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The makers of this movie testified before Congress on the waste of taxpayer money.
October 18, 2007 at 2:32 pm |
Subject: SAME OLD BUSHIT
BUSH OR HILLARY—THE SAME POLICIES, FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC.
BUSH: SPYING ON US CITIZENS:
New reports in the past week have revealed how extensive the illegal spying operations conducted by the Bush administration on the people of this country have been — and it started within five weeks of Bush taking office. Quest telecommunications CEO for instance, revealed that the administration had demanded the phone records of US citizens starting six months before the September 11 attack. The mass violations of civil rights and civil liberties carried out by this administration has outraged people across the United States.But not by some Senators that gave Bush a green light..
“HILLARY’S CELL PHONE SPYING TO BE PROBED “
Hillary Clinton over her position on government surveillance, capitalizing on allegations in a recent book that Clinton listened to a secretly recorded conversation between political opponents.
“Hillary Clinton’s campaign hypocrisy continues to know no bounds. It is rather unbelievable that Clinton would listen in to conversations being conducted by political opponents, “Team Clinton can expect to see and hear this over and over again over the course of the next year.”
Clinton and Bush, bow to AIPAC, accept special interest money, agreed on the WAR. Seem to agreed on dismantling the Constitution, both use illegal monitoring.
Foreign policy the same regarding the atrocities of Israel and human rights violations, and occupation.
VOTERS, we need change,
not more of the same old Bushit.
I believe we need the team of Obama & Edwards for 2008.
Subject: SPYING OPERATIONS??
New reports in the past week have revealed how extensive the illegal spying operations conducted by the Bush administration on the people of this country have been — and it started within five weeks of Bush taking office. Quest telecommunications CEO for instance, revealed that the administration had demanded the phone records of US citizens starting six months before the September 11 attack. The mass violations of civil rights and civil liberties carried out by this administration has outraged people across the United States. The movement for impeachment is demanding that Bush and Cheney be held accountable for their gross violations of the constitution. Impeachment is an imperative.
The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, UPI and other national and international media have carried major articles about the government’s creation of small flying surveillance devices that look somewhat like dragonflies.
While there are those who would like to dismiss the implications of such spying, the fact is that if the government is intentionally conducting secret photographic or audio surveillance targeting people because they are engaged in public protest and First Amendment-protected activities, this would be a significant constitutional rights violation.
It is important to keep in perspective this kind of government action. The government’s efforts at surveillance of the progressive movement are also intended to chill public participation in political action; they seek to intimidate their opponents. The purpose of surveillance against the anti-war movement is not to “protect” the country. Rather it is evidence that the Bush administration fears the mobilization of the people of the United States who have seen through the lies and blatantly illegal conduct of the government itself. In fact, it is unmistakable evidence that shows that the Bush White House fears the power of the people.
Take a stand against government repression. Help this movement grow. We will not be intimidated.We will be in the streets across the country on October 27 demanding an end to the war in Iraq and the necessary impeachment of Bush, Cheney and other responsible officials for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
“I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects.”
Out in the crowd, Bernard Crane saw them, too.
“I’d never seen anything like it in my life,” the Washington lawyer said. “They were large for dragonflies. I thought, ‘Is that mechanical, or is that alive?’ ”
Robotic fliers have been used by the military since World War II, but in the past decade their numbers and level of sophistication have increased enormously. Defense Department documents describe nearly 100 different models in use today, some as tiny as birds, and some the size of small planes.
All told, the nation’s fleet of flying robots logged more than 160,000 flight hours last year — a more than fourfold increase since 2003. A recent report by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College warned that if traffic rules are not clarified soon, the glut of unmanned vehicles “could render military airspace chaotic and potentially dangerous.”
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service also declined to discuss the topic.
“I don’t want people to get paranoid, but what can I say?” – “Cellphone cameras are already everywhere. It’s not that much different.”
Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declare “Mission Accomplished” a little too soon.
Subject: OBAMA–EDWARDS OR EDWARDS–OBAMA THE TEAM AMERICA NEEDS.
I did my Research on this before I would sent it out and it is listed at the bottom.
Edwards and Obama or Vs/Vs
Little History Lesson
Answer all the questions before looking at the answers.
Who said it?
1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above
2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the
few, and for the few…… And to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.”
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above
3) “(We) …can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something
has to be taken away from some people.”
A. &n bsp;Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above
4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up
a little bit of their own … in order to create this common ground.”
A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above
5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above
6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”
A. Pinochet
B. Milos evic
C. Saddam Hussein
D . None of the above
Scroll down for answers
Answers
(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was m ade by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005
I did verify these and it is true. I’m attaching the actual speech or article quoting the speech here so you can see for yourself. Some I actually got from her website. So I’m trying to be as fair as possible.
1. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162872/posts
2.http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/?id=1839
3.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/04/sitroom.03.html
4.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/04/sitroom.03.html
5.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/04/sitroom.03.html
6.This passage is from a September 2, 2005 appearance by Sen. Clinton in front of constituents in Elmira Heights, NY.
Subject: LETTER TO THE EDITOR, FROM A DEMOCRAT
MONEY, DONATIONS, AMERICA’S MANDATE.
Money is a very important commodity, we have
given and given in support of the Democrat party.
We gave enough to regain control of congress
2006 elections, that came with a well know
mandate. A mandate to end the WAR, end
the corruption in government. To reform the
campaigns, and to prosecute the WAR crimes.
Now you continue to ask for more money,
while you do not do the job, paid for in advance.
Now corporate money, foreign lobbies and
organized crime influences you all more,
thus our mandate goes unfulfilled.
PLEASE, don’t ask for more, until the job
we paid for and voted for is done.
YES, we the people still give, we may not have the
influence of special interest you all bow down to.
BUT, we give to the candidates that do not take
money from the corrupt, and consider us the
American people their special interest. That
will end this war, that will bring our troops home,
that will prosecute the corrupt. That will protect
our borders, that will respond to Americans
needs.
That being, a campaign of OBAMA & EDWARDS.
If we don’t get that ticket, we do not give, we do not vote.
WE trust no one else to take OUR country
BACK. Honor, Integrity, True moral values,
an agenda for America not AIPAC, that will
bring respect back internationally.
That will make every attempt to fulfill the
MANDATE of the AMERICAN people.
Any thing, or Any one else is just more of the same.
Ronald L. Waldron
48 Hammond Street
Jamestown, NY 14701
716-483-5583
rwaldron@stny.rr.com
October 18, 2007 at 2:33 pm |
Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declare “Mission Accomplished” a little too soon.
Subject: “WAR FOR PROFIT” WILL NOT END WITH HILLARY, WHY? SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY!
Companies awarded multi-billions in contracts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan has been major campaign donors to President Bush, and their executives have had important political and military connections, according to a study released.
The study of more than 70 U.S. companies and individual contractors turned up more than $500,000 in donations to the president’s 2000 campaign, more than they gave collectively to any other politician over the past dozen years.
Yes, 2000 campaign, the planning had begun back then.
Even before the war in Iraq began March 20, the Bush administration was considering plans to help rebuild the country after fighting ceased. According to news reports in early March, the U.S. Agency for International Development secretly asked six U.S. companies to submit bids for a $900 million government contract to repair and reconstruct water systems, roads, bridges, schools and hospitals in Iraq.
The six companies — Bechtel Group Inc., Fluor Corp., Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, Louis Berger Group Inc., Parsons Corp. and Washington Group International Inc. — contributed a combined $3.6 million in individual, PAC and soft money donations between 1999 and 2002, the Center reported on its news site, CapitalEye.org. Sixty-six percent of that total went to Republicans.
The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton in connection with the war in Iraq are significantly greater than was previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military’s increasing reliance on for-profit corporations to run its logistical operations. Independent experts estimate that as much as one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going to independent contractors.
In addition, the company has earned about $705 million for an initial round of oil field rehabilitation work for the Army Corps of Engineers, a corps spokesman said.
Halliburton was headed by Vice President Dick Cheney before he resigned to run with Mr. Bush in 2000. How convenient. As convenient as Senator Wellstones death, Wellstone’s airplane lacked the usual flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder, even though FAA spokesman Paul Takemoto said that the plane was supposed to be so equipped.
Another dropped investigation.
In addition to its Iraq contracts, Brown and Root has also earned $183 million from Operation Enduring Freedom, the military name for the war on terrorism and combat operations in Afghanistan, according to the Army’s numbers.
At the end of the day, neither these companies nor their employees are bound by military justice.
A CONTRACTOR in Iraq has pleaded guilty to providing money, sex and designer watches to US officials in exchange for more than $US8 million ($10.8 million) in reconstruction contracts. No wonder they all want to visit so often.
First-class air tickets, real estate lots, weapons, new four-wheel-drive vehicles, cigars, designer watches, alcohol, prostitutes at Bloom’s Baghdad villa and cash bribes, were provided.
Robert Stein, a civilian contractor who controlled $US82 million in reconstruction funds as the comptroller for the coalition’s headquarters.
Stein, who had a previous conviction for fraud when he was hired, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in February. He funneled money and favors from Bloom to other officials .
