organizations.” Although the official history would have us believe COINTELRPO was shut down in the 1970s, events since that time reveal the government is still in the business of illegally going after Americans who exercise their constitutional right to petition the government. For more on these recent events, see Brian Glick’s COINTELPRO Revisited: Spying and Disruption.

Thus it makes perfect sense that the corporate media—compromised by the CIA under Operation Mockingbird beginning in the 1950s—would employ the likes of Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly to characterize the antiwar, truth and patriot movements—and even supporters of Ron Paul—as potentially violent advocates of “domestic terrorism.” No doubt, in the weeks and months ahead, we should expect more such propaganda as Harman’s “proposed commissions,” little more than federally mandated inquisitions, get up to speed.
Finally, as noted above, it is only a matter of time before the so-called Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 becomes law. The bill has been referred to the Senate where it awaits scrutiny from the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and is almost certain to pass.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/231107RAND.htm

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THE GRAND FINALE

2007-11-23T19:06:26Z

A former White House press secretary has said the US president was involved in misinforming the public over the leaking of a CIA agent's identity.

In an excerpt from his book, Scott McClellan says George W Bush helped mislead the public over the role in the affair of two White House aides.

The CIA agent, Valerie Plame, says her identity was leaked because her diplomat husband opposed the Iraq war.

The White House said Mr Bush would not ask anyone to pass false information.

Lawsuit

Mr McClellan's book is not scheduled for publication until April and the excerpt released was brief.

It refers to a White House press conference he attended in 2003.

WHAT IS CIA LEAK CASE ABOUT?

Libby was found guilty of lying to the FBI and a grand jury over revelations about CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity

Critics said the White House leaked Ms Plame's identity to undermine her husband, ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson

He had publicly cast doubt on the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq

The alleged cover-up, rather than the leak itself, was the subject of the Libby trial

Q&A: CIA leak case

At the conference, Mr McClellan told journalists that the two aides Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in leaking Ms Plame's identity.

The excerpt reads: "There was one problem. It was not true.

"I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice-president, the president's chief of staff, and the president himself."

Mr McClellan, who served as press secretary from 2003 to 2006, has made no further comment on the excerpt.

Libby, Vice-President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, is the only person charged over the affair. He was sentenced to 30 months in jail for obstructing an inquiry into the leaking of the identity.

However, Mr Bush intervened in July to prevent Libby from serving a prison term.

Ms Plame said Mr McClellan's excerpt was "shocking".

"I am outraged to learn that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan confirms that he was sent out to lie to the press corps.

Lewis Libby is the only person to have been charged

"Even more shocking, McClellan confirms that not only Karl Rove and Scooter Libby told him to lie but Vice-President Cheney, presidential Chief of Staff Andrew Card and President Bush also ordered McClellan to issue his misleading statement."

Current White House press secretary Dana Perino said the meaning of the excerpt was unclear.

However, she said: "The president has not and would not ask his spokespeople to pass on false information."

In July a judge dismissed a civil lawsuit brought by Ms Plame against Mr Cheney and other Bush administration officials.

She maintained her cover had been blown after her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador, said the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence on Iraq to back its case for war.

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KUCINICH SAYS HE WILL FORCE HOUSE VOTE ON CHENEY IMPEACHMENT

2007-11-10T17:47:14Z

Nick Juliano
Published: Friday November 2, 2007

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced he would move to force a vote next week on his resolution calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

“The momentum is building for impeachment,” Kucinich said in a statement on his Web site. “Millions of citizens across the nation are demanding Congress rein in the Vice President’s abuse of power.

Kucinich said he plans to introduce a privileged resolution, which would have priority for a House floor vote, on Nov. 6. A vote on the measure would be required within two days.

Observers expect a motion to table Kucinich's resolution, which has 21 Democratic co-sponsors. It is almost certain that such a move to kill the resolution would be successful, but activists are urging members of Congress to support Kucinich's move.

"We need you to ask your representative to vote No on tabling, Yes on giving impeachment a chance," wrote David Swanson on the pro-impeachment Website AfterDowningStreet.org. "Those who vote Yes to table cannot use the excuse that 'We don't have the votes,' since others will at that same instant with exactly the same exertion be voting No. Please scroll down to contact Congress and the media right away!"

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long said that impeachment was "off the table" and Kucinich has had little success spurring legislative action on his resolutions, despite the growing number of lawmakers who have signed on as co-sponsors since it was introduced this spring.

Kucinich's full statement is reprinted below:
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Kucinich Will Introduce Privileged Resolution To Force Up Or Down Vote On Cheney Impeachment

WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 2, 2007) — Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that he will be offering a privileged resolution on the House floor next week that will bring articles of impeachment against the Vice President, Richard B. Cheney.

“The momentum is building for impeachment,” Kucinich said. “Millions of citizens across the nation are demanding Congress rein in the Vice President’s abuse of power.

“Despite this groundswell of opposition to the unconstitutional conduct of office, Vice President Cheney continues to violate the U.S. Constitution by insisting the power of the executive branch is supreme.

“Congress must hold the Vice President accountable. The American people need to let Members of Congress know how they feel about this. The Vice President continues to use his office to advocate for a continued occupation of Iraq and prod our nation into a belligerent stance against Iran. If the Vice President is successful, his actions will ensure decades of disastrous consequences.”

The privileged resolution has priority status for consideration on the House floor. Once introduced, the resolution has to be brought to the floor within two legislative days, although the House could act on it immediately. Kucinich is expected to bring it to the House floor on Tuesday, November 6.

H. Res. 333, Articles of Impeachment against the Vice President, has 21 cosponsors. They are: Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Robert Brady (D-PA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Henry Johnson (D-GA), Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. James Moran (D-VA), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA), Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Rep. Albert Wynn (D-MD).
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COURT -MARTIAL OF WATADA MIGHT NOT COME

2007-11-10T08:43:17Z

By Christian Hill
The Olympian

Friday 09 November 2007

Fort Lewis, Washington - 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, the Fort Lewis officer who refused to deploy to Iraq last year, might never see another courtroom.

U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle on Thursday imposed a preliminary injunction to temporarily bar the Army from trying Watada a second time while saying the officer likely will prevail on the merits of his pending case.

Since his first court-martial ended in mistrial in February, Watada's lawyers have argued that trying him a second time would violate his Fifth Amendment protection from being tried for the same offense twice. On Oct. 3, as Watada's appeals in the military court system were being exhausted, his attorneys took the rare step of asking a federal civilian court to step in.

Settle granted Watada's request for an emergency stay of the second court-martial, scheduled to begin Oct. 9, to allow him time to review the extensive legal arguments presented lawyers representing Watada and the Army. The injunction would be enforced pending the court's decision on Watada's claim.

Based on his 33-page court ruling, a second court-martial might not proceed.

Settle ruled that the civilian court's review of Watada's double-jeopardy claim is appropriate, rejecting claims by the Army that the court can only step in after the conclusion of the second court-martial and likely appeals within the military court system.

He also found that the granting of a preliminary injunction is necessary in part because Watada will "probably prevail on the merits" of his case, his ruling said.

Settle reached that conclusion largely because of what he said was the abuse of discretion by Lt. Col. John Head, the military judge who presided in Watada's first court-martial, in rejecting a so-called stipulation of fact agreed upon by the government and defense that led to the mistrial, the ruling shows.

Watada, who lives in Olympia, had been charged with missing troop movement and two counts of conduct unbecoming an officer for his statements critical of the Bush administration and its rationale to go to war in Iraq.

At the time, he faced a maximum of four years in prison and dismissal from the military if convicted. Watada has called the Iraq War illegal and said his support of it would make him complicit in war crimes.

The government had dropped two other counts for conduct unbecoming in exchange for Watada signing the stipulation, in which he admitted refusing to board a plane bound for the Middle East on June 22, 2006, and making the critical statements.

Head threw out the stipulation and declared a mistrial in the middle of the court-martial over the objections of Watada and the government because of his concern that the officer didn't fully understand the document he signed. But Settle said it was Head who misunderstood the intent of the document.

Head concluded the stipulation proved Watada's guilt for missing movement despite his not-guilty plea. Citing case law, however, Settle ruled Head's conclusion was premature because Watada hadn't been given the opportunity to present his defense.

"The military judge confused the parties agreement to enter into a stipulation of fact with essentially a stipulation of guilt," Settle wrote.

Head also abused his discretion because he didn't adequately consider possible alternatives besides a mistrial, Settle wrote.

Army lawyers said in a statement they plan to file additional written arguments to prove a second court-martial wouldn't violate Watada's constitutional rights.

"We believe this additional information will be helpful as the judge prepares to issue his final ruling in the case," it said.

The federal judge did not indicate what the next steps would be. Watada's attorneys suggested it's now up to the government to persuade Settle to modify or void the injunction.

"This is an enormous victory, but it is not yet over," Watada attorney Kenneth Kagan said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.

