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WBIR.com | Knoxville, TN | Update: FBI serves search warrant against UT student in Palin case

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- Update: FBI serves search warrant against UT student in Palin case
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  Updated: 9/22/2008
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- - The FBI is stepping up its investigation into the possibility that a University of Tennessee student hacked into the personal e-mail of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
  - A person who identified himself as a witness tells 10 News that agents with the FBI served a federal search warrant at the Fort Sanders residence of David Kernell early Sunday morning. Kernell lives in the Commons apartment complex at 1115 Highland Ave.
  - David Kernell is the son of Mike Kernell, a Democratic state representative from Memphis.
  - A Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed there has been "investigatory activity" in Knoxville regarding the Palin case, but she said there are no publicly available search warrants, and no charges have been filed.
  - A separate law enforcement source confirmed to 10 News that a search warrant was served on Kernell's apartment.
  - According to the witness, several agents arrived at The Commons of Knoxville around midnight.
    They presented their badges upon entering Kernell's apartment, where several students were having a party, and took down their names.
  - The witness tells us they asked him and those who did not live in the unit to go outside.
  - He believes the investigators took about 1.5 to 2 hours taking pictures of everything inside the apartment.
  - Witnesses say Kernell and his friends fled the apartment when the FBI agents arrived.
  - Kernell's three roommates were also subpoenaed, and must testify this week in Chattanooga, according to the witness.
  - Knoxville blogger and WBIR contributor Terry Frank has posted what she says are images from Kernell's Facebook page.
  - Numerous web sites say someone going by the name "Rubico" has admitted to hacking Palin's email.
  - According to www.wired.com, "Rubico" made the claim in an internet posting. This person said it was easy to access Palin's yahoo account by using information like her zip code and birthdate. Various people on the internet have quickly associated Rubico with David Kernell.
  - Previous StoryThe son of state Rep. Mike Kernell has been contacted by authorities in connection with a probe into the hacking of personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kernell confirmed on Thursday.
  - Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, said his 20-year-old son David had been contacted by authorities investigating the hacking of Palin's personal email account.
  - The FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation on Wednesday into the hacking.
  - David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Mike Kernell said he spoke to his son on Thursday, as he does on a regular basis.
# 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer | Project Censored

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- # 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer
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    Truthout, February 2008
    
    Title: “Predatory Lenders’ Partner in Crime”
  - Global Research, March 17, 2008
    
    Title: “Why the Bush Administration ‘Watergated’ Eliot Spitzer”
    
    Author: F. William Engdahl
  - Student Researchers: Rob Hunter, Elizabeth Rathbun, and Rebecca Newsome
  - Faculty Evaluator: Mickey S. Huff, MA
  - The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer’s tryst with a luxury call girl had little to do with the Bush administration’s high moral standards for public servants.
  - Author F. William Engdahl advises that, “in evaluating spectacular scandals around prominent public figures, it is important to ask what and who might want to eliminate that person.”
  - Timing suggests that Spitzer was likely a target of a White House and Wall Street operation to silence one of its most dangerous and vocal critics of their handling of the current financial market crisis.
  - Spitzer had become increasingly public in blaming the Bush administration for the subprime crisis. He testified in mid-February before the US House of Representatives Financial Services subcommittee and later that day, in a national CNBC interview, laid blame squarely on the administration for creating an environment ripe for predatory lenders.
  - On February 14, the Washington Post published an editorial by Spitzer titled, “Predatory Lenders’ Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers,” which charged, “Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.”
  - In this editorial, Spitzer explained:
  - The administration accomplished this feat through an obscure federal agency called the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
  - The OCC has been in existence since the Civil War. Its mission is to ensure the fiscal soundness of national banks.
  - For 140 years, the OCC examined the books of national banks to make sure they were balanced, an important but uncontroversial function.
  - But a few years ago, for the first time in its history, the OCC was used as a tool against consumers.
  - In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks.
    
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  - The federal government’s actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.
  - But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation.”
  - The editorial appeared the day after Spitzer’s ill-fated rendezvous with the prostitute at the Mayflower Hotel. With that article, some Washington insiders believe, Spitzer signed his own political death warrant.
  - On March 4, 2008, Spitzer furthermore proposed legislation that would have imposed penalties for mortgage fraud and predatory lending.1
  - Curiously, Spitzer, who had been elected governor in 2006, defeating a Republican by winning nearly 70 percent of the vote, has been not charged with any crime.
  - His case went into the hands of Washington and not those of New York State authorities, underscoring the clear political nature of Spitzer’s “offense.”
    
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  - New York Assembly Republicans immediately announced plans to impeach Spitzer or put him on public trial if he were to refuse resignation.
  - Although prostitution is illegal in most US states, clients of prostitutes are almost never charged, nor are their names typically released while a case is in process.
  - Spitzer’s editorial concluded, “When history tells the story of the sub-prime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many innocent homeowners, the Bush administration will not be judged favorably . . . it will be judged as a willing accomplice to the lenders who went to any lengths in their quest for profits.
  - The administration was so willing, in fact, that it used the power of the federal government in an unprecedented assault on state legislatures, as well as on state attorneys general and anyone else on the side of consumers.”
Glenn Greenwald -Growing Right-Wing Opposition to the Paulson Plan

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- Growing right-wing opposition to the Paulson plan
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  - On Saturday morning, I noted -- quoting Atrios -- the almost complete lack of debate over the ever-changing dictates issued by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
  - Last week, whatever Paulson said on any given day -- no bailouts; only selected bailouts; massive $700 billion bailout plan -- immediately became the unchallenged conventional wisdom.
  - That has all changed. Prominent economists, who had previously been defending Paulson for the most part, began voicing serious doubts about his plan.
  - As the AP put it yesterday: "Many of the same economists and opinion-makers who'd provided a bipartisan sheen of consensus to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's previous moves have quickly begun casting doubts on the wisdom of a policy that would allow Treasury to purchase without oversight hundreds of billions of dollars of difficult-to-price assets from financial institutions."
  - Not only Paul Krugman, who was a skeptic from the start, but conservative economic experts have also now expressed opposition, including former Bush and Romney advisor Greg Mankiw and -
  - in an excellent column on Saturday -- Sebastian Mallaby, who described the rapid move to embrace Paulson's plan as "extremely dangerous."
  - And now, some of the most rabid ideologues on the Right are voicing increasingly strident opposition as well.
  - At National Review last night, Newt Gingrich wrote that "watching Washington rush to throw taxpayer money at Wall Street has been sobering and a little frightening" and said he "hopes Congress will slow down and have an open debate."
  - Thereafter, NR's Yuval Levin proclaimed that nobody could read through the Paulson proposal "without concluding that everyone in Washington has lost their minds."
    
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  - In The New York Times today, Bill Kristol said he's "doubtful that the only thing standing between us and a financial panic is for Congress to sign this week, on behalf of the American taxpayer, a $700 billion check over to the Treasury," while Michelle Malkin posted a lengthy alarmist screed warning that "Hank Paulson must be contained."
  - Right-wing opposition to the Paulson plan is vital for having any meaningful chance to stop it.
  - Does anyone have any confidence at all in the Democrats' willingness and/or ability to impede this bailout train if the Bush administration and the Right were vigorously behind it,
  - warning the nation of impending doom unless we submit to vast, unchecked government power of the type Henry Paulson is demanding?
  - The instances of complete Democratic acquiescence under those circumstances -- including when they "controlled" the Congress -- are far too numerous to allow any rational person to think Democrats, standing alone, would stop the Paulson plan. As sad as it is, meaningful right-wing opposition is critical for that to happen.
  - More interesting are the reasons why these right-wing polemicists have decided they have real doubts about the wisdom of the Paulson plan.
  - In opposing the plan, each of them cited -- with alarm -- the provision which vests full, unfettered and unreviewable discretion in the Treasury Secretary to determine how the $700,000,000,000 is allocated:
  - Levin (plan gives "essentially unlimited power to use $700 billion to make purchases the scope of which is defined very loosely and vaguely");
  - Gingrich ("We are being reassured that we can trust Secretary Paulson 'because he knows what he is doing'. Congress had better ask a lot of questions before it shifts this much burden to the taxpayer and shifts this much power to a Washington bureaucracy");
  - Kristol ("There are no provisions for — or even promises of — disclosure, accountability or transparency");
  - Malkin (Washington is demanding we "fork over $700 billion to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and allow him to dole it out to whomever he chooses in whatever amount he chooses -- without public input or recourse").
  - Apparently, the same political faction that has cheered on every instance of unchecked, absolute executive power over the last eight years -- which demanded that the President, and he alone, decide which citizens, including Americans, can be spied on, detained, even tortured, and that no oversight or disclosure was needed for any of that -- has suddenly re-discovered their desire for checks on federal government power.
  - The reason? They say it themselves: with the looming prospect of an Obama presidency, they may no longer be in charge of that Government and these "small government conservatives" have thus suddenly re-awoken to the virtues of checks and balances, oversight and other restraints.
    
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  - In explaining his opposition to the Paulson plan, Levin warns:
  - Even if Hank Paulson were the all knowing god of economics, would it make sense to give this kind of power to the treasury secretary for the next two years just forty days before an election? Shall we go through our mental list of who an Obama administration (or a McCain administration for that matter) is likely to put in that post?
  - Gingrich writes:
  - Imagine that the political balance of power in Washington were different.
    
    If this were a Democratic administration the Republicans in the House and Senate would be demanding answers and would be organizing for a "no" vote . . . . But because this gigantic power shift to Washington and this avalanche of taxpayer money is being proposed by a Republican administration, the normal conservative voices have been silent or confused.
    
    It's time to end the silence and clear up the confusion.
  - Malkin is actually worried about vesting such power in Paulson himself -- she thinks he's basically a tool of the Communist Chinese, a follower of "Gore-esque" eco-zealotry, and worst of all, someone with ties to some Democrats --
  - but the point is the same: people have long predicted that the Right will do a complete reversal (once again) in their positions on vast federal power and unlimited executive authority the minute that such power is vested in someone they oppose and fear rather than in themselves.
  - The remarkable spectacle of watching these right-wing authoritarians suddenly demand Congressional oversight and voice opposition to unlimited executive power -- two months before a highly possible Obama victory -- is quite obviously reflective of that shift.
  - Rather hilariously, this was the very first comment from a Malkin reader after she sounded the alarm about the provision in the Paulson plan providing that his decisions are "non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency":
  - So something that is unconstitutional cannot be reviewed by a Federal court? I guess, not even the Supreme Court. Well, if it is accepted, a precedent has been set, which will allow other proposals/bills to go through, regardless of legality, being "non-reviewable" by Federal court. A government running amok . . . with people cheering.
    
