Jack Abramoff /60105/

Jack Abramoff /60105/:
By: Edgar Saint George Editor-in-Chief
"Bush's Bagman Busted"
In order to benefit the the rich and big business, especially big oil and big
pharmaceuticals, Bush's Republican mob swindled all poor people and
those of the middle class, the old, the needy, the sick, the "illegal" aliens,
the students and the entire next generation. The wealthy were awarded
fortunes gouged from ordinary people. For every dollar the worker earns
today, the boss gets over $1000 for damn little labor.
Regrettable many of the top crooks, bosses of the Republican mob,
including Bush, Cheney and even the crackpot Alaskan senator,
Ted Stevens, escaped justice. If there have ever been wicked politicians
who should be impeached, Bush, Cheney and Stevens are them! We're not
talking about a trivial thing like a blowjob or a sexual dalliance. These are
real criminals responsible for war, lies, killing tens of thousands of people,
stealing hundreds of millions of dollars, corruption on a colossal scale,
constitutional violations, pandering to the Christian crazies in order to
abridge others' religious rights and even snooping into the private affairs
of ordinary citizens.
The real criminals aren't in prison. The system is rigged to protect the
politicians and the powerful while prosecuting the poor and the petty criminal.
The era of the "good" politician seems to be waning. There is no longer
much "public service." Now it's public exploitation. Where ever there is
corruption, money, guns and harm, there you'll find droves of conservatives
and Republicans.

Conspiracy Planet - Criminal Government - Iraq Study Group: Whitewashing the War on Iraq

Conspiracy Planet - Criminal Government - Iraq Study Group: Whitewashing the War on Iraq:
by URI DOWBENKO
"Bush Family Bagman James A. Baker III, currently senior partner of the Baker Botts law firm and senior counselor for the Carlyle Group, as well as the former US Secretary of State under George Bush Sr., will co-chair the Iraq Study Group, together with former Congressman Lee Hamilton, who co-chaired the '9-11 Commission.'

Baker, a high-level Bush Family factotum, is often sent by the Bush Cabal to smooth-talk or arm-twist when the need arises.

It should be noted that Baker was sent by President George W. Bush in 2004 to talk creditor nations into 'forgiving' Iraq's debts. At the same time, Baker's employer The Carlyle Group was trying to collect $27 billion for Kuwait in a global 'war reparations' shake-down.

It was also James Baker who convinced the Supreme Court that Bush would suffer 'irreparable harm' if the Florida ballots were re-counted. "

"The longer the war goes on, the more money they make."
And the more Americans and Iraqis will be killed by the policies
of the criminals in the U.S. government...

Defy Greedy Capitalist White Male Supremacist Liars: by Barbara Tutor "Resistance must proceed from two directions: 1) at the local level, working up the pyramid of domination, to defy supremacy at all levels; and 2) impeach fraudulent politicians, defy tyrants of wealth and supremacy, prosecute their crimes, and finally institute a true democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people."

Defy Greedy Capitalist White Male Supremacist Liars

Defy Greedy Capitalist White Male Supremacist Liars: by Barbara Tutor
"President George W. Bush pushed the supremacist creed farther by proclaiming as U.S. doctrine, "Any state that harbors terrorists is a terrorist state, and has to be treated accordingly by the civilized world." Bush's veiled threat in his war against terrorism was directed towards any nation that would defy the global interests of the U.S. plutocracy. Citing a contrived connection between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, neo-conservative bullies proceeded to preemptively shock and awe the world by smashing Iraq to bits and subjecting Iraqis to unimaginable terrors and tortures. Throughout the invasion and occupation of Iraq, propaganda and outright lies from both embedded and hired media celebrities, have been used by the administration to rally support of U.S. citizens by spinning despicable acts into Orwellian sound-bites. However, a few persistent critical news commentators, journalists, and internet bloggers, have exposed the inconsistencies and have courageously spoken truth to power. Irrevocably, the public is grasping the lies and recognizing the liars.

U.S. citizens, now overwhelmingly opposed to Bush's dictatorial policies, rouse to find themselves in a quagmire with the power being stripped away from their constitutional rights by a fraudulent president, corrupt politicians, and appointed cronies. In the name of "security" our homeland is being hustled, sold-off, and sold-out by plutocrats seeking global dominion.

The big lie is: Authorities, who are democratically elected because of superior knowledge and leadership abilities, represent the people by using political power to protect our homeland, and further that most people like this arrangement; therefore to defy authority is to be alone or in such small numbers as to be ineffective and socially rejected.

The bitter truth is: Authorities, who predominately owe their careers to wealthy elitists and therefore cater to wealthy elitists, keep corrupt financial deals secret, employ covert operations by aggressive military-industrial police forces to expand and protect the interests of wealthy elitists. Commercial media also cater to wealthy elitists for advertising dollars by dispensing propaganda and PsyOps to keep people consuming shallow electoral contests of divide and conquer strategists like Karl Rove.