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Why the anti-war movement is ineffective

2007-10-29T00:07:32Z

Yesterday (10-27-07), I attended the rally and march against the war in Seattle. The thousands of people that were there held signs and sang chants that I am familiar with from other marches I’ve attended against the Iraq war (and other Bush/Cheney actions/policies) in other cities over the past few years. What became very clear to me during this last one was a sense of futility, a sense that our protest was having no effect, the war would go on, we will not get our rights back, their will be no impeachment proceedings, no clean energy revolution, etc. And why is that? What is it that allows the Bush Administration to get away with treason, mass-murder and war crimes? The answer is very simple, and yet I’ve seen over and over otherwise intelligent people (like you?) suddenly become disabled in their ability to think critically and with common sense when it comes to this answer: The official story on 9/11. That ridiculous and proven to be false story is their “get out of jail free card”, it is their eternal “justification” for all of their actions, it is the reason we are told impeachment proceedings are “not appropriate”, etc. The sooner the anti-war/fascism/tyranny movement realizes this, the better. Are we going to allow another entire year to go on, with no accountability, no end to the mid-east violence, no restoration of constitutional rights? Mainstream and independent media have be chronicling the destruction of our democracy, the hellish reality in the middle east, the rise of police state measures within America, the coming collapse of our eco-system, etc. and yet this information does not stop the direction our “leaders” are taking us. Why? Again, there is only one real reason: The official story on 9/11. Those like Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Thom Hartmann, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, etc. have all been impotent in actually having any real effect against what’s going on, because the one issue they avoid, 9/11, is the one issue that could actually end the craziness and destruction that is going on. Because of the so-called “war on terror” all of this insanity moves forward under the guise of protection and security. Until we start openly talking about the obvious falsehood of the 9/11 story that has been the foundation for this Administration’s entire agenda, nothing is going to change, it is likely to just keep getting worse. The question you need to ask yourself is “Can I blindly trust the Bush Administration on the story that has been their very life-blood and reason for their existence, after they have lied about so much else”? Even better though, is to ask yourself that question after reading and watching the following sources of information, (these in particular, not all 9/11 Truth sources are high quality):
a) Book: "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions” by David Ray Griffin
b) Book: "9/11 Revealed: The New Evidence” by Ian Henshall
c) The documentaries “9/11 Press For Truth” (http://911pressfortruth.com/ ) & “9/11 Mysteries” (http://www.911Mysteries.com/)
That’s two high quality books and two excellent documentaries that show beyond any reasonable doubt, the official story on 9/11 is a fraud. So doesn’t that make them of the utmost importance to the anti-war movement since the official 9/11 story is the real reason why these wars are still going on?
If you have been dismissing the 9/11 Truth movement, read these two books and see these two documentaries. Do you still find the official story more convincing? And if not, then say something! Add re-opening the 9/11 investigation to your personal activist or activist organizations’ agenda! Put it on the top of the list!! Otherwise, as recent history has shown, nothing is going to change, and it will probably just continue to get worse, with a war in Iran, etc., using “the war on terror” as the justification once again. Please wake up America, and use your common sense to end the insanity.

http://www.impeachbush.tv/
http://stj911.org/

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http://tribes.tribe.net/stopglobalwarming

2007-10-28T22:51:34Z

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THOUSANDS MARCH AGAINST THE WAR IN SAN FRANSISCO, ACROSS THE COUNTRY

2007-10-28T18:31:59Z

By Jim Doyle and Susan Sward
The San Francisco Chronicle

Saturday 27 October 2007

San Francisco - On cue from a bullhorn's blast, thousands of protesters fell to the pavement on Market Street in a symbolic "die- in" Saturday as part of a coordinated protest staged in cities across the country against the war in Iraq.

For three minutes the demonstrators lay on the pavement, representing what organizers said were more than 1 million Iraqis killed since the war began in 2003. The protesters then resumed their march from San Francisco's Civic Center to Dolores Park.

March organizers put their number at 30,000 - old, young, workers, students, religious leaders. Police declined to give a formal estimate, but onlookers said the demonstrators definitely numbered more than 10,000. They filled up Market Street for several blocks, shouting that U.S. troops should be brought home and carrying banners decrying the war.

At the head of the marchers was a band of Native American drummers who pounded a steady beat as protesters chanted, "No more war!"

Before the march began, demonstrators gathered in front of City Hall to hear speakers berate the Bush administration and call on Americans to stand up against the war. Organizers said part of the reason for staging this protest was to mark that it is now five years since Congress voted to authorize the use of U.S. force in Iraq.

"Silence shows compliance," Nicole Davis, a leader of the Campus Anti- War Network group, told the crowd at the San Francisco event, which was organized by the Oct. 27th Coalition of several groups, including ANSWER - Act Now To Stop War and End Racism. "If you disagree with this war," she added, "it is your duty to stand up and let the world know."

Sarah Sloan, an ANSWER spokeswoman, said her group estimated the size of the crowd "based on the number of blocks - about seven - that the march takes up and the density of the crowd."

In New York, thousands demonstrated in the rain, marching to Foley Square. In Chicago, thousands of protesters gathered at Union Park and marched to the Federal Plaza. Organizers said anti-war rallies, sponsored nationally by a coalition of groups headed by United for Peace & Justice, also took place in Seattle, Salt Lake City, Jonesborough, Tenn., Philadelphia, Orlando, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Boston and other cities around the country.

"It would be one thing if it were just San Francisco, but it's not," Jim Haber, a Bay Area chapter representative of United for Peace & Justice, told The Chronicle.

"We've helped organizers mobilize their communities in places like Jonesborough, Tenn., and Salt Lake City, which you don't typically associate with anti-war demonstrations. This underscores the broad opposition to the war in Iraq."

At Dolores Park, hundreds of black boots were placed in rows on a hillside in memory of the U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq. A tag bearing the name of a dead soldier was attached to each pair of boots, and many of the boots had daisies and other flowers placed in them.

At the park, demonstrators listened to an array of speakers, including American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks and anti-war activist and congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan. She asked people to vote for her instead of her opponent, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in 2008.

Banks told his audience: "As I look out over this crowd, I see many young people. That gives me great hope." He recalled that it was the young - many of them students - during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s who took to the streets to pressure the United States to end that war.

Anne Roesler, of the group Military Families Speak Out, said her son was a U.S. soldier who had been deployed to Iraq three times and returned with post-traumatic stress disorder. "This is Congress' war," she said. "They have the blood of this war on their hands - they are building their political careers with the blood of our loved ones and Iraqis."

Clarence Thomas, past secretary-treasurer of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10, said, "We have to take a lesson from the civil rights movement. We have to wake up and understand we are all in this together."

In the throng of San Francisco demonstrators was a trio of Code Pink members, including one attired as the Statue of Liberty, who belted out, "I am going to sing until the world is free, down by the riverside." One group, the Raging Grannies, entertained the crowd with protest lyrics sung to classic songs such as "Anchors Away."

Labor groups made a special effort to get their members to turn out, with hundreds of workers showing up - among them sign installers, teachers, roofers, nurses, security guards and communication workers.

Sharon Cornu, secretary-treasurer Central Labor Council of Alameda County, said it would be the first time that seven Bay Area labor councils - San Francisco, Monterey Bay, North Bay, South Bay, San Mateo, Contra Costa and Alameda - worked together to urge members to attend the protest.

Although Bay Area labor groups have been involved in earlier protests against the war, Cornu said, this was the biggest effort yet. "More and more union members are seeing the war's impact on our schools, transportation and health care systems because money is being spent abroad that could be spent at home," Cornu added.

"We are working people - we make things in this country, and we want to be heard," said Oakland roofer Leroy Cisneros, echoing Cornu's words about the pressing need for expenditures on education and health care.

Wendy Bloom, a nurse from Children's Hospital in Oakland, said, "Our priorities are distorted. We are spending billions on an unnecessary war instead of health care."

In the days before the protest, organizers used anti-war videos on the Internet to encourage participation in the rallies across the country. One video was a two-minute short by the Brave New Foundation in Culver City that invited viewers to be part of something "huge and meaningful."

Another two-minute video, "Confront the War President," featured a series of wrenching images of the Iraq war's dead and dying, grieving relatives and the wounded. It included film clips of President Bush in interviews - one in 2006 saying, "To assume I wanted war is just flat wrong," and another in 2004 stating: "I am a war president. I make policy decisions here in the Oval Office on foreign policy matters with war on my mind."

Chronicle news services contributed to this report.

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Dear Friends,

2007-10-27T14:36:48Z

Right now, the US Military is proposing the permanent placement of a
Stryker Brigade Combat Team inside Hawaii that will further erode
the Islands' pristine environment and compound public health
problems due to the use of military toxics.

Won't you please take a moment now to help save the Hawaiian Islands
from further militarization and toxic and radioactive contamination?

Please learn more and sign the following petition at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/help-save-hawaii

Then, please forward to everyone you know!

If you wish to learn more about the military's plans for the Stryker
Brigade Combat Team in Hawaii and wish to make your public comments
directly, go to:
http://www.sbct-seis.org/ . Your comments must be received before
October 30, and they may be sent to:
PublicComments@... <PublicComments%40aec.apgea.army.mil> .

Thank you kindly, or as my Hawaiian friends would say, Mahalo!

Cathy Garger

Hawaiian Islands Contaminated
With Ballistic Uranium
10-6-7

The US Army admitted the radiological contamination of Hawaii in the
summer of 2007. The contamination was later confirmed by the senior
US Senator from Hawaii, The Honorable Daniel Inouye. The first 2007
Army air born radiological contamination survey identified 45
locations with dangerous levels of Gamma Ray radiation from US Army
uranium munitions. Satellite radiation observations have not been
released by the Pentagon. Bob Nichols Project Censored Award
Winner San Francisco Bay View Correspondent
http://www.protecthawaii.ws Hawaiian Islands Are Contaminated with
Ballistic Uranium By Lindafaye Kroll RN BSN
tenfingers10toes@... <tenfingers10toes%40protecthawaii.ws>

http://www.rense.com/general78/hawa.htm

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This saturday October 27:

2007-10-27T08:22:47Z

World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime is calling on all those who want to stop the Bush Program to Declare It Now by wearing orange, the color forced on those in torture prisons and the color of resistance, to join forces with the anti war movement in protests all over the country.

Thousands of Afghani civilians killed by U.S. forces.

Millions of Iraqis homeless or killed by U.S. forces.

Now, the Bush administration is calling up the same lies in preparation for bombing Iran in an attack that will have global ramifications for decades.

We can’t allow this to continue in our name!

Bring your outrage; bring your determination! Wear Orange!