The contracts were paid with Iraqi funds held in the Development Fund for Iraq, which has been at the centre of many of the corruption scandals in Iraq. Looks like Iraqi’s are victims again of the, American “War for Profiteers”.
“No single agency supervised the contracting process for the government,” Center executive director Charles Lewis said. “This situation alone shows how susceptible the contracting system is to waste, fraud and cronyism.”
No one operated alone, nor did they operate with out paying Democrats also. It is just the fact that more went to Republicans. BUT corruption is corruption, appearing on both sides of the isle.
Special interest money comes with the tag of, you now owe me, and they pay and pay. It is always the tax payer losing in the end.
No accountability, no justice, no prosecution. No ethics or integrity.
Who now receives the Special interest money? Have any questions? Just vote NO at the polls.
Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Green Party, Conservative, Liberal, Black, White, Brown, Red, Yellow, Male, Female, or not sure. We are all Americans
We need to pull together for the benefit of our Country, and to prevent more War.
Of all the candidates to date, the most promising for the average American and our interest, instead of Corporate or Foreign lobbies, or religious state.
Is a ticket of Obama & Edwards. Our children and their children will be paying for the mess of the last 7+ years, we have to change it.
No other candidate can live up to the Countries expectations.
October 24, 2007 at 4:58 pm |
Subject: DISFUCNTIONAL GOVERNMENT and ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
AMERICA: NOW A DISFUCTIONAL GOVERNMENT.
It seems that 85% of the American People are opposed to illegal immigration, and all the problems
that it causes on us, and our Country.
Yet, you have allowed and supported the illegal
occupation by Israel, that illegally occupies Palestine, and Arab lands of Lebanon, Jordan, and
Egypt. You neo-cons have supported the human rights violations for 60 years.
You all want to call it, Christianity, that there is
a God given right to make these decisions.
You do not recognize the wrongs of the
Zionist movement, Political Preachers.
Now, we witness Catholicism supporting the
Illegal immigation from Mexico. Support another
Amnesty Bill, and the detection centers
For Americans that pose decent, being built by the
Present administration.
What is the difference here or there, wrong is
Wrong. Violation of our laws or international
Laws. Should any have been ignored.
Well now, many of us only see the hypocrisy
of the decisions made in the interest of wealth,
and control. We do not see any of those governments
fascist decisions as being Moral or any real
justification.
We need to stop all the foreign aid to rogue states,
such as Israel, and assist our border countries, so that they can compete from their own home land.
We need to respect resolutions rightfully passed
by the UN, rather then to veto them in the interest
of special interest money received by each
government official.
We need complete change.
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS,
HAVE CHANGED DRASTICALLY, OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS.
FROM: MORAL VALUES, ETHICS, AND INTEGRITY.
TO: PROPAGANDA, RETHORIC, AND FACIST AGENDA.
We need immediate change. We will never regain
our standing in the World. But a little self-respect
from our own people would be a start.
The only way to begin is a different course, and one
with the American peoples interest, not special
interest groups, corporations & far right fanatics.
Foreign or domestic as the Nations objective.
We need Obama & Edwards for change.
Bring our troops home, no more Wars, no more
War for profit, or False devine doctrine policies.
A Foreign Policy of mind our own business, let the
Inter-national organizations take care of their business.
A policy of complying with the Law would help the most.
Unlike what we see each day now!!
“The question really is whether Congress should toss out chunks of the Constitution because Mr. Bush finds them inconvenient and some Democrats are afraid to look soft on terrorism… This provision is not primarily about protecting patriotic businessmen, as Mr. Bush claims. It’s about ensuring that Mr. Bush and his aides never have to go to court to explain how many laws they’ve broken. It is a collusion between lawmakers and the White House that means that no one is ever held accountable.”
So the White House is putting enormous pressure on Congress to give the phone companies retroactive immunity for all the laws they broke spying on innocent Americans. And some key Democrats are ready to go along!
It is imperative that all Americans see all votes from our representatives, see all Campaign contributions taken by all.
News reports indicate that Democratic senators agreed to give phone companies retroactive immunity after the Bush administration presented a one-sided case that these companies “acted in good faith.” Of course that is after the exchange of millions.
That’s ridiculous. A judge appointed by President Bush Sr. wrote an opinion finding that “AT&T cannot seriously contend that a reasonable entity in its position could have believed that the alleged domestic dragnet was legal.”
The bottom line is that President Bush is trying to cover up his own lawbreaking with this immunity.
We need Congress to stop him. Senator Chris Dodd has courageously vowed to block this bill if the immunity provision is not taken out. We need to make sure other members of Congress come out and support his strong stand.