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The Carlyle White House
Oh those connections they go on and on and on......

Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy
A quote...."When I saw the Newsweek cover featuring Big Daddy Bush muscling toward the front with a diminished little Dubya skulking in the background, my first thought was: How is Junior going to react to this? Bush II's resentment toward his father is well-known -- a resentment no doubt compounded by his lifelong, abject dependence on Daddy's financial and political pull -- and I knew that Little Bush would not simply accept this media humiliation and move on."

Tomgram: Klare, Bush Goes Over to Imperial Defense
More regarding the Gates pick and the strategy behind it.

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi speaks at Iraq forum - Google video
Telling it like it is.

Washington Post Falsely Claims ‘Most Congressional Democrats’ Oppose Redeployment of U.S. Troops
There goes that hoary old presstitute again, someone should tell these guys that this stuff is really getting old.

America faces a future of managing imperial decline
In just five short years no less - remarkable.

Government tries to stop AT&T surveillance lawsuit
So is the Government spying on all of us Americans, "of course not they say". Can we find out, "heck no it's a secret". This is called a self reinforcing tautology otherwise known as the government's win-win scenario.

Democrats, Don't Wimp Out
Or Dr. Waldman's instructional guide for the Democrats on how to grow a spine.

How the Republicans Could Win It All Back in 2008
More suggestions about spine growing and the posture problems that will result if you don't grow one.

Impeachment: A Moral Imperative
And this is WHY the Democrats MUST grow a spine.

Breaking News! Iraq Study Group: Iraq Do-Over To Come Before 2008 Race and Vote
A quote...."Baker-Hamilton to say “start over”; reinstall Saddam and retake country, this time with plans. First step is to reconstruct Baghdad to pre-2003 invasion look; “maintain a public front of “victory in Iraq”

The actual Baker-Hamilton plan will probably be much worse.
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Democrats take majority of Wall St. financing
Otherwise known as a 'strategic reallocation of bribes".

Ten Reasons Congress Must Investigate Bush Administration Crimes
And the one reason they won't...see article above.

Calling Nancy Pelosi: The People's Case for Impeaching Bush
More high aspirations - and the truth - soon to be whittled away to nothing.

Blackmail & Bobby Gates
A quote..."One risk of putting career intelligence officer Robert Gates in charge of the Defense Department is that he has a secret – and controversial – history that might open him to pressure from foreign operatives, including some living in countries of U.S. military interest, such as Iran and Iraq." For more info see...Gates, Robert - File

Argentine Report Casts Doubt on Iran Role in '94 Bomb
Anyone who's gone on the web and researched the term "false flag" operation will see an amazing amount of articles attributing the bulk of such operations to a particular nuclear armed state in the Middle East (not Pakistan) than may seem to be reasonably credible.

However if it wasn't Iran behind the bombing which caused the termination of nuclear cooperation between Argentina and Iran, one would have to ask oneself which country in the world would be the one most interested in stopping such cooperation?
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Washington debate sets stage for escalation of violence in Iraq
Excellent analysis of the "new bipartisan consensus" of our Nation's "two" political parties, a quote....."Russert asked, “Can you keep a country at war that doesn’t want to be there?” Lieberman’s answer was revealing. “You can’t” he said, “and that’s why we need to form a bipartisan consensus for victory in Iraq, for success in Iraq, which is still attainable ... this is the great problem, the terrorists cannot defeat us on the battlefield in Iraq, but we can lose the war here at home if we don’t begin to be bipartisan about it and regain the confidence and some hope for the American people.”

"Translated into plain language, Lieberman is, in effect, saying: We know that the American people are against the war, and voted that way November 7. We, the political establishment, must adopt a more bipartisan war policy that prevents this antiwar majority from having any voice in the policy debate in Washington. We must use the two-party system to disenfranchise the antiwar majority."
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Post-election 2006: “Changes in course” and other post-election delusions
It's sad to say but this article is correct, it’s become obvious that the Democrats will offer a few crumbs to the masses, an increase in the minimum wage, a few tweaks to the national health care plan, some "cultural issues" they'll advance and a few shallow and ineffective investigations regarding "Republican corruption". And that will be it.

Same as it ever was
An analysis of the Iraq Study Group's options.

