Awesome new site….
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Congratulations Democrats NOW Do Your Job .com
http://www.congratulationsdemocratsnowdoyourjob.com/
It is time for housecleaning. There are rats of corruption in the walls of our house of democracy, placed there by this thuggish administration.
Don’t let the Democrats paper over the walls to leave the rats of corruption to rot and stink. A housecleaning is necessary.
http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/november2006/091106electionthrown.htm
Election Could Have Been Thrown, Says Fraud Expert
Harris considers token victory for Democrats fixed to quell dissent on mass voting fraud, liberal bloggers begin to attack anyone who doesn’t jump on the Pelosi bandwagon
Paul Joseph Watson
Propaganda Matrix Thursday, November 9, 2006
Voting rights activist Bev Harris fears the mid-term elections may have been thrown in order to quell suspicions about vote fraud in anticipation of a major 2008 coup. Liberal blog sites are already naively telling whistleblowers and “conspiracy theorists” to keep quiet now that the left arm of the establishment, the Democrats, have re-emerged.
“I think it’s gonna be interesting to see which election reform groups decide that it’s not such a bad problem after all now that they have Democrats in there because I think that some of them are actually closet partisans,” Harris told the Alex Jones Show.
“The issue here is not change in the last 24 hours – voting machines can’t be authenticated, they’re not necessarily accurate, they’re tamper friendly – nothing has changed about that in 24 hours.”
“We shouldn’t really try to say well some Democrats are in there so now it’s OK – it’s not.”….
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/110906.html
Robert Gates, George W. Bush’s choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary, is a trusted figure within the Bush Family’s inner circle, but there are lingering questions about whether Gates is a trustworthy public official.
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.
Gates skated past some of these controversies during his 1991 confirmation hearings to be CIA director – and the current Bush administration is seeking to slip Gates through the congressional approval process again, this time by pressing for a quick confirmation by the end of the year, before the new Democratic-controlled Senate is seated.
If Bush’s timetable is met, there will be no time for a serious investigation into Gates’s past.
http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/november2006/091106deansaysno.htm
Howard Dean Says No Impeachment Of Bush
Lapdog Democrats to waste two years on minimum wage and mass illegal amnesty, no to Iraq inquiry, no to police state rollback, no to bringing troops home
Paul Joseph Watson
Propaganda Matrix
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Howard Dean last night said there would be no impeachment proceedings against President Bush under a Democrat controlled Congress, echoing the pledge of Nancy Pelosi to protect the administration that lied a nation into a war and dismantled the very fabric of America…..
http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/081106terror.htm
Scrapbook Terrorist’s 9/11 Foreknowledge?
Do hyped home movies indicate a loner wannabe terrorist had prior knowledge?
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Watch a second clip where he lingers on the towers, again tilts the camera and makes a swooshing plane noise then an explosion noise. He then repeats the swooshing and the explosion noise a second time, presumably to indicate an attack on both towers.
So either Barot’s wild imagination was eerily prophetic or he knew something was going to happen to the towers. Bolstering this idea is the fact that amongst all his plans to attack buildings in New York there is not a single mention of attacking the World Trade Center.
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From the WCW list:
Bush regime’s war on science and, of course, it’s war on nature!!. There’s already an investigation underway here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103269.html
Also, under “constitutional violations”:
Two of those concerns were buried in the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007″ (H.R.5122) just signed into law. Senator Patrick
Leahy recently pointed out that within the Defense Authorization Act are revisions in the Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) making it
easier for the White House to declare federal martial law, and in the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), that help to enable military involvement in
domestic law enforcement. These unconstitutional measures, I’m sure you’ll agree, are both reprehensible and chilling. It is critical that they be
investigated and reversed by the new Democratic majority.
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From http://Impeachforpeace.org
“Exit polls reported that voters by a margin of 62-33 percent voted on national, not local, issues. They voted for four, closely-bunched national reasons: corruption, terrorism, the economy, and Iraq. By 57-41 percent they disapproved of Bush’s handling of Iraq. They didn’t give a damn about taxes or “values” or local pork.”
(from a David Swanson editorial on Truthout – link below)
There can be no denying now that America’s citizens are in strong agreement that a drastic change of direction is absolutely needed and that governmental corruption is the foremost issue that needs to be addressed. The years of the Presidency of George W. Bush will be remembered as a pathetic display of pervasive incompetence, corruption and cronyism at best, and as a treasonous horror of the near downfall of this glorious Republic at worst as multiple investigations commence in January.
The leaders have already stepped up. They ran for office – and many won, they made phone calls, they went door-to-door, they petitioned, they wrote their editors, they debated with their friends, they protested, they blogged, they fought voter suppression and election fraud. They voted. Many broke with their political party in order to do so… and they prayed.
The leaders: true American citizen patriots who sooner or later saw clearly through the smokescreen of the corporate media, the partisan hack ideologues and the religious hyprocrites – are back in charge of the nation.