Once a majority of the U.S. populace figures this out, unites, denounces greedy wealthy elitists, and defies corrupt authorities; then citizens have the power to throw the bastards out, open up secret places, and change from the old order of corrupt rule by lawful oppression, to cooperative peaceful commonwealths of social justice

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad. by Henry Kissinger

"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad." by Henry Kissinger:
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." by Henry Kissinger
I don't think it's 10 percent anymore.Muttbob

Should the Number One Candidate Criterion be Ability to Buy TV Ads?

Should the Number One Candidate Criterion be Ability to Buy TV Ads?: February 24, 2006

"Should the Number One Candidate Criterion be Ability to Buy TV Ads?" by Rob Kall
Ask a political person about how to judge a candidate's viability, electability and potential and often, very often, the first criteria they use is the ability to raise money. That means the willingness to sit for four, six, eight hours a day, in a room, making phone calls asking for money. This is probably the number one criteria most beltway politicians judge candidates to be good or not. Let's take this a bit further. What do they use the money they raise for? The number one cost of a campaign is TV advertising. It can suck up millions of dollars.
Take the fund raising out of politics and you make it so much cleaner, so much more free from influence buying and peddling. This is not optional. It is something we must do to rescue politics from the dangerous downward cycle of corruption it has been spiralling into.
Considering the voting public's low opinion of the media, with less 2% considering it excellent and only 13% considering it good or excellent, it is no wonder that the public feels the media should give up ad time for the price of democracy.

Reinstate Ohio Recount Lawsuit

Reinstate Ohio Recount Lawsuit: "February 24, 2006

Reinstate Ohio Recount Lawsuit "by David Cobb, Green Party

The absence of procedures to conduct a recount of votes cast on electronic voting machines; and Inadequate procedures to ensure uniform and proper treatment throughout the state of access by recount observers to provisional, absentee, and spoiled ballots, to poll books, to voting machines and to other materials.The Ohio election and recount have been the subject of a number of investigations and reports. A report by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Democratic staff states that there were massive and unprecedented voter irregularities and anomalies in Ohio. In many cases these irregularities were caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it involving Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio.

I AM AMERICAN !

WE NEED A NEW PARTY - THE HONEST AMERICAN PEOPLE PARTY!
I am American,not a democrat (1:An advocate of democracy.-The common people, considered as the primary source of political power."YES" 2:A member of the Democratic Party. "NO" )or republican! (1:One who favors a republic-A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.- as the best form of government. "YES" 2:A member of the Republican Party. "NO" ) Why does voting have to be secret?All we have to do is publish everyones vote!I'm not afraid of people knowing how I voted.Should I be?Publish everyones vote so they can see if their vote was counted correctly if at all.There would then be no doubt who really won.I will never believe that the American public was ever stupid enough to put Bush in office,EVER!

Project Vote Smart - Historic Documents

Project Vote Smart - Historic Documents:

The Declaration of Independence

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion

OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion: The South Florida Sun-Sentinel uncovered emails from Florida Gov. Jeb Bush that confirmed those allegations and directly implicated Brown as playing politics at the expense of hurricane victims. “As the second hurricane in less than a month bore down on Florida last fall, a federal [FEMA] consultant predicted a "huge mess" that could reflect poorly on President Bush and suggested that his re-election staff be brought in to minimize any political liability, records show,” the Sentinel reported in a March 23 story.

CYBERBUSS Buss Station

CYBERBUSS Buss Station:
Voter Fraud?
"Election campaign reforms please:
For fair elections all teams/parties must be have the same amount of money to campaign with. All sports, but baseball have a salary cap to keep the competition fair. Why can't political campaigns have salary caps too? We all know that money can buy a lot of things. Well the party with the most money is gonna reach the most people and is most likely to win. Every year the Republicans, like the Yankees, have the highest campaign budget, therefore an unfair advantage. "

Supreme court judges should be elected by the people not appointed by presidents. Supreme court judges do not reflect the American people's values.
Supreme court judges are appointed by presidents and stay in office for life. That's right our top justice officials are selected not elected and just like Kings and Queens remain for life. How 18th century is that?

Public Campaign -- A New Kind of Reform Politics

Public Campaign -- A New Kind of Reform Politics: "Is That a Politician in Your Pocket?
Washington on $2 Million a Day
By Micah L. Sifry and Nancy Watzman
Every day corporations and other wealthy special interests pump another $2 million into the coffers of our elected officials in Washington and their party committees. For their money they get an estimated $160 billion a year in tax breaks, subsidies, and other sweet deals. That's $160 billion lifted from taxpayers' pockets' or about $1500 per taxpayer per year! More..."