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  - This person obviously has no idea that such provisions are hardly "unprecedented," but have been appearing in several of the most controversial bills of the last eight years (as but one example, The Military Commissions Act, a right-wing favorite, essentially purported to bar courts from reviewing the President's decisions about who to detain and further barred judicial review of the Congressional scheme, and similar "court-stripping provisions" have long been a right-wing favorite in all sorts of contexts).
  - And more generally, this is how our Government has worked: the President demands unlimited power and Congress gives it to him.
  - It's only because visions of a Muslim, terrorist-sympathizing, socialist President Obama are haunting them in their feverish nightmares is the Right suddenly deeply fearful once again of vesting vast power in the Federal Government and the Executive.
    
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  - But no matter. The blatant hypocrisy here, while extreme, craven and obvious, is also healthy.
  - Hypocrisy of this sort is actually a vital part of how checks and balances are supposed to work. It is expected that political factions, when in charge of the government, will seek to obtain greater power for themselves, and the check against that is that the "opposition party" will battle and resist -- not necessarily out of ideology or principle but due to raw power considerations and self-interest.
  - That is what has been so tragically missing from our political process for the last eight years: while the GOP sought greater and greater government power, Democrats acquiesced almost completely when they weren't complicitly enabling it.
  - While the Executive was off the charts in terms of the power it seized, the Congress was off the charts in its passivity and eagerness to relinquish its Constitutionally assigned powers to the Bush White House.
  - That's what has caused the extreme imbalance, with a bloated Republican Party and virtually unlimited presidential power: the failure of Democrats and the Congress to serve as a check on any of that.
  - As their newfound contempt for unlimited power makes conclusively clear, the executive-power-worshipping Republicans of the last eight years -- if there is an Obama presidency -- will quickly re-discover their limited government power "principles" and won't be nearly as accommodating.
  - UPDATE: I should add that Congressional Democrats, while largely on board with the fundamentals of the bailout plan, have been making noises about demanding some limits and oversight on how this fund is managed, and the political climate is certainly part of what is motivating the Right to voice these doubts, as illustrated by the bizarre and deeply cynical spectacle of the GOP presidential nominee -- of all people -- joining with the Democrats to demand limits on CEO compensation.
  - The point, though, is that Democrats typically make noises of this type and then capitulate at the end if they stand alone.
  - This Paulson bill can be stopped only with widespread opposition that cuts across the standard ideological/partisan lines, and it shouldn't be that hard to argue why handing over $700 billion to the very people who caused this disaster, while allowing them to walk away soaked with profits, is not a good idea,
  - and that vesting unlimited power in the Bush administration to manage that is a particularly bad idea. If Democrats can't win that argument, what argument can they win?
  - UPDATE II: A Rasmussen Reports poll released today found that "most Americans are closely following news reports on the Bush Administration's federal bailout plan for the country’s troubled economy, but just 28% support what has been proposed so far."
  - Thirty-seven percent oppose it and 35% are unsure.
  - As El Zongo notes in comments, this bailout -- like the FISA gutting and telecom amnesty which preceded it -- has no real constituency beyond the Washington establishment.
  - That the public is so opposed and/or primed to oppose it more doesn't mean this won't pass -- we don't exactly have a substantial connection between what Washington does and public opinion -- but it does provide an important foundation for derailing this if political leaders decide they should or must.
  - -- Glenn Greenwald
The 'long run' arrives

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- The 'long run' arrives
- Exclusive: Vox Day cautions George Bush's socialism won't fix financial crisis
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- - Posted: September 22, 2008
    1:00 am Eastern
    
    
    By Vox Day
  - My very first political column here at WND warned of the likelihood that his administration would attempt to use 9/11 to destroy American liberties, and I warned voters prior to the 2004 election that voting for George W. Bush would make the Republican voter "a willing accomplice in the ongoing bipartisan destruction of your country."
  - I was opposed to George W. Bush's presidency from the very start.
  - I have always known he was no conservative and that he bore no allegiance to the Constitution.
  - With yesterday's announcement of the fifth and largest bailout to take place this year, the Bush administration has shown itself to be easily the most left wing since FDR was ensconced upon the Cherry Blossom Throne.
  - The administration's plan to purchase $700 billion in financial assets, announced on Saturday, represents the federal acquisition of just over 5 percent of the entire U.S. economy as measured by Gross Domestic Product. This additional 5 percent is beginning to approach the 7.5 percent of GDP that was the entire amount of federal spending in 1908.
  - As I pointed out in last week's column, the principle of counterpush states that to enact a controversial policy, the president pushing that policy must come from the party that is nominally opposed to it.
  - Because it is the Republicans who are the supposed party of small government and free market, only a Republican president could hope to get away with spending what is supposed to be the taxpayer's money to buy private assets priced at one-twentieth of the annual national economy.
  - What is particularly egregious about this action by the administration is the way in which it is primarily the bankers who caused this financial crisis who can be expected to benefit from it.
  - The Telegraph reported this weekend that the very individuals who were responsible for Lehman's failure are expected to reap $2.5 billion in bonuses from the English bank that acquired Lehman's U.S. operations last week.
  - It is actually a parasitical system in which the financial elite prey upon the capitalists by virtue of having purchased political approval for their predation.
  - The reality is that the American financial system is not a free market, and it is not even remotely capitalist.
  - Moody reported that financial services firms earned more than one-quarter of total corporate profits in 2007 – 27.4 percent, to be precise. They did not earn these profits through producing anything or from making business operations more efficient; they obtained it from behaving rather like pirates pillaging passing trade vessels.
  - As the financial collapse has shown, these profits were mostly the result of a vast construction of financial con games, none of which had anything to do with providing the investment money required by individuals who are starting new businesses and growing existing ones.
  - As anyone who has ever had any contact with the venture capital industry very well knows, the "vulture" capitalists only provide money to those companies that don't need it; their main purpose is to take their share of the loot when a private firm sells its shares to the public through the government-approved and licensed channels known as the stock exchanges.
  - Mob-run casinos are more honest and take a smaller house cut.
  - The administration's attempt to keep this shameless con game going will not work because it is based on the false Keynesian premise that controlled inflation, which slowly transfers wealth from savers to the bank owners, is sustainable over time.
  - Keynes knew it wasn't; he defended his flawed economic theory by pointing out that in the long run, everyone is dead.
  - And although the Federal Reserve has been frantically printing and distributing its magic helicopter money for the last month, it is unlikely to be able to do more than buy the bankers and politicians a little more time to prepare for the next round of crashes, bankruptcies and bailouts.
  - But Keynes has been dead for six decades, the long run has arrived at last.
  - If they actually thought it had a chance of succeeding, they wouldn't have banned short-selling.
  - it's quite clear that they don't even begin to understand what is happening, much less why, to say nothing of how they should respond.
  - This crisis is largely external to the current scope of American politics, so it isn't something that George Bush, John McCain or Barack Obama can even theoretically fix;
  - The only presidential candidate who understood the situation – he has condemned it for decades – was the candidate that the vast majority of the American people thought was too outlandish and too out of touch to support, Dr. Ron Paul.
  - So, naturally, the answer to government manipulation of the economy for the benefit of the financial elite will be to give the government even greater power to manipulate the economy for the benefit of the financial elite.
  - Still, the financial system has at last been exposed for the fundamental fraud it always has been.
  - The global economy concept should be the next to fall.
  - Although they don't realize it yet, Americans are facing their most important nexus since the Civil War.
  - They can return to the small government, free market principles of the Founding Fathers, or they can continue to trust in the paradigms and promises of the predatory charlatans who have brought them to this pass.
  - Given that most of the vital limits on democracy put into place by the Founding Fathers have been methodically removed over the last 200 years, the intelligent observer can bet securely on the latter.
LewRockwell.com Blog: Terrified Oligarchs

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- September 24, 2008
- Terrified Oligarchs
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- - Posted by Lew Rockwell at September 24, 2008 04:33 PM
  - As an insider tells me, Congressmen are "peeing in their pants" over the proposed bailout of the plutocrats - because they are being inundated by calls, emails, and visits from their very angry constituents.
  - No regular American believes Paulson and Bernanke, or thinks that their insider deal to rip us off for the government-connected rich is a good idea.
  - Both Obama and McCain are wholly owned subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
  - But congressmen are vulnerable to a change in the climate of opinion. Indeed, eventually, the whole regime is.
TheHill.com - Reid: McCain to support bailout

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- Reid: McCain to support bailout
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- - Republican presidential nominee John McCain will support a proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial markets, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Tuesday evening.
  - Sen. McCain’s (Ariz.) support of the package had been uncertain as a growing number of Republicans criticized it harshly.
  - Reid specifically challenged McCain on Tuesday to take a position on the bailout package.
  - “I got some good news in the last hour or so … it appears that Sen. McCain is going to come out for this,” Reid announced.
  - The McCain campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  - Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said earlier in the day that any lawmaker who votes for the Bush administration's bailout package would face defeat in November.
  - Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Banking Committee, also criticized the package.
  - Shelby told Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Tuesday morning that “what troubles me the most is that we have been given no credible assurances that this plan will work.”
  - The crescendo of Republican complaints prompted fears among Democrats that the package may not have enough GOP support to pass.
  - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on Tuesday said he would only support a bailout of the financial markets if it provides the necessary oversight and protects taxpayers.
  - Reid also told Senate colleagues that he expects soon to take up a continuing resolution funding the government beyond the end of fiscal 2008, as well as an economic stimulus package in the next few days.
  - Reid said the House would soon pass both measures and send them to the upper chamber.
    Reid said Congress would likely pass the defense appropriations bill as part of the continuing resolution (CR).
  - “The latest word I got is the defense appropriations bill is going to be in the CR, and that is extremely important if that’s the case.”
    Reid also pledged to pass the defense authorization conference report before Congress adjourned.
McCain Supports Financial Market Bailout, GOP Nominee Says Improvements Needed To Bush Admin's Proposal To Increase Oversight And Limit Executives Compensation - CBS News

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- McCain Supports Financial Market Bailout
- GOP Nominee Says Improvements Needed To Bush Admin's Proposal To Increase Oversight And Limit Executives Compensation
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  - (AP) Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday that he supports a $700 billion bailout of U.S. financial markets, but suggested improvements to the Bush administration's proposal to increase oversight and limit compensation for executives.
  - "Further inaction is simply not an option," McCain said in brief remarks to reporters, his first news conference in more than a month.
  - "We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy. People will no longer be able to buy homes and their life savings will be at stake. Businesses will not have enough money to pay their employees."
  - He called the proposed bailout a "staggering" figure that amounts to a $10,000 contribution for each U.S. household, money that could otherwise be used to rebuild roads and bridges in every town in the country.
  - To protect taxpayers, he asked for a bipartisan board to provide oversight, a plan to recover the money, a cap on compensation for executives of firms that are helped by the bailout and a ban on earmarks on the legislation.
  - McCain stopped short of saying he would vote "no" if his priorities weren't reflected.
    