The organizers of the San Francisco march, including World Can’t Wait, are asking everyone to “die-in” along the march. This die-in will represent all those that have suffered under the terror of U.S. forces across the Middle East.*

We can’t be silent in the face of this terror. We can’t rely on politics as usual to meet the enormity of this horror. We must and can rely on the millions in this country that hate the Bush program to DECLARE IT NOW! WEAR ORANGE!

*The die-in is a good idea!

OUT OF IRAQ! NO ATTACK ON IRAN! NO TORTURE! BUSH & CHENEY OUT NOW!

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KUCINICH PUSHES BUSH IMPEACHMENT

2007-10-25T08:46:36Z

Published on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 by The Monterey County Herald (California)
by Julia Reynolds

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, weary from a dozen campaign stops in a week, sat in a small room at the Monterey fairgrounds on Sunday, but he had a look in his eyes that said he knew he wouldn’t sit for long.1023 10

Still, his expression seemed to lighten as he recalled his comedic success last week as a guest on The Colbert Report, the farcical news show on “Comedy Central.”

“The secret of it,” he said, pausing for effect, “Don’t try to be funny.”

Only then did he let out a laugh.

The presidential hopeful was energized by a straw poll taken Sunday in San Mateo County, where he came in second after John Edwards as the favored Democratic candidate.

“That shows that I am electable,” he said. “That was very powerful, a sign of rising support because of the stand I take for peace - including standing up against war with Iran.”

He seized the moment to come out with perhaps his strongest stance to date toward impeaching President George W. Bush.

“I’m going to talk to members of Congress this week and tell them taking impeachment off the table is a big mistake,” he said.

Kucinich was moved to take action, he said, in part because of Bush’s recent suggestion to reporters that a world war with Iran might be imminent, leading Kucinich to wonder “whether he’s playing with Armageddon or he’s not well.”

“The world can’t countenance the president of the United States raising the specter of World War III,” he said. “A president must be temperate with his words.”

Kucinich was in town to introduce the political rock-reggae-hip hop of Michael Franti and Spearhead on Sunday night at the Monterey Music Summit.

“I’m here to be with my friend Michael Franti. He’s one of the most exciting performers,” he said. “He’s thoughtful, he’s deep and he’s a humanitarian.”

Kucinich, who announced his plans to run once more for president last December, has said he favors immediate U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, opting for a multi-national stabilization force to maintain order.

He was also in California pushing for single-payer health-care coverage.

“All other candidates want to keep our for-profit health care system,” he said, while he is pushing his congressional bill HR 676, which would expand the Medicare program to cover all virtually Americans.

“These are very powerful issues for Californians,” he said.

Kucinich said he was surprised by the popularity he’s gained after his debut on “Comedy Central.”

Hollywood actors have telephoned, he said, and videos of his performance are circulating all over the Internet.

“When people saw Colbert, they really responded,” he said, “They like to think their president has a sense of perspective.”

He said the appearance came off pretty well, considering that members of Congress have been warned not to appear on the show, where they’re likely to face skewering by host Stephen Colbert’s acid tongue.

Kucinich said it was his chaotic life that gave him a sense of humor.

“I moved around a lot, been through political ups and downs,” he said. “I don’t take myself seriously, but I take the issues very seriously.”

Other candidates, he said, could stand to lighten up a little. Well, he didn’t exactly say it that way.

“I hear one of the candidates announced they’re going to be funny,” he said in the deadpan style that seemed to win him fans on “Comedy Central.”

On that show, Kucinich pulled off a now near-famous routine about what he carries in his pockets, because he had previously showed off his pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution on national television.

Most of the shtick was built around the fact that he reportedly also carries tea bags in his pockets.

“I usually do have a tea bag,” he said, fishing through wads of business cards and few crumpled dollar bills before finally producing a bag of green tea. It was “Choice Organic Tea,” according to the label.

He had already flashed his copy of the Constitution at the fairgrounds, and had pointed to the autograph of elder statesman Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., on the first page.

“Don’t leave home without it,” he said, sliding it into a breast pocket.

Despite tireless campaigning that now includes his wife, Elizabeth, and her mother, Julia Massey, who came out from the London area to traipse 10 days through the U.S. Southwest, in polls Kucinich has trailed well behind candidates whose campaign chests are packed much fuller.

Though he also trailed in the 2004 primaries, his numbers in online polls kept showing promise and he continued to campaign right up to the Democratic National Convention, saying he still wanted to influence the party’s agenda.

In fact, he was the very last candidate to call it quits before John Kerry got the nomination. Which may say a thing or two about his tenacity, if nothing else.

He gave every indication he’ll show similar determination in Campaign 2008.

“I’m in this absolutely,” he said. “This tide keeps building. It’s not about me. What I stand for resonates in peoples hearts.”

With that, he braced for another interview before heading off to take the stage.

Julia Reynolds can be reached at 648-1187 or jreynolds@montereyherald.com.

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PLEASE keep our southern brothers & sisters in ur heart!

2007-10-25T00:28:41Z

I am not IN the fire, BUT I CAN smell it~my throat is sore!
THE.FIRE is about 4 hrs away~
SO, I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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SECOND TRIAL ILLEGAL, WATADA ARGUES

2007-10-24T20:13:57Z

By Mike Barber
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Wednesday 03 October 2007

Lawyers turn to federal judges in Seattle to stop new court-martial.

Lawyers for Fort Lewis 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, who in June 2006 went public with his refusal to serve in Iraq and said the war is illegal, asked the U.S. District Court in Seattle on Wednesday to halt his court-martial, which is only days away.

Watada's second court-martial is slated to begin Tuesday. His first court-martial earlier this year ended in a mistrial before a jury could deliberate.

Watada's lawyers said they hope for a decision Friday. Monday is a federal holiday, Columbus Day.

Before Watada's lawyers announced their move, Fort Lewis officials issued a news release saying the court-martial was slated for 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Watada is charged with missing movement with his unit to Iraq and of conduct unbecoming an officer for anti-war statements he made in the media and as a speaker at the national convention of Veterans for Peace in Seattle in the summer of 2006. If convicted, he could face up to six years in prison.

Watada's case is being appealed on grounds that a second court-martial violates his constitutional protections against double jeopardy - being tried twice on the same charge - because he was court-martialed earlier this year on those charges. But, over his objection, a mistrial was declared "without there being the requisite manifest necessity for such declaration," said court papers filed Wednesday. The military judge, Lt. Col. John Head, ordered a second trial.

The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals and Head have ruled otherwise, dismissing the double-jeopardy claims. The issue last month was presented to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the military's highest court and made up of civilian judges who hear military issues.

"We believe we have a strong case and are looking forward to litigating the double-jeopardy issue in federal court," one of Watada's lawyers, Ken Kagan, said.

Kagan and Jim Lobsenz, both of the Seattle law firm Carney Badley Spellman, Wednesday filed a writ of habeas corpus and a request for an emergency stay in Seattle federal court because the Appeals Court for the Armed Forces has not ruled and the trial date is quickly approaching.

Among other remedies, Watada's lawyers have asked the federal court in Seattle "to issue a writ of habeas corpus releasing (Watada) from all restraint imposed by the pending court-martial charges, and declaring any trial on such charges to be barred and prohibited by the double-jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment."

After learning of the new court challenge, Fort Lewis officials said in a statement that they had followed the law in scheduling a second court-martial.

"We've not seen the filing or heard a ruling on it from the court, so we will not speculate on what effect it may have on next week's scheduled trial. However, the government has followed the law and rules throughout the process of bringing this case to trial. The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals in Balston, Va., determined that this case was not prohibited by double jeopardy and may properly proceed to trial. The court issued its ruling after considering comprehensive briefs and arguments from the parties."

Kagan said he thinks that there's a likelihood a federal judge will accept the case because military officers are federal officers who fall under the Seattle federal court's jurisdiction.

Kagan said he believes there is "a good chance" the court-martial will be delayed because local federal judges feel bound by precedents of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and other higher civilian courts. "Those circuits have looked at this issue and concluded when there is a decent double-jeopardy claim, you have to stop the trial, and you've got to review it," Kagan said.

Court documents show that Watada's term of service as an active-duty military officer ended in December, but he has been held over because of the legal proceedings. He refused to go to Iraq in June 2006 with the 3rd Stryker Briga

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Bush Leaves Foul Stench In His Wake

2007-10-23T16:53:45Z

By Bill Gallagher
Niagra Falls Reporter
October 23, 2007

"I've never felt more energized and more capable of getting the American people to realize there is a lot of unfinished business." -- President George W. Bush.

DETROIT -- There is frightening truth in commander guy's claim of relevance, with 15 months left in our long national nightmare. He has plenty of time to take care of business, and that means more violence and suffering and even greater hostility toward the United States and less security for the American people.

Bush has no intention of going gentle into that good night. His family business and that of his sponsors is to use politics and influence as a means of dominating the world's energy resources to sustain and increase their wealth. It is as simple as it is ruthless.

Their domestic agenda is largely finished. Their tax rates are down, especially on dividends and unearned income. The massive government debt created as a result is now disproportionately burdening middle-class, wage- earning American workers.

Bush's base -- the wealthiest 1 percent -- has never had it better. They are richer than ever as the median income for most Americans is stagnant or sinking. This redistribution of wealth does create long-term conditions for social unrest, but Bush and his country club pals don't worry about that as long as they have theirs.

The much-needed fix for Social Security and Medicare will be somebody else's worry. The same goes for health care, as corporations are saving billions of dollars, with nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance.

The civic leeches and reliable Republican campaign donors -- the drug and insurance companies and private hospitals -- are raking in tons of money in a failed system rooted in greed and sustained by buying off the political whores who disdain "government" health care, unless, of course, they are covered by it.

As the cost of a college education soars, Bush has made it more difficult for students to get government loans and grants. The better educated people are, the more unlikely they are to support Bush's vision of a nation of Wal-Mart workers and people working three jobs to pay their medical bills.