Ten Preliminary Reasons Why the Bush Vote Does Not Compute, and Why Congress Must Investigate Rather Than Certify the Electoral College

Ten Preliminary Reasons Why the Bush Vote Does Not Compute, and Why Congress Must Investigate Rather Than Certify the Electoral College
1. More than 106,000 Ohio ballots remain uncounted. As certified by Blackwell, Ohio’s official results say 92,672 regular ballots were cast without indicating a choice for president.
2. Most uncounted ballots come from regions and precincts where Kerry was strongest. In Hamilton County, 4,515 ballots or 51.64 percent of the uncounted county total, came from Cincinnati, where Kerry won 67.98 percent to Bush’s 31.54 percent.
3. Of the 147,000 combined provisional and absentee ballots counted by hand after Election Day, Kerry received 54.46 percent of the vote.
4. Turnout inconsistencies reveal tens of thousands of Kerry votes were not simply recorded.
5. Many certified turnout results in key regions throughout the state are simply not plausible, and all work to the advantage of Bush.
6. Due to computer flaws and vote shifting, there were numerous reports across Ohio of extremely troublesome electronic errors during the voting process and in the counting.
7. In Miami County, two sets of results were submitted to state officials. The second, which padded Bush's margin, reported that 18,615 additional votes were counted, increasing Bush’s total by exactly 16,000 votes.
8. Democratic voters were apparently targeted with provisional ballots. These ballots require voters to fill out extensive forms at the poll.
9. Ohio's Election Day exit poll was more credible than the certified result, according to intense statistical analysis.
10. The Ohio recount wasn’t random or comprehensive and may have involved serious illegalities.
More details on the web-site,click link above.bs

t r u t h o u t - Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies

t r u t h o u t - Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies: "Republican pollster Dick Morris said the Election Night pattern of mistaken exit polls favoring Kerry in six battleground states - Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa - was virtually inconceivable.
'Exit polls are almost never wrong,' Morris wrote. 'So reliable are the surveys that actually tap voters as they leave the polling places that they are used as guides to the relative honesty of elections in Third World countries.... To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here.'
But instead of following his logic that the discrepancy suggested vote tampering - as it would in Latin America, Africa or Eastern Europe - Morris postulated a bizarre conspiracy theory that the exit polls were part of a scheme to have the networks call the election for Kerry and thus discourage Bush voters on the West Coast. Of course, none of the networks did call any of the six states for Kerry, making Morris's conspiracy theory nonsensical. Nevertheless, some Democrats have agreed with Morris's bottom-line recommendation that the whole matter deserves 'more scrutiny and investigation.' [The Hill, Nov. 8, 2004]"

Mainstreet Moms Oppose Bush: Vote for the future of your children.

Mainstreet Moms Oppose Bush: Vote for the future of your children.: "The MMOB Marches ON
MAINSTREET MOMS OPERATION BLUE is committed to supporting Blue victories in the '06 elections through increased political participation by women, especially as they identify and self-organize as mothers.
Open to absolutely everyone, the MMOB knows that mothers in particular have to care about the future because their children will be there; that children are the common ground to be found across the Red/Blue divide; and that a working future is the clear domain of the Blue community. "

Consortiumnews.com

Consortiumnews.com: "Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies"
By Sam Parry
November 9, 2004

George W. Bush's vote tallies, especially in the key state of Florida, are so statistically stunning that they border on the unbelievable.
While it's extraordinary for a candidate to get a vote total that exceeds his party's registration in any voting jurisdiction - because of non-voters - Bush racked up more votes than registered Republicans in 47 out of 67 counties in Florida. In 15 of those counties, his vote total more than doubled the number of registered Republicans and in four counties, Bush more than tripled the number.
Statewide, Bush earned about 20,000 more votes than registered Republicans.
By comparison, in 2000, Bush's Florida total represented about 85 percent of the total number of registered Republicans, about 2.9 million votes compared with 3.4 million registered Republicans.
Bush achieved these totals although exit polls showed him winning only about 14 percent of the Democratic vote statewide - statistically the same as in 2000 when he won 13 percent of the Democratic vote - and losing Florida's independent voters to Kerry by a 57 percent to 41 percent margin. In 2000, Gore won the independent vote by a much narrower margin of 47 to 46 percent.
[For details on the Florida turnout in 2000, see http://www.msnbc.com/m/d2k/g/polls.asp?office=P&state=FL . For details on the 2004 Florida turnout, see http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/FL/P/00/index.html
Exit Poll Discrepancies
Similar surprising jumps in Bush's vote tallies across the country - especially when matched against national exits polls showing Kerry winning by 51 percent to 48 percent - have fed suspicion among rank-and-file Democrats that the Bush campaign rigged the vote, possibly through systematic computer hacking.
CLICK THE LINK ABOVE TO READ IT ALL.bs

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Election 2004

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Election 2004: "January 3, 2005"

The presidential vote for George W. Bush does not compute.