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  - He said he was confident the final plan would include them.
  - While members of Congress have agreed in principle on aspects of the administration's proposal, many Democrats and some Republicans, like McCain, have insisted the plan deny "golden parachute" payments to executives at failing financial firms.
  - "In any solution, we must see accountability, we must see transparency and we must make sure taxpayers' dollars don't line the pockets of executives," McCain said earlier Tuesday while campaigning in Ohio.
Michael Calderone's Blog: Palin schmoozes with Murdoch - Politico.com

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- September 24, 2008
  
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- Palin schmoozes with Murdoch
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- - Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel reports:
  - NEW YORK, N.Y. – Sarah Palin schmoozed with controversial media tycoon Rupert Murdoch at a swanky charity gala here Wednesday night.
  - Murdoch, whose New York tabloid this month editorialized about Palin being “charming, but rock-solid,” seemed quite chummy with the Republican vice presidential candidate after the two emerged together from a swanky charity gala, according to a pool report sent to the press covering Palin.
  - “He gave her a pat on the back … and said to her, ‘Thank you very much’” as she slid into the back of a waiting SUV wearing “a radiant smile,” the report said.
  - The dinner, held at a midtown Asian restaurant where guests are greeted by a reflecting pool stocked with Japanese carp and an enormous floating Buddha statue, was hosted by Murdoch’s wife Wendi Murdoch, as well as Jordan's Queen Rania and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah Brown.
    
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  - It was to benefit a United Nations-linked initiative seeking to reduce maternal mortality worldwide.
  - Rupert Murdoch – who is involved in former President Bill Clinton’s worldwide efforts to combat climate change, poverty and corruption – is known for his conservative positions, but has cultivated ties to U.S. politicians of both parties.
  - He owns right-leaning media outlets like Fox News and The New York Post, the latter of which surprised some observers this month by endorsing the McCain-Palin ticket over Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
  - That's because Murdoch had publicly spoke favorably of Obama, even dubbing him a "rock star."
  - Not only was The Post’s endorsement early, but Murdoch had admitted he "played a role" in the Post’s endorsement during the Democratic primary of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, for whom he had hosted a fundraiser.
  - Last week, Murdoch talked about the editorial to Neil Cavuto, and described Obama's economic policies as "naive."
  - In addition to calling Palin “charming” and “rock-solid,” The Post’s general election endorsement of McCain-Palin praised her as and said her selection as underscoring McCain’s Washington-outsider status.
    
    “Neither plays well with others,” the editorial said.
Timothy Garton Ash: The time has come for a final report on the 43rd president of the US | Comment is free | The Guardian

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- The time has come for a final report on the 43rd president of the US
- The man who set out to reinforce unbridled American power has weakened it in all three essential dimensions
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- - Timothy Garton Ash
    
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    Thursday September 25 2008
  - As the two men who would succeed him train like Olympic athletes for tomorrow's foreign policy debate, pause for a moment to complete your final report on the 43rd president of the United States. What would you say?
  - I would sum up his two terms in four words: hubris followed by nemesis.
  - Remember the mood music of eight years ago. The greatest power the world has ever seen. Rome on steroids. An international system said to be unipolar, and Washington's unabashed embrace of unilateralism.
  - The US as "Prometheus unbound", according to the neoconservative commentator Charles Krauthammer. Wall Street investment bankers bestriding the financial globe as Pentagon generals did the military globe and Harvard professors the soft power one.
  - Masters of the universe. Personifying that hubristic moment: George Walker Bush.
  - And now: nemesis.
  - The irony of the Bush years is that a man who came into office committed to both celebrating and reinforcing sovereign, unbridled national power has presided over the weakening of that power in all three dimensions: military, economic and soft.
  - "I am not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan," Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional committee earlier this month.
  - Many on the ground say that's an understatement.
  - The massive, culpable distraction of Iraq, Bush's war of choice, leaves the US - and with it the rest of the west - on the verge of losing the war of necessity.
    
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  - Here, resurgent in Afghanistan and Pakistan, are the jihadist enemies who attacked the US on September 11 2001.
  - By misusing military power, Bush has weakened it.
  - Economically, the Bush presidency ends with a financial meltdown on a scale not seen for 70 years.
  - The proud conservative deregulators (John McCain long among them) now oversee a partial nationalisation of the American economy that would make even a French socialist blush.
  - A government bailout that will total close to a trillion dollars, plus the cumulative cost of the Iraq war, will push the national debt to more than $11 trillion.
  - The flagships of Wall Street either go bust or have to be salvaged, with the help of government or foreign money. Most ordinary Americans feel poorer and less secure.
  - The Pew Global Attitudes Survey has recorded a precipitous worldwide fall in favourable views of the US since 2001.
    
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  - The decline in soft power - the power to attract - is also dramatic.
  - The map is chequered, of course, but the distaste extends beyond policies of the Bush administration to things such as "American ways of doing business", and "American ideas about democracy".
  - Iraq has been central to this collapse of credibility and attractiveness.
  - When Bush denounces Russia for invading a sovereign country (Georgia), as he did again at the UN on Tuesday, a cry of "humbug" goes up around the world.
  - Now American-style free market capitalism is taking a further hit, while some of the alternative models are looking better.
  - Last weekend, five former US secretaries of state - two Democrat, three Republican - gathered for a panel discussion on the future of foreign policy, televised by CNN.
  - Asked by Christiane Amanpour what should be the biggest concern for the new president, Colin Powell replied: "To restore a sense of confidence in the United States of America."
  - Madeleine Albright added that the world of 2009 would be full of issues "that can only be solved in cooperation with other countries".
  - And, Republican and Democrat, they chorussed "close Guantánamo".
  - Even George Bush now seems to concur with this criticism of George Bush - and I don't just mean speculation that the father is privately critical of the son. Eight years ago, president Bush the younger hardly seemed to know what the word "multilateral" meant.
  - In the course of his farewell address to the UN general assembly this week, he used the word "multilateral" 10 times.
  - Obviously not all this mess can be blamed on Bush: he's not responsible for the epochal rise of China, nor for jihadist terrorists' long-term hatred of the west.
  - But a great deal of it can.
  - At the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, you can still see the painted glass sign that president Harry Truman placed on his desk in the oval office: The Buck Stops Here. (On the back it says: I'm From Missouri.)
  - The buck stops there. The contrast between the president from Missouri and the president from Texas is painful.
  - Judgment, prudence, vision, patience, honesty - every quality that the 33rd president so signally possessed, as the US remade the world after 1945, has been signally lacking in the 43rd.
  - The buck stops there. And the more we learn about it, the clearer it becomes that it was pursued with a mixture of self-deception and lies.
  - Iraq, the US's greatest strategic blunder in at least 30 years, is Bush's fault.
  - The reporter Ron Suskind has a new book out in which he recounts how, in the runup to war, British intelligence secured unique access to Saddam Hussein's head of intelligence, Tahir Jalil Habbush.
  - Habbush told them what turned out subsequently to be the truth: that Saddam had ceased his programme of weapons of mass destruction, but would not admit it, because he was obsessed with keeping regional enemies such as Iran in a state of fear and uncertainty.
  - That version was corroborated by Saddam's foreign minister, to whom French intelligence had originally secured access.
  - The Bush-Cheney White House ignored both reports, preferring what turned out to be the fabrications of a German intelligence source codenamed Curveball. Curveball indeed.
  - Some of Suskind's reporting has been questioned, but the basic story is not in doubt. The Bush-Cheney White House pressed ahead to war on a fraudulent prospectus, suppressing and distorting very important contrary evidence.
    
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  - As a senior member of the administration told Suskind: "We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality." Hubris has rarely been better expressed.
  - Something similar happened with the vertiginous unreality of hyper-leveraged Wall Street investment banking over the past decade.
  - The financiers' motto, too, could have been "We create our own reality". Again, nemesis follows hubris as the night the day.
  - The White House was not directly responsible for what looks like wild financial irresponsibility, but it was responsible for not supervising and regulating it - something even John McCain is now at least implicity admitting. The buck stopped there.
  - As for the decline in American soft power, that is something for which George Bush was directly to blame.
  - His arrogance, his unilateralism, his insensitivity, his long-time denial of the need for urgent action on climate change: all fed directly into the plummeting credit of the US around the world. It would have been a different story with a different president.
  - For years now, we have seen those who hate the US abusing and burning effigies of Bush. The truth is, the anti-Americans should be building gilded monuments to him. For no one has done more to serve the cause of anti-Americanism than GW Bush.
    
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  - It is we who like and admire the US who should, by rights, be burning effigies. But now, at last, we live in hope of a better America.
Bush the Socialist and Destroyer by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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- - Anyone who
    has read a good economics book
    would be quickly reduced to laughter and tears by George Bush's
    ridiculous economic address to the nation.
  - He put on his 9-11 suit
    and tried to warn Americans about the impending disaster: that their
    access to an infinite stream of paper money might be imperiled if
    they don't cough up hundreds of billions immediately.
  - It is very
    tempting to go line by line and shout back.
  - "I'm a strong
    believer in free enterprise, so my natural instinct is to oppose
    government intervention. I believe companies that make bad decisions
    should be allowed to go out of business."
  - And this is
    why he nationalized airport security, created huge new bureaucracies,
    spent more than any president in American history, centralized control
    of education, put up more protectionist barriers than Clinton and
    his father combined, bailed out airlines, presided over the Sarbanes-Oxley
    reign of terror, unleashed anti-trust regulators, intensified health-care
    controls, and pretty much used every headline as an excuse to demand
    more money and power?
    