Bush has finished the business of giving utilities, mining and lumber companies anything they want and a blank check to despoil the environment and defile public lands. The Agribiz sector gets billions in subsidies, wallowing in corporate welfare and defying free market principles.

With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid -- the spineless hacks known as the Democratic congressional leadership -- bracing to chuck the Fourth Amendment and give Bush the OK for domestic eavesdropping, he's finishing the business of systematically purging fundamental liberties.

Bush has energized right-wing Christian ideologues, giving their churches and programs taxpayer money cloaked as "faith-based" initiatives to guarantee their unflinching support.

Bush's domestic business and the lasting harm it has brought the suffering American people will take decades to undo. But even more chilling is understanding that the misery he has brought the world is far from over and many of the consequences will be irreparable. That's the "unfinished business" he's really talking about.

His mad designs in the Middle East include continuing the occupation of Iraq with permanent military bases, an air assault on Iran, blessing whatever attacks the Israelis mount against Syria and doing little or nothing of substance to create a viable Palestinian state.

Bush's contempt for the will of the Iraqi people is boundless. "If they were to say, leave, we would leave," he has said. The truth is that he has no intention of bringing significant numbers of troops home.

Iraq is a colony, not a democracy, and Bush doesn't care that Iraqi civilians and American troops are continuing to die for the vile goal of controlling and exploiting the nation's vast oil reserves.

Bush's apocalyptic vision of Iran plays into his desire to make the United States and Israel the only important military powers in the Middle East. Bush used inflamed rhetoric -- reckless even by his standards -- to make the case that Iran must be confronted.

At a news conference last week, he said, "We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he would destroy Israel." Yes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that. But so have scores of Wahhabi clerics in Saudi Arabia, and their princes and sponsors get invitations to Bush's faux ranch, where he holds their hands.

Beating the war drums, Bush argued, "I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

The Israelis and Pakistanis have nukes and the Saudis can buy them any time they want. But Bush wants us to focus only on Iran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Tehran last week visiting with his neighbor on the Caspian Sea, warning that we "should not even think of making use of force in this region." The Russians have a considerable nuclear arsenal and they would consider a U.S. attack on Iran a threat to their nation.

The leading presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, are slugging it out over who will be tougher on Iran as they curry the favor of the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a lobby that supports Bush's violence-first polices in the Middle East.

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a Democratic presidential candidate with bleak hopes but bright views, took on Bush for so cavalierly raising the specter of nuclear war.

"The White House rodeo cowboy has gone dangerously too far and precipitously too close to igniting the war he claims to be trying to avoid," Kucinich said.

He nailed Bush's game: "You can worry about the Apocalypse, or you can ensure it by manipulating intelligence and, with premeditation, put your finger on the trigger that will make Iran the next domino in the president's irresponsible and irrational approach to the complex and sensitive political issues that make the region a more volatile tinder box than ever before." You'll never hear Hillary or Rudy speak such truths.

Next month, an Israeli-Palestinian peace conference will get underway in Annapolis, Md., the first in Bush's presidency. A two-state solution offers the single most important step in bringing any hope of peace and stability to the region.

After years of malign neglect, Bush -- at the persistent and commendable prodding of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- is sponsoring an international conference on the most contentious issue in the Middle East.

In a letter to Bush, a bipartisan group of veteran foreign policy leaders -- including former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski (Jimmy Carter's) and Brent Scowcroft (Gerald Ford's and George H.W. Bush's) -- outlining the essential elements for a permanent peace. As the conference begins, they call for a coinciding "freeze in Israeli settlement expansion." Let's see if Bush is willing to chew out the Israelis and make them quake on that issue.

The signatories of the letter concluded, "The fact that the parties and the international community appear -- after a long, costly seven-year hiatus -- to be thinking of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is welcome news. Because the stakes are so important, it is crucial to get it right. That means having the ambition as well as the courage to chart new ground and take bold new steps."

I fear Bush will leave this great diplomatic opportunity for peace as "unfinished business." He's more comfortable plotting violence.

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Open letter to Albert Gore,Jr.- Redux

2007-10-16T08:56:44Z

PRG (Paradigm Research Group)

This letter resides at:
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Open_Letters_Gore.htm

October 15, 2007

Dear Mr. Gore:

On January 29 of this year PRG published an open letter to you in
anticipation of your winning the "Best Documentary" Oscar for An
Inconvenient Truth at the 79th Annual Academy Awards. That letter made two
essential points: 1) your political career and areas of specialty as a
senator and vice president were such you are aware of and/or have been
briefed on some or all of the facts surrounding an extraterrestrial
presence engaging the human race for at least the past sixty years, and 2)
propulsion and energy technologies associated with extraterrestrial
vehicles obtained by the United States military and under development for
decades must be brought out from behind the government imposed truth
embargo and placed in the service of addressing the dire warnings you have
raised concerning the near- and long-term effects of global warming.

Nine months has passed. You did not respond to this open letter, and none
of the presidential candidates who wish to lead the most powerful nation in
the world have dared in forum after forum to the address the
extraterrestrial/truth embargo issues. Nevertheless, you have had quite a
year culminating with your being awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In
between you picked up an Emmy.

In your post-Nobel Prize announcement remarks you repeatedly referred to
the "consciousness raising" aspect of the global warming challenge. Your
point is valid, but it is worth noting the motivation behind this potential
increase in global consciousness would be fear-based in much the same way
the threat of international terrorism alters human behavior. The
environmental movement began in similar fashion, arising out of the dire
and also controversial warnings from Rachel Carson in her landmark book,
Silent Spring. But even Carson would have been impressed with the
behavioral changes your message calls for.

The multiplicity of solutions to the global warming crisis you offer will
require an unprecedented modification in collective worldview never before
seen in human affairs within any time frame, let alone the one or two
decades suggested. In short, you need all the help you can get - help
that includes powerful, non-fear-based components.

With all due respect for global warming's potency as a change agent, that
and nothing else comes close to the formal disclosure of the presence of
non-human, intelligent beings for getting the human race's attention. It
will and properly should be the most profound event in human history. If
you wish for the human race to see itself as a singular species shepherd to
its one and only home planet, helping to end the truth embargo will
significantly improve that prospect.

But, as stated above, there is a significant bonus to this strategy.
Behind the truth embargo is sequestered extraterrestrial technology which,
if brought into the public arena, could completely alter the tipping point
equations presently scaring many out of their wits. In fact, there is no
issue impacting the human condition that this technology could not
materially affect for the better.

Jimmy Carter knows this, Bill Clinton knows this, George H. W. Bush know
this - they will not publicly speak to it. Will you speak for them?

Respectfully,
Stephen Bassett
Executive Director

Paradigm Research Group
4938 Hampden Lane, #161, Bethesda, MD 20814
PRG@...
202-215-8344

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IMAGINE PEACE

2007-10-08T10:09:26Z

Published on Thursday, October 4, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

by Cindy Sheehan

Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
John Winston Ono Lennon
October 9, 1940-December 8, 1980

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono Lennon

On October 9th, on what would have been John Lennon’s 67th birthday, his widow, Yoko Ono is dedicating a peace tower in Reykjavik , Iceland in the memory of her husband. There will also be almost a half a million peace wishes buried in capsules around the tower which is a blue tower of light extending up to the sky above us.

I received the link to the Imagine Peace website while I was on a layover in the airport in Las Vegas , NV . Still reeling from the reports of hundreds, if not thousands of Burmese monks and other humans being slaughtered for protesting against their oppressive government, it was hard for me to watch all the people sitting hypnotized at the slot machines, pulling the handles or pushing the buttons as if the world is not going to hell in George’s hand basket. The dichotomy of business as usual in America compared with genocides in Darfur and Iraq while I am still and always will be mourning my son makes me dizzy sometimes.

So, I made myself close my eyes for a few minutes between planes and tried to shut out the bells and whistles of the slots and “imagined” peace. What would a world at peace look like? What would a world at peace be like to live in? I have a great imagination but I knew this exercise would be challenging.

John Lennon called his song Imagine an “anti-religious, anti-nationalism, anti-conventional, anti-capitalist” sort of a “Communist manifesto.” It is for sure a utopian vision of a perfect society that unfortunately can not be achieved by imagining, and probably not at all—but how close can we get to this world and how much sacrifice will a world at peace take from each and everyone of us?

First of all, imagine a world with no religion. A world where sick and evil people could not manipulate the masses into believing that the set of myths and beliefs that they profess are more important or powerful than the other’s set of myths or beliefs. Israelis could not (with the help of Christian extremists) tell Palestinians that it is okay to occupy them or kill them so that the Jews could claim their “Promised Land.” Land promised to whom by whom? Muslims could not proclaim “jihad” against infidels. There would have been no Nazi holocaust against Jews; no Crusades; no holocaust against our own native population; no black slavery justified by the Christian scriptures; no George Bush saying that his Christian God is like a mob-boss ordering him to “hit” the world. Imagine that!

Secondly, imagine no countries. No jingoistic worship of banners made of mere cloth (not spun gold) or arrogant nationalism that gives leaders the right to kill other human beings just because they do not happen to live within the same false borders that were artificially drawn many years ago by empires that have long ago fallen. In this homeland-istic fervor it is especially correct to kill those other people if they are not the same religion as the religion of your state (and don’t kid yourself that the US does not have a state sanctioned religion). Imagine no armies that in reality kill and get killed for the imperialistic neo-liberalism that has crept around our globe like a flesh eating bacteria since the Reagan years. Imagine that.

Imagine no possessions: This is the crux of our problem. Going back to my brothers and sisters at the slot machines in Vegas, pulling almost catatonically on the lever of the One Armed Bandit, for what? To win the “jackpot” of course! How nice is it of the State of Nevada to allow gambling machines in their airports, so we can perchance live the American dream of buying higher stacks of stuff! On a day that George vetoed the health of over six-million children here in America , 16,000 children around the world died of starvation. In a week that we saw murder on a horrendous scale in Burma, more Iraqis were killed or forced from their homes by violence: to wander in the desert, or probably off to Syria where their daughters may be forced into prostitution to help support the family which should be able to live in peace and relative prosperity in their own country. Imagine that.