No Exit: The Baker Commission and the Trap of Reality
Chris Floyd's analysis of the article above and the Iraq Study Group's options.
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The Death Squads
Video documentary of Iraq’s Interior Minister Bayan Jabor’s involvement with the death squads. For more on this see...... For Iraq, "The Salvador Option" Becomes Reality and Impunity and US “democracy” in Iraq: death squads, torture and terror and US support of death squads - weblist.
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Bush Calls for Global Isolation of Iran
Bush is almost correct on this one probably due to his well known case of RTS, but whatever induced him to partially speak the truth for a change we should all be grateful for it, and he's right, countries which support terrorism, refuse to abide by any international agreements they've signed and who launch wars of aggression should be immediately isolated and quarantined - He just simply named the wrong country.

To all the people reading this blog if you knew of a country that had a written plan for "full spectrum dominance" of the world, a country which set-up almost 3,000 of it's own citizens for death to justify their plans of world wide conquest and the wars they've launched to seize control of the oil resources in the Middle East and the Caspian basin, a country which has flouted, derided and refused to honor the international agreements it's signed calling them "quaint", a country whose leader has called its own constitution "just a Goddamned piece of paper" a country which in just five short years has unleashed death and destruction across the length and breadth of the globe, a country which has established a Gulag Archipelago throughout the world were people of other nations can be snatched, tortured and killed by agents of this country, wouldn't you believe it's not only morally, legally and ethically necessary to isolate and quarantine such a country, but imperative for the health and welfare of the international community?

Think about it.
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Are Democrats Turning A Blind Eye to Civil Liberty?
Couldn't agree more.

Administration: Detainees have no rights
Now it's them.....then it will be your neighbors...then it will be you. Don't believe that? See ..."Seventeen Acts to Restore Americans' Rights"

A Presidential Vote for Torture
Perhaps Bush is right and we as a Nation should follow his advice. We should use Bush's "tools" on the people who've supported the terrorist organizations during their formative years, knew about their plans like 9/11, interfered with this Nation's security procedures prior to their attacks, predicted a "Pearl Harbor style event", helped some of the terrorists fly out of the country, and made enormous sums of money for themselves and their friends because of the terrorists attacks.

We should do so even if such "treatment" would take years, even if terrible things are done to these people in an effort to extract the truth from them, even if it would hurt this Nation's conscience.

We should all agree to join together and acknowledge our willingness to make this sacrifice.

It's for the good of the Nation.
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China sub stalked U.S. fleet & Iran TV broadcasts 'US ship spy plane footage'
Oh my, it appears other people have the same toys the US does, we can't have that now can we?.....guess the Pentagon's just going to have to go ask for even more money from congress.

Danish journalists on trial for publishing leaked intelligence reports on Iraq
Tell the truth, possibly go to jail. This is about a Danish journalist who published leaked "classified" documents proving Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction...... in 2004. Exactly which evil power in the world is going to use this information to attack Denmark? Besides the Bush administration of course, ticked off because the Danes leaked the info.

Absenteeism in U.S. workplace hits highest level in years
A quote...."Workers are taking more unscheduled days off as bosses struggle to curb the practice."

It's possible that as the rich get richer and real wages for the wage slaves remain stagnant, the wage slaves have found better things to do with their time.

Gates Has History of Manipulating Intelligence
So Gates cooked the intel regarding Iran-Contra and pressured CIA analysts to falsify information regarding the Soviets.

Now we know that Rummy & Co. cherry-picked, farmed and practically paid people for fake intell to justify the US's invasion of Iraq, but Rummy's gone. So now the administration proposes to replace Rummy with Gates, a man who has the same sort of credentials, behavior and attitude towards fabricating intell. that Rummy had.

It's possible that it doesn't really matter if Gates is confirmed, after all the US isn't currently engaged in threatening another country with invasion, making ridiculous statements about their plans for producing weapons of mass destruction, going around the world collecting dubious intelligence from former dissidents, con men and of all things a US designated communist terrorist organization to justify the US's overblown rhetoric of a "threat".....well is it?

Oh.....that's right....on second thought there is this country called Iraq...no that wasn't it, we've already invaded that one on the basis of faked intell. No there was another country in the Middle East the US has been threatening lately, it has the same number of letters as Iraq and its name starts with the letter "i" also......what was that country called?

Does it matter? Does anyone care?

See also....Gates, Robert - File
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Gates a Bad Retread from Reagan Days
More on Gates.

CIA: Out of Control
Russ W. Baker, "Village Voice", Sept. 10, 1991
For the record - it's only gotten worse since he wrote the article.

Whose Table?
Yes it would be nice if the commoners could sit down and voice their complaints also.

Let the Investigations Begin
And please ....c'mon folks, you know whats going to be said next....please "follow the money".