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  - "The FDIC
    has been in existence for 75 years, and no one has ever lost a
    penny on an insured deposit, and this will not change."
  - But the penny
    itself has lost 94% of its value in those 75 years precisely because
    of institutions such as the FDIC and the Fed. Does he really think
    we are that foolish?
  - Here is my
    favorite:
    
    "The problems
    we're witnessing today developed over a long period of time. For
    more than a decade, a massive amount of money flowed into the
    United States from investors abroad because our country is an
    attractive and secure place to do business."
  - So
    those nasty foreigners did it to us, huh? Maybe it was Bin Laden
    who sneakily tried to create a credit bubble by investing in U.S.
    stocks!
  - And here is
    his description of the grave calamity we face:
    
    "As uncertainty
    has grown, many banks have restricted lending, credit markets
    have frozen, and families and businesses have found it harder
    to borrow money."
  - Imagine that!
    We might have to live within our means for a bit.
  - That would actually
    be a wonderful thing. Maybe a recession would last a year or 18
    months, and then we would be back on solid footing again.
  - He very
    nearly admits that too much credit is what created this mess. So
    he proposes more credit so that we can continue to live on too much
    credit.
  - And then what happens next time? Ever more credit? This
    path ends in Weimar-level inflation and total destruction.
    
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  - It is somewhere between
    55 and 90 percent, depending on the way the question is worded.
    Also, it is wide and deep opposition. It is made up of Democrats,
    Republicans, liberals, conservatives, blacks, whites, rich, poor,
    men, women – just about everyone, with no systematic bias among
    the polled groups.
  - What is striking
    here is the level of public opposition.
  - In other words, we have here a wonderful thing:
    a clash of group interests, as Mises would say. It is the state
    and its friends vs. the American people.
    
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  - That doesn't
    mean that Congress won't pass something or other. The administration
    is prepared to pay off every member.
  - And yet the proximity to the
    election complicates matters. A lost election means no payoff, no
    matter what.
  - If public anger is intense enough, these guys might
    balk in the end.
  - This
    would be a glorious result. The "credit crisis," as Bush describes
    it, is nothing more than the kind of crisis a college kid faces
    when his parents cut back on the deposits to his checking account.
  - It means less high living, a few more nights moping in the dorm
    rather than going out with his drinking friends. It does not mean
    the end of the world.
  - The market
    is working now to make things right, to eliminate bad debt and get
    us back on a sound economic footing.
  - The government can help by
    legalizing alternative monies, cutting regulations, cutting spending
    and taxing and wars (as Ron Paul says), but otherwise by doing absolutely
    nothing.
  - Lehman failed on its own and yet life goes on. The same
    should happen to Goldman, Morgan, Bear, GM, and all the rest.
  - Free enterprise
    is a profit and loss system.
  - This is a time of losses, stemming
    from an overinflated credit sector, one that the Austrian economists
    have warned about for many years. Listen to the Austrians now and
    permit the failures to occur.
  - By the way,
    since when has it been an article of our national religion that
    the economy must never, ever, under any circumstances, be permitted
    to fall into recession, even slightly? This is completely insane.
  - The books you
    need to get to your congressman and staff now are America's
    Great Depression and The
    Mystery of Banking. The first explains that it was credit
    expansion and the attempt to keep prices high that prolonged the
    Depression which would otherwise have ended by 1931 or 1932. On
    this point Bernanke is all wet.
  - The second
    book explains how money and banking work in a free market, as opposed
    to a subsidized, fiat-money, centralized system.
  - These are the two
    most essential books of our time, because they completely overthrow
    the prevailing theory behind the bailout.
  - Our choice
    is this. We can buckle down for a year-long recession and then get
    on the path to financial and economic soundness. Or we can set off
    a calamity that will last a decade or more, and perhaps even wreck
    civilization as we know it. That's our choice.
  - September
    26, 2008
    
    Llewellyn
    H. Rockwell, Jr. [send him
    mail] is founder and president of the Ludwig
    von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, editor of LewRockwell.com,
    and author of Speaking
    of Liberty.
The Raw Story | Daily Show: Bush 'won't be satisifed until American children are eating roadkill'

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    Published: Wednesday September 24, 2008
  - The Bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout of troubled investment firms got the Daily Show treatment on Tuesday, and Jon Stewart was particularly incensed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's coy reluctance to accept the taxpayers' money unless his decisions on how to spend it are made "non-reviewable."
  - "Before we hand this Munster-esque unelected official 700 billion no-strings-attached dollars," Stewart remarked, "there is one thing you should know -- this financial guru never saw it coming."
  - "I've got great confidence in our financial market," Paulson stated last March. "Our markets are resilient, are flexible. Our institutions, our banks and investment banks, are strong."
  - President Bush also came in for his share of ridicule. "It turns out there are a lot of interlinks throughout the financial system," an apparently astonished Bush recently explained, illustrating the point with appropriate hand gestures.
  - "Then AIG came along and the house of cards was much bigger. ... And so when one card started to go, we worried about the whole deck going down."
  - Stewart turned next to Daily Show analyst John Oliver, saying, "After Katrina, after Iraq ... I didn't think there was another area that these guys could screw up."
    
    "It wasn't easy," Oliver replied. "It was like finding a vein on a failure junkie."
  - "Is this economic crisis, then, sort of the turd icing on this administration's shitcake?" Stewart wondered.
    
    "Don't count them out, Jon," Oliver cautioned. "It's a long way to January."
    
    "You think there's more out there?" Stewart asked. "What's left for them to -- decomplish, if you will."
    
    "Do you still have a home?" Oliver asked. "Did your children have breakfast this morning? ... Was it something they found in the street?"
  - "You're saying the president here won't be satisfied until American children are eating roadkill?" suggested Stewart.
    
    "Until they're fighting over roadkill," Oliver emphasized. "Until roadkill is the prize for the strongest."
  - When Stewart asked why Bush would possibly want this, Oliver explained that it was a matter of "legacy. ... We all know he'll never be ranked as the best president. But he could still, if he works hard enough ..."
    
    "Be the worst?"
    
    "The last."
  - This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast September 23, 2008.
Bush the arrogant - Los Angeles Times

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  - As the Bush administration attempts to stabilize the nation's economy, we are witness to the final chapter of a period of perverse and dishonest leadership that has used its own crises to justify the expansion of its own power.
  - This was a president who came to office on promises of modesty -- who championed a "humble nation," scorned nation building and promised a more limited role for government in the lives of its citizens.
  - Then he presided over a six-year attempt to tear down and rebuild the nations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and now has embarked on the most profound expansion of the federal government's role in the private economy since the Depression.
  - In both cases, the pattern is the same. Ineptitude led to crisis; crisis then became the argument for the radical expansion of executive power.
    
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  - The administration insisted that it exercise its new authority with a minimum of scrutiny by Congress, the courts or the public.
  - In the so-called war on terror, that has meant the abdication of our most basic American principles.
  - We have forfeited privacy and honor -- the administration has monitored phones and e-mails without warrants and has secreted prisoners in foreign lands, arguing that they deserved none of our protections even while in our custody.
    
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  - As a nation, we have stooped to torture (while debating the meaning of the word) and refused to recognize one of our most basic Anglo-American notions, the principle of habeas corpus (thankfully, the Supreme Court, seven of whose members are Republicans, drew the line at that abomination).
  - We have held prisoners in detention without trial, without charge, without end. In so doing, we have antagonized the world and debased America's moral authority to lead.
  - The same administration responsible for these catastrophes has over the last month nationalized the largest source of funding for mortgages and the largest insurance company on the planet.
  - And it proposed to intervene even more dramatically in the nation's economy by having the Treasury Department -- with no court, congressional or public oversight -- relieve financial institutions of the troubled mortgages and related securities that have locked up the lending system.
  - There is no doubt about the depth and range of the crisis that provokes these calls for government action. The gyrations of the stock market have been dismaying, and the threat to the country's financial institutions -- and everyone who borrows from or invests in them -- is real.
  - Still, the audacity of this administration demanding expanded powers and curtailed accountability is a wonder to behold.
    
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  - The bitter irony is that this crisis warrants dramatic intervention, but President Bush's record makes him difficult to trust even when he's right.
  - These troubles are about more than a president who is unfaithful to his word. Bush has transformed the balance of power in our government.
  - We are seeing the erection of an imperial presidency, immune from oversight when it fights terrorists and when it rescues banks.
  - Politically, these developments raise two questions: Which candidate to succeed Bush benefits most by the events of recent weeks?
    
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  - And which candidate, if either, would have the strength to roll back these expansions of presidential power if elected?
    
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  - To the first question, the answer seems to be Barack Obama, though only modestly.
  - Obama's poll numbers have inched up in recent days as voters have taken stock of a frighteningly complex economic meltdown and been left to wonder what to think of John McCain's abrupt, halting responses -- as McCain saw it, the "fundamentals" of the economy were sound one moment, at risk the next.
  - Questions about McCain's judgment in recent days have only been deepened by the performances of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She has struggled in her rare public appearances, and her selection risks appearing all the more reckless and cynical when held against the seriousness of this financial crisis.
  - Even McCain's campaign "suspension" seemed like gamesmanship.
  - He said he was rushing to Washington, but took his time, and the talks derailed soon after he arrived. He proclaimed that the situation was so dire he would not return to the stump until an agreement was reached, then did precisely what he said he wouldn't. It was not an impressive week for the Straight Talk Express.
  - Still, Obama has hardly run away with this issue, and the economic news exposes his weaknesses as well.
  - He is, after all, untested by executive crisis and a freshman senator of limited achievement in government.
  - Voters may well blanch at his relative inexperience, given the gravity of these times. Indeed, it is telling that in a week when his opponent flailed, Obama made scant headway in the polls.
  - On the matter of which candidate could be trusted to roll back the excessive powers that Bush has aggregated, Obama is vague and McCain is exasperating.
  - McCain has properly condemned the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and said he would close it, but when the court granted detainees there the rights of habeas corpus, McCain denounced the ruling as "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country."
  - He condemned torture, but then, with the campaign underway, voted against legislation to limit the CIA's use of coercive interrogation. Those oscillations do not reassure.
  - Obama, meanwhile, is more consistent and encouraging but offers few specifics.
  - He pledges to close Guantanamo, restore habeas corpus and end the invasions of privacy undertaken in the name of fighting terrorism. Those are welcome positions and provide some hope that he would roll back Bush's excesses.
    