It was hard for me to imagine or envision peace when I am terrified because BushCo is contemplating even more slaughter in the Middle East in Iran and when Congress, Inc is busy supporting a murderous status quo that hurts humans within all borders, even our own.

Peace will only happen when every member of humanity is guaranteed prosperity, health and security which will not happen when we here in the US can’t even get off our asses to protest a war that is four and a half years and hundreds of thousands of bodies old, now.

We can imagine peace all we want but until each and everyone of us is willing to sacrifice some of our prosperity (because we have already had our security robbed from us by the rotten Republicans and complicit corporate Democrats) true peace—not just the absence of war—will be as elusive as a morsel of truth or modicum of courage coming out of Washington, DC.

Voluntary sacrifice is truly a revolutionary concept here in the United States of America .

So you say you want a revolution? Imagine that.

Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan who was KIA in Iraq on 04/04/04 . She is a co-founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace and the author of two books: Not One More Mother’s Child and Dear President Bush.

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9/11 Truth Ends War

2007-10-08T04:01:32Z

What’s needed now more than ever is 9/11 Truth to break into the mainstream, by referencing high-quality sources of evidence, like those I list below. This may be the only way to get the impeachment proceedings started, to re-open the 9/11 investigation, to get our soldiers out of the mid-east and to get our rights back. It is also the only thing that can prevent another act of state-sponsored terrorism.

Also please read this excellent article: “A Wake-Up Call” (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18037.htm) by Paul Craig Roberts, (he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review).

Please copy/email/fax/hand out, etc. what follows below and spread it far and wide:

Some of the Best sources for 9/11 Truth to investigate and share with friends, family, media and “representatives”:

1. ALL OF DAVID RAY GRIFFIN’S BOOKS ON 9/11 & THE BOOK “TOWERS OF DECEPTION” BY BARRIE ZWICKER. (amazon.com, Borders, etc.)

2. THE DOCUMENTARIES “9/11 PRESS FOR TRUTH” (http://911pressfortruth.com/),
“9/11 MYSTERIES” (http://www.911Mysteries.com/),
“MARTIAL LAW: 9/11” (http://martiallaw911.info/),
“9/11 REVISITED” (http://www.911revisited.com/),
“ZEITGEIST” (PART 2, http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com).

3. THESE WEBSITES:
http://stj911.org/
http://www.911smokingguns.com/
http://patriotsquestion911.com/
http://www.911sharethetruth.com/
http://www.911truth.org/
http://www.septembereleventh.org/

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WATADA COURT-MARTIAL STOPPED

2007-10-07T09:48:59Z

By Mike Barber
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Friday 05 October 2007

Lawyers call a second court-martial double jeopardy.

A federal judge in Tacoma has delayed the court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a Fort Lewis Army officer who refused to deploy to Iraq.

In a rare intervention of a civilian court in the military justice system, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle granted the emergency stay to stop the court-martial.

Watada's trial, slated to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, is now postponed until at least Oct. 26, the judge ruled.

In granting the stay at 4:48 p.m. Friday, Settle wrote, "The court concludes as a preliminary matter, that it has jurisdiction over the petition and the petitioner's double jeopardy claim is not frivolous."

Watada's first court-martial earlier this year ended in a mistrial, and his lawyers argue that a second court-martial would amount to trying him twice for the same charges.

Settle was careful to point out that "the issues raised by the petition for habeas corpus bear no relation to the charges or defenses in the petitioner's (Watada's) court-martial proceedings." Settle was a military lawyer in the Army in the 1970s and was recently appointed to the federal bench by President Bush

Quoting case law, Settle wrote, "The irreparable harm suffered by being put to a trial a second time in violation of the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment stems not just from being subjected to double punishment but also from undergoing a second trial proceeding."

Because the case is being heard in federal court, the U.S. Attorney's Office now is arguing the government position with a military lawyer's help.

"Judge Settle has now preserved the status quo, giving us an opportunity to more fully brief him on the issues. We look forward to doing that," said Brian Kipnis, chief of the civil division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle.

Watada's lawyers, Jim Lobsenz and Ken Kagan of the Seattle firm Carney Badley Spellman, have argued that the circumstances of a mistrial declared in Watada's court-martial in February result in double jeopardy.

The mistrial was declared over Watada's objections and after a panel of military officers acting as a jury had heard evidence but not begun deliberations.

Watada's appeals have been dismissed by the military trial judge and the U.S. Army Court of Appeals. An appeal was made Sept. 18 to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the highest court in the military justice system.

Lobsenz and Kagan said they were compelled to ask the federal court on Wednesday to stop the court-martial. Watada's trial approached, and nothing had been heard from the armed forces appeals court. With Monday a federal holiday to observe Columbus Day, time was even shorter, they said.

Settle indicated at a hearing on Thursday that he might defer to the military appeals court if it made a decision by Friday, but at close of business Friday, it hadn't ruled.

Watada publicly refused to go to Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade in June 2006, contending that the war there is illegal and has exposed members of the military to war crimes. He has been charged with missing movement and conduct unbecoming an officer. He could be sentenced to up to six years in prison if convicted.

Settle has set up a briefing schedule to examine the merits of the double jeopardy argument and how long he will continue the stay. The government has until Oct. 12 to file its arguments, and Watada's lawyers must reply by Oct. 17. Another hearing is planned for Oct. 19.

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Iraq veteran speaks out PLEASE WATCH!!!!!!!!

2007-10-01T18:44:10Z

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5587990522549547050

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He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him

2007-09-27T12:51:10Z

http://www.messiahlutheransterling.org/symbol24.asp

The symbol of ST. JOHN is the eagle, because from first to last his Gospel soars on eagle's wings to the very throne of heaven. The figures near the bottom of each window are merely decorative.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:1-14, NKJV).

Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (John 20:17, NIV).

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Bush - the turd in the GOP's punch bowl

2007-09-23T21:53:37Z

Analysis: Bush Unwelcome on the Trail

LIZ SIDOTI | September 23, 2007 01:06 PM EST |

AP
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Republican presidential candidates can't be any more clear: President Bush isn't welcome on the campaign trail.

Competing to succeed him, top GOP candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and John McCain barely utter Bush's name. They essentially ignore the lame-duck president, or give him only passing credit, as they rail against the status quo and promise to fix problems he hasn't solved.

"We all know Americans want change," said McCain, an Arizona senator, explaining the aversion to aligning with Bush. "I give him credit for a number of things but I think the fact is Americans are turning the page, including our Republican primary voters."

The candidates are walking a fine line. They are trying to tap into the deep discontent those voters feel about the state of the country without alienating any who hold Bush in high regard. At the same time, they have to counter the Democrats' powerful arguments for a new direction.

How candidates handle the 800-pound elephant in the room now could have implications beyond the primary. Privately, Republican strategists agree their nominee will lose next fall if the general election is a referendum on Bush. They say GOP candidates are wise to distance themselves from the president now, given his unpopularity among the public at large.

Bush holds the opposite view.

Asked last week whether he is an asset or a liability for Republican candidates, Bush replied: "Strong asset."

To be sure, none of the candidates want to be attached to Bush's legacy, afraid that doing so will make them sitting ducks for Democrats.

Who can blame them?

The unpopular Iraq war has bogged down his presidency. His party is in an uproar over out-of-control spending on his watch and embarrassing scandals among GOP officeholders. His job performance rating is at a low 33 percent, according to a recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll. Only 28 percent think the country is moving in the right direction. Half of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents think the country is on the wrong track.

Take Dan Wilson, 55, and Janet Frederick-Wilson, 47, of Westland, Mich. The Republicans voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004, but they've lost confidence in him over the past few years for what Frederick-Wilson said were a million different reasons. "Overall, he's lost touch," she said.

"He's kind of lost his way, unfortunately," Wilson said. "He started strong and then his office affected him."

Neither has settled on a candidate for 2008; both say they are looking for someone who can make them proud to be Americans again.

Another two-time Bush backer, Margaret Schaefer, 69, of Dearborn, Mich., calls the president resolute and honest but acknowledges woes in the GOP.

"We need to get back to our roots, and I think George Bush thought that's where he was going, but he was led astray," she said. "His legacy's not going to be terrific."

Despite such deep frustration, Republicans on the whole still like Bush _ and don't like those who beat up on him.

That's prompted GOP hopefuls to tread delicately. They rattle off problems and propose solutions, seeking to make the case for change without going as far as to bash Bush, at least not openly.

The straddle _ and the absence of Bush in the race _ was apparent over the weekend as the four leading Republicans spoke to 1,500 GOP activists on an island in Lake Huron.

In separate speeches spanning two days, they repeatedly invoked beloved conservative Ronald Reagan; Bush was hardly mentioned.

All laid out challenges facing the country, from national security to immigration reform to health care, and argued they were the elixirs for what ails the GOP and the country. What little praise there was for Bush was muted by somber assessments of the challenges ahead.

"Republicans for change," declared Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who offered a blistering critique of the GOP. He argued that Republicans bore just as much of the blame as Democrats for failures in Washington, such as runaway spending and ethical lapses in his own party. He claimed he was best suited to lead a dispirited GOP in a new direction.

He gave Bush some praise for keeping the United States safe and restoring integrity to the Oval Office. When pressed, Romney refused to lump Bush in with the very Republicans he was criticizing.

"I'm not pointing fingers," Romney told reporters in one breath, only to say in the next: "We have strayed a little far from our principles and vision, and I think that's happened over the last several years."

McCain used his speech to channel Reagan, comparing the conservative behemoth who faced down the Soviet Union in the 1980s to his own calls for resolve in Iraq and against terrorists. Never once did McCain mention Bush, though he generally panned the president's leadership, saying "the war in Iraq has not gone well."