US elections in the 21st century: Voting rights and voting wrongs
Some suggestions for reforming the political process in America. They're good but the Democrats first have to start with the "Seventeen Acts to Restore Americans' Rights"

Global growth in carbon emissions is 'out of control'
But the oil companies are happy....so what's the big deal?

Enron's Fastow assigned to La. prison
Right about now he's probably saying to himself "where is that Presidential pardon" and "dang it! I knew I should’ve given more to the Republican Party"

Insurgent activity rising in Afghanistan
Luckily the "pacification" of Afghanistan has been turned over to NATO and the Europeans who were actually dumb enough to except responsibility for it.

So this lets Bush off the hook? He's only responsible for the disaster called Iraq? Nah...he took the troops out of Afghanistan before the US had established control so he and his Texas Cabal cronies could make a ton'ol money in Iraq and take their oil. So he's got two catastrophes he's responsible for, three if you count Lebanon, four if you blame him for winking at the Israelis when they went after the Palestinians and five if this moronic jerk and his friends decide to go after Iran.

And he gets paid over $200,000.00 a year for this? He's way overpaid.
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The Power of Nightmares - parts one two & three - one hour each, Google videos

Funny and pointed observations on the similarity of the Neocons' and Islamist Fundamentalists' perceptions and how they feed off of each other. The videos also explore the Neocons' use of the "fear of terror" to obtain and maintain power.

The videos offer some insights into the "stated" reasons for what motivates both groups and are probably a more accurate representation of the real underlying motives of the Islamists than that of the Neocons.

The videos do not however "follow the money". Nor do they explore PNAC, the Kunduz airlift, bin Ladens stay in the Sudan, many of the attacks like the Cole bombing etc., the support the Mujahideen received in Yugoslavia nor the financial, political, military, and intelligence relationships between the CIA, ISI, other Middle Eastern governments or the political elites involved.

But they're fun to watch. - mpg
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Boost for anti-terror laws after warning
Just like in the videos.

And as the videos above demonstrate and as so many of us have witnessed, our "mass media" for the last five years has engaged in a concerted effort on behalf of our glorious elites to spread enormous amounts of fear through the use of baseless terrorist warnings, false information, unsubstantiated rumors, pure fiction and rank speculation about the methods, types and number of possible terrorist attacks.

Also as the videos reveal and as we've recently witnessed, our “mass media” has reported on a plethora of supposed "terrorist" groups that turned out not to exist at all, except in the fevered imaginations of our "dear" leaders. Worst than that some of the groups that actually did exist - the Miami Seven for example - were brought together and deliberately encouraged by their "law enforcement" informant to engage in the very terrorist actions they themselves are accused of planning.

Even worse than that, on 9/11 the US government conducted an amazingly coincidental series of exercises very similar to the attacks that actually occurred. A similarity which caused such enormous confusion that it resulted in all of the US fighter jets being unavailable to intercept the passengers planes on 9/11. Astonishingly enough an identical situation happened during the London bombings. On the very day the London attacks took place, London's finest were conducting a series of exercises simulating of all things an attack on the London subway, this on the very day it actually took place.

"Distracting activities" such as wildly inflating terrorist threats to justify spending increases or the passage of repressive legislation, false accusations of innocents, baseless terrorist warnings, law enforcement actions designed to encourage people to engage in terrorist activities, spreading false rumors, disinformation and false intell, much less "coincidently” conducting exercises which happen to be identical to the terrorist attacks on the day they occur, could be considered irresponsible by some observers.

However if the ongoing continuation of these "distracting activities" were to enable one of the few real terrorist groups out there to successfully carry out another attack, many observers would conclude that such "distracting activities" are much worse than simply irresponsible.

Perhaps they should be discontinued.

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Egyptian claims torture after CIA kidnap in Italy
Ah yes....America's "Neo-Roman Christian" values.

U.S. vetoes condemnation of Gaza strikes
That's right people of Israel, just keep deliberately shelling and killing unarmed civilians in your new Gaza "ghetto". You must be so very proud to emulate your prior masters; it must bring back all those fond old memories of what was done to you.

Now of course you get to do the same thing to a group of people that are even weaker than you are, to humiliate them, to show them you can kill their woman and children just like the vermin you know them to be, and to do it knowing their men folk are powerless to stop you. God it must give you a real thrill.

Hope all of you are enjoying your glorious triumph, hope you're all satisfied with your victory, hope it's worth it....oh and one last thing, just keep in mind if the wheel ever turns again, if any of you ever need help in the future...don't expect it.
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Neocons divided, except in denial
A quote..."WASHINGTON: Neoconservatives, who laid out the intellectual underpinnings for US President George W. Bush's foreign policy, are in disarray following the Republicans' mid-term election defeat."