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  - But while he pledges allegiance to the separation of powers, Obama has said little about how to honor that pledge.
  - Rare is the politician who willingly cedes authority, and we have not heard enough from Obama to be convinced he's that rare person.
  - These are not abstractions. They are the legacy of this grim epoch, one that should be equally offensive to conservatives and liberals. George Bush promised humility and delivered arrogance. The next president must not.
Secret Bush Administration Plan to Suspend US Constitution

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- However, key congressional representatives have been kept out of the loop and House and Senate leaders have said they were not informed the "shadow government" had "gone live."
- So secretive are Bush administration plans that Peter DeFazio (D-OR), a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, was denied access in 2007 to the classified version of the COG plans contained in top secret Presidential Decision Directive annexes. This too, is unprecedented.
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- - While the Bush administration admitted that COG was activated in 2001, their disclosure came only after The Washington Post broke the story based on confidential administration sources troubled by the scope of the program and its secretive implementation.
  - Since the late 1980s, Rumsfeld was a habitué of COG exercises along with Vice President Dick Cheney. Indeed early COG drills had been organized by the right-wing Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
  - As investigative journalist Andrew Cockburn revealed in his definitive political biography of the former Defense Secretary:
    
    This highly secret program was known as Project 908, and among the individuals earmarked to take power when disaster struck was Donald Rumsfeld. ...
  - There, for several days, he would be immured in artificial caverns, staring at electronic displays streaming data of disaster and confusion, sleeping on cots and subsisting on the most austere rations. ...
  - Insofar as the COG games gave the illusion of reality, they taught Rumsfeld and his fellow players some dangerous lessons, particularly when the fall of the Soviet Union induced some changes in the usual scenarios. Although the exercises continued, still budgeted at over $200 million in the Clinton era, the vanished Soviets were now customarily replaced by terrorists. The terrorism envisaged however, was almost always state-sponsored. ...
  - There were other changes, too. In earlier times the specialists selected to run the "shadow government" had been drawn from across the political spectrum, Democrats and Republicans alike. But now, down in the bunkers, Rumsfeld found himself in politically congenial company, the players' roster being filled almost exclusively with Republican hawks. (Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, New York: Scribner, 2007, pp. 85-86, 88)
  - As researcher Peter Dale Scott revealed, in early 2006 the Department of Homeland Security awarded a $385 million contract to a Halliburton subsidiary, KBR, to provide "temporary detention and processing facilities."
  - Scott wrote,
    
    The contract--announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR--calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when. ...
  - In January 2002 the Pentagon submitted a proposal for deploying troops on American streets.
  - After 9/11, new martial law plans began to surface similar to those of FEMA in the 1980s.
  - One month later John Brinkerhoff, the author of the 1982 FEMA memo, published an article arguing for the legality of using U.S. troops for purposes of domestic security. (Peter Dale Scott, "Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps," Pacific News Service, February 8, 2006)
  - The DHS contract to KBR had been preceded by the April 2002 creation of the Pentagon's Northern Command (NORTHCOM), specifically empowered by the Bush administration for domestic U.S. military operations in direct violation of Posse Comitatus prohibitions forbidding the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.
  - At the time, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld called NORTHCOM's launch "the most sweeping set of changes since the unified command system was set up in 1946."
  - Sweeping indeed! Last month Army Times reported that the Army's "3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team [BCT] has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys. Now they're training for the same mission--with a twist--at home."
  - According to Army Times,
    
    Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. ...
    
    But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities. ...
    
    They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack. ...
    
    The 1st BCT's soldiers also will learn how to use "the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded," 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.
    
    "It's a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that they're fielding. They've been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission we're undertaking we were the first to get it."
    
    The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets. (Gina Cavallaro, "Brigade Homeland Tours Start Oct. 1," Army Times, September 8, 2008)
  - While senior Pentagon brass have downplayed the significance of deploying a BCT that has taken part in aggressive occupation duties to suppress the Iraqi people's resistance, Col. Lou Vogler, NORTHCOM's chief of future operations said in an interview that the military "will integrate with law enforcement to understand the situation and make sure we're aware of any threats."
  - An article published by the Army News Service disclosed,
    
    During the exercise, commanders and staff of the force will train, rehearse and exercise--from academic classes to making decisions and executing orders--all to help prepare them for the mission they will assume on Oct. 1, said Vogler.
  - "It's an opportunity for network building in an unprecedented assignment of forces," said [Marine Corps Lt. Col.] Shores. "DOD always had allocated contingency sourced forces--but this is precedent-setting network building with the forces that we ultimately will go out and execute with. It's an opportunity to get to know our forces, to see them in execution, to mission-orient them and be that much better--to be that much more responsive."
  - One goal of the exercise is to exercise with partners from the civilian agencies they would support.
  - To that end, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other interagency representatives are participating to ensure integration with civilian consequence managers who would lead a response, said Vogler.
  - "The overall federal response builds on the local and state response in accordance with the incident command system and existing plans and processes that are out there," said Vogler.
  - "The response force would supplement local efforts." ("Consequence Management Response Force to join Army Northern Command," Army News Service, September 15, 2008)
  - Vogler and Shores were discussing an exercise code-named Vibrant Response, that took place September 8-19 at Fort Stewart in Georgia.
  - Three brigades form the core of NORTHCOM's Consequence Management Response Force: the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Army Division; the 1st Medical Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas, and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. All three units participated in Vibrant Response.
  - As researcher and analyst Michel Chossudovsky comments:
    
    The BCT is an army combat unit designed to confront an enemy within a war theater.
  - With US forces overstretched in Iraq, why would the Pentagon decide to undertake this redeployment within the USA, barely one month before the presidential elections?
  - The new mission of the 1st Brigade on US soil is to participate in "defense" efforts as well as provide "support to civilian authorities".
    
    What is significant in this redeployment of a US infantry unit is the presumption that North America could, in the case of a national emergency, constitute a "war theater" thereby justifying the deployment of combat units.
  - The new skills to be imparted consist in training 1st BCT in repressing civil unrest, a task normally assumed by civilian law enforcement.
    
    What we are dealing with is a militarization of civilian police activities in derogation of the Posse Comitatus Act. ("Pre-election Militarization of the North American Homeland. US Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to 'help with civil unrest'," Global Research, September 26, 2008)
  - One scenario envisaged by Chossudovsky is that "civil unrest resulting from from the financial meltdown is a distinct possibility, given the broad impacts of financial collapse on lifelong savings, pension funds, homeownership, etc."
  - One might reasonably inquire, what "precedent-setting network" does the Army have in mind that would "ensure integration" with "civilian agencies" such as FEMA (a branch of Homeland Security)?
  - As the World Socialist Web Site reports:
    
    It is noteworthy that the deployment of US combat troops "as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters"--in the words of the Army Times--coincides with the eruption of the greatest economic emergency and financial disaster since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
  - Justified as a response to terrorist threats, the real source of the growing preparations for the use of US military force within America's borders lies not in the events of September 11, 2001 or the danger that they will be repeated. Rather, the domestic mobilization of the armed forces is a response by the US ruling establishment to the growing threat to political stability. (Bill Van Auken, "Army deploys combat unit in U.S. for possible civil unrest," World Socialist Web Site, 25 September 2008)
  - As the 2001 COOP planning document describes, a host of on-going Army plans and exercises have been revised by the Bush administration.
  - In addition to Vibrant Response discussed above, they include: Plan EXCALIBUR, a COG Army training exercise; ADOBE, described by investigative journalist William M. Arkin as a "FEMA continuity of government special access program designation."
  - Arkin describes special access programs or SAPs as,
    
    Classified research and development, acquisition program, operation, intelligence activity, or plan that is so sensitive or critical that the value of the information warrants enhanced protection beyond that normally provided for access to Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret information. (William M. Arkin, Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World, Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2005, p. 598)
  - The impetus for revising Army COOP was, according to AR 500-3 primarily because,
    
    The end of the Cold War and the breakup of the former Soviet Union significantly reduced the probability of a major nuclear attack on CONUS but the probability of other threats has increased. Army organizations must be prepared for any contingency with a potential for interruption of normal operations. To emphasize that Army continuity of operations planning is now focused on the full all-hazards threat spectrum, the name "ASRRS" has been replaced by the more generic title "Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program." (p. 13)
  - Towards this end, the Rumsfeld-era document states that the Army's new "mission-critical" functions will be restructured so that, "Army COOP plans must ensure that the Army remains capable of continuing mission-essential operations during any situation, including military attack, terrorist activities, and natural or man-made disasters." (p. 13)
  - The Army, following various contingencies analyzed in the document will "coordinate with mission-essential external organizations and agencies." (p. 14)
  - So sensitive are the political ramifications of these plans that under the heading, 3-12 Operational Security (OPSEC), the Army avers,
    
    a. The success of COOP planning relies on denying access by unauthorized parties to information on COOP plans, procedures, capabilities and facilities.
    
    b. Overhead imagery, signals intelligence, human sources, and exploitation of open literature during peacetime are threat capabilities used to gain knowledge of Army emergency plans, command and control systems, and facilities.
    
    c. See Appendix B, Security Classification Guide, for guidance on the level of classification of COOP-related information. (COOP, op. cit., p. 20)
    
    Appendix A of AR 500-3 lists relevant references for changes included in the COOP planning document.
  - These include:
    
    Section I
    
    Required Publications
    
    HQDA Operations Plan EXCALIBUR, 30 April 1999 (Being Revised)
    
    HQDA Continuity of Operations Plan (cited in para 1-4.f)
    
    Section II
    
    Related Publications a related publication is merely a source of additional information. The user does not have to read it to understand this publication.
    