The leaders: Christians, Muslims, Atheists, Jews, Buddhists, et al – who saw through the “Christian” facade of the Radical Republican Christian Right wolves. The wolves who stole their way into power in the bloodless coup of 2000 and have been covertly pursuing their war profiteering, citizen suppressing agenda while lying, terrifying and distracting us for six long years. The true leaders have fired the false ones – or at least many of their enablers, aid and abetters. That was the best we could do – for now.
The leaders – the people – are back in power. To those that led, thank you. To those that didn’t:
Follow, or get the hell out of the way.
We are taking our nation back.
Tuesday’s election was ultimately a scathing, pervasive indictment by the majority of voting Americans of the incredibly misguided, corrupt, immoral leadership of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their entire Administration.
When I slid my ballot into the voting machine at McRae Park in Minneapolis on Wednesday, the number “911″ came up. I was the nine hundred and eleventh voter at my precinct polling place. It was a coincidence, to be sure, but to me 911 represents two things:
1). An emergency call. This election was an emergency. The future health of our nation was at risk. It was the most important election of my lifetime – perhaps of our nation’s 230 year history.
2). 9/11. The events of September 11th, 2001 provided the justification for a comprehensive assault on the “inalienable” freedoms and liberties of Americans as codified in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Accords, the Nuhremberg Principles, World Peace, and the innocent civilians of Iraq. The events of September 11th, 2001 also were used to justify the theft of billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury funneled into Halliburton, Bechtel, Brown & Root and other “Dick Cheney company” bank accounts as well as billions of dollars of resources rightfully owned by the Iraqi people.
I said it before and I will say it again.
The events of 9/11 could not have possibly taken place without inside help.
The planes could not have possibly gotten through to their targets without a “stand down” order.
The towers in New York City could not have fallen as they did except as controlled demolitions.
Parts of Flight 93 could not have been scattered over seven miles without exploding in mid-air.
Cell phones from Flight 93 could not have reached family members on the ground.
Treasonous bastards couldn’t have nearly stolen America from us without 9/11: their “new Pearl Harbor”.
BushCo. would not have suppressed the 9/11 investigation for 411 days if they didn’t have something to hide.
The first order of business for the new Congress in January absolutely must be pervasive investigations into the events of 9/11 along with pre-war lies, FISA spying violations, cronyism contracts, billions of dollars missing in Iraq, connections with ENRON’s theft of California’s millions, torture and other war crimes, etc., etc., etc.
It is a brand new day. Let’s get to work. We’ve got a House of Representatives we must pressure. They have criminals to investigate, indict, convict, impeach and punish.
~ Mikael Rudolph
Minneapolis Organizer – World Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime
Co-Founder: ImpeachforPeace.org
The finest piece of writing I have come across this week:
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A Deep, Deep Breath
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Thursday 09 November 2006
I will sew no silken seam on a fine May mornin’,
You can bide your time ’til your time runs out,
So take this as fair warning …
- “Shepherd Lad,” The Battlefield Band
Let us be absolutely clear on what has taken place. This was not simply a midterm election, not just a historic running of the table, not just a scathing repudiation of virtually everything the Bush administration has stood for since they swaggered into Washington six long years ago.
It was so very much more than this.
The back of the “Neo-conservative Revolution” has been broken, perhaps not for all time – simply because nothing truly evil ever really dies – but for a good long while. The ideology foisted upon an unwilling public by the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Ledeen and the rest, the ideology that has given us slaughter in Iraq and a ravaged reputation abroad, has been exposed and eviscerated. The Project for the New American Century, and all that was spawned from it, has been relegated, for now, to the dustbin of history.
As unutterably massive as this is, it still does not capture the entirety of the event.
There are many things that make the United States of America unique, but one stands out above all. Every other nation on Earth has within it cultural, religious or historical threads, often stretching back hundreds if not thousands of years, which bind its people together.
When you see the Orangemen march in Ireland, when you see the Serbs mark the anniversary of a massacre that happened 900 years ago, when you see the British celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, you are witnessing an echo out of time that, for good or ill, silently reminds the people of those countries that they have a shared heritage which stretches back dozens of generations.
The United States stands apart from this. We are an invention, the product of an idea, the children of a dream. We come from everywhere, and though our history is stained with far too much blood shed during the unfolding of our own history, the sum total is an amalgamation of the best and worst of the human experience. Nothing like this has ever existed anywhere, ever.
All we have to tie together this amazing and confusing experiment are a few old pieces of paper. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the only truths that each and every citizen of this country have completely in common. They are our unifying theme, our organizing principle, and we share this together because the basic idea was, and remains, that these belong to us and defend us and set us, now and forever, free.
It was not always so, and remains today a dream unfulfilled, but in the end, that was the genius of it all. These three documents, and the ideology behind them, were created to be self-improving entities. Much remains to be done to move along the “more perfect Union” Lincoln spoke of, and that work will never be completed … and that is the point. These things are ours, and they are all that we truly have to bind us together, and our purpose as citizens is to bend our will toward the creation of that more perfect Union.