Rights Group Seeks Charges Against Rumsfeld
One of the hundreds of lawsuits that will be filed against these evil men.

The Republicans Took a Dive
Maybe, but unless the Repubs. had a deal set up to squelch any serious investigations by the Democrats, such an act would have to be considered tantamount to suicide. As some of the committee chairmen have stated "there are so many things to investigate we're having trouble deciding where to start". The theory therefore can only be correct if the Democrats don't initiate any serious investigations into the Bushists' activities over the last decade.

Only time will tell.
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Bush's Belated Accountability Moment
A quote...."After securing a second term in November 2004, George W. Bush was asked by the Washington Post why no one in his administration had been held accountable for the problems facing U.S. troops in Iraq. Bush replied dismissively, “We had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 elections.”

What an arrogant, fatuous, smirking little monkey Bush is. How could anyone have ever voted for him?
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Democrats, the Truth Still Matters!
A quote...."Democrats, being Democrats, always want to put governance, such as enacting legislation and building coalitions, ahead of oversight, which often involves confrontation and hard feelings. Democrats have a difficult time understanding why facts about past events matter when there are problems in the present and challenges in the future."

If the Democrats make the same mistake again, what happened during the last five years will be fondly remembered as "the good times".....that is not a joke. mpg
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The Simpson's Aliens in "operation enduring occupation" Google video
Funny short.

Cheney in a Box
A hilariously good read.
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Seventeen Acts to Restore Americans' Rights
From the FRONT PAGE
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Rep. Kucinich: America Needs Iraq War Hearings
Finally a Democrat with a spine.

When is a Crime so Great it Shouldn’t be Acknowledged?
And this from the Dems without a spine, a quote...."Before the votes were even counted, a strange chorus arose, like toads from the swamp, from every point on the Democratic compass --- so persistent, one might even think it choreographed --- croaking in a dire basso, “Now’s the time to work on fulfilling the Democrats agenda, not the time to hold anyone accountable for the massive corruption or the extraordinary lies that got us into this mess.” Let’s be moderate, let’s be wise, the toads all intoned, let’s don’t disintegrate into partisan bickering about who’s responsible. And, pullleeeease, don’t even utter the word impeachment."

Walking Through the Gates of a Well-Laid Trap
The tactics of picking Gates.

I Doubt There is Guilt
The possible tactics of the Democrats regarding Iraq, watching from the sidelines as Bush tries to deal with "his tarbaby".

Sweden Violated Torture Ban in CIA Rendition
Who would have thought of all countries, Sweden would be one to do so.

U.S. seeks better ties by aiding militaries
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Concern about leftist victories in Latin America has prompted President Bush to quietly grant a waiver that allows the United States to resume training militaries from 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries."

And dropping the ban on doing so for those countries who refused "[to exempt] U.S. soldiers from war crimes trials" under the International Criminal Court.

So get this, they're worried about China doing business with those "lefties" who were legally ELECTED (hint) to office and had to reverse their own ban placed on these countries because their governments wouldn't allow US troops to kill, rape or torture their citizens without the threat of prosecution.

And Bushy & Co. are miffed they had to lift the ban without getting the exemption.

There is something wrong with this country, and there is definately something wrong with the people who lead it.
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From the Frying Pan into the Fire
RE: the new monster at the helm - Robert Gates

Gates of Hell: Another Constitution-Betraying Bushist in the Pentagon
A quote...."Could anyone be worse than Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary? Well, how about an old Bush Family factotum who was hip-deep in the Iran-Contra arms-drugs-terror scam, who doctored, spun and manipulated intelligence for partisan purposes and also steered secret U.S. military intelligence to help Saddam Hussein launch WMD attacks? Oh, plus someone who has no experience whatsoever of the military?"

The Secret World of Robert Gates
A quote...."The 63-year-old Gates has long faced accusations of collaborating with Islamic extremists in Iran, arming Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq, and politicizing U.S. intelligence to conform with the desires of policymakers – three key areas that relate to his future job."

The Cheney-Gates Cabal
A quote...."In 1991, when President George H. W. Bush nominated Robert Gates for the post of Director of Central Intelligence, there was a virtual insurrection among CIA analysts who had suffered under his penchant for cooking intelligence. The stakes for integrity of analysis were so high that many still employed at the agency summoned the courage to testify against the nomination."