Rudy Giuliani skirted Bush entirely. He set up an us-against-them scenario with Democrats on just about every issue and argued the country would go backward, not forward, under their leadership. He received perhaps the most hearty applause with his lone direct reference to the president for enacting tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. Giuliani said they helped put more money back into the private sector.

As for Thompson, the former Tennessee senator painted a bleak picture of future if changes aren't made, particularly on the economic front, saying "we're on an unsustainable path" and bemoaning the irresponsibility of leaders who haven't solved looming issues though they've had years to do so.

"We've got to send a message to politicians in Washington that we are better than that," Thompson said.

With statements like those, there's little doubt the president hasn't gotten the message.

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BREAKING NEWS:

2007-09-20T12:08:11Z

< http://www.nationalexpositor.com/index.php?news=323 >

9-9-7: Shipment of Live Nuclear Warheads From North Dakota to Louisiana was no
Mistake!
The Live Warheads Were Removed From Their Secure Nuclear Storage Safes After
Entry and Confirmation of Presidential Authorizaion!

Hal Turner - Reports that five (later confirmed to be six) nuclear warheads
were "accidentally" shipped by B-52 from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to
Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana are false. It was no mistake; it was a
criminal conspiracy to launch nuclear terrorist attacks against U.S. cities!

Military investigators have confirmed to The Hal Turner Show that President
Bush's personal Presidential authorization code authorized the removal of six 5
- 150 kiloton nuclear warheads from their secure nuclear storage safes.

Those Investigators also confirmed that the cruise missiles in which those
warheads were placed, were mounted on the wings of the B-52 and not placed in
the belly of the plane with other missiles headed for decommissioning.

When those nuclear cruise missiles arrived at Barksdale AFB, Investigators say
plans were made to move those warheads off the base, allowing them to be used
for what was to be a massive, nuclear "terrorist" strike against U.S. cities.
They speculate the attacks would have been blamed on Al-Qaida and used as an
excuse to impose Martial Law in the U.S.
Government officials are scrambling to silence this investigation becuase it
proves definitively that President George W. Bush was personally complicit in
planning terrorist attacks against his own country for the purpose of declaring
Martial law, merging the United States with other countries after we've been
"crippled" by massive nuclear attacks, implementing "one world government" to
"prevent anything like this from ever happening again" and, of course, remaining
in power forever as absolute Dictator.

Elements inside the U.S. Military are aggressively seeking to arrest President
Bush while top Brass in the military is doing everything possible to quash the
crisis.

They leaked this information to me because efforts to "spin" and cover-up what
really happened are overwhelming righteous efforts to hold the President
accountable for his acts.

< http://www.nationalexpositor.com/index.php?news=323 >

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Bitch, piss & moan

2007-09-11T02:28:31Z

That's all liberals do about Bush. No action plan, no alternatives, just bitching.

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Fasting Against War

2007-09-02T23:22:30Z

Here's an action we can each take. What do you think?

Last year I fasted during Ramadan in solidarity with my 5 Muslim students, and all Muslims. This year I hope I can find people to join me. It is a very personal action, but it made me very aware for a full month that there is a war out there I oppose, and kept me thinking about many of the issues connected to this war. (I also became very aware of sunset, and that was a delight.)

Why this? I have long felt a need to do something more than attend protests against the war once or twice a year. It seems most of the people I know stand firmly against the war, but we have no effect on government actions. As a single parent, as a person who loves the work I do, I have not seen what more I could do. This is something I can do that will not require large chunks of time. And I think it will get us talking more about what else we can do to change this government run amuck.

Last year I noticed that some of my friends seemed to blame the victims (saying things like “they’re violent”). I think our government promotes that idea. What is truly happening is that our military is killing thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that’s the violence we must take responsibility for. I also know that the number of hate crimes against innocent Arabs and Muslims in this country has gone way up since 9/11.

Why now? Ramadan will begin on September 13th, or shortly after that (as soon as the new moon has been sighted). It’s a month-long time of fasting for Muslim people. They fast from sunrise to sunset, and eat a small meal once the sun is down. Muslims do not even drink water during their fast, but I felt more comfortable modifying my fast to allow for water.

Will you join me? I am hoping to spread this idea across the country through anti-war websites and email lists. Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested. If you join me in fasting, or have ideas to share about making this a more powerful joint action, please write me (reply to my blog at people.tribe.net/mathmama/blog or email me at suevanhattum@hotmail.com). I will write you back.

-Sue VanHattum
Richmond, CA

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OPEN LETTER

2007-09-01T08:16:48Z

Friends,

While superficially appearing somewhat off-topic, a letter just
released by a former Congresswoman and current Congressional
candidates actually provides further evidence that the Cabal are
feeling desperate, and are ramping up their "Final Solutions" to
grabbing total world power.

Such an analysis dovetails with recent (reported here) secret
planning by three Cabal-asset ufologists to rehearse their roles for
the Cabal's upcoming "Alien Invasion" trump card.

The letter, signed by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, current
Colonel Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserves, and current Congressional
candidates Cindy Sheehan and Craig Hill among others, reads as follows
below.

Richard Boylan, Ph.D.

Open Letter To All People on Earth

"To the American people, and to peace loving individuals everywhere:
"Massive evidence has come to our attention which shows that the
backers, controllers [Cabal - RB], and allies of Vice President Dick
Cheney are determined to orchestrate and manufacture a new 9/11 terror
incident, and/or a new Gulf of Tonkin war provocation over the coming
weeks and months.

Such events would be used by the Bush administration as a pretext for
launching an aggressive war against Iran, quite possibly with nuclear
weapons, and for imposing a regime of martial law here in the United
States.

We call on the House of Representatives to proceed immediately to the
impeachment of Cheney, as an urgent measure for avoiding a wider and
more catastrophic war. Once impeachment has begun, it will be easier
for loyal and patriotic military officers to refuse illegal orders
coming from the Cheney [Cabal - RB] faction.

We solemnly warn the people of the world that any terrorist attack
with weapons of mass destruction taking place inside the United States
or elsewhere in the immediate future must be considered the
prima-facie responsibility of the Cheney [Cabal - RB] faction. We urge
responsible political leaders everywhere to begin at once to inoculate
the public opinion of their countries against such a threatened
false-flag terror operation."

(Signed) A Group of US Opposition Political Leaders Gathered in
Protest at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, August 24-25,
2007

CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, FORMER US CONGRESSWOMAN, GEORGIA CINDY SHEEHAN,
CANDIDATE FOR US CONGRESS, CALIFORNIA
CRAIG HILL, CANDIDATE FOR US CONGRESS, VERMONT GREEN PARTY
BRUCE MARSHALL, CONVENOR, PHILADELPHIA PLATFORM
JAMILLA EL-SHAFEI, KENNEBUNK PEACE DEPARTMENT
WEBSTER G. TARPLEY, AUTHOR
ANN WRIGHT, COLONEL US ARMY RESERVE, FORMER US DIPLOMAT DR. DAHLIA
WASFI, WWW.LIBERATETHIS.COM
GEORGE PAZ MARTIN
JOHN KAMINSKI , PRESIDENT MAINE LAWYERS FOR DEMOCRACY

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Conservatives are organized.

2007-08-29T03:35:22Z

http://www.conservativesforum.com/cgi-bin/politics/YaBB.pl?board=conservative;action=display;num=1187228276

also, have you seen
"...So Goes the Nation"?
That shit is scary!

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Resigns!

2007-08-27T17:51:31Z

Wooohoooo!

About time!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/washington/27cnd-gonzales.html?hp

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A STANDING OVATION...

2007-08-27T07:44:51Z

By David McFadden
The Associated Press

Saturday 25 August 2007

San Juan, Puerto Rico - A call by Puerto Rico's governor for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq earned a standing ovation Saturday from a conference of more than 4,000 National Guardsmen.

Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila said the U.S. administration has "no new strategy and no signs of success" and that prolonging the war would needlessly put guardsmen in harm's way.

"The war in Iraq has fractured the political will of the United States and the world," he said at the opening of the 129th National Guard Association general conference. "Clearly, a new war strategy is required and urgently."

Acevedo said sending more troops to Iraq would be a costly blunder.

"By increasing the number of National Guard and reserve troops, we put our soldiers in danger for the umpteenth time since the beginning of the global war on terrorism," said the governor, adding U.S. territories and states need Guard reserves in the event of natural disasters and domestic disturbances.

Acevedo, a Democrat, has called on Washington to withdraw troops from Iraq in the past, but has not been a vocal critic of the war.

Col. David Carrion Baralt, the Guard's top official in the U.S. Caribbean territory, said Acevedo received a standing ovation.

"Maybe the (officers) were not expecting those kinds of comments, but having a dialogue is the point of conferences like these," Carrion said by phone.

The nonpartisan National Guard Association represents nearly 45,000 current and former Air and Army National Guard officers and petitions Congress for resources.

About 1,800 Puerto Rican guardsmen are stationed overseas. It was not immediately clear how many were deployed in Iraq.

"The daily death toll of Americans and their allies has caused irreparable anguish here in Puerto Rico, and throughout the country. The same could be said for the people of Iraq," Acevedo said.

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Rove Out

2007-08-18T08:34:04Z

So another rat has left Bush's sinking ship.

But why exactly is he going now. I know what he said... but what is the truth?

Maybe it just stopped being fun, being increasingly shown to be wrong about policy all the time, being on the losing side of history. But I wonder, is it something more... is there something he knows that the public doesn't know... so new reason to get out at this time...

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More on the possible Nuking of Portland

2007-08-17T12:19:14Z

More on the possible Nuking of Portland

If you have not heard there is a growing concern the fascist elements within the US corporate and government structures may use a mock scenario to actually nuke Portland Oregon and then use Presidential Directive 51 to declare Bush dictator and to declare war on Iran.