    Executive Order 12656
    
    National Security Emergency Preparedness (NSEP), 18 November 1988
    
    DoD Directive (Dodd) 2000.12
    
    DoD Antiterrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) Program, 13 April 1999
    
    CJCSM 3410.01
    
    Continuity of Operations Plan for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (COOP-CJCS), 1 March 1999
    
    Executive Order 12787
    
    Prescribing the Order of Succession of Officers to Act as Secretary of Defense, 31 December 1991
    
    DoDD 3020.26
    
    Continuity of Operations (COOP) Policy and Planning, 26 May 1995
    
    DoD 3020.26P
    
    Continuity of Operations Plan, 21 June 2000 (Classified SECRET)
    
    DoDD 3020.36
    
    Assignment of National Security Emergency Preparedness (NSEP) Responsibilities to DoD Components, 2 November 1988
    
    DoDD 3025.15
    
    Military Support to Civil Authorities (MSCA), 18 February 1997
    
    The Federal Response Plan, April 1999
    
    Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 67, (Top Secret) Enduring Constitutional Government (ECG) and Continuity of Government (COG) Operations, Oct 21, 1998
    
    Federal Preparedness Circular 65, Federal Executive Branch Continuity of Operations, (COOP), July 26, 1999
  - As Peter Dale Scott reported in CounterPunch, apparently members of Congress are considered "unauthorized parties" to be denied access "to information on COOP plans, procedures, capabilities and facilities."
  - Congressman DeFazio had been denied access to the classified annexes of National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive (NSPD 51/HSPD 20
  - Scott wrote,
    
    NSPD 51 contains "classified Continuity Annexes" which shall "be protected from unauthorized disclosure." Congressman DeFazio twice requested to see these Annexes, the second time in a letter cosigned by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Christopher Carney. It was these requests that the White House denied. ...
    
    DeFazio's inability to get access to the NSPD Annexes is less than reassuring. If members of the Homeland Security Committee cannot enforce their right to read secret plans of the Executive Branch, then the systems of checks and balances established by the U.S. Constitution would seem to be failing.
  - To put it another way, if the White House is successful in frustrating DeFazio, then Continuity of Government planning has arguably already superseded the Constitution as a higher authority. (Peter Dale Scott, "The Showdown," CounterPunch, March 31, 2008)
  - With the stunning revelations published by Wikileaks, it is abundantly clear that top Bush administration officials were busily revising Continuity of Government plans, including "civil disturbance" contingencies for suspending the Constitution and imposing martial law, long before the 9/11 attacks.
  - Since that fatal and tragic day seven long years ago, we have been told repeatedly by the government and their media sycophants that 9/11 was the day "when everything changed."
    
    We now know thanks to Wikileaks, that as with the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the unprecedented and lawless surveillance of Americans, the illegal detention and torture of prisoners of war, that Bush administration assertions are no more than a pack of murderous lies.
  - One fact is abundantly clear from the mass of conflicting evidence and assertions made by proponents of various theories surrounding the 9/11 events: AR 500-3 demonstrates that from the very first moments after being installed in office, the Bush regime was involved in a "controlled demolition" of the U.S. Constitution.
  - Tom Burghardt is a researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to publishing in Covert Action Quarterly, Love & Rage and Antifa Forum, he is the editor of Police State America: U.S. Military "Civil Disturbance" Planning, distributed by AK Press.
Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com » Glenn Beck’s Slick Propaganda Segment on the H1N1 Vaccination

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- - Kurt Nimmo
    
    Infowars
    
    October 9, 2009
  - On his show today, Glenn Beck covered the H1N1 virus and vaccine. He said he would not take a stand on if you should submit to the vaccination.
  - Beck asked his guests about the attenuated virus in the nasal spray version of the vaccine.
  - Marc Siegel, M.D., who has written a book on the swine flu — and Fox naturally peddled, thus giving the audience the idea he is an expert — said the live virus in the vaccine is not capable of spreading the disease in healthy people.
  - “No claws on it,” Siegel insisted, “it has been totally deactivated. It is alive and it can get you sick if you are immunally compromised or if you have asthma or you are pregnant. You can only take it if you are totally healthy. It cannot morph into the flu itself.”
  - It is estimated 60 percent of the U.S. population is immunodeficient in one way or another, but doctor Siegel did not mention this.
  - He also did not mention concerns on the part of other doctors and health care professionals about the attenuated virus.
  - Siegel also did not say how health care providers will prevent the immunodeficient from getting the virus.
  - Due to government and corporate media hype about H1N1, it is likely millions of less than healthy people will be demanding they be vaccinated.
  - As a responsible doctor instead of a Fox News talking head, Mr. Siegel would have mentioned the FluMist insert.
  - It states that FluMist “recipients should avoid close contact with immunocompromised individuals for at least 21 days,” in particular immunocompromised people living in the same house.
  - In other words, it is inevitable millions of immunocompromised people will get sick.
  - Millions of Americans suffer from eczema, allergies, cancer, HIV infection or AIDS, emphysema, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, herniated spinal discs, acute muscular pain syndromes, and all types of rheumatoid and autoimmune diseases. As much as 60% of the entire population could be considered to be “chemically immunosuppressed,” according to experts.
  - The FluMist campaign now underway will be the “most intense, direct-to-consumer marketing campaign ever waged for a vaccine,” costing an estimated $25 million over the next 2.5 months. Big Pharma plans a three-year, $100 million campaign to encourage use of the nasal flu vaccine among physicians, notes Dr. Sherri Tenpenny.
  - “Apparently, the goal seems to center around frightening — or inducing enough guilt — that everyone would begin to demand the vaccine as soon as it is available,” including the immunodeficient.
  - But is not merely the risks to the immunosuppressed. As Dr. Tenpenny notes, an ever greater concern about FluMist is the contents within the vaccine.
  - In addition to the live, attenuated influenza virus — the average dose contains between 10 million and 100 million viral particles — the culture media the viral strain was developed in may not be free of pathogens not tested for.
  - In addition, the risk that the vaccine may contain contaminant avian retroviruses is present.
  - Add to this concern the fact a stabilizing buffer containing potassium phosphate, sucrose (table sugar) and nearly 0.5 mg of monosodium glutamate (MSG) is added to each dose, according to the FluMist package insert.
  - “The pharmaceutical companies do not necessarily always do a reasonable job of considering the ‘down side’ when they are pushing new drugs or new vaccines,” writes Tenpenny.
  - “FluMist has the potential for causing the worst, most severe flu epidemic seen in years.
  - Dr. Rima Laibow calls FluMist a “recipe for pandemic.
  - (It) contains 3 live viruses. You shoot it up your nose and your immune system gets a chance to make antibodies to three live, weakened viruses while the manufacturer hopes against hope that one of these three actually causes a disease this year…. Of course, if you are immune compromised or go near someone who is, you will get sick or infect them with the virus and they can get the flu.”
  - “Laibow and others also warn that Flu Mist risks potential brain damage, making it an extremely hazardous drug,” writes Stephen Lendman. “The nasal passage olfactory tract is a direct pathway to the brain. Ingesting viruses through it risks encephalitis, a viral-induced acute brain inflammation.”
  - The government wants a preponderant number of people to get vaccinated against a non-existent pandemic by a virus that has so far killed less people than the regular flu season.
  - None of this was brought up on the Fox News segment — and for good reason.
  - Fox News, just like CNN, MSNBC and the rest, function as CIA disinformation, propaganda, and brainwashing organs for a global elite who are eugenicists and believe the planet is populated with too many useless eaters.
  - “As the federal government launches the most ambitious inoculation campaign in U.S. history, several surveys indicate the public is decidedly ambivalent,” the Washington Post reported last week.
  - “A nationally representative poll of 1,042 adults released Friday by the Harvard School of Public Health found that only 40 percent were sure they would receive the vaccine and that about half were certain their children would. Recent research by the University of Michigan and by Consumer Reports yielded similar results.”
  - Americans are not stupid. They know there is something rotten in Denmark — or the District of Criminals — when the government gives billions of their tax dollars to giant pharmaceutical companies and fills the public airwaves with PSAs featuring Elmo urging them to have their children injected with an experimental vaccination.
Cliff Kincaid -- Will Fox News Drop Newt Gingrich?

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- WILL
  FOX NEWS DROP NEWT GINGRICH?
- By Cliff Kincaid
  
  October 30, 2009
  
  NewsWithViews.com
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- - On the
    occasion of its 13th anniversary and dramatic success in the television
    ratings, Fox News is coming under serious scrutiny.
  - But there is no reason
    why this scrutiny should come exclusively from those on the left who are
    jealous of the cable channel’s success.
  - Conservatives should not
    hesitate to offer their own critique of the popular news network.
  - Since
    Fox News has come to symbolize in the public mind the conservative viewpoint,
    conservatives should examine which personalities and issues are being
    presented regularly on the cable channel.
  - Inevitably, such an analysis
    will focus on former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who seems
    to appear every few days on “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Hannity,”
    or “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.”
  - However,
    Gingrich’s position as a Fox News regular may be in jeopardy because
    of his abandonment of the conservative candidate, Doug
    Hoffman, in a special election race in New York.
  - One of the White
    House criticisms of Fox News is that it is an arm of the Republican Party.
    The regular use of Gingrich, a knee-jerk Republican who defers to party
    bosses, tends to support that thesis.
  - Since
    many people tune into Fox News to ascertain the conservative point of
    view, the regular use of Gingrich will become disconcerting and problematic
    to many members of its viewing audience.
  - In a major break with some of
    his on-air colleagues, independent conservative and Fox News host Glenn
    Beck openly has questioned Gingrich’s embrace of the official Republican
    candidate, liberal Dede Scozzafava, in the race.
  - Beck noted her ties to
    ACORN and interviewed her conservative opponent, Hoffman. The interview
    ran under the headline, “Principles or Party?” and is now
    featured on Hoffman’s website.
  - While
    he supports the official Republican nominee in the New York race, out
    of deference to party leaders, Gingrich irritates conservatives and Republicans
    alike by giving credence to causes embraced by far-left liberals in the
    Democratic Party.
  - He filmed a climate change ad with radical House Speaker
    Nancy Pelosi and currently conducts joint appearances with racial agitator
    Al Sharpton, a figure in the Democratic Party, on educational matters.
  - The Gingrich-Sharpton tour was actually announced by the Obama White House
    and is being sponsored by the federal Department of Education.
    