SAIC, Bohemoth Military Contractor, Wants to Be inside Every Voting Machine; Three Way Scam on Diebold Review?
A quote...."Another former SAIC board member, also on the board of VoteHere, is ex-CIA director Robert Gates, a veteran of the Iran/Contra scandal."

Patriot Act Being Used to Harrass BlackBoxVoting.org website
A quote...."Okay, a word about VoteHere: This is the company that has no visible means of support. It doesn't seem to sell anything. Its board is heavily infested with defense industry types -- a former CIA director (Robert Gates, now heads George Bush School of Government); it had Admiral Bill Owens, also Vice-Chairman of SAIC and a member of the Defense Policy Board with Perle and Wolfowitz, a very close friend of Cheney; currently headed by former Washington Secretary of State Ralph Munro."

Oh by the way Robert Gates is number eighty seven of the 236 Gang - #87. Gates, Robert, CIA-dir. NSA, SAIC [VoteHere, GBSG & Fidelity - ttee, Iraq Study Group (ISG)] See also....the 236 Gang blog mpg
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UPDATE - 11-10-06

Bush administration’s Trojan Horse gift to America and the Democrats:
Former CIA Director and Iran-Contra insider Robert Gates
A quote....,."Who is Robert Gates?

"Robert M. Gates was the CIA’s Deputy Director for Intelligence (DDI) from 1982 to 1986. He became CIA Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI) in 1986, and moved up to Acting Director of Central Intelligence (ADCI) that same year. In 1991, George H.W. Bush nominated Gates to head the CIA (as Langley’s DCI)."

"As a protégé of the infamous William Casey, and as both deputy director and director of the CIA, it goes without saying that Robert Gates was involved in every geopolitical crime and cover-up of the Reagan-Bush and George H.W. Bush era".

"The encyclopedic list includes Iran-Contra, CIA narcotics trafficking, criminal covert operations, the infamous October Surprise, and the Bank of Credit and Commerce (BCCI) scandal."
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NeoCon Continuity at the Pentagon: Robert Gates Involved in Iran-Contra Scandal
A quote....."It is unlikely that the appointment of Robert M. Gates will lead to a significant change in direction with regard to the Middle East War."
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Bush [Sr.] Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate Investigation
This is where Robert Gates threatens a congressman - mpg

A quote...." The House Banking Committee, which Gonzalez chairs, began looking into pre-Gulf War U.S. policy toward Iraq in 1990. "We have determined that your statements in the Congressional Record on July 7, 1992, included information from a Top Secret compartmented and particularly sensitive document dated September 4, 1989, to which we gave your staff access," CIA Director Robert Gates wrote in a July 24 letter to Gonzalez.

"Because of the sources and methods underlying that information, I will ask for a damage assessment to determine the impact of the disclosure." Adm. William O. Studeman, acting CIA director while Gates was abroad, informed Gonzalez in a July 28 letter that the CIA's Office of Security would also assess Gonzalez's House floor speeches of July 21 and July 27, 1992. Studeman claimed that Gonzalez revealed other Top Secret intelligence information in these speeches. The maverick Mexican-American lawmaker from San Antonio, Texas, angrily denied the CIA's charges. "Your insinuation that I have revealed Top Secret, compartmented information is inflammatory and with- out merit," Gonzalez declared in a July 30 letter to Gates. "In fact, I have taken great pains to ensure that all information I have placed in the Congressional Record is of the broadest nature and readily available from public sources."

Gonzalez added he was "extremely disappointed that the CIA was allowing itself to be used to build a smokescreen around the president's flawed policies. The CIA should be above involving itself in the political problems of the administration." Gonzalez also charged that since spring, the CIA has not cooperated with the House Banking Committee. Attorney General William Barr, in a May 15, 1992, letter to the Texas Democrat, announced that the administration would no longer turn over classified documents to Gonzalez's committee without "specific assurances" that he won't make the information public."
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Bechtel Built Iraq's WMD "Smoking Gun" with US Taxpayer Dollars
A quote...."(1). My name is Howard Teicher. From 1977 to 1987, I served in the United States government as a member of the national security bureaucracy. From early 1982 to 1987, I served as a Staff Member to the United States National Security Council.

"(8). I personally attended meetings in which CIA Director Casey or CIA Deputy Director Gates noted the need for Iraq to have certain weapons such as cluster bombs and anti-armor penetrators in order to stave off the Iranian attacks. When I joined the NSC staff in early 1982, CIA Director Casey was adamant that cluster bombs were a perfect "force multiplier" that would allow the Iraqis to defend against the "human waves" of Iranian attackers. I recorded those comments in the minutes of National Security Planning Group ("NSPG") meetings in which Casey or Gates participated."