Some articles giving background:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363204.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363284.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363408.shtml

Updated articles:

Swan Island Networks role in Portland drills
author: Mr_DNA
press release is from 1 year ago, but seems to shed some light on their role in the upcoming operations.
http://www.rainsnet.org/press/pr/pr0818066778.asp

Portland Seeks Designation as First 'Synthetic City'

Technology in the war on terror now key to homeland security

Portland, OR - August 18, 2006 -

On Friday, August 18, a group of federal, state and local officials, academics, and private sector leaders will convene on the campus of Portland State University to talk about a potential transfer of power. Under discussion is the notion that technology used to fight the war on terror abroad could soon be applied to homeland security needs... and that Portland, Oregon could be an early test-bed for such transfers.

According to the Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security (RAINS), a central player in the development of homeland defense technology solutions, the primary military technology under consideration for transfer is "synthetic city" software—a digital information platform that fuses data from a variety of real-world sources, such as 9-1-1 centers, atmospheric sensors, smart buildings, health networks, and intelligent transportation systems—then organizes and displays it all in a 3-D geographical modeling and simulation environment.

"Our military friends are going to be demonstrating some very cutting edge technology—sort of the ultimate Sim City," explained RAINS' chairman Charles Jennings, "They'll be displaying virtual version of the real Portland, with real-time data inside." Jennings is the CEO of Portland-based Swan Island Networks.

The "Synthetic Portland" conference brings together participants from around the country, representing all levels of government, large federal contractors and system integrators; information technology vendor companies; universities; hospitals; and various types of non-governmental service organizations.

Also participating will be representatives from the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration; United States Joint Forces Command (JFCOM); the Information Assurance Directorate of the National Security Agency; and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

"We are excited to have such an innovative technology conference in Portland—especially since its ultimate purpose is to increase public safety," said Matt Lampe, the City of Portland's Chief Technology Officer. This new technology, like the Internet, was developed by the military and now, the military is actively exploring its use and potential in civil environments to improve emergency response, transportation systems and sustainability practices.

The central purpose of new synthetic city technology is to generate predictive models that can be used by the real city to prepare for and manage emergencies, increase public safety, and generally improve urban quality of life.

According to Jennings, "Although it could have been held anywhere, having this conference in Portland makes perfect sense. To connect previously stove-piped information systems in new ways, you need a city with a culture of both innovation and collaboration—two of Portland's best qualities."

"This is a unique opportunity to look at new, advanced technology and how that technology could help in the event of disasters or security problems. Portland State University does leading edge research in computer security, and we're interested in how that research can be used for application in areas that will be discussed at this symposium. That makes our campus the perfect venue for this event," said Mike Burton, Vice Provost of Portland State University and RAINS board member.

Sponsors of the event, in addition to RAINS and PSU, include Oregon Economic & Community Development Department; Portland Development Commission; Siemens; Online Business Systems; the Zeno Group; and Swan Island Networks.

About RAINS
RAINS (Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security) is a public/private partnership formed in 2001. RAINS has forged alliances with technology companies, multiple research universities, critical infrastructure providers, local, state and federal agencies, and first responders. Its Connect & Protect information sharing service was launched in 2003, and has successfully delivered hundreds of thousands of alerts. Connect & Protect was described as a "radical breakthrough" by WIRED Magazine (December 2005). Connect & Protect was also a finalist for the inaugural Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security, a partnership of Mitretek Systems and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

For RAINS information:
Tel: 503-796-5804
info@rainsnet.org
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update 16.Aug.2007 15:07
Mr_DNA link

According to Sherry Lamoreaux, Marketing Communications Manager of Swan Island Networks:

1. Swan Island wanted to be a part of the Noble Resolve exercise but is not now participating and has no information regarding it.

2. RAINS is no longer an active organization. In her words, it has been "dormant" since around June of this year.

3. Swan Island Networks CEO and RAINS founder, Charles Jennings, will be on vacation beginning at the end of this week or next week.

found at http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363597.shtml

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Regarding Noble Resolve
author: fellow worker
8/10/07 naval vessel spotted at Port of Portland docks-maybe part of Noble Resolve nuke exercise?
While I was at lunch break on 8/10, I was sitting outside the Gunderson lunch room on the south bank of the Willamette, across from a Port of Portland facility. I saw an unidentifiable navel vessel, smallish, uniform battleship grey, apart from the blue and yellow bands encircling the stack. I was only able to make out numbers on the bow, either 23 or 28. No other markings, flags or symbols were visible, and I only wish I had my binoculars with me. Based on the projected blast pattern from "The Day After" Report as seen on www.lonestaricon.com, I am thinking this may be part of the exercise to come.
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specifics 16.Aug.2007 10:32
Mr_DNA link

Do you know which Terminal this is docked in or closest to?

unusual license plate 16.Aug.2007 11:17
hum link

seen this plate this morning heading into downtown

probably not "Noble related" but it caught my eye

it was hard to read all the print on the plate

picture at http://media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2007/08/363573.jpg

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The boat must be sinking...

2007-08-16T05:50:26Z

Karl Rove, Adviser to President Bush, to Quit
By Debbi Wilgoren and Peter Baker
The Washington Post

Monday 13 August 2007

Karl Rove, chief architect of the Bush presidency and the premier Republican strategist of the last decade, will step down as White House deputy chief of staff Aug. 31.

Rove revealed his plans to the Wall Street Journal in a Saturday afternoon interview that was published this morning. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino confirmed the news to The Washington Post.

Rove, 56, has survived years of pointed investigation of his activities while in the White House - first during special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's probe of White House leaks, and more recently by Democratic-controlled Congressional committees examining the firing of U.S. attorneys and the involvement of Justice Department officials in White House political briefings.

He refused Congressional subpoenas, citing executive privilege, and was never accused in the White House leak scandal, despite being grilled by a grand jury multiple times.

Critics of the White House have demanded Rove's resignation for years, and Rove first discussed the idea with Bush about a year ago, Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul A. Gigot reported in a column in today's Journal.

Rove said he did not want to leave immediately after the Democrats took over Congress in 2007, Gigot reported. Nor did he want to abandon the White House as the president pushed through a troop surge in Iraq and fought - unsuccessfully - to forge new immigration laws. Rove's decision to end 19 years of working as Bush's closest political adviser came only after chief of staff Josh Bolten told senior White House aides that if they stayed past Labor Day of this year, they would be expected to remain on staff until Bush's second term ends 17 months from now.

"I just think it's time," Gigot quoted Rove as saying.

Rove said he was finished with political consulting, and would return to private life "for the sake of my family," which includes his wife Darby and a son who attends college in San Antonio, the Journal reported. He said he would like to teach eventually, and planned to write a book about Bush's years in office, but had no other job lined up for now.

Along with Karen Hughes and Joe Allbaugh, Rove was part of a group known as the "Iron Triangle" who were central to Bush's political success since his days as Texas governor. Bush described the trio as close friends as well as advisers, the kind of people who stick with you during the toughest times. "We've grown up together politically," the soon-to-be president said in 1999.

But Rove proved the most enduring and influential of the group, shaping Bush's presidency in what many consider one of the closest client-adviser relationships in American politics.

Perino said President Bush would make a statement later this morning about the departure of his longtime aide and friend.

Rove leaves a White House buffeted by an unpopular and lingering war in Iraq and battered by approval ratings that are among the lowest in the history of the American presidency. He has been a lightning rod for criticism among Bush's opponents, and has stoked the anger of Democrats in Congress by refusing to answer questions on White House political activities despite being subpoenaed.

Rove skipped a Congressional hearing two weeks ago on the allegedly improper use by White House aides of Republican National Committee email accounts, citing Bush's claims of executive privilege.

"Where is Karl Rove? Why is he hiding?," Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) asked the young political aide who testified in his place. "Why does he throw a young staffer like you into the line of fire while he hides behind the White House curtains?"

In the interview with the Journal, Rove painted a typically upbeat picture of what the future holds for Bush and the Republican Party. He predicted that conditions in Iraq would improve in coming months as the effect of the surge is felt, and that Democrats will split over issues like wiretaps in the name of national security. He said he believes the Democrats are likely to nominate New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for president in 2008, and speculated that Republicans would have "a very good chance" of holding onto the White House for a third consecutive term.

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Staff writer Howard Schneider contributed to this report.

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Sheehan announces independant run against Pelosi

2007-08-10T18:18:52Z

Former anti-war leader Cindy Sheehan announced on Thursday that in 2008 she will run as an independent candidate against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). "I dedicate my candidacy to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan," Sheehan said, weeping.

Sheehan later appeared on CNN to explain that she was running because "they're not making the administration change course in Iraq. They give him more money ... to wage the war. They're not holding him accountable."

"What's your real goal here?" CNN asked Sheehan, pointing out that, even if elected, she would take office just a few days before the end of Bush's term.

"I'm hoping that this will spur the Democrats to action," Sheehan replied. "I'm hoping that other people around the country will hold the other enablers of the Bush regime accountable. ... We have to get back to honoring our Constitution and honoring our men and women who fight these wars for the corporate elite."

CNN then asked Sheehan about her statement in May that she was leaving the anti-war movement. She responded that she had always planned to return in some capacity, but "the thing that brought me back into this faster than I wanted to was when George Bush commutted Scooter Libby's sentence, which I think is treason, and the Democrats didn't do anything about it."

"I'm not coming back as the face of the anti-war movement any more," Sheehan concluded. "I'm coming back in another direction."

The following video is from CNN's Situation Room, broadcast on August 9.

Link video : http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Sheehan_announces_independent_run_against_Pelosi_0809.html

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Britain, Will Take Troops out of Iraq Regardless of US, Says PM

2007-08-01T06:48:51Z

By Andrew Grice
Belfast Telegraph UK

Tuesday 31 July 2007

Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the United States.