    Add Sticky Note
  - The
    latter has prompted Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and
    Policy Center, to call upon Gingrich to end his relationship with Sharpton.
  - A study
    issued by the NLPC notes that “Sharpton has promoted fake hate
    crimes against blacks, and has inspired racial antagonism against whites
    and Jews. Indeed, this long-established pattern of behavior continues
    to the present.”
  - A video
    from a leading conservative news site, Newsmax.com, shows Flaherty denouncing
    Gingrich for associating with the activist. “Newt has made a bad
    decision and we believe he should end his relationship with Sharpton,”
    Flaherty said.
  - Even
    before he decided to back a liberal Republican over a conservative in
    the Congressional special election race in New York’s 23rd district,
    Gingrich had been under fire for abandoning the conservative cause.
  - He
    co-authored an Al Gore-style book on environmental issues, A Contract
    With the Earth, before he decided that this approach was unpopular
    and that we had to exploit more of our own natural resources and “Drill
    baby drill.” Suddenly, Gingrich’s calls for “Green conservatism”
    were dropped.
  - Back
    in 2007, when Alan Colmes was a co-host on the Hannity show, Colmes told
    Gingrich that he appreciated the fact that there was an endorsement of
    A Contract With the Earth from liberal Democratic Senator John
    Kerry. “You should have gone to Gore, though,” Colmes said.
  - Colmes
    has since been dropped by Fox News as a program host, but Gingrich still
    appears with regularity.
  - One of his latest projects, “Rediscovering
    God in America,” which examines the monuments, memorials and documents
    found in Washington, D.C., that reference God’s role in America’s
    founding, is extremely worthwhile but basically duplicates what people
    like David Barton of WallBuilders
    have been doing for many years.
  - Once known as a politician with personal
    problems, Gingrich has reportedly rediscovered his own religious faith,
    under the guidance of his third wife.
  - But
    as we have seen with environmentalism, Gingrich’s positions on political
    matters are subject to change, depending on what seems popular at the
    time.
  - On the matter of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, Gingrich
    was against it until he issued a statement in favor of it.
  - Then, in an
    article for Human Events, he called it “bad” and stated that
    Republican presidential candidate John McCain could only win by distancing
    himself from it.
  - This performance led us to conclude
    that the Republican Party and its leaders in Congress were morally bankrupt,
    to go along with the financial bankruptcy of the nation itself.
  - Earlier
    this year Gingrich was calling for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be replaced
    because of her unsubstantiated allegations against the CIA about lying
    over the use of interrogation techniques against terrorists. But before
    that, Gingrich thought so much of Pelosi that he taped an advertisement
    with her for the Alliance for Climate Protection, a group founded by Al
    Gore.
  - However,
    it’s Gingrich’s intervention in the New York special election
    race on November 3 that really has conservatives up in arms.
  - Mark Mix
    of the National Right to Work Committee is the latest to sound the alarm.
  - He accuses Gingrich of undercutting efforts to stop Big Labor’s
    “Employee Free Choice Act” or card check bill in Congress.
  - The measure would make it easier for left-wing labor unions to get members
    and pick their pockets to support left-wing Democratic Party candidates.
  - Referring
    to official Republican candidate, Scozzafava, Mix says that Gingrich “is
    backing an outspoken supporter of forced unionism and the union bosses…”
  - In unusually harsh language, Mix goes on to say that “Just like
    the final few years when he was Speaker of the House of Representatives,
    for Newt, it appears it is just about power and party over principle.”
  - The
    issue of “party over principle” was raised by Glenn Beck during
    his interview of Hoffman.
  - The outcome of this race could determine not
    only the future of the conservative movement but whether Gingrich has
    the credibility to continue as a “conservative” spokesman
    on Fox News.
  - ©
    2009 Cliff Kincaid - All Rights Reserved
  - Cliff Kincaid,
    a veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff concentrated in journalism
    and communications at the University of Toledo, where he graduated with
    a Bachelor of Arts degree.
    
    Cliff has written or co-authored
    nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign policy issues. One
    of Cliff's books, "Global
    Bondage: The UN Plan to Rule the World" is still awailable.
    
    Cliff has appeared on Hannity &
    Colmes, The O’Reilly Factor, Crossfire and has been published in the Washington
    Post, Washington Times, Chronicles, Human Events and Insight.
    
    Web Site: www.AIM.org
    
    E-Mail: cliff.kincaid@aim.org
Kelleigh Nelson -- More Republican Deception

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- In 1965,
  I remember a close friend telling me that the Soviet Union and America
  would meld into one combining both communism and capitalism. I’ve
  thought of that statement many times over the years.
- Countless
  phone calls from the Republican National Committee, the College Republican
  National Committee, and every other form of Republican National group
  out there has phoned me for a donation.
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- - If that isn’t enough, the
    RNC and various other Republican groups continue to send me snail mail
    which includes two and three page questionnaires and surveys, and at the
    end of same, an area to mark for the amount of your donation.
  - With the
    disgust I’ve felt for so long regarding the Republican choices for
    office, I mostly pitched these costly forms in the trash. However, after
    the 2008 election, I decided to change my strategy.
  - Every
    questionnaire seems to ask the questions with answers they KNOW we want
    them to follow…
  - a case in point is, “Do you believe the stimulus
    is working for America?” Or this, “Do you approve of the healthcare
    reform by President Obama?”
  - You know the type of questions, as I’m
    sure many of you have received these forms and these phone calls soliciting
    for funds as well.
  - I fill
    out the questionnaires, then I add my own short letter stating that I
    am much more inclined to do my own research on where my money will go
    and to whom I will support for office than they have been in the past
    or even now.
  - The same goes for the phone solicitations…I tell them
    I no longer trust their decisions and will never be funding them again
    and then I tell them why.
  - Do conservatives
    want the likes of John McCain nominated for the highest office in the
    land?
  - I highly doubt McCain would have garnered even half the votes he
    got had it not been for his vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, who
    he quite obviously threw under the bus.
  - Sarah’s biggest mistake
    was accepting that nomination, but that’s another story.
  - A case
    in point is the choice of the Republican party of Michael Steele as the
    head of the RNC, which was quite disturbing for many reasons.
  - One has
    to wonder if Steele was chosen for the color of his skin rather than the
    content of his character and especially his failure to uphold the former
    Republican platform of pro-life, pro-family, small government, etc.
  - In
    a March, 2009 interview with GQ Magazine, he was asked to elaborate on
    his beliefs. Here is what he said when asked about pro-life,
  - "The
    choice issue cuts two ways. You can choose life, or you can choose abortion.
    You know, my mother chose life. So, you know, I think the power of the
    argument of choice boils down to stating a case for one or the other."
  - "Are
    you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?" the
    interviewer asked.
    
    Steele responded, "Yeah. I mean, again, I think that's an individual
    choice."
  - GQ:
    "You do?"
    
    Steele:
    "Yeah. Absolutely."
  - Then
    when he was asked about marriage, he stated he believed it was between
    a man and a woman, but when asked if homosexuality was a choice, he stated,
    "Oh, no. I don't think I've ever really subscribed to that view,
    that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. ... You just can't simply
    say, oh, like, 'Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay.' It's like
    saying, 'Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black.'"
  - Several
    conservative Republicans were not assuaged when Steele tried to clarify
    that his beliefs were those of the Republican platform. However, nothing
    was done.
  - The
    crowning piece that told me Michael Steele was another neo-conservative
    was the fact that he is a five-year member of the globalist, one-world
    (Christian excluding) Aspen Institute.
  - Please see NWV’s article
    by my friend, Betty Freauf, JUST WHO IS MICHAEL STEELE? In the March 18,
    2009 issue.
  - Also see Dr. Dennis Cuddy’s excellent article in NWV’s,
    THE POWER ELITE EXPOSED from March 16, 2004.
  - The
    former head of the Aspen Institute, new age environmentalist Maurice Strong,
    has membership in the following organizations, but this does not include
    the entire list:
    
    •
    Senior Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
    
    • Senior Advisor to World Bank President James
    Wolfensohn
    
    • Chairman of the Earth Council
    
    • Chairman of the World Resources Institute
    
    • Co-Chairman of the Council of the World Economic
    Forum
    
    • member of Toyota’s International Advisory
    Board
  - He is
    also a long time member of the Futurist Society (which Newt Gingrich also
    belongs to as well as Newt’s long time friends Alvin and Heidi Toffler).
  - (See Toffler’s book, THE THIRD WAVE)
  - To digress, remember Newt recently
    came out for the republican nominee in New York’s 23rd congressional
    district, Dede Scozzafava, who represents the Democratic party with her
    entire platform but is running on the Republican ticket against a constitutionalist
    running on the conservative party by the name of Doug Hoffman.
  - The
    following is from the website, THE
    ASPEN INSTITUTE AND THE CLUB OF ROME
  - “The
    Aspen Institute was founded in 1949, by Aldous Huxley, and John Maynard
    Hutchins, in commemoration of the 200th birthday of German philosopher
    and author of Faust, and a member of the Illuminati,
    Goethe.
  - Robert O. Anderson also contributed significant funds to a project
    initiated by the Rockefeller family, together with Aurelio Peccei
    and Alexander King, at the Rockefeller’s estate
    at Bellagio, Italy, called the Club of Rome.
  - In 1972, this Club of Rome, and the US Association of the Club of Rome,
    gave widespread publicity to their publication of the notorious “Limits
    to Growth.”
  - Supported by research done at MIT, this report concluded
    that industrialization had to be halted to save the planet from ecological
    catastrophe.
  - These
    organizations were exploiting the panic induced, when Paul Ehrlich, a
    biologist at Stanford, and admirer of Bertrand Russell, in 1968, wrote
    his Malthusian projections in a best-selling book called The Population
    Bomb. “
  - Quite
    obviously, our Republican party has joined with the enemy.
  - Weak kneed,
    spineless men like former Tennessee Senator Dr. Bill Frist,
  - Senators from
    Maine, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins,
  - Minority leader Boehner and Newt
    Gingrich who is backing Dede Scozzafava, and countless others too numerous
    to name, who do not represent conservative Republicans or ideals, do not
    deserve to have our cash to continue their happy allegiance with the Marxist
    ideologues of the left.
  - I’ve
    sent donations to the Republican running against Arlen Specter who would
    have been elected 5 years ago had President Bush not interceded for Specter.
  - There are two Republicans running in the primary against Harry Reid, one
    is a constitutionalist.
  - From
    my friend and author Charlotte Iserbyt, comes this notice:
  - “Those
    researchers out there who worked SO hard to kill Outcomes Based Education
    in the eighties/nineties will recognize the name "Cherilyn Gulbrandtsen"
    whose name is now Cherilyn Eagar. Cherilyn was one of our brightest, effective,
    attractive, and talented (what a singing voice!) activists. I know her
    well and am thrilled she is running for the U.S. Senate from Utah. Please
    spread the word and give her support in her race for that important position.”
    Check her out
    here.
  - There
    are countless good conservative folks running that need our support.
  - We
    should NOT trust the RNC or any of their sister organizations to send
    our monies to the true conservatives.
  - Remember, all of the congress is
    up for re-election in 2010 and a third of the senate is up for re-election.
  - You
    can find out which senators are up for election.
  - All senators run
    for a 6 year term. The two exceptions are Obama and Biden’s senate
    seats which also need to be filled, bringing the amount of senators running
    this year to a total of 36.
  - When
    you receive phone calls and snail mail from the RNC, I urge you to tell
    them you feel highly qualified to do your own research on where you’ll
    send your monies, and that they are wasting their time calling you for
    cash that they’ll distribute to the likes of Scozzafava (500,000
    from the RNC), Snowe, Collins and others who are simply Republicans in
    name only.
  - For
    more information see these wonderful books.
    