"(9). The CIA, including both CIA Director Casey and Deputy Director Gates, knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, ammunition and vehicles to Iraq. My notes, memoranda and other documents in my NSC files show or tend to show that the CIA knew of, approved of, and assisted in the sale of non-U.S. origin military weapons, munitions and vehicles to Iraq."

Italics added by author-mpg

See also ....Gates, Robert - File
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The Undervote
11-09-06
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Regarding the vote... without doubt there was massive Republican cheating, given historic trends and statistical analysis it appears the Republicans may have created under vote counts for the Democrats by upwards of 3% to 7% for some precints. The only problem for the Republicans was that voter revulsion with their behavior was so great and the turnout was so large that the voters simply overwhelmed the undercount and/or disenfranchisement efforts. The articles shown below describe some of the techniques that were used.

Obviously the Republicans will draw only one conclusion from this election - they'll have to cheat better for 2008 ....unless the people of this nation stop them.

And of course everyone should agree that no political party or group should ever be allowed to practice these tactics again.
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11-8-06: Rumsfeld replacement (Robert...
A quote...."Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates. Did you know that Robert Gates was involved in the voting machine industry?"

"Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids."

So it appears they're not going to stop. mpg
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Senate Majority Accomplished; Why Allen and Burns Are Not Calling for Recounts
Because they know what it will uncover. If this issue is not addressed immediately, if a thorough revamping of the election system in this country is not undertaken, if we do not do something regarding the persistent problems with the electronic voting machines we will not be able to trust the outcomes of any future elections.

He Burned Thru $9 Mil, But Rich GOPer Couldn't Start a Fire
So much for so little.

Virginia Floridated & How They Stole the Mid-Term Election
They still stole it, but not by enough to control the House or Senate. We'll call it the "Karl Rove math error"
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Political “Buyers Remorse”? Or Is Our Electoral System Rigged? We’re About to Find Out
A quote...."So, the Democrats need to pick up 77 House seats and 11 Senators just to reach historic averages."

The count as of today 11-09-06 is 28 with 10 undicided house seats and 6 senate seats for the Democrats.
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Tomorrow's Outcome Hinges on Our Vigilance at the Polls
A quote...."On Election Day 2006, the American people will almost certainly vote to give the Democratic Party one or both houses of Congress."

The question is how much of the peoples votes were REALLY given to the Democrats?
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GOP Spins Exit Polls Ahead Of Vote Fraud
The Repubs were perpared for the worst.....except losing.

The theft of American elections is a media issue
Ditto

Election Protection Watch
Some examples of what happened

See also "Election Fraud" weblist.
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Democrats take control of the Senate
Yahoo news

Secretary Rumsfeld resigns after Kay report, citing pledge to grandson
How he SHOULD have resigned. Oh by the way.....ding dong the witch is dead the witch is dead the witch is dead, ding dong the wicked witch is dead.....

Election 2006: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
After the euphoria, a dose of reality.

12 Hours Later, Democrats Already Corrupted
More reality.

Count Your Blessings: NeoCons and NeoLibs Take a Big Hit, as Voters Say No to Bush, War and Free Trade
A quote...."The furthest the national Democrats have wanted to go on the war has been to attack its management. Not the principled position of Cut and Run as urged by Jack Murtha just over a year ago. Not Howard Dean's "stabilize" message on Wednesday morning. What may well happen now is what we satirically predicted at the statrt of the week: a bipartisan consensus by the national leadership of both parties around the McCain position, calling for fresh troops and better manangement of the war. This is what Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden all endorse. "

They hate our freedom: The truth about the Military Commissions Act
The ugly truth. Extensively researched with resources.

Outlaw Empire Meets the Wave - 5 Questions for Our Future
Indeed.

Robert Scheer: Bush’s November Surprise
Regarding past associations and culpability.

Internet Freedom Fighters to Take Command in Congress
Hooray!!! The Last Bastion of Freedom is standing fast. Hip, Hip, Hooray!

STOP Blackwell, what's that sign: Everyone look what's going down
So what happened to the exit polls?

In God's Country
Don't make fun of spirituality, that greater something that people yearn for. Call it religion, call it what you will but many people need it as a guide, a touchstone, a moral compass in their lives. The fact that they were fooled and utterly betrayed by the things, the beasts in the white house, who have brought darkness upon us all only shows just how desperate many of them truly are.