Before the sun came up on Wednesday, that shared heritage had been under a savage, unrelenting attack by men and women who have no respect for the idea and the dream which makes us all that we are as a people. The right to a trial has been shattered, the right to stand before your accuser has been removed, the right to be secure in home and person from governmental intrusion has been swept by the boards, and all by a president who once referred to the Constitution as “just a God damned piece of paper.”
These cancers have not been cut out simply because of an election, of course. But the first, vital step towards repairing our shared heritage was taken on Tuesday night, simply because we have at long last returned to the basic Constitutional requirement of checks and balances within this government. No longer will the best interests of the people be slapped aside by people who have no patience for the process that was laid out by wiser and better men. Some logs have been thrown in the road, and for now, a real chance for healing has been gifted to us by the very democratic institutions these people would shun and shatter. The power of the vote, so often maligned and disdained, has been restored.
A more perfect Union, indeed.
Much remains to be done. The departure of Donald Rumsfeld from the Pentagon will not heal Iraq, nor will it bring back to life the soldiers and civilians who have died thanks to the hubris of others. The cornering of Dick Cheney has not sapped him of his power. George W. Bush remains an incurious front man whose very existence in that seat of power will stand as a constant threat to the safety and security of this nation and the world entire.
“U.S. envoy tells Iraqis election won’t change policy,” reads the Associated Press headline from Wednesday. That, in and of itself, says all we need to know about what remains to be done. For the first time in far too long, however, an opportunity has arrived to do more than scream into the thunderstorm and damn the rain.
The real work begins now.
William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence. His newest book, House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America’s Ravaged Reputation, will be available this winter from PoliPointPress.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110906Z.shtml
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“Chairman John Conyers Jr., Chairman Henry Waxman. Those titles will prove to be the most important outcome of yesterday’s elections, even if the Dems get the Senate too. It’s investigation and impeachment time. Vice President Cheney has already announced his plans to “probably” refuse to obey a subpoena from Congress. Democrats need to be preparing for that crisis now. And I don’t mean just elected Democrats. I mean you and everyone you know who has the sanity to no longer call themselves Republicans”
“Numerous national organizations are forming a coalition to advance impeachment through multiple strategies, and this is the moment to do it. Leaders of these groups will announce their plans in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, on Saturday, November 11th, as detailed here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/impeach”
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Hypocrite of the year – NEOCON core member Richard Perle attempts to rewrite his personal history:
“I think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we are today, and people had said, ‘Should we go into Iraq?,’ I think now I probably would have said, ‘No, let’s consider other strategies….’ Could we have managed that threat by means other than a direct military intervention? Well, maybe we could have.”
- Richard Perle, former chair of the Defense Policy Board, and one of the key advocates of the invasion of Iraq. (Source: Vanity Fair)
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Report Shows Fair Trade Wins Elections
From Florida to Hawaii and all parts in between, pro-fair trade challengers Tuesday beat anti-fair trade incumbents, according to our new report analyzing the 2006 midterm results. Incumbents who voted for the U.S. trade status quo of NAFTA, WTO and Fast Track were replaced by those rejecting these failed policies and advocating improvement. Seven Senate seats and 27 House seats flipped from pro-free trade to fair trade — and the tally may increase to as many as 44 congressional seats.
Trade and offshoring were wedge issues actively used in over 115 campaigns nationwide with at least 25 paid campaign ads run on trade and offshoring.
Read the complete press release: http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2315.
Review a chart that summarizes wins and losses by trade position: http://www.citizen.org/documents/ChartsElection2006.pdf (PDF).
Read the full report: http://www.citizen.org/documents/Election2006.pdf (PDF).
ALERT: Despite Trade Message from Public, GOP Leaders Still Plan Lame-Duck Trade Vote
With your continued vigilance, this election will be the beginning of new era in trade policy. However, we need your help now to keep the old Congress from hoisting one last anti-fair trade raspberry at the American public by shoving through a NAFTA expansion.
President Bush said yesterday in his press conference that he’s still pushing trade votes for the lame-duck session next week!
That’s right! Despite their massive losses, the disgraced Republican leaders are still planning to force a vote on the Peru NAFTA expansion. They intend to convene Congress one last time on November 13th to pass unpopular legislation in an accountability-free zone. Imagine, the newly fired and retired anti-fair traders given one more opportunity to undermine our future while padding their resumés for the lobbying jobs they’ll be looking for come January.
The Peru NAFTA expansion is just one poisonous dish on a smorgasbord of damage. Check out our blog at www.lameduckhunt.org.
A lot of us are extremely sleep-deprived right now. But, it is essential we keep the spotlight on the lame-duck Congress. We can still stop the Peru NAFTA expansion — and the rest of the hideous lame-duck agenda. Can you join the Lame-Duck Hunt? Here’s how:
Write to Congress to urge them to oppose the sneaky lame-duck vote on the Peru NAFTA expansion: http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=5112;
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper about trade and the election — and the sneaky lame-duck vote on the Peru NAFTA expansion: http://action.citizen.org/pickMedia.jsp?letter_KEY=553; or, even better;
Join us in Washington for a November 15th lobby day to stop the Peru lame-duck vote! http://action.citizen.org/signUp.jsp?key=1739
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