    1- THE GLOBALIST by Dr. Dennis Cuddy
    
    2- THE
    ROAD TO SOCIALISM AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER by Dr. Dennis Cuddy
    
    3- THE
    DELIBERATE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA by Charlotte Iserbyt
  - © 2009 Kelleigh Nelson - All Rights
    Reserved
  - Kelleigh Nelson has been researching the Christian
    right and their connections to the left, the new age, and cults since
    1975. Formerly an executive producer for three different national radio
    talk show hosts, she was adept at finding and scheduling a variety of
    wonderful guests for her radio hosts. She and her husband live in Knoxville,
    TN, and she has owned her own wholesale commercial bakery since 1990.
    Prior to moving to Tennessee, Kelleigh was marketing communications and
    advertising manager for a fortune 100 company in Ohio. Born and raised
    in Chicago, Illinois, she was a Goldwater girl with high school classmate,
    Hillary Rodham, in Park Ridge, Illinois. Kelleigh is well acquainted with
    Chicago politics and was working in downtown Chicago during the 1968 Democratic
    convention riots.
    
    E-Mail: proverbs133@bellsouth.net
YouTube - LewRockwell.com Podcast #28 - What is Neoconservatism?

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- LewRockwell.com Podcast #28 - What is Neoconservatism?
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- - Nielsio
    
    August 27, 2008
  - Lew Rockwell on the origin of Neoconservatism
    
    http://www.lewrockwell.com/...
Citizens For Legitimate Government

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- ABC
  Series 'V': Invading, Fascist Lizards Arrive With 'Universal Health Care'
  and 'Message of Hope' --ABC Network Portrays Aliens, Hell-bent on Destroying
  Planet Earth, as the Obama Administration
- By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org
  04 Nov 2009
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- - The ABC
    television network has brought back the science fiction series, V,
    in a remake of the 1980's classic by the same name.
  - A bit of background:
    V (or V:
    The Original Miniseries) is a two-part science fiction television
    miniseries, written and directed by Kenneth Johnson. First shown in 1983,
    it initiated the science fiction franchise concerning aliens known as
    the 'Visitors' trying to gain control of Earth.
  - The
    1980's version was about as 'left-leaning' as you get, with writer-director
    Johnson actually dedicating the series to 'resistance fighters
    everywhere.' (Johnson opens showing rebels/film crew avoiding an invading
    [US?] helicopter attack in El
    Salvador.)
  - In the remake pilot
    of V, which aired on November 3, 2009, the leader of the aliens
    grants an exclusive interview to a conciliating, Fox News-style reporter,
    Chad Decker, who consents to the alien leader's constriction: 'We
    can't be seen in a negative light.' in
    order to get the interview and get other exclusive announcements from
    the Visitor's leadership. (Think Fox News-Bush regime.)
  - During the interview,
    interspersed with scenes from a meeting of a nascent resistance movement,
    Anna, the Visitor's leader, announces that the Visitors are going to open
    medical clinics all over the country, as a gift to humanity.
  - The interviewer
    actually asks, 'Oh, do you mean like universal health care?' And
    Anna, the scourge of mankind, replies, 'Yes, I believe that is what your
    people call it.'
  - The implication by the ABC producers of 'V': An
    alien lizard fascist, trying to take control of earth and who must be
    destroyed at any cost, will provide universal health care as a cover to
    control all earthlings and to take over the planet.
  - Moreover,
    the alien Visitors frequently talk about the importance of *hope* and
    how change does not come easy.
  - There
    are numerous analogies of the Visitors to the Obama Administration, peppered
    throughout the pilot.
  - The ABC remake is comparing the Visitors -- alien terrorists, with sleeper-cells
    laden with Visitor supporters -- to the Obama Administration.
  - A better
    comparison is the alien terrorists to Blackwater
    aka Xe
    aka U.S.
    Training Center.
  - In
    reality, the Visitors and the mercenary firm share the same goals --stealing
    resources by any means necessary while killing as many detractors as possible.
    
    The world
    would rejoice if an actual resistance movement responded to both the fictional
    invaders... and the real ones.
  - Lori
    Price is Managing Editor of Citizens For Legitimate Government.
Barack Obama Continues Bush Administration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus

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- Barack Obama Continues Bush Administration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus
- Barack Obama Continues Bush Administration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus
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- - Written by Joe Wolverton, II
    
    Friday, 30 October 2009
  - It has been just over one year since the U.S. Army announced that the 3^rd Infantry Division’s 1^st Brigade Combat Team was being placed under the direct control of the US Army Northern Command (NORTHCOM),
  - and was being indefinitely reassigned as an “on-call federal response force” for emergencies of all sorts, natural and man-made, including terrorist attacks, within NORTHCOM's area of responsibility — the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
  - Although the assignation went mostly unheralded at the time, it marked the first time in the history of the United States that an active unit of the regular Army was placed under the immediate and exclusive command of NORTHCOM.
  - The number of uniformed soldiers assigned to this duty continues to increase annually and the force is estimated to reach a strength of 20,000 by the year 2011.
  - This massive force will all be trained and equipped to “subdue unruly or dangerous individuals” and “help with civil unrest and crowd control.”
  - As usual, these directives are vague and could be applied to any number of scenarios.
  - Furthermore, the critical question to be asked in light of such an arrangement is who will decide who is unruly or dangerous?
  - Whoever is appointed the arbiter of such things will of necessity be feared as he will have 20,000 troops on alert and ready to quell these civil disturbances.
  - This unconstitutional use of American military forces within the United States is back in the news as reports have recently been released reviewing the progress the team has made in training with other federal, state, and local peace officers and agencies.
  - Constitutionalists will find these maneuvers worrisome as they are gross violations of the black letter and the spirit of the Posse Comitatus Act.
  - Posse Comitatus (18 USC § 1385) was a law passed in 1878 in response to the abuse of citizens by federal troops occupying the states of the former Confederacy during the period known as Reconstruction.
  - In exchange for their votes in favor of the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes, Southern Senators received the support of Republican Senators for the Posse Comitatus Act requiring federal troops to withdraw from southern garrisons, thus ending Reconstruction.
  - President Barack Obama marches on headlong, bent on disregarding this act and the applicable provisions of the Constitution in order to continue training the United States military to participate in purposefully undefined “emergency” situations within the borders of the United States.
  - Recently he and Congress received an analysis of how well this unlawful cooperation between state and national government is progressing.
  - By all accounts, NORTHCOM is withholding some critical information regarding the activities of this force. When it does release the required information, it does so slowly and clumsily.
  - In its defense, NORTHCOM commanders claim that the inconsistencies, mistakes, and delays are due to the difficulty they face in coordinating these exercises with the various states.
  - In typical governmental “give them an inch and they’ll take a mile” fashion, NORTHCOM is complaining that unless they are given greater and tighter control over the state agencies and the armed forces with whom they are tasked with training that they will be unable to guarantee operational success, and it may in fact detrimentally impact the team’s ability to provide the services they have been ordered to provide.
  - To date, more than 19 federal agencies and 17 states have participated in one or more of the seven “homeland security” exercises that NORTHCOM has conducted since 2005.
  - Unfortunately, NORTHCOM is training with numerous state and local forces.
  - Not surprisingly, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has examined NORTHCOM’s reports and agrees with the command’s assessment of the provenance of the difficulties they are encountering in the present arrangement,
  - and they have accordingly suggested that states relinquish administration of their forces and agencies and cede management and command to NORTHCOM.
  - There is fear among those zealous of the Constitution's prohibition of commingling of federal and state forces that Democratic governors and legislators may tamely acquiesce to President Obama's desires and thereby further debilitate the strength and sanctity of state sovereignty, the foundational principle of federalism, and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution that protects it.
  - Reassuringly, there are those raising the warning voice regarding the training and quartering of federal troops on American soil for the purpose of law enforcement and controlling potential civil unrest, especially given the wide berth extant in such vague terms in the legislation that ostensibly restricts the sphere of the army’s power.
  - Some opponents of the Obama administration’s ongoing and little-publicized violation of the Posse Comitatus Act see the entire set up as a behind-the-scenes deal between President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who curiously retained his post after his previous employer left office.
  - “While Obama and his team are making it sound as if they will use the military in a non-combative roll, part of the training being conducted is in urban warfare,” warned Mike Baker, a political strategist.
  - He continued, “Obama appears oblivious to Posse Comitatus and to the US Constitution when it comes to using the military against civilians within US Borders.”
  - Heroically, there are local police officers who feel threatened by being placed on a short leash placed by the President in the hand of the U.S. Army.
  - Former NYPD detective and U.S. Marine intelligence officer, Sid Frances has called upon the state houses and Governors to assert their constitutionally guaranteed sovereignty and outright refuse to place their state forces under the command of federal officers.
  - “I cannot understand why the federal government is so intent on using such military force within our borders. It reminds me of the Branch Dividian massacre in Waco, Texas, when the feds used that deadly physical force based on false information.”
  - Admonitions and fears such as these from legitimate sources with personal experience should be a clarion call to all Americans wary of their constitutional protections from government encroachment
  - and weary of the daily usurpation of power by one presidential administration after another (of both parties, mind you).
  - In this case the conglomeration of power is being reinforced with the magnificent might of the United States Armed Forces.
  - American Service Member
    said:
    
    I will not fight.
    
    I swore to protect and defend the CONSTITUTION from all enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC. Order me to "quell" a riot/rebellion/protest made of Americans and you will find a highly trained riotor/rebel/protestor.
  - Inactive Marine
    said:
    
    Oath Keeper
    
    This is why Oath Keepers is so important.
    http://oathkeepers.ning.com/

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