Bill Maher just outed Republican party chair Ken Mehlman as gay on Larry King Live
Along with many, many other Republicans......now we all know about Karl Rove and friends, don't we?

Australia suffers worst drought in 1,000 years
Bush to Australia....if "we can live with it" you sure can.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Looking Past One-Party Rule
Of things to come?

A quote from Dennis Kucinich......"I will not prejudice with any criticism or charges any oversight hearings of any committee I may chair in the next Congress. However, I do know that the American people still have unanswered questions about 9/11, WMDs, the abandonment of international law and the Geneva Conventions, the war in Iraq, the White House Iraq Group, the Rendon propaganda machine, Afghanistan, Abu Graib, Guantanamo, the Pat Tillman case, Iraq war casualties, the missing $10.8 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds, the human and economic toll of the war, rendition, wiretapping, domestic spying, and plans for an attack on Iran,"

"I do know that the American people cannot believe what has happened to this country in the past six years. I do know that the American people are demanding accountability."

"And, in whatever capacity I serve in the next Congress, I will uphold the solemn oath I take to defend the Constitution of the United States, without regard to fear or favor."
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The Real Meaning of a Democratic Sweep: NeoCons or Liberals?
A quote...."The neocons have blatantly proclaimed their agenda of geostrategic hegemony, achieved largely through military efforts, whereas the neoliberal strategy, which envisions the same hegemony, is sold with the above-named concepts, constituting the velvet glove encasing the iron globalist fist. Witness the famous June, 1991 quote by David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission who spoke unashamedly of the necessity of concealing the globalist mission:

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. [Emphasis added]

Well that's scary.
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Kyrgyzstan [& Nicaragua] caught in US-Russia squeeze
Two countries with similar problems

National Campaign for Fair Elections
More election protection. See also....Election Incident Reporting System map

Ortega wins presidential election in Nicaragua
Another on the long list of countries the US will have to invade.

Sandinista! How Will Bush Make Nicaragua Pay for its Disobedience?
More history regarding the US - Nicaraguan relationship.

US-Latin American Relations: Ruptures, Reaction and The Illusion of Times Past
A good summation of US relations with Central and South America.

One difference of opinion with the author however is that the application of true free markets, excluding certain natural resources, to the economic structure of a society will generally be beneficial for it’s people, while the application of true constitutional democracy (the rule of law, not men) to the political structure of a society always is. With the understanding of course that as wealth becomes more concentrated at the top of any given economic structure it will always undermine the constitutional and democratic nature of any given political structure.

Monopolistic, oligarchic, dictatorial, mercantilist, colonial relationships however are never beneficial for anyone under any circumstances, except of course for those who promulgate them under the guise of free markets or democracy. Something America has consistently done throughout the world for the last sixty years.
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Confessions of a banker
Or how the rich get richer.....with a lot of help

Limiting the Damage.
What comes to mind is barn doors and horses.

MoveOn Offers $250,000 Reward for Evidence Leading to Voter Fraud Conviction
Sounds like a good idea....posted at workingforchnage

Election Incident Reporting System map.
Election protection.

The Fault Lies Not in Our Stars (”Luckless Nation”) But in Ourselves (the American People)
The past six years, was it fate or was it inevitable?

China: Security Council so divided over Iran sanctions some differences cannot be bridged
They'er all bolting from Bolton.

Editor Is Forced Out at Los Angeles Times
The rich owners are angry because no one wants to buy their garbage anymore. For the ones who are leaving why don't you all get together and start your own web newspaper. Look at what Google has done, info is cheap on the web, ad revenues are great and you guys have the experience to get a story no matter how people try to cover it up.

CSA : The Confederate States of America - YouTube movie trailer
This will offend everyone.

Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Talks About 9/11 YouTube video
Delicious little tid bit regarding Cheney's standing order about the airplanes during 9/11.

Missing Gold
Another little tid bit.

Afghanistan role could last 10 years
A quote...."NATO operations will likely continue in Afghanistan for another 10 years, a high-ranking Canadian soldier said Thursday."

Questioning the Logic of Occupation in Iraq
No matter what happens.....the US ain't leaving Iraq.

Julius Caesar had Gaul; Bush just has gall
This is good gallows humor.

The New World Order, the Ministry of Truth
More regarding this nation's fact-challenged, ethics-challenged presstitutes. Extensively researched.
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One Real Solution for Demorcracy 11-04-06
From the FRONT PAGE
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Action Alert! Verified Voting's Election Transparency Project
To give democracy one last chance and prove this is not a dictatorship.....yet.