By examining a very wide range of sworn testimonies from voters, polling officials and others close to the administration of the Nov. 2 election; by statistical analysis of the certified vote by mathematicians, election experts and independent research teams who have conducted detailed studies of the results in Ohio, New Mexico, Florida and elsewhere; from experts who studied the voting machines, tabulators and other electronic equipment on which a fair vote count has depended; and from a team of attorneys and others who have challenged the Ohio results; the freepress.org investigative team has compiled a portrait of an election whose true outcome must be investigated further by the Congress, the media and all Americans -- because it was almost certainly not an honest victory for George W. Bush.

Crucial flaws in the national vote count, most importantly in Ohio, New Mexico and Florida, indicate John Kerry was most likely the actual winner on November 2, as reported in national exit polls. At very least, the widespread tampering with how the election was conducted, and how Ohio's votes were counted and re-counted, has compromised this nation's historic commitment to free and fair elections. "

President Discusses War on Terror

President Discusses War on Terror:
If we could only get this to happen here in the USA. bs
"The elections in Lebanon must be fully and carefully monitored by international observers. The Lebanese people have the right to determine their future, free from domination by a foreign power. The Lebanese people have the right to choose their own parliament this spring, free of intimidation. And that new government will have the help of the international community in building sound political, economic, and military institutions, so the great nation of Lebanon can move forward in security and freedom. (Applause.)
Today I have a message for the people of Lebanon: All the world is witnessing your great movement of conscience. Lebanon's future belongs in your hands, and by your courage, Lebanon's future will be in your hands. The American people are on your side. Millions across the earth are on your side. The momentum of freedom is on your side, and freedom will prevail in Lebanon. (Applause.) "

Young People & Politics

Young People & Politics:
"POINT TO PONDER:
'Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves-and the only way they could do this is by not voting.' Franklin D. Roosevelt "

Political Speech - iRights

Political Speech - iRights:*

Thousands Sign Up to Sell Votes

Political Speech
9/22/00; 2:27:06 PM 'Boasting of the more than 6,000 Americans who have signed up to auction off their presidential votes to the highest bidder -- illegal activity under the laws of every state in the union -- Voteauction is now detailing its plans to begin an outreach campaign.
'Using its 'Voter Empowerment Kits' and 'Action Teams,' the company claims in a press release that it can reach more potential customers and facilitate voter fraud without the intervention of an online middleman.'
I really don't know how to react to this site's antics... amusement? disgust? horror? Most (post-)modern art attempts to provoke that reaction, and fails miserably, so by the art community's standards, Voteauction.com is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in a long time. (I suppose this is a relatively unusual way of looking at it )"

I found this tidbit interesting:

'The profile of both sides of the Internet auction does jibe with the history of vote-buying in America, said Larry J. Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist and author of the 1996 book Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics.

'Especially telling is the fact that the payoff-per-vote, as tallied on the site, is settling into the $10-$20 range -- the amount of cash an individual vote tends to command in other, non-Internet-based schemes.

'"It always seems to be about $20," Sabato said. "That must be the going rate. And when you think about it, it makes sense. Because 10 bucks is not what it used to be. With 20 bucks you can get a pretty good meal, if you know where to go. And I think that's how some people conceive of it. Their vote may be worth a meal. It's sad, but that may be true."'

Never Say Die-bold: So You Don�t Think the Bush Campaign Stole This Election? Think Again

Never Say Die-bold: So You Don't Think the Bush Campaign Stole This Election? Think Again:
"Never Say Die-bold: So You Don't Think the Bush Campaign Stole This Election? Think Again

By Jackson Thoreau

opEdNews.com

If you're looking for one word to sum up the way the Bush-Cheney campaign stole another election Tuesday besides obvious ones like cheated, try this one: Diebold.

An election judge where I voted Tuesday in a heavily Democratic precinct in Maryland knows what that means and wasn't adverse to sharing his opinion of the Republican-owned company. As I was about to vote with the electronic system, I asked this judge if they had a way to check people's votes through a paper backup.


The official said no, and then in a low voice so no one else would hear, added, And that really makes us nervous, with Diebold as the owner of that system.


Goodbye, hanging chads. Hello, computer fraud that leaves no trace, no chads hanging.

Diebold Inc. of North Canton, Ohio, supplied scores of machines and counted millions of votes Tuesday, while reportedly discarding many votes for Democrat John Kerry, according to British investigative reporter Gregory Palast. Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold and a top fundraiser for the Bush campaign, wrote in a fund-raising letter last year that he was committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.


That he did.


Software errors involving the system can change results, computer scientists say. Since the majority of touch screens in the United States do not produce paper records, the machines could alter ballots without anyone noticing.

What has most concerned scientists are problems that are not observable, so the fact that no major pro"