After four hours of one-to-one talks with the US President at his Camp David retreat, Mr Brown told a joint press conference he would make a Commons statement in October on the future of the 5,500 British troops in the Basra region.

The Bush administration, under mounting domestic pressure to produce an exit strategy from Iraq, has been nervous that a full British withdrawal would add to the criticism. But Mr Brown made clear - and President Bush accepted - that Britain would go its own way, even if that gave the impression the two countries were diverging.

Mr Brown's willingness to pursue an independent British policy in Iraq will be seen as an important break with Tony Blair. Mr Brown said the two leaders had had "full and frank discussions" - diplomatic code for some disagreements.

President Bush heaped praise on Mr Brown after their first meeting since he became Prime Minister, playing down suggestions that Mr Blair's departure would weaken the strong US-UK partnership. Revealingly, Mr Brown did not return the personal compliments, instead focusing on the historic links between the two countries and predicting they would get even stronger. This reflected his desire for a more business-like relationship with the President, instead of the strong personal bond forged by Mr Blair.

The two leaders also had to paper over their different approaches on how to respond to terrorism. While maintaining a united front, Mr Brown told President Bush that the fight could not be won by military might alone, and called for a "Cold War-style" propaganda battle in the Muslim world.

Deliberately avoiding the phrase "war on terror," Mr Brown said: "Terrorism is not a cause but a crime - a crime against humanity." In contrast, the President spoke of "this war against extremists and radicals". But he said of Mr Brown: "There is no doubt in my mind that he understands the stakes in the struggle."

On Iraq, Mr Brown insisted Britain would honour its responsibilities but admitted there had been problems with political reconciliation and that the reconstruction effort had taken longer than expected.

He said that Britain's decision in the Basra region would be based on the military advice from its commanders on the ground. Later, British officials insisted that the departure timetable was not being accelerated and said it was too soon to speculate on the plans that would be set out in October. Initially, they would mean handing military control to the Iraqis and moving to "overwatch."

However, President Bush acknowledged that a British withdrawal could take place while the US remained in Iraq because, he said, decisions would be "results-orientated". He said America could be there for "a long time". He added that America's next moves would be decided after a report in September by General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, on the "surge" of US troops in the Baghdad region.

But despite their differences over Iraq and terrorism, the two leaders agreed to work together to end the stalemate over a new world trade agreement, to resolve the crisis in Darfur and impose a new round of sanctions against Iran unless it halts its nuclear weapons programme.

Bush on Brown

"I would describe Gordon Brown as a principled man who really wants to get something done."

"Not a dour Scot ... not an awkward Scot ... a humorous Scot."

"He's got a strong commitment to helping people realize the blessing of education. I thank you very much for that vision."

"He's a glass half-full man."

[Referring to the death of Brown's 10-day-old baby in 2002.]

"He's a man who's suffered unspeakable tragedy - it's strengthened his soul."

"I was impressed."

Brown on Bush

"We have had full and frank discussions. We have had the capacity and ability to meet yesterday for two hours to discuss person-to-person some of the great issues of our time." B

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SUPPORTING WOUNDED WARRIORS - action alert Dan Millman the Peaceful Warrior

2007-07-31T22:58:24Z

Please forward & post the attached message from
Dan Millman, "The Peaceful Warrior"
http://www.danmillman.com/ :>
_____________________________________________

SUPPORTING WOUNDED WARRIORS

MOST OF US share a love of peace, and are saddened by
war in Iraq or elsewhere. We look forward to an end to violence,
hunger, cruelty. But the reality of today's world is that thousands
of young men and women have returned home with physical,
emotional, and mental wounds.

If you feel a personal connection to support our wounded
soldiers, check the following link to a website fully dedicated
to this cause:
http://www.veteransandfamilies.org/WarriorTransition.html

A SIMPLE WAY TO HELP: Last week the Presidents
Commission on Returning Wounded Warriors issued
their recommendations, which include:

1. The immediate creation of comprehensive recovery plans
to provide the right care and support at the right time in the
right place;

2. Completely restructure the disability and compensation
system;

3. Aggressively prevent and treat Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI);

4. Significantly strengthen support for families;

5. Rapidly transfer patient information between DoD
and VA; and

6. Strongly support Walter Reed (WRAMC) by recruiting
and retaining first-rate professionals through 2011.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Whether you are a
liberal or conservative, a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian
or any other political affiliation, CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
to send President George Bush an email in support of enacting
all of the recommendations of the Presidents Commission on
Returning Wounded Warriors.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Good journeys,

Dan Millman

The Peaceful Warrior
http://www.danmillman.com/

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Bush Appointee Blocked 2006 Surgeon General's Report

2007-07-29T22:34:57Z

Resources for helping to fight the corruption of science are
given after the link to the story, - TR

Bush Appointee Blocked 2006 Surgeon General's Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072907Y.shtml
Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman of the Washington Post
report in Sunday 29 July 2007edition that a 2006 report urging
Americans to help tackle global health problems was kept
from public view largely because it did not promote White
House objectives
.
Go to Original at:>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/28/AR2007072801420.html

Excerpts:

Richard H. Carmona, who commissioned the "Call to
Action on Global Health" while serving as surgeon general
from 2002 to 2006, recently cited its suppression as an
example of the Bush administration's frequent efforts
during his tenure to give scientific documents a political
twist. At a July 10 House committee hearing, Carmona did
not cite Steiger by name or detail the report's contents and
its implications for American public health.

After a long struggle that pitted top scientific and medical
experts inside and outside the government against Steiger
and his political bosses, Carmona refused to make the
requested changes, according to the officials. Carmona
engaged in similar fights over other public health reports,
including an unpublished report on prison health. A few
days before the end of his term as the nation's senior
medical officer, he was abruptly told he would not be
reappointed.

End of excerpts from:

Bush Appointee Blocked 2006 Surgeon
General's Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072907Y.shtml
Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman of the Washington
Post report in Sunday 29 July 2007

_____________________________________________

Scientific Integrity Program | Union of Concerned Scientists
Union of Concerned Scientists. Page Last Revised: 07/26/07.
We are mobilizing scientists and citizens alike to push for
reforms that will protect our health, safety, and environment.
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/

________________

FDA Scientists Pressured to Exclude, Alter Findings
The Union of Concerned Scientists released survey
results that demonstrate pervasive and dangerous political
influence of science at the FDA.
www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/fda-scientists-pressured.html
- 30

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Scientists claim Bush bends data
James Glanz
http://www.iht.com/articles/130372.html
The International Herald Tribune 02-18-2004
http://web.archive.org/web/20040223103628/http://www.iht.com/articles/130372.html

Distortions are said to serve policy goals

More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates,
have issued a statement asserting that the Bush administration
has systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy
goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weapons at home and abroad.

Among the Nobel winners are David Baltimore, Leon Lederman,
Norman Ramsey, Harold Varmus and Steven Weinberg.
Signatories and the union's report can be
found at www.ucsusa.org.

_____________________________________
Verification:
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet
sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper
library, we provide free access to researchers, historians,
scholars, and the general public
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http://blog.myspace.com/toxicreverend

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Mumia Abu-Jamal: When Wars Backfire

2007-07-18T15:25:31Z

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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Mumia Abu-Jamal on "Scooter" Libby

2007-07-16T18:06:01Z

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

2007-07-16T04:03:53Z

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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Sheehan considers challenge to Pelosi

2007-07-09T22:33:47Z

By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer Sun Jul 8, 7:40 PM ET

CRAWFORD, Texas - Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to seek House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That's when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group's war protest site near Bush's Crawford ranch.

"Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership," Sheehan told The Associated Press. "We hired them to bring an end to the war. I'm not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn't be too big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her money."

Messages left with Pelosi's staff were not immediately returned. The White House declined to comment on Sheehan's plans.

She plans her official candidacy announcement Tuesday. Sunday wrapped up what is expected to be her final weekend at the 5-acre Crawford lot that she sold to California radio talk show host Bree Walker, who plans to keep it open to protesters.

Sheehan announced in late May that she was leaving the anti-war movement. She said that she felt her efforts had been in vain and that she had endured smear tactics and hatred from the left, as well as the right. She said she wanted to change course.

She first came to Crawford in August 2005 during a Bush vacation, demanding to talk to him about the war that killed her son Casey in 2004. She became the face of the anti-war movement during her 26-day roadside vigil, which was joined by thousands. But it also drew counter-protests by Bush supporters, many who said she was hurting troop morale.

Sheehan, who has never held political office, recently said that she was leaving the Democratic Party because it "caved" in to the president. Last week, she announced her caravan to Washington, an undertaking she calls the "people's accountability movement."

"I didn't expect to be back so soon, but the focus is different than it was before," Sheehan said Sunday. "Instead of talking and making accusations, we're going into communities and talking to the people who've been hurt by the Bush regime. We're finding out how we can help people."

Sheehan, who will turn 50 on Tuesday, said Bush should be impeached because she believes he misled the public about the reasons for going to war, violated the Geneva Convention by torturing detainees, and crossed the line by commuting the prison sentence of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. She said other grounds for impeachment are the domestic spying program and the "inadequate and tragic" response to Hurricane Katrina.

Libby was convicted of lying and obstructing justice in an investigation into the leak of a CIA officer's identity.

Sheehan said she hopes Pelosi files the articles of impeachment so Sheehan can move onto her next projects, including overseas trips for humanitarian work. But if not, Sheehan said she is ready to run for office.

"I'm doing it to encourage other people to run against Congress members who aren't doing their jobs, who are beholden to special interests," Sheehan said. "She (Pelosi) let the people down who worked hard to put Democrats back in power, who we thought were our hope for change."

Pelosi was elected to the House in 1987 and became the first female speaker in January.

Sheehan said she lives in a Sacramento suburb but declined to disclose which city, citing safety reasons. The area is outside Pelosi's district, but there are no residency requirements for congressional members, according to the California secretary of state's office.

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