Reform or Counterrevolution at the UN?
To all the "little countries" out there, be very careful or you too could wind up like Iraq.

Neo Culpa
NeoCONs turning on each other.....what fun.

'NYT' Sunday Preview: Ahmad Chalabi Says, 'The Real Culprit is Wolfowitz'
More NeoCONs turning on each other....this is getting to be really enjoyable. What's that phrase.....

"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan" - Galeazzo Ciano, Count of Cortellazzo (March 18, 1903 January 11, 1944), Benito Mussolini's Foreign Minister quotationsbook.
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Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush
Is everyone out there really sure that the "Kerry flub" was a flub.

Sort of interesting how quickly the "mass media" picked up on that story and ran it over and over again. It's possible Karl Rove isn't the genius he's cracked up to be and he actually needs, and receives a lot of help.....think about it.
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The Nuclear Game 11-04-06
From the FRONT PAGE
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Censored Stories
Top ten stories ignored by the "mass media"

The Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004
For the record.

Iran fires ballistic missiles in drill & Iran's combat capabilities with multiple articles and pictures
Iran getting ready for the inevitable.

Howard Zinn: "We Live In An Occupied Country"
Audio lecture.

Bush Hates the Military
It's true, the grunts are nothing but cannon fodder to the wealthy elites of this country.

Investigators Say Appropriations Panel Lost Appetite for Oversight
More...."do your job honestly, fairly, competently, with integrity.....and get fired."
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This Time, the Election Will Not Be Stolen
Maybe...but

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."- Josef Stalin

Attributed quote : Source - Boris Bazhanov's 'The Memoirs of former Stalin's secretary'. Saint Petersburg, 1992 (in Russian). wikipedia

Even if there's no "trouble with the vote" and everyone gets free and fair access to the polls, the Republicans may still steal this election. To everyone out there watch the exit polls; they're accurate to within one percent or less. If they differ substantially from the "counted" vote especially in states with electronic voting machines versus states without them, then without a doubt there was cheating. MPG
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Oil, Smoke & Mirrors Google video & Loose Change 2nd Edition Recut Google video
Some interesting videos

Damn their eyes
There is only one conclusion a person can draw from Bush's performance - being the empty vessel of evil for the wealthy elites of this country has caused him to become insane.

Bush's Permanent War Economy Must Crash (before it endangers you and your bank account even more)
Just remember one of the most important warning signs of who not to vote for under any circumstances is a person who refers to a political system with a rapturous gleam in their eye while they spout phrases like the "thousand year...(what ever)”, "till the end of time", "the new American century" or any other term that contains allusions to a fixed, static, perfected system at the apex of human achievement lasting for a long period of time.

The general rule is the more grandiose or imperial the rhetoric, the shorter is the lifespan of the political system which spawned it , as well as the period of rule for those who created it.
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Bush : U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil And Protect Israel
Finally the truth comes out. To all you people out there who have repeatedly stated the US didn't invade the Middle East to control the world's oil supply.....you can stop pretending now.

Has America 'lost' the Middle East?
Of course not! There's plenty more countries in that corner of the world the US hasn't bombed yet.
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Haggard steps down amid gay affair inquiry
Ah yes....."Christian Values".

From now on why don't all you so called "Christians" out there just tell everyone that you are "Neo-Roman Christians" who support the "Neo-Roman Empire" headed by the "Neo-Cons" promoting a "Neo-Liberal Economic System" .....i.e. you want to bomb people throughout the world, rob them blind, and sexually molest them because you think it's good for them.

It would be truth in advertising.
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Former White House spokesman warns oil prices may 'jack up' after election
No! That can't be true....this is the free market right? Prices can't be timed for an election can they?

Actually all kidding aside, if the economy goes into a recession which is likely, oil prices will have a hard time being "jacked up"......but that won't be for lack of trying.
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Bush 'would understand' attack on Iran

And.....Iran begins 10 days of war games

And.....Russia, China Won´t Back Iran Sanctions

C'mon Bush just one little tiny provocation that’s all the US needs, if Johnson, one of your fellow Texans could start a war with that pathetic excuse of the "Gulf of Tonkin" incident surely you can do better.

C'mon just one little match to start the greatest conflagration the world has ever seen, just keep saying to yourself "I can do it, I can do it, I can do it" like the little engine that could or my pet goat (sacrificial of course). You don't want to let Mr. Reficul down, do you Bush? There's a lot of money riding on this one and if you blow it the 236 Gang is going to be very upset with